First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 224 Retreating to Luoyang

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Although Zheng Jiang Shan Xiongxin was hit by an arrow in his arm, Gao Chong still didn't dare to delay, so he hit his horse and ran away.

Li Shimin also ordered loudly: "Retreat quickly."

Shan Xiongxin was furious, he tore off the arrow, grinned his teeth in pain, raised his spear and cursed: "Shameless boy, don't go away".

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, Wa Gangfei used Shan Xiongxin as the number one general under the command of Li Mi, the former number one prince in the world, across the Central Plains, and gained a great reputation as a flying general with a golden nail in his hand, Zaoyang.

Seeing that Shan Xiongxin came to kill him, Gao Chong ran away without looking back, but if there was any semblance of sobriety, he would not go to Shan Xiongxin who was violent and angry at this time.

After retreating for several miles, Li Shimin suddenly reined in his horse and stood up. He turned around and looked at the unstoppable Shan Xiongxin. Seeing that Tang Jun suddenly stopped running, Shan Xiongxin slowed down his horse and hesitated.

Seeing this, Gao Chong laughed horizontally and said, "Flying General Wagang, that's all."

Shan Xiongxin frowned when he heard this, he flattered his horse and went straight for Gao Chong.

"Be careful, you," Li Shimin shouted hastily when he saw this.

Gao Chong's face became solemn, he straightened his spears to meet him, and when the two spears intersected, there was a clang.

Shan Xiong snorted coldly, "Shameless boy, die", and smashed the golden nail Zaoyang straight towards the top of Gao Chong's head.

There was a sound of piercing and whistling, Gao Chong didn't dare to catch it forcefully, he immediately held the lance to catch it obliquely, and let go of the strength, his hand was still numb, Gao Chong smiled dismissively, "Flying General Wagang, that's all."

In fact, Gao Chong exclaimed in his heart: Flying General Wagang, his reputation is well-deserved.

Only with Shan Xiongxin's military strength, Gao Chong has only encountered Xue Rengao, an enemy of ten thousand people, and Shan Xiongxin's envoy's skills are even better than Xue Rengao's, and he is worthy of being a flying general in the world.

Shan Xiongxin has a strong temper to correct the martial arts, he was furious when he saw Gao Chong's continuous provocation, and was about to fight again, but Gao Chong just ran away, Shan Xiongxin couldn't think too much, and hurriedly chased after him.

Seeing this, Li Shimin also shouted: "Wagang Flying General, that's all, my king only has a thousand Qingqi here, what can I do?" Then he quickly withdrew.

After chasing him to a forest more than ten miles south of Cijian, Zheng Jiang Chen Zhilue came on Qingqi, and hurriedly dissuaded him: "Don't chase any more, be careful of deceit."

"A certain family assassinated Gao's child." Feeling the pain in his arm, Shan Xiongxin gritted his teeth and chased after him.

At this time, only a loud noise was heard, and a big tree passing behind fell down, killing two Zheng Jun, and split the thousands of Zheng Jun chasing into two, and then a large number of Tang Jun appeared one after another.

Tens of thousands of Tang troops came out of the forest, stretched across the official road, and blocked Zheng Jun. Only then did Shan Xiongxin react when he saw this, staring at Gao Chong in the distance, his teeth creaking, "Shameless boy! "

The Tang army quickly surrounded and killed them. Shan Xiongxin led all the cavalry, and was blocked by the Tang army on the official road next to the mountain forest.

There was Qiu Xinggong in the front, and Master Sheng Yan in the back. Li Shimin originally wanted to keep the flying general Shan Xiongxin and cut off Wang Shichong's arm, but Shan Xiongxin was too brave, and the cavalry under his command were also well-trained. "As the base developed, under the leadership of Shan Xiongxin, they quickly cut through the containment.

At this time, the rear army of the Tang army was commanded by Ge Guogong Sheng Yanshi. Sheng Yanshi was born in the Sheng family of Songzhou. He was brave and good at fighting, and he was quite strategic. to vote.

After Li Mi's defeat, Shi Wanbao, the former Duke of the State, was the chief of the Yiyang march, and Sheng Yan, the Duke of Ge, was the deputy chief of the army, guarding Yiyang.

Soon after Li Mi surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, he had a different intention and planned to go to Xiangcheng to join the old general Zhang Shanxiang. However, when the plan was revealed, everyone thought that Li Mi was going to Luoyang to join Wang Shichong. Set up an ambush in the valley south of Xiong'er Mountain.

Sure enough, the resourceful Li Mi thought that no one in the world would be able to see through his plan to build plank roads and hide Chen Cang secretly. After plundering Taolin County, he fled into Xiong'er Mountain, intending to cross Xiong'er Mountain to Xiangcheng. Master Yan led the army to attack and kill, and Li Mi and Wang Bodang died in the chaos.

Master Sheng Yan was promoted to Duke Ge Guogong because of his meritorious service, and he was appointed as General Wuwei. He continued to guard Yiyang and guard against Luoyang.

During Li Shimin's eastward expedition, Master Sheng Yan went out with the army.

How clever Li Mi was, yet he was accurately ambushed and killed by Master Sheng Yan, which is enough to show Master Sheng Yan's resourcefulness. At this time, seeing Shan Xiongxin intending to break through with the whole army, Master Sheng Yan looked around, and immediately ordered: "Light on fire, fire prevention, hurry up."

At the command of the general, the infantry under his command acted quickly, took out a fire bag and threw it into the mountains and forests. It was July and August at this time, and the vegetation was flammable, and the fire broke out quickly.

Accompanied by the neighing of the war horses, Gao Chong revealed a look of surprise, "General Sheng is a good planner, and the fire can scare the horses."

Li Shimin also reacted, and immediately led the cavalry away, and then Qiu Xinggong followed suit and set fire to the forest in front.

People on the official road next to the mountain forest feel the scorching fire, at most they are sweating and scorching hot, but Shan Xiongxin’s cavalry, seeing the anger, the horses are frightened, jump up and down immediately, neighing endlessly, the cavalry line that Shan Xiongxin finally gathered is instantly chaotic into a mess.

Qiu Xinggong and Sheng Yanshi immediately led their troops to encircle and kill Zheng's army. Shan Xiongxin didn't care about other things, and hurriedly shouted and rushed to the left. He led hundreds of cavalry to escape.

In the camp of Cijian, Wang Shichong looked at the gray-faced Shan Xiongxin with a sullen expression on his face, and sternly shouted: "I won't say much about what these thousands of cavalry mean. The Kongfu treasury was only exchanged from Luo Yi, and you were all ruined in one battle, Xiongxin, you have let me down so much."

"Single notification crime", Shan Xiongxin lowered his head and said in a muffled voice, "Your Majesty will punish you, and there will be no doubts about single notification."

"You are frank and frank, even if I kill you, it will be of no avail." Seeing Shan Xiongxin's upright look, Wang Shichong immediately snorted coldly: "Head the troops to withdraw from Luoyang tomorrow."

"Why did Your Majesty withdraw the troops?" Shan Xiongxin asked in surprise, "If we fight again tomorrow, we will definitely win a big victory."

"Our army has no cavalry, and it is extremely difficult to fight in this field. It is better to go back to the city and stick to it." Wang Shichong did not speak, and the admonishing doctor Huan Fasi said aloud.

"When the army is fighting, when will you, a Taoist priest, speak?" Shan Xiongxin frowned and scolded angrily.

Huan Fasi bowed his head hurriedly when he heard the words, a stern look flashed in his eyes.

"The national teacher is right, if the infant city is defended, the defenders from all over the country will come to help." Wang Shichong actually agreed with Huan Fasi's point of view.

Then, regardless of the objections of Shan Xiongxin, Chen Zhilue and others, they voluntarily gave up the important area of ​​Cijian and retreated to Luoyang City.

Wang Shichong is very confident about retreating to Luoyang City. Wang Shichong is extremely strategic. When Li Mi and Yu Wenhua were at war, Wang Shichong gathered the power of the government while rectifying the army, and finally took the opportunity to defeat Li Mi.

(End of this chapter)