Chapter 541: The Battle of Dushan

Tang Shidu Mountain, located in the northwest of Yuguan Mountain Customs less than 100 miles, the nearby terrain is mainly mountainous. In the twenty-first year of Kaiyuan, the Khitan Yaguan gathered tens of thousands of troops to attack the Tang Dynasty, and Guo Yingjie, the deputy governor of Youzhou, led the 10,000 troops and the Xi people to meet the attack, and the two sides encountered at the foot of the Du Mountain.

When the two strong meet the brave, Guo Yingjie is quite decisive, and personally leads the army to attack the vanguard army of the Khitans, and the Khitans are defeated and retreated one after another, until the Chinese army can be suddenly reached. The Khitans were numerous, and the Tang army was well-equipped, so it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat for a while, and the two sides were in a bitter battle.

As time passed, the numerical superiority of the Khitans gradually became apparent, and the situation began to turn against the Tang army.

Guo Yingjie fought bloodily, the edge of the Tang knife in his hand was curled in several places, his clothes and armor were broken and scarred, his whole body was stained with broken flesh and blood, and more than half of the soldiers around him were killed and wounded. Guo Yingjie's bravery attracted the attention of the Khitans, who besieged him one after another. Several spears pierced his 'chest' at the same time, and he swung his knife to separate the two on the right, seeing that the spear from the left flank was about to penetrate his 'chest', and at the last moment, a horse came out from the side, and the knight 'swung' away the Khitan sneak attack with his horse lance.

The person who saved Guo Yingjie was Adjutant General Wu Keqin, who was also bloodstained and wounded.

"General Wu, why are you here? Where's your Xi general? ”

Seeing Wu Keqin's figure, Guo Yingjie was not happy. In this expedition, the Xi soldiers who were subordinate under the leadership of the deputy general Wu Keqin guarded the left flank of the army, and the appearance of Wu Keqin meant that a major change had occurred.

Worried that it had become a reality, Wu Keqin flew a spear again, and roared with a cry: "The Xi people raised by the son of a bitch have rebelled!" ”

The relationship between the Xi people and the Khitan people is like that between a wolf and an embarrassment. But suddenly shouted in front of the battle, the Khitans did not fight the Khitans, and the Xi people mutinied when they heard the voice, retreated behind the Tang army and defended the danger to cut off the back road of the Tang army.

Hearing the bad news, Guo Yingjie's eyes went dark, and he almost fainted, and a scimitar took the opportunity to slash and cut into his collarbone along his broken armor.

The intense pain woke Guo Yingjie up, and he shouted angrily and swung his knife, cutting off the arms of the enemy soldiers.

"Quick, the deputy chief of protection retreats!" Wu Keqin drove the horse to 'insert' horizontally, blocking in front of Guo Yingjie's horse, and the horse lance swept and 'forced' the siege of the Khitans.

Several pro-soldiers rushed forward and pulled the main general to retreat.

Guo Yingjie pushed away his own soldiers, and roared tragically: "There is no way back today, all the soldiers galloped into the enemy formation after the green 'color', and all the soldiers were infected, and they followed him to counterattack without hesitation."

The battle was extremely 'fierce', and life passed with every blink of an eyelid. Guo Yingjie slashed into the shoulder of the enemy general, but unfortunately the force was too great, the knife was stuck and could not be pulled out, the enemy general was brave, and before he died, he broke out and tore Guo Yingjie off the horse.

"Kill him!" The Khitans flocked to it.

"Protect the General!" The Tang army was equally fearless.

The bloody battle around Guo Yingjie was 'fierce' staged.

Wu Keqin jumped off the horse, stabbed the horse with the tip of Shuo, the horse neighed forward and collided with the Khitan cavalry, the enemy soldiers could not contain the momentum, and slammed on the ground and died instantly.

Wu Keqin was extremely brave, wielding a horse lance to kill Guo Yingjie, and the two Khitans who threatened Guo Yingjie were swept away by him.

However, there were too many enemies, and the soldiers around Guo Yingjie became fewer and fewer, and Wu Keqin gradually ran out.

In the shouting of killing, the besieging Khitans automatically made a cut, and a Khitan man trotted out with a short spear in his hand.

Wu Keqin, who was fighting, felt something strange, and just wanted to turn back, a short spear pierced his 'chest' from behind and brought him down.

"Can it be sudden?!" Guo Yingjie witnessed the tragedy of the lieutenant general, looked angrily, and recognized the face of the enemy chief.

"Come on!" Guo Yingjie swung his knife straight and swooped in.

Two Khitan soldiers greeted each other with swords, and Guo Yingjie received a hard knife, resulting in an enemy soldier and continued to rush towards Ke Tuyu.

"Look for death!" But suddenly flashed Guo Yingjie's slightly sluggish knife, and the scimitar slashed off his neck.

Guo Yingjie didn't bat at death, his eyes were wide and angry.

The main general was killed in battle, the Tang army was defeated, and the remaining 6,000 people, led by another lieutenant general, Wu Zhiyi, retreated to a hillside. The Khitan army took advantage of the situation to surround them.

Guo and Wu were killed in battle, and Wu Zhiyi and Luo Shouzhong provoked the leading beams.

Luo Shouzhong's face was sad and indignant, and he said to Wu Zhiyi: "The Khitans came prepared, put a trap for us to step on, and secretly colluded with the Xi people who surrendered to us, while inviting Turkic reinforcements, today, we have no reason to survive." I hate, I can't wait to kill those repeated traitors of the Xi clan with my own hands! ”

Wu Zhiyi's face was resolute: "It's a big deal to die in battle, why be afraid?" ”

Luo Shouzhong looked north and smiled sadly: "The Hui people have never been reliable, and the Ningyuan Iron Horse is even more unreliable when it is thousands of miles away. I don't know why our Chief Xue believes it, only with us soldiers. ”

Wu Zhiyi was silent, it was the established strategy of the imperial court to attack the Khitan, but they were separated by thousands of miles, how to coordinate? Jiedu made Xue Chu's 'jade' scholar too angry, and took it for granted too much, only acting according to the planned schedule, ignoring the fact that the reinforcements had not arrived, and repeatedly urging the war, so as to give the Khitans a chance to take advantage of it.

"Don't talk about this, let's get ready to fight to the death!" Luo Shouzhong retracted his dissatisfaction and glared angrily at the Khitans down the hillside.

The Khitans did not attack in one go, but sent two cavalrymen close and carried two heads with spears.

The skulls belonged to Guo and Wu respectively.

The two cavalrymen flaunted their might on the slope of the hill and shouted: "The head of your lord is here, why don't you surrender quickly?" ”

Wu Zhiyi's eyes were cracked, and he gritted his teeth and said to Luo Shouzhong: "I'll go and take the heads of these two thieves to avenge the general!" "After saying 'desire', he jumped on the war horse and was hugged tightly by Luo Shouzhong to stop his fearless suicide.

The Khitan people under the mountain have their bows and crossbows, and as long as Wu Zhiyi rushes down, they will only be pierced by 'chaotic' arrows.

The sudden intimidating persuasion to surrender 'provoked' the anger of more than 6,000 officers and men of the Tang Army.

"Fight!" "Fight!"

The sound of excitement echoed among the mountains, but no one was willing to surrender.

But suddenly he was annoyed and angry, and he waved his army to attack, and the battle was unprecedentedly tragic, and the blood gathered into a river and flowed down the hillside......

Before nightfall, the Tang army on the hillside repelled three attacks by the Khitans.

At this time, the Tang army was less than 2,000 people, Luo Shouzhong died in battle with hatred, and Wu Zhiyi suffered several wounds.

But suddenly looking helplessly at the dark mountainside, he didn't understand why these Tang troops were so tenacious, preferring to die rather than yielding, and at the last moment, he was stunned to cause thousands of casualties to him. Originally, he planned to end this battle overnight, after all, there was a threat from the Hui Coalition Army behind him, especially the Ning Yuan Iron Cavalry who came to trouble him from thousands of miles away, thinking of the fairy-like Broken Leaf Princess possessed by Li Huaitang, he couldn't help but be manic, and his desire for revenge was especially strong.

However, the Tang army on the hillside was still fighting, it was not as easy to deal with as he thought, he didn't want to consume too much strength here, as long as he waited for another night, the Tang army was hungry and thirsty, and it would not take much effort to destroy them.

This dark night was extremely long for the Tang army on the hillside, and the 'fierce' battle during the day consumed too much water from them, and there was no fresh water to replenish them, and the people's mouths were dry and their throats were smoking. The Khitans held all the main roads, they could not go down to get fresh water, and many of the wounded died due to lack of water.

The night finally faded, and the light came from the east, and in the sky, two black dots swirled. The remaining Don troops knew that their final moment was coming, but they could barely stand up for the final battle that was coming.

The horn of the Khitan attack sounded, and the black-pressed Khitan warriors slowly attacked. The soldiers knelt facing west and said their final goodbyes to their relatives in the distance.

"Kill!" Yiwu Zhiyi shouted sadly, and took the lead in rushing to the battlefield and rushing to death.

Woo...... Woo! The low, powerful sound of the bull's horn came from across the mountain. At the foot of the hillside, there was a 'commotion' among the Khitans.

What's going on? More than 1,000 Tang soldiers looked at the attacking Khitans in astonishment and retreated in panic.

It's our reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived! Wu Zhiyi reacted and shouted hoarsely with tears.

The sound fell, and thousands of panicked Khitans scattered in the north, faintly burning, as if an iron horse was following behind, and the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, knocking on the earth, shocking people's hearts...... Please keep in mind the URL, if you like "War Owl in Tang" written by the wolf under the moon