973. Rush to occupy Xiangcheng

The sky was white, the desert in December had begun to have snowflakes, the cold wind was blowing recklessly, Li Jing lifted the mask, and immediately his neat beard flew around, looking at the vast desert where the scene was the same, his face was still so resolute, but there was incomparable caution in his eyes.

"How long will it take?" Li Jing asked in a deep voice without looking back, looking at the three thousand horsemen behind him, they were all tired, they had been deep in the desert for two days, if they didn't arrive at the designated place to camp and rectify, his strange army would be like the flying general Li Guang who would lose his way and die in the desert.

The guide beside him was also given a pergola, observed it carefully, and said directly: "Chief, the direction is not wrong, the front is the Evil Yang Ridge, and it will take half a day to arrive, but our marching speed is a little slower, a little slower than usual."

Li Jing also smiled bitterly when he heard this, the marching speed was slow? The sky is pitiful, and it is not more difficult than usual to march thousands of miles in the vast desert with snowflakes flying in winter.

"Brothers, there is the Evil Sun Ridge ahead, and if you go to the Evil Sun Ridge, you can camp and make a fire." Li Jing turned around and shouted to the three thousand horsemen who were shivering with cold behind him.

There was only a neat roar to answer Li Jing, with excitement in the voice, the horse's hooves clicked, the snowflakes were flying, and a long black dragon was advancing northward, and in the evening, finally, a forest appeared in the gray desert, the river passed through the forest, and the terrain was dangerous and abnormal, this was the Evil Yang Ridge.

"The whole army dismounts and repairs for an hour". Li Jing looked at this evil forest, turned around and shouted. The adjutant general was puzzled, and stepped forward and asked, "Chief Administrator, now that people are sleepy and tired, why is it only repaired for an hour?" ”

Li Jing rubbed his sore legs, and said bluntly: "One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion, I will wait for a long journey, exhausted, if I rest for a long time, I will be sore, and I will not be able to fight again." Therefore, we should go all out and kill the Turks by surprise."

The deputy general nodded in response to this, and an hour later, Li Jing turned on his horse, drew his sword and shouted: "Throw all the surplus grain and water into the river, and throw away all the baggage."

The soldiers were shocked, and Gu was puzzled, but looking at Li Jing's solemn expression, he also acted according to the order, and threw all his bags into the river, which contained Hu cakes, dough, and water bladders......

"Soldiers, now that we have no food, this place is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains, and we will definitely not be able to go back. However, twenty miles away in front of us, is the Turkic city of Zhanxiang, there is endless meat to eat in the city, endless wine to drink, Turkic thieves have disturbed my Tang Dynasty for many years, today, it is the time to return a tooth for a tooth, soldiers, with the general to break the city of Zhanxiang, meat and wine, let the king take it." Li Jing raised his sword in his hand and shouted.

When the three thousand horsemen heard the words, they all raised their weapons in their hands in response, and their voices rushed straight to Xiaohan, echoing on the Evil Yang Ridge, and were blown away by the biting cold wind.

"Attack, break the city of Zhanxiang". With a finger of the long sword in Li Jing's hand, he rode out on horseback, and the horsemen behind him were all ridden by one person and two horses, replaced by the war horse in the best condition, and roared.

Zhanxiang City, this is the southernmost city in the Turkic territory, of course, it is also one of the few cities, this city was originally built in the Han Dynasty, and later located on the border of Hu Khan, there are many wars, each change of master will repair this city, so to now, Zhanxiang City is one of the best fortified cities in the desert.

The tall earthen wall is rammed very tightly, but the cold wind will blow, but there is no defender on it, the Turks are good at going out of the city to fight, not good at defending the city, and now in this city is also to avoid the severe cold hurricane, only a few sentinels on the corner tower are blown by the wind and shiver.

In a gorgeous courtyard in the city, this is the tooth tent of the Khan, although it is said to be the tooth tent, but it is the Han house where the people live, there is no way, the weather is cold, and the Li is also afraid of the cold.

Li Jing's three thousand horsemen rumbled over, the momentum was huge, the three thousand iron horsemen rumbled like the sky collapsing and the cold wind struck, the sentries were startled, and they were busy blowing horns, and the Turkic soldiers and horses resting under the city also reacted quickly, and soon they were bustling and standing all over the city wall.

"Khan, something is wrong, the Tang army is coming." The Khan drank more wine tonight, and slept soundly in the bed with a robbed Han woman, when the door was pushed open suddenly, and a cold wind poured in, which made the Khan feel excited.

was about to get angry, and when he saw the person clearly, he also endured his temperament and shouted: "Sili, what did you say? The person who pushed the door in was the famous Turkic sage, the most important confidant of the Lili Khan, and the leader of the obsessive tribe, who was the "prime minister" of the Turks.

This is also a barbarian tribe with no etiquette like the Turks, you see that in the Tang Dynasty, that subject dares to directly kick the door into the emperor's dormitory, and destroy your entire clan in minutes.

"Khan, the Tang army is coming, it has already arrived outside the city, and it is about to attack the city." Stubbornly lost his thinking and looked like a ghost in horror, waved his arms and hurriedly said, even if he is a rare wise man in the Turks, he was also blinded by Li Jing's blitzkrieg, what the hell, the news only came yesterday that it was the Tang State to attack with a large army, why is it that now the Tang army is under the city, will the Tang army not be able to fly?

Lili Khan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then frowned very dissatisfiedly and shouted: "Sili, aren't you drunk, the Tang army is still in the Tang Kingdom, how can you come to the desert, go out, Ben Khan is also drunk, just sleep well."

I was so anxious that I was about to cry, "Khan, it's too late, let's go quickly, the Tang army is going to attack the city, and we can't hold it."

"Sili ......" Lili Khan still thinks that he is confused, but as soon as the words fall, he can only hear the rumbling sound of horses' hooves, and the city of Xiangxiang is not big, just a military camp, so the earth-shattering horses' hooves outside the city can also be heard in the city.

"What's that sound?" As soon as he heard this, he sat up, and he naturally knew that it was the sound of horses' hooves, but he was just a little confused.

I was about to cry when I lost my thinking, and before I could speak, the guard general at the head of the city hurriedly entered the door, brought in a gust of cold wind, and hurriedly said: "Yu Khan, the Tang army is about to attack the city, and it is under the banner of Li Jing, the general manager of the march of the Tang Dingxiang Road."

Lili Khan was suddenly shocked, this time he really believed it: the Tang army had come by galloping thousands of miles.

"Li Jing?" The Khan exclaimed, hurriedly put on his clothes, and shouted: "Quick, hurry up and assemble the army, retreat, retreat, withdraw the moraine."

Stubbornly stunned when he heard this, withdraw? Withdraw before you fight? There are 30,000 Turkic elites in the city.