North of Lulong, East Xi Wangting.

Li Cunxiao and Li Sijing led 30,000 cavalry to arrive here soon.

Although the snow was falling, the Dongxi Royal Court still had traces of the previous war, after all, the siege of the city had only ended recently, and the traces of the war could not be worn away so quickly.

When they saw a strange cavalry appear near the royal court, the tribes around the royal court were still very surprised, and they looked like a great enemy was coming.

But after seeing the Datang flags flying in the air, they all fell silent.

How did the cavalry of the Don Army appear here?

Although half of the 30,000 cavalry of the Tang Army wore leather armor, the other half were dazzling iron armor. However, there are also two kinds of iron armor, after all, there is a difference between the armor of the border army and the forbidden army, and the latter is more sophisticated.

Therefore, when they saw the Tang army in front of them, the army of Dongxi Wangting was also a little hesitant.

"General, this Dongxi was also beaten too badly. The last general took a look, and there were many tribes with very few adult men. Seeing the Dongxi Wangting army like a great enemy, Zhu Jian rode his horse to Li Cunxiao's side and couldn't help but mock.

"It is said that he was beaten very badly by the Khitan, tens of thousands of elites died in battle, this is not more than ten years, and it is estimated that he will not be able to recover!" Li Cunxiao smiled faintly.

The loss of tens of thousands of soldiers was a great blow to the Dongxi royal court.

This means that many tribes have a hard time even putting together an adult man!

"Actually, it's okay, at least Dongxi can be honest for a while." Li Sijing smiled.

Before the Dongxi army invaded the Zhenwu army, it was not because of its own strong soldiers and horses, and it was planned to fight and run.

Who would have thought that he would be beaten back to his original form by the Khitan, or even worse.

Just when a few people were chatting, a cavalry of more than a thousand people suddenly came out from the Dongxi Royal Court and came towards the Tang army.

Finally, when Meng Zhixiang came to Li Cunxiao and saw Li Cunxiao, he was shocked and hurriedly saluted, "Meng Zhixiang has seen General Li!" ”

"You are Meng Fangli's nephew?" Looking at the young and magnanimous Meng Zhixiang in front of him, Li Cunxiao said lightly.

"It's down there!" Meng Zhixiang said respectfully.

Meng Zhixiang didn't expect that the commander of the Tang Army was actually Li Cunxiao, the killing god, which surprised him.

"You said that you are a good Tang person, you have to come to this outside the place, don't forget that you are also a person from my Tang Dynasty." Li Cunxiao 'reminded'.

"General Li forgive me, it was also a helpless move back then, and now everything is just for survival. I have always had Datang in my heart, and I also want to play for Datang in my heart, but I didn't have a suitable opportunity before. Meng Zhixiang said.

"Don't talk so much nonsense, how many troops do you Dongxi King plan to send?" Li Cunxiao didn't want to listen to Meng Zhixiang continue to talk nonsense there.

Meng Zhixiang smiled awkwardly, "General Li, don't worry, we will send five thousand cavalry this time, led by General Kang." Our royal court has suffered heavy losses, and we really can't send too many troops.

However, the black car has promised to send 10,000 troops, and according to the distance, they will arrive tomorrow. ”

Originally, Meng Zhixiang only planned to send 2,000 cavalry, but after seeing that it was Li Cunxiao who led the Tang army, he changed his mind.

"Black car room Wei? It can't be the biting prince leading the troops, right? Li Sijing couldn't help but say happily.

"It's not the Bone Prince, it's another prince named Su An." Meng Zhixiang hurriedly explained.

As for the previous defeat of the black car room Wei to the Tang army, he didn't say a word, he was not interested in finding it unhappy at this time.

"Su'an, Su'an!" Li Cunxiao doesn't care who leads the army, the main force in this battle is still the army led by him, and the others are just cannon fodder.

"I wonder if the general can help me in the next small favor." Meng Zhixiang hesitated.

"Say it!" Li Cunxiao said impatiently.

"Li Siyuan slaughtered my tribe before, and in this battle, Li Siyuan led an army to attack the Tang Dynasty, and his tribe was empty.

Before Meng Zhixiang could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Li Cunxiao, "I can't help with this." Let's not say that the purpose of this trip is to cut off the back road of the Khitan army, and it is not appropriate to make extraneous branches; Secondly, Li Siyuan used to be my brother-in-law, and even more so my subordinate, I disdain to do such things! ”

"The general doesn't know anything, and he also formed a righteous alliance with Li Siyuan before going down, but the other party still attacked my tribe and killed my wife and children... Meng Zhixiang was a little excited.

"That's a matter between you, and helping my Tang Dynasty defeat the Khitan army is the most important thing. As for the grievances between you and Li Siyuan, you can settle them yourself. Li Cunxiao doesn't have the habit of letting people be gunmen, and he hasn't paid attention to Meng Zhixiang's tricks.

Seeing that Li Cunxiao did not agree, Meng Zhixiang could only give up.

In view of the fact that it would take time for Heichezi Murowei's army to arrive, Li Cunxiao temporarily let the army camp near the Dongxi Wangting, and wait for Heichezi Murowei's army to arrive before raiding the Khitan army.

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The offensive and defensive battle in Yingzhou has been carried out on the tenth day, and the tragedy of the war has caught both the offensive and defensive sides a little unexpected.

The Khitan side lost nearly 20,000 soldiers, the Tang army suffered more than 4,000 casualties, and more than 2,000 craftsmen and civilians were killed or wounded. The corpses of both sides were piled up inside and outside the city of Yingzhou, and the ground was stained red with blood.

At a glance, what greeted me was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, blood and corpses had been frozen by the cold weather, and the tranquility after the battle was even more difficult to calm the restlessness in my heart.

Outside the city, corpses were strewn across the field, and broken ladders were lying upside down. Next to the ladder, there were many deaths of different shapes everywhere, and the deaths were terrible, but the corpses were still thrown there, and no one went to collect them.

At the head of the city, thousands of Tang soldiers wrapped in thick sheepskin and heavy armor huddled together to keep warm.

The soldiers were mentally exhausted after many days of fighting, and once they relaxed, they couldn't help but close their heavy eyelids and take the opportunity to rest.

Gao Siji was the same, he only got up because he heard some noises, and it turned out to be a patrolling soldier. He also did not go down the city wall for three days, and he ate and drank and lazar all settled on the head of the city.

After leaving it all night, the iron spear was also freezing to the bone.

"General!"

A patrolling fire captain saluted Gao Siji slightly.

"How? The Khitans didn't move last night, right? Gao Siji moved his fists and feet to warm up his body.

"Back to the general, there is no movement, I think the loss is too great, and the Khitans are also a little afraid!"

"Well, you go on patrol!"

Gao Siji nodded, and then looked at the white battlefield outside the city.

In general, the losses of the Khitans were greater, after all, Yelu Abaoji's original intention was to crusade against Dongxi, and he never thought of attacking Yingzhou.

Moreover, in this kind of siege warfare, the losses of the attacking side are generally relatively large, as can be seen from the corpses piled up on the battlefield.

Yesterday's siege strength was also somewhat weakened, obviously the Khitans had no confidence, and the most difficult moment had already passed.

As long as they hold out for a while longer, the Khitans are likely to retreat.

At this moment, hundreds of people carried steaming cakes and mutton soup up to the city, and when they smelled the fragrance, all the soldiers got up from their dreams.

Before these soldiers could have a good breakfast, the camp of the Khitans outside the city sounded a deafening drum beat again!