Chapter 15: Victory in the First Battle
At this time, it was the eve of dawn, and Li Sijian had been thinking about the party's great cause all night in the study. When he heard the horn clearly, his heart twitched.
This is a signal of an enemy attack!
It is now mid-spring, and Xiazhou has just shown signs of warming, and the night wind from the north is still quite cold, and it is not the best time to start a war. For no reason, how can there be an enemy attack?
Last year, I went to the West Building, and discussed with Yelu Abaoji the strategy of attacking the Tang Dynasty from all over the world, and the parties agreed that the time to start the army was after the autumn, and the party and Shatuo's war preparations were all going to the autumn!
Is it war, or is it a tribal rebellion?
Li Sijian rushed out of the door, just rose into the air, and wanted to see left and right clearly, when he saw a figure flying in a hurry. At a glance, it was Gao Zongyi, who was also his confidant and favorite general.
"Where did the enemy army come from?" Li Sijian hurriedly asked.
"Military commander, the big thing is not good, it is the elite cavalry of the Tang army that is coming! There are everywhere in the sky, I don't know how many soldiers and horses there are, and now they have entered the plum blossom village and are attacking the camp!" Gao Zongyi said eagerly.
Li Sijian heard the words like falling into an ice cave.
Xiazhou is located in the north of the Great Wall, belongs to the desert steppe area, the so-called Xiazhou City is actually composed of five large villages, the center of the village is also called Xiazhou Village, although there is the appearance of a city, but it is not a strong city.
"How could the Tang army take the initiative to start a war against us?! How could they attack us at this time?!" Li Sijian had countless questions in his heart, but he didn't have time to ask Gao Zongyi one by one. He raised his position to the sky, looked into the distance, and wanted to see the direction and battle of the Tang army.
It's okay not to look at this, but when I look at Li Siji, I am almost horrified.
The plum blossom village more than ten miles ahead is already lit up like a sea of lights, and countless figures are rushing among them, and the tide of elite cavalry is engulfing them. One of the elite horsemen was like a wedge, deeply inserted into the camp, and was about to come out of the camp!
It was only at this time that the screams, exclamations, shouts of killing, and explosions suddenly became louder.
It is conceivable that when the elite cavalry of the Tang Army entered the camp just now, Meihuazhai did not have time to react at all, let alone organize an effective battle. When the chaos has been formed, only the monks rushed back to report the military situation, and the horn here in the camp has just sounded, and the killing of Meihua Village has entered the stage of unstoppable!
If it was just that there was an enemy attack on Meihua Village, Li Sijian didn't have time to think clearly, whether to send a large army to rescue Meihua Village, or to order the soldiers and horses of the battalion to form a formation to protect themselves, and the Dingshan Village and Dingyuan Village on the left and right sides broke out with shouts of killing like the sky was collapsing.
The firelight roared and swept through the two camps like giants slowly standing up.
"Commander...... We are surrounded by the Don Army!"
Gao Zongyi shouted in despair, "Marshal, the Tang army has launched a war in a premeditated manner!" Suizhou has probably been broken by them, otherwise how could there be no warning signal......s? Yin, You and other states have fallen and are controlled by the imperial court?!"
"This is impossible!" Li Sijian let out a beast-like roar, "This is absolutely impossible!"
"Marshal, what should we do then?" Gao Zongyi swallowed and reluctantly asked.
Li Sijian gritted his teeth with scarlet eyes and said: "All the soldiers and horses in this village are standing in the city and defending the city, and they will never die with the Tang army! Send monks to ask for help from Yin, You and other states! This commander absolutely does not believe that the Tang army can quietly swallow the difficult thing in one bite!"
"Yes!" Gao Zongyi hurriedly went to arrange defense.
Li Sijian was calm and wanted to convince himself that the states had not fallen and that the nearby soldiers and horses could come to the aid in time. But no matter how tenacious his mind was, seeing that Sanzhai was broken by the Tang army's elite cavalry one after another, his heart was uncontrollable and began to tremble violently.
There are not many party troops.
Only in Wuzhai in Xiazhou, there are 200,000 soldiers and horses, and there are 70,000 male soldiers in this village.
Not to mention winning, at least be able to hold on and wait for reinforcements to arrive.
However, Li Siji's heart is constantly sinking.
The Great Cultivator of the True Human Realm who flew out to report the news, although he was scattered enough, but before he could fly out of ten miles, he encountered the magic light shot out by the intercepting enemy in mid-air! Every battle was very short, because the opponent had a large number of men, so Li Siji's men all burst their bodies and died.
At the same time, the left and right villages have fallen one after another, and the Tang army in the plum blossom village has already gone straight to the village to kill!
Li Sijian roared in despair.
When he returned to the mansion, he ordered someone to summon him who was full of fighting spirit, had already put on his armor, and wanted to attack the enemy Li Yichang, and said to him in a sad voice: "Xiazhou is finished, but the party item cannot be finished! You are the last hope of the Tuoba clan, and it is up to you whether the party item can regain its former glory! You must remember that no matter how difficult the road ahead is, you must fight your way out!"
Li Yichang heard the resolute meaning in Li Si's words, and said incomprehensibly: "I will not leave! I will fight with my clansmen! The brave party fighters will not fear any enemy!"
Li Sijian couldn't help but burst into tears, "You remember to me that the party cannot perish! No matter when, where, and what circumstances you face, you must remember your identity and mission!"
Saying that, Li Siyi no longer gave Li Yichang a chance to speak, and said to Gao Zongyi, who rushed over: "Later, I will face the Tang army head-on, when there is chaos, you take him away, from now on, you will stay by his side to protect him, this is a military order!"
Gao Zongyi opened his mouth, he wanted to say something, but when he heard the last four words, he could only bow down and accept the order.
Seeing that Gao Zongyi took away Li Yichang, who was crying for his father and mother, Li Siyi took a deep breath, flew out of the mansion, came to the head of the walled city, and ordered the elite cavalry to assemble and be ready to fight at any time.
There was not much time left for Li Siji, and he could only gather 20,000 cavalry, and his opponent appeared in sight.
At this time, the sky was slightly awake, and the four fields were blue, and even without the help of torches, ordinary people could see the road and the enemy in front of them.
The elite cavalry of the Tang army that rushed over from the horizon seemed to have less than 10,000 men...... This made Li Sijian happy. With less than 10,000 people, he has a chance to defeat the other party!
Although Li Yichang was allowed to go, this was just in case, in essence, Li Siyi still wanted to hold the village of Xiazhou.
There is a chance to win, and he will never let it go.
However, if you take a closer look, this elite cavalry can still maintain a neat formation in the case of fast galloping, and at a glance, the military formation is horizontal and vertical, and even obliquely looks straight!
"Name...... Famous general?!" Li Siji's hairs stood on end.
Only a general in the realm of a famous soldier can have such control over the battle array!
And what a famous general means on the battlefield, Li Sijian has the least understanding.
At least, he can only be a mantis arm as a car in front of the battle formation of famous generals!
However, when did the Tang Dynasty have a famous general?
Li Sijian had no time to delve into it, and Shangguan Chengcheng had already led 8,000 elite horsemen, and was about to rush to the front of the city pass.
Although Li Sijian was terrified to the extreme, he didn't have the intention of turning around and running, and he no longer had the courage to go out of the city to meet the enemy, but he still wanted to hold on to the city.
In his opinion, even if the military formation of the famous generals is strong and invincible in the battle array, they can't directly step through the city wall and fly into the city, right?
The fact is that Shangguan is captivating.
Li Sijian saw Shangguan Allure raise his arm.
With such an action, hundreds of thousands of buzzing aura impacts sounded in the military array.
On the galloping elite cavalry battle array, a layer of blazing light curtain like a bowl upside down immediately rose.
Mo said that the rain of arrows pouring down on the city's head fell on the light mask like weeds touching a strong wind, and was blown away without a trace, and even the monks' magic attacks were like eggs shattering on stones.
Eight thousand horsemen soon arrived in front of the city.
Li Sijian watched Shangguan Chengcheng raise the lance, and spit out two words in his mouth: "Break the city!"
Break the city.
This is the ability of a famous soldier, simple and straightforward.
After the two exits of Shangguan Allure, the light of the battle array turned into a sharp arrow, and rushed directly to the city gate in the midst of countless arrow rains and the exclamations of the party members defending the city.
There was a loud bang, and the city shook three times.
Countless pieces of wood smoke flew from the city gates.
The strength of the soldiers' battle array broke through the urn gate and the inner city gate unreasonably, and rushed straight into Xiazhou City!
Li Sijian sat down on the ground, the strength of his body dissipated at this moment, and his mind was also blank. The loud earthquake just now seemed to shake away all his spirits.
He clearly knew that Xiazhou City was finished, and the party members were finished.
On the same day, Shangguan Allure successfully attacked Xiazhou, and the department destroyed three military villages before Foxiao, causing a huge chaos in the party; then Shangguan Chengcheng personally led a battle formation of 8,000 elite cavalry, directly broke through the city gate and attacked the city, and the party soldiers in the city were instantly demoralized and could not form an army.
When it is, the sun rises in the east and the sun shines at the beginning.
The wolf's tooth army of 70,000 elite horsemen drew the party in a battle.
Li Sijian was beheaded at the head of the city, and Li Yichang died in the chaos.
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Outside the border of Yunzhou, there is an endless gathering of Khitan cavalry.
The leader is Yelu Xiannichi, who has gone to Changsha to oppose Ma Yin.
As the sun set, the grassland was like blood, and Yelu Xian Nichi received a report from the Xiazhou army.
The allies were defeated, and the Khitan lost a powerful foreign aid, but Yelu Xiannichi did not have any look of alarm, but only laughed faintly.
Sure enough, as the king expected, the Tang army really attacked the party at this time. Poor Li Siji, I thought that the war would not break out until the autumn, and now that I am in a different place, I am afraid that I will not be able to turn a blind eye, right?"
He talked to himself, and no one answered.
But Yelu Xiannichi didn't mind, looking at the direction where the Shatuo people lived, his smile gradually became sinister: "When Shangguan Allure defeated two tribes in a row, and the soldiers were tired from fighting and proudly celebrated, it was time for them to be destroyed."
"In this big war initiated by the Khitan, the initiative has always been in our hands, how can it be attacked by surprise by the opponent?"