Xue Yantuo's infantry once defeated the Western Turks, in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shiji and Xue Wanche led the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty to meet Xue Yantuo's tired army, when Xue Yantuo's arrows were fired, Li Shiji was also defeated for a time.

Later, the Tang army dismounted and fought on foot to defeat Xue Yantuo.

At this time, Xue Rengui encountered this sky of arrows at the head of the city, and he could only hide under the battlements for a while. Fortunately, Xue Yantuo couldn't maintain such a dense number of arrows all the time, they just wanted to suppress the defenders on the city wall for the besiegers, so they stopped after one round.

As soon as the rain of arrows passed, the people at the head of the city looked down, and the Xue Yantuo people wearing cowhide armor had already run to the edge of the moat with the ladder to climb the city.

A small number of Xue Yantuo's soldiers crossed the moat on ladders, while most waited outside the moat.

Xue Rengui coldly watched as Xue Yantuo's soldiers outside the moat gathered more and more, and raised his right fist expressionlessly and swung forward.

Lu Hong, the lieutenant general in charge of throwing explosives bags in the city, ordered loudly: "Throw—"

Immediately afterwards, I heard a "bang bang" sound from the top of the city, and the wood on the catapult that had been erected on the city wall was smashed down, and then I saw one by one explosives bags with fiery fuses, like countless meteors, flying towards the area where Xue Yantuo's soldiers were dense by the moat.

"Boom ......"

On the edge of the moat of Xue Yantuo, in the area where Xue Yantuo's soldiers were most concentrated, there was a flickering fire, and black smoke was rising, and people in the distance could not see the situation in the black smoke, but those soldiers who happened to be blown up into the sky, stumps and severed arms, and soldiers who were overthrown to the ground by the air waves in the distance, could see and see clearly.

Lu Zhi never told Ba Zhuo and the others that Li Chengqian would use the Heavenly Thunder, which also made Ba Zhuo always think that they could break through the city and capture Li Chengqian at any time.

"This! This! What is this?"

When he saw the explosion of gunpowder, he was so frightened that he didn't know how to react for a while.

However, the soldier who was rushing forward to kill looked at the tragic scene of the gunpowder explosion in front of him, and was so frightened that he ran back like crazy, and suddenly scattered the military formation in the rear that was still in a daze.

"It's a thunderbolt!" An old man from the clan beside him rubbed his eyes, not sure about the authenticity.

"Heavenly thunder? The Tang army will make the sky thunder?"

"Withdraw! Withdraw—" As soon as Rozier reacted, he yelled hysterically and turned his horse's head and ran back.

Even the most elite guards of Tongluo around him also retreated, and tens of thousands of troops could no longer maintain their formation and became a fleeing army.

Xue Rengui stood at the head of the city and watched Xue Yantuo's army push and trample on each other in order to escape for their lives, leaving patches of bright red blood marks in the snow, and the soldiers who were dead or injured and fell to the ground, nodding slightly, very satisfied with the power of gunpowder.

Then he retracted his gaze and looked at the soldiers of Xue Yantuo who were not killed by the bombing, but were just stunned, and some of them were about to recover.

He went out of the city with two thousand soldiers to harvest the heads.

Xue Rengui rode out of the city on a tall horse, looking at the miserable scene of being bombarded by gunpowder in front of him, he waved his hand forward expressionlessly, and the soldiers behind him immediately rushed to the stunned Xue Yantuo soldiers with knives.

The slaughter began.

After a while, Xue Rengui received news that the Tang Dynasty had sent a three-way army to aid Changzecheng, and it had reached more than a hundred miles away.

Xue Rengui immediately understood Bazhuo's intention to attack Changze City at this time, and immediately ordered someone to send a letter to the Tang army who came to the rescue.

Inform them that Li Chengqian is not in the city, and ask them to deal with it calmly.

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Xue Rengui won the first battle here, but Li Shiji and the others, who were more than a hundred miles away, felt even colder than the weather now.

They had been marching in the wind and snow for more than ten days, and they were about to arrive at Changze City, when suddenly Xue Yantuo began to attack Changze City in front of them.

Li Chengqian was recuperating in Changze City, with only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses around him, and was besieged by Xue Yantuo's 200,000 army.

But when they walked to Shuofang, they heard that Xue Yantuo had never attacked the city, although they couldn't understand the reason for it for a while, but it was naturally a good thing that the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty could not be captured by Xue Yantuo.

But today, the spies in front suddenly came to report that Xue Yantuo suddenly sent 60,000 troops to attack Changze City yesterday.

Think about it, more than 10,000 people defended the city, 60,000 people attacked the city, and Changze City was just an earthen city, how could Li Chengqian defend it?

With the military attainments of Li Shiji, Li Daliang, Zhang Shigui and other generals, it is natural to see the intention of Bazhuo, and looking at the map, you can almost conclude where Bazhuo is to make a trap for them, but his own crown prince is surrounded by this trap, and he can't drill this trap!

When the three top generals of the Tang Dynasty were sitting next to each other behind a map speechless, suddenly someone outside the tent came to report to Xi Junmai and asked to see him.

Xue Wanche had already been promoted to Li Shimin's side, so he was not sent, so Li Shimin bought Xi Jun and sent it out.

Li Shiji glanced at the other two people without moving, and said lightly: "Let him in." ”

Xi Junmai, who was in his thirties, was in the prime of life and was at the peak of his strength, and when he was in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, he once led 120 people to attack the army formation of thousands of troops in Tuyuhun, and defeated them in one fell swoop.

Last year, Li Tai and Zhang Liang rebelled, and he protected Li Shimin until the end, so he was very valued by Li Shimin and sent as a fierce general in this battle.

Xi Junmai, who was dressed in heavy armor, strode into the Chinese military tent, looked at Li Shiji and the others with their hands and clasped their fists and said, "The last general, Xi Junmai, will see several generals." ”

"General Xi is exempt!" Li Shiji raised his hand slightly and said, when he saw Xi Junmai, he straightened up and asked lightly, "What is the matter with General Xi's request to see?"

Xi Junmai said straight to the point: "The last general heard that this place is less than two hundred miles away from Changze City, and the last general asked for an order to lead the six thousand cavalry in the army to rush to the aid of His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Li Shiji and the three couldn't help but glance at each other when they heard this, Xi Junmai didn't know that Xue Yantuo had begun to attack the city, but he still stumped Li Shiji when he came to ask for help at this time.

It was said earlier that in the fifteenth year of Zhenguan, Li Shiji and Xue Wanche led the Tang cavalry to fight against Xue Yantuo, and they defeated Xue Yantuo only after dismounting.

These will naturally not be hyped up at the celebration banquet of specific divination, so everyone knows that the Tang Dynasty wins and looks down on Xue Yantuo.

But Li Shiji couldn't forget it, and naturally he didn't want to make the mistake he made last time, so he didn't let the cavalry go first along the way.

With his cautious character in marching, he really wanted to refuse Xi Junmai, but Li Chengqian had just been besieged here, and Li Chengqian was captured in case the city was broken......

Li Shiji didn't dare to imagine his own guilt at all, now that their army was less than two hundred miles away from Changze, it was not too late to rescue, if they didn't save it......

But it was really difficult to give the order to make a risky move at the risk of losing 6,000 cavalry.

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"Report! There is a tight military situation from the spies ahead! ”

Just when Li Shiji was in a dilemma, a report suddenly came from outside.

Li Shiji's face turned pale with fright, Huo Di got up and said loudly: "Order him to enter the account." ”

Knock knock knock......

There was a sound of footsteps, and the well-dressed spy walked in quickly, knelt down on one knee and said, "Little General Staff!" ”

At this time, although Li Shiji's heart was turned upside down, for fear that Li Chengqian had been arrested, his face had already returned to calm.

He looked at the spy expressionlessly and said, "What news have you found?"

"General Hui, yesterday Xue Yantuo sent 60,000 troops to attack Changze City-"

Before he finished speaking, Li Daliang couldn't help but ask loudly, "What is the result?"

was asked by Li Daliang and the spy couldn't help but be stunned,

The atmosphere in the tent suddenly became tense, and the hearts of the other five except the spy rose to their throats, and they watched the spy eager to take the words out of his mouth.

"At the beginning of General Hui's siege, he was repelled by a thunderstorm in the city......"

After listening to the spy explain in detail the process of Xue Yantuo's siege of the city, several people in the tent breathed a long sigh of relief.

"Okay, you have made a merit in investigating the military situation and go down to receive the reward." Li Shiji looked at the spy and said with a slightly relaxed expression.

"General Xie!" The spies go down.

"General, can you take advantage of Xue Yantuo's new defeat to lead the cavalry to fight them again." Xi Junmai asked for battle again.

Li Shiji waved his hand when he heard this: "This matter is not in a hurry, wait for me to discuss it with the two generals." ”

Seeing this, Xi Junmai had to bow and retreat.

Waiting for Xi Jun to bow and retreat, Li Daliang let out a sigh of relief and said, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has the power to protect himself, and we can deal with it calmly." ”

Li Shiji nodded, and looked down at the topographic map, he wanted to come up with a marching plan that would not only save Li Chengqian but also severely damage Xue Yantuo.

Seeing this, Li Daliang and Zhang Shigui also lowered their heads to look at the map.

"The envoy sent by General Zecheng Xue asks to see him!"

The three of them were shocked when they heard this, the envoy sent by Changze City was from Li Chengqian.

Li Shiji stood up and said, "Quickly invite the messenger in." ”

From time to time, a person dressed as a local Qiang person walked into the big tent, and Li Shiji saw someone hurriedly stepping forward and clasping his fists and saying, "His Royal Highness the Prince, is it good?"

The man was startled, and quickly knelt down on one knee and said, "The villain is just a messenger and doesn't know anything else." ”

"Where is the faith?" Li Daliang hurriedly asked.

The man hurriedly took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Li Daliang.

Li Daliang took it but didn't open it, and hurriedly handed it to Li Shiji, who also shirked and took the letter and tore open the cover when he saw that the envelope was in good condition.

Li Daliang and Zhang Shigui saw Li Shiji hurriedly bowing their heads when they saw Li Shiji hitting the letter, but they were stunned when they saw it.

Because there was only one sentence on the letter that they knew: below is the password of the East Palace.

As for the passwords of the East Palace, they are all Arabic numerals, and none of the three marching chiefs know them.

The three of them glanced at each other and Li Shiji hurriedly said: "I remember, when I was leaving, His Majesty ordered His Royal Highness King Wu to send two people to say that they were decoding the scribes, and they could decipher the password of the East Palace, and they would solve this if they wanted to." ”

Li Shiji raised his head and shouted outside: "Quickly pass the decoded scribe in." ”

A quarter of an hour later, the password was translated into Chinese characters by the decoded scribe, and Li Shiji, Li Daliang, and Zhang Shigui sat down to read it together.

After a while, Li Shiji put down the letter in his hand with a wry smile, leaned back on the chair, and sighed with a sigh......

Li Daliang and Zhang Shigui nodded silently at the same time, but they were thinking in their hearts that this prince is too godly!