Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 104 Dizziness
After a one-day journey, more than a hundred people arrived at Zaoqiang, the junction of Jizhou and Beizhou.

Liu Heikai raised his troops twice, and the general route was from north to south, breaking through Dingzhou, Shenzhou, Jizhou, and Xingzhou, with the ultimate goal of capturing Luocheng.

The areas around Dezhou and Cangzhou were often the areas where the old troops responded, not the areas where Liu Heita's main force was entrenched.

Therefore, although Zaoqiang is still affiliated to Jizhou, it is in the southeast corner of Jizhou, not far from Dezhou. There are few wars and it is relatively peaceful.

He found a Zhuangzi outside the city to settle down. Su Dingfang was a local, so naturally there was such a channel. Li Shan offered to ask someone to go to the city to hire a well-known doctor.

In the end...Su Dingfang watched speechlessly as the doctor saluted Li Shan solemnly, and kept saying that this was the magical skill of healing the bones of the living dead, hesitatingly revealing that he wanted to worship Li Shan as his teacher.

Li Shan sent the doctor away very satisfied... What a nice person, through him, Su Dingfang will know how much this favor is.

There was nothing to say all night, and on the second day, everyone continued to set off southward, crossing the border between the two continents, and heading southwest.

"Be careful, you monkey..." Li Shan pointed to Fan Shiyi curiously, "Hey, are you mending your clothes?"

Fan Shiyi is a scout in the army. He has been under Guo Pu's hand these days. He encountered a Turk yesterday and was shot twice while fleeing. Fortunately, he ran fast and had a long distance. He only penetrated slightly into the flesh, but his clothes were pierced with a big hole. .

"Someone made it up for him last night." Zhu Ba on the side said in an envious and jealous tone: "The ingenuity..."

Li Shan laughed and said: "I remember you, a monkey, haven't married yet...you are very lucky."

While talking, Li Shan turned his head and looked around. Among the more than 80 people who went south with Su Dingfang this time, there were more than 20 female relatives, and among them were eight or nine young ladies who had not left the cabinet. I don't know which ones they are?
Su Dingfang, who was waving his whip on the carriage beside him, asked with a smile, "Brother Li, why do you call him a leather monkey? What is the allusion?"

After the doctor's diagnosis and treatment yesterday, the mother no longer had any worries about her life. She only needed to rest for a few days to recover. Su Dingfang was in a good mood. In fact, he is only 23 years old this year. Although he has a stable temperament, he is not taciturn.

Li Shan snorted, Fan Shiyi was very active, he moved almost all the time... a bit like when Li Shan was a child, he remembered that his grandfather in his previous life was a scolding monkey.

After thinking for a while, Li Shan said solemnly: "A certain man was born in the south of the Five Ridges. He once saw apes in the mountains. They didn't fall down when they were shot by arrows, and they still climbed like flying. They were caught with fishing nets. Their skin was so thick that it was difficult for ordinary arrows to enter. People call it a skin monkey."

"Yesterday, I saw that Fan Shiyi was hit by an arrow, so that's why I blurted out."

Su Dingfang was still a young man after all, half-believing and half-doubting, "There are such strange things in the world, are they the strange beasts described in "Shan Hai Jing"?"

Uncle Ling on the other side of the carriage is a fine person. He glanced at Li Shan, who was holding back his laughter, and said loudly: "I still remember the battle at Hulao Pass, when the cavalry of the Xuanjia Army broke through, and King Huaiyang was wearing a hundred arrows. Is it the king of monkeys?"

This old man is really annoying, since he was sluggish with his words yesterday, he always tries to make trouble for me... Li Shan glanced over, but he couldn't help thinking about Li Daoxuan in his heart.

At this moment.

At the junction of Jizhou and Shenzhou, Li Daoxuan, dressed in Mingguang armor, held a horse and urged the horse to go out slowly. Behind him were five thousand elite cavalry ready to go.

Li Daoxuan, who took Li Shimin as his idol and role model, never thought of letting others lead the cavalry. He turned his head and looked behind. Although he couldn't see it, he knew that Xue Zhong, the marching officer, should be beside Shi Wanbao.

Taking a deep breath, Lee Daoxuan stopped looking back.

On the opposite side, Liu Heita's banner could not be seen, and the front formation was full of Turkic cavalry, and the formation was loose, but Li Daoxuan believed that if the front formation was defeated, Liu Heita's main force would be seen, and the Turkic cavalry would not fight to the death.

Li Daoxuan raised his horse aloft, and someone shouted an order from behind the formation. The naked-chested man beat the drum with both hands, and the Tang army's elite cavalry moved forward slowly.

It's a headwind, Li Daoxuan thought so for no reason, and it rained yesterday, and mud can be seen everywhere on the ground.

Timing, location, people and...

Li Daoxuan desperately threw those thoughts out of his mind...

Although he is young, Li Daoxuan has rich experience in the battle. After estimating the distance, he lowered his head, put down his mask, and clamped the horse's belly with his legs.

The Turkic people on the opposite side unsurprisingly sprinkled a rain of arrows, but the cavalry in front of the Tang army's fine cavalry were all wearing iron armor such as Mingguang armor and Shanwen armor, and the knights' heads were covered by iron helmets.

Li Daoxuan silently calculated in his heart, and occasionally looked up to confirm the distance, and various chaotic sounds of hitting came from his ears.

The crisp ones are iron arrowheads; the dull ones are bone arrowheads.

If the sound is slightly loud, it means the arrow hit the helmet; if the sound is short, it means it hit the deck of the bright light armor.

Speed ​​up, speed up!
Come on, speed up!
There was a loud thunderclap, and Li Daoxuan's healthy horse sped up again, and sped out like lightning. The horse lance protruded out like a poisonous dragon, and stabbed into the chest of a Turkic cavalryman.

The speed of the horse did not decrease, Li Daoxuan held a spear with both hands to increase strength, the spear held a corpse on his head and knocked several Turkic cavalry behind him off the horse, and then lifted the corpse high.

There was a commotion all around, only the sound of the bow like a thunderbolt was heard, dozens of feathered arrows were shot at, Li Daoxuan was not afraid, he only slightly blocked it with the arm with the armguard, and put the horse's lance with the other hand, and put his legs hard , rushing towards the horse.

It seemed that in just an instant, Li Daoxuan, King of Huaiyang, had already broken the formation, and the guards behind him shouted loudly, speeding up to catch up with the two wings.

The first wave of cavalry was divided into two groups, one followed Li Daoxuan to puncture vertically, and the other kept the general direction and tore the small gap horizontally.

The second wave of cavalry was led by the guard Liu Jun, and entered the formation smoothly along the opening torn by the first wave of cavalry.

Standing far away on the hill, Liu Heikai sneered, not without complacency in his heart, three defeats in three battles, indeed led to the main force of the Tang army, as long as the enemy is defeated in one fell swoop, the land of Shandong is in his hands.

Liu Heikai is known for his cunning, and it took a lot of effort to persuade the Turkic people who were determined to plunder this time, so that they could successfully lure the main force of the Tang army.

Moreover, Liu Heitai also learned the lessons of the Luoshui and Hulaoguan battles this time. Although the troops are strong, they did not deploy them horizontally. Instead, they deployed heavy troops in the middle. , must be locked in the formation.

"Damn it!" Liu Heita was a burly figure with good eyesight, and saw the Turkic cavalry scattered in front of him.

The Turkic cavalry were willing to fight forward because Liu Heita agreed to very harsh conditions, but who would have thought that this group of Turkic people would not work hard.

Li Daoxuan was also keenly aware of this point. After he had killed two battles in a row, the Turkic cavalry no longer confronted him head-on, but spread out to both sides, moving so quickly that Li Daoxuan couldn't catch up.

This is a good sign, which means that the Turkic soldiers will indeed not do their best to help Liu Heita.

After the more than a hundred Turkic cavalry in front scattered, what appeared before Li Daoxuan's eyes was a large number of densely packed soldiers, including cavalry and infantry, with the banner of "Liu" flying high in the formation.

With a sharp shout, Li Daoxuan, with dozens of feathered arrows stuck in his body, jumped into the battle fearlessly. The horse in his hand was already stained with blood. Terrified.

But soon, very soon, Li Daoxuan realized something was wrong, the speed of the horse gradually slowed down, and the sharp charge gradually blunted.

The enemy soldiers in front of them are too dense to kill, and the ground is too muddy, which greatly affects the horse's speed. The most important thing is that the enemy troops are placed in small formations with giant logs and simple fences.

Surrounded by more than a hundred personal guards, Li Daoxuan reined in his horse a little and looked around. Two cavalry were encircling from both wings, and the Turkic cavalry in the rear gradually gathered.

Li Daoxuan was startled, and turned his head to glare. Where are the [-] Tang army infantry that should have already set off?
If the infantry took advantage of the situation and entered the battle, the Turkic soldiers who did not want to fight to the death would definitely not rush into the battle, and the two cavalry under Liu Heita's command did not dare to outflank from the two wings so unscrupulously.

Is it true that what Li Shan said, Shi Wanbao dared to let a prince die in the battle?
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"

Hearing Liu Jun's anxious shout on the right, Li Daoxuan looked sideways, but was dazzled by the sunlight.

It is obviously a warm winter day, but it is like a scorching summer sun, making Li Daoxuan feel dizzy.

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