Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Hearing Li Changlin's inquiry, Chu Xiang was stunned.

Yes, where did I hear the other party’s plan?

These thoughts of mine seem to be subconscious, right?

Li Changlin had never told him this personally, and now he directly rejected it.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiang's face became extremely ugly.

She took a deep breath, stared at Li Changlin, and asked word by word:

"Since you don't have any strategy, let me ask you, why do you let the soldiers brave the enemy's bullets and launch a direct attack?"

"Without a backup plan, why did you let the 20000 vanguard troops go directly to die?"

Hearing Chu Xiang's words, Li Changlin felt guilty, wriggled his lower lip, and finally sighed:

"Sir, I don't know that there are such a number of firearms in Shaanxi Temple, and the power of the opponent's artillery is far beyond the general's imagination. This is indeed something that the general has not thought carefully about."

Hearing Li Changlin's words, Chu Xiang was so angry that he almost fainted on the spot.

"What did you say!!!"

She directly raised her voice, then looked at Li Changlin in disbelief and asked:

"Are there many firearms in Shaanxi Temple?"

"Don't you know that our Dazhou firearms are the most powerful in the world? The level of the scrap metal in Shaanxi Guan is almost equal to the defective products we bought."

"The reason why they were able to persist for such a long time is entirely because the terrain here is not conducive to the deployment of the battle formation. Moreover, I, the Great Zhou Dynasty, are currently all focused on the coast and the north, and have no time to take care of this place, and have not prepared a comprehensive battle with the Tang Dynasty. The preparation for war has allowed them to survive until now."

"Now you tell me that it's because Shaanxi Guoguan's firearms are more powerful than ours that it caused such a huge loss. Don't you think it's funny?"

Hearing Chu Xiang's question, Li Changlin was confused again.

"Sir, I didn't see any artillery in the vanguard army. I only saw muskets on the soldiers, but I didn't see any others."

It wasn't until this moment that Chu Xiang figured out that the idiot in front of him had not figured out the composition of his army until now.

But who can blame it?The only reason is that I trusted the other party too much, thinking that the other party was a high-ranking general from Chang'an.

Don't you know that this guy is just a idiot who doesn't understand anything?

Taking a deep breath, Chu Xiang clenched his fists, gritted his teeth, stared at Li Changlin and shouted:

"Don't you know that in addition to your vanguard army, we also have an artillery corps? Specifically responsible for washing the ground before the war?"

Seeing Li Changlin's confused face, Chu Xiang knew without thinking that the other party definitely didn't know.

"Come here! Let me know, Ming Jin will withdraw his troops!!!"

Thinking that he had let a ignorant bumpkin become the vanguard officer, and that after this battle, the entire vanguard army was almost destroyed, Chu Xiang couldn't help but roared at the messenger outside the camp.

The messenger who had been outside for a long time was frightened. After hearing Chu Xiang's order, he immediately responded and ran to deliver the order quickly.

The vanguard soldiers who were moving forward with a certain death intention suddenly heard an order from behind to withdraw their troops.

The originally despairing heart immediately felt a glimmer of hope.

As soon as he heard the order, he threw away the weapon in his hand without thinking, turned around and ran away.

To be honest, it is extremely rare for them to persist until now.

If it weren't for the fact that there had never been such a defeat in the game between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Tang Dynasty, they might have escaped long ago.

Holding on to the remaining hope, they persisted until now.

Now that they heard the sound of ringing gold, knowing that this was their retreat, and knowing that this was their last chance to survive, the persistence in the hearts of the soldiers collapsed instantly.

So he turned around and ran away without any scruples.

The formation, which was originally bombarded by artillery, was like being chewed to pieces by dogs. After hearing the order to retreat, it immediately became extremely chaotic.

The officer who originally wanted to let his soldiers retreat in an orderly manner was shocked to find that his soldiers dispersed immediately after the order was issued.

No matter how they screamed, shouted and commanded, they could not stop their retreat.

On the city wall, the generals of Shaanxi Guoguan did not wait for the enemy's surprise attack. Instead, they saw the soldiers fleeing under the city.

If it weren't for the fact that it was still night, their vision was impaired, and they were worried about an ambush outside the city, no matter what, they would have led their troops to charge forward.

However, there is no order from the general, and they are mainly defensive. Therefore, they have not thought about seizing this opportunity, and they have not thought about going out of the city to pursue.

Only then did the remaining soldiers of the vanguard army escape.

After the battle, Chu Xiang endured his heartache and ordered an inventory of the battle losses.

You don't know this, but when you look at it, she almost bleeds with distress.

However, in less than an hour and a half, out of the 20000 soldiers of the Pioneer Army, only less than 6000 were able to escape after this battle.

And these 6000 people do not include those who are disabled or injured and unable to continue fighting.

Looking at the battle losses reported by his subordinates, Chu Xiang wished he could just drag Li Changlin out to sacrifice the flag.

But thinking that the other party was a reduced general with a special status and was directly under the command of Her Majesty the Empress, she could only grit her teeth and have someone remove him from his official position and send him to Luoyang, where Her Majesty the Empress would deal with it personally.

However, after tonight's battle, Chu Xiang was not without gains.

Reviewing the entire battle, she found that when the vanguard army just launched its attack, it had clearly entered the range covered by the enemy's artillery fire, but the opponent still did not take action.

It is enough to show that the inside of Shaanxi Temple is not as peaceful and calm as it seems on the surface.

The generals in the city must be busy fighting for power now, which will delay the opportunity to fight.

It was only because the other side encountered a loser like Li Changlin that the battle was successful. If it had been for someone with rich combat experience, the vanguard army might have occupied the city head and opened the city gate by now.

Thinking of this, Chu Xiang felt angry and itched his teeth again.

She decided that after dawn, she must take action herself and take advantage of the enemy's internal conflicts to capture Shaanxi Guoguan.

At the same time, Li Shimin and Li Ji, who were ten miles away from Shaanxi and Guoguan, also received tonight's battle report.

When they saw the number of enemies killed and the number of injuries to their own side reported in the battle report, they were all stunned.

Because the enemy's casualties reported above directly exceeded 12000, while the casualties column on our side only listed 8.

And on it, it is clearly stated that these eight casualties were not injured because of killing the enemy, but because they fell off the city wall due to careless walking in the dark night.