Chapter Ninety-Four: Reinforcements Ahead
"Quick, quick, another two hundred miles to the foot of Chang'an, we can meet with the army of Zuo Xianwang, and then the Tang army behind is the ...... of death" On the road leading to Chang'an in Jinyang, Jieli roared at his corporal without an image, and at the same time, the horses under the seat still kept galloping, a picture of Turkic inescapability.
No, the picture is cut wrong, I remember that not long ago, Jieli was still in high spirits with more than 100,000 troops, surrounding the 100,000 army of Li Jing of the Tang Dynasty, and wanted to trap the Tang army in Jinyang City, unable to reinforce Chang'an, why did it become like this now? Fake, right?
That's right! Not at all!
Just when Yuwen Chengdu, under the city of Chang'an, cut off the head of King Zuoxian, Li Jing of Jinyang led an army of 100,000 to the north to break out of the encirclement and jumped out of the encirclement of Jieli.
This is something that Jieli and the military advisor Zhao Deyan did not expect, they did not expect that they deliberately leaked the news to the Tang Army, they should be in a hurry to return to Chang'an and break through to the south, right, how did they go north?
So Zhao Deyan pondered for a moment, and decided to assemble the army and continue to drive the Tang army north, not even to send it to Jinyang City.
Jieli is puzzled, why? We are here for Chang'an, and our encirclement is also to prevent Li Jing from rescuing Chang'an, now that Li Jing is scared away, we should put aside him and go to the south to reinforce King Zuoxian, take Chang'an in one fell swoop, capture the emperor, and destroy the Tang Dynasty, aren't these tens of thousands of Tang troops rootless? The world is at your fingertips!
Zhao Deyan smiled and said: "Li Jing is a master of the art of war, this is exactly his calculation, he is waiting for us to reinforce to the south, and then he will come to chase and kill and continue to attack, slowly regain the advantage and wait for the opportunity to defeat our main force." The 40,000 troops of King Zuo Xian on the Chang'an side are enough, and there is no need for reinforcements, we just need to ensure that we block Li Jing and preserve our strength and wait for victory, and we don't need to risk it for a quick victory. ”
As soon as I said this, Jieli understood, the heart is so dangerous, and the sinister Datang coach, if it weren't for my military division, I would have almost been hit.
But after thousands of calculations, he still hit the plan, and Li Jing gave him a more dangerous one. That is, after breaking through the encirclement, he did not flee to the north, but reorganized the counterattack as quickly as possible, drew and combined the strongest forces, and gave him a head-on blow when the Turkic soldiers were at their peak in pursuit, and swore to defeat the Jieli army in one fell swoop.
Zhao Deyan's calculation was correct, Li Jing's strategic intention was indeed to defeat the main Turkic force.
But he didn't expect that Li Jing was not waiting for an opportunity, but now, on the way to break through and escape that no one could imagine, he turned around and counterattacked, and it was the strongest blow.
Facts have proved that the fierce generals of the Tang Dynasty in this era are not covered by the clouds, and the strongest brigade of 20,000 people has concentrated a large group of fierce generals such as Qin Qiong, Cheng Yanjin, Wei Chi Jingde, Duan Zhixuan, Liu Hongji, Zhang Liang, Niu Jinda, Su Dingfang, etc., accounting for half of the highest combat power of the Tang Dynasty.
With this strongest team in the world, even the Xuanjia Army can't withstand it.
Therefore, when this army counter-encircled and raided in front of Jieli, Jieli was in a state of confusion.
If it weren't for Zhao Deyan's exclamation and quick escape, I'm afraid Jieli would have been stabbed through Qin Qiong's tiger head golden gun.
The main general took the lead in rout and fled, and the army of more than 100,000 was like a sheep that had lost its leader, and the embankment of thousands of miles was destroyed in the anthill, but so, so there is a picture of the Khan fleeing now.
Unlike Li Jingqi's attack on Dingxiang in history, Jieli fled at night, this time Jieli was chased all the way to the south, and he was bitten by Li Jing, and he had already regarded the 40,000 siege army of the Turkic Zuoxian King as the only life-saving straw.
"Reinforcements, reinforcements! Great Khan, please see, there is a force of men and horses ahead, it must be the reinforcements sent by King Zuo Xian! A Turkic general shouted as he pointed into the distance.
Everyone looked at the road ahead, and sure enough, a team of less than 1,000 people appeared on the official road, with unknown banners, but they were all cavalry, and it was very likely that they were reinforcements, because Datang was not so rich, and any team was full of cavalry.
Jie Li was overjoyed, "Quick, speed up and join the reinforcements!" ”
The team on the opposite side stopped at this time, and Tang Jian, the leader of the Honglu Temple, was a little confused: What's the situation? Li Jing didn't hold Jinyang and let Jieli wave his army south? It's so useless.
"What can I do? Chang'an finally resisted the Turkic 40,000 people to break the city, if you let Jieli's 100,000 or so army come again like a wolf and a tiger, I am afraid that it will take ten Sun Shen Doctors to defend it. Tang Jian admitted that he was a little panicked.
ps: Doctor Sun: I'm not convinced, why do you use the old way as a unit of measurement?
But after all, he is an important minister of the country, serving as a peace envoy at this time, and he is the leader of this peace team, Tang Jian knows that if he is in chaos, the army on the opposite side will rush, and the hundreds of people under his command will be all finished.
The calm horse drove forward, just holding the scepter, standing proudly in front of the team, with a calm expression, and the whole team instantly gained confidence.
"It's not good, this is the army of the Tang Dynasty, not our reinforcements......" The Turkic soldiers and horses who rushed to the front exclaimed.
When Jieli heard this, his heart was finished, could it be that this is a Datang reinforcement and wants to attack from the north and south? How is my Zuo Xianwang? Damn Zhao Deyan, what bad idea did you have? Didn't you say foolproof?
There was a block in front and a chasing soldier behind, and at this time the Turkic army had a sense of sadness in their hearts, and there was no way to escape.
Running for days, it has become a habit to run for your life, almost forgetting that everyone is 100,000 people, and there are only a few hundred on the opposite side, how can you fight back and forth?
It was precisely because of this psychology that the Turkic army that rushed up was a little hesitant and did not faint and rushed directly to kill.
Tang Jian saw that the other party stopped his horse, and took the initiative to shout: "I am the special envoy of His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, asking to see the Turkic Jieli Khan!" ”
As he spoke, he held up his scepter and identified himself.
Well? Peace envoys? What's the situation? Isn't it reinforcements? The leader was puzzled and hurriedly reported to Jieli.
When Jieli heard this, he was also confused, and Zhao Deyan next to him muttered in a low voice: "It should be King Zuo Xian who has succeeded, and the Tang Emperor proposed a peace strike to survive for the sake of his life." ”
What???
Hahahaha, God won't die for me......
"Quick, this king will personally receive this envoy!" Jieli was overjoyed and drove forward.
At this time, the wolf smoke was billowing behind the army, and everyone looked behind them in unison, and after the heart was finished, the Tang army chased after them.
Jie Li shouted in a hurry: "Don't panic, all go behind the envoys, the Tang Emperor has sent people to sue for peace, just the Tang Dynasty army, dare not listen to the emperor's orders?" Hurry up, act quickly, don't give Li Jing a chance to bite! ”
So, Wu pressed more than 100,000 scattered routs, bypassed Tang Jian in a swarm, and fled to the back, and also knew that the whole team slowly had an image.
Therefore, when Li Jing's tens of thousands of troops rushed to the front of the battle, a strange picture appeared, the two armies of the Tang Dynasty and the Turks were facing each other, attacking and defending each other, but there was an additional team of hundreds of Tang envoys in the middle, standing in the middle ignorantly, a little dilemma and not knowing which way to go.