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Chapter 428: The Seventh Army is shocked

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When Yu Jin led the cavalry of five tribes to the battlefield, Li Jing actually arrived near Shanyang City almost at the same time as Yu Jin.* &nbeng.?L Li Jing, who originally planned to lead his troops to break the siege of the camp, saw that Yu Jin had arrived, and after thinking for a while, he asked Zhang Chengye to bring a thousand cavalry with a large number of town flags to meet with Yu Jin, but he did not rush to the battlefield.

On the battlefield, Li Keyong was always on guard against the 5,000 Li Jing's flanks. In fact, they were just one thousand cavalry led by Zhang Chengye. The real Li Jing, after he arrived at the battlefield, directly led his 4,000 cavalry to the city of Shanyang, which was only more than twenty miles away from the battlefield.

After discovering that there were only 3,000 infantry left behind in the city, and almost all were new recruits, and no generals were in charge. Li Jing had already decided to take the opportunity to take the city. Since Li Keyong and other generals of Shatuo Army led their troops to fight only twenty miles away nearby, there was no defense in the city.

Duan Shan took the special war capital cavalry and replaced them with the black-clothed black armored and black flags of the Shatuo people. He approached the city under the banner of coming from Shuozhou to deliver letters. The defenders opened the city gate without much effort. As soon as the two hundred special war capital members entered the city, they immediately killed the city gate defenders and seized the north gate. Then Li Jing, who had been waiting, quickly led 3,000 cavalry into the city. On the one hand, he specially sent 800 cavalry to surround the other gates to prevent soldiers from escaping.

Under Li Jing's surprise attack, the three thousand new recruits guarding the city were defeated before they could react. Without the command of the general, many new recruits surrendered directly to Zhen**. Originally, Li Jing was just planning to capture the city, but he didn't expect it to be so easy that it did not even attract the attention of the battlefield twenty miles away.

Li Zhen suggested that he simply disguise himself as a defender and prepare to yin Li Keyong. Li Jing was just thinking about it. He cleaned the battlefield. The soldiers of the town changed into the armor and uniforms of the defender, and took several officers guarding the city to the top of the city, with the daggers behind them pressed against their waists.

Things went smoothly as expected. With Yu Vin's support, Li Keyong was unable to defeat the Tang army, so he had to withdraw his troops and return to the city.

Ten thousand Shatu soldiers returned to the city, and the front army was Xue Zhiqin, one of the seven generals of Yunzhou, and brought three thousand cavalrymen. When they arrived at the city, everything was as usual. The city gate was closed, and the Shatu people were black flags inserted in the city, and the soldiers on the city were basking in the sun lazily. Everything was normal. Even Xue Zhiqin saw Shi Shoushun, who was left behind, standing on the top of the city, smiling at him.

Just after a big battle but failed to win the final victory, Xue Zhiqin looked so tired and heavy that he didn't notice Shi Shoushun's smiling face, the corners of his mouth were constantly twitching, and his eyes were also looking at him. Unfortunately, Xue Zhiqin saw nothing.

Now he just wants to return to the city early, take a hot shower, change into the bloody clothes, and eat a bowl of hot mutton soup. If there is another pot of horse nai wine, it is the best.

Since they had just left Shanyang City for less than a day, after arriving at the city, even the always-sharp Shatuo cavalry could not help but relax. The continuous journey and battles made them exhausted. At this time, they retreated from the battlefield and were about to enter the city. Everyone had no sense of jingoism. Their weapons had been sheathed, and the team was loose and spanning, and there was no formation.

Three thousand front troops broke into the city like this. Seeing that his eyes and small movements failed to attract Xue Zhiqin's attention, Shi Shoushun on the city was worried. (This chapter was uploaded by netizens &nb) When he saw that the front troops had completely entered the city and the central army was about to enter the city, Li Keyong's loyal subordinate finally ignored his life and shouted to the bottom: "Don't come in, there is an ambush."

Halfway through his words, the town behind him had already changed his face and stabbed him to death.

However, his voice had already been shouted out, and many Shatu people under the city heard it, causing chaos. Li Jing, who was standing on the top of the city, made a quick decision and immediately ordered the city gate to be blocked.

The stone that had been prepared was immediately smashed down, and soon blocked the city gate, and divided the front and central and rear troops. Li Jing originally wanted to trick Li Keyong into the city, but now he can only block the three thousand front troops in the city.

"There is an ambush!" Xue Zhiqin's face changed drastically. As soon as she shouted, Zhou Dewei had already penetrated his throat with one arrow. Xue Zhiqin's hand blocked his throat, but he could not say anything. Only a leaky sound was made in his throat. Then he fell directly from his horse and was trampled by the chaotic Shatuo soldiers.

"Shoot the arrow!" Zhou Dewei fired the first arrow, and the cavalrymen who had already ambushed the roofs near the city gate and the city gates, as well as the shops, set off their bows and attacked them.

Rows of dense archers appeared on the top of the city, and arrows poured over the unprepared Shatuo troops like rain. For a moment, people flipped over and horses, and suddenly blocked the city gate cut the Shatuo army into two sections that could not be matched. The front army lost Xue Zhiqin's command and became a mess.

The town was constantly pouring out from the roofs, shops, houses, and above the city, and from the hidden soldiers, pouring dense rain of arrows to the three thousand Shatuo front troops trapped in the city.

The Shatuo cavalry was very strong, but they were trapped in a small street at this time. They wanted to rush, but Zhenguo Festival, which had been long for a long time, did not give them any chance. On the Chang Street, the Zhendong Army continued to rush out, dividing the three thousand Shatuo Army on the Sheng Street into countless small sections. At this time, countless horses made of pointed wooden stakes were dragged out one by one, blocking various intersections.

The Shatuo cavalry completely lost the advantage of galloping and circling and were forced into small battle groups, but facing arrows from all directions, they could only fall down one by one.

Li Keyong, who was outside the city, had a blue veins on his face and ordered him to attack the city, trying to regain the city and rescue his subordinates.

But no matter how strong the Shatu people were, they could not fly to the city. The seven thousand tired Shatu people faced the city guarded by Li Jing. Although they desperately launched several waves of attacks, they only left piles of corpses in the end.

After about half an hour of rushing, the shouts of killing in the city were getting weaker and weaker. Li Keyong understood that Xue Zhiqin and the three thousand cavalry were probably gone. At this time, he woke up and looked at the Shatuo cavalry that was still attacking the city wall like suicide. He felt bleeding in his heart. He quickly stopped his subordinates. The other Shatuo generals also knew it. Li Siyuan and Li Sizhao were still awake. But he also held a trace of luck in breaking through the city gate to rescue the front army.

But now, there is no trace of luck. For this trace of luck, they have paid more than 300 riders.

"Let's go! Go back to Jincheng!" Li Keyong finally remembered the words of his wife Liu. No matter how hard he fought, it would not change the strength gap between them and the Tang Dynasty. Mayi was lost, Shuozhou City was lost, and with the losses from the attack on the Tang army, he lost nearly 10,000 people in these battles. Among them was his jingrui cavalry. In addition, the 6,000 jingruises who had his father killed in the jingrui city, there were not many Shatuo warriors.

At this time, Li Keyong finally showed his heroic nature. He left without hesitation. The remaining 6,000 Shatuo cavalry left all the way north and headed straight for Jincheng.

After losing Li Keyong's request for help, the town in the city was completely turned into a turtle in the jar. The town closed the door and beat dogs, and used horse resistance, shields, bows and arrows to completely restrain the three thousand Shatuo Jing's sharp cavalry, divided the encirclement and suppression. The Shatuo cavalry completely lost their maneuver to dominate. In the end, they could not even pull a cushion. Li Jing was not in a hurry at all, but only ordered the slow encirclement and killing, not in a hurry, and was determined to keep safety first.

The entire army of the three thousand Shatuo front troops were killed in battle, and none surrendered, showing their fierceness. Li Jing admired these people very much, but after admiring them, Li Jing still ordered all the leaders of the Shatuo people to behead them without mercy, and then sent people to report the victory to Zheng Congxian and the others in the camp.

In the Tang army camp, after Zheng Cong-yi and Yu Van met, they realized that although Li Jing's banner had arrived, Li Jing sent only a thousand cavalry, and he did not participate in the battle from beginning to end. Li Jing himself did not come at all. He and his four thousand cavalry were still unknown.

In this regard, some generals believed that Li Jing was deliberately sitting in the mountains and watching the tiger fight, not saving his life, and deliberately avoiding the battle, and preserving his strength. Of course, some people said that although Li Jing's thousand cavalry did not participate in the war, they bluffed their flags, but they kept making Shatuo people divided their troops to guard against each other, which played a role in hindering the production.

But when talking about where Li Jing is now, no one can tell.

"When I came, Li Zhenguo had already led his troops to Shanyang not far away." Zhang Chengye had to answer honestly in the face of Qizhen Jieshuai's questions. To be honest, Zhang Chengye was also a little confused about what Li Jing was doing, and even couldn't help but wonder whether Li Jing was deliberately avoiding fighting to preserve his strength.

The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment, and suddenly someone reported it outside the account.

"Report to the Grand Marshal, Li Zhenguo's messenger arrived!"

"After the war is over, his messenger has arrived. Did he have been here before watching us fight?" Li Zong, a Yicheng Army, whispered in dissatisfaction. Although Yu Yan came to help in this battle, he finally saved the camp from defeat. However, after this battle, his Yicheng Army had only 800 people left, and the losses were extremely heavy. Therefore, he was very dissatisfied with Li Jing, who was here but did not come to help.

The person who came to deliver the letter was Li Jing's eldest disciple Liu Xun, and the generals and generals knew Li Jing's six disciples.

Zheng Cong-sei asked: "Where is Li Zhenguo now?"

Liu Xun straightened his chest and replied loudly in the unfriendly eyes of everyone: "Reply to the general's words, after Deputy Envoy Li divided his troops to come, he personally led 4,000 cavalry to raid Shanyang City in one fell swoop, sent soldiers to disguise themselves as Shatuo Army from Shuozhou, tricked the city gate and seized Shanyang City, and annihilated the three thousand defenders in the city. Just now, our army disguised as soldiers guarding the city, lured Li Ke to enter the city with three thousand cavalry, and then closed the city to annihilate. Li Ke Yong attacked the city for a while, threw hundreds of corpses, and had already retreated to the north."

When they heard this news, all the generals and generals in the account were shocked on the spot.

Their tens of thousands of infantry and more than 10,000 cavalry to assist, totaling more than 50,000 soldiers and horses. They fought against Li Keyong for nearly a day and a night before finally annihilated Li Keyong's five thousand soldiers. However, their casualties were paid more than 10,000. In addition to the previous battle, the battle under Shuozhou City, Li Keyong attacked the camp and burned food and grass, and then the battle last night to today. After three battles, in addition to Li Jing's 20,000 soldiers and horses, half of the other 60,000 soldiers and horses lost nearly 30,000 soldiers. But their results in the three battles were just killing about 7,000 Shatuo soldiers.

Now Li Jing has only four thousand people in his hands. Not only did he capture Shanyang City, he even annihilated 6,000 enemies, including three thousand Li Keyong's Jing Ruishatuo cavalry.

It was simply unbelievable, but Li Jing could not lie about military merits in such a thing, because he could know clearly without a random investigation. Then, this is the fact, but this fact is really amazing and shocking.

In the big tent, it was just said that Li Jing did not come to the battle. Those who were deliberately conserving their strength could not speak at once. Before, tens of thousands of troops could not capture Shuozhou City, but now Li Jing easily took Shuozhou City. Although this was because they fought with Li Keyong and all the soldiers and generals in the city were sent out, Li Jing succeeded, but no matter what, Shuozhou City was captured by Li Jing, and more than 6,000 soldiers and horses were destroyed by Shatuo people.

Zheng Cong-sei was still shocked, but Cui Anqian had already grown up and laughed loudly: "Although Li Zhenguo is young, he has the style of a famous general. This battle is good. Even if Deputy Envoy Li participated in the war, the role played is not very big, not to mention that his flag has actually played the same effect, greatly restraining part of the troops of the Shatu people on the battlefield. Now Li Zhenguo directly took Shanyang City and annihilated more than 6,000 Shatu people and had vitality. This choice is quite wise. Fight well, fight too well."

Cui Anqian made such a statement, and Yu Yan naturally had to speak for his disciples. He nodded with a smile: "Ji Yu fought well in this battle. After Shanyang City, he not only took down a fortress of the Shatu people, but also wiped out so many Shatu soldiers. More importantly, he obtained the food and supplies of the Shatu people in the city. Now we have more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to eat."

Zheng Congxian also thought of the problem of food at this time. Yes, their food and grass had been burned. They were still hungry this day and night. Yu Yan returned to the rescue and did not bring any food at all. If Li Jing had not taken down Shuozhou City, even if they temporarily repelled Li Keyong, as long as Li Keyong hid in the city and spent a few days with them, their tens of thousands of troops would have collapsed without attacking.

"Cui Shuai and Yu Shuai are right. In this battle, Li Zhenguo's choice was extremely correct. Li Zhenguo should be the first to make a contribution to this battle. He saved our defeat and helped us lock in the battle." After saying that, he turned to Liu Xun and asked expectantly: "Shanyang City has been taken down. Can the food and grass in the city be taken away?"

Liu Xun was extremely proud at this time. No matter how powerful the troops in the towns were, what if the troops in the town were not captured Shanyang City and forced Li Keyong to flee north, the troops in the seven towns could only last for three days. With a smile, he shouted: "Please rest assured, Shanyang City is the capital of Shuozhou, and one of the three cities that Li Keyong worked hard to manage, and a large amount of grain was stored in the city. After our army captured Shanyang City, a lot of grain in the city was protected, with enough 100,000 stones of grain!"

"100,000 shi?" Zheng Cong-si exclaimed. With so much food, those who have been in half a year do not have to worry about the supply of food.

Liu Xun bowed to Zheng Congxian and others again: "Li Zhenguo has asked someone to prepare the army's supper. Now I would like to ask all the generals and the soldiers of each town to move their troops to Shuozhou City!"
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