First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 385

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Shi Wanbao accepted the order with a blank face, turned and left.

A stern look flashed in Li Daoxuan's eyes, and he called Li Jing to his side.

Before Li Jing could open his mouth, Li Daoxuan said in a low voice: "After this king enters the battle, Li Changshi must keep an eye on Shi Wanbao for me."

When Li Jing heard the words, he promised, "Don't worry, Your Majesty, Li Jing is here, and the army will not cause chaos."

Li Daoxuan nodded, hesitated to speak, turned around and looked at Shi Wanbao's leaving back, and murmured: "I hope you don't make mistakes."

After the soldiers and horses were dispatched, Li Jing sat in the tent of the Chinese army, while Shi Wanbao returned to the camp and summoned his general Wang Jian to the tent.

"Nowadays the children in Huaiyang showed their bravery and only led ten thousand people to the battle. This was defeated by the bandit army," Shi Wanbao said in a deep voice, "You should prepare your army immediately and be ready to go to battle at any time."

Wang Jian nodded in response, and asked hesitantly, "General, do you really intend to wait for King Huaiyang to be defeated before going out to fight?"

Shi Wanbao frowned, "What do you mean?"

Wang Jian swallowed, and said with some concern: "After all, the king of Huaiyang is a royal family and nobleman. If there is something wrong, how will we explain to the saint?"

With a bang, Shi Wanbao slapped his palm on the desk, "Just follow the order, why worry so much, I will kill him, and the fifteen hundred black armor knights are enough to protect his life. You can rest assured."

Wang Jian answered in a hurry.

Shi Wanbao continued to add: "Follow my father's order before going to war, if there is any violation, the military law will be followed."

Not long after, Li Daoxuan personally led the army to the edge of the valley. Before Li Daoxuan called for a battle, the gates of the Handong camp opened wide, and the soldiers came out in single file, arranged in rows and neatly arranged.

Li Daoxuan narrowed his eyes, "Liu Thief really lives up to the name of a famous general", and at the same time he held the horse in his hand tightly, he was extremely cautious, after all, he was facing the brave general Liu Heitai, so he couldn't help being careless.

Everyone in the world thought that Li Daoxuan was a brave and reckless man, but Li Daoxuan followed Li Shimin to fight in the north and south since he was a child.

Seeing that Li Daoxuan really led his troops to fight, Liu Heitai was also overjoyed. Hearing that Li Daoxuan is Li Shimin's most valued younger brother, if he were to be killed here, Li Shimin must be heartbroken. Thinking of this, Liu Heitai is in his heart carefree.

"Report to the king, the Tang army has a total of ten thousand people, fighting under the Li character banner", the scout reported.

"Thousands of people?" Liu Heita frowned slightly, "Have you ever seen Shi Zijiang's flag?"

"I didn't see it," the scout replied truthfully.

Liu Heitai thought for a while, then raised the corners of his mouth, nodded slightly and praised: "What a Li Daoxuan, he is indeed Li Shimin's younger brother, and he wants to use this to trick me."

Hearing this, the left and right looked puzzled.

"What does your Majesty mean by this?"

"If there is no Shi Zi banner, where is Shi Wanbao, the deputy general of the Tang Army?"

Liu Heikai squinted his eyes and looked at the Tang army on the opposite side, "Shi Wanbao is in the Tang camp. Once Li Daoxuan disrupts our army formation, Shi Wanbao can come out with all his troops."

The generals were surprised.

"Li Daoxuan's son is really treacherous, and he called for a decisive battle on the surface, but he really has a backhand."

"Exactly, if it weren't for the wiseness of the king, we would have almost fallen for his tricks."

Liu Heikai shook his head and smiled, "Soldiers are deceitful. There is no such thing as treachery or treachery. You can win. Li Daoxuan learned this tactic from Li Shimin. The cavalry rushed into the formation and the infantry pressed the formation. King Xia was defeated by this tactic." .

"Then how should we deal with it?" General Cao Zhan asked, frowning: "It seems that there is no solution? Why don't we also reserve a reserve force."

Liu Heikai shook his head straight, and after a moment of pondering, he said in a deep voice: "Since Li Daoxuan only led ten thousand people to the battle, it is a god-sent opportunity, not to be missed.

Fan Yuan, you lead 5000 people, go out after self-management, and keep an eye on the Tang army camp. Once Shi Wanbao's troops come out, be sure to entangle them. You don't want to fight to win, just entangle them.

The rest, follow my whole army, and must capture and kill Li Daoxuan in one battle. Once Li Daoxuan dies, the Tang army will be defeated, and then enter the two regions of Shenji and Hebei, and all states in Hebei will be restored."

"My king is victorious", all the generals shouted in unison.

Liu Heita stretched out his hand, and his personal guard handed over the long knife, and leaped out of the battle.

"Handong Wansheng", the morale of the Handong soldiers was high, and the voice was loud.

Seeing this, Li Daoxuan ran forward with a horse spear in his hand, "Tie Liu, since he escaped with his life by chance, how dare you offend me again?"

"It's a joke, the land of Hebei is the territory of the King of Xia, and Li and Tang lived here violently and stealthily. How dare you take it for yourself?" Liu Heita retorted, raising his knife.

Li Daoxuan paused, only to see Liu Heitai continued to smile and said: "If Li Shimin comes here, I will still look at you seriously, you young child, how dare you wield a knife and a gun?"

Hearing this, Li Daoxuan was furious, blood gushed out, and immediately raised his spear and shouted, "All soldiers, follow me to kill the thief", and then kicked the horse's belly, and the whole army rushed forward.

Liu Heikai was extremely calm, and with a wave of his long knife in his hand, the Eastern Han soldiers fought in an orderly manner.

Before the generals of the Eastern Han Dynasty took any action, a Turkic general greeted Li Daoxuan with a long spear, "Boy, go to hell", the tip of the spear gleamed, and aimed straight at Li Daoxuan's heart.

"Hu thief!" Li Daoxuan felt his blood boil all over, and stabbed Ma Li with all his strength in his hand.

With a sound of screaming, when the tip of the spear touched the lance, General Hu quickly returned the spear upon seeing this, and smashed it hard. Li Daoxuan moved sideways, and stabbed with the lance. General Hu never expected Li Daoxuan to react so quickly. Shen was stabbed in the shoulder, dripping with blood.

"Hu thief suffers death", Li Daoxuan is full of blood, and the more he fights, the more courageous he becomes. The Zhangba horse in his hand looks like nothing, stabs left and right, Hu will be tired of coping, and he will be exhausted.

Seeing the frown from a distance, Liu Heitai immediately ordered: "Atulu must not make mistakes, General Liu will rush to rescue him."

Aturu is one of the Turkic warriors lent to him by Jieli Khan. If he is damaged here, he will not be able to explain to Jieli Khan.

Liu Junhui, the former governor of Guanzhou, was stunned when he heard the words, he knew Li Daoxuan's bravery, although he was frightened, he didn't dare to disobey his orders, he made up his mind to save Atulu and withdrew.

"Atulu retreat quickly", Liu Junhui will hold a long spear, insert it into the battlefield, and go straight to Li Daoxuan.

"Who's here?" Li Daoxuan was fighting against Atulu, if it wasn't for the good armor on Atulu's body, he would have killed him long ago, "I don't kill unknown people", Li Daoxuan said loudly with ease.

"Guanzhou Liu Junhui", Liu Junhui stabbed out, turned his head and shouted: "Quick retreat".

Atulu was covered in blood and had no intention of fighting. Seeing Liu Junhui entangled Li Daoxuan, Atulu turned and ran without hesitation.

"It's you!" Li Daoxuan never thought that this person was Liu Junhui, the governor of Guanzhou who surrendered to Liu Heitai. He was furious at that time, "The traitor is dead."

Under the rage, Li Daoxuan's strength became stronger and stronger, and within five rounds, Liu Junhui's arms were numb, "Wait a minute, King Huaiyang...".

"Go to hell", Li Daoxuan stabbed out with a spear, and burst Liu Junhui's spear, piercing it.

Li Daoxuan spat, turned his head to look, and saw Atulu fleeing in embarrassment on his horseback. Li Daoxuan grabbed Liu Junhui's spear and chased after him. .

Arturu was shocked when he heard the words, and when he looked back, he could only hear the piercing whistling sound, and then his pupils dilated, and saw a long gun approaching at high speed. Before he could react, he screamed and fell to the ground. The spear had pierced it through.

Seeing this, Tang Jun's morale was high, and hissed loudly, "The Tang Dynasty is victorious."

(End of this chapter)