Chapter 103: The Great Sword

To the surprise of the eldest grandson Wuji and many people, Xue Rengao did not withdraw immediately after learning the news that the Tang army was about to arrive, but at the moment when the Tang army had not yet fully arrived, he divided his troops to continue to besiege Fufeng, while he himself led the most elite Western Qin army to attack the Li Tang army that was about to arrive. made an aggressive posture.

"Xue Rengao is really brave, and his actions are completely beyond our expectations." In the big tent of the Chinese army, the eldest grandson Wuji first admitted the mistake of his analysis, and then, he once again expressed his opinion: "The enemy waits for work, and the morale is strong, the sharp spirit at this time is unstoppable, our army has come to help for thousands of miles, and the soldiers are tired, what I mean is that our army should temporarily avoid its edge, and it is not too late to fight with it when its sharp spirit is exhausted." At this time, the Tang army had not yet fully arrived, and the words of the eldest grandson Wuji also represented the thoughts of many generals in the army, and they looked at Li Shimin who was sitting on the main seat, hoping that Li Shimin's mouth could hear the words that agreed with them.

Li Shimin's face was calm, making it impossible to see what kind of consideration was being made in his heart, his gaze slowly swept over the many generals gathered in the tent, and then looked at his right hand: "Mr. Du, I don't know what advice you can give me?" Mr. Du in Li Shimin's mouth is an ordinary scholar, but his temperament is very calm, hearing Li Shimin's words, Mr. Du smiled: "Duke Qin (Li Yuan is the king of Tang at this time, and Li Shimin's title is Duke Qin. Since the decision has already been made, why should it be used to test the school, but what His Highness has done is to firmly implement his will, but not to waver in the slightest. If His Royal Highness can do this, then Xi Qin can be determined, and Xue Rengao must not be worried. ”

Mr. Du's words made many people scratch their heads, but Li Shimin had already suddenly got up and said loudly: "The generals will listen to the order!" The soldiers in the tent immediately held their breath and waited for Li Shimin's upcoming order. Xue Rengao is about to face a two-sided attack from our army and the Fufeng defenders, and he still dares to meet our army head-on, if I retreat, it will inevitably greatly boost the morale of the enemy, which is not good for our army, and at this time our army has the advantage of strength, what is there to fear, I have decided that the army will rest for a day, and the whole division will go out of the camp early tomorrow morning to meet Xue Rengao, time is pressing, the generals will immediately go down and prepare! After saying his decision, Li Shimin began to immediately issue one order after another, the generals of the Tang Army got orders one after another, and then quickly withdrew from the tent to prepare their own affairs, the entire military camp has gradually begun to run rapidly, the logistics troops will need the grain and grass to divide the details clearly, and then issue them in turn, and the field armies of all walks of life have also begun to sort out the armor, polish the work of weapons, and the smell of killing is unconsciously, quietly diffused. The entire camp of the Tang Army was like a sleeping bloodthirsty beast awakening from its slumber, opening its blood-diffused eyes and looking for its prey.

Xue Rengao's army originally had 20,000 to 30,000 people, and after annexing Tang Bi's troops, its strength rose sharply, reaching more than 100,000 people, but because of Xue Rengao's treacherous behavior, he could not subdue this team in a short period of time, so this time to meet the Tang army, Xue Rengao only brought his original army of 20,000 horses, and ordered the original Tang Bi's troops to continue to besiege Fufeng, on the one hand, because of the distrust of this newly acquired army, in order to prevent accidents, but at the same time, it was also because Xue Rengao despised the Tang army, Think of it as vulnerable. Therefore, when he saw that in front of him, the Tang army walked out of the camp and lined up to make it look like he wanted to attack, Xue Rengao also immediately mobilized the army out of the camp, wanting to crush the Tang army's team head-on in the field battle.

The number of the Tang army was about 50,000, after all, when Li Shimin approached Chang'an, the army had grown to as many as 80,000 or 90,000. Because he did not participate in the tragic offensive and defensive battles on the city wall of Chang'an, the number of troops and morale were not affected much, although some people were reduced because of some screening and elimination, however, it did not affect the combat effectiveness of the army much, and Li Shimin went all the way west, and from time to time along the way, there would be troops from the same county who came to rescue the county that was invaded by Xue Ju's father and son to join it, so the number of the Tang army also broke through the 100,000 mark, but because Xue Rengao unexpectedly launched troops, Many of the Tang Army's troops had not yet arrived, and Li Shimin's hands were only about 50,000 men, and most of them were not elite. However, twice the enemy's strength was enough for Li Shimin to build up his confidence in defeating the enemy.

It seems to be a wordless tacit relationship, both sides have arranged their armies into an attack formation, compared to the defensive formation, the personnel arrangement of the attack formation should be slightly looser, in order to facilitate the rapid mobilization and attack of the army, of course, because of the sparseness of the formation, it will also give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of, and the Qin army and the Tang army also put out such a formation, which shows that they also have enough confidence in this battle. Li Shimin led a team of cavalry to appear at the forefront of the entire Tang army's position, and when he raised his eyes, there was also a young general looking at this side in front of the Qin army's formation, Li Shimin knew that if there was no accident with this powerful general who was tall and carrying Fang Tian's halberd, it should be Xue Rengao himself.

Since the beginning of the Three Kingdoms era, after the flying general Lu Bu made the Fang Tian painting halberd handed down, although there is still no shortage of people in the world who use this weapon, but the people who can fully exert the power of this weapon are extremely rare, even among the many long weapons, the Fang Tian painting halberd is also the most difficult to control a type of weapon. Therefore, the people who have used this weapon in the past generations are either clowns who are grandiose and vulnerable, or, like the peerless fierce generals of the flying general Lu Bu and his gang, Xue Rengao's bravery, Li Shimin has also heard of it for a long time, so there is no doubt that Xue Rengao should be the latter. Unconsciously, Li Shimin glanced at the big knife that he had placed on the saddle. He knew that if he fought alone, he couldn't beat Xue Rengao.

But then again, who in the battle formation stipulates that you must fight alone, soldier against soldier, general against general? It must be known that only the siege is the real theme of the battle on the battlefield, fight alone, and be kicked in the head by a donkey! As a result, there were no fighting generals, no tentative cavalry attacks, and even the vanguard troops did not do anything about a duel, and the two sides directly opened their formations, and under the leadership of their respective drumming rhythms, they slowly pressed towards the enemy line.

Teacher Shan Tianfang's commentary said well: if there are thousands of people, they are connected to the sky, if there are tens of thousands of people, there are no boundaries, the Qin army is 20,000, and the Tang army is 50,000, a total of more than 70,000 people are lined up in a formation to squeeze each other, and that kind of scene is absolutely thrilling. I have to say that the advantage in numbers sometimes really works, although Li Shimin knows that if it comes to combat effectiveness, I am afraid that the Qin army with fewer people is better, but even so, but double the number of people is enough to overwhelm the enemy army in momentum, this has nothing to do with the courage of the Qin army, it is just human nature, but the appearance of the Qin army at this time makes Li Shimin appreciated, if you put yourself in the shoes of the Tang army at this time, if you change the situation of the Tang army at this time, Li Shimin feels that even if there is a deserter guide zhì battle array collapse is not surprising. So, in the strict and slightly suppressed drumming of the two sides, the teams of the two sides gradually approached, and finally, suddenly and violently collided together, in an instant, the sound of swords and guns raised, human voices, the sound of the handover of weapons instantly boiled, accompanied by countless blood splashes, the battle zone of the two armies has immediately turned into a Shura field, like a huge meat grinder, began to eat the living blood and lives of the soldiers on both sides of the war.

Xue Rengao has always been conceited of his bravery, and he is indeed a peerless general, leading a cavalry he rushed into the Tang army's formation to rush left and right, no one can stop him, if he is allowed to continue to rush like this, it will not be long before the Tang army's strict formation will be stirred up by him. Li Shimin naturally couldn't let him get his way, Li Shimin looked back, and the generals around him nodded their heads, let each other think and think, and then he pulled the reins, held the handle of the knife in his right hand and pulled out the knife and rushed out first, behind him was the most elite cavalry of the Tang Army led by him since the Jinyang army, Li Shimin led the cavalry in his hands, and met the cavalry impact of Xue Rengao.

"Li Shimin is here, Xue Rengao dares me to fight." Before anyone arrived, Li Shimin's shout had already attracted Xue Rengao's attention, so Xue Rengao stopped interspersing and cutting in the Tang army's formation, aimed the direction of the cavalry charge at Li Shimin's cavalry, and gave an order, and also rushed towards the cavalry of the Tang army. As a young general who also became famous at a young age, Xue Rengao has long wanted to meet Li Shimin, who is younger than himself but is famous earlier, to defeat this guy, so as to prove that he is the real best young invincible commander in the world.

In engagement, although the torrent of cavalry charges was terrifying, their hedge was only a face-to-face and had to be stopped. The cavalry on the periphery can still use their mobility to surround the entire battlefield and prevent the infantry from breaking through, but at the very center of the battlefield, all the cavalry had to stop the fast running of their horses, because the two cavalry had already met, except for the front-line engagement troops, the cavalry in the middle sequence were their companions both in front of and behind them. At this moment, the two cavalry units that have lost their mobility are no different from the infantry in other respects, except for the condescending vision gained because of the relationship between the war horses.

Li Shimin can't beat Xue Rengao, he has long been self-aware, although in terms of strength, Li Shimin is not lost to the other party, however, Xue Rengao is a peerless brave general with extremely high martial arts, a Fang Tian painting halberd seems to have been integrated with his hands, in contrast, Li Shimin's big knife is just because of his hand, except for the use of brute force, there is no shining point at all, only three rounds of intersection of the knife and halberd, Li Shimin was almost cut off half of his head by Xue Rengao because of an negligence, but after this, Li Shimin no longer had to think about how to face Xue Rengao's fierce combat skills, because behind him, several generals on the left and right had already rushed out and fought with Xue Rengao.