Chapter 162 The Invincible Fire Bull Formation

Just in the crisis, I heard the sound of thick and majestic drums coming from the direction of Luoyang City, and a powerful man rushed out rumbling.

On one side, the general flag with the letter "Qu Tu" was roaring in the cold wind, and Qu Tutong went to fight. Li Yuan had already prepared two powerful deputys for Li Shimin, one was the Minister of War of the Tang Dynasty, Qu Tutong, the former famous general of the Sui Dynasty, and the other was the rising star of the Tang Dynasty, the new army of Chen Ying.

In fact, it was precisely because of Li Shimin's eagerness for quick success and instant benefits. So he did not use Chen Ying and Qu Tutong. Qu Tutong, like Chen Ying, chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb. Chen Ying led the left and right guards of the East Palace, more than 25,000 troops, including the left and right guards of the left and right guards, and more than 25,000 troops of Henan Prefecture to reclaim wasteland and buy land. Qu Tutong and Wang Shichong surrendered generals, Zhang Zhenzhou, Zhang Gongjin, Cui Shu, Yang Qing, Shi Derui and other surrendered generals, played chess and drank and chatted.

As early as when Li Shimin was about to lead the Xuanjia cavalry to pursue "Wang Shichong", Qu Tutong once vaguely told Li Shimin that it was enough to pursue Wang Shichong and send a good general. He also recommended Zhai Changsun and Hou Junji. However, Li Shimin was full of great achievements in capturing Wang Shichong alive, and directly rejected Qu Tutong's opinions.

But when the fire burned in Longmen Canyon, Qu Tutong couldn't sit still. He hurriedly sent a scout to Longmen to reconnaissance the situation, while summoning Shi Wanbao, Wang Junkuo, Huang Junhan and other generals.

When the scouts conveyed the news that Li Shimin was in trouble in Longmen Canyon to the Beim Mountain Camp, Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji and Du Ruhui were all shocked. Qu Tutong, who was prepared, calmly ordered a hundred thousand troops to be poured out to rescue Qin King Li Shimin.

A hundred thousand army came out in full swing. The Zheng army soldiers standing on the walls of Luoyang City looked at Qu Tutong's flag and were all attracted by it. They stayed behind the King of Qi of Zheng, Luoyang. The Minister of State Wang Shiyun hurriedly sent a messenger to notify Wang Shichong.

"Qu Tutong has gone to the battle!"

Just a quarter of an hour later, the news reached Wang Shichong's ears, and Wang Shichong sneered: "Has the old guy come out too? Okay! Let's take him to sacrifice the flag first! On the way to hell, let him play a striker for Li Shimin!"

Wang Shichong's ruthless words were accompanied by orders, but the battlefield changed irreversibly due to the appearance of Qu Tutong. However, while Qu Tutong appeared, the military tide surging south under Qu Tutong seemed to have been cut off. The second half was not allowed to enter, but the first half did not receive incremental support from the rear.

How could Wang Shichong have expected Qu Tutong to desperately ask for help from Li Shimin?

But he was prepared.

It was not accidental that Wang Shichong had his current status. He was very smart and proficient in military tactics. Qu Tutong led the Tang army to rush out of the Beim Mountain Camp, and arrived smoothly along the way around the western city wall of Luoyang. When he arrived at the southern city of Luoyang, a oxtail suddenly rushed out of the southern city gate of Luoyang, and the strips of oil cloth were tied to it, and all the oil cloth strips had been lit.

All of these fire bulls were tied with sharp blades on their heads, and they were covered with flails with sharp blades on their bodies.

This is the second gift Wang Shichong gave to Li Shimin the entire Luoyang area and drawn out more than 3,000 oxen. The formation of the Fire Cow Formation was the second gift Wang Shichong gave to Li Shimin.

These fire cattle are much more powerful than Tian Dan's fire cattle formation in history. At this time, the plowing cattle was simply a hedgehog covered with sharp blades. There were five sharp knives in the front horn, and six sharp knives were hung on three flails on the left and right wings. It was simply a huge hedgehog.

More than three thousand plowing oxen with fire on their butts rushed towards the Tang army like crazy.

Seeing these more than 3,000 fire bulls rushed out of Luoyang City, Qu Tutong closed his eyes in pain. When he saw the beginning, he had already guessed the end. How many of the more than 3,000 fire bulls could he defeat the 100,000 soldiers under his command?

Changsun Wuji had never seen such a battle formation. Although he had practiced his scheming well, he was a little shocked when the three thousand fire bulls ran together: "Can we stop it?"

Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly. His calmness was stronger than Changsun Wuji. It was obvious that when he was five or six hundred steps away, the Tang army soldiers showed a deep look of fear. When facing the test of life and death, the soldiers' qualities would be fully revealed. Fang Xuanling noticed the panic of the Tang army soldiers running in front.

"These soldiers have not undergone rigorous collective training."

Fang Xuanling must have made this judgment.

This is actually no wonder. As early as when Li Tang advanced into Guanzhong, the Tang army had only tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. After joining Li Xiuning's troops, the total army was only about 100,000. After obtaining the Sanfu, the Tang army's troops exceeded 150,000, but with Li Shimin's defeat in Qianshuiyuan, the Tang army had only less than 60,000 troops left.

However, then Li Yuanji was defeated in Jinyang, and there were no more than one of the old troops of the Tang army. Some of these Tang soldiers had been in the army for only two years and shorter than a few months. If the morale was like rainbow, the panic of individuals was covered in the galloping horses and could continue to rush forward for the time being, but what if they were subjected to a huge ripple?

The answer is yes. Under the impact of the Fire Cow Formation, the Tang soldiers were in chaos. Seeing the three thousand fire cows, carrying the galloping sound of thousands of horses, hitting them, it would definitely form a terrifying illusion that they would be stepped on by the cow's hooves in a few seconds. The maximum impact of the charge of the Fire Cow Formation is not a collision, trampling or chopping, but it is a fear of people!

Standing in the chariot, Qu Tutong leaned forward and held the handrail in front of him with both hands. Because he tried too hard, Qu Tutong's knuckles had turned white, and it was obvious that he was actually very nervous inside.

At this time, the three thousand fire bulls had already rushed closer. The power of storm of thousands of horses could cause double the psychological pressure to people every time they were nearly ten feet tall!

Qu Tutong's breathing became rapid, and his heart seemed to be about to be broken!

Closer, closer, closer

Because of the pain, the plowing ox roared. The Tang army archers tried their best to shoot the fire. I wonder if they could shoot the fire cattle. They said that they were blocking the fire cattle, and they suppressed the fear in their hearts.

boom--

The fire bull finally hit! The sharp knife on the fire bull's head pierced the Tang soldiers blocking them without any delay. The huge impact force directly knocked the Tang soldiers backwards like shells. The Tang soldiers died without any pain. When they flew backwards in the air, they had actually turned into corpses.

The fire bulls rushed around, some smashed their shields or spears, some trampled the Tang army soldiers so that their stomachs were rotten, and some stomped into meat paste.

The sharp knife on the head on the fire bull's back began to dance, as if it was like a meat grinder, swallowing the Tang army soldiers. The blood was like a pouring rain, splashing in the air, and the white light quickly turned into pieces of crimson. The wind blew, and the smell of blood rushed towards everyone's nostrils.

"The fire bull rushed over, the fire bull rushed over!"

When the Tang army soldiers saw this scene, they ran around like headless flies.

Just after the Fire Bull Formation, Wang Shiyun took Wang Shichong's only five thousand remaining soldiers and horses to attack the 100,000 Tang troops. In fact, at this time, Wang Shiyun was not fighting at all, but was reaping the lives of Tang soldiers.

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The western part of Luoyang was once a palace group from the Northern Wei Dynasty. Time passed, and the originally majestic and magnificent palace group of Northern Wei imperial palaces had long turned into a pile of tall loess mounds. Li Xiuning, standing on the loess mound, watched Zheng Jun chopping and killing Tang soldiers wantonly, her body was shaking.

He kept working all night, but when he was about to come, he was still a step late. A sense of powerlessness and despair surged into Li Xiuning's heart. Li Xiuning's eyes felt dark and he fell to the ground forward.

However, Chen Ying was quick-witted and didn't care about anything at this time. He stopped politely and hurriedly rushed towards Li Xiuning, stretched out his powerful arms, and hugged Li Xiuning in his arms, preventing Li Xiuning from falling to the ground in time.

A soft and soft mind came into his arms. Chen Ying didn't think much about it at this moment. On the contrary, he was even more confused at this time. There were records in history that Li Shimin led 500 cavalry to reconnaise Wang Shichong's camp because of underestimating the enemy. Wang Shichong led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to rush over to the Tang army. Yuchi Jingde took the opportunity to break out of the siege with Li Shimin. With the cooperation of Qu Tutong's reinforcements, the Tang army returned to the enemy's formation, rushed back and forth, killed more than a thousand enemies, captured 6,000 people, and captured Shichong's champion general Chen Zhiluo alive, and won the Battle of Mangshan.

But at this time, the news Chen Ying received was completely different. Not only was Li Shimin trapped in Longmen Canyon more than 40 miles away, but more than 100,000 Tang soldiers led by Qu Tutong were also defeated by the army under Wang Shichong using the Fire Bull Formation.

At this time, the formation of the Tang army was completely in chaos, and there were Tang soldiers who were scared to death without fighting everywhere, and Zheng cavalry who were slashing and slashing the Tang army everywhere.

Chen Ying was unable to make a decision at this time. He had only more than 5,000 exhausted hook and sickle cavalry cavalry around him. After more than 100 horses, all the generals and horses were exhausted. What's even worse was that not only Qu Tutong's entire army collapsed, but Li Shimin was still alive and dead. Now Chen Ying's troops are too few, and there is no way to divide the troops. To rescue Qu Tutong or save Li Shimin, this is a dilemma.

When the Fire Bull Formation raided the Tang army, Qu Tutong's troops were rushed into two pieces, and the head and tail were difficult to connect. The Fire Bull rushed in front, and the cavalry led by Wang Shiyun was blocked and killed behind. In just a quarter of an hour, at least more than 10,000 Tang soldiers were killed, and tens of thousands of injured people were killed.

At this time, abandoning Qu Tutong and saving Li Shimin means that these 100,000 Tang army soldiers will be trapped in a terrible place. If Li Shimin is not saved, Li Shimin will have an accident, even if the 100,000 Tang army soldiers have to be safe, Chen Ying and Qu Tutong will definitely not be able to fall well.

Chen Ying thought about it over and over again and decided to hand over the decision to Li Xiuning and let Li Xiuning make a decision.

At this moment, Li Xiuning woke up slowly.

Chen Ying asked anxiously: "Sanniang, what should I do now?"
Chapter completed!