The cavalry of the Sui army had reached 500 paces away, and the black-pressed war horses were galloping like wild waves...... The dust stirred up obscured the sky and the sun, and in the darkness, the Sui cavalry raised their shields high, controlled their horses with their legs, and clenched their spears with the other hand, the tip of the spear flashed with cold light in the darkness.

The 10,000 Tang troops were already hastily in position, in front of them were 3,000 archers, who lined up in three rows and raised their bows and arrows, and behind them were 3,000 sword and shield soldiers and 4,000 spearmen......

The horses pounded violently on the ground, and the loud impact sound made the hearts of the Tang soldiers almost stop beating, and they bit their lips and stared at the Sui cavalry in front of them with almost desperate eyes.

"Bow and arrow ready!"

The hoarse voice of Liu Lancheng, the general of the Tang Army, echoed in the night sky, three thousand bows and arrows were raised to the ground, pointing at an oblique angle into the air, the legs of the archers trembled, and many people closed their eyes, not daring to face the murderous Sui cavalry.

"Shoot!"

Three thousand arrows shot into the air, forming a cloud of arrows in the air, whistling and rushing towards the rushing Sui cavalry.

The cavalry of the Sui army held their shields high and rushed to meet the rain of arrows, and in the rushing cavalry tide, there were constantly cavalry soldiers who were shot by arrows and fell down, just like the waves in the tide of the sea disappeared, but it did not affect the tide of the sea.

When the second round of arrows arrived, the cavalry of the Sui army had already rushed to fifty paces away, and the murderous aura of the cavalry galloping and rolling up was suffocating, and many Tang army leaders could no longer bear the horror in their hearts, so they turned around and ran back.

Tang general Liu Lancheng also found that the speed of the Sui cavalry was too fast, and it was too late to shoot the third round of arrows, so he had to order the archers to retreat, and ordered the pikemen and sword and shield soldiers to meet the battle, and in an instant, 13,000 cavalry rushed into the ranks of the Tang army, and devoured nearly 1,000 pikemen in the front row......

The war horse continued to gallop, slashing with horizontal swords, the spear stabbed under the ravages of the iron hooves of the war horse, the Tang soldiers fell to the ground with a wail, their heads were chopped off, and the spears pierced their chests.

Although the soldiers of the Tang Army resisted desperately, they encountered the most elite cavalry of the Sui Army, experienced in a hundred battles, their will was harder than steel, they killed mercilessly, and they did not tolerate mercy, and the 10,000 Tang Army was instantly divided into dozens of pieces, and the formation was smashed to pieces by falcons.

The cavalry of the Sui army left only 5,000 men to deal with the 10,000 Tang army formation, and the remaining 8,000 cavalry, under the leadership of the commander Yang Yuanqing, continued to rush forward and kill the main force of the Tang army, which was still in chaos.

This was a battle between the two commanders, and Li Xiaogong tried to let the 10,000 Tang army contain the cavalry of the bound army and buy him time to reorganize the main force of troops and horses.

But Yang Yuanqing saw at a glance that the main force of the Tang army was not ready, and he knew very well what kind of chaos an army would face if it had not undergone strict night combat training.

Especially tens of thousands of people fled from the camp in a hurry, in that state of extreme chaos and panic, if you want to let them return to the strict order of the army in a very short period of time, how can it be more than 100 people, but this is an army of tens of thousands of people.

This is the fighter, what Ge Yuanqing wants to seize is that this fighter is in the barracks, he can use fire and cavalry to attack, and outside the barracks, there is only one chance at noon, and the enemy army is in chaos for a short time.

8,000 cavalry broke through the interception of 10,000 Tang troops and killed tens of thousands of Tang troops 100 steps away, and at the same time, the 5,000 cavalry of the rear camp also killed under the leadership of Wang Junkuo, and the two cavalry formed a front and rear attack on tens of thousands of Tang troops.

For an army, the most terrible thing is that the morale of the army is shaken, this is the plague of the army, once the spirit of the army is shaken, it will quickly spread throughout the army like a real plague, so that the whole army begins to shake and disintegrate.

At this time, Li Xiaogong was already desperate, the interception of 10,000 Tang troops did not buy him time, not even a short quarter of an hour, and the cavalry of the Sui army knew very well where their weak point was? They didn't stop at all, rushed past the interception of 10,000 people, and killed them directly.

"Hold your ground, pikemen!"

Li Xiaogong shouted loudly in despair, he longed for a miracle, his army began to resist in formation, but the miracle did not happen, in the dark, the entry of two Sui cavalry, so that the Tang army began to collapse rapidly, the Tang soldiers shouted in horror, and in extreme panic, some soldiers began to flee.

One person fled and ten people fled, ten people led a hundred, and a hundred people led a thousand, just like a snowball, the momentum of the escape became more and more powerful, the Tang army completely collapsed, and under the cover of the night, tens of thousands of soldiers threw away their armor and fled in all directions.

"Surround the enemy army, and those who surrender will not die!"

Yang Yuanqing shouted loudly, in the dark, the drums of the encirclement were beating, and the drums of 'dong dong dong" sounded in all directions, and a group of Sui cavalry rushed to the periphery to intercept the fleeing Tang soldiers, and the Sui cavalry rushed and shouted: "Those who surrender will not die!" ”

As if waking up from a dream, countless Tang soldiers knelt down and surrendered, and the sound of begging for surrender resounded throughout the money field.

At the same time as the collapse of the Tang army, Li Xiaogong was closely guarded by hundreds of cavalry and fled to the east, but after running less than 500 steps, a team of more than 1,000 Sui cavalry came diagonally, and Zhang Yin released arrows together, more than 1,000 arrows rushed in, as fast as a storm, and the pro-soldiers were caught off guard, and they all screamed and planted from their horses.

Even Li Xiaogong's right shoulder was hit by an arrow, although he controlled his body, but his war horse was shot, a long hiss, ran two steps forward, fell hard, and lifted Li Xiaogong out of a foot away, at this time, without waiting for the pro-soldiers to come forward to protect, the Sui cavalry team had already rushed to kill, more than a dozen pro-soldiers were stabbed down by spears, and hundreds of Sui cavalry surrounded Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong struggled to stand up, drew his sword in his hand, at this time his face turned pale, not far in front of him, Yang Yuanqing looked at him coldly, Li Xiaogong smiled miserably, "Yuanqing, don't come to harm?" ”

This 'Yuanqing' made the coldness in Yang Yuanqing's eyes fade a little, and he said lightly: "You surrender!" I won't kill you. ”

Li Xiaogong shook his head, "If I surrender, it will be a shame for the Tang clan, and I will never surrender to you." ”

Behind him, several Sui soldiers were about to pounce, Li Xiaogong suddenly found that he waved his sword and shouted: "Give me a retreat!" ”

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and asked the soldiers to retreat, he could understand Li Xiaogong's dignity, "What else do you have to say, please say it!" ”

Li Xiaogong sighed slightly, and said in a deep voice: "I have a daughter named Li Zhen, who is five years old, and I hope you can spare her life." ”

Yang Yuanqing stared at him for a long time, and nodded slowly, "I will treat her as a daughter and find a good home for her in the future."

Li Xiaogong bowed his hand and bowed, "Thank you!" ”

Yang Yuanqing took one last look at him, slowly turned the horse's head, walked outside, and walked not far away, he stopped the reins, stared at the dark night sky, and after a while, a personal soldier stepped forward and whispered: "He committed suicide!" ”

Yang Yuanqing let out a long sigh and instructed his soldiers: "Keep his whole body and tell Wei Yunqi that after Jiangling City is broken, he will be buried in Jingzhou with the gift of the king, so as to fulfill his name as King Jing." ”

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The interception battle that took place in Baimapo, Dangyang County, was transmitted to Jiangling City at noon the next day with the deserters, and at the head of Jiangling City, the soldiers of the Tang Army silently looked at the scene outside the city, and everyone's eyes were full of shock.

Outside Jiangling City, a group of Sui cavalry escorted groups of Tang Army prisoners of war from the city, Tang Army soldiers in a row of five, under the supervision of the Sui cavalry, slowly walked through Jiangling City, there was no boundary, from noon to dusk, there were more than 40,000 people.

This scene deeply shocked the Tang soldiers at the head of the city, and for a whole afternoon, no one spoke, and the originally high morale suffered another major setback after experiencing the heavy blow of the Tang army being completely annihilated at the dock.

The Tang soldiers were depressed, they squatted under the wall, gathered together in twos and threes, and talked in low voices, most of these soldiers were from Jingxiang, they began to miss their hometown, their relatives at home, and a deep war-weariness spread among the Tang soldiers.

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed outside the city and shouted: "Look! ”

The soldiers stood up one after another, went to the grandmother of the city, only to see two hundred steps away from the east of the city, I don't know when four huge trebuchets appeared, more than 100 Sui soldiers were struggling to pull back, in the pocket with a huge black object, with a shout, the spherical black object was thrown out, throwing an arc, flying towards the city wall, the soldiers on the city were frightened to squat.

The black sphere burst in the air, and a pile of paper fell off the sphere, which was blown away by the east wind and scattered towards the city.

Soldiers rushed in the air with a phrase printed on a woodblock engraving, and hundreds of soldiers surrounded a literate man and ordered him to read it......

The man read loudly to everyone: "50,000 Xiangyang reinforcements were completely annihilated by the Sui army in Dangyang Baimapo, Jing King Li Xiaogong was killed, and the defenders of Xiangyang City have surrendered to the Sui army. ”

This news caused an uproar among the Tang soldiers, Li Xiaogong, the king of Jing, was killed, and the city of Xiangyang had surrendered, and there was no doubt that two heavy hammers smashed into their hearts, which stunned everyone, and in one afternoon, the rehearsal of tens of thousands of Tang troops surrendering had been deeply engraved in their hearts, so that all the soldiers in the city were convinced of these two news.

"Brothers, what are we going to do?" A brigade commander shouted.

"What should I do?"

Thousands of Tang soldiers were talking, and at this time, I don't know who shouted, "General Liu is here." ”

Everyone turned around, only to see the deputy marshal Liu Fangzhi leading hundreds of personal soldiers to walk quickly towards Dongcheng, thousands of soldiers rushed up, surrounded Liu Fangzhi, and everyone asked: "General, what should we do?" ”

Liu Fangzhi's face was gloomy, he jumped on a high platform and said loudly to everyone: "Whether the news is true or false is not known, the general has an order, and those who dare to spread rumors and shake the hearts of the army will be immediately killed!" ”

The defenders in the eastern city suddenly quieted down, Liu Fangzhi glanced at the leaflets and papers all over the ground, and ordered: "The general has an order, all the pieces of paper projected by the Sui army will be confiscated, and those who dare to hide will be punished for collaborating with the enemy." ”

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(To be continued ()

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