Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 946 The First Battle

On December 25th of the eighth year of Wude, the Tang army, which had been standing still for two months after the great victory in Jingzhou, was dispatched again. The army marched northwestward like a long snake. Tang Jun generals and soldiers echoed in their ears.

Although the snow is still falling, luckily, the snow is much smaller than the previous days. The former army specially dispatched two teams of up to 500 people to scout the terrain, clear the snow, and find places for camping. Once a large army is dispatched, it is impossible to camp in the wild, and it is too late to build with red bricks. Li Shan can only use the traditional method.

The speed of the march was not considered fast. It was not until the afternoon of the 27th that the Chinese army arrived near the front line and began to set up camp. Li Shan thought in his heart that a total of 3 people were dispatched for this march, but they did not come out in full force. Due to the terrain, on the other hand, the heavy snow hindered the transportation of grain and grass.

But 3 people is enough to make Liang Luoren fearful. You must know that before the Tang army tentatively attacked the city area, the most they sent was only [-] troops.

The Central Army is fully presided over by Li Shan's most trusted governor of Yuanzhou, Zhang Shigui. Li Shan doesn't care about the specific military affairs. The Liang army in Guanzhen went to war.

Among the mountains, on a small piece of flat ground, hundreds of soldiers are fighting hard. A majestic general of Liang Jun is very eye-catching, holding a shield in one hand and a knife in the other. Chopping, almost no enemy.

On a hill a hundred paces away, Su Dingfang could still maintain his composure, and the faces of several generals around him were ashen. This was already the fourth wave, but it was still difficult to break through.

"Who is leading the army?"

"Your Highness."

"Meet Your Highness."

All the generals saluted one after another, Li Daoxuan said in a low voice with a gloomy face: "It's Xue Wanche."

Under the command of the King of Handan, he has never paid much attention to factions. Although Xue Wanche is the crown prince's confidant, Li Daoxuan also admires the opponent's bravery and good at fighting. Although Xue Wanche is better at riding and fighting, his own force is outstanding among the Tang army, but it is still difficult to break through.

Li Shan took out the binoculars with great interest and looked at it for a while, "Is that Liu Heier?"

"En." Su Dingfang said, "Feng Li, Duan Zhixuan, and Qu Silang were defeated one after another. Duke Wu'an asked for a fight out of anger, and led two hundred elite soldiers to fight."

"Only brought two hundred soldiers?" Li Shan was a little surprised, but he glanced over, then nodded and said: "No wonder Brother Wu An and Brother Ding Fang failed to succeed before."

More than a month ago, Su Dingfang and Zhang Shigui successively led troops to attack Nanguan Town, and they were all stopped here by Liu Heier. war.

There is a reason why Liu Heier chose to invite the battle here. The battlefield space is not large, and the climbing road is quite narrow, which makes it impossible for the Tang army to send a large number of troops to the battlefield in a short time. It accommodates four or five hundred troops from both sides to fight.

Once the Tang army has a steady stream of troops rushing up, Liang Jun will choose to retreat, condescending, and use bows, arrows, and stones to block the Tang army's pursuit. It is too difficult for Tang army soldiers to pursue in this situation.

In comparison, Tang Jun did not want to directly attack the city wall of Nanguan Town, nor did he want to face the extremely powerful rocks on this terrain. He hoped to defeat the enemy on the current battlefield. The reason for only leading two hundred elite soldiers.

However, Liu Heier did not defend the pass, but went out to invite battle. On the one hand, the city wall of Nanguan Town was small and it was difficult to resist the attack of the Tang army. Confidence in one's own force, hoping to boost morale in this way.

In fact, Liu Heier did it. In the past two months, he defeated the Tang army's attack four times in a row, beheaded several Tang generals, and one of them made Su Dingfang, who went into battle in person, very embarrassing.

Today's Qu Silang, Feng Li, and Duan Zhixuan were all extraordinary generals, but Liu Heier won three games in a row, forcing Xue Wanche, the former deputy general of the army, to fight in person.

"This bureaucrat is good at fighting, and he also has some strategies. He is not like an ordinary barbarian." Li Shan chuckled, "Don't worry, hang him, don't let the fish get off the hook."

Su Dingfang nodded slightly. He knew that Li Shan rushed to the front army just to grasp the possible changes at the first time, and the next march would depend on Liang Jun's reaction.

"Not good!" Wang Junhao let out a low voice, "Brother Wan Che got shot by an arrow."

Li Shan's complexion changed, and he picked up the binoculars to take a closer look, and saw more than a hundred soldiers of the Tang army were collapsing. The tall Liu Heier seemed to be screaming wildly, and there were archers shooting arrows on both sides. He led dozens of elite soldiers to chase after him. She, like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, cut down four or five soldiers of the Tang army in a row.

In fact, there has never been a general in front of the battle like in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms".

However, Su Dingfang had already arranged to respond. Although the soldiers of the Tang army could not rush forward, they could cover the defeated soldiers with crossbow arrows and retreat calmly. Li Shan saw that Liu Heier was hit by an arrow, but he didn't care.

"It's really brave." Li Shan clicked his tongue twice.

"It is indeed brave." Su Dingfang did not deny that he himself used force to rule the roost in his early years, but he couldn't resist more than a month ago and could only be defeated.

Xue Wanche was shot by an arrow in his right shoulder, Li Shan asked his personal guards to heal and bandage his wound, and said with a smile, "Do you still dare to underestimate it?"

"The weapon doesn't fit..." Xue Wanche grinned in pain and refused to admit defeat. Although it was a foot battle, he was still accustomed to using a long spear. He fought Liu Heier several times in the formation and suffered a lot.

Li Shan turned his head to see that Su Dingfang was selecting generals again, and looked at the generals who came with him, "Let Zheng Ze go."

Su Dingfanglue pondered for a while, nodded and waved to the excited Liu Rengui, "Two hundred infantry don't need to fight to the death, but they will retreat calmly if they can't tolerate the enemy."

"Yes." Liu Rengui was originally the leader of Ren Gui's personal guards, but later he made meritorious service in several battles and became a hussar general.

Liu Rengui was often a vanguard under Ren Gui's command. He cut generals and captured the flag. He was quite brave, but he was obviously not the opponent of Liu Hei'er. The gunman was in the center, and the sword and shield hands were on both sides, which made Liu Heier suffer a second time.

"Not bad." Li Shan praised.

Su Dingfang didn't say a word. In fact, he just carried on like this. Unless he dispatched more troops, he still couldn't carry it. But once he dispatched troops, Liu Heier would choose to retreat [-]% of the time, not to mention that he would be stoned in pursuit. The key It's the fish that will get off the hook, and I don't know what's going on in Nanguan Town.

(End of this chapter)