Looking at Luo Shixin's triumphant expression, Li Xiaogong was annoyed and helpless, now the initiative in the war is all in the hands of Luo Shixin, all the cavalry under his command, coming and going like the wind, Li Xiaogong not only did not dare to pursue, even the army could not be disbanded, because once the infantry dispersed, it was difficult to maintain the formation, in this wilderness, it would only become a good meal for the cavalry, and there were Sui cavalry roaming around, so that the whole Tang army should always be vigilant, after a long time, the flesh and energy of the soldiers would be seriously consumed, on the other hand, the Sui army could take turns to rest.

"Your Highness, what now?" Wu Shi Tong came to Li Xiaogong's side and asked with a wry smile.

"How do I know?" Li Xiaogong exhaled depressedly: "We are now 'advancing and retreating', and we can't even disband." ”

Samurai sighed, "The only way is to fight Luo Shixin. ”

"I think so, but the problem is that he doesn't want to fight now." Li Xiaogong regrets it so much that his intestines are blue, he knew this, he should have gone up to fight with Luo Shixin just now, but now he begs others to fight, and no one will do it.

"Find a few of the routs to come and see me." Seeing that Luo Shixin led the army to retreat to two arrows away and dismount to rest, Li Xiaogong exhaled depressedly and roared through gritted teeth.

Although he was angry that these defeated soldiers lost their cities and lost their land, after all, they had fought with the Sui army, and they always knew better about the details of the imperial army than themselves.

After a while, an embarrassed general ran over and arched his hand: "The last general, Deng Bao, will see His Highness." ”

Li Xiaogong asked, "Are you a subordinate of King Rencheng?" ”

"It's not!" Deng Bao shook his head and said, "The last general is General Wang Junkuo's lieutenant." ”

"So, you've been through everything, tell me, how did you fight?" Li Xiaogong suddenly had a spirit.

Deng Bao said with a wry smile: "Your Royal Highness, the King of Jin is worried about the loss of Yique Pass, so that the two armies will be divided by the Sui army in the north and south of Yique Pass, so he sent General Wang to lead 10,000 elite cavalry to assist the King of Rencheng, who would have thought that we were ambushed in the middle, and the King of Rencheng led the army to help, and the 20,000 reinforcements fell into the ambush of Luo Shixin's ambush on another road, and the 10,000 defenders did not dare to see death without help, and then they were also defeated by the Sui army. ”

"Uh~" Li Xiaogong stared at Deng Bao and said incredulously: "Yique Pass was lost like this?" ”

"Exactly!" Deng Bao then introduced the process of Chengxiu's loss.

Luo Shixin's method of attacking Chengxiu is actually quite simple, that is, to block Li Daozong's mouth and escort him to the city to force the defenders to surrender, and the generals are afraid that Li Daozong will be killed, so they dare not release arrows! But if you don't fight, you can't do it, and when you see the Sui army escorting Li Daozong to approach step by step, you simply abandoned the city and fled. Then Luo Shixin was run over here, and the soldiers who couldn't run had already surrendered, and those who insisted until now were stubborn resistors.

"How many are there in the rout?"

"There are less than three thousand here!"

"Has anyone fled in the direction of Luoyang?" Li Xiaogong asked expectantly.

Deng Bao said: "I'm afraid, I'm afraid there is no one." ”

"Got it." Li Xiaogong sighed.

Wang Junkuo and Li Daozong's 40,000 troops, plus 5,000 in Chengxiu County, could finally be collected back, but only 3,000 remained, just one day, they lost more than 40,000 elite men, even Li Xiaogong, hearing the news, couldn't stop chilling.

thought that the Tang army could fight with the Sui army, but the result was like this.

The soldiers and horses of the Sui Dynasty are now so violent? Does it have to be so strong that there is no limit?

Speaking of which, it's still a matter of cavalry!

Li Xiaogong sighed, Li Tang also had cavalry, and there were quite a few of them, but their emperor never gave him this outsider, and generally handed it over to Li Shimin and Li Yuanji, in addition to the 60,000 that Li Shimin took away, Li Yuanji also had 30,000 sitting in Xiangyang.

But this time, without cavalry, I am afraid it will be difficult to fight.

Luo Shixin doesn't have to do anything now, just take turns to rest and take turns to attack around, and Li Xiaogong's troops and horses will have to be trapped here.

What worries him even more is Qin Qiong, that guy has 90,000 cavalry on hand, if he chases him from behind his ass, he will have no way out.

He consulted with his generals and unanimously decided to fight a game, if it continues like this, I'm afraid no one will survive.

Li Xiaogong rode out of the battle, walked to the place of an arrow, and said loudly: "General Luo, dare to break our army's formation." ”

Luo Shixin was happy, he got on his horse and rushed to the opposite side of Li Xiaogong, and said in a loud voice: "General Ben will wait for you to be exhausted before fighting." ”

"Hey! I didn't expect the dignified Sui Tan Guogong to be so insidious. Li Xiaogong said.

"Li Gongxiao, you have also been in the army for many years, don't you know that soldiers are not tired of cheating? How can a soldier be sinister? Luo Shixin glanced at Li Xiaogong with pity, and said loudly with a wicked smile: "Anyway, it's not me who is in a hurry... I might as well tell you that my family's saint asked me to send troops with Brother Qin at the same time, and my 30,000 people here, plus his 90,000 people, are enough to kill you. ”

Li Xiaogong was angry in his heart, but he also knew that it was Luo Shixin who was provoking him, and while the two were talking, two armies and horses came out from both sides of the army formation and surrounded Luo Shixin from both wings.

"I knew you were going to do this." Looking at the Tang army roaring towards this side, Luo Shixin pursed his lips disdainfully, raised the Hundred Refining Cold Spear, and said sharply: "Crossbow arrows are ready, left and right are ready!" ”

With Luo Shixin's order, the army quickly mounted the horse, under the command of generals and colonels at all levels, quickly adopted the most suitable formation, this time the rapid march, in order to reduce the burden, each person only brought a repeater and three quivers, a riding bow with two pots of arrows, the platoon crossbow that was conducive to field defense was not brought, but it was enough, the range of two hundred steps of the crossbow was enough to make any enemy desperate.

"Segmented projectile!"

As the order was issued, the soldiers in the front row quickly shot the arrows in the crossbow box and began to load the crossbow arrows, and the soldiers in the back followed closely to release the arrows, forming a dense rain of arrows pouring towards the opponent's army formation.

"Raise your shield! Archers fight back! Li Xiaogong, who was in the Chinese army, gave the order.

"Bang Bang Bang~"

A dense rain of arrows roared by, and the shield in the front row was instantly nailed full of arrows, and the wooden shield in his hand was scrapped in an instant, and was shot by the crossbow arrows that followed.

"Rush!"

The power of the opponent's crossbow arrows far exceeded Li Xiaogong's expectations, although Luo Shixin only moved more than 5,000 people, but this power is stronger than the troops of more than 10,000 people, and the disadvantages of the Tang army's fish scale array have also begun to be exposed, not a dense military formation, the shield can not give enough protection to the archers in the rear, many arrows pass through the gaps in the shield, and the unlucky archers behind keep falling to the ground.

After paying the price of most of the shield, the Tang army finally rushed within fifty paces of its own side, and at this time, Luo Shixin skillfully commanded the Sui army to slip out of two hundred paces, and then continued to fire arrows around the Tang army.

"Kill!" Li Xiaogong's face turned pale, and Luo Shixin's style of play, similar to that of the grassland people, made it impossible for the Tang army, which was all foot soldiers in the whole army, to deal with it. But at the moment, they had no choice but to charge.

"Yes, that's it! Withdraw, see no! We thought we were walking the dog, slipping around and beating ...... I'd rather shoot one less arrow than let them catch up! Luo Shixin leisurely controlled the distance between the two sides, and used this rogue tactic to the extreme, commanding the knights to constantly use the advantage of crossbow arrow range and cavalry speed to consume Li Xiaogong's troops.

Li Xiaogong saw that he couldn't catch up, and he kept reducing his troops, in the process of chasing and escaping, they didn't even hurt the Sui army alone, but they lost more than 3,000 people, and the speed of the foot soldiers was far from catching up with the other party, giving the other party the opportunity to aim, in the eyes of the Sui army, they were simply a live target, and if they continued like this, they would only run out.

"All the troops are attacking!" Luo Shixin laughed heroically and commanded the whole army to press.

The Tang army marched so far, it was already very tired, and the low morale began to collapse with all the sorties of the Sui army, and was hunted to pieces under the tacit cooperation of the Sui army, and the two soldiers and horses fought together for half an hour to divide the victory and defeat, there is no doubt that the Tang army was completely defeated, and in the face of the Great Sui Iron Cavalry, which exceeded them several grades in terms of equipment and combat effectiveness, when they approached at a huge cost, they were stunned to find that the other party did not want to confront them head-on, and they couldn't even attack the range, so how did they kill the enemy? Seeing that the arrows of the Sui army seemed to be endlessly radiating, the last trace of luck was shattered, and immediately followed, they began to flee in embarrassment.

Li Xiaogong's heart throbbed fiercely, his heart was dripping blood, these tens of thousands of soldiers were his hard work, and it was the result of his hard training in the past few years, but now it seems that he has not exerted a little combat power, and he has not reaped a little result, he has been finished by Luo Shixin, if it continues like this, the result is that the whole army will be annihilated, and at this moment, he finally understands why Wang Junkuo and Li Daozong were defeated so badly, just because they have no way to deal with this kind of hooligan tactics, and they can't change to immortals.

He looked up to the sky and sighed, gritted his teeth and shouted: "Withdraw!" How much can be walked, and what cannot be walked away - immediately surrender to the Sui army. "It's not that his soldiers don't give their lives, on the contrary, everyone is very brave, but their congenital disadvantage dooms their charge to be a desperate suicide journey. He really couldn't bear it, and his soldiers died in vain.

As soon as he gave this order, the Tang army breathed a sigh of relief one by one, and they knelt down and surrendered one after another.

"Let's go!"

Li Xiaogong and the generals were all cavalry, and there were about 5,000 people in total, and they left their foot soldiers, rushed through a bloody road, and fled westward.

In all fairness, Luo Shixin didn't want to embarrass these Tang Army soldiers, they were all of the same clan, and they didn't go to the battlefield for a bite of food in troubled times. But this is the battlefield, he Luo Shixin has the emperor's order, only by completely breaking this army, can he completely take Xiangcheng and Shuyang two counties, and can he keep the peace of the people of the two counties, compared with these thousands of people, even if the 40,000 Tang army dies, it is worth it.

Benevolence is a very luxurious thing on the battlefield, Luo Shixin has experienced too many battle formations, even if he has benevolence, but once he is on the battlefield, the kindness of those women will kill his soldiers, so these miscellaneous thoughts are pressed in his heart.

"General, look, Li Xiaogong is going to escape!" Just as Luo Shixin was ruthlessly harvesting human lives, an adjutant general suddenly shouted loudly.

Luo Shixin looked at it, and really saw a group of Tang cavalry coming out of the gap in the westward advance, and the soldiers who were originally cruising outside were caught off guard, allowing them to break a team and flee in the direction of Runan.

"How can it be so easy? It's late. A cold glint flashed in Luo Shixin's eyes, he left an army to clean up the mess, and personally led the main force to follow Li Xiaogong.

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