Chapter 160: Cut off the back line of Pojun to kill the general

Li Shimin discovered that the problem was very serious at the first time. Although Longmen Canyon was not as severe as Hangu Road, it was precisely because of this that he underestimated the enemy and fell into trouble. To make matters worse, the Xuanjia Cavalry ran from Beimeng Camp to Longmen, with a distance of sixty or seventy miles from north to south. The Xuanjia Cavalry obeyed Li Shimin's orders and chased and rushed all the way. The entire army was extremely tired.

If it is to deal with the defeated soldiers who fled in a panic, it will naturally be invincible. However, after discovering that they were surrounded by heavy enemy troops, Li Shimin clearly realized that the morale of the Xuan Armored Cavalry beside him was frustrated, and many people showed a look of fear on their faces.

East and west are Daqingshan and Longmenshan, and the war horses cannot move at all, so they can only advance south or retreat north. However, the Zheng army that appeared in the south was very thick in formation. Although the night was rich and the sight was limited, listening to the footsteps, Li Shimin also knew that the other party had at least 20,000 to 30,000 people, and it was a long-range formation that specifically restrained the Xuanjia Cavalry. If he continued to rush forward, there would be only one ending, that was the Xuanjia Cavalry and Zhu Can's ogre army for life.

Li Shimin can calculate the life of the Xuan Armored Cavalry and the Ogre Army. Not to mention one, even if one is changed, Li Shimin feels a loss. When he said the time, Li Shimin only considered a dozen breaths (ten seconds) and made a decision. He quietly said to the generals around him, such as Zhai Changsun, Hou Junji, Duan Zhixuan, Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, and other generals: "I will hold Wang Shichong, you are waiting for an opportunity to retreat!"

At this time, Li Shimin's prestige was reflected, Zhai Changsun, Hou Junji, and Duan Zhixuan whispered to the Xuan Armored Cavalry beside him without saying a word.

At this time, Cheng Zhijie said, "Your Highness, don't look down on me. I, Cheng, have fought hundreds of wars in all kinds of places. I have seen many small scenes..." As he said, Cheng Zhijie turned around and looked at Qin Qiong: "Shubao, why do you say that we are also a king and minister with their Wang family, and we can get along and part. Let's meet each other?"

Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie had a good relationship, and they immediately understood what Cheng Zhijie meant. Li Shimin was their new master. If Li Shimin really didn't run away this time, even if they went back, they might be killed by a crime. After all, if Li Yuan died another son, there would be no living person in Luoyang City.

It’s better to follow Li Shimin and live and die together. If you really die, it will be over. But once you can escape, they can squeeze into the decision-making level of the Qin Palace and become the core figures. This deal is small and worth doing!

Qin Shubao said: "I also have this intention. There are men who pee three feet in the wind. Are you afraid of him?"

Li Shimin rode his horse out, but Cheng Zhijie and Qin Qiong were like the two generals of Hum and Ha, protecting Li Shimin.

As the saying goes, the enemy was extremely jealous when they met. When Wang Shichong saw Qin Qiong and Cheng Zhijie under the flames, he was so angry that his eyes were about to spit out of fire. He suppressed his anger and shouted: "Cheng Zhijie, Qin Shubao, I am not bad to you Wagang Army. How did you treat me?"

Qin Qiong was a shameless person, in fact, Wang Shichong was right. Although it was a bit too small to let Qin Qiong command a thousand soldiers, Wang Shichong did not deduct them at all for the treatment of the third-rank official title. Generals such as Qin, Cheng, Niu, Xie, and Zhang surrendered to Wang Shichong, and each of them was given a house of no less than ten acres. You should know how big the entire Luoyang City is? How many ten acres can there be? Qin Qiong abandoned Wang Shichong and surrendered to Li Shimin, and this matter was indeed inauthentic.

However, just when Qin Qiong was ashamed and was about to retreat, Cheng Zhijie smiled and said with a slight smile: "Wang Shichong, I, Cheng is a rough man. I have to say something to you, you are really unkind. When I was in Wagang, I was on par with Xu Shiji, Qin Shubao, Shan Xiongxin, and Luo Shixin, but they, now Lao Dan is dead (Cheng Zhijie doesn't know this secret), Lao Xu and Lao Luo have defected to the Tang Dynasty, especially Lao Xu, now the Zhuguo of the Tang Dynasty, Duke Jiang, General Zuo Wuhou, but Lao Qin and I only have a thousand soldiers and horses, they are the Eagle Fighter Generals of the former Sui Dynasty. They treat us a few old brothers as Eagle Fighter Generals, and they also say they are not bad to us, they have seen shameless people, and have never seen you so shameless, open your eyes and say they are blind..."

Without saying anything, Zhu Can picked up an iron-tied bow and pointed it at Cheng Zhijie with an arrow.

With a soothing sound, the sound of breaking through the air sounded, breaking the sudden silence.

However, because the distance is too far, the force of the arrow is already weak when it flew in front of Cheng Zhijie. Cheng Zhijie raised his horse spear and gently pushed it, and he didn't know where the arrow flew.

"The hidden arrow hurts people, it's so despicable!" Li Shimin looked at the Xuanjiao cavalry slowly turning around, but it seemed that it would take a stick of incense to complete the collective turn. Li Shimin cursed: "Wang Shichong, you can do this little bit? You have Zhu Can, don't make mistakes. What end can you end up with Wang Shichong? Abandoning the darkness and turning to the light is the right way!"

Wang Shichong said: "Although your Tang army is fierce, in this Longmen Canyon, you Li Shimin are few and have few soldiers. You have no hope of winning, surrender!"

As he said that, Wang Shichong pointed to his left and right, and his strong confidence burst out with his body. "Now I have made complete preparations, and the strength is ten times that of yours. If you continue to fight, you will definitely be annihilated by the entire army and you can't escape!"

In fact, as Wang Shichong said, for this decisive battle, he did make very sufficient preparations. In Luoyang City, he organized more than 15,000 young and strong people in the east and west cities. In order to make them work, he captured more than 5,000 young and strong families and used the lives of these families to threaten them to launch an attack on the Tang army camp.

Looking at all the nations in the world, only Chinese people attach the most importance to family and relatives, and are willing to sacrifice themselves for the lives of their relatives. Attracted by more than 1,000 cannon fodder, Li Shimin did not see through Wang Shichong's true intentions. When Li Shimin understood, he had already brought more than 30,000 soldiers of the Jianghuai Army, the core soldiers, to complete the arrangement in Longmen Canyon.

At this time, Wang Shichong had more than 60,000 troops in Longmen Canyon, and Li Shimin had less than 5,000 Xuanjia cavalry (historically, this army had only 3,000 troops), which was twelve times that of Li Shimin.

Li Shimin said disapprovingly: "So what?"

Zhu Can said: "Your Majesty, Li Shimin will not surrender!"

The rejection of Li Shimin was actually beyond Wang Shichong's expectations. Although Wang Shichong had a smile on his face, his murderous aura could no longer be concealed: "Li Shimin, do you really think you can change your destiny?"

Li Shimin shook his head: "I am not so arrogant yet. However, since I have come, just to annihilate your ogre army and beast army. I will never let you break into our homeland without any restraint, burn, kill, and slaughter my compatriots like before. Maybe I will be defeated in battle, maybe I will die in battle. As long as we have a breath, there will always be someone standing up, blocking you, and carrying this collapsed sky with your shoulders! I am not the first, nor will I be the last!"

The soldiers of the Xuan Armored Cavalry pursed their lips and remained silent, but the hand holding the weapon was getting stronger and stronger. Just when Li Shimin was so arrogant, he suddenly let out a roar: "The back team turns into the front team, retreat!"

The Xuan-armored Cavalry, who had already completed the preparation, turned their horses and galloped towards the rear.

Wang Xuanying was stunned: "Li Shimin will run away, too?"

"He is a human being. He will hurt him if he cuts a knife, and he will die if he loses his head!" Zhu Can smiled and said, "But hesitant, they can't escape!"

Wang Shichong didn't even move, quietly looked at the Xuanjia cavalry and said with regret: "What a pity for those good horses!"

Zhu Can said: "There will be good horses. As long as we enter Guanzhong, Li Tang is in Longyou, and the tens of thousands of horses in Hehuang Horse Farm are all ours, and there are more than 2 million people in the relevant area..."

As Zhu Can said that, a wolf-like green light appeared in his eyes, he reached out his blood-red tongue and licked his lips: "Your Majesty, give Li Shimin to me, I want to eat him, see what is different from others!"

The Xuanjia Cavalry walked along the mountain road in Longmen Canyon and headed towards the north wind. Li Shimin ran north while looking at Wang Shichong with a provocative look.

At this moment, Li Shimin suddenly felt something was wrong in his heart. Wang Shichong's reaction was too calm, so calm that it was outrageous. Did he expect that he would flee without a fight?

Li Shimin’s doubts are very reasonable, and Wang Shichong is indeed prepared.

Just as the brigade of cavalry was about to leave the entrance of Longmen Canyon, dozens of black-armored cavalry in front suddenly fell down their war horses like dumplings. The dozens of cavalry screamed shrillly, but their screams had just started more than ten breaths.

"Puff..."

"Puff..."

Just as the sound of a big watermelon falling to the ground sounded, the Xuan-armored cavalry charging quickly behind could not stop at all. They just watched the war horses and relied on their own inertia to knock their robes away, or the sound of horse hooves with the size of a bowl of horses, stepped on their heads.

When Zhai Changsun saw this situation, he realized that something was wrong and shouted loudly: "Note, there is a staggered horseshot in front!"

However, it is useless to shout again at this time.

Not to mention the horses' hooves of those war horses stepped on the ground and made the sound of horses' hooves like thunder. They had already suppressed Zhai Changsun's voice, even if they could hear it, they had no time to react. At this time, the horse speed of the Xuanjia Cavalry was even above forty kilometers, or fifty kilometers.

"thump……"

"thump……"

Just like dumplings, the Xuan Armored Cavalry fell from the war horses. In just a dozen breaths, a total of six or seven hundred Xuan Armored Cavalry fell from the war horses, and they fell into a rolling gourd.

Looking at the Xuan Armored Cavalry who fell off his horse on such a large scale, Hou Junji behind him then controlled the horse's speed and barely stopped the rushing force.

Although Zhai Changsun had good horse skills, he could not control the horses behind him and knocked his horse to the ground in an instant. So Zhai Changsun fell to the ground very tragically, and what was even more tragic was that his face hit the ground first.

Half of Zhai Changsun's face suddenly lost consciousness, but when he was about to get up, he realized that there was a large pool of sticky things on the ground. Although these six or seven hundred cavalrymen would shed a lot of blood when they fell to the ground, Zhai Changsun knew very well that this was not blood, but fierce turbulent oil.

Zhai Changsun Jie Sridi shouted: "No, retreat quickly!"

At this moment, dense torches sounded from the Longmen Cliff, and dozens of large fireballs burning with flames roared towards the bottom of the canyon.

At this time, Li Shimin had already arrived first and rushed to half of the canyon. He was looking at dozens of fireballs about three feet away and flew to the bottom of the canyon.

It turned out that as early as when all the Xuanjia cavalry entered Longmen Canyon, the Zheng army soldiers who were secretly ambushed on Longmen Mountain and Daqing Mountain had as many as 1,000 barrels and more than 50,000 kilograms of stone fat water (that is, crude oil) were poured at the exit of the canyon.

More than 50,000 kilograms were actually not much, but it was equivalent to more than 25 tons. These stone fat water were built in the East Palace when Yang Guang built a workshop for ink production in the Eastern Palace when he was in Luoyang, the eastern capital. At that time, this stone fat water became the main raw material for ink making. If it were at its peak, Luoyang City actually had no less than 20,000 barrels of stone fat water, but now these stone fat water is less than one-twentieth of the original stock.

However, just one-twentieth of the stone fat water poured into Longmen Canyon, quickly forming a fire wall that was as wide as the canyon and was more than one hundred steps wide.

Twenty-five tons of crude oil burned, setting off a fire that was more than ten feet high, and can be clearly visible from far and ten miles away.

Almost thousands of Xuan-armored cavalry were swallowed by the ruthless fire. These Xuan-armored cavalry screamed shrillly. When Li Shimin saw the fire in front of him, he thought it was not good. However, when Li Shimin came to the valley, he was still shocked by the ruthless fire wall. The soldiers who were trapped in the sea of ​​fire had no way to save them.

The flames that were more than ten feet high were also slightly burning, and there was a clear burning sensation outside 200 steps. Within 100 steps, there was no way to get close. As time went by, the screams of the Xuan-armored cavalry in the sea of ​​fire became weaker and weaker.

Hou Junji, who was covered in dust, came to Li Shimin dejectedly.

Li Shimin looked at the generals around him and found that Duan Zhixuan, Hou Junji and Lei Yongji were there, but only Zhai Changsun was missing.

Li Shimin realized the seriousness of the problem and shouted with a frightened face: "Where is Zhai Changsun?"

Hou Junji and Duan Zhixuan were both silent.

Lei Yongji said timidly: "General Zhai is unfortunate..."

Li Shimin felt a little difficult to breathe, and at this moment, a rumbling sound came.

Li Shimin looked back and saw that the Zheng army soldiers were slowly oppressing.

However, the one walking in the front was not the Zheng army soldiers, but two or three hundred fighting chariots.

Li Shimin roared in Srithi: "Soldiers, my brothers, we are now cut off our backs. Zheng Jun intends to kill us. What should we do now?"

Cheng Zhijie almost subconsciously shouted: "I'm fighting with the bitch!"

Li Shimin turned his horse's head again, raised his horizontal knife, slashed forward in the void, and shouted: "Try it!"

"Fight!"

The surviving Xuanjiao cavalry turned grief into strength, galloping towards the Zheng army's chariot formation.
Chapter completed!