After many days of bloody battles, Li Shimin finally captured Jianmen Pass, the gateway to Shu, and rescued the previously captured general Fan Kuai. He was overjoyed.
After the Tang army rested at Jianmen for a day, Li Shimin left general Li Rusong in charge of Jianmen and personally led the main army south to join Gao Xianzhi's partial division to advance into Chengdu.
But what Li Shimin never expected was that shortly after he led his army to leave Jianmen, an army that had been hiding in the deep mountains and old forests of Bashu for a long time quietly came outside Jianmen Pass. The leader of the army was the general who killed his right-hand man. Li Jilong, the Sui army general Li Su whom he hated to the core.
"General, here!"
Several soldiers shouted softly, and Li Su came after hearing the news. In front of him were dark cave entrances, with faint firelight flickering in the corridor, extending to the depths that were difficult to see.
"Get down!"
Li Su shouted softly and jumped into the tunnel first, followed by several of his soldiers. At the same time, people in his army found similar cave entrances from time to time, but in just a cup of tea, this army of nearly ten thousand people disappeared above the ground.
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In the dead of night, the sword door was closed and there was silence, except for the occasional footsteps of a few sentry soldiers.
Li Rusong, the general who was left by Li Shimin to guard Jianmen, stayed in the former commander-in-chief of Li Jing. The burning suet candle illuminated the hall as bright as day. Li Rusong held the military book in his hand and slowly read it.
After a long time, he felt a little sleepy, put down the military book, stood up and stretched, and was about to go back to the bedroom to go to bed.
"Kill, kill, kill!!!"
At this moment, there was a sudden loud shout of murder outside the house.
Li Rusong frowned, hurriedly walked down the hall, took the long spear in his hand, strode outside the door, looked at the soldiers outside and said, "What's going on?"
Several soldiers looked at each other, shook their heads in confusion and said, "General, even this villain doesn't know."
"Report, General Li, something bad has happened!"
At this moment, Vice General Li Rusong rushed over with a dozen soldiers and shouted in panic: "Sui Army, nearly ten thousand Sui troops entered the pass. Our army was caught off guard and had no time to organize a defense. Most of the Jianmen Guan has fallen into the hands of the Sui army."
"What?"
Li Rusong was so shocked that he almost jumped up when he heard this: "Why are there Sui troops? Where did they come from? How could they enter the pass so easily? Why didn't the soldiers on patrol alert? Could it be that they came from the ground? Coming out from underneath?”
"General, the Sui army really emerged from the ground!"
The lieutenant general said with a sad face: "I heard from the patrol soldiers who escaped that the Sui army dug more than a dozen tunnels in Jianmen Pass. They used the tunnels to suddenly come out late at night and quickly occupied various important roads."
Li Rusong swayed and almost fell to the ground.
The deputy general hurriedly stepped forward to support Li Rusong and said in a trembling voice: "General, the situation is not good, we should retreat quickly!"
"No, we can't withdraw!"
Li Rusong said with a straight face: "Jianmen is the throat of Shu, where the army's food route is. Once His Highness King Qin's 100,000 troops are lost, they will be in dire straits. You immediately send an order to all the defenders in Jianmen Pass to fight to the death. We must drive out the Sui troops in the Pass."
"General!"
The deputy general shook his head helplessly: "Every important road has been seized by the Sui army. Our soldiers are divided and surrounded, and they cannot communicate with each other at all."
"Kill!"
While the two were talking, there were loud shouts of killing outside the handsome man's house. Li Su straightened his horse and broke in through the door: "Li Sui of the Sui Dynasty is here. Anyone who surrenders will not be killed!"
"It turns out that you are Li Su who killed brother Jilong. Today, I, Li Rusong, will avenge him!"
Li Rusong was also a member of the Tang Dynasty clan, and was related to Li Jilong. Hearing that the person coming was Li Su, who had killed Li Jilong, he went to kill Li Su without saying a word.
"Ding dong, it has been detected that Li Rusong has entered a fighting state, force +3, base force 92, current force increased to 95."
"Another fake Tang clan!"
Li Su laughed loudly when he heard this, stepped forward on his horse, and stabbed forward with his long spear: "Let me send you to keep Li Jilong company!"
"Ding dong, it has been detected that Li Su has entered the brave state, his force is +4, his base force is 96, and his current force has increased to 100."
The two generals fought for more than ten rounds, but Li Rusong was outmatched. He gradually lost ground and suddenly stabbed into the air. When he turned around to avoid it, he was already too late.
Without hesitation, Li Su stabbed him like a poisonous snake coming out of its hole. With a "pop" sound, Li Rusong's chest had been pierced by Li Su's horse. A wave of coldness hit Li Rusong's head. He slumped down and suddenly lost his breath.
"Ding dong, it was detected that Li Su killed Li Rusong. The host received 9 soul points. The current total number of soul points has increased to 151."
"Li Rusong is dead, why don't you come down quickly!"
Li Su stabbed Li Rusong to death. Ma Shan pointed forward and shouted at the other Tang soldiers.
With a bang, the deputy general took the lead and threw away his weapon. Seeing this, the other soldiers also fell to the ground and asked to surrender.
By daybreak, Li Su had completely captured Jianmen Pass. Only a few die-hard elements of the Tang army in the pass rushed out of the pass, either heading south to find Li Shimin, or heading north to find Li Yuan in an emergency.
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The defeated soldiers of Jianmen Pass traveled all night and night to report the news of the fall of Jianmen Pass to Li Shimin.
At this time, Li Shimin had just joined forces with Gao Xianzhi's partial division, and the morale of the three armies was high. They formed a confrontation with Li Jing's army in the Mianzhu area, and Chengdu was already within easy reach.
The news of the fall of Jianmen was like a thunder, which immediately stunned the Tang army generals who were originally in high spirits. Li Shimin opened his mouth and was speechless for a long time, and suddenly he looked up to the sky and spurted out a mouthful of blood.
"His Royal Highness King Qin!"
The civil and military personnel under the tent were all startled and wanted to step forward to help Li Shimin.
"It doesn't matter if I'm alone, it's just that there is a build-up of depression in my chest."
Li Shimin waved his hand to indicate that everyone did not need to step forward. He turned to look at the defeated soldiers at Jianmen Pass and asked, "Jianmen Pass is so dangerous. Even if Li Jing lays down an army in advance, it will take time to attack the city. What about Li Rusong?" Lost the level so quickly?”
The defeated soldiers quickly led the Sui army into the city through the tunnel, killing their own army by surprise. The pass changed hands overnight.
"Tunnel, how can there be an tunnel at Jianmen Pass?"
Zhuge Liang frowned, "Even if Li Jing secretly planned after learning the news that General Gao Xianzhi was diverting his troops to Shu, he wouldn't have been able to dig such a long tunnel in a few days, and such a big movement would not have been hidden from us."
"There is only one possibility!"
Du Ruhui glanced at Li Shimin carefully and said in a deep voice: "It is possible that Li Jing had been preparing these tunnels before our army arrived at Jianmen, so these traces had already been cleaned up by the time our army broke through!"
"So the Ziwu Ancient Road was the flaw left by Li Jing to me early on!"
Li Shimin smiled bitterly: "From the beginning, he planned to give up the Sword Sect and lure me into his trap. Li Yaoshi, Li Yaoshi, I am not as good as you!"
