The fox minister in the late Tang Dynasty

Chapter 135
The sun was shining brightly, and with the earth shaking, dust and smoke flew wildly.

Under the warm sunshine, galloping cavalry drew their bows and shot arrows. The formation of all the soldiers drew their bows and fought back. Only those who were slaughtered.

Meng Juehai stood in the center of the array, surrounded by guards carrying shields, guarding against incoming arrows. He looked at the Shatuo cavalry who were two hundred paces away, dragging dust and smoke, and never thought that one day they would fall This kind of field, from being attacked twice at night, to the collapse of morale, is now being chased and killed like a bereaved dog.

It's not that they didn't think about counterattack, but on the way to retreat to the Weishui River, the cavalry led by Deng Tianwang rushed to help. The southern cavalry was finally inferior to the opponent's. Freely drawing the bow and fighting in close quarters, a cavalry soldier who faced more than 3000 people was shattered by a forcible blow, and fled in all directions.

Taking advantage of this vacancy, he had time to gather the 5000 people who crossed the Wei River to distance themselves from the Shatuo cavalry who were busy chasing and killing them, and fled to Huazhou.

It's just that right now, the other party is like a pack of wolves. If they don't capture their prey, they will entangle them endlessly, chasing them all the way from the Weishui River, without giving them a chance to breathe.

Arrows jingled like rain falling on the raised shields, some passed through the gaps and fell inside, and some people fell to the ground screaming.

The Shatuo cavalry who was trying to break through the front line galloped closer, and what greeted him were spears protruding from their shields, frantically stabbing at the horses and the Shatuo people above, who pulled the reins and used their utmost strength. The horse's head was tilted away, and the sharp spear head still wiped the flesh and blood hanging from the horse's belly and buttocks.

The war horse fell down with a mournful cry, and the Shatuo soldier got up in a hurry, turned around and ran towards the cavalry rushing around. The next moment, arrows shot out from the shield and nailed him to death.

"It's not going to work like this."

Meng Juehai lowered his bow and arrows, his eyes moved around, and he glanced across a panicked face. When he looked back through the gap, the expression on his face suddenly changed a little. He pushed away the soldiers next to him, and strode closer to the edge. , While the guards were anxiously blocking him, he pressed down on a shield and clearly saw a group of soldiers standing there in the distance.

"Haha, I, Meng Juehai, will never die! Reinforcements are here, soldiers and horses from Huazhou, all the soldiers cheer up and fight to the death with the Shatuo people!"

In fact, he said this to the surrounding soldiers and the Shatuo people outside. After all, he did not believe that the prefect of Huazhou would have the courage to lead troops to come for reinforcements. Find yourself, or return to Chang'an.

As his words spread, the morale of the soldiers who gritted their teeth and stood firm all around was visibly boosted, and they slowly moved over there against the tortoise-like formation.

The change at this time was naturally seen by the Shatuo cavalry. Under the big banner with the word "Li", it looked like a red war horse burning with flames. Li Cunxiao looked at the soldier and horse in the distance, and then at the one in front of him. 'Tortoise Armor Formation' suddenly raised its hand, and the messengers on the side galloped and blew the horn.

The desolate horn echoed in the field, and the cavalry galloping in a circle changed direction without changing their speed, and turned into two long black dragons, running to both sides of the big banner respectively.

Li Cunxiao urged the horse to trot towards the slow-moving tortoise shell formation to stop for two steps, holding Yu Wang's spear in one hand, and reining in the horse with the other, "listen to you, thief, I will let you wait for the time being, you'd better run fast and wait for me The subordinates and horses have rested, and will come again, but by then, they will not be just like this!"

sigh -

The horse neighed, Li Cunxiao turned the horse's head around, dragged his cloak, turned around and galloped on the horse, the guard cavalry on both sides also turned around to follow, and disappeared into the hills ahead.

The battlefield of fighting and shouting rumbled away with the sound of horseshoes, and the thousands of people under Meng Juehai finally had a moment to breathe. He put his knife back into its sheath, let someone lead his horse, and quickly walked towards the 3000 people who were rushing over there. Many people passed by.

"Supervisor?"

Seeing the leader's figure, the big man was stunned for a moment, and quickly realized that he got off his horse and quickly stepped forward and arched his hands: "Meng Juehai thanked the superintendent for his help!"

Over there, Geng Qing arched his hands to meet him as he walked, took the water bag around his waist and handed it to the defense envoy, "I'm ashamed to say, Geng fled back in embarrassment, and just happened to meet him, but anyway, he finally killed the enemy." Get scared off, General Meng, let's hurry up and leave here, lest the Shatuo cavalry turn back again."

Meng Juehai exhaled comfortably as the cool water flowed through his hot stomach. For Geng Qing in front of him, at first he thought he had died in the chaos of the Shatuo people's second attack on the camp that night, but he did not expect to survive. Gathering so many broken soldiers along the way, from this point of view, apart from not knowing a little martial arts, he is already a qualified soldier.

"We have to hurry up and leave." Meng Juehai put on the cork, handed the water bag back to the young man, looked at the terrified army formation over there, and pursed his lips.

"The Shatuo Cavalry General, the leader of this army, has a variety of methods and is elusive, and his martial arts are rare in the world. He is invincible, so he has to go back to Chang'an first, rectify the morale, and then use the troops."

"So, hurry up and leave."

Geng Qing's expression was unconcealably flustered, and he was not too polite. Estimating the time, he urged him to join forces with Meng Juehai to speed up their pace.

It's just that the more than 1000 soldiers he gathered first subconsciously separated from Meng Juehai's subordinates, and they rushed to Baqiao, the nearest place, surrounded by them.

The sun shines on the dejected team extending to the west, and shines on the bustling giant city. The market is still noisy and lively, and the cavaliers with their battle reports galloped across the street, and rushed into the imperial city.

Tai Chi Hall of the Imperial Palace.

A group of civil and military personnel stood silently on top of the golden hall. Huang Chao, who was sitting on the dragon chair, looked at the information presented in his hands, closed his eyes, and then looked at the map hanging on the main hall, which marked the plan for the west and north wars. But right now, everything has become so pale.

"Two soldiers and horses. Lost together!"

He threw away the battle report casually, got up and walked to the map and said softly, then tore it off suddenly, crumpled it into a ball and smashed it hard on the ground.

With a chill in his eyes, he looked down at a group of ministers and generals who were silent below.

"Following my generals, from north to south, from south to Chang'an today, how brave and good at fighting you were at the beginning, but how is it now? It was I who became the emperor and let you enjoy wealth and comfort for too long, so you forgot how fight?!"

The old man's voice resounded through the hall, and he kicked the crumpled map to the bottom.

"Shang Rang underestimated the enemy and was defeated. It can be said that Fengxiang Jiedu envoy Zheng Tian was scheming, but in the north, you can pick it up and have a look. Before a battle was fought, he was attacked by the Shatuo people and lost his troops. He fled in embarrassment all the way. This is my Daqi. The battle for the founding of the country, this is how you fight—"

　Lonely and widowed~~~
　　
　
(End of this chapter)