Chapter 23 The burning of the Tang Army

Sang Xian is brave and strategic, good at seizing the opportunity, and good at destroying the enemy with the help of natural forces such as the right time and place.

But Sang Xian was a famous general of the Sui Dynasty after all, although he found an excellent fighter, but he was still very cautious, in case Li Shimin, who was also wise and brave, cheated, he successively sent several scouts to closely monitor Li Shimin's whereabouts.

Half an hour later, multiple scouts came at the same time to report that Li Shimin's Tang army had all crossed the Daliang River and marched rapidly in the direction of Heyangcang, and now all of them had entered the Grand Canyon.

It seems that Li Shimin is indeed preparing to sneak attack Heyang Cang, and it is estimated that the grain and grass are more nervous than he expected.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, in order to prevent Li Shimin from setting up an ambush, Sang Xian planned to lead 6,000 elite soldiers to pursue Li Shimin, that is, the real Li Shimin deceit, and his 6,000 Sui army elite was not afraid of the Tang army, which only had 7,000 people.

The idea must be that Sang Xian immediately led 6,000 elite soldiers to open the city gate and rushed out, and the Tang army in the opposite military camp saw that a group of men and horses from the Sui army drove out of the city gate, thinking that they were coming to attack their camp, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to wait in the camp. Unexpectedly, the Sui army went straight to the Daliang River around the city. Subsequently, the gates of Daliang City were closed again.

After Sang Xian led the army to cross the Daliang River quickly on the pontoon bridge erected by the Tang army, he quickly chased after him, and chased to the mouth of the Grand Canyon in less than a meal.

The scout came to report that the Tang army had all entered the Grand Canyon for a stick of incense, Sang Xian looked at the half-human-tall dead grass and shrubs in the canyon, looked at the whirring wind blowing towards the canyon, laughed, and ordered the fire. The soldiers then began to set fire to the valley mouth, setting fire to the dead grass and wood.

The weather was dry and dry, and when the wind blew, the dead grass and dead trees burned a little, and soon the wind helped the fire, and the entire canyon mouth was already a sea of fire and smoke, and quickly spread to the depths of the canyon. The air was also scorching, and Sang Xian ordered the whole army to retreat five hundred meters. Soon there was a faint cry of the Tang Army ghost crying wolf from the depths of the canyon, and Sang Xian had a smug smile on the corner of his mouth, listening to this scream, he felt that it was even more beautiful than Xianle. As one of the most brave and loyal generals of the Great Sui Empire, he hated all the traitors who rebelled against the Sui Dynasty, and he was absolutely ruthless to eliminate these traitors and rebels.

More than half an hour later, looking in from the mouth of the canyon, the grass and trees had basically burned out, and they were charred black. There are also a few not very dry shrubs with smoke and a few fires.

"Hehe, it is estimated that Tang Jun has already become a roast pig. The general is smart, he can annihilate the 7,000 elite Tang army without spending a single soldier, the general is smart! Several generals stood beside Sang Xian and patted their ass.

Sang Xian's face was full of pride, seeing that the wind had become smaller and the sky had darkened, so he ordered: "Send two thousand soldiers into the valley to check, if you encounter someone who has not yet breathed, or who is faint by smoke, directly make up a knife to give them a good time!" And cut off all the heads of the rebels, I want to use the heads of the rebels here to put a big 'Jingguan', so that those rebels who dare to rebel against my Great Sui Dynasty can see the fate of being a rebel! Carefully search for Li Shimin's body, and those who find it will be rewarded. ”

"Yes!" 2,000 soldiers, led by their generals, slowly entered the Grand Canyon with torches to search for the corpses and survivors of the Tang Army.

These Sui soldiers who entered the canyon to clean up the battlefield had the smile of the victor on their faces, their expressions were relaxed, talking and laughing, and the formation was scattered, as if they were going to pick ripe fruit from a tree.

However, the Sui army has entered the Grand Canyon for more than four miles, and still no corpse of the Tang army has been found. Suddenly, a buzzing sound of dense bowstrings was heard, and then countless sharp arrows were shot from the darkness in front of them, and the unprepared forwards of the Sui army fell to the ground one after another, and some soldiers were shot into hedgehogs before they even pulled out their swords.

The Sui army led the team to be shocked, and hurriedly ordered the whole team to meet the enemy. But the dense rain of arrows showed no sign of stopping, and it still fell from the sky to harvest the lives of the Sui army, and the Sui army was in chaos.

At this time, thousands of Tang troops suddenly rushed out of the darkness in front of them, rushed into the already chaotic Sui army, and slashed and slashed, and the Sui army was instantly stunned by the sudden thunder attack, and the whole line collapsed.

Sang Xian rode a horse and stood at the mouth of the Grand Canyon when he suddenly heard the sound of shouting and killing in front of him, and the difference in his heart, could it be that there were still many people in the Tang Army who were not burned to death and fainted after this fire? Is the vitality of the Tang Army so strong?

Just as he was strange, I saw that the men and horses I sent to clean up the battlefield threw away their armor and ran desperately from the valley to the valley mouth, and the thousands of Tang troops chasing behind were wantonly slashing and slashing, and one after another Sui soldiers were cut down by steel knives and stabbed by spears, and then they were ruthlessly trampled to death by the rushing Tang army.

Sang Xian was shocked, and then he heard shouts of killing on the left and right sides behind him, and an indescribable number of Tang troops were killing from the rear in the darkness.