Chapter 22 Ten Years of National Humiliation and Never-ending War (1)

Before the battle, Li Congjing patrolled in front of the strict military formation, and asked the guards around him to repeat his words in unison, and he said loudly with a solemn face: "Soldiers, over the years, you have followed the commander to fight in the south and the north, and your footprints are all over the Central Plains. ”

"At the beginning, there were 3,000 soldiers in the 100 battles, and 300 gentlemen, and they were free to set up an army in Qimen, the first battle was Changhe, and the city was broken on a snowy night, and the number of 300 killed more than 1,000 enemies. After that, he turned to Zelu, pacified the rebels, conquered Huaimeng, expanded the territory for the Tang Dynasty, fought on the river, defeated Wang Yanzhang, and finally rushed thousands of miles to attack Daliang and won the battle of destroying the country. ”

"There are talents in the world, and then there are burdens. The stronger an army is, the more enemies it will have, and the greater the challenges it will face. Soldiers, since you went north, you have seen with your own eyes that the land of thousands of miles on the border of Youyun, due to the invasion of Khitan barbarians for decades, the ten rooms and nine empty households, half of the people died, and half of them were Khitan captives, plundered to the grassland as slaves and subordinates, and their children and grandchildren were not allowed to turn over! I have millions of people in the Tang Dynasty, and under the iron hooves of the Khitan barbarians, there is no one who has not been plundered, and there is no one who has not had a deep hatred in the sea of blood! ”

"A month ago, Yelu Abaoji's second son, Yelu Deguang, the generalissimo of the Khitan country's soldiers and horses, led 10,000 horsemen to attack Jizhou, burning and looting all the way, resulting in hundreds of miles of plastered land without crops, thousands of villages and towns are no longer inhabited, and the land of living and working in peace and contentment has become a hell of evil ghosts, and the world does not dare to set foot in half a step!"

"Ladies and gentlemen, over the years, you have defeated the strong army, defeated the famous generals, and destroyed the great powers! Now, the Khitan barbarians are invading our land, taking my property, killing my people, and destroying my homeland under our eyes, can you bear it? Ladies and gentlemen, the enemy army is in front of you, and the enemy country is in front of you, tell this commander, what do you want? ”

"Yelu Abaoji, Yelu Deguang, the world calls him a hero, a famous general in the world, and he is not afraid of it. Now this marshal tells you that in front of the Hundred Battles Army, it is the dragon you have to coil for me, it is the tiger you have to lie down for me, where the Hundred Battles Army is heading, there is no Abaoji, there is no Yelu Deguang, there is no Khitan Kingdom, only the standing Hundred Battles Army, and the fallen enemy! ”

"When Ben Shuai went north to Youyun, some people in the country said that I said, out of the town border, when the stability of the Khitan is the top, if the clouds are peaceful, it is an immortal achievement! But Ben Shuai wants to tell you that this is impossible! For decades, the Khitan has repeatedly violated the border, treating our Tang Dynasty as nothing, and the border army can no match it. But now that I, Li Congjing, have come here, everything will change! Youyun to Khitan, there is no peace, no tranquility! Ben Shuai wants to fight, Ben Shuai wants to fight, Ben Shuai wants to destroy all the Khitan thieves who dare to enter the country, Ben Shuai wants to send troops to the Northern Desert, and he wants to destroy Abaoji's country! ”

"Fight! This is the commander, the Hundred Battles Army, and the only strategy for the Youyun Border Army to deal with the Khitan barbarians from today onwards! Youyun has been beaten passively for a long time, Youyun has been swallowing his anger for a long time, from today on, the humiliation, suffering, and torture that Youyun has suffered for decades, Ben Shuai wants to take you back, get it back for them, and get it back for Datang! ”

"Datang is still the Datang who has a khan; The Tang army is still an army that can gallop freely across the grassland; The people of the Tang Dynasty are still the people of the Tang Dynasty who can make the world bow their heads in front of them! And all of this depends on us to fight back! Ladies and gentlemen, this commander wants to take you to tell the world that with my Li Congjing and the Hundred Battles Army sitting in Youyun, from today onwards, when the Tang Dynasty is fighting against the Khitan, it is easy to attack and defend! ”

"If you don't accept it, you will fight! If you want to win, fight! Soldiers, only war! Hundred battle army, gentlemen, war! ”

After Li Congjing said these words, surrounded by a group of guards, he returned to the front of the military formation, he picked up the long lance on the side of the saddle and raised it towards the sky of the grassland, moved forward with one arm, pointed to the front, silent is better than sound, and launched the order to attack. The formation of Junzidu is strict and murderous, with Li Congjing's movement pointing forward, the enthusiastic sergeants move neatly and lightly clamping the horse's belly, and the movements are scattered from front to back like pebbles rippling in the lake, spreading out in circles, and the rhythm is orderly like a sounding note.

Two thousand horsemen spread out in an attack formation across the vast steppe and rushed forward. White robes and black armor, long lances and horizontal knives, wind and banners, the battlefield is ahead.

The grasslands are more vast than the plains, and the grasslands are the natural battlefields. For cavalry, there is no better place for horses to gallop and cavalry to fight than the grassland.

The shadow of the Khitan cavalry appeared in the field of vision, rising and gushing out like a tide line on the horizon, mixed with the sound of waves crashing on the shore, with swords and bows as waves, rushing towards the gentlemen.

Gentlemen are unstoppable.

Li Congjing's eyes were as calm as water and ice as ice, full of monstrous battle intent, and the murderous aura exuded by his body made ordinary people unable to look directly, he always stared ahead, watching the figure of the Khitan sergeant enlarge in front of him step by step, when the distance between the two sides reached a critical point, he clenched the long lance, raised his arms forward, took the lead, and broke into the enemy formation!

Behind him, the gentlemen who had been as quiet as a mountain all tacitly erupted into a wave of waves, and they shouted in unison: "Gentlemen, break the formation!" ”

This is the war of Junzidu, this is the war of the Hundred Battles Army, this is the war of the Youyunbian Army, this is the war of hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tang Dynasty, and this is also the war of millions of people in the Central Plains!

As the head of the front, Li Congjing had already seen the Khitan sergeant who would meet him next one by one on the way to the front of the war horse, and when the two formations met, a burly Khitan sergeant in front of him, with a huge scar on his face, and exuding a terrifying aura all over his body, tore open his throat and opened his big mouth and roared, saliva burst out of his mouth, and there were silk threads connecting the upper and lower teeth. In this complete picture, the giant axe in the opponent's hand is like a god opening a mountain, and it is slashed hard. The whistling wind seemed to indicate that he could split all the obstacles in his way in half!

The premise is that his axe can be implemented.

But Li Congjing has never been in the habit of letting his opponent get his way. If the opponent is wishful, he can only die, and he chooses between you and me and me, and he does not hesitate to give in to his humility. The giant axe fell only in an instant, which is not unpleasant. However, before that, Li Congjing's long lance had already pierced the other party's throat.

Li Congjing swung the lance out of the opponent's throat, and stabbed into the neck of the next Khitan sergeant, while bringing out a piece of flesh and blood, with the momentum of the war horse, he didn't let the blade stay at all, and even didn't make too many changes, always maintaining the momentum of the sharp edge, and pierced the throat of the third Khitan sergeant in a moment.

During this period, Li Congjing's footsteps did not pause for half a minute, and in the dense rain of sergeants and swords and guns of the Khitan army, his body kept moving in a small but absolutely subtle movement. This allowed him to avoid a one-handed killing move in the slightest while slashing with a long knife, and effectively stabbed the Khitan soldiers off his horse one by one while ensuring that his body was not traumatized.

Ding Hei and the others behind Li Congjing could only see Li Congjing's back constantly changing, and his lance was always dancing and stabbing like a snake in front of him, and the crisp sound of metal suddenly hitting and suddenly parting kept ringing, and the Khitan sergeant in front of him fell off his horse every three or five times.

Long lance to long knife.

Before the long knife could get close, Li Congjing's long lance had already taken the life of the Khitan sergeant holding the knife.

When Li Congjing returned to block and then stretched out to attack, the long knives of the Khitan sergeant hit him like wild grass.

Eighteen kinds of weapons, one inch long and one inch strong, one inch short and one inch dangerous, long win in front, narrow victory in the back, long win in direct, short win in flexibility. There are few good generals in the army who can't use the lance, and the long lance is not brave and skilled can not be used, once used properly the lethality is unusual, the Tang soldiers who hold the lance in their hands, once they enter the military formation, in the eyes of the Khitan sergeants have always been the focus of care.

The Khitan army was 10,000 and the army was thick. There are 2,000 gentlemen, and the army is thin. When the two armies fought in one place, the Khitan soldiers in front of Li Congjing became more and more dense, whether it was personal force or cooperation, it was also getting stronger and stronger, and there were warriors in the Khitan army similar to the one under Meng Ping's command.

The Khitan sergeant in front of Li Congjing is getting stronger and stronger, which naturally can't be hidden from Li Congjing himself, but this is not an uncommon thing for him, as early as in the previous battle with the Liang army, he has enjoyed such treatment more than once.

Yerod's tactics were simple and effective, he placed all the brave men in front of the army, and his tactics were direct and violent, and in a hard-fought head-to-head battle, as long as the striker could tear through the opponent's army and achieve results, then the army behind him could extend the victory.

It is precisely by relying on such non-esoteric tactics that the cavalry under the command of Abaoji defeated their opponents one by one in the past battles, and finally established the supremacy of the grassland. also relied on this way of rushing into battle, Yelu Deguang killed a group of Tang army border troops who came to meet him on the way to Jizhou in the previous campaign. The cavalry of the steppes were never afraid to fight head-on, but on the contrary, they knew how to prevail in such a confrontation in the most intimidating way possible, and thus achieve victory, as they had done in countless wars over the centuries.

Unlike Li Congjing, who was inferior in strength and needed to take the lead in the charge, Yelu Deguang did not rush to the front line from the beginning of the battle between the two armies, but dispatched all parties in the center. It is not easy to find a person, or even a general, among the ten thousand armies, but to adjust the layout for the leading generals is only a basic skill. But when he discovered Li Congjing's charging momentum, he found Li Congjing.

Yelu Deguang hid in the military formation and pointed at Li Congjing, and said with a cruel smile: "Li Congjing is there, who can take off his head for this king?" ”

When the captain next to him heard this, he immediately showed a mouthful of big yellow teeth, and rushed out with meritorious service: "Your Highness waits, the last general will go to get Li Congjing's head!" ”

Han Xin's generals, commanding a large army like an arm, the opponent Li Congjing faced may not be able to achieve such a realm, but it is not difficult to concentrate fierce forces to deal with a rising bird like him. Therefore, when he faced the situation in front of him, although he felt a lot of pressure, he did not panic.

During the battle, the Khitan army in front of him made way for Hula to make way in the formation, and a Khitan man with a sword in his hand rushed out on a high-headed horse, pointing at Li Congjing and shouting: "Li family child, die!" ”

The other party's voice fell, and the figure had already rushed to the front, and a phantom shadow fell with an unrivaled momentum! Li Congjing's eyebrows sank, and the brave won when he met on a narrow road, he stood up and poked out with one hand!

With a snort, the golden sword stopped three inches in front of Li Congjing's forehead, and the long lance in his hand had already swept over the opponent's cheek, and he actually cut off half of the flesh and bones of the opponent's face with a hammer, and the captain couldn't scream, and his face was already blurred with flesh and blood!

"The knife is not bad." Li Congjing chuckled and rode past him.