In fact, as early as before Xue Rengui entered the account, Lin Chenghe had already considered taking advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold to attack the enemy at night, but after a detailed analysis of the terrain, he regretted that it was difficult to achieve suddenness in the night attack, once the enemy was discovered, the night attack became a strong attack, which was not good in the battle, once the enemy was not successful, the morale of his side was frustrated or a trivial matter, and the next battle was bound to be more difficult. And this was an unacceptable result for Lin Chenghe, and it was precisely because of such considerations that Lin Chenghe did not immediately agree to Xue Rengui's suggestion of leading his troops to attack at night.

"Lin Shuai, it's not too early." Seeing that Lin Chenghe didn't react for a long time, Xue Rengui couldn't help but feel a little anxious, and whispered.

"Hmm." Lin Chenghe raised his head and glanced at Xue Rengui, but he still didn't say anything, but said in a deep voice: "The terrain of Gutunkou is open, even if our army travels at night, it is difficult to hide the eyes and ears of the enemy's outposts, and it is the full moon tonight, so what can it be?" ”

Xue Rengui thought of the night attack, he knew the difficulties of the night attack, and when he heard Lin Chenghe say this, he was not depressed, but replied calmly: "Lin Shuai, the night raider, take its surprise, it is enough to attack the camp with hundreds of elite soldiers, and wait for the enemy camp to be in chaos, and the army can be killed from the outside. ”

Xue Rengui's courage Lin Chenghe knows, in Lin Chenghe's opinion, if Xue Rengui leads the army to rush the camp, he is indeed somewhat sure that he can rush the enemy camp, but if he wants to say that he is completely sure, he can't talk about it, and besides, the lone night attack is a battle to the death, which is dangerous, Xue Rengui is the favorite general of the Son of Heaven, Lin Chenghe really didn't dare to risk his death to do this dangerous thing, at this time, seeing Xue Rengui insisted on going, it made Lin Chenghe quite embarrassed, so he frowned and thought about it: "The general's courage knows a lot, but our army has been fighting hard for several days, Even if the whole army is on the same page, there is more than enough to defeat, and it is difficult to annihilate the whole army, if the enemy army escapes, I will be in danger, and Rong will think about it again. ”

Lin Chenghe is the coach, since he said so, Xue Rengui was anxious, but he couldn't say anything more, so he had to wait anxiously on the side. Lin Chenghe ignored Xue Rengui's restlessness, silently paced back and forth in the big tent, carefully calculating the way to break the enemy, suddenly remembered something, suddenly paused, and turned into the back tent in a few big strides, its movements were so fierce that Xue Rengui, who was standing aside, was startled, and before Xue Rengui could react to what was going on, he saw Lin Chenghe holding a brocade bag in both hands and turned out of the back tent. Curiosity immediately aroused, and I hurriedly went over, planning to see what was going on together.

Lin Chenghe didn't say anything to stop Xue Rengui from approaching, he groaned slightly, stretched out his hand and placed the bag on the copywriting in the middle of the big tent, and then respectfully bowed, and then cautiously dismantled the bag, revealing one of the notes full of words, carefully unfolded it, looked at it, and immediately showed a sudden look on his face, at the same time, Xue Rengui, who was close to him, also gasped in surprise, the two looked at each other, and laughed out loud......

The night is gradually deepening, the noisy military camp has been a group of quiet, in the silence, only the small insects in the grass are still singing tirelessly, most of the soldiers of the three armies who have been running for several days have sunk into sleep, but Gao Qitai, the chief general of Jian'an City, can not sleep, his heart is so heavy that he panics, he tosses and turns over and over on the marching bed for a long time, and finally he reluctantly turned over, put on a robe and slowly walked out of the big tent of the Chinese army, raised his eyes to look at the full moon in the sky, and thought about his thoughts silently. /

Gao Qitai's uneasiness generally stems from this expedition - although according to the general's order, he does not need to lead the troops to fight to the death with the Tang army, as long as he is stationed in Gutunkou for twenty days, he will be considered to have completed the task, but Gao Qitai does not dare to guarantee that the Tang army will not turn around and grab his head to cover himself, in case the Tang army really comes, with this group of newly trained soldiers, it is difficult to say whether he can retreat from the front of the Tang army, let alone kill the Tang army, this is self-aware Gao Qitai still has, therefore, once he arrives at Gutunkou, Gao Qitai hurriedly set up camp with all his troops, put on a posture of all-out defense, layer by layer, and sentry out, lest there be any omissions, even if so many arrangements were made, Gao Qitai still couldn't sleep peacefully, and there was a faint sense of foreboding lingering in his heart.

This trip is extremely dangerous, Gao Qitai is reluctant to come, but unfortunately he can't not come, after all, how can there be eggs under the nest, as a member of the Goguryeo royal family, Gao Qitai can't sit back and watch his country go up in smoke, as soon as he thinks of the two brothers Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen who have now served in the Tang Army, Gao Qitai's heart was irritable for no reason, seeing that the bright moon has gradually set westward, and the darkness before dawn has also arrived, Gao Qitai, who has been in good spirits, sighed and turned around silently, was about to enter the tent and squint for a while, but at this moment, a mutation suddenly happened, and a deafening shouting of killing and the thunderous sound of horses' hooves erupted from the cavalry impact outside the camp, and Gao Qitai's body immediately froze.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! If it weren't for Gao Qitai's earlier death order - if people don't untie their armor and don't unload their horses, the Goguryeo army at this time suddenly encountered the enemy in their sleep, and it was bound to be the end of the army.

It's coming, it's really coming! As soon as Gao Qitai heard the sound of shouting and killing, his heart was full of joy, he didn't care about entering the tent and wearing armor, shook his body, shook the robe he was wearing to the ground, strode to the place where the horse was tethered, turned over on the horse, led his guards to light torches, and galloped to the gate of the village, along the way ordered all the guards under his command to shout in unison: "The whole army is fighting, there are those who dare to trespass, and there is no forgiveness for killing!" ”

As the so-called general soldiers' courage, with Gao Qitai's example, the originally panicked Goguryeo army quickly calmed down, each to its own department, under the supervision of the commander of the army, in the camp lined up a formation, archers, swords and axes one by one, ready to meet the attacking Tang army, but what made the Goguryeo officers and soldiers depressed was that the shouting and killing outside the camp, the sound of drums and trumpets kept ringing, the shaking of people and horses was also faintly visible, and the violent sound of horses' hooves was even more deafening, but the Tang army was not seen rushing to the front, It always seems to be hovering outside the range of the bow and arrow.

What is Tang Jun doing? Singing? Seeing that the Tang army was thundering and not raining, not only the ordinary soldiers of Goguryeo could not understand it, but Gao Qitai was also confused, and he had the intention to send someone to check it, but he was afraid of the tricks of the Tang army, and in desperation, he could only force the whole army to be on strict alert to prevent the possible surprise attack of the Tang army. The cavalry of the Tang Army, which had been in turmoil for more than an hour, finally took advantage of the last shady curtain to sneak away quietly, and disappeared, and the night's turmoil finally came to an end.

The sky finally dawned, looking at the empty camp outside, the Goguryeo army, which had been busy for most of the night, breathed a sigh of relief, but was even more dazed in his heart, no one knew what the intention of the Tang army was to toss so much last night, under all kinds of suspicion, Gao Qitai had to send detectives to investigate, trying to find out, how could he search the surrounding area for more than ten miles, the Tang army was like the world evaporated, not even a shadow, if it wasn't for the mess of last night's galloping horses, the Goguryeo soldiers suspected that the scene last night was a big dream, What's even more amazing is that the camp sent out to report to the Tang army was empty, and if there was not even a ghost shadow in the big camp except for the foraging sparrows, and then sent someone to contact the defenders in Xuansu City, it was not clear where the Tang army had gone.

Gao Qitai didn't get confused for long, and when it came to the end of the day, the accurate news finally came back, but it was not the probe horse sent by Gao Qitai, but a routed army that fled from the direction of Jian'an - the Tang army has broken through Hushan Pass and Qilin Village, and is rushing towards Jian'an City! At this time, Gao Qitai completely understood, the purpose of daring to love the Tang army's troubles last night was to cover the army with a night attack to bypass his own camp, and to attack Jian'an for a long time, seeing that the nest was about to be lost, Gao Qitai was anxious to red-eyed, how could he care about what would be ordered or not, he didn't even want the big camp, and he rushed to Jian'an City after gathering all the men and horses......

Qingshui River, one of the tributaries of the Songhua River, lies between Qilin Village and Qingshui City, is not a big river, the water surface is about 30 zhang up and down, the water is not too deep, the deepest part is about one zhang, however, the water is turbulent, non-human horses can wade through the ferry, Gao Qitai's department arrived at Qingshui Creek at noon and 4 o'clock on May 17, because the ferry was originally equipped with many ferries were all destroyed by the Tang army, more than 50,000 Goguryeo troops had to stop the pursuit on the riverside, the whole army went out together, cut wood and cut wages for the purpose of building rafts.

At a time when tens of thousands of Goguryeo troops were very busy, Gao Qitai could only ride his horse and stand on a small earthen bag by the stream, watching his troops busy with a dark face.

Gao Qitai can't help but be anxious, looking at the wreckage of those ferries on the other side of the river, it is obvious that the Tang army has passed most of the day, according to the hour, maybe Qingshui City has fallen into the hands of the Tang army at this time, and then after that, it is a land of flat rivers, Gao Qitai can't believe that only a thousand old, weak, sick and disabled Jian'an City can withstand the fierce attack of the Tang army, as soon as he thinks of the mess of Hushan Pass and the corpses of Qilin Village everywhere, Gao Qitai can't help but shudder, as if he has seen the tragic situation of his own family in Jian'an City being tortured and killed by the Tang army. After all, the total strength of the Tang army is not below his own, and the combat effectiveness is not comparable to his own.

"General, look, wolf smoke!" Just when Gao Qitai was anxious, a sharp-eyed guard beside him suddenly noticed that several thick pillars of smoke were rising in the sky in the distance on the north bank of the Qingshui River, and he shouted loudly.

When Gao Qitai heard this, he hurriedly raised his eyes and looked over, only to look at it, and there was a panic in his heart - although the terrain on the north bank was higher than that on the south bank, and there were several small hills blocking the view, Gao Qitai recognized at a glance that the place where the smoke came from was the place where Qingshui City was located, looking at the condition of the smoke, it was not the defenders who lit the wolf smoke for help, but the situation of the fire burning the city, thinking of the situation after the Tang army passed Qingshui City, Gao Qitai was really anxious, and he couldn't care about the originally booked strategy of crossing the river for the whole army, so he raised his voice and roared: "Gao Rufeng!" ”

"The end will be." A general rode out from behind Gao Qitai and bowed down to promise, this person was Gao Rufeng, the commander of the Goguryeo cavalry.

Gao Qitai shouted anxiously: "Quick, you lead all the cavalry to cross the river immediately, be sure to entangle the Tang army, the general will lead the whole army to arrive later, whether you can protect Jian'an depends on the general, go quickly, go quickly!" ”

"Yes, the last general obeys!" Gao Rufeng's family is also in Jian'an City, also worried about the safety of their families, has long wanted to lead the army to force the crossing, at this time heard Gao Qitai gave an order, he did not dare to delay, loudly promised, led a group of guards to rush to the river, hurriedly gathered his nearly 10,000 cavalry, boarded hundreds of rafts that had been built in batches, and swarmed to the other side of the river to cross, for a time hundreds of boats contended, but quite spectacular.

"Quick, team, team!" Gao Rufeng boarded the north bank with the third batch of rafts, and saw that the five thousand cavalry who had crossed the river were huddled together on the bank of the stream, and when he landed, he was annoyed, and he pulled out the horizontal knife on his waist, brandished, and gave the order of the whole army in a loud voice. Just when I was thinking about shouting and scolding, I suddenly heard a drum on the top of the mountain not far from the shore, and when I looked back, I was immediately dumbfounded, stunned for a while, and then I made a terrible sound: "Tang Jun, it's Tang Jun!" ”

Gao Rufeng is not mistaken, it is the Tang Army that emerges from the top of the mountain, and it is Lin Chenghe, the commander of the Tang Right Route Army, who stands on a horse under the banner of the fiery "Lin" character, and the reason why he appears here is precisely from the arrangement in Li Zhen's bag - as early as when Li Zhen ordered Lin Chenghe to lead his troops to attack Xuancheng, he had already guessed that Gao Huailong was very likely to transfer Jian'an's army to come, and he had already set a false attack on Jian'an for this move. Two days ago, Lin Chenghe and Xue Rengui acted in accordance with Li Zhen's deployment and lured Gao Qitai's troops to the Qingshui Creek, and Lin Chenghe deliberately lit the wolf smoke in order to crush Gao Qitai's last patience and induce him to send a cavalry army to cross the river first, so that the Goguryeo cavalry army was crowded in the open space by the stream, unable to give full play to the characteristics of the cavalry's high mobility, so as to create the most favorable combat conditions for their own half-crossing attack.

"Attack the whole army and kill the thief!" Seeing that the enemy army was in chaos, Lin Chenghe waved his hand without hesitation, and gave the order to attack in a loud voice, and he took the lead in rushing to the Goguryeo army that was in chaos at the foot of the mountain.

"Dismount and fight, dismount and fight!" Gao Rufeng saw the Tang army rushing to kill, and immediately came back to his senses, knowing that his cavalry was crowded together, and it was impossible to exert the impact of the cavalry, but it would be trampled on each other due to overcrowding, and in a hurry, he shouted and ordered all his subordinates to dismount and line up to meet the enemy, I have to say that Gao Rufeng's move was still quite insightful, how could the Tang army come too fast, and before the Goguryeo army adjusted in place, the Tang army had already pounced on the front like a tsunami, and the Goguryeo cavalry army was torn to pieces in an instant. The one-sided slaughter began on the north bank of Qingshui Creek.

"Oh no, no, no!" At the moment when the Tang army appeared, Gao Qitai's face immediately changed when he rode his horse and stood on the hill on the south bank, he knew very well that under such circumstances, the cavalry army that had crossed the river was destined to be the result of the annihilation of the whole army, and sending men and horses over was also the result of being sent to death in vain, his eyes immediately turned red, the corners of his mouth trembled, and after muttering for a while, he suddenly raised his voice and ordered loudly: "Quick, pass the order, the whole army retreats, and withdraw to Xuansu City with the general!" As soon as this order was given, the Goguryeo soldiers, who had been in chaos, immediately abandoned the raft and turned around one after another to move closer to the invincible hill where Gao Qitai was located, intending to retreat as a whole.

Gao Qitai's determination to break the wrist of the strong man was made in a very timely manner, and the order was also very decisive, how could all this be in vain, just when the Goguryeo army began to withdraw from the streambank, a rumbling sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and the two cavalry troops turned out from behind the hill at the far end, and launched a fierce assault on the Goguryeo army with a momentum.

"The whole army obeys the order, follow the general to kill the thief, kill!" As soon as Gao Qitai saw that the abacus of his entire team fell into the void, he knew that if he stopped in place to fight, he would be the result of being slaughtered, so he had to make a dangerous move, shouted wildly, waved his horse lance, and led the guards around him to take the lead in rushing towards the Tang army on the left and killing it.

With Gao Qitai's example, the originally chaotic Goguryeo army followed one after another, and launched a counter-attack on the Tang army that rushed to kill like a chaotic tide, and a bloody battle began......

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