Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 148
On the chaotic battlefield, Liu Heita by the Yongji Canal looked at the blazing fire under the Wei County City, and he knew exactly what was there.

That is the hay field guarded by Liu Heita's direct troops. He was born as a cavalry general, and he attaches the most importance to forage. In the cold winter, there is very little pasture in Hebei, so Liu Heita finally collected it.

The sky is dry and dry, and it only takes one spark to start a big fire, not to mention that Zhou Erlang has people pouring tung oil and throwing torches.

The hunting flames ignited at the central army, causing the already turbulent army to begin to collapse, and shrill roars sounded everywhere. Zhou Zhoulang got on his horse and led hundreds of his men to run wildly to the east.

"Don't pay attention!" Wang Junkuo didn't care about these hundreds of fleeing soldiers at all, he slowly leveled his horse and shouted: "Follow closely!"

There is a cold wind blowing, but Wang Junkuo's heart is burning hot, and today is the day to make a contribution!
Liu Heita, who is still at the Yongji Canal, is still hesitating. He knows that doing nothing at this time is better than doing nothing, but the choice at this time will determine the outcome to a large extent... No, the Chinese army is in chaos. The victory and defeat have been divided.

Now it is time to decide whether to live or die.

Big drops of sweat slipped from his temples, and Liu Heita, who was panting heavily, was suddenly awakened by the neighing of a horse not far away, and he suddenly looked up.

With the swaying of the flag and the high-pitched command of the general, the Tang army scattered a rain of arrows in the rear, and then the rear spread out, revealing the bridge.

There is no one on the bridge, but it is full of piles.

More than a hundred tall horses stepped forward slowly under the command of a few cavalry, and each horse was blindfolded with a black cloth.

Qi Shanxing shouted loudly, "No need to set fire, no need to set fire!"

"Everyone gather here!"

"Follow me!"

Qi Shanxing, who had retreated all the way from Xingzhou to Xiangzhou, galloped down the hill excitedly, took the horse spear handed by his personal guards, and pointed it straight at the bridge, with only two hundred cavalry left behind.

More than a hundred tall horses have already rushed across the bridge, and they began to accelerate under the deliberate drive of the cavalry. Although the torches on their tails were not lit, a horse weighed hundreds of catties. The collapsed enemy front line was torn apart in one fell swoop.

Under normal circumstances, when the horse charged into the infantry formation, even if the horse was whipped, the horse would retreat when it sensed the spear formation of the infantry inspector. However, Qi Shanxing blindfolded the horse's eyes with a black horse and took a risk and succeeded.

The enemy's front line had completely collapsed, Qi Shanxing rode across the river quickly, swept across with a long spear in his hand, and led his troops to attack, shouting: "Boys, today is the day to make meritorious deeds!"

The Tang army in front of him suddenly broke the formation, Qi Shanxing led the army to attack with extraordinary momentum, Liu Heikai gritted his teeth with hatred, and was about to go forward in person, but he heard the commotion behind the formation, and looked back suddenly, the Tang army who had been riding hundreds of horses suddenly came from the east. Attacking from the side, along the Weixian city wall all the way to the west, there is a faint trace of joining with Qi Shanxing's troops.

Liu Heikai only felt a splitting headache, and he was really confused by today's battle situation, but one thing is for sure, Tang Jun definitely did not attack rashly, and none of this was a coincidence.

Liu Heita no longer hesitated, or he had no choice.

The Chinese army is in chaos, fodder is burned, Wang Xiaohu has not reported the battle so far, and the former army has been defeated... Does Liu Heita have other options besides fleeing?
Where are you going?
Of course, it is going north, all the way north, all the way north along the route of the Turkic army returning north.

Liu Heikai looked bitterly at the Tang army who was showing off its power, decisively abandoned the Chinese army, and led the remaining thousand cavalry to the north.

Liu Heitai felt that his strong man broke his wrist and left [-] pawns for the Tang army... Isn't [-] pawns enough?

Naturally, Wang Junkuo and Qi Shanxing were satisfied, and the two sides attacked and defeated Liu Heitai, and the credit is huge.

But there are two more people who fought today, not for meritorious deeds, but for revenge.

When Cheng Mingzhen, who was still wet on his body, rushed to the battlefield, he was pleasantly surprised to find that the enemy army was already in chaos. Wang Junkuo and Qi Shanxing were driving away the enemy infantry. They crossed the battlefield from east to west, from south to north, and encountered almost no resistance. .

Really speechless, in such a cold winter, wading across the river, finally rushed to the battlefield, but the battle was almost over.

Zhou Yilang's fire, and Wang Junkuo not joining forces with Tian Liu'an and Li Daoxuan, but leading his army directly to the central army, became the last straw that overwhelmed the enemy.

Tens of thousands of soldiers began to fall into a crazy and hysterical situation. They began to raise their swords, guns, swords and halberds to anyone who blocked them.

In short, it was difficult to conquer Wei County, and confronted the Tang army across the bank. The Tang army crossed the river to attack. After two fires, several Tang troops broke the formation... After Liu Heitai led his descendants to flee north, more than 2 steps were abandoned The pawn has completely collapsed.

But Cheng Mingzhen was also disappointed to find that Liu Heita ran too fast!
The old mother, wife and children all died at the hands of Liu Heitai, Cheng Mingzhen dreamed of eating Liu Heitai alive.

Wang Junkuo also massacred people on the east side of Wei County, and the blood flowed like rivers. Qi Shanxing erected a banner on the north side of Wei County, beside the Yongji Canal, so that those who discard their weapons and kneel on the ground will not die.

The victory has been decided, and the enemy has no chance of turning the tables, only Liu Heitai fled north.

Whether it's for public hatred or for personal hatred, Cheng Mingzhen has the obligation to pursue him relentlessly. He only explained a few words, and he led his five hundred elite cavalry to bypass the battlefield and chase north.

After only bypassing two hills, Cheng Mingzhen's eyes lit up, he shouted loudly, accelerated his horse, and led his personal guards into the formation.

The last one who came not to make meritorious deeds, but to show shame is Huaiyang King Li Daoxuan.

After discovering that the enemy army was in chaos and the Chinese army was on fire, Li Daoxuan originally wanted to add more fire to completely defeat the enemy army, but he did not expect to run into Liu Heita head-on.

On one side are more than a thousand cavalry led by Liu Heita who is eager to escape, and on the other are hundreds of Tang cavalry led by Li Daoxuan who wants to avenge himself.

"Wang Xiaohu's head is here, those who abandon weapons will not die!"

Li Daoxuan, who was covered in blood all over his body, shouted loudly, kicked the horse's belly fiercely with both legs, and rushed into the battle first, with a horse spear in his right hand and a long knife in his left hand, which was unstoppable.

Li Daoxuan calmly did not choose to go out through the formation, but cut through obliquely during the charge, went around to the side, and entangled Liu Heita's troops.

It was at this time that Cheng Mingzhen's five hundred fine riders slammed into Liu Heita's ass from behind.

"Only look for bravery, don't ask other questions!"

Cheng Mingzhen's loud shouts caused the enemy's rear to collapse, and also made Liu Heita in the front ignore it and just run northward.

The so-called bravery refers to Liu Heitai. Under Dou Jiande's command, he often used unexpected methods and timing to attack and win big. He was called "the brave general" by his colleagues in the army.

This was an even more tragic encounter than outside Wei County, with the neighing of war horses and the clashing of blades, human lives were being lost at every moment, and miserable screams could be heard at every moment.

A horse weighing hundreds of catties crushed an enemy general under him, and the surrounding cavalry only cared about fleeing, and no one cared about it.

In the front, Tian Liu'an led his infantry to approach, and used the rain of arrows to disperse the rushing enemy cavalry. Liu Heita had no choice but to lead the remaining hundreds of cavalry to bypass Tian Liu'an, and then fled north.

(End of this chapter)