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Chapter 861 The Great Victory
A strong wind came, and Li Tang's flag was folded.

In the distance, the wounded soldiers of the Tang army were lying on the ground moaning weakly.The noisy sounds from all around slowly entered his ears, and the tip of his nose was filled with the smell of fresh blood wafting in the wind.The originally busy pond horse also stopped at this time, and the man and the war horse panted heavily together.

The generals thought to themselves at this moment, even if they had defeated the main force of the frontal Zhao army, how would they resist Wang Junkuo's 10,000+ cavalry who crossed the Wei River an hour later.An atmosphere of despair gradually permeated the Chinese army, and the soldiers of the Tang army who were fighting on the battlefield at this moment were lucky, because they did not know the worst news yet.

"What's the matter?" Li Shimin looked at the generals, "It's not the last moment, have you all given up hope?"

All the generals of the Tang army lowered their heads.

"Your Majesty, why don't we retreat to Chang'an before the Zhao army encircles us? There is still hope...ah, don't!"

Li Shimin withdrew his blood-stained long sword and said, "Who dares to retreat!"

Seeing the general lying in a pool of blood, all the generals said together: "I am willing to fight to the death with Your Majesty!"
Fang Xuanling said at this time: "Your Majesty, there is still an hour, and we still have a chance. If we defeat the main force of the Zhao army in front, we will still have the strength to fight against Wang Junkuo's 10,000+ cavalry."

Li Shimin nodded and said: "I understand, you go and tell Changsun Wuji first, and say that I don't have any extra troops for him, let him fight to the last moment."

After hearing this, all the generals understood that time was running out, so reinforcements to Changsun Wuji would be useless even if Zhao Jun's left wing was defeated.It would be better to sink the boat and annihilate Li Chongjiu's Chinese army first.

"promise!"

Li Shimin looked to the left and right and said: "I will pass on my will, order the four armies of the Banner Army, the Zhewei Army, the Swagger Army, and the Yuan You Army to attack the Zhao Guozhong Army! I personally went to the front line to supervise the battle! Everyone, I have nothing to do at this moment. It’s easy to say, only a decisive battle to the end!”
Li Shimin looked at the hills in front of him, pointed his long sword forward, and said, "Everyone, follow me to carry the flag forward, and anyone who steps back to hold the flag will be cut off!"

Hearing what Li Shimin said, all the generals took orders.

"Your Majesty, Li Shimin has moved!"

"It's the whole army!"

The general from Wanglou hurried over and reported to Li Chongjiu, with a look of panic on his face.Li Chongjiu paused when he heard the footsteps. Although Qu Tutong's cavalry had been defeated in front of him, his own casualties were not small, and now Li Shimin has put out all his family resources to fight him decisively.

Ji Chuan said: "Your Majesty, Li Shimin's eyes are red with anxiety, and now he is pressing on desperately, and wants to fight our army for the last time!"

Seeing Tang Jun's menacing appearance, many ministers couldn't help but feel apprehensive and retreated.Yu Shinan thought that Li Chongjiu had reprimanded him for advocating a retreat just now, so he didn't dare to say it now.As for the other generals and many staff members, they also showed hesitation, but no one dared to speak out.

"At this moment, we can only persevere to the end. Pass on the order, and the whole army will stand firm and not take a step back!" Li Chongjiu ordered, his eyes swept over the generals, and the retreating generals seemed to have been peeped through their minds, and they hung down one after another. head.

Li Chongjiu's military order has been issued, and at this time a pond horse gallops towards him.

A general first anxiously poked his head out and asked, "Did the reinforcements arrive?"
Tang Ma reported to Li Chongjiu: "General Wang Mahan told His Majesty that the left wing of our army has suffered one-third of the casualties. However, our army is still fighting to the death. I implore Your Majesty to send reinforcements!"

Li Chongjiu said to this Tang Ma without even thinking about it: "Tell Wang Mahan that I don't have a single soldier to send now, but if he dares to take a step back, I will kill him."

"No!" Tang Ma clasped his fists and left after receiving the order.

Seeing that Li Chongjiu was so cruel to his confidant General Wang Mahan, all the generals couldn't help but sweat.

"This battle is a battle that concerns the ownership of the world. Although our army has the upper hand, if you think that you can win this battle and seize the world without paying anything, you are too lucky." Li Chongjiu glanced at the ministers .

"Your Majesty, the outcome of a war often depends on the general's persistence at the last moment. We must not retreat at this moment!" Zhang Xuansu echoed loudly.

After hearing this, all the ministers said together: "I would like to follow His Majesty to fight to the death!"

While talking, suddenly came the sound of drums.Everyone went up to the watchtower and saw a hundred war drums of the Tang army beating at the same time, and the bare-chested wrestlers hit the big drum with their arms rounded.And Li Shimin, who was wearing a dragon robe, even beat the drums himself to encourage the soldiers.

Encouraged by Li Shimin, the soldiers of the Tang army rushed up the hillside like a black torrent.Li Tang's banners are coming from all over the mountains and plains.All the generals were speechless after seeing this scene, and the firm confidence of a few people was shaken again.

At this moment, Yu Shinan rushed to Li Chongjiu and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, two armies are coming from the back mountain!"

Yu Shinan was so excited that he was trembling when he spoke.They turned around and saw two groups of soldiers in red jackets marching side by side between the hills from the direction of Sanyuan.The soldiers of the two armies on foot filled the official road, and they all came running.

"Look, it's Zhao Zi's military flag!"

"It's our men!"

The soldiers shouted with tears in their eyes.

"That's right, it's the Imperial Guard Army stationed in Tongzhou Shan Xiongxin, and the Wuwei Army stationed in Jingyang Su Dingfang. There are a total of 5 troops. They have arrived!"

Li Chongjiu turned his head and said loudly: "Order the whole army, our reinforcements have arrived!"

"All the cavalry in the Chinese army, quickly pass the order to the armies, tell them that our reinforcements have arrived, and every soldier must hear it!"

"promise!"

Dozens of Ling rode away immediately after riding their horses.

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Your Majesty has ordered the whole army to counterattack!"

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Your Majesty has ordered the whole army to counterattack!"

The riders pumped their horses fiercely, and shouted to the fighting soldiers at the top of their voices!
The soldiers of Zhao Jun, who were originally intimidated by the general offensive of the Tang army, couldn't help but come to their senses after hearing this, and quickly asked the left and right: "Really? Have the reinforcements really arrived?"

"I don't know, maybe!" The left and right soldiers were not sure.

But not long after, they heard the sound of rolling horseshoes behind the mountain. They turned their heads and saw countless cavalry, like a red tide, appearing on the mountain ridge.Vigorous war horses, scarlet war jackets, and flags with the characters of Zhao rolled down the mountain ridges.

The sound of horseshoes in the running was like the loudest drum of war, hitting the chest of every soldier.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers burst into tears.

"It really is reinforcements!"

"Your Majesty did not lie to us!"

"Counterattack!"

Ling Qi still galloped forward freely.In the village on the left wing, Tang Jun and Zhao Jun fought extremely fiercely. Less than [-] steps away from Wang Mahan's own banner, Tang Jun had just broken through a broken tile house guarded by Zhao Jun.

In this tile-roofed house, the two sides changed hands six times, and the corpses were piled up to form a mountain. Before the soldiers of the Tang army who had just captured here could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard the voice of Zhao Jun's pond horse outside.

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Your Majesty has ordered the whole army to counterattack!"

"Has the reinforcements from Zhao State arrived?" Tang Jun's soldiers were shaken.

"No, don't believe it, this is Zhao people's strategy to shake the morale of our army!" Changsun Wuji strode into the camp of Tang soldiers, and shouted to the left and right, "Go back and take another fifty steps forward to capture Zhao The general flag of the army, we are victorious!"

The soldiers of the Tang army recovered from Changsun Wuji's anger and raised their blood-stained spears again, but when they looked up, they saw the cavalry of the Zhao army galloping on the mountain ridge like a tide!
"It's really Zhao Guo's reinforcements!"

"We are defeated!"

"How is this possible!" Changsun Wuji stared wide-eyed.

And Wang Mahan, who was dozens of steps away, raised his long sword, ignored several wounds on his body, and laughed loudly: "Okay, the reinforcements have arrived, let me counterattack!"

"Kill!" There was a sudden sound of killing in the village.

"Long live!"

"Long live!"

Outside the village, Zhao Jun cavalry roared past with a gust of wind.

On the second board wall where Zhao Jun was stationed on the right, the soldiers of Western Turks were fighting fiercely with Zhao Jun.

Yehu Khan, the governor of the Western Turks, stepped on the corpse of a Zhao army cavalryman, leaned forward, and his eagle eyes were like lightning.

"Reinforcements have arrived!"

"Your Majesty has ordered the whole army to counterattack!"

After hearing this voice, the soldiers of Zhao Jun who were fighting fiercely all had high morale.The dozen or so cavalry were desperate, and rushed wherever the battle was fierce, shouting over there.Tong Yehu saw with his own eyes a commanding cavalry with more than ten arrows in his body, and he was still riding his horse and shouting loudly.

There are not many such brave soldiers even in the whole Turkic army.Tong Yehu couldn't help losing his confidence. He pointed to the commanding cavalry of Zhao Jun in front, and asked to the left and right: "What are those Zhao Jun cavalry shouting?"

Special Qin, who was familiar with Chinese, reported to Tong Yehu: "They said that Zhao Guo's reinforcements have arrived!"

Tong Yehu was furious when he heard this: "What's going on? Didn't Li Shimin tell me that Zhao Jun's soldiers and horses are here?"

"Look, Khan!"

Waiting for Ye Hu to see Zhao Jun's cavalry on the top of the mountain, he lost his face for a moment.

While talking, Tong Yehu saw that Zhao Jun turned to counterattack across the board, and the three thousand Tang troops on the left were broken by Zhao Jun's cavalry, and they fled in all directions.

Seeing the scene, Tong Yehu said to the left and right: "This is a war between the Han people. It is enough for me to help Li Shimin get here. Let them fight it themselves!"

As he spoke, Tong Yehu straddled his horse and said to the left and right: "Hurry up, blow the call for withdrawal!"

Beside Tong Yehu, Wei Ting, the Minister of the Tang Dynasty who was in charge of liaison with the army, turned pale with fright, stepped forward and pulled the reins of Tong Yehu's war horse and said, "Khan, Khan, don't do this. If you do this, our emperor will be alone and helpless. It doesn't take an hour for the army to wipe us all out, I beg Khan to hold on for another half an hour for the sake of our emperor's sacrifice of so many beauties, slaves, and countless gold, silver and jewels to you!"

Tong Yehu said: "Could it be that this Khan doesn't have beauties, slaves, gold and silver treasures, and sent troops to help you to defeat Li Chongjiu, but now the chance of victory has been lost, and it is meaningless to continue fighting!"

After hearing this, Wei Ting begged: "Khan, please take pity on us! Don't go!"

Tong Yehu winked, and two Turkic soldiers roughly pushed Wei Ting to the ground.Tong Yehu swung his whip and came out, while the Turkic army's horns blared, and the whole army began to retreat.

"go ahead!"

"Go ahead!"

"If you work harder, Zhao Jun will be defeated!"

General Hou Junji of the Tang Army raised his long sword and yelled at the surrounding soldiers.

And the sound of horseshoes on the left and right, the soldiers of the Tang Army were stumbling back, but suddenly a wave of arrows hit, and countless soldiers fell down.Hou Junji was also shot by an arrow in his right chest, and with the support of his personal guards, he barely stood up straight.

In front of him, Zhao Jun's men and horses were rushing forward like mountains and seas, at this moment Hou Junji could only feel that the huge waves were covering the top, and the mountains were collapsing before his eyes.

"Withdraw!"

"No, let's run for our lives!"

The soldiers of the Tang army had already started to flee for their lives and collapsed. Many generals could not stop them, and even the generals themselves fled. For Hou Junji, who has always been invincible in all battles, he saw this scene from the enemy army, but today it is actually the same It's my turn.

"General, I can't hold on any longer. The Turkic people on the right have fled. Now Zhao Jun's Xiaowei Army has come from the right flank, and their cavalry is also regrouping!"

"Damn it, Stanai and his Turkic Khan fled together, and our army's right wing couldn't reach it at all."

Hou Junji's lips trembled, he looked around, finally knelt down on the ground and cried bitterly: "Your Majesty, I have tried my best."

In front of Li Shimin's central army, the Tang army's defeated army fled from both sides. Although they were defeated, they bypassed Li Shimin's general flag in fear.

In front of the central army, the Tang army's [-] infantry remained motionless, and the soldiers were waiting in full battle. The crossbowmen fired arrows at the cavalry from the Zhao army on the two wings, and shot back their attacks.

"Do not kill me!"

"Help!"

Li Shimin's face was gloomy as he watched Tang Jun's defeated army running past.

"Your Majesty, it's time to go!" Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui knelt down in front of Li Shimin's horse.

"When Wang Junkuo's cavalry comes, we really can't leave!"

"No!" Li Shimin gritted his teeth and said.

"Your Majesty, the Tang Dynasty cannot live without you!" Fang Xuanling cried while pulling Li Shimin's horse.

"Where is Chai Shao? Where is Yang Shidao? Where is Yang Gongren? Where are their soldiers and horses?" Li Shimin asked angrily.

"Your Majesty, the news just came from Tang Ma that Yang Gongren's entire army has been wiped out. As for Chai Shao, Yang Shidao can't count on him now!" Du Ruhui replied.

Hearing this, Li Shimin took a deep breath and said: "The order is passed on, the troops on the left and right flanks will retreat, and the troops on the rear will regroup, and I will lead the central army here to stop Zhao's army!"

"Fang Xuanling, you lead 100 people back to Chang'an. If you can, you will be a good emperor in the future. You must not only love the people, but also... you must also be harmonious with your brothers and sisters."

"Your Majesty!" Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui burst into tears upon hearing the words.

Li Shimin looked up to the sky and said with a long smile: "Why are you crying, today is my most glorious time!"

After speaking, Li Shimin fixed his eyes on the front, waved his long sword and said: "I will pass on my general's order, and the whole army marches forward with drums!"

In an instant, thirty legendary cavalry galloped to the rear along the marching line: "Your Majesty has an order, the whole army marches forward with drums!"

"Your Majesty has an order, the whole army marches forward with drums!"

"Your Majesty has an order, the whole army marches forward with drums!"

Li Tang's [-] soldiers and [-] armored troops marched straight against the retreating army!
The fierce battle was even more fierce. After receiving reinforcements from Xue Wanche's military guards, Wang Mahan, the general on the left wing of the Zhao army, had already defeated Changsun Wuji's 5 horses.

Changsun Wuji led a dozen cavalrymen and retreated to Li Shimin, crying loudly.Li Shimin just ordered Changsun Wuji to go to the rear to prepare troops and prepare to retreat to Chang'an.On the other hand, Zhao Jun's right wing, without the restraint of the Turkic cavalry, teamed up with Li Chongjiu's central army to defeat the central phalanx where Hou Junji was located.Hou Junji tried to regroup, but was overwhelmed by the retreating rout.
After completing these, Zhao Jun pressed on Li Shimin from three sides.

At this moment, the sun was already in the west, and the mountain was about to set. The entire Sanyuan was covered with the blood of the setting sun.

Surrounded by thousands of troops and horses, Li Chongjiu rode his horse and came slowly to the front of the formation.

"Tell Li Shimin, if he can lead the army to surrender, I can spare him!" Now that he is sure of winning, Li Chongjiu looked at the soldiers of the Tang army who were beside Li Shimin, and felt compassionate.

Hearing what Li Chongjiu said, Wang Shi, the general of the Zhao army, led a hundred cavalry to the front of the Tang army's formation and shouted: "The emperor of Zhao has an order, you are strong and brave, and I appreciate it. It is meaningless, please put down your weapons and surrender!"
Zhao Jun's cavalry said it several times, but none of Tang Jun's soldiers agreed. After a while, one of them replied: "Thank you, Emperor Zhao, for your kindness. I would rather die than surrender!"

Li Chongjiu shook his head slowly after hearing this, and pressed his hand down.

10,000+ Zhao soldiers launched an attack on the Tang army!

PS: Things are finally over, tomorrow is the final chapter!Thank you for your support first.

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