At this time, Li Po, who was watching the fire from the other side, was also a little incomprehensible.

Across the Yellow River, the delay in the investigation is simply unbearable, but it is very close to the battlefield, and you will not become deaf and blind in the end.

The Tongguan garrison has not moved, and when Wang Shiwei and Shan Xiongxin led the forward 50,000 horses through Hongnong, the Tongguan defenders finally sent troops out of the pass.

This point actually made Li Po very confused, if he changed places, if he was out of the customs to find fighters, then he would send troops to Hongnong first, and block Wang Shichong's forward headquarters on the front line of Hongnong, which could not only delay the Henan army, but also engage in a few battles to see if there was an opportunity.

It is done, in addition to thwarting the enemy's edge, you can even find a chance for a decisive battle, and if you don't succeed, you can retreat to Tongguan to hold on.

In other words, in Li Po's view, Hongnong has the old site of Hangu, which is located in a dangerous place, and it is completely a place that can block the westward advance of the army.

If you get out of the pass and don't want others to take advantage of it, Hongnong is the most suitable battlefield, even if the fighting spirit is not firm enough, it can also consume the strength of Wang Shichong's army to the greatest extent.

But since he completely gave up Hongnong before, the key point of Fengling Ferry shows that Li Jiancheng intends to defend Tongguan to the death, according to Li Po's guess, one is that Wang Shichong's army is overwhelming, which frightened Li Jiancheng, who had not been baptized by the war.

In addition, it may be that Li Jiancheng feels that his combat power is insufficient, and he wants to prevent others from taking advantage of the fire to rob, so he adopts the most conservative strategy.

This is all easy to understand, Li Po does not mean to despise people, war is a thing, it is necessary to adapt measures to local conditions, radical guys can often surprise people, and they have to make great contributions, but it is more likely to be a complete defeat, conservative generals are relatively mediocre, but they can win in a stable word, so that the enemy has no chance to take advantage of it, and sometimes it is the biggest victory.

Li Po has led the troops for many years, and his understanding of strategy and tactics has long matured, and his vision has become more and more broad, so he and Zhang Shigui have completely different ideas.

If Li Jiancheng leads the army out of the customs to Hongnong, Li Po will admire his courage and courage, and now he can't defend it, Li Po will still appreciate his determination, the messy Henan army is a piece of fat with a little bone in anyone's eyes, as Li Jiancheng, the prince of Li Tang, when he is eager to make contributions, he can still hold the Tongguan Pass, which also requires great determination and patience.

What makes Li Po a little incomprehensible is that in this case, sending troops out at this time is completely superfluous.

Three thousand cavalry, in an open place, it is not uncommon for hundreds of thousands of troops to advance and retreat, of course, there are strict prerequisites, one is that there are not many enemy cavalry, or the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the two armies is hugely different, and the other may be that the terrain is too open.

It can be ...... on the Hanseki Ancient Road The enemy had advanced so close that all strategies and tactics seemed to have lost their meaning, leaving no room for a small number of cavalry to fight.

Obviously, he, who has never been a prince and does not know the internal situation of the Tang Army, cannot understand Li Jiancheng's distress in this matter.

In the past, Li Jiancheng sat in the court to watch the King of Qin's conquest and killing, and from time to time he made some trouble, but now it is reversed, and the King of Qin returned to Beijing to sit on the post of Shangshu's left servant, but Li Jiancheng became the person who led the army in front of the army, so it was the turn of the prince Li Jiancheng to worry about "slander".

This kind of situation can only be understood and unspeakable by the Kansai nobles who know about it, let alone Li Po.

Therefore, in Li Po's eyes, the three thousand cavalry out of the pass are almost meaningless, more like the Tang army in Tongguan sent a team of scouts with a large scale?

He guessed correctly, but what he didn't know was that these "scouts" had a big head, a head that could make up his mind.

In vain, Li Po also thought carefully about the people leading the troops on both sides, but he didn't take it seriously in the end.

Wang Shiwei, the king of Chu, naturally knows that Wang Shichong's brother, Shan Xiongxin's name is even more "thunderous", the big thief in the Wagang army, and his popularity is very high here.

But these two people are insignificant in his mind, Wang Shiwei, as Wang Shichong's relative, is now half of the buried people, and he may lose his head at some point, the unlucky Shan Xiongxin may be a little capable, but time should be short.

Tang Jun came out of Zhang Shigui, this is also a bandit leader in Henan, this person he also "remembers", has a very bad reputation, and is associated with Xue Rengui, a typical traitor template.

He didn't know much about this person's life, but later the official position was indeed not small, which showed that this person was very talented, thinking of this, Li Po drooled a little.

There is no shortage of guys who can fight under his command now, but there is a lack of some generals with ideas and insights, this person seems to be very good, he will be in the future and will enter the phase, but now he is still not famous, look, he only brought 3,000 men and horses to come out to see life and death with people, how pitiful.

The other two, one Ashina Danai and one Lu Chengye...... Well, a strange combination...... Thinking at this point, Li Po was already ready to send someone to cross the river with some messy ordnance, waiting for Wang Shichong to come and get it.

Yes, in his mind, the forward headquarters of the Henan army would be able to enter under Tongguan the next day, and if Wang Shichong sent someone to the river, he would not only take the ordnance, but also send someone to stay here.

Li Po has prepared a lobbyist, the people of Henan are not aligned, and he has everything to eat and drink here, maybe someone who can say it will come to work.

Once someone on the other side of the strait answers, it will save him a lot of effort......

Li Po thought very beautifully, if he didn't think it couldn't be too funny, he would have liked to pull a banner on the shore and write big characters, Jinyang welcomes you...... What a beautiful picture, isn't it?

But he never expected that someone would become famous in such a garbage time.

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The sunset is still hanging in the sky, and the two thousand five hundred Tang Army cavalry have been lined up under Zhang Shigui's military order, Zhang Shigui finally raised the war knife in his hand, and the sound of the long knife coming out of the sheath was connected, and the remnant sun was like blood, reflecting on these people, and the sword light stood in a forest, as if there was a layer of blood shrouded in it.

Zhang Shigui roared, destroying the war horse, and the long knife kept waving overhead, leading the direction of the soldiers' charge together with the big flag in the sky.

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly became loud, rolling up smoke and dust in the sky, echoing like thunder on the ancient road.

Less than twenty miles apart, the two armies were almost invisible in the eyes of each other, but the galloping cavalry told the people that if you were careless at such a distance, it would be a surprise attack for the cavalry.

Wang Shiwei and Shan Xiongxin's 50,000 troops were not completely unprepared, although they rarely fought with cavalry, but among these 50,000 people, there were many veterans who returned from the expedition to Liaodong.

They are the foundation of the growth of the rebel army, but it is difficult for them to climb to the high position, because they are generally not of high origin, but there is no doubt that they are the strongest in this group and the most experienced in combat.

When the army stopped, and there was almost no need for military orders, many officers ordered people to dig trenches and prepare to cut down wood to make horses and other things, because the cavalry was too close, making them very insecure on the periphery of the army.

But the soldiers who worked hungry did not buy it, two meals a day, and each meal was not enough, so that the soldiers had already complained, and when the camp was soon covered with cooking smoke, the soldiers who were not strictly disciplined by military discipline immediately put down their work and prepared to fill their cooing bellies first.

This is obviously one of the reasons why the official army often does not need much effort to beat the crying father and mother of the chaotic army, but it can be placed in Henan, or under the command of Dou Jiande, there is no way to solve this problem.

And so disaster struck......

There are no scouts who can send back the news of the enemy's attack when the cavalry is advancing rapidly, in fact, even if it does, there is no time to react.

This is obviously not about the soldiers, but about the accuracy of the judgment of the generals, when the general is absent-minded, the entire army is already in danger, no one wants the soldiers to make the same judgment as the generals, because even if your judgment is accurate, someone has to listen, right?

And when the danger finally came, it was the ordinary soldiers who suffered first.

In the mist of smoke, the peculiar aroma of corn spread, making the hungry soldiers' mouths saliva, staring at the piles of bonfires, waiting like years...... Everything else has been left behind.

A picture scroll that looks quiet despite the hustle and bustle.

At such an instant, the ground suddenly trembled slightly, most of the people did not even notice the change, only some of the old soldiers had some doubts, when the trembling became more and more obvious, they finally looked into the distance and saw the cloud of smoke and dust that remained high.

Their mouths opened wide in horror, and they subconsciously looked around, looking at the mess of comrades around them, and their faces quickly turned pale.

Even so, when the sound of horses' hooves was faintly heard, the neighing of fear mixed with fear sounded in the camp, and even so, many people turned a deaf ear and continued to do what they wanted.

When the figure of the cavalry appeared, the chaos finally spread like a ripple through the camp.

In fact, just like Li Po's defeat of Li Shentong at the beginning, this is also a battle that is difficult to replicate, and the generals on both sides seem to have discussed it, and they have come to this point with tacit understanding.

There were not many cavalry, but the galloping knights, as if a sharp blade had been inserted into the tofu, rushed into the army of 50,000 without hindrance, and suddenly set off a bloody storm.

At that moment, the strongest note of the war suddenly sounded, and the tall Hexi war horse galloped, with a impact force of several tons, and smashed everything along the way without any protection from the enemy......