In the dark night, the stars were dotted, and under the darkness of the night, a huge military camp was located around this barren mountain.

Li Chengming sat in the tent, his legs crossed, his eyes slightly closed, as if he was cultivating.

"Report!" At this time, a voice came from outside the tent.

Li Chengming opened his eyes, and a streamer seemed to flash in the depths of his pupils, and he calmed down, and then said, "Come in!" ”

"The last general will see His Highness!" As soon as the words fell, Luo Ning outside walked in and knelt down directly to salute.

"What?" Li Chengming didn't talk nonsense either, and asked directly.

"Your Highness, there are those traitors in Chang'an ten miles away, and there are about a thousand horses." Luo Ning clenched his fists and said respectfully, "According to His Highness's orders, the last general has ambushed two thousand horsemen there, killed more than three hundred horsemen, and captured more than five hundred horsemen, but some people took advantage of the chaos to escape. The last general is not in a good position, please punish Your Highness! ”

Hearing Luo Ning's return, Li Chengming's eyes flickered, but he was not very disappointed, after all, he didn't expect much from the group of people under him from the beginning.

Otherwise, there was an opportunity to ambush the side in advance, and there were enough two thousand riders in hand, but instead of leaving all the people behind, more than 100 people ran away, and this alone was enough to cure Luo Ning for a not light crime.

However, as he said before, he also knew that although these soldiers under him looked pretty good, if they were really compared with the elite sent by Li Shimin, there was still a certain gap.

This kind of gap, if you use an analogy, is the difference between modern ordinary police and special police, so Li Chengming does not have much expectation for them.

And the reason why he asked Luo Ning to lead the army to ambush was because when he heard Li Shimin's arrangement the day before yesterday, he had heard that Li Shimin asked Li Mengwei to arrange a thousand light cavalry scouts to scout the military situation, so Li Chengming would casually let Luo Ning go to ambush and wait ten miles away.

"Two thousand horsemen can't keep a thousand horsemen, first write down the twenty military sticks, and after taking Chang'an, go and get the punishment yourself!" Although he didn't expect much from these people, he couldn't just let it go, so Li Chengming directly asked him to wait until he won Chang'an before receiving the punishment.

Don't look at the twenty military sticks as if there are very few, the military sticks are not like the yamen to hit the board, not to mention, the yamen can kill people with the kind of board, let alone the military stick.

However, after all, the executor of this military stick is also a human being, and if it is a human being, it will be light and heavy, and with Luo Ning's identity, these twenty military sticks will only let him lie in bed for half a month at most.

"Your Highness!" Although he was punished, Luo Ning did not show a trace of dissatisfaction, but respectfully hugged his fists to accept the punishment.

"Well, go down and disperse those scouts, it's only thirty miles away from Chang'an, don't wait for the enemy to touch your side and don't know." Li Chengming commanded again.

Although he had heard Li Shimin's plan before, but on the battlefield, it was changing rapidly, who stipulated that Li Shimin made a plan yesterday, and he couldn't change it today?

"Yes, Your Highness, the last general will retire!"

Seeing Luo Ning retreat, Li Chengming's eyes flickered, and then he got up and walked back to the lounge behind the handsome tent.

The incident just now was just an episode for Li Chengming, that is, the arrangement he made at will after hearing the plan of Li Shimin and others, it became nothing, after all, a thousand light cavalry is just a drop in the bucket for Li Shimin, who now has fifty or sixty thousand cavalry, and even if it doesn't work, then it's nothing, the reason is the same as above, there is no difference between a hundred thousand troops, one thousand more and one thousand a thousand less in Li Chengming's opinion.

In fact, he also knew that this time was just a small test by Li Shimin, and the purpose should be to test why he dared to lead the army to attack Chang'an.

Although Li Shimin is ruthless, he is also very thoughtful, otherwise he would not have established a hundred cavalry early and placed them in the armies of various state roads.

Of course, it is precisely because of his cautious attitude that he thinks that Li Chengming has something to rely on, so he will come up to test Li Chengming's strength.

However, Li Shimin never imagined that Li Chengming's strength was actually a miscellaneous army of less than 50,000 that had been detected by the hundred cavalry, but his real hole cards would only be taken out when he arrived outside Chang'an City.

So, what if he was tempted?

Li Chengming has already planned everything, and he will be defeated in a battle, and no matter how many conspiracies and tricks he has, I will suppress it with all my might.

The time of the night passed quickly, and soon the time of the third watch came, and thousands of soldiers in the barracks began to wash rice and vegetables, and make food, and when it came to the fourth watch, the soldiers who were sleeping got up, and then ate and began to clean up the camp.

The army set off, because the sky was not yet dawn, so the sergeant of the army took the torch to advance, stretching for more than ten miles, from a distance, like a fire dragon, extremely magnificent.

Li Chengming sat cross-legged on the head of Zhu Gangguan, slowly following the center of the army, in addition to the personal guards that had been expanded to five hundred, he was also followed by Luo Ning, Xue Wanche, two generals and three thousand light horsemen.

As the highest-ranking person in this army, he should naturally enjoy the highest treatment and the strictest protection.

Although, in his opinion, this protection is simply dispensable for him.

Thirty miles, not long, not short, after Li Chengming led tens of thousands of soldiers forward, walked for more than an hour, and finally saw the majestic Chang'an.

At this time, not long after the sun had just risen in the sky, the entire Chang'an was shrouded in a golden sun, like a giant city made of gold.

However, at the head of the walls of this golden giant city, it was already covered with dense guards of the city, all of whom were dressed in armor, or armed with spears, or armed with bows and arrows, like heavenly soldiers guarding the golden giant city, and they were extraordinary.

Li Chengming led the army to stop five miles away from Chang'an, and then Xue Wanche and Luo Ning began to arrange their troops according to Li Chengming's previous orders, and 1,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers formed a phalanx, a total of three phalanxes, which corresponded to the three city gates of Anhua, Mingde, and Qixia.

However, just as they were arranging their troops, they suddenly saw the gate of Mingde Gate in the middle open, and then a team of thousands of light horsemen rushed in, until they were about two miles away from Li Chengming's formation, and then dozens of horses rushed out of hundreds of meters, and then shouted towards the military formation, "Traitor Li Chengming, dare to step forward and fight with a certain family?" ”

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