Chapter 166: The turnaround is unpredictable
I don't know how long it took, Li Longji suddenly woke up in a spasm, and the nightmare just now made him break out in a cold sweat.
"Sage, be careful if you catch a cold......"
When he noticed the paleness of the Son of Heaven, he knew that he might have had a nightmare, so he draped a large piece of cloth over the old Son of Heaven. After a long time, Li Longji came back to his senses and found that he was still sitting on the Hu bed, and the ministers, including Gao Lishi, were also by his side, and his mind was immediately stable again.
The dream just now was really terrifying, just in Li Longji's drowsy trance, An Lushan's 100,000 Yanliao iron horsemen actually broke through Tongguan and fought all the way to Chang'an.
In a panic, he could only leave behind his relatives and children, his courtiers, and the splendid Chang'an, which belonged to himself and the Tang Dynasty, and fled to a point of no return.
Along the way, he lost his most beloved woman, and was abandoned by his son who had been painstakingly cultivated for many years, and really became a lonely man, and finally due to old age and decrepitude, he couldn't escape, and was captured alive by the thief in the countryside and mountains, locked in a wooden cage prison car, and escorted back to Chang'an City in public.
The people and officials gathered around him, spitting and throwing stones at him like monkeys watching tricks in the East Market.
However, this horrific scene was nothing more than a nightmare after all, he did not leave his courtiers, and his son also stood by his side with great humility.
Li Longji caught Li Heng's concerned gaze, but for some reason, an unspeakable disgust rose in his heart.
He didn't seem to be able to tell the difference between the son in the dream and the son standing next to him who was more real.
In the nightmare just now, it was this good son who sold him to An Lushan, making him fall from the high Son of Heaven to hell, becoming a prisoner, and being bullied**.
"The battle situation under the mountain, does the prince have an opinion?"
Li Heng was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stepped forward and pondered for a moment before replying: "Zhonglang will be a trapped beast, and Doctor Gao seems to have the intention of showing mercy!"
The first half of the sentence could not be answered as Li Longji expected, but the second half of the sentence turned out to be the mercy of Gao Xianzhi's subordinates? What is going on? He suddenly stood up from the Hu bed, and walked a few steps forward tremblingly under the support of Gao Lishi, trying to see more clearly.
Sure enough, the battlefield at this time is presenting an incredibly strange scene.
I saw Qin Jin's handsome banner rushing left and right in the middle, while Gao Xianzhi's handsome banner followed closely behind, always maintaining a distance of about a mile. The Shenwu army was constantly wandering, and the army of tens of thousands of people was also chasing after each other, and the two sides were so up and down, no wonder the crown prince Li Heng had the merciful words of Gao Xianzhi's subordinates.
But there is no way to do such a stalemate, is it possible that today we will come up with an undefeated ending? Wouldn't this vigorous military exercise become a farce? The "Tang Army," which has nearly 50,000 troops, cannot even defeat the "rebel army" of 3,000 people, and will it still be able to expect this kind of army to go out of Tongguan to kill the enemy on the battlefield and recover the eastern capital in the future?
"Summons, tell Gao Xianzhi that within an hour, I will see the result!"
After the herald left, Li Longji carefully observed for a while, and then felt more and more strange, I don't know when, Chen Xuanli's troops were actually like Yang Guozhong's rout, chaotic and scattered, scattered in groups and pieces on the ground where the Shenwu Army and Zuo Wuwei had run.
It's just weird.
"Colliers, how long have I been asleep?"
Only then did Li Longji think of the crux of the problem, how long did he sleep, and what changes did the situation under the mountain take place during the time he was asleep?
"Back to the saint, I've slept for more than two hours!"
In Li Longji's feelings, he just dozed off for a long time, but he didn't expect that he had been sleeping deeply for two hours. It's no wonder that if it weren't for such a long time, how could his nightmare be twists and turns and heartbreaking?
"How did Chen Xuanli lose?"
Speaking of Chen Xuanli, Gao Lishi's face showed a strange expression, "Back to the words of the saint, General Chen was not defeated, but his subordinates were tired of running and couldn't run!"
Tired of running? Li Longji couldn't believe it, in the mouth of Gao Lishi, Chen Xuanli's Long Wujun actually ran a few steps and was tired and stopped fighting one after another. You must know that the Long Wu Army is the forbidden army in charge of garrisoning the Imperial City of the Beijing Division, and it is so unusable!
Li Longji has gradually become really angry, it seems that Chen Xuanli has been too comfortable all these years, and he only knows that he is left and right in the battle of the courtiers all day long, and he is wise enough to protect himself, so that the forbidden army, who bears the responsibility of a thousand pounds, has become so virtuous!
"What a crap!"
Gao Lishi pleaded for Chen Xuanli again.
"This is actually not to blame General Chen, General Chen's troops chased Qin Jin's Shenwu army, and they didn't stop in these two hours, and most of the people and horses of the tall doctor were also tired, and they fled, if the saint didn't believe it, take a closer look!"
After being reminded by Gao Lishi, Li Longji carefully looked at the situation on the battlefield. Just now, maybe it was because he had just woken up from a sound sleep and couldn't think clearly, or maybe it was because of the hint of the crown prince Li Heng's sentence "Doctor Gao's subordinates are merciful", so he instinctively thought that Qin Jin had reached the limit of the battle of trapped beasts.
But after a careful look, Li Longji was taken aback.
It turned out that he had always mistaken it for Zuo Wuwei's army, but it was the yellow sand and dust that rolled up in the sky. In fact, there were only a thousand people chasing the Qin and Jin Chinese army. In other words, now that the men and horses pursuing the Shenwu Army are equal to their strength, even if they can't be surrounded and plan to rush up to capture the flag, they are not sure of victory.
Li Longji was still in disbelief.
"How did the Shenwu Army run for two hours?"
Gao Lishi nodded, "It's been two hours, and most of the places in the north have been circled several times!"
The hundred officials also echoed Gao Lishi's statement, Li Longji knew that Gao Lishi would definitely not lie to her, and the hundred officials might not dare to lie to her, but what kind of elixir did the Shenwu Army take, and it was impossible to run wild for two hours, and still maintain a relatively intact formation.
But I didn't know which official behind me sighed: "The Shenwu Army broke up the pursuing Long Wujun and Zuo Wuwei, such a strange thing is unheard of!"
Suddenly, the officials let out a burst of exclamation: "Look, Chen Xuanli's handsome flag has fallen!"
Li Longji also raised his eyes when he heard this, and saw that far away, looming, Chen Xuanli's handsome flag was gone.
The mountain, which was originally quite quiet, immediately became lively, and the officials all discussed what happened to Chen Xuanli's Chinese army, and even the handsome flag fell.
In fact, it was Chen Xuanli's carelessness, and the Shenwu army chasing Qin Jin ran for about an hour, and the seven thousand men and horses under his command began to fall behind in the city, but after half an hour, even the Chinese army guards were tired and out of breath.
In normal times, the commander's guards are all cavalry, so naturally they will not be as tired and dead dogs as they are today. Fortunately, Chen Xuanli was old, and Yang Guozhong specially arranged a war horse for him, so he was not left behind by the Chinese army.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Chen Xuanli knew that if he was forced to chase down, even if he killed and injured 100 people and 1,000 people, it would be difficult to achieve results. After all, people's physical abilities are limited and cannot be forced.
When Chen Xuanli's order to stop the pursuit was issued, all the army guards immediately fell down, and these people had been gritting their teeth and struggling to support themselves. An hour and a half of running wildly, even the mules and horses are tired and wheezing.
Simply, Chen Xuanli also gave up the pursuit, he really couldn't figure it out, they were all mortals in the flesh, why the Shenwu Army could run wild for two hours and still look neat.
Although Zuo Wuwei's combat effectiveness is second to none among the three armies, it has also been dispersed at this time, and now those who can always follow the pursuit are the old troops transferred by Gao Xianzhi from Tongguan.
Chen Xuanli smiled bitterly for a while. In fact, from the very beginning, they fell for Qin Jin's evil. Qin Jin always kept a certain distance from them, luring the army to pursue. However, when the army did not move, the Shenwu army did not move, the army was in a roar, and the Shenwu army also drifted away.
The Chinese army of Qin and Jin was only a thousand people, and compared to the huge pursuers, they moved quickly and advanced and retreated freely.
At first, Chen Xuanli felt that they were like a bloated and clumsy fat man, who had been chasing a small and nimble monkey, and they were being played around.
Obviously, his physical strength was about to be exhausted, but he still couldn't let go of the evil breath held in his chest, and it was this evil breath that was stirred up by the Chinese army under Qin Jin's department, which caused them to "collapse into an army"
This is simply inexplicable! Compared to Yang Guozhong's right leading guard, which collapsed due to the loud sound of the earth shaking the mountains, Long Wujun was not much stronger, and was actually scattered alive.
"Please rest assured that the Shenwu Army has strict military discipline and will not abuse prisoners or rob prisoners' property. Please don't move, otherwise it will hurt the feelings of your colleagues and it will not be beautiful!"
The righteous and strict general is a young man, and Chen Xuanli also recognizes it, who was born from the Fanyang Lu family.
"Jiro ......"
Chen Xuanli wanted to say something to Lu Qi, but he didn't know where to start when the words came to his lips. The dignified General Longwu became a prisoner in a daze, but this Lu Jiaerlang still made it clear that he would not abuse the prisoner, so where would he put his old face?
Lu Qi led the rear army to follow the army all the time, originally he was also very nervous, for fear that he would be surrounded by the army if he was not careful, but gradually found that the endurance of the pursuing army was not good, and after an hour, it was like a defeated battle.
At this moment, Lu Qi remembered the benefits of Zhonglang forcing them to train weight-bearing long-distance running for several months, and he didn't want it to come in handy today. He finally figured out the evil breath in his chest, and deliberately said something that was neither soft nor hard to stimulate Chen Xuanli, the old fox!