In May of the second year of Tang Wude.

The Tang army of Jiangzhou went north, the strength of the troops was very strong, but the speed of the march was definitely not very fast, and four days later, the forward headquarters arrived at Linfen and joined the Linfen defenders.

When the army gathered in Linfen, it was already eight days later.

There are many reasons why the march is so procrastinated.

One, not long after the Tang Army was formed, there was no tacit understanding between the various departments, if it weren't for the fact that the various departments were stationed in Jiangzhou for a period of time and carried out an internal integration, the march of the army would be much slower.

Again, the generals of the Great Army have never experienced such a big war, and the same is true of the Tang Army.

Just like Li Shentong, the head of the Jinzhou Road March, he is very inexperienced in leading the army to fight, in fact, when he became famous, that is, when he raised his troops, with Li Xiuning pacifying the bandits near Chang'an County, and then led his troops to attack the old city of Chang'an.

He hadn't experienced too fierce battles, otherwise there wouldn't have been so many people who wanted to replace him.

In fact, whether it is Qu Tutong, Liu Wenjing, or even Tang Jian, the internal history of Ling, their ability to lead the army to battle is not comparable to Li Shentong.

But having said that, if you look at the leaders of the Tang Army, you can know that Li Yuan can't trust outsiders to lead the troops.

Shuzhong is Li Yuan's nephew Li Xiaogong leading the troops, Li Shimin is in the northwest, and Li Jiancheng is in Tongguan.

And the people who assisted Li Shentong were still Pei Lian, Jiang Baoyi and the like, these people didn't cause trouble for Li Shentong, where can they be expected to have any constructive opinions and measures in the integration of more than 100,000 troops?

Moreover, the Tang army was also on guard against the harassment and attacks of the cavalry, and the eight thousand cavalry were held in the hands of Li Shentong, so they waited for the cavalry to appear, so that they could see the opportunity and frustrate the edge of the thief army.

And these 8,000 cavalry are the treasure of the Tang army, they came from all over the place, and borrowed some from Tongguan to form an army of 8,000.

This is not only the problem of the lack of good horses, but also the lack of excellent cavalry, the main force of the Tang cavalry is in the northwest and Xue Ju to fight, the Tang army in Jindi can make up 8,000 horses, it is really not easy.

And this is also the most powerful weapon that Li Shentong intends to fight against the cavalry, and it is easy not for these cavalry to attack and do that senseless attrition.

In this way, coupled with the inconvenience of the army's logistical baggage transportation, the Tang Army's slow march is justified.

In fact, it can also be seen from here that the war at the end of the Sui Dynasty has been a great loss of vitality in the world, and in the war season, many elite divisions have emerged in the world, and the combat effectiveness of ordinary soldiers is not comparable to ordinary years.

Whether it is manpower and material resources, or the quality and number of soldiers, they have lost the prestige of the Sui Dynasty, and what is outward is the essence of weakness.

In the marching army, under a big banner, Xu Shiyun stood tall on his horse and slowly moved forward with the rolling torrent.

He was a very young man, no more than thirty years old, with a thin body, but not short, dark and rough skin, and with a solemn and resolute gaze, he looked much older than his actual age.

He was a scholar back then, but now that he looks at it, there is no longer the slightest smell of books on his body, and his seven or eight years of military career have completely changed his whole temperament.

The young man who threw his pen and left, resolutely went to Wagang Mountain, joined the gang of thieves, and was full of enthusiasm just to protect the safety of his hometown, has long since disappeared.

Now Xu Shiyun is already a murderous general, his hands are stained with blood, and after many years, how much mercy is left in his heart?

At this time, Xu Shiyun believed in the reins of the horse, and looked at the rolling army with some distraction.

has been a Wagang bandit for many years, and all he used to think about was to get out of this quagmire, and let Zhai Rang, Li Mi and others go to hell.

But now he has voted for Tang, which can be regarded as a taste, but his heart is always unsteady, from Tongguan to Jindi, the ubiquitous sense of rejection in the Tang army makes him feel terrified, and the soldiers under his command are also incompatible with the Tang army.

In general, whether it is him Xu Shiyun or his subordinate generals, they are not very ready to integrate into the Tang Army, and all kinds of discomfort are inevitable.

No one gave them a period of time to adapt, reorganize them, and make them more compatible with Tang Jun.

From the Tongguan garrison built by the crown prince Li Jiancheng, and then under the jurisdiction of Li Shentong, they were like a dream, and when they woke up, they had already left their homeland in Henan, where they had been stationed for many years, and came to the strange land of Jin.

This gave this Li Mi army a unique sense of loneliness.

And what is even more terrifying is that the whole army does not have much thought to make meritorious contributions, and after several years of war, they have almost been lost in the brutal killings.

Their ambitions have long been exhausted in the blood and fighting on the ground in Henan, and even Xu Shiyun himself is always glad that he can still survive that series of battles.

Many of the old faces of the year are long gone, and all that remains are the bloody Demon King of the Mixed World.

They no longer talk about loyalty, because the loyal people have died in one internal strife after another, they no longer talk about orthodoxy, because they have long since stood on the opposite side of orthodoxy, they no longer talk about how to enter Luoyang, because they never had the hope of going there.

They also no longer talk about high-ranking officials, because no matter how big the officials are, they can only eat corn now, and they also stop talking about the future, because no one knows whether they will die tomorrow.

They only know how to hold on to the power of the army, and they will never give people a chance to watch, they only know that they can hold on to the grain and grass, and they must not let people snatch it, because they only have these two things left that can be seen and touched.

Just like now, the corners of Xu Shiyun's eyes and eyebrows are full of worry, but he is still glad in his heart that the military power of more than 20,000 soldiers and horses is still in his hands.

For this battle, he didn't feel any sense of crisis, he had fought for so many years, he had seen what kind of danger, and he also felt that what kind of opponent wanted to swallow his 20,000 horses, he had to break his teeth.

This is undoubtedly where he is very confident, the warriors of a hundred battles are not joking, they have robbed the canal boats, once defeated the encirclement and suppression of the official army, and even besieged and killed the famous general Zhang Xutuo, they and Wang Shichong's elite soldiers have been fighting for many years, not long ago, they also defeated Yu Wenhua and the Kansai Xiaoguo.

They never proudly told the Tang generals that they were the best in the world when they were killed from the ground in Henan, and no opponent under his command could easily defeat them, because it was not necessary and offended, but he thought that was in fact the case.

The strong army in the world should be led by the Henan army.

This is the confidence that comes out of the battle formation, and there is no need to say much.

And in this battle, more than 100,000 troops gathered, although the combat strength of each department was uneven, but he didn't think that Li Ding'an in northern Jin could stop it.

In fact, he had heard of this person's name before, as if it was this person who killed Luo Yi, the governor of Youzhou, and Song Jingang, a gangster in Hebei.

But Luo Yi and Song Jingang and the like are nothing.

And not long after arriving in Tongguan, he heard that this person occupied Jinyang and became a prince, and he didn't care too much, just thinking that this person had little reputation, and he was just one of the people who took advantage of the chaos in the world.

This time, he was asked for by the army...... As long as he and his subordinates don't attack Jinyang Jiancheng, everything else is easy to say.

To tell the truth, after playing Luoyang for so many years, he can be regarded as having fallen into trouble, and his legs are a little weak when he sees Jiancheng Dayi, there is no way, it is estimated that the people under Li Mi's command have such a psychological shadow from top to bottom.

As for the Daizhou cavalry, well, he has never participated in the battle of Liaodong or walked out of Henan, and he has never seen what a large-scale cavalry battle looks like.

What he thought was that with a big shield and a spear, it shouldn't be too difficult to deal with the cavalry charge, just like the cavalry of Wang Shichong's department and the charge of Guanxi Xiaoguo, there was not much to do with them.

In fact, this kind of self-confidence is really a bit fatal, his road to becoming a famous general still has a long way to go, and now he doesn't know what the words elite border army and Daizhou Iron Cavalry mean.

was thinking in a mess, and even he had already thought that after this battle, he should go to Chang'an to show his loyalty to the emperor.

What is the expression of loyalty? has to make a fuss about the old master, Li Mi is at the end of his rope, if he can send someone to persuade him to surrender, maybe he doesn't have to worry about how to go in the future.

"General, General......"

Xu Shiyun woke up and looked down, a sweaty man was looking at him timidly, and his Jindi accent made him sound very awkward.

And when he saw this man, Xu Shiyun's head hurt again, this guy's name is Zhang Man, the white-faced thief's cronies.

Well, the white-faced thief is called Jiang Baoyi's contempt by his generals.

Since this son of a Kansai nobleman came to Xu Shixian, he has rectified the name of military law and performed the responsibility of supervising the army, and this person is very unlikable regardless of his identity, style, or even his position.

When I came to him, I wanted to kill people first.

Xu Shiyun persuaded him with good words, not because he Xu Shiyun was short-sighted, he also knew that the military discipline of the soldiers under his command was a little loose, and many times he also hated those who hurt the innocent.

He got used to it when he saw it, and he knew a little better, the soldiers under his command must not be deterred by killing.

That's a useless move at all, they are not afraid of this at all, but it is easy to cause dissatisfaction among the soldiers, what will they do if they are dissatisfied?

If it is light, they will secretly flee and go to other generals, but if it is heavy, they will rebel and kill in droves and cut off the heads of the generals and set themselves up as kings.

(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )