145. The Battle of the Water

"Lord Wang, if you don't give King Qi face like this, I'm afraid that he will have thoughts in his heart." Fang Xuanling, who came with Li Shimin and did not enter the tent, but clearly heard the conversation inside, couldn't help but whisper a word of persuasion after King Qin came out.

"He has ideas, I can't watch him mess around with his temperament, fighting is not child's play, any negligence may lead to a big defeat, send two people to stare at Yuan Ji, Liu Heimin This person is definitely not easy to deal with, this battle, only win, not defeat." Li Shimin had a calm face, strode forward, and said as he spoke.

Don't talk about the hearts of Li Shimin and others, but Luo Yi, who said that he had suffered a defeat at the hands of Liu Heimin last year, heard that Li Shimin's army was coming, and he immediately led tens of thousands of troops under his command to go around behind Liu Heimin, preparing to fight him back and forth with last year.

Although Luo Yi is not a person from King Qin, as a front-line general, he still recognizes Li Shimin's ability very much, and he believes that with Li Shimin in front of Liu Heimin, this battle will definitely make him a bloody shame.

After Liu Heimin learned of Luo Yi's actions, he was quite annoyed, he hesitated slightly, and decided to leave half of the soldiers and horses, let Fan Yuan stay in Zhaozhou, and he took one and a half of the people to the north, preparing to defeat Luo Yi in one fell swoop and completely solve this trouble.

It's a pity that although his idea is good, Li Shimin has a high banner, and before he leaves, Li Shimin has asked his subordinate general Cheng Mingzhen to prepare dozens of war drums in advance.

Liu Heimin had just left the city of Zhaozhou with his front foot, and that night, the drums of emergency war sounded in the west of the city.

In the dark night, dozens of war drums suddenly sounded, and the shock caused by that sound would never have been imagined by those who had never experienced it.

Fan Yuan, who was in charge of staying in Zhaozhou, was shocked by the sudden sound of war drums, and he thought that the Tang army had already attacked the city of Zhaozhou, and after finally stabilizing his mind from the panic, he immediately sent someone to chase Liu Heimin.

Liu Heimin, who had left the city of Zhaozhou less than ten miles away, naturally heard the terrible sound of war drums, and there was no need for Fan Yuan to send someone to invite, Liu Heimin, who heard the sound of war drums, could no longer sit still.

He sent his younger brothers Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli to lead 10,000 elite soldiers to meet Luo Yi, and he turned around and returned to the camp in a hurry.

When he returned to the city of Zhaozhou, he found that all this was just a trick of the Tang army, and he almost crooked his nose in anger, but after he had learned Li Shimin's methods, he did not dare to leave Zhaozhou again, for fear that if he left, Fan Yuan would lose Zhaozhou on his hind feet.

At the same time, he was also quite confident in the 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command, thinking that they were enough to resist Luo Yi.

Those 10,000 soldiers and horses were the most elite troops under Liu Heimin, and last year he relied on these 10,000 to defeat the more than 100,000 troops led by Li Shentong, the king of Huai'an.

But he forgot that the same army, led by different commanders, had completely different results.

Liu Heimin's extremely powerful army confronted the Youzhou soldiers led by Li Yi in Jinzhou and launched a decisive battle at the Xu River outside Gucheng.

After a big battle, Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli were defeated and died, and the 10,000 soldiers and horses they led lost nearly 8,000.

After Luo Yi defeated them, Bing Feng continued to move south, preparing to copy Liu Heimin's back road, and form a front and rear attack with Li Shimin.

But Liu Heimin couldn't care about Luo Yi at this time, because he also had a big basket here, and his subordinate Li Qufu was persuaded by Li Shi to join Li Tang, and tended to spread rumors, saying that Liu Heimin was definitely not Li Shimin's opponent and would be defeated in the near future.

Liu Heimin was extremely angry, and he wanted to arrest Li Qufu and break the corpse into pieces, Li Shimin naturally would not give him such an opportunity, he tended to Liu Heimin's internal chaos, and sent his general Luo Shixin to take Luoshui County in one fell swoop.

The city is the gateway of Luozhou, located in the north of Feixiang, the east of Luozhou, and the junction of Zhangshui, after Luo Yi defeated Liu Shishan and Zhang Junli, he waved his troops all the way to advance, and the soldiers had reached the north of Zhaozhou.

And Li Shimin is in Xiangzhou, that is, south of Zhaozhou, once Luoshui City completely falls into the hands of the Tang army, and when Li Shimin and Luo Yi's army converges, they will immediately form a state of encirclement of Liu Heimin in the north and south, and at the same time cut off the connection between Liu Heimin and the states.

Such a dangerous strategic position, Liu Heimin naturally did not want to let Li Shimin take it away, for this reason, he immediately stationed troops outside Luoshui City, preparing to start a battle with Li Shimin to seize the city, Li Shimin of course could not watch him go to capture Luoshui City, and immediately sent troops to reinforce.

Liu Heimin camped in the east of Yexian County, and only sent a small number of troops to call for battle every day, and the Tang army could not figure out his intentions for a while, and did not move, and when Liu's people came to call for battle, they sent a small force to meet the enemy.

After more than ten days of this, Li Qufu, who defected to Li Shimin's command, Li Panmai and others spread rumors again, saying that Liu Heimin was afraid of the King of Qin and did not dare to fight with him at all.

Liu Heimin was furious, and while sending people to arrest those who spread rumors, he led his army to launch a large-scale attack on Li Shimin's Luoshui City, Li Shimin sent Qin Shubao's troops to meet them, and in the first confrontation, Qin Shubao's troops were defeated and retreated.

After Qin Shubao's defeat was defeated, he neither avoided Luoshui nor retreated to Xiangzhou, but fled downstream of Luoshui, and Li Shimin led his troops to meet Qin Shubao immediately after the defeat and retreat.

Liu Heimin saw Li Shimin personally leading a large army to rush out, and knew that it was impossible to recapture Luoshui City in one fell swoop at this time, so he could only retreat.

When his army returned to the camp, he was ambushed by the remnants of Qin Shubao, who were defeated by him, and Liu Heimin's troops, who were suddenly caught off guard, were scattered.

However, this person is worthy of being a battlefield general, and Qin Shubao's men and horses are not very many, he quickly gathered the scattered army, defeated Qin Shubao, and approached Li Shimin, who had already returned to the city, before he could react, recaptured Luoshui City in one fell swoop and killed Luo Shixin.

Li Yuanji, who looked down on him a little because Liu Heimin took the initiative to give up Xiangzhou, immediately closed his mouth after seeing Liu Heimin's true combat strength, and he was even more afraid in his heart, if it weren't for the presence of King Qin, he might not be able to run away if he was against Liu Heimin alone.

Don't talk about Yuanji's heart, but talk about Li Shimin, as soon as he turned around and returned to the city, Liu Heimin killed a horse gun, not only recaptured Luoshui County, but also killed Luo Shixin.

Li Shimin, who had rarely suffered such a big loss, was furious, and while taking advantage of the dangerous terrain of Luoshui, he set up a long snake formation to encroach on Liu Heimin's forces step by step, and at the same time sent an assault team to cut off Liu Heimin's grain transportation channel.

Liu Heimin was shocked and angry when the grain road was intercepted, and he angrily scolded the king of Qin for being shameless on the other side, and constantly sent troops to call for battle, Li Shi ignored it, stuck to the barrier and did not come out.

Until Liu Heimin's army ran out of food, knowing that he had nothing to do, he would definitely come desperately to fight hard, and he took the first step to order someone to block the upper reaches of the water.

When Liu Heimin's army led his troops to cross the river, he dug the embankment, and Liu Heimin really hit the plan, and the 20,000 troops he led had just arrived in the middle of the river, and the roaring river water was surging, and Liu Heimin's army was instantly crushed.

Li Shimin's army rushed out at the opportunity, but a great battle turned into a one-sided massacre, Liu Heimin's 20,000 troops were killed more than 10,000 people, thousands drowned, and the water in the middle reaches of the river was soon dyed red.

Liu Heimin, who was full of remorse, led more than 1,000 people to flee to the Turks, and this war, which lasted for more than a month, ended with the great victory of King Qin.