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The fifteenth year of Xiantong is also the first year of Qianfu. On the winter solstice on November 5, the ministers of the Emperor of the Emperor were called "Emperor of the Holy Spirit, Wisdom, Wisdom, Benevolence, Philosopher, and Filial Piety", and changed the Yuan Qianfu. Last year was not only the 15th year of Xiantong, but also the first year of Qianfu. As soon as New Year's Day passed, it was already the second year of Qianfu in a blink of an eye.

Li Jing felt that time was flying, but Li Keyong from Shuozhou felt that this time was like a year.

This battle has completely deviated from the control of their father and son, and they are like sitting in a carriage that is constantly sliding into the abyss, knowing that the road is about to fall into the abyss, but they are powerless to stop it. After this continuous battle, Li Keyong has a lot more calm at this time, and his temperament is no longer so unruly. At the beginning, he looked down on Li Tang and felt that this was just a sick tiger who was already terminally ill. But now he finally understands that maybe Li Tang really can't do it, and there are indeed not many of those feudal towns who are truly loyal to the imperial court. However, the Shatuo people were not yet capable of challenging him, and those feudal towns were still willing to send troops for Li Tang.

He regretted it a little, if only he had listened to his wife.

The wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier, but Li Keyong is standing like a statue on the Yanmen Gate.

This year's snow has been extraordinarily heavy, and he is now worried. Originally, he discussed with his wife, he crossed the river to meet his father, and his wife was going to pack up his men and horses to go to the outside of the plug. It's a pity that Zhenwujun's rebellion made him angry and lose his mind. And then the total annihilation of the Zhenwu army made him lucky for a while, thinking that he could win a few more battles with the bravery of the Shatuo cavalry. can change the current situation. He did win the battle.

Camel Weir War. Annihilated 6,000 troops of Zhenwu Army. The Battle of Honggu. Destroy another 4,000 Tang troops. In the first battle of Tang Lin, he annihilated 8,000 troops of the Zhaoyi army and killed Li Jun, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Festival. Three battles and three victories, turning thousands of miles, even at this time, the Shatuo people can still be called the strongest cavalry in the world.

Why is it that the situation is getting worse and worse even if you win the battle in a row?

The brothers Gao Wenshun and Gao Wenji, whom he sent to Yunzhou for reinforcements, were originally arranged by him to help defend Yunzhou. Keep the passage for him to retreat to the outside of the plug. If you hold Yunzhou, you can attack and retreat. But as soon as the Gao Wenshun brothers arrived in Yunzhou, they surrendered to Li Jing. Even the two divisions of Sage and Anqing, who have followed them for generations, have all defected in front of the battle. His military envoy, Fu Wenda and his brother Fu Wentong led the army to surrender, and only his uncle Li Youjin, the governor of Shatuo, fled back.

This blow was extremely huge, and even made Li Guochang fall ill all of a sudden after hearing the news.

Yunzhou was lost, and their back road to the grassland was also broken.

Li Jing's 10,000-strong army held Yunzhou. Another 5,000 troops held Ulju. There are three roads leading to the outside of the Saiwai, from Yunzhou to cross the white road over the Yin Mountain. Or go to Ulzhou to enter the fortress from the military capital, or go to Zhenwu and go out of the fortress from the single Yudu Protectorate, but now these three roads are all blocked.

He destroyed the Zhaoyi Army, but the imperial court gathered the soldiers and horses of the eight towns again. Even the five soldiers and horses of the Helian Division, the Tuoba Division, the Qibi Division, the Sage Division, and the Anqing Division, which they had never looked down upon by the Shatuo people in the past, actually dared to follow the imperial court soldiers and horses to attack them.

The tiger fell in Pingyang and was bullied by dogs!

This winter is really cold, Li Ke felt chills all over his body, took off the sheepskin wine bag on his waist, poured a large sip of mare's milk wine, a burst of fire rose from his abdomen, and the whole person was much better.

As soon as he returned to the warm town general's mansion, Liu immediately untied his cloak for him and held his cold hands in his hands.

"We can't continue to stay in Shuozhou, the snow is falling, and although our grain and grass can last for a while, there is not enough winter clothing." Liu persuaded Li Keyong to take the opportunity to get out of the plug immediately. "Now that it is snowing heavily, it is unlikely that the imperial court soldiers and horses will send troops at this time, so we just took the opportunity to open a passage out of the jam. If this continues, before the beginning of spring, the people of Shuozhou will almost freeze to death. And at that time, all kinds of soldiers and horses of the imperial court attacked, and we couldn't defeat them. ”

Lick was silent.

After a long time, he said: "Aya is seriously ill now, how can he get out of the snow at this time." ”

He was really unwilling, so he fled without a fight. He also had 10,000 elite cavalry under his command, and 20,000 soldiers and horses of various tribes recruited. With 30,000 horses in hand, Li Ke still wants to fight. Shuozhou is the base camp of the Shatuo people, although he lost other states, but the two Xiongguan of Loufu and Yanmen into Shuo are still in his hands. Moreover, on the periphery of Jincheng, the base camp of the Shatuo people in Shuozhou, there are three gangs and four towns, with strong fortresses and fortresses, and heavy troops stationed. If necessary, he could even arm all the Shatuos.

"The strongest Shatuo warrior is the cavalry!" Liu pointed out the impracticality of Li Keyong's idea, "We are good at cavalry mobility, fighting defensive battles, and defending cities, which is not our forte. No matter how strong a fortress is, there will be times when it will be breached. ”

Now it has come to the time of life and death of the Shatuo people, and it is not even as good as the time when Zhu Xie was bullied by Tubo and resolutely decided to return to the Tang Dynasty sixty years ago.

"Withdraw, back then, my Shatuo people withdrew from Hexi to Datang, three thousand miles to fight, all the way to be outflanked and intercepted by the Tubo people, and lost two-thirds of the clansmen, but the most Lu still escaped. Now the situation is like back then, stay, even if you can win a few more battles, we still can't fight the Tang people in the end. The green mountains left are here, and I am not afraid of no firewood. "Liu has seen very clearly that after one or two victories, he is powerless to change the situation. The Tang Dynasty now has such an advantage that there will be no chance of détente at all.

"Let me think about it again!" Rick's heart was blocked for a while.

On the eighth day of the first month of the second year of Qianfu, Zheng Congyan led 40,000 soldiers and horses from seven towns to reach 30 miles below Loufu Pass, but the defenders of Loufu were still trapped in the pass surrounded by wind and snow, and they didn't know it at all. Loufu Pass and Yanmen Pass are both the gateways to the south of Shuozhou. Yanmen is in the northwest of Daizhou, and Loufu is in the northeast of Lanzhou, but the distance is not too far. Li Ke personally led 5,000 cavalry to garrison Yanmen Pass, and 5,000 infantry were stationed at Yanmen Pass and Loufu Pass.

After arriving at Guanxia, Zheng Congyan did not immediately give the order to attack. In order to achieve a better effect, he had already agreed with Li Jing before setting off that the three-way soldiers and horses would launch an attack on the tenth day of the first lunar month, on the same day, so as to give full play to their military advantages.

In fact, according to Zheng Congyan's meaning, he wanted to join forces with Li Jing and attack Lou Fu Pass together with the eight towns. It's a pity that Li Jing doesn't want to be with them. Zheng Congyan guessed that maybe Li Jing wanted to send troops alone to give more credit. After all, the eight towns are combined, and the first credit of the last is definitely his, and the soldiers are divided into two ways, but Li Jing's credit cannot be snatched. However, Zheng Congyan has always been a little worried, what if they attack Lou Fu as scheduled, but Li Jing does not send troops to attack Yanmen.

The time soon came to the tenth day of the first month, because of the heavy snowfall, Zheng Congyan sent Tuoba Sigong's party cavalry rangers to sweep, and the occasional exploration horses out of the pass were also captured, and the pass did not know that Zheng Congyan had led the army to reach the pass.

"Marshal, I am willing to lead my party warriors as the vanguard of the army and take down the troublesome pass!" Since he joined Zheng Congyan's command, Tuoba Sigong was actually a little worried that Li Jing would trouble him. After all, he sent out troops after he got Li Jing's gold at the beginning, and it should belong to Li Jing. At present, he chose to recruit Zheng Congyan, Zheng Congyan treated him well, vigorously protected, and made him suddenly from the self-proclaimed Youzhou Assassin History to the envoy of Xia Suijie. So far, their party members have to follow Zheng Congyan closely and hold on to this backer.

"What is the best way for General Tuoba to break the city?" Zheng Congyan was very satisfied with Tuoba Sigong's initiative to ask for battle.

Tuoba Sigong smiled, with a bit of humility in his voice, "One attack is enough, and after dark, a certain person directly leads his subordinates to sneak into the city and open the gate." "Some things seem difficult, but sometimes they're simple. Storming the building will inevitably have to pay a great price, but if you use the strategy of sneak attack, in the current situation, there is a great possibility that you will take the city without much effort.

Zheng Congyan did not refuse Tuoba Sigong's invitation to fight, it doesn't hurt to give it a try, even if it fails, it doesn't matter much. That night, Tuoba Sigong selected 500 elite party soldiers, and after a full meal, he changed into a white cloak and quietly approached Lou Fu all the way.

Subsequently, they successfully relied on the city wall to nail into the iron drill, nailed out a passage, so that a few strong party soldiers successfully climbed to the head of the city that no one held in the snowy night, and then lowered the soft ladder to connect the five Tuoba Sigong brothers and five hundred elites to the city. When the five hundred party members descended from the sky, the guards in the city were still hiding in the city tower and the corner tower to avoid the cold, and they never thought that at this time when the New Year was not over, Tang Bing suddenly appeared.

Zheng Congyan was dressed in a big hat and stood beside the horse and waited.

All the generals and soldiers thought that the party members were seeking their own death, and they could not take the city pass with 500 people. But the marshal told them to wait here, and they were all here ready to go. When everyone was about to be blown into popsicles by the cold wind at night, three torches suddenly appeared on the Lou Fu Close, and then Lou Fu closed the door like a huge monster slowly opening its big mouth in the night.

Zheng Congyan was overjoyed and took the city gate.

"Kill into the city! Rush! Zheng Congyan's excited voice trembled a little.

The soldiers and horses of the seven towns roared into the Loufu Pass, and fought until dawn, and the 5,000 infantry defenders in the Loufu Pass were almost completely annihilated, killing more than 1,000 people and capturing more than 3,000 people. When the red sun in winter was rising, the banner of the imperial court had been replaced by Lou Fuguan.

The victory was so easy that even Zheng Congyan, who was standing in the city, couldn't believe it, so much so that the soldiers and horses of the seven towns in the city took advantage of the situation to rob such a thing, which was also selectively ignored by him. (To be continued......)