Late Tang

Emperor Xixing, all the towns in the world have completely given up on Li Tang's royal family.

All of a sudden, the world was full of turmoil, and all forces began to make their own calculations.Just when Li Jing captured Suzhou and Chen Qi, the general of the Huai army, led the army to surrender to Li Jing, the Central Plains also experienced drastic changes.

Guo An, the general of Caozhou under Tianping Town, saw that the emperor had abandoned Luoyang and Chang'an successively and fled to Shuzhong, while Li Jing had given up Tianping Town.The town of Tianping was handed over to Yu Yu, who was between Huang Chao and Li Jing. In the end, Guo An was persuaded by the lobbyist of his neighbor Zhu Wen. The army surrendered to Xuanwu Jiedu envoy Zhu Wen of Da Qi.

On June [-]th, Tianping Army Jiedushi Yu Wei led [-] soldiers and horses to counterattack and entered Lihu, Caozhou. At this time, Tang Xuanwu Army Jiedushi Xin Yan also received Yu Jian's request and led the Songzhou Army to turn around to respond.Xin Xun did not send troops to the northeast, but went to join forces with Yu Jian.Instead, they marched northwest along the canal, passing through Ningling and Xiangyi, and went straight to Kaocheng in the southwest of Caozhou, northwest of Songzhou, making a posture of directly taking Bianzhou, the base camp of Zhu and Wen.

At the same time, Yu Jian sent someone to contact Kang Chenghui, the governor of the Yicheng Army, and asked him to send troops to the south, responding to Xin Yuyao, and attacked Zhu Wen from the north to the south.

When Zhu Wen found out that Tianping, Xuanwu, and Yicheng were going to jointly attack Bianzhou, he dared not be careless, and hurriedly marched back to Bianzhou to defend the foundation.

The junction of Biancao and Caozhou, the north bank of Baigou, Baishan.

On the mountain, Xin Yan held a binoculars and was looking at the east. As far as the eye could see, there was silence everywhere.

"Kang Shuai, do you think Zhu Wen will really pass by here?"

Kang Chenghui, the Jiedu envoy of the Yicheng Army, also held a binoculars in his hand, and said with a smile: "Ji Yu told us earlier that as long as our three towns send troops according to his plan, Zhu and Wen will not dare to fight and will definitely retreat. How is it now? Everything is as Ji Yu expected, and Zhu Wen retreated without a fight. Since Ji Yu also said that Zhu Wen would pass by here, it must be all right."

Xin Xun was approaching his sixtieth year. After resigning from the governor's post a few years ago, he thought his career would end.Unexpectedly, he saved Li Jing once because of the injustice in the road, but instead became the deputy ambassador of Datong Town, and now he is the envoy of Xuanwu Jiedu.Although this Xuanwu Jiedu envoy did not go well, there was only one Songzhou under his command, and the puppet Qi also had a Xuanwu Jiedu envoy.But in any case, Xin Yan did not refuse.

Although everyone in the world can see that Li Tang will fall, and there is no way to support him alone.But Xin Yan values ​​loyalty the most, no matter what, he will stick to it until the end.Although it seems that Li Jing is not really loyal to Datang, at least, now that Li Jing is still fighting under the banner of Datang, and is still fighting against the false Qi Huangchao who blatantly opposes Tang and proclaims himself emperor, then he will be as loyal as he is. Continue to support Li Jing.

"It's a pity that we have too few soldiers, and they are not elite enough. Otherwise, when that bastard Zhu Wen comes, we will take advantage of it to destroy him."

The two pretended to attack Bianzhou on the surface, but in fact it was just a feint, only a small part of the soldiers and horses were bluffing and feigning.The real soldiers and horses of the two towns were actually secretly ambushing on the Caobian border, setting up an ambush circle, and waiting for Zhu Wen to sneak in.

Xin Yan, Kang Chenghui, and Zhu Wen didn't have a good relationship. Zhu Wen's existence was the biggest threat to them.At the same time, they all knew that Zhu Wen was an officer under Li Jing in his early years, but in the end he defected to the grassroots, and now he has become a general.Xin Xuan and Kang Chenghui didn't like this kind of person, and they were planning to beat Zhu Wen up.It's a pity that the two of them took over not long ago, and the total number of soldiers and horses of the two of them now is only [-].Moreover, half of them are newly recruited soldiers.Insufficient training and poor armor.

Li Jing has elite soldiers under his command, but it's a pity that Li Jing is concentrating on plotting Xuzhou and has no spare power.

A horse galloped up, and the knight rolled his saddle and fell off the horse, and flew to report: "Report, the forward of the Bian army is approaching, and there are still thirty miles away!"

Xin Yan ordered in a deep voice: "The whole army is ready!"

In the afternoon, a group of soldiers came windingly, and soon ran headlong into the ambush circle of Xin Yan and Kang Chenghui.

"Kill!" Xin Yan gave an order, and in an instant, the soldiers and horses of Yicheng and Xuanwu towns who were ambushing on the mountain beside the road suddenly got up, shouting and killing.

The archers from the two towns were the first to shoot their arrows, and for a while the arrows rained down on Bianjun's heads.Immediately afterwards, the catapults and ballistas covered with branches also took off their camouflage and began to project.And Xin Yan even held a general with both hands and a sword on his horse. He led a thousand cavalry to gallop out from behind the mountain, and led the cavalry to violently attack the Bian army team, trying to cut the Bian army apart.

Zhu Wen was also shocked when he was ambushed suddenly.

Ding Hui, the former general of the Bian Army, was attacked, but he was not frightened. He drew his sword and ordered, "Defend on the spot!"

After hearing the order, the Bian army began to form small circle formations according to the team, defend on the spot, stabilize the formation, and then move closer to the center. The small formations slowly merged into a middle formation, and the middle formation finally converged into a large formation.

Kang Chenghui, who was gathering infantry at the foot of the mountain, saw the Bian army's reaction, and couldn't help secretly admiring them, but these grassroots thieves were not just idlers.

But in the past, perhaps Kang Chenghui would not be able to deal with these capable Bian troops, but now, Kang Chenghui is not worried.Because the ambush plan this time was originally drawn up by Li Jing, although Li Jing couldn't send soldiers and horses to help in the battle, he generously gave them a large number of ordnance.Among them, there are [-] boxes of Thunderbolt.A box of fifty thunderbolts, a total of five thousand thunderbolts, is enough for an ambush.

"Kill!" Kang Chenghui swung his lance, and the assembled infantry formed a square formation and surrounded the Bian army with heavy steps.

Zhu Wen, under the banner of the commander of the Bian Army, looked around coldly. In a short period of time, he had already observed that there were not many troops ambushing him, about [-] or so.And looking at the opponent's flag, it is certain that it is Kang Chenghui's Huazhou Army and Xin Yan's Bianzhou Army who were reported to attack Bianzhou earlier.

There were only 2 troops, and seeing that most of them were recruits, Zhu Wen gradually calmed down.

This point of soldiers and horses was not taken seriously by him. What he was worried about just now was that he thought that the person who ambushed him was Li Jing.It turned out that there were only these two people, since it wasn't Li Jing, there was nothing to be afraid of.Although Zhu Wen returned to the army in a hurry this time, he still had [-] troops.Twenty thousand against twenty thousand, Zhu Wen has the confidence to beat the opponent.

With a clang, Zhu Wen drew his sword out of its sheath.

"Since they have come to your door, it is just right to destroy them together. Come on, destroy them!"

As the infantry on both sides approached, the Bian army leveled their spears one after another, raised their shields, and prepared to crush them.The archers guarding the center of the formation also started shooting arrows, and the distance between the two sides was constantly approaching.Although the Bian army was born as a grass thief, the various tactics of Zhu Wen's army were basically born out of the early suppression [***] tactics.It is precisely because of these tactics that Zhu Wen has been fighting the enemy for a long time, and he has rarely been defeated.

Seeing that the two sides were about to start a scuffle, the corners of Zhu Wen's mouth curled up slightly, he was very confident.

Then, when the distance between the two sides was less than ten feet, and the Bian army began to trot and prepare to charge, the Yicheng army and Xuanwu army on the opposite side suddenly stopped advancing, and one by one took something from their waist belts, and then one by one. A struggling to throw towards the Bian army.

The distance between the two sides is less than ten feet, and ten feet is the standard throwing distance of Zhentianlei.

Seeing the black spots all over the sky, the smile on Zhu Wen's face suddenly froze.

He had a very bad premonition.

The sky-shaking sound continued to ring out, accompanied by the screams and panic of the Bian army's ups and downs.

The pungent gunpowder smoke rose all over the sky, and there were still limbs and arms flying in the air, and blood spattered everywhere.

The Bian army suffered a great loss. They encountered Zhentianlei's attack for the first time, but they still lined up in a dense phalanx, and they didn't know how to lie down to avoid it. As a result, Zhentianlei exerted the greatest lethality.

Zhu Wen's smile turned into shock, horror, and then bewilderment....

He understood that it was Qin Jun's firearm, the thunder that shook the sky.

He should have thought earlier that Zhentianlei was Qin Jun's trump card.But this Thunderbolt is not invincible. It is said that the Hebei Fanzhen has already worked out a way to deal with Thunderbolt. defense evasion.The most critical thing is that when fighting in rainy days, Qin Jun's Zhentianlei can hardly be used.What's more, if you use a shield to block it, it can also effectively resist the lethality of the Thunderbolt...

In short, if the precautions were taken early, Zhentianlei may look mighty, but it is not invincible, and it is absolutely impossible to cause such a large amount of damage.Moreover, the Thunderbolt is expensive and not easy to make, and the opponent's Thunderbolt is also limited.

But it's too late to think about it now, the explosions are still going on, and the power of Zhentianlei is much greater than Zhu Wen imagined.The Bian army was completely dumbfounded, and at this moment, the cavalry led by Xin Yu, who had regrouped on the side, seized the opportunity and rushed back.

The cavalry charged forward and broke through the formation, while the infantry came behind them.

Ding Hui's front army was defeated, Zhu Zhen's left army was defeated, and Zhu Cun's right army was defeated. At this moment, Li Tangbin of the rear army came on horseback in embarrassment.

"Commander, it's not good. Yu Yu led three thousand elite cavalry to kill them. When we fought, they suddenly used a lot of firearms. Our army was defeated, and the rear army was already defeated. Yu Yu will be there soon!"

Zhu Wen's face was gray and defeated, and he was on the verge of falling, almost falling off the horse.

Looking back at the billowing smoke and dust behind him, although his central army was fairly neat, if Yu Guan's [-] cavalry joined, the situation would not be optimistic.And what Zhu Wen is most worried about is not knowing how many thunderbolts they have in their hands. If they are gone, Zhu Wen is confident that they can still fight.But if the other party still has many such shocking thunders, the current morale of the Bian army cannot be supported at all.

Thousands of thoughts turned in his mind, although Zhu Wen was unwilling to do so, he still gritted his teeth and said: "Don't love to fight, break out immediately and return to Bianzhou."

Zhu Wen was about to run away, but Xin Xuan and Kang Chenghui couldn't stop them, they only stopped thousands of Bian troops to besiege and kill them.

Zhu Wen took Zhu Zhen, Zhu Cunding, Li Tangbin, Xie Tong and other generals of the Bian army, and led more than ten thousand defeated soldiers, not daring to love to fight, and fled all the way back to Bianzhou.Kang Chenghui joined forces with Xin Xuan and Yu Jian, and the three commanders finally intercepted and killed more than [-] Bian troops.After the war, the three of Yu Yu did not chase into Bianzhou, but turned around and fought back to Caozhou. A few days later, Guo An, who had surrendered to Bian in a mutiny, was captured by his subordinates and dedicated to Yu Yu.Yu Jian beheaded Guo An, and Caozhou returned to Tianping Town. (To be continued.)