Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 877

In this unfavorable situation, how many warriors' lives would the Turks have to pay for this main route?

Defeating the three states, defeating the Tang army in a row, and even capturing and beheading the Tang army's coach Guan Guogong Ren Gui, this record is enough for the Turks to stabilize their position on the grassland.

One thought after another quickly turned in Li Shan's mind.

Do you want to speed up, maybe you can block Ashina Sheer and Tuli Khan?
However, Su Dingfang tried his best to spread out the array and cover the battlefield, but there were still small groups of Turkic cavalry who did not hesitate to take the risk to intersperse. The infantry accelerated forward, which was already chaotic.

Li Shan hesitated a little, and was about to drive forward to discuss with Qian Jiulong. This seemed to be a strategic opportunity, but it was very particular about using it in such a way. It would be embarrassing for others to ask the generals, but Li Shan didn't care about these .

"Da Lang!" Zhu Wei shouted from afar, "Zhu Ba is back."

Li Shan's face changed slightly, he got off his horse and walked quickly, "How about Liupan Mountain?"

Zhu Ba didn't say a word, and let out Liu Rengui, whose eye circles were blackening behind him. In that battle, although Chang Shi Yang Ze responded later, of the 34 soldiers who fought, only [-] retreated with him. .

"Twelve miles out of Mujingguan, no Turks have been seen." Liu Rengui said in a dry tone: "According to the garrison, there were originally five or six thousand Turks stationed there."

"A general of the Liang army was captured alive. After strict interrogation, it was learned that on September [-], all the Turkic cavalry were withdrawn, and there were only more than ten thousand Liang troops."

After a pause, Liu Rengui added: "Since September [-]th, the Liang army has not attacked any of the passes in Liupan Mountain."

Li Shan squinted his eyes and thought in his mind that the Turks had retreated from Liupanguan five days ago, so it was impossible to return to the grassland... because Tuli Khan and Ashina Sheer were still here!
Although it is said that the Turkic troops are often erratic, and they may attack from several directions, the advance and retreat must be determined by the chief general in the army at that time... For example, in the fifth year of Wude, Jieli Khan led the main force into the east of the enemy, and at the same time sent partial divisions to attack Entering the Longyou Road, this partial division broke through three prefectures in a row, and invaded Longzhou along the route that Xue Ju of the Western Qin Dynasty used to advance, and fell into a major earthquake, which shocked Chang'an.

At that time, the partial division was nominally expelled by Prince Li Jiancheng, but in fact it was the initiative to retreat... It must have been decided by the general. There was no mobile phone, telephone, or pager, and there was no PHS. Could it be possible to send someone thousands of miles away? Go to Hedong and ask Jieli Khan?
But this time is different, they are all in the territory of Yuanzhou, thousands of Turks...maybe more than that, so many Turks suddenly retreated from Liupan Mountain, it is impossible for Ashina Sheer and Tuli Khan to be still fighting Time to return to the grassland.

Well, there is only one possibility.

Li Shan's thoughts changed sharply, and he suddenly laughed out loud, "The world is so wonderful, so wonderful!"

"Da Lang?"

"Lang Jun?"

Li Shan shook his head while smiling. After he arrived at the battlefield, he used various means and even risked not to set up a camp, but it failed. After many days that seemed short but actually long, he had completely given up. Unexpectedly, at the most critical moment, the other party followed his plan step by step.

In all fairness, Li Shan's strategy was not very clever, he just hoped to get the Turks to withdraw their troops at the least cost, to give up this important route, so that he could take the initiative in the face of the Liang division.

These days, Li Shan has given up completely, and he did not expect the turning point to appear so abruptly.

The Turkic cavalry who retreated from Liupanshan could not have gone to other places, they could only have come here, and it may be more than just Liupanshan's troops. Maybe the two old friends on the opposite side have lost all the troops from other places, and they are going to give themselves a big one. Surprise yet.

And the battlefield is so narrow, is it necessary for Ashina Sheer and Tuli Khan, who already have tens of thousands of troops, to increase their troops?
Can the supplementary troops be put on the battlefield smoothly?
Do they want this place to be a meat grinder for the Turks?
It's impossible!

It is impossible for a fool to compete with Jieli Khan for so long, and it is impossible for a fool to kill Jieli Khan and seize the throne!

Li Shan looked at each other from a distance with a sneer, and drove his horse to speed up. When he saw Qian Jiulong, he said directly: "The order is for the left army to speed up to the north, and the right army to move to the middle. There is no need to worry about the Turkic cavalry interspersed."

Qian Jiulong frowned slightly, but immediately ordered the messengers to set off, and then said in a low voice, "Your Highness, what about the Chinese army?"

"Go faster." Li Shan said without hesitation.

The left army's Dou Gui's troops accelerated to the north, which pointed directly at the Khan Banner on the hill, and it was also to reinforce Zhang Zhongjian's front army, which was fighting hard. It is difficult to penetrate through the gap... Otherwise, at such a short distance, a burst of crossbow arrows would be enough to make them suffer.

Of course, with such an arrangement, the right army inevitably gave up space, making it possible for the Turks to seize the main road on the east side of the hill and detour to the rear of the central and right troops.

But now that Su Dingfang is covering the eastern battlefield, the Turks will not find out so quickly. Even if they find out, they may not be able to go east due to insufficient troops and the obstruction of Su Dingfang's troops.

"It's coming so fast." Tuli Khan felt a little nervous, although the formation was a bit scattered, but tens of thousands of Tang army infantry attacked at the same time, this momentum alone was enough to frighten.

Ashina Sheer turned his head to look at the battlefield on the east side, frowning slightly, "Li Huairen has some strategies, Su Dingfang may go north."

Li Daoxuan's right army moved closer to the center, making it impossible for the Turkic cavalry to pass through. Although there was room, it was impossible for the Turkic cavalry to disperse Su Dingfang's heavy cavalry and make a detour.

Under such circumstances, Su Dingfang gave up continuing to cover the battlefield, began to gather troops, and prepared to go north...to continue to implement the previous plan.

The corner of Tuli Khan's mouth twitched. Li Huairen has faced Turks so many times, from the earliest Yugu set up to the later Yu She set up, the rate of association, to himself, Jieli Khan, and you Ashina · Sheer...every time he took advantage of it, and every battle pushed his invincible reputation as the King of Handan in the Tang Dynasty even higher.

You yourself were captured alive by others last year... What face do you have to say that they have some tactics?
Ashina Sheer waited for a while before waving: "Prepare to withdraw."

Tuli Khan endured and endured and still remained silent. He was ashamed to say the phrase "I'll go first". On the first day of the war, Dubu Khan won the support of a large number of tribesmen by holding the Khan flag. If he took the initiative ask to go first...

Ashina Sheer glanced at this cousin out of the corner of his eye, thinking that he is quite well-behaved... Jieli Khan, who was forced into a pit in Guji Town last year by this guy, would die if he really let him go Let's go, I really don't feel at ease, maybe something will happen.

(End of this chapter)