Chapter 172: The Decisive Battle at the Top of the Imperial City (1)
Anger, the anger of renunciation! In the face of the stubborn fight of the remnants of the Hou cavalry, Li Zhen was extremely angry, and simply ignored Chen Liang's department in the bitter battle, and made a heart, planning to completely destroy the Hou cavalry that was entangled again and then talk about the rest, after a loud shout, the lead department launched an impact again, at this time, due to the chaos of the war on the square, the cavalry teams on both sides have no formation at all, and they are generally scattered arrays, so the consequence of the head-on hedge is that the winner will always win, and the loser will inevitably be destroyedAt this point, for the battle-hardened Yue Wangfu guards, it is undoubtedly a big advantage, and the results of the hedging also prove this - after a hedging battle, the Yue Wangfu guards at the cost of more than 30 horses fell off their horses, and they killed more than 160 Hou family soldiers, and the remnants of the Hou family cavalry who were killed had no courage to attack, and the remnants of more than 150 horsemen retreated to the formation and gathered on Hou Junji's side.
Golden opportunity! After Li Zhen rushed to kill, he just turned the horse's head, and suddenly saw that the cavalry of the Hou family army retreated, and immediately keenly discovered the fighter - at that time, Chen Liang's department was fighting the left flank of the Hou army, attracting a large number of troops from the Hou army, and now the circle array discharged by Hou Junji has long been dilapidated, and the formation is no longer formed, except for the more than 150 cavalry who have just retreated, there are only more than 300 infantry in front of the formation, half of the archers and half of the shield knife hands, with such a small number of troops, In any case, it is impossible to block the impact of the nearly 500 cavalry in Li Zhen's hands, and furthermore, the remnants of the cavalry of the Hou family army have just been defeated and retreated into the formation, and its infantry phalanx has been disrupted by its own cavalry.
"The whole army listens to the order: follow this king, kill into the enemy formation, and capture the thief alive! Kill! Li Zhen raised his silver spear, shouted, and took the lead in rushing towards the Hou Jiajun, who was still in chaos.
"Kill! Capture Hou Junji alive! ”
"Kill!"
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Although the guards of the Yue Wangfu were busy for most of the night, and had just launched two waves of cavalry hedging battles, they were a little nervous physically, but after all, they had won the battle, and their morale was booming.
Morale can not be vented, this truth is very clear to Hou Junji, who has fought an old battle, seeing Li Zhen leading his troops to rush over, Hou Junji immediately knew that the situation was not good - time, now Hou Junji needs time, and now Chen Liang's department has disrupted the formation of the Hou family's army, but its department has also lost the mobility of the cavalry, and now it is just a hard battle, even if the cavalry occupies a condescending advantage, but it is destined to be unable to fight against many infantry, if you fight for a while, Hou Junji has full confidence to rely on the absolute superiority of the number of Chen Liang to exterminate all the troops in the formation, at that time, Li Zhen's more than 400 cavalry will naturally be unable to escape defeat, but the problem is that Li Zhen did not give Hou Junji this time, resolutely launched a cavalry raid, once Li Zhen was killed into the formation, the morale of the whole army will inevitably collapse, at that time, the Hou family army in addition to fleeing in the wilderness, I am afraid that there is no other way out, and Hou Junji can not withdraw at this time, otherwise the plan that has been planned for many years will fall into vain. That kind of consequence is not something Hou Junji can afford.
The general used his life and then the three armies followed, and until now, Hou Junji can only fight hard, regardless of the fact that his cavalry has just been defeated and retreated, and the morale is low, he took off the horse lance from the victory hook, and shouted: "Sons, follow this commander, kill!" As soon as the words fell, the cavalry of the Hou family army, who had just retreated, saw how brave Hou Junji was, and immediately boosted their morale, and they turned their horses and turned around to follow behind, and the archers among the more than 300 infantry immediately opened their bows and arrows, aiming at Li Zhen's troops who rushed to kill covered the past with a rain of arrows, as for those shield swordsmen, they completely gave up their duties of covering the archers, and rushed forward after the cavalry with wild shouts, and for a while, the shouts on the battlefield became one, The two iron streams approached rapidly, and the battle of life and death began!
If you want to find death, then come! In the face of the fierce counterattack launched by the Hou family's army, Li Zhen quickly calmed down, staring at Hou Junji who was rushing to the front of the enemy army with a pair of eyes, the bright silver spear in his hand danced, and the oncoming arrows were fired away one by one, and he kept estimating the distance between each other in his heart - twenty meters, ten meters, five meters, it's time, "Kill!" Li Zhen shouted violently, and with a force of his arms, the bright silver spear in his hand stabbed straight out, without the slightest fancy, some were just extremely fast speed, and the swift shot quickly broke through the distance of space and stabbed Hou Junji's throat......
Wu Wang Li Ke has always been a very calm person, and this time is the same, although the Jingshi has long been inextricably matched, but Li Ke is like a person who has nothing to do, just sit in the study, and play Go with his own strategist Ye Ling, even if Sima Linhe of the palace comes in from time to time to report the battle situation, he doesn't see Li Ke raise his head, and he hasn't even had a sentence to confess, he is just playing chess, but the speed of playing chess is not fast, more than two hours have passed, and this game of chess has just reached the middle stage, The chess game is very chaotic, and it is impossible to judge who can have the advantage for a while, and the chessboard is full of war, opportunities and threats are at the same time, which makes Li Ke a little undecided, and he has not fallen behind for most of the hour.
"Your Highness, the Wei Wangfu was defeated, and Li Zhen, the king of Yue, has led his troops to Chengtianmen, and is currently in a fierce battle, and Qin Huaiyu's troops have also rushed to Xuanwumen and are attacking the rebellious army." Just as Li Ke was frowning and thinking about the chess game, Lin He, the person in charge of "Size", hurriedly walked into the study again and reported loudly.
"Oh?" Li Ke's hand trembled slightly, he raised his head from the chess game for the first time, glanced at Lin He, frowned quickly, let out a long breath, looked at Ye Ling who was silent with a smile and said: "Sir, this chess king can't see through it, this next step is really not good." ”
Ye Ling smiled, pushed the chessboard, stood up and said, "Your Highness, it's time, Your Highness can go as you want." ”
"Hmm." Li Ke replied noncommittally, shook his head a little distressedly, and said, "What is the purpose of Xiaoba's sending the sixth brother to Dongdajie?" This move of the chess king really can't understand, seeing that the direction where the sixth brother is going is not where the East Palace is located, what is the strange here? ”
Ye Ling shook his head solemnly and said: "I don't understand it very well, I think His Royal Highness the King of Yue still has other arrangements, now that the time has come, if His Royal Highness doesn't move again, then there is no need to move again." ”
"Alas!" Li Ke paused, let out a sigh of relief, clenched his fists, gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, since that's the case, this king will lead his troops to attack, Lin He, pass the order, open the middle gate, and the whole army will be dispatched!" As soon as the words fell, he ignored Lin He's answer, walked to the wall by himself, put on his armor by waiting for his own guards, and picked up the spear from the weapon shelf, and walked out of the study without looking back......
Wanhualou located in East Street should be the most lively place for the nightlife of Chang'an City, unless it is a curfew, it is always open all night, every day there are many rich and powerful people who come here to find joy like a carp crossing the river, when people are proud of being able to enter this store chic, of course, if you want to walk into this store, you don't have a hundred money in your pocket, I'm afraid you don't even dare to enter the lobby on the ground floor, not to mention those elegant seats on the main floor, today you have a curfew, naturally there is no livelihood, the huge restaurant is deserted, Except for the two dim lanterns in front of the door, which were half-lit, the whole hotel was dark, that is, there were still some lights on the main building, and it was basically some night watchmen watching the battle in the imperial city, and everything seemed extremely calm, until a rumbling sound of horses' hooves roared from a distance and approached Wanhualou, which broke the silence in the restaurant.
"Quick, keep up! Dou Fulin, Er led his troops to surround the restaurant, and the rest of the people followed the king, smashed open the door, and rushed in! "The king of Shu Li Su rushed to the front of Wanhualou first, waving the sword in his hand, unceremoniously commanding his subordinates to surround the restaurant and smash the door, that posture is not much different from the robber who robbed the house, but his face did not have the fierce expression of the robber, but his face was full of haze and panic that could not be concealed, of course, Li Su was not worried that he could not catch Li Yuanchang, the king of Han, from Wanhualou, or even worried that there would be fierce resistance inside, let alone worry about Li Zhen's safety, In fact, there is only one thing that Li Su is worried about, that is, whether he can take the first step to destroy the evidence in Li Yuanchang's hands - since Li Zhen dares to conclude that Li Yuanchang is in Wanhualou, then Li Su absolutely believes in it, not to mention anything else, Li Zhen still trusts Li Zhen's judgment ability, as for resistance? Li Su couldn't ask for it, in his opinion, Li Yuanchang had better resist desperately, so that he could take advantage of the chaos to kill Li Yuanchang and destroy the evidence by the way, isn't it?
There are a lot of masters in the Shu Wangfu, and when he heard his master's order, he hugged him unceremoniously, and more than a dozen people worked together to lift the two big stone lions at the door of the restaurant and slammed into the door, but those Yulin officers and soldiers didn't move much, Dou Fulin jumped off the war horse, trotted all the way to Li Su's side, and said with a smile: "Your Highness, there seem to be a lot of gangsters inside, and there are many subordinates under the lower officials, why don't you also divide some people into the store and help Your Highness take people together?" ”
As far as the poor combat power of the Yulin Army and the greed for life and fear of death will also take the initiative to ask for war, who can believe it, at least Li Su doesn't believe it, in his opinion, this group of pigs is just thinking that there are a lot of good things in Wanhualou, and they plan to take the opportunity to make a fortune, how can they really participate in the war, but they understand that Li Su can't break this matter, after all, this group of Zi Yulin Army is the old man's own soldiers, even Li Zhen, the nominal commander, can't do anything about them, not to mention that he Li Su, Although Li Su wanted to slap Dou Fulin's fat face a few times, he could only smile and say at the end: "General Dou is loyal to the country, this king knows, so it's okay, this king will lead people to kill it, just take the thief chieftain, and General Dou will be fully responsible for the guarding affairs of this Wanhualou, so can it be done?" ”
Cheng, how can it not be done, this Zi Yulin Army only wants to make a fortune, how can he really go into battle to play with his life, hearing Li Su say this, Dou Fulin's face smiled like a chrysanthemum, nodded and replied, and went to greet a group of Zi Yulin officers and soldiers who were busy surrounding the restaurant without mentioning it.
Not to mention, don't look at Wanhualou is just a restaurant, but the two doors are very strong, a group of masters of the Zishu Mansion tried their best to smash the door, although the two wooden doors were smashed to a ping pong, but they couldn't be smashed open for a while, so they had to continue to smash harder, the movement was really too big, even if they were a few streets away, they could hear the sound, not to mention that Li Yuanchang and his group on the main building had already discovered that something was wrong, in fact, Li Yu and his group had not started to smash the door. Li Yuanchang had already received the alarm from the sentinel in the attic, but Li Yuanchang was at a loss as to how to deal with it - at this time, the personal guards of the Han Palace's personal guards and the "black-clothed army" had already been dispatched, and there were only a few forty or fifty personal guards and a group of palace staff who remained on the Wanhua Tower. Only then did Li Yuanchang be convinced that this group of military horses was coming at him, and he couldn't sit still anymore, how could he still have any imperial demeanor and other poor attention, and he couldn't care about his strategists, so he took the lead and rushed down the stairs by himself, and fled to the tunnel in the backyard in a panic, trying to get a good time with oil on the soles of his feet.
It's late, it's too late, before Li Yuanchang ran to the second floor, but after hearing a loud bang at the gate, the two thick doors had been knocked apart, and hundreds of guards of the Shu Wangfu were holding torches, shouting and rushing into the hall, quickly rushing through the lobby and pouring into the main building.
It's over, it's completely over! Seeing the many soldiers swarming over, Li Yuanchang's face was like ashes, and he didn't even have a trace of strength in his body, and he sat down on the steps, unable to speak with trembling corners of his mouth, but the group of guards around him were very loyal, and set up Li Yuanchang and shouted: "Protect Your Majesty, kill out!" Surrounded by Li Yuanchang, he planned to look at the backyard and break in.
"Kill them all!" As soon as he saw that Li Yuanchang and others planned to arrest him, Li Yu's heart was suddenly relieved, and he did not hesitate to issue a killing order.
As the saying goes: the tiger is hard to beat the wolves, that's right, Li Yuanchang has been deliberately trying to seize the throne over the years, relying on strong financial resources, he has really attracted a lot of talents, and those who can get into his eyes are all masters, as far as the more than 30 personal guards around him are concerned, any one of them is a heroic choice on the rivers and lakes, but unfortunately the number is too small, plus the guards of the Shu Wangfu are not vegetarians, all of them are good hands, this attack immediately surged up like a tide, Immediately the guards of the Han Wangfu were submerged in the crowd, the two sides fought for only a moment, the guards of the Han Wangfu died, the wounded, the remnants of a dozen people surrounded Li Yuanchang while fighting and retreating up the stairs, relying on the narrowness of the stairs, desperately resisting the attack of the people and horses of the Shu Wangfu, poor Li Yuanchang had never experienced such a bloody scene, he was already so frightened that he peed his pants, and kept shouting: "Don't fight, don't fight, I surrender, I surrender......" It's a pity that his words are no different from farting for the guards of the Shu Palace, and the guards around him fell down one after another, and at the end of the day, the two guards with the highest martial arts stood in front of him desperately, and the end was the end of the death, but at this moment, a slightly joking voice suddenly sounded in the lobby: "Enough, that's it." He said this very peacefully, but he suppressed the shouts and the clash of weapons in the hall, as if this person was talking in the ears of everyone in the hall.
Master, the best master! Most of the guards around Li Su are good hands, and they understand that there is a top master who has arrived, and they can't care about chasing Li Yuanchang at this moment, several masters led by Ye Ningnan rushed to Li Su's side quickly, and nervously lined up the guarded formation, but seeing a commotion among the people at the entrance of the lobby, the chubby Dou Fulin didn't know when he had appeared beside Li Su, and his white and chubby face was still full of flattering smiles, but the words that came out made Li Su almost fall to the ground - "His Royal Highness the King of Shu, the Holy Decree is here, Be sure to capture the traitor Li Yuanchang alive, hehe, the emperor is in his body, and please ask His Royal Highness the King of Shu not to embarrass the officials. ”
Dizzy, completely dizzy! Li Su couldn't have imagined that the guy in front of him who looked timid and afraid of death and greedy for money turned out to be a top master, and he also held the holy purpose in his hand, and the cat here was only afraid of being big, and when he remembered that most of what he had done fell into the eyes of this dead fat man, Li Su couldn't wait to slap this nasty dead fat man to death, but when he thought of the dead fat man's ability just now, he was not sure to get rid of this person without alarming the more than 1,000 Yulin officers and soldiers outside, unless he Li Su could get rid of all the Yulin troops outside, Otherwise, it will be impossible to make any more moves against the decree.
"Hehe, General Dou thinks it's enough, haha, Xiao Wang is acting at General Dou's orders." Li Su's eyes rolled several times, weighed the situation repeatedly, and finally laughed a few times, waved his hand to signal the people of the Shu Palace's mansion to retreat, and arched his hand at Dou Fulin.
"Don't dare, don't dare, the lower officials are just on an errand, hehe, just hold the traitor Li Yuanchang, and the lower officials don't know anything else, hehe, Your Highness is fine though." Dou Fulin smiled, leaned sideways, to show that he didn't dare to accept Li Su's salute, flashed with a smile, the person had appeared on the stairs, and in a flash, Li Yuanchang, who had already been frightened and unconscious, appeared at the door of the lobby, smiled at Li Su, and walked away.
Li Su really didn't understand which play this Dou Fulin was singing, but seeing that Dou Fulin had already left, his heart was slightly relieved, and after making a secret signal to Ye Ninglan and the others, he slowly walked out of the lobby, and there was a tragic sound behind him.
"Alas, the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven......" Li Su, who came out of the lobby, looked at the brilliant starry sky, shook his head with a wry smile, and muttered in his mouth......
Finishing (full book)