Chapter 284: The Trace of "Li Chengqian".
Li Chengqian's order was passed down without causing any waves on the front line, and several generals in front of the battalion stood like javelins with two thousand warriors of the Tang Dynasty, their resolute expressions and their eyes looked at the enemy who was still marching this way.
In this barracks, from a few generals to 2,000 soldiers, as well as the hundreds of wounded soldiers in front of Li Chengqian, who were no longer able to get up, they were all ready to die fighting for the country.
In the Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin personally led the soldiers to practice bow and horses in the square in front of the Xiande Hall of the East Palace in the first year of Zhenguan, he had already injected the spirit of iron-blooded martial arts into the bones of the Tang Dynasty soldiers.
Because of this spirit, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty dared to fight to the death with the grassland peoples and Turks in the ice and snow, and because of this spirit, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty dared to cross thousands of miles of desert to attack Gaochang, and because of this spirit, Ling Ran was not afraid when there was only a simple camp and two thousand soldiers facing a siege ten times their size by the enemy.
When Li Chengqian saw all this, he had no tears in his eyes, no sadness, some were just full of pride in his chest, and there was such a group of loyal and brave warriors, why should the world be unhappy?
"Woo woo ......" the slightly dull corner of the painting sounded.
Just when Li Chengqian's mood was agitated, Wu Su led 20,000 Xue Yantuo's army to stop the war horse 300 steps away from the Tang army camp and ordered the whole team to blow the trumpet.
Wu Su suffered several big losses under the Tang army on the opposite side, especially when the other party also had a weapon comparable to the heavenly thunder, so he didn't dare to get too close to the Tang army's camp.
General Xue Yantuo watched vigilantly at the movements of the Tang military camp while forming a team, because they had taken the initiative to attack the Tang army several times before and killed them back.
Now Wu Su openly asked them to form a team in front of the Tang Army camp, and really made them sweat.
Seeing this, Wu Su laughed and said, "Don't look at it, the Tang army will definitely not dare to leave the camp this time." ”
Li Chengqian saw that Xue Yantuo's team did not enter the trap he had set, so he had to continue to sit calmly.
The sun gradually rose and became warmer, and the people in the sun were lazily trying to sleep, but none of the more than 2,000 people in the Datang military camp wanted to sleep, and each of them stared at the enemy army on the opposite side with resolute eyes.
"Knock Knock Knock ......"
War drums sounded on the opposite side, and thousands of Xue Yantuo's foot soldiers with scimitars and bows slowly walked towards this side.
They walked very carefully, for fear that the Tang army's divine thunder would suddenly fall from the sky, but they walked very firmly, because Wu Su had already given them a death order, as long as they went forward, the army broke through the Tang army's stockade, and each person would be rewarded with a camel, and if they retreated, they would be killed.
Wu Su rode on the war horse and looked at the attacking Xue Yantuo army with a proud face, and said in his heart: Tumidu has always known how to use torture and never knew Huairou, how can he give an order to make people love and fear......
The enemy began to attack, slowly but continuously, without any signs of stopping.
Cheng Wuting, who was standing at the forefront of the Tang Army, was still expressionless, and the two thousand Tang soldiers behind him were also as immobile as mountains.
The drums of "Knock Knock Knock ......" are getting closer and closer.
Li Chengqian suddenly felt a little bored, looked up at the sun in the sky, and then looked at the tender grass growing on the hillside.
I don't know how long it took for the drums to stop suddenly, Li Chengqian hurriedly turned around and saw thousands of Xue Yantuo's foot soldiers on the opposite side stopped forty steps away from the Tang army camp, raising their bows and arrows and preparing to shoot.
"Enter the fortifications!" Cheng Wuting shouted loudly.
With Cheng Wuting's order, the two thousand soldiers quickly walked into their respective positions like a whirlwind.
On the opposite side, Lord Xue Yantuo watched more than two thousand neatly arranged Tang soldiers disappear behind the mud walls in one minute, rubbed his eyes, and didn't know whether to order the arrows for a while.
After a while, he was shouting "put".
"Bang ......" There was a chaotic sound, and Li Chengqian saw that the sky opposite was dark, and countless feathered arrows flew towards the Tang military camp with the sound of air friction.
Then there was another "bang, bang, bang......", and there was a chaotic sound, and the feather arrows either smashed or were inserted on the fortifications where the Tang army was.
Thousands of feather arrows fell at a time and did not hit a single Tang army, and the Tang army did not react at all.
Lord General Xue Yantuo's eyes couldn't help but widen, and he was distracted to find that the soldiers around him had already shot the second round, and were even preparing to shoot the third round of feather arrows.
"Stop!" Lord Xue Yantuo will shout in distress, what is the point of such useless work except for waste?
Xue Yantuo stopped shooting arrows here, and there was still no movement in the Tang army camp opposite, neither feathered arrows shot out, nor the kind of divine thunder he had seen two days ago.
This made Xue Yantuo's front-line commander a little furious in his heart, they should have attacked while shooting arrows, but because he was worried about the Tang Army's divine thunder, the foot soldiers he commanded stopped outside the age of forty, in fact, he didn't know that if Cheng Wuting had a catapult throwing gunpowder bags now, not to mention that he could blow them up even a hundred steps away from forty paces.
But people are like this, they always want to set a safety point for themselves psychologically, and this is what Xue Yantuo's front-line commander thinks.
But now the embarrassing thing is that if he continues to release arrows in this safe range, it will not cause any harm to the Tang army in the fortifications.
Just when he hesitated to continue the attack, the Wu Su behind him couldn't wait, he was very happy today, so he wanted to show his skills, let the beauties in his tent see, he was also very powerful on the battlefield.
Seeing that the two rounds of arrow rain passed, there was no movement in the Tang army's barracks, but the generals on his side did not capture the Tang army's military village in one go, so they were a little anxious and ordered it to attack immediately.
Xue Yantuo's front-line commander did not dare to disobey the order, so he had to order the army to divide into two teams and move forward alternately while firing arrows, of course, in front of the fortifications designed by Li Chengqian, these feathered arrows were still a waste.
Cheng Wuting stood in the fortifications and listened to the sound of crackling feathers and arrows falling overhead, watching the enemy on the opposite side step forward again, his face was still expressionless, he now had to wait for the enemy to get closer, and then unleash his thunderous blow.
Li Chengqian also saw Xue Yantuo start attacking again, he was not worried about these attacks at all, if the other party could attack like this a few more times, it would consume the enemy's vital strength.
"Has the person sent to deliver the letter to Su Dingfang come back?" Li Chengqian asked expressionlessly.
Liu Kui, who was standing beside him, said worriedly when he heard this: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has already sent three batches of people, and one batch has not returned. ”
Li Chengqian couldn't help frowning when he heard this: "Just send someone to send the news out, why did you send three groups of people in a row." ”
Li Chengqian forgot that this was the fourth time he had asked, and every time he asked, Liu Kui was going to send another group of people.
Just hearing that Liu Kui had sent three groups of people to deliver the letter in a row, Li Chengqian felt a little uncomfortable, feeling as if he had reached a critical situation and urgently needed Su Dingfang to come back to save his life.
Liu Kui didn't dare to say anything when he heard this, Xue Yantuo's 20,000 troops all pressed up, this military camp and Li Chengqian himself were extremely dangerous, even if Li Chengqian didn't ask him, he would continue to send people to urge Su Dingfang to return for help.
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Su Dingfang led the army to the north soon after discovering the cavalry that Xue Yantuo followed, Su Dingfang according to the original plan, is to get rid of these cavalry and directly attack Xue Yantuo's northward Zhongjun Road camp, he took the dismantled three catapults and some gunpowder, that is, when Xue Yantuo's middle route army was divided into three routes, the power of gunpowder directly broke through its camp, and when Xue Yantuo's northward middle route army was torn apart, they could protect Li Chengqian and calmly withdraw from the encirclement.
But soon Su Dingfang's depression happened, and the army of Xue Yantuo who followed behind him also discovered them, but with nearly twice their strength, they did not attack them, but followed them not far and close.
In this case, Su Dingfang could only continue to go north, and when Su Dingfang was trying to get rid of the other party, he suddenly received news from Liu Kui, and the whole army of Xue Yantuo's Middle Route Army went out to block Li Chengqian's barracks.
As soon as Su Dingfang got the news, he couldn't care about anything else, and immediately dispatched 500 dead soldiers to stop the 10,000 Xue Yan cavalry behind him, and he wanted to lead the rest of the cavalry to return to Li Chengqian's aid.
But at this time, the person who had been staring at Xue Yantuo's cavalry behind him reported that the 10,000 Xue Yantuo cavalry went to the northwest like crazy, and they didn't even look at Su Dingfang's 5,000 cavalry.
Su Dingfang didn't know what was going on in the northwest, but he knew that it was best for him to immediately return to Li Chengqian's aid.
And within the scope of Xue Yantuo's northward Western Route Army, Xue Yantuo's army went crazy and searched within a radius of dozens of miles.
It was only because Li Chengqian, the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, went crazy and sent Wang Fangyi, the main force around him, to the east to support Liu Renliang, and only 5,000 soldiers and horses were left around him, protected by Wei Chi Gong, and he hid everywhere.
They must catch Li Chengqian before the other two armies react, as for Wei Chigong beside Li Chengqian, although he is also a strong general, after all, he is old and has few soldiers.
In short, these people found all kinds of reasons for themselves to be lucky enough to capture Li Chengqian alive, and then searched desperately.