The Tang army led by Li Shimin had a total of 60,000 troops, including two elite battalions, the Xuanjia Army and the Feixiong Army, which were twice as powerful as the Qin Army.

As for the generals, Li Shimin had Li Yuanba, Ma Shanwei, Gao Siji and other powerful generals under his command, and he also received support from Ji Fa, Nangong Shi, Xiao Sheng, Cao Bao and many other Taoist disciples along the way.

In addition, Shen Gongbao, who was the inheritor of both Yuqing and Shangqing sects, after receiving a letter from the Taoist sect, in order to repay the kindness of the Yuqing sect for teaching, he also went to Guanzhong to help the Tang Dynasty.

In addition to coming by himself, Shen Gongbao also deceived Lu Yue, who was traveling with him and was preparing to take office in the Song Dynasty.

Shen Gongbao told Lu Yue not to go to the Song Dynasty to take office, but to come with him to help Li Tang. After all, helping Li Tang was equivalent to helping the Song Dynasty.

Although Lu Yue was strong, his brain was really not very good. He was fooled by Shen Gongbao's words and believed him. He took five apprentices and two junior brothers and went into Guanzhong with Shen Gongbao to help Tang Dynasty.

In other words, Li Shimin's lineup this time includes not only Li Tang's powerful generals, but also elite disciples from the three Taoist sects. The talent lineup is extremely luxurious.

Whether it is the number of troops or the lineup of generals, Li Shimin is superior to Wang Jian. Logically speaking, even if he cannot win, he should not be defeated.

But the fact is that Li Shimin not only lost, but also suffered the worst defeat in his life, without even the slightest suspense.

Why did Li Shimin, who had an army of 60,000 and many powerful generals, suffer such a tragic defeat this time?

The reasons are somewhat complicated, but they are nothing more than two major factors, internal and external.

The external factor is that just when Li Shimin and Wang Jian were fighting, civil strife in Chang'an also broke out as Li Shimin expected.

But one thing exceeded Li Shimin's expectations, that is, the traitor exposed in this civil strife search was not a long-planned rebellion, but an abandoned son deliberately exposed by Li Si.

Li Si knew very well that Li Shimin had a back-up force in Chang'an, and there were more than one. If he raised troops after Li Shimin left the city, he would most likely fall into a trap.

Li Shimin believed that there were people from the Qin army in Chang'an City, so he did not hesitate to leave Chang'an and lure the snake out of its hole. If Li Si did nothing and continued to lurk, Li Shimin would not let it go.

After weighing the pros and cons, Li Si decided to divert trouble to the east, so he planned a rebellion and deliberately exposed all the family members who had turned to Da Qin. But in fact, these people were all his abandoned sons, and his purpose was to

Let Li Tang turn his attention to all the aristocratic families in Chang'an City.

Under Li Si's operation, twenty-one major clans in Chang'an City launched a rebellion at the same time after receiving the signal. The number of their rebels was not too large, but the momentum was extremely large, and everyone in Chang'an City knew about it.

Some families saw that there was a rebellion in the city, and the momentum was so great that Li Shimin could not come back for the time being. They thought that Li Tang was going to be doomed, so in order to save the family, they joined the ranks of the rebels.

However, what the heads of the families who launched the rebellion and the generals belonging to these families never imagined was that the people who encouraged them to launch the rebellion not only failed to cooperate with them in the rebellion, but also used the Tang army in the same city to suppress them.

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