Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 872

On the steep cliff, a strong wind blew past, making Yang Ze's clothes whistling, but it couldn't blow away the doubt on the eyebrows of the Longzhou governor.

Liupan Mountain is easy to defend but difficult to attack. It is not difficult to hold on, but if you want to attack, it is difficult to win. After all, the terrain is rugged. Although it is condescending, the enemy can also lay an ambush, and even pretend to be defeated to lure the enemy.

If Jingzhou can't get the situation going, then Liupanshan is even more impossible. Yang doesn't think that the King of Handan can't figure it out. Celebrities will never ignore it.

Guo Xiaoke squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then shook his head and said: "Although I only saw it a few times during the march, the King of Handan will never be unwise...call the messenger."

After a while, the young man with only his right arm strode closer, and Yang Ze recognized at a glance that it was Li Shan's personal bodyguard, Zhu Ba, who was said to be the first to follow Li Shan.

"Zhu Balang, what does Your Highness mean?"

"I pay my respects to the Lord of Yangdi County, and to the Chief History." Zhu Baxing saluted and said in a deep voice, "Mr. Lang intends to ask the Lord of Yangdi County to send a small force out of the customs."

Guo Xiaoke beckoned Zhu Ba to approach, asked a few words in a low voice, and nodded after a long time of contemplation, "It's harmless... But the Tianjie Army has already retreated to Huating, and His Highness sent a partial division that day, and there is no cavalry brigade."

"There is also Guan Guogong's personal guard commander Liu Rengui, who came with [-] cavalry." Zhu Baying said: "A few months ago, this person followed Guan Guogong to the north. He must be the vanguard in every battle. , extraordinary courage."

"No, really not!" Liu Rengui murmured in his heart, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he stretched his body, ignoring the two knives he had chopped off, and stabbed a Liang army general with an iron spear in his hand.

Another important general under Liang Shidu's command, Suo Zhou, suggested: "Retreat first, retreat to the outside of the mountain pass, and send troops from the two wings to cut off the back path."

The opponent moved sideways, reluctantly let him pass, Liu Rengui put more force in his hand, and the iron spear swept him off. Make a long cut.

"Three hundred cavalry want to break the formation?"

But just outside Mujing Pass, there are still [-] troops stationed. Although the Tang army is attacking fiercely, there are only so few people. Although there are signs of loosening, Liang Luoren is confident that although he has to pay a certain price, he will definitely be able to eat them. other side.

Yang Ze on the side frowned, "If the Turks set up an ambush, or retreat to lure the enemy..."

Guan Guogong Ren Gui defeated Liang Shidu several times two months ago, and the Liang army suffered heavy losses. Although it seems that there are enough troops now, there are not many cavalry. Most of the cavalry in the army are small tribes attached to the grassland.

Although the remaining hundred Tang cavalry drove the infantry around, they did not leave too far from the entrance of the valley. Liang Jun gradually stabilized his position and tried to outflank the rear from the two wings. The leading general charged fiercely again, but the cavalry on Liang Jun's side were blocked by infantry, making it difficult to approach.

"He is indeed a brave general." Guo Xiaoyu nodded, "Let's see how Liang Jun will deal with it."

Liang Luoren hesitated for a while, climbed up the hill and watched from a distance for a while, "It's really fast, riding horses in the mountains, you really don't fear death!"

Although the county king also said before his arrival that the battle was a trial and the possibility of surviving was not high, Liu Rengui did not choose to give up.

Three hours later, the city gate of Mujingguan opened wide, and Liu Rengui, who was wearing armor, went out first, holding an iron spear, followed by hundreds of soldiers, and then hundreds of soldiers on horseback, ready to go .

Guo Xiaoke's expression remained unchanged, "Perhaps the King of Handan has other plans."

Liang Luoren in the rear frowned, shaking his head from time to time, "I really don't understand, does the Tang army expect these two or three hundred cavalry to defeat the enemy?"

Although Liang Jun was still attacking various checkpoints in Liupan Mountain in the recent period, they were all pretending, and they didn't even do it in the past two or three days. Anyway, there were no guards watching.

From the beginning of July to the present, it has only been more than two months. Liu Rengui's fate seems to have been deliberately teased by the heavens. The King of Handan is not too far away.

The east slope of the Liupan Mountains is steep, while the west slope is gentle. Mujingguan is located on the west side of Liupan Mountain, and the terrain is relatively flat. Liu Rengui took the lead in charging forward with an iron spear in his hand. Hundreds of Liang soldiers on the hillside were caught off guard by the iron spears and turned over. Four or five people reacted.

Mu Jingguan had held on for so long, but the defenders suddenly opened the city gate to attack, which surprised Liang Jun and couldn't organize for a while. Although Liu Rengui fought with infantry, he was very brave, leading hundreds of soldiers to easily Cut through Liang Jun's weak line of defense, and drive Liang Jun's soldiers to flee.

Liang Luoren was having a hard time understanding Tang Jun's movements. He thought for a while and then raised his head, "It will be nightfall in more than an hour, and troops will be dispatched at this time..."

Liu Rengui looked around, as the defenders said before, this is a slightly larger basin with flat terrain, but what he saw in front of him was mostly infantry, only hundreds of cavalry gathered on the right side.

Unexpectedly, with the sound of Turkic horseshoes, the dream was easily shattered like colorful bubbles in the sun. The whole army was wiped out. It took more than half a month to get back to Jingzhou after satisfying the hunger and enduring the possible wild animal attack at any time.

Not long after, the Tang cavalry forced the infantry away, and rushed back from the valley before the enemy cavalry cut off the retreat.

In fact, Liu Rengui was helpless. If he wanted to investigate the military situation, he had to use all his strength to force the opponent. He had to risk a cavalry raid on the mountain trail. Dozens of cavalry who acted as vanguards followed one after another. Some horses stumbled and threw the cavalry away. Some of the mounts were unharmed, but the cavalrymen were knocked off their horses by the branches protruding from the dense forest in the mountains. There were only a dozen horses that could really fight the enemy.

The casualties were so heavy that Liu Rengui's heart was bleeding. Most of these were Guan Guogong's old troops, and many of them were colleagues who fled with him. However, after paying such a heavy price, Tang Qi quickly broke through the formation like a thunderbolt, piercing through the defense line , broke out of the valley.

After a little thought, Liu Rengui pointed his iron spear obliquely to the left, led more than 200 cavalry into the formation, and drove the infantry that had shown signs of collapse to the right.

Liu Rengui thought that he would never have another chance, especially when he witnessed the Handan King Yingwu's posture that day, but he didn't expect the opportunity to come again suddenly.

As if he didn't feel hurt, Liu Rengui clamped his legs around the horse's belly, leaned his body, stretched his ape's arms lightly, and carried the general Liang Jun over.

"Mu Jingguan?" Liang Luoren was a little surprised, "How dare you send troops?"

Turning on his horse, Liu Rengui held a big bow and shot several deserters in a row. He took the iron spear handed by the soldiers and drove the horse to speed up. The mountain wind whistled in his ears, as if his temples were beating.

Liang Luoren of the rear army was greatly ashamed, what is this called!

The inexplicable hundreds of Tang troops suddenly went out to fight fiercely, chasing all the way to the flat ground for a while, and inexplicably turned back and fled before the back road was cut off.

Liang Luoren scratched the bushy beard around his mouth, and hesitantly glanced at Suo Zhou, who said regretfully, "It's a pity that the Turkic cavalry are not here, otherwise at least that Tang general could be captured."

What Suo Zhou said was what Liu Rengui wanted to know.

(End of this chapter)