Late Tang

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Su Hongzhen, the envoy of the concubine army, and Tuoba Sigong, the governor of Yuzhou, each led [-] soldiers and horses, and marched towards Lanzhou as the vanguard envoys on the left and right.After entering Lanzhou, along the way, they successively recovered Tianchi Supervisor, Loufan Supervisor, and Shichi Supervisor, and entered Jingle County.

Along the way, they didn't even see a Shatuo person, and there were still many grains and belongings in the city that the Shatuo people had no time to take away.After questioning the people in the city, I learned that the Shatuo people just escaped a few hours earlier than them.Su Hongzhen was eager to fight back to his own territory, and chased after him all the way, but every time he almost missed.

"Soviet army envoy, we have been marching continuously today, we are exhausted, and we have already drawn a large distance from Zhang Yuhou's Chinese army. You see, should we rest here temporarily and wait for Zhang Yu to wait for a while. "Since the Zhenwu Army was wiped out, Tuoba Sigong is now a little afraid of Li Keyong and his son. The 3000 troops in his hand are already his entire capital. Although Youzhou is still recruiting troops, he dare not take it easy. Those who buried these soldiers in their hands.

Li Guochang and his son have [-] elite Shatuo cavalry, and the two of them have [-] soldiers and horses. They are also cavalry, not only inferior in number, but also inferior in bravery.

At this time, there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and a scout came to report.

"Reporting to Su Vanguard Envoy and Tuoba Vanguard Envoy, a cavalry troop is found in the north of the city. There are about [-] soldiers and horses, all of them are cavalry. They are Shatuo cavalry in black clothes, black armor and black flag!"

When Su Hongzhen heard the words, he immediately said: "Send the order and get ready to fight!"

"Clang clang clang!"

The rapid sound of the alarm bell rang, and the 6000 troops in Jingle County immediately prepared for battle.

Su Hongzhen and Tuoba Sigong climbed to the top of the city, and the three thousand Shatuo cavalry in the distance rushed towards them like a moving black cloud, and they had already arrived at the city and stopped in the blink of an eye.

Su Hongzhen looked at the cavalry carefully, but he didn't find the banners used by Li Guochang and Li Ke, only a general flag with the word Kang on it.He knew a little about the Shatuo soldiers, and guessed that the leader of the soldiers might be Li Keyong's general Kang Junli.

Seeing that it wasn't Li Keyong's father and son who came here, Su Hongzhen immediately became more courageous.Turning around, he said to Tuoba Sigong: "The Shatuo people are too arrogant. They only led 3000 troops and dared to come to provoke us. We have [-] soldiers, which is a multiple of the enemy. We must not show cowardice. General Tuoba dare to fight out with me." Go to the city and destroy this Shatuo cavalry?"

Tuoba Sigong was a little worried that the Shatuo people had a conspiracy, but at this moment he was provoked by Su Hongzhen, thinking that as long as he was more cautious, nothing would happen, so he nodded and agreed to fight.

The gate of the city opened slowly, and [-] cavalry rushed out of the city, forming an array below the city.The [-] cavalry were divided into two divisions, with Su Hongzhen and Tuoba Sigong each leading their divisions.In the wilderness below the city, war horses neigh, spears are like forests, and flags are like seas.

Su Hongzhen's horse galloped, galloping in front of the cavalry team, his voice echoed in the wind in the wilderness, "Shatuo wolf cubs are only half of us, so we have no reason to lose! This battle must be won!"

He reined in his horse, and Ma Qian pointed at the black group in front of him. "Brothers, follow me to fight!"

With hooves sounding like thunder and murderous intent rising, six thousand cavalry marched mightily towards the rebels.

In the north of Jingle County, the two armies stopped one mile apart and formed their respective formations.The Shatuo army took the initiative to attack, but listed the formation of Yanyue.The party members and the Lu army formed a double-headed snake formation, ready to go hand in hand.

A general in fish scale armor rushed out from a horse under Shatuo's army. He was nearly seven feet tall, with a thick back and a waist, holding a long spear in his hand, and a four-foot-high oolong colt under his crotch.He urged his horse forward, pointing at the officers and soldiers with a long spear in his hand, and shouted: "Is there anyone in the Tang army who dares to fight a certain one?"

Su Hongzhen told Tuoba Sigong: "This man's name is Kang Junli, one of the seven generals of Yunzhou under Li Ya'er, Sha Tuo's flying tiger son, not only extremely brave, but also Li Ya'er's confidant general."

Tuoba Sigong wasn't surprised that the two armies faced each other one-on-one, although it was a little different from the norm, but many Hu tribe soldiers liked to fight with their own bravery, and they didn't need any tricks to fight, just relying on their bravery.This is not only the case with soldiers, but also with generals.In front of the two armies, if they are singled out and won, not only will the morale of the army be greatly improved, but sometimes they can even directly drive troops to cover up the defeated enemy.

Tuoba Sigong sneered, "Then let someone go meet him for a while!"

As soon as the words were finished, Tuoba Sizhong shouted: "Let me go out." After speaking, without waiting for Tuoba Sigong's consent, he immediately went out to fight.

Kang Junli is Li Keyong's general. When he saw a general flying out of the enemy's formation, he didn't look like a Tang general, but he was dressed as a barbarian. After a while, he already guessed that the opponent was a member of the party.Furious, he clapped his horse and came to fight.

Although Tuoba Sizhong was approaching ferociously, he did not panic, and withdrew his horse backwards, dodging Tuoba Sizhong's ferocious mace lance, and the horse lance stabbed at Tuoba Sizhong's heart.This spear was extremely sharp.

'when! With a sound, the horse lance hit the mace's lance, blocking the lance.His arms were numb from the shock, and Tuoba Sizhong felt awe-inspiring. He didn't dare to underestimate the enemy, so he immediately used all his strength, and each blow of the Langya lance was more fierce than the other, and he threw it at Kang Junli.

Kang Junli has already discovered Tuoba Sizhong's weakness, that is, although he has great strength, but with the strength of these two arms alone, his moves are not enough.Immediately, he no longer fought hard with him, but danced with a long lance, a [-]-jin heavy lance, but danced in his hands like a dragon sailing out to sea, with twelve lances in a row.

The two fought for dozens of rounds, Kang Junli became more and more courageous as he fought, shouted loudly, and with a long spear like a dragon, he directly stabbed Tuoba Sizhong's heart.The gun was extremely fast and unstoppable.Tuoba Sizhong had already smashed out the spike at this time, he could only use his spare strength to pick it up in his busy schedule.With a bang, the attack was only a little bit open, but Kang Junli took advantage of the situation and moved the spear forward, from his chest to attack his throat.

Seeing that there was no time to avoid it, Tuoba Sizhong was desperate.

At this moment, an arrow was so fast that the tip of the arrow arrived in front of Kang Junli in the blink of an eye, faster than his long spear.Kang Junli knew it was wrong when he heard the wind, and instinctively blocked it with an iron plate.With a whistling sound, the arrow barely passed by his face, drawing a ferocious blood groove on his face, and immediately the blood flowed down, staining half of his face red.Kang Junli yelled out in pain, and his spear just missed it, and the spear stabbed Tuoba Sizhong's shoulder weakly.

At this time, another arrow hit, and Kang Junli hid in his busy schedule, and escaped without any danger.However, Kang Junli was unable to fight any longer when the opponent fired sniper arrows repeatedly, and he was defeated and fled to the front in a hurry.

Tuoba Sizhong looked back for the rest of his life after the catastrophe, but saw that the person who had just shot an arrow to save him was actually Su Hongzhen.

Su Hongzhen put away his bow and arrow, and Tuoba Sigong expressed his gratitude on behalf of his younger brother.Su Hongzhen laughed loudly and said: "A few trivial things are nothing to worry about. Now that Mr. Kang is retreating, we should take this opportunity to cover up the killing!" After speaking, he turned his head and ordered drums and horns to be blown, and the whole army charged.

Tuoba Sigong thought that this was not a good time to attack, but just now Su Hongzhen saved Sizhong's life, so he couldn't say much, so he nodded and agreed to attack.

The booming sound of the drums has been heard, and the horns have also been blown. Six thousand cavalrymen attacked with two heads, billowing dust and smoke, shouting like thunder, iron hoofs, spears like forests, the army Cover up the past.

Contrary to Tuoba Sigong's expectations, Kang Junli, who was defeated in a single challenge, did not line up to fight, but fled instead.

The three thousand Shatuo cavalry had fled all the way north without waiting for the battle. Tuoba Sigong and Su Hongzhen actually succeeded in beheading many Shatuo soldiers.Su Hongzhen was overjoyed, Shatuo people were nothing but that.It seems that the Shatuo people have been defeated several times, and their morale is now low.

"The whole army presses forward and pursues the victory. These three thousand Shatuo soldiers must be wiped out!" Su Hongzhen said excitedly.

"The envoy of the Soviet army, the enemy fled without a fight. This matter is strange. It is probably a trick of the Shatuo people to lure the enemy!" Zhe was right in front of them, and they were ambushed by the Shatuo people.

However, Su Hongzhen said disdainfully: "Shatuo people are nothing more than that, even if there is an ambush, how can we fear him with six thousand soldiers. If General Tuoba is afraid, you can stay here."

After Su Hongzhen gave the order to continue the pursuit, Tuoba Sigong saw that he could not dissuade him, so at this time he had no choice but to bite the bullet and chase down together.But perhaps he listened to the advice, although Su Hongzhen led the pursuit, he still maintained a good formation.

The army pursued all the way, and soon entered the Luliang Mountains.Kang Junli drilled into a valley in front of him, Su Hongzhen was vigilant, and ordered to organize the army outside the valley, and then slow down into the valley in an orderly formation.

Sure enough, as soon as he entered the valley, he heard shouts of killing from all sides, and a Shatuo ambush appeared.The one on the left was Li Guochang, and the one on the right was Li Keyong.Although Su Hongzhen was shocked, he mustered up the courage to command the charge.At this time, Tuoba Sigong also rushed forward together.

The two armies fought desperately, and after half a day of melee, the Shatuo people were the first to fail, leaving behind hundreds of corpses and thousands of horses, and fled northward in defeat.

"The Crow Army, that's all. A hundred-fighter cavalry? I think it's vulnerable!" On the battlefield, Su Hongzhen, who was blood-stained in his robes, laughed out loud, "The gate guards the wounded soldiers Stay here, leave hundreds of people to clean the battlefield, we will continue to pursue, this time, we must capture Li Guochang and his son alive."

The victory was won, but Tuoba Sigong was still full of worries. He knew the strength of the Shatuo army, how could he be defeated so easily by them.

"Soviet army envoy, we defeated Li Guochang and his son in the first battle, and the brothers are also exhausted. Should we rest here for a night and wait for Zhang Duyuhou's soldiers and horses by the way."

Su Hongzhen laughed: "Brother Tuoba, don't you still want to say that this is a trick of the Shatuo people to deceive the enemy? Hundreds of Shatuo cavalry corpses in this valley, and thousands of horses War horses can't be faked. What's more, in the previous battle, Li Guochang and Li Ke used these two thieves to almost capture the capital. How could this be a fraudulent defeat. The Shatuo people were indeed a fraudulent defeat before, but their ambush has already It was broken by us, now, there is no ambush, Li Guochang is too late to escape. If we delay here, then these two big fish will run away."

The other officers also looked at Tuoba Sigong full of expectation: "General, let's fight!"

Although Tuoba Sigong also served as the vanguard envoy, but he was originally a guest army, and secondly, he was the right vanguard envoy, under Su Hongzhen, the left vanguard envoy.At this time, seeing that all the gentlemen wanted to make meritorious service, he couldn't stop it, so he had to agree.At the same time, he was also thinking in his heart, maybe he was a bit of a shadow of a snake, and Li Keyong and his son were not invincible. Didn't he defeat Li Guochang once before, and now he defeated him again, maybe once again, he would be able to capture These two thieves, this is a great achievement.

"Since everyone asks that you must go to war, then follow the wishes of the Soviet army envoy. However, it is best to immediately send a messenger to report the situation here to Zhang Duyuhou of the Chinese army. Marquis Yu led his troops to follow, thinking it was a surefire strategy." Tuoba Sigong said finally.

"Okay, let's do according to General Tuoba's wishes." Su Hongzhen said straightforwardly.

In this battle, Sha Tuo's army killed more than [-] people, and more than [-] people were seriously injured and remained on the battlefield. All of them were beheaded by Su Hongzhen directly.Su Hongzhen's Lulu Army and Tuoba Sigong's Dangxiang soldiers also suffered heavy losses. Nearly a thousand people were killed and seriously injured in the two armies, and more were slightly injured. The casualty ratio reached two to one.

Immediately, after discussing with Tuoba Sigong, Su Hongzhen left more than [-] soldiers with minor injuries to clean up the battlefield and take care of the seriously injured.

After resting for a while, drinking water and eating dry food, the two continued to pursue with more than [-] cavalry.

Chasing all the way, the Shatuo people were always in front of them, but they couldn't catch up, and Su Hongzhen was so angry that he kept cursing.They chased until the evening of the second day, and the horses of the Shatuo people could be seen from time to time along the road.Su Hongzhen was overjoyed and ordered to speed up the march.

After chasing for a while, I finally saw the Shatuo people fleeing forward.

The Lulu army and the Dangxiang soldiers cheered for a while, and followed the Shatuo soldiers to chase and kill them. Unknowingly, they had entered a valley.

Tuoba Sigong saw that the terrain of the valley was extremely dangerous, and he had a bad feeling in his heart, he hurriedly asked: "Where is this place?"

Someone nearby replied: "This is Honggu!"

Tuoba Sigong was shocked, "Honggu? Isn't it the place where Cao Xiangzhong and Li Ke were ambushed and defeated by the trick of luring the enemy? No, this is Li Ya'er's trick. There is an ambush here, retreat quickly!"

Tuoba Sizhong didn't believe it: "Then Li Ya'er couldn't have been defeated in Jingle, but he set up an ambush in Honggu. The distance between these two places is hundreds of miles."

"I don't have time to talk about these people, get out!"

"Brother, General Su led the captive army to enter." Tuoba Sizhong remembered that Su Hongzhen had saved his life.

"I can't care so much, no matter how late, we all have to go here." After speaking, Tuoba Sigong immediately ordered the whole army to retreat.

As soon as the military order to retreat came out, there was a sound of shouting and killing from all around, and ambushes broke out everywhere.Li Guochang and Li Keyong, who had fled for their lives in embarrassment, immediately turned around to fight, and there was no intention of fleeing.The Lulu army rushing to the front immediately fell into a tight siege, and the Dangxiang cavalry wanted to retreat. At this time, a cavalry rushed over from the valley entrance, blocking their retreat.

"White-robed Shi Jingsi is here, Dangxiang dogs don't want to escape!" A young white-robed general slapped his horse and led the army to kill, just blocking the way of Dangxiang's retreat. (To be continued.)