Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 791
Seeing the ignorance of the people around him, Li Shan finally realized that Zhuge Liang's empty city plan came from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Luo Guanzhong probably had to be thousands of years away from leaving the city.

Zhang Zhongjian led his army to advance a hundred paces north, but Liang Jun did not stop. Wang Junhao came out with his horse lance in hand, shouting and cursing, some generals of Liang Jun couldn't help but went out, but Wang Junhao stabbed him off his horse within two rounds.

Li Shan saw through the binoculars that the Liang army was in a commotion, but they did not move rashly, and even loosened their positions a little. Then he heaved a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "He Sui's entire army was wiped out. Liang Jun should know that the Tang army's reinforcements have arrived."

This time Chang Da came to his senses and came out, "We know that His Highness led his personal guards to go north, but Liang Jun didn't know."

"That's right!" Zhang Wenguan suddenly realized, "According to the schedule, it has been several days since the Liang army broke through Lingzhou, and the court should send a general to lead the battle. Brother Huai is a famous general of the clan, so it stands to reason that the chief general should lead the troops to help."

Li Shan nodded, indeed, if it was a Turk, he would not dare to do this, no matter if it was Jieli Khan, Tuli Khan or Ashina Sheer, they would all be cautious but resolute when they knew they were here. Jump over.

But in the face of Liang Jun, who was just testing and attacking Longzhou, Li Shan still had the confidence to sing an empty city plan.

Before the Tang army was defeated and Huating fell, Li Shan happened to arrive. Although it was to snatch Zhang Wenxi and Zhang Wenguan brothers, after ambushing He Sui, Li Shan actually took over the battle... although he only had [-] personal guards.

But Liang Jun didn't know... Li Shan specially let out the news that the King Handan of the Tang Dynasty was here, nothing more than to deter the enemy and at the same time give a signal that the reinforcements had arrived.

Last year, King Handan of the Tang Dynasty, who defeated the Turks three times in Shuozhou and Yunzhou, arrived. Could it be that there will only be less than a thousand cavalry around him?

If he chooses to retreat at this time, Liang Jun may not have the guts to pursue him. In the process of retreating, he was chased by the opponent's cavalry. Li Shan can only push all the way to Qianyuan County to gain a firm foothold... Not to mention the other things, Longzhou The north gate, the strategically important Huating County, will be completely controlled by Liang Jun.

Now Li Shanlue gathered the remnant soldiers and marched northward, putting on a confident posture to confront the Liang army. The opponent feared the prestige of the King of Handan, and feared that the reinforcements from the Tang army had arrived, so he was naturally suspicious.

Of course, the most important thing is that Li Shan has this confidence. With Zhang Zhongjian leading the army and seven hundred elite personal guards under his command, plus more than a thousand soldiers of the Tang army who have gathered together, facing three thousand Liang soldiers, even if he cannot win , and will not lose.

When Li Shan and his party went down the hill and drove their horses into the army, Wang Junhao in front of the battle had already stabbed down three generals, while Qu Silang and Hou Hongtao were fighting over who would go on...

Li Shan scolded with a smile: "I really thought it was a bargain, I'm not stupid!"

Qu Silang was stunned, Hou Hongtao led dozens of personal guards to drive horses out of the battle, the opponent no longer sent generals and school foolishly to single out, but a small group of cavalry came from the flank.

Chang Da's heart tightened, but out of the corner of his eye, he saw Li Shanruo's indifferent appearance.

Zhang Zhongjian didn't even send any troops to rescue him. Facing more than a hundred Liangqi, Hou Hongtao's spirit was lifted, he danced his horse with his hands, and turned to meet the enemy with thirty or forty personal guards.

The sources of Li Shan's personal guards are very mixed. In terms of equestrianism, the people of Daizhou and Shuozhou have always been better than the people of the Hedong, Zhu clan and Hebei people, but Hou Hongtao's personal guards are all from Longxi. Everyone is good at riding.

Under Hou Hongtao's command, dozens of personal guards circled an arc in full view of the crowd, got out of the way of the opponent's front line, and just rushed into the line. Under the trample of hundreds of horseshoes, the yellow sand filled the air, and it was almost invisible. Clear figures.

Li Shan turned his head and said with a smile: "The Hou family master has the ability to be brave."

Hou Chen wasn't worried either, "Back when the Tang army and Tuyuhun joined forces to attack Li Gui, Dalang led his troops into battle, and later won the title of Hussar General because of his meritorious service."

Ordinary Tang Qi was nothing more than ordinary Tang Qi. The guards around Li Shan were all first-class in terms of equipment and martial arts. Zhang Zhongjian didn't care.

Zhang Zhongjian could clearly feel that Liang Jun's commotion did not lie in a possible attack, but that there seemed to be internal disputes, and the troops were likely to retreat.

Turning his head to look at Li Shan, Zhang Zhongjian thought to himself, Mr. Wang claims that he has no generals, but in fact it is absolutely not the case.

In today's battle, no matter whether he chose to break out from the north of the city, or later chose to go north, although Mr. Lang seldom attacked with a sword, every choice was deeply rooted in the art of war.

Uh, after the ambush of He Sui today, Li Shan claimed that he had no generals and gave credit to Zhang Zhongjian... Zhang Wenguan very skillfully added "a little understanding" to his friends, which made Wang Junhao, Zhu Ba and other old people burst into laughter.

"Back, back!" Liu Nv Nicheng glared fiercely at one of Liang Jiang, "If you want to die, don't take us with you!"

"The King of Handan did not retreat but marched northward. How could there be no reinforcements!"

Another Liang general on the side also agreed: "It is likely that the Tang emperor will send the King of Handan to lead the war, and there must be reinforcements."

"That's right!" Liu Nv Nicheng analyzed with confidence: "It must be that the reinforcements will not arrive for a while, and the Prince of Handan led his elite to go north first, defeating He Sui first, and then pestering us, waiting for the reinforcements to rush to the encirclement."

"One thousand troops were defeated by the King of Handan, and you also saw the elite of the Tang army in the formation... Uh, they have already lost!"

The yellow sand that permeated the formation had gradually dispersed. Hou Hongtao was holding a beam general and throwing it on the ground. He was showing off his power with a horse spear in his hand. Only twenty or thirty of the hundred beam riders escaped in embarrassment.

"Back, back, back!" Liu Nv Nicheng no longer hesitated, and personally led a thousand cavalry to press the formation, and Liang Jun slowly retreated northward.

Zhang Wenguan tugged at Li Shan's sleeve excitedly, "Brother Huai, they withdrew, do you want to pursue them?!"

Li Shan was not surprised by this result. Liang Jun did not start the war immediately, which roughly determined the direction of the war.

Looking at Zhang Zhongjian, who also came to ask for his attention, Li Shan smiled and said: "Sanlang will deal with it himself, but don't chase after him aggressively in the early stage."

Zhang Zhongjian was taken aback, and showed a rather ferocious smile.

At the beginning, although the Liang army retreated without chaos, the Tang army did not take advantage of the momentum to pursue, but slowly pressed forward. Zhang Zhongjian dispatched Hou Hongtao, Wang Junhao, Qu Silang, He Fang and others to lead a hundred guards in turn to harass or rush into the formation.

The thousands of Liang troops who were defeated were really helpless. The reason is very simple. On the one hand, the impact force of Tang Qi is unmatched by them. Liang Qi fell off his horse, and Tang Qi broke through the formation along the gap, made a big kill, and then retreated under the support of his successor Tang Jun.

On the other hand, more than a thousand Liang troops were cut off, but the more than 2000 Liang troops who had retreated earlier had already retreated northward, completely ignoring the friendly troops after the breakup.

This stalemate lasted until dusk, when Liang Jun gradually lost his hold, and gradually accelerated his speed. Just at the southeast side of Huating County, Zhang Zhongjian accurately chose his fighter and led [-] cavalry to break through the formation. Tang Jun did not respond outside this time, but launched a full-scale onslaught.

Unexpectedly, Liu Nv had already arrived outside Huating County. Tang Jun launched a general attack at this time, and was caught off guard. Tang Jun tore a big hole in the camp.

With Liu Nv's escape, the remaining thousand Liang troops collapsed, but Zhang Zhongjian and Wang Junhao did not pursue and fight fiercely, but drove the remnants northward from all directions, and the remaining two thousand Liang troops disappeared. Fighting spirit... Several Liang generals guessed that the main force of the Tang army's reinforcements probably arrived.

Anyway, Nv Liu was not a direct descendant, and more than 2000 Liang troops took advantage of the trend to retreat to Yuanzhou. Li Shan ordered not to go north to pursue them, and turned to mopping up the surrounding remnants.

Standing at the opened north gate of Huating County, Chang Da and Zhang Wenxi both felt like a dream.

Chang Da looked up and saw that the setting sun had not completely set, casting the last ray of light on the battlefield of corpses... Before noon today, Liang Jun succeeded in attacking the city and captured Huating here, but the night did not pass. Before the mountain fell, Huating had already been recovered.

At this moment, Chang Da was completely convinced, and bowed to Li Shan who was pacing, "Thank you, Your Highness."

(End of this chapter)