Chapter 88: On the eve of the decisive battle

The current Li Cunhuan doesn't know the news of Li Kuangshou**. Now he is dealing with Li Keyong's attack, Li Ke has changed his previous strategy and used Youzhou to surrender troops to carry out a harassing attack. Although Li Cunhuan's longbowmen had pulleys to save their strength, the high-intensity battles for three consecutive days still made the longbowmen unable to bear. The longbowmen's long-range strike force was still not as sharp as it was on the first day, and Li Cunhuan was only able to send more than 300 longbowmen to fight back in turn.

However, Li Cunhuan was not without results, and the counterattack in the past three days, especially on the first day, not only repelled the enemy, but also captured the fierce general Zhou Dewei, and also found more than 500 wounded Shatuo people in the equipped iron cavalry, plus the prisoners of the Tielin Army, a total of more than 800 people.

At the same time, there are more than 5,000 sets of iron armor, especially the iron horses, which are basically one person and three armor, and there are few double armor. Although these armors are damaged, they can be repaired and can be used again.

In the next two days, the harvest was not as great as the first day, mainly because the corpses were taken away by their comrades. But even so, according to incomplete statistics, the number of casualties in the Hedong Army is now 6,000 to 8,000. The number of injured is at least 10,000. Of course, Li Cunhuan also paid a lot of price, and the lives of 600 heroic soldiers were forever left on this land.

"It's time for a decisive battle!" Li Cunhuan took a deep breath and said to everyone.

"Our longbowmen are running out of arrows, and many of them are tired. And regimental trainingAfter training in war, they can already become a soldier. We can't wait any longer, and if we wait, we will be the first to survive! Li Cunhuan had to say this, he miscalculated Li Keyong's strength.

Pang Kongming said with a grin: "General, don't worry! I'll bring the Black Army to have a good fight with Li Ke's Raven Army! ”

Duan Ziyao also stood up and said, "General, you only need your red flag to rest assured, the loyal and filial army will open up a smooth road for you without hesitation." ”

"I'm going to prepare for war!" Li Cunxiao only expressed his position with a short sentence, but this is also in line with Li Cunxiao's consistent surname. A surname that acts decisively.

"General, although the regimental training soldiers are recruits, I will stand in their first batch, under the command of you, general, and lead them to victory!" Jiang Yingjie looked at Li Cunhuan firmly.

Li Cunhuan smiled and waved his hand, "Yingjie, what you need to do is to command the troops well and have soldiers in the charge." Tomorrow...... I'll be out tomorrow myself...... Li Keyong, you wait for me......"

"Eucalyptus!" Li Cunhuan shouted outside the tent.

"Whew! ~" Sha Yuke lifted the curtain, walked in, looked at Li Cunhuan with doubts in his eyes and asked, "Brother Huan, is there anything wrong?" ”

Li Cunhuan slowly put the written letter paper into the envelope. Fold the seal, pick up the seal, and forcefully stamp a wax mark on it. He handed it over and said, "You go to the Hedong military camp in person, and you don't need to say anything to hand over this letter to the officer on duty in the Hedong Army." ”

Sha Eucalyptus didn't ask what was inside, took the envelope, and said solemnly: "Order!" ”

…… The Great Tent of the Central Army of the Hedong Army......

Li Ke showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, slowly tore open the envelope, pulled out the letter paper inside, read it carefully, and inadvertently formed a Sichuan character shape with his eyebrows, and read it again.

"Father, this ...... What is written in Li Cunhuan's letter? Li Cunmiao, whose heart was like an ant on a hot pot, couldn't keep up, and couldn't help asking.

Li Keyong nodded lightly, did not speak, and handed the letter to Li Cunqiao.

Li Cunmiao hurriedly snatched it up, looked at it carefully, and said suspiciously: "This Li Cunhuan is too arrogant, right?" He actually asked us to retreat ten miles, give up the open space as a battlefield, and start a decisive battle in the afternoon. Does he still regard us as the former Qin army? ”

The allusion mentioned in Li Cunqiao is derived from the Battle of Weishui, in which the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated the advance of the former Qin army, and the two sides faced each other in Weishui. Xie An, the commander of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, sent a letter of war to Fu Jian, the commander of the former Qin army, and asked the other party to retreat slightly to facilitate the decisive battle between the two sides. However, the former Qin army had no fighting spirit because of the defeat of the vanguard. In addition, without understanding the commander's orders, the army retreated in a chaotic manner, but instead evolved into a rout on the way to retreat, resulting in the defeat of the former Qin's million-strong army by 80,000 horses and horses of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

And now Hedong Danzhou is also facing off on the front line of the Broken Man Mountain, and the two sides can't help each other, and most importantly, throwing away the morale of the soldiers, the current situation is almost the same as the Battle of Weishui.

Li Keyong sneered and said: "He Li Cunhuan thinks he is Xie An, and I, Li Keyong, am not that Fu Jian!" ”

"Father, shall we take ten miles back, or shall we not move to meet all changes?" Li Cunmiao asked with some hesitation.

Li Keyong leaned his body back on the tiger skin chair and said with a smile: "Retreat!" Why don't you retreat, if I don't retreat, others will still say that I Li Keyong is afraid of him Li Cunhuan! But we can't go as he says, you send someone to Li Cunhuan and tell him that it's the battle tomorrow, and the sun will come out of the camp when the sun shows. You send someone to tell the generals that the 40,000-strong army is divided into two batches, and the rear camp of 20,000 horses is the first to be allocated, and the rear camp is ten miles back and camped. At the same time, the front army prevented the enemy from attacking, and waited for the camp ten miles away to be built, and then the front army set off again. In this way, I'll see what tricks Li Cunhuan can come up with. ”

……… The Great Tent of the Chinese Army in Danzhou.........

"Big brother, it's up to you tomorrow! When you see the signal, attack immediately and be sure to defeat them! What is needed, can be said. Li Cunhuan said with a solemn face.

Li Cunxiao was silent for a moment, and then said, "Black-clothed army! I know they are your treasures, but I have only 4,000 cavalry, and 2,000 more than infantry on horseback. ”

Li Cunhuan gritted his teeth and said, "Yes!" I expected that it would be impossible for Li Keyong to retreat together, and he would definitely retreat in batches. But anything is just in case, if Li Keyong doesn't do that...... Lead your troops and retreat! You don't have to stay with me to die. ”

"Nope! As you say, a lifetime of people, two brothers. In any case, I will also lead the troops to charge into battle, I only need to ......" A complicated look flashed in Li Cunxiao's eyes, and he gritted his teeth and said: "As long as you kill Li Keyong, the Hedong Army will also collapse...... Rout! ”

"Don't embarrass yourself......" Li Cunhuan looked at Li Cunxiao with a worried face.

ps: I can only watch two shifts today! Tomorrow I will work hard for three watches!

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