Liang Mo's death actually meant the collapse of the Zuoyu Guards. This confused army can persist until now only because of Liang Mo's existence.
Throughout the first six years of the Daye era, the stars were shining brightly, and Huang Mingyuan was the brightest one, but there were countless green leaves to set them off, which together formed a sky full of stars.
But to this day, Zhang Shou, Liang Mo, Dugu Lan, Zhang Dinghe, Jing Yuanheng, Zhou Fashang, Shi Xiang, Wang Rengong, Yuwen Chengduthese Mesozoic people of the Sui Dynasty who rose up during the Renshou period and shined in the Great Cause Era Except for Jing Yuanheng, who was still by Huang Mingyuan's side, all the generals were no longer alive.
The prosperous Sui Dynasty can never go back.
Sanguan fell and the three armies were completely defeated. Only Chief Shi Guo Xingfang led more than 2,000 troops who were loyal to Liang Mo and fled back to Liangquan.
ãá reduce .com ãá. The rest of Liang Mo's generals, such as Cheng Renzhong, Sun Qian and others, saw that the situation was not right, so they all surrendered to Li Shimin.
¡°Perhaps these people were ready to surrender a long time ago, but Liang Mo¡¯s presence prevented them from having a chance. Now, nothing can stop them.
As for Liang Mo¡¯s body, Li Shimin had it buried on the mountain outside Sanguan.
Liang Mo has great military morale, and now that he is a dead man, the funeral can also capture the military morale of his troops.
After Li Shimin took Sanguan, he did not stop, leaving only part of the army to collect the tragedy, and led his elite to pursue southward.
Li Shimin knew very well that taking Sanguan was only the first step. From Sanguan to the south, the road was full of dangers and obstacles, and there was no telling where it would become a natural chasm. Now taking advantage of Liang Mo's death and the Sui troops in Hechi County not being able to react in time, he wanted to fight as far south as possible. It would not be so easy if we waited until Jiao Fangwei from Hanchuan County came to support him and tidied up the troops everywhere before trying to break through Hechi County.
Guo Xingfang fled south and was caught up by Li Shimin at Huanghuayi (sixty miles north of Fengzhou Town, Feng County, Shaanxi Province today). Guo Xingfang, a scholar, was of course defeated. The battle with Li Shimin was another rout.
Everyone fought and fled, and when they fled into Liangquan County, less than a thousand people were left.
There are more than 20,000 left imperial guards, divided into three groups.
The main force, more than 15,000 people, was led by Liang Mo and stopped Li Shimin at Sanguan. Along the way, Liu Deyu, the tiger general, commanded more than 7,000 people to guard Shunzheng County and block Li Xiaogong on the southern front.
When Liang Mo occupied Hechi County, he took advantage of the situation and took over Shunzheng County in the south. Shunzheng County (today's Lueyang County, Shaanxi Province), the seat of Shunzheng County, is an important transportation hub. It connects to Jushui Road to Hanzhong in the west, and Chenping Road within its territory can also directly enter Sichuan. If it weren't for the lack of troops, Liang Mo would have fought all the way to central Sichuan.
After Li Xiaogong entered Shu, in order to open up connections with Qinchuan, he stationed troops on Jinniu Road and continuously attacked Shunzheng County, but Liu Deyu repelled them all.
There were about 5,000 people on the last road, commanded by Liang Mo's sons Liang Zhou and Huang Mingjing, to guard Hechi County. Five thousand people may seem like a lot, but they are all second-line recruits, and they are guarding Liangquan County, Liangdang and Liuba, so the number of troops is really tight.
Guo Xingfang fled back to Liangquan County, and Li Shimin followed him, surrounding Liangquan County.
The news of Liang Mo¡¯s death shocked Liang Zhou and Huang Mingjing.
Liang Mo was also considered a famous general in the world and had an advantage, but he died in the hands of his subordinates. It is really unbelievable.
Liang Mo's son Liang Zhou wanted to lead an army to attack Li Shimin on the spot, but Huang Mingjing spent a lot of effort to persuade him to stop.
The top priority is Zuo Yuwei¡¯s future. As for taking the initiative, it is tantamount to seeking death.
Liang Mo died and there was no leader in the army, so he had to nominate someone to take charge.
Although Liang Zhou is Liang Mo¡¯s son, he is younger and has a more reckless personality. Although Huang Mingjing has a special status, he is still an outsider compared to the rest of Zuo Yuwei. So everyone elected Chief Shi Guo Xingfang as the temporary commander-in-chief of the army.
??However, Guo Xingfang is good at governing, but he is far from good at leading the army.
And after the battle at Sanguan, Guo Xingfang was a little frightened. Their hands and feet were tied up, they were cowering, and they lost all the important places outside the city, leaving Li Shimin to trap them all.
Huang Mingjing looked at the situation and felt it was impossible.
29306 Four thousand people, including the young men in the city, are not many.
And because of Liang Mo's death, morale was low and the morale of the army was turbulent, making it difficult to defend.
With no advantage inside or outside, Huang Mingjing no longer wanted to defend.
Although losing Liangquan County means losing Hechi County. But after losing Hechi County, the elder brother blocked the Tang army from Hechi.¡¯s strategy almost completely failed, and the next step was to be in big trouble.
But the problem is that you can't defend it for long even if you want to, and it doesn't make much sense to defend Liangquancheng. The result was that they only persisted for three to five days more and were then annihilated by Li Shimin.
Rather, it would be better to preserve our troops, withdraw to Hanchuan County, and then make plans.
This can be regarded as what my brother said to stop the loss in time.
With this idea, Huang Mingjing immediately went to Guo Xingfang to discuss it. Although Huang Mingjing was only a temporarily appointed Hechi County Magistrate, because he was the younger brother of Duke Wei, he had a very high say in front of everyone.
No matter what, Huang Mingjing is equivalent to supervising the army.
Of course Guo Xingfang wanted to withdraw, he didn't want to stay in Hechi County for a day. He could only dream of escaping to a safe place like Hanchuan County.
But Liang Zhou was unwilling to retreat.
Hechi County was his father¡¯s hard work, how could he be willing to give it up in vain, fighting for it until his death, how could he be willing to give up just like that. It is easy to retreat now, but it is difficult to come back.
As Liang Mo¡¯s son, Liang Zhou didn¡¯t want to withdraw, but it was hard for everyone to force him.
However, two days later, news came from Shunzheng County in the south. After Liu Deyu, the general of Hu Benlang who was stationed in Shunzheng County, heard that Liang Mo had died in battle, he opened the city and surrendered to Li Xiaogong.
After Liang Zhou heard this, he was almost speechless.
Liu Deyu is Liang Mo's confidant. Liang Mo is very kind to him and entrusts him with important responsibilities. He is equivalent to the second-ranking figure in the army, but now even he has been demoted.
"Young general, even Liu Deyu has surrendered. You can imagine how many people in the army are loyal to Li Ni. If we stay in Liangquan any longer, we don't know when someone will use our heads to change our future for Li Shimin." .¡±
Although Liang Zhou didn¡¯t want to believe it, he knew that Huang Mingjing was right.
"Let Huang Juncheng handle everything."
Mi He Mi. On the second day after learning of Liu Deyu's surrender, Huang Mingjing and Guo Xingcong led the troops in the city to break out.
This time, everyone only carried weapons and equipment and three days of rations, discarding all the bottles and cans, just to break through to Hanchuan County as soon as possible.
Li Shimin traveled a long distance and had to defend Shunzheng County in the south, so he did not have enough troops.
So the left imperial guard army concentrated their strength and broke out with one blow. Li Shimin failed to catch up and actually let the Zuo Imperial Guards go west and east.
Li Shimin sent general Murong Xiaoqian to pursue him and set up an ambush for Huang Mingjing at Liufeng Pass, beheading more than a thousand people. Murong Xiaogan was defeated and returned to Liangquan, while Huang Mingjing led the remnants of the Zuo Imperial Guard to garrison at Liuba Pass