Chapter 171: The strong team wins and loses

Chen Ying's spirit is very poor, and there is no way. The entire Beibi battalion of 50,000 horses is now actually an empty shelf, morale is low, the camp is full of wounded soldiers, in addition to the three thousand personal guards of the king of Qi plus five thousand parts, the one who can fight again is the five thousand hook and sickle cavalry. Although Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, had more than 8,000 troops under his command, how dare Chen Ying pin his hopes on Li Yuanji.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are now on the verge of fire, in case Li Yuanji takes the opportunity to release water and kill people with a knife, Li Shimin suffers, and the more than 30,000 wounded soldiers in this battalion may not end well.

However, the more tragic thing is that the five thousand hooked sickle cavalry horses, there are no more than a thousand, there is no way, in order to rescue the defeated Tang army soldiers, Chen Ying did not hesitate to do the consequences of horsepower began to come out. More than one-third of the war horses died of exhaustion, becoming the main source of nutrition for the wounded soldiers, and more than 2,000 war horses have run away, and they can no longer adapt to the battlefield in the future, so they can only serve as horses or pull horses, exhausting the last time of their lives.

The hook and sickle lancers are such a miserable scene, to say that Chen Ying is not distressed, it is definitely a lie. But despite the pain, Chen Ying did not regret it, after all, because of his persistence, because he overcame all difficulties, he finally held the Beibi camp, if the Beibi Mountain camp was lost, it would be a fatal blow to the Tang army.

"Chen Lang, go and rest!" Li Xiuning walked behind Chen Ying, looking at Chen Ying's tired look, Li Xiuning said with pity: "I'm staring here, you can rest assured to sleep!" ”

"I can't sleep!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Now the hook and sickle soldiers can still bluff people, but once they ...... The consequences are unimaginable! ”

Li Xiuning frowned: "I don't know when my father will send reinforcements!" ”

"Reinforcements, don't even think about it!" Chen Ying sighed and said, "We can't wait for reinforcements!" ”

"Why?" Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying with flickering eyes, and said suspiciously: "Chang'an is close to the left, and almost all the soldiers and horses are here, but the Tang Dynasty is in Bashu, Yuanzhou, Jingzhou, Lingzhou, Hexi, and there are still hundreds of thousands of troops......"

"Far water can't quench your thirst!" Chen Yingyan said insincerely.

In fact, according to historical records, Li Shimin stormed Luoyang for ten days, Dou Jiande led an army of 100,000 to the west, and when he declared 300,000 to the outside world, Li Yuan had the idea of cowardice, and he successively sent Pei Lian, Xiao Yu, and Feng Deyi to ask Li Shimin to withdraw his troops with three holy decrees of withdrawal. It was Li Shimin who withheld the general's military orders abroad, withstood the pressure, led the partial division to defend the Tiger Pass, and held the army of Dou Jiande for more than a month, and when the veterans of Dou Jiande's division were tired, he went down in a battle.

However, Chen Ying was not Li Shimin, the king of Qin, after all, he was thinking about how Li Shimin would decide if Li Yuan ordered a retreat at this time?

As soon as the weather cleared, the scout cavalry of the Zheng army appeared outside the camp in the north, but as long as the hook and sickle cavalry of the Tang army appeared, these Zheng army scouts turned around and ran.

However, just after noon, outside the Tang army's northern camp, 100,000 Zheng troops came slowly in formation.

Looking at this scene, Li Shimin became worried, and Chen Ying's heart was also twisted.

If it weren't for the fact that almost all the hook and sickle lancers and war horses were wasted, they really couldn't get enough war horses, and Wang Shichong's 100,000 army, Chen Ying really didn't scare him.

It's just that the current situation is embarrassing, Chen Ying's hook and sickle cavalry has no strength to fight again.

Li Xiuning said coldly: "Wang Shichong, Lao Er, this is going to kill them all!" ”

Cheng Zhijie said with a smile: "Her Royal Highness Princess Pingyang doesn't know something, and she is ruthless, which is Wang Shichong's style of acting, and he can't get along with Kuanren." Especially he ......"

Speaking of this, Cheng Zhijie subconsciously closed his chase, Wang Shichong killed Yang Tong, but Li Yuan also killed fifteen-year-old Yang Yu. Although the history books record that Yang Yu died of illness, and Li Yuan also claimed that Yang Yu died of illness, everyone with a discerning eye knows that Yang Yu's death must be related to Li Yuan.

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On Zheng Jun's watchtower, Wang Shichong couldn't help frowning when he saw that Zheng Jun was afraid of the hook and sickle and spear riding like a tiger: "These lancers are really difficult to fight!" ”

"It's just a fight of trapped beasts, it's not a big deal." Zhu Cang set his eyes on the edge of the battlefield and gathered the hook and sickle lancers and asked, "Do you want the Heluo New Army to participate in the battle and make a quick decision?" ”

After Wang Shichong defeated Li Shimin, Wang Shichong used the Tang Army to surrender and the troops of Tian Zhan, Zhang Zhenzhou and other generals, and used weapons captured from the battlefield to urgently arm an army. This army directly belonged to Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong was not worried about other generals, so he handed over the power of commanding the army to Wang Xuanshu and Wang Renze.

Wang Shichong snorted: "Even if I want them to participate in the war, I'm afraid that those rammed goods won't agree, their training time is too short, and it won't be of great use." ”

Zhu Cang said: "Having said that, but it is not a way to stalemate all the time, according to my old Zhu's opinion, it is better to let the new army of Heluo attack, as for the result, Your Majesty doesn't have to care, there is no one, you can wait for the end of the general to go to Jingxiang to arrest ......"

Wang Shichong was still a little hesitant. To put it bluntly, he really wants to capture and kill Li Shimin and Chen Ying, and also wants to leave the credit for this broken army to Wang Xuanshu and Wang Renze, but Wang Renze is better, the fifteen Yingyang Mansions under his command in the new army of Heluo already look similar, but Wang Xuanshu is so uncompetitive that he can't even put a formation in formation for so long, once such an army is placed on the battlefield, the probability of mutiny far exceeds the probability of defeating the enemy, the most annoying thing is that the Tang army has just fought a big defeat and almost all the army has been wiped out, whether it is Wang Xuanshu or, Wang Renze, they didn't dare to face Chen Ying!

Zhu Can's eyes flashed with anger, and he stared at the hook and sickle lancer formation: "Ye Ye doesn't believe in evil, now the ground is so muddy, their war horses can't run, Ye Ye doesn't believe that they can still run up and bite Ye Ye, and send an order to this king's order, and order the front battalion Zhang Xianwu to attack!" ”

Zhang Xianwu is a general under Zhu Cang, originally born as a butcher, and what he eats is the white knife in and the red knife out. However, in the past, Zhang Xianwu killed pigs and sheep, but now it has become a murderer.

The horn sounded, and more than 1,500 pikemen under Zhang Xianwu's command lined up in a dense formation and launched an attack on the camp in Beibi Mountain. At the beginning, the more than 1,500 pikemen were in a tight formation, neatly lined up, and looked like a look.

However, when these Zheng spearmen rushed halfway up the mountain, the formation became loose and chaotic.

Looking at this scene, Chen Ying breathed a sigh of relief and said: "The row is so sparse, and you still fantasize about winning a battle?" Dream on! ”

Luo Shixin yawned: "Lao Tzu will teach them how to behave...... This charge is not resolute at all, the speed is too slow, and it is a ghost! ”

When the spearmen of the Zheng army rushed into the northern camp at the foot of a stone's throw, Luo Shixin had not yet had time to mount. A white war horse rushed out of the camp, and on the white horse sat a general in silver armor, this general was none other than Li Yuanji, the king of Qi.

Li Jiancheng is three brothers, fighting openly and secretly. Seeing that Li Shimin was now defeated, Li Yuanji was about to sweep Li Shimin's face fiercely, and just when he was looking at the chaotic formation of the Zheng army's spearmen, Li Yuanji led five hundred personal guards cavalry to rush towards the Zheng army's pikemen. Li Xiuning frowned and said, "Sanhu don't mess around!" ”

Chen Ying stretched out his hand and grabbed Li Xiuning's arm and said, "Sanniang, don't worry, His Royal Highness King Qi will win." ”

Sure enough, Kankan entered the range of the bow and arrows of Li Yuanji's personal guard cavalry, and with a whimpering battle horn sounded, Li Yuanji's personal guard cavalry pulled their bows and threw arrows at the Zheng army's spearmen.

The quality of the armor of the hoplites under Zhu Cang's command is not bad, and it can withstand the direct hit of the crossbow, but this forward battalion, to put it bluntly, the forward battalion is a professional cannon fodder unit under Zhu Cang's command, which is used to attract the enemy's bows and arrows or traps. In the face of the rain of arrows, it is basically where to hit and where to wear. The most blood-vomiting thing is that the tension of the horn bow and bow arm of the King of Qi's personal guards is weak, and the rate of fire is super fast, and in just a quarter of an hour, five hundred personal guard cavalry shot tens of thousands of arrows into Zhang Xianwu's formation.

Zheng Jun's spearmen turned on their backs, and the charge of the spear forest, which should have been heading back, collapsed suddenly. Zhang Xianwu roared, brandishing his horizontal knife and threatening to cut down the spearmen who did not dare to rush forward. But even if the morale of the spearmen was frustrated, no matter how Zhang Xianwu threatened, it would be useless.

Li Yuanji saw that the Zheng army's spearmen collapsed when he shot indiscriminately, and the cavalry of the prince's personal guards of Qi saw that they had withstood the impact of the Zheng army's spearmen, and they couldn't help but boost their morale, shouting for a hearty battle, and launching a decisive charge.

Wang Shichong shook his head helplessly and said, "This Li family's soldiers are really tough enough, to this point, they are still so brave!" ”

Zhu Cang laughed out loud at this time, Zhu Cang laughed wildly while pointing to the battlefield for Wang Shichong to watch.

Wang Shichong looked in the direction of Zhu Cang's finger, and saw that the cavalry of the Tang Army, who was originally chasing and killing the spearmen of the Zheng army, suddenly, the front hooves of many war horses were weak, and the cavalry on the horses were thrown to the ground fiercely.

Zhu Cang explained: "Your Majesty, you can see it, now the ground is muddy and slippery, as long as you are not careful, you will fall off the war horse.!" ”

Wang Shichong was overjoyed when he heard this: "It's really a great Zheng! ”

"And ......" Zhu Cang said again: "Your Majesty, please see, these cavalry who went out to fight are only the archers of the Tang Army, not the cavalry with strange spears!" ”

"Not bad!" Wang Shichong nodded and said, "Could it be that you say?" ”

Wang Shiyun said: "The younger brother of the minister once asked, Chen Ying's five thousand cavalry ran from Longmen to Beibei, there were less than two thousand people, thinking of this way they ran from Xin'an to Luoyang and then to Longmen, not to mention two hundred miles, Chen Ying Xiao'er in order to save Li Shimin's children, did not hesitate to gallop more than 200 miles, no matter how good the war horse will be wasted for him." ”

"Running away?" Wang Shichong was ecstatic: "It's good to run away!" ”

However, Wang Shichong thought about it and said: "I heard that Chen Ying'er is good at trickery, could this be his trick?" ”

Wang Shiyun said with a solemn look on his face: "It's really possible!" ”

"Hmph, isn't it a trick!" Zhu Cang smiled disapprenously: "Just try it!" ”

"Try it!" Wang Shichong is actually having a headache now, Li Shimin was defeated, but the remnants couldn't be attacked for a long time, which is equivalent to a superb beauty, with a scar on her face, which is really ugly. Besides, Wang Shichong has another worry, now Dou Jiande has sent troops.

Dou Jiande personally led an army of more than 100,000 people to break the phase all the way to the west, once Dou Jiande saw that he Wang Shichong couldn't even deal with Li Shimin's remnants of the defeated generals, it was difficult to protect Dou Jiande from having bad intentions. Wang Shichong said: "Then try it!" ”

At its peak, Zhu Cang's soldiers and horses numbered more than 200,000, except for 13,000 descendants and 30,000 troops who could fight, the others were all pulled over to make up for the head. This is a cannon fodder unit, and what Zhu Cang is best at is using cannon fodder to fight.

It is to send a spear or a wooden spear to the people, and then force the soldiers to charge, even if they besiege a small city with no more than a thousand defenders, when Zhu Cang attacks, he will use tens of thousands of horses, tens of thousands of horses are neatly tiled, densely swarming, and you can be tired if you can't be killed.

In fact, from Jiaodong to Jingxiang, Zhu Cang used this trick, and there has never been a city that can't be gnawed down, and a general who can't be defeated.

Although it is just a temptation, Zhu Cang's handwriting is not small.

Li Shimin looked at the watchtower, and at this time, his vision was broad, and he saw Zheng Jun as a triple front and back. It is like a three-layer wave, advancing layer by layer, and the first layer is about 5,000 people and horses, mainly with long soldiers and auxiliary archers. The second layer is about 2,000 people, but it is cavalry, and the third layer is about 3,000 people, mainly sword and shield soldiers, and there are hundreds of steps between each layer.

Li Shimin knows very well the reality in the camp in the north, at this time the Zheng army is strong and strong, not comparable to the siege of Luoyang City last time, he is worried that this is not Wang Shichong's temptation, and is ready to give Wang Shichong a false reality, pretend to be invincible, attract the Zheng army to attack the camp in the north, and do not wait for Li Shimin's order not to rush into battle.

At this moment, Chen Ying had already led more than 900 hook and sickle lancers and rushed towards the front of the Zheng army.

Although the ground was muddy and slippery, and the war horse was easy to slip, Chen Ying didn't want to fight at this time, but there was no way. The enemy could not act according to their own will, but instead seized the time to attack when the horse could not speed up.

More than 900 hook and sickle cavalry were cautious and slowed down their horses, and the speed of the cavalry at this time was not much faster than the speed of a normal infantry march.

Zhu Cang was overjoyed when he saw Chen Ying being so careful, and secretly thought that he had made the right bet.

The first to fight Zhu Cang was not Chen Ying's hook and sickle lancers, but the personal guard cavalry of Li Yuanji, the king of Qi. Zhu Cang rode a war horse, brandished a one-horned bronze man, and inserted it diagonally into Li Yuanji's formation from the left front.

"Snow shame, snow shame—"

Zhu Cang roared angrily, in Li Yuanji's pro-army formation, there was a conflict between the left and right, no one could do it, Li Yuanji's department was divided into two, the cavalry around Li Yuanji could still support it, and the other part was in chaos-

The so-called good defeat is not to be surprised when encountering unfavorable situations. Although Li Yuanji, the king of Qi, has good personal guard equipment and good physical fitness, there is a weakness that cannot be made up, that is, Li Yuanji's personal army has not fought a bad battle, and the Tang army has the upper hand, so his personal guards are also brave, and this time when they encounter a strong enemy, they are easily frustrated. As soon as this flaw appeared, the situation became even more dangerous.

In just one photo, Li Yuanji's divided pro-army Mo had more than 200 horses, just like butter meeting boiling oil, and disappeared in the Zheng army formation in an instant, without setting off a wave.

"Zhu Cang, the fourth master is fighting with you!" Li Yuanji also aroused the bloody bravery, he brandished his horse lance and rushed towards Zhu Cang.

At this time, more than 2,000 people in the second layer of cavalry followed by Zhu Cang gradually covered up, but this layer of cavalry was not in a hurry to enter the battlefield, but it was scattered, gradually forming an arc, it seemed that it was clearly going to be surrounded, intending to annihilate Li Yuanji's personal guard army.

When Chen Ying saw this situation, he was immediately anxious. Once Li Yuanji dies in front of his eyes, I'm afraid Li Xiuning will not forgive himself. Chen Ying had no choice but to stop keeping it, and ordered: "Hook and sickle guns, the whole army will assault, and kill these fools for General Ben!" Read the latest chapters, stay tuned