Chapter 341: Jie Li's Scheme
The Turkic army spread out on both sides like a tide, and a group of mighty cavalry came straight to the front of the formation, facing Li Shimin across the river from the opposite bank, and Li Xiu also saw Jieli at a glance in the crowd opposite, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly from a distance, but his gorgeous armor was too conspicuous. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Jieli came to the front of the Turkic army, but he was very vigilant and far away from the riverbank, in fact, Li Shimin's side was the same, both sides were quite far away from the riverbank, so as not to be attacked by the other party, after all, as the commander-in-chief, their personal safety was more important than anyone else.
Seeing the arrival of Jieli Khan from a distance, I saw Li Shimin wave his hand to let the army by the river retreat about a hundred steps, and then led Li Xiu and a few others to climb a high ground by the river, and then shouted to the other side: "Can the Great Khan come and see?" β
Seeing that Li Shimin took the initiative to come forward to make a gesture of negotiation, Jieli on the opposite side did not have any grace, and actually led a guard of about 1,000 people to step forward and also climbed a dirt slope opposite Li Shimin, but those guards surrounded the entire dirt slope to ensure Jieli's safety.
"Shimin's virtuous nephew has always been good, since the last goodbye, Ben Khan has missed you very much!" I saw that Jieli Khan finally spoke at this time, and directly regarded Li Shimin as a junior, of course, this is normal, because the Turks and the Tang Dynasty have always been brothers on the surface, so Jieli is considered to be the same generation as Li Yuan, and it is barely reasonable to call Li Shimin so, but he led the army to come, and directly recognized Li Shimin as a junior, which inevitably had a feeling of domineering.
"Hehe, there is Lao Da Khan worried, but I don't know why the eldest brother brought troops to come today, you and I are brothers in the country, do you want to tear up the covenant of the day?" Li Shimin said with a smile, not angry at all because of Jieli's contemptuous attitude.
Li Shimin once again asked the Turks if they wanted to break the original covenant, and the Turks were speechless just now, but now Jieli suddenly sneered and said: "Shimin Xian nephew, you are wrong, Ben Khan heard that you actually launched a coup d'Γ©tat, not only killed your brother, that is, my poor Jianxian nephew, but also imprisoned your father, I am a brother to your father, and now I see him in prison, I naturally want to come to relieve him and help him get rid of you, a rebellious son!" β
Jieli said the above words loudly, directly accusing Li Shimin of being rebellious, it can be said that he did not give him any face at all, and even he was going to deliberately provoke Li Shimin, after all, he came here with an army of 200,000, not to chat with Li Shimin, but for the wealth of Chang'an City behind him.
In the face of Jieli's humiliation, even with Li Shimin's city government, his face turned red with anger for a while, and Li Xiu next to him even saw Li Shimin's fists clenched tightly, and his knuckles turned white because he was too hard, but even so, Li Shimin didn't get angry in the end, but finally smiled and said: "Great Khan, we don't bother you with our family affairs, not to mention that our Datang didn't ask you to come to mediate, and now it's so uninvited, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate, right?" β
When Li Shimin said this, his right hand was quietly behind his back, and then he made a gesture to Cheng Yanjin in the back, and Cheng Yanjin also immediately understood and began to quietly retreat and issue orders, all of which were seen by Li Xiu, and he also knew what Cheng Yanjin was going to do.
Just behind them, in the ranks of them, there was a hidden hole in the ground, in which there was a rope, which was connected to the opposite bank by the river, and in an same hole on the opposite bank, several dead men were hidden, and they had only one mission, and that was to assassinate Jieli when the rope was pulled, not by their own force, of course, but with the help of gunpowder.
Jieli laughed again at Li Shimin's somewhat weak answer, and then said with a cold face: "Shimin's virtuous nephew, I am like a brother to your father, and his family affairs are naturally my family affairs, and I am really in charge of this matter!" β
"Great Khan, there are some things that you can't manage if you want to, I advise you to go back as soon as possible, so as not to give up your life in vain!" After Li Shimin gave the order, he suddenly said with a sneer, he had seen the rope pulled over on the river, which also indicated that the order had been issued, and now it was up to the dead soldiers on the other side of the river.
"Hahahaha~, it's a big joke, Ben Khan has an army of 200,000 here, I want to see how you take my life?" Jieli heard Li Shimin's threat but looked up to the sky and laughed, in fact, not only him, but even the Turkic generals around him all felt that this was a joke, although the battalion of the Tang army on the opposite side was endless, but they had already received the report from the inner line in advance, knowing that the defenders of Chang'an were only tens of thousands, and there were no reinforcements around, so it was impossible for them to be their opponents.
However, just when Jieli and the others looked up to the sky and laughed, the war horses they stepped on suddenly seemed uneasy, the horses' hooves kept rising and falling, and even wanted to retreat, and some horses kept snorting, if it weren't for the restraint of the knights on the horse, I am afraid they would run away immediately.
"What's going on?" Jieli also noticed the abnormality of the horses at this time, and asked with a frown, but unfortunately no one could answer his question, and the other Turks were also at a loss.
Then at this moment, Jieli suddenly felt a loud "boom" in his ears, followed by a soft underfoot, and then an irresistible huge force came, making him feel that he was flying all of a sudden, but his body was very painful, and finally he lost consciousness completely as soon as his eyes were dark.
In the eyes of Tuli and the others behind, they only heard a loud sound like thunder, and then the hillside where Jieli was located turned into ashes as if it had really been struck by a divine thunderbolt, Jieli and the others even flew up with people and horses, and people and horses flew in mid-air, this kind of picture was simply beyond their imagination.
But this is just the beginning, after the explosion on the hillside where they were, then in front of and around them, there was a series of explosions, and the rumbling sound was endless, as if the heavens were angry and punishing them, which made the Turks who reacted were all greatly shocked, especially the horses were even more frightened and scurried around, and the Turkic army was also chaotic all of a sudden!
"Save the Khan!" However, even in the midst of the chaos, there were still many loyal Turks who thought of Jieli, some overcame the fear in their hearts and rushed forward to find Jieli who was blown away, but some simply turned their horses and ran, especially when some people saw that Tuli also took the lead in escaping, which made many Turks flee in the wilderness.
"Drumming!" Li Shimin saw the situation on the other side, and couldn't help laughing wildly at the moment, and then immediately ordered the drum to attack, and then saw that the two sides of the Turks on the opposite bank suddenly killed a lot of ambushed Tang troops, a total of about 20,000 people, which is also all the people that Chang'an can use, in fact, although the military camps behind Li Shimin are endless, but they are all empty, only a few thousand people are left around him, and all the people left behind are ambushed by him on the opposite bank.
Among these Tang troops, one of them is a black cavalry that is extremely conspicuous, it is Li Shimin's biggest hole card Xuanjia Army, the first member of the yellow-faced general wielded a long robbery, like a tiger down the mountain to kill the Turks, this fierce general is Qin Qiong, who has not been seen for a long time, for the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin also reactivated him, and Qin Qiong also let go of his previous dissatisfaction with Li Shimin, and the two of them finally cooperated again for the Tang Dynasty, after all, the Xuanjia Army can only play the greatest role in the hands of fierce generals like Qin Qiong and Wei Chigong.
"It's really successful, but I don't know if Jieli is dead?" Li Xiu watched the Tang army on the other side of the river slaughter into the chaotic Turkic army, and couldn't help but be excited for a while.
The main reason why Li Shimin asked Wei Chigong to risk his life to lead the Turkic army here was that they had done something on the other side, and almost all the gunpowder made by Li Xiu was buried under the ground on the other side.
As for the hillside where Jieli stood, it was also specially selected by Li Shimin, when he stood on this side, the hillside happened to be opposite him, and the surrounding vision was the best, as long as he was a person who knew the art of war, he would choose to climb the hillside to talk to Li Shimin, and as a result, this naturally fell into Li Shimin's calculations, and even if Jieli did not climb the hillside, within a radius of half a mile of the hillside, gunpowder was buried under the ground, and it was all connected by leads, so as long as Jieli stepped forward to talk to Li Shimin, he had already stepped into the ghost gate with half a foot.
The chaotic Turkic army faced the carefully calculated Tang army, even if it had a huge advantage in numbers, but all the Turks had been frightened by the explosion just now, after all, the feeling of the sky falling apart was like a heavenly punishment, not to mention the Turks, even many people in the Tang army were so frightened that their faces turned pale, but after they reacted, they felt as if they were like divine help, and then transformed into the belief of killing the enemy and winning, so they were all extremely brave, all the Turks who stood in front of them, will face their ruthless butcher's knife.
Kill! Kill! ...... killing, it was not the first time that Li Xiu had witnessed the cruelty on the battlefield, but it was the first time he had seen more than 20,000 people chasing and slashing an enemy ten times his size.
In the past, Li Xiu still suspected that Li Shimin's thousands of cavalry defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000 army, but when he saw the scene in front of him, he had to miss it, only to see that the originally fierce Turks seemed to have become sheep who only knew how to escape, and even some people could trample on their own companions in order to escape, even if there were no statistics, Li Xiu could be sure that there were not a few people who were trampled to death alone.
"Hey, Jieli doesn't seem to be dead!" But at this moment, Li Xiu suddenly heard someone next to him shouting in surprise, and then he looked carefully at the other side, and sure enough, he saw that the Turks seemed to have found a person who was suspected of being a good man, and then fled in embarrassment under the protection of a group of Turks. (To be continued.) )