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Li Shimin sneered, not too concerned.

Want to catch turtles in an urn? Dream on......

The fact that he couldn't completely defeat the defenders of Longmen City in today's battle was a bit unexpected for him, and the rest didn't matter.

This battle was not for the purpose of seizing the beachhead of the Yellow River.

In fact, at this time, in Li Shimin's heart, this battle is over, and it cannot be perfected, which makes him regret it a little, but this is irrelevant, it is nothing.

In the two night battles, there was only one sentence left in his heart, and on behalf of the border army, it really deserved its name, and then he had to fight, but he had to be more careful.

He also had some regrets, Li Ding'an was only a small army in Heng'an Zhenjun that day, and after getting along for a long time, he felt that although this person had some talent, he had no ambition, and his heart to fight against the Turks was very firm, and he could barely use it as a barrier in northern Shanxi.

After returning to Jinyang, he said the same thing to his father.

After that, the story was similar to what he thought at the beginning, this person fought with the Turks in the border area, so that the Turks did not go south to harass the state.

This also made it much smoother for the army to go south to fight Chang'an, and there was no need to deal with the Turks, speaking of which Li Ding'an could be regarded as a meritorious service to their Li family.

It's a pity that both the father and the prince like to use their relatives and value everyone's family life more, so they ignore such talents......

By the time this person is full of wings and ambition follows, it will be too late to say anything, otherwise, maybe he will be able to become a general again.

Today, he led the troops to attack, and after two battles, the surprise in Li Shimin's heart and the faint fear that rose up were completely inhumane for outsiders.

It's not unheard of Li Shimin, a tough man who swears to die and is unwilling to surrender on his knees, but such a group of soldiers and generals, under the unfavorable situation of the war, would rather die in battle than surrender, ask yourself, the army under his command Li Shimin, except for a few of his pro-army, the others really dare not say that they can be compared.

And this can only show one thing, that is, in terms of governing the army, Li Dingan has extraordinary talents, and the generals who can make the army serve to death, there is no doubt that they must be very terrible characters.

Li Shimin's regret is also here, Li Ding'an's general is rare, but he has become Li's mortal enemy from the border army, and Li Shimin can know what happened without asking in detail about the accident in the middle.

The Li family did not know how to win over, but was hostile, and over there, the army gradually became stronger, and ambitions followed.

If he hadn't been in the northwest for the past two years, how could Li Yuanji ruin the Li family's business?

Of course, at this time, when his thoughts are continuous, he will not think too much, and he is most afraid to be sidelined in the war.

Immediately, Li Shimin passed down a military order, ordering Zhai Changsun and Murong Luohu to gather all the troops and station them in the city, first roast the fire to keep warm, which is considered a little rest, and then ...... It's time to leave the city.

In Li Shimin's view, this can only be a small battle, not only to prepare for the future strategy, but also to test the enemy's reality and combat strength by the way.

In fact, he and Li Po have the same thoughts, and next year will be the most critical year.

He will never let Li Ding'an gain a firm foothold in Jindi, it is too dangerous, and the cause of this raid in winter is actually due to the returning Tang envoy, Dou Dan's description made him feel a little cold in his heart.

Because he heard that Li Ding'an had the intention of a truce, and under a big victory, he wanted to reconcile with others without fighting, and the infinite ambition revealed in such a calm was not comparable to Xue Ju and others.

After thinking about it for many days, Li Shimin finally planned to use a risky attack to break the deadlock, and he would definitely not give the enemy a chance to recuperate and breathe.

Therefore, this battle is not about seizing any beachhead or city, how many enemy troops are defeated, and how many enemies are killed, but in the service of the military strategy that follows.

But war is like this, it will have all kinds of accidents, let you understand that war is not a game, you can do whatever you want, today's war is tending to end in Li Shimin's opinion, but some people just don't agree.

Zhai Changsun led the army to retreat to the hinterland of the city, dismantling the barracks to prepare for the fire to keep warm, and Murong Luohu's troops were also moving closer here.

Zhang Lun just let people probe and understood that the enemy was not stupid enough to confront him in the west of the city, and wanted to slow down.

How?

He immediately ordered people to go to the south to set fire to the house to prevent the two enemy forces from converging, and then he and Chen Li divided the troops and horses, and chased Zhai Changsun's troops from the north and west and began to harass them.

This is real harassment, followed by the cover of the house, striking at the cavalry with arrows and crossbows, in other words, Zhang Lun completely brought the rhythm of this battle into the street battle from this moment.

If this is a fully equipped and peak Xuanjia army, this is almost no different from sending it to death, because street fighting will only disperse the troops, and in the face of elite cavalry like the Xuanjia army, the effect is actually minimal.

But at this time, the soldiers of the Xuanjia Army had consumed too much physical strength, and the soldiers were frozen in the cold wind and had lost much heat, and the war horses they sat on were also foaming at the mouth.

The physical strength of people and horses has almost reached the limit.

This is the same as when the cavalry of the Heng'an Town Army fought with the Turks in the snow, and the cold weather was the biggest enemy.

Zhai Changsun was finally in pain, arrows kept falling in the sky above them, shouts of killing followed them, chasing and sniping and constantly happening around them.

The sound of the battle gradually became more intense, and between the narrow barracks in Longmen City, blood kept flowing, consuming the strength of Zhai Changsun's troops like a flesh mill.

Not to mention stopping to burn the fire to keep warm, groups of cavalry were sent out, but they all disappeared between the barracks, and the brave and good fighting of the Xuanjia army was completely offset by the houses in Longmen City on such a day.

A lot of fires gradually lit up in the south, and smoke was spreading over Longmen City.

The soldiers of the city, who were still resisting, gathered here one after another, and there were the remnants of the cavalry and the horses that had been captured, staring at each other with red eyes and scars all over their bodies, and with their precise archery skills and skillful horse skills, they were constantly tearing and biting around the enemy like wolves, without regard for their own safety and life and death.

And too many people have died this night, and the army has only experienced such a tragic casualty since its formation, and the blood of their comrades has stimulated these guys to lose their minds, and some people are even trying to shock the cavalry of the brigade as if they are seeking death.

This kind of action, in addition to looking for death, is also constantly boosting the morale of friendly troops, and every crazy person who falls will make the shouts of killing much louder.

The soldiers of Jindi under Zhang Lun's department seem to have undergone a metamorphosis in such a war......

In the wooden houses, the spears continued to stab, and the passing knights and horses fell to the ground, and the arrows danced wildly in the sky, shooting the cavalry off the horses one by one, but they didn't know where the attack came from.

Soon, the infantry turned the familiar Longmen City into a place full of deadly dangers.

When they entered the state a little, the elite troops who came out of the northwest wind and sand completely fell into their prey.

The chaotic street fighting made Zhai Changsun's casualties increase sharply, and the exhausted Tang cavalry was not at a loss in the face of such a sudden reversal of the war, but under the effect of the flames of revenge, which was burning more and more, Zhai Changsun, who led the troops, gradually lost control of the army.

Ignoring the orders of the generals, the cavalry began to enter the narrow places in groups, trying to find the despicable ones and kill them one by one, but instead put themselves and the army in an increasingly dangerous situation.

Zhai Changsun is also powerless, he is a general in the northwest, and the time he has led the Xuanjia army is not long, and the shortcomings of his prestige are being exposed.

Seeing that there were fewer and fewer people left around him, Zhai Changsun could only stop caring about the attacks from both sides of the road, and quickly retreated to the east.

When he and Li Shimin converged, there were only more than 300 horsemen left around him, and the weakness that could not bear to fight finally found a shadow in them.

Some of them were already lying on their horses, no different from fugitives, and some of them could no longer hold the hilt of their steel knives at all, their quivers had already been shot empty, and their powerful arms could not feel soreness, but they could not lift them.

They lost a lot of body heat, but they could not rest, and some of them were left behind by their horses while riding on horses.

How miserable this part is, it can only be said that it is no different from a rout, their courage and will, finally lost in the defeat and the cold weather.

Li Shimin was finally shocked when he saw their embarrassment, and at this time, he suddenly realized that it seemed that it was not impossible to catch turtles in the so-called urn.

In fact, Zhai Changsun also made a very fatal mistake in this battle, he should not be entangled with Zhang Lun, he was a little meritorious and did not lead the army to the east to join Li Shimin at the first time, but wanted to defeat Zhang Lun's troops on the street like defeating Chen Li.

But Zhang Lun is not Chen Li, no one is waiting for him to come to the rescue, and he will not confront the cavalry in a wide place.

As a result, Zhai Changsun suffered a big loss.

Of course, at this time, Li Shimin will not pursue these details, he only knows that the situation has become a little critical.

At this time, Murong Luohu finally arrived here with smoke and fire, at this time, the casualties of the Xuanjia army have been one-third, looking at the tired soldiers, Li Shimin immediately made a decision, led the troops to the east and set fire to the barracks along the road, in addition to giving everyone a little warmth, it will also make the enemy soldiers hiding between the houses unable to move forward in time.

When Zhang Lun reported the fire in front of him, he laughed contemptuously twice, and then ordered someone to send a message to Chen Li, asking him to set fire to the house in the north.

Well, he is planning to smash the pot and sell iron, even if he burns Longmen City to the ground, he will leave these enemies in Longmen City.

With fires on three sides, the Tang army could only go to Dongcheng, once they delayed in Dongcheng for a while, and when he and Chen Li led their troops to arrive, it would be the end of these cavalry.

Just after this day, the flames in Longmen City have risen to the sky, the wind helps the fire, so that the fire spreads rapidly, and the smoke rises and spreads, and the smoke in Longmen City is confused, and the war is a veritable word.

Zhang Lun had already joined Chen Li at this time, ran to the north city, led the army to the city wall in a hurry, and ran along the city wall to the east of the city.

Under the city of Dongcheng, Li Shimin stared at a pair of eyes that were gradually red by the smoke, and was urging the army to remove the debris in the city gate and corridor.

At the same time, they are also enduring the attack of arrows from the head of the city, and they are also struggling to take the city walls.

Wu Tong, who guards the gate of Dongcheng, is Zhang Lun's wife and brother, Zhang Lun's wife died early, and this wife and brother are being raised as a son, which is a standard border man.

Rude and brave, he is also loyal to Zhang Lun, Zhang Lun asked him to guard the gate of Dongcheng City, so what Wu Tong thought was that before he died, he would not let anyone take a step out of Longmen City.

In fact, the last battle of the East City Gate was the most tragic battle of the Battle of Longmen City.

The cavalry of the Tang army dismounted one after another, and under the leadership of the generals, they climbed the shaving road and stormed the city wall, and Wu Tong's department, which did not have time to set up some obstacles, could only rely on shields and spears and hand-to-hand combat with the enemy.

The Tang army soon climbed the low wall of Longmen City, Wu Tong led his troops to gather above the city gate, protected the archers in the middle, and occupied this place with 500 dead men.

The sound of knives and guns penetrating flesh was even densely manifested in the noisy sound of fighting, and the blood quickly formed ice along the city wall.

And Wu Tong's department, which had more physical strength, under the leadership of Wu Tong, the Tang army, which had to push from time to time, retreated.

The city wall became a slaughterhouse, and in front of the city gate, there were also the corpses of the Tang army lying on the ground, and the arrows kept falling on the heads of the Tang army, shooting the Tang soldiers to the ground one by one, and the round shields of the cavalry army could not be connected like an infantry army, but were more exposed to the enemy archers who were close at hand like a target.

The Tang army, which entered Longmen City with great ease, suffered the most painful casualties when they wanted to get out of the city, which was like a malicious joke played by the war with the Tang army.

And every soldier fell down with a miserable cry, which made Li Shimin's heart throb, but he had to strictly order the soldiers under his command, who were already extremely weak, to open the city gate as soon as possible, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.

In fact, even Li Shimin himself found it hard to believe that how the war could have come to such a point, as if it had completely changed after dawn......

However, Zhang Lun was still a step late, and when he and Chen Li came around from the north side of the city wall, half of the Tang army had already leaned out of the city, and as cavalry, they were very fast when fleeing for their lives.

The rain of arrows on the city wall suddenly intensified, sweeping the back of the Tang army, countless knights screamed and fell from their horses, and countless war horses fell to the ground with a wail.

On the way out of the city, all the corpses of Tang soldiers and horses were lying down.

The Tang army came quietly, with great fanfare, the chaotic sound of horses' hooves gradually disappeared, the embarrassed back of the Tang army disappeared in the distance, and the battle of Longmen City was surrounded by fireworks and fireworks, and finally came to an end......

(Monthly pass, monthly pass, originally wanted to be divided into two chapters, in the end, Ah Cao still decided to end a chapter, everyone in the province said that Ah Cao Shui words, in fact, the focus of this battle is to do some foreshadowing for the future, and, there is not Li Shimin in it, it is worth focusing on describing, by the way, there will be a chapter tonight, Saturday, Ah Cao wants to go to relax, hehe, forgive me.) (To be continued.) )