Chapter 439: The Front Army Retreats
"King Khitan, the Tang Army is here!" Just when Li was thinking about it, the eager voice of King Xi Li Dayu came.
"Are you here?" Li hurriedly asked, "Is it cavalry or infantry?" ”
"The cavalry of the Don Army entered the valley at the same time as the infantry!" Li Dayu said excitedly.
"Entered at the same time? How is this possible? Li asked again in confusion, "Did they send scouts?" Did they send people to occupy the high ground on both sides? ”
Li Dayu swore and said, "That's right, I saw it with my own eyes, their cavalry and infantry entered the Nantai Valley at the same time, and the distance between the front and back was less than a mile. And they did not send out scouts, nor occupied the valleys on either side, and swaggered into the valleys. ”
Li Dayu's words made Li Yanhuo a little overwhelmed, and he was guessing whether the other party's master would do this, whether it was a pretense or another conspiracy. After thinking about it for a while, Li lost his life and didn't come up with a reason, he set his eyes on Sanger.
Sanger remained silent: "Whatever their schemes, we just have to follow the previous plan." ”
In fact, Li's concerns about losing life were completely superfluous, the cavalry of the former army of the Tang Dynasty entered the valley with the infantry, and did not send scouts, nor did they occupy the high ground on both sides, this was not any conspiracy, it was completely caused by the anger of the former army commander Li Sijing and Li Tao. In the previous competition with the Luzhou regiment, Li Sijing's government soldiers were completely defeated, which made him lose face and feel that he couldn't raise his head in front of everyone.
This time, Li Sijing, as the former army commander, originally thought of sending scouts before entering the Nantai Valley. After occupying the mountains on both sides, the brigade entered the valley again. But. At this time, Li Tao sent someone to pass on the message to him. This made Li Sijing's attitude suddenly take a 180-degree turn. If nothing else, just to win back face, I don't listen to you Li Tao can also pass through Nangutai safely, based on this psychology, so there is such an abnormal situation.
Although it was for the sake of gambling, after taking the lead in bringing the cavalry into the valley, Li Sijing's heart was also up and down. In this way, Li Sijing was cautious and cautious along the way, and he was about to walk out of the valley. He breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, a lot of things suddenly rained on the valleys on both sides, Li Sijing was taken aback when he found this strange situation, and hurriedly shouted: "Pay attention to the enemy's sneak attack." ”
But after the black thing was dropped, there was no movement. I don't know what's going on, the usually well-trained war horse, but at this time it is restless. Li Sijing finally calmed down his mount, and then someone came to report: "General." It was wolf dung that was sprinkled from the valley! ”
Li Sijing suddenly realized that horses were naturally afraid of wolves, and the reason why the war horses were so restless was because they smelled wolf dung.
Thinking of this, Li Sijing had a hint of foreboding in his heart. He immediately gave the order and sent the cavalry to rush out of the valley quickly.
As soon as Li Sijing's general order came out, he found a strange picture: hundreds of wolves appeared at the mouth of the valley facing him. They were arranged in a neat formation, slowly approaching Li Sijing's cavalry.
There are many wolves in the steppe. But most of them are seen at night and rarely during the day. Wolves are social animals. But the average wolf pack is between a few to a dozen, and if it reaches dozens, it is a very large group, but it is unheard of to gather hundreds of wolves at a time like this.
Li Sijing knew what the appearance of so many wolves meant to the cavalry's mount, and he shouted: "Shoot those wolves quickly!" ”
Unfortunately, it was too late, and the wolves let out a long howl in unison and began to trot towards the cavalry.
Those trembling horses that were barely controlled by the cavalry, when they saw this scene, they still listened to the command of the cavalry, turned around and fled backwards. The cavalry, having lost control of the horse, was completely panicked and could only lie down on the horse, so as not to be thrown off by the crazy horse.
Li Sijing still maintained a trace of consciousness, and he wanted to stop the cavalry running backwards, but he soon found that it was all in vain, not only was his voice drowned out by the neighing of his horses and the terrified shouts of the personnel, but even his own mount was running forward in horror.
Li Sijing's war horse was a purebred Western Regions horse, which showed an advantage in speed in the process of escaping at this time. Li Sijing was on the galloping war horse, and before he had time to be annoyed, he saw the infantry following closely behind the cavalry. His heart suddenly fell to the bottom: nearly 10,000 cavalry rode out of control on war horses, rushing at a very fast speed towards the unsuspecting infantry, and these infantry had been on the march for half a day, their physical strength had long been exhausted, and the terrain restrictions, these infantry were very densely formed.
The cavalry was getting closer and closer, and Li Sijing could even see the frightened and desperate gaze on the faces of his infantrymen......
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Xue Ne's Chinese army was still moving forward, and Li Kailuo suggested to Xue Ne: "Dadu Governor, there is the Nantai Valley in front, otherwise, let's wait here for a while, and then we will enter after the front army has all passed through the valley." ”
Before Xue Ne could reply, he heard a roar like thunder coming from the Nantai Valley, and the sound was getting closer and closer.
"Grand Duke, this is the sound of the horse's hooves charging at full speed of the cavalry, listen!" Speaking of this, Li Kailuo was puzzled: "Isn't it right? The cavalry in General Li's front army was only eight or nine thousand, but listening to this voice, the cavalry must have at least 30,000 people, isn't it ......?"
Before Li Kailuo's words fell, he saw a cavalry galloping out of the valley.
When Li Kailuo saw this, he hurriedly shouted: "Dadu Governor, it's General Li's cavalry, it's not good, they are rushing towards us." ”
Xue Ne also saw this scene, and he couldn't help but be furious: "Is Li Sijing crazy? Hurry up and stop him, or our infantry will ....... ”
Xue Ne's words stopped abruptly in the middle of speaking, his eyes widened, and the scene in front of him made him gnash his teeth with disgust: the Khitan cavalry was following behind Li Sijing's cavalry, wantonly slashing and killing the soldiers who had just been trampled by Li Sijing's cavalry, in a bloody light. The Khitans easily harvested the lives of the soldiers of the Tang Army.
"Li Sijing, you bastard......" Xue Ne was so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Seeing that the situation in front of him was critical, Li Kailuo remembered the advice Pei Yue had given him before, and hurriedly said to Xue Ne: "Governor, go quickly!" ”
Xue Ne's eyes were red at this time, how could he still listen to Li Kailuo's words, he retreated and advanced, and he was about to move forward.
Li Kailuo couldn't help but be anxious when he saw this, and Xue Ne rode away to the cavalry alone, which was not a suicide. In a hurry, Li Kailuo said to Xue Ne: "The Metropolitan Governor can't help it!" Then he knocked Xue Ne unconscious, placed it horizontally on his war horse, and turned back and galloped wildly the way he came......
…… (To be continued......)