First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 339 The Great War

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Li Shimin took the lead, bowed left and right, and shot several people over. His archery skills were astonishing. After several rounds of arrow rain, Li Shimin had reached the front of the battle.

Qin Qiong followed closely beside him, and there was no enemy in his hand. The two of them were like sharp arrows, leading the cavalry into the Handong army.

Seeing how brave the cavalry of the Tang army were, Cao Zhan looked horrified, and kept waving the spear in his hand, shouting: "Don't mess up, form an array."

"Uncle Bao", Li Shimin knocked several spears flying towards him with a knife, and told Cao Zhan, who was commanding behind him, to "cover".

Qin Qiong understood it instantly, shouted loudly, cheered up, patted the horse and rushed forward, swung the long spear, and slapped the last person.

"General, be careful," Cao Zhan's soldiers hurriedly exclaimed when they saw Li Shimin coming straight to this place.

Cao Zhan turned his head to look, panicked immediately, and hurriedly urged the left and right soldiers, "block, block them".

"My lord Li Shimin, those who stop me will die", Li Shimin shouted loudly, stretched out his hand and slashed vigorously, he actually split a soldier from the neck down diagonally into two sections, blood spattered on Li Shimin's face, it was very painful appalling.

Hearing angrily, the Eastern Han Army panicked for a while. The shadow of the famous tree, the name of Qin Wang Li Shimin, had already been heard like thunder after the Southern and Northern Wars.

Li Shimin rushed to kill, Qin Qiong's horse beside him danced vigorously, and every bandit soldier who intended to surprise Li Shimin was killed by Qin Qiong in time.

When Cao Zhan saw this, how dare he stay for a long time, he pulled his horse and fled, shouting incessantly, "stop them".

Although the soldiers of the Eastern Han Army were poor in formation, they were loyal. Most of them were veterans of the Dou Xia regime. Although they were flustered, they did not flee in all directions. Seeing this, Li Shimin shouted: "Shubao, watch me shoot this thief!" .

Qin Qiong immediately understood, pulled his horse and rushed forward to clear away the enemy troops close to Li Shimin. Li Shimin took the bow and arrow, opened the bow and set the arrow, aimed at Cao Zhan's back and shot the arrow.

The distance was not far, and even if some Handong soldiers reacted and wanted to resist, it was too late. Cao Zhan screamed and fell off his horse, with an arrow feather sticking out of his back.

"How about my armor-piercing arrow?" Li Shimin put down his hard bow, shook his sore arm and laughed loudly.

"Your Majesty is mighty", no matter how upright Qin Qiong was, he understood what he should do at this time, and immediately raised his spear and shouted.

Immediately, the sound of shouting resounded across the bank of Mingshui.

Li Shimin's arms are strong, and he specially prepared special armor-piercing arrows aimed at the enemy generals in armor. The arrows are more slender than ordinary conical arrows, with cross-edged blades, made of fine iron, and have stronger penetrating power. Of course, for those who use The requirements are also higher.

Cao Zhan was dressed in iron armor. Although he was hit by an arrow, he did not die on the spot. He was about to struggle to get up. Li Shimin had sharp eyesight and quick hands. Before Qin Qiong could react, Li Shimin drew his bow and set the arrow, and then let go of the bowstring. The arrow quickly shot through Cao Zhan. Cham neck.

Cao Zhan, the main force of the Eastern Han Army, died immediately.

As Dou Jiande's brother-in-law and Shangshu Cao Dan's younger brother, Cao Zhan was quick-tempered, but he was also quite prestigious in Dou Jiande's old department. He died on the spot at this time, causing great restlessness.

"Your Majesty, step back a little bit," Qin Qiong looked to the north, his face suddenly changed, and he exclaimed.

It turned out that when Liu Heita learned that the former army was frustrated, he immediately led the main force of the Chinese army to rush forward.

"Liu Heitai", Li Shimin squinted his eyes and saw the big flag with Liu characters fluttering in the wind, "You are finally here."

At this time, the Tang army's infantry also rushed forward under the leadership of Liu Hongji. The two armies met, and the battle was very tragic.

The generals of both sides are all famous generals at that time, and the soldiers are all veterans of many battles. General Tiance will face the brave general, and the army of the Tang Dynasty will face the old soldiers of Daxia.

The water suddenly turned into blood red.

In the distance, in Mingshui City, Li Shiji led his army out of the city and confronted Dong Kangmai on the high ground in the north of the city, and a big battle broke out between the two sides.

Further north, in Yong'an City, Fan Yuan led the army out of the city to salute Li Yi of Youzhou, and started a fight in the east of Yong'an City.

The three-party battlefield, without exception, is a brutal fight.

The battle continued until Zhang Shigui led his troops into the battlefield.

Zhang Shigui led the Hedong cavalry to directly attack the middle army of the Eastern Han Army from the flank, causing a sudden chaos.

In the army, Liu Heita looked calm. Seeing that Zhang Shigui was invincible, he couldn't help but twitched his mouth, "Li Shimin, is this your second hand? If it's just that, then I'll finish it."

Then Liu Heita ordered decisively, "Send the order, and the cavalry will attack."

Undoubtedly, Liu Heikai also had reserve cavalry. In the land of Yanzhao, Hebei, there has been no shortage of cavalry since ancient times. The cavalry of Eastern Han was not inferior to the Tang army in the slightest. They attacked from the camp in the north and went straight to meet Zhang Shigui's troops.

Seeing this, Li Shimin laughed loudly, "Order Gao Feng to break the weir".

Seeing that Tang Jun was retreating slowly without knowing it, Liu Heita frowned, a little hesitant.

"Your Majesty, Su Lie is really a strong general." The general beside him pointed to the flank and exclaimed: "Tang Jun can't hold on anymore."

Taking a closer look, I saw that Su Lie was so brave that he led the Eastern Han cavalry, bypassing the cavalry of the Tang army, and directly attacking the infantry.

Liu Heitai was overjoyed, no wonder the Tang army seemed to be showing signs of retreat. It turned out that Su Lie had already entered his heart, Liu Heitai immediately shouted: "The whole army presses down and kills."

The Eastern Han army was full of energy and rushed straight to the river. At the same time, the Tang army retreated step by step, showing signs of failure.

Upstream, Gao Jifu received the order, and immediately ordered the weir to be broken, and the flood roared down, rushing downstream in the narrow channel, the water was more than ten feet deep, and it was very fast.

After breaking through the weir, Gao Jifu did not stand by and ordered more than ten thousand auxiliary soldiers to obey his orders and go northeast.

"Gao Sima, Your Majesty ordered me to wait here to break the weir, but after that, there was no military order. I don't know what Gao Sima intends to do?" Hearing the order, the general who commanded the auxiliary troops couldn't help but asked in doubt.

Gao Jifu laughed and said, "General, do you want to make meritorious service?"

The auxiliary general was taken aback, "This, this is naturally what I thought, it's just...".

"It's nothing but..." Gao Jifu waved his hand and said, "This opportunity is never to be missed, the time will never come again, Liu Heita's army was defeated and fled to the northeast, now intercepting him, he may be captured alive, such a great achievement, how could he miss it, but there was a mistake, As the chief general, I, Sima, shall bear it all by myself."

The general of the auxiliary army gritted his teeth when he heard the words, and said bluntly: "If you do it, I believe you because you are Gao Sima's clan brother."

"What Gao Sima?" Gao Jifu was taken aback, "Brother, you mean Gao Youzhi?"

The two Gao Sima were surrounded by clouds and mist, which made Gao Jifu a little confused.

"Exactly," the general of the auxiliary army said with sincerity and admiration: "Gao Sima is unparalleled in wisdom and tactics, and he is victorious in every battle. As his clan brother, Gao Sima must not be far behind."

Gao Jifu's face darkened, and he said quietly: "I finally understand why you are over forty and still can't command soldiers."

(End of this chapter)