Chapter 683 Reinforcements arrive
When the Battle of Zhuque Gate broke out, hundreds of thousands of Tang troops appeared outside the outskirts of Chang'an City. The war god Li Jing personally led the Tang army infantry as reinforcements to arrive in Chang'an City.
Li Jing's cavalry could already see the rolling wolf smoke in Chang'an City.
"Your Majesty seems to have not taken Chang'an yet. It seems that a surprise attack on Chang'an is considered a failure."
Li Jing observed the wolf smoke in Chang'an and probably inferred that there was a change in Li Shimin's surprise attack on Chang'an.
A cavalry general sent by Li Shimin found Li Jing: "Report! Your Majesty was injured when fighting the Xia army on Zhuque Street. He is currently defending Zhuque Gate. Please ask General Li to lead his troops to help Zhuque Gate!"
"Snap the march without further ado!"
Under the influence of Li Jing's legion talent, the marching speed of the Tang army infantry increased significantly and moved closer to the Li Shimin's legion of Zhuque Gate.
In the Zhuque Gate area, Li Shimin was injured in the beheading plan, so Zhang Hua ordered the recapture of Zhuque Street occupied by the Tang army, and entered Zhuque Gate, hoping to expel all the Tang army that had attacked the outer city from the city.
Li Shimin also knew that he had finally broken through the Zhuque Gate and could not lose the Zhuque Gate no matter what, otherwise the Tang army would have no choice but to take Chang'an City.
Li Shimin was wounded and commanded the battle, and continued to lead the cavalry to repeatedly attack the Xia army near the Zhuque Gate.
The Tang army generals followed Li Shimin and continually formed a battle, repelling the Xia army's attacks again and again.
The Tang army and the Xia army still fought endlessly.
The Tang army occupied part of the granary in Chang'an City and would not withdraw troops because of food shortage.
More importantly, Li Shimin was waiting for Li Jing's Tang army to come and meet.
Li Shimin and Li Jing each led a Tang army, cooperated with each other, destroyed Hedong, Shangdang's defense line, and pointed directly at Chang'an.
As long as Li Jing leads his troops, Li Shimin believes that the situation will definitely change.
"Your Majesty, General Li's troops will reach the Zhuque Gate in less than an hour!"
"Jiashi Li is finally here."
Li Shimin fought hard for a long time, and finally waited for the arrival of the soldiers of the war god Li Jing, so he cheered up and regained his fighting spirit.
"Jiashi Li is here!"
"Li Yaoshi also brought 400,000 infantrymen, enough to conquer Chang'an City!"
"I can finally get rid of my previous shame!"
The Tang generals who fought hard at the Zhuque Gate finally showed a liberation expression.
Their battle on Zhuque Street was comparable to the battle with Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, and even more tragic.
Although the Tang army has served as the world's number one strong general, Li Cunxiao, the Five Tiger Generals of Zhang Hua's camp can work together to suppress Li Cunxiao. Li Cunxiao's personal force cannot be used.
The Tang army soldiers all over the mountains came to Zhuque Gate to strengthen Li Shimin's troops. Most of the main forces of the Tang army entered Guanzhong, and the war god Li Jing arrived in person!
"Give me a little honest!"
"Let me go! Let Zhang Hua come out and fight alone with me!"
A powerful Tang army general with a back and waist was captured alive in the melee, tied up and still struggled hard.
"Xue Wanche, be honest with me!"
Xu Chu punched Xue Wanche in the abdomen, and Xue Wanche almost vomited bitter bile.
Xue Wanche was devoted to Li Shimin. In order to protect Li Shimin from getting out, he broke off the rear with Xue Wanjun. As a result, Xue Wanjun was rescued by the elite unit of the Tang cavalry, "Shence Army", and Xue Wanche had no time to escape and was captured by Xu Chu alive.
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Xue Wanche glared at the sight of his eyes as if he was about to spit out of fire. He was very angry about being captured alive in the Battle of Chang'an.
During the battle between Li Shimin and Liu Xiu, Xue Wanche was caught in battle many times without any accidents. He never thought that he would be captured alive by the enemy in Chang'an City.
"If Li Shimin is not captured alive, Xue Wanche will not surrender, so he will be thrown into the Chang'an Heavenly Prison. It just so happened that many spaces have been cleared out in the Chang'an Heavenly Prison."
Zhang Hua knew Xue Wanche's temperament, so he asked someone to imprison Xue Wanche in Chang'an Tianzhu.
Capturing Xue Wanche, a powerful general, alive, would greatly weaken the Tang army's strength.
"Lord, Li Jing's 400,000 Tang troops are already approaching Zhuque Gate."
A spirit eagle fell on Mulan's shoulder. Her special army Iron Eagle scout had noticed the Li Jing's army moving closer to the Zhuque Gate.
"Military God Li Jing..."
Zhang Hua looked solemn.
Sun Wu, Han Bai, Wei Huo, Li Yue.
The war god Li Jing is a top-notch commander of the same level as Wu Qi. If the well-equipped Tang army commander Li Jing attacks, the battle in Chang'an City will be even more tragic.
Fortunately, some of Zhang Hua’s reinforcements arrived in Tongguan, some were in Huayin, and some were close to Qinglongmen!
Both sides were gathering troops and preparing to launch a decisive battle in Chang'an City.
Wang Shouren analyzed the situation: "Li Shimin had been planning for a long time and invested 800,000 Tang troops, and suffered losses of troops and generals. He would never be willing to retreat. After he got Li Jing's reinforcements, he would seize the city again while our reinforcements had not yet arrived."
"Order all troops to guard the streets and alleys and prevent the Tang army from advancing to the inner city."
Zhang Hua turned offensive to defending and repeatedly tug-of-war with Li Shimin in the city.
Li Shimin is the strongest enemy Zhang Hua has encountered so far. The Tang army is also one of the strongest armies in ancient China. There are many middle and high-level troops, with many famous generals, as well as many nomadic cavalry, Tang Dynasty rangers, and Six Gates serving Li Shimin.
In the Qinglongmen area, Zhang Hua's first batch of reinforcements had arrived, and even the Qi army's flag had not been replaced.
Famous generals of Qi, including Sima Rangju, Tian Ji, Tian Pan, Kuang Zhang, and other famous generals of Qi, led 150,000 Qi troops, crossed Tongguan and entered Guanzhong.
"I never thought that one day I would be able to come to Qin."
Sima Rangju, Tian Ji and other famous generals of Qi, as Qi people, regarded Guanzhong as the territory of Qin people, and they did not expect to come to Guanzhong in this way.
"The battle of Qi has just ended shortly after it was over. Before our hearts could be accepted, the King of Xia transferred our soldiers of Qi to the west. It seems that the enemy that King of Xia encountered this time was stronger than us."
Based on Zhang Hua's mobilization of Qi army into Qinchuan to fight, Sun Bin inferred that Zhang Hua's strong enemy Li Shimin was even more difficult to deal with than their Qi State.
Qi was only one of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period, and the Tang Dynasty was one of the most powerful unified dynasties. Li Shimin was the most influential emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so the strength of the Tang army was indeed much stronger than that of the Qi army.
Tian Ji, Tian Pan and other famous generals of ancient times couldn't help but sigh: "Young people are so terrifying."
Li Shimin and Li Jing, the military generals of later generations, played more happily and used cavalry more thoroughly, which posed even more threats to Zhang Hua than Qi.
The follow-up forces of the Five Tiger Camp and the Shenqi Camp arrived with the Qi army.
The Five Tiger Generals followed Zhang Hua alone to help Chang'an City. Their troops arrived under the leadership of Zhuge Liang, Guan Ping, Zhao Guang and Zhang Xingcai.
The Shenqi Camp was led by Huo Qubing.
These generals can either increase the speed of the marching or improve military discipline.
Chapter completed!