Chapter 452: Pyrrhic Victory
The Tang army advanced like a ferocious tiger and leopard, tearing apart the flesh and blood of the enemy with its claws and fangs. They marched forward bravely, forward, and then suddenly turned eastward, rushing towards the enemy's junction; Then he suddenly swung his tail and held down the enemy soldiers chasing after him and beat them violently.
Everywhere the army went, the trapped Tang army infantry cheered enthusiastically, and they all joined the torrent, brandishing the swords and guns in their hands and stabbing the enemy fiercely. The enemy army could not be parried, and gradually it was about to collapse.
Wang Shichong saw that Zheng Jun was already at a disadvantage, especially when he was galloped and slashed by a large army at the core of the battle group, he was very anxious.
He led dozens of guards to run back and forth in the formation, found Prince Aoyu and Shan Xiongxin and others, and led them to retreat towards the causeway together. There, Wang Shichong had already ordered the Tieguan Dao people to gather all the Jianghuai soldiers.
Wang Shichong personally lined up this team into a dense charging formation, led by Shan Xiongxin in a red robe, Tieguandao and Prince Aoyu in the center, and Wang Shichong launched a counter-charge against the Tang army.
Li Shimin and the others saw that the enemy was about to be defeated, but they did not expect that Wang Shichong's force would come so suddenly and be taken by surprise. Wang Shichong's army quickly broke up Li Shimin's brigade into several large pieces.
Wei Chi Jingde couldn't react, and was surrounded by Zheng Jun, and more than a dozen long lances slammed into him. He hurriedly turned sideways, almost falling under his horse, when several spears brushed past him.
Wei Chi Jingde roared, stretched out his arm and grabbed a long lance that was nearby, slashed an arc in the air, and plunged the tip of the lance into the enemy's forehead with his backhand. His mount had swooped past his enemies, behind them.
Wei Chi Jingde rushed out of the enemy formation, quickly turned the horse's head, and rushed towards the back of the enemy horseman who had not had time to turn, and several enemy horsemen were stabbed in the back of the heart by the turtle-backed camel dragon spear in his hand, and fell off the horse as heavy as a stone.
He was about to return his gun and draw it, but he saw two more enemy generals rushing towards him with two long lances, one on the left and one on the right. Wei Chi Jingde handed his gun to his left hand, turned sideways on horseback, dodged the enemy's assassination, and then pulled out the eighteen knotted steel whip behind his back, and smashed it into the enemy general who broke into front of him.
"Smack!" The enemy's head was shattered, he rode forward again, and at the moment when the enemy's lance stabbed over his head, he suddenly put away his weapon, and his hands with the ability to untie the lance swooped up at the same time like lightning, and he grabbed the two lances in his hands in the air, and roared with force, and snatched them over.
The two enemy horsemen were so frightened that they fled. Like a juggler, he backhanded the two lances upside down in mid-air, and then threw them into the backs of the two enemy riders at the same time. He picked up his weapon, ignored the blood on his face, and roared at the enemy in front of him, causing the enemy to flee in all directions with a scream.
Li Shimin was also scattered, he was waving his army to rampage the enemy formation, and suddenly saw the enemy's cavalry rushing from the oblique spur, led by Shan Xiongxin, who was wearing a red robe, which startled Li Shimin at that time.
As soon as Li Shimin took the longbow in his hand, Shan Xiongxin had already rushed to the front of him, and the prancing horse was straight, making a gesture to stab at his face.
Shan Xiongxin secretly gritted his teeth and said: "I let you run last time, this time look at where you run!" Hairy boy, I will pierce you and take off your head with a short sword. Only then can I solve the cruelty in my heart! ”。
Thinking of this, Shan Xiongxin slammed his horse and galloped closer and closer. "Li Shimin! Hugh and take your life! "It's a sting. The tip of the blue lance is approaching, approaching......
"One-pass! Stop it! A familiar shout jumped Shan Xiongxin.
"Whew!" Hearing that the evil wind was not good, Shan Xiongxin hurriedly lowered his head and dodged, and a spear flew in front of him. "Bang!" With a bang, the spear was nailed to the opposite causeway, and it was driven two feet deep.
More than a dozen of Wang Shichong's soldiers rushed out of the city, trying to pull out the spear, but their efforts together did not work, and the spear was still firmly stuck in the dirt.
A gust of yellow wind blew, and the generals Qin Qiong and Qin Shubao galloped on a yellow horse, easily pulled out the spear, held it in his hand and left proudly, and the soldiers on both sides present were dumbfounded.
Shan Xiongxin was also stunned, his friendship with Qin Qiong was different, much deeper than that with Cheng Zhijie and others. I really didn't expect Second Brother Qin, who was righteous Bo Yuntian, to reach out to him for Li Shimin.
Shan Xiong's confidence was tingling, and his tiger eyes were full of tears of grievance. Qin Qiong also sighed, if it wasn't forced to do so, who would want to kill each other?
"Xiongxin, my brother is rude, please don't be surprised. But Wang Shichong has already been defeated, don't be obsessed with it, come over quickly! ”
Shan Xiongxin gritted his teeth and said, "Second brother! Li Yuan and I have a deep blood feud, and we must not surrender to him! The friendship of our brothers was dissipated in the shot just now; When we meet again, it's either you or I'm alive. Let's go! As he spoke, he pulled his horse and left as fast as an arrow from a string, as if some beast was chasing after him.
Qin Qiong sighed slightly, giving up her plan to call for persuasion again. Protecting Li Shimin and the convergence of the army.
Li Shimin had just escaped from the danger and led the troops to retreat a little and organize the formation again; Wang Shichong also slightly recovered some disadvantages through sneak attacks and stabilized the formation that was about to collapse.
The two armies once again confronted each other, preparing for the next attack. At this time, a cheer was suddenly heard from Zheng Jun's ranks; I saw a tall figure suddenly come out. Ran danced a long handful of purple gold melons, urging the war horse to rush towards the Tang army.
As soon as Qu Tutong saw the prince of Aoyu rushing over, he was angry and didn't fight anywhere; He shouted: "Shoot him with an arrow!" When the Tang army heard the order, they bent their bows and arrows one by one to shoot.
The prince of the fish slapped his horse desperately and danced with a long purple gourd; The arrows either fell behind him or were knocked off by him. Like a whirlwind, the fish crashed into the Tang soldiers, and the sledgehammer in his hand whined like a purple light and shadow, and there was a snapping sound; There was a cry among the Tang soldiers.
Before everyone could react, he had already killed dozens of people and rushed out again; And when he quickly left the Tang Army array, he was carrying the head of a bloody Tang Army general in his hand!
The soldiers of the Zheng army were jubilant, and their morale was greatly boosted; The officers and men of the Tang Army were depressed.
Cheng Zhijie has already ridden back his war horse Hulei Leopard; When he saw the majestic nature of the Aoyu Prince, he snorted coldly; Suddenly the horse rushed out.
Wang Shichong saw that it was Cheng Zhijie, and was also taken aback, and hurriedly ordered the army to release arrows to intercept it, Zheng Jun stopped cheering, and the arrows rained down on Cheng Zhijie.
Cheng Zhijie wielded a big axe, knocked it open, and then shot into the enemy formation like a flying arrow. Zheng Jun's lances stabbed at him one after another. Lao Cheng's big axe slammed into a round, broke the lance, and the person died.
Lao Cheng's axe weighs more than 200 catties, and it has an impact force of 1,000 catties when the wheel is opened; The long lances that were stabbed in front of him were all opened one by one, and seven or eight of them couldn't even hold on to them and flew away, and some of them broke off from them, and the broken lances flew out with the wounded soldiers.
Zheng Jun couldn't resist Hula any longer, and suddenly dodged a passage and let him pass. Where Cheng Zhijie's murderous eyes scanned, Zheng Junbu rode back like a wave, fearing that he would be the target of the attack.
Cheng Zhijie stared at the Aoyu Prince tightly, and the war horse galloped closer and closer. The prince of Aoyu fought with him, and when he saw Lao Cheng's murderous appearance, he was already flustered, and the side horse was about to burrow into the crowd.
Cheng Zhijie was willing to let it go, and he galloped over like lightning, and the big axe was chopped down in a round. The prince had no choice but to raise the purple gourd to parry.
Wang Shichong saw that Prince Aoyu was not Cheng Zhijie's opponent, so he quickly ordered his generals to go up and besiege him. Cheng Zhijie's big axe is haunting, resisting the prince of Aoyu, the iron crown Taoist, Shan Xiongxin, and Zhou Chengming.
Zhou Chengming didn't know how powerful Cheng Zhijie was, and waved the long knife to resist his axe, but he didn't expect the big axe to be so heavy, and slammed the long knife away, and then "Ge Hao" swept out of his neck, and the human head flew into the sky, and blood sprayed like a match.
The others were shocked and retreated; Cheng Zhijie stretched out his hand and grabbed Zhou Chengming's head, and retreated with dignity.
When tens of thousands of Zheng Jun saw this scene, they couldn't help but let out an exclamation of "ah". "Hooray!" "Hooray!" The Tang army on the opposite side gave a thunderous cheer.
Li Shimin was overjoyed when he saw it, and before Cheng Zhijie fully returned, he waved his bow and moved: "Rush, destroy the enemy!" Li Yuanba and Pei Xingyan had already seen the blood boiling, and the two refused to lag behind and rushed forward first.
The officers and men of the Tang Army responded like a tsunami, shaking the ground under their feet, and then launched a charge towards the Zheng army's large array wave after wave. Under the impact of several tiger generals, Zheng Jun was terrified and almost collapsed at the first touch.
At the back causeway, Wang Shichong had tears in his eyes, he knew that he had no way to retreat, and led 10,000 Jianghuai soldiers to launch a desperate resistance.
Under the counterattack of this force, the Tang army lined up on the river bank like waves, shattered with a bang, and launched an impact again and again. When the waves are strong enough, there is always a time when the riverbank is washed away; In this way, from early morning until noon, Zheng's army was almost scattered several times, and regrouped several times, until at last it completely lost its strength, and had to retreat to the city crying.
Li Shimin led the army to pursue the victory, reached the eastern capital, and blocked the west gate. Most of the Zheng army had not yet entered the city, and seeing that they had fallen into the encirclement of the Tang army, they fled south in shock, and were fiercely pursued by the Tang army.
On the same day, the Tang army killed and captured more than 20,000 Zheng troops, and only suffered more than 7,000 casualties; Wang Shichong's descendant, Jianghuai's strong soldiers, was almost wiped out. The Tang army took advantage of the situation to surround the entire city.
Li Shimin's victory and return to the camp to celebrate is naturally joyful, and everyone will be rewarded. When Wang Shichong returned to Luoyang in defeat, his face was sad, and the black hair on his head turned a lot whiter.