The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty
Chapter 961 The Enemy Meets, Extraordinarily Jealous
Chapter 961 The Enemy Meets, Extraordinarily Jealous
While Li Yuan was delighted to find a contact person, and Jiang Zhen was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity to break the city, there was a Tang army of [-] marching southward on the west bank of Baishui, Jinggu County, Qunjinggu County, Yicheng. This was Liu Hongji's vanguard army.
When going south, Liu Hongji had two goals. The first task was to bring this army to Shu County in its entirety, and the second was to create a lot of trouble for the Sui Dynasty on the way south. If one or two Sui troops could be wiped out, it would be It's even more perfect.
However, the intelligence of the scouts does not seem to be enough to support Liu Hongji's ambition to take the opportunity to wipe out the enemy. They have not yet determined where the single Sui army is. He is chasing and killing in the direction of his own retreat.
The reality that there was no small group of Sui troops to intercept before, and there was a large army to chase and kill, made Liu Hongji feel powerless and helpless. In less than three days, they were overtaken by the army of the Sui Dynasty. For this army, the heavy equipment was not a help, but a catastrophe.
But it doesn’t matter if you lose it, because when Li Xiaogong was in Chongling, he just left his luggage, and as a result, the food ran out, and he was forced to send tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers to the Sui Dynasty for nothing; if he imitated Li Xiaogong, the result would be even worse, because Li Xiaogong There is also Li Jiancheng to help, but he is alone and helpless.Although there were no cities and towns ahead, both Pingwu and Yicheng were poor and sparsely populated counties. If the officials of the Sui Dynasty adopted the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, and transferred all the people and food to the mountains, then his army would run out of food and collapse.
The day before yesterday, the scouts finally found some useful information, saying that someone had discovered a large group of Sui troops in Jinggu County, Yicheng.
Liu Hongji was ecstatic when he heard the news, so he took Li Xuandao, the deputy general manager, as the leading general of the vanguard, and personally led [-] soldiers on the road, responsible for clearing obstacles for the rear army.
Jinggu City is a lower county. It is located in the north of Muma Mountain, the remaining vein of Daba Mountain. The county seat is built on the west bank of Baishui. The city has been in disrepair for a long time and is dilapidated. To less than 3000 households.
In the afternoon, Li Xuandao's army arrived at this dilapidated small county, and saw that the city walls were low, but the city's circumference of about ten miles was not even as good as some important military fortresses.
A team of scouts rushed to the city, and the leader Shi Zhang clasped his fists and reported: "I have reported to the chief officer that the county town has almost become an empty city. According to the people who stayed inside, the Sui army had been stationed in the city for about three days."
Li Xuandao frowned: "Did you bring the local people here?"
"Bring it here." Shichang turned his head and waved, and several scouts brought up a white-haired old Taoist. The old Taoist said tremblingly: "The poor Taoist sees the general."
"Don't be afraid, Taoist priest." Li Xuandao said in a harmonious voice when he saw the old Taoist priest's pale face, "I just have some questions to understand, and I will definitely not hurt you."
"The poor Taoist knows everything and can say everything, the general can just say hello." The old Taoist breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Jinggu City is also a county seat, why is it now an empty city? Please ask the Taoist priest to teach me." Li Xuandao asked.
The old Taoist said respectfully: "General Qi, the Sui army was as cruel as wolves and tigers. They scared all the people in the city and ran away, leaving only the old bones who can't run. They would rather die than leave home."
A look of doubt flashed away from Li Xuandao's eyes, and he asked calmly: "The Sui army has always had strict military discipline, and has always prided itself on being a civilized and mighty teacher. Like a wolf or a tiger?"
"How can there be any officer or soldier who doesn't ask the people for money and food? The difference is just how much. The general may be talking about the soldiers around the emperor, or some soldiers are for the emperor to see."
Li Xuandao was dumbfounded. As the chief general in the army, he knew that what the old man said was not without reason, and compared with the Sui army, his soldiers seemed to be more unbearable.The old Taoist also seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, so he quickly returned to the topic, sighed and said, "It was okay at first, but everything changed yesterday. The people were all scared away."
"By the way, where did the Sui army go? Does the Taoist priest know their whereabouts?" Li Xuandao felt a little frustrated, as if he was a step too late.
"The poor Taoist doesn't know." The old Taoist shook his head: "They were doing evil in the city well, but they left in a hurry last night. They all looked so vicious. Who would dare to follow them? ?”
"Thank you, Daoist, for clarifying the confusion. I already understand..." Hearing this, Li Xuandao had roughly guessed that the Sui army, which should not be many in number, had discovered their arrival and knew they were invincible, so they hurriedly withdrew. He didn't know where the Sui army was going to retreat, so he could only wait for the scouts to find out the real information before making a decision. Seeing that the sun had already set, he ordered: "Send my order, the army enters the city to rest!"
"Here." The soldiers saluted and spread the order.
As the military orders were issued layer by layer, [-] troops slowly marched into the city, and the small city was filled in a short while. Although it was a little crowded, it was still barely livable.
To Li Xuandao's surprise, they found supplies hidden by the Sui army in some hidden places. In addition to some ordnance, there were nearly two thousand shi of grain. , With these supplies, they can continue to find the Sui army before the arrival of the rear army, instead of waiting in place.
Li Xuandao rode a horse to inspect the situation in the city. This is a small city built according to the Sui system during Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. Like other Xiaxian counties, this city has only two gates in the north and south, and the two gates are separated by a road about three miles long. Long Street, which is also the only main street in the small town.
Most of the houses in the city were dilapidated, and many houses that had been in disrepair had collapsed on the ground, while every intact house was full of soldiers from the Tang army. Li Xuandao saw a group of soldiers drawing water from the well for dinner.
"Has the well been inspected?" Li Xuandao did not dare to be careless now. The wells and houses had to be inspected one by one, not only to prevent the Sui army from poisoning the well, but also to prevent the Sui army from accumulating dry firewood and sulfur in the house. Wait for something to light the fire.So far, he hasn't found anything unusual. It can be seen that the Sui army withdrew hastily and did not deliberately lure the Tang army into the city.
When the soldiers saw the general's question, they quickly replied: "Report to the general manager, we have already checked, and there is nothing unusual in the well."
"In an extraordinary time, there is no big mistake in being careful. Everyone, be careful and be careful." Li Xuandao ordered, and continued to inspect various places in the city.
"Here!" All the soldiers in the army knew that the situation was grim, and the whole army might be annihilated and die in a different place if they were careless, so they all took it very seriously.
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It was gradually getting dark, and the Tang army, who had marched on the mountain road for two days, was exhausted. After dinner, they closed the city gate and went to rest early. Teams of patrolling Tang troops were patrolling back and forth at the top of the city. Tang Jun's scouts cruised within ten miles.
At one o'clock, a 50-member Tang army sentry patrol found something unusual, and hurriedly ran five miles away. Just as they were running across a gentle hill, a burst of arrows pierced the sky and shot at them. The soldiers of the Tang army screamed and fell off their horses. They were only hit by two rounds of dense arrows, and no one survived.
After the other patrols were wiped out one by one in this way, more than 5000 Sui troops surrounded the two gates of Jinggu City, which were illuminated by torches in the distance, under the cover of night.
Due to the darkness of the night and the torches not shining far away, the Tang army patrols on the city did not notice that a large Sui army was approaching the city, but in the darkness, the Sui army crossbowmen had already blocked the city gate.Moreover, there were hundreds of heavy soldiers who were more than a hundred steps away from the city, and built some of the parts they carried with them into long-range projectile siege equipment. After about half an hour, more than a dozen behemoths appeared in the open space outside the city. , the tall supporting towers are taller than the low city walls.
When the siege equipment was about to be completed, the defenders on the city finally discovered the abnormality. It was not that they discovered the siege equipment, but that the patrols outside the city had not returned for a long time. Seeing the huge black shadow, he urgently reported it to the general Li Xuandao.
Although Li Xuandao was also very tired, the pressure from the general made it difficult for him to fall asleep for a long time. As a veteran with nearly ten years of military service, Li Xuandao had an unusually mysterious sensitivity to danger. When he entered the city today, he felt that this small town Something is wrong, but after checking all the suspicious places, there is nothing.
Li Xuandao lay on a wooden bed together, carefully reviewing the scenes he encountered during the day, hoping to find the reason for his uneasiness
Suddenly, Li Xuandao sat up suddenly.
The old Taoist said that the Sui army was very peaceful before, and they didn't rob the common people of money, food and other property until yesterday. If the Sui army needed food, why did they leave nearly [-] grain?What is even more doubtful is that since this is an army with corrupt military discipline, why did they wait until yesterday to start looting?
Then the Sui army suddenly became brutal for only one purpose. The general of the Sui army knew that the people were accustomed to submitting to everything, and he was unwilling to leave his homeland even if he had exhausted his good words until it was a last resort. , forcing them to leave.
The Sui army did not hesitate to drive away the people in the city, leaving an empty city for themselves, regardless of their reputation.
What is the purpose?it goes without saying.
Thinking of this, Li Xuandao only felt dizzy and his hands were cold. During the day, he only considered that the city wall might prevent the Sui army from sneaking at night, but he ignored that the city wall would become a deadly bondage at certain times.
Just when he was about to call someone, there was a rush of running outside: "We have something important to report to the general!"
"Wait a minute." The soldier replied.
Li Xuandao had already rushed out and asked, "What's the matter?"
The soldiers guarding the city reported in panic: "General Qi, we found something unusual outside the city..."
Before he had time to listen carefully, Li Xuandao quickly walked towards the top of the city, and staring into the distance, he saw more than a dozen giant-like towers standing a hundred steps away, and a long arm swinging tower could be seen in the night. .
"This is a large catapult." Cold sweat finally rolled off Li Xuandao's forehead, and he shouted sharply: "Sound the alarm!"
"Dang, dang, dang..." The clear and rapid warning bell echoed in the small town. At this moment, the giant trebuchet outside the city began to roar as if it had received an order.
This is a very simple catapult, but it is enough to deal with a low-rise small city. A dozen kerosene barrels crossed the city wall and smashed hard on the roof and the ground. , Immediately afterwards, the second round of kerosene was thrown, and more than a dozen kerosene barrels roared and smashed into the city.
Hundreds of archers from the Sui Army rushed to the front of the city and fired arrows together. Hundreds of rockets shot into the city, and the fire oil in the city was ignited and burned rapidly.
The Tang army in the city has already lined up one by one. They are one of the few elite soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. Under the command of generals and schools at all levels, they did not panic. More importantly, the fire in the city was only burning in the area near the city wall and had not yet spread to the city. center.However, as the fire oil spreads from near to far, the fire will engulf the whole city sooner or later.
The stern Li Xuandao seemed calm and composed, but in his heart he felt an inexplicable sadness. Tang Jun was originally a hunter who was struggling to find his prey, but now he became the "prey" of the "prey".He knew that the biggest threat to them now was not the fire that had yet swept through the city, but the casualties during the breakout process. If there were [-]% casualties, this army would undoubtedly be defeated.
"General, do we have to break through?" Deputy General Gao Zengsheng came to Li Xuandao on a flying horse, and said in a low voice, "The Sui army has sharp bows and crossbows, and they are waiting outside the city. A heavy loss. According to the general's opinion, it is better to clear a fire zone in the city."
"In an hour at most, the entire county will be turned into a sea of flames, and it is too late. Moreover, the scarier part of the fire attack strategy is not the violent flames, but the suffocating billowing smoke and the high temperature enough to scorch people. , the city is too small to accommodate so many people across the fire zone. Once the fire sweeps across the city, the panicked soldiers will definitely push and trample each other in order to snatch the narrow foothold. Getting out of the encirclement is our only choice." Li Xuandao looked at the increasingly fierce fire and the soldiers who became more and more restless, and said calmly: "We have [-] soldiers, if we only go through one city gate, there is no time. It’s too late. General Gao, you lead the left army to break out from the south gate, and we will meet at Muma Mountain in the south of the city.”
"The last general obeys the order!" Gao Zengsheng saluted Li Xuandao, then turned around and shouted to the generals: "Brother Zuojun, follow me!"
"Here." The generals of the Zuo Army returned to their own positions and led the soldiers towards the south gate.
Li Xuandao waited until the army was divided and all arms were ready, and he ordered: "Open the city gate and lower the drawbridge!"
The gate of the city opened rumblingly, the suspension bridge was lowered slowly, and Tang Jun held the big shield high in his sword and shield hand, and came out in a neat line.
More than 160 steps away from the northern city, 2000 crossbowmen led by Liu Gang had been waiting for a long time. The [-] heavy crossbows placed in the front and operated by [-] people were coldly aiming at the city cave.
Throughout the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the unknown Liu Gang did not have any main offensive tasks, but served as the link and side support between the northern and southern battlefields. The Pingwu County where he was located was equivalent to the waist of a human body.
It is precisely because he is not well-known and has no outstanding records that Liu Hongji and Li Xuandao, who are always paying attention to Yu Chigong, Wang Fubao, and Yao Junsu, selectively ignore his existence, thinking that this is a man who does not seek nothing. A mediocre general who only seeks no faults is not worth mentioning or paying attention to.
However, in fact, Liu Gang, who also wants to make contributions, has been paying attention to the movement of Liu Hongji's army. When Li Xuandao led an army of [-] to cross the border, he got the scout information. In this battle against Li Xuandao, he In fact, it has always been in the dominant position of using darkness to light.
From the very beginning, he lured Li Xuandao implicitly or explicitly, taking advantage of Li Xuandao's large army and eagerness to annihilate, first set up a trap in Jinggu County, and finally trapped this Tang army into this small town.
Liu Gang stared sharply at Tang Jun who was out of the city, and Tang Jun's sword and shield soldiers stood in a row of five.There is a long queue, with a total number of about 3000 people.This is the forward of the Tang army. Their task is to tear through the Sui army's arrow array and lay a foothold for the cavalry in charge of charging.
Liu Gang also had to admire Li Xuandao's composure. His lineup with sword and shield soldiers as the forward, cavalry as the center, pikemen and crossbowmen as the rear army was very organized, and it was a very clever way to break through. It is said that this is not a breakout, but an attack.But Liu Gang had a very deep understanding of this army, so he specially brought sharp weapons to deal with shields. Seeing Tang Jun slowly entering the range of the heavy crossbow, Liu Gang ordered around: "Heavy crossbow ready!"
Divided into five rows of [-] heavy crossbowmen, they raised the thousand heavy crossbows brushily, aiming their sharp iron arrows at the sword and shield soldiers of the Tang army, and the cold tip of the arrow exuded a breath of death in the thick darkness.
At this time, the Tang army's sword and shield soldiers had slowly left the suspension bridge, and Liu Gang gave an order: "Fire the arrows!"
"Wuuuuuuuuuuu..." Amidst the sound of horns, two hundred crossbow arrows rushed towards the front and sides of the Tang army with unparalleled strength.
Only the hissing and screaming of the Tang army came from the cracking of a shield. The powerful iron crossbow arrows shot through the shield and the body of the soldiers of the Tang army, and some even passed through the body.
The five soldiers in the front row and dozens of people on both sides screamed and fell to the ground. Immediately after, two hundred crossbow arrows from the second row came out, and rushed towards Tang Jun like lightning, and dozens of Tang Jun were overturned.
After five consecutive rounds of shooting, the Tang army killed and injured nearly 300 people. Since the Sui army did it in one go in a very short period of time, the Tang army didn't even have the time to react.
The powerful lethality produced by the iron crossbow arrows, which can penetrate shields and penetrate muscles and bones, made the soldiers of the Tang army terrified. Some turned around and fled desperately into the city.
The second round of the Sui army's arrow attack has begun again. This time Liu Gang changed to three rows of shots. The dense and powerful iron arrows shot into the city cave, and the dark city cave was filled with wailing and screams. The corpses fell in pieces, and a stream of blood slowly flowed out of the door opening.
"Fire the rocket!" Unmoved, Liu Gang issued a new order.
Although Jinggu City is next to Baishui, the Baishui River is about ten feet lower than the flat land, and the city cannot be built beside a big river, so Jinggu City does not have any moat, but a two-foot-wide moat was dug outside the city. The Sui army had already filled the dry moat with kerosene before, and as more than a hundred rockets shot into the ditch, the fire soared into the sky, and billowing thick smoke burned rapidly.
Liu Gang's intention is very obvious, which is to wipe out the Tang army in Jinggu City, deny them the opportunity to go out of the city to fight hand-to-hand, and force the soldiers of the Tang army who can't stand the fire to fight among themselves or go out of the city to surrender.
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The fire in the city has become more and more fierce. As the Sui army continued to throw kerosene barrels into the city, the fire burned faster than Li Xuandao expected.
He originally thought that it would take an hour for the fire to engulf the entire city, but judging by the speed of its spread, it would take about half an hour at most for the fire to engulf everything in the city.
The fierce fire that engulfed the houses was only a hundred steps away from the Tang army. The rolling heat wave scorched the soldiers of the Tang army with higher and higher temperatures. Faced with all this, all soldiers felt a sense of fear and despair.
Beads of sweat rolled down Li Xuandao's forehead. This was not only caused by heat, but also by tension and anxiety. After all, [-] lives were tied to his body alone. not come.At this time, there was a great commotion at the gate of the city, and thousands of sword and shield soldiers fled back in defeat. Li Xuandao was furious, rushed up and shouted: "Why do you want to run back!"
A partial general stepped forward and presented an iron arrow: "General, the crossbows of the Sui army are very powerful, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties, and they couldn't reach the suspension bridge at all."
Li Xuandao took the heavy iron arrow for a closer look, and couldn't help but gasped.According to his speculation, this kind of iron arrow needs at least a strong crossbow of more than seven stones to shoot, and the Sui army outside the city actually carried such a large weapon to deal with them, which also made him feel desperate. It seems that today It's more ominous than good.
"General!" Another school lieutenant rushed over and shouted in horror: "The Sui army ignited the kerosene in the trench, and the fire engulfed the suspension bridge. If the suspension bridge is burned, the fire in the trench cannot be extinguished. All of us will be lost in the fire tonight,"
Li Xuandao was taken aback, the iron arrow in his hand was unsteady and fell to the ground.He didn't care about any tactics now, and ordered decisively: "Order the cavalry to charge immediately, and no one is allowed to turn back, and those who disobey the order will be killed."
The sword and shield soldiers who breathed a sigh of relief quickly retreated and replaced [-] cavalrymen of the Tang army forward. With the rumble of drums, the [-] cavalrymen shouted and urged their horses to rush out of the city like a tide.
The arrows outside the city were still coming like a storm, and the cavalrymen of the Tang Army were shot on their backs, causing heavy casualties, but they knew that the cavalry behind them had followed closely, and if they stopped moving forward, they would rush off the horses behind them , and falling off the horse means death, and only by charging forward can there be a way of life. Everyone has this heart, so the cavalry of the Tang Army rushed forward one by one desperately in order to survive, trying to kill a way out.
Liu Gang also knew that it was time to change his tactics, so he resolutely ordered: "The crossbowmen retreat, give way to the horse-repelling formation for them to charge, and the spearmen assassinate from both sides."
With an order, horns blared and drums sounded loudly. Thousands of crossbowmen quickly retreated, hitting their backs firmly on the ground to resist the horse formation, and the two thousand spearmen who had previously manipulated the catapult stabbed the charging soldiers from both sides. The cavalry, some of the crossbow troops turned into spearmen, intercepted and killed the soldiers of the Tang army who broke through the encirclement.
Although the sacrifice of the cavalry of the Tang Army enabled the follow-up soldiers to escape successfully on the corpses of their comrades-in-arms and horses, their fighting spirit was completely lost, and everyone was unwilling to fight. Even the brave and skilled soldiers of the Sui Army couldn't resist the desperate courage.
Seeing that the soldiers of the Tang army were fighting desperately, Liu Gang knew that a frontal interception would cause unnecessary heavy casualties to his army, so he immediately issued an order to release the passage and change the interception to pursuit.
When the soldiers of the Sui army received the order to clear the passage one by one, the soldiers of the Tang army fled from various gaps as if they had found a catharsis, and the cavalry of the Sui army fled from all the gaps. There are countless surrenders everywhere.
When the generals were chasing and killing the defeated Tang army, Liu Gang and a thousand cavalry remained motionless. It was not until more than a hundred soldiers escorted Li Xuandao and escaped from the side that he shouted: "Follow me to kill the cavalry battalion!"
In an instant, the cavalry waiting in full force galloped like flying horses, and quickly caught up with Li Xuandao's team from the side. They followed behind and shot arrows, hunting and killing Li Xuandao's followers like peeling pine cones, making their guards stronger and stronger. Less and less.
Suddenly, Li Xuandao's war horse stepped into a pothole, and the horse with a broken front leg hissed and fell to the ground, throwing Li Xuandao several feet away.
And his personal soldiers charged with all their strength, unable to stop the horses for a while. When they turned their horses and ran back dozens of steps away, the Sui cavalry who had already arrived separated Li Xuandao from his personal soldiers in an instant. , Surrounded and wiped out the few dozen remaining soldiers.
Li Xuandao, who was thrown heavily by the war horse, fell on his back, and was slammed on the back half of his body by the overturned war horse, and all the bones in his lower body were broken.
Liu Gang stopped his horse slowly in front of him, looked down at Li Xuandao condescendingly, and said coldly: "Li Xuandao, when you bewitched the Tongguan defenders to turn against me, you never thought that this day would happen to you, did you?"
"Hehe..." Li Xuandao groaned in pain, and closed his eyes in pain. Tears of humiliation flowed from his eyes, and his heart was filled with endless sadness.
When the Tang army attacked Guanzhong, Liu Gang, the general guarding Tongguan, repelled the Tang army time and time again when he was isolated and helpless. At that time, Li Xuandao was the brigade commander under Liu Gang's command. The sons of the Long nobles raided Liu Gang's personal soldiers and tied up Liu Gang who hadn't closed his eyes for a few days, so that Tongguan fell quickly.
At this time, Li Xuandao wanted to die, and he sneered at Liu Gang: "Liu Gang, you were originally a disciple of Wei Xuan, and you were also highly valued by Yang You who stayed behind in Xijing, but you were defeated and surrendered to Tang, and then betrayed Tang and Sui. He is completely a capricious villain, how noble is he?"
"You are wrong. I got the order from my mentor Wei Gong to 'surrender if you are not defeated' before the battle. The purpose is to help you when the Holy One attacks Guanzhong." Liu Gang said lightly: "Tongguan's natural danger is I lost people because of improper employment, and I couldn't make them stand in the way of the Sui Dynasty's recovery of Guanzhong, so I later spent money to buy the post of Tongguan guard from Li Shentong and Yin Ashu, and Li Yuan happened to trust Li Shentong and Yin Defei the most."
The implication of Liu Gang's words is very obvious. I, Liu Gang, bought Tongguan with money. I can give it to whoever I like. You Li Xuandao can't control it. If you want to blame, you can blame Li Shentong and Yin Ashu.
"Hey, you are the big winner now, and everything you say is right now... The matter has come to this point, and I, Li Xuandao, have nothing to say." Li Xuandao said to Liu Gang with a painful face: "Liu Gang, You won, give me a good time, it can be regarded as the bad breath back then."
"I want to kill you, and I will kill you, but definitely not now." Liu Gang stared at Li Xuandao coldly, and said flatly, "Because you are still a little bit useful to me, Da Sui."
"Don't you want me to lie to the chief executive." Li Xuandao sneered, and continued to mock: "Liu Gang, Liu Gang, after so many years, you haven't made any progress at all, and you are still as mediocre as before. Don't you think Won't my soldiers flee to deliver the letter?"
"There is no need for you to worry about it for me." Liu Gang said indifferently: "Since I have made such a decision, I will naturally not give the rout soldiers a way to send letters."
"Hmm..." Li Xuandao was about to chew his tongue to kill himself, but just as he opened his mouth, a soldier who had been prepared for a long time moved like a cloud and flowing water, and stuffed a pair of smelly socks into his mouth.
I don't know whether Li Xuandao was in too much pain or his socks were too smelly, but he rolled his eyes and passed out all of a sudden.
After a while, the soldier who pushed away the wounded horse found Li Xuandao not moving. The soldier who stuffed the stinky socks put his hand in front of his nose, and his eyes were dull.
"What's the matter?" Liu Gang withdrew his eyes from the gradually brightening sky, and his eyes fell on the speaking soldier.
"General...he, he died..." the soldier said timidly.
"It should have been smoked to death by your stinky socks..." That's what he said, but Liu Gang estimated that Li Xuandao's injuries were too serious, and he couldn't bear the shock and humiliation for a while, so he died of anger, and said symbolically: "Deduct your salary for three months."
"Thank you, General, for your kindness." The soldier who wanted to cry without tears was overjoyed. Li Xuandao's opponent was also the deputy commander of the first army, and he was somewhat valuable. What's more, Liu Gang just said that he would use Li Xuandao to make a fuss.But now that his stinky socks were smothered to death, he couldn't afford to kill him.Now Liu Gang only withholds three months' salary, which is an extrajudicial favor.
"Leave him alone, clean up the battlefield as soon as possible! Maybe we can still participate in the battle of General Niu."
"Here."
(End of this chapter)
While Li Yuan was delighted to find a contact person, and Jiang Zhen was pleasantly surprised by the opportunity to break the city, there was a Tang army of [-] marching southward on the west bank of Baishui, Jinggu County, Qunjinggu County, Yicheng. This was Liu Hongji's vanguard army.
When going south, Liu Hongji had two goals. The first task was to bring this army to Shu County in its entirety, and the second was to create a lot of trouble for the Sui Dynasty on the way south. If one or two Sui troops could be wiped out, it would be It's even more perfect.
However, the intelligence of the scouts does not seem to be enough to support Liu Hongji's ambition to take the opportunity to wipe out the enemy. They have not yet determined where the single Sui army is. He is chasing and killing in the direction of his own retreat.
The reality that there was no small group of Sui troops to intercept before, and there was a large army to chase and kill, made Liu Hongji feel powerless and helpless. In less than three days, they were overtaken by the army of the Sui Dynasty. For this army, the heavy equipment was not a help, but a catastrophe.
But it doesn’t matter if you lose it, because when Li Xiaogong was in Chongling, he just left his luggage, and as a result, the food ran out, and he was forced to send tens of thousands of Jingzhou soldiers to the Sui Dynasty for nothing; if he imitated Li Xiaogong, the result would be even worse, because Li Xiaogong There is also Li Jiancheng to help, but he is alone and helpless.Although there were no cities and towns ahead, both Pingwu and Yicheng were poor and sparsely populated counties. If the officials of the Sui Dynasty adopted the tactics of fortifying the walls and clearing the fields, and transferred all the people and food to the mountains, then his army would run out of food and collapse.
The day before yesterday, the scouts finally found some useful information, saying that someone had discovered a large group of Sui troops in Jinggu County, Yicheng.
Liu Hongji was ecstatic when he heard the news, so he took Li Xuandao, the deputy general manager, as the leading general of the vanguard, and personally led [-] soldiers on the road, responsible for clearing obstacles for the rear army.
Jinggu City is a lower county. It is located in the north of Muma Mountain, the remaining vein of Daba Mountain. The county seat is built on the west bank of Baishui. The city has been in disrepair for a long time and is dilapidated. To less than 3000 households.
In the afternoon, Li Xuandao's army arrived at this dilapidated small county, and saw that the city walls were low, but the city's circumference of about ten miles was not even as good as some important military fortresses.
A team of scouts rushed to the city, and the leader Shi Zhang clasped his fists and reported: "I have reported to the chief officer that the county town has almost become an empty city. According to the people who stayed inside, the Sui army had been stationed in the city for about three days."
Li Xuandao frowned: "Did you bring the local people here?"
"Bring it here." Shichang turned his head and waved, and several scouts brought up a white-haired old Taoist. The old Taoist said tremblingly: "The poor Taoist sees the general."
"Don't be afraid, Taoist priest." Li Xuandao said in a harmonious voice when he saw the old Taoist priest's pale face, "I just have some questions to understand, and I will definitely not hurt you."
"The poor Taoist knows everything and can say everything, the general can just say hello." The old Taoist breathed a long sigh of relief.
"Jinggu City is also a county seat, why is it now an empty city? Please ask the Taoist priest to teach me." Li Xuandao asked.
The old Taoist said respectfully: "General Qi, the Sui army was as cruel as wolves and tigers. They scared all the people in the city and ran away, leaving only the old bones who can't run. They would rather die than leave home."
A look of doubt flashed away from Li Xuandao's eyes, and he asked calmly: "The Sui army has always had strict military discipline, and has always prided itself on being a civilized and mighty teacher. Like a wolf or a tiger?"
"How can there be any officer or soldier who doesn't ask the people for money and food? The difference is just how much. The general may be talking about the soldiers around the emperor, or some soldiers are for the emperor to see."
Li Xuandao was dumbfounded. As the chief general in the army, he knew that what the old man said was not without reason, and compared with the Sui army, his soldiers seemed to be more unbearable.The old Taoist also seemed to realize that he had said something wrong, so he quickly returned to the topic, sighed and said, "It was okay at first, but everything changed yesterday. The people were all scared away."
"By the way, where did the Sui army go? Does the Taoist priest know their whereabouts?" Li Xuandao felt a little frustrated, as if he was a step too late.
"The poor Taoist doesn't know." The old Taoist shook his head: "They were doing evil in the city well, but they left in a hurry last night. They all looked so vicious. Who would dare to follow them? ?”
"Thank you, Daoist, for clarifying the confusion. I already understand..." Hearing this, Li Xuandao had roughly guessed that the Sui army, which should not be many in number, had discovered their arrival and knew they were invincible, so they hurriedly withdrew. He didn't know where the Sui army was going to retreat, so he could only wait for the scouts to find out the real information before making a decision. Seeing that the sun had already set, he ordered: "Send my order, the army enters the city to rest!"
"Here." The soldiers saluted and spread the order.
As the military orders were issued layer by layer, [-] troops slowly marched into the city, and the small city was filled in a short while. Although it was a little crowded, it was still barely livable.
To Li Xuandao's surprise, they found supplies hidden by the Sui army in some hidden places. In addition to some ordnance, there were nearly two thousand shi of grain. , With these supplies, they can continue to find the Sui army before the arrival of the rear army, instead of waiting in place.
Li Xuandao rode a horse to inspect the situation in the city. This is a small city built according to the Sui system during Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty. Like other Xiaxian counties, this city has only two gates in the north and south, and the two gates are separated by a road about three miles long. Long Street, which is also the only main street in the small town.
Most of the houses in the city were dilapidated, and many houses that had been in disrepair had collapsed on the ground, while every intact house was full of soldiers from the Tang army. Li Xuandao saw a group of soldiers drawing water from the well for dinner.
"Has the well been inspected?" Li Xuandao did not dare to be careless now. The wells and houses had to be inspected one by one, not only to prevent the Sui army from poisoning the well, but also to prevent the Sui army from accumulating dry firewood and sulfur in the house. Wait for something to light the fire.So far, he hasn't found anything unusual. It can be seen that the Sui army withdrew hastily and did not deliberately lure the Tang army into the city.
When the soldiers saw the general's question, they quickly replied: "Report to the general manager, we have already checked, and there is nothing unusual in the well."
"In an extraordinary time, there is no big mistake in being careful. Everyone, be careful and be careful." Li Xuandao ordered, and continued to inspect various places in the city.
"Here!" All the soldiers in the army knew that the situation was grim, and the whole army might be annihilated and die in a different place if they were careless, so they all took it very seriously.
……
It was gradually getting dark, and the Tang army, who had marched on the mountain road for two days, was exhausted. After dinner, they closed the city gate and went to rest early. Teams of patrolling Tang troops were patrolling back and forth at the top of the city. Tang Jun's scouts cruised within ten miles.
At one o'clock, a 50-member Tang army sentry patrol found something unusual, and hurriedly ran five miles away. Just as they were running across a gentle hill, a burst of arrows pierced the sky and shot at them. The soldiers of the Tang army screamed and fell off their horses. They were only hit by two rounds of dense arrows, and no one survived.
After the other patrols were wiped out one by one in this way, more than 5000 Sui troops surrounded the two gates of Jinggu City, which were illuminated by torches in the distance, under the cover of night.
Due to the darkness of the night and the torches not shining far away, the Tang army patrols on the city did not notice that a large Sui army was approaching the city, but in the darkness, the Sui army crossbowmen had already blocked the city gate.Moreover, there were hundreds of heavy soldiers who were more than a hundred steps away from the city, and built some of the parts they carried with them into long-range projectile siege equipment. After about half an hour, more than a dozen behemoths appeared in the open space outside the city. , the tall supporting towers are taller than the low city walls.
When the siege equipment was about to be completed, the defenders on the city finally discovered the abnormality. It was not that they discovered the siege equipment, but that the patrols outside the city had not returned for a long time. Seeing the huge black shadow, he urgently reported it to the general Li Xuandao.
Although Li Xuandao was also very tired, the pressure from the general made it difficult for him to fall asleep for a long time. As a veteran with nearly ten years of military service, Li Xuandao had an unusually mysterious sensitivity to danger. When he entered the city today, he felt that this small town Something is wrong, but after checking all the suspicious places, there is nothing.
Li Xuandao lay on a wooden bed together, carefully reviewing the scenes he encountered during the day, hoping to find the reason for his uneasiness
Suddenly, Li Xuandao sat up suddenly.
The old Taoist said that the Sui army was very peaceful before, and they didn't rob the common people of money, food and other property until yesterday. If the Sui army needed food, why did they leave nearly [-] grain?What is even more doubtful is that since this is an army with corrupt military discipline, why did they wait until yesterday to start looting?
Then the Sui army suddenly became brutal for only one purpose. The general of the Sui army knew that the people were accustomed to submitting to everything, and he was unwilling to leave his homeland even if he had exhausted his good words until it was a last resort. , forcing them to leave.
The Sui army did not hesitate to drive away the people in the city, leaving an empty city for themselves, regardless of their reputation.
What is the purpose?it goes without saying.
Thinking of this, Li Xuandao only felt dizzy and his hands were cold. During the day, he only considered that the city wall might prevent the Sui army from sneaking at night, but he ignored that the city wall would become a deadly bondage at certain times.
Just when he was about to call someone, there was a rush of running outside: "We have something important to report to the general!"
"Wait a minute." The soldier replied.
Li Xuandao had already rushed out and asked, "What's the matter?"
The soldiers guarding the city reported in panic: "General Qi, we found something unusual outside the city..."
Before he had time to listen carefully, Li Xuandao quickly walked towards the top of the city, and staring into the distance, he saw more than a dozen giant-like towers standing a hundred steps away, and a long arm swinging tower could be seen in the night. .
"This is a large catapult." Cold sweat finally rolled off Li Xuandao's forehead, and he shouted sharply: "Sound the alarm!"
"Dang, dang, dang..." The clear and rapid warning bell echoed in the small town. At this moment, the giant trebuchet outside the city began to roar as if it had received an order.
This is a very simple catapult, but it is enough to deal with a low-rise small city. A dozen kerosene barrels crossed the city wall and smashed hard on the roof and the ground. , Immediately afterwards, the second round of kerosene was thrown, and more than a dozen kerosene barrels roared and smashed into the city.
Hundreds of archers from the Sui Army rushed to the front of the city and fired arrows together. Hundreds of rockets shot into the city, and the fire oil in the city was ignited and burned rapidly.
The Tang army in the city has already lined up one by one. They are one of the few elite soldiers in the Tang Dynasty. Under the command of generals and schools at all levels, they did not panic. More importantly, the fire in the city was only burning in the area near the city wall and had not yet spread to the city. center.However, as the fire oil spreads from near to far, the fire will engulf the whole city sooner or later.
The stern Li Xuandao seemed calm and composed, but in his heart he felt an inexplicable sadness. Tang Jun was originally a hunter who was struggling to find his prey, but now he became the "prey" of the "prey".He knew that the biggest threat to them now was not the fire that had yet swept through the city, but the casualties during the breakout process. If there were [-]% casualties, this army would undoubtedly be defeated.
"General, do we have to break through?" Deputy General Gao Zengsheng came to Li Xuandao on a flying horse, and said in a low voice, "The Sui army has sharp bows and crossbows, and they are waiting outside the city. A heavy loss. According to the general's opinion, it is better to clear a fire zone in the city."
"In an hour at most, the entire county will be turned into a sea of flames, and it is too late. Moreover, the scarier part of the fire attack strategy is not the violent flames, but the suffocating billowing smoke and the high temperature enough to scorch people. , the city is too small to accommodate so many people across the fire zone. Once the fire sweeps across the city, the panicked soldiers will definitely push and trample each other in order to snatch the narrow foothold. Getting out of the encirclement is our only choice." Li Xuandao looked at the increasingly fierce fire and the soldiers who became more and more restless, and said calmly: "We have [-] soldiers, if we only go through one city gate, there is no time. It’s too late. General Gao, you lead the left army to break out from the south gate, and we will meet at Muma Mountain in the south of the city.”
"The last general obeys the order!" Gao Zengsheng saluted Li Xuandao, then turned around and shouted to the generals: "Brother Zuojun, follow me!"
"Here." The generals of the Zuo Army returned to their own positions and led the soldiers towards the south gate.
Li Xuandao waited until the army was divided and all arms were ready, and he ordered: "Open the city gate and lower the drawbridge!"
The gate of the city opened rumblingly, the suspension bridge was lowered slowly, and Tang Jun held the big shield high in his sword and shield hand, and came out in a neat line.
More than 160 steps away from the northern city, 2000 crossbowmen led by Liu Gang had been waiting for a long time. The [-] heavy crossbows placed in the front and operated by [-] people were coldly aiming at the city cave.
Throughout the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the unknown Liu Gang did not have any main offensive tasks, but served as the link and side support between the northern and southern battlefields. The Pingwu County where he was located was equivalent to the waist of a human body.
It is precisely because he is not well-known and has no outstanding records that Liu Hongji and Li Xuandao, who are always paying attention to Yu Chigong, Wang Fubao, and Yao Junsu, selectively ignore his existence, thinking that this is a man who does not seek nothing. A mediocre general who only seeks no faults is not worth mentioning or paying attention to.
However, in fact, Liu Gang, who also wants to make contributions, has been paying attention to the movement of Liu Hongji's army. When Li Xuandao led an army of [-] to cross the border, he got the scout information. In this battle against Li Xuandao, he In fact, it has always been in the dominant position of using darkness to light.
From the very beginning, he lured Li Xuandao implicitly or explicitly, taking advantage of Li Xuandao's large army and eagerness to annihilate, first set up a trap in Jinggu County, and finally trapped this Tang army into this small town.
Liu Gang stared sharply at Tang Jun who was out of the city, and Tang Jun's sword and shield soldiers stood in a row of five.There is a long queue, with a total number of about 3000 people.This is the forward of the Tang army. Their task is to tear through the Sui army's arrow array and lay a foothold for the cavalry in charge of charging.
Liu Gang also had to admire Li Xuandao's composure. His lineup with sword and shield soldiers as the forward, cavalry as the center, pikemen and crossbowmen as the rear army was very organized, and it was a very clever way to break through. It is said that this is not a breakout, but an attack.But Liu Gang had a very deep understanding of this army, so he specially brought sharp weapons to deal with shields. Seeing Tang Jun slowly entering the range of the heavy crossbow, Liu Gang ordered around: "Heavy crossbow ready!"
Divided into five rows of [-] heavy crossbowmen, they raised the thousand heavy crossbows brushily, aiming their sharp iron arrows at the sword and shield soldiers of the Tang army, and the cold tip of the arrow exuded a breath of death in the thick darkness.
At this time, the Tang army's sword and shield soldiers had slowly left the suspension bridge, and Liu Gang gave an order: "Fire the arrows!"
"Wuuuuuuuuuuu..." Amidst the sound of horns, two hundred crossbow arrows rushed towards the front and sides of the Tang army with unparalleled strength.
Only the hissing and screaming of the Tang army came from the cracking of a shield. The powerful iron crossbow arrows shot through the shield and the body of the soldiers of the Tang army, and some even passed through the body.
The five soldiers in the front row and dozens of people on both sides screamed and fell to the ground. Immediately after, two hundred crossbow arrows from the second row came out, and rushed towards Tang Jun like lightning, and dozens of Tang Jun were overturned.
After five consecutive rounds of shooting, the Tang army killed and injured nearly 300 people. Since the Sui army did it in one go in a very short period of time, the Tang army didn't even have the time to react.
The powerful lethality produced by the iron crossbow arrows, which can penetrate shields and penetrate muscles and bones, made the soldiers of the Tang army terrified. Some turned around and fled desperately into the city.
The second round of the Sui army's arrow attack has begun again. This time Liu Gang changed to three rows of shots. The dense and powerful iron arrows shot into the city cave, and the dark city cave was filled with wailing and screams. The corpses fell in pieces, and a stream of blood slowly flowed out of the door opening.
"Fire the rocket!" Unmoved, Liu Gang issued a new order.
Although Jinggu City is next to Baishui, the Baishui River is about ten feet lower than the flat land, and the city cannot be built beside a big river, so Jinggu City does not have any moat, but a two-foot-wide moat was dug outside the city. The Sui army had already filled the dry moat with kerosene before, and as more than a hundred rockets shot into the ditch, the fire soared into the sky, and billowing thick smoke burned rapidly.
Liu Gang's intention is very obvious, which is to wipe out the Tang army in Jinggu City, deny them the opportunity to go out of the city to fight hand-to-hand, and force the soldiers of the Tang army who can't stand the fire to fight among themselves or go out of the city to surrender.
……
The fire in the city has become more and more fierce. As the Sui army continued to throw kerosene barrels into the city, the fire burned faster than Li Xuandao expected.
He originally thought that it would take an hour for the fire to engulf the entire city, but judging by the speed of its spread, it would take about half an hour at most for the fire to engulf everything in the city.
The fierce fire that engulfed the houses was only a hundred steps away from the Tang army. The rolling heat wave scorched the soldiers of the Tang army with higher and higher temperatures. Faced with all this, all soldiers felt a sense of fear and despair.
Beads of sweat rolled down Li Xuandao's forehead. This was not only caused by heat, but also by tension and anxiety. After all, [-] lives were tied to his body alone. not come.At this time, there was a great commotion at the gate of the city, and thousands of sword and shield soldiers fled back in defeat. Li Xuandao was furious, rushed up and shouted: "Why do you want to run back!"
A partial general stepped forward and presented an iron arrow: "General, the crossbows of the Sui army are very powerful, and the brothers suffered heavy casualties, and they couldn't reach the suspension bridge at all."
Li Xuandao took the heavy iron arrow for a closer look, and couldn't help but gasped.According to his speculation, this kind of iron arrow needs at least a strong crossbow of more than seven stones to shoot, and the Sui army outside the city actually carried such a large weapon to deal with them, which also made him feel desperate. It seems that today It's more ominous than good.
"General!" Another school lieutenant rushed over and shouted in horror: "The Sui army ignited the kerosene in the trench, and the fire engulfed the suspension bridge. If the suspension bridge is burned, the fire in the trench cannot be extinguished. All of us will be lost in the fire tonight,"
Li Xuandao was taken aback, the iron arrow in his hand was unsteady and fell to the ground.He didn't care about any tactics now, and ordered decisively: "Order the cavalry to charge immediately, and no one is allowed to turn back, and those who disobey the order will be killed."
The sword and shield soldiers who breathed a sigh of relief quickly retreated and replaced [-] cavalrymen of the Tang army forward. With the rumble of drums, the [-] cavalrymen shouted and urged their horses to rush out of the city like a tide.
The arrows outside the city were still coming like a storm, and the cavalrymen of the Tang Army were shot on their backs, causing heavy casualties, but they knew that the cavalry behind them had followed closely, and if they stopped moving forward, they would rush off the horses behind them , and falling off the horse means death, and only by charging forward can there be a way of life. Everyone has this heart, so the cavalry of the Tang Army rushed forward one by one desperately in order to survive, trying to kill a way out.
Liu Gang also knew that it was time to change his tactics, so he resolutely ordered: "The crossbowmen retreat, give way to the horse-repelling formation for them to charge, and the spearmen assassinate from both sides."
With an order, horns blared and drums sounded loudly. Thousands of crossbowmen quickly retreated, hitting their backs firmly on the ground to resist the horse formation, and the two thousand spearmen who had previously manipulated the catapult stabbed the charging soldiers from both sides. The cavalry, some of the crossbow troops turned into spearmen, intercepted and killed the soldiers of the Tang army who broke through the encirclement.
Although the sacrifice of the cavalry of the Tang Army enabled the follow-up soldiers to escape successfully on the corpses of their comrades-in-arms and horses, their fighting spirit was completely lost, and everyone was unwilling to fight. Even the brave and skilled soldiers of the Sui Army couldn't resist the desperate courage.
Seeing that the soldiers of the Tang army were fighting desperately, Liu Gang knew that a frontal interception would cause unnecessary heavy casualties to his army, so he immediately issued an order to release the passage and change the interception to pursuit.
When the soldiers of the Sui army received the order to clear the passage one by one, the soldiers of the Tang army fled from various gaps as if they had found a catharsis, and the cavalry of the Sui army fled from all the gaps. There are countless surrenders everywhere.
When the generals were chasing and killing the defeated Tang army, Liu Gang and a thousand cavalry remained motionless. It was not until more than a hundred soldiers escorted Li Xuandao and escaped from the side that he shouted: "Follow me to kill the cavalry battalion!"
In an instant, the cavalry waiting in full force galloped like flying horses, and quickly caught up with Li Xuandao's team from the side. They followed behind and shot arrows, hunting and killing Li Xuandao's followers like peeling pine cones, making their guards stronger and stronger. Less and less.
Suddenly, Li Xuandao's war horse stepped into a pothole, and the horse with a broken front leg hissed and fell to the ground, throwing Li Xuandao several feet away.
And his personal soldiers charged with all their strength, unable to stop the horses for a while. When they turned their horses and ran back dozens of steps away, the Sui cavalry who had already arrived separated Li Xuandao from his personal soldiers in an instant. , Surrounded and wiped out the few dozen remaining soldiers.
Li Xuandao, who was thrown heavily by the war horse, fell on his back, and was slammed on the back half of his body by the overturned war horse, and all the bones in his lower body were broken.
Liu Gang stopped his horse slowly in front of him, looked down at Li Xuandao condescendingly, and said coldly: "Li Xuandao, when you bewitched the Tongguan defenders to turn against me, you never thought that this day would happen to you, did you?"
"Hehe..." Li Xuandao groaned in pain, and closed his eyes in pain. Tears of humiliation flowed from his eyes, and his heart was filled with endless sadness.
When the Tang army attacked Guanzhong, Liu Gang, the general guarding Tongguan, repelled the Tang army time and time again when he was isolated and helpless. At that time, Li Xuandao was the brigade commander under Liu Gang's command. The sons of the Long nobles raided Liu Gang's personal soldiers and tied up Liu Gang who hadn't closed his eyes for a few days, so that Tongguan fell quickly.
At this time, Li Xuandao wanted to die, and he sneered at Liu Gang: "Liu Gang, you were originally a disciple of Wei Xuan, and you were also highly valued by Yang You who stayed behind in Xijing, but you were defeated and surrendered to Tang, and then betrayed Tang and Sui. He is completely a capricious villain, how noble is he?"
"You are wrong. I got the order from my mentor Wei Gong to 'surrender if you are not defeated' before the battle. The purpose is to help you when the Holy One attacks Guanzhong." Liu Gang said lightly: "Tongguan's natural danger is I lost people because of improper employment, and I couldn't make them stand in the way of the Sui Dynasty's recovery of Guanzhong, so I later spent money to buy the post of Tongguan guard from Li Shentong and Yin Ashu, and Li Yuan happened to trust Li Shentong and Yin Defei the most."
The implication of Liu Gang's words is very obvious. I, Liu Gang, bought Tongguan with money. I can give it to whoever I like. You Li Xuandao can't control it. If you want to blame, you can blame Li Shentong and Yin Ashu.
"Hey, you are the big winner now, and everything you say is right now... The matter has come to this point, and I, Li Xuandao, have nothing to say." Li Xuandao said to Liu Gang with a painful face: "Liu Gang, You won, give me a good time, it can be regarded as the bad breath back then."
"I want to kill you, and I will kill you, but definitely not now." Liu Gang stared at Li Xuandao coldly, and said flatly, "Because you are still a little bit useful to me, Da Sui."
"Don't you want me to lie to the chief executive." Li Xuandao sneered, and continued to mock: "Liu Gang, Liu Gang, after so many years, you haven't made any progress at all, and you are still as mediocre as before. Don't you think Won't my soldiers flee to deliver the letter?"
"There is no need for you to worry about it for me." Liu Gang said indifferently: "Since I have made such a decision, I will naturally not give the rout soldiers a way to send letters."
"Hmm..." Li Xuandao was about to chew his tongue to kill himself, but just as he opened his mouth, a soldier who had been prepared for a long time moved like a cloud and flowing water, and stuffed a pair of smelly socks into his mouth.
I don't know whether Li Xuandao was in too much pain or his socks were too smelly, but he rolled his eyes and passed out all of a sudden.
After a while, the soldier who pushed away the wounded horse found Li Xuandao not moving. The soldier who stuffed the stinky socks put his hand in front of his nose, and his eyes were dull.
"What's the matter?" Liu Gang withdrew his eyes from the gradually brightening sky, and his eyes fell on the speaking soldier.
"General...he, he died..." the soldier said timidly.
"It should have been smoked to death by your stinky socks..." That's what he said, but Liu Gang estimated that Li Xuandao's injuries were too serious, and he couldn't bear the shock and humiliation for a while, so he died of anger, and said symbolically: "Deduct your salary for three months."
"Thank you, General, for your kindness." The soldier who wanted to cry without tears was overjoyed. Li Xuandao's opponent was also the deputy commander of the first army, and he was somewhat valuable. What's more, Liu Gang just said that he would use Li Xuandao to make a fuss.But now that his stinky socks were smothered to death, he couldn't afford to kill him.Now Liu Gang only withholds three months' salary, which is an extrajudicial favor.
"Leave him alone, clean up the battlefield as soon as possible! Maybe we can still participate in the battle of General Niu."
"Here."
(End of this chapter)
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