On June 4, the fifteenth year of Tianbao, in the face of the strict orders of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, the helpless Ge Shuhan led 180,000 Tang troops out of Tongguan and embarked on a journey of fierceness and misfortune.
Three days later, the Tang army that took the initiative to attack and the troops of the Yan army general Cui Qianyou encountered at Lingbao Xiyuan, and the foreshadowing of the Tang army's fiasco had long been buried.
Cui Qianyou chose to encounter Ge Shuhan here, which was his long-planned plan, and here was the cliffs of Kunshan Mountain to the south, the gushing waters of the Yellow River to the north, and the narrow strip along the mountain and river for seventy miles, which was just the perfect terrain for soldiers.
On June 8, the decisive battle began.
Ge Shuhan set up the headquarters of the Tang army on a boat down the Yellow River, the vanguard general Wang Sili led 50,000 Tang army elite soldiers along the river bank to look for fighters, behind the 50,000 Tang army elite soldiers were General Pang Zhong and other generals led 100,000 Tang troops to follow, Ge Shuhan himself led 30,000 Tang soldiers to the north bank of the river to meet the first, after the troops came out, Ge Shuhan and the general Tian Mingqiu took a boat to observe the situation in the river.
From a distance, Cui Qianyou's Yan army was not numerous, so Ge Shuhan waved the flag and ordered the tang army's vanguard troops to advance forward, while he himself led a 30,000-strong army to the north bank of the Yellow River to cheer for Wang Sili.
Wang Sili led the Tang army to continue to advance, and what caught his eye was the loose and collapsed Yan army, which seemed to be no more than ten thousand in number, and five groups, ten in a group, scattered, and there was no appearance of fighting in a line at all. Wang Sili's Tang army generals couldn't help but laugh, and they dared to come out and rebel like this!
The Tang generals did not realize that what they saw was only the surface.
Wang Sili led the Tang army to catch up, and the two armies caught fire, and more than 10,000 Yan troops "panicked" and collapsed.
Just at this moment, unexpected things happened, a large number of Yan army soldiers suddenly appeared on the cliffs of Kunshan Mountain, Wang Sili was stunned, rolling wood and stones rolled down from the mountain, and jumped and smashed into the Tang army soldiers.
Fifty thousand Tang troops were smashed to pieces, and there was no power to fight back, the Yan army was condescending to use stones as weapons, and the Tang army could only shout in vain with knives and guns, and the situation was precarious.
You must break through as soon as possible, or you will all be killed here.
Seeing this, Ge Shuhan on the north bank of the Yellow River hurriedly waved the flag and ordered Wang Sili to open the road with a felt-canopy carriage, where the Tang army's felt-canopy carriage was equivalent to a heavy tank.
The felt-cloaked carriage of the Tang army quickly rushed out of a road, but the road was broken again.
In front of the Tang Army's felt-tented carriages were dozens of large carts filled with grass, and when the felt-tented carriages ran here, the grass was all burning, and a wall of fire was suddenly formed, and thick smoke billowed out, covering the sky.
Tang Jun couldn't see his five fingers in the thick smoke, and as soon as he heard the noise, he thought that Yan Jun had killed him, so he subconsciously picked up a knife and gun to assassinate, and at this moment, he began to beat his own people, and they didn't know it themselves.
After the chaos, it finally calmed down, and Tang Jun pointed his spearhead at the wall of fire, and behind the wall of fire, there may be hidden Yan Jun.
Tang Jun's arrows shot behind the wall of fire.
The sun went down in the west, the smoke cleared, and at this time, the Generals of the Tang Army looked at the back of the wall of fire again, and there was nothing, but at this time it was too late to find out, and the arrows were all shot.
When the Generals of the Tang Army were at a loss, they heard a mess behind them, and Cui Qianyou led the Yan Army cavalry of the Tongluo tribe to raid the back road of the Tang Army and was covering up from behind.
At this point, the situation was unmanageable, and the 50,000 Tang army suddenly collapsed, running to their own things, some going up the mountain to hide, some going down the river to escape, just like ants that had been flooded with water, only knew how to escape, did not know anything else.
Panic reached its extreme, and began to spread rapidly, from 50,000 defeated soldiers of the Tang Army's forward troops to 100,000 Tang Army's large troops, which were originally unharmed.
A terrible thing happened, the 100,000 Tang army large troops heard that the forward troops were defeated miserably, and immediately collapsed without a fight, and the 100,000 Tang army collapsed.
Immediately afterward, the 30,000 Tang army personally led by Ge Shuhan on the north bank of the Yellow River also collapsed completely and scattered.
Goshuhan was dumbfounded, and in just one day's work, he had lost all his chips.
The Tang army on both sides of the Yellow River fled, and Ge Shuhan had no choice but to lay down his body and start fleeing with a hundred or so Tang army cavalrymen under his command.
Ge Shuhan and his party fled back to Tongguan, and were originally ready to enter the city through the suspension bridge, but now they don't need it, everywhere is flat.
There are three trenches dug under Tongguan City, the same size, two inches wide and one inch deep, there is no suspension bridge, and it is difficult to insert wings. Now the Tang army deserters swarmed into the city, and countless people and horses fell into the trenches, and finally, the three trenches were filled in, and they raised their feet to enter.
Fleeing into Tongguan, Ge Shuhan counted, 180,000 troops, only escaped back to 8,000.
A day later, Cui Qianyou led the victorious Yan army to come, and the remnants of the Tang army in Geshuhan failed to block Cui Qianyou's attack.
Tongguan was lost, and the Chang'an Portal was wide open!
If you know today, why did you know it in the first place?
Recall that Emperor Li Longji strictly ordered Ge Shuhan to lead the main force of the 180,000 Tang army to take the initiative to attack, which was completely a stupid pig-style suicide act, and the anti-theft door of Tongguan was not used, but he went out to seek his own death, and in the end he even lost the anti-theft door of his own home.
Ge Shuhan, who had lost the anti-theft gate, fled all the way to Guanxi Station (present-day east of Huayin County, Shaanxi Province), where he took a breather and sent people around to post notices to gather the remnants of the army and prepare to counterattack Tongguan and retake the anti-theft gate.
As he was unfolding, Fan Surrounded the station with more than a hundred cavalry.
Huoba Guiren walked into the caravanserai and said to Goshuhan, "The rebels have arrived, please hurry up and get on the horse!" ”
Ge Shuhan did not dare to be idle, and walked out of the station, at this time, the cavalry led by Huoba Guiren all knelt down and said: "The Lord led an army of 200,000 people, and the whole army was destroyed in the first battle. Besides, didn't you see the fate of Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing? Chang'an, don't go, go to Luoyang! ”
Ge Shuhan was shocked in his heart, broken, and the fire pulled Gui ren this is to kidnap me and surrender to An LuShan!
Naturally, Goshuhan could not agree, and he moved his sick body and prepared to dismount.
However, when the hero ends, everything goes as expected, and the hero's end of the road can't even get off the horse.
Huoba Guiren tied Ge Shuhan's feet to the horse's belly with a rope, and then escorted Ge Shuhan and his men to luoyang.
Huoba Guiren thought that Ge Shuhan was his own name, and with such a name in hand, An Lushan would naturally look at himself with disdain.