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- Many times, it is difficult to make a decision, but if it is made, it will be like that.
Xu Shao led his troops to continue to retreat westward, but this time it did not go so smoothly.
In order to prevent the Sui navy from retreating, Mai Mengcai used an iron cable across the river to block the way of the Tang navy. More than ten fire boats were deployed upstream. When the Tang Navy approached, they immediately lit the fire and set sail, rushing towards the Tang Navy.
The remnants of the Tang Army's navy were too busy taking care of themselves at this time, and there was no cooperation between the various departments. So more ships were set ablaze by the fireships, set on fire, and then destroyed.
Facing such a tragic situation, Xu Shao was filled with despair. Not far behind him, a group of huge monsters, like tarsal maggots, chased after him.
On that day, the Tang Army¡¯s Jingzhou Navy was completely wiped out.
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Li Daozong waited for a whole day and two nights for the navy's situation, but he still failed to wait for the navy's success.
Early the next morning, the main force of the Sui navy returned from the west and approached Jiangling City. Li Daozong knew that the Tang navy in Bailizhou was in dire straits.
Li Daozong's heart was full of loss and frustration, and there was even a hint of dissatisfaction with Xu Shao.
Eight thousand navy troops were defeated in less than twenty-four hours. I don't expect you, Xu Shao, to lead the navy to defeat the Northern Sui Army, but you have to hold off for a while anyway to buy enough time for the main force.
Even if there were 8,000 pigs, the Sui army would have to capture them for a while.
At this time, Jiangling was in troubled times. Wei Yan went south and disappeared. I don't know how much of the main force of the navy was left. The whole Jiangling had been stripped to half exposed by the Sui army, leaving only the ruthless ravage.
Chen Keen made an effort and struck while the iron was hot. Before the Jiangling defenders could react, he ordered Mai Mengcai to lead the 59th Army to land west of Jiangling, dig trenches, build camps, and build the western defense line. He also ordered Zhou Shaoze and Lei Changying to set up camp in the east of the city to build the eastern defense line. The navy troops set up camp directly on the other side of the river, preparing to attack Jiangling City directly from the water.
If you want to attack, you must defend first. This is a tradition passed down by the Sui army or Huang Mingyuan. Huang Mingyuanguang said that Li Shimin only knows how to defend and counterattack, and he, as a teacher, also made his career on defense.
If it were anyone else, facing this formation, their first thought would be to break out, or at worst to defend. But Li Daozong was different from others. He was the one in the Li family who truly had military talent.
Li Daozong knows the current situation, and sticking to it is the worst option. The Sui army keeps coming, and Jiangling City is made of iron, so it may not be able to hold it for long.
Moreover, these days, the army has been defeated in consecutive battles, its morale has dropped sharply, and its morale has been unstable. Even people like Lei Changying, who they originally thought would resolutely resist the Sui Dynasty, have surrendered. If this continues, who else will be willing to fight for Li Tang? Fight to the death.
A victory is necessary to inspire military morale and stabilize people's hearts.
Tang Jian refused.
To fight this battle cleanly, we cannot rely on the original Liang Army to surrender. What can be used is the eight thousand Tang Army in the city. Some of these eight thousand people were also allocated to defend the city and monitor Liang Jun's surrender. How many of them could follow Li Daozong to attack.
Li Daozong also considered Tang Jian, even more than the other party.
If this battle is won, it will certainly boost the morale of the army. But if you are defeated, you will be unable to recover.
The Sui army could afford to gamble, but the Tang army could not.
Tang Jian pinned all his hopes on Li Shimin. As long as Li Shimin defeated the Sui army in Changlin and returned to Jiangling to aid, all problems would be solved.
In the end, neither of the two could convince the other, and Li Daozong made his own decision. Although Tang Jian was in charge and was even the one who made the decision in many cases, Li Daozong was the actual general after all, and the army was under his control.
In order to defend the city, Li Daozong only gathered 1,500 elite men. At night, he opened the east gate and went straight to the Sui army's eastern camp.
The reason for choosing Dongmen was something Li Daozong had considered for a long time. If you want to win the battle, but you don't have enough troops, you can only use weak persimmons.
It was also because the Sui army had been victorious for many days and felt tired. Perhaps because of the insufficient combat effectiveness of Zhou Shaoze and Lei Changying, the Sui army's defense in the eastern camp was very loose.
Li Daozong's attack was extremely smooth. His army was like a broken bamboo, breaking through three Sui army camps, burning the fence set up by the Sui army outside the east gate, wiping out thousands of enemies, and then calmly returned to the city.
When Chen Kedi led the reinforcements to the east camp, they saw only a mess and corpses.
强 牺     读 牺 。 The entire East Line Camp was burned by half, sorrowful, terrible, even Zhou Shao was injured.
This defeat is really not deserved. ??Not only the officers and soldiers of the three armies, but also Chen Kedi himself was blinded by the continuous victory over the past few days and lost his sense of crisis.
Chen Kedi regretted that he was too trusting and tried to break Jiangling with one army. Now it seems that this is completely unrealistic.
Li Daozong's battle was like a resounding slap in the face, telling the Sui army that the Tang army in the city was not a group of quails with nowhere to escape, but a group of elite troops with fighting ability.
The Tang army was like a pack of evil wolves, ready to bite off a piece of meat from the Sui army at any time.
Chen Kedi hesitated for a while, and finally decided to transfer the remaining troops of Zhou Shaoze and Lei Changying to the western defense line and abandon the eastern camp. After all, the Sui army did not have many troops. No matter how many troops were dispersed, it would be easier for the Tang army to defeat them.
And then the main goal of the Sui army had to change from destroying the city to preventing the Tang army from breaking through.
At this time, Zhang Si. Chen Kedi's command level is definitely at the talent level, which even Huang Mingyuan is full of praise for. In terms of military ability and talent alone, among the younger generation, Li Shimin, Chen Kedi, and Su Lie are at the top. They all have 95 abilities now. What they lack is experience, which Huang Weiyang is far behind.
Therefore, Chen Kedi gave up the siege and focused on trapping the city. With sufficient troops, they immediately became able to fight with ease.
No matter how the Tang army wanted to fight, Chen Kedi would insist on strangling the west side of Jiangling and the Yangtze River. As for the east and north, your Tang army won't care even if the whole army breaks through. If you have the ability, just leave.
"But there is a big lake to the east of Jiangling and Zhang Jian's cavalry to the north. What's the use of Chen Kedi just getting out of the way on both sides. After all, the west side and the Yangtze River are the lifelines of Jiangling.
Therefore, if Li Daozong wanted to break the siege, he had to continuously attack the Sui army's western front positions.
The Sui army on the western front was blocked by deep ditches and high fences, and there were also large formations of crossbows and spears. Moreover, the Sui army's ships were constantly patrolling the Yangtze River, and the catapults and crossbows on them were aimed at Jiangling City at any time.
With strong resistance in front and long-range strikes from outside, Li Daozong was unable to destroy the Sui army's western blockade and suffered heavy losses.
But it¡¯s not enough if we don¡¯t attack.
Control the big one and control the owl. If the Sui army is allowed to blockade Jiangling, Jiangling will become a dead city. Moreover, Jiangling's northern company, Changlin, and Yiling to the west, serve as the central city to support the surrounding areas, especially Li Shimin's main force. Once Jiangling City is cut off from all sides and captured one by one by the Sui army, what's the point of holding on to the isolated Jiangling City?
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