Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Seeing that the general was dead, the advancing team stagnated for a second, and then, as if going crazy, countless soldiers began to rush towards the Chu army on the opposite side.

However, no matter how hard they worked and how brave they were, in the face of the intensive firepower, everything was just the last ray of light before the setting sun.

As large numbers of soldiers fell to the ground, the soldiers of the Tang Army finally regained their senses.

Fear eventually triumphed over anger.

I don't know when it started, but the soldiers stopped charging and began to slowly retreat toward the rear.

Without the command of the pioneer general Li Xiaogong, and the deputy general and several generals also died in the battle, the army began to become leaderless and became a mess.

Hou Junji on the city wall saw this and hurriedly said to Chu Xin:

"Miss Chu, the enemy's army is demoralized. If we don't launch an attack now, when will we wait?"

Regarding Hou Junji, although Chu Xin was not ashamed of him as a person, she still agreed with some of his military qualities. After hearing his suggestions, she also felt that this was a good opportunity.

Therefore, he immediately ordered the entire army to attack and sent out the few cavalry in his hands to prepare to pursue the local fleeing troops.

What everyone did not expect was that after a brief period of confusion in the vanguard army brought by Li Xiaogong, all the soldiers put down their weapons at the same time, and then they all fell to the ground and gave up all resistance.

Only the soldiers of the supervising team, who were in twos and threes and at the rear of the team, saw that the situation was not good, turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the rear.

Seeing that the Tang army had lost their fighting spirit and voluntarily gave up resistance, Chu Xin ordered them all to be captured and brought back to Luoyang City.

After the battle of Kyocera, Chu Xin and Li Chengqian became famous in Luoyang City. Those wealthy gentry who were still worried and wanted to distance themselves from them came to congratulate them one after another.

Even the people in the city took the initiative to go out and began to participate in the battle of city defense maintenance and logistics work.

Chu Xin didn't care at all about this. In her opinion, all this was based on the fact that her gun barrel was strong enough, and there was nothing to be proud of.

If this battle fails, I'm afraid those wallflowers should think about how to cooperate with the Tang army outside the city to take them down.

Compared to Chu Xin's cold attitude, Li Chengqian's attitude was much more enthusiastic.

Not only did he hold a banquet for guests in his temporary residence, he even made bold promises that after he had eliminated all the treacherous people around Li Shimin, he would definitely introduce these people to the court as officials.

After receiving a lot of promises from Li Chengqian, these clan gentry donated generously. Not only did they donate a large amount of money and materials, they even sent a large number of servants, guards, and beautiful maids.

Euphemistically called it, it is used to serve His Highness the Crown Prince.

In this regard, Li Chengqian certainly refused to accept anyone who came.

Not only that, he also sent several pairs of handsome boys to Chu Xin, saying that he wanted her to relax in her free time.

After Chu Xin saw the boy Li Chengqian sent, she immediately ordered his head to be chopped off and sent it back to Li Chengqian as a return gift, and specially thanked him for his "kindness".

Li Chengqian was about to have fun with a few beauties. When he heard that Chu Xin sent him a return gift, he immediately ordered someone to open it on the spot.

When he saw the row of neatly arranged heads, he vomited everything he had eaten that night, then looked at the Chu Mansion with red eyes and roared:

"Chu Xin, how dare you insult me ​​like this!!!"

Unlike the joyful singing and dancing in Luoyang City, Li Shimin became extremely calm after receiving the news that Li Xiaogong had died in battle and the entire vanguard army was annihilated.

After careful questioning, he learned that Chu Xin had an extremely powerful "fire stick" and powerful explosives in his hands.

Li Shimin, who had expected it, sighed and directly ordered the Chinese army to advance quickly and rushed to Luoyang City.

Regarding Li Xiaogong's death, it is impossible to say that Li Shimin hated it.

Before he left, he specifically told the other party to fight steadily and not to make any rash advances, but the other party ignored his military orders and took the initiative to attack.

If Li Xiaogong won this battle, then forget it, but this battle not only killed him, but also caused Datang to lose 13000 soldiers.

Although some of them were captured by Chu Xin, in Li Shimin's eyes, those people were no different from dead people.

Although Li Shimin's hatred for Li Xiaogong had reached its peak, he had to work hard to maintain the magnanimity of an emperor in front of the generals.

Sure enough, after his generals saw that Li Xiaogong had made such a big mistake, His Majesty the Emperor was not angry and felt calm.

Although it seems from this military report that Li Xiaogong had no power to fight back when facing the Chu army.

But all the generals were experienced in the battlefield, and they also heard some key information.

and made a detailed analysis.

First of all, it was unwise for Li Xiaogong to launch an attack rashly without making any preparations.

Secondly, it is inappropriate to dare to continue attacking when you know that the enemy's weapons are novel and do not know their weaknesses.

Finally, choosing to launch an attack here when the enemy is not pursuing us and we can retreat calmly is really losing our minds.

After everyone summarized Li Xiaogong's faults, they began to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the Chu army.

First of all, the "fire stick" used by the Chu army was a new weapon that they had never heard of. There is no doubt at this time.

Secondly, the opponent has a large amount of explosives in their hands, and even though they have the advantage, they actually use it actively, which is enough to show that the inventory of explosives is enough for them to squander it on the battlefield.

However, even so, the Chu army's "fire stick" brigade has a shortcoming that cannot be ignored - that is, its slow movement speed.

It can be seen from the intelligence that the Chu army was in a passive state from beginning to end. Even if they took the initiative to attack later, they still maintained their formation.

It can be seen that if those "fire sticks" want to exert their power, they must maintain a certain number and formation.

Without the blessing of quantity and neat formation, it would not cause much damage.

Finally, and most importantly, the shooting success of these "fire sticks" is limited.

According to information obtained from the intelligence, Li Xiaogong once organized heavily armored infantry in an attempt to get closer and then used archers to attack and kill them, although this plan failed in the end.

But that was only after both sides were very close, and the archers were almost ready to shoot before the other side launched the attack. From this, it can be seen that the "fire stick"'s shooting will not be much further than that of the archers.