Zhang Rubin was awakened by a stinging pain, when he opened his eyes, a snowy gold-backed tiger tooth knife was pressing on his neck, the knife was very heavy, as long as the other party relaxed his strength slightly, his neck would be directly cut into two pieces by the knife, Zhang Rubin was so frightened that he didn't dare to move.

Su Dingfang said coldly: "If it weren't for the big handsome to catch you alive, you wouldn't even have a chance to open your eyes." ”

"The general spares his life, I am willing to do things for the general!"

Su Dingfang secretly scolded soft bones, but he really needed this person, and he turned around and ordered the soldiers to tie up Zhang Rubin.

In less than half an hour, the 5,000 Tang troops were wiped out by the Sui army, and except for dozens of soldiers who resisted stubbornly and were killed, the remaining 5,000 soldiers all became prisoners of the Sui army.

The 5,000 Tang prisoners of war were barefoot, raised their hands, and were escorted out of the barracks by the Sui soldiers in embarrassment, huddled on the cold school grounds, and after all their weapons and armor were taken away, the Sui soldiers drove them back to the barracks and locked them up.

At this time, the main general Zhang Rubin was taken into an empty room, under the light, there was a tall and straight Sui army general with a golden helmet on his head standing in the room, Zhang Rubin recognized the other party at once, and fell to the ground in fright, and said in a trembling voice: "The last general will see His Royal Highness the King of Qi!" ”

Zhang Xuan said lightly: "I want to know the situation of Li Shuliang's army, I will ask you a few questions, you explain truthfully, I will let you go after the war, if you have the slightest concealment, tonight will be your death!" ”

"If the villain doesn't dare, he must report it truthfully."

In front of Zhang Xuan's powerful aura, Zhang Rubin didn't dare to hide anything, Zhang Xuan asked, he answered, and when Zhang Xuan finished asking, Zhang Rubin was also desperate. He knew that Li Shuliang's army would not survive tonight

Li Shuliang's army was camped about fifty miles away from Xianyu County, although Li Shuliang was eager to put on his wings and fly to Youzhou, but he was still more cautious, he did not dare to march at night in the Hebei territory, for fear of being ambushed, he set up a large camp in a wilderness.

Since they did not carry baggage such as camp fences. Li Shuliang dug a trench around the camp, and the trench was filled with 200,000 spears, surrounded the camp, leaving only a one-zhang wide passage in and out, and temporarily cut down trees to make a camp gate.

It was already the fourth watch, and it was the time when the 25,000 troops slept most soundly in the camp, and the lights were bright in front of the gate, and more than 100 soldiers guarding the gate were very tired, and they each sat on the ground and shrunk into a ball and snoozed. Only on either side of the watchtower were sentries pacing back and forth, looking warily into the distance.

Li Shuliang also sent more than 200 outlying sentinels, who rode around the surroundings and would rush back to report any disturbances.

At this time, a soldier on the guard tower shouted, "Who is it?" ”

The soldiers sitting and napping below stood up one after another, and looked out nervously, only to see a large group of cavalry slowly approaching this side. The cavalry leader shouted: "We are the outer sentinels, and the command is that the eastern crusade will be won!" ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. The password is correct, it should be that the outer patrol has returned, but the soldiers on the guard tower can see clearly that there are hundreds of cavalry, and he suddenly became puzzled in his heart, and shouted to the captain on duty below: "Captain." There are hundreds of cavalry on the other side! ”

The captain was stunned, aren't there only 100 sentinels on the periphery? And who are the extra cavalry?

He urged his horse to rush out and shouted, "Stand still, don't go near the camp!" ”

But as soon as he finished speaking, a wolf-tooth arrow whizzed in, striking him in the throat. The captain screamed, turned over and fell off his horse.

The soldiers at the camp gate suddenly became chaotic, and then hundreds of arrows were fired, and many soldiers could not dodge, and they fell to the ground with arrows. While! While! The alarm bells sounded, especially harsh in the silent night sky.

At this time, hundreds of cavalry rushed in at a gallop, and they smashed open the gate before the Tang army defense appeared, leaving dozens of people to pull out the spears on both sides of the passage, so that the passage expanded rapidly, while the rest of the cavalry slaughtered into the camp, just in front of thousands of crossbowmen who rushed to hear the news, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides.

The earth began to tremble at this time, 20,000 Sui cavalry from all directions to the Tang army camp like a sea tide, Pei Xingyan took the lead, he led 2,000 cavalry like a slender iron stream galloping in the front, the passage in front of the camp has been widened from one zhang to five zhang, a hundred Sui troops are desperately pulling out the spears inserted in the ground, and the passage is still expanding rapidly.

When the two thousand cavalry led by Pei Xingyan came like a lightning gallop, the soldiers at the gate lay down in the trench one after another, and the two thousand cavalry galloped over their heads.

As the 2,000 Sui cavalry entered the camp, thousands of crossbowmen quickly collapsed, and they scattered and fled, shouting wildly.

At this time, the sleeping Tang soldiers woke up one after another, in a panic, they didn't even have time to put on their armor, they ran out of the big tent with their spears, and swung their spears to engage the oncoming Sui cavalry, at this time, more and more cavalry entered the camp, and they brandished their war lances to kill the Tang soldiers in the chaos.

The infantry without formation was far from being able to compete with the cavalry, and the Tang soldiers were ruthlessly stabbed and knocked down by the cavalry, and the screams, cries, and wails resounded throughout the Tang army camp.

Li Shuliang urged the horse to rush out of the big tent, he waved his lance and shouted: "Retreat, retreat from the north gate!" ”

Li Shuliang knew very well that the infantry in the narrow area had nowhere to escape, and would only be slaughtered by the cavalry in the end, and there was only a chance of retreat, with the cover of night, and perhaps a glimmer of life.

At this moment, hundreds of cavalry came from the side, the head of the general is the cavalry general Pei Xingyan, Pei Xingyan only uses a hammer when he is alone with the enemy general, usually leads the cavalry charge with a family heirloom horse lance, Pei Xingyan has been looking for the enemy general, the commander has an order, be sure to capture Li Shuliang alive, can not let him escape.

At this time, Pei Xingyan finally found Li Shuliang who was shouting to retreat, and with his own consciousness, Pei Xingyan judged that this person was Li Shuliang, and he shouted, "The enemy will leave and leave his life!" ”

Li Shuliang turned around, only to see a Sui general wearing silver armor and silver helmet to kill himself, the war horse is extremely strong, running like flying, Sui will be tall, face like a crown jade, the same make a horse lance, murderous, Li Shuliang was frightened, turned the horse and fled, but it was too late, Pei Xingyan war horse was extremely fast, had run to his side, the horse lance waved, with the lance to Li Shuliang's waist swept away, this rod drew Li Shuliang pain to the bone, the horse lance also fell to the ground, but he hugged the horse's neck and did not fall off the horse.

At this time, dozens of Li Shuliang's personal soldiers rushed up and stabbed Pei Xingyan with spears together, Pei Xingyan had no choice but to withdraw the horse lance and fight fiercely with dozens of personal soldiers.

Li Shuliang escaped with his life, and he was extremely angry with Pei Xingyan in his heart, he pointed at Pei Xingyan and shouted: "Kill this thief for me, I want to use other people's heads to make urinals!" ”

Pei Xingyan was suddenly furious, stabbed five personal soldiers in a row, rushed to Li Shuliang, and without waiting for him to react, he picked him off the horse with a lance, and killed him with another lance.

Li Shuliang's personal soldiers saw that the lord was killed, they were all red-eyed, and they killed Pei Xingyan desperately, at this time, hundreds of Sui cavalry surrounded them, only for a moment, dozens of personal soldiers were killed, and the corpses were piled all over the ground, Pei Xingyan looked at Li Shuliang's corpse, and regretted a little in his heart, the marshal let him capture this person alive, but he was killed by himself in a rage, but the matter has come to this, Pei Xingyan has no choice but to order: "Send his body back to the camp!" ”

With Li Shuliang being killed, the Tang army no longer had any fighting spirit, and the way to escape was also blocked by tens of thousands of troops led by Zhang Xuan, they had to surrender on their knees, Zhang Xuan also issued an order, asking the cavalry to stop killing, and take the remaining Tang army out of the camp, in this battle, the Tang army was killed more than 4,000 people, and about 20,000 surrendered to the Sui army.

The sky was gradually bright, the soldiers carried Li Shuliang's body in front of Zhang Xuan, Pei Xingyan knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty, "Killed Li Shuliang under the anger of his humble duties, did not obey the commander's military order, and came to ask for guilt!" ”

Zhang Xuan glanced at Li Shuliang, although he wanted to use Li Shuliang as a condition to bargain with Li Yuan, but Li Shuliang had no way to be killed, fortunately, there were tens of thousands of Tang Army prisoners in his hands, and he could bargain with Li Yuan, Zhang Xuan didn't care that Pei Xingyan killed Li Shuliang, but Pei Xingyan disobeyed his military order, which cannot be ambiguous.

"If you have to kill Li Shuliang, I don't want to pursue it, but you can obviously kill him without killing him, you disobeyed my military order, and also violated the first article of the military regulations, according to the military regulations, you should be severely punished, see that you are a first-time offender and extenuating circumstances, you can be punished lightly, and you can be convinced if you have a major demerit?"

Pei Xingyan knew that disobeying military orders was one of the three most serious offenses of military regulations, and the slightest offense was demotion, and the worst offense was death, while the marshal only recorded a major demerit once, which was a light and light offense, and he was demoted one level after three major offenses, which was actually to forgive himself.

He hurriedly clenched his fists and said, "Thank you for your forgiveness!" ”

Zhang Xuan smiled and said: "Since Li Shuliang has been defeated, the cavalry can set off immediately, rush to Zhending County as fast as possible, and cut off the retreat of the five thousand Tang troops in Zhending County!" ”

Pei Xingyan hurriedly said: "Obey the order!" ”

He saluted and hurried away, and Zhang Xuan turned around and asked Fang Xuanling: "What does the military advisor think of Li Shuliang's body?" ”

Fang Xuanling smiled slightly: "People want to kill, but the posture of benevolence and righteousness must also be posed, the handsome can use the ice coffin to send his corpse to Chang'an, and then send someone to Chang'an to create momentum, I believe it will greatly deter Chang'an." ”

Zhang Xuan nodded, and immediately ordered the craftsman to make an ice coffin, and he ordered Luo Shixin, who had retreated to Luancheng, to now counterattack Tumen Pass. (To be continued.) )