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　To the east we have the natural danger of Tongguan. No matter how many people the Sui army comes, as long as we are prepared, it will be difficult for them to break through Tongguan.

　As for the Sui army going to Taiyuan, we can't ignore it either.

　Your Majesty can send a general with 10 troops to Taiyuan to resist the Sui army. "

　Liu Wenjing stood up and said.

　"Your Majesty, I object."

　Pei Ji on the side stood up and shouted.

　"Your Majesty, I believe that Taiyuan is no longer important to us at this time, and it is located east of the Yellow River.

　It will take at least a week for our army to arrive in Taiyuan.

　Once we send an army of [-] to Taiyuan, the defense force in Guanzhong will be weakened.

　Dividing troops is the biggest weakening of strength.

　Instead of this, it is better to give up Taiyuan directly. We took advantage of the Sui army that attacked Taiyuan from the north before it arrived.

　Concentrate all your forces, and first fight a decisive battle with the 20 Sui troops outside Tongguan in the east to defeat them.

　Otherwise, when the Sui army from the north goes south and attacks from the south, we will be attacked on both sides, and it will be difficult to concentrate our efforts to defeat one of the Sui troops. "

　Pei Ji spoke out his own thoughts.

　"Well, what Pei Ji said is correct. Compared with Taiyuan, if we can concentrate our efforts to defeat the main force of the Sui army in the direction of Tongguan.

　That's much better than dividing up our troops to keep Taiyuan. "

　Sure enough, Li Yuan nodded after hearing this, and compared any Pei Ji's statement.

　Taiyuan used to be the place where Li Yuan started his family, and it was also for this reason that Li Yuan cared more about Taiyuan, or another place, Li Yuan would not care so much.

　However, at this time in Taiyuan, Li Yuan did not leave any family members behind. Before that, his third son, Li Yuanji, still stayed in Taiyuan.

　But since the last time Liu Wuzhou colluded with the Turkic people to go south to conquer Taiyuan and almost captured Li Yuanji alive, Li Yuanji was frightened.

　After Li Yuanji woke up, he never went to Taiyuan again, but stayed in Chang'an.

　In this way, Li Yuan completely lost his worries in Taiyuan.

　"You say, who is the right leader for this battle?"

　In fact, Li Yuan had already acquiesced in Pei Ji's suggestion, and asked everyone again.

　"Your Majesty, the Second Highness previously led the army to fight in the east and west, pacified the northwest, conquered the east of the river, led the army with rich experience in combat, and his generals were brave.

　In this battle, it is better to let the Second Highness be the coach. "

　As soon as Li Yuan finished speaking, a subject under his command immediately stood up and said.

　This is an opportunity for Li Er to fight for the command of the army. Such an opportunity is once in a thousand years.

　Li Er wants to be the commander-in-chief of the army this time, and the same is true for Li Jiancheng.

　"Your Majesty, I believe that it is best for the prince to lead the army in this battle, and it is also the most legitimate."

　Some of Li Jiancheng's cronies immediately stood up and said.

　"Okay, Prince and Shimin, both of them are too young and immature.

　This time against the Sui army is very important for our Tang Dynasty. I want to find a stable veteran to lead the army. "

　As Li Yuan said, his eyes followed Liu Wenjing, Liu Hongji, Changsun Shunde and others, obviously intending to select someone from among them.

　Finally, Liu Yuan's eyes fell on Liu Hongji, and he said, "General You Xiaowei, you are willing to be the commander-in-chief of this army.

　Command the army and defeat the invading Sui army. "

　"Sir, obey the order."

　Liu Hongji stood up immediately and took orders.

　Li Yuan had already personally named him, how could Liu Hongji refuse, wouldn't that be disobedience!

　After the two, Liu Hongji led [-] Li Tang troops and hurried to Tongguan.

　At this time, Tang Jun ignored the more than [-] defenders at Tongguan. Facing the menacing Sui army, Liu Hongji was of course worried.

　After Liu Hongji led the army to leave Chang'an, Li Er also summoned his cronies, and sent troops to Tongguan a day later.

　In this battle, although Li Er did not win the position of coach, he was finally appointed by Li Yuan as deputy coach to cooperate with Liu Hongji.

　Liu Hongji led the vanguard to Tongguan first, Li Er was the second batch of troops, and there will be a third batch of Tang soldiers behind.

　This time, Li Er knew how important this battle was to them.

　Therefore, Li Erjiang's eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Xu Maogong, Qin Qiong, Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Jingde and other advisers and generals were all brought along.

　At the same time, there are more than [-] soldiers and horses from the direct line under Li Er's command.

　Li Yuan did not send Li Jiancheng to fight, but let him stay in Chang'an to handle political affairs.

　On Li Tang's side, when he sent troops from Chang'an to Tongguan, Zhou Yu led the main force of the Sui army, and they were already under Tongguan.

　"Tongguan, the barrier to the east of Guanzhong, we want to enter Guanzhong, Tongguan is something we can't get around."

　Looking at the majesty of Tongguan, Zhou Yu said in a deep voice.

　"Captain, Tongguan is naturally dangerous, and the Tang army is heavily guarded, so it must be difficult to break through.

　However, there is a trick here. If successful, Tongguan may be captured. "

　Gan Ning, who was standing behind Zhou Yu, spoke.

　"Gan Ning, let the governor guess, what you're talking about is using the northern river to make a fuss?"

　Zhou Yu turned his head, looked at Gan Ning with a smile, and said.

　"Haha, the governor really knows the details, that's right."

　Gan Ning didn't mention his plan, Zhou Yu already guessed it.

　"Well, Water War, the governor believes you.

　However, now is not the time.

　At least, we have to wait until the troops led by Shuai Bai from the north arrive.

　At that time, the Tang army will face pressure from both sides. That is the time for us to launch a general offensive. At that time, you will attack by water. "

　Gan Ning was very excited. Gan Ning is best at water warfare, and he will be an important part of this battle to enter Guanzhong.

　"This battle won't end in a short time, His Majesty and the governor were already mentally prepared when we came.

　Moreover, His Majesty had asked the craftsmen of Dongdu to build warships half a year ago, and now there is a fleet of dozens of large ships hidden on the Yangtze River.

　After a while, the fleet will come at night, and then the governor will send you to receive it and command the fleet. "

　Zhou Yu looked at Gan Ning and said with a smile.

　The reason why Xu Feng summoned Gan Ning was because Gan Ning, as the number one general of Soochow Wu, had excellent water combat ability.

　"Yes, Governor."

　Gan Ning responded excitedly.

　"Here in Tongguan, we still have to confuse Tang Jun.

　According to the order of the governor, the army rested for three days, felled trees to make siege equipment, and attacked the city three days later. "

　Zhou Yu gave the order.

　"how is the situation?"

　On Liu Hongji's side, on the second day after Zhou Yu led the army to Tongguan, he led the army to Tongguan and asked the Tongguan guard.

　"Back to the general, the Sui army outside the city arrived two days ago. After camping, they sent a large number of soldiers to cut down trees and build siege equipment. They haven't attacked the city yet."

　The guard of Tongguan replied.

　"Well, it's fine if you haven't attacked yet.

　Immediately summon all the generals in the pass to discuss matters with this general. "

　"Kill!"

　Three days later, the Sui army began to attack Tongguan.

　Although Zhou Yu didn't expect the soldiers of the Sui army to really take down Tongguan, he still sent soldiers to carry out a real strong attack on Tongguan.

　Since you want to confuse Tang Jun, you have to act the fake show, otherwise Tang Jun has a lot of talents and will be seen through.

　The offensive and defensive sides launched a fierce offensive and defensive battle around Tongguan.

　Whoosh whoosh!

　"Ah!"

　On the top of Tongguan City, the roar of arrow rain and the screams of soldiers resounded from morning to night.

　"General, let Xiaozhi lead a team of cavalry out of the customs, the Sui army's archers are too much of a threat to us."

　Above Tongguan, the Tang army suffered heavy casualties, and some Tang army generals couldn't bear it.

　The casualties of the Tang army mainly came from waves of covering fire by [-] Sui army archers outside the city.

　The archers of the Sui Army, because they used Western longbows, allowed their range to far exceed the range of the crossbowmen of the Tang Army in Tongguan.

　The soldiers of the Tang army guarding the pass could only defend against the rain of arrows, but could not counterattack the Sui army's archers.

　"No, the cavalry of the Sui army outside the city are eyeing them like a tiger, and now they are courting death if they leave the city."

　Liu Hongji directly rejected the request of some Tang generals.

　Soon, the Sui army's strong attack on the first day ended.

　After guarding the pass for a day, the Tang army suffered heavy casualties, 80.00% of which were from the Sui army's archers.

　Peng!

　"This is the first day of defense, and the casualties exceeded [-] people. How can we fight the next battle!"

　At night, Liu Hongji was also very annoyed when he saw the number of Tang Jun's casualties during the day.

　"General, the Sui army is the attacking side, and it is estimated that the casualties of the storm during the day will not exceed 5000.

　The casualty ratio between our offensive and defensive sides did not exceed two to one. This battle was really aggrieved. "

　Duan Zhixuan, who was beside Liu Hongji, said unwillingly.

　Indeed, the Tang army relies on natural dangers like Tongguan. As the defensive side, the casualties should be much lower than the offensive side. The casualty ratio of the two sides is three to one or four to one, which is considered normal.

　The casualties of the attacking side should far exceed that of the defending side, but now!

　"The bows and arrows used by the archers of the Sui Army are too far away, and our archers cannot shoot them.

　The archers of the Sui Army seem to have been improved by them. We have to think of other ways to see how to prevent the Sui Army from being covered by arrow rain and reduce casualties. "

　Liu Hongji said with a cold face.

　What Liu Hongji didn't know was that Zhou Yu only used a large number of Sui army archers, but Zhou Yu still had more than 200 bed crossbows and more than 100 catapults that were useless.

　"Haha, Commander, the Tang Army defenders in Tongguan are nothing more than that.

　In my opinion, we don't need to wait for Bai Shuai to come from the north, and we don't need to let Gan Ning attack by water.

　We directly attacked Tongguan in one go, and hit Chang'an in one go. "

　The success of the daytime battle made many Sui soldiers despise Tang Jun and said this to Zhou Yu.

　"Hmph, it's just been a battle, and I'm so proud of you, I really think Tang Jun is so easy to deal with.

　Go back to the governor, inspect the wounded, boost the morale of the soldiers, let the soldiers rest, and have to attack the city tomorrow. "

　Hearing the proud words of some Sui army generals, Zhou Yu scolded with a cold face.

Chapter 286 Appearance of the Xuanjia Cavalry

　286 Xuanjia Cavalry Appears

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　Oh oh oh!

　On the second day, the Sui army continued to storm Tongguan.