The sky is getting late, the blood-colored remnant sun renders most of the sky as red as blood, like the sound of thunderous horses' hooves, the Tang army from afar launched the final charge, although it has been a day's journey, and a hard battle, but seeing that the prey is in front of them, all the Tang officers and soldiers have burst out with the greatest energy, roaring and galloping wildly, the sharp and incomparable spear tip and the snow-bright blade in the sunset, flashing with the cold light of death.

Run, run! The galloping Goguryeo rout listened to the sound of horses' hooves getting closer and closer behind them, but no one dared to stop to meet the battle, let alone look back, all of them fled frantically, the men and horses on the avenue trampled each other, the blades and armor were thrown to pieces, and the screams of dying, the sound of horses, and the sound of rapid gasps were intertwined, like a symphony of hell in the sunset into a miserable picture.

"Kill, don't leave a single one!" Seeing that Kankan was about to catch up with the tail of the rout, Yan Shiba, who was at the forefront of the army, was excited, waved the big iron in his hand, roared angrily, and led the army to rush into the chaotic army, carrying guns like flying, killing several people in an instant, the ferocity was as unstoppable as a tiger entering the flock, and the Tang army's iron cavalry followed by was unwilling to lag behind, and they swarmed into the Goguryeo rout, swords and guns were fired, killing the Goguryeo rout army crying dad and mother, kneeling and begging for mercy countless, then, at this moment, the mutation suddenly happened- A terrible horn sounded suddenly, and a cavalry frantically killed in a dense forest not far from the right of the avenue, and the first general was Gao Huailong, but seeing the group of Goguryeo cavalry rushing over, they didn't care about their own routs on the road, and launched a crazy charge to the Tang cavalry in the melee.

Damn, it's in an ambush! Yan Eighteen, who was struggling to kill the rout, heard the sound of the horn, and immediately knew that the situation was not good, and his heart sank - the cavalry battle relied on the mobility and the momentum of the horse, at this time the Tang army's horsepower was exhausted, and it was also entangled with the routed Goguryeo infantry, not to mention the formation of a cavalry formation to meet the battle, it was difficult to fight the horse and retreat, if the Goguryeo cavalry was really allowed to rush to the front, the Tang army in the melee would have to suffer a big loss.

"Liu Dahai, take your people and Ben General to block the thief army, and the rest of the troops will retreat immediately!" Seeing the danger of the situation, Yan Eighteen was in a hurry, carried enough Zhongqi, roared, flicked the horse's head, led the guards around him to kill the chaotic army, and greeted the surging Goguryeo cavalry, but at this time, the Tang army was in a chaotic battle, and only a few five hundred horsemen could not follow the orders to follow Yan Eighteen to launch a counter-attack, and although the rest of the people tried their best to move with the order, they were entangled by the rout, and they could not act according to the order at all, desperately entangled the cavalry of the Tang Army, and the two sides fought on the avenue.

As early as when Yang Qianwu led his troops to intercept the Tang army, Gao Huailong had already received the relevant notice, and judged that the Tang cavalry would definitely not let the Cheng Dawu troops return to Anshi City smoothly, so he set up an ambush in the dense forest five miles away from the city in advance, and for the sake of secrecy, he did not even notify the fleeing Cheng Dawu troops, the purpose was to take advantage of the chaos to completely annihilate the vanguard cavalry of the Tang army, give the invading Tang army a head-on blow, and lay a good start for the next step of holding on to the city. At this time, when he saw that the cavalry of the Tang Army was really in chaos as expected, he was overjoyed and shouted: "Kill, kill the Tang thief!" He took the lead and rushed towards the oncoming Yan Eighteen.

Gao Huailong's cavalry is actually not much, there are only more than 5,000 horsemen, the total strength is equivalent to the Tang army, and the combat effectiveness is not too strong, if the two sides change places and fight, the Tang army can definitely easily defeat the other party, and even do not need to send 5,000 men and horses, only 2,000 iron cavalry can easily defeat 5,000 Goguryeo cavalry, how can this time be different from the past, the Tang army that came from a long distance is already the end of the crossbow in terms of horsepower and physical strength, plus I didn't expect that there would be an ambush before, and the entire cavalry army is in a state of melee, Even if Yan Eighteen tried his best to lead more than 500 cavalry to launch a decisive counter-charge, but it was difficult to defeat the Goguryeo cavalry who had been recuperating for a long time.

"Kill, kill, kill!" Although Yan Eighteen had long expected that his counter-charge would not be able to withstand the fierce attack of the Goguryeo cavalry, he did not expect to be defeated so miserably, not to mention anything else, just say that the Tang Dynasty cavalry that can still follow him closely now has only more than fifty horsemen, and his heart is anxious and angry, a big iron spear is flying up and down, desperately fighting in the chaotic army, roaring angrily in his mouth, all the Goguryeo cavalry who dared to besiege him died tragically under his spear, but it is a pity that Yan Eighteen is brave, but it is difficult to support alone, The surging Goguryeo cavalry bypassed Yan Eighteen's blockade, and crashed into the Tang Army cavalry brigade that was strangled with Cheng Dawu's department, and the Tang cavalry that was caught off guard fell a lot in an instant, except for more than 1,500 horsemen who saw the opportunity quickly and Pegasus evacuated the battlefield, the rest were trapped in the battle by the Goguryeo army, although they tried their best to fight, but it was difficult to have the technique of returning to the sky, even the Yan Eighteen who were frantically rushing to kill were also entangled by several Goguryeo generals, and the whole battle situation was gradually controlled by GoguryeoThe war has reached a critical moment for the Tang Army.

Yan 18 was surrounded by four Goguryeo generals in the core, although they fought desperately, but they were never able to defeat the entanglement of the four opponents, the corner of the eye found that their side was already in a situation of defeat, and they were so angry that they had to fight hard, but seeing Yan 18 roared, ignoring the thorns of an enemy general on the left hand, he kicked the horse's belly with his feet, and a horse accelerated, narrowly and dangerously avoided the tip of the gun, and the big iron gun in his hand slammed down, and smashed down against the enemy in front of him, so frightened that the enemy general had to quickly turn his horse and hide aside, Yan Eighteen did not pursue, suddenly accelerated, trying to break through the encirclement of the enemy general, but unexpectedly, the war horse under the crotch was exhausted, and at this time, a horse lost its front hooves and arched Yan Eighteen away from the horse.

Not good! Yan Eighteen didn't expect that the war horse under his crotch would drop the chain at such a critical time, the person was overturned to the ground, and the big iron spear in his hand was also shaken out of his hand, and in a panic, he saw that two enemy generals were killing on horseback, and he hurriedly took advantage of the situation to roll on the ground, twisted his wrist, took advantage of the situation to draw the sword on his waist, and stared angrily at the two enemy generals who rushed to kill.

"General be careful!" Liu Dahai was scattered by the enemy cavalry before, and had to lead more than 100 cavalry to fight alone, fighting all the way to find Yan Eighteen, all the way to kill, most of the more than 100 horsemen under his command were killed, at this time he just rushed to the vicinity, as soon as he saw Yan Eighteen in distress, he was anxious, roared, threw the horse lance in his hand suddenly, and stabbed an enemy general who could not avoid falling off the horse, and then the horse flew in, and pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, and opened the horse lance that stabbed Yan Eighteen.

"Kill!" Yan 18 got Liu Dahai's cover, his footsteps were already steady, at this time, seeing that the enemy general's gun was blocked, how could he let go of such a good opportunity to kill the enemy, roared, under his feet, the person had already flown up, a horizontal sword slashed, the sword momentum like a rainbow split the head of the enemy general, the person turned over lightly in the air, kicked on the body of the headless enemy general, kicked it off the horse's back, and then took advantage of the momentum to fall on the horse, twisted the reins of the horse, has controlled the war horse, looked back at a sword, swinged away a horse lance that took advantage of the chaos to stab, With a kick in the horse's belly, he shouted: "Withdraw!" "When you meet Liu Dahai, you have to break out of the battlefield.

"Don't go Tang General, go on, stop him!" After Gao Huailong led his troops to rush and kill once, he had withdrawn to the side to command the whole army to fight, and when he saw Yan Eighteen getting out of trouble, he immediately shouted a sentence and ordered several generals around him to rush forward and block the way of Yan Eighteen and others, intending to leave Yan Eighteen on the spot.

Although Yan Eighteen is strong in martial arts, how can he not help but have exhausted his physical strength in the previous hard battle, and he is no longer able to fight at this time, as soon as he saw several enemy generals outflanked him, he couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, seeing that he could not get rid of the entanglement of the enemy army, he had to make a heart, ready to make the last fight, but at this moment, a shout of killing suddenly sounded from the back of Cheng Dawu's department, but when he saw a fiery red flag, more than a thousand Tang cavalry under the leadership of Xue Rengui slaughtered into the battlefield like angry waves.

"Reinforcements have arrived, kill the thief! Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Yan Eighteen, who was in a desperate situation, was overjoyed when he saw that it was Xue Rengui who arrived, and he roared loudly, regardless of the fact that what he was holding in his hand was just a sword, and the horse killed the enemy generals who surrounded him, like a mad tiger.

Cheng Dawu's department was a rout army that had fled for a day, and it was only because of his own ambush that Yu Yong was entangled with the Tang army, and then he thought that there would be a brigade of cavalry of the Tang army behind him, and he resisted a little, and fled in a panic. Gao Huailong, who was commanding the battle, saw that the situation was not right, and did not dare to fight again, so he issued a loud order to withdraw his troops, and led his troops to turn around and flee in the direction of Anshi City.

In the battle, although the Tang army killed more than 1,000 Goguryeo troops, captured more than 400 people, plus the 5,000 enemy troops annihilated by Luerling, and destroyed nearly 7,000 enemies, but it also killed and wounded nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers, especially the war horses lost nearly 3,000 horses, which can only be said to be a tragic victory.

A good pursuit battle is really disturbing enough, this Xue Rengui knows this in his heart, at this time, seeing that Yan Eighteen's face is not good-looking, Xue Rengui hesitated for a while, and then walked over and greeted him politely: "General Yan." ”

Yan Eighteen and Xue Rengui are old acquaintances, the two have known each other when Xue Rengui first came to Beijing to join the army, and the relationship between them is not bad, therefore, although Yan Eighteen said that his heart was angry, he would not give Xue Rengui a look, and said with a wry smile: "This time thanks to the general's help, otherwise I am afraid that I will die here, and I will report it in the future." ”

Although Xue Rengui is also a general of Li Zhen's family, but when it comes to intimacy, he is far less favored than Yan Eighteen, although he saved Yan Eighteen this time, he didn't dare to take credit for it, so he smiled and said: "Eighteen brothers, it's funny, I just know that the eighteenth brother is here to destroy the enemy, and he is here to grab a piece of credit, but the eighteenth brother is laughing." ”

As soon as Yan Eighteen heard it, he knew that Xue Rengui was unwilling to take credit for this, and he also had the intention of excusing his defeat, but Yan Eighteen knew that this matter would be difficult to hide, so he didn't want to say anything more about this matter, so he muttered for a while: "General Xue, Zifeng's army has arrived?" ”

Xue Rengui shook his head and said: "Not yet, this time I just led the forward cavalry to investigate the enemy's situation......" Xue Rengui said this, suddenly stopped, looked sideways in the direction of Hengshan City, and saw the smoke and dust at the end of the road, and his hand involuntarily pressed on the hilt of the knife on his waist.

Seeing this, Yan Shibai smiled bitterly and said, "It's okay, it's General Cheng who has arrived, let's go, let's go and meet them together." As soon as the words fell, he didn't care how Xue Rengui reacted, he dragged his heavy steps and walked towards the way he came, Xue Rengui was stunned, sighed wordlessly, and silently followed behind Yan Shiba......

Shabi City, a small city in the Silla Kingdom, is located on the side of the Han River, the city is not big, there are more than 500 households in total, it is not so much a city, in fact, it is more like a small fishing village, only because it is located at the junction of Silla and Baekje, which has the value of building a city, in the past, the garrison here was only hundreds of Silla defenders, and at this time, because of the gathering of the Tang Silla coalition army, the total strength reached more than 100,000, battalion after battalion, village after village, Shengsheng surrounded a small Sand Nose City in the center, The command post of the Tang Army was set up in the city guard mansion of Shabi City.

Shabi City is small, and the city guard mansion is naturally not big, to put it bluntly, it is actually a dilapidated big courtyard, that is, because of the arrival of Xue Wanche, Queen Silla Zhende personally ordered people to renovate it, and built a back garden, which is somewhat new, of course, in Xue Wanche's opinion, this place is actually no different from the kennel, and it is okay to endure it on weekdays, but today as soon as he received a secret order from the prince Li Zhen, Xue Wanche was in a bad mood, and nothing was pleasing to the eye, this is not, suspected of attracting mosquitoes in the back garden, he ordered all of them to be demolished, and he himself was stuffed in the room, squatting on the ground shirtless, staring at the large Baekje sand table in a daze, and he moved around at noon, until the sound of the guards came from outside the door, "General Niu has arrived!" At this time, Xue Wanche stood up in a daze, didn't get dressed, and just stood shirtless in front of the sand table.

"Brother Wanche, what kind of play is this singing, call me tightly, isn't it to see Er's fat body?" In the midst of a loud laugh, a veteran who was nearly sixty years old walked in from outside the door and joked to Xue Wanche with a smile, this person was Niu Jinda, the chief manager of the Qingqiu Road march.

Niu Jinda, Mingxiu, the word Jinda, with the word line, ancestral home Longxi, Puyang Leize (now belonging to Juancheng, Shandong) people, Wagangzhai was born, after the collapse of Wagangzhai and Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin voted for Wang Shichong, and then because of the suspicion that Wang Shichong was treacherous, the image of the non-human king, and Qin, Cheng and the two voted for the Tang Dynasty, and became one of Li Shimin's henchmen, however, did not participate in the Xuanwumen change, and then most of them served as foreign military attachés, especially good at the water army, Zhenguan 21 March, Tang Taizong ordered Niu Jinda to be the general manager of the Qingqiu Road march, leading the water army 15,000, More than 180 large and small warships floated to Silla, and they were Xue Wanche's deputies.

Xue Wanche was upset at this time, how could he have the heart to tell jokes with Niu Jinda's book, and he didn't pay attention to Niu Jinda's ridicule, silently walked to the copywriter, picked up a small note, and handed it to Niu Jinda wordlessly.

"This ......" Niu Jinda took the note and looked at it, his brows furrowed, and he hesitated for a moment: "What does General Xue mean?" ”

"It's not easy to do, I prepared a table of meals, but two tables of guests came, I'm afraid this meal is not delicious." Xue Wanche shook his head with a wry smile and said, "I'm afraid that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has started fighting at this time, and I'm afraid that this meal is unpalatable, and I have to eat it." ”

Niu Jinda didn't comment on Xue Wanche's obviously rebellious words, but after a deep groan, he said, "Does General Xue have a good plan?" ”

Xue Wanche smiled and said, "Yes, yes, but the key is in the elder brother." ”

Niu Jinda was stunned for a moment, not understanding the intention of Xue Wanche's words, and obviously hesitated for a moment, and then said cautiously: "I want to hear it in detail." ”

Xue Wanche turned to face the sand table, pointed and said: "Old General Niu, please look, the thief army is heavily stationed in Garin, Zhouliu two cities, the water army is located in Xiongjin City, it is a long snake formation, our army is gathered here, the head of the enemy is tail, the tail of the tail is the head, it is urgent to break the enemy, only by breaking its water army first, can we ensure that this battle is worry-free, a few days of thinking, there is a strategy, so ......, it is safe to break the enemy, but I don't know if the old general's water division can be used?" ”

Niu Jinda looked at the sand table for a long time, carefully chewed the battle strategy that Xue Wushu's dragon enemy Wu Wanche said, let out a sigh, and said cautiously: "Well, although this plan has a hope of success, it is dangerous, if it is not a big victory, it will be a big defeat, the general should be cautious." ”

"However, you can't win a big victory without taking risks, can the old general dare to do it?" Xue Wanche smiled fiercely, looked at Niu Jinda with a pair of eyes shining, and gritted his teeth and asked.

Niu Jinda did not answer Xue Wanche's question immediately, but walked to the window, looked at the blood-colored remnant sun, sighed and said: "The old man is old, just like this dusk, although there is still an afterglow, but it has recently set, the general can ignore the danger, why should the old man be sorry for this body?" ”

"Hahaha......" As soon as he heard that Niu Jinda agreed to his strategy, Xue Wanche laughed loudly, and at the end, he suddenly raised his voice and said: "Come on, please Jin Chunqiu and Jin Yuxin come to see you immediately!" ”

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