Xie Gui, the commander of the Han army who fled in a hurry, quickly led his troops and horses to retreat into the mountains and forests, and they did not dare to stop for half a step and evacuated west along the mountain road. Although there are still tens of thousands of soldiers on hand, this mighty army is silent at the moment, and everyone is depressed, after all, it has experienced a catastrophe. Error-free updates @

The lieutenant general didn't say a word along the way, and like the main general Xie Gui, both of them felt a deep sense of humiliation and frustration. This road followed Pan Chongche's army to the north, from Lianzhou to Tanzhou, from Lingnan to Chudi, the army was invincible everywhere the iron hooves went, victory after victory, the city attacked one after another, how could there be today?

It is precisely because of too many victories that this defeat is even more unforgettable, more frustrating, and more unprepared.

What kind of opponent is Li Yuan, on the occasion of this battle, the young commander of the Tang army has resolved all kinds of tactics of the Han army, and he led the army here for only a few days, but his side has lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and the siege equipment has also been destroyed. The losses can be described as huge, and the Wuping army may have lost only a few soldiers and horses, how did this happen.

On the cold mountain road, the evening breeze blew on his body, which not only made Xie Gui's sweat cold all over his body, but also his heart was like falling into an ice cellar.

Recalling the nightmare of the recent days in his mind, Xie Gui's calm mind also became clear, and then slowly recalled every step of Li Yuan's use of troops, and then he was surprised to find how planned and strategic Li Yuan's use of troops was.

In fact, from the beginning of the night attack, he Xie Gui had fallen into Li Yuan's trap. took advantage of his eagerness to take Yiyang, and took advantage of his belief that the Tang army was no more than 10,000 people, and he was stupid enough to show off his deterrence by lighting siege vehicles and various equipment in the camp.

The direct consequence of this behavior is that Li Yuan will play a trick and attack the west. I have to say that Li Yuan was very bold, he actually dared to bombard his siege equipment with a trebuchet in front of his camp gate, and it was by taking advantage of this surprise that he succeeded.

Then he was anxious to regain face, and he had a numerical advantage, so he would definitely send troops as soon as possible, and he would have to rebuild new siege equipment for the siege thereafter, and he would inevitably divide part of his troops. Could it be that all this was expected by Li Yuan?

And Li Yuan's various methods to meet the enemy are even more helpless, and every one of his methods has been resolved by him one by one. From the beginning of the heavy crossbow to break the iron shield array, to the unexpected rebellion of the war elephants in the back and the surprise attack of the cavalry at the last moment, it seems that every time Li Yuan can always react quickly, the most hateful thing is that the heavens are also very much watching him, and then crushing himself.

What kind of person is this? Can such a person be defeated? Could it be that Datang is really not exhausted, is this person descended from heaven to help Li Tang reorganize the country? What should I do with this person? Xie Gui couldn't find an answer.

There was also the light cavalry that suddenly appeared, which made Xie Gui think about it very frightened, not long ago, Xie Gui thought that this was Li Yuan's arrogance, daring to resist his 30,000 giant elephant army with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses. Now it seems that Li Yuan has long hidden his real strength, and he does not hesitate to use his body as a bait to lure the Han army.

But this point is a little unreasonable, in other words, Xie Gui himself, even if he has a fine horse hidden outside, he does not dare to have such confidence, a commander who holds the power of Jiezhen really dares to put his golden body as a bait in front of the enemy......

Xie Gui, who was like a frightened bird, began to think crankily again.

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The next morning, the morning sun rose from the east and shone on the hilltop where the military flag fluttered.

There was silence in the camp, and the Wuping sergeants were lying in the tents and sleeping. The carnival of victory after the Great War, after all this, came extreme weariness. Many sergeants didn't even bother to cover their bedding, so they just lay down on the spot and fell into a deep sleep. The dreams after the fierce battle must have been extremely sweet, and many people were smiling in their sleep, and some laughed out loud in their dreams.

The battlefield outside the camp was a mess, how fierce the battle was yesterday, the ground that was originally full of grass and green trees was now full of potholes, as if it had been destroyed by a meteorite, and the elephant herd left behind a thousand holes after leaving, and the grass was trampled by soldiers and horses and only grass roots. Blood was everywhere on the ground, arrows were missing, blades, armor, and logs were everywhere.

The bonfire that was lit last night when cleaning the battlefield was still rising into the sky with jet-black plumes of smoke into the sky, the air. (This chapter is not finished!) )

Chapter 219: The Frightened Bird

The smell of blood and burnt still permeates the air. The whole battlefield is like a hell of Shura.

The larger the camp, the more unsightly it became, and the corpses here were originally stacked in a thick layer, which was the place where the battle was fiercest yesterday, so there were a lot of corpses.

The deaths of these corpses are very tragic, missing arms and legs, flesh and blood, and brains bursting are countless, and the most terrifying thing is that some of them are stuck to the ground like minced meat, which can no longer be called corpses, because they can't recognize the human form at all, which is caused by being crushed by war elephants.

But the most are the corpses that were shot like hedgehogs by bows and arrows, thanks to the powerful archers of the Wuping army, and the power of the Tang crossbow was used in defensive battles yesterday, which can be said to have been fully exerted.

It was Luo Erhu who was responsible for leading people to clean up the battlefield, this should not have been his errand, and Li Yuan didn't want him to do such a thing, but Luo Erhu insisted on doing it.

Luo Erhu told Li Yuan that although he tried his best to kill the enemy in this battle, he had been lying for more than half a month, but as the leading general, he missed the crucial battle of Xizhou, and now he finally returned to the barracks, and wanted to do more to share the worries of his eldest brother and soldiers. The implication is to let the generals and soldiers and horses participating in the war sleep well, and after the carnival, Luo Erhu silently took more than 1,000 soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

Li Yuan couldn't resist him, his sworn brother was indeed so stubborn, and his self-esteem was too strong, he was like this from the beginning when he followed him, and he had always been this virtuous, for fear of eating Li Yuan's rice. Since he couldn't resist him, Li Yuan simply didn't persuade him, anyway, this black man has already recovered, and since he always feels that he has inexhaustible strength, then he can use it......

Luo Erhu himself was quite happy, and took more than 1,000 soldiers to dig a huge sinkhole, which was not dug until late at night, and seriously led people to drag the corpses on the battlefield to the pit, and then buried them.

All this seemed very calm and orderly, but in less than a moment, the black man made an unexpected move, and inexplicably ordered to erect a wordless tablet for the corpse of the Han army, which made the soldiers of the Wuping Army confused. The previous practice when cleaning the battlefield was naturally to pile up the corpses together and burn them to ashes, how could it be so physically exhaustive and effort-consuming?

After the stele was erected, Luo Erhu insisted on bringing a few members of the army to join the army, and asked these officials who could speak and write to help engrave a column of small characters "Wuping Luo Erhu defeated ......the Han army here", which made the tired soldiers angry and funny.

But who is Luo Erhu, in the end, the righteous brother of the Grand Duke, they can only obey Luo Erhu's orders, at most shouting a few words behind their backs to relieve .....their anger.

Chapter 219: The Frightened Bird