Chapter 171: Powerful team wins and loses

Chen Ying was in a bad spirit and had no choice. The entire Beim camp had 50,000 troops now, with low morale and full of wounded soldiers. In addition to the 3,000 personal guards of the King of Qi and 5,000 troops, the one who could fight was the 5,000 hook sickle lances. Although the King of Qi had more than 8,000 live forces under the command of King of Qi, Chen Ying dared not place his hope on Li Yuanji.

Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin are now in power. If Li Yuanji takes the opportunity to let go and kill people with a knife, Li Shimin will suffer, more than 30,000 wounded soldiers in the camp may not have a good end.

However, what is more tragic is that only the five thousand hooked sickle cavalry cavalry horses could not be collected, and there was no way. In order to rescue the defeated Tang army soldiers, Chen Ying's consequences of not saving horsepower began to appear. More than one-third of the war horses were exhausted and became the main source of nutrition for the wounded soldiers. The war horses in more than two thousand areas were already run away and were unable to adapt to the battlefield in the future. They could only act as slow horses, or pull horses, and spend the rest of their lives.

The tragic scene of the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry is such a tragic scene. It is definitely a lie to say that Chen Ying is not sad. However, despite the pain, Chen Ying does not regret it. After all, because of his persistence and overcoming all difficulties, he finally defended the Beimeng Camp. If the Beimeng Mountain Camp is lost, it will be a fatal blow to the Tang army.

"Chen Lang, go and take a rest!" Li Xiuning walked behind Chen Ying and looked at Chen Ying's tired look. Li Xiuning said with admiration: "I'll keep an eye on here, so you can go to bed with confidence!"

"I can't sleep!" Chen Ying shook his head and said, "Now the hook and sickle spearmen can still be fooled, but once... the consequences are unimaginable!"

Li Xiuning frowned: "I don't know when my father will send reinforcements!"

"Reinforcements, you don't have to think about it!" Chen Ying sighed and said, "We can't wait for reinforcements!"

"Why?" Li Xiuning looked at Chen Ying with a flash of eyes and said in confusion: "Chang'an is near, and almost all the soldiers and horses are here, but the Tang Dynasty is in Bashu, Yuanzhou, Jingzhou, Lingzhou, Hexi, and there are tens of thousands of troops..."

"Far away water cannot quench near thirst!" Chen Yingyan said insincerely.

In fact, according to historical records, Li Shimin attacked Luoyang for less than ten days. Dou Jiande led a 100,000 army westward and claimed to the outside world that 300,000 were timid. Li Yuan had the intention of timid battle. He sent Pei Ji, Xiao Yu, and Feng Deyi to take three imperial edicts to withdraw troops to demand Li Shimin withdraw his troops. It was Li Shimin who refused to give orders from the army outside, and withstood the pressure, led a side army to defend Hulao Pass and fought with Dou Jiande's army for more than a month. When Dou Jiande's veterans were tired, he then fought.

However, Chen Ying was not King Qin Li Shimin after all. He was considering how Li Shimin would choose to decide if Li Yuan ordered his retreat at this time?

As soon as the weather turned clear, Zheng's scout cavalry appeared outside the Beimeng camp. However, as soon as the Tang army's hook and sickle cavalry appeared, these Zheng's scouts turned around and ran away.

However, just after noon, outside the Tang army's Beim camp, 100,000 Zheng troops came slowly.

Looking at this scene, Li Shimin became worried, and Chen Ying's heart was also thrust into a mess.

If it weren't for the fact that the cavalry and lances were almost all abandoned, they really couldn't produce enough war horses, and Chen Ying wouldn't be afraid of Wang Shichong's 100,000 troops.

However, the current situation is embarrassing that Chen Ying's hook and sickle lances have no power to fight again.

Li Xiuning said coldly: "Old Wang Shichong is going to kill everyone!"

Cheng Zhijie smiled and said, "Your Highness Pingyang has something to do. Ruthlessness is Wang Shichong's style of conduct. He has nothing to do with Kuanren. Especially him..."

Speaking of this, Cheng Zhijie subconsciously closed his eyes and chased him. Wang Shichong killed Yang Tong, but Li Yuan also killed fifteen-year-old Yang You. Although historical records record Yang You died of illness, Li Yuan also claimed to the public that Yang You died of illness, but anyone with a discerning eye knew that Yang You’s death must be related to Li Yuan.

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On the watchtower of Zheng's central army, Wang Shichong saw that the Zheng army was afraid of hooks, sickles, and spears were like tigers, and he couldn't help but frown: "This group of lancers is really hard to fight!"

"It's just a fight of trapped beasts, it's no big deal." Zhu Can turned his eyes to the edge of the battlefield and assembled the hook and sickle cavalry and lances and asked: "Do you want the Heluo New Army to join the war and fight quickly?"

The Heluo New Army was an army that Wang Shichong used the surrendered army of the Tang army and the troops of generals such as Tian Zan, Zhang Zhenzhou and others to use weapons seized from the battlefield to urgently armed. The Heluo New Army had a total of 30 Yingyang Mansions, with thirty Yingyang Generals and 60 Yingyang Generals. This army belonged directly to Wang Shichong, and Wang Shichong was worried about the other generals, so he handed over the power of commanding the troops to Wang Xuanshu and Wang Renze.

Wang Shichong snorted: "Even if I want them to participate in the war, I am afraid that those goods will not agree. Their training time is too short and it will not be of great use."

Zhu Can said: "Although that said, it is not a solution to keep a stalemate. In my opinion, I will let the Heluo New Army attack. As for the result, Your Majesty doesn't have to care. Without anyone, you can wait until the end of the day to arrest Jingxiang..."

Wang Shichong was still a little hesitant. To put it bluntly, he really wanted to capture and kill Li Shimin and Chen Ying, and wanted to leave the credit for this killing general of the Po Army to Wang Xuanshu and Wang Renze. However, Wang Renze was better. The fifteen Yingyang Mansions under his command in the Heluo New Army were already similar, but Wang Xuanshu was really too unsuccessful. He couldn't even form a formation for so long. Once such an army was placed on the battlefield, the chance of mutiny was far beyond the chance of defeating the enemy. The most annoying thing was that the Tang army had just defeated a big battle and was almost wiped out. Neither Wang Xuanshu nor Wang Renze nor Wang Renze dared to face Chen Ying!

Zhu Can's eyes were flashing with anger, staring at the formation of the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry: "Yeah, I don't believe in evil. The ground is so muddy now that their war horses cannot run. Yeah, I don't believe that they can still run and bite Yeah, I'll give the order to order Zhang Xianwu's troops in the front camp to attack!"

Zhang Xianwu is a general under Zhu Can. He was originally a butcher and ate the food that was made by white knives and red knives. However, in the past, Zhang Xianwu killed pigs and sheep, but now he has become a murderer.

The sound of the trumpet sounded, and more than 1,500 spearmen under Zhang Xianwu were lined up in dense formations and launched an attack on the Beimshan Camp. At the beginning, the more than 1,500 spearmen were arranged in a neat manner, neatly arranged, as if they were similar.

However, when these Zheng army spearmen rushed to the hillside, the formation became loose and chaotic.

Looking at this scene, Chen Ying sighed and said: "It's so sparse, and he still fantasizes about winning in one battle? Go dream!"

Luo Shixin yawned straight: "I will teach them how to be human... This charge is not firm at all, it is too slow, and it is even a ghost!"

When the Zheng army's spearmen rushed into the Beimian camp with an arrow, Luo Shixin had not had time to take off his horse. A white war horse rushed out of the camp. The white horse was sitting on a general wearing silver armor. This general was none other than the King of Qi Li Yuanji.

The three brothers Li Jiancheng fought openly and secretly. Seeing that Li Shimin is defeated now, Li Yuanji was about to sweep Li Shimin's face hard. Just as he was watching the formation of Zheng's spearmen in chaos, Li Yuanji led 500 cavalry guards to rush towards Zheng's spearmen. Li Xiuning frowned and said, "Don't mess around with the three Hus!"

Chen Ying reached out and grabbed Li Xiuning's arm and said, "Sanniang, don't worry, Your Highness, King Qi will win."

As expected, he barely entered the range of the archery of the cavalry of Li Yuanji's personal guards. As a sound of sob battle horns sounded, the cavalry of Li Yuanji's personal guards pulled their bows and threw archery rain at the spearmen of Zheng. For a moment, the arrows were as sharp as rain. The guards of the Prince of Five Hundred Qi caught the spearmen of Zheng and shot fiercely.

The armor of the heavy infantry under Zhu Can is of good quality and can withstand direct hits from powerful crossbows. However, this vanguard battalion is a professional cannon fodder force under Zhu Can, used to attract the enemy's bows or traps. Except for a few generals, others, even leather armor, are less than 30% less than iron armor. Faced with the rain of arrows, they basically penetrate wherever they have been shot. What makes people vomit blood is that the horn bow arm of the King of Qi's personal guards has weak tension and the firing rate is super fast. In just a quarter of an hour, five hundred cavalrymen of the personal guards shot tens of thousands of arrows into the formation of Zhang Xianwu.

Zheng's spearmen were overturned, and the charge of the gun forest, which should have been in no way, collapsed suddenly. Zhang Xianwu roared loudly, wielding a horizontal knife to threaten to chop those spearmen who did not dare to rush forward. However, even if the morale of the spearmen was frustrated, no matter how Zhang Xianwu threatened it, it would be useless.

When Li Yuanji saw that he was shooting randomly, the Zheng army's spearmen collapsed. When the cavalry of the Prince of Qi resisted the impact of the Zheng army's spearmen, he couldn't help but be very motivated. He shouted to fight hard and launched a desperate charge. In just a short incense, he actually killed Zhang Xianwu's troops and retreated repeatedly!

Wang Shichong shook his head helplessly and said, "The Li family's soldiers are really tough enough. They are so brave to this point!"

Zhu Can laughed loudly at this moment. While laughing wildly, Zhu Can pointed at the battlefield for Wang Shichong to watch.

Wang Shichong looked in the direction of Zhu Can's finger and saw that the Tang cavalry, who were originally chasing Zheng's spearmen, suddenly, many war horses softened their hooves and threw the horse's cavalry to the ground.

Zhu Can explained: "Your Majesty, you see it. Now it is muddy on the ground and it is easy to slip. If you are not careful, you will fall off your war horse."

Wang Shichong was overjoyed when he heard this: "It's really a great Zheng!"

"And..." Zhu Can said again: "Your Majesty, please see, these cavalrymen who fought are only the bows and cavalry of the Tang army, not the cavalry with strange spears!"

"Not bad!" Wang Shichong nodded and said, "Do you say it?"

Wang Shiyun said: "I asked that day that the five thousand cavalry under Chen Ying ran from Longmen to Beim, and there were less than two thousand people. Thinking that they ran from Xin'an to Luoyang and then to Longmen, there were at least two hundred miles. In order to save Li Shimin's son, Chen Ying's son, did not hesitate to run for more than two hundred miles. No matter how good the war horse was, he would be killed."

"Is it a waste to run away?" Wang Shichong was ecstatic: "It's a good waste to run away!"

However, Wang Shichong thought about it and said, "I heard that Chen Ying'er is good at tricks. Could this be his trick?"

A solemn look appeared on Wang Shiyun's face and said, "It's really possible!"

"Hmph, is it a trick?" Zhu Can smiled disapprovingly: "You'll know if you try it!"

"Try it!" Wang Shichong was actually having a headache now. Li Shimin was defeated, but the remnants could not capture it for a long time. This was equivalent to a top beauty with a scar on her face, which was really ugly. Besides, Wang Shichong was also worried that Dou Jiande had sent troops now.

Dou Jiande personally led tens of thousands of troops to break through the enemy and headed west. Once Dou Jiande saw that Wang Shichong could not even deal with Li Shimin's defeated general, it would be difficult to ensure that Dou Jiande was malicious. Wang Shichong said: "Then try it!"

Zhu Can had the most troops and horses, and except for the 13,000 direct troops and 30,000 troops who were more capable of fighting, the rest were all brought to grab the heads. This is the cannon fodder unit, and Zhu Can was best at using cannon fodder to fight.

Even if the people are fired with a spear or a wooden spear, and then force the soldiers to rush forward. Even if they besiege a small city with only a thousand defenders, Zhu Can will use tens of thousands of people and horses when attacking, and tens of thousands of people are neatly laid out, rushing up densely. You can exhaust you even if you can't beat you to death.

In fact, from Jiaodong to Jingxiang, Zhu Can never use this trick to chew up the city or the generals who could not defeat it.

Although it was just a test, Zhu Can's work is not small.

Li Shimin looked at the tower and saw the vision wide open. He saw the Zheng army three layers of front and back. It was like three layers of waves, advancing layer by layer. The first floor was about 5,000 soldiers, mainly long soldiers, assisting archers. The second floor was about 2,000 people, but there were cavalry. The third floor was about 3,000 soldiers, mainly swords and shield soldiers, and there were hundreds of steps between each floor.

Li Shimin knew the truth and reality of the Beimeng camp. At this time, the Zheng army was strong and powerful, not comparable to the last time they surrounded Luoyang City. He was worried that this was not Wang Shichong's temptation, and he was ready to give Wang Shichong a false defeat and pretend to lose to attract the Zheng army to attack Beimeng camp. Before Li Shimin gave an order, he did not go out rashly.

At this moment, Chen Ying had led more than 900 cavalry lances to rush towards the Zheng army's vanguard.

Although the ground is muddy and slippery, and the war horses are prone to slip, Chen Ying does not want to fight at this time, but there is no way. The enemy cannot act according to their will. Instead, they seize the time to attack when the war horses cannot speed up.

More than 900 cavalrymen were careful and slowed down their horses. At this time, the speed of the cavalry was not much faster than that of normal infantry marching.

Zhu Can was so ecstatic when he saw Chen Ying so careful, thinking that he had the right bet.

The first to fight with Zhu Can was not Chen Ying's hook and sickle cavalry, but the personal guards of Li Yuanji, the King of Qi. Zhu Can rode a war horse, waving a one-horned bronze man's stylus, and inserted diagonally into Li Yuanji's formation from the front left.

"Avenge your shame, avenge your shame--"

Zhu Can roared angrily, clashing left and right in Li Yuanji's personal army formation, no one could do it. Li Yuanji's troops were divided into two, and the cavalry around Li Yuanji could still support it, and the other one was in chaos.

The real powerhouse is good at winning and defeating. The so-called good at defeat can be calm even when encountering adverse situations. Although the personal guards of Qi King Li Yuanji are good and their physical fitness are good, there is one weakness that cannot be compensated, that is, Li Yuanji's personal army has never fought a bad battle, and the Tang army has the upper hand, so everyone is brave enough to fight his personal guards. This time, when they encounter a strong enemy, they are easily frustrated. Once this flaw appears, the situation becomes even more dangerous.

After just one encounter, Li Yuanji's personal army was divided into about 200, just like butter encountered boiling oil, it disappeared into the Zheng army's formation in an instant without causing a wave.

"Zhu Can, the Fourth Master is fighting with you!" Li Yuanji also aroused the bloody courage. He waved his horse spear and rushed towards Zhu Can.

At this moment, Zhu Can's second-level cavalry gradually covered up, but this layer of cavalry was not in a hurry to enter the battlefield, but spread out and gradually formed an arc. It seemed that it was going to surround Li Yuanji's personal guards.
Chapter completed!