"Who should the Turks and Tubo people who died under the sword of Wang Zhongji seek revenge?" The palace maid sneered: "The Jiannan Army has repeatedly violated Nanzhao, destroyed my homeland, and killed a certain people, who should we turn to for justice?" Is it true that only your Tang people's lives are precious in the world? ”

"The marshal has never been greedy for merit and provoked, otherwise how could he lose his official position and go to prison and die tragically in a foreign land? Thou shalt not confuse right and wrong, and wronged good people! Li Sheng roared angrily: "The cause of the war in Jiannan is like a mess, and it is not clear who is right and who is wrong for a while, but Li Bingma is sincere and wants to stop the army. You actually set up a poisonous plan to kill him, is it tolerable or unbearable! ”

"Breaking into the door with a bow and a knife, forcing Nanzhao to become an eagle dog again, and holding back Tubo for Er, this is what you see as a stop soldier? Why are the Tang people always so arrogant! The palace maid skillfully pushed away Li Sheng's horizontal knife: "The tribes of Nanzhao don't want your peace with arrogance, my king has made up his mind to use the blood of the Tang people to make a shame!" ”

"Nanzhao is a small country, even if it uses intrigues and tricks to repel the Jiannan army today, it will not be able to compete with the Tang Dynasty after all. When the time comes, millions of corpses and rivers of blood will flow, whose sin is it? Li Sheng asked.

"There are many disasters in Guanzhong, Yang Guozhong and An Lushan are fighting in secret, and you are still worried about the Chang'an court." The palace maid smiled strangely: "Nanzhao National Fortune, don't bother Your Excellency!" ”

"Who are you, and why are you familiar with the Chang'an Dynasty?" Li Sheng's chest was full of suspicions.

"It doesn't matter who I am, the important thing is to know who killed Wang Zhonghe."

"Who's the killer?" The truth was close at hand, and Li Sheng was a little uneasy for a moment.

"Wouldn't it be clear if you went to hell yourself and asked Wang Zhonghe?" The palace maid saw Li Sheng revealing his flaws, and looked for a gap to feel the needle.

"Brother, so-and-so is here to help you!" Lei Wanchun noticed the movement of the palace maid's left hand and waved his wedge to join the battle group.

"Die together!" Although the palace maid was not afraid of the three of them joining forces, under the oppression of the thunderous wind of the double gong, she never had her hands free to shoot the poison needle.

The dust flies and the drums are urgent, and the wind is blowing.

The two armies facing each other across the north and south of the Xi'er River were arrayed, and suddenly the sound of war drums and smoke and dust billowed from the west seemed to be attacking with a large force of troops and horses.

"Tibet?!" Li Sheng, who was fighting with the palace maid, was familiar with the Tubo Golden Drum Banner: "How is it possible? Tubo Zanpu Fang died, and the civil strife was endless, how could he have the spare strength to intervene in the Jiannan War? I searched repeatedly yesterday, but I did not find the whereabouts of the Tibetan soldiers and horses. Is it ......?"

But without waiting for Li Sheng to figure out the cause and effect, he listened to Luo Fengzhi, the king of Nanzhao, shouting proudly: "Tang Bing, listen!" Li Mi is dead, this king borrowed 100,000 heavenly soldiers from the upper kingdom of Tubo, and you have fallen into the net of heaven and earth, and there is a glimmer of life if you surrender quickly! ”

Ge Luofeng said a word, hundreds of Nanzhao Wenchen generals repeated it, and finally tens of thousands of soldiers shouted in unison, shaking the two sides of the Xi'er River.

"Li Bingma is dead, and he wants to go back to Yizhou!"

"There is Nanzhao in front and Tubo in the back, how to fight this battle?"

Jiannan's soldiers, who were not considered strong soldiers, were shaken and distraught, and regardless of the generals' obstruction, they threw away their armor and fled in all directions. Many team leaders and brigade commanders saw that they could not do anything, and they also joined the rout.

"It's broken!" Li Sheng originally wanted to exhaust the strength of the Nanzhao palace maid and then capture her, but at this moment he had to give up and think about how to avoid it

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) to avoid the defeat of the Jiannan soldiers who could not be defeated by a net.

"Nanba, Bridge!" Li Sheng gave Lei Wanchun a look and then jumped to the side and back, and Lei Wanchun, who understood it, rolled on the spot and smashed the palace maid's ankle.

"Carving insect subtotal." The palace maid was disdainful of Lei Wanchun's attack, she climbed with her left hand and jumped up. When the palace maid was in mid-air, a series of pearl feather arrows roared, and she was about to swing her sword to block, but found that the target of the arrow cluster was not herself, but the rope of the drawbridge.

"Not good!" The palace maid climbed on the rope net and leaped south with her strength. As soon as her feet landed on the bridge deck, she heard a loud boom, and the two wooden pillars at the north end of the suspension bridge were broken by Lei Wanchun, who was as strong as an ox, and the rope pulling the bridge deck was also chiseled by Nan Jiyun's feather arrows. The devastated suspension bridge was like a hungry and thirsty Jiannan python, plunging headlong into the Xi'er River. Pieces of bridges fell, making a splash on the surface of the river. The wooden pillars at the southern end of the wooden bridge squeaked and creaked under the pull of the huge force, and it was obvious that it would not last long.

The palace maid pulled her legs and ran southward, but she couldn't reach the speed at which the wooden bridge fell into the river. When she was about to slide into the water, the palace maid waved her arm and threw out a flying tiger claw, hooking the wooden pillar at the southern end of the suspension bridge, and escaped the disaster.

"What a great assassin!" Li Sheng stepped onto Qinghai Cheng and shouted: "Zhenyuan light cavalry, gather troops and retreat, don't scatter and flee!" ”

With the assistance of Nan Jiyun, Lei Wanchun and Liu Xiao, the Zhenyuan cavalry team trained by Li Sheng was the first to restore its formation in the chaotic army, and gathered the remnants of the soldiers it encountered and slowly retreated.

Helplessly, the Zhenyuan cavalry team was outnumbered, and although Li Sheng tried his best, he could only gather seven or eight thousand soldiers and horses. In the face of the Nanzhao army that continued to cross the river, the rest of the Jiannan soldiers were either killed, captured, or fled into the mountains and forests. On the banks of the Xi'er River, corpses were strewn all over the field, blood flowed and drifted, and the clear blue river surface was dyed red by the blood of the soldiers of Jiannan......

Li Sheng was worried that the Nanzhao army would be in pursuit, so he scattered the remnants of the army, selected the best ones, appointed generals, and reorganized the army with Zhenyuan light cavalry as the backbone. When retreating to the south bank of the Mosome River, Li Sheng calculated that the Nanzhao army would be proud of its victory, and set up an ambush to counterattack by surprise, and swallowed 5,000 Nanzhao pioneers with the fierce oil and fire presented by Wang Fei, which greatly frustrated the spirit of the pursuing soldiers and completely won the trust of the remnants of Jiannan.

Taking advantage of the panic and stunned gap of the Southern Zhao army, the remnants of the Jiannan army cut wood to make rafts, weaved bamboo into rows, and crossed the river to the north. At this moment, the city is still in the hands of the Jiannan army, and there are 2,000 defenders in the city. Li Sheng rested for two days in the city, collected mules, horses, and cattle, and waited for the scattered remnants.

During this period, 20,000 Nanzhao pursuers tried to attack the city, but were repelled by Li Sheng, who had already been prepared. When the morale of the Southern Zhao army was exhausted, the remnants of Jiannan slaughtered out of the city and embarked on the way back to the north.

When the Nanzhao army regained the city, they were shocked to find that although the Jiannan army, which had fled north in panic, had swept away all the horses, livestock, and food in the city, they had not killed indiscriminately.

After resting in the city, the remnants of Jiannan were initially determined, and they continued to collect the routs who escaped pursuit along the way, and the team grew bigger and bigger like a snowball. Under Li Sheng's order, the remnants of Jiannan retreated without chaos and slowly returned north.

The Nanzhao army followed behind, sneak attacks and strong attacks in a variety of tricks, but they couldn't hide from Li Sheng, who had been on the battlefield for a long time. After repeated failures, the Nanzhao pursuers were depressed and no longer acted rashly, but hung far behind, putting on a posture of sending them out of the country.

Retreat to Dadu Shuinan

(This chapter is not finished, please turn the page) It was the end of July on the shore, and Li Sheng's command gathered 10,000 soldiers and horses who had been fighting. Worried that the Nanzhao army would reuse its old skills to attack Jiannan, Li Sheng rectified the camp built by the Tang army two years ago, camped on the spot to defend it, and sent Nanjiyun to fly to Yizhou to inform Cui Yuan of the battle situation.

The Nanzhao army did not realize that Li Sheng did not cross the river and raised troops to attack the camp. The remnants of Jiannan, who could be tempered by the fires of war, were not what they used to be, and under the command of Li Sheng, they relied on deep ditches and high bases to beat the soldiers and horses of Nanzhao. And Li Sheng also noticed at this time that on the way back to the north, he never saw the Tibetan soldiers and horses.

In mid-August, Cui Yuanqin, the deputy envoy of Jiannan Jiedu and the posterior of the governor, led 30,000 recruits and a large number of supplies to cross the Dadu River and join Li Sheng. Li Sheng originally thought that Cui Yuan's intention was to lead his troops back to Yizhou or negotiate peace with Nanzhao, but who knew that the first military order issued by Cui Yuan was to prepare soldiers and horses and counterattack in a timely manner.

"Deputy Envoy Cui, the Jiannan Army is newly defeated, how can it have the strength to fight again?" Li Sheng was puzzled.

"Captain Li, you defeated Nanzhao, Xian Yu Jieshuai is very pleased, and he has already played the political hall, and wants to promote you to Jiannan soldiers and horses." Cui Yuan's answer was incompatible: "Yang Xiang is in power, and the death of the military department will not be in the future." ”

"Defeat Jiannan?" Li Sheng smiled bitterly: "Li soldiers and horses made the middle plan sacrificed, there were no ten soldiers and horses in the south, and tens of thousands of people were buried in the Xi'er River. ”

"Li Mi went out of the camp to pursue without authorization, and died in ambush, and the saint and Yang Xiang had their own sympathy; The Jiannan Army fought a bloody battle against Nanzhao, breaking tens of thousands of enemies and expanding more than 100 miles, which was of course a big victory; The Xi'er River is more than 1,000 miles away from Dadushui, how could there be a Jiannan soldier who died in battle, Captain Li said with a smile. Cui Yuan said meaningfully.

After a long breath of turbidity, Li Sheng arched his hand and sneered: "Three years ago, Xian Yu defeated Taihe City, could it be that Yang Guozhong covered up the past like this?" Could it be that a saint is deaf? No, it was Yang Guozhong who turned the world into a dumb person! ”

"Presumptuous!" Cui Yuan was furious: "You are a wizard of the army, but the matter of the temple can be known by the martial arts of Fei'er!" ”

"Yes, I'm just a martial artist who doesn't know how to write and ink, and doesn't know how to measure. But a certain has followed the loyal heir for many years, although he has nothing else to do, but he knows that the soldiers are also raised by his mother's father, and their lives are not inferior to anyone else! ”

"Wang Dashuai was kind-hearted, but he ended up guarding Handong County and died of grief." Cui Yuan patted Li Sheng on the shoulder: "If you want to achieve immortality, you should endure what people can't bear." Don't you know that the loyal heir marshal would rather disobey the holy will than storm the stone castle because of his compassion for the soldiers. But because of this, he angered the saint and lost his official position, but he never changed the fate of Longyou's soldiers, what good did it do? Captain Li, I know very well that you admire the loyal heir, and I also yearn for it, but for the sake of the people of Jiannan, I have to be false and wrong, and do one or two things against my will. ”

"What Deputy Envoy Cui said may be reasonable, but he is stupid, and he will never learn to act against his will." Li Sheng arched his hand and said: "The Zhenyuan cavalry team has been trained into elite soldiers today, and I hope that the deputy envoy will treat it well, and don't be angry because of being below." Although the national strength of Nanzhao is weak, the foundation of the Jiannan army is too shallow, and the generals do not know the soldiers, the soldiers do not know the battle, and the frequent expeditions are futile and useless. It is better to use the front line of Dadu Water as a place for military training, build a strong army with five years of work, and then choose the opportunity to conquest. Thank you Vice Envoy Cui for taking care of me for the past two years, and I am bidding farewell. ”

"What's the matter with you? Don't want the soldiers and horses anymore? "Cui Yuan is in a hurry.

"If you covet the power of the soldiers and horses, you will stay in Longyou back then." Li Sheng didn't care about his official position.

(End of chapter)