Chapter 70: A Time of Crisis
Li Xian and Xue Ne and others discussed spearmanship and archery together, and suddenly more than two months passed, on this day Li Xian was still studying spearmanship and archery with Xue Ne and others as usual, but he didn't expect an army to suddenly quietly surround the camp where the army was located. This army did not give Pang Tongshan any notice in advance, and it approached at such a strange time, and people with a little common sense should know that the comers must be friends and foes.
And it is true, this time quietly approached the Tang army camp, it was the 30,000 army led by the general of Goguryeo, Jian Mu Cen, it turned out that this Jian Mu Cen was originally ordered to aid Xincheng, but after listening to the report of the detective horse, there were nearly 100,000 troops besieging Xincheng, and it seemed that Xincheng was in danger, and it was too difficult to rescue, so this Jian Mou Cen came up with a poisonous plan to encircle Wei and save Zhao, and led the army to attack the base camp of the Tang army.
"This strategy is indeed very vicious, because the battle in the first two days has been very smooth, the enemy army is constantly supporting Xincheng, but no one has ever dared to approach the camp of the Tang army, which also makes Pang Tongshan gradually relax his vigilance, and today it is even for the convenience of the army's turn, even the most basic defense facilities such as rejecting horses are not placed.
In addition, Pang Tongshan was leading the army to conduct drills, shouting hotly on the school field, and he did not notice any movement made by the enemy army at all.
Although the movement on the small school field was relatively small, but at that time Li Xian and Xue Ne were discussing enthusiastically, and they did not notice that the enemy army was approaching, but Zhang Wuchen, who had been on guard, was not concealed, when the enemy army was still about ten miles, Zhang Wuchen heard the sound of dense horses' hooves, he immediately thought of the reason, and couldn't help but change his face slightly, but in order to prove whether his conjecture was correct, Zhang Wuchen still cautiously performed light skills to the flagpole, and then saw that the iron cavalry of the enemy army in the distance was surging like a tide.
Zhang Wuchen, whose complexion changed greatly, immediately slipped off the flagpole, and then jumped in front of Li Xian in one step, and said to him: "King, something is wrong, the enemy army, the enemy army is attacking the camp." ”
"Huh? What do you say? Li Xian was still immersed in the experience of communicating with Xue Ne before, and his brain reaction was naturally slower, but his facial features remained sharp, and then he heard the dull sound of horses' hooves, and then he knew what was happening, and immediately his face changed greatly, and he pulled Dou Xiantong and Xue Ne and said: "Hurry up, the enemy is attacking the camp, and we must inform General Pang as soon as possible." ”
Only then did Xue Ne know what was going on, and he didn't dare to slack off at the critical moment, so he hurriedly picked up two longbows with his guns in his hands, took two bows and arrows, and followed Li Xian to the West School.
In order to be able to concentrate manpower for training, he pulled all the spies that should have been sent back to the school, and it was precisely because of this that he didn't know anything about the enemy.
Seeing the other party's appearance, Li Xian couldn't help but smile bitterly, but at this time, he didn't care about saying anything, and hurriedly passed through the soldiers who were forming a phalanx, came to Pang Tongshan's side, and then whispered the news to him in his ear.
Although the military situation is like fire, once Li Xian dares to say the news loudly, I am afraid that it will cause panic in the hearts of the army, so Li Xian will be so careful to post the news in Pang Tongshan's ear.
It's a pity that Pang Tongshan lived up to Li Xian's kindness, and asked loudly: "I don't know what the chief manager said?" There are so many people here that you can't hear clearly.
Li Xian was helpless, seeing that he had already seen the smoke and dust in the rear, so he had to point to the rear and say to Pang Tongshan: "General Pang, please look, the smoke and dust are billowing in the rear, when the enemy is coming, please deploy quickly to meet the enemy." ”
Pang Tongshan's face changed, he looked at Li Xian's finger, and then said with a smile: "I'm afraid the chief manager has misunderstood, right?" This is clearly the victorious return of my siege army, how can it be the enemy army? The chief manager is young and does not understand military affairs, so please do not interfere again, otherwise, although the chief manager is the prince, he is also suspected of interfering in military affairs, and I am afraid that the chief manager will not be good. ”
"What do you mean by that?" Li Xian couldn't help but be angry in his heart when he heard this, but he still suppressed the anger in his heart, and said to Pang Tongshan: "At least the general should send a spy to investigate, how can you be so sure that the person who comes is my Tang Dynasty military horse?" What's more, according to the past practice, it will take an hour for my Datang soldiers to return to the camp, how can they return at this time? Even if it is true that our army has won the battle, as the general said, we should not send so many cavalry to approach quickly, at least we should send scouts to report the news, right? ”
But seeing Pang Tongshan, he was furious and said: "Hmph, although the king is the chief manager, he has no right to command us and others, and I am responsible for the defense of the camp here, and it is my decision on how to deal with it, and others have no right to interfere. Someone come, send the chief steward back to the camp......"
Pang Tongshan didn't finish his sentence, and his face changed again, because he also heard the dull and dense sound of horses' hooves, and at the same time felt that the ground under his feet was shaken strongly, and it felt like an earthquake.
If it is his own people who come back, they will slow down when they arrive at the camp gate, and it will never be faster, Pang Tongshan is no matter how stupid he is, this common sense is still there, so he immediately realized that what Li Xian said was correct.
But he couldn't pull his head down to admit his mistake to Li Xian, and shouted left and right with a cold face: "Why don't you go quickly?" Remember to protect the general manager, if there is an accident, Weier and others are asking. ”
"No." Seeing that the main general was angry, the guards on the left and right did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly asked Li Xian and the others to leave the school field and go to the camp.
After thinking for a while, Pang Tongshan waved his hand to the guards of the Zhou Wangfu who were training and said: "Wait for the soldiers of the Zhou Wangfu to follow the king to the camp, you must remember my Tang regulations, if the king has any accidents, it will be difficult for you to live." ”
The reason why Pang Tongshan did this, on the one hand, was to take care of face, and on the other hand, of course, he wanted to try his best to protect Li Xian, after all, this person was also nominally the commander of the Tang Army, once something went wrong, the army's heart would definitely be messed up to the point that it was difficult to clean up, and this person, as the beloved son of Gaozong and Empress Wu, once something happened, even if he was a cronie of Empress Wu, he would still be cut off that somewhat fat head.
After arranging Li Xian's affairs, Pang Tongshan mobilized the army and prepared to resist the enemy army who came to invade. But I didn't expect that the enemy army had already rushed into the camp at this time, killing people everywhere and setting fires, destroying a camp, because the remaining sergeants had no one to command, for a while, I saw only sergeants fleeing in panic everywhere, and the whole camp was already in chaos.
What's even worse is that because of the fear that it will cause accidental injuries during the exercise, Pang Tongshan's army did not carry weapons such as guns, spears, bows and arrows at all, except for horizontal knives, and they were all on foot, so as soon as they came into contact, they were violently attacked by the enemy's cavalry, so in just an instant, the forward was scattered.
"Give a quick order, leave the forward to cover, and the rest of the team immediately retreat, go to the quartermaster to collect weapons and horses, and then defend against it."
At this time, Pang Tongshan no longer had the calmness he had before, and immediately grabbed a herald and shouted loudly.
Seeing that the commander was angry, the herald immediately nodded like a chicken pecking rice, waved the command flag in his hand a few times, and then retreated to the camp with the large army.
And the soldiers of the vanguard fell into blood mold, and they are now dying if they resist, and they are also dying if they don't resist, but because of military law, they have to draw their horizontal knives at this time and use their flesh and blood to form a human wall to block the enemy's iron cavalry.
However, in the face of the enemy's cavalry, they were already inferior in numbers, they simply encountered the fate of being slaughtered one-sidedly, only to see that the soldiers who were still alive and well before were instantly pierced by the enemy's spears and horses, and some were trampled by the enemy's horse hooves after falling, but they were not killed for a while, and the screams were endless, it was simply a scene of hell on earth.
Although Pang Tongshan also saw this scene, he couldn't care about these at this time, if he could hold the camp, although he would not be punished if he was killed or injured, he would not be punished, and at most he would be given some more pensions, but if the camp was lost, I am afraid that he would be dismissed from his post and executed at worst.
Therefore, Pang Tongshan ignored the expectant gazes of the soldiers, resolutely turned his body and went to the quartermaster's office, preparing to obtain weapons and horses before fighting the enemy to the death.
However, at this time, the enemy army was like a maggot on the tarsal bone, and he couldn't shake it off, and the horse rushed over directly on the body of the Tang Army's forward soldiers, not only that, but also continued to impact the retreating team, making this team that had no intention of fighting even more scattered, if the enemy army was allowed to rush and kill for a while, I believe that even if these soldiers all took weapons and rode on horses, it would never be possible to reverse the next defeat.
"Rush, rush up, be sure to withstand the attack of the enemy, anyone who died in the battle for my Tang Dynasty will definitely apply to the imperial court for a reward, and anyone who retreats one step will be killed." Pang Tongshan was now like a madman, shouting loudly at the top of his voice, not caring whether the soldiers in front of him heard his shouting or not.
"Kill, kill." I saw the sound of horses' hooves, an enemy general rode on horseback, holding a horse lance, laughed and rushed forward, the horse's hooves trampled off a soldier's arm, listening to the soldier's loud screams, but laughed heartily, and then waved the horse lance, killing five or six soldiers, and then rode over, pointed at Pang Tongshan and said: "Wu Na Tang barbarian, but the barbarian general?" Hugh is going to leave again today, and obediently be the prisoner of Uncle Er Jianchunmeng. ”
"Alas, it's really a death for me, and it's better to commit suicide than to be a prisoner in the hands of that thief, so as not to be humiliated in the hands of that guy." Pang Tongshan smiled bitterly, raised the horizontal knife in his hand, and wanted to commit suicide.
At this time, I suddenly heard a voice not far from me: "Stop, my Datang knife only kills thieves, not myself." Then he saw a man riding by, and with a quick snatch of him, he scooped him up and threw him into the sergeant behind him.