The cold wind was howling, and Li Cunhuan was wrapped in a gray-black mink scarf around his neck, and a black robe was draped over his shoulders. Although in the cold wind, Li Cunhuan was still wearing cold iron armor. Li Cunhuan didn't ride a horse, and now his physical condition is not suitable for the bumps of a war horse. So Li Cunhuan is now riding on a chariot.

"Is this Wang Maozhang's camp?" Li Cunhuan held the railing on the chariot with his left hand, swung his battle robe with his right hand, stretched out his hand wearing iron arm guards, and pointed to the camp in front of him.

"Yes!" Zhang Xinbi, who was simply a guide by his side, responded respectfully.

"It's not like his style!" Li Cunhuan muttered in a low voice.

Before Li Cunhuan came, Wang Shifan was extremely brave, and successively attacked with the newly victorious army, and defeated Wang Jian several times. You must know that Wang Jian's soldiers and horses are combined with Zhang Xin's newly defeated army, with nearly 40,000 people. In Li Cunhuan's opinion, no matter how Wang Maozhang is, he should give himself a dismount.

"Probably the power of His Highness, after all, His Highness is powerful in the United States, attacking the Khitan and Bohai in the north, destroying the three kingdoms of Goguryeo, Silla, and Baekje in the east, and Li Keyong in the west, making it helpless, and attacking Zhuwen in the south, causing it to be anxious." Zhang Xian complimented with a sneer.

"Wang Maozhang is not such a person!" Li Cunhuan shook his head, just about to say something.

The two horses galloped to the ground, one horse, his face was yellow, slightly ugly, but he was only ten ** years old, but his face was already full of anger, and he was obviously a rare warrior in the world. The other ride is the opposite, with a white face and a handsome appearance, contrary to the previous one, his face is full of elegance, no matter how he looks at it, he is also a Cao Zijian (Cao Zhi)-like figure in the world, and more importantly, he is not wearing armor on his body, wearing a thick robe, Zhang Xian is estimated to be Li Cunhuan's staff.

"Your Highness, it's freezing outside, don't hurt your body!" As soon as the slightly ugly-looking warrior arrived, he grabbed the reins of the horse and said to Li Cunhuan on the horse's back.

"Xingqin, you have a heart! I've been out for a long time, so let's go back to camp! Li Cunhuan nodded and spoke.

Zhang Xian was slightly stunned and muttered, "Xingqin? Could it be the deputy soldier and horse envoy of the Iron Eagle Duyuan? ”

"Exactly? What do you think? Li Cunhuan glanced at Zhang Xian suspiciously, and asked.

"Nothing!" Zhang Xian smiled bitterly.

"You're Zhang Xian, right?" Yuan Xingqin glanced at Zhang Xian arrogantly, and snorted coldly, "You were the one who blocked the way in the mountain col that day!" But that's it! But fortunately, it was you who led the troops to garrison, otherwise I would not have led the troops to rescue His Highness so quickly. ”

When Zhang Xian heard this, he hurriedly lowered his head and smiled bitterly. Xindao: As soon as you came up, more than a dozen cavalrymen smashed away the spear formation with their bodies, and you took the lead in killing in, where can I stop it!

Li Cunhuan was slightly stunned, and then came back to his senses, Yuan Xingqin wanted to settle accounts after the autumn. He shook his head with a smile and said, "The past is like smoke, and the wind blows it away." Stop talking nonsense. You guy didn't stay in the camp well, and you came to look for me to go back, is there anything else? ”

Yuan Xingqin showed a strange smile when he heard this, grinning on the side, and did not speak.

Li Cunhuan didn't ask him any questions, and asked the elegant young man on the side: "Yanzhang, even you won't reply to me!" Isn't it true that I, Your Highness, have already betrayed my relatives? ”

Xie Yanzhang was so squeezed by Li Cunhuan's words that he couldn't find an excuse, plus he was young and his face was flushed, but in the end he couldn't match Li Cunhuan's sharp gaze like an eagle falcon.

"Your Highness, you have a future...... Xie Yanzhang muttered.

"Huh?" When Li Cunhuan heard this, he was stunned at first, and couldn't help but be overjoyed, and asked, "Male or female?" ”

Without waiting for Xie Yanzhang to answer, Li Cunhuan patted his head and said with a smile: "I'm really happy, it's only two or three months old at most, I know if it's a man or a woman, it's a shadow pity, right?" She is the most beside me. ”

Xie Yanzhang hesitated for a moment and muttered, "Your Highness, Mr. Zhou, Guo Sima, and General Yang all said that this child, this child, may have a problem. ”

"What's the problem?" Li Cunhuan asked with a surprised face.

Before Xie Yanzhang could answer, there was a sudden loud noise, as if something had fallen to the ground, Li Cunhuan's carriage clearly felt the feeling that the sky was shaking, and the war horses raised their heads in shock and neighed, and their hooves moved uneasily.

Yuan Xingqin's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and grabbed the reins of the horse, which pressed down the horse pulling the carriage. You must know that Li Cunhuan is not feeling well now, and what he brought is not a war horse, but a meek horse, these horses are not as bold as war horses.

"What's going on?" Li Cunhuan almost fell on the carriage and hurriedly held on to the handrail of the carriage.

"Your Highness! It's better to get off the chariot! Feng Baodu, who was guarding Li Cunhuan's side, hurriedly turned over and dismounted, stepped aside, and said loudly.

Li Cunhuan also felt that the chariot didn't seem to be very stable, so he nodded and got off the chariot. Seeing a shout of killing, a startled horse pulling the cart, and an uneasy neigh, Li Cunhuan couldn't help but shake his head. "I'm used to living a comfortable life, and these horses are for pleasure. Don't pull it out next time, next time I'll see it's better to ride a horse! ”

Xie Yanzhang didn't have the heart to answer Li Cunhuan's words, but instead pointed to the front of the hill and exclaimed, "Your Highness! It's Wang Maozhang, he attacked! ”

"Huh!" Li Cunhuan hurriedly walked to the front of the hill, but his body was moving violently, and he couldn't help pulling the wound, and Li Cunhuan, who was in pain, couldn't help but gasp.

Feng Baodu hurriedly helped Li Cunhuan in the back, and asked anxiously: "Your Highness, what's wrong!" Someone ...... coming."

Li Cunhuan waved his hand and said, "Nothing!" Don't make a fuss, I haven't been hurt at all. ”

As soon as Li Cunhuan said that, he had already puffed up his chest and looked down from the hill, only to see that the wooden fence of Wang Maozhang's camp had fallen. A Huainan soldier shouted and rushed out. Originally, the Pinglu army besieging the camp couldn't help but be in chaos, they didn't expect the Huainan army to appear in such a situation, they all paid attention to the gate of the camp.

As a result, the army did not have time to assemble, but the Huainan army, in a neat formation, although it attacked in a hurry, it was not impatient. On the contrary, Wang Jian's army of nearly 40,000 people was in chaos. The soldiers were all fighting on their own, with more than 100 people and as few as 35 people. There was no formation, but it was fought by instinct.

However, Wang Jian is not an ordinary person in the end, otherwise he would not have become the Taejo of Goryeo. I saw him lead his own soldiers, form a circle, erect his handsome flag, and lead the army forward. The originally scattered soldiers of the Pinglu Army naturally moved closer to Shuaiqi, and the early advantage of the Huainan Army began to slowly lose. In the final analysis, Wang Maozhang's troops are insufficient, if he has thousands of cavalry in hand, I am afraid that Wang Jian will only have the choice of fleeing.

"Withdraw!" Wang Maozhang also did not love war, and ordered the military horn to be sounded.

Although the Huainan army retreated, it was not panicked, staggered left and right, and protected each other's flanks. Wang Jian sent a cavalry army to try to disrupt the opponent's retreat, but instead lost dozens of cavalry. had no choice but to restrain his subordinates, clean up the mess, and watch Wang Maozhang leave.

"The art of command!" Li Cunhuan had to sigh.

However, Zhang Xian, the Pinglu general on one side, is obviously much more embarrassed, after all, praising one side is often belittling one side. Wang Maozhang's command is miraculous, so isn't the command of the Pinglu Army terrible?

Probably seeing the embarrassment on Zhang Xin's face, Li Cunhuan added. "Wang (Jian) is also a good soldier and horse envoy, he reacted so quickly, and also found the right strategy for confrontation, so that Wang Maozhang returned in vain."

Of course, this futility is just a kind word, Wang Maozhang killed and wounded seven or eight hundred people this time, and more importantly, it was a heavy blow to morale. Morale is often a thing that comes with one thing and the other is the other, and I'm afraid that now Wang Jianzheng is thinking about how to improve morale with a sad face.

Li Cunhuan watched carefully, and suddenly Yuan Xingqin pointed indignantly at a certain place and said, "Your Highness, look! ”

Li Cunhuan looked in the direction pointed by Yuan Xingqin, and it turned out that in the open space of Wang Maozhang's camp, dozens of generals were sitting on the ground and drinking happily.

This scene was not only seen by Li Cunhuan, but also seen by Wang Jian below. is because Wang Maozhang dismantled the wooden fence, although it is not exhaustive. But Wang Jian stood on the command car, but he could see seven or eight points.

"Who is Wang Maozhang?" Li Cunhuan asked Zhang Xian on the side, when Wang Maozhang came to Qingzhou, Wang Shifan invited Wang Maozhang to a banquet in Qingzhou, Zhang Xian was naturally at the table, and he was sitting next to Wang Maozhang, so he naturally recognized Wang Maozhang himself.

Zhang Xian looked at it carefully, suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the east, and said, "Your Highness, please look at the red-armored warrior who lives in the east, that person is Wang Maozhang!" ”

Li Cunhuan looked over intently, and saw a warrior who seemed to be covered in fire sitting in the east, his helmet had been taken off, although his hair was scattered, but he was not heroic. It can be vaguely seen that this person is only in his early thirties, and his appearance has the unique whiteness of Jiangnan people, but his face is resolute, and the whole person looks heroic.

Speaking of Wang Jian, seeing Wang Maozhang despise him so much, he couldn't help but be furious. Originally, it was enough to be angry by Wang Maozhang, but now Wang Maozhang is openly sitting on the ground as if no one was there, drinking happily. Who are you? So disregarded.

Wang Jian immediately summoned his generals and his younger brother Wang Shilian, Wang Shilian was not an ordinary person, in history he was the generalissimo of Goryeo's northern Xinjiang, resisting many Khitan attacks. He is one of the best generals under Wang Jian.

"Cheap! How many soldiers and horses do you need! Give me the defeat of this megalomaniacal guy! Wang Jian was very angry, and the beard on his chin was stiff and straight.

"All you need is the soldiers and horses of the headquarters!" Wang Shilian said loudly.

"Good!" Wang Jian didn't talk nonsense, and directly ordered Wang Shilian to lead the troops and horses of his headquarters to charge.

Wang Shilian's headquarters soldiers and horses are all composed of Wang Jian's family soldiers, in other words, Wang Jian's own tooth soldiers. There were not many people, only five hundred, but everyone was unusually elite. First of all, all of them are three big and five thick, and they can be more than six feet tall. Let's talk about it here, in the Tang Dynasty, one foot thirty .seven centimeters, in other words, a six-foot man is one meter eighty-four, and as for seven feet, that is a guy of two meters and one.

Wang Jian specially imported full-body plate armor from Lu Long, and a set of full-body plate armor will cost sixty times, to say the least! Buying an acre of medium-sized land in Lulong is only about five or six yuan, and this set of plate armor is ten acres of land. It is equivalent to half of a farmer's wealth. Everyone uses a custom-made broadsword, not a large knife. It is the kind with a blade about three and a half feet long and a hilt about one and a half feet long.

In addition, each soldier is equipped with a hand-to-hand combat blade. There are also crossbows for long-range attacks, and the crossbows are specially purchased from Runzhou in the south. The reason why Runzhou crossbowmen are famous all over the world is because of the good quality of the crossbows made in Runzhou, and the good quality of Runzhou soldiers.

"Woo! Woo! ......" A loud horn sounded, and five hundred private soldiers of the Wang family sent three fronts. Launched a charge at Wang Maozhang's military camp.

Wang Maozhang heard the sound of the horn, drank the wine in his hand in one go, slammed the wine bowl on the wooden table, and shouted: "This thief bird army thinks that we Huainan people can't be bullied!" ”

After that, he stood up and said to the generals beside him: "Gentlemen, we will kill the enemy together!" Come on, give us warm wine, don't let us come back from the bloody battlefield, and the drink is cold! ”

"No!" The soldiers hurriedly responded.

The generals were also aroused by Wang Maozhang's pride, and everyone picked up their helmets and put them on their heads. shouted: "Lead the horse!" ”

The Huainan army reacted very quickly, but in a moment, all the generals were ready, and the number was not large. It's just the headquarters soldiers led by each other, and the total is just a hundred horsemen and more than 500 infantry troops.

"Kill!" Wang Maozhang frantically held a horse lance and led the army to rush out.

"Humph!" Wang Shilian snorted coldly and shouted: "Kill the thief and reward three times!" The Ma army tripled! ”

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Kill the thief!! When the private soldiers of the Wang family heard this, everyone shouted loudly, and the momentum was excited.

"Kill you bird's head!" Wang Maozhang roared angrily, leading the generals to kill in, and the horse lance in his hand flew up and down, beating the Wang family's private soldiers dizzy.

Don't look at the Wang family's private soldiers, but Wang Maozhang brought his subordinates' personal soldiers, and in terms of quality, they are no worse than the Wang family's private soldiers. After all, the pro-soldiers are generally the last line of defense of the general, and they are also the closest and most loyal people. All of them are well-armed and powerful.

In addition, the generals under him all drank wine, and they were fooled by Wang Maozhang, and everyone rushed to the front. Not to mention anything else, just to protect their own owners, their own soldiers must also fight bravely to kill the enemy. Not to mention, your own generals are all rushing to the front, are you still embarrassed to cower in the back?

As a result, Wang Maozhang made Wang Jian stunned and rushed through the battle formation of the Wang family's private soldiers, and Wang Maozhang didn't know if he had drunk too much and his blood was surging. With a roar, he slashed towards Wang Jianjun.

However, I don't know if the quality of the Pinglu Army is really bad, or if it was made imposing by Wang Maozhang before. was actually killed by more than 100 horsemen in the battle formation for a while, and there was no way to delay the arrival of the outflanking army, and it could even be said that there was no way to resist, so that Wang Maozhang could retreat calmly. And Wang Shilian's side also retreated back, with more than 100 dead and wounded, and whether they were dead or wounded, they were basically delayed on the battlefield and captured by the Huainan army. It's all because the whole body plate armor is too heavy, and it is hard to walk back without injury. Not to mention that the Huainan Army is worried about the set of full-body plate armor you are wearing, and everyone is eager to peel off your skin. And he himself is incapacitated, so it is strange not to be captured.

Wang Jian didn't dare to be strong, and hurriedly led the army to retreat ten miles. Originally, Wang Jian's camp was only five miles away from Wang Maozhang's camp. Now it's fifteen miles away at once. Obviously afraid of Wang Maozhang, nearly 40,000 people are afraid of more than 6,000 people? It's surprisingly jaw-dropping, but it's a fact.

Li Cunhuan looked at Wang Maozhang on the hills, Wang Maozhang finished fighting, went back, and continued to drink with the generals, and the soldiers under his command were also excited and screaming.

Li Cunhuan couldn't help but sigh: "Be a famous general in the world!" ”

"Humph!" Yuan Xingqin was not convinced, "Your Highness, you give me a thousand cavalry, and I will crush these Huainan troops!" Call them arrogant! ”

Li Cunhuan shook his head and said: "It's not that the Pinglu army is weak, but that Wang Maozhang is good at grasping the rhythm, think about it carefully, is Wang Jian as if he was eaten to death by Wang Maozhang?" ”

Everyone thought about it carefully, it was really like this, how could they see that Wang Jian seemed to be in contact with Wang Maozhang, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed that Wang Jian was cooperating with Wang Maozhang to defeat him. Of course, Wang Jian's cooperation with Wang Maozhang to defeat himself is just a feeling, in fact, everyone knows that Wang Jian and Wang Maozhang have no relationship with a copper coin, and it is even more impossible for Wang Jian to use his own soldiers to send military merits to Wang Maozhang, even if it is sent, it is not sent like this.

Wang Jian came back and forth, losing at least more than 1,500 soldiers and horses. In particular, there are more than 100 private soldiers of the Wang family, which is enough to make Wang Jian's heart ache for an inexplicable period of time.

It's all money! There are also loyal warriors, who are loyal but can not be bought with money, and need to come to the cage with kindness. Even many people are the sons of generations of domestic servants, which is a foundation that can only be formed over time.

It didn't take long for Wang Jian to come to Li Cunhuan and beg Li Cunhuan to send troops to help in the war. In Wang Jian's opinion, I can't eat you, but the mighty Lu Longjun can always do it, right?

Li Cunhuan came here to recover Wang Maozhang, and he didn't push it. As soon as the person sent by Wang Jian explained his intentions, Li Cunhuan readily agreed.

Li Cunhuan let Xie Yanzhang fight for the first time, which made Yuan Xingqin very angry, but when Li Cunhuan let him play the second battle, he immediately became happy. In his opinion, he was cleaning up the mess for Xie Yanzhang.

Li Cunhuan immediately sent someone to Wang Maozhang to write a war letter, in order to lure Wang Maozhang out, Li Cunhuan said in the war book, each with the same number of troops, 3,000 people, if Wang Maozhang wins. He Li Cunhuan didn't say a word, and immediately let Wang Maozhang and other soldiers and horses go back, and also provided food along the way. However, if the war was defeated, Wang Maozhang needed to surrender unconditionally.

Wang Maozhang naturally knew that Li Cunhuan might not be so easy to deal with, but Li Cunhuan had no choice but to hit his death hole. If you don't fight, you can't leave, and if you fight, you can still go. Wang Maozhang pondered for a while, gritted his teeth, and agreed.

Although Ming knew that this might be a pit dug by Li Cunhuan, at this time, what else could he do but jump?

(To be continued)