Chapter 861: Containment before and after
Li Jiancheng, Li Xiaogong and others fled with 10,000 elite soldiers, but when they saw the thousands of enemy soldiers gathered in front of them, they all felt a burst of restlessness and anxiety.
"It's the army of the Hua Dynasty, they abandoned the pursuit, stay and intercept us!"
"It doesn't matter, they only have a few thousand, we have 10,000, and there are cavalry to open the way, and we will definitely be able to break through."
"The important thing is to protect His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and comfort him, and at all costs, rush to the past."
Several generals, captains, lieutenants, etc., all have this kind of thought, if the prince loses and there is an accident, even if they escape alive, they will definitely not escape the sanction.
Therefore, there is no need to protect Li Jiancheng, the crown prince of the Tang Kingdom.
"Sun Hongtao and Yao Yuan, the two of you are responsible for fighting in the front formation, leading hundreds of iron horsemen to speed up the impact with the Glaive Formation!"
"Order!" The two sides of the two sides with their helmets and guns, with a group of cavalry, rushed out from the flanks at a faster pace, increased their speed, and rushed to the front.
Jin Ge Iron Horse, desolate wilderness, autumn wind kills, horse hooves roll and charge.
"Array!" Xue Wanqian shouted, and immediately pointed to the front.
"Sonorous!"
The pikemen were neat and rhythmic, with sonorous iron armor, holding large shields and spears, and lined up in a dense formation.
The first few columns of spears were raised, the cold light flickered, and they stepped forward, and with a trombone, all the soldiers who were standing in a staggered position knelt on one knee, the angle was staggered, and the spears pointed forward, forming a three-dimensional defensive gun formation.
There were a few horsemen and archers in the middle, all of whom were ready to go to war.
Sun Hongtao and Yao Yuan's second generals swept over with their troops, and saw a big gun pointing forward at a hundred paces, like a sharp steel forest, knowing that they rushed over and suffered heavy casualties, but they had no other choice.
"Kill it!"
"Shoot the arrows!" Xue Wanqian snorted coldly, with a ruthless look in his eyes.
"Whoosh!"
The charging Tang Army's iron cavalry, many people fell off their horses with arrows, people turned on their horses, and screamed again and again, but the rest of the people did not move, with a soaring murderous aura, relying on the war horses to gallop, and rushing forward with a strange scream against the rain of arrows.
By the time the second round of arrows was fired, the cavalry of the Tang Army had rushed to within fifty paces and was about to hand over the troops.
However, at this time, some gunpowder bags were thrown from the phalanx, which were thrown by some small catapults, and then some rockets were fired over, igniting the explosives and exploding directly.
"Boom, boom!"
This time, the cavalry suffered heavy casualties, and the two generals Sun Hongtao and Yao Yuan were also hung in the crowd, more or less wounded, charging more than 800 warriors, only three or four hundred people remained, and successfully broke through and approached.
But what greeted them was a forest of spears, sharp spears, which pierced out directly, and those knights crashed into them, and they were directly pierced along with men and horses.
Some Tang cavalry counterattacked before dying, swinging spears and stabbing down, and they could also condescendingly injure a Dahua soldier, and the dead body and horse body were smashed down, and some people were injured.
"Puff puff—"
The sound of bones breaking and flesh being stabbed was extremely bloody.
The two armies converged and began to fight hand-to-hand, blocking the footwork of Li Jiancheng, Li Xiaogong and others from escaping.
Later, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, Luo Shixin and others led troops to rush up from behind, cut off the back road, and attacked from both sides.
The battle here is fierce, the smoke of gunpowder is filled, the horses are neighing, the armor soldiers are fighting, the weapons are fighting, and people are constantly falling in pools of blood.
"The prince of Tang is here!" Someone found Li Jiancheng and shouted loudly.
"Poof!"
Li Xiaogong grabbed a spear casually, threw it over, stabbed the soldier, and killed him directly.
But more and more Dahua soldiers gathered around, all full of excitement, if they can capture or kill Li Jiancheng, the prince of Tang State, it will undoubtedly be a great achievement.
"Escort the prince to break through!"
"Kill it!"
The soldiers of the Tang Army around Li Jiancheng were shouting loudly, but they had been targeted by the Dahua soldiers, and it was difficult to leave.
Even Luo Shixin shot him, and he was brave enough to stab Li Jiancheng with a shot.
Li Xiaogong held a horse lance to meet the block, and fought with Luo Shixin. The former's martial arts are not bad, and in the Guanlong Li family, it is also considered to be a high level of martial arts, but it is still half a chip weaker than Luo Shixin, more than ten rounds, because of the eagerness to break through, he was stabbed in the right arm by Luo Shixin with a shot, causing his hand to almost fall off.
"General, let's go!" Li Xiaogong's lieutenant general and chief of the guard came to protect him, allowing Li Xiaogong to escape.
Li Jiancheng is dominated by layers, and the longer the time, the more difficult it is to break through.
A few miles away, Li Shimin, Wei Chi Jingde and others stopped, turned their heads and heard the fighting in the distance behind, and their faces changed greatly.
"It's not good, my imperial brother was intercepted, I should kill and go back to rescue."
"King Qin is slow, at this time, you should think long-term." A counselor persuaded.
"What else is there to discuss, time waits for no one." Li Shimin refuted the strategist who intervened.
Lei Yongji, the chief of the guard, said: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin, our troops are less than three thousand, but the Dahua army in the rear is endless, even if we turn around and go to the rescue, it will not be of much use, we will not be able to change the situation of the battle, and we will catch ourselves." The prince has many soldiers and horses, if they can't rush forward, they can only blame fate for their poor strength and lack of strength, relying on our 3,000 to rescue 20,000 of them, which is not realistic! ”
"Yes, His Royal Highness King Qin, please think twice, you can't let the soldiers who followed King Qin sacrifice in vain."
Some strategists and generals don't want to go back to rescue the prince, there are many reasons, but the most important thing is nothing more than that they can't escape and break out, and they don't want to go back and die, and second, if the prince really encounters an accident, then the king of Qin may be made the prince, and the status of these people will be further improved, and there will be fewer power groups in the court that are tilting against each other.
"It is very likely that Emperor Dahua will also lead troops to kill, and 100,000 male soldiers will pursue, we should rush back to Jinyang as soon as possible and report the emergency military situation to Your Majesty, so as not to be taken advantage of by Dahua!"
These people were all persuading, and in the end, Li Shimin reluctantly agreed, his eyes were moist, and he said with tears in his eyes to the battlefield in the rear: "Brother Huang, you must turn evil into good fortune and break through." For the sake of the crisis in the Tang Kingdom, Shimin could only rush back to Jinyang as soon as possible, report to his father, and deal with it urgently. When the words fell, Li Shimin waved his hand and continued to hurry, and the team opened, like a small episode.