First Minister of the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 387 The Great Victory
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Hearing this, Li Jing gritted his teeth angrily, and said bluntly, "Once King Huaiyang makes any mistakes, you will be blamed."

Shi Wanbao shook his head, "I make my own decision."

"Are you really not going to send troops?" Li Jing suddenly calmed down, his eyes fixed on Shi Wanbao.

Shi Wanbao was a little confused, so he just said blankly: "The time has not come."

Li Jing remained silent, turned around and left. After returning to the tent, he called his personal guards, "Put on your armor and prepare for battle."

Li Jing, who was dressed in military uniform, only led dozens of Chinese soldiers to the gate of the camp. He looked back at the big tent of the Chinese army with an indifferent expression on his face.

"General, then Li Jing has left the camp!" General Wang Jian rushed to report, full of horror, "What does he want to do, don't he send dozens of people to die, general, are you really not going to save King Huaiyang?"

Shi Wanbao was also surprised, "Is he not afraid of death?"

"General, the King of Huaiyang can't lose anything!" Wang Jian said eagerly, he couldn't imagine what kind of punishment they would suffer once the King of Huaiyang died in battle.

Shi Wanbao's expression changed, "Does the former army look like it's being defeated?"

Wang Jian shook his head, "still trying to support it."

"Then wait!" Shi Wanbao hesitated for a long time, gritted his teeth and said, "Wait until the former army is defeated before going out to fight."

Wang Jian was very anxious, but because of Shi Wanbao's power, he dared not speak any more.

"Shoot the arrows", Li Jing led his people to a high ground, looked at the tragedy on the battlefield in the distance, and hurriedly ordered: "Quick, release all the arrows, you, and you, go to the southwest direction quickly, and bring Mr. Jia to come ,be quick".

Seeing that the battle was so fierce, Li Jing was afraid that Li Daoxuan would lose, so he led people to climb up and look around, and finally saw the flag of the Xuanjia Army parading around the periphery of the battlefield.

At this time, the Tang army had reached its peak, and the infantry formation had been severely deformed, on the verge of collapse.

"Your Majesty, withdraw your troops," Zhai Changsun yelled: "The casualties are too heavy, we can no longer fight."

Li Daoxuan roared up to the sky, his eyes were red, he didn't know where the horse fell, and with a horizontal knife in his hand, he raised the knife and shouted: "Xuanjia Jingqi, chisel through".

The Xuanjia army had already lost two or three hundred, Zhai Changsun felt very distressed, so he had to raise his gun to agree, "Pierce through, ten thousand wins".

Xuanjia Jingqi once again burst out with extremely high killing intent, and followed Li Daoxuan back to the horse to charge again.

The ever-fighting Tang army soldiers were about to collapse, and the Handong rebels were even more miserable. Under the coercion of Liu Heita and others, they withstood the Tang army time and time again.

Liu Heita's face was gloomy, "This king underestimated this son."

"Order Cao Zhan, continue to intersperse and divide the two wings," Liu Heikai ordered in a cold voice, "Atulu, cooperate with the assault in the middle, and be sure to leave Li Daoxuan behind."

The rebels acted again, and Li Daoxuan's pressure increased sharply.

"Shi Wanbao, I will kill you!" Li Daoxuan was drenched in blood, and was hit by an arrow again, almost falling off his horse.

The archery skills of the Turkic fine cavalry are extremely good, the cavalry shoots very well, Li Daoxuan's body is like a hedgehog, with several arrows in his chest and upper body, many of them have penetrated the armor and are dripping with blood.

Zhai Changsun felt very sad, he didn't want to lose it here today, just when he decided to fight to the death, he saw that there was chaos on the side of the bandit army.

"Your Majesty, reinforcements!" Zhai Changsun Wuji exclaimed, "Reinforcements are here."

Li Daoxuan was startled, spat out a mouthful of blood, a little startled, "Shi Wanbao is here?"

Then he was overjoyed and hissed loudly, "Brothers, reinforcements are here, kill, kill all the bandits."

Tang Jun, who was on the verge of collapse, was shocked when he heard this.

"What's the situation?" Liu Heita was startled and furious, "Tang Jun? What is Fan Yuan doing!"

"Your Majesty, it's not the enemy army from the Tang camp in Hegu, this Tang army came from the southeast," a general said hastily.

"Southeast?" Liu Heita was shocked, "No, it's the Tang army in the direction of Jizhou. They changed their formation quickly. Cao Zhan's cavalry harassed and covered them, and slowly retreated back to the camp."

Liu Heitai responded immediately, but it was too late.

The battle was so fierce that the rebels were all exhausted. They only thought about defeating the Tang army under Li Daoxuan. Unexpectedly, at this critical moment, a Tang army rushed from the southeast, and the formation was chaotic and scattered everywhere.

"Pierce through, pierce through!" Li Daoxuan shouted hoarsely, and the Xuanjia Jingqi once again cheered up and rushed straight into the bandit formation.

This time, the Xuanjia Jingqi was unstoppable and easily separated the bandit army.

"Jia?" Li Daoxuan stared wide-eyed, seeing Tang Jun who was fighting under the banner of Jia, he was suddenly stunned.

"Your Majesty, that's Li Changshi," Zhai Changsun called out, pointing at the high slope on one side.

I saw a group of cavalry from the Tang army rushing out of the high slope to cover Li Daoxuan and others to withdraw from the battlefield and return to the high slope.

"Brother, where are you soldiers and horses?" While retreating, Li Daoxuan couldn't suppress his curiosity. He tore off his blood-stained visor and asked eagerly,

The Jia character banner was by no means the soldiers and horses he brought, and it was definitely not Shi Wanbao's reinforcements.

"Back to King Huaiyang, the last general is Hussar General Yuan Hua under the command of Master Jia Shijun of Jizhou," the general said loudly while covering Li Daoxuan to withdraw from the battle circle.

"Jizhou?" Li Daoxuan was surprised.

When he came to the high slope, Li Daoxuan immediately saw a middle-aged man in armor next to Li Jing. This man had a neat short beard on his chin.

"Jia Dunyi, the governor of Jizhou, has seen the king." Seeing Li Daoxuan approaching, the middle-aged man went forward to greet him.

Li Daoxuan was very pleasantly surprised, "I don't think it was the envoy Jia of Jizhou who saved me. I will remember the grace of saving my life."

Jia Dunyi was busy and humble, "It was all operated by Li Changshi, and I dare not take credit for it."

Li Daoxuan was stunned for a moment, and looked at Li Jing.

Li Jing pointed to Tang Jun who was chasing and killing the rebels down the slope and said: "Right now, we should take advantage of the victory to pursue. Let Li Jing explain the specific situation later."

Li Daoxuan reacted and nodded hurriedly, "What Li Changshi said makes sense."

Immediately Li Daoxuan disregarded everyone's opposition, changed horses and armors, and personally led the army to pursue.

The eastern Han army was defeated and fled in panic. Liu Heikai looked sad and angry, calling for the defeated soldiers to get closer, and fled north.

Li Daoxuan led his army to chase after him, killing tens of thousands and taking thousands of prisoners. Liu Heita led less than [-] people and fled back to Dingzhou.

In the battle of Xiabo, the Tang army won a big victory.

At this time, Shi Wanbao of the Tang Army Camp was already restless, pacing back and forth.

Suddenly the curtain was lifted, and Wang Jian came in out of breath. Shi Wanbao hurriedly asked, "How? But I found out clearly, how did you win?"

Shi Wanbao wanted to wait for Li Daoxuan's defeat before leading the attack, but he never thought that he heard the Tang army's victory, and Shi Wanbao was stunned.

"Jizhou...", Wang Jian didn't have time to calm down, and hurriedly said: "Jizhou Inspector Jia Dunyi led the army to help, the rebels were defeated, Huaiyang King has returned to camp...".

Shi Wanbao's expression changed immediately, and before he had time to react, he heard a fierce quarrel outside the tent, Shi Wanbao hurried out, only to see Li Daoxuan rushing over covered in blood, with murderous intent on his face.

"Shi Wanbao!" Li Daoxuan gritted his teeth and shouted, "Why did you hurt me?"

Shi Wanbao's expression changed immediately, "Why did the King of Huaiyang say such a thing?"

(End of this chapter)