Chapter 159: The Battle of Jishui: Xuanwu Retreats

"General! Oops! Li Cunxiao's deputy envoy is entangled! Zhu Wen's right flank infantry began to integrate, and the Flying Tiger Army was already under siege by the enemy formation. I'm afraid that the infantry on the left flank of our army will not be able to break through the enemy's right flank, and after a long time, the Flying Tiger Army may ......," Yang Shihou said with a frightened face.

"Let Duan Ziyao support!" Li Cunhuan quickly ordered.

"I'm afraid Duan Ziyao is also weak!" Yang Shihou said helplessly.

"What's wrong?" Li Cunhuan didn't look at Yang Shihou, he was nervously watching the entire battlefield of smoke and dust, and it was also a loss that Li Cunhuan's command vehicle was a combination of two four-horse carts, with steel as a support, wrapped in wooden planks, and erected a ten-zhang high consolidated tower, otherwise he would not be able to see the situation on this smoke-and-dust battlefield.

Yang Shihou smiled bitterly and said, "Up to now, each longbowman has shot an average pot of arrows, and there are not many people who still have the strength to shoot arrows. It's also thanks to the general that you added that pulley to the longbow, otherwise if you shoot half a pot of arrows, those longbowmen will have at least half an hour of rest before they can fully recover their strength! ”

Li Cunhuan's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he looked at the position of Lu Longbing's left flank, and then at the position of the right flank. He knew that now Zhu Wen had turned the situation back. Li Cunhuan's left-wing broken army and the bloody robe were all slaughtered, and the powerful broken army was already pressing forward step by step. However, Niu Cunjie made full use of the thick infantry combat power to drag the broken army on the battlefield. However, the only thing Niu Cunjie can do now is to drag down the broken army capital and delay the time of defeat.

And on the left flank of Lu Longbing, Li Cunxiao was entangled, and the infantry had no way to rescue Li Cunxiao. If Li Cunxiao is defeated, it will be a serious blow to the left flank, and this will be not only a loss of troops, but also a loss of morale. Li Cunxiao's personality charm casts high morale, but if he is defeated and killed or captured, this is a matter that will frustrate everyone, it can be said that the Tianxing army defeated Li Cunxiao, then Lu Longbing's left flank will collapse.

The left wing collapsed, and Lu Longbing would be suppressed by Zhu Wen on the edge of Jishui, and it would be difficult for Zhu Wen to be forced to jump into the river. Evolved into the battle of Kunyang at the time of the replacement of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the beginning, the battle of Kunyang made the water flow. And he, Li Cunhuan, didn't want to say that there would be such a record in history later: 'In the past, Xuanwu fought against Lu Long in Yunzhou Jishui, Xuanwu broke Lu Long, trampled on and drowned countless people, and Jishui did not flow. ’

However, it was useless to be anxious, and after a while, Duan Ziyao had already forced his soldiers to support the left flank, in order to stabilize the left flank. Although Li Cunxiao received support, his soldiers still fought smaller and smaller, and were divided by the Tianxing army, and then concentrated their forces to exterminate. For this reason, Li Cunxiao took the risk of attacking and killing Zhu Youzhen many times, but he returned in vain, and the last time he picked Zhu Youzhen's helmet, which really scared Zhu Youzhen uninvited, and the protection force was even stronger.

Now Zhu Wen was also in a hurry, and he sent two messengers again, one to Ding Hui, asking him to bring troops to support, and the other to Zhang Cunjing, asking him to pester Gao Siji. Zhu Wen did not forget to lead the troops around Gao Siji behind him.

"Chitose! Chitose! Big things are wrong! "Two of Juwen's messengers had just left, but a messenger came.

"What happened?" Zhu Wen's face tense asked the messenger who was brought in by Jing Xiang.

"Li Keyong has trapped Huaizhou with Li Hanzhi as the vanguard, and is now besieging Heyang, when I came, Li Keyong was mobilizing boats and preparing to cross the river! Threaten to cross the river and kill His Majesty (Emperor Corning)! The messenger said in a panicked sweat on his forehead.

Zhu Wen was really more panicked than the messenger when he heard this, Emperor Kangning was the only one in Zhu Wen's hands who could compete with Emperor Qianning in Li Keyong's hands. This is still a matter of righteousness, Emperor Li Yu of Qianning is the eldest son of the first emperor Tang Zhaozong, and there is no problem in inheriting the throne. Although Li Bao, Emperor Kangning, was not the eldest son of Tang Zhaozong, it was said that Tang Xizong was critically ill in the past, and all the ministers discussed taking Li Bao, who was still King Ji at that time, as the emperor's younger brother. is because Li Bao is the eldest of their generation of brothers except for Tang Xizong, and his reputation is also the most virtuous. And opposite Heyang is the eastern capital Luoyang, so Zhu Wen can't help but panic.

When it is really a disaster, Zhu Wen has not recovered from the bad news of Li Keyong's attack on Luoyang. Another messenger came over there. To be correct, it should be a defeated army, and it was reported that Zhang Cunjing was captured and the Guanzhong cavalry was defeated. The news that Hakuma will soon come from behind.

Zhu Wen had to Mingjin to withdraw his troops, and Li Cunhuan was not prepared to fight Zhu Wen to the death, and at the same time Mingjin withdrew his troops. In this way, a life-and-death war came to an end. As soon as Gao Siji came back, he looked for Li Cunhuan indignantly.

"General, I don't understand why you let the army retreat when we are about to win! I just need to attack behind Zhu Wen, and Zhu Wen will be defeated! Gao Siji said unwillingly.

"Zhu Wen's defeat is a defeat, but it's not a big defeat, it's just a small defeat!" Li Cunhuan did not scold Gao Siji's tone, but patiently explained.

"There are still 50,000 horses there in Dinghui, enough to hold down the position, and there is a strong Yunzhou behind it, and what if I win? Capture Yunzhou? Don't forget that we are now allies with Wang Shifan, and Wang Shifan is not our subordinate! Pinglu is not our territory, even if Yunzhou is defeated, in the end, it was either seized by Zhu Wen because the distance was too far to operate, or it was obtained by Wang Shifan! ”

"He dares!" Gao Siji said in a low voice when he heard this.

"In the past, the Tang Dynasty captured Baekje, and finally Silla, which was a subsidiary of the Tang Dynasty, occupied Baekje not long after. In the end, the matter was not settled. Do you say that the courage of his king is less than that of the king of Silla? Li Cunhuan sneered and said softly.

Gao Siji couldn't help but be silent.

"General, Zhu Wen has sent someone over!" Sha Yuke walked into the tent, glanced at Gao Siji, and said in a deep voice.

"Oh!?" Li Cunhuan showed an expression on his face, nodded noncommittally, and asked, "Who is it?" But Zhu Wen has a lot of martial arts in his hands, I guess it should be Jing Xiang, right? ”

Sha Yuke's face flashed with surprise and said, "How does the general know?" It was Zuo Shenjun and Lang Jingxiang of the Ministry of Rites who came, accompanied by Wang Fa, the envoy of Xuanwu Observation, and Xie Tong, the doctor of Chaosan, as the deputy envoy. ”

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but gasp slightly when he heard this, and Gao Siji beside him couldn't help asking, "General, what's going on?" Are these people very powerful? ”

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