Chapter 449: Turning Defeat into Victory
Li Shimin slapped his mount white-hoofed Wu desperately, and it didn't take long for him to come to the front of the camp. He didn't mean to stop the horse at all, and shouted loudly as he ran: "I am Li Shimin, the king of Qin." Hurry up and open the camp gates; Drumming Gathering! ”
When the guards saw that it was really Li Shimin, they hurriedly opened the camp gate; Let him in; The war drums rumbled in the camp, and the army gathered rapidly; All the generals also rushed over.
Li Shimin looked at Cheng Zhijie, Qin Qiong, Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan and others with shocked faces: "I was surveying the terrain in Beibi Mountain with Wei Chi Jingde just now, and I was suddenly attacked by the enemy, the enemy is very fierce, and it is estimated that Wang Shichong is also inside!" Now our army will immediately set off to surround and destroy the enemy, and move quickly! The enemy is searching for me all over the mountains, and I can't let the enemy escape, hurry! ”
They ignored everyone's astonishment and strode to the sand table, and Cheng Zhijie, Qu Tutong, Yin Kaishan and others hurriedly followed. Li Shimin condensed slightly, took a breath, pointed to a place on the map with his finger and said: "Fifth brother and I, General Qin, Luo Shixin, and Li Yuanba led the main cavalry force from Shannan to hold the enemy's rear road,"
Then he glanced at Qu Tutong again, and then drew on the map with his hand, "Left servant shooting, you take the main force of infantry and the cavalry of Zhai Changsun's right third battalion, outflanking from the north of the mountain, pay attention - the enemy's cavalry is very strong, use more bows and arrows, block the counter-charge of the enemy's cavalry, and press the enemy tightly, so that he can't breathe!" ”
Li Shimin raised his head from the map, stared at Yin Kaishan and said, "Yin Shangshu and Xu Junshi stayed in the camp and were on strict alert to prevent the enemy from launching a surprise attack on our military camp from other areas. ”
"Yes!" Everyone agreed; As Li Shimin turned over and got on his horse, he quickly rushed into the Beibi Mountains again.
Li Shimin, Cheng Zhijie and others led thousands of cavalry to the foot of Wei Xuanwuling Mountain, and now there is a melee here. It turned out that not long after Li Shimin left, Chen Zhiluo, a general under Wang Shichong, came here with 10,000 Jianghuai soldiers.
Chen Zhiluo saw that Aoyu and Tieguandao were already at a disadvantage, greeted Shan Xiongxin, and led the army to rush up.
This Jianghuai warrior was a heavy cavalry, they were dressed in heavy armor, and each had a spear in his hand; It's a bit of a taste of the Great Demon Kingdom Forest Character Master.
To deal with these people, the light cavalry needs to distance like flying a kite; Slowly consume enemies to death. However, in the woods of the North Mountain, it is not suitable for the wind cavalry to play at all; They had to fight the enemy with their spears.
As a result, Zheng's army was 10 times larger than the wind cavalry, and he killed countless of them in one look. Pei Xingyan saw that he was furious and gave up the prince of Aoyu, rushed up and killed countless enemies with a sledgehammer, and then slowly retreated with his troops.
They had just retreated out of the hill and had not gone far; Smoke and dust rose from the opposite side, and an ironclad cavalry rumbled over. Pei Xingyan was just stunned for a moment, and then he heard Cheng Zhijie shouting: "Pei Xingyan, hurry up and dodge, see how I can eliminate them." ”
When Pei Xingyan heard this, he hurriedly led the cavalry to dodge to both sides, and the Xuanjia Army rushed past them.
Chen Zhiluo was complacent, chased out with a large army, and ran not far; I felt the earth tremble, and then the black beast rushed over.
"Xuanjia Army?" Chen Zhiluo's face turned pale with fright, the speed of the infantry must not be able to catch up with the cavalry, and it was too late to retreat. He shouted, "Raise your spear!" Block them out! ”
"Bang! Bang! Bang! "The spear can't pierce the armor of the Xuanjia Army at all, and these heavy cavalry are squeezed into a mass of heavy cavalry, but by the impact of the war horse, they hit people on their backs and spurt blood." Click, click! The spears in their hands were also broken.
Li Shimin, Li Yuanba, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie and others were even more unstoppable, fiercely rushing into the enemy formation, killing the enemy's flesh and blood. The heavy infantry couldn't stop the Tang cavalry at all, and was rushed by Cheng Zhijie and others.
The Xuanjia army came to the enemy's back, and then turned the horse's head and inserted itself into the enemy's line. Zheng Guo's heavy infantry was killed by the Tang cavalry's back and forth, and ran hopelessly in the direction of the plain, so they had to climb up the mountains on both sides.
Chen Zhiluo yelled and screamed, trying to rein in the rout; Cheng Zhijie shouted and the big axe turned away and went straight to him.
The prince of Aoyu has suffered consecutive defeats for a period of time, and he has long been angry and screaming; Seeing Cheng Zhijie rushing past not far from him with great might, he didn't put him in his eyes at all, and he felt even more ashamed; Urge the horse to go up and intercept it.
Cheng Zhijie saw a big man rushing next to him, with a long handful of purple gold melons in his hand; It was long and thick, and it was slightly stunned; I didn't think about who he was for a moment.
The prince of the fish didn't care who he was, and the purple gold melon in his hand was smashed down. Cheng Zhijie hurriedly raised the gossip Xuantian axe and parried outward.
"Dang!" The sound shook the mountains and forests; Everyone couldn't help but turn their heads to watch. The two of them fought hard, and they were equally divided; They were all secretly careful in their hearts.
Aoyu secretly wondered that he was invincible in the Ryukyus, and he had no opponent in the Wa Kingdom; As soon as he came into contact with the Central Plains, he had already met three opponents.
Cheng Zhijie's big axe crossed a mysterious arc, and it reached the top of the fish's head. The prince was shocked and hurriedly raised his sword to parry. Unexpectedly, Lao Cheng's axe left as soon as it was touched, and it was sharpened along the shaft of his blade.
Aoyu was frightened into a cold sweat, if it weren't for the fact that he had reached the stage of mixed yuan, he would have suffered a big loss this time. But even so, Cheng Zhijie also seized the opportunity with one move, and the big axe in his hand flew up and down, and the fish he killed only had the ability to parry, but had no power to fight back.
Chen Zhiluo was already stupid, but fortunately, the fish who was not afraid of death helped him do this; Otherwise, they have their own lives. Chen Zhiluo didn't dare to stay longer, and hurriedly commanded the army to retreat up the hillside, relying on the terrain to defend the formation.
Wang Shichong got a report that it was Li Shimin, the king of Qin, who stayed in Xuanwu Mausoleum just now. He was so excited that he led his cavalry into the northern mountains, and then scattered along the mountains to search.
Suddenly, Zhai Changsun led the Tang cavalry to rush over, and smoke and dust rose up behind them; It was as if thousands of troops were galloping here.
Wang Shichong was startled and hurriedly met the battle, but his cavalry had already dispersed and could not be collected for a while; He hastily ordered the cavalry to gather towards the mountainside.
As soon as they reached the hillside, Qu Tutong led the Tang infantry from the top of the hill and drove over all over the mountain, and the woods flashed with the light of countless swords and guns.
Wang Shichong knew that he had encountered the main force of the Tang army, so he had to order the cavalry to retreat on all fronts, wanting to break out of the encirclement. Qu Tutong and Zhai Changsun were willing to let go, and rushing up was to attack back and forth. Wang Shichong's formation was all messed up, and he was killed.
In the end, under the cover of Yang Gongqing and others, Wang Shichong took more than 100 elite horsemen to run north for more than ten miles, and after completely getting rid of the pursuers, he went around in a big circle and fled back to the eastern capital from the north gate.
Qu Tutong repelled Wang Shichong, ordered people to clean up the battlefield, stood on the top of the hill and found that there was an enemy fleeing on the top of the mountain, so he led a large group of infantry to climb up. Qu Tutong learned from the mouths of these captives that Chen Zhiluo was still resisting by taking advantage of the terrain. So he secretly led the army up the hill behind.
Those Da Zheng heavy infantry were wholeheartedly dealing with the charge of the Tang Iron Cavalry. Suddenly, I heard a shout of killing behind me. They would look back and find that the Tang army was rushing down from above, sandwiching them in the middle.
Seeing that they had fallen into a great encirclement in front of and behind the mountain, these people had no intention of resisting any longer, and knelt down and surrendered one after another. The prince of the fish and the people of the Iron Crown Dao also didn't care about fighting anymore, so they turned around and ran.
These two guys were strong in martial arts and escaped with their lives, but the champion general Chen Zhiluo was captured by Li Yuanba, who rushed in.
After the battle, Fang Xuanling counted the losses and reported the results to Li Shimin, killing a total of 3,000 enemy soldiers and capturing 6,000 platoon soldiers.
Li Shimin and Zheng Jun achieved such a huge victory in the first battle, and immediately ordered the three armies to be rewarded. The officers and men of the Tang Army were very happy when they ordered it, and while carrying the booty, they happily hummed the melody of "King Qin's Breaking Array Music" and walked back.
The barracks had already received the information, Yin Kaishan and Xu Shiji led the team out to greet them, and the two armies began to cheer and celebrate in front of the barracks.
Back in the camp, Li Shimin joked to Wei Chi Jingde: "In the morning, everyone said that you would definitely rebel, and it was God who told me to protect you; People often say, 'Good people are rewarded', but why do you repay me so quickly?! ”
Yu Chi Jingde smiled, his white teeth showing on his black face covered in blood and dust.
Li Shimin found a delicate long basket, poured the gold and a large number of treasures in the sandalwood box into it, sealed the long box, and handed it to Wei Chi Jingde to thank him for saving his life. Wei Chi Jingde couldn't postpone it, so he had to accept it.
At the celebration dinner, Li Shimin said to Qu Tutong and others: Today, I am fortunate that Jingde saved my life and brought this huge victory for our army, and Jingde should be the first credit. And he told them all the things that had happened.
Qu Tutong took Yin Kaishan, Liu Hongji, Xu Shiji, Changsun Shunde, Dou Cong and others to line up and thank Wei Chigong together. Wei Chi Gong's face turned red and said: "It's not all my credit, if it weren't for General Pei Xingyan and General Shi Yan, even I would have folded in." ”
Everyone thanked Pei Xingyan like this; Xu Shiji frowned and said, "Zhijie, Pei Xingyan is a master you invited from, why do I look like a person?" ”
Cheng Zhijie looked at Pei Xingyan in embarrassment; Pei Xingyan suddenly grinned and said, "Brother-in-law, don't hide it for me." I have long understood that the stinking skin of man's earth will be destroyed; Anyway, there are swallows that are not disgusted. Xu Junshi, I am Pei Yuanqing. ”
"Ahh Everyone exclaimed, Li Yuanba's eyes widened and said: "You, you are, you are the one who picked up, picked up my three hammers, Pei, Pei San'er?" ”