Seeing Xue Yantuo's army defeated, Su Dingfang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, rode on his horse and looked up to the sky and said with a smile: "Strong, Tang Erlang!" ”

"Zhuangda, Tang Erlang!"

"Zhuangda, Tang Erlang!"

……

The excited voice of the Don Army was repeated on the battlefield.

Su Dingfang took a few deep breaths and looked at Xue Yantuo's cavalry who was gradually fleeing from the battlefield, his face sank, he waved his spear and pointed in the direction of Xue Yantuo's escape, and asked the Tang army who had stopped fighting in high spirits: "Tang Erlang still has the strength to rush and kill with the old man for a while." ”

Hearing this, the blood-stained Tang Jun immediately replied: "Kill!" Kill! Kill! ”

Su Dingfang listened to this shout that went straight to Xiaohan, and first shouted: "Okay! Then he ordered: "Leave fifty men to clean up the battlefield, collect the wounded soldiers and corpses, and return to the camp on their own." ”

"Hahaha...... Walk! ”

Su Dingfang twitched the war horse in laughter, and the war horse seemed to know the master's intentions, "neighing" with a long roar, and rushed out with his hooves raised, and rushed out with Su Dingfang again.

Seeing this, the Tang army behind roared one by one, like a fierce tiger out of the sky, and killed Xue Yantuo's cavalry again.

Some of them were wounded in the battle just now, some were exhausted from fighting the enemy, and some were full of grief and indignation when they watched their comrades die in battle.

But when they heard Su Dingfang's call to fight, they rushed out without any hesitation.

Su Dingfang led the Tang army, which was less than 1,000 people, all the way to the camp of Xue Yantuo's middle route army, following the fleeing Xue Yantuo cavalry.

The war horses of the Tang Dynasty were not inferior to Xue Yantuo's war horses, and the harness was much stronger than Xue Yantuo, so it was easy to kill most of Xue Yantuo's runaways all the way, more than when he rushed to kill just now.

Before arriving at Xue Yantuo's camp, Xue Yantuo's cavalry was received into the camp with less than 1,500 people, and this battle ended in a crushing defeat for Xue Yantuo.

Su Dingfang and his men stopped two or three miles away from Xue Yantuo's army, and confronted the infantry formation that came out of the camp to meet them.

Su Dingfang saw that Xue Yantuo's infantry had lined up the array, took out homemade bows and arrows, and waited for the prey to come to the door, Su Dingfang knew that in the face of tens of thousands of Xue Yantuo's foot soldiers, not to mention the hundreds of cavalry behind him, even if he pulled the eight thousand cavalry around Li Chengqian, there was no guarantee that he would be able to break through Xue Yantuo's army array, and even if he rushed out of Xue Yantuo's infantry array regardless of sacrifice, he would be chased and killed by Xue Yantuo's remaining cavalry.

Therefore, Su Dingfang could only take seven or eight hundred Tang troops covered in blood, and in front of tens of thousands of enemy troops, he turned around and left.

On the way back, they met Li Simo who came to pick up Li Simo, and it turned out that the soldiers who had cleaned up the battlefield had returned to the camp with their horses and wounded.

When Su Dingfang led the people back to the place where they had left, he saw a strong camp erected on the slope of the hill on the left.

Su Dingfang walked all the way to the camp and observed all the way, and found that this camp set up by the veteran Qiu Xinggong himself was indeed strong and stable, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Su Dingfang relieved himself and led the team around the corner of the mountain to the main gate of the camp, Li Chengqian had already led the generals in the village to wait here for a long time.

Seeing this, Su Dingfang hurriedly dismounted and ran to Li Chengqian, knelt down on one knee and said, "The minister sees His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Seeing this, the soldiers behind Su Dingfang also jumped off their horses, and with a "bang" sound, they knelt down on one knee to see Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian hurriedly stepped forward and took a few steps to help Su Dingfang up with both hands, looked at Su Dingfang with blood on his face and smiled: "Hard general!" As he spoke, he used his sleeve to wipe the blood stains on Su Dingfang's armor.

Seeing this, Su Dingfang hurriedly took a step back and clenched his fists again: "Don't dare to work Your Highness." ”

Seeing this, Li Chengqian had no choice but to give up, turning his head and looking at the seven or eight hundred bloodied soldiers of the East Palace in front of him with emotion, these people were the soldiers who were the most loyal to him that Li Chengqian had trained at the earliest, and Li Chengqian had always cultivated them as his descendants, and he felt very relieved to see him return from a bloody struggle at this time.

Li Chengqian suppressed the excitement of the letter and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers are flat. ”

There was a bang, there was a sound of armor leaves, and all the soldiers got up and supported the war horses beside them and looked at Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian took a few steps forward, looked at the soldiers covered in blood one by one, described miserable, but his expression was resolute, he couldn't help but be infected by them, took a deep breath, and shouted angrily: "The soldiers have worked hard! ”

"Defend the country and pacify the world!" The generals standing in front of Li Chengqian shouted in unison.

Li Chengqian's tears of excitement almost fell when he heard the shouts of the soldiers, and he hurriedly looked up at the sky, and after a while, he held back his tears and said with great relief: "Okay, the lonely king has ordered people to prepare wine and meat for you, go into the camp and have a good meal." ”

With a wave of his hand, he turned around and took Su Dingfang's hand and walked towards the camp together.

The wine in the camp is very simple, there is a lot of dried meat, but there is only one glass of wine per person, but because Li Chengqian kept encouraging the soldiers at the banquet, talking about the past and the present with the soldiers, and finally singing a military song, the current atmosphere was adjusted to the best, and the banquet generals not only did not complain but increased their loyalty to Li Chengqian.

In the next few days, Li Simo, Qiu Xinggong, and Su Dingfang basically led the cavalry out of the camp in turn to fight with the enemy, and Cheng Wuting led people to guard the camp.

Li Chengqian put down all his affairs and devoted himself to doing some things to win people's hearts and encourage morale.

made the soldiers' loyalty to him reach an unprecedented height, which made Su Dingfang and others feel very admired, and deeply felt that the natural people must give him talents.

According to historical experience, a monarch like Li Chengqian, who could not go to the battlefield, generally had to rely on very loyal generals to lead the troops, otherwise he would have to play a balancing act to let the ministers contain each other, and only then could the imperial power be permanent.

However, Li Chengqian was able to directly win the hearts of ordinary soldiers, so that these generals could only bring soldiers loyal to Li Chengqian to fight for Li Chengqian, and if they had a little second heart, they could win it with a sentence and an edict.

Realizing this, every time they saw the simply-dressed Li Chengqian limping in the camp, or telling the soldiers about the ancient times, or leading the soldiers to sing songs, or comforting the wounded, they would fear him from the bottom of their hearts.

A few days passed, Li Chengqian was surrounded on a small hillside, and the battle was miserable, and the flying pigeon that he released also caused a sensation in various places.

In the big camp where Wang Fangyi was, Wang Fangyi was holding a flying pigeon from Lingzhou City, and his face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly ordered someone to ask Yu Chigong, Qi Bi, He Li, Liu Renliang and others.

In order not to give Wei Chigong the opportunity to seize power, Wang Fangyi no longer set up a central military tent every time he set up camp, and everything was handled in his military tent.

After a while, Liu Renliang and Qi Bi He Li came to Wei Chigong, who was closest to him, but did not come, Wang Fangyi knew that Wei Chigong was intentional, because he didn't say anything when he sent someone to invite someone, so Wei Chigong didn't take it to heart.

At the moment, he first sent someone from the Lingzhou Governor's Mansion to send a flying pigeon to Qi Qi He Li and Liu Ren Liang to see, the two of them were also shocked when they saw it, Qi Qi He Li was appointed by Li Shimin as the deputy head of the Lingzhou Road March, although Li Chengqian did not give him power, but when such a thing happened, he felt that he had to let Wei Chigong know as soon as possible, after all, he was the general manager of Wei Chigong's march.

After saying a word to Wang Fangyi, he got up and went to ask Wei Chigong in person.

Liu Renliang was also picked up by Li Chengqian, and when he heard that Li Chengqian was surrounded, the first thing he thought about was how to rescue Li Chengqian.

It's just that he hasn't come up with a plan yet, so he saw Wei Chigong running into the big tent in a hurry, and saw Wang Fangyi unceremoniously said, "Bring the letter." ”

Wang Fangyi naturally didn't dare to deal with him at this time, and hurriedly handed the book to Wei Chigong.

Wei Chigong glared at Wang Fangyi, took the letter, opened it and saw that it was indeed Li Chengqian's distress letter.

After reading it, Wei Chigong threw the letter on the table, pointed at Wang Fangyi and glared at a pair of bull's eyes, and scolded loudly: "Bastard, if something like this happens, why don't you beat the drum and gather people to bring people to the rescue?"