Late Tang

The sun is setting and the fire is burning in the west!

The sunset glow in the west is reflected in the river, and the river water has already been reflected as if it is burning.

Li Jing carefully observed the river water. From the watermark on the side of the river, it can be seen that the river water has become about a foot shallower than before.But if he wasn't too serious, and it was dusk again, the other party probably wouldn't notice this.

"It's coming, it's coming!" Li Wei excitedly ran to Li Jing's side, and said in a low voice suppressing his excitement.

"Pass my order, let these cavalry cross the river first, wait until half of the infantry behind have crossed the river, and immediately attack the infantry crossing the river with sky fire and flying fire." Li Jing was also full of pre-war anxiety at this time. excited.His hand was firmly pressed on the jade sword, and his whole body was neatly dressed.At this time, he was half lying on the back of a small slope, and next to him were two young generals, Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang, with a battalion of guards.If they hadn't stopped him, Li Jing would have even wanted to move directly to the front.

The sound of thunderous iron hooves galloping came, and suddenly, a large white cloud fell into the eyes.This piece of white is like a white cloud, moving slowly.This is a cavalry, and what is even more rare is that this cavalry is completely composed of white war horses, and there is not even a black horse, a red horse, a yellow horse, and a flowered horse.

What I saw was only a piece of white, and the horses were strong and vigorous.Li Jing remembered something Zhang Hong said last time after Li Maoxun's envoy came to buy armaments and horses. At that time, Li Maoxun's envoy bought a thousand horses.The one thousand horses were selected from the nearly ten thousand war horses owned by Li Jing. As a result, the Uighurs picked all the white horses out of the ten thousand horses.When Zhang Hong told him about it, he still thought the Uighur was interesting.

Now seeing these three thousand white war horses, Li Jing immediately knew that most of these war horses were bought from him.

The three thousand knights were all white horses, and even the knights on the horses were all wearing white battle robes and armors, and all his armors were painted with a layer of white paint.The flowing cloak is also all white, even the plume of the helmet is white.

The flags of the three thousand white horse cavalry were all white, and the black high character on the white flag was the only other color.

The horses are galloping, and the knights are criss-crossing.

Li Jing had to admit that this cavalry was very impressive in appearance and momentum.

The cavalry waded through the water, but did not find the ambush in the reeds.Li Jing couldn't help sighing as he looked at the cavalrymen gradually going away.Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang next to them were also reminiscing about the cavalry attack.Especially when they saw that the cavalry commanders they saw just now were actually three young generals who were not much older than them, their eyes showed a strange brilliance.

The cavalry rushed to Gu'an to help, and then nearly half an hour later, the long-awaited infantry finally appeared.These infantry maintain a battle march and run extremely fast.Facing the shallow river in front of them, they only looked at it without stopping at all.This little water was just below the knees, and the military situation was urgent, so there was no need to pierce the pontoon bridge.

The former army knew that the soldiers and horse envoy Gao Shunli directly ordered to cross the river, but although there was no need to set up a pontoon bridge, the crossing point was relatively small, and the [-] infantry had to slow down and cross the river slowly.When crossing the river, the infantry's originally good formation was unavoidably disrupted at this time.

Groups of soldiers crossed the river, and then they regrouped on the other side of the river.

Li Jing's hand holding the jade sword has been clenched tightly, and he has been waiting for more soldiers to cross the river. "General, almost half of the people have crossed the river." Liu Xun reminded Li Jing in a low voice.Because the dam was built upstream, even if the embankment was dug immediately, it would take a while for the flood to rush over.

Li Jing nodded, and yanked the hand that was holding the hilt of the sword violently.

Clang!

With the sword out of its sheath, Li Jing swung the sword vigorously and pointed forward, shouting, "Attack!"

In the reeds behind the hillside, the engineers of the engineer battalion who had already been waiting for orders quickly lifted the camouflage of the reeds covering the cannons, revealing the cannons and crossbow bolts one by one below.The cannons and crossbow arrows had already been calibrated in advance, and the target was the river.

Puffs of white smoke rose, and Zhou Laoliu, the tenth general of the engineering battalion, waved his hand violently. Suddenly, the sound of the machine spring sounded, and the cannons lined up were fired in unison.One after another, flying fires and divine fires are shining in the air. The orange-red flame tail and clear white smoke make the sky change.

Amid the sound of breaking through the sky, Gao Shunli had already crossed halfway, and was in the middle of the river. He hurriedly looked up and saw that the sky was dark, and black clay pots covering the sky were flying towards them with smoke and fire.

His face turned pale, and he had already thought of an extremely bad possibility.

"There are ambushes, get down!"

Regarding this extremely weird and powerful weapon, Gao Shunli has also heard that when encountering it, he can only get down and disperse to reduce some casualties.

But even though he shouted hoarsely, the Guizhou soldiers were all stunned on the spot.Many of them are Turks and Uyghurs, and they don't know the origin of this flying thing at all, they just think it is an ordinary catapult.

Clay pots fell one after another, and then some erupted with violent noises and rising flames.After some burst, countless broken iron nails and broken porcelain roots flew around.However, after some burst, countless dots of flames sputtered out.

Soon they all knew the harm of these things, those whose skin was splashed and cut, blood was flowing, blind, limbs, ears, throats and necks were cut, and intestines were even cut open. All of them were injured by flying fire clay pots.Some people were even deafened by the loud noise, unable to hear anything, and danced around in panic.

What was even worse was that they were splashed by the fire pot after it burst, and those dots of fire burned directly in the river water, not only igniting the fire, but also igniting everything they touched.Those who were on fire crawled into the water, but it didn't help at all.He could only howl in pain, and finally remained motionless.

"Withdraw!" Fortunately, Gao Shunli was not injured at all.At the beginning, he immediately fell into the water, and in the end he even directly blocked a corpse whose throat had been slit by a broken iron piece, blocking a few sparks of fear.

I don't know how many ambushes the enemy had, but Gao Shunli didn't shout to kill them.

He hadn't even seen the other party's figure yet, they had already been killed in such a mess, even if they went ashore, he guessed that the other party must have a more powerful killing move.

But it was too late to escape now.After a short period of confusion, those Youzhou soldiers who were about to retreat to the other side suddenly heard a rumbling sound from top to bottom, and Xiu seemed to have thousands of troops coming.They turned their heads in panic and saw a piece of white galloping forward, which was more impactful than the white horse cavalry of their former army.

It's water, flood, flood that broke its bank.

Gao Shunli was so surprised that he was speechless. Looking at the water situation, he immediately understood that the opponent must have blocked the river and built a dam in advance, and then waited for half of their troops to cross and attack.The other party is so ruthless, this is not giving them the slightest chance.

The galloping water that broke the embankment is like ten thousand horses galloping, and the Milky Way falls in the nine heavens.

With an indomitable momentum, the flood rushed across this section of the ferry in an instant.

The Youzhou soldiers who were in the water were all involved in the water in an instant. Many Youzhou soldiers came from Guizhou, which is the grassland under the Yin Mountain.Many soldiers may have never swam in water in their entire lives. This time they were caught in the water and sank immediately.

At this time, Li Jing also took the opportunity to beat the dog in the water, and directly ordered the Youzhou soldiers who had already crossed the river. After a round of intensive arrow and crossbow storm, he directly blew the charge horn, and thousands of Zhendong troops jumped out of the reeds. Directly kill the frightened Youzhou soldiers on the shore.

Those soldiers and horses were not in formation, their command was chaotic, their morale was low, and their hearts were panicked. When they were rushed by the Zhendong Army, they immediately fell into chaos.In the front is the Zhendong army attacking like wolves and tigers, and behind is the rushing river.Those Youzhou soldiers have no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the earth.

They were soon divided into small battle groups, and were shot to death one by one by spears and arrows.In less than half an hour, these soldiers had completely collapsed, and the rest surrendered directly.Although there were about 3000 troops on the other side, they could only stand on the other side, watching helplessly as their comrades were slaughtered, until they collapsed and surrendered.

After the more than [-] people on the bank here were killed and less than a thousand surrendered, the flood that had accumulated in the river had subsided again.As soon as the water receded, Li Jing immediately swung his troops across the river and went straight to kill. The soldiers and horses on the bank lost their command and did not retreat in time before.When the battle was not long, half of them were killed, and the rest had to surrender.

While Li Jing ordered to clean up the battlefield immediately, he sent people along the river to search for those Youzhou soldiers who were washed down by the river.

3000 people were left to guard the prisoners and clean up the battlefield. Li Jing led the [-] Zhendong Army and returned to Gu'an City.

At the same time, there is a big battle under the city of Gu'an, and the killing is indistinguishable.

Gao Siji with the white horse and silver spear led 2000 cavalry, but he didn't know that the infantry led by his father and uncle had been eaten. As soon as he rushed to the city of Gu'an, he immediately attacked Wang Pu.Wang Pu and Shi Shoucheng asked Jiang Ju to lead 8000 troops as a rear line to prevent the people in the city from leaving the city to attack.The two of them led [-] people to face Gao Siji.

However, although Wang Pu had 8000 troops, he could not defeat Gao Siji's [-] cavalry.With the large number of soldiers and horses, and some cannon-throwing chariots left by Li Jing, the formation was barely broken until now.But if you continue to fight, you may be defeated at any time.If he didn't know that Li Jing was behind and would come anytime, Wang Pu would have already led his troops to move in strategically.

The fight continued until it was completely dark, and Li Jing's soldiers still did not arrive. Wang Pu was already a little desperate. The Zhendong Army and the Liaonan Army had all been suppressed. At this time, there were less than 1 of the [-] people , nearly [-]% of them died, and the opponent's white horse cavalry had less than a few hundred casualties.

"Deputy Wang Dutong, did Jungong Li intentionally arrange this way, to sit back and watch you and me in danger without helping, and want to borrow a knife to kill someone?" Shi Shoucheng's body was covered in blood, and there was half a broken arrow in his shoulder socket.But these wounds on his body were nothing, what really frightened him was that Li Jing never arrived.

He wasn't worried that Li Jing would be defeated by Youzhou soldiers. What he was really worried about was whether Li Jing would take this opportunity to use the hands of Youzhou people to get rid of their miscellaneous cards.As soon as this thought came up, he was tormented by panic.

Wang Pu had also thought of this possibility, but he kept persuading himself that it was impossible, Li Jing was not that kind of person.Duli Town had long been subordinated to Li Jing, and his daughter had also become Li Jing's third wife, and she was going to give birth to Li's family soon, how could Li Jing be against him at this time.

But the soldiers who kept falling made him have to consider this possibility in his heart.Under the city of Gu'an, they are all soldiers from Dulizhen and Liaonan, and there is not even a single Zhendong army.If Li Jing sits and watches them fight off this fierce cavalry, it is undoubtedly very possible for Li Jing to appear again.

Am I judging the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, or is it just so cruel?

Just when Wang Pu was wavering in his heart, a series of horns suddenly sounded from the north.

"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"

"This is the horn of the Zhendong Army. The Duke has arrived." Wang Pu burst into tears with excitement.

Gao Siji with the white horse and silver spear had already turned into a red horse with a red spear, his horse and armor were stained red with blood, and the silver tassels on his bright silver spear had turned into red tassels.His father's infantry hadn't arrived for a long time, and he already had a bad premonition in his heart.But in this battlefield, it is difficult for him to retreat.At this point in the battle, it has already become a mess. Whoever can't hold on first may lose the battle.

He has been insisting, hoping to wait until his father, uncle and the others lead the troops to arrive. He has already seen that the army on the opposite side has suffered heavy casualties, and they can no longer hold on. If they try harder, they will collapse.

Just a little bit, just a little bit, he can completely defeat this army, and then turn around to find his father.

But even with such a little bit, he couldn't defeat the opponent no matter what.

The whining horn sounded, and with the last ray of light between heaven and earth, Gao Siji did not welcome his father, but another army rushing towards him.They had come the way he had come, and a possibility immediately occurred to him.

They set up an ambush by the river, first let go of their own cavalry, and then intercepted their father's large infantry horses.Now I can see that my father, who had [-] soldiers and horses, has been defeated by this soldier and horse.

Li Jing jumped on his horse and held his spear, he had already seen the corpses lying everywhere on the battlefield, swung his long spear, and shouted: "Kill!"

Hearing Li Jing's attack order, Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang, who had already seen the young white-robed generals rushing left and right in the battlefield, both clamped their horses, one swung their lance and the other raised their guns, and rode their horses straight to the battlefield. The three brothers on the white horse and silver gun! !

(To be continued)