Late Tang

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Li Jing agreed to Yang Lin's request to send troops to rescue Li Siyuan.

"Li Si'an, the leader of the Xiaoqi Army, and Dong Zhang, the leader of the Wuqi Army! Step forward and listen to the order!"

"The last general is here." Li Jing's ninth and No.11 disciples heard the order to come out and responded loudly.

Li Jing glanced at these two young disciples. In the past few years, the performance of the two of them is also remarkable. Too ordinary.As the disciples of King Li Jing of Qin, as well as outstanding brothers like Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang, they were expected to be higher by the Qin army.However, Li Jing knew that these two people were by no means ordinary people, and they could still achieve higher glory, but they had never had such an opportunity.

But they have already made preparations. These two historically brilliant generals have gone through several years of waiting, and now it is time for them to soar into the sky.

"The two of you are ordered to lead the cavalry of your headquarters to send troops immediately to rescue Li Siyuan." After a pause, Li Jing continued: "If Li Siyuan is at the entrance of the Great Wall, then we will wipe out the Hu soldiers in one fell swoop. If Li Siyuan is not at the entrance of the Great Wall, but If you are still parting from Staff Officer Yang, then rescue Li Siyuan, but."

"After rescuing Li Siyuan, I want you to be defeated by Hu Bing and retreat all the way to the entrance of the Great Wall."

Li Si'an, who was nicknamed Flying General, was born with a resolute and brave face, and was usually silent and seldom spoke. At this time, he couldn't help frowning, "My lord, there are only [-] cavalry soldiers, and [-] soldiers from my cavalry army are enough to wipe them out. Rescuing Li Siyuan, plus the cavalry army is more than enough, why bother to feign defeat?"

Li Jing smiled, "You also said that a mere [-] Huqi are nothing more than mere fish. Since this is the case, of course our appetite is more than that. Letting you feign defeat is naturally to lure the enemy, but it is not the two Thousands of miscellaneous soldiers!"

Jing Xiang's eyes lit up on one side, and he already understood something in his heart.

"Could it be that Your Highness wants to catch a big fish?"

"If you want to catch big fish, I don't have much interest in small fish and shrimp." Li Jing smiled lightly.

In war, a very important thing is not to let the enemy always control the initiative, and must not always be dragged by the passive side, the rhythm must be in your own hands.Li Jing's plan is actually very simple, first send [-] cavalry to rescue Li Siyuan, and at the same time lure them over, he led his troops to set up an ambush at the entrance of the Great Wall, and then wiped out the [-] miscellaneous barbarians in one fell swoop.Of course, as he said, this is not his ultimate goal.He planned to show his King Qin's banner at the entrance of the Great Wall to lure the enemy again.

"The last general takes orders!" Knowing that King Qin didn't look down on the combat effectiveness of their two armies, but because he wanted to catch bigger fish, Li Si'an and Dong Zhang immediately took orders.

Li Si'an immediately led the Xiao cavalry army in person, and Dong Zhang led the Wu cavalry army to the rescue under the leadership of Yang Lin.

Afterwards, Li Jing ordered Qiu Shengong, the leader of the Leopard Cavalry Army, Xuan Cheng, the leader of the Flying Bear Army, and Li Wei, the leader of the Yingyang Army, to lead the infantry of their headquarters, together with the three guards led by Wang Zhong, Gao Sixiang, Qin Zongshou, and Guo Zhenhai. The three guards and horses led by the general, and the second vanguard army of the iron cavalry regiment composed of the crane-controlling cavalry led by Gao Rong and the township soldiers, Hu cavalry, and Xuejun, followed closely and moved in the direction of Huai'an.

Li Si'an and Dong Zhang's Second Cavalry Army marched rapidly with banners.

But then Li Jing led most of the army, but the flags and drums were silent, the horses were hoofed, and the torches were not even allowed to be played. The army only relied on the moonlight to advance.

The Vanguard Second Army of the Iron Cavalry Corps in the vanguard asked to speed up the march, but the reply in exchange was: "Whoever dares to raise fire will be killed!"

Li Si'an's second army was in the open, but his army was in the dark. He would never let the barbarians discover them in advance, so as to scare the snake away and scare away the trash fish.Although Li Jing's target was a big fish, this miscellaneous fish was not allowed to escape.

The Xiao cavalry army and the Wu cavalry army galloped like a gust of wind, but Yang Lin still felt that it was too slow.Li Jing originally arranged for Yang Lin and the hundred Shatuo fighters to stay in Duanyun Ridge, but Yang Lin insisted on being a military guide regardless of his exhaustion, and not even one of the hundred Shatuo fighters was willing to stay.

"Hurry up, please hurry up, you two yamen!" In Duanyunling, after listening to Li Jing's dispatch of troops, Yang Lin also knew that what Li Siyuan said about staying at the entrance of the Great Wall and waiting for reinforcements was just because he was at the time. The lie that he left with peace of mind, they may have already been surrounded by barbarians.Fighting side by side for the past few days when they moved to the siege together, this scholar of the Han family really regarded Li Siyuan and other Shatuo people as life and death brothers in his heart.He shouldered the important task of moving the reinforcements, so he must bring the reinforcements back, and he had to bring the reinforcements back as soon as possible.

Every moment of delay, he didn't know how many soldiers would die in battle, and he didn't know whether Li Siyuan could hold out until the moment when the reinforcements arrived!

However, Li Si'an and Dong Zhang didn't speed up any more. For them, the direction of King Qin's will was their footsteps.They will save Li Siyuan, but they have their own rhythm.Cavalry marching, even if they are galloping to help, they cannot advance at full speed at will. They must maintain spare power to be ready to fight at any time.Moreover, they also believed that Li Siyuan, who was valued by King Qin, would never be wiped out so easily.

If Li Siyuan can't wait for their rescue, he can only say that he is incompetent.

"Hurry up!" Yang Lin, who clenched his teeth and followed closely behind Li Si'an, shouted.

"Don't worry, this speed does not seem to be the fastest, but it is more stable. This is the fastest speed to reach the battlefield and rescue Li Siyuan."

June nights are always so short!

June under the Great Wall also became extremely hot. The temperature at this time was tolerable for the Shatuo Army who had lived in Daibei for decades.But for those grassland tribes from the north of Yinshan Mountain, especially those tribes in Mobei, the hot weather has even become their most terrible enemy.

During the day they kept drinking water, and had to hide in the shade of trees at the foot of the mountain to resist the big fireball in the sky.But even so, the hot weather was still unbearable. Only at night, the cool evening breeze made them feel a little more comfortable.

But on such a night, Tie Muci and Gui Chi'er couldn't sleep peacefully either.

During the day today, they finally stopped the exhausted Shatuo defeated army again. Li Siyuan's flag was flying high, making all the barbarian's eyes red like blood.

Li Siyuan couldn't run anymore, they finally stopped and retreated to a small valley by the Dongyang River. They felled trees and piled them at the mouth of the valley, dug a temporary ditch and inserted many sharp piles.But Temura was overjoyed. When the flying Shatuo cavalry no longer galloped their horses, but hid in a small valley, trying to resist in a corner, which already showed that these Shatuo people were completely desperate.

More than [-] tribal coalition troops chasing all the way surrounded the small valley.

Then, instead of attacking right away, they drew lots to determine the task of besieging the valley. After that, the rest of the lucky ones rushed into the Dongyang River one after another, took a good bath, and then hid in the trees I went to rest.

Not only was there a scorching fireball outside, the heat made them unable to attack, but also the day and night of chasing made them really exhausted.Now that the Shatuo people have been blocked in the small valley, let's rest first, and when we have enough energy, after dark, we can just enter the valley in one fell swoop and destroy them.

After dark, Tie Muci held a meeting with Gui Chi'er and the [-] Hu army's tribal leaders. They discussed while eating roasted horse meat.

"My sons and daughters have already built up enough strength. Tonight, we will light torches and fight at night. We must kill these damned Shatuo bastards!" Tie Muji said viciously. They had judged the direction of Li Siyuan's breakout earlier. But they didn't stop Li Siyuan, 6000 people intercepted [-] defeated soldiers, but let the opponent escape from under their noses, this is simply a great shame.What made him even more angry was that they chased for a day and a night, but suffered heavy losses.Five days have passed since Li Siyuan was surrounded by more than [-] Hu soldiers in that village, and they have lost more than [-] soldiers, but Li Siyuan still has more than [-] troops.If the Hu soldiers killed by Li Siyuan in the Battle of Niupi Pass and the Battle of Baishuiluo were added, a total of [-] Hu soldiers had died in Li Siyuan's hands.Even those old and weak people who were mostly bait made the tribes feel very heartbroken.If they are not attacked immediately, they will really become the laughing stock of the tribes if this drags on.

Gao Tansheng of the Goguryeo tribe brought some people from Liaodong to Khitan after the Goguryeo Kingdom was briefly restored and was quickly destroyed by Li Jing.Goguryeo fell, and he and his tribe became vassals of Khitan and became his mercenaries.This time he brought the warriors from the five thousand tribes southward, and wanted to grab a big ticket, but who would have thought that he would encounter Li Siyuan.Since Bai Shuiluo pursued Li Siyuan until now, his 5000 troops have lost a full [-], and [-]% of them were killed.Even though most of the dead were auxiliary soldiers, it still made his heart bleed.

No matter what, he had already lost a lot this time when he went south, and now he was not thinking about how to get rich and how much money he could get for his children, but how to ensure that the remaining three thousand soldiers would not lose any more.He knew very well that it was because of these warriors that he was able to get a pasture under the Khitan people and settle down for the tribe.But if these fighters were gone, the Khitan would definitely be the first to annex them.

"I actually think that Shatuo is at the end of the road right now. If we attack at this time, these Shatuo people will definitely fight back desperately. A dying blow will definitely cause us a lot of casualties. It's better to besiege them. Someone has seen this valley. It is very small, there is no water source inside, and they have long since run out of food and grass. As long as they are besieged, they will kill horses and eat meat, but there is no water, and within three days, they will die without attack. We only need to besieged here for three days, at most five days , those Shatuo wolves will turn themselves into a group of Shatuo dead dogs."

Gao Tansheng's proposal immediately won the support of several other small tribe leaders who suffered heavy casualties in this pursuit.They went south to make a fortune, not to die.Now that Li Siyuan's defeated army has been trapped, it only needs to wait quietly for a few days to win, so why waste the lives of wealthy tribal warriors needlessly.

On the grassland, the weak prey on the strong, and every tribal warrior is extremely precious.

"I understand everyone's thoughts, but we need to guard against night long dreams. This place is not far from Qin Fan's territory. If the Qin army comes to help, the meat that reaches the mouth will be flying by then, and it will be regrettable." Thinking that these tribes are so timid, they couldn't help but sneered.

"Tiemuci, Wuzhou of the Qin Dynasty is nearly two hundred miles away, and Marshal Yelu has already captured the northwestern part of Yuzhou to the south of Wuzhou. Do you think the people of Qin dare to go deep beyond the Great Wall at this time? Just wait a few more days, just wait a few more days, don’t be afraid of being late for a good meal, why are you in a hurry for Temuji. If you really want to fight, then you Tatars will be in charge of attacking, and we will hold the line for you.” Gao Tansheng doesn't give Tiemu any face at all, everyone doesn't belong to each other, and no one can control the other.

When Gui Chi'er saw this, he knew that these guys were determined not to attack now.Of course, he didn't want to be attacked by their Tatar warriors, but those cowards were in the back, so he kicked the wooden stick quietly and said with a smile: "Since everyone agrees to besiege, let's besiege."

The meeting finally decided to continue to besiege the defeated army in Shatuo and not to attack by force for the time being.

The various ministries drew lots to select the tribe responsible for the siege tonight, and then the other tribes each chose a cool place near the valley, pitched their tents, and continued to rest.

Standing on the arrow tower erected at the entrance of the valley, Li Siyuan looked at the quiet night, and couldn't help chuckling, these barbarians didn't attack.They did not attack during the day, nor did they attack at night.

After a long breath, Li Siyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief. They won another day of precious time, and now they all depended on Yang Lin to bring back the Qin army for reinforcements.

A group of stupid dogs, you are about to pay a heavy price for your stupidity at this time! Li Siyuan clenched the handle of the knife with his fingers, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth!

Although the Hu people did not attack, Li Siyuan did not dare to relax at all. He was not completely sure whether this was just a trick of the Hu people, maybe they were paralyzing them, wanting them to relax their vigilance, and then attack suddenly.For this reason, Li Siyuan divided the [-] remnant troops into three divisions, which were in charge of guarding and defending in turn, and each division defended for two hours, so as to maintain vigilance and at the same time, let them maintain most of their energy to deal with possible emergencies at any time. fighting.

Just after a while, the barbarians outside the valley suddenly slipped out of more than a hundred riders. They got off their horses and walked quietly around to the side, climbing up the hillside, trying to sneak into the valley.Fortunately, Li Siyuan had already arranged a group of defenders on the hilltops on both sides of the valley, and found them in time.After a shower of arrows, the barbarians left behind more than a dozen corpses and were driven back.

Then, it was quiet for about half an hour, and suddenly hundreds of riders rushed straight to the valley entrance and fired rockets at the valley entrance. The Shatuo army in the valley was shocked. But it turned out that it was just a false alarm. Those barbarians fired rockets for a while, and then retreated quickly.

At this time Li Siyuan also saw that this was just a harassing scheme by the Hu people, and he didn't want them to have a good rest.But he didn't dare to be careless, so he had to keep an eye on Taniguchi himself, so that the other soldiers would stay in their armor and wait for death! (To be continued.)