Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Decisive Battle Under the Fortified City II
Li Yuan's army came to Huoyi City with the confidence of victory, and then began to play hooligans: tens of thousands of soldiers shouted loudly together, shouting out all the words that could be thought of, greeting the women of Song Laosheng's family, how it was so ugly, and worried that the voice was not loud enough, and specially rehearsed the rhythm for the scolding soldiers, so that all the people's voices sounded together, and it was really a sound shock, and thunder in all directions - just this content, hehehehehe!
Li Shimin's evaluation of Song Laosheng is correct, although Song Laosheng fought bravely, but he was brave and unscrupulous, and his personality was impatient, the reason why Qu Tutong would send him to guard Huoyi was that there was really no one available in Guanzhong, and the famous generals of the Great Sui such as Lai Hu'er, Wang Rengong and Yang Su and others died, and the rebellion of the rebellion, when the saint went south, he brought Yu Wenhua and a group of elite generals over, and the rest such as Pei Renji, Yang Yichen, etc. were busy extinguishing the flames of rebellion in various places, and they lacked skills. Helpless, Qu Tutong had no choice but to pull out the big one among the short ones, and used Song Laosheng to garrison Huoyi to resist Li Yuan's army.
In fact, in terms of martial arts alone, Song Laosheng is old, but his martial arts must not be underestimated, although he cannot be compared with the peerless masters among the generals in the army such as Yu Wenhua and Zhang Xutuo, but it will never be inferior, but if you look at Song Laosheng as a commander general, then it is obvious that Song Laosheng is unqualified.
An excellent military general, when about to fight, will never, and cannot be swayed by personal feelings, because they rely on a decision made by a momentary feeling, it is possible to put themselves and their own army into a situation of no return, the famous generals of the past dynasties are not so, unfortunately, Song Laosheng is not, he is too narrow-minded, and his temperament is irritable and can not be stimulated, hearing the earth-shattering sound of the enemy army under the city, he almost exploded his lungs, and immediately couldn't bear it, and led his soldiers and horses to kill from the pass, and directly took Li Yuan's main formation.
Li Yuan was overjoyed when he saw this, okay, if Song Laosheng couldn't hold on to the fortified city, then Li Yuan, who had no way to take this turtle, could only grind back and forth in the end, but this old man actually came out, and you sought death by yourself, so it was no wonder that others, so he immediately ordered his army to move forward and engage Song Laosheng's troops.
Li Yuan's army is divided into two on the left and right, respectively led by Li Yuan himself and Li Shimin, who is young but has shown outstanding military talent, of course, Li Yuan's troops are the elite part he has brought out from Taiyuan for many years, and Li Shimin's army except for a small number of elite soldiers that he has been leading since Jinyang, most of them are rogue bandits recruited along the way from the march, and the combat power is extremely limited, and Li Yuan has already made up his mind that Li Shimin's motley army is only used to attract the attention of the enemy. It played a role in dispersing the enemy's forces, and it was the Taiyuan elite soldiers led by Li Yuan who really fought to the death with Song Laosheng's troops.
Li Shimin's army attacked, Song Laosheng had to divide thousands of elites to intercept, but he didn't know that Li Yuan was in his arms, Li Shimin was only commanding the soldiers to surround the formation to resist the other party's tentative attack, and the task of dispersing the enemy's forces had been completed, if nothing else, until Li Yuan defeated Song Laosheng over there, Li Shimin still maintained this state. However, things are impermanent, and there will always be inexplicable changes.
Although Song Laosheng has no strategic vision, and his tactical cognition is also a mess, but in terms of bravery, he is a rare brave general, the main general is brave, and the soldiers are naturally desperate to move forward, so they are invincible and unstoppable, and they have already disrupted the Li army's position at the moment of the battle with the Li army, like a strong wedge inserted into the Li army's camp.
Li Yuan miscalculated, although he also expected Song Laosheng's bravery, but thinking about Song Laosheng's strength at this time, there were only more than 20,000 troops in his hands, although he was the last elite in Guanzhong, after all, there were few people, and he was divided into thousands of elite soldiers by Li Shimin's side, and his own army was tens of thousands of people, and the whole army was pressed and beaten together, no matter how you look at Song Laosheng, he only had to drink hatred, but after the war, the change in the battle situation really made Li Yuan's heart gradually pull up.
Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan and other generals wanted to reorganize the army and block Song Laosheng's footsteps, but they could not resist the impact of Song Laosheng and his generals, but they rushed to the ground where they were the only troops they could gather at this time, and the people were forced to the edge of the military formation, and they could no longer make any moves that were beneficial to the shape at this time. And Song Laosheng rushed all the way, and actually rushed to Li Yuan's Chinese army formation, and looked at Li Yuan from the other side.
Li Yuan's heart beat a small drum, if possible, Li Yuan wanted to retreat at this time, after all, Song Laosheng was too fierce, no wonder Qu Tutong would send this person here, although he didn't know either soldiers or generals, but if it wasn't for the extreme courage and tenacity of the battle, how could Qu Tutong put him here, and now he was about to rush his own army to pieces, although Li Yuan felt a sense of fear in his heart, he could only grit his teeth and greet him with a cadre of personal guards around him.
The battle battle is different from the fighting in the rivers and lakes, the fight is not the level of individual force, but the test of the cooperation of the whole team and the morale of daring to fight, in terms of force alone, Li Yuan is naturally not afraid of Song Laosheng, but when the two led their men to fight outside the city, Li Yuan's personal guards kept retreating under Song Laosheng's attack. Li Yuan can't use it, and the plan he made before has naturally been invalidated, and now, Li Yuan can only hope that Li Shimin can quickly solve the enemy on his side, and can help him before his army formation collapses completely, and before that, he has to grit his teeth and resist it to the death.
Li Shimin is on the flank, is commanding his own army and Song Laosheng's thousands of elite soldiers are inseparable, although the number of their own side is several times that of the other party, but the soldiers are far less than Song Laosheng's elite in Guanzhong, and it is impossible to distinguish the winner in a short time, Li Shimin's tactics are bold but thoughtful, and he is not greedy for merit, just thinking about entangling this army is enough.
However, when his eyes swept to the main battlefield and found that his father's side was in a disadvantageous situation, he immediately made a decision and changed his original mind. Li Shimin ordered all units to maintain the status quo and continue to contain the enemy on the opposite side, but he took more than 100 elite cavalry to break away from his own camp and charged Song Laosheng's main formation from the flank.
Song Laosheng was brave and unscrupulous, although he beat Li Yuan back in the frontal battle, but he didn't realize that because of the advance of the battle line and the continuous deepening of his own side, his original dense formation also became a little chaotic, revealing a lot of gaps. Although the number of more than 100 cavalry under Li Shimin is not large, it is completely selected and trained by Li Shimin, in addition to the elites, the mutual cooperation between each other can also be called tacit understanding, Li Shimin from a gap in the Song army's army formation suddenly led the troops to kill, it was like a sharp steel knife, fiercely inserted into the back of the Song army.
At this time, in the enemy formation, Li Shimin's magic arrow archery skills have been useless, Li Shimin also simply picked up two heavy machetes, and fought hard to kill, although Li Shimin's martial arts are not extremely high, but the strength is infinite, but at this time in the battle array is more adaptable, Li Shimin took the lead, and behind him was the elite cavalry who followed closely behind him.
Li Shimin stepped forward bravely, slashing and killing the enemy like cutting a melon, only to cut blood gushing, body fragments flying sideways, and even Li Shimin's iron armor and the treasure horse sitting down were also red, looking like a demon from hell. Without killing dozens of steps, Li Shimin felt the heaviness of his arms, slightly eased the momentum of his impact, let his sleeves sag, and a large pool of blood immediately poured out of his sleeves: because Li Shimin slashed all the way, the blood that was splashed into his sleeves didn't even have time to be thrown out. Li Shimin, who saw this scene, didn't care, he just shook his sleeve again, and then raised his knife and rushed to kill again.
At this time, Li Shimin seemed to be a fierce beast from prehistoric times, fighting tirelessly, he didn't know how many people he had killed, and he didn't remember how far he had rushed out, but he knew that he had rushed all the way to kill, and when he killed through the Song Laosheng army, he had changed many machetes in a row: Li Shimin's martial arts were not very skillful, and the battle relied on his own extraordinary strength and courage to chop the knife, so the steel knife was very easy to curl, and he had to throw away and replace it with a new one to continue to fight. A real master will know how to protect his weapons as much as possible in a fight, because once the weapon is damaged in a fierce fight, it is likely that he will die in the next moment, but Li Shimin frequently changes knives, and it is naturally dangerous to meet a real master, but fortunately, except for a Song Laosheng, there is no general in the Song army. Therefore, Li Shimin is unstoppable and unstoppable.
What's worse is that although Li Shimin's ability is really average in the eyes of the master, his image is really terrifying, the bodies of people and horses are splashed with the blood of the enemy, blood fills the sleeves, and the charging steel knife is curled, but he still tirelessly rushes to kill, although his face has been covered with mud and blood, but his eyes are still bright and sharp, Li Shimin's momentum directly overwhelmed the morale of the surrounding Song Laosheng soldiers, making them run in panic, and dare not fight against this young young general. Li Shimin took advantage of the situation to kill Song Laosheng's Chinese army, tearing Song Laosheng apart from his large army, and then, more than 100 cavalry behind him shouted together: "Song Laosheng has been captured alive!! ”
The sound of more than 100 people shouting together is nothing in the sound of the entire battlefield. The shouts of these people alone have a limited impact on the Song army, but when Li Shimin showed Li Yuan's banner, the hearts of all the Song soldiers were cold, Li Shimin was in the Song army's Chinese army to light up the handsome flag, what does this mean, there is a traitor? Or has Song Laosheng really been defeated and captured? Under the effect of this panicked thought, the Song army's military array collapsed in an instant, and thousands of Song troops threw away their weapons and desperately ran towards the Huoyi Gate behind them. Li Shimin couldn't see it, he immediately turned the horse's head, and the goal was that he had already noticed that there was a change in his rear at this time, and he was planning to temporarily retreat and return to Song Laosheng, who couldn't hold out in Huoyi, but unfortunately, it was too late.
The collapse of the whole army of the Song army allowed Li Yuan to take a breath and regain his footing, Liu Hongji, Yin Kaishan and other generals also broke through the blocking of the chaotic army and killed from both sides, plus Li Shimin, who blocked Song Laosheng's way back, surrounded Song Laosheng on all sides.
If the person who was besieged at this time was the peerless famous general Zhang Xutuo, then maybe there would be a chance to turn defeat into victory, of course, if there could still be a character like Zhang Xutuo in Guanzhong, then Li Yuan and his son would definitely not have the idea of marching into Guanzhong, on the contrary, they would have to rack their brains for the possible attack in Guanzhong.
It's a pity that Song Laosheng is not Zhang Xutuo. Neither Zhang's brilliant martial arts, nor Zhang's ability to lead the troops to fight, Song Laosheng, who was surrounded in the core, would only rush to kill until he finally killed a bloody road, but the soldiers beside him had been lost, Song Laosheng no longer had the courage to turn back and go back to fight with Li Yuan's father and son again, and he was only busy urging his crotch to get a good horse, and took him to flee quickly towards the city gate of Huoyi, Li Yuan, Liu Hongji and other generals were afraid that Song Laosheng would be able to escape back to Huoyi, and once again held on to the city, and they all urged the horses to get off the seat and chase desperately behind.
Song Laosheng was anxious when he saw this, pulled out the horizontal knife, and stabbed the butt of the mount under him, only to see the horse scream, and then galloped up, and immediately fell behind the Taiyuan cavalry that had been chasing behind him for a long distance, and Huoyi's moat was already close at hand, as long as Song Laosheng could cross the river, then the victory of this battle would be worthless, and Song Laosheng would not be able to hold out after that, taking advantage of Huoyi's dangerous terrain to firmly contain Li Yuan's soldiers and horses here. How can this be!?
Just when Song Laosheng was about to step on the pontoon bridge above the moat, Li Shimin reached out and took off the bow and arrow behind him, bent the bow and shot an arrow, hitting the horse that Song Laosheng was riding, and saw that the horse was planted in the moat, and took Song Laosheng with him.
There is not much rain in the land in the north, and the moats of many cities are dry, and the same is true for Huoyi, so Song Laosheng was not choked by the water, however, because there was no water as a buffer, he planted the moat (its practical trench is more appropriate. Song Laosheng was suddenly smashed, and before he could sober up, Li Yuan's subordinate Liu Hongji had already rushed forward and cut off Song Laosheng's head......
At the beginning of August of the thirteenth year of the Great Cause, Li Yuan Chen soldiers were under Huoyi, and the general Song Lao was born in the wild, Song Laosheng died in battle, and Li Yuan took Huoyi. At this point, the land of Guanzhong will be in front of Li Yuan and his army, and there will be no obstacles.