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Chapter 441 Chapter 444
Yang Gongqing sighed: "Sandalwood and fragrant tea are my unique secret recipes to relieve tension. For me, insomnia is a big taboo in the military. I will take shifts with Ma Chang later, how can I not take a break and relax? "

Shen Mu said: "Mr. Yang is in charge of sleeping his mother's three poles a day, and I will do the shift work for me."

Yang Gongqing shook his head and said: "Outside is full of soldiers who have followed me for many years. If they find that I am lazy and don't share weal and woe with them, they will feel very uncomfortable. What will be the result of your talk?"

Shen Mu smiled wryly and said, "What is the result? The leader of the Tang Dynasty is Li Yuan, and the crown prince is Li Jiancheng."

Yang Gongqing snorted coldly: "Li Jiancheng!"

Seeing the burning hatred in his eyes, Shen Mu knew that he was remembering the old hatred, so he turned aside and said, "But Luo Shixin is indeed a wise and courageous general, and it's not easy to deal with."

His eyes fell on the dark green tea in the cup, his mind was shocked, and he realized that he was in a very dangerous situation because he had lost the confidence to defeat Li Shimin.

Wang Shichong's self-intelligent stupidity was beyond his expectation, and his disharmony with Dou Jiande made him even more chaotic. Zheng Guo, which is in internal and external troubles, is like a sinking ship, which makes Shen Mu feel dejected and helpless.

In addition, Qin Shubao and Cheng Yaojin dragged him into the Tang camp earlier. He deeply felt the strict military discipline and high morale of the Tang soldiers, and the Tang general's respect and admiration for Li Shimin, which destroyed what little fighting spirit he had left.If he maintains this mentality, Ci Jian will undoubtedly lose in the first battle.

Yang Gongqing's words came into his ears and said: "Of course Luo Shixin is difficult to deal with, how can Qin Shubao and Cheng Zhijie be easy to deal with? When Wang Shichong's army comes tomorrow, if I am not mistaken, Wang Shichong will force us to attack them for him In the camp, a large number of children were sacrificed in vain."

Shen Mu laughed dumbly and said, "What a big fool!"

Just as he was about to continue, Ma Chang's voice sounded outside the tent: "Beautiful Huji asks to see the young commander."

Shen Mu and Yang Gongqing exchanged glances, and said: "Please come in quickly."

Ma Chang said: "She wants to meet the young commander outside the tent."

Yang Gongqing frowned and said to Shen Mu: "Go and see her, what do you want to say? Be careful, she is always Wang Shichong's person."

Shen Mu patted Yang Gongqing on the shoulder, beckoning him to rest assured, and came out.

Ma Chang said: "Young commander, please follow me." He led the way.

Linglongjiao's beautiful figure appeared on the edge of the camp, Shen Mu patted Ma Chang with one hand, and said, "General Ma goes back to work, I will deal with her."

After Ma Chang took the order, Shen Mu walked towards Linglongjiao. Since she set fire to Rong Mansion to help him escape that night, he has not contacted her. For some reason, at this moment, he felt a little strange and alienated. The impact of speaking, or because of the way she looked at him at this moment.

The two finally met face to face.

Under the starlight and moonlight, this beautiful woman's delicate and graceful appearance adds a bit of mysterious beauty.

Linglongjiao said in a low voice: "Follow me!" She unfolded her movements and swept towards the darkness outside the camp.

Shen Mu followed her closely and went straight to the rolling hills more than ten miles northwest of Cijian. A stream appeared in the dense forest, reflecting the moonlight in the sky peacefully.

Linglongjiao sat down on a flat boulder by the stream, and motioned for him to sit beside her, and said calmly: "Li Shimin has already landed from the Yellow River, if he marches overnight, he will arrive here tomorrow."

Shen Mu was stunned and said, "This kid came really fast."

Linglongjiao looked at him, her beautiful eyes sparkled, and she said, "His fleet has 43 large ships, only [-] of which are berthed and landed, and the other ships continue to sail eastward. It is estimated that Li Shimin's force is between [-] and [-]. In the meantime, another group of people's congresses may be going to attack Luoyang."

Shen Mu shook his head and said: "The soldiers of the other forty ships will not go directly to Luoyang, but will deploy to attack the surrounding cities of Luoyang, most likely to Huiluo City in the northeast of Luoyang and on the south bank of the Dahe River. That is not only to supply Luoyang. It is an important granary, and it is also a traffic fortress of Dahe. If Huiluo can be captured, it can echo across the river with Heyang on the opposite bank, cut off the waterway traffic to the west of Dahe, and bring Dahe under control. It can also be used as an attack on Luokou, another granary. The backup base, and thus invaded the Hulao. Li Shimin's move is really powerful."

Linglongjiao cast her eyes on the flowing stream, and said softly: "I just hope that the battle of Luoyang will end soon."

Shen Mu asked in astonishment, "Do you want Wang Shichong to win or lose?"

Linglongjiao said impatiently: "I don't want to think about this question."

Shen Mu asked in surprise, "Have you talked to Wang Shichong about the Daming Zunjiao?"

Linglongjiao suddenly became excited, gasped for breath, shook her head and said: "Don't ask me, no matter who wins or loses in the battle of Luoyang, I have fulfilled my mother's order to me. Now I just want to return to my place and ignore anyone , not to mention the matter of the five-colored stone, I have no ability to take care of it."

Shen Mu knew that she must have had a big fight with Wang Shichong, so she became so disheartened and pitiful, and said softly: "If Miss Jiao wants to leave, why don't you leave immediately, as long as I don't die, I will eventually die." One day, I will get colorful stones for the young lady and send them to the young lady. Ha! I also want to see Kucha.”

Linglongjiao sighed lightly: "It's not time for me to leave yet." After saying that, she stood up.

Shen Mu stood up with her, and said in astonishment, "Just say these few words?"

Linglongjiao shrugged and said, "Isn't that enough? Originally, I was looking for Yang Gongqing. I knew you were there, so I couldn't help but tell you a few words. You should inform Yang Gong on behalf of others! I'm leaving!"

Shen Mu frowned and said, "Where are you going?"

Linglong Jiaomei shot a dazed look, shook her head and said: "I don't know, be careful, Wang Shichong has bad intentions for you."

Shen Mu watched her back disappear into the depths of the dense forest, and secretly sighed, he was almost certain that Li Shimin's army was approaching Cijian, and tomorrow would be a difficult day.

In the dim light of the early morning, Shen Mu and Yang Gongqing boarded the arrow tower of the camp and looked at the enemy's situation from a distance.

Li Shimin's main army came from the northwest and stationed in Dazhai. Luo Shixin, Qin Shubao and Cheng Yaojin divided into three groups and approached Cijian, setting up a defensive formation to prevent them from taking advantage of Li Shimin's army's unstable position. to launch an attack.

Shen Mu said regretfully: "If Luo Shixin and others hadn't set up a stronghold here to get in the way, we could have raided Li Xiaozi last night to surprise him."

Yang Gongqing shook his head and said: "Li Shimin has always been steady and thoughtful, and will never let the enemy have a chance to attack him. Now it seems that we have fallen into a passive situation. We can only wait for him to attack and see how long we can defend. "

Shen Mu was taken aback, knowing that Yang Gongqing had lost his confidence and fighting spirit, just like himself last night, if he could not arouse his desire to win, it is very likely that Cijian would not be able to defend before Wang Shichong's army arrived.

He said with a calm smile: "This is not the way to win. Offense is the best defense. Now Li Xiaozi is carrying Yu Weidong from the Battle of Baibi, and his morale is high. If they feel that we are timid to fight, it will only increase their arrogance. Make them even more unstoppable."

Yang Gongqing was really taken aback, looked at him, and said in astonishment: "The young commander is not going to challenge the opponent's army of more than [-] with my [-] troops?"

Shen Mu laughed loudly, revealing his strong confidence, nodded and said: "Why not? Li Shimin's main force has just arrived, and the waterway is bumpy, and he was on a long journey last night, and he didn't even have time to eat breakfast. Only Lao Luo's army is the only one. We are not without opportunities. As long as we fight a tough battle to prove that the Tang army is not so terrible, we can suppress the enemy's arrogance and boost our morale. Otherwise, if Li Jun is allowed to rest for a day, And Wang Shichong's reinforcements didn't arrive until tonight, so it will be difficult for us to last until tomorrow."

Yang Gongqing smiled wryly and said: "Young Marshal's analysis is very reasonable, but the number of Lao Luo's army is three times that of ours. If we can't withstand their military strength and lose to Cijian, the consequences will be even more unimaginable."

Shen Mu happily said: "The only deployment of Lao Luo's army now is to defend against us attacking Li Xiaozi's exhausted expeditionary army, and it is even more unexpected that we dare to send troops to attack him, so if we dare to send troops, we will become a surprise army." In a head-on confrontation, of course we have to go around endlessly. But we can come up with a strategy that is obviously Li Jun and secretly is Luo Jun. As long as we rely on my ingenious plan, we will be able to avoid serious problems and take light ones, leading the enemy by the nose. .Although a big victory is impossible, a small victory is predictable. As long as we can surprise Li Xiaozi, we will achieve our goal."

Yang Gongqing thought for a moment, then nodded and said: "Young Commander's battle strategy is indeed different from others, and he is even more daring, planning to make sure."

Shen Mu leaned over and whispered his whimsical plan in his ear.

At the moment when he faced the pressure of Li Shimin's army, he completely regained his usual self-confidence.

With the sound of war drums, Yang Gongqing personally led [-] troops from the camp, and quickly poured into the battlefield where the enemy camp was located on the west plain of Cijian, forming a situation of confronting the enemy head-on.

As expected by Shen Mu, Luo Shixin of the Chinese army immediately raised the flag, and the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and the atmosphere became tense. Qin Shubao and Cheng Yaojin's two wings moved at the same time. When things are not stable, temptations come rushing in.

Both armies use walking gunmen as the vanguard, archers in the rear, and then highly mobile cavalry. As long as the walking formation restrains the opponent's attack, the cavalry can attack the opponent from either side.

Now that the two wings are attacking together, when Yang Gongqing's [-] troops are forced to continue to advance and confront each other, Luo Shixin's central army will meet them head-on, and with their superior strength, they will defeat Yang Jun in one fell swoop, and then bite the defeated Yang Jun and destroy them. The camp, directly attacking Cijian City, might be able to capture Cijian so effortlessly.

This trick to lure the enemy is not afraid that Luo Shi will believe it or not.

At this time, Yang Gongqing's three thousand troops were standing outside the camp, standing in ranks, standing vertically and horizontally, forming a arched moon formation with halberds and shields in front and bows and crossbows in the back, shaped like a crescent moon, with the protruding parts facing each other. Chinese army.Except for Yang Gongqing and the eight generals commanding on horseback, the others were all infantry, using large shields higher than a person's body, with a sharp cone protruding from the bottom of the shield, which can be inserted into the soil three feet deep, plus spears, halberds and arrows Not afraid of the impact of the enemy's horses.

In the battle between the two armies, there are four factors for winning, namely "array, momentum, change, and power", and "array" ranks first.

In a duel between two people, whichever side has the best skills will win.The confrontation between the two armies emphasizes the strength of the overall cooperation, relying on the formation method, to achieve "infinite changes, ups and downs, ups and downs, ups and downs, like order or chaos. Formation, dispersal forms into formation, and movement forms into formation, the enemy does not know why we retreat, nor does he know why we advance." Only then can the power of war be brought into play.

Therefore, on the battlefield, it is not based on personal courage, but whether it is a "controlled soldier", and the command of the general is the key to victory or failure.

Yang Gongqing is a well-known general who has experienced many battles. Once he agrees to Shen Mu's plan, he immediately puts aside his fear of the enemy's overwhelming force and adopts the formation that best copes with the situation at hand to face the stubborn enemy.

Shen Mu and Ma Chang's cavalry took advantage of the gap between the enemy's deployment and set out from the two exits of the wing battalions on the left and right sides of the camp. , and Yang Jun's full defense are coordinated with each other like the sun and the moon, reflecting each other.

Shen Mu led a thousand fine cavalry troops to the right flank of Yang Gongqing, his mind entered the realm of the long sword, and watched Qin Jun and Cheng Jun's advance and approach with cold eyes.The garrison army led by Guo Shancai on Cijian City is ready, trebuchets and crossbow carts are ready. If the Yang army loses and returns to the camp in an orderly manner, they will be able to exert a huge support force. Killing them in a mess is of course another matter.

At the moment when the two sides gradually approached, the atmosphere on the battlefield was like a taut bowstring, and the battle was imminent.

The three of Qin Shubao didn't brag last night. The Tang army is indeed a well-trained elite soldier. It only depends on the method of advancing the formation. The pace is consistent, giving birth to the momentum of thousands of troops advancing, which is enough to frighten the enemy.

With the sound of war drums, the two enemy armies advanced to a distance of [-] paces.The horn sounded from the central army, indicating that Luo Shixin's central army had begun to advance, and with the approach of the Qin and Cheng armies, it formed greater pressure and threat to the Wang army.

Shen Mu was unafraid, Li Shimin's troops arrived one hour before dawn, and Luo Shixin's vanguard army mobilized escorts at this hour to prevent their surprise attack.

It has been nearly three hours now, not only lack of sleep, hard work, but also no breakfast.Although Yang Gongqing's army took turns digging trenches for defense, the fortifications were completed before the third watch, so they had enough rest.Now, he is using his energy to recharge his batteries and eat his soldiers to deal with the opponent's tired and hungry journey. As long as he can stop their first round of offensive, if the opponent's sharpness is lost, Shen Mu can take advantage of the opportunity.

Now we use defense instead of attack, and when the time comes, we will switch to attack instead of defense. If "not attacking" becomes "strike strange", the tactics of warfare and swordsmanship are exactly the same.

The drum beat suddenly.

Qin Cheng's two armies yelled at the same time, changing from a slow pace to a hurried pace, following the rhythm of the drums, fighting from the two wings, the situation suddenly changed, and the fighting spirit was overwhelming.

When the two armies rushed to a distance of more than 800 steps, the horn sounded again, and a team of nearly 2000 cavalry rushed out from the rear. appalling.

Li Shimin's army at the rear of the enemy line stopped entering the stronghold to rest, and turned to the left to set up formations on the plains in front of the wooden stronghold. Just looking at the handsome flag fluttering in the wind, he knew that Li Shimin was coming, cheering for his troops .

Shen Mu looked up to the sky with a long smile, and said, "It's time! Blow the horn!"

Ma Chang's [-] cavalry galloped towards Shen Mu's troops in response to the sound of the trumpet, while the middle gate of Cijian City was wide open, the suspension bridge was lowered, and Shangzi's guards rushed out, and deployed defenses at the archery tower and the edge of the trench in the camp.

The sound of shouting and killing intensified, the beating of drums became more urgent, and the enemy army changed from haste to rush, like two tides, covered by shield soldiers, charging forward.

The enemy cavalry sprints to the two wings of their own formation from the left and right outer gears.

The battle of Cijian finally kicked off.

Leading more than a dozen young generals to gallop out of the city, commanding most of the men in the camp to rush out from the exit of the south wing, and form a shield and arrow array to meet the enemy cavalry rushing from the other side, so that Yang Gongqing can concentrate all his strength to deal with it. Enemy soldiers charging from left and right.

Luo Shixin's drumbeat changed, not only the whole army accelerated forward, but also two thousand cavalry rushed out from behind, watching Shen Mu's cavalry cut off in the middle, if Shen Mu's cavalry was cut off from the middle, it would be difficult to see from the end to the end, With the enemy's twice as strong troops, the entire army will be wiped out at every turn.

The two sides have their own tricks, just like a confrontation between masters. It is not only based on the strength of force, but also on whose strategy is better.

The sound of shouting and killing shook the entire battlefield.

Yang Gongqing fired a thousand arrows from the formation, with countless arrows flashing across the sky, shooting towards the Qin and Cheng armies all over the sky like locusts.Nearly a thousand remaining guards in the camp pushed the trebuchets behind Yang Jun's formation and were ready to go. As long as Luo Shixin's central army moved to the throwing range, more than a dozen trebuchets would cause huge casualties to the enemy, weighing several tens of thousands. A ten-jin boulder cannot be resisted by shields and armor.

Shen Mu took the lead, firing a series of strong arrows with scorching light from the sun-shooting bow. The arrows were shot without any misses, piercing the enemy's battle armor. Invincible.

Regardless of his swordsmanship and archery, he has cultivated it to a great level on the battlefield. Swordsmanship is the art of war. When he returns to the battlefield, he is like a fish returning to the sea and a bird soaring in the clear sky.

His mind is as calm as the moon in a well, he fully grasps the situation on the battlefield as far as every corner, and he knows that if he is intercepted by an enemy cavalry who is only 900 paces away, then the [-] enemy cavalry charged by Luo Shixin's army will definitely catch him. The own team cuts off and breaks up.

The key point is whether our team can defeat the enemy team at once, break through the opponent's block, and rush to the right side of the enemy's space before the cavalry of the Luo army cuts in. At that time, it will directly threaten Li Shimin's army behind.

The enemy cavalry blindly returned arrows to Shen Mu, they could only shoot more than half of the distance between the two sides, and then fell to the grassland with all their strength, but more than ten people were killed by the arrows.

Shen Mu made up his mind, and when the distance between the two sides was only about [-] paces, he shot arrows at the enemy cavalry, and he turned his back on his back for a moment, so tired that the enemy cavalry rushing from behind were blocked and stumbled, making a mess.

The chaos in the front of the cavalry team affected and spread to the whole team like a wave, and instead of forming a formation, they spread out to both sides.

(End of this chapter)