First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 223 The Central Plains Battle Begins
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In Song'an County, the seat of Guzhou Prefecture, Li Shimin personally led an army to press against Luoyang. In Cijian in the western suburbs of Luoyang, Wang Shichong stationed [-] troops, facing the tall Luoyang City.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, Li Shimin was in high spirits and full of vigor, "Everyone, Luoyang City is ahead, as long as Wang Shichong is defeated, Luoyang is conquered, and the two capitals of the east and the west belong to the Tang Dynasty, and the unification of the world will be just around the corner."

All the generals cheered loudly after hearing the words.

"Wang Shichong's [-] elite soldiers from the Central Plains are in front of him. What do you guys think, but it's okay to talk about it." Li Shimin sat down and stretched out his hand and said.

Veteran Qu Tutong said bluntly: "Your Majesty, why don't you divide your troops to attack other states and counties first, and temporarily avoid the enemy's edge."

"The old general said this is the old saying of seeking the country." Li Shimin nodded and said, and then hesitated a little, "But I am waiting for this time to attack Luoyang with the momentum of a big victory. If I don't play with momentum, I'm afraid people will look down on me."

All the generals also nodded when they heard the words, the Tang army had just destroyed Liu Wuzhou, and the momentum was like a rainbow.

Now that Li Shimin had said so, the only option was to fight head-on. Li Shimin immediately decided: let him personally lead the Qingqi raid to annoy the enemy, and then Qu Tutong, Wang Junkuo and others led the infantry to stop it.

Hearing this deployment, all the generals objected one after another, even Gao Chong objected, "how can a king's daughter be used as bait".

However, Li Shimin's opinion has been decided, and it is difficult to change it. Gao Chong gritted his teeth and said immediately: "If your king insists on taking risks, please take me with you."

Li Shimin smiled when he heard the words, waved his hands and said: "It's just to tease Wang Shichong to go to the battle. You are serious. You can cooperate with the Chinese army to command."

"I hold the bow and arrow, and the king holds the lance to accompany me." Gao Chong said directly: "Did the king forget?"

Hearing this, Li Shimin had no choice but to agree, and immediately ordered a thousand light cavalry, and then flaunted his power and swaggered to the Zheng Army camp in Cijian.

"Your Majesty, the Tang army is coming to attack." In the Cijian camp, scouts came to report.

Wang Shichong sat up awkwardly, "How many people?"

"Only...only a thousand Qingqi", the scouts were also a little unbelievable.

"What?" Wang Shichong was frightened and angry, and shouted: "A thousand Qingqi dare to attack, and Li Shimin's children are too bullying."Even if you want to order all the soldiers and horses to go out to fight.

Zheng Jun's army Chen Zhilue happened to be in the tent, and when he saw this, he hurriedly dissuaded him: "Hold on, Your Majesty, Li Shimin is by no means a reckless kid. He only led more than a thousand Qingqi to commit a conspiracy, so we must investigate."

Chen Zhilue, as his name suggests, was resourceful and well versed in military strategy. He was a former lieutenant general in the Sui Xiaoguo Army. He was defeated by Li Mi on his way back to Chang'an along with Yu Wenhua and returned to Wang Shichong.

Hearing Chen Zhilue's words, Wang Shichong paused, twirling his beard and saying, "This statement makes sense. It is absolutely impossible for more than a thousand Qingqi to attack [-] troops."

"Second son, we shouldn't put on an offensive posture." On the way, Gao Chong suddenly thought, "If we are in an offensive posture, Wang Shichong will definitely be suspicious when he sees that we are attacking [-] Zheng's army with a thousand light cavalry."

Li Shimin was shocked when he heard the words, and said bluntly: "I didn't expect this, what can you do to remedy it?"

"That must be there." Gao Chong smiled, "The second son can play the banner of King Qin, put away his bow and arrow, and then swagger to observe the enemy's camp, pretending to observe the appearance of the enemy's camp. In this way, Wang Shichong may be able to In the middle".

Li Shimin understood as soon as he heard it, and immediately ordered the bow and arrows to be put away, the sword to be sheathed, and then the flag was raised, and he went straight to Zheng Jun's camp, pointing at the middle finger of the camp.

Seeing this, the guards at the camp gate hurriedly reported to Wang Shichong. Wang Shichong put aside his scruples when he heard the words, and said bluntly to Chen Zhilue: "We think too much, Li Shimin is too confident, so close to the camp to investigate, today I will teach you He came back and never came back," and then ordered people to go and summon the flying general Shan Xiongxin.

Seeing that the gate of the camp was wide open, Li Shimin immediately shouted loudly: "Arrange to meet the enemy", then took the bow and arrow, and shot the guard at the camp gate to death with one arrow.

The leader was Wang Shichong himself. Seeing such a sharp arrow technique, he couldn't help being startled and shrinking his neck.

"Kill all Tang dogs," Wang Shichong drew his sword and shouted: "Whoever captures and kills Li Shimin will be rewarded with a thousand gold."

Li Shimin fought and then retreated, shooting left and right all the way, and the arrows were never in vain. Gao Chong also relied on his great strength, and he didn't need to aim.

"Let's go, little thief Li," a slender Zheng Jun general came straight to Li Shimin with a gun, "Ye Yan, I will take your life."

This person is Yan Qi, the general of Zheng Jun.

Li Shimin was furious when he heard the words, he drew his bow and set up an arrow, turned around and shot at the cursed person, only heard the sound of the bowstring, and a burst of air, and shot directly at Yan Qi's shoulder, Yan Qi's shoulder hurt, and he almost fell off the horse.

Gao Chong kicked his horse and sat down. The horse raised its hooves and went straight to Yan Qi.

After the previous war horse was killed in battle, Li Shimin ordered to select a healthy horse from the Royal Stable Garden and give it to Gao Chong. The horse's hooves are as black as black satin, and the oil shines brightly. Only the four hooves of the horse are as white as Sai Xue. It is an authentic black horse riding on snow. This kind of BMW is extremely precious.

"The thief is about to die", he immediately slapped Yan Qi hard with his lance, hitting Yan Qi's chest like a chest, and sent Yan Qi flying, seeing his chest sunken and blood spitting out, he must not survive.

Li Shimin laughed loudly, "Relieve your anger, be happy."

At this time, Gao Chong's eyes narrowed, and he hurriedly shouted: "Your Majesty, don't love to fight", only to see Wang Shichong leading Shan Xiongxin to chase after him in person.

Li Shimin didn't dare to delay, so he flattered his horse and left.

Behind him, Shan Xiongxin was waving his lance, like the Gestapo, and after a while, he caught up with him, with a long lance in his hand, one for each, very brave, Li Shimin turned around and shot an arrow towards Shan Xiongxin.

Shan Xiongxin is so skillful in martial arts, he moved away as soon as he turned sideways, Gao Chong saw that he was getting closer to Shan Xiongxin, and even if he stabbed a spear from the slanted thorn, the sudden spear, with a cold light flickering, made Shan Xiongxin break out in a cold sweat. Unable to avoid it, he turned around and swung the horse's spear away from Gao Chong's hand with the tail of the spear.

"If you can't win, the wind is blowing hard." Feeling the force coming from his hand, Gao Chong made a decisive decision without hesitation, and ran away on the horse, with Shan Xiongxin chasing after him.

Seeing it from a distance, Li Shimin was also impatient. He immediately drew his bow and set an arrow, endured the pain in his arm, aimed at Shan Xiongxin and shot.

At the same time, Gao Chong had an idea, he reined in his horse and stabbed back with a spear. Shan Xiongxin was startled and hurriedly avoided Gao Chong's spear, but he couldn't dodge Li Shimin's arrow. The arrow suddenly lost its strength.

Seeing this, Gao Chong laughed and said, "Second Young Master, what do I do with my carbine this time?"

"Despicable and shameless, you've made me so obvious," Shan Xiongxin cursed, showing his integrity.

Gao Chong smiled and said: "Flying general Shan Xiongxin, that's all", after saying that, he hit the horse and ran away, Shan Xiongxin was startled, and then continued to chase.

　My brother got married today, it was a busy day, and I was a little hasty in writing, and I can finally have a good rest tomorrow.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)