By the time Li Jing arrived at the South City Gate, the place was already bustling with people. The soldiers cheered like a mountain and a tsunami, with happy smiles on their faces.
Li Jing came to the south wall and looked at the person below. Who could it be if it wasn't Zheng Rentai?
But what puzzled Li Ji was how Zheng Rentai arrived so quickly. He should have arrived tomorrow.
But I can't care about that much right now, so it's a good thing to come early.
The city gate slowly opened, and Li Jing was already standing at the city gate. Seeing Zheng Rentai riding in first, Li Jing hurriedly greeted him.
Seeing Li Jing greeting him in person, Zheng Rentai hurriedly got off his horse, bowed and said, "Greetings, your lord!"
"General Zheng, please get up quickly!" Li Jing hurriedly stepped forward to help.
"Commander, how is the situation in Dingxiang City?" Zheng Rentai stood up and asked hurriedly.
"Let's not talk about this first, why did you arrive so quickly?" Li Jing asked.
"I was worried about something happening in Dingxiang City, so I brought 30,000 horses and came in advance. The follow-up army and baggage will not arrive until tomorrow." Zheng Rentai explained.
"Okay, okay, you came at the right time. If you wait until tomorrow, it will be a question of whether Dingxiang City can withstand it!" Li Jing told the situation of Dingxiang City without hesitation.
"So serious?" Zheng Rentai said solemnly.
At that moment, Li Jing told the situation about Dingxiang City. When he heard that Dingxiang City was almost out of ammunition and food, he couldn't help but take a breath. It was true as Li Jing said, if he arrived tomorrow, how could Dingxiang City be able to survive? Whether it can be defended or not is unknown.
The addition of 30,000 new troops replaced the soldiers guarding the city wall, which greatly shocked the morale of the soldiers throughout the city.
Zheng Rentai's men brought a lot of wood knots, which greatly made up for the shortage of wood knots. The Western Turkic soldiers who had had the opportunity to attack the city wall were defeated again, and the battle returned to its previous state.
King Zuo Xian, who originally thought that the soldiers of the Western Turks could attack the city wall, changed his face wildly after receiving the news. He couldn't understand why Dingxiang City, which had just run out of ammunition and food, had that damn wooden bump again.
With this kind of thing, even if his troops are close to the city wall, they will be bombed and suffer heavy casualties. He was the one who used his life to consume the wooden lumps in Dingxiang City. He thought they were all consumed, but now they have appeared again. In his opinion, This was Li Jing's last desperate struggle.
King Zuo Xian had no idea that the reinforcements from the Tang Dynasty had arrived. If he had known about it, he would have been desperate and wanted to commit suicide!
Due to the arrival of reinforcements, the crisis in Dingxiang City was finally resolved. King Zuo Xian's army attacked from morning to sunset, but still failed to capture Dingxiang City. This made him furious, but he had no choice but to withdraw his troops.
In one day, in addition to the 50,000 dead and wounded Western Turkic soldiers and the more than 40,000 foreigners who fled, a full 100,000 horses were lost in this day, which reduced the Western Turkic army from more than 300,000 to 20 Thousands.
When they saw the retreating Western Turks and horses, deafening cheers erupted in Dingxiang City. They held on. They held on to Dingxiang City. When reinforcements arrived, those who survived cried with joy. Too many people had died in the war in the past few days. Of the original 100,000 people, there are now only 30,000 left, with a total of 70,000 casualties. Such casualties have not happened for a long time.
Even in the attack on Gaoguli, there were not so many casualties, which shows how tragic the war was.
Compared with the fierce fighting in Dingxiang City, Yumen Pass, Luo Zhang rushed back here with his army after capturing Lu Dongzan, but Lu Dongzan did not take him with him. He sent people directly to Chang'an. Why? Luo Zhang left it to His Majesty to deal with Lu Dongzan, and what he had to consider was how to destroy Tubo.
The direct consequence of Lu Dongzan's destruction was that almost all the army that attacked Yumen Pass was wiped out. Only 30,000 people remained in the camp, and they were all old and weak soldiers.
After Luo Zhang returned to Yumen Pass, he asked Cheng Yaojin to lead 30,000 cavalry to attack the Tubo camp. The result is self-evident, and they won a complete victory. The Tubo army broke through the camp with almost no resistance.
At this point, the battle at Yumen Pass has come to an end. As soon as reinforcements arrive, Luo Zhang will send troops to encircle and suppress Tubo!
