Late Tang

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While cleaning the battlefield, Wang Jian saw the horse that had saved his life lying quietly on the battlefield. Jin Hui and his clansmen Wang Zongshou, Wang Zongkan, Wang Zongbi, Wang Zongruan, Wang Zongdi, Wang Zongbo, Wang Zongji and others cut the dead horse into eight pieces and prepared a big pot of horse broth to comfort him. followed his brethren.

When Wang Jian was young, in his hometown of Xuzhou, he also specialized in the business of killing cattle and donkeys, but when he skillfully cut open the belly of the horse, he found a strange animal that looked like a small snake, near the heart of the horse. Wriggling, couldn't help being shocked.Jin Hui, Wang Zongshou and the others also changed their expressions in shock.

Just when everyone was surprised and at a loss, Wang Zongshou said to Brother Wang in a low voice: "On the battlefield today, the three crossbow arrows were aimed directly at Brother Wang, but at the time of Guan Jian, it was all relying on this horse's psychic avoidance." , Brother Wang survived the catastrophe. Now that this thing is found in this horse again, I think it is a good omen."

It is too strange to cut a horse and see a snake. After Wang Zongshou said so, everyone also remembered that Wang Jianduo escaped the death because of this war horse.They all felt that this matter was unusual.

"This thing looks like a snake but not like a snake, but it actually grows in the heart of the horse. Could it be that this is a dragon horse? The world is in chaos today. Could it be that Brother Wang has a destiny?"

When they said this, Wang Jian also felt that he had a faint destiny, and he couldn't help being excited. It seemed that if he survived a catastrophe, there must be a future blessing.Now he stewed a large pot of horse broth with the horse, and all his brothers shared a share.As for the strange snake, it was directly cooked and eaten by the brave Wang Jian alone.

That night, the army withdrew its troops and returned to the camp. The towns counted the numbers and found that in today's battle, more than [-] people were killed and thousands of people were injured.This huge number of casualties made Zheng Congxuan and the other six townsmen very ugly.

At this time, Tuoba Sigong and Helian Duo were a little lucky that they didn't break into the city that night, otherwise, maybe all of their troops would have to be thrown into the city.After this battle, the generals suffered heavy casualties, and they were somewhat unwilling to continue the onslaught.

The next day, the nine thousand cavalry from the three tribes sent by Li Jing arrived. Their arrival made Zheng Congxuan and others excited again.

"Commander, the enemy army resisted stubbornly, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties. It's better to stop the attack for now, our army can only surround them instead of attacking them, and directly trap them to death." Li Zhong, the Jiedu envoy of the Yicheng Army, suggested that his Yicheng Army was in various towns. He was the weakest among them, and he suffered the heaviest casualties yesterday. He only brought [-] soldiers and horses when he entered Hedong this time, and he lost almost [-] soldiers and horses in this battle.If he fights two more battles like this, he will become a handsome man.

"No, we must attack!" Zheng Congxuan was uncharacteristically this time, categorically demanding to continue the attack.

Zheng Congxuan Xiangguo, who was usually gentle and polite, was so stubborn at this moment, which shocked all the leaders present.

Zheng Congxuan glanced over the crowd, his eyes shining brightly: "Everyone, the strength of the defenders is beyond our expectations. I judge that there are at least [-] soldiers in the city. Li Ke's current strength is limited. Since he is stationed heavily Shuozhou City, then the other lines of defense must be empty! Shuozhou is not easy to fight, then we will use Mayi!"

The commanders of the townships all understood, Li Zhong asked: "Commander, do you want to make a fuss?"

"Exactly!" Zheng Congxun turned around and said, "Shuai Yu Jie!"

Yu Jian stood up, "Here!"

"I plan to let you lead the cavalry to raid Mayi, are you willing to accept this task?"

Yu Jin did not refuse, "Yu Jin takes orders!"

"Okay, Tuoba Sigong, Helianduo, Qi Bizhang, Shi Jingsi, Mi Haiwan, each of you will lead your headquarters under Yu Shuai Jiedu."

The generals responded to their orders, and finally decided that since Wu Fan led the cavalry of the Five Fans and the cavalry of the Zhenwu Army, a total of [-] cavalry went to raid Mayi City.The remaining [-] soldiers and horses were still led by Zheng Congxuan and continued to besiege Shuozhou City.

In the middle of the night, Yu Jian led 3 cavalry to march northward.A total of [-] cavalry, this can be described as an extremely large-scale concentrated cavalry battle.Both Zheng Congxun and Yu Jian believed that with this cavalry, it should not be a problem to take down Mayi. The Shatuo people have only so many soldiers and horses, at most [-] to [-], and among them there are only about [-] elite at most.Now there are tens of thousands of people in Shuozhou City, so the Golden City, the home of the Shatuo people, must not be less than [-] people. In this way, Mayi's soldiers will never exceed [-] people, and there will never be as many people in Shuozhou City elite.

As long as there is a surprise battle, there is a great chance of winning Mayi.

When Yu Juan led [-] cavalry to leave Shanyang, Li Keyong, who had been stationed secretly in Mayi City between Shuozhou City and Jincheng, also used all the [-] fine cavalry in Mayi City to march towards Shuo Zhoucheng came to kill.

The two soldiers and horses marched almost at the same time, but they didn't meet at all along the way.

Yu Yu went to the east, but Li Keyong went to the west.

When it was almost dawn, Li Ke was the first to arrive near the Tang army camp in Shanyang with fewer troops and faster speed.Li Ke had already found out that the coalition army's supplies and grain were piled up in the left camp, so he directly rushed to the left camp.Eight thousand Shatuo cavalry came out, Tangying was preparing to rest and fight again tomorrow, but this Shatuo cavalry was not found at all.The two sides immediately started a scuffle. Although the Tang camp still had [-] troops, the soldiers and horses in each town were originally separated from each other. At this time, the chaos was even more chaotic.

After much difficulty, Zheng Congxun figured out what was going on, and commanded all the troops to try to surround Li Keyong.Li Siyuan, Kang Junli and others in the city over there got the news and knew that Li Keyong had arrived, so they immediately ordered five thousand cavalry from the city to come out of the city to meet them.

The two sides fought all night, and at dawn, Li Keyong and Li Siyuan retreated into Shanyang City.

After dawn, Zheng Congxuan asked the towns to count the losses. In the battle last night, the Shatuo people went out and entered several times. The 5000 troops of the Tang Army unexpectedly suffered more than [-] casualties. More than [-] people died in the battle, and more than [-] were seriously injured. number.However, the biggest loss was not casualties, but that the food and grass of the tens of thousands of troops in the battalion were all reduced to ashes.

Now, the entire army has no grain left.

Li Keyong was victorious and went back to the city at dawn. After fighting all night, his loss was no more than a thousand horses. Li Keyong was very happy.Killing and injuring nearly ten thousand enemies with more than a thousand cavalry, and completely burned the food and grass of the coalition army, no matter how the coalition army continues to fight, they will have to retreat.

While being happy and proud, Mayi stayed behind and Li Kening arrived suddenly.

"Third Brother, Mayi has fallen!" Li Kening was in a panic. After Li Keyong led [-] cavalry to leave, only [-] newly recruited infantry remained in Mayi City.As soon as Li Keyong left, Yu Yu's [-] cavalry arrived.With so many cavalry, Yu Guan directly attacked the city from all sides, Li Kening's recruits were completely outmatched, and the city was breached before dawn.Li Kening finally escaped from the city and went to Shanyang to report.

Li Ke almost stood there in a daze. He had just burned the grain and grass of the coalition army, but the coalition army snatched his Mayi in a blink of an eye.

Mayi lives in Shanyang and Jincheng. Now that Mayi is lost, Shanyang is surrounded by two sides and loses connection with Jincheng.

"What should we do now?" Li Youjin asked worriedly, the joy of victory just now had been washed away by Ma Yi's loss. "Let me lead my troops to kill Mayi and take back Mayi."

"No." Li Ke shook his head. He had just experienced a one-night battle. At this time, when he rushed to Mayi, the soldiers could only be exhausted. After that, the opponent still had city defenses available. They wanted to take Mayi, so what? It's so easy.Li Ke held the sword tightly with his palm, and his one eye showed deep thought.

"Let the brothers eat first, and rest immediately after eating. Let's go out of the city again tonight!" Li Ke said.

"Are you going to take back Mayi?"

"No, tonight we are going to defeat the Tang soldiers outside the city, first destroy the Tang army in front of us, and then return to the division to take back Mayi."

In Tang Jun's camp, Zheng Congxuan stayed up all night, his eyes were red and bloodshot, his eyes were dark and his face was pale.Without food and grass, tens of thousands of troops have no way to advance or retreat.Even if you want to go back at this time, what do you eat these days.

"Li Jing, Li Jing, where are you at this time?" Zheng Congzhen was thinking about Li Jing at this time. If Li Jing was here, this young man should have a way to deal with it.

A burst of hurried footsteps finally interrupted Zheng Congxuan's thoughts, and a messenger stepped in hurriedly: "Report to the commander, and Yu Shuai ordered the younger one to return. Before dawn, Mayi City has been captured. There are only [-] recruits in Mayi City. , After interrogating the captives, I learned that Li Keyong led [-] cavalry to Shanyang, I hope the commander-in-chief be careful."

Zheng Congyu sighed: "It's too late, Li Keyong broke through our army's camp last night, not only killed thousands of our army's soldiers and horses, but also burned all our army's food and grass."

However, this news made Zheng Congxuan feel a little happy in his depressed mood, "At least Ma Yicheng has been taken, and they still have Li Jing and Yu Cang. The key now is that as long as they survive this hurdle, victory will be immediate." can be your own.”

"Pass down the order, and the whole army is on alert. As expected tonight, Shatuo will definitely attack!" Zheng Congxuan cheered up and issued an order.

It was night, Li Keyong led [-] elite horsemen out of the city again to attack Tang camp at night.This time, Zheng Congxuan had taken precautions, and Li Keyong stormed the camp, but Zheng Congxuan insisted on defending the camp. The two sides attacked and defended overnight, causing countless casualties.But Li Keyong didn't want to retreat. If Ma Yi was in his hands, he just had to stare at this team without food and grass like a wolf. In just a few days, this Tang army would be defeated without attack.

But now that Mayi is in the hands of the enemy, Jincheng is directly surrounded by Yu Yu's cavalry and Li Jing's troops in the cloud. A deep uneasiness welled up in my heart.

This Tang army must be destroyed first, and then return to Shimai, for which he will spare no expense.

Li Ke was fierce, and Zheng Congxuan was also ruthless at this time.He had asked Zhang Chengye to go back to find Li Jing, and also sent someone to Yu Yu's place to send troops to help.Now he only needs to hold back Li Keyong, and when Li Jing and Yu Yu come back, the final victory of this battle will still be theirs.

In the dark night, waves of Shatuo cavalry rushed towards the Tang army's camp like a tide.The soldiers in the battalion were hungry at this time, and fought back desperately, and the corpses in front of the camp fence were spread layer after layer.

Zheng Congxuan continued to ride his horse to lead the way on the front line, boosting morale.

"Brothers hold on for a while, Li Zhenguo and Yu Zhenwu's army will arrive soon, hold on for a while, and the victory will completely belong to us!" (To be continued.)