readx; At night, in a vast heavy rain, Li Qingan also stood on a sentry tower, through the rain and fog, staring at the situation of Li Huaixian's camp in the distance, although the rain and fog blocked his vision, but he seemed to be able to see the movement of Li Huaixian's camp, a group of soldiers left the camp to the north, this heavy rain is God's favor for Li Huaixian, if he does not use it, then he is not Li Huaixian. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the rain and fog, and the guards immediately raised their vigilance, stretched their bows and arrows, and watched the situation in the heavy rain.

"Who is it?" One soldier shouted.

A cavalryman of the Tang Army appeared in the rain and mist, and the rain had already drenched him, so he wiped the rain from his face and said loudly: "I am Li Tai, the captain of the first scout battalion, and I have urgent information to report to the general." ”

"The general is here, Captain Li has something to say!"

The scout lieutenant was stunned for a moment, and immediately dismounted and knelt down on one knee and said, "I found that Li Huaixian's army had gone north, and the camp was empty, and it was already an empty camp. ”

Li Qingan nodded, and sure enough, he confirmed his guess, "Captain Li has worked hard, please continue to follow Li Huaixian's army and report at any time!" ”

"Yes!"

Li Tai got up, turned over on his horse, and urged the war horse to run to the northeast.

Not long after the scouts left, several more patrolmen stepped forward with a Yan army officer who was delivering a letter.

"General, this officer of the Yan Army was ordered by Li Guiren to give the general a letter of war."

"Where's the war book?"

A soldier rushed forward and presented a letter wrapped in oiled paper to Li Qing'an, Li Qing'an tore open the letter, and a personal soldier lit a torch and was about to raise it forward, but the pro-soldier captain next to him glared at him fiercely, and with a wave of his hand, several personal soldiers came up and used a huge shield to protect Li Qing'an's front tightly.

This is the experience of 'Pang Juan died under this tree', in the rainy night, the torch is the best target, sure enough, the soldier's shield has just been raised, and more than a dozen crossbow arrows are shot from the rain and fog, 'Bang! Syllable! The ground was nailed to the giant shield, and the tip of the arrow was glowing with fluorescence, which was obviously highly poisonous, and the soldiers were shocked and rushed up to block in front of Li Qing'an.

The soldiers on patrol were furious, and hundreds of them rushed out of the camp gates, shields in the pouring rain, looking for the assassin, the messenger officer was obviously unaware, he stood there stunned, motionless, and several Tang soldiers beside him drew their swords and slashed at him.

"Stop!"

Li Qing'an drank them, he nodded approvingly to the lieutenant, and handed the letter to him, "You read it!" ”

The lieutenant didn't dare to be careless, put on a pair of leather gloves, and opened the letter, with only eight words on it, "If you don't die, you will fight a decisive battle!" ”

Li Qingan sneered repeatedly, and said to the officer who sent the letter: "You go and tell Li Guiren, I only have two words: quasi-war!" ”

The heavy rain is still falling endlessly, the sky and the earth are white, Li Qingan looked at the dark shadow of Luo Song Peak, and a sneer involuntarily appeared at the corner of his mouth, An Qingxu fled, Li Huaixian left, how long can he Li Guiren's one-legged show be sung?

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The rain of early summer always comes suddenly, and after an hour, the heavy rain stops, there is not a single raindrop in the air, the clouds open and the moon appears, the earth is covered with a faint silver glow, and the wind in the night sky becomes fresh and moist, if it is not full of mud, it is really unimaginable, it has just rained a downpour.

It wasn't until the first watch that a soldier delivering a letter went to Li Huaixian's camp, and Li Guiren learned that Li Huaixian, who was going to fight side by side with him, had evaporated in the heavy rain.

Li Huaixian's escape did not frustrate him, but aroused the wild surname in his bones, the Tang army was only 80,000, and his army was also 80,000, evenly matched, so let the war knife and the iron cavalry collide and see who is the first army in the world.

Li Guiren immediately dominated public opinion in the army, Li Huaixian's department was ordered by him to meet the reinforcements of the Tang army going south, and it was by no means an unauthorized escape, and most people in the army did not believe that Li Huaixian would flee at this time, if he wanted to leave, he should have left a long time ago, and the slightly unstable military spirit quickly returned to calm under Li Guiren's repeated emphasis.

All night, Li Guiren didn't sleep, he sat in the big tent, the lights were all out, his hair was scattered, ** upper body, he half-pulled a horizontal knife apart, staring at Leng Sensen's blade, this is his habit, looking for the killing machine of the blade before the war, the knife is him, he is the knife, let the two become one.

But tonight he has some regrets in his heart, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a flawless assassination, and finally failed, in fact, he is gambling, it is raining heavily, Li Qingan will definitely come to the camp gate to look at his camp, he bet on it, but the sky is endless Li Qingan.

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The sky gradually brightened, and the drums of the Yan army camp beat 'Boom! Boom! The earth sounded, and the loud and dull sound of the drum echoed between the heavens and the earth, if this drum was in the Khitan lair, this was a kind of ritual for them to worship the gods, but on the battlefield, it was a signal for attack, a drum of war.

The drawbridge of the Yan army camp was slowly lowered, the camp gate was wide open, and a team of cavalry and infantry staggered out, endlessly, and it took more than an hour to go for 80,000 troops to all come out, which is also the combat style of the Xi and Khitan people.

The Yan army camp was ten miles away from the Tang army camp, but the Yan army only stopped three miles out of the camp, Li Guiren's 80,000 troops were divided into four phalanxes, each phalanx was about 20,000 people, including two cavalry phalanxes, an infantry phalanx, and a mixed infantry and cavalry phalanx.

The two cavalry phalanxes were commanded by the general Ashina Congli and Cai Xide's deputy general Zhang Zhongzhi, and the infantry phalanx was commanded by the general An Taiqing.

The mixed phalanx of infantry and cavalry as the rear army, led by Li Guiren himself, but he had a disease in his right foot and could only barely sit on a horse, unable to lead the army to charge, so the specific command of the 20,000 mixed army was in charge of the general Niu Tingjie.

This army gathered almost all the fierce generals under An Lushan, Li Guiren, Zhang Zhongzhi, Ashina Congli, An Taiqing, Niu Tingjie, although most of these generals are Hu generals, but the military formation is not weak, the first battle is Hu General Zhang Zhongzhi, Zhang Zhongzhi later changed his name to Li Baochen, in history is the commander of Chengde Town in the three towns of Hebei, but now he is Cai Xide's deputy general, after Cai Xide was killed, he took refuge in Li Guiren.

Zhang Zhongzhi is about thirty-seven or eight years old, from the age of fifteen to the army, has been more than 20 years, he is also a Xi people, was accepted by the general Zhang Suo of the Fan Yang Army as a righteous son, so he changed his name to Zhang Zhongzhi, his father-in-law professor, he is proficient in the art of war, especially good at infantry formation.

The reason why Li Guiren let him go in the first battle was that Li Guiren wanted to defeat the Tang army with a formation.

The 80,000 Yan army has already laid out the formation, boundless, murderous, every soldier is holding back his strength, just wait for the first battle to defeat the Tang army, and then they will plunder Hedong, Li Guiren promised them that after this battle, they can plunder home and enjoy the glory and wealth of the second half of their lives, they are gearing up, just waiting for the Tang army to fight.

Li Guiren sat on his horse, he looked coldly at the Tang army camp seven miles away, although his face was grim, he still couldn't hide the worry in his eyes.

Although Li Qingan promised him to fight today, but last night was accompanied by his assassination, will Li Qingan still keep his promise?

Li Guiren also knew that the Han people had a strategy of being vigorous, then declining, and exhausted, so did Li Qing'an also use this strategy?

If the morale is frustrated, the weapons are not as sharp as the Han army, the armor is not as solid as the Han army, and the training is not as superb as the Han army, and it is difficult to win the battle.

Li Guiren was in a dilemma, attacking in a big way, he was worried that the Tang army was strong with bows and crossbows, and he would suffer heavy casualties, but if he withdrew his troops and returned to the camp, this would be a great blow to his morale, and maybe the killing of Cai Xide last night would ferment.

Little by little, the sun gradually became hotter, and the heat mixed with the humidity in the air, feeling stuffy and hot, and unusually uncomfortable.

An hour and a half had passed, and many soldiers were showing irritability, letting them stand under the scorching sun and expose themselves to the sun, what was this? At first there were whispers, and then some people began to scold, mixed with the angry rebukes of the officers from time to time, which was obviously a precursor to the beginning of the mood of the army.

Not only Li Guiren was secretly anxious, but the other senior officers were also a little out of breath, and the senior general Ashina stepped forward from Lice and said: "General, it is better to attack the enemy camp first, whether you win or lose, you can boost morale, it is better than spending it here!" ”

Niu Jieting next to him also persuaded: "General, let the soldiers move, send a little less soldiers, create some momentum, and attack and fight, so that the loss is not big, the key is to let everyone have hope." ”

Li Guiren finally nodded, "Okay! Then fight a fight. ”

He looked at Niu Jieting beside him, and said slowly: "General Niu, it's up to you to lead the team!" Draw 5,000 foot soldiers from the mixed army and attack the Tang camp! ”

"Obey!"

Niu Jieting turned around, and in a moment, the drums in the Yan army camp were loud, and the rumbling drums shook the heavens and the earth, and the five thousand Yan army foot soldiers were divided into five teams and swooped towards the Tang army camp from three directions.....

A four-zhang high activity command tower was erected in the Tang army camp overnight, and the shape was like a super nest car, standing in the continuous Tang army camp, like a behemoth, comparable to the Luo Song Peak behind the Yan army camp, and you can also see the plain dozens of miles away.

The conning tower is equipped with huge wooden wheels, which need 3,000 people to push to move slowly, and the platform at the top can accommodate 100 people, but now there are only more than 20 people, and there is a flag bearer standing in each of the four directions of east, west, south and north, using the flag language to direct the actions of the army.

At this moment, Li Qing'an is sitting on the command tower, today the sky is beautiful, the weather is sunny, the white clouds and blue sky, and the field of vision is extraordinarily broad, so that he can clearly see the situation of the Yan army, he even looks down on the arrangement of the Yan army, and even Li Guiren of the rear army, he can vaguely see it.

Behind Li Qing'an sat his staff member Wei Qingping, who had a lot of intelligence details, and Li Qing'an would ask him directly if he had any questions about intelligence.

In addition to Wei Qingping, a civilian official, there are no generals, at this time, the generals are vying to lead the troops to fight, no one is willing to accompany them here to watch the battle, wasting the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, even Li Siye also personally led the Modao Army, originally he was the commander, after being replaced by Li Qing'an, he inspired his surname when he was a general.

Of course, there is still a general by Li Qing'an's side, he is the general Xi Yuanqing of the rear army, Xi Yuanqing is also an old friend of Li Qing'an, when Li Qing'an was first promoted to lieutenant, he was already a general, and he wanted to make meritorious service and be promoted, he made great contributions in the battle of Xiaobolu, was promoted to Zhonglang general, led an army of 3,000 to stay in Xiaobolu, and later Gao Xianzhi was transferred to Jiannan Jiedu envoy, so he also took him.

Xi Yuanqing and Zhao Chongyu became Gao Xianzhi's right-hand man in the Jiannan Army together, and were once named the general of Jin Wuwei in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but after the outbreak of the Gao Xianzhi case, he and Zhao Chongyu were isolated in Yiling, in a dilemma, and finally because Gao Xianzhi returned to the Northern Tang Dynasty, the two of them made up their minds to lead the army to Hanzhong and surrender to the Northern Tang Army.

Xi Yuanqing also has excellent eyesight, he pointed to Ashina's 20,000 cavalry and said: "Li Guiren's most elite Luohe cavalry should be in that phalanx, there are 20,000 cavalry in the phalanx, and the other cavalry should also be Youzhou Iron Cavalry." ”

"Hmm!"

Li Qing'an nodded slightly, he also saw that Li Guiren's army was uneven, with the 20,000 cavalry in the middle being the most neat, standing for an hour and a half, not moving at all, let alone talking to each other, and the 10,000 cavalry of the rear army was also good, the team was neat, and the military armor was uniform, which should also be the Youzhou Iron Cavalry.

In contrast, the left and right wings are obviously different, both the queue and the armor are very chaotic, it can be seen that the armies on both wings are scratching, this should be Cai Xide's army, I heard that Cai Xide's army is a foreign army, that is, the army borrowed from the Khitan and Xi, it is a nomadic army, and it is relatively scattered.

Although Li Quyren's army was also dominated by Khitans and Xi, they were recruited by An Lushan and had undergone strict training, and the two armies could not be said in the same language.

Obviously, the two wings of Li Guiren's army will be his weakest link, although this was discovered, but Li Qing'an still did not take it lightly, the army is not in order, it does not necessarily mean that it is a rabble, the Fan Yang army of An Lushan was repeatedly defeated by the Khitans, and it can also be seen that the Khitans' combat ability is not low, and the unorganized queue is just their combat habits.

At this time, Li Qing'an suddenly found that there was no Cai Xide's banner in the Yan army, which surprised him very much, it stands to reason that Cai Xide's military position is the same as Li Guiren, and he is also one of the six major warlords in Hebei, and he has his own reading army, even if he listens to Li Guiren's command, but his military flag should also appear in his own army, but now there is not, all of them are overwhelming Li Guiren's military flags, including Cai Xide's army, which is also Li Guiren's battle flag.

"What's going on?"

Li Qingan secretly wondered: "Could it be that Li Guiren and Cai Xide had infighting, and Cai Xide was killed?" ”

Just as he was pondering, the Yan army camp suddenly beat drums, and a 5,000-strong Yan army infantry rushed towards the Tang army camp with shouts.

"Order Zhao Chongjie's crossbow army to prepare for battle!"

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(To be continued)