In September, Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an, led an elite army to rendezvous with Li Yi, the king of Yan, in Jizhou, and recruited more than 50,000 soldiers from Xing, Wei, Heng, Zhao and other prefectures.

On this day, Li Shentong and Li Yi's allied forces met Liu Heimin's army in the south of Raoyang City.

The Tang army was arrayed, and the formation stretched for more than ten miles, with strong troops and sophisticated weapons.

And Liu Heimin's army is simply equipped, and at a glance, it is an out-and-out peasant soldier. The number of people was not as good as that of the Tang army, and they could only form a one-way formation along the river embankment.

Li Shentong once fought with the Xia army, but he was defeated, and every time he thought of it, he felt extremely ashamed.

But at this moment, Li Shentong looked at Liu Heimin's army and couldn't help but smile.

With such a huge disparity in strength, in this battle, he will definitely be able to defeat the Xia army.

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind blew and blinded people's eyes.

Li Shentong stretched out his hand, felt the coldness of the wind blowing on his hand, and the corners of his mouth rose.

The wind is heading towards the enemy, and he didn't expect that even God is helping him.

Li Shentong immediately ordered: "Attack." ”

He took the lead, holding a large sword in his hand, and attacked the enemy army with the wind in his hand.

The enemy soldiers were blown away by the strong wind, so they could only raise their weapons and fight indiscriminately.

However, just after Li Shentong excitedly killed a few people, the direction of the wind suddenly changed and blew in the direction of the Tang army.

"Kill!"

Seeing this, Liu Heimin led the army to attack on all fronts.

The situation was reversed in an instant, and after a fierce battle, Li Shentong, who had the chance to win, was defeated again, and lost more than half of his soldiers, horses, and military supplies.

At that time, in the west of the battlefield, Li Yi attacked the troops led by Gao Yaxian, broke through in one fell swoop, and pursued with victory.

Just after chasing two miles, Xue Wanjun rushed over from the rear: "Chief, the king of Huai'an has been defeated, and our army has suffered heavy losses. ”

As soon as he heard this, Li Yi immediately gave up the pursuit of Gao Yaxian and led his troops to retreat to Gaocheng.

Liu Heimin took advantage of the victory to pursue and attacked Gaocheng non-stop.

Although these Tang troops defeated Gao Yaxian's troops, their morale became low since they knew that the main force of the army had been defeated. Now that he was running all the way and was physically tired, he was forced to fight Liu Heimin's army.

It is conceivable that under the double exhaustion of mental and physical exhaustion, the Tang army was defeated again.

"Steward, you go first, our palace is behind."

Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche fought side by side, fighting hard to kill the enemy and cover Li Yi's breakthrough.

After Li Yi broke out of the encirclement, under the protection of the pro-guards, he fled in the direction of Youzhou.

He glanced back, only to see that the two brothers Xue Wanjun were surrounded again by Liu Heimin's army.

Li Yi seemed to feel something, with a sad look in his eyes, and then turned his head to look ahead and accelerated forward.

"Ah......h

With the screams, Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche both fell off their horses, and the sharp spears immediately surrounded them.

In just a moment, the two of them were robbed of their weapons and tied their hands.

"These two boys, I know." Cao Zhan pushed aside the crowd and walked over.

He stood in front of Xue Wanjun: "You two once fought with me with Li Yi and killed many of my brothers.

"Now that it is in my hands, I will avenge my brothers, and make your life worse than death."

When the words fell, the corners of his mouth were sarcastic, and he quickly raised his sword and stabbed it.

"Don't kill my brother."

Xue Wanche's voice came from his ears, Xue Wanjun was relieved, but his eyes were subconsciously closed.

However, he did not feel the sharp pain he expected, so he opened his eyes, only to see a strand of hair falling under his feet.

"Boom......"

Cao Zhan waved the sword in his hand again, and after a few breaths, there was already dense hair on the ground.

Xue Wanjun glanced at the ground, and immediately became angry: "Shi Ke can not be humiliated, if you are a good man, kill me with a knife, don't touch my hair." ”

"I don't want your life, I just want to humiliate you and avenge my dead brothers." Cao Zhan was very arrogant, and his eyes were full of sarcasm: "I want to humiliate not only you, but also your brother." ”

After speaking, he raised the sword in his hand and walked towards Xue Wanche.

"Smack" twice, and cut off Xue Wanche's hair.

"Ahhh......h

Cao Zhan didn't care, and even laughed very proudly: "Hahaha, happy, happy......"

"Take them away."

Cao Zhan got on his horse and ordered his soldiers to take the prisoners and join the army.

Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche walked at the end of the line with their hair scattered, and there were two soldiers behind them.

The soldiers took the whips in their hands and drove them like slaves.

The two brothers looked at each other silently, both seeing shame in each other's eyes.

It will be the greatest shame of their lives.

After walking for a while, Xue Wanjun quietly observed the surrounding terrain, and saw a small road in front of him, and he glanced at Xue Wanche.

Xue Wanche followed his gaze and saw the path, and then nodded at Xue Wanjun.

Just as they walked to the side of the path, Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche suddenly raised their feet and kicked them to the ground with a back kick.

And quickly dodge their sabers and cut the rope at the wrist for the opponent.

"Someone ran away."

The soldiers in the rear heard the movement and rushed over.

Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche quickly ran onto the path next to them, and in the blink of an eye, they disappeared.

The soldier chased for a while, lost his trace, and went back to tell Cao Zhan.

Cao Zhan gritted his teeth with hatred, he knew that this would happen, he should have killed them just now.

......

Two days later, Xue Wanjun and Xue Wanche caught up with Li Yi's army.

"I'm relieved to see that you two are okay."

Li Yi thanked them, and then led the remnants of the army to retreat to Youzhou.

In this battle, the Tang army suffered heavy losses, and Liu Heimin's army was greatly enhanced.

When the military information was transmitted back to Chang'an, Li Yuan was shocked, he thought that Liu Heimin was just a grasshopper after the autumn, and he couldn't set off any storms.

Unexpectedly, he sent 50,000 soldiers and horses, but they failed to defeat Liu Heimin, and lost most of the soldiers and supplies.

Li Shimin couldn't bear the fruits of his just victory falling into the hands of the enemy, so he asked Li Yuan for battle: "Aya, in order to pacify Henan and Hebei, the treasury has cost a lot of money, and many soldiers have been sacrificed, and we must not let Henan and Hebei fall into the hands of others."

"Ask for battle, I am willing to lead troops to crusade against the traitor Liu Heimin and recover the lost city."

Hearing this, Li Yuan frowned slightly, and he looked at Li Jiancheng on the side.

It's a pity that Li Jiancheng was thinking about something with his head down, and he didn't see Li Yuan's eyes at all.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Li Yuan's eyes, and then he retracted his gaze and said, "Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, this time it is just a small defeat, don't panic."

"I believe that Li Shentong and Li Yi will definitely be able to recover the defeat, let's wait and see."

Li Shimin lowered his eyelids and did not speak again.

My father would rather pin his hopes on Li Shentong and Li Yi, who lost the battle, than let him go.

Obviously, it was easy to pacify Liu Heimin, but his father chose a more difficult path, such an obvious meaning, of course he understood.

His father began to suspect him and suppressed him......