Before dawn, Li Xiu had been woken up by the sound of horns in the barracks, and then received an order from Li Shimin to ask all the ministers to wait in the tent, and then Li Shimin took these ministers out of the city, escorted by 5,000 cavalry, and stopped on a dirt hill outside the camp.

Li Ji's army has already left the camp, and then lined up on the plain ahead, and on the opposite side of the Tang army, the Goguryeo army led by Gao Yanshou also slowly pressed, and the scene of hundreds of thousands of troops dispatched together is also extremely shocking, at a glance it is densely packed with black human heads, Li Xiu, who is standing on a high place, looks at the army slowly approaching on both sides, and even has a little illusion for a while, feeling like two huge ant colonies below.

The information that Li Shimin received before was not wrong, Gao Yanshou really launched an attack on the Tang army three days later, as the intelligence said, and the actions of hundreds of thousands of troops could not be concealed at all, so as soon as the Goguryeo side moved, the Tang army was ready to fight, and it is worth mentioning that Li Daozong also led six thousand elite cavalry to ambush on the flank, ready to fight at any time.

With the approach of the Goguryeo army, the two armies are also ready to fight, there is no general in the later romance to fight alone, and the generals on both sides have no nonsense, after all, a war is a war, when people appear on the battlefield, in fact, they have degenerated into the most primitive beasts, and any language will become very pale and weak.

The Tang army was well-equipped and had a long range of bows and arrows, so when the Goguryeo army entered the firing range, the Tang army immediately fired thousands of arrows, and the trebuchets in the rear of the army also began to exert their might, and the oil bombs and gunpowder shells kept being thrown, which immediately caused a burst of screams and chaos when they fell in the Goguryeo army.

However, Goguryeo also came prepared this time, and there were special people in the army to supervise the battle, so even if there were large casualties, the army had been firmly advancing, and finally the Tang army finally entered the range of the Goguryeo people, and then the archers of Goguryeo began to fight back, countless arrows were intertwined on the heads of both sides, and the dense arrow rain seemed to even block the sun, and the battlefield became much colder.

However, after a few rounds of bows and arrows, the armies of the two sides finally began the first head-to-head confrontation, at this time the bows and arrows had lost their effect, and the shieldmen and spearmen in front occupied the main force, and the two armies were like a torrent of steel, and as soon as they touched, they collided with sparks of iron and blood, and the wails of countless soldiers composed a tragic note for this movement.

Li Xiu stood on the dirt mountain outside the battlefield, holding a telescope in his hand and looking at the battlefield below, but after looking at it for a while, he put down the telescope with a reluctant, in contrast, Li Shimin next to him was looking at the situation on the battlefield with an expressionless face, and the casualties of the Tang Army soldiers were completely ignored by him, this is not that Li Shimin is ruthless, but that there is no mercy on the battlefield at all.

Although Gao Yanshou did not use all his troops this time, in fact, among the 150,000 troops under his command, only half of the real elites were accounted for, and the rest were troops made up by various tribes of Goguryeo, so he only attacked 70,000 people this time, and the remaining 80,000 were divided into several large armies by him, guarding the left and right wings and the rear, and a considerable part was used as a reserve, in case there was an emergency on the battlefield, so that he could send troops to rescue.

However, even if there were only 70,000 people attacking head-on, it was far more than the army under Li Ji, in fact, Li Ji only had more than 20,000 people in his hands, so in the face of several times the Goguryeo army, Li Ji also took a defensive position at the beginning, and the 20,000 army lined up in a tight formation, like a rock to allow the flood-like Goguryeo army to attack, but it was immovable.

Gao Yanshou also knew that the Tang Army was consuming the morale of his side, as the so-called three drums were exhausted, if they failed to break through the formation of the Tang Army for a long time, then they would soon usher in the counterattack of the Tang Army, with the combat power of the Tang Army, it was not impossible to break through their 70,000 people, and he also knew that the Tang Army would definitely not only have these in front of him, there must be other Tang troops in ambush nearby.

It is precisely knowing the above, so Gao Yanshou also ordered the army to attack frantically, now they and the Tang army are competing for endurance and time, if they can break through the formation of the Tang army, then they will have an advantage on the battlefield, and then force the Tang army to transfer out the nearby ambush forces, but he also has hole cards, and the outcome is not yet known, but if he can't break the formation of the Tang army, it will be bad.

Just when Gao Yanshou was commanding the army to desperately attack Li Ji's army, Li Shimin, who was standing on the nearby dirt mountain, suddenly shouted excitedly: "It's here!" ”

With Li Shimin's shout, Li Xiu and the surrounding ministers were also startled, and then someone immediately looked in the direction of Li Shimin's looking, and Li Xiu also picked up the telescope again, but after looking at it for a while, he found that it was in the rear of the Goguryeo army, and there were several thick wolf smoke rising.

"This ...... Is this a signal from General Cheng? Li Xiu couldn't help but exclaim in surprise when he saw the wolf smoke burning in the distance, although he knew Li Shimin's general battle plan, but he didn't understand the details, first, it was not necessary, and second, his mind was on the scheduling of logistics, and he didn't have the energy to pay attention to these.

"Yes, Zhijie came in time, I was worried that he would delay the time, but I didn't expect that as soon as the fight started here, he would kill him from behind!" Li Shimin smiled at this time and pointed to the smoke pillar in the distance.

Hearing Li Shimin's words, the surrounding ministers were also admired, and with Cheng Yanjin joining the battlefield, Goguryeo's rear army also began to be in chaos, although Gao Yanshou arranged an army of tens of thousands of people behind, but it couldn't stop Cheng Yanjin's impact at all, and at this time, Li Ji also discovered the smoke column in the rear of Goguryeo, and immediately began to command a small force of cavalry to start counterattacking.

Faced with this situation, Gao Yanshou was also shocked, he didn't expect that there was a Tang army in ambush behind him, and the offensive was so fierce that the tens of thousands of troops he put behind him couldn't stop it at all, and now the only way is to divide the troops to rescue, but the Tang army in front of him may not let himself divide his troops so easily!

I have to say that Gao Yanshou is still quite talented, and his judgment on the battlefield is also very correct, just when he was about to divide part of his forces to rescue the rear, Li Shimin, who was watching the battle from a distance, laughed loudly, and then waved his hand and ordered: "Inform Li Daozong to cut off Gao Yanshou's army!" ”