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Chapter 743: The Decisive Battle (4)

When Li Xian saw Cheng Zhijie gathering thousands of Yanyun Jing Cavalry, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. In the night, these thousands of elite horsemen lined up. Under the light of the torches, everyone's faces were solemn. There is no doubt that they are ready to go out at any time.

Li Xian glanced back at the many generals who followed behind him, and said helplessly: "It's just to cross the river at night to take a look, what else can you see in the past when you are so prosperous?" ”

"The body of the lord is ten thousand gold, and he must not be lightly involved."

The eldest grandson Wuji bowed down and said: "The minister dares to persuade him, please think twice." ”

Others also persuaded Li Xian, but Li Xian just didn't agree: "If Lone doesn't come, change to any of you as handsome, Lone will naturally rest assured that you will fight boldly, but since Lone is here, it is naturally better to see it with your own eyes." This battle must be completely victorious, and the land south of the Yangtze River will be peaceful, and I dare not engage in it without prudence. As a general, what is knowing astronomy and geography? It's nothing more than looking at it and keeping it in mind. ”

He waved his hand and said, "Go back, and only bring thirty or fifty personal soldiers." The large number of people is easy to be noticed by Li Shimin's scouts, and at noon tomorrow, he will cross the river thirty miles downstream from the Hanshui River alone. The majestic sea leader responded, and the others performed their own duties. ”

"Please go with General Luo and General Pei!"

Seeing that Li Xian's mind had been decided, the eldest grandson Wuji took a step forward and stopped in front of Li Xian again and bowed his head and said: "The body of the lord alone is the life of the people in the world. The weight of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains is not as heavy as the danger of the main public security. If the lord insists on going, please take General Luo and General Pei with him. Thirty or fifty guards are too few, and more elite soldiers need to be brought. ”

Li Xian smiled and nodded, "It's okay if you agree?" Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan, both of you follow. Bring another hundred sword guards, that's all right? If you bring more men and horses, then you will not go to check but go to war. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji was about to say more, and saw that Ye Huaisleeve shook his head slightly at him. The eldest grandson Wuji's heart moved, and then he moved his steps and said, "Please plan for the world...... Go fast and go back quickly. ”

"Got it, got it...... and Du Ruxuan's verbosity. ”

Li Xian muttered in a low voice, then snapped his fingers, and the big black horse not far away immediately ran over, stretching his head and rubbing Li Xian's arm. Li Xian patted the big black horse's neck, turned over and got on the horse, and galloped away with a hundred sword guards and Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan on their horses. Xiongkuohai didn't dare to be careless, and ordered the heavy armor Mo knife battalion to march thirty miles downstream, just in case, Cheng Zhijie transferred thousands of elite horsemen to wait on the side of the riverbank.

After Li Xian left, the eldest grandson Wuji hurriedly asked Ye Huaisleeve: "Why didn't everyone Ye stop the lord from doing such a risky thing?" ”

"I can't stop it."

Ye Huaisleeve shook his head with a smile and said, "Since the lord has arrived, how can he not go to see the terrain in person?" This war is related to the overall situation of the south, and if anyone is changed to the commander, I am afraid that we will have to make sufficient preparations to start the war again. I've sent spies to cross the river first, and if I encounter enemy scouts, I'll kill them all. There will be no surprises if we arrange for elite soldiers to respond. ”

"I still don't dare to rest assured......"

Eldest Sun Wuji sighed and said.

"You still don't know the lord."

Ye Huaisleeve said softly: "If it is according to his previous temperament, I am afraid that he will not tell you." Then I crossed the river alone to check the terrain, and I will surprise you when I come back tomorrow. What the lord has experienced, I'm afraid that a hundred of us are not as many as the lord alone. And crossing the river to check the terrain, really as you said, with more than 10,000 elite soldiers, where do you have time to see anything, just afraid that crossing the river will fight with the enemy. That's not to be checked, it's to be challenged. ”

The eldest grandson Wuji was stunned, shook his head and said, "I still think that the lord should not leave the camp lightly." ”

Ye Huaisleeve shook his head with a smile, admiring Changsun Wuji's stubbornness more and more.

More than 100 horsemen and horses went downstream along the Han River, and the scouts had already checked where the water was shallow during the day, and they could directly ride horses and wade through the water, and when Li Xian and the others arrived here, the secret spies of the Military Inspectorate Department were already guarded, and there were also military guards guarding the river, in case they were discovered by enemy scouts.

When Li Xian saw a tall fat man standing among the secret spies by the river, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"Minister Wanyulou, knock to see the lord."

"Why don't you sleep a little longer."

Li Xian was surprised: "I went to see it in the middle of the night, and I didn't wake you up when I saw that you were sleeping sweetly." ”

Wan Yulou puffed up his chest and said: "The minister came from Jiangdu for thousands of miles day and night, not to sleep!" The minister is here to serve the Lord's sorrows, how can he sleep with a quilt? ”

"This sentence has a bit of Wang Qinian's flavor."

Li Xian nodded and said seriously.

Wan Yulou smiled: "Actually, the minister was driven out by the Ye family...... Ye said that if I didn't come here before the lord came here, she would send me back to Chang'an City to be a servant who swept the floor and served tea. ”

"It's not a harsh punishment...... It's just that you're a subordinate, why do you want to send you back to Chang'an City? ”

Li Xian asked with a smile.

"Ye said that there are not enough eunuchs in the Taiji Palace recently......"

With a poof, Li Xian couldn't help but burst out laughing.

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Crossing the river at night was to avoid being discovered by Li Shimin's scouts, but this kind of thing was naturally impossible to check the terrain in the thick of the night. After crossing the river, Li Xian asked people to find a hidden place to rest, and waited for dawn before acting.

Wan Yulou was the first time to take on the heavy responsibility of protecting Li Xian, so he naturally didn't dare to slack off. Because of the excitement, Sleepy didn't know where he was thrown to. It's like being beaten with chicken blood, and his little eyes are full of light. Even my butt doesn't hurt anymore, and I don't know if it's a psychological effect or if the pads are good......

When I crossed the river, it was not long before dawn, and after about half an hour of the darkest hour, the eastern sky gradually turned the color of fish belly white, and the line of sight gradually became clearer. Li Xian got up and got on his horse, led everyone to walk upstream along the Han River, and saw that there was a high slope not far away, Li Xian and others hid their horses behind the high slope and climbed up on foot.

Lying on the high slope, Li Xian took out his clairvoyance and looked in the direction of Li Shimin's camp.

Because there is still a long distance, even with clairvoyance, I can only see the outline. Li Xian glanced at it a few times and then turned his gaze to the big river, there were two huge turns in this section of the Han River, Li Shimin's camp was not far from the first turn, facing the water on both sides, and the north and east were open land. If it's a hard attack, you can only attack from these two directions.

But if you want to attack from the northeast and northeast, the army must first cross the Han River...... In this way, the initiative is still in the hands of Li Shimin. If Li Shimin led the army to attack when the army was halfway through, he was afraid that even if the Yanyun army was good at fighting, it would be difficult to cross the river.

And if the army crossed the river and directly attacked Li Shimin's camp, the losses would be even greater. Because there are not many boats, you have to build pontoon bridges to cross the river. As soon as he thought of this, Li Xian couldn't help but think of the battle when Yang Guang first conquered the Goguryeo people in Liaodong during the Great Cause period.

The elite soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty stepped on the pontoon bridge built by the migrant workers to attack the east bank of Liaoshui, but the pontoon bridge built by Yu Wenkai was shorter and could not reach the east bank, and the soldiers became the target of Goguryeo archers on the pontoon bridge, and the pontoon bridge rebuilt on the second day was broken by the bed crossbow of the Goguryeo people, so that the old general Mai Tiezhu and Qian Shixiong and others were trapped on the east bank of Liaoshui with hundreds of remnants, and all died heroically.

Landing on the beach is too difficult.

"If it is a strong attack, it will be difficult for people and horses to cross the river. As long as the army moves, Li Shimin will immediately lead troops to attack...... Alternatively, the cavalry could bypass Xiangyang City and attack the enemy camp from due north or east. ”

Luo Shixin looked at the terrain in front of him and felt a little embarrassed.

Li Xian shook his head and said: "It's too far to go around, if the cavalry attack fails, the reinforcements won't be able to rush over to support at all, and if you are trapped on this side of the river, you will die." ”

"Crossing the River and Storming ......"

Pei Xingyan thought for a while and said, "But Li Shimin has more than 200,000 troops, and the soldiers are almost twice as many as ours. With a large number of troops, you only need to defend the river, and this battle has already won by seven points before the enemy is defeated...... The losses are too great, even if they rush across the river, unless they form a scale of more than 10,000 people, otherwise the scattered people will not have combat strength at all. As long as 10,000 people cross the river, they can stand firm and protect their positions, and the follow-up troops can cross the river smoothly...... It's too difficult to force 10,000 people to come over. ”

"It's not hard."

Luo Shixin pointed to the enemy camp in the distance and said, "It's impossible...... Li Shimin only set aside a stone's throw from the riverbank, even if you can come over 10,000 people, how can you line up? A long snake along the riverbank? It's not enough for enemy archers to shoot at the target! ”

"Will Li Shimin not wait to take the initiative to cross the river?"

Pei Xingyan asked.

"Not yet."

Li Xian shook his head: "Shou, the advantage is him." If he attacks, half of the troops under his command are surrendered by the Liang army, which is not easy to use at all. But if it is used for defense, the combat power of the troops can be brought into play. ”

"Alas......"

Pei Xingyan and Luo Shixin sighed at the same time, and they couldn't think of any way.

Li Xian looked at Xiangyang City in the distance, thoughtfully.

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It took half a day to map the terrain of about thirty miles on this side of the riverbank, and Li Xian ordered to return to the camp to discuss again, and everyone got on their horses and galloped to the agreed place. Although I encountered several groups of enemy scouts in the past half day, I avoided all those who could avoid them, and I killed all those who couldn't avoid them, but I didn't encounter any danger.

On the way back, everyone's hearts became much more relaxed.

When there were still more than ten miles away from the agreed place, a cavalry of about 200 people suddenly appeared in front. There was no flag, it was in an open place that they met, and both sides couldn't hide if they wanted to. Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan glanced at each other, Pei Xingyan nodded and urged the horse forward, while Luo Shixin stayed by Li Xian's side.

Both sides stopped about a hundred paces away, apparently surprised.

It's Li Shimin's people.

And the most surprising thing is not that they encountered the enemy's more than 200 elite cavalry, but that Li Shimin was among them! In this way, suddenly, without warning, the commanders of the two camps met. No one expected such a thing to happen, so that everyone was a little distracted.

Among the people on both sides, the leader was dressed in black armor.

The same handsome face, the same outfit.

In fact, even Li Xian was taken aback. But soon, he guessed why he met Li Shimin. At the same time, Li Shimin also guessed why he met his fateful enemy.

Slowly breathing a sigh of relief, Li Shimin urged the horse to take two steps forward, and hugged his fist at Li Xian and said, "Brother An, I haven't seen you for a long time, don't come unharmed?" ”

Li Xian nodded, smiled and pointed to the other side of the river: "Just came back?" ”

Li Shimin bowed his head and said, "Just came back...... Want to go back? ”

Li Xian said: "I want to go back." ”

"What a coincidence"

Li Shimin sighed: "Brother An's brother came in person, and my brother didn't dare to be cautious, so I crossed the river last night and went to check outside Brother An's camp, but I didn't expect to meet you here." ”

Li Xian smiled and said, "It's not a coincidence, it's really unfortunate." ”

Hearing Li Xian's words, Li Shimin's face changed slightly. He recognized the two generals beside Li Xian, one was Luo Shixin and the other was Pei Xingyan. These two people are superb in martial arts, and there is only one Wei Chigong by his side. It's not the worst thing, it's the worst thing...... Li Xian's martial arts are extremely strong in themselves!

"Since Brother An has seen it, he naturally knows that this place is a little closer to my camp."

He looked at Li Xian and said seriously.

Li Xian nodded and said indifferently: "You are closer to me." ”