Chapter 197 According to the tiger prison, Dou Jiande had no choice but to withdraw the army

"General Cheng, what a blessed general!" Hou Junji, as a party to the battle, it was even more difficult to feel the pressure on the battlefield, the situation was very critical at that time, and the whole army was almost defeated, but Cheng Zhijie didn't know what was crazy in his brain, so he jumped up with his horse lance and carried two wide-bodied axes to kill the Quartet.

Li Shimin nodded, and he set his eyes on the battlefield. At this time, the battle is basically over, after all, this is an infighting, as long as one side surrenders, the other side will not be wiped out. After all, they are all descendants of Yan and Huang, and the dispute between Zheng and Tang is only about the belonging of the world, but about each other's life and death.

If Wang Shichong or Li Yuan, even if it is Dou Jiande, they don't have the idea of being in a corner of peace, and they all want to unify the world and create peace for all generations. However, the ideal is plump, and the reality is too skinny. It is precisely because of this war that the land of hundreds of miles in the Central Plains was lit everywhere and there was killing everywhere.

"It's over for now!" Li Shimin touched his back, he was already in a cold sweat at the moment. The losses of the Tang army in this battle were not light, at least 3,000 people were killed, and 3,000 or 4,000 were slightly wounded. But fortunately, five or six thousand Zheng army prisoners were obtained, which could make up for the losses of the Tang army, and these prisoners, through the Tang army's military participation for a while, they believed and doubted, slowly took off the armor that Zheng Jun served, and put on the armor of the Tang army.

Of course, not all the captives were willing to follow Li Shimin, it was very simple to continue to be prisoners, under the supervision of the Tang soldiers, more than 1,000 prisoners who were unwilling to adapt, acted as coolies, began to collect the corpses, move away from the horses, clear all obstacles, repair the carts, and the Tang army continued to advance.

In the next few fierce battles, the scale was not very large, and the Zheng army used deer, trenches, and horses as cover to build a defensive line, and fought extremely resolutely. However, due to the fact that the forces are too scattered, the strength of each line of defense is not very large, generally hundreds or thousands, and there is no need for Li Shimin's main army to do it, Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie can solve the battle by leading the jumping soldiers in front.

At this time, the Tang army's car formation was like a road roller, slowly and unstoppably rolling forward, smashing the Zheng army's defense line mercilessly, and rushing forward all the way. After several victories in a row, the morale of the Tang army was extremely high, and even the more than 1,000 prisoners who were unwilling to surrender to the Tang Dynasty joined the big family of the Tang army. As for the other soldiers, there is no longer any need for coercion and temptation from officers, and the speed of advancement has been greatly accelerated, and the kinetic energy has become stronger and stronger.

Later, like those defense lines guarded by one or two thousand Zheng soldiers, almost one regiment of Tang Army soldiers, it was solved in a few rounds, and in just one morning, they captured seven or eight defense lines of Zheng Army, and advanced twenty miles towards Xin'an, and they were very close to their destination, only less than thirty miles away.

The situation is very good, and everyone is optimistic.

However, Li Shimin frowned, because he noticed that every retreat of the Zheng army was neat and orderly, without the slightest panic, and although the Tang army rushed bravely, the strength to annihilate the Zheng army in each battle was actually very limited, and there were rarely more than 1,000. Obviously, the Zheng army is not really defeated, they are luring the enemy to go deeper, and this weak defense line is just a bait for them to throw out the appetite of the Tang army.

Li Shimin looked at the Zheng Jun scouts looming in the distance, and fell into deep thought, where is Wang Shichong's main force? What is his real purpose?

"The whole army stops advancing!" Thinking of this, Li Shimin immediately issued a military order.

Li Shimin's order caught the generals off guard. Especially Cheng Zhijie, he lost his ancestral horse lance, and he didn't have time to relieve his hatred, listening to Li Shimin's order to stop advancing, he looked at Li Shimin in confusion and said: "His Royal Highness King Qin, we can arrive in Xin'an City in more than an hour, why stop advancing at this time, do you still have to stay in this deserted village?" ”

"Isn't General Cheng surprised? Zheng Jun obviously has the strength to compete with us, but he scattered his forces, as if he deliberately gave us a chance to break them one by one! Li Shimin said with a solemn expression: "Things are abnormal, I'm afraid there is something strange." On the banks of the Luojian River, the Zheng army was defeated by our all-out assault, and then retreated, that is normal, just like just rejecting the horse formation, if Wang Shichong sends twice as many troops, it will be difficult for us to break through, if he sends three times the number of troops, we can block us there, does Wang Shichong think that he has too many troops, let us reduce and reduce for him? This is not in common sense, and it is somewhat strange. ”

"What's so strange about that? Maybe Wang Shichong is simply playing tricks! Cheng Zhijie said: "No matter what Wang Shichong's real intentions are, the soldiers will come to block it, and the water will come to the earth, I'm afraid that he will do something!" ”

Hou Junji sneered and looked at Cheng Zhijie, Cheng Zhijie was a new general after all, he was embarrassed to be sarcastic, but there was already a little coldness in his eyes, and he summarized Cheng Zhijie as a brave and unscrupulous horseman. He said with a straight face: "What if...... Wang Shichong is scheming again, just in case...... He wants to catch us all! ”

"How's that going?" Cheng Zhijie smiled disappreciatively: "It's a good thing to be cautious, I didn't care about it originally, but now...... We won't make it! ”

Li Shimin looked at Cheng Zhijie with a slight surprise and said with a smile: "General Cheng means ......"

"Zheng Jun is small and scattered, if we stop moving, Zheng Jun will definitely think that we are cowardly, and we will end up with a name for being brave, and if we meet them again in the future, it will be difficult to exert power, and the newly attached soldiers will also have two hearts. If we take a longer view, I am afraid that it will be detrimental to our future operation of the Central Plains. ”

It seems that Cheng Zhijie has a point. Hou Junji did not refute either.

Li Shimin frowned, and turned to look at Qin Qiong again: "What does General Qin mean?" ”

Qin Qiong raised the steel halberd in his hand and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness King Qin said how to fight, I will fight as I want, and I will be the striker!" ”

Li Shimin suddenly remembered something, and said to Lei Yongji beside him: "Lei Yongji, the scouts you sent to expand the reconnaissance range and see where Wang Shichong's main forces are around." It is better to inform General Shundeok, the eldest grandson in Sin'an Castle......"

Lei Yongji has followed Li Shimin for many years, and he is also a knowledgeable person, and after receiving the order, he thought: "This is a matter related to the life and death of our army!" He didn't dare to slack off, and thought, "If you swagger to explore, it will attract people's attention." But he sent his men and horses to change the appearance of Zheng's rout, and ran around as if intentionally or unintentionally to find out the news.

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Happy Valley, the camp that was originally isolated one, has been continuous at this time, forming twelve sentry forts, forming a company camp, the trench is winding, the earth barrier is solid, the deer are dense, and it is extremely solid.

Dou Jiande observed this line of defense for a long time, and knew in his heart: Xia Jun would not be able to gnaw on this line of defense!

It's not that you can't really bite it, it's just that you need to pay an unusually heavy casualty. With Dou Jiande's character, he will definitely not force his soldiers to take their lives to fill the trenches and traps of the Tang army. Tens of thousands of troops are advantages in the eyes of others, and in the eyes of Dou Jiande, they are responsibilities.

He brought these Hebei children, fathers and villagers out from Hebei, and he wanted to bring them back safely and force them to fight this kind of battle of corpses and blood, Dou Jiande felt sorry for his conscience!

Dou Jiande sighed and said, "Now we have to give up the Tiger Prison Pass and bypass Happy Valley!" ”

Hearing this, Ling Jing immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, he has long known that this Happy Valley is not easy to fight, and Dou Jiande is ready to attack Chen Ying's Modao Army with fire, although the idea is wonderful, but the enforceability needs to be verified, and the fierce fire oil concentrated under Dou Jiande's command is only three hundred barrels, fifteen thousand catties, which is not too little.

However, Chen Ying is not a fool, especially the current twelve sentry forts, these sentry forts are all made of stones and Sanhe soil on the mountain, between the sentry fort and the sentry fort, there are underground trenches connected, such a trench, in fact, Chen Ying imitated the traffic road of later generations, dug out more than one person high, covered with wooden planks, the wooden planks are covered with soil, unless there is heavy artillery bombardment, otherwise, through this kind of traffic trench, Chen Ying can unknowingly transport reinforcements to any sentry fort.

That is to say, in the process of attacking, every time Xia Jun attacked, Chen Ying could defend with all his might. Moreover, as long as Xia Jun's trebuchet appeared in front of the battle, Chen Ying would definitely take countermeasures. If Chen Ying's traffic trench is not destroyed, the pitiful range of the trebuchet will not hurt Chen Ying at all.

Thinking of this, Ling Jing suggested to Dou Jiande: "Your Majesty, at this time, Li Tang's elite is either in Luoyang, or in the Tiger Prison, Hedong and Guanzhong, it must be empty, why don't we take the strategy of encircling Wei to save Zhao, using Liyang as a stronghold, attacking Hedong to the north, crossing the Yellow River to the west, and threatening Tongguan." Li Shimin is bound to be in a dilemma and has to withdraw his troops from Luoyang, and Chen Ying has no need to guard the Tiger Pass, and the Dou army can be invincible, and the worst result is just to withdraw to Hebei! ”

"That's a brilliant plan!" Dou Jiande nodded and said: "Actually, there is no need for the whole army to retreat, leaving Liu Jintang in Xingyang, although Liu Jintang can't help Chen Ying, but Chen Ying can't help Liu Jintang, just with Chen Ying's thousands of soldiers and horses, can he still conquer Xingyang?" Anyway, Xingyang is also Wang Shichong's, and if you lose it, you will lose it! ”

Ling Jing thought that Xia Jun was worthy of being born in the peasant army, and it was ruthless to scavenge land. Not only did the Xingyang City Treasury not save a penny, and there was not a grain of grain left, but even the gates of Xingyang robbed Xia Jun one after another.

Among them, the most miserable is the Zheng family in Xingyang, Xingyang is the base camp of the Zheng family, Xingyang is worthy of the name Zheng Bancheng, more than half of the shops in Xingyang, more than two-thirds of the cultivated land, more than 60,000 poured fertile land, all of which are the fields under the name of the Zheng family. Especially around Xingyang City, the Zheng family has more than 460 granges.

However, all the food and money in these granges were robbed by the Xia soldiers. Unlike Chen Ying's robbery of Zheng's courtyard in Xin'an, Chen Ying only robbed in Xin'an, did not hurt anyone, and did not touch Zheng's women and maids.

But Xia Jun didn't have so many worries, and dared to come out to block it, and cut it with a knife. The maids and ladies with good looks were also picked up and left.

At this time, the Zheng family suffered particularly heavy losses under the passage of the Xia army like locusts, although the century-old savings were not swept away, but as much as 500,000 stone of grain, more than 600,000 yuan of money and property losses, but also made the Zheng family's vitality greatly damaged.

Just when Dou Jiande was about to withdraw his troops, there was also a man in a brocade robe in the middle army of the Modao Army in Happy Valley, crying in the face of Chen Ying.

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