Chapter 185: The Unknown General Under the Mo Dao (Part 1)

The brigade of Zheng soldiers and infantry cavalry advanced towards Hulao Pass. Looking down from the sky, the Xia army was like a torrent, occupying the official road and advancing in a mighty way.

The flags were waving and the drums were clamoring. Sitting on the chariot, Dou Jiande was standing tall, looking at Li Shiji and Li Shentong, and smiled and said, "Guess Hulao Pass, who will Li Shimin send to guard?"

Li Shentong shook his head and said, "Foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers...foreign ministers..."

"Hmph, it's not that you don't know, but you dare not say it!" Dou Jiande said in a high spirit: "King Yongkang, if you say I don't kill you, will Li Yuan kill you?"

Li Shentong was stunned and smiled slightly and said, "The prince violated the law and committed the same crime as the common people. Li Shou (Li Shentong's real name) lost the city and lost the land, lost his troops and humiliated the country, and the crime should be executed."

Dou Jiande sneered: "Is it interesting to say something insincere to me? If you really want to die, no one will stop you..."

Li Shentong's face turned red.

Dou Jiande ignored Li Shentong and turned to Li Shiji and said, "General Li, don't you want to say something?"

"A good minister does not serve the two masters, and a strong woman does not serve the two husbands!" Li Shiji sighed and said, "Shiji asks Lord Xia to fulfill his wish!"

Li Shentong said that he should be killed if he was guilty. When he was willing to die, Dou Jiande didn't believe it at all. However, Dou Jiande believed it deeply. As an old opponent who was fighting for the world, it would be a lie to say that Dou Jiande knew nothing about his opponent.

The person who knows you best in the world may not be your friends, but may be your opponent. Li Yuan is suspicious by nature, and Dou Jiande is very clear about this. If Li Shentong dies and Li Shiji is alive, then Li Shiji will inevitably be on the bench. Not to mention being promoted and wealthy, whether he can have a good ending is a question.

Dou Jiande stood on the chariot and looked at the Hulao Pass. On the wall, the Tang army's flag fluttered in the wind, with a big burning on it, and it was very eye-catching, and the door was closed.

Dou Jiande seemed to be talking to himself: "Guess how many defenders are there in Hulao Pass?"

Li Shentong murmured: "The general manager of Weizhou Shi Derui has more than 30,000 troops under his command..."

"The old fox Shi Derui had already run away. He would not show up in this battle without a winner!" Li Shiji said: "Now the command of His Highness the King of Qin has few major generals, and the Lord of Xia is in a big way. Luoyang is empty, and there are up to eight thousand soldiers here."

Dou Jiande smiled coldly: "How many days can the eight thousand horses be guarded?"

Li Shiji bowed calmly and said, "Who is the guardian?"

Dou Jiande nodded and said, "Who can go against the will of heaven?"

"This is not the case. If General Chen was here, he... was a ruthless person. If he was in charge, it would be hard to say." Li Shiji thought for a while and said, "I'm afraid Lord Xia is very unlucky. He is really the one who guards Hulao Pass. I believe Lord Xia has heard of it for a long time. He once broke Yanmen Pass one day and one night and Hangu Pass one hour. Now he is in Hulao Pass. I wonder how long it takes for Xia Kingdom to conquer Hulao Pass?"

"A baby with no hair grows all over the world. After winning two battles, he dared to underestimate the heroes of the world!" Dou Jiande rubbed his hands and said, "Send the order and go to Hulao Pass for lunch!"

Liu Jintang, the general of the guard who had just captured Li Shentong and captured Li Shijizhi, rode his horse to Dou Jiande's chariot, turned over and dismounted, and knelt on one knee and said, "Your Majesty, the last general asked for a fight, and I am willing to be the vanguard and capture Hulao Pass for Your Majesty!"

Dou Jiande thought about it and said slowly: "Accurate!"

Although Liu Jintang was not of noble origin, he and Dou Jiande were both from Beizhou. Although Liu Jintang was unknown, his clan brother was very famous. He was the Duke of the Dong County of Han of Xia Kingdom. In his early years, he and his clan brother Liu Heita defected to Hao Xiaode, lived in the mountains and forests, and later surrendered to Li Mi and became a partial general. When Li Mi joined forces with Zhai Rang, Liu Jintang was dissatisfied with Li Mi. He said to Liu Heita: "When Li Mi was at the most downturn, Zhai Rang took him in and entrusted him with important tasks. This is the greatest kindness. However, Li Mi killed Zhai Rang and repaid his grudges for grudges. In time, we will become abandoned sons!"

It happened that Liu Heita was not satisfied with Li Mi, so he cheated and took away more than 1,300 cavalry under Li Mi's cavalry. It was precisely because of these cavalry that Dou Jiande established his Xia Kingdom cavalry. Of course, Liu Heita was cunning and arrogant when he was young, loved drinking and gambling, did not manage his industry, and his family was poor and lacked food and clothing. Thanks to Dou Jiande to help him. Liu Jintang was also very loyal.

Where there are people, there will be struggles in places where there are rivers and lakes. In fact, Xia State is no exception. Dou Jiande's generals Fan Yuan, Dong Kangmai, Cao Zhan, Gao Yaxian, Wang Xiaohu and others all have tens of thousands of troops and form their own system. Only Liu Heita and Liu Jintang, from beginning to end, regarded themselves as Dou Jiande's direct subordinates.

With the captives of Li Shentong, Li Shiji and Liu Jintang's troops also increased to more than 24,000 with more than 15,000 people. Liu Jintang returned to the headquarters, held his sword and slashed forward, shouting loudly: "Go!"

At the head of Hulao Pass, generals such as Wei Wenzhong were lying behind the walls of the walls without showing their heads. Only Li Xiuning stood at the head of the city wearing a blue shirt, looking at the Xia army horses outside the pass.

Beside Li Xiuning was a Tang army banner with a big word "Chen" written on it, which was fluttering in the wind.

Although the distance was too far at this time and it was not clear that Li Xiuning also felt the shock brought by Dou Jiande's army. In this era, if there were food, armor and blades, there were soldiers. When Dou Jiande attacked Xiangzhou, he had only 100,000 troops, but with the attack on Xiangzhou, more than 17,000 Tang troops under Li Shentong surrendered, and Dou Jiande used the treasury of Xiangzhou to pull up 20,000 to 30,000 troops.

After defeating Liyang City, Dou Jiande's total army had exceeded 150,000. If it were included in the military and civilians, it would be 200,000.

Outside Hulao Pass, Paomaling. In places called Paomaling in China, there is no thousand or eight hundred. Without exception, Paomaling is a gentle slope that can be used to ride.

However, on this gentle slope, there was a military camp stationed at this time. The camp area of ​​the military camp was not large, about 500 steps in square footage. However, it was not appropriate to say that this was a military camp, because the so-called military camp had no trenches and no gates, and there was not even a wall to defend against beasts in front of the military camp.

At this time, hundreds of large stoves were opened in rows near the back camp wall, and the water in the pot was boiling, emitting a scent of meat.

The Xia army soldiers were stunned when they looked at this scene. They really couldn't understand why the troops of only thousands of people had the courage to have a picnic here?

Liu Jintang had no smile on his face and resisted the urge to curse. One of Liu Jintang's generals opened his mouth and his throat couldn't help but squirm.

Liu Jintang rubbed his eyes desperately and murmured: "I...I...I'm not right... that's...too arrogant. It's so presumptuous!"

The Xia army soldiers also yelled in anger: "Damn, the Kansai guy is so crazy!"

"Damn, I look down on us Yan Zhao men?"

"General Liu gives the order. I'll be angry when I see them so presumptuous!"

Indeed, the Tang army soldiers at this time were very worthy of beating, but Chen Ying was even more worthy of beating. He lay straight on a fox fur and sleeping with his eyes closed.

Liu Jintang was angry and laughed at Chen Ying's scene: "What are they doing? Just this little person wants to guard Hulao Pass? You should hide in the pass if you want to guard Hulao Pass, right?"

Ling Jing, who followed Liu Jintang, murmured to himself: "No, no!"

"What shouldn't be?"

Liu Jintang respected Ling Jing very much and said humbly: "Ling Master Bo, do you know this person?"

Ling Jing nodded and said, "Let's just know him. He was the number one general under the Eastern Palace, but why did he run to Paomaling?"

"Chen Ying?" Liu Jintang grinned and said nothing. His head was like a movie, and Chen Ying's dazzling record flashed. He drew the side and the land. He flew to Lingzhou and defeated the Turks. He injured Shibi Khan. He repelled Luo Khan, recovered Feng, Sheng, Shuo and other states. He lightly entered Hedong, defeated Fan Junzhang, broke Yanmen, and killed Hedong and blood flowed into the river. This time, Chen Ying was the vanguard again, defeated Wang Renze, defeated Hangu Pass, and flew cavalry to save Li Shimin, defeated Wang Shiyun, and captured Zhu Can.

By counting on his fingers, the four of them, including the thirty-six-way counterattacked Wang, Liang Shidu, Liu Wuzhou, Zhu Can and Wang Shichong, were already defeated by Chen Ying.

Liu Jintang believes that a person will have good luck, but no one is the son of heaven, and luck will not always stand on his side. Once or twice, it can be said that Chen Ying is lucky, but with so many victories, Chen Ying must not be explained by luck.

Liu Jintang murmured in a low voice: "Master Ling Bo, look at Chen Ying...what is this to do? Could it be that he wants to scare off our army?"

"Will General Liu retreat?" Ling Jing smiled and said, "General Liu, Chen Ying is not good at military affairs... There is only one explanation, he is using strategy!"

Liu Jintang and Ling Jing said in unison: "It's strange!"

"Tell me the order, retreat ten miles away, set up camps, and build a pot to make rice!" Liu Jintang shouted loudly.

A messenger was a little surprised: General, will you not attack the city today?

Liu Jintang whipped his helmet with a whip: "Implement military orders!"

Looking at the slowly retreating Xia Army Brigade, Chen Ying couldn't help but smile bitterly.

As Ling Jing guessed, Chen Ying was indeed using tricks, of course this was also the method Chen Ying hated the most. If he had the strength, he would rather use the hook and sickle lances to form a cavalry wall and rush towards the enemy again and again, crushing the enemy into flesh. If he had enough strength, he would also be willing to line up the Mo Dao soldiers into dense Mo Dao soldiers, causing a storm in the enemy formation.

However, Chen Ying is actually very weak now. The sharpest knife in his hand, the hook and sickle lance cavalry, has actually been broken. Although the hook and sickle spearmen without war horses can also fight, their combat power has been half lost. Chen Ying didn't know if Li Shimin could invite war horses from Li Yuan. As long as there is a war horse in hand, with the sixteen regiments of hook and sickle lance cavalry in his hands, Chen Ying is definitely capable of stageing Li Shimin's myth.

It's just a pity that Chen Ying now has no horses, only cavalry soldiers. So in this case, Chen Ying can only use cleverness and suspicion to give Li Shimin a precious opportunity.

"The Xia army retreated, the Xia army retreated!" The Tang army soldiers cheered loudly. Li Xiuning, who was standing on Hulaoguan Pass, listened to the cheers of Tang army, and did not speak, and silently estimated in his heart.

"Your Highness Princess, you're so happy. Xia army retreated!" Feng Li and Wei Wenzhong said excitedly to Li Xiuning.

Li Xiuning shook her head and said, "This is really not a good thing. It is said that Xia Jun is constantly resting and fighting when he comes up, but it is a good thing."
Chapter completed!