Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 418 The reason why Shan Xiongxin must die
The reason why Shan Xiongxin must die in Chapter [-]

In the afternoon, the heavy snow stopped, and the long-lost sunshine also showed its face.The sun shone on the snow so white that it was hard to see for a long time.Shan Xiongxin looked towards Yuchigong's general flag. Behind Yuchigong, extending for two or three miles, there were mysterious figures of Tang army soldiers, black armor, cold blades, under the sunlight, Very dazzling.

Thousands of soldiers under Yu Chigong's command blocked the way in front, and Chen Ying's troops led by Chen Ying chased after him. For a while, Shan Xiongxin was caught in a dilemma.

Whether it is the northern plateau or the southern plateau of Hangu Road, they are all Jedi.To the south of Beiyuan is the Hangu Road, which is nearly [-] feet deep. When there is no equipment, the ice and snow are as smooth as a mirror. Jumping down is purely courting death. Even if you survive, you will be crippled.On the north side of Beiyuan is the famous Yellow River. Since the Yellow River has a very large gap between the dry season and the flood season, jumping north at this time is no different from suicide.

Shan Xiongxin looked at the Jedi on the left and right, and there were strong enemies in front of him, and he could no longer see the possibility of breaking through.

In other words, Yu Chigong was able to cross Hangu Road from the southern plateau of Hangu Road to block in front of Shan Xiongxin, mainly relying on the hook sickle gun invented by Chen Ying.In fact, when Chen Ying founded the Hooked Gunmen, he did not imitate Xu Ning, the golden gunner in "Water Margin", but imitated the white pole soldiers founded by Qin Liangyu, the general soldier of Shizhu in the late Ming Dynasty, and his husband Ma Qiancheng.In fact, the hooked gunmen created by Chen Ying are a combination of Xu Ning's hooked guns and Qin Liangyu's white soldiers. With a steel ring made of fine steel.Dozens of hook and sickle guns are hooked together to form a gun ladder for climbing over walls and mountains.

When Yu Chigong saw that Chen Ying's northern plateau of Hangu Road was under great pressure, Wang Ren also concentrated his superior forces to attack Chen Ying's northern plateau of Hangu Road at the same time, trying to pinch Chen Ying with Shan Xiongxin.At this time, the right guard of Donggong led the left deputy led by Gao Yunquan, and the right guard led the two regiments of the Xun Erfu's hook and sickle spearmen, and quickly formed a gun ladder.

Yu Chigong also made a decisive decision. He and Gao Yunquan split into two groups. Yuchigong led the four Zhechong mansions led by Zuo Siyu to support Chen Ying. East attack.

Chen Ying looked at Shan Xiong who was in a dilemma: "Shan Xiongxin, surrender, you can't escape!"

Shan Xiongxin naturally understood that what Chen Ying said was true. He had won three consecutive games against Chen Ying this year, surpassed Chen Ying's two Zhechong mansions, and knocked out the third Zhechong mansion. A number of cavalry guards fought fiercely for more than an hour. Both the troops and horses had reached their limits, and even Shan Xiongxin himself felt very tired. On the contrary, the Tang army under Chen Ying's troops had enough energy, both the troops and the horses. The gap between the combat power of the two sides has been eliminated, not to mention that at this time on the battlefield of Hangu Road Beiyuan, the strength of the Tang army has surpassed its own troops, forming an advantage in the situation.

Of course, Shan Xiongxin is not without a chance, the key is to see if Wang Ren can break through Chen Ying's defense line on the east side.

Seeing that Shan Xiongxin didn't answer, Chen Ying smiled and said: "Shan Xiongxin, surrender, you can't escape!"

When Shan Xiongxin heard this, his face became even more bitter.How could he surrender? In April last year, Wang Shichong married Shan Xiongxin. Now his wife, Princess Zheng Guochang, has a seven-month-old fetus.Shan Xiongxin went to see the imperial physician in the palace, and the imperial physician assured Shan Xiongxin that the child must be a boy.

There are three types of unfilial piety, the greatest of which is having no descendants.Shan Xiongxin believes that a tiger's poison does not eat its children, even if he surrenders, Wang Shichong will not embarrass his unborn son or Wang Shichong's grandson.

However, what is certain is that if they surrender, their mother and son will be shameless.Although Shan Xiongxin has a good relationship with Luo Shixin and Qin Qiong, Shan Xiongxin looks down on Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin.Whether Qin Qiong or Luo Shixin, both of them were promoted by Zhang Xutuo, especially Luo Shixin, Zhang Xutuo treated him like a teacher and father, but after Li Mi led the Wagang Army to defeat Zhang Xutuo, Both Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin took refuge in Li Mi and became one of Li Mi's eight generals of the Wei State.

"I want Shan Xiongxin to surrender, but there is no way!" Shan Xiongxin ordered: "The whole army turns around and fights with Chen Yingxiaoer!"

Shan Xiongxin's orders were conveyed to the generals under his command one by one.

Shan Xiongxin's remnants are actively preparing for the battle, but Chen Ying will not be able to see it.Chen Yingchong, Wei Wenzhong, Feng Li, He Yuejing and other generals said: "Shan Xiongxin is ready to break through!"

The terrain here is more favorable to Chen Ying because there are insurmountable natural barriers on the left and right. For Shan Xiongxin who broke through, he must either go east to fight Chen Ying to the death, or go west to have a peak duel with Yuchi Gong.No matter how Shan Xiongxin chooses, the result will be very unfavorable to him.Fortunately, it was this narrow northern plateau, otherwise Chen Ying would have no way to surround Shan Xiongxin's [-] remnants with a mere [-] troops.

If it is in a wide area, Shan Xiongxin concentrates his troops, and Chen Ying can leave at most a part of Shan Xiongxin's troops, and it is impossible to wipe them all out.But now even if Shan Xiongxin wants to die, he can only think about it.

Chen Ying's heart suddenly moved, and an idea appeared in his head.

Chen Ying looked at He Yuejing and asked, "Is it possible for horses to cross the ice surface of the Yellow River?"

He Yuejing thought for a while and said: "However, it is not easy to go down the river from the top of the plateau!"

"It's not easy, but it doesn't mean it's impossible!" Chen Ying said with a smile: "Back then, General Deng Aiqi of the State of Wei attacked Chengdu. Soldiers and horses, wrapped in blankets, rolled down the slope of the Baizhang cliff. More than 2000 men and horses fell, and more than 6000 people were killed, and as many as [-] were injured. There were only [-] troops left. However, Deng Ai still won. Chengdu has destroyed the Kingdom of Shu."

He Yuejing asked suspiciously: "The general means that Shan Xiongxin will jump off the ice and break through from the ice of the Yellow River?"

"People's will to survive is terrible!" Chen Yingdao: "Go and bring some people down with a rope ladder, and use the fastest time to cut through the ice of the Yellow River."

"However, it's too thick, as if the entire riverbed is frozen...Our manpower is too tight!" He Yuejing smiled bitterly: "With too few manpower, it is impossible to dig through the ice of the Yellow River for a while. There are too many people, the general is here..."

The water of the Yellow River is dry and shallow in autumn and winter, but the section of the Yellow River at Hangu Pass has a huge drop. The short distance is more than 140 miles, and the drop is as high as more than [-] meters.The water flow is so fast that the ice layer of the Yellow River in the Hangu section is not very thick, but this year it is particularly cold, and the ice layer is thicker, but it is much better than the entire riverbed in the middle and upper reaches of the river.

"Don't we still have Zheng Jun's Tomahawk camp prisoners in our hands? Those two thousand big men have plenty of strength. Strip off their armor, give them an axe, and let them dig ice!" Chen Ying said with a slight smile: " The main thing is that there are 500 prisoners who were originally detained, and I will transfer 500 people to you, and 2000 people should be about the same.”

The most powerful thing about heavy infantry is that their armor can ignore knives, chop guns and stab arrows. Once the heavy armor on their bodies is stripped off, they will die if they are hit, and they will also be injured if they are shot.

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Shan Xiongxin was sitting on the horseback, and Tiller was holding the reins and watching from the top of the horse, trying to find a gap in the enemy's formation, but the more he watched, the more disappointed and desperate he became.

The left and right guards of the Eastern Palace led by Chen Ying were led by the cavalry, the right guard led the Xunyi mansion, and the left guard led the Yier mansion and Yiyi mansion, forming a three-layer encirclement circle, with only three or four hundred steps of buffer between each encirclement circle. .With more chances to fight each other, Shan Xiongxin is quite familiar with some basic tactics of Chen Ying.

Any independent arm has both disadvantages and advantages.For example, take long soldiers as an example. Although long soldiers can effectively restrain cavalry raids and are quite powerful in combat, long spears (spear spears) can only be beaten passively when facing archers. Very unfavorable.

However, the left and right guards and the left and right Siyu of the Eastern Palace of the Tang Dynasty led by Chen Ying fundamentally abandoned the traditional single-armed formation with regiments as units, and adopted a mixed formation method with fire as the unit.Whether it's bow and arrow shooting or cavalry assault, they will use fire as a unit to flexibly form various targeted formations. Only after the battle can we realize the power of this formation method of matching long and short, and complementing each other from far and near.Such an efficient and layered formation method is also the key to both offense and defense and an independent formation.

"Chen Ying, this son, must be eliminated as soon as possible!" Shan Xiongxin knew that looking at the entire Zheng State, even Wang Shichong, there was no one who could be Chen Ying's opponent.Whether it is Qin Qiong or Cheng Zhijie, they can compete with Chen Ying on horseback, but they cannot compete with Chen Ying on the battlefield.At this time, Chen Ying only had more than [-] soldiers and horses, and Wang Ren, the most famous general in Zheng Guo, was in great pain when he was in ambush. will be irresistible.

Therefore, Chen Ying must be removed, even if it is death, Chen Ying must be held back.The first thing Shan Xiongxin needs to solve is the soldiers' fear of Tang Jun. He wants to use the despair in the dead to amplify the desire to survive and the desire to go home in the hearts of these soldiers by ten times and a hundred times, and finally overcome the fear of death!
Shan Xiongxin shouted to the soldiers around him: "Brothers, we have lost this battle. There is nothing to say about the defeat. Xiongxin is the only one to blame. Now we don't want to make achievements. I will take you home!"

"Go home!" Shan Xiongxin instantly resonated with the remaining soldiers.At this moment, it is useless to talk about the country, king, honor, and title. The only thing that can bind these defeated soldiers together is the only thing, and that is the desire to go home alive!This is the deepest obsession in the heart of every Zheng Jun soldier!

"But Chen Ying, who is outside the city, won't let us go home!" Shan Xiongxin's tone became sad and angry: "From now on, we can only fight to the death."

Covered in blood and demoralized, the officers and men of the Zheng army raised their arms and shouted, "Fight to the death, go home, fight to the death!"

Morale, which was originally sluggish, skyrocketed instantly.

All the soldiers followed Shan Xiongxin and launched an attack on Chen Ying.

At this moment, the generals of Zheng Jun were like crazy.

At this moment, they don't know what death is.Even with swords and guns on his body, he is still not afraid of death, and he will continue to die.

Looking at the swarming remnants of the Zheng army, Chen Ying still had a slight smile on his face and said: "Have you seen this, this is what the art of war says, throw it to death and then survive, fall into death and then live. Husbands are in harm's way, and then we can win or lose!..."

At this moment, Chen Ying understood why Li Shimin wanted to kill Shan Xiongxin.

He has seen Shan Xiongxin's bravery before. On the battlefield, this guy is a god of war.

Chen Ying also understood Shan Xiongxin's resourcefulness at this moment.

To be able to turn things around and turn disadvantages into advantages in such a critical situation is a qualified general.

It cannot be used by Li Shimin, and it can only be killed to prevent future troubles.This is also the reason why Shan Xiongxin must die.

(End of this chapter)