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Li Sheng stood in front of the sand table, using small flags to simulate the marching route of the Guo family army. He knew strategically that the Guo family would perish, and he also knew that the newly recruited army of the Guo family was vulnerable, but he still took it very seriously.

He thought that the Guo family would attack Chengdu from the north to relieve the crisis of Zizhou, but soon he found that he had thought too much. The Guo family army had no signs of going north, but directly attacked Zizhou in the west.

When the Guo family army was still a hundred miles away from Panshi County, Li Sheng resolutely issued an ultimatum to Panshi County, and took the county in a blink of an eye. He took the whole family of the Yang family to Chengdu and disbanded the army. As for the disposal of officials, it was the Ministry of Personnel. He could only protect the innocence of the governor Xu Huining at most, but whether he could keep his official position was another matter.

In the current situation, it was fortunate that Guo Huaiyan's son-in-law could serve the people safely.

It took only one hour to solve the Panshi County, and Li Sheng began to prepare to deal with Guo Qianren's army.

At present, the Guo family army is located in Pukang County, Puzhou, to the east, about a hundred miles away from Panshi County. If nothing unexpected happens, they will rush to Panshi County along the current official road.

Li Sheng found another small road to the north of the official road. He immediately said to the general Guan Ning: "General Guan can lead 10,000 troops through the small road, go around the enemy's back, and cut off the enemy's retreat!"

"I obey the order!"

Guan Ning took the order and hurried away.

Li Sheng smiled at the deputy general Zhao Ting'an: "Please ask General Zhao to perform a battle of attack and defense, so that the other side will think we are still attacking the city!"

Everyone laughed, and Zhao Ting'an bowed and said: "Ten thousand troops are enough for me, and the attack and defense performance is guaranteed to be earth-shattering."

Li Sheng gave Zhao Ting'an 10,000 troops, and he led 30,000 cavalry to quietly go south under the cover of night.

Although the generals believed that it was unnecessary to use a butcher knife to deal with the little chicken of the Guo family, Li Sheng's style was never to underestimate the enemy, and he prepared and treated every war seriously.

The next morning, Panshi started another offensive and defensive battle. The city gates were closed, drums were beating like thunder, shouts of killing were deafening, smoke was billowing under the city walls, and arrows were shot at the top of the city like raindrops. Basically, they passed over the top of the city and shot into the city. The city had been covered with thick sand, and the arrows were stuck in the sand, with almost no damage. After a while, a batch of them were recovered by the soldiers.

The offensive and defensive performances were so vivid that they really deceived the spies sent by Guo Qianren to check. Of course, the spies did not dare to get close. If they got close to investigate, they would still find clues. The Tang army camp was almost empty.

But it was hard to tell from a distance. It felt like the Tang army had about 30,000 people. Zhao Ting'an really pretended to be an army of 30,000.

At this time, Guo Qianren's army had entered Zizhou, about 70 miles away from Panshi County. It was late, and the army rested on the spot.

Guo Qianren was very vigilant and deployed a large number of spies around. Once he found something abnormal, he would immediately notify the army.

Guo Qianren was unwilling to rescue Panshi County from the bottom of his heart, but he had to give an explanation to the head of the family, so as long as he found any abnormality, he would have an excuse to withdraw his troops and return to Huizhou immediately.

However, so far, no abnormality has been found. At three o'clock in the morning, the spies from Panshi County came back, and Guo Qianren hurriedly got up to meet the spies.

"General, the siege is still going on, but the other side does not seem to have heavy siege weapons, and the siege seems to be more difficult. They mainly rely on fire attacks and arrows."

"How many people?"

"About 30,000!"

Guo Qianren pondered for a moment. This number was a little different from the 50,000 Tang troops they had, but there was no problem after thinking about it carefully.

Li Sheng must leave troops to defend Chengdu, and it is impossible to have 30,000 troops. It should be more than 30,000 people, which is actually about the same. Leave about 15,000 troops to defend Chengdu.

After thinking this through, Guo Qianren felt relieved.

Before dawn the next day, the Guo family army set out again.

After confirming that the Tang army was still attacking the city, Guo Qianren no longer had any worries and ordered the army to march forward at full speed.

He had a new idea. If they could get to Panshi County in time and attack the Tang army from behind, the 20,000 Yang family troops in the county would attack from the front. With the attack from both inside and outside, the 30,000 Tang army would inevitably be defeated.

If they could win this battle, they would have the upper hand in the entire Bashu situation.

Many of us are sometimes a little self-righteous. This is a common problem for everyone. To put it bluntly, we consider problems from our own perspective. The difficulties we may encounter will unconsciously lower our valuations and we always feel that we can successfully complete the plan.

But in the end, we will all say that the plan is not as fast as the changes, which is actually thinking too simply about the difficulties.

Guo Qianren was the same. He even thought of the details of the night attack on the Tang army. Thinking of the Tang army's hasty escape, he was a little excited.

When it was almost noon, the soldiers were tired and the team was stretched to nearly 20 miles. In this case, they would usually stop to rest, and the team would slowly gather together.

Guo Qianren was a little worried when he saw that the team was too long, so he ordered: "Rest where you are!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a barrage of arrows suddenly shot out from the woods on the roadside. The arrows emitted green smoke and exploded after landing. The soldiers on the official road were caught off guard and screamed in pain.

The soldiers were in chaos, and many of them were hit by iron particles, and they cried like ghosts and wolves. However, the arrow mines used by the Tang army to deal with Han soldiers were non-toxic arrow mines, and the iron particles were not poisoned. In fact, it was not a big problem to be hit, but the psychological damage to the soldiers was huge. Many people completely collapsed because of being hit by iron particles.

Then a low horn sounded in the woods, "Woo--"

The overwhelming Tang Army cavalry rushed out of the woods and killed the enemy on the official road.

In fact, three Tang army cavalry with ten thousand people launched attacks at the same time on the official road more than 20 miles long, cutting fifty thousand enemy troops into three sections. The violent explosions were unheard of by these soldiers. Exhaustion and fear filled the hearts of every soldier.

When the overwhelming cavalry rushed out like the sky was shattering and the earth was shattering, many soldiers were so frightened that they screamed, turned around and ran away without their lives.

Regardless of marching or fighting, the army has a special feature. Soldiers are generally not allowed to leave the official road. The official road is a kind of control. Under the supervision of generals, soldiers do not dare to escape easily. But once they leave the official road, it means losing control.

Especially when the army is defeated, almost all soldiers who leave the official road and flee into the wilderness run home and will not go back to die. It is okay to make a fortune together if the battle is won, but forget about sharing the risks if the battle is lost.

Those soldiers who could be gathered were basically soldiers who had not strayed from the official line, which meant that they were still in order and would not escape home, or they were inexperienced and were intercepted by the general responsible for gathering the defeated soldiers.

The 50,000 soldiers were all soldiers who had just been recruited less than half a month ago. They had never seen such a scene of bloody massacre. They were so frightened that they fled in all directions.

The Tang army did not pursue them. As long as they left the official road, they basically let them go. Unless they were generals, the Tang army would not let the enemy generals go. Generals generally have cohesion and can reunite soldiers. Only

Guo Qianren had more than twenty soldiers beside him, but he was surrounded by hundreds of Tang Army cavalry. Soon, his soldiers fell off their horses one after another, leaving only Guo Qianren. Guo Qianren roared and swung his sword to kill outside.

Dozens of spears were thrust forward, left, and right, and Guo Qianren screamed as his body was pierced by dozens of spears. He was killed on the spot and fell off his horse.

The ambush ended in less than half an hour. The Tang army killed thousands of people, and more than 20 generals including Guo Qianren were also killed. Many soldiers' legs were weak from fear and could not run at all, so they had to Kneeling down and surrendering, countless people surrendered for a while, and the Tang army stopped chasing the fleeing soldiers and allowed them to escape. Li Sheng ordered not to pursue them anymore. These are Han peasants who only enlisted in the army out of confusion. Once they Realizing that their lives are in danger, no one will work for the Guo family anymore. It is the emperor Li Ye's intention to let them go home and farm.

Thousands of people in the rear army escaped the ambush of the Tang army and turned around to flee. In the end, he could not escape the interception of 10,000 Tang troops.

After only running for more than ten miles, General Guan Ning led 10,000 troops to rush out, like a big net, blocking the way of the soldiers. Guan Ning waved his gun and shouted: "If you want to survive, why don't you kneel down and surrender!"

The soldiers woke up from a dream and knelt down one after another to surrender. Guan Ning ordered the soldiers to collect their weapons and escort them back.

Li Sheng did not expect that the Guo family's army would be so vulnerable. In more than half an hour, the entire 50,000-strong army was destroyed.

Soon, Li Sheng got the exact information. These 50,000 troops were all newly recruited farmers. Many soldiers could not even use crossbows and were dragged onto the battlefield. No wonder they performed so sparsely, while the 20,000 servants who were really well-trained Stay in Hechuan County.

Li Sheng ordered the soldiers to take off their armor, gave them a good meal, and then released them home.

By this time, the bodies of thousands of those killed had been cremated and buried, and the battlefield had been cleared.

After resting for a long time, Li Sheng continued to lead an army of 50,000 to Hechuan County.

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