Chapter 167: Good people live for a thousand years without long life

Chen Ying subconsciously and almost instinctively reacted, stretching out his hands and arms to protect his head. Fortunately, Chen Ying's arm was carrying a huge impact force, and his handsome face did not touch the ground. Unfortunately, the fall was not light, and Chen Ying did not recover for a long time.

It was not until Li Xiuning ignored everyone's strange eyes and looked Chen Ying up and down, and found that he had not suffered any other injuries except for his severely swollen arms. Li Xiuning breathed a sigh of relief.

When Chen Ying woke up and saw everyone stopping from moving forward, Chen Ying shouted: "Why are you standing there? Chase! If you don't chase after him, Wang Shichong will flee back to Luoyang City!"

Luo Shixin lowered his head and sighed without saying anything.

Zhang Shigui stepped forward and bowed his fists, Qiqi Aiai said, "General, chase... he can't chase after him!"

At this time, Li Shimin spoke: "General Chen, Wang Shichong is lucky. We will take revenge next time!"

Chen Ying looked around and found that almost all the war horses were foaming at the mouth, and many war horses were crawling on the ground. The war horses would stand even if they were resting, but now many war horses lying on the ground, which shows the seriousness of the problem. In fact, from Chen Ying's consolidation of 18 groups of sickle and lances in Xin'an Pacification Headquarters camp, he rushed to Luoyang without stopping, which was more than 100 miles away. He then rushed from the west wall of Luoyang City to Longmen, then rushed to Longmen Mountain, and then chased from Longmen up and down to the present.

All the lancer regiments ran more than 200 miles in just over three hours. For the Hequ war horses equipped by Chen Ying's army, this was already the limit.

The war horses were exhausted and the soldiers were very tired.

Without Chen Ying's order, the Tang army soldiers began to clean the battlefield.

When Chen Ying's eyes suddenly showed that he forgot a plowing ox that had fallen to the ground, Chen Ying suddenly saw the scene in his head that Qu Tutong's army was defeated by Wang Shichong's fire bull formation, and the Tang army soldiers fled in a panic. At this time, even if they were exhausted, they could not rest. Once Wang Shiyun was given enough time, he could definitely collect all the surrendered troops that survived Li Tang's 100,000 troops, and it would be even more difficult to fight Luoyang City by then.

"No, General Qu Tu..." Chen Ying suddenly raised his voice octave and rushed to the Hook Scythe Lancers beside him, saying, "All the army gathers!"

The elites were elite. Although the Hook and Scythe Lancers were exhausted, they still quickly gathered when they received the order to assemble. Li Shimin looked at the Hook and Scythe Lancers and subconsciously compared the Hook and Scythe Lancers with his Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry. Although the Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry is already the most elite cavalry of this era, there is still a lot of gap compared to the Hook and Scythe Lancers.

"You can see the whole leopard with a glimpse of a glimpse!" Li Shimin looked at the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry. He asked Hou Junji, "Junji, how about you?"

"Elite, rare elite!" Hou Junji looked at the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry, like an old bachelor looking at a top beauty, wishing he could pounce on him immediately.

"Report to the general. The entire Yue cavalry army has been assembled!" Although Luo Shixin had a very good personal relationship with Chen Ying, at this time, Luo Shixin looked serious, raised his left fist to his chest, and stood before Chen Ying to salute. This man who was as stunning as a man was also very tired, his lips were already broken, either getting angry or lacking water.

Behind Luo Shixin, there were 18 regiments and 54 brigades in the army, and there were less than 5,000 soldiers. Although this battle was beautiful, the losses of the Hook and Scythe Lancers were not light. Especially when chasing Longmen Mountain, when the shield formation was built by the champion general Chen Zhiluo, they encountered the shield formation that resisted, and at least 200 Hook and Scythe Lancers fell on the charge road. The more than 4,000 soldiers also stood up straight. They all looked haggard and perseverant. Everyone's armor was covered with dry blood scabs. As soon as they moved, the blood scabs would fall.

Chen Ying smiled gently, his arms were swollen like their calves, and with a gentle movement, it hurt into the bone marrow. He took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and raised his arms to salute the soldiers.

In fact, Chen Ying was so tired that he couldn't straighten his waist. Compared with the quality of the soldiers in the army, his physical fitness was worse. But he knew that after more than three days of forced marching and combat effectiveness, the fighting will of the hook and sickle lances was still high, but his physical strength was at the end of his strength. If they were given time to rest, they would completely lie down and not be able to recover for a day or two. Now they had to work hard to complete the task of rescuing Qu Tutong before his will decline.

Although Chen Ying did not like Li Yuan's meanness and mercy, it was undeniable and he also disliked the internal struggle and internal friction of the Tang Dynasty. However, it was undeniable that he loved the Tang Dynasty, a dynasty that made the Chinese proud. Chen Ying loved the people who lived on this land. Because of his appearance, history changed.

It was obvious that Li Shimin's battle in Luoyang was only a small setback, but now it has evolved into a defeat. Not only was the entire Xuan Armored Iron Cavalry wiped out, but tens of thousands of troops were defeated in one battle. However, it caused a huge chain reaction. Once Wang Shichong won this victory, it is conceivable that Zhang Zhenzhou, Yang Qing, Tian Zan and others who surrendered to Li Tang before would probably repeat it. Wang Shichong could also take advantage of the opportunity of this great victory to re-establish his authority in the Central Plains, and then in the future, it is likely to evolve into the situation of Zheng, Xia and Tang three kingdoms in the north.

Li Tang was the strongest among the Three Kingdoms, but he was not strong enough to fight against the two. Once he stood up like the Three Kingdoms, it would be an incalculable suffering for the Central Plains and the hundreds of millions of people in the north.

As the saying goes, the cannon of his appointment must be finished with tears. Similarly, this is the evil result created by Chen Ying. Even if he bit his teeth, he must correct history to the original track and let Li Tang unify the north.

"I know you are very tired, and I am also very tired. I can't straighten my waist and can't breathe!" Chen Ying's face showed a habitual mockery look.

"But..." Chen Ying's voice suddenly raised eight degrees: "Our robes are still being chased by Wang Shichong's army, and they are still trembling under Wang Shichong's butcher's knife. Can we stand by and watch?"

“No…No…”

The soldiers roared.

Chen Ying nodded.

An elite iron army must not only be able to fight wars, but also fight hard wars. An elite iron army cannot be dragged down or defeated, and no difficulties can be defeated. After this hardship, an iron army may be born in Chen Ying's hands. The current hook and sickle cavalry regiment is an elite, but it cannot be called an iron army, unless they can complete their transformation through this hardship.

Chen Ying said loudly: "Now listen to my orders and remove his armor!"

The soldiers did not hesitate. They untied the ropes on each other and untied the armor one after another.

Li Xiuning looked at the scene and said in disbelief: "What are they doing? Are they crazy?"

Armor is the second life of soldiers. Without armor, archers will quickly lose their vitality and combat effectiveness. For example, Zhao Zilong entered and exited Changbanpo for seven times. Although it was a story of the Romance and was fabricated, in the ancient cold weapon war era, the generals had a much higher preservation rate than soldiers, because the generals were all protected by armor, but the soldiers did not. Usually we have read some information or historical materials, and a certain general raised up as many as one bucket of arrows.

In fact, if it is heavy armor, let alone a single dou, even two dou will be difficult to cause fatal damage to the generals.

However, Chen Ying is actually unloading his armor now.

Li Shimin's eyes became solemn. In fact, Li Shimin knew Chen Ying's intention, and Li Xiuning also knew that cavalry soldiers wore armor made of fine steel, which would increase the burden on the war horse. If the burden on the war horse was reduced, the war horse could run for a longer distance.

Chen Ying had already completed the armor removal with Zhou Qing's help. With Zhou Qing's help, he stepped on an empty war horse. Chen Ying rode on the horse and shouted at the soldiers of the army: "Soldiers, don't feel sorry for the horses. There are so many war horses in the Tang Dynasty. Today I will kill a horse. I will ask His Royal Highness the King of Qin to add two to you tomorrow."

Chen Ying turned his head to Li Shimin and said, "Your Highness, do you think so?"

How could Li Shimin not know what Chen Ying meant? Now he had already learned from Li Xiuning that Qu Tutong was defeated by Wang Shiyun's torch and bull formation. Now he didn't know how many troops would be left. If it was the second Qianshuiyuan-style defeat, it would have a huge impact on Li Shimin. If it could save the lives of the Tang army soldiers, it would be of course excellent.

Li Shimin smiled and said, "General Chen is right. I swear here. No matter what the outcome of this battle, the soldiers of the entire army will be rewarded with three transfers of military merits and an additional 100 acres of fertile land!"

When the soldiers of the Hook Scythe Lancer heard this, they immediately cheered. Many of the war horses of the Yue cavalry soldiers were their personal property. Once they ran away, they would definitely feel distressed. But if they exchanged two horses for one horse, what a good business, and there were an additional 100 acres of fertile land.

"His Highness of the King of Qin is mighty!"

"His Royal Highness Qin is domineering!"

Chen Ying originally wanted to take Li Shimin's army, but he didn't expect that Li Shimin instantly turned passive into initiative, winning the favor of the soldiers of the hook and sickle spear in one fell swoop. Chen Ying said loudly: "Do throw away everything you can throw away, and run the horses that can run can run, and fight with me!"

...

On the banks of Luoshui River, corpses are floating everywhere.

Looking down from the sky, Luoshui, which entered the dry season, was the river near the east bank, and the corpses of countless Tang soldiers were floating on the water.

On the flat ground on the east bank, there were broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and there were weapons, armor, staff and vehicles and supplies abandoned by the Tang army. The corpses of people and horses were stacked into mountains. The flowing blood flooded the new buds on the ground, and the smell of blood filled the battlefield. Not far away, countless wild dogs were roaring in the Shura field for food, and the beast's eyes were blazing with blood. More than a dozen vultures were hovering at the sky, preparing to dive to join the feast of this glutton.

A broken battle flag was flying in the distance, and the flagpole was inserted into a rolling cart. The grain bag on the cart broke a big hole, and the millet fell into the pool of blood under the cart.

In front of the flag, about a hundred Tang soldiers' corpses of different shapes were lying on the ground. At the center, a general half-kneeled on the ground with a spear in his hand, with more than ten feather arrows inserted into his body. A wolf-tooth arrow shot through his iron helmet and penetrated from the back of his head. The general's face and beard were covered with blood stains, his eyes were wide open, and he could not die with his eyes closed.

This person is none other than Huang Junhan, the chief of the military commander of Huaizhou, one of the eight generals under Li Shimin.

A large group of Zheng soldiers were cleaning the war horses excitedly, peeling off armor from the corpses of Tang soldiers, picking up weapons on the ground, and chariots put the armor stripped off the Tang soldiers on it, and soon the chariot turned into a hill.

The closer he got to the Luoyang war horse, the cooler Chen Ying's heart was, because he was already looking at the battlefield from afar, but he could not hear the sound of fighting and killing. Could it be that Qu Tutong had been wiped out?

Li Shimin's face also became ugly.

A slight tremor came from the ground.

Everyone's eyes revealed a look of alertness in front of the hook and sickle gun.

Zhou Qing whispered: "It's the remote detective under Wang Shichong's command!"

A team of Zheng State cavalry rushed from far to near.

A long sound of horns came from afar.

However, when these Zheng State cavalry saw Chen Ying's big waves ringing in the air, they were frightened and changed their faces. They hurriedly turned their horse's head and shouted in panic while running: "Chen Ying is here... Run quickly!"

"Chase!"

Dozens of horse-powered horses chased after him. There was no way, most of the hook and sickle cavalry could only run, but the horse-power would definitely not catch up with the scout cavalry under Wang Shichong.

Looking at the three Zheng army cavalrymen who were sailing away, Chen Ying remained silent.

I thought it was a pity, it seemed that I was late.

However, it is also good not to fight. At least the hook and sickle cavalry do not have to charge against the enemy's rain of arrows. If that is true, the hook and sickle cavalry will also suffer significant losses.

When Chen Ying led the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry to the battlefield on the east bank of Luoshui, he saw the corpse of the general standing at first sight. Chen Ying had only two bright and vivid eyes. Looking at the corpse of the general standing at the corpse of the general standing, he murmured to himself: "Who is that?"

"General Zhongwu, Huaizhou General Huang Junhan!" Li Shimin looked entangled and covered his chest and said, "It hurts so much!"

Chen Ying narrowed his eyes and sighed: "Huang Junhan died so wronged!"

With the arrival of the cavalry and lances, the Zheng army scattered in a hurry.

Li Shimin was furious and said, "Kill them all!"

Chen Ying said: "Save effort!"

Li Shimin was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"Living people are more important than dead people!" Chen Ying said: "The soldiers are at the end of their strength. Try to search and rescue the living people. The battlefield is being cleaned up here, and there are no living people."

Li Shimin thought about it carefully, calmed down and nodded.

Li Shimin looked at Huang Junhan's body.

Chen Ying sighed and said, "Go and grab General Huang's corpse back!"

At this moment, a fat head came out of Luoshui.

After seeing this, a cavalry cavalryman raised his hook and sickle and rushed towards the big head.

"Don't kill me, I surrender!"

Suddenly, the fat head saw the person coming clearly.

"Wow..." suddenly burst into tears: "Your Highness, help me!"

Only then did Chen Ying realize that the fat man was actually his acquaintance, Empress Changsun’s brother Changsun Wuji. Chen Ying couldn’t help but sigh: “What a good person doesn’t live long, and he will live for thousands of years!”

"stop!"

When Li Shimin heard Changsun Wuji's voice, he stopped the hook and sickle cavalry cavalry in time.

At this time, Changsun Wuji rolled and crawled out of the Luo River and crawled towards Li Shimin.
Chapter completed!