Chapter 52: Defeating the Enemy's Edge
These people in the rivers and lakes would not think that when Gao Cheng made a move, there were many masters of Cihang Jingzhai, Jingnian Zen Monastery and Li Valve to suppress the formation, which caused the evil king of the Yin Queen to have scruples and had to leave.
They will only see the result, and the result is that so many masters of the Demon Gate have gathered, but they have returned in embarrassment, and three peerless demons have died.
Gao Cheng practiced behind closed doors in the Chang'an Mansion, and he didn't know that as the news spread, his reputation was getting bigger and bigger, and these generals of Li Valu were also very impressed by his martial arts, thinking that with a great master-level master like him, Li Tang's general trend of seizing the world would definitely not be reversed.
Crunch, the gate of the Tiger Prison slowly opened, Gao Cheng rode a war horse, and walked out side by side with Li Shimin, beside Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, and Cheng Yanjin. Everyone's courage is not small, and they still talk and laugh with each other after leaving the customs, as if they are going out to go out.
On Gao Cheng's mount, there was a spear and a strong bow and feather arrows.
Li Shimin smiled when he saw this, and said, "I only know that the third brother is superb in martial arts, is he also good at bows and arrows?"
Gao Cheng touched the strong bow on the horse's back, and his eyes showed a hint of sighing, thinking that when he entered the world of the Three Kingdoms and was coerced by the Yellow Turban soldiers, he relied on the bow and arrow technique to shoot strong enemies, and grew up step by step.
However, the higher his status, the less time he will personally participate in the Three Kingdoms World. Not only bows and arrows, but also marksmanship and swordsmanship are rarely used.
"Hehe, I haven't touched a bow and arrow for a long time, and I don't know if I still have the strength I had at the beginning!" Gao Cheng said.
A few people rode forward, and soon came to the Xia army camp two miles away, a few people did not deliberately cover up, and were soon discovered by the scouts of the Xia army, Li Shimin immediately stepped forward, raised his hand with an arrow, shot the other party's scouts to death, and laughed: "I am the king of Qin of the Tang Dynasty, can the king of Xia dare to go out of the camp to see?"
The scout on the opposite side was startled, and quickly turned his horse's head and ran towards his own camp. Soon, the Xia army camp surged, and thousands of cavalry came out, wanting to kill Li Shimin.
Gao Cheng lifted his bow and arrow, used his spiritual power, and locked on a Xia army general who rushed on the opposite side, and the wild python came out of the hole, and the black light flashed in the air, and he heard a pop, and the Xia army general on the opposite side was pierced in the chest and fell to the ground with a bang.
The long arrow continued unabated, and it pierced through a dozen cavalry in a row before disappearing.
"Good marksmanship!"
Li Shimin's expression was shocked, and he praised continuously. Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong and others were also shocked. I didn't expect the bow and arrow shot by Gao Cheng to be so fierce and domineering, two hundred steps away, it could pierce the bodies of several people in a row.
"Kill! Kill Li Shimin!"
"Whoever kills Li Shimin will be crowned marquis, and a reward will be given a thousand gold!"
Thousands of Xia cavalry did not become chaotic because of this, but continued to roar and rush, thousands of cavalry hooves trampled the ground, like a landslide and tsunami, making people collapse and dare not resist head-on.
Gao Cheng and Li Shimin had already made arrangements before leaving the customs, and there was no slightest emotion on their faces, and they fought and retreated, constantly shooting arrows, and knocked the dozens of cavalry chasing at the front to the ground.
Everyone retreated for more than ten miles in a row, and when they were far away from the Xia army camp, Li Shimin and Gao Cheng stopped their horses, Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong let out a long roar, and hundreds of Xuanjia elite cavalry ambushed on both sides suddenly appeared, like two sharp knives piercing the vital point, and directly rushed into the ribs of thousands of cavalry.
The thousands of cavalry of the Xia army were suddenly shocked by the Xuanjia soldiers who suddenly appeared, and they were suddenly a little confused. Gao Cheng, Li Shimin, Qin Qiong, and Wei Chigong immediately returned to the battle.
Gao Cheng pulled out his spear and once again used the Yang family's marksmanship that had cultivated to the realm of the grandmaster. This battle array spear technique is accompanied by an innate gang qi, with a supernatural power, turning decay into magical power, a shot forward, several sharp guns pierced, several heavily armed Xia cavalry wailed and turned into corpses.
In the blink of an eye, the shadow of the gun trembled, and dozens of horses in front of Gao Cheng fell to the ground with a bang. With Gao Cheng, a great master-level master, acting as an arrow, Qin Qiong, Yu Chigong, and Li Shimin himself are all first-class masters with real strength, and they join forces to attack, and they are unstoppable.
When Gao Cheng was impacting, his keen five senses immediately noticed the commander of this cavalry, and immediately changed the direction of the impact, seeing thousands of troops and horses as nothing, and rushed to the front of the Xia army general like a wave, and stabbed the Xia army general to death with a wave of his spear lightly.
Rumble!
The general was killed, and the cavalry of the Xia army immediately dispersed. Dou Jiande's army used to be a peasant rebel army, after the turmoil at the end of the Sui Dynasty and years of fighting, the individual combat experience is very rich, but he has not received much formal training, if the fight is smooth, he can fight and win unstoppable.
But if the general dies in battle, or is at a disadvantage, he becomes very inresilient and will collapse at the first touch. Li Shimin led hundreds of Xuanjia elite cavalry to chase and kill for a while, and after completely defeating thousands of cavalry, he collected his troops and returned to the camp before the Xia army reinforcements arrived.
Returning to the Tiger Prison, the Tang soldiers heard that the King of Qin and the King of Zhao had personally visited the camp and defeated the 5,000 cavalry of the Xia army with hundreds of troops, and their spirit was immediately shocked and their morale was greatly increased.
A few hundred people can defeat the 5,000 cavalry of the Xia army, which shows that the other party is just a rabble, even if there are hundreds of thousands of such soldiers, there is nothing to fear. When Li Shimin saw that he had achieved his goal, he could not hold on. Don't give the other party a chance to get back on the field.
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In the next ten days, the Xia army tentatively attacked the Tiger Prison Pass, but Li Shimin was easily repulsed.
At this time, Li Shimin used the trick of holding on to it and hurting people with his own book, and when he fought against Xue Ju and Baibi in Longxi against Song Jingang, he relied on the abundant grain and grass of the Tang army, and frustrated the enemy's spirit with a strong city, looking for an opportunity to break the enemy with one blow. Give full play to Li Tang's advantages.
Of course, tricks are not afraid of getting old, as long as they are useful.
He used the Tiger Pass as a barrier in the front to attract Dou Jiande's main force, and then sent Qin Qiongwei Chi Gong and others to lead the cavalry to bypass the Yellow River to harass the Xia army's grain road.
The two sides fought wits and courage, and Gao Cheng also gained some gains. When he returns to the Three Kingdoms World, he will also participate in the battle of the princes against Dong, and now observe Li Shimin's tactics of defending the Tiger Prison and Dou Jiande's siege of the city, and when the time comes, maybe he will be able to attack the Tiger Prison Pass with the princes' army.
The two armies confronted each other in the tiger prison for a long time, and Li Shimin saw that the morale of the other party had dropped, so he deliberately released the news that the Tang army had run out of fodder for feeding horses and was preparing to graze horses north of the Yellow River.
When Dou Jiande got the news, he thought that the Tang army was exhausted, so he poured out of the nest and sent elites to block the Yellow River, preparing to attack Tiger Pass in a big way. Troops entered Henan.
Gao Cheng stood on the high place of the wall, glanced over, and saw that the Xia army's strength stretched for twenty miles, and the troops were arranged in a neat and orderly manner, preparing to capture the tiger prison in one fell swoop, and also sent people to send a war letter, preparing to send five hundred cavalry to fight with Li Shimin, wanting to seize morale.
"also occupies Hebei and Shandong, Dou Jiande's ability is much worse than Yuan Shao!"
Gao Cheng sighed in his heart, since the Qin and Han dynasties, only Emperor Guangwu, the ancestor of Hebei, has dominated the world. It's a pity that there is no master. The soldiers of the Xia army are not unbrave, but they follow Dou Jiande, and they can't exert ten percent of their strength at all.
If he had a chance for Yuan Shao or Dou Jiande, he would definitely not give Cao Cao and Li Shimin a chance.