Late Tang

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Chanyu Dufu Mansion, south gate.

The south gate slowly closed again, like a ferocious monster closing its mouth.

Li Wei, Li Yuan, and Cui Chengxiu led troops to attack from three sides, and finally converged at the south gate.

"Report to the general, the subordinates are incompetent, let Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao escape with Qianqi." Fifth Shu, the deputy tenth general of Feiying Battalion, came forward and said guiltily.

Li Wei took a look at the situation at the south gate. There were corpses strewn everywhere in front of the city gate, both from Shatuo people and from suppressing gangsters.Looking at the way they fell, you can know how fierce the battle here was before. Some soldiers even tightly held the spear that the enemy had pierced into their bodies with one hand before they died, and then stabbed the spear in the other hand into the enemy. chest, and the enemy died together.

Although this battle was an ambush, they only had 3000 people, and three thousand ambushed three thousand. This battle did not have much advantage.The Shatuo people reacted very quickly, almost as soon as they broke into the city, they had already reacted.As soon as the suppressing force was closed, the enemy cavalry had already begun to break through.

"No matter what the reason, it is indeed your responsibility that you failed to close the south gate in time." Li Wei dismounted to help his old subordinates, looked at the many Shatuo people who were still desperately resisting in the streets, and said in a deep voice: " However, I will now give you a chance to redeem yourself, I will hand over the Flying Eagle Battalion Qianqi to you, and you will be responsible to stay and wipe out the Shatuo people in the city."

After finishing speaking, Li Wei, Li Yuan, and Cui Chengxiu will lead nearly 2000 troops out of the city, chasing and killing Li Sizhao and other Shatuo defeated soldiers.

At this time, the Shatuo camp thirty miles away has become a hell on earth.

Not long after Li Siyuan left with the [-] cavalry guards, at dusk, Tang Jun's scout rangers were found near the Shatuo people's camp.Those Tang cavalry wearing fiery red war robes and carrying red army flags howled freely and scouted around the camp.

Hearing this news, Liu thought at first that the sentry cavalry in Shanyu's Duhu mansion had discovered them.She immediately dispatched armed young and strong members of her family, and sent ten centurions on horseback to hunt down those sentry cavalry.

But after the thousand young men were sent out, it was as if nothing was heard from them.

After night fell, the people sent out did not return for a long time, and Liu Shi finally realized an extremely bad possibility.Those sentry cavalry were not Shanyu's guards, but other Tang cavalry.At this time, apart from the Zhenwu Army, it could only be the pursuers from Hedong.

As if to confirm her guess, shortly thereafter, groups of cavalry from the Tang army reappeared around the temporary camp. They roared past with their battle flags, and divided into multiple routes to attack the camp.

This is just a temporary camp, no fences, no horses, no deer feet.They all thought that it would be no problem to take down the Chanyu Protectorate's Mansion, and they were not prepared to spend the night here, but just prepared to take a rest before entering the Chanyu Protectorate's Mansion.Their luggage and tents have not been unloaded yet, and the Shatuo people were defenseless when Tang Qi rushed out suddenly.

Although Mrs. Liu saw that the young men who had been sent out had not returned for a long time, and had ordered all the accompanying vehicles to be set up outside the camp, but the camp with tens of thousands of people could not be prepared in a hurry.

When more and more Tang Qi came from all directions, this team, which was almost all women, children, and the elderly, could only rely on a few thousand young men with simple iron knives, spears, bows and arrows to deal with the enemy.

Although the Shatuo people are brave and strong, everyone is a warrior, but with simple weapons and no orderly command, their fighting will is extremely weak in this dark night.

The banner of the town hall appeared. Before, it was only a team attacking the camp. Now, under the red banner of the town hall, a thousand-man cavalry unit appeared.

Li Jing is wearing a gold-plated red lacquer Kirin mountain armor with phoenix wings and a long cloak made of gold, a golden sword hanging on his waist, a jade sword on his back, and two bows hanging on his saddle.Behind him, six disciples guarded him left and right, full of murderous aura.

After the Battle of Shanyang City, Li Jing's soldiers and horses only rested for one day, and he judged that the Shatuo people might abandon Shuozhou and flee.However, there are only three ways for the Shatuo people to escape. According to the current situation, it is nothing more than going to Baidao in the west, Yunzhongqing ramp in the north, and Feihu Road in the south, and then go out to Duxing.There are [-] Tang troops stationed on Qingpo Road, so the enemy has only two ways to go. In the end, Li Jing judged that the last escape route of the Shatuo people must be the white road in the west that is empty of soldiers and horses.

After judging the escape route of the enemy and people, the next thing will be easy to handle.In the end, Li Jing suggested that to deal with the Shatuo people, the troops could be divided into multiple ways.First of all, Li Jing mobilized the [-] towns of Yunzhou and Weizhou to move to the Huanghualiang area in the northeast of Shuozhou, and set up an ambush there to prevent the Shatuo people from escaping in the other two directions, or Possibility of a detour.

In addition, the soldiers and horses of the remaining seven towns were divided into two parts, and the cavalry of the five tribes formed a single group, and they were closely watching the large army of the Shatuo people.There is only one task, follow them closely, cling to them, hold them back.The infantry from the Seven Towns followed suit, and were responsible for taking back the Jincheng abandoned by the Shatuo people and the three towns and four towns, and clearing out the remaining Shatuo people, and never giving the Shatuo people a chance to come back.Afterwards, apart from leaving some soldiers and horses to guard the cities, the rest of the infantry followed along the route of the cavalry in front.

Li Jing, on the other hand, led his [-] cavalry to enter Yunzhou first, cross the Zihe from the Jingbian Army, and then rush all the way to Shanyu Duhu Mansion to intercept.In short, this time we will outflank and intercept, and we will never give the Shatuo people a chance.

Although Li Siyuan's vanguard set out earlier than Li Jing's, they brought tens of thousands of family members and they did not leave quickly.But Li Jing's [-] cavalry went north on Qingqi, day and night.When Li Jing arrived at Shanyu Duhu's mansion, Li Siyuan hadn't arrived yet.Knowing that Li Siyuan's tens of thousands of horses will arrive soon, Li Jing immediately ordered Li Weisan to divide his troops into Shanyu Duhu Mansion with [-] cavalry, and used Shanyang City's plan again.

Li Jing took the remaining [-] cavalry and went to the Shatuo camp quietly. When the horse scout reported that Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao were already attacking Shanyu Dufu with [-] cavalry, he immediately sent several teams of scouts The cavalry deliberately appeared outside the Shatuo camp, leading out a thousand riding Shatuo people.After the thousand Shatuo people left the camp, after chasing for more than ten miles, they entered Li Jing's ambush circle and annihilated them directly.

After interrogating the captives, Li Jing did not expect that there were several big fish in the Shatuo camp, and Li Guochang and Li Keyong's wife, Liu Shi, were both in the camp.

Winning one Li Guochang is more meritorious than killing ten thousand Shatuo cavalrymen.Hearing this news, Li Jing has already decided that he must find a way to catch Li Guochang this time.Liu Xun offered a plan. First, he sent a thousand cavalry as a unit to attack the Shatuo people from all directions, and let the tens of thousands of Shatuo people collapse first.Disperse them first, and then drive away the Shatuo people. At this time, important figures like Li Guochang and Mrs. Liu must have many soldiers and horses gathered around them. Kill them and capture them alive.

This is indeed a good way, after all, it is really not easy to find one person among tens of thousands.But with Liu Xun's method, it is indeed possible to distinguish them very well.

Under the siege and raid of a thousand cavalrymen, the Shatuo people were completely caught off guard, and they only resisted for a moment before blowing up the battalion.This vanguard was only guarded by [-] elite cavalry led by Li Siyuan and the others, and the rest was only the Liu family. From among these common people, he mobilized [-] young men to simply arm them, and these [-] young men were not all Shatuo people. , There are Shatuo people, there are also Sogdians, Turkic people, Huihe people, and even Han people, etc., who have been under the control of the Daibei Li family.They have lived in the frontier for a long time, and they are all brave, but no matter how brave they are, they are not soldiers.They have simple weapons and good individual ability, but they are amateurs in fighting.Lacking a layer of experienced officers, these people have no orders, no one to command, they are at a loss in advance and retreat, and their hearts are fluctuating.

In a short while, the soldiers could not find the generals, the generals could not find the soldiers, and the command was completely chaotic. Some teams were only chasing Tang Qi with swords and guns, some ran away with their heads in their arms, and some stood there in a daze.

A thousand cavalrymen from the town were scattered into dozens of teams, like wolves on the grassland in the dark, constantly wandering outside the camp, looking for opportunities.As soon as they found an opportunity, they immediately swarmed up and surrounded them from all directions, outflanking and beheading them. In an instant, they broke through the rudimentary car formation defense line and entered the inside of the camp.

Then, like a piece of red-hot iron, it was easily cut in the butter, bows and crossbows shot, knives and guns crisscrossed, like a tiger entering a flock, more like a farmer harvesting wheat, harvesting Shatuo piece by piece The heads of the people rushed back and forth, turning all the people killed by Shatuo's team who tried to gather and fight back, and fled in all directions.

The red battle flags are like the warning stickers of the King of Hades. Wherever the flags go, the Shatuo people will collapse.

In less than half an hour, the tens of thousands of people in the Shatuo camp were completely frightened, and at this time they began to flee in all directions.

Mrs. Liu brought the sword guards and some young and strong people to stick to the camp, but unfortunately her voice was hoarse, but no one gathered around her anymore.

At this moment, I saw countless flames lighting up in the east, and a cavalry came winding like a fire dragon with torches.The first big banner is the banner of Li Jing, the town's coach who has repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the Shatuo people.At this moment, no matter how dull people are, they can understand that Tang Jun's pursuers have arrived.Panic and fear arose everywhere, and countless people screamed and fled.You crowded me, people trampled on horses, and there were countless casualties.Ninety percent of the thousands of young men who barely gathered in the camp ran away in an instant.The soldiers of Liu Shi and Li Guochang saw that the defeat was decided at this time, and they didn't know how many cavalrymen had arrived, but just looking at each other's torches, there were no less than five thousand soldiers and horses, and they immediately shouted, guards With their respective masters wrapped in the chaotic army, they fled in all directions in a blink of an eye and disappeared without a trace. (To be continued.)