Chapter 185 The Unknown General Under the Mo Knife (I)

The soldiers of the Zheng Army of the brigade marched in the direction of the Tiger Prison Pass. Looking down from the sky, the Xia army was like a torrent, occupying the official road and advancing mightily.

Flags are unfurled, drums and trumpets are noisy. Sitting on the chariot, Dou Jiande was condescending, looking at Li Shiji and Li Shentong, and said with a slight smile: "Do you guess who will Li Shimin send to guard the Tiger Prison?" ”

Li Shentong shook his head, and said expectantly, "Foreign minister...... Foreign Minister...... I don't know......"

"Hmph, it's not that you don't know, but you don't dare to say it!" Dou Jiande said in high spirits: "King Yongkang, you said that I would not kill you, would Li Yuan kill you?" ”

Li Shentong was stunned for a moment, and said with a slight smile: "The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, Li Shou (Li Shentong's real name) lost the city and land, lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and the crime should be beheaded." ”

Dou Jiande sneered: "Is it interesting to say something insincere in front of me?" If you really want to die, no one will stop you......"

Li Shentong's face was flushed.

Dou Jiande ignored Li Shentong, turned to look at Li Shiji and said, "General Li, don't you want to say something?" ”

"A good minister does not serve the second master, and a martyr does not serve the second husband!" Li Shiji sighed and said, "Shiji, please ask the Lord of Xia to do it!" ”

Li Shentong said that he deserved to be beheaded for his crimes, and when he was willing to die, Dou Jiande didn't believe it at all. But Li Shiji's words convinced Dou Jiande. As an old rival in the world, it would be absolutely deceptive to say that Dou Jiande knew nothing about his opponent.

The person who knows you best in the world is not necessarily your friend, but may be your opponent. Li Yuan is suspicious by nature, Dou Jiande knows this very well, if Li Shentong is dead and Li Shiji is alive, then Li Shiji will inevitably have to be a cold bench, not to mention being promoted and making a fortune, whether he can have a good end is a question.

Dou Jiande stood on the chariot, overlooking the Hujiao Pass Wall, on the wall, the flag of the Tang Army fluttered in the wind, a big fire, very eye-catching "Chen", the door was closed.

Dou Jiande seemed to be talking to himself: "How many defenders do you guess there are in the Tiger Prison Pass?" ”

Li Shentong muttered: "There are more than 30,000 troops under the command of Shi Derui, the governor of Weizhou......"

"Shi Derui, that old fox has already run away, this battle is not a winner, he will not show up!" Li Shiji said: "Now His Royal Highness the King of Qin has few soldiers and generals, and the Lord of Xia is pressing the territory with a large army, Luoyang is empty, and the Tiger Prison is here, with a maximum of 8,000 soldiers and horses. ”

Dou Jiande smiled coldly: "Eight thousand people, how many days can you guard?" ”

Li Shiji calmly arched his hand and said, "Then who is the guard?" ”

Dou Jiande nodded and said, "Who can go against the sky?" ”

"This is not true, if General Chen is here, he ...... is a ruthless character, if he is in charge, it is difficult to say. Li Shiji thought for a while and said: "I'm afraid that the luck of the Xia Guozhu is very bad, he is really the one who guards the Tiger Prison, presumably the Xia Guozhu has already heard of it, he has broken the Yanmen Pass for a day and a night, and the Hangu Pass for an hour, and now he is in the Tiger Prison Pass, I don't know how long it will take for the Xia Kingdom to conquer the Tiger Prison Pass?" ”

"A doll with no hair growing, if you are lucky enough to win two battles, you dare to underestimate the heroes of the world!" Dou Jiande rubbed his hands and said, "Pass the order and go to the Tiger Prison for lunch!" ”

Liu Jintang, the general of Wei who had just captured Li Shentong and captured Li Shiji's capture of Liyang City, rode his horse to Dou Jiande's footsteps, turned over and dismounted, knelt down on one knee and said: "Your Majesty, the last general is invited to fight, and I am willing to be the vanguard and win the Tiger Prison Pass for Your Majesty!" ”

Dou Jiande thought about it and said slowly: "Accurate! ”

Although Liu Jintang is not from a noble background, he and Dou Jiande belong to the same Beizhou people, although Liu Jintang is unknown, but his brother is very famous, it is the prince of Handong County of Xia State. In his early years, he and his brother Liu Heimin defected to Hao Xiaode, lived in the mountains and forests, and later returned to Li Mi and became a partial general. When Li Mi and Zhai Rang, Liu Jintang was dissatisfied with Li Mi, and he said to Liu Heimin: "When Li Mi was at his most depressed, Zhai Rang took him in and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility, and the great favor was nothing more than this, but Li Mi killed Zhai Rang, and En will take revenge, and in time, we will become outcasts!" ”

It just so happened that Liu Heimin was also dissatisfied with Li Mi, so he deceived and took away more than 1,300 horsemen from Li Mi's Xiao cavalry battalion. It was because of these cavalry that Dou Jiande established his Xia State cavalry army. Of course, Liu Heimin was cunning and arrogant when he was young, he was addicted to alcohol and gambling, he did not manage the industry, his family was poor, he lacked food and clothing, thanks to Dou Jiande's help. Liu Jintang is also very loyal.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there will be struggles. Xia Guo is actually no exception, Dou Jiande's generals Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Cao Zhan, Gao Yaxian, Wang Xiaohu, etc., all have tens of thousands of soldiers and have their own system, only Liu Heimin and Liu Jintang, from beginning to end, have regarded themselves as Dou Jiande's descendants.

With the capture of Li Shentong and Li Shiji, Liu Jintang's troops also increased to more than 24,000 with more than 15,000 people. Liu Jintang returned to the headquarters, slashed forward with his knife, and shouted: "Let's go!" ”

At the head of the Tiger Prison Pass, Wei Wenzhong and other generals crouched behind the battlements of the wall and did not show their heads, only Li Xiuning stood at the head of the city in green clothes, looking at the Xia army and horses outside the pass.

On Li Xiuning's side, there is a big banner of the Tang Army, with the word "Chen" written on it, which is waving in the wind.

Although the distance was too far at this time to see it really, Li Xiuning also felt the shock brought by Dou Jiande's army. In this year, there will be food, armor and blades, and soldiers. When Dou Jiande attacked Xiangzhou, he only had 100,000 horses, but as Xiangzhou was breached, more than 17,000 Tang troops under Li Shentong surrendered, and Dou Jiande used Xiangzhou's treasury to pull up 20,000 or 30,000 horses.

After breaking Liyang City, the total number of Dou Jiande's army has exceeded 150,000 horses, and if you count the soldiers and civilians, it is a proper 200,000 people.

Outside the Tiger Prison Pass, Happy Valley. In China, there are not 1,000 but 800 places called Happy Valley, and without exception, Happy Valley Ridge is a gentle slope where horses can be run.

However, on this gentle slope, at this time there was a military camp. The area of the barracks is not large, about 500 steps square, but it is not appropriate to say that this is a barracks, because this so-called barracks has no trenches, no camp gates, and even a barracks wall to prevent wild beasts in front of the barracks.

At this time, hundreds of large stoves were lined up near the back camp wall, and the water in the pot was already boiling, exuding the smell of meat.

The officers and men of the Xia Army were simply stunned when they looked at this scene, they really couldn't understand, how could a mere army of thousands of people have the courage to have a picnic here?

Liu Jintang had no smile on his face, and resisted the urge to scold. One of Liu Jintang's subordinates opened his mouth wide, and his throat couldn't stop squirming.

Liu Jintang rubbed his eyes desperately and muttered, "I...... I...... I read that right...... Is that...... There is no one in sight. It's so presumptuous! ”

The soldiers of the Xia Army also shouted angrily and scolded: "Thief, the Kansai Yankees are crazy!" ”

"Damn, look down on us Yan Zhao Nan'er?"

"General Liu gives an order, I'll be angry when I see them so presumptuous!"

Indeed, at this time, the soldiers of the Tang Army were very underbeaten, but it was Chen Ying who was even more underbeaten, he was lying upright on a fox fur, sleeping with his eyes closed.

Liu Jintang was angry and laughed at Chen Ying's scene: "What are they doing here? Just this person, want to keep the tiger prison? If you want to defend the Tiger Prison, you should also hide in the pass, right? ”

Ling Jing, who came with Liu Jintang, muttered to himself, "It shouldn't be, it shouldn't!" ”

"What shouldn't you?"

Liu Jintang respected Ling Jing very much, and said with a humble attitude: "Master Ling, do you know this person?" ”

Ling Jing nodded and said, "Let's count it as acquaintance, he was originally Chen Ying, the number one general under the East Palace, but he ...... How did he get to Happy Valley? ”

"Chen Ying?" Liu Jintang grinned and didn't speak. His head was instantly like a movie, flashing Chen Ying's dazzling achievements, flattening the ground, flying to the aid of Lingzhou, defeating the Turks four times, wounding Shibi Khan, repulsing Luo Khan, recovering Feng, Sheng, Shuo and other states, light division into Hedong, defeated Fan Junzhang, broke Yanmen, and killed Hedong into a river of blood. This time he raided Kanto, Chen Ying was the vanguard again, defeated Wang Renze, Kehan Guguan, flew to save Li Shimin, Kewang Shiyun, and captured Zhu Cang.

Counting on his fingers, the thirty-six anti-kings, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou, Zhu Cang, and Wang Shichong were already deflated in Chen Ying's hands.

Liu Jintang believes that a person will have shit luck, but no one is Cangtian's own son, and luck will not always be on his side. Once or twice, it can be said that Chen Ying's luck is good, but with so many victories, Chen Ying must not be explained by luck.

Liu Jintang muttered in a low voice: "Lord Ling, you see that Chen Ying is ...... What's to be done? Could it be that he is trying to scare our army away? ”

"Will General Liu retreat?" Ling Jing smiled and said, "General Liu, Chen Ying is not good at military affairs...... There's only one explanation, he's plotting! ”

Liu Jintang and Ling Jing said in unison: "It's weird! ”

"Order, retreat ten miles, set up camp, bury the pot and make food!" Liu Jintang shouted loudly.

A herald was a little stunned: General, you won't attack the city today?

Liu Jintang whipped a horsewhip on his helmet: "Execute the military order!" ”

Looking at the slowly retreating Xia Army Brigade, Chen Ying couldn't help but smile bitterly.

As Ling Jing guessed, Chen Ying was indeed using a trick, and of course this was also the method that Chen Ying hated to use the most. If he had the strength, he would rather line up a cavalry wall with hooked and sickle lancers, and lunge at the enemy again and again, crushing them into flesh. If he has strong enough strength, he is also willing to let the Mo Dao soldiers line up in a dense Mo Dao army and set off a bloody storm in the enemy formation.

However, now Chen Ying is actually very weak, the sharpest knife in his hand, the hook and sickle lancer, has actually been broken, although the hook and sickle spearmen without war horses can also fight, but half of the combat effectiveness has been abolished. Chen Ying didn't know if Li Shimin could invite war horses from Li Yuan, as long as he had war horses in hand, with the sixteen regiments of hook and sickle lancers in his hands, Chen Ying definitely had the strength to stage Li Shimin's myth.

It's just a pity that now Chen Ying has no horses, only cavalry soldiers. Therefore, in this case, Chen Ying could only use ingenuity and suspicion to win a precious opportunity for Li Shimin.

"Xia Jun retreated, Xia Jun retreated!" All the soldiers of the Tang Army cheered loudly, and Li Xiuning, who was standing on the Tiger Prison Pass, listened to the cheers of the Tang Army, and did not speak, silently estimating in his heart.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, great joy, Xia Jun has retreated!" Feng Li and Wei Wenzhong said excitedly to Li Xiuning.

Li Xiuning shook his head and said: "This is really not a good thing, it is a good thing to say that the Xia army does not rest and fights when it comes up." ”

The disadvantage of the Modao army is that the equipment is too heavy, and the soldiers cannot fight for a long time, and the Xia army is also exhausted because of the continuous march, so as long as they are frustrated in the first attack, they will definitely not be able to organize a second decent attack. Now that the Xia army has retreated and the whole army has been rested, it is not a good thing for the Tang army. Li Xiuning was silent for a while, and said: "It's not easy to fight today, I'm afraid it will be a hard battle tomorrow." ”