The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 455 Do Bad Things With Kindness

Seeing Luo Shixin's triumphant expression, Li Xiaogong was both angry and helpless. Now that the initiative of the war is in Luo Shixin's hands, all cavalry under his command come and go like the wind. Not only does Li Xiaogong dare not pursue, even the army cannot be disbanded. , because once the infantry disperses, it is difficult to maintain formation. In this wilderness, it will only become a delicious meal for the cavalry, and there are Sui cavalry cruising around, so that the entire Tang army must always be vigilant. Both energy and energy will be severely exhausted. On the other hand, the Sui army can take turns to rest.

"Your Highness, what should we do now?" Samurai Xun came to Li Xiaogong's side and asked with a wry smile.

"How do I know?" Li Xiaogong let out a sigh of relief: "We are now 'advancing and retreating', and we can't even disband."

The warrior Xun sighed, "The only way is to fight Luo Shixin."

"I really want to, the problem is that he doesn't want to fight now." Li Xiaogong regretted it so much that his intestines were green now. If he knew this, he should have gone up to fight with Luo Shixin just now.

"Find a few defeated troops to come and see me." Seeing Luo Shixin retreat two arrows away and get off his horse to rest, Li Xiaogong let out a depressed breath and roared through gritted teeth.

Although he was annoyed that these routs had lost their cities and lands, after all, they had fought against the Sui army, so they knew the details of the imperial army better than themselves.

After a while, a panic-stricken general ran over, cupped his hands and said, "The last general, Deng Bao, sees Your Highness."

Li Xiaogong asked: "Are you a subordinate of King Ren Cheng?"

"No!" Deng Bao shook his head and said, "The last general is General Wang Junkuo's deputy."

"So, you have gone through everything, tell me, how did you fight?" Li Xiaogong suddenly regained his energy.

Deng Bao smiled wryly and said, "His Royal Highness, the King of Jin was worried that the Yique Pass would fall and the two armies would be separated by the Sui army in the north and south of Yique Pass, so he sent General Wang to lead [-] fine cavalry to assist King Rencheng. On the way there was an ambush, Rencheng Wang led the army to help, and the [-] reinforcements were caught in an ambush by Luo Shixin's other ambush, and the [-] defenders did not dare to die, and then they were also defeated by the Sui army."

"Uh~" Li Xiaogong stared at Deng Bao, and said incredulously, "Is this how Yique Pass was lost?"

"Exactly!" Deng Bao went on to introduce the process of Chengxiu's fall.

Luo Shixin's method of attacking Chengxiu is actually quite simple, that is, to block Li Daozong's mouth and take him to the city to force the defenders to surrender. The generals are afraid that Li Daozong will be killed, so they dare not shoot arrows!But it was impossible not to fight. When he saw the Sui army holding Li Daozong approaching step by step, he simply abandoned the city and fled.Then, as soon as Luo Shixin got here, the soldiers who couldn't get away had surrendered long ago, and those who persisted until now are all stubborn resisters.

"How many people are there in the defeated army?"

"Less than three thousand have come here!"

"Has anyone fled towards Luoyang?" Li Xiaogong asked expectantly.

Deng Bao said: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid there is no one left."

"Understood." Li Xiaogong sighed.

Wang Junkuo and Li Daozong's 4 troops, plus the [-] troops from Chengxiu County, could be brought back in the end, but only [-] were left. In just one day, they lost more than [-] elite troops. Even Li Xiaogong , Hearing this news, I couldn't stop getting chills.

I thought that Tang Jun could fight Sui Jun, but it turned out like this.

The soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty are so vigorous now?Does it have to be so strong that there is no limit?

After all, it is still a matter of cavalry!

Li Xiaogong sighed. Li Tang also had cavalry, and there were quite a few of them, but their emperor never gave him this outsider, and usually handed it over to Li Shimin and Li Yuanji. In addition to the [-] taken away by Li Shimin, Li Yuanji still had [-] in Xiangyang. .

But this time, without the cavalry, I am afraid it will be difficult to fight.

Luo Shixin doesn't have to do anything now, just take turns resting and harassing the surroundings, Li Xiaogong's army will be trapped here to death.

What worried him even more was Qin Qiong. That guy had [-] cavalry on hand. If he chased him from behind, he would have no way out.

He discussed with the generals under his command and unanimously decided to fight. If this continues, no one will survive.

Li Xiaogong rode his horse out of the formation, walked to the place where an arrow was shot, and said loudly: "General Luo, how dare you break our formation."

Luo Shixin was overjoyed, he got on his horse and rushed to face Li Xiaogong, raised his voice and said: "I will wait until you are exhausted before fighting again."

"Hey! I didn't expect the majestic Lord Tan Guo of the Sui Dynasty to be so insidious." Li Xiaogong said.

"Li Gongxiao, you have been in the army for many years, don't you know that soldiers are not tired of deceit? Soldiers are deceitful, how can they be considered insidious?" Luo Shixin looked at Li Xiaogong with pity, and said loudly with a wicked smile: "Anyway, I am not the one who is worried. ...I might as well tell you that my Majesty asked me and Brother Qin to send troops at the same time, my 3 people here, plus his 9 people, are enough to kill you."

Li Xiaogong was furious in his heart, but he also knew that it was Luo Shixin who was provoking him. While the two were talking, two soldiers and horses rushed out from both sides of the army formation, encircling Luo Shixin from both wings.

"I knew you would do this a long time ago." Looking at Tang Jun who was rushing towards us with a roar, Luo Shixin curled his lips in disdain, raised the Hundred Refining Cold Spear, and said sharply: "Prepare the crossbow arrows, prepare left and right!"

Following Luo Shixin's order, the army quickly mounted their horses, and quickly adopted the most suitable formation under the command of generals and schools at all levels. For this rapid march, in order to reduce the load, each person only brought one continuous crossbow, three quiver, one Riding a bow with two pots of arrows, the platoon crossbow that is good for field defense is not brought, but it is enough, the range of two hundred steps of the crossbow is enough to make any enemy despair.

"Segmented projectile!"

As the order was issued, the soldiers in the front row quickly shot out the arrows in the crossbow box and began to refill the crossbow arrows. The soldiers in the back followed suit, forming a dense rain of arrows and pouring towards the opponent's army.

"Raise the shield! The archers counterattack!" Li Xiaogong, who was in the Chinese army, gave the order.

"Bang bang bang~"

The dense rain of arrows whizzed past, and the shields in the front row were instantly filled with arrows, and the wooden shield in his hand was instantly scrapped, and was shot to death by the following crossbow arrows.

"rush!"

The power of the opponent's crossbow arrows far exceeded Li Xiaogong's expectations. Although Luo Shixin only mobilized more than 5000 people, the power was stronger than that of an army of more than [-] people. Moreover, the disadvantages of the fish-scale formation of the Tang army began to be exposed. It is not considered a dense military formation. , the shield could not provide enough protection for the archers behind, many arrows passed through the gaps in the shield, and the unlucky archers behind kept falling to the ground.

After Tang Jun paid most of the price for the shield hand, he finally rushed within [-] steps of his own side. At this time, Luo Shixin skillfully commanded the Sui Army to sneak out of [-] steps, and then continued to shoot arrows around Tang Jun.

"Kill!" Li Xiaogong's complexion turned pale. Luo Shixin's style of play, which was similar to that of the grassland people, made it impossible for Tang Jun, who was all infantry, to deal with it.But at this moment, they had no choice but to charge.

"Yes, that's it! Withdraw, do you see that! Let's treat it as if we were walking the dog and fight at a leisurely pace... I would rather not shoot an arrow than let them catch up!" Luo Shixin leisurely controlled the distance between the two sides, and put this kind of The hooligan tactics were used to the extreme, commanding the knights to continuously consume Li Xiaogong's troops with the advantages of crossbow arrow range and cavalry speed.

Seeing that Li Xiaogong couldn't catch up, he continued to reduce the number of men. In the process of chasing and fleeing, they didn't even hurt a single Sui army, but they lost more than [-] people themselves. Moreover, the speed of the infantry was far behind the opponent's. In the eyes of the Sui army, the opponent's opportunity to aim is simply a living target, and if this continues, it will only be exhausted.

"The whole army goes out!" Luo Shixin laughed boldly, commanding the whole army to press on.

The Tang army was exhausted so far, and its low morale began to collapse with all the attacks of the Sui army. With the tacit cooperation of the Sui army, they were hunted to pieces, and the two troops fought together for half an hour. After the victory or defeat, there is no doubt that Tang Jun was completely defeated. Facing the Sui Iron Cavalry, which was several grades ahead of them in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, when they paid a huge price and approached, they were shocked to find that the opponent did not want to fight with him at all. In a head-on confrontation, they can't even attack the range, so how can they kill the enemy?Seeing the arrows of the Sui army seem to shoot out endlessly, the last sliver of luck was shattered, and immediately after, they began to flee in embarrassment.

Li Xiaogong's heart throbbed fiercely, his heart was bleeding, these tens of thousands of soldiers were his painstaking efforts, the result of his hard training over the past few years, but now it seems that he has not exerted any combat power, and has not reaped any results. It was finished by Luo Shixin. If it continues like this, the whole army will be wiped out. At this moment, he finally understands why Wang Junkuo and Li Daozong lost so badly, because they have no way to deal with this kind of rogue tactics. no.

He looked up to the sky and sighed, gritted his teeth and yelled: "Withdraw! You can walk as much as you can, and if you can't walk away-surrender to the Sui army immediately." It's not that his soldiers didn't work hard. Due to their superiority, their charge is doomed to be a desperate suicide journey.He really couldn't bear it, and his soldiers died in vain.

With his order, Tang Jun heaved a sigh of relief and knelt down and surrendered.

"Let's go!"

Li Xiaogong and the soldiers of the generals were all cavalry, and there were about 5000 people in total. They left their infantry, broke through a bloody road, and fled westward.

In all fairness, Luo Shixin didn't want to embarrass these soldiers of the Tang army, they were all of the same race, and in troubled times, it was not because they didn't go to the battlefield for a meal.But this is a battlefield, and he, Luo Shixin, bears the emperor's mandate. Only by completely destroying this army can he completely take down the two counties of Xiangcheng and Fuyang, and ensure the safety of the people in the two counties. Compared with the surname, even if the [-] Tang troops died, it would be worth it.

Kindness is a very luxurious thing on the battlefield. Luo Shixin has experienced too many battles, even if he has benevolence in his heart, but once on the battlefield, those women's benevolence will kill his soldiers, so these distracting thoughts Pressed by him in the bottom of my heart.

"Look, general, Li Xiaogong is going to escape!" Just as Luo Shixin was ruthlessly reaping the lives, a lieutenant suddenly shouted loudly.

Luo Shixin took a look and saw a group of cavalry from the Tang army rushing out from the gap in the west. The soldiers who were cruising outside were caught off guard and let them break a team and flee towards Runan.

"How could it be so easy? It's too late." A cold light flashed in Luo Shixin's eyes, he left an army to clean up the mess, and led the main force to follow Li Xiaogong.

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