Chapter 488: A Painful Lesson
"Forget it, running a profit is to make this operation a little imperfect, and it is not very important. I can defeat Jieli in his heyday, do I care about a fugitive Jieli? Li Shimin secretly sighed and comforted himself.
"Good news! Good news! Catch Jieli! Zhang Baoxiang, deputy head of the Datong Road March, captured Jieli alive! ”
When the good news came that the people were happy, Li Shimin stood up and knocked down the chairs behind him. "Haha! Jieli, the sky is going to kill you! I'm just waiting for you to come to Chang'an to dance for me! ”
Jieli was captured, the Eastern Turks were completely conquered, and the Six Route armies gradually converged in Dingxiang, and Jieli was also brought here. Li Jing, as the chief of the Six Dao Army, held a banquet to entertain everyone.
Everyone was in high spirits and was drinking, when someone suddenly came to report that an army of about 20,000 Xue Yantuo had crossed the Hanhai Desert and entered Monan.
Li Jing said angrily: "Xue Yantuo was originally from the Tiele Department, and after he was strong, he broke away from Tiele; Seeing that the Turks were strong, they were vassals of the Turks. When the Turks were in danger, they rebelled again and formed an alliance with our Tang Dynasty. Now he actually sent troops to Monan, this is to test us and others.
It just so happens that our army is gathered here, and this time we must teach them an indelible lesson! ”
When the generals heard the order, Li Jing said: "Xue Yantuo is just a test this time, and there will definitely not be many people and horses with him." I've heard the Desert County King say that they have a very good set of tactics for breaking through the cavalry; We sent 300 cavalry and let them show their knowledge. ”
The generals agreed with a bang, and Li Jing ordered Li Yuanba, Wei Chi Jingde, Cheng Zhijie, Pei Xingyan, Qin Qiong, Zhang Gongjin, and Zhang Baoxiang to lead the 300 Xuanjia Army as the vanguard to break the enemy first. Li Shiji led the rest of the people to press the formation behind.
This time it was Xue Yantuo's eldest prince who came with the troops, he led 10,000 cavalry and 10,000 troops trained by himself, through the Hanhai Desert, and wanted to come to Monan to see if there was anything cheap to take advantage of.
They were found in the desert by Bai Yi and others, the Han people here, these people already knew that the Tang Dynasty had defeated Jieli and were packing up their things to return to the Central Plains.
Later, they were called Uighurs, which means that they are as light and swift as falcons, they live in a constant place, move with the flow of water and grass, are fierce and forbearing, are good at riding and shooting, are greedy, and make a living by copying.
The leader of the Hui people is called Ge Bodhisattva, this person is fierce and courageous, good at planning, every enemy in battle, must take the lead, to control the crowd with a few, often to fight the array of hunting for business.
They had been walking in the desert for nearly a month, and they had long been eager to rob it, but when they saw Bai Yi and the others, they could still bear it, and rushed up with a shout.
Bai Yi thought that he had encountered a sand thief, and quickly ordered his old and weak women and children to go first, and he led the young man to resist. However, in this battle, I realized the strength of the enemy, and the equestrian skills that I and others thought were great were as ridiculous as babies in front of the enemy.
These returnees galloped across the country, and the arrows in their hands were out of order, and they were soon defeated. Bai Yi only came to his senses at this time, he pulled out the sharp arrow on his shoulder and said to Tie Ying: "Tie Ying, these people are by no means ordinary sand thieves, they are regular troops in the west. You hurry up and report to Tang Jun, and I'll stay and resist for a while. ”
"General, you go first, I'll resist!" Iron Eagle screamed with a glare.
"Let's go! I'm wounded, and I can't escape the enemy! You go quickly, it's not good for me to die in vain! As he spoke, he urged the war horse to dance his spear and rushed forward.
Iron Eagle's eyes flashed with tears, and he turned his horse's head sharply and shouted, "Go!" "Lead a few of his men to fight horses and run.
Bai Yi and the others did not resist for long before they were wiped out; Then the returners caught up with the tribe that was one step ahead. They slaughtered the men, the old and the children, and robbed them of all their belongings, and took the young women back.
Tie Ying and the others didn't dare to stay all the way until Dingxiang reported to Li Jing, and Li Jing did not delay and came to Helin with the army, which happened to meet the army set up by Dadu.
Dadu set up his infantry to suppress the formation, and he didn't want to fight with Datang all of a sudden, he just wanted to see if he could take advantage of it. As soon as he came out of the desert, he encountered the Tang army, and he asked Ge Bodhisattva to lead an army of 5,000 to test the enemy's edge.
Li Jing also saw the hesitation of Dadu, and he arranged for Cheng Zhijie to lead 300 Xuanjia troops to test the enemy's quality according to his previous decision.
The 300 Xuanjia Army did not frighten at all in the face of the 5,000 cavalry, and they slowly urged the war horses to walk towards the enemy formation with great oppression.
The war horse slowly accelerated, and the rumbling sound of the horse's hooves made Ge Bodhisattva's heart tense suddenly. "Kill!" Ge Bodhisattva shook the silk reins and urged the horse to rush forward, bending his bow and arrows as he ran, and began to attack.
The Xuanjia army lowered its head suddenly, ignoring the shooting of De Jianyu from the sky, and a burst of sparks flashed, and all the sharp arrows shot by the enemy were shattered, without causing any losses.
"End the gun!" Wei Chigong, the actual controller of the Xuanjia Army, saw that he was getting closer and closer to the enemy, and shouted a command. The Xuanjia army roared and raised a two-zhang long cavalry spear.
These spearheads, glowing with a faint blue light, stabbed steadily at the retreating cavalry who could not dodge. They kept drawing their guns to shake off the corpses of their enemies, and stabbed the next enemy with their guns.
The light cavalry who had narrowly escaped was so frightened that they quickly drew their scimitars and slashed at the enemy.
"Dangchang!" A sparkling scimitar snapped in response, and the black-armored cavalry continued to charge.
Ge Bodhisattva sent a small number of elite horsemen to resist, but he encountered Cheng Zhijie with Li Yuanba and Pei Xingyan as the head, and Qin Qiong, Wei Chigong, Zhang Gongjin, and Zhang Baoxiang as the following few fierce generals.
Lao Cheng and the three of them rotated their weapons, and the elite cavalry in front of them was either cut into two pieces, smashed into flesh, or smashed into the sky.
Qin Qiong and the others followed behind, but they just stared at each other and didn't catch a single one. As soon as Qin Qiong and Wei Chi Gong greeted each other, they were divided left and right, Qin Qiong and Zhang Gongjin to the left, and Wei Chi Gong and Zhang Baoxiang to the right and entered the enemy's formation.
In a moment, the returning cavalry had lost more than a thousand dead and wounded; Ge Bodhisattva's eyes jumped with fright, he quickly screamed, and fled with all directions; I want to lure the heavy armor soldiers to pursue them, and slowly wear them down.
As a result, Lao Cheng and the others simply bought the cavalry who escaped at all, and they formed a team again, and then Lao Cheng smiled coldly at the heavy infantry lined up in formation behind, and shouted with a big axe: "Kill!" ”
The 300 heavy cavalry started to rush again, and the heavy cavalry killed them.
With a cold snort, the heavy infantry squatted down and raised their spears against their shields. Cheng Zhijie led the people to take the lead and rushed over, with a round of big axes, the spear broke, the shield was destroyed, and the enemy was knocked away.
The Xuanjia cavalry behind entered, and they wanted to break into the evil wolf in the flock, galloping inside, killing Xue Yantuo's infantry countless times.
Dadu finally changed color, and he hurriedly ordered the heavy infantry to rush up to compress the cavalry's activity space, and beckoned Ge Bodhisattva to come back to the rescue.
However, at this time, the power of Lao Cheng's fierce generals was revealed, and the enemy just surrounded these people and rushed over to kill a gap in an instant, and the Xuanjia army inside continued to urge the war horse to charge.
Cheng Zhijie saw the magnanimity of commanding the battle, abandoned the enemy around him, and killed the horse and the leopard as soon as he urged the war horse and the leopard to rush towards the magnanimity.
Ge Bodhisattva was ordered to run back with the army, Li Jing ordered the flag to wave, and Shi Danai's wind cavalry came out of the crowd.
"The enemy has only 4,000 men, and we only have 1,000 men, let's teach them what it means to fly a kite! Kill! ”
A team of 1,000 people followed Shi Danai to kill, all of them were the divine arm crossbows of the Great Demon Kingdom, and in the incredible gaze of the cavalry, the crossbow arrows let out a soul-chasing roar, hitting the enemy hundreds of steps away.
The wind cavalry charged and shot at the same time, and when they reached the range of a hundred paces, they had killed more than 1,000 people in a few rounds of shooting. Ge Bodhisattva was so angry that he almost vomited blood, and led his troops to chase after him, but the wind cavalry turned around and then split into two and rushed out from both wings.
They shot as they went, maintaining an astonishing hit rate, and even the most elite returning cavalry was ashamed of themselves. They killed a large number of the enemy, and when the men turned their horses and charged, the wind cavalry gathered together again.
Then there was the performance just now, the wind cavalry was like mercury pouring into the ground and whizzing by, and waves of arrows and arrows killed the proud elite soldiers of Gepsa and suffered countless casualties. The Wind Cavalry, on the other hand, were only one of the few unlucky ghosts who were shot by the enemy, or their horses were wounded and fell to the ground.
Unable to bear the blow, Ghepsa retreated with his brigade and wanted to join his own army; Then he saw a scene that he would never forget.
Behind him was a burly man with a big axe, and the big axe in his hand was the same as the wheel, and he would die if he touched it, and soon a dead body fell next to him.
Dadu set up a loud shout: "Stop him!" Stop him for me! Xue Yantuo's elite soldiers rushed up like waves, but they didn't wait a while and then retreated; It left behind a dead body and a patch of blood.
Soon they rushed up again and surrounded the man. Everyone heard the roar and screams, and it was as if it had become an axe and saw hell, and these warriors of Xue Yantuo were like pigs and sheep to be slaughtered; One by one, they went up and were hacked to death.
"Fifth brother, I, I'm here to help you!" With a loud roar, Li Yuanba rode a donkey-like one-word ribbed ink unicorn and danced a sledgehammer to kill it.
"Bang bang bang!" There was a loud noise, and there was a puddle of rotten meat on the ground, and Dadu Shehe and Ge Bodhisattva were so frightened that their faces turned white, and they hurriedly retreated.
Soon Pei Xingyan also killed him, and the dragon's head danced like a windmill, and if he smashed it, his bones were broken. The two of them quickly rushed to Cheng Zhijie's side and continued to rush forward with him.
Dadu Shehe and Ge Bodhisattva no longer had the confidence to resist, and they quickly gathered the remaining army and began to flee towards the desert.
Li Jing led the army to cover up and kill, and chased until the edge of the Hanhai Desert before stopping.