Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 465
Chapter [-]: A Good Man Doesn’t Live Long

Chen Ying's subconscious, almost instinctive reaction stretched out his arms to protect his head, but fortunately, Chen Ying's arms bore the huge impact, and his handsome face did not touch the ground.But unfortunately, the fall was not light, and Chen Ying didn't recover from it for a long time.

It wasn't until Li Xiuning ignored everyone's strange gazes that he looked Chen Ying up and down, and found that apart from his severely swollen arms, he had not suffered any other injuries.Li Xiuning breathed a sigh of relief.

When Chen Ying came to his senses, seeing everyone standing still, Chen Ying shouted, "What are you doing in a daze? Chase! If you don't chase, Wang Shichong will flee back to Luoyang City!"

Luo Shixin lowered his head and sighed, but did not speak.

Zhang Shigui stepped forward, clasped his hands and cupped his fists, and said in a low voice, "General, I can't chase after..."

At this time, Li Shimin said: "General Chen, Wang Shichong is lucky, let's take revenge next time!"

Chen Ying looked around and found that almost all the horses were already foaming at the mouth, and many of them were already prostrate on the ground.War horses will stand even when they are resting, but now many war horses are lying on the ground, which already shows the seriousness of the problem.In fact, Chen Ying mobilized 100 regiments of scythe cavalry from Xingyuan Daying in Xin'an, and rushed all the way to Luoyang without stopping. It was more than [-] miles before and after, and then rushed from Xiyuan of Luoyang City to Longmen, and then charged all the way Go to Longmen Mountain, and then hunt up and down from Longmen until now.

All the Lancers ran for more than 200 miles in just over three hours.For the Hequ horse equipped in Chen Yingjun's army, this is already the limit.

The horses were exhausted, and so were the soldiers.

Without Chen Ying's order, the generals of the Tang army began to clean up the battlefield.

When Chen Ying's eyes flashed and he forgot a farm ox that fell dead on the ground, Chen Ying suddenly saw the scene of Qu Tutong's army being defeated by Wang Shichong's fire ox array and the Tang army's soldiers fleeing in embarrassment. Even if he was exhausted, he couldn't rest. Once Wang Shiyun was given enough time, he would definitely be able to collect all the surviving soldiers of Li Tang's [-] army. Then Luoyang City would be even more difficult to fight.

"Not good, General Qu Tu..." Chen Ying suddenly raised his voice an octave, and said to the cavalry officers and soldiers with hook and sickle spears beside him: "All troops gather!"

The elite is the elite, even though the Hook and Sickle Lancer cavalry were exhausted, when they received the order to assemble, they still assembled quickly.Li Shimin looked at the gathering of the hooked lancers, and subconsciously compared the hooked lancers with his black armored cavalry. Although the black armored cavalry is already the most elite cavalry of this era, compared with the hooked lancers, they still have some advantages. Quite a gap.

"You can know the whole leopard by looking at it!" Li Shimin's eyes were shining brightly, looking at the hooked spear cavalry.He asked Hou Junji, "Junji, how are you doing?"

"Elite, a rare elite!" Hou Junji looked at the Hooked Lancer, like an old bachelor looking at a top-quality beauty, wishing he could rush over immediately.

"Report to the general. All Yue cavalry troops have assembled!" Although Luo Shixin had a very good personal relationship with Chen Ying, at this moment, Luo Shixin looked serious, raised his left fist to his chest, and stood in front of Chen Ying to salute.This iron-clad man was also very tired, his lips were torn, he was either angry or dehydrated.

Behind Luo Shixin, there are 54 regiments and 5000 brigades in the whole army, and the total number of soldiers is less than [-].Although this battle was fought beautifully, the Hook and Sickle Cavalry suffered heavy losses. Especially when they were chasing at Longmen Mountain, at least two hundred Hook and Sickle Cavalry were defeated by the shield formed by the champion general Chen Zhilue. On the road of charge.The more than four thousand soldiers also tried their best to stand up straight.All of them looked haggard and stoic, and each person's armor was covered with dry blood scabs, and the blood scabs would fall off as soon as they moved.

Chen Ying smiled lightly, his arm was swollen like a calf, and the pain penetrated into the bone marrow when he moved lightly.He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and raised his arms to salute the soldiers.

In fact, Chen Ying was too tired to straighten his waist. Compared with the quality of the whole army, his physical fitness was worse.But he knew that after more than three days of forced marching and combat effectiveness, the hook and sickle cavalry still had a high fighting will, but their physical strength was at the end of their strength.If you give them time to rest, they will lie down completely without recovering for a day or two.Now it is necessary to go all out and complete the task of rescuing Qu Tutong before the will fails.

Although Chen Ying didn't like Li Yuan's meanness and lack of kindness, it was undeniable that he also disliked Tang's internal strife and infighting, but it was undeniable that he loved Datang very much, a dynasty that Chinese people were proud of.Chen Ying loves the people living on this land.Because of his appearance, history has changed.

Obviously Li Shimin's battle in Luoyang was only a small setback, but now it has turned into a defeat. Not only the whole army of black armored cavalry was wiped out, but also hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated in one battle.However, it caused a huge chain reaction. Once Wang Shichong won this victory, it is conceivable that Zhang Zhenzhou, Yang Qing, Tian Zan and others who surrendered to Li Tang before are likely to repeat themselves.Wang Shichong can also take advantage of the opportunity of this great victory to re-establish his authority in the Central Plains, then in the future it is likely to evolve into a situation where the three kingdoms of Zheng, Xia, and Tang are in full swing.

Li Tang is the strongest among the Three Kingdoms, but he is not strong enough to fight against the second one. Once the Three Kingdoms stand together, it will be a difficult battle for the Central Plains and the hundreds of millions of people in the north. Calculated suffering.

As the saying goes, the cannon of my appointment must be finished with tears.In the same way, this is the evil result created by Chen Ying. Even if he bites his teeth, he must correct history to the original track and let Li and Tang unify the north.

"I know you are very tired, and I am also very tired. I am so tired that I can't stand up straight, I can't breathe!" A habitual mocking look appeared on Chen Ying's face.

"But..." Chen Ying's voice suddenly rose an octave: "Our robe is still being chased and killed by Wang Shichong's army, and he is still trembling under Wang Shichong's butcher knife. Can we stand by and watch?"

"Can't... can't..."

All the soldiers roared.

Chen Ying nodded.

An elite iron army must not only be able to fight, but also be able to fight hard and difficult battles. An elite iron army cannot be dragged down or beaten, and no difficulty can defeat them.After this tempering, perhaps an iron army will be born in Chen Ying's hands.The current Hook and Sickle Lancers are elite, but they can't be called an iron army, unless they can go through this tempering and complete the transformation.

Chen Yinglang said: "Listen to my order now, remove the armor!"

All the soldiers didn't hesitate, they untied each other's leather straps on their armors one after another, and took off their armors one after another.

Li Xiuning looked at this scene with a face of disbelief and said: "What are they doing? Are they crazy?"

Armor is the second life of soldiers. Without armor, archers will quickly lose their vitality and combat effectiveness.For example, Zhao Zilong entered and exited seven times in Changbanpo. Although it was fabricated for a romance story, in the era of ancient cold wars, generals had a much higher rate of preservation than soldiers, because generals were protected by armor, but soldiers were not.Usually we have seen some materials or historical materials, a certain general fired as many as one bucket of arrows.

In fact, if it is heavy armor, let alone one fight, even two fights will hardly cause fatal damage to the general.

However, now Chen Ying is removing his armor.

Li Shimin's gaze became serious. In fact, Li Shimin knew what Chen Ying was up to, and so did Li Xiuning.Cavalry officers and soldiers wear armor made of fine steel, which will increase the burden on the horse.If the burden on the horse is reduced, the horse can run a certain distance.

With Zhou Qing's help, Chen Ying has already finished removing his armor.And with Zhou Qing's help, he stepped onto a vacant horse.Riding on the horse, Chen Ying yelled at the whole army: "Soldiers, don't feel sorry for the horses. We have a lot of war horses in the Tang Dynasty. If one horse is lost today, I will ask His Royal Highness King Qin to give you two more tomorrow."

Chen Ying turned to Li Shimin and said, "His Royal Highness, do you think so?"

Li Shimin didn't know what Chen Ying meant, now he had already learned from Li Xiuning that Qu Tutong was defeated by Wang Shiyun's torch bull formation, now he doesn't know how many troops are left.If it is the second shallow-water plateau-style defeat, the impact on Li Shimin will also be huge.If it is possible to save the lives of the soldiers of the Tang army, that would be great.

Li Shimin said with a smile: "General Chen is right. I hereby swear that no matter what the outcome of this battle is, the whole army will turn their military merits three times and reward them with a hundred acres of fertile land!"

Hearing this, the hooked and sickle cavalry immediately cheered.Many of the war horses of the soldiers of the Yue Cavalry Army are their private property. Once they run away and become useless, they will definitely feel distressed to death.But one horse for two, what a good deal, and there is an extra hundred acres of fertile land.

"His Royal Highness King Qin is mighty!"

"His Royal Highness King Qin is domineering!"

Chen Ying originally wanted to join Li Shimin's army, but he didn't expect Li Shimin to turn passive into active in an instant, and won the favor of the soldiers with hooks and spears in one fell swoop.Chen Yinglang said: "Throw away everything that can be thrown away, and the horse that can run can run, and charge with this general!"

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By the Luoshui River, floating corpses are everywhere.

Looking down from the sky, Luoshui has entered the dry season, the river near the east bank has been dyed blood red, and there are countless corpses of Tang soldiers floating on the water.

On the flat land on the east bank, there are broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, weapons, armour, staffs and vehicles abandoned by the Tang army everywhere. The corpses of people and horses are piled up into mountains, and the blood flowing down drowns the new shoots on the ground. Spread over the battlefield.Not far away, there were countless wild dogs howling and looking for food in the Shura Field, and the beast's eyes were glowing blood red.A dozen or so vultures hovered high in the sky, preparing to dive to join the gluttonous feast.

A dilapidated battle flag fluttered in the distance. The flagpole was stuck on top of an overturned cart. The grain bag on the cart had a big hole, and the millet was overturned in a pool of blood under the cart.

In front of the banner, the corpses of about a hundred Tang soldiers in different shapes lay down on the ground. In the center, a general half-kneeled on the ground with a spear in his hand, with more than ten feathered arrows stuck in his body, and a mace arrow pierced through his iron The helmet enters from the front door and exits from the back of the head.The general's face and beard were covered with blood stains, his eyes were wide open, and he did not rest in peace.

This person is none other than Huang Junhan, one of the eight generals under Li Shimin's command, the chief of Huaizhou soldiers and horses marching.

A large group of soldiers from the Zheng army were cleaning the horses excitedly, stripping off the armor from the corpses of the soldiers of the Tang army, picking up the weapons on the ground, and putting the armor stripped off from the soldiers of the Tang army on the carts, and soon there was a big crowd. The car turned into a hill.

The closer he got to the Luoyang Warhorse, the colder Chen Ying's heart became, because the battlefield was already in sight, but he couldn't hear the screams of killing.Could it be that Qu Tutong has been wiped out?

Li Shimin's face also became ugly.

There was a slight tremor on the ground.

The eyes of everyone in front of the hook and sickle gun revealed a look of vigilance.

Zhou Qing whispered: "It's Wang Shichong's Yuan Tanzi!"

A group of Zheng Guo cavalry came galloping from far to near.

A long blast of horns came from afar.

However, when these Zheng Guo cavalrymen saw Chen Ying's big tao hunting in the air, their faces changed drastically in fright, they hurriedly turned their horses' heads, and shouted in panic while running: "Chen Ying is here... run away! !"

"Chase!"

Dozens of riding horses with plenty of horsepower chased after him.There is no way, most of the hook and sickle cavalry can only run, but their horsepower can never catch up with the scout cavalry under Wang Shichong's command.

Looking at the three Zheng Jun cavalry galloping away, Chen Ying remained silent.

It's a pity secretly, it seems that it's still too late.

However, it is good not to engage in battle, at least the hooked and sickle lancers do not have to charge against the enemy's arrow rain. If that is the case, the hooked and sickle lancers will also suffer heavy losses.

When Chen Ying led the hooked and sickle cavalry to the battlefield on the east bank of Luoshui, he saw the corpse of the standing general at first sight. Chen Ying only had two bright eyes, looking at the standing corpse. The general's corpse muttered to himself, "Who is that?"

"General Zhongwu, Huang Junhan, the governor of Huaizhou!" Li Shimin covered his chest with a troubled look on his face and said, "It really hurts me!"

Chen Ying's eyes narrowed, and he sighed: "Huang Junhan's death is really wronged!"

With the arrival of the hooked and sickle cavalry, all Zheng's troops dispersed.

Li Shimin was furious and said, "Kill them all!"

Chen Yingdao: "Save your energy!"

Li Shimin was taken aback: "What do you mean?"

"The living are more important than the dead!" Chen Yingdao: "The soldiers are at the end of their battles, so try to search and rescue the living. The battlefield is already being cleaned up here, and there are no living people left."

Li Shimin thought about it carefully, calmed down and nodded.

Li Shimin looked at Huang Junhan's body.

Chen Ying sighed and said: "Go to some people and take back General Huang's body!"

At this moment, a fat head popped out of a Luoshui.

After seeing it, a hooked and sickled cavalry rushed towards the big head with a hooked and sickled gun.

"Don't kill me, I surrender!"

Suddenly, the fat head saw the person coming.

"Wow..." burst into tears: "His Royal Highness, help me!"

It was only then that Chen Ying discovered that this fat man was actually an acquaintance of his, Changsun Wuji, the elder brother of Empress Changsun.Chen Ying couldn't help sighing: "It's true that good people don't live long, but evil people live for thousands of years!"

"stop!"

Li Shimin heard the voice of Changsun Wuji, and stopped the hooked spear cavalry in time.

At this time, Changsun Wuji crawled out of Luoshui and crawled towards Li Shimin.

At this time, Changsun Wuji looked very miserable, his boots were long gone, and he didn't know how long he had been soaking in the Luoshui, his skin was already wrinkled, obviously soaked for a long time.The key point is that on Changsun Wuji's fat face, there is actually a wound that has already been soaked white by the river water.

(End of this chapter)