Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 153 Closing
The southwest wind was blowing, and amidst the flying snow, more than a dozen ships that appeared on the Yongji Canal burst into flames without warning, and rushed down the river as fast as galloping horses.

Liu Heitai, who was in the back line suppressing the soldiers, almost spit out a mouthful of blood, and the scenes of yesterday's defeat appeared before his eyes again, as if they were exactly the same as yesterday.

Are they really the same?

Liu Heizai stared at the ship speeding past not far away...there was a big flag with the character of Liu on it!
Now Liu Heitai can be sure that the grain ship that was burned on the Yongji Canal near Weixian County yesterday... was basically Tang Jun's trick.

My own blindness failed to bluff the opponent, but the opponent's blindness made me completely defeated... In fact, I can't call it blindness, the opponent obviously saw through everything, it was a conspiracy.

And what appeared in front of him now was the props for his own tricks... but it was obviously used by Tang Jun.

Hunting wild geese all day long, only to be pecked in the eye by wild goose!

At the beginning, the more than [-] soldiers were only slightly rioting, and some people even shouted loudly, and some people had already seen the big Liu character flag on the ship.

But then, the raging fire turned the ship into a fire boat, broke through the wind and snow, and the fire took advantage of the wind to slam into the simple bridge that was still under construction.

Some fire boats broke the bridge at one end and continued to sail downstream, while some fire boats fell on the bridge piers, knocking dozens of soldiers and falling into Yongji Canal.

The two most successful fireboats, without a helmsman to direct them, collided obliquely and horizontally against the bridge. When the strong southwest wind blew, the fire immediately engulfed the bridge.

Watching this scene dumbfounded, the thousands of soldiers by the Yongji Canal let out desperate roars after a brief silence.

Before they came back to their senses, there was a loud sound of horseshoes, and in the wind and snow, Li Daoxuan, who was dressed in bright light armor, broke through the formation first with a horse in his hand, followed by more than a thousand cavalry armed with swords and guns.

Without any suspense, the enemy's front line was shattered in an instant, without even having time to sprinkle a wave of arrows, the soldiers only cared about fleeing to the two wings.

Li Daoxuan, who was fully prepared to be tied into a hedgehog shape again... The biggest crisis now is that he hastened his horse and tried to break the formation in one fell swoop. If he hadn't reacted quickly, he would have almost fallen into the Yongji Canal!
And Liu Heitai... the moment the boat was ignited, he noticed that Tang Qi, two miles away, began to speed up and charge.

Therefore, Liu Heita left his infantry without hesitation, and led hundreds of cavalry to flee north.

But it's a pity, as the saying goes, you can still live if you do evil by the sky, but you can't live when you do evil by yourself!
With his back against the Yongji Canal to break through the formation, Liu Heikai set up a formation with infantry in front and cavalry in the back, trying to use a dense front formation of infantry to resist the impact of the Tang army's cavalry, and then use the cavalry to break through the enemy in reverse. .

It was a good idea... But when he tried to escape, a large number of infantry blocked Liu Heita's way to escape north.

As it should be, the horse spear in Liu Heita's hand stabbed again and again, flying the soldiers who were blocking the road, and the cavalry behind him followed suit, slashing at the soldiers who were comrades-in-arms just now with swords and guns in their hands.

Although he was defeated without any suspense, the lineup under Liu Heitai has not completely collapsed, and Liu Heitai's move... at least the left side completely collapsed.

Those infantry who were lucky enough to flee to the east, those who were unlucky were knocked into the air by the cavalry, and those who were forced to flee to the west... had to fall into the Yongji Canal.

Winter swimming is also a common thing, but now it is snowing heavily!
Xue Zhong chopped off Cao Zhan in front of him with a sharp knife in his hand. Out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of a white horse galloping north, and immediately roared hoarsely: "Your Highness, Your Highness!"

Li Daoxuan's original war horse was gone long ago, and after being exchanged back to Guantao City, he has been using Li Shan's white horse.

Li Daoxuan looked angrily at the hundreds of cavalry led by Liu Heita who had already fled to the north, reined in his horse and turned around, and shouted loudly to gather the cavalry under his command. Confront the right.

To Li Daoxuan's surprise, Cheng Mingzhen, the general manager of Weizhou, did not pursue Liu Heitai, but led his cavalry north to pursue Wang Junkuo.

Li Daoxuan briefly observed the situation of the battle, Cheng Mingzhen led hundreds of cavalry to scatter the infantry on the right, but the opponent still had two or three hundred cavalry who were desperately fighting.

"Su Dingfang!" Li Daoxuan roared loudly, "All are assigned by you!"

In this pursuit, Wang Junkuo and Cheng Mingzhen each led five or six hundred cavalry, which was difficult for Su Dingfang to command, but the hundreds of cavalry led by Li Daoxuan and Xue Zhong were quite familiar with Su Dingfang, and they defeated the enemy twice outside Guantao City. .

On the battlefield, there should be no hesitation. Su Dingfang had already made a plan and commanded loudly, so that Li Daoxuan and Xue Zhong led [-] cavalry to charge forward. A sudden side attack.

Su Dingfang charged into the enemy formation with a horse spear in hand, and there was no enemy in front of the horse. After reaching dozens of steps, he suddenly reined in his horse and headed south, changed direction and charged again.

The infantry in front of them reflexively ran backward like headless flies, messing up the cavalry array behind them, and a large number of infantry and cavalry mixed together and fell into Yongji Canal.

Originally, Cheng Mingzhen had put enough pressure on the remnant army, but when the last straw was pressed, two or three hundred cavalry immediately collapsed
Most importantly, Su Dingfang gathered the cavalry and deliberately exposed the escape route on the north side.

Su Dingfang skillfully and freely commanded several cavalry squads to attack from all angles in turn, driving the enemy troops north and west, in large numbers, and in the end only more than a hundred enemy cavalry fled north.

Wiping the blood stained on his hands, Cheng Mingzhen took a deep look at Su Dingfang. He knew this person... But judging from today's battle situation, King Xia can be described as shameless.

He is proficient and talented in commanding cavalry battles, and his own force is unparalleled, that's all, at most he is a cavalry general and a fighting general.

But deliberately exposing the way of life on the north side and disintegrating the will of the remnants of the army can be regarded as the application of the siege strategy, which shows that Su Dingfang's future is limitless.

The wind and snow were getting bigger and bigger, and the fire boat on the Yongji Canal had been extinguished and sank, but the fire on the bridge was getting bigger and bigger, raging across the river like a fiery snake.

A few hours later, the fighting had long since ceased, and the magistrate of Yongji County brought civilian husbands to clean up the battlefield and search for the wounded.

Xue Zhong has been in the army for many years. He followed Li Shimin on the battlefield since the first battle in Qianshuiyuan. He found a high ground to watch the battlefield briefly, and made rough calculations.

"The scouts reported before the battle that the enemy's infantry was about [-], and the cavalry was about [-] or [-]." Xue Zhong said with a smile: "The two groups that fled north were at most [-] cavalry and infantry... in such weather, they cannot escape. .”

"The enemy soldiers who fell into the Yongji Canal were at least a thousand, and there were hundreds of unowned horses..."

Xue Zhong grabbed a handful of snow and wiped the blood stains on the long knife, "Now we have to see if we can capture and kill Liu Heita!"

Seeing Li Daoxuan cast an anxious gaze to the north, Su Dingfang persuaded: "This time, Liu Heitai has been unable to turn around. When the battle in Wei County spreads, the Tang army staying in Xiangzhou and Weizhou will inevitably go north. Luozhou will overcome without a fight. .”

"Even if Liu Heita led his troops to flee north, it would be difficult to borrow troops from the Turkic Khan to go south."

"Wang Junkuo is clever, he chased after him first." Li Daoxuan nodded slightly and snorted, "Although Cheng Mingzhen is eager for revenge, he still stays and pursues after the victory is certain."

Before the words were finished, several horsemen came galloping from the north side, and the leader was actually Yuchi Baolin.

Li Daoxuan was very surprised, when did this guy chase north?

Su Dingfang is also a big head. He knows that Yuchi Baolin's father, Yuchi Gong, is the favorite general of King Qin, and he has saved the Lord many times. Moreover, although this person has a feud with Li Shan, he is a good friend. This time he followed Li Daoxuan in pursuit of the army. Time to head north.

"Your Highness, capture Liu Heita alive!"

"Capture Liu Heita alive!"

Everyone heaved a long sigh of relief. Although Liu Heita might not be able to make a comeback even if he escaped from the sky, this kind of thing is hard to be sure.

Now that Liu Heikai has been captured alive, this means that from June of the fourth year of Wude to the present, the war in Hebei and Shandong that lasted for a year and a half has finally come to an end, and the occupied Shandong states will become Tang soil again.

Li Daoxuan is content to finally take revenge, but Su Dingfang has a lot of emotion... The hometown can finally restore peace, rest and recuperate, no longer barren fields, no longer fighting again and again.

(End of this chapter)