Chapter 260 The sword is showing its edge

"Although Chen Ying did not have the idea of ​​seeking credit for the orphan and widowed mother, Mingzhou still needs to be fought!" Chen Ying said with a serious expression: "You don't know that the Turkic Khan led more than 30 cavalry and iron cavalry, and they are still moving south. Although the direction and purpose of the Turkic cavalry are unknown, as we all know, our Tang Dynasty must be the first to be affected. Now, we can only end this meaningless war as soon as possible, gather the strength of the world, and fight against the Turks together."

Li Shiji said in surprise: "How could the Turks send troops at this time? It makes no sense!"

Chen Ying explained: "We don't know the specific reason, but this war will definitely end as soon as possible. Otherwise, the country will be worried about destruction and will be for the people of the world and the Chinese people. We will not be careless and even more defeated!"

"It is true!" Huai'an King Li Shentong smiled and said, "Thank you for the grace of Lord Xia for not killing. If you capture the Empress and Princess of Xia, even if you give up this old face, you will ask for a kindness for them!"

Chen Ying smiled undeniably and said, "The King of Huai'an will repay his kindness, and he really believes in others!"

Li Shiji looked at Chen Ying and said, "Shiji has an uninvited request, so please General Chen fulfill his wish!"

"Oh!" Chen Ying asked in confusion: "General Li, but it's okay!"

Li Shiji said: "Li Yang City was lost in Li's hands. As the saying goes, you can get up from wherever you fall!"

Chen Ying said: "Do you want to take back Li Yang?"

"Not bad!" Li Shiji nodded and said, "Mr. Li wants to borrow troops from General Chen, so there is no need for too many troops. Five thousand troops are fine!"

Chen Ying pondered: "Although Liu Ya, the army of Liyang, only three thousand old, weak and disabled, if they are defending the city, it is probably not easy for 5,000 troops to retake Liyang. However, if there are too many troops, the general will be under great pressure. So, I will transfer four Zhechong Mansions to you, and then draw three thousand civilians for you to make up a total of ten thousand."

Li Shiji said happily: "Thank you so much for General Chen. If you have any usefulness in the future, please give me instructions!"

"You are so arrogant. You and I are ministers in the same palace, so why should we divide each other?" Chen Ying smiled and said, "Soldiers are more important than speed, and there is no need to delay!"

Chen Ying immediately issued an order, ordering Gao Yunquan to be the deputy general and assigned to Li Shiji's command.

Li Yang's location is actually very important, but after Luzhou fell, Li Yang became a little useless. If the Little Luzhou was still in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, then Li Yang would hold the important throat area of ​​Hebei. However, with the loss of Luzhou, there was no way to block all the Xia army in Hebei. Hebei could go west from Xiangzhou, pass through Linwu, and pass through Huguan, and arrive at Luzhou, which was closer than Li Yang.

But Chen Ying was too lazy to waste time in Liyang. First, Chen Ying broke the pass, one was the magic weapon of hot oil (actually refined gasoline), and secondly poisonous smoke. The key is that Li Yang is different from Yanmen Pass and Hangu Pass. This is not a simple military fortress. It is not a harm to any measures taken for military fortresses. However, Li Yang City is a comprehensive city, with many people in it, and whether it is incendiary bombs or poisonous smoke, it will harm innocent people.

Since Li Shiji was willing to conquer Li Yang, Chen Ying was also happy to be relaxed.

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In Jinzhou, Dou Jiande of Xia State was temporarily on the way. Although Dou Jiande tried his best to block the news, Li Jiancheng would not sit idly by. While making detailed rumors of walking, the Xia army inevitably learned that Chen Ying's army had attacked Mingzhou. Ling Jing smiled bitterly and said to Dou Jiande: "Chen Ying is really a difficult opponent. He gave us another surprise. Now our morale is almost gone, and even if we win the joy of victory in the three towns in southern Jin, it will be instantly offset."

Dou Jiande's expression was also very depressed. He played a good move, and when Wang Xiaohu was heading north in Luzhou, Cao Zhan headed west in Wuzhou, and he was in Yizhong Road, heading north along Jinzhou, and immediately rushed to Taiyuan and took down Li Yuan's starting place. However, at this critical moment, Chen Ying threatened Mingzhou.

As a capital of a country, the symbolic significance is greater than the actual significance. Dou Jiande really regretted it at this time. If he had not moved the capital from Leshou to Mingzhou, he would not have been so passive.

Dou Jiande smiled bitterly and said, "The situation is very unfavorable now. The soldiers are petitioning to return to Hebei almost every moment, but this time the assistance is easy, and it may be difficult to fight back to Hedong."

Ling Jing sighed and said, "The soldiers' wishes cannot be ignored. Do their best. Order General Wang to lead him from Luzhou to help Xiangzhou. If you can defend Xiangzhou, you can ensure the safety of Mingzhou!"

Dou Jiande finally had to accept this reality and ordered Wang Xiaohu to return to Xiangzhou with the direction of a fast cavalry of 800 miles.

Wang Xiaohu was surprisingly efficient and completed the deployment in just one night. He hurriedly led his troops, which were almost 100,000 troops, and rushed to Xiangzhou.

Wang Xiaohu's troops were working tirelessly along the way, but when he rushed to Xiangzhou, he found that Dong Kangmai told him something amazing that Chen Ying had arrived in Shuiye, and the rear guard troops behind the palace had also passed Zhangqiu.

Hurry up, it was too late in the end.

It took Wang Xiaohu three days to run over. This was not a cavalry, but an infantryman. It was not a good road along the way, and he had to cross a Taihang Mountain.

On the flagship of Chen Ying's Wan'an in Shuiye Town, Feng Li asked in disbelief with the information that Chen Ying had just handed to him:

"How is this possible?"

Feng Li became the leader of the Yingyang Mansion of the Sui Dynasty at the age of 17, acting as a grassroots commander and leading troops to fight. He was a leader from the commander step by step to the current position of the Eastern Palace Shi Yusu. He thought that it was very difficult to understand military affairs. If he gave him an elite soldier, it would not be particularly difficult to force five hundred miles in three days; but if he was given a new soldier who had not experienced the test of blood and fire, a forced army of such a strong force would be directly on the verge of collapse.

When Chen Ying followed the news that Wang Xiaohu's army came to Luzhou to aid, he was also as surprised as Feng Li's performance. If Dou Jiande really had such an elite soldier in his hand, it seemed that Mingzhou would not be that easy to attack. But then he thought about it, Chen Ying felt that it was not very strong. In history, Li Shimin used Xuanjia cavalry to defeat Dou Jiande's 100,000 troops.

At this moment, Guo Luo looked very strange.

Chen Ying asked: "Is there any hidden truth here?"

Three days and five hundred miles of mountain roads, let alone the soldiers of this era, even professional soldiers from later generations would run down with full arms, and I am afraid that it would be impossible.

Guo Luo whispered softly in Chen Ying's ear: "Master, there is nothing magical. Wang Xiaohu led an army of 100,000 from Luzhou to advance lightly. When he arrived in Xiangzhou, there were less than 8,000 troops around him, and he fell behind one after another. Without three or five days of effort, he could not hold the troops together."

After hearing this, Chen Ying laughed loudly, and secretly laughed at Wang Xiaohu as a wonderful person.

Is such reinforcements useful?

Three days and five hundred miles, and still untrained recruits, even if they grit their teeth and insist on running the entire journey, they may be useless and will not be able to come in handy in a short period of time.

Dong Kangmai and Wang Xiaohu together, Dong Kangmai had more than 5,000 troops and Wang Xiaohu had more than 8,000 troops. However, the only one who could fight with Chen Ying was the only one more than 5,000 troops under Dong Kangmai. At this time, more than 8,000 troops under Wang Xiaohu were trembling with chopsticks, let alone using a knife to kill him.

Wang Xiaohu smiled bitterly and said, "This battle cannot be fought, it's just a loss of heads!"

Chen Ying was simply a devilish existence in the hearts of the Xia army generals. The power of his hook and sickle lances was only famous, but the Mo Dao Army under his command was an indelible nightmare in their hearts.

Dong Kangmai gritted his teeth and shouted: "If you can't beat it, you have to fight. We are the only reinforcements in Mingzhou, Xia Guo. Even if we climb, we are still climbing to Mingzhou!"

In order to seize the Central Plains, Dou Jiande desperately overdraws the vitality of Hebei. Although there were more than 50,000 people in Mingzhou City at this time, almost 90% of these people were the families of civil and military officials or generals in the army. However, Mingzhou was almost the country of daughters.

Even if Song Zhengben wanted to arm the people of the whole city and defend the city hard, Song Zhengben included all the fifteen-year-old boys, and he could not even recruit 5,000 people. The most important thing is that even if he could recruit the young and strong people, it would be useless. After all, the Xia Kingdom was not as good as the Tang Dynasty. The generals who could conquer and fight were far inferior to the Tang Dynasty. At this time, they all led their troops to fight. At this time, the generals who stayed in Mingzhou City were Song Junchen, the only son of Song Laosheng, the former Huya Lang general of Sui.

But this Song Junchen is a typical tiger father dog. He is used as an embroidered pillow. He also looks like a military general. If he really fights, he really can't do it.

Wang Xiaohu roared with red eyes: "Fight, the dead bird is facing up!"
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