Chapter 284 The Trace of Li Chengqian
Li Chengqian's orders were passed down without causing any disturbances on the front line. Several generals in front of the battalion stood like javelins, leading two thousand warriors from the Tang Dynasty. They looked at the enemy who was still marching here without a moment.
In this barracks, from several generals to two thousand soldiers and hundreds of wounded soldiers who were unable to stand up, were ready to die for the country.
In the Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin personally led his soldiers to practice bows and horses in the square in front of Xiande Hall of the East Palace in the first year of Zhenguan, he had already injected the spirit of iron-blooded martial arts into the bones of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.
Because of this spirit, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty dared to fight against the grassland ethnic Turks in the ice and snow, because of this spirit, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty dared to cross the thousands of miles of desert to attack Gaochang, because of this spirit, there was only a simple camp and two thousand soldiers facing the siege of ten times their enemies.
When Li Chengqian saw all this, he had no tears or sadness. He had only the passion in his heart. Why worry about the world with such a group of loyal and brave soldiers?
"Woo woo..." The slightly dull corner of the painting sounded.
Just when Li Chengqian was in a state of great excitement, Wu He led 20,000 Xueyantuo troops to stop the war horses 300 steps away from the Tang army camp and ordered the trumpet to blow the whole team.
Wu He suffered several great losses under the Tang army opposite, especially the other party had a weapon comparable to Tianlei, which made him dare not get too close to the Tang army's camp.
General Xue Yantuo looked vigilantly at the movements of the Tang army camp while the whole team was in full swing, because the Tang army took the initiative to attack and killed them back several times.
Now Wu He openly let them get the whole team in front of the Tang army camp, which really makes them feel worried.
Seeing this, Wu He laughed and said, "No need to see, the Tang army will definitely not dare to go out of the camp this time."
Seeing that Xue Yantuo's team did not enter the trap he had set, Li Chengqian had to continue sitting calmly.
The sun gradually rose and became warmer, and the sun made people lazy and wanted to sleep. However, in the Tang Dynasty military camp, no one wanted to sleep. Each of them stared at the enemy army opposite with firm eyes.
"Dongdongdongdong..."
The sound of war drums sounded across the street, and thousands of Xueyantuo infantry carrying scimitars and holding bows and arrows walked slowly towards this side.
They walked away very carefully, for fear that the thunder of the Tang army would suddenly fall from the sky, but they left firmly because Wu He had already given them a death order, and as long as they walked forward, they would be rewarded with a camel for each person to break through the Tang army's village, and if they retreated, they would be killed.
On the war horse, Wuhe cavalry looked at the attacking Xueyantuo army with a proud look on his face, and thought to himself: Tu Midu has always only used to torture and never knew Huairou, so how could he be so loved and afraid of him?
The enemy began to attack, but although it was slow, it kept moving forward without any sign of stopping.
Cheng Wuting, who was standing in front of the Tang army, was still expressionless. The two thousand Tang soldiers behind him were as unmoved as mountains.
"Dongdongdongdong..." The drum sounds are getting closer and closer.
Li Chengqian suddenly felt a little bored and looked up at the sun in the sky, and then looked at the tender grass growing on the hillside.
After a while, the drums suddenly stopped. Li Chengqian hurriedly turned around and saw thousands of Xue Yantuo infantry on the opposite side stopping forty steps away from the Tang army camp, raising his bow and arrow to prepare for shooting.
"Enter the fortification!" Cheng Wuting shouted loudly.
With Cheng Wuting's order, two thousand soldiers quickly walked into their respective positions like whirlwinds.
The opposite Lord Xue Yantuo looked at the two thousand neatly arranged soldiers of the Tang Dynasty disappearing behind mud walls within a minute, rubbed his eyes, and didn't know whether he should order the arrow to be fired for a while.
After a while, I was shouting "Release".
"Bang bang bang bang..." A burst of noises, Li Chengqian saw countless arrows flying towards the Tang Dynasty camp with the sound of air rubbing.
Then another wave of "bang bang..." A series of feather arrows hit or fell on the fortification where the Tang army was located.
Thousands of feather arrows were shot at a time and they did not hit a single Tang army, and the Tang army did not respond at all.
Lord Xue Yantuo couldn't help but widen his eyes. He was distracted and found that the soldiers around him had shot the second round, and were even preparing to shoot the third round feather arrow.
"Stop!" Master Xue Yantuo shouted with pain. What is the meaning of such useless work besides wasting it?
Xue Yantuo stopped and shot the archery, there was still no movement in the Tang army camp opposite the other side. There was neither the feather arrows nor the kind of divine thunder he had seen two days ago.
This made the commander of Xue Yantuo's front line feel a little nervous. They should have attacked while shooting arrows, but because they were worried that the infantry commanded by the Tang army's divine thunder would be stopped outside of forty years old. In fact, he had no idea that if Cheng Wuting had a catapult cart to throw gunpowder bags now, he would be able to blow them up even a hundred steps away from forty steps.
But people always want to set a safe point for themselves mentally, and this is how the head general of Xueyantuo Front thinks.
But now the embarrassing thing is that if he continues to shoot arrows in this safe range, he will not cause any harm to the Tang army in the fortification.
While he was hesitating whether to continue the attack, Wu He could no longer wait. He was very happy today, so he wanted to show his skills to let the beauty in his tent see that he was also very powerful on the battlefield.
Seeing the two rounds of arrow rain passing by, there was no movement in the Tang army camp, but the generals on his side did not attack the Tang army camp in one go, and he was a little anxious and ordered him to attack immediately.
The main general of Xueyantuo's front line did not dare to resist the order, so he had to order the army to divide into two teams and move forward alternately while shooting arrows. Of course, these feather arrows were still wasted in front of the fortifications designed by Li Chengqian.
Cheng Wuting stood in the fortification and listened to the sound of feather arrows falling above his head. He watched the enemy on the opposite side step forward again, his face still had no expression. He now needs to wait for the enemy to get closer and then send his thunder strike.
Li Chengqian also saw Xue Yantuo start attacking again. He was not worried about these attacks at all. If the opponent could take a few more attacks, it would consume the enemy's vitality.
"Have the person sent to deliver the letter to Su Dingfang come back?" Li Chengqian asked expressionlessly.
Liu Kui, who was standing beside him, said worriedly when he heard this: "His Royal Highness has sent three groups of people, and none of them have come back."
Li Chengqian couldn't help but frown and said, "Just send someone to send the news, why did he send three groups of people in a row?"
Li Chengqian forgot that this was the fourth time he asked. Every time he asked Liu Kui, he was going to send another group of people.
But when Li Chengqian heard that Liu Kui sent three groups of people to deliver the letter in a row, he felt a little uncomfortable, and felt as if he had reached a critical moment and needed Su Dingfang to come back to help his life.
Liu Kui didn't dare to say anything when he heard this. Xue Yantuo's 20,000 troops were all pressing forward. The military camp and Li Chengqian himself were in a very dangerous state. Even if Li Chengqian didn't ask, he would continue to send people to urge Su Dingfang to return to the rescue.
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Su Dingfang led his army northward and discovered the cavalry that Xue Yantuo followed. According to the original plan, Su Dingfang was to throw these cavalry away and directly attack the Zhongjun Road camp that was heading north. He brought three catapults and some gunpowder to break through the Xue Yantuo's camp with the power of gunpowder when the three groups of Xue Yantuo's middle army divided the troops. When they broke the Central Army heading north, they could protect Li Chengqian and calmly withdraw from the encirclement.
But something that made Su Dingfang depressed soon happened, and the Xueyantuo army following him also discovered them, but with nearly twice their troops, they did not attack them, but followed them not far or near.
In this case, Su Dingfang had to continue walking north. Just as Su Dingfang was trying to get rid of the other party, he suddenly received news from Liu Kui, and the entire Xueyantuo Central Army dispatched to block Li Chengqian's military camp.
As soon as Su Dingfang got the news, he no longer cared about anything else. He immediately dispatched 500 dead soldiers to stop the 10,000 Xue Yan cavalry behind him. He wanted to lead the remaining cavalry back to rescue Li Chengqian with all his strength.
But at this moment, he kept staring at the people from Xueyantuo cavalry behind him and said that ten thousand Xueyantuo cavalry went northwest like crazy, and did not even look at Su Dingfang's five thousand cavalry again.
Su Dingfang didn't know what happened to the northwest, but he knew that he would better return to Li Chengqian immediately now.
And within the range of Xueyantuo's northward Western Route Army, Xueyantuo's troops were searching within a radius of dozens of miles.
Just because the crown prince of the Tang Dynasty, Li Chengqian, went crazy and sent his main force Wang Fangyi to the East to support Liu Rengui, leaving only five thousand soldiers beside him, protected by Yuchi Gong to hide everywhere.
They must capture Li Chengqian before the other two armies reacted. As for Yuchi Gong beside Li Chengqian, although he was also a powerful general, he was old and had few soldiers.
In short, these people found various reasons for themselves to be lucky enough to capture Li Chengqian alive, and then searched desperately.
Chapter completed!