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Chapter 743 Decisive Battle (IV)

When Li Xian saw Cheng Zhijie gathering thousands of Yanyun spirit cavalry, he couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly. In the night, the thousands of spirit cavalry were waiting for it. Under the torches, everyone's face was very solemn. There was no doubt that they were ready to go to war at any time.

Li Xian looked back at the many generals following behind him and said helplessly: "It's just that you can cross the river at night to see. What else can you see when you mobilize yourself in this way?"

"The lord's body of a thousand golds should not be taken advantage of."

Changsun Wuji bowed and said, "I dare to persuade you, please think twice."

Others also advised Li Xian just refused: "If Gu did not come, if any of you were the commander, Gu would naturally let you fight with confidence. But since Gu came, it would be better to see with his own eyes. This battle is about to win the entire battle, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River will be settled, so he dare not engage in it carelessly. What is the general who knows astronomy and geography? It's nothing more than reading it and remembering it in his heart."

He waved his hand and said, "Everyone goes back, I only bring thirty or fifty personal soldiers. There are too many people and it is easy to be noticed by Li Shimin's scouts. Tomorrow at noon, I will cross the river thirty miles downstream here in the Han River. Xiongkuohai will lead troops to take over, and the others will perform their duties."

"Please go with General Luo, General Pei!"

Seeing that Li Xian had made up his mind, Changsun Wuji took a step forward and stopped Li Xian again and said, "The body of the lord is the life of the people of the world. The weight of the rivers and mountains is not as heavy as the safety of the lord. If the lord insists on going, please bring General Luo and General Pei. There are too few guards of thirty or fifty people, and you need to bring more elite soldiers."

Li Xian smiled and nodded, "Is it okay if I agree? Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan, you both follow me. Is this okay? If you bring more people, you will not go check but start a war."

Changsun Wuji wanted to say something again, and saw Ye Huaixue shook his head slightly at him. Changsun Wuji's heart moved, and then moved away from his footsteps: "Please go and go quickly for the plan of the world."

"I know, I know... I'm as long-winded as Du Ruhui."

Li Xian murmured in a low voice, then snapped his fingers, and the big black horse not far away ran over immediately, stretched its head and rubbed Li Xian's arm. Li Xian patted the big black horse's neck and turned over the horse, and rode downstream with a hundred sword guards and Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan. Xiong Kuohai did not dare to be careless, so he lit up the heavy armored Modao Camp and headed thirty miles downstream. In case of precaution, Cheng Zhijie transferred thousands of elite riders to the river bank to be on guard and wait.

After Li Xian left, Changsun Wuji quickly asked Ye Huaixue, "Why don't you stop your lord for such a risky thing?"

"I can't stop it."

Ye Huaixi smiled and shook his head and said, "Since the lord has arrived, how could he not go to see the terrain in person? This battle is related to the overall situation in the south. If anyone is replaced by the commander, I am afraid that I will make full preparations before starting the war. I have already transferred the secret spies to cross the river first. If I encounter all the enemy scouts, I will kill them. Then arrange elite troops to support me, and there will be no accident."

"I still don't dare to rest assured..."

Changsun Wuji sighed and said.

"You still don't know the lord."

Ye Huaixue said softly: "If he followed his previous personality, I'm afraid he wouldn't tell you. Then he crossed the river alone to check the terrain, and he would scare you again when he comes back tomorrow. What the lord has experienced is that one hundred of us combined is not as many as the lord. And if you cross the river to check the terrain, you really have more than tens of thousands of elite soldiers, so you still have time to see what? I'm afraid you will fight with the enemy when you cross the river. That's not to check, but to challenge."

Changsun Wuji was stunned, shook his head and said, "I still think that the lord should not leave the camp lightly."

Ye Huaixue smiled and shook his head, admiring Changsun Wuji's stubbornness more and more.

More than a hundred riders followed the Han River and walked down the Han River. During the day, the scouts had already checked where the water was shallow and could directly ride a horse to wader the water. When Li Xian and others arrived here, the secret spies from the Military Academy were already guarding them, and there were also guarding the river channel to prevent them from being discovered by the enemy scouts.

When Li Xian saw a tall fat man standing among the secret spies by the river, he couldn't help but be stunned.

"My dear Wan Yulou, please come to your lord."

"Why don't you sleep for a little longer?"

Li Xian said in surprise: "I went to see it in the middle of the night. I didn't wake you up when I saw you sleeping soundly."

Wan Yulou raised his chest and said, "I came from Jiangdu for thousands of miles and day and night, not to sleep! I came to serve the lord's worries, how can I sleep with the quilt?"

"This sentence has a bit of Wang Qi Nian's taste."

Li Xian nodded and said seriously.

Wan Yulou smiled and said, "Actually, I was driven out by Ye Jiao... Ye Jiao said that if I didn't come here before my lord arrived here, she would send me back to Chang'an City to be a servant who swept the floor and served tea."

"This is not a severe punishment... I am just a servant, why do you want to send you back to Chang'an City?"

Li Xian asked with a smile.

"Ye everyone said that there are not enough eunuchs in Tai Chi Palace recently..."

With a puff, Li Xian couldn't help laughing and spit out.

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Crossing the river at night is to avoid being discovered by Li Shimin's scouts, but checking the terrain is naturally impossible to do at night when you are like thick ink. After crossing the river, Li Xian asked someone to find a secret place to rest and wait for dawn before taking action.

Wan Yulou was responsible for protecting Li Xian for the first time, so he naturally did not dare to slack off. Because of his excitement, he had long since lost somewhere to him. It was like a chicken blood, and his small eyes were shining. Even if his butt hurt, he didn't know whether it was a psychological effect or the pad was good for use...

When crossing the river, it was actually not long before dawn. After about half an hour of darkness, the sky in the east gradually turned into a white color, and its vision gradually became clearer. Li Xian got up on his horse and took everyone to wander up the Han River. He saw a high slope not far away. Li Xian and others hid the horse behind the high slope and climbed up on foot.

Lying on the high slope, Li Xian took out his eyes and looked towards Li Shimin's camp.

Because there is still a long distance, even if you use Qianliyan, you can only look at the outline. Li Xian looked at it for a few seconds and turned his gaze to the river. There are two huge turns in this section of the Han River. Li Shimin's camp is not far from the first turn, and it is facing water on both sides, with open land on the north and the east. If you attack hard, you can only go from these two directions.

But if you want to attack from the northeast, the army must first cross the Han River... In this way, the initiative is still in the hands of Li Shimin. If the army was halfway through, Li Shimin led the army to attack fiercely, I am afraid that even if the Yanyun army is good at fighting, it will be difficult for them to cross the river.

If the army crossed the river and directly attacked Li Shimin's camp, the losses would be even greater. Because there were not many ships, if they wanted to cross the river, they could only build a floating bridge. When Li Xian thought of this, he couldn't help but think of the battle in which Yang Guang first conquered the Goguryeo people in Liaodong during the Daye period.

The elite soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty attacked the east bank of the Liaoshui River by stepping on the floating bridge built by migrant workers. As a result, the floating bridge built by Yuwen Kai was shorter than the east bank. The soldiers became targets for Goguryeo archers on the floating bridge. Several of the floating bridges rebuilt on the next day were shot off by the crossbow of the Goguryeo people's beds, so that the veteran general Mai Tiezhang, Qian Shixiong and others were trapped on the east bank of the Liaoshui River with hundreds of remaining soldiers, and all died heroically.

It's too difficult to get on the beach.

"If it is a strong attack, it is difficult for the men to cross the river. As long as the army moves, Li Shimin will immediately lead troops to attack... or let the cavalry go around Xiangyang City and attack the enemy camp from the north or east."

Luo Shixin looked at the terrain in front of him and felt a little embarrassed.

Li Xian shook his head and said, "It's too far to go around. If the cavalry fails to attack, the reinforcements will not be able to get over to support them. If they are trapped on the river bank, they will die for a lifetime."

"Cross the river and attack..."

Pei Xingyan thought for a while and said, "But Li Shimin has more than 200,000 troops, and the soldiers are almost twice as many as us. He has more troops and only needs to defend the river. He has won seven points before he has defeated the enemy in this battle... The loss is too great. Even if he crosses the river, unless he has formed a scale of more than 10,000 people, the scattered people will have no combat power at all. As long as ten thousand people cross the river, he can stand firm and protect the position, and the subsequent troops can cross the river smoothly... But it is too difficult to force 10,000 people to come."

“It’s not difficult.”

Luo Shixin pointed to the enemy camp in the distance and said, "It's impossible... Li Shimin only left the river bank with an arrow so wide. Even if you can come over, how can you arrange a formation? A long snake along the river bank? It's not enough for enemy archers to shoot as a target!"

"Will Li Shimin can't wait to take the initiative to attack the river?"

Pei Xingyan asked.

“Not for the time being.”

Li Xian shook his head: "Defense, the advantage lies in him. If he attacks, half of his troops are surrendered by Liang's army, which is not easy to use. But if used for defense, the combat power of the surrendered soldiers can be exerted."

"well……"

Pei Xingyan and Luo Shixin sighed at the same time, but they couldn't think of any way.

Li Xian looked at Xiangyang City further away, thinking about something.

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After half a day, Li Xian ordered to return to the camp and discuss it again. Everyone got on the horse and galloped to the agreed place. Although he encountered several groups of enemy scouts in the past half day, he avoided all those who could not be avoided. He killed all those who could not be avoided, but did not encounter any danger.

When they returned, everyone felt much more relaxed.

When the agreed place was more than ten miles away, a team of cavalry with about 200 people suddenly appeared in front of them. Without a banner, they met in an empty place. Both sides couldn't hide. Luo Shixin and Pei Xingyan looked at each other, Pei Xingyan nodded and urged the horse to move forward, while Luo Shixin stayed with Li Xian.

Both sides stopped at about a hundred steps apart, and they were obviously surprised.

It is Li Shimin's men.

The most surprising thing was not that he encountered more than 200 elite cavalry of the enemy, but that Li Shimin was among them! In this way, the commanders of the two camps met without warning. No one expected that such a thing would happen, so that everyone was a little lost.

Among the people on both sides, the leaders were all wearing black armor.

The same handsome face, the same outfit.

In fact, even Li Xian was shocked. But soon, he guessed why he met Li Shimin. At the same time, Li Shimin also guessed why he met his destiny enemy.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Li Shimin urged the horse to walk forward and clasped his fists at Li Xian and said, "Brother An Zhi, long time no see, how are you doing?"

Li Xian nodded, smiled and pointed to the other side of the river: "Just come back?"

Li Shimin nodded and said, "I've just returned... I'm going back?"

Li Xian said: "I want to go back."

"What a coincidence"

Li Shimin sighed: "Brother Anzhi came here in person, and I dare not be careless, so I crossed the river last night and went to check out Brother Anzhi's camp. Unexpectedly, I met you here."

Li Xian smiled and said, "It's not a coincidence, it's a coincidence."

When Li Xian said this, Li Shimin's face changed slightly. He recognized the two generals around Li Xian, one was Luo Shixin and the other was Pei Xingyan. These two were excellent in martial arts, and there was only one Yuchi Gong by his side. This was not the worst thing, the worst thing was... Li Xian's martial arts himself was extremely strong!

"Since Brother An Zhi has seen it, he naturally knows that this place is a little closer to my camp."

He looked at Li Xian and said seriously.

Li Xian nodded and said calmly: "You are closer to me."

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