Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Wugong County.

It was still pitch black outside, and even the moon was obscured by thick clouds.

Li Shan hardly fell asleep. In fact, Su Xu, Ma Zhou, Er Zhuhuan, and Wang Junhao were all like this. When Li Shan couldn't bear to go up to the city with a lantern, the others simply followed.

"So early?"

"So early?"

As soon as Li Shan came to the top of the city, he saw Yuchi Gong. After the two said in unison, Yuchi Gong smiled and said, "I haven't gone back... Just now, Fan Shiyi and Fan Tu had led their scouts out of the city."

"What time is it?"

"It's about three o'clock in the morning." Su Xu said from behind: "There is still more than an hour before dawn."

Li Shan was silent for a moment and then said, "Then just wait."

The most important point today is to make sure that Xue Yantuo really retreats. Although Li Shan is very sure, everything that follows is based on this foundation.

As the saying goes, soldiers are the most important thing for the country. The place of death and life, the way of survival and death, cannot be ignored.

Therefore, Li Shan has made sufficient arrangements. Not only the scout leaders like Fan Shiyi and Fan Tu, but also generals like Liu Rengui, Zhou Fang and even Li Mengchang are tasked with investigating the military situation.

The Chinese army was responsible for investigating all the way to the west to ensure that Xue Yantuo's troops were far away and had not set up ambushes around Yi County. The left army was responsible for investigating the south side to ensure that Xue Yantuo had not crossed the Wei River to hide his troops.

The right army had the heaviest task. Li Mengchang personally led the team to keep an eye on the road where Xue Yantuo might cross the Jinghe River towards Yunyang and Jingyang.

It was not until it was confirmed that everything was correct and it should be daybreak that Li Shan would use the smoke to notify the Tang army, which was nearly a hundred miles away, and then Li Shimin would take action.

According to the time calculation, it was not long after dawn at that time, and the Tiele cavalry suddenly withdrew at about that time... It was impossible to withdraw the troops at night.

Therefore, when Tie Le withdrew his troops, the Turks' morale must have been in chaos, and only then did the Tang army have the possibility of breaking the formation.

What Li Shan is most worried about now is that something has happened. This trouble does not refer to Yi Nan across the street, but to Li Shimin, Dubu Khan and Yi Nan's younger brother Li Zhehui who are nearly a hundred miles away. After all, That was beyond Li Shan's control.

By the way, Li Jing might also cause trouble... If Yi Nan or Li Zhehui were blocked, that would be fucked.

The forces of the Tang army were gathered together, and they could hardly take down the Turks. Plus tens of thousands of Tiele... It was really powerless, unless it was at the expense of smashing the most prosperous Jingzhao in the pass to pieces.

Well, it's definitely not because of personal vendetta.

Whatever he thinks about comes... In fact, Li Shan also knows that he shouldn't think like this, it's Murphy's law!

But Li Shan couldn't control his brain, so the moth really came.

The first Yao Mozi appeared in Jingzhou.

In fact, at this time, Zhang Shigui, Wei Yunqi, Hou Hongtao, and Duan Zhixuan had already led their troops to Anding County, not far from Qizhou. Originally, they were planning to wait for Li Jing to send troops together...Who knows if this guy would just sit back and watch.

But Li Jing refused by dividing his troops into two groups... The cavalry you are bringing with you are all old men who participated in last year's great victory in Jingzhou. Wei Yunqi had been stationed in Jingzhou for more than a month before. When the march was swift, he marched south to Qi Zhouzhou, and I, the main general, want to go to Binzhou, we are not on the same road!

Zhang Shigui and Hou Hongtao also asked for the deployment of troops. Their four generals, including their personal guards, only had a thousand and five cavalry. Yuanzhou and Ningzhou are crisscrossed by mountains, so the number of cavalry was not large. At this point, most of them were Duan Zhixuan and Hou Hongtao brought it from Mingsha Camp.

But Li Jing refused again. He didn't know how to spread the beans to make an army. Whether he could get military merit and whether he could outweigh it with merit, the more than 6,000 cavalry in his hand were the key. How could he allocate them?

After the two sides had been in a stalemate for a long time, Wei Yunqi was still calm, but Zhang Shigui, Hou Hongtao, and Duan Zhixuan could no longer bear it. Yesterday, the scouts reported that the Tang Army fought with the Turks and Xue Yantuo in the vicinity of Wugong. The outcome is not yet known, but the scouts The head coach of the Ming and Tang armies was Li Huairen, the successor king of Wei.

These three people are either Li Shan's sworn brothers, or the leaders of Li Shan's personal guards, or they are old generals who have served under Li Shan several times... Time is of the essence now. Although there are only a thousand and five troops, as long as they harass the enemy's rear line , which can effectively relieve the pressure on Tang Jun.

So last night, Zhang Shigui sneered at Li Jing with a cold face, and ignored Zhang Gongjin, who was also of the same lineage, and went southward to Jingzhou with Wei Yunqi and other generals, all the way south, and stopped to settle down.

In other words, if Zhang Shigui and Duan Zhixuan led their cavalry south quickly after dawn, and if Yi Nan withdrew his troops a little slower, they would probably have a collision in Qizhou.

By that time, seeing tens of thousands of Hu cavalry, it was impossible for Zhang Shigui not to send scouts to report back to Li Jing.

At the head of Wugong County, Li Shan was silently waiting for the scout's report. The people around him also remained silent, except for Ma Zhou who occasionally complained.

Su Xu, who was on the side, caught a glimpse of his younger brother Su Dan appearing not far away. He quietly walked over and whispered: "No need to worry, Tiele will definitely retreat."

Su Dan hesitated, "Then..."

Su Tan's meaning was obvious. Since the enemy was about to retreat, why didn't the Wei Siwang take a rest and languished here in the dark?

Su Xu was too lazy to explain this. Retreating was just a trivial matter. The key was what happened after Yi Nan retreated.

After waving his brother away, Su Xu stood there, sometimes staring at the invisible night, sometimes looking at Li Shan, whose figure was vaguely visible under the lantern.

It only lasted seven days from beginning to end, during which many accidents happened. However, Su Xu witnessed with his own eyes the various designs of this young man who was six or seven years younger than himself. Although he cursed behind his back, he did not do it openly. But he dealt with it calmly...destroying the enemy's energy, talking in front of the battle, stalling for time, and finally persuading Xue Yantuo to retreat.

If this battle is successful, Li Huairen's reputation will reach its peak, and even His Highness the Crown Prince will be unable to conceal his glory.

Su Xu had some bad feelings in his heart. He suddenly decided what to say to Li Shan and hide some insignificant things from His Highness the Crown Prince.

"Its daybreak!"

Hearing Ma Zhou's voice, Su Xu realized that before he knew it, the sky was no longer white.

It gradually expanded from invisible to visible, from fish-belly white to rosy. Although it has not yet appeared, the light is already dazzling.

Someone brought a bench, and Li Shan sat down and waited silently. Just then the scout reported that Yi Nan had indeed chosen to withdraw his troops to the west, but not at a fast pace. He seemed to be on guard against Li Shan's failure to defend. Credit, suddenly sent troops to attack, obviously the Tang Qi raid before yesterday's pre-battle talk left a deep impression and psychological shadow on Yi Nan.

Li Shan was slightly relieved, but what he didn't know was that more than a hundred miles away to the north of him, Zhang Shigui, Wei Yunqi, Duan Zhixuan, and Hou Hongtao had already led more than a thousand cavalry to gallop south.

And just when it was dawn, another Yao Mozi, who completely changed the direction of the war, appeared in the camp ten miles east of Jingyang County. It was led by Yi Nan's younger brother Li Zhehui. The camp of more than ten thousand Tiele cavalry.