Traveling through the early Tang Dynasty starts with hanging

Chapter 952 Onslaught
On December 25, Tang Jun sent troops eastward from Baiquan.

On December 27, Tang Jun captured Liu Heier alive and captured Nanguan Town.

On December 28th, [-] miles west of the city, Tang Jun and Liang Jun met on a narrow road, and a great battle broke out. Su Dingfang commanded well and frustrated the enemy.

In the early morning of December 29th, Suozhou, who had stayed up all night, gave up climbing high and looking far away. Although the sky was bright, he couldn't see anything clearly, so he simply sent some scouts to investigate.

In yesterday's battle, Suo Zhou admitted that he was defeated. The general of the Tang army overwhelmed him in every way, but Suo Zhou was not going to give up. After all, he still had more than 3000 soldiers in his hands, and the city behind had [-] troops. block each other.

Once the Tang army passes Luojiatuo, they will be able to attack the city head-on. Although they may not be able to attack it, after all, Honghe Town and Pingfeng Town, which form a corner on both sides, can attack the Tang army's flanks. It's also stressful.

Therefore, Suo Zhou did not lead his troops back to the city, but instead stationed there to confront the Tang army, sending small groups of troops to harass them from time to time to prevent the Tang army from successfully building the camp.

But it is a pity that the general of the Tang army is too ghostly. First, he suffered three small losses in a row, which induced Suo Zhou to increase his troops, and then suddenly led the cavalry to flank the formation, eating nearly [-] Liang soldiers at once.

After that, Suo Zhou did not dare to act rashly, and could only watch helplessly as Tang Jun built the camp little by little.

"Really?" Suo Zhou stared bull-eyed at the scout who returned.

"Don't dare to lie." The scout's face was also full of surprise.

Suo Zhou asked the scouts to retreat with a sullen face. Tang Jun actually built the camp so quickly. It seemed that he had suffered from the cold all night last night, but Tang Jun was able to rest well in the tent.

Last night, Tang Jun sent small groups of troops to attack eight times successively. Liang Jun suffered a lot. One of them was actually occupied by Tang Jun on a small hill. After a night, I am tired and sleepy, cold and hungry.

But this is not the key point. Suo Zhou is also a veteran on the battlefield, so he naturally knows that building a camp is easy to say, but it is also difficult. As long as the tents and wooden frames are prepared to accompany the army, it is not difficult to build a camp. Inexhaustible wood.

But the problem is that Li Zhengbao secretly communicated with the King of Handan, and wanted to offer the city from the inside and the outside. The key point was to take down the east gate so that the Tang army could quickly enter the city. For the sake of marching speed, Tang Jun would not carry so many tools for building camps.

This shows what?
Suo Zhou's suspicious eyes fell on Li Zhengbao who was guarded by several soldiers in the distance.

At this time, there was smoke rising from the Tang army's position facing each other from a distance. The corner of Suo Zhou's mouth twitched, and he touched the frozen hard bun in his arms. He didn't even need to turn his head to look. People come from a long distance, even if they have tents to sleep in, there are still hot meals to eat, and we wait for work with leisure, it's too miserable.

Suo Zhou was about to say something to boost morale, but he saw that the opposite side was still smoking, the Tang army camp was wide open, and more than a thousand soldiers came out in a file, with large shields in front, spearmen and archers in the rear, slowly advancing towards the west.

"It's so early..." Suo Zhou murmured, "What the hell is Tang Jun trying to do!"

The Tang Army stationed troops near Baiquan County for two months. It seemed that the weather was cold and there was heavy snowfall. In fact, it was possible to attack Guyuan before the heavy snowfall. past.

Liang Luoren and Suo Zhou had the same judgment. The Tang army defeated the Turks, and the loss would not be small. The King of Handan did not want to expend his troops to storm Guyuan, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But now, the Tang army's sneak attack failed. Suo Zhou believed that the Tang army must have seen Li Zhengbao clearly beside him yesterday, but the Tang army set up camp here, and sent troops in such a hurry. Su Dingfang...or what did the Handan king want to do?
These thoughts flashed through Suo Zhou's mind, but he didn't have time to think about them, so he commanded his soldiers to deploy their defenses.

Soon, Suo Zhou discovered that the Tang army was by no means a simple test. The Tang general who seized the mountain in yesterday's battle held Fang Tian's painted halberd and took the lead to make a gap. The follow-up soldiers of the Tang army rushed in holding their shields.

The screams continued, and the splashing blood and the falling snow intersected in the air. The soldiers on both sides were like wild beasts, biting each other in the mountains covered with white blankets.

Su Dingfang, who was standing on the hilltop on the south side watching the battle, looked at these indifferently, but he was thinking in his heart, it's a good thing that Huairen has already returned to the Chinese army, otherwise he might not have chosen to withdraw his troops.

Over the years, Su Dingfang knew Li Shan well enough, and had a lot of discussions with Ling Jing in private. Both of them came to the conclusion that the young county king was not lacking in talent in military strategy, and he also had enough keen intuition to choose fighters more accurately. He even made a lot of achievements in general, but he was kind... To put it bluntly, he was not cruel enough.

If Li Shan presided over today's battle, he would probably choose to withdraw troops, use various means to disintegrate the opponent's will, and even have the effect of subduing the enemy without fighting. It cannot be said that this choice is wrong, but it seems a little gentle. It is incompatible with the reputation of Li Shanxi's first-level pile of capital.

Su Dingfang successively dispatched more than a thousand Tang troops to take turns to fight, and attacked five times within two hours, the offensive was extremely fierce.

The soldiers on both sides fought extremely cruelly. Liang Jun took advantage of the geographical advantage. A large number of Tang soldiers died under the rocks, wailing all over the field. The five consecutive onslaughts of Tang Jun also made Liang Jun extremely exhausted, and both sides fell into exhaustion. .

Su Dingfang frowned and thought about whether to go into battle in person. It seemed that the pressure on Liang Jun was not strong enough, but the next moment, the Tang soldiers who had just retreated were a little commotion.

"That's Li Zhengbao?" Xue Wanche's expression changed.

It was Li Zhengbao who was pushed to the hillside in front of the formation by more than a dozen Liang soldiers. Before Su Dingfang could say anything, the knife flashed, and a large head fell off. The headless corpse kneeling on the ground shook and fell to the ground. fall.

Xue Wanche was not surprised that Li Zhengbao was captured. Liang Jun's ambush already showed that the previous plan of internal cooperation and external cooperation had gone bankrupt, but he was still surprised that Li Zhengbao was beheaded... He was not beheaded in the war yesterday, why did he suddenly beheaded today?
Su Dingfang was also a little stunned. After a while, he frowned and thought hard, then turned his head and asked, "Choose a prisoner."

A quarter of an hour later, Suo Zhou, with a livid face, looked at the Tang army in astonishment. That Zhao Guogong actually wanted to exchange a hundred prisoners for Li Zhengbao's body.

(End of this chapter)