Chapter 379: The Emperor's Last Battle (2)
At the north end of Chencang Road, on the bank of the Weishui River, in the camp of the Yulin Army. estimate
"Your Majesty, the enemy army has arrived!" Hearing the voice, he had fallen into a coma, and the Supreme Emperor Li Yu, who had been at least four hours, slowly opened his eyes.
After taking a deep breath, Li Yu's hand moved slightly, and then he gently turned his neck and looked into the military tent.
Zhang Jiaxuan, who was wearing a sword, a bow on his back, and a military uniform, was looking at him with a serious face, while Zhang Taicheng, who was wearing heavy armor, had a look of surprise on his face.
"Your Majesty! You're awake! Looking at Zhang Taicheng in a state of surprise, Li Yu's pale face once again put a smile on it.
"Ahem, the enemy has finally arrived?" estimate
"Well, in fact, the enemy army arrived an hour ago, and the enemy and us have entered a fierce battle, and the battle formation composed of foot soldiers is resisting the opponent's repeated impacts, but Pei Zhonglang said that there are too few people, and he needs to wait for the enemy to come up more, and he is not in a hurry to counterattack, so ......" Listening to Zhang Taicheng's speed, Li Yu nodded with satisfaction, and then asked.
"Takeshi went to the front line?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, the entire battlefield has been handed over to Pei Zhonglang's command, and General Zhang Da personally ......" Seeing that Li Yu was about to get up, Zhang Taicheng hurriedly stepped forward and began to support, in Zhang Taicheng's eyes, Li Chen's voice was hoarse, but both his mental state and physical state were much better, so Zhang Taicheng's expression was full of joy.
Compared with Zhang Taicheng, who was full of smiles, Zhang Jiaxuan, who was also in the military tent, frowned, his expression became more serious, and after a little hesitation, he turned around and walked outside the military tent.
And Li Yu got up under the support of Zhang Taicheng, sorted out the armor on his body, and completed a series of preparations, when Zhang Jiaxuan returned to the military tent, although his expression was a little painful, but Li Yu was already standing firmly on the ground.
Zhang Jiaxuan's outfit, which returned to the military tent, remained unchanged, but there was a small bowl in his hand, and he walked straight to Li Yu.
"Your Majesty!" Just as Zhang Taicheng was about to take it, Li Yu unexpectedly stretched out his hand, took it himself in Zhang Taicheng's surprised gaze, and drank the liquid medicine in the bowl.
After drinking, Li Yu put on an ugly smile.
"Jiaxuan, I'm embarrassed to tell you before, your stuff is too unpalatable, can't you put some frosting or honey or something, it's the best to give me a slow taste." Hearing Li Chen's not-so-funny ridicule at the end, the tip of Zhang Jiaxuan's nose was sour, the serious expression on his face also faded, and he rushed towards Li Yu with both hands in fists.
"The minister knows, next time I must pay attention!" He grinned slightly, with a hint of a smile on the corner of his mouth, quietly breathed for a while, and under Zhang Taicheng's support, Li Yu slowly got up.
"Taecheng, my sword!" Immediately afterwards, Zhang Taicheng tied the saber placed next to him to Li Yu's waist.
After taking a deep breath again, Li Yu pushed away Zhang Taicheng's arm, straightened out the gold armor that he had put on yesterday morning and did not take it off again, put on the iron jacket, and strode out with the sword in his left hand.
It is September, the order belongs to the three autumns, if it is in Shandong or Jiangnan, it is naturally high and cool in autumn, but in this Chencang ancient road, it is accompanied by continuous autumn rain with the endless mountain road.
But today, it was a rare sunny day, after walking out of the military tent and feeling the sun shining on his body, Li Yu closed his eyes, greedily enjoying the warm afternoon sun, greedily breathing the air mixed with the smell of earth and Weishui.
After about four or five breaths, Li Yu opened his eyes and looked around seriously, looking around at the surrounding military camps, soldiers, Lantian and Baiyun...... While Li Yu was enjoying the sunshine, air, and breeze, Zhang Taicheng, who was behind him, asked softly after seeing the abnormal expression of Zhang Jiaxuan beside him.
"Your Majesty, ...... today" Without waiting for Zhang Taicheng to finish asking, knowing the question, Zhang Jiaxuan gave a four-word answer in advance.
"Back to the light!" Hearing these four words, Zhang Taicheng chuckled in his heart, and the smile on his face froze directly.
"Then the ...... you gave Your Majesty"
"Your Majesty didn't say it, but I know that Your Majesty doesn't want to behave ...... at the last moment" Although he had been prepared for his thoughts for a long time, when it really came to the last moment, the two men were still in deep mourning.
In front of the two of them, I don't know if I heard the faint voices of the two or if I had seen enough of the last scenery, Li Yu stopped his movements and said softly.
"Taicheng, go get ready." Li Chen's words interrupted the gloomy state of the two, and Zhang Taicheng quickly left at the order, and soon drove a modified chariot that looked mighty and domineering, and came to Li Chen's side.
There is a full three miles from the big camp of the Yulin Army on the bank of Weishui to the preset battlefield, and with Li Xu's current physical state, he can neither ride a horse nor walk, as for the chariot battle, this thing is indeed feasible, but Li Yu hopes that something will obscure his last vision.
So, a long time ago, the sappers of the Changying Army came in handy for the chariot built by Li Yu. With the support of Zhang Jiaxuan and Zhang Taicheng, he slowly stepped onto the chariot, and then, under the guidance of a team of forbidden troops and under the control of the coachman, he slowly left the barracks and headed towards the chariot on the south side.
Although he had made complete preparations, this three-mile journey was still a difficult journey for Li Yu.
Chencang Road is rainy and rainy, but in order to facilitate the transportation of ordnance and combat preparations required by the Yulin Army, the road from the barracks to the preset battlefield has been relatively flat, coupled with the superb driving skills of the selected coachmen, so that the driving of the chariot is also quite stable, with the help of the railing in the front of the chariot, Li Yu can even stand firmly on the chariot without the support of others.
As time progressed, the chariot and the forbidden army guarding it were getting closer and closer to the chariot, and the shouts of killing and the sound of war drums were also from far to near, and Li Yu felt that the war drums in his heart were also rumbling.
It's just that before Li Chan was halfway through his trip, and even before Li Chan could reach a mile from the chariot, a group of forbidden troops stopped on the route of the team.
"Your Majesty, Pei Zhonglang has an order, the opportunity to counterattack has not yet come, please wait for your Majesty, wait for Pei Zhonglang's order flag, and then you can move forward!" Pei Zhi specially sent someone to wait for him here, Li Yu naturally didn't ignore it, and then quietly stayed from the chariot to the escort about a mile and a half away from the chariot.
Although people can't continue to move forward, it doesn't mean that their eyes can't follow their eyes, and Zhang Taicheng, who was standing next to Li Chen, took out a clairvoyant mirror from his waist and put it in front of Li Chen's eyes.
With the help of the clairvoyant mirror, the entire battlefield has gradually appeared in front of Li Yu. Due to the restrictions of the terrain, the entire battlefield formed a huge trumpet shape from north to south, from the outside to the inside, and nearly 15,000 Lin troops formed four fronts with uneven thickness and different functions, but clear levels on the periphery of the trumpet.
The battle formation of 3,000 cavalry, including 600 heavy cavalry, stood quietly at the end of the battle formation of the Yulin Army at this moment.
From the position of the cavalry, there was a huge fan of two rows of one hundred and twenty eight-oxen crossbows. Next to each eight-ox crossbow was a stack of two-base, two bases, one hundred and twenty heavy crossbow bolts used by eight-ox crossbows.
Next to the eight-ox crossbow and crossbow arrows, there were seven to eight engineers, logisticians, and commanders who wielded the eight-ox crossbow.
Further on, there were rows of heavily armored lancers and light infantry armed with wooden shields and horizontal swords, and light infantry wearing half-body armor.
Further forward on the assault front is the standard battalion of the forbidden army, composed of heavy infantry, archers, and crossbowmen.
At this moment, five of the six standard war battalions have entered a fierce battle with the anti-Tang coalition army composed of Tubo, Jiannan, and Nanzhao armies.
Even Li Yu, who doesn't understand military affairs, can see that the last battalion-level thousand-man battle formation is obviously the last reinforcement in Pei Zhi's hands during the battle.
Between the thousand-man battle array, there is a crossbow array composed of small eight-ox crossbows built by the infantry battalion-level units of the forbidden army and the engineer company.
Compared with the large-scale crossbow array composed of more than 100 eight-bull crossbows in the rear, the small eight-bull crossbow array used in the front to fill the gap and prevent the enemy from outflanking and sneaking attack is much smaller, but in the narrow space of the thousand-person battle formation and the thousand-person battle array, the continuous shooting of five eight-bull crossbows can already form a kind of terrifying firepower saturation.
In the gap between the battle arrays, there were strings of human-shaped sugar gourds worn by the hard, thick, and dark crossbows of the Eight Ox Crossbows.
In front of the battle formation composed of the infantry of the Yulin Army, the direct confrontation with the infantry was the strength of the infantry of the Jiannan Army and the Tubo Army that was three times the strength of the first-line Yulin Army.
Behind the opponent's foot soldiers, there are also soldiers and horses composed of Tubo and Jiannan, but Jingwei is clearly at least 30,000 mixed formations.
The reason why it is clearly divided is because the Tang army, which originally belonged to Jiannan Province, used a well-layered battle formation and system similar to the forbidden army, while the level of the Tubo people was relatively chaotic, but at first glance the degree of ferocity was a little stronger.
Of course, if it weren't for their respective strong armies, under the desperate resistance of the right guard of the forbidden army, this kind of sneak attack might not be able to take down Dasanguan in one fell swoop.
Looking at those guys who had obvious colors in the Tang Army, but were in cahoots with the Tubo people, Li Yu's hand that clenched the railing couldn't help but grasp it fiercely.
To be honest, since he took charge of the power of the Tang Dynasty as the Emperor Tai, Li Yu has few regrets about what he has done, but he may really regret separating the Jiannan and North Dao from Liu Pi.
In this matter and Liu Bi's aspect, Li Yu had to admit that his judgment was wrong, he considered that it was very likely that Liu Pi would be forced into the camp of the Tubo people, but in the end he ruled out this possibility.
After all, if there is no persecution from his own, he may not be able to force Liu Pi, a warlord who controls nearly 200,000 elite Jiannan troops, to surrender to the arms of the Tubo people, if Liu Bi does not take refuge in Tubo, even if he remains neutral, the situation in Chang'an and the situation in Datang will ease too much.
Imagine, if there was no large-scale pressure by the Tubo people, and there was no collusion with the Tubo Jiannan Army to sneak attack Sanguan, how many troops of the newly formed forbidden army, numbering as high as 180,000, would have been released.
At that time, Guo Rong can take away not only a small Changying army, but also how many elite forbidden troops can participate in the decisive battle with the Hebei rebels under the leadership of Guo Rong.
It's just that this so-called regret is only fleeting, and there is such a thing as people's hearts, and Rao himself can't make a 100% judgment.
Moreover, when it comes to errors in judgment, there is a guy who is even more outrageous than Liu Bi, Li Shidao, if people's hearts, loyalty, courtesy, and shame really have a place in the hearts of these guys, then there will be no such guy who forgets his ancestors and feeds himself with Datang as flesh and blood.
From this point of view, it is very likely that the other party's actions will be weakened in advance if there is no combination of Jiannan and Nandao, and the anti-Tang coalition army will directly go north from Jiannan Road and attack the rear of Longnan and Longxi, which may lead to the instant collapse of the entire front.
Of course, more importantly, at this moment, Li Yu thought that he really had nothing left to do, except as the last humanoid drum.
From the position of the main force in the rear of the anti-Tang coalition army, there were miscellaneous and auxiliary troops composed of Nanzhao soldiers, Jiannan, and Tubo cavalry, and from this position less than five miles back, the northernmost part of Chencang Road near the Weishui trumpet area began to tighten sharply.
It's just that at the beginning of the battle, behind the opponent's battle formation, there were still a large number of short, hobbling soldiers and horses entering the place in a steady stream.
The width of the entire battlefield from the outermost end of the Yulin Army reached five or six miles, while the innermost width of the trumpet under the control of the anti-Tang coalition army was only less than three miles, and the length of the entire battlefield reached a full ten miles.
Although he has studied military books and studied soldiers and horses, Emperor Taishang Li does not understand military affairs, and everyone knows it. Judging from the situation on the battlefield and the movement of the small battle formation of the Eight Bull Crossbows at the front, the combined forces of Tubo, Jiannan, and Nanzhao are also relying on their huge numerical superiority to force the battle formation of the Changying army to retreat in the direction of the river in the rear.
And judging from the remains of the battlefield, although the speed of retreat is very slow, it has been going on, and judging from Li Yu's judgment, this little retreat may even last for an hour.
But as time passed, the battle situation seemed to be more and more unfavorable to the Yulin army. Li Yu didn't know Pei Zhi's arrangement, and he didn't understand why this situation happened, but he believed in his generals, he believed in his soldiers, and he believed that the forbidden army of the Tang Dynasty that he had rebuilt could defeat all the charms, demons and evils, protect the Tang Dynasty to reach the top again, and truly realize the idea that Guo Rong once proposed: the sun will not set on the territory of the Tang Dynasty at any time.
So Li Yu, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror, still chose to wait here quietly, waiting for his general's order.
At the same time, ten miles away from Li Yu, in the center of the Tubo, Jiannan, and Nanzhao coalition armies, the young Nima Bazar was also sighing.
"The combat effectiveness and fighting will of the opposing forbidden army are too strong, with less than 6,000 people, it is really remarkable to resist the attack of nearly 30,000 elites near us."
"Of course, but, I'm afraid they'll be here, five of the six thousand-man teams have already been invested, and when the sixth team is also invested, it will be their death time!"