Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 68 The Battle of Minzhou (2)

Hou Junji saw the shadow of the emperor when he was young in Li Chengqian. He used to hear that the King of Shu resembled His Majesty the most, but now it seemed that the prince in front of him was the one.Calmness and decisiveness are necessary for a commander, which is why not all generals can become commanders.

Hey, "Okay, who do you want to take, Your Highness?" Qin Shubao stared at Li Chengqian and asked.

Seeing Qin Shubao's compromise, Li Chengqian also gave Hou Junji a grateful smile. In Li Chengqian's view, this is trust. Could it be that he and Hou Junji rebelled together in history.

"Select a thousand people from the Six Rates of the East Palace, and Qin Huaiyu and Cheng Chumo will lead the team to accompany them."

"Why don't you take the two generals Xie Luo?"

After Li Chengqian finished speaking, not only Luo Cheng and Xie Yingdeng couldn't figure it out, even Qin Shubao couldn't figure it out, such a dangerous battle should be taken with the general, how could he take these two rookies there.

Qin Huaiyu is not a small official, but with combat experience, he doesn't need to have much experience as a general, let alone Cheng Chumo, who is still a school lieutenant.

"The battle of a thousand men, the two generals Qin Cheng are competent enough. The battle of Minzhou is very important. Our army is seriously short of strength. Both Luo Xie are generals. With their joining, the main force of the army can conquer Minzhou faster. , that's the safest way."

"Your Highness, let the last general go with you, it's too dangerous." Luo Cheng's brain shook like a rattle.

Li Chengqian smiled and said: "General is one of the few generals in our army who is proficient in cavalry combat. The cavalry in Minzhou is your real opponent."

After finishing speaking, Qin Qiong waved his hand, signaling that everyone should stop discussing, and then said: "Just do as Your Highness said, order: Hou Junji will lead [-] troops to feign meritorious deeds to defend the Dongshan Mountain, and they must be restrained until our army conquers it." Minzhou.

In addition, the commander-in-chief personally mentioned that the main force of the army should occupy the watershed, so as to buy opportunities for the prince's small army.The troops rested for a day and then launched an attack. "

"The last general obeys orders", after Qin Shubao gave the order, the generals in the tent agreed in unison.

After returning to the Donggong camp, Luo Cheng and Xie Yingdeng selected a thousand soldiers with rich combat experience overnight and handed them over to Qin Huaiyu and Cheng Chumo.

At the same time, Li Chengqian required these soldiers to have relatively light and flexible fish-scale armor, and their weapons were only horizontal bars and three-edged daggers, as well as a large number of crossbow arrows and ropes.

Two days later, Qin Shubao took the main force of the Tang army in Xikaido to seize the Breaking Ridge.Qin Qiong immediately ordered Xie Yingdeng to lead the front army to attack Erlang Mountain.

"Your Highness, it will be dark in half an hour. Be careful on the road. If the enemy finds out, return immediately."

Li Chengqian, who was dressed in a black fish scale armor, took off his lower armor and replied: "Teacher, take care, when the three pillars of wolf smoke rise from the Iron Gate Gate, the army will be able to complete their work." After speaking, he led Qin Huaiyu and others to the valley on the east side of Erlang Mountain. .

Erlang Mountain is located in the south of Minzhou City, and it is the beginning of Qianli Min Mountain.

Erlang Mountain in Minzhou was formerly known as Jintong Mountain. It can be said that "the distant mountains and near mountains are like cut jade, and the half-side of the mountain is clear and cloudy. After a long journey to the west, it is Taozhou, and the pine and cypress forest is full of valleys."

But no matter how beautiful the scenery was, the Tang army led by Xie Yingdeng and the Tuyuhun army guarding the village were in no mood to appreciate it.

It faces the Yunv Peak of Minshan Mountain across the Tao River. There are three undulating peaks connected along the ridge. Because there are fortresses built on the top of the peak, they are called the first, second, and third villages in turn. The highest peak is the third village, which is also the residence of the Tuyuhun defenders here. where the main force is.

The entire Erlang Mountain is covered with green trees and pine trees, and the ridge and east and west slopes of Erlang Mountain are covered by green shade, which also provides natural cover for Li Chengqian and others.

The story was divided into two parts, Xie Yingdeng hit a snag just as he reached Touzhai, he never thought that the cottage built by the Green Forest bandits was so strong.

Climbing from the east ridge of the mountain village to the mountain village, there is a mountain wall built with huge stones across the mountain ridge. When they came closer, they found that the wall was more than 100 meters long across the ridge beam.

The walls of the village are carefully designed, with watchtowers, archery holes, stone stacks, and wooden rolling platforms left.In the middle of the wall is a gate that is not too wide, about two meters wide and three meters high.The defenders of Tuyuhun were using the existing archery holes to keep attacking, and the Tang army tilted and missed their arrows.

Xie Yingdeng's troops suppressed by the dense rain of arrows couldn't lift their heads up, so they could only move forward slowly behind the big shield, but Xie Yingdeng still caused a lot of casualties.

The guerrilla general Yin Yuan ran up to Xie Yingdeng with one arm hanging and said, "Xie rate, this cottage is so wickedly built, brothers can't attack it."

Xie Yingdeng rolled his eyes at Yin Yuan and asked, "Have you ever thought about why you are still a guerrilla general after so many years?" Xie Yingdeng and Yin Yuan are old acquaintances, so they will not hide anything, but he These words made Yin Yuan ask.

Yin Yuan is 35 this year. In his early twenties, he and his uncle Yin Kaishan followed Li Yuan in the army. Later, Yin Kaishan had no children. As his only nephew, Yin Yuan inherited the title of Duke Xunjun.If you want to say that you have fought a lot, but you have not been able to get promoted. The general who was at the same time as him lived in eight houses, and opened a government office to build a mansion.

Yin Yuan said blankly: "The final general doesn't know, please give me your advice."

Xie Yingdeng's words completely fooled Yin Yuan, this is a war, how could it involve his own rank.Xie Yingdeng couldn't do anything about it, and then said: "Order the attacking troops to serialize large shields or three or five, and then let the crossbowmen serve them.

More rockets, and throw fire oil.Even if it is covered with stones, I will burn it.But there is one point that you are not allowed to attack, if you ruin the commander-in-chief, you don’t even want to be a guerrilla general.”

"No, the last general will take orders." Yin Yuan shrank his neck, turned around and ran back to the front.

Looking at Yin Yuan's back, Xie Yingdeng shook his head helplessly. Yin Kaishan is indeed very popular. After so many years of death, there are old friends who are willing to help him.Yin Yuan's loyalty is enough, but for his talent in war, in Xie Yingdeng's opinion, it would be a good choice for this kid to guard the palace.

Under Xie Yingdeng's suggestion, Yin Yuan's attack became a little smoother, and also caused a lot of casualties to the enemy guarding the village.There are already three watchtowers on fire, and several Tuyuhun people are carrying buckets to put out the fire.

"General, the Tang army's attack was too fierce. Under the cover of Liannu soldiers, the attacking troops almost broke through the gate of the village several times. The brothers suffered a lot of casualties." A small Tuyuhun school said to Touzhai guard Wu Qishi.

Wu Qishi: "What are you afraid of? Our walls are so high and deep that it's so easy to break through. I'm giving you 3000 people. Tell the brothers to hit me hard with rolling wood and thunder stones."

"No, the last general will take orders."

(End of this chapter)