Chapter 13: The Pursuit
After defeating the celery army, of course, it was necessary to take advantage of the victory to pursue. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, just when Li Shimin wanted to lead his troops to pursue, the sound of thousands of horses rushing together suddenly sounded in the north, like rolling thunder.
After Li Shimin heard this voice, his whole heart instantly fell to the bottom, and the last thing he wanted to see finally happened.
"Burn up the grain and grass——! the whole army retreated to the east——!......。 Li Shimin rode on his horse and kept shouting loudly around the battlefield.
The warriors of the Tang Army who heard the order, of course, began to desperately flee to the east, and whoever attacked the celery cavalry head-on was a complete act of looking for death.
"Pang Yu——! you hurry back to Daxing, tell my eldest brother, you must let him hold Xue Jianyu and Li Mi for five days——! I will keep harassing them in their rear, go and ——!" Li Shimin found Pang Yu, and after saying the order to him loudly, he hurriedly commanded the army to flee to the east.
Zong Luohou Bai picked up a life, and when he saw the lord of the country personally driving to the battlefield, he immediately began to gather the remnants of his army and prepare to pursue and kill Li Shimin to the east.
It's a pity that at this moment, the celery warriors are already hungry and exhausted, this war has been fought for too long, too bitter, and too worthless for them, even if the reinforcements are coming now, they don't want to die for celery.
Therefore, no matter how Zong Luohou shouted there, only a very small number of warriors approached him, and the rest of the more than ninety percent of the warriors scattered on the battlefield took advantage of the chaos at this time and began to flee in all directions.
"Catch up with those bunnies ——! kill them for me——!," a giant man in gold armor riding on a giant horse, wielding a giant chopping knife, pointed at the Tang army to the east and roared like thunder.
"Lord, we can't pursue the Tang army! At the moment, we must quickly take the Great Star City, get grain and grass, and kill Li Yuan! Other than that, the rest is not important!" Li Mi shouted to Xue Jian in a hurry and anger.
"I still use you ——!to teach Li Mi to fight, don't forget your identity, you are just, just one of my dogs——! sons, chase me ——!" After Xue Ju knocked Li Mi off the horse's back with a punch, he slapped the horse's back fiercely and quickly chased after Tang Jun.
"Lord, are you okay? What should we do now?" Wang Bo immediately dismounted and came to Li Mi's side, forcibly suppressed his anger, and asked Li Mi in a deep voice.
Li Mi looked at Xue Ju's back coldly, and after a while, he actually laughed: "Hahahaha...... , I, Li Mi, actually ...... , hahaha....... Do your best to snatch the food and grass of the Tang army, and then collect the celery stragglers. Po dang, kill Zong Luohou!" After Li Mi finally whispered, he led his 50,000 soldiers and horses to rush towards the Tang army camp.
After Wang Bodang received the order, his expression suddenly turned cold, and he led the only 1,000 demon mastiff warriors under his command to quickly rush towards Zong Luohou.
When Zong Luohou was gathering the remnants of the army, he saw a team of unknown men and horses rushing towards him, he didn't know what these reinforcements wanted to do, so he was stunned at that time.
"Is it Marshal Zongluohou? The lord of the country asked me to help you clean up the remnants of the army. Wang Bodang asked Zong Luohou with a smile.
"Yes, I ....... As soon as Zong Luohou said two words, Wang Bodang raised his knife and cut off the opponent's head with a single sword.
"Zong Luohou's command is not effective, so that our army is defeated——! the lord of the country is furious, and he ordered me to kill him to make an example, and You ——! and others will not kneel down for me——!" Wang Bodang carried the head of Zong Luohou and yelled at the surrounding warriors viciously.
His approach is completely in line with Xue Jianwen's consistent style, that is, the management of the army is extremely harsh, and he still came with Xue Jianwen, of course, the thousands of remnants that Zong Luohou finally gathered all knelt on the ground in fear.
Not to mention that Li Mi and others picked up cheap on the battlefield, gathered all the materials they could find, and the warriors, just said that Xue Jianwen was brainless all the way, leading the troops to chase and kill Li Shimin frantically.
If Li Shimin is so easy to chase, is he still worthy of being called the King of Qin?
Of course, Li Shimin himself didn't expect that Xue Jianwen would follow him to the east, but he didn't do anything less than what he had to do.
The rain of arrows in the sky suddenly flew out of the woods on both sides, and directly pierced the celery warriors' vital points, and a wave directly took the lives of thousands of celery warriors, and directly cut the celery warriors' army into two sections.
After the second wave of arrows was fired, the warriors of the Tang army, who were ambushed in the woods, hurriedly collected their crossbows and retreated, not at all.
Xue Jianwen was obviously very clear about what was happening behind him, but he thought that the Tang army fled in a hurry, and at most he could only ambush once, so he did not hesitate to take 80,000 warriors and continue to pursue.
Chasing and chasing, the cavalry in front of him suddenly fell to the ground on their backs, and this time, it hurt their comrades behind them, people hit horses, horses hit people, and under the chain reaction, thousands of vanguard troops all collided together.
After cutting the tripwires on both sides of the road, Xue Jianwen is now faced with a difficult choice, that is, whether to chase or not.
Xue Jianwen's decision was to continue the pursuit, he had to kill the main force of the Tang army, and save these people from causing chaos in the rear when he attacked Big Star City.
Xue Jianwen did guess correctly this time, Li Shimin suddenly led his troops to escape, he only set up two ambushes according to the terrain, and he couldn't do anything if there was one more.
However, Li Shimin really didn't expect that Xue Jianwen would chase after him, and the reason why he made such a mistake was because he thought too highly of the other party.
Li Shimin originally thought that Li Mi and Xue Jianwen would definitely go south to fight the big star first, and then surround the point to send reinforcements to clean up their own, after all, in addition to being able to fight, there is really nothing to do.
If Celery can't take the Big Star City and can't get food and grass supplies, it will definitely be a dead end, and at this time, Celery will definitely not be able to pursue him no matter what.
Besides, why did Li Shimin have to run to the east instead of running west? To the east was Taiyuan , as long as Xue Jianwen had the courage to continue to chase after him, it would be a pure dead end.
Of course, Li Shimin just wanted to borrow his sister's power to make the other party throw a rat trap, and if he really let him escape all the way to Taiyuan, Li Shimin would not go, he just wanted to escape this catastrophe first, and then immediately turned the horse's head, and when the other party attacked the big star, he kept harassing behind the other party.
In short, it is still the same principle, and he has been dragging the brave celery warrior until he drags the other party to death and pulls him down.
Now that Li Shimin already knows that Xue Jianwen has committed the second crime, what should he do? Do you really want to lead the other party to Taiyuan and let his sister be in the limelight again? If this is the case, Li Shimin will probably be angry and cry to death in the toilet.
"The whole army obeys the order! Immediately rush to the northern hillside and prepare to meet the enemy——! After Li Shimin gave the order, he rushed to the hillside with his dragoon warriors.
Li Shimin's favorite tactic is to resist head-on, and then stab directly from the flank or rear or front, although this move seems very simple, but in fact, it is really, not simple at all!
If Li Shimin fails to grasp the opportunity and at the wrong time, he only leads a few dozen people to rush into the enemy formation, dozens of people, not hundreds, not thousands, it is the enemy formation, not a back garden, not a playground, dozens of people against tens of thousands, or even tens of thousands.
Without great courage and extremely sharp vision, this kind of stabbing behavior on the edge of life and death is purely looking for death.