Just a few hundred years ago from the Tang Dynasty, there was also a war very similar to today's war between Shu and Wei, the Battle of Jieting.

It was the first Northern Expedition carefully prepared by Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu, the main force of the Shu army attacked the barrier Qishan, Zhuge Liang kept the generals admonishing, entrusted his favorite army Ma Tan as the commander, and defended the flank of the Shu army in Jieting, as a result, Ma Tan talked on paper, arrogant, and stupidly gave up the water source town under the mountain, but the whole army guarded the south mountain of Jieting.

As a result, after the famous general Zhang He of Wei arrived, he surrounded Nanshan, cut off the water source of the Shu army, not to mention, and set fire to the mountain, a fire not only broke the tens of thousands of Shu troops of Ma Tan, but also ruined the hope of Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition.

Today's right army is also similar, under the pressure of the Arabs' fierce fire oil and mountain-like super-long spear array, the left and right Qianniu guards on the front road have collapsed, and the rear army has Arab iron cavalry and then rushed into the originally weaker government army formation, and there are already several government soldiers who are frightened to the back of the mountain.

Standing on the commanding heights of the whole army, seeing the Arabs pressing over like a mountain and the right-flank army that was moving towards destruction step by step, Li Yexu was already desperate to the extreme.

"Your Majesty, the last general is incompetent, and I am ashamed of Your Majesty! Grandpa, my grandson is not filial, and it has ruined my Li reputation! ”

After Li Yexu, who was crying bitterly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times to Dongfang, he finally pulled out the horizontal knife ruthlessly and rested it on his neck.

"I, Li Yexu, apologize to Damin!"

As he spoke, he slashed down hard.

However, Li Yexu's life should not be stopped, and the knife did not wait for the deep cut, Sheng Lianshan, who arrived in a hurry, kicked over, and the kicked Li Yexu stumbled, and the knife flew out.

"Brother Li, the Arabs have withdrawn!"

Anxious to the extreme, hoarse throat, Sheng Lianshan roared desperately, but Li Yexu, who listened to it, smiled miserably, how could it be?

The wound on his neck that almost scratched his throat was open, and sticky blood flowed outward, Li Yexu raised the telescope in confusion, but in the next second, his eyes were straight.

The Arabs, who had just gained the upper hand and killed their corpses like a mountain, suddenly retreated backwards in a hurry, shedding the remnants of the left and right thousand cattle guards who were at a loss, and the Arab iron cavalry that was crisscrossing the army in the government army also separated outward, and for three consecutive days it pressed the Arab army on the opposite hill like Mount Tai, and countless tribal banners were also slowly retreating, and even the trebuchet that was still firing fiercely just now was dismantled piece by piece, put on the back of a camel and dragged away.

Li Yexu's eyes suddenly widened, why is this? Are there any more conspiracy of the Arabs? But in today's war situation, there is no need for conspiracy, right?

It took more than ten minutes for the entangled two armies to separate, and many Arabs also collected the dead of their clans on the battlefield, tied them to their camels and hurried away, but the Fujian army with a broken camp was no longer able to pursue, so they could only let them retreat.

For about half an hour, the Arabs had already passed as if they were a nightmare, except for blood, horses' hooves and burning ashes, there was not a trace left, the whole battlefield was silent, and the surviving Fujian army looked at the empty front as if they had woken up from a nightmare.

"We, won?"

With a circle of white sand wrapped around his neck, Li Ye staggered to the front of the formation, lowered his head in astonishment and picked up a blood-stained Arab scimitar, and only after a long time did he turn his head and look back at Sheng Lianshan, who was also confused, and asked.

Sheng Lianshan didn't answer, but the soldiers who were missing half of their arms by his side suddenly cried, and then the cry spread quickly to the whole army like a contagion, and the entire valley was filled with this mournful cry, which shook the mountains and seemed to be sad.

The crying continued for half an hour before it stopped, and the surviving Right Army had to be busy again for survival.

In this battle, the Fujian army lost more than 4,000 people and seriously injured 1,000 people, which still refers to missing arms and legs, disemboweling and disemboweling, as for minor injuries, everyone has them, and a few arrow wounds are simply not injuries.

Because of the collapse, another four or five thousand people fled, and the Fujian army on the right had shrunk in a circle.

In the low tents, the wounded groaned in pain, dozens of military doctors of the Red Gourd Team were too busy, hundreds of cauldrons were boiling spring water from the Arab cistern at the bottom of the mountain, fortunately the repeated distilled liquor used for disinfection was not drunk as water, and the smell of alcohol was everywhere in the barracks.

This time, Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan, who had been deeply taught a lesson, did not care about the injury, and anxiously commanded the troops who could be mobilized to occupy the Arab military camp, guarding the flat land and reservoir of several hundred meters in the valley, and the soldiers who covered their wounds and screamed were sweating profusely to cut down trees to build a simple rejecting horse, and put them on the slopes of the road, although they did not know why the Arabs suddenly retreated, but Li Yexu did not intend to passively wait for God to come to the rescue.

In the hurried transportation, the valley had the appearance of a military camp, and a group of crossbowmen guarded the side of the road, Li Yexu could be regarded as relieved, his heart was relieved, and the pain on his body came up again, and sweat flowed on the neck wound, sending out an amazing stinging pain.

Limped, Li Yexu also wanted to go to the military doctor to see, but at this moment, the earth suddenly shook again.

The cistern dug by several Arabs was rippling in a circle, and the wooden horses on the ground shook and buzzed, and some fell to the ground, which was obviously a sign of the approach of a large number of cavalry.

Gritting his teeth and pulling out a horizontal knife, Li Yexu personally replaced Sheng Lianshan, who had already been lying in the wounded barracks, to stand on the front line.

The shield men, the sword players, and the spearmen were almost all dead and wounded, leaving only the crossbowmen and a small number of light soldiers to stand guard beside the horses, listening to the increasingly violent sound of horses' hooves from far and near, everyone's heart was beating wildly, almost jumping out of their chests.

The hand holding the sword was also shaking violently, and his voice was hoarse, and Li Yexu was still making his last effort, constantly giving speeches to the soldiers.

"For the sake of Damin! For the sake of distant relatives, for the sake of future generations! We'll never forget! ”

However, in the violent beating of his heart, even Li Yexu himself was a little absent-minded.

Finally, the rolling cavalry still emerged from the northern valley, and through the oblique sunlight, the surviving right army at first glance did not even see the appearance of the other party clearly, only saw a neat row of iron cavalry waving dense battle flags, whistling in front of them.

After a while, someone finally squinted his eyes and saw the fluttering flag clearly, the black flag body, and a snow-white official book fluttering in the gale.

Min!

"It's the Min army! Reinforcements are coming! ”

I don't know who was the first to shout in surprise, and then the entire army was brandishing weapons and letting out heartfelt cheers, the kind of cheers for the rest of their lives, moving.

"General, it's my Great Min reinforcements!"

Even the well-trained soldiers on weekdays were a little incoherent at this time, and they ran back excitedly, but after he said a word, Li Yexu's legs were weak and he sat on the sand weakly.

Reinforcements, finally here!

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Counting the luck of Li Yexu and Sheng Lianshan, if under normal conditions, it would take a day for the flying pigeon to arrive, plus check with the messenger who was 800 miles away from the war horse, and the military department summoned the army of various tuns near Damascus to supply grain and grass equipment, and it was fast in six days.

When Li Yexu's letter of request for help was issued, it was just in time for Li Jie to hold an autumn hunt, the Guanning Iron Army, the standing army of the Sixteenth Guard, and tens of thousands of Armenian iron cavalry, tens of thousands of Turkic Alan Sogdian and other Central Asian tribal cavalry and local conscription, tens of thousands of Arab cavalry, Li Rang's subordinates were all assembled for field hunting and running-in.

Saving time to assemble troops, Li Jie's army rushed from Damascus to Mount Lebanon in only three and a half days.

In a few hours, the army on the right was saved.

In the middle of the night, the nearby mountains and valleys were almost filled with people, except for the time when Alexander conquered Persia hundreds of years ago, it was the first time that so many people were stuffed here, and the joint camp was dozens of miles, and even the mountain peaks were lit by the fires of the garrison soldiers, and the patrolling soldiers were as dense as ants.

With the busyness of the thousands of red gourd team doctors in the main force, the remnants of the army on the right finally stabilized, that is, from time to time there was a scream like killing pigs when spraying alcohol disinfection in the wounded barracks.

The atmosphere of the whole army is extremely solemn, the Fujian army suffered nearly 20,000 casualties in this battle, the main force along the way was disabled, tens of thousands of bodies covered by white cloth sheets were piled up on the hillside battlefield, the cremation oven burned non-stop, plus the Taoist priests, monks, priests, brahmins and even imams and other clergy prayed for the casualties, and even revealed a sense of sadness.

After pacifying his subordinates, Sheng Lianshan, who had been wrapped in bandages and mummified, and Li Yexu, the old man with a neck pad, trembled and went to the main tent to meet the king of Min.

After opening the tent, Li Jie was still wearing a full set of armor, and his rigid face under the light of the candle was suddenly revealed in front of the two of them, and they didn't dare to look more, and the two knelt on the ground together.

"The guilty general Li Yexu/Sheng Lianshan knocked to see His Majesty the King of Min."

Li Jie's face was indeed ugly, and Tie Qing was terrifying, but looking at the pitiful appearance of the two with a brush, Li Jie couldn't help but sigh.

"Get up!"