Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Chapter 1077 The Dilemma of the Second Army

After deciding where to move, Chu Mo had no interest in continuing to break up with the other party.

After directly asking Chu Ruowan to pay the household registration relocation fee of 12000 taels.

At the official's signal, the group of people followed a large group of soldiers and began to advance slowly in the direction of Luodu.

Along the way, due to the escort of the government and the army, there were basically no accidents and no accidents were possible.

Because, along the way, the escorting officers and soldiers were "waiting" at the front, back and left of the team. Whether they were going to the toilet or falling behind, someone was always watching them.

Even if Chu Mo and his party protested many times, it was of no avail.

Not only that, in addition to preventing Chu Mo and the others from leaving the team, these escort officers and soldiers would always be on guard against them even when passing through some village stations, preventing them from having any chance of contact with the outside world.

If these officers and soldiers did not show much hostility and were only focused on protecting them, Chu Mo and Chu Ruowan would even think that these officers and soldiers, along with their group, wanted to find some geomantic treasure place to kill people and steal goods.

Just when Chu Mo and his party were "escorted" to Luodu, the battle outside Shaanxi and Guoguan had also reached a fever pitch.

First, Li Shimin overcame all opinions and directly mobilized 20000 troops to kill all 10000 Northern Zhou soldiers who were ambushing outside Shaanxi Guoguan.

Then, Li Ji personally led 5000 soldiers to burn Chu Xiang's grain, grass and material storage warehouses on the front line.

By the time Chu Xiang got the news and wanted to rescue, Li Ji had already returned to Shaanxi Guanguan from the trail with his troops.

The ambush was suppressed and the granary was destroyed. For a time, the entire Northern Zhou front line was filled with a sense of uneasiness.

The double blow caused Chu Xiang, who was originally confident, to fall from heaven to hell.

Originally, she was thinking of sending people to Shaanzhou City and asking the prefect Zhang Daoquan to send people to urgently raise a batch of supplies to stabilize the morale of the army first.

However, what Chu Xiang never expected was that Zhang Daoquan from Shaanzhou City sent people into his Chinese army's tent and before the messenger for help was sent out just after something happened on his side.

The messenger came in and without saying a word, he took out an urgent letter and handed it to Chu Xiang.

Chu Xiang received the emergency report, opened it, and almost lost his breath and vomited three liters of blood.

It turned out that what Zhang Daoquan sent was an urgent report asking for help.

According to the letter, during this period, a large number of refugees from the Tang Dynasty gathered outside the city of Shaanzhou, many of whom were mixed with a large number of exquisite works of the Tang Dynasty.

They incited the refugees to not only rob the porridge workers in Shaanzhou City, but also kill all the supply teams and messengers sent by Shaanzhou City to the front line, causing Shaanzhou City to lose its eyes and ears all of a sudden.

The purpose of sending someone to deliver the message this time was to hope that Chu Xiang could send a team of soldiers and horses to help Shaanzhou City maintain security outside the city, restore communication between the two sides, and allow Shaanzhou City's materials and supplies to be transported to the front line normally. .

If Chu Xiang had received this secret letter from Zhang Daoquan a day ago, he would have happily agreed and then sent people to clear the road.

But now, at this juncture, the other party sending such information was obviously intentional.

The other party must have prepared all this a long time ago, just waiting for something to happen on his side, and then he would add insult to injury.

Resisting the urge to hack the messenger to death, Chu Xiang didn't waste any time. He directly sent a confidant with a team of people to follow the messenger back to Shaanzhou City and urgently escorted a batch of grain and grass supplies. Let’s talk about stabilizing the morale of the army.

Then, she directly ordered her soldiers to launch another attack on Shaanxi Guanguan. In addition to wanting to capture the entire Shaanxi Guanguan, she also hoped that through the battle, some soldiers could be consumed, so that there were not many left in the camp. The food and grass can last a little longer.

For this reason, Chu Xiang directly divided the remaining 60000 troops into three parts and launched attacks against Shaanxi Guan day and night.

Faced with Chu Xiang's desperate attack, even at all costs, Li Shimin also felt miserable.

Although he killed 10000 of the opponent's soldiers and burned the opponent's granary.

But as the saying goes, if you kill 1000 enemies, you will lose 800 yourself. Although Li Shimin killed the opponent's 10000 soldiers in a sneak attack, he also lost a lot of men.

The Shaanxi Guoguan garrison, which was originally small, now has less than 30000 people left.

Now, facing Chu Xiang's attacks one after another, Li Shimin's side is gradually beginning to be stretched.

At this time, his only expectation is that there will not be a lot of food in Chu Xiang's camp, and the other party will collapse earlier than his own.

Just when the two sides were fighting in full swing, fighting to the death, another bad news came from the rear of Datang.

That is, Cui Yingying entered the realm of Jiangnan with the five surnames and Qiwang. Changsun Wuji was worried about arousing the resentment of the two families in Jiangnan and did not dare to continue the pursuit.

He asked Changsun to rush to Chen's army in Jingzhou to prevent Qiwang from the five surnames from counterattacking. At this time, he returned to Chang'an with thousands of troops.

Hearing that Changsun Wuji had so easily "sent" the five surnames and Qiwang into Jiangnan, Li Shimin felt as if he had been struck by a thunderbolt. He vomited several mouthfuls of blood and then fell unconscious.

Seeing His Majesty the Emperor vomiting blood and falling into a coma, all the generals in Shaanxi Guan Temple were in disarray and felt uneasy.

If Li Ji hadn't noticed that the situation was not good and stood up at the right time to calm everyone's emotions, it would have been impossible for these people to abandon the city and flee with Li Shimin.

Although he temporarily stabilized the morale of the army, facing Chu Xiang's attack at all costs, Li Ji was powerless for a while.

After all, the opponent is now completely using human lives and shells to attack.

As long as he dares to take a step back, what awaits him will be an endless abyss of hell.

As the battle became increasingly fierce, Chu Xiang could no longer hold it any longer.

The small amount of food and grass in the camp was completely consumed by her in a short period of time.

Originally, she wanted to make a desperate move and take advantage of the fact that there was not much food left in the army to capture Shaanxi Guoguan and then resupply.

But she didn't expect that Shaanxi Temple was stronger than she thought. Under such a crazy attack, the opponent could still hold on, directly shattering her dream.

Faced with the dilemma that the entire army had no food available, Chu Xiang had no choice but to order the slaughter of the war horses.

However, this is not the case. The few remaining horses were almost completely killed under Chu Xiang's order.

But in the face of tens of thousands of hungry soldiers, these few war horses can barely survive. If you want to be full, it is far from enough.

Despite this, the soldiers were shocked to find that for some reason, the canteen was able to continuously provide sufficient meat to everyone.

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