Chapter 40: Two Famous Generals

A flash of thought made Li Wanzhong break out in a cold sweat.

"Someone, come on!"

"What do you command?" the soldiers outside the tent trotted in in a panic. As soon as Li Wanzhong came to the Xianshan military camp, he killed a few generals who dared to contradict him, and now everyone was silent in front of him, and he didn't dare to make more noise.

"Go, go and bring the person with the gold token to the Chinese military tent......" Li Wanzhong felt that it was inappropriate again, so he changed his words: "Where are they now? Gather the generals and colonels on duty at night, and go with me to have a look!"

When Li Wanzhong came, he only brought a hundred and ten guards with him, so there were not many cronies around him.

"Return, if you go back to the town, they can reconcile the voucher and raise the grain in the granary of the forage field......"

Before the words fell, he heard a tsunami rise from the mountains outside the tent, Li Wanzhong was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and he didn't care about asking the soldiers again, and he didn't even have time to put on his shoes, so he ran out of the military tent barefoot. Looking closely, the north side of the barracks faintly revealed the flickering fire.

"Fight the fire, put out the fire!"

It was the location of the granary, and the grain in it was used to supply the 50,000 horses of the Yan army in Hongnong County, and once it was burned out, the grain and grass could not be helped, how could Cui Qianyou spare him? As soon as he thought of this, his anger was instantly like being poured with a basin of ice water. In its place, deep fear.

Li Wanzhong carried a horizontal knife, stepped on the snow with bare feet, and went straight to the direction of the granary, and shouted orders while running, telling everyone to rush to put out the fire. A hundred generals suddenly rushed out of the dark night, crying: "The Tang army stole the camp, the town general, those people, those people are the Tang army's fake control of the forage field gate, and the brothers can't attack it for a while......"

Although he was mentally prepared, after receiving confirmation from his subordinates, his head couldn't help but buzz, and anger and fear quickly spread throughout his body.

When I looked up again, the fire was already rising.

"You stupid pigs, let the spies burn the fire under their noses, they should all be killed, they should be killed!"

In a fit of rage, Li Wanzhong slashed his head with a knife, and the hundred people who came to report the news were unable to react, and a head rolled down on the spot, and the dark red blood in the cavity splattered everywhere in an instant, drenching Li Wanzhong's face all over his body.

"Lao Tzu is going to be exhausted to death by your group of incompetent people! What the hell are you doing in a daze? If you can't kill clean spies, Lao Tzu will kill you cleanly!"

The soldiers were all stunned by Li Wanzhong, and then reacted suddenly, and ran in the direction of the fire.

In peacetime, even if the chief general does not personally intervene, several lieutenants in the barracks can calmly deal with emergencies. But several captains in charge of the army were killed by Li Wanzhong under the pretext of being killed, and the soldiers below had no command and were resentful, so they naturally became more chaotic.

The sound of shouting and killing echoed everywhere inside and outside the valley, and many people thought that there was a large force of Tang troops outside the valley, and the fighting spirit of the chaotic soldiers in the camp was extremely low, but fortunately, Li Wanzhong still had a hundred and ten troops, driving the chaotic soldiers to attack the forage field.

However, it was too late, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, but in a few moments, it rose to the sky, and it was impossible to save it. Li Wanzhong was extremely annoyed, he couldn't understand how the Tang Army spies burned the fire under his nose no matter what!

I watched the soldiers rushing towards the forage field pour one slice after another like leeks!

"It's a heavy crossbow, be careful, the Tang Army has a heavy crossbow!"

Desperate shouts rang out in the army, and Li Wanzhong's 100 troops were armed with steel swords, bows and arrows, and once they found that there were retreating and fleeing, they could not help but say that they were slashing and shooting indiscriminately. The rebels had no choice but to rush to the wall of the forage field again, but the arrows rained down one after another, and finally they could not stand it and collapsed back.

One after another, the routed army was like a receding tide of the sea, and it rolled back towards Li Wanzhong's troops who were supervising the battle. Although Li Wanzhong's subordinates were brave, after all, there were few people, and thousands of people rushed back regardless of life and death, and they were immediately drowned in the sea of people.

Li Wanzhong looked at the raging fire in front of him, and then looked at the defeated soldiers who did not distinguish between the enemy and me, and there were bursts of despair in his chest.

Suddenly, the two wooden doors of the forage field were opened, and a bearded man rushed out first, tall and burly, like a god descending from heaven. It is the Wuhu Huaizhong of the Tongluo Department.

The enemy's eyes were very red when they saw him, and Wuhu Huaizhong saw Li Wanzhong who killed the Tumidu brother at a glance, and brandished the iron halberd in his hand and slapped the horse and killed him directly. The rout gate unconsciously flashed to both sides, making way for Wuhu Huaizhong.

Li Wanzhong was shocked and realized that the danger was imminent.

"Stop him, shoot him!"

The guards were dead in front of Li Wanzhong, and at the same time, some people bent their bows and pointed arrows at the attackers. The chaotic army that rushed left and right was mixed together in an instant, and Wu Hu Huaizhong was also trapped in it, unable to move an inch, seeing Li Wanzhong walking farther and farther under the support of his guards, he threw the iron halberd in his hand in a hurry.

"Brother Ugo, it's a long time coming, let's go!"

Qin Jin rushed out of the forage field after him, the fire was getting stronger and stronger, and if he didn't leave at this time, when would he wait? Wu Hu Huaizhong glanced at the rout of the chaos unwillingly, and it is unknown whether that shot hit the enemy or not. He also knew that if he didn't leave, it would be difficult for him to fly out when the rebels recovered.

Hundreds of people broke through the wall and swarmed out, and the soldiers in the battalion only shouted for a while, but they did not pursue hard. They were frightened by the heavy crossbows of the Tang army, and no one dared to rush forward without dying.

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At the same time as the fire in Da Xian Mountain, a big battle kicked off in Kundi, forty miles northeast of Yuzhou City. An army of more than 50,000 men marched from Shaanzhou to Qiuzhou to relieve the rebels, but although the Tang army marched at night to avoid the rebels' eyes and ears, they were eventually ambushed.

Li Chengguang, the leader of the Tang Army, was a Khitan who was highly valued by Gao Xianzhi, and this rescue of Yuzhou was very important, so he was sent out.

To the southeast of the city is a large unnamed lake, and to the west is a patch of endless artemisia meadows. The fire abruptly rose from patches of artemisia grass and spread to the southeast by the northwest wind. As a general who has commanded the army for many years, Li Chengguang knows very well what it means to attack at night, and once the chaos starts, he doesn't know how many people will be burned to death.

"Command, everyone go to the great lake, the fire can't burn there!"

In the depths of winter, even the surface of the Yellow River has frozen into several feet of ice, and this nameless lake is no exception. The terrain near the left side of Shaanxi County, Li Chengguang had long felt it clearly, and calmly and calmly commanded the transfer of the people. If there were only nearly 1,000 people under his command, then this continuous fire was nothing, but now there were 50,000 people, and if he was not careful, he would have been defeated. People can fight to the death, but in the face of the raging fire, there is no power to fight back.

The order was quickly delivered, and the army swarmed to the lake to escape the fire.

Li Chengguang stood on the frozen lake, and under the protection of the army, he watched the raging fire that illuminated half of the sky. An ominous premonition faintly came out of his heart, since Cui Qianyou had set up an ambush here, it was impossible for him to leave such an obvious flaw, perhaps he was hoping that the Tang army would come to the ice.

After stabilizing his mind, Li Chengguang no longer thought that in any case, it was impossible for the rebels to attack beyond the flames until the fire was extinguished.

"Formation, formation, beware of the rebels coming from the lake!"

As the military orders were passed down one after another, the scattered military spirit in the face of a sneak attack gradually stabilized, and the soldiers began to form formations according to the instructions of the generals of each battalion and army to prepare for the enemy.

The rebels are like wolves that hide in the night, and at some point they will rush up and bite hard. The information that the various units had completed the formation was fed back to the Chinese army one after another, and Li Chengguang's mood gradually calmed down. As long as he held out until dawn, the fire burned out, and the rebels were left without the cover of the night, he could see the situation and counterattack.

The big war has just begun, and the winner has not yet been decided!

"Someone fell overboard!"

The shouts spread sharply, and there was a commotion when the army was neutral. Li Chengguang frowned, isn't it just that someone has fallen into the water, how did the generals and colonels of the battalions maintain military discipline and let the troops make a noise! Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a huge shock all over his body, and a terrible thought came out of his heart.

Before Li Chengguang could react, a huge breaking sound was heard frequently.

The ominous premonition finally turned into reality, and the night stretched out its cold and vicious tentacles, enveloping tens of thousands of Tang troops.

The ice surface was broken in many places, and the Tang soldiers were caught off guard and fell into the icy lake water like dumplings. Although the water level dropped sharply in winter, most of the water could still easily reach the chest, and countless Tang soldiers struggled desperately in the icy lake.

In the distance of the nameless lake, a pair of eyes looked coldly at the Tang Jun who was in dire straits. For this scene, he prepared for three days, just to cut through the ice on the lake surface of nearly 10,000 people, in order not to disturb the Tang army's horses, in addition to only being able to do it at night, but also to set up a large number of rangers to cruise in the left near range.

Kundi is the only place where the Shaanzhou Post Road leads to Yuzhou City, as long as the Tang army comes to the rescue, they will have no return.

Fortunately, the stupid Tang Jun didn't even notice it, and crashed into the trap that had been dug for them a long time ago.

Nowadays, the cold dripping water turns into ice, and those Tang soldiers who fell into the lake will be frozen to death even if they can't drown.

Cui Qianyou retracted his gaze, he specially inspected here from Yuzhou, he didn't want to catch up with this scene, this is really providence!

In the first battle of Kundi, the Tang army of 50,000 troops was annihilated, and the whereabouts of the Tang general Li Chengguang were unknown, and his life and death were unknown. After dawn, the news quickly spread back to Shaanzhou City.

The whole army of Shaanxi County was shaken, and the originally stable military spirit began to become impetuous and scattered, and the people were panicked, and there were more and more deserters.

The 200,000 Tang troops are terrifying, but in fact they are a group of peddlers and pawns recruited from the market, they are cunning, loose, and have bad military discipline, and they don't need to die in battle, and they can flee faster than anyone else.

Gao Xianzhi has led the army for many years, and he has led such an unconventional army, but after hearing the news of the annihilation of Li Chengguang's entire army, he did not say a word for a long time.

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