The tense confrontation under Cangzhou City ended temporarily after Li Xuanqing defeated Ge Cunzhou and returned to Cangzhou City. After defeating Ge Cunzhou this time, it was equivalent to cutting off Zhu Zhen's biggest foreign aid, so when Wang Yanzhang rushed over to duel with Gao Siji, Ding Hui urgently called him back.

Li Xuanqing asked Li Feixue and Wu Si'er to arrange for the troops to receive the wounded soldiers of the Okurayama battalion into the city, and then convene a meeting of the generals. At the meeting, Wang Houchun introduced Wang Yanzhang's sneak attack on Cangzhou City.

"In this way, Wang Yanzhang originally had a plan to seize Cangzhou City through a sneak attack, but this plan is obviously a bit anticlimactic." Li Xuanqing ignored Wang Houchun and An Xiuxiu's opinions on asking for punishment, but shook his head and said, "How were the troops deployed when they attacked the city at that time? How elite is it? And the swallows in front of the tent are all dispatched? ”

"Lord Qiqi, the number of siege troops at that time was not large, probably only about 10,000 people, but they were basically elite soldiers, but there were no swallows in front of the tent. Led by Wang Yanzhang personally, after climbing the city tower, he did not take the initiative to open the city, but was looking for the main force of our army to fight. Wang Houchun carefully recalled the details at that time.

"I heard that you killed Wang Yantong before?" When Li Xuanqing was thinking about what was in it, Li Feixue suddenly leaned over and said with a smile: "Lord, if you want me to see it very simply, it must be that Houchun blew up Wang Yantong to death, won't Wang Yanzhang, as the eldest brother, avenge his younger brother?" Moreover, the morale of being bombed by our explosives bag during the day is completely lost, and if we can't win a battle, I am afraid that the next day we will not have the morale to continue the siege. ”

Li Feixue's words made Li Xuanqing pause, and then understood what was going on. If that's the reason, then there's no point in pursuing it now. So after dispelling these thoughts from his mind, he asked, "How is the situation of your infantry battalions at present?" ”

"At present, the situation is not bad, and the training has also kept up after the replenishment of troops, and if you fight a few more battles, you can get through the difficulties." Wang Houchun has been training these seven infantry battalions for a moment, except for guarding the city and Wang Yanzhang these days, and now they have some scale.

"In this case, send about three battalions of troops to fight north accompanied by cavalry, and flank Liu Rengong and Li Congwei with the army on the northern front." Li Xuanqing nodded and said: "You can adopt the principle of taking turns to fight, use the war to hone the combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and polish their tacit understanding and identification with the Tiance Army in the war." ”

Li Xuanqing's words made several people present nod for a while, but Zhao Si, who made the decision to attack Li Congwei and Liu Rengong, Xuan Yingwei, hesitated slightly: "Lord, Li Congwei and Liu Rengong fought inseparably before, Liu Rengong sent his nephew to Taiyuan Mansion to ask Li Keyong for help to gain the support of the other party, should we use their contradictions to let them continue to fight now?" ”

"No need, we are rushing for time now, the northern front has entered winter, if the time is further moved back to December, then Chen Fan's army will have no way to go out of the city to fight, or even if it goes out, its combat power will be greatly reduced. And the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, Li Congwei and Liu Rengong will not understand this truth. What we need to do now is to take these places in advance and free up troops to fight westward, forcing Zhu Quanzhong not to dare to go north to compete with us for Li Keyong's inheritance, and completely take over the annexed state area. Li Xuanqing vetoed Zhao Si's opinion and said: "Xuanyingwei immediately informed your headquarters that it is better to make a big noise in Bianliang and other places, and don't stop." ”

"Hou Chun, this time you lead the team to the north, together with the personal guard battalion, General Gao, your cavalry stays in Cangzhou and deals with Zhu Zhen with me." Li Xuanqing commanded.

After the order was issued, several people began to study the route of the troops to the north, and they were more familiar with Gao Siji and An Xiuxiu in the area north of Cangzhou, so following the plan also made Li Xuanqing feel a lot more worried.

However, when Li Xuanqing was planning to go north, Li Keyong was also completely entangled by Wu Huan in the Hetao, and the cavalry on both sides circled in the Hetao grassland, although Li Keyong transferred Shi Jianjiao to the front line in the hope of relying on his force and ability to command troops to open up the situation. But Wu Huan was determined to make direct contact with the other party, so he circled left and right, waiting for the heavy cavalry battalion in the rear to arrive. And as time went by, Li Keyong's patience became worse and worse, if he couldn't cross the Yin Mountain, then sooner or later he would fall into the fate of the Tiance army, so in the middle of November 889, when the grassland was already snowing, he put the nearly 100,000 elites in his hands into a roller-like formation to support and cooperate with each other, and forcibly rushed towards the north of the Yin Mountain.

This kind of unscrupulous approach to Wu Huan's harassment did work, but the heavy cavalry battalion had already caught up at this time, so Wu Huan changed his previous practice and led the army to quickly intercept Li Keyong, and the two sides began to fight each other for the first time.

Wu Huan's 40,000 cavalry also made Li Keyong feel a little relaxed after being entangled with Li Keyong, and in his understanding, this should be a helpless move after the other party has no way to delay. But on the front line, Li Cunqiao and Shi Jianjiao didn't think so, Wu Huan's offensive was obviously the meaning that the support had arrived and he wanted to stop himself. But now Li Keyong can't listen to any opinions at all, or in his heart, nothing is more important than returning to the grassland to cultivate with the last elite of this Shatuo people.

Li Cunqiao and Shi Jianjiao divided the cavalry in their hands into two ways, outflanked Wu Huan from the left and right, and planned to defeat Wu Huan before the arrival of the Tiance army's reinforcement team, and then lead the army to quickly pass the Yinshan dividing line, as long as they run into the grassland desert, then the Tiance army has no choice.

And Wu Huan didn't bother to care so much when he saw Li Cunqing's arrangement, the heavy cavalry battalion fifty miles away had already begun to charge, and half an hour was enough time for this group of invincible guys to arrive at the battlefield. So at this moment, I also have the idea of fighting with the other party for the strength of the cavalry. Therefore, without hesitation, he turned his 40,000 cavalry into a roller-like shock formation, and rushed forward in one direction like locusts.

In fact, if Li Cunmiao's arrangement took too long, Wu Huan would definitely be trapped in place directly, but Wu Huan decisively rushed towards Li Keyong's Chinese army, which immediately caught the other party a little off guard, and at the same time, he also deeply felt that the other party swallowed his determination in one gulp. Therefore, as soon as the two of them were combined, Li Cunqiao commanded the follow-up soldiers and horses to narrow the encirclement and attack Wu Huan from behind, and Shi Jianjiao quickly returned to the Chinese army to resist Wu Huan's impact.

Shi Jianjiao, the famous Shatuo fierce general in the history books, brought Wu Huan's impact on Wu Huan was really extraordinary, almost single-handedly mobilizing the morale of the Chinese army, and after Wu Huan's large array was blocked, the battle situation became anxious again. Moreover, at this time, the number of cavalry also made it more and more difficult for Wu Huan to deal with, and the other party was more than twice the number of himself, so that Shi Jianjiao and Li Cunqiao could calmly mobilize weapons to surround Wu Huan. It's just that the cavalry encirclement is much more difficult than the infantry, and Wu Huan once again used his equipment advantage to launch waves of continuous arrow rain to cover the opponent after charging hard, blocking the opponent's superior cavalry from charging back.

Time passed little by little, the whole battlefield formed a kind of dog-tooth staggered situation, Wu Huan's 40,000 cavalry and the other party were completely entangled, and even some cavalry had already dismounted and fought on foot, but they still bit the other party to death, Li Cunmiao tried his best to urge the cavalry team in the rear to attack Wu Huan and narrow the encirclement.

However, Wu Huan's large array at this time was facing the opponent's attack in all directions, and he was a little weak after a long time, the opponent kept charging towards him, not giving his own soldiers a chance to rest at all, killing one would rush up two, and the inexhaustible killing made him secretly regret the decision to break into the opponent's encirclement just now. But soon there were strange sounds on this battlefield, to be precise, shaking, thick and long. This sound made the cavalry of the Tiance Army overjoyed, and the morale of the other party who was suppressed by the other party almost instantly rose rapidly.

"Brothers, rush out for me." Wu Huan turned his horse's head and began to rush towards Li Cunmiao's rear army, and the two armies exchanged horses, and countless lives were harvested in this wave of attacks.

"Damn, the heavy cavalry battalion of the Tiance Army is here." At this time, Shi Jianjiao of the Chinese army had already noticed the commotion coming from behind him, and saw the black ironclad cavalry on the endless grassland appearing in his eyes, and the kind of aura that exuded despair made his soldiers unable to stop retreating from afar.

"Your Highness, you can quickly take the little prince away, the heavy cavalry battalion of the Tiance Army has come." Shi Jianjiao couldn't care about chasing Wu Huan's cavalry at this time, and hurriedly came to Li Keyong and said.

"Heavy Cavalry?" Li Keyong looked at the heavy cavalry battalion from far and near, and at this moment he seemed to be relieved, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Don't you still understand?" Li Xuanqing wants my life, if I don't die, they will keep chasing me, then the Wulan River grassland is not a safe place. After a pause, he suddenly made up his mind and said: "Jianjiao, you take your headquarters to converge and store and then break away from the big formation, go north, if the other party pursues you, you will detour from the grassland to the west, go to the birthplace of our Shatuo - Luntai, remember, settle the people well, and never return to the Central Plains." I'm old, so let me break it for you. After speaking, he ignored Shi Jianjiao, and ordered the rear army of the Chinese army to rush towards the heavy cavalry battalion.

"Your Highness." Shi Jianjiao was about to rush over when he heard this, but Li Keyong's voice came from his ear: "Don't come with me, go and protect Cunmiao, the life and death of tens of thousands of clansmen here depends on the two of you." Come on! Li Ke's voice sounded as lonely and tragic as a wolf howling in the middle of the night, but it forcibly stopped Shi Jianjian's steps.

"Order all the armies, immediately converge with the little prince, let's go north." Shi Jianjiao's lips moved, and after all, he changed the words that came to his lips to military orders, and at the same time, he also rushed towards Li Cunqiao.

"Little prince, turn the horse's head immediately, the prince has an order, let me wait to go north to the Ulan River immediately." Shi Jianjiao held back his emotions and yelled at Li Cunqiao.

But after all, he underestimated Li Cunqiao too much, although Li Cunqiao is only ten years old now, but seeing that Li Keyong did not follow Shi Jianjiao, he immediately understood the reason, and without saying a word, he was about to rush forward on horseback, but was picked up by Shi Jianjiao, put it on his horseback and ignored his opposition, and directly ordered all the cavalry to follow him to the north.

Such a cavalry of fifty or sixty thousand people marched towards the north, but ignored Wu Huan on the side. At the same time as Shi Jianjiao gave the order, Wu Huan had already adjusted his team and rushed towards Shi Jianjiao, his idea was very simple, that is, he must catch Li Cunqiao, so as not to leave a big trouble for Tiance Mansion in the future.

This time it became Shi Jianjiao running in front, Wu Huan chasing behind, the two military ranks chased for hundreds of miles, and finally Wu Huan still failed to complete the task, Shi Jianjiao was hit by two arrows, but still took more than 20,000 people to rush out of Wu Huan's pursuit range into the hinterland of the grassland, and since then he has lost all information, until many years later, when the Tiance army regained Anxi, he met Li Cunmiao, who had grown up, in the Luntai grassland, but at that time it was already a different situation.

At this moment, Li Ke collided head-on with Tieliang's heavy cavalry battalion, and with the determination to die, the last elite of the Shatuo tribe began a suicidal attack, ignoring the opponent's iron spear piercing into his body, and the weapon in his hand desperately slashed towards the weak point of the heavy cavalry battalion's armor. And Tie Liang also seemed to know the mentality of this group of people, and began to adjust the method after the first round of charges, and ordered the heavy cavalry battalion to adjust, no longer a row by row, but to merge the two rows into a row, and the two teams of men and horses were staggered and charged forward, so that the heavy cavalry battalion of 50,000 people formed a strange formation of two rows, and once again met with Li Keyong's cavalry, which was already less than 30,000 people.

Tie Liang asked his deputy to lead the charge, and he slowly walked towards the area where Li Keyong was with the two thousand guards around him. At this time, Li Keyong was deeply surrounded by the heavy cavalry battalion, and the guards around him were picked off the horse one by one in order to protect him, but the soldiers of the heavy cavalry battalion seemed to understand Tie Liang's thoughts, and after picking off Li Keyong's personal guards, he turned over and rushed to other places. So the area was left with Li Keyong standing alone.

Tie Liang came to Li Keyong's side, and suddenly found that this King of Jin, who was still powerful a few years ago, looked so stiff at this time that if he didn't look at the clothes on his body, he thought he was an ordinary old man.

"His Royal Highness King Jin, now that the matter is over, come with me and face everything you need to face." Tie Liang sighed and said slowly.

"This king is the prince of a mansion, how can you be taken away by a general? This king only hates that he listened to Li Cunxiao's words at the beginning, and did not wave his army to destroy you when you were weak, so that you are in trouble today. Li Ke pointed at Tie Liang and sneered.

"His Royal Highness the King of Jin, don't put gold on your face, the Tiance Army can have today, it is General Li Cunxiao and General Li who should be thanked, not your Royal Highness the King of Jin. Your Highness can have today, or think about it for yourself, is it your own problem? Cruelty to loyalty, self-destruction of the Great Wall, self-righteousness, recklessness, recklessness. Tie Liang suddenly found that he couldn't go on, and waved his hand to let the guards around him step forward to prepare to take down Li Keyong, and the war was basically over.

"How can I, Li Keyong, be bullied by you petty people. Today's things are death. After speaking, he suddenly raised the scimitar in his hand and put it across his shoulder, and a puff of hot blood spurted out.

"Go and collect Li Keyong's corpse and send someone back to Chang'an. The others rested for an hour and then withdrew. Tie Liang shook his head, waved his hand and asked his subordinates to collect Li Keyong's body and send it back to Chang'an quickly, while asking the auxiliaries to notify the garrison of the nearby military town to assist in cleaning up the battlefield. Let the people of Xuan Yingwei report the results of the battle of Dashuai Hetao. By the way, send someone to see where General Wu and they have chased them, and inform our army that it is ready to withdraw to Hedong. After Tie Liang ordered these things in one breath, he looked at the clouds in the sky and sighed inexplicably.