Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 86
Even though it was early winter, the cold wind in the north caused Li Shan, who was in the army, to shrink his neck frequently. He was from the Central Plains in his previous life, and his university was in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Seven days ago, the fleet meandered from the Yellow River to the northeast, disembarked at Huazhou Baima, and turned land at Liyang Cang. In addition to more than a thousand civilians, the grain transport team had three hundred soldiers escorting it.

All the way north, passing Weizhou, Xiangzhou, Luozhou, arriving at Xingzhou, and paying grain and rice, everything went smoothly, but Huaiyang King Li Daoxuan was not in Xingzhou, but in Yizhou.

After hesitating for a long time, Li Shan, who was not familiar with the place where he was born, went to Jizhou under Guo Pu's suggestion. With Liu Heita sweeping half of Hebei, it was safer to be in the army.

But Li Shan was mainly concerned with another issue. Although Qi Shanxing, the general manager of Xingzhou, was from the Second Left Guard of the Qin Palace, he was originally from Dou Jiande's old army, and he joined the Tang Dynasty after the First World War at Hulaoguan.

Liu Heikai raised troops twice, and Dou Jiande's old troops from all continents in Hebei gathered people to respond. Many of them were governors of one continent, and all the continents were attached to them. Just half a month ago, Liu Hui, the governor of Guanzhou, rebelled against the whole city.

Seeing the outline of the tall city from a distance, Guo Pu turned his head and shouted a few words, and galloped to Li Shan, "Li Langjun, take a rest, we will arrive in another hour."

Li Shan's face was numb, he just nodded stiffly but remained motionless, Zhu Ba led the two of them off the horse with Li Shan in his arms...

The journey was fine before. After all, there was a carriage, and Li Shan could still hide in the carriage... But when he came to Yizhou after paying the grain and rice, Li Shan could only ride a horse.

With Li Shan's riding skills, a fast horse that does not fall off is considered to be progressing rapidly. Sitting on the saddle for a long time... the feeling, whoever rides knows.

Guo Pu endured a smile and looked at Li Shan, whose legs were limping, and said in a low voice, "After another half a month, the cocoons will come out and it will be fine."

Li Shan replied with a vicious expression, spreading his legs as far as possible, wishing to take a stride... There is no cotton cloth these days, and the material of the underwear is hard to describe!
Guo Pu finally couldn't help laughing. A few days ago, Li Shan secretly asked...Longxi Li's Danyang House passed down the art of war to his family, did he have any ointment...Guo Pu honestly said no, no matter whether he was a member of the clan or a soldier he was attached to , have to grind out a layer of cocoons.

"Be patient..." Guo Pu helped Li Shan move his hands and feet, while staring at Zhu Ba and others' arrangement.

Although there were only three or forty people, but starting from Xingzhou, Guo Pu reminded Zhu Ba and others every time he rested or stayed overnight, sent out scouts, set up secret sentries, and carefully placed horses and weapons.

"It's all the secrets of the Longxi Li family, right?"

"It's just a small way, in fact, the young and strong in the village seem to have learned it..." Guo Pu paused, and thoughtfully said: "Thirty young and strong, four of them are good at bows and arrows, so it can be seen that they were not randomly selected. "

Seeing Li Shan's confused look, Guo Pu smiled and said, "The general's personal guards in the army usually consist of 30 people, and four of them use bows and arrows..."

Li Shan squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then asked in a low voice, "What if we meet rebels?"

"Jizhou has not yet fallen, so there will be no rebels."

Zhu Ba smiled and said: "As long as you don't encounter the Turkic cavalry, you can escape safely, Dalang can rest assured..."

Before he could finish speaking, a rider from a distance rushed towards him.

"It's Zhao Da." Li Shan was excited.

"Tu... Turkic people!" Zhao Daqi said out of breath, "A hundred riders, they're chasing them!"

Li Shan was so angry that he didn't care about the numbness of his thighs, and put his foot on Zhu Ba's buttocks, "You crow's mouth!"

"Quick, quick!"

"Don't tidy up, get on the horse, get on the horse!"

More than 100 Turkic cavalry, facing thirty or forty cavalry... Most of them are just rough riding... Uh, they can't be counted as soldiers, they are all rookies who have never been in battle.

Li Shan didn't bring a machine gun, so he could do nothing if he didn't run for his life.

Holding the horse's belly tightly between his legs, he ran desperately towards the city. Li Shan looked back, wielding a knife in his hand, and shouting something. More than a hundred Turkic cavalry chased after him.

Guo Pu didn't come alone this time, he brought four personal guards of the Li family, and surrounded Li Shan in a group of five, for fear that Li Shan would fall.

"Don't panic, we won't catch up." Guo Pu is a veteran of the battlefield, and after a rough look at the distance, he understood, "Don't clamp your legs too tightly, and lean forward slightly."

Still wanting to give advice on riding skills... Li Shan heaved a sigh of relief, and suddenly thought that he could no longer feel the numbness of his thighs.

There was a dense forest ahead, and dozens of riders took a difficult turn... Li Shan really couldn't manage it, so it was Guo Pu who leaned over and took the reins to help.

As soon as he turned around, Li Shan's eyes were fixed, and a black mass of cavalry was slowly approaching.

Before the panicked Li Shan calmed down, Guo Pu let go of the reins, sped out of the formation, and shouted loudly.

The guards of the Li family on the side whispered, "My own."

In just a moment, the two hundred cavalry in front separated into two columns, one column stayed at the turning point to stare at Li Shan and his party, and the other hundred cavalry began to speed up. In front of them, the Turkic cavalry who easily turned the corner on their horses had appeared.

This is the first time Li Shan has seen the cavalry charge in this era.

The cavalry who had been accelerating slowly did not need to command after seeing the Turkic people appear. At the same time, the cavalry in the front suddenly accelerated and adjusted the speed of the horse, forming a slightly irregular array of triangular cones.

The cavalry in the rear did not accelerate sharply, but maintained the original horse speed, keeping a distance from the front.

"It seems to be King Huaiyang!"

Li Shan heard the words of the personal guards of the Li family, and Li Shan looked intently. In the triangular cone array, a tall general was wearing bright light armor. He lowered the brim of his helmet so that he couldn't see his face clearly. The horse in his hand was gradually sticking out.

The so-called one inch long, one inch strong, Turkic cavalry armed with scimitars, let alone horses, not many spears and spears, and they happened to be at the corner, unable to make evasive movements.

Almost instantly, the sharp array tore apart the front of the Turkic cavalry. With the screams and the sound of clashing weapons, more than a dozen Turkic cavalry were stabbed off their horses.

Li Shan saw it clearly, King Huaiyang's horse lance protruded out like a poisonous snake, and stabbed three Turkic cavalrymen in a row.

Only thirty or forty cavalry completely disrupted more than a hundred Turkic cavalry. The dozens of cavalry that followed the Tang army perfectly captured the opportunity and launched a second charge without giving the Turkic any respite.

Li Shan was dazzled by this battle, but it took no more than 10 minutes from beginning to end, and life and death were seen immediately. The remaining [-] or so Turkic cavalry scattered and fled. The Tang army, which lost only a few people, had already begun to clean up the battlefield.
The guards of the Li family laughed and said: "After King Huaiyang joined the army, every time he went into battle with the King of Qin, he always charged forward. He is quite like the King of Qin. He will definitely become a famous general in the future."

Hearing this sentence, Li Shan couldn't help but look at Zhou Zhao.

Leading a large army to go out, leading a small number of cavalry alone across the battlefield, spying on the enemy's situation, not retreating when encountering the enemy, brave and good at fighting, really has the style of the King of Qin.

But this is really not the style of a famous general.

Famous generals throughout the ages...like Li Shimin, they are immortal if they die like this. Whether it is Zhou Zhao, who is familiar with history books, or Li Shan, who is a time traveler, they can't think of the second one.

(End of this chapter)