After a day's journey, more than a hundred people arrived at Zaoqiang, the junction of Jizhou and Beizhou.
Liu Heitai raised his troops twice, and the general route was from north to south, conquering Dingzhou, Shenzhou, Jizhou, and Xingzhou, with the ultimate goal of capturing Luocheng.
The area around Dezhou and Cangzhou was often where the old troops raised troops to respond, and was not the area where Liu Heitai's main force was entrenched.
Therefore, although Zaoqiang is still affiliated with Jizhou, it is in the southeast corner of Jizhou, not far from Dezhou. There are few wars and it is relatively peaceful.
They found a place to stay in Zhuangzi outside the city. Su Dingfang was a local, so he naturally had such channels. Li Shan took the initiative to ask someone to hire a well-known doctor in the city.
In the end... Su Dingfang watched speechlessly as the doctor saluted Li Shan solemnly, kept saying that this was the magic skill of healing the bones of the living dead, and hesitantly revealed that he wanted to worship Li Shan as his teacher.
Li Shan sent the doctor away with satisfaction... What a good person. Through him, Su Dingfang would understand how serious this favor was.
There was no words for a night, and on the next day everyone continued to set off south, crossing the border between the two continents, and heading southwest.
"Be careful, you little bastard..." Li Shan pointed at Fan Shiyi curiously, "Hey, have your clothes been mended?"
Fan Shiyi is a scout in the army. He has been under Guo Pu these days. He encountered Turks yesterday and was shot with two arrows while escaping. Fortunately, he ran fast and the distance was far. It was only slightly penetrated, but his clothes were stabbed with a big hole. .
"Someone fixed it for him last night." Zhu Ba said in an envious tone: "He's very clever..."
Li Shan chuckled and said, "Remember, you're such a skinny guy and you're not married yet... you're so lucky."
As he spoke, Li Shan turned around and looked around. Among the more than 80 people who went south with Su Dingfang this time, there were more than 20 female family members. Among them, there were eight or nine young ladies who had not left the court. I don't know which one they were?
Su Dingfang, who was waving his whip on the carriage, smiled and asked, "Brother Li, why do you call him Pihou? What's the allusion?"
Yesterday, the doctor's diagnosis and treatment showed that the mother was no longer in fear of her life. She only needed to rest for a few days to recover. Su Dingfang was in a good mood. In fact, he was only twenty-three years old. Although he had a stable temperament, he was not taciturn.
Li Shan snorted. Fan Shiyi was very active and moved almost all the time... It was a bit like when Li Shan was a child, he remembered that his grandfather in his previous life scolded him for being a monkey.
After thinking about it, Li Shan said seriously: "I was born in Lingnan. I once saw an ape in the mountains. It was not knocked down by an arrow, but it still climbed and jumped like flying. Later, I caught it with a fishing net. Its skin was extremely thick, and it was difficult for ordinary arrows to penetrate. The mountain People call it skin monkey."
"Yesterday, I saw Fan Shiyi was hit by an arrow and couldn't hit him, so I blurted out."
Su Dingfang was still a young man after all, and he was dubious, "There are still such strange things in the world. Are they the strange beasts described in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas"?"
Ling Bo, who was on the other side of the carriage, was a man of spirit. He glanced at Li Shan, who was holding back his laughter, and said loudly: "I still remember the battle at Hulao Pass. The cavalry of the Xuanjia Army broke the formation, and the King of Huaiyang was armed with hundreds of arrows. When Is he the King of Monkeys?"
This old man is really annoying. Ever since he was speechless yesterday, he has always tried every means to make things difficult for me... Li Shan glanced sideways, but he couldn't help but think about Li Daoxuan.
At this moment.
At the junction of Jizhou and Shenzhou, Li Daoxuan, who was wearing Mingguang armor, held a horse spear and urged his horse to slowly move out of the battle. Behind him were five thousand elite cavalry who were ready to go.
Li Daoxuan, who took Li Shimin as his idol and example, never thought of letting anyone else lead the cavalry into the battle. He looked back and glanced behind him. Although he couldn't see it, he knew that Xue Zhong, the marching commander, should be beside Shi Wanbao.
Taking a deep breath, Li Daoxuan stopped looking back.
Liu Heitao's banner could not be seen on the opposite side, and the front formation was all composed of Turkic cavalry, and the formation was loose. However, Li Daoxuan believed that if the front formation was broken, he would be able to see Liu Heitai's main force, and the Turkic cavalry would not fight to the death.
Li Daoxuan raised his horse high, and someone behind the formation shouted an order. The naked man beat the drum with both hands, and the fine cavalry of the Tang army moved forward slowly.
It's a headwind, Li Daoxuan thought for no reason, and it rained yesterday and there was mud everywhere on the ground.
The right time, the right place, the right people...
Li Daoxuan desperately threw those thoughts out of his mind...
Although he was young, Li Daoxuan had rich experience in rushing into battle. After estimating the distance, he lowered his head, put down his mask, and clamped his legs firmly on the horse's belly.
The Turks on the opposite side unleashed a shower of arrows without any surprise, but the cavalrymen in the front line of the Tang Army's fine cavalry all wore iron armor such as Mingguang Armor and Shanwen Armor, and the knights' heads were covered with iron helmets.
Li Daoxuan silently calculated in his mind, occasionally looking up to confirm the distance, and heard various chaotic hitting sounds in his ears.
The crisp ones are iron arrowheads; the dull ones are bone arrowheads.
The slightly loud sound was from the arrow hitting the helmet; the short sound was from the arrow hitting the deck of the Mingguang Armor.
Speed up, speed up!
It's fast, speed up!
There was a loud thunderclap, and the strong horse under Li Daoxuan's crotch accelerated again, and sprang out as fast as lightning. The horse's shaft suddenly poked out like a poisonous dragon, and pierced the chest of a Turkic cavalryman.
The horse's speed did not slow down. Li Daoxuan increased his strength with a spear in both hands. He held a corpse on his head and knocked several Turkic cavalry from behind. Then he lifted the corpse high.
There was a huge commotion all around, and the sound of bows like thunder could be heard. Dozens of feather arrows were shot at him. Li Daoxuan was not afraid. He only used his arm with a gauntlet to slightly block it. With his other hand, he leveled the horse's horse and stretched his legs. , rushing towards the horse.
It seemed that in just an instant, Huaiyang King Li Daoxuan had already broken through the formation. The guards behind him shouted loudly and accelerated to catch up to protect the two wings.
The first wave of cavalry was divided into two groups, one followed Li Daoxuan and penetrated longitudinally, while the other kept the general direction and tore the small gap horizontally.
The second wave of cavalry was led by the guard Liu Jun, and they smoothly entered the formation through the opening made by the first wave of cavalry.
Standing on the hill in the distance, Liu Heitai sneered, feeling quite proud. Three defeats in three battles had indeed led to the main force of the Tang army. As long as he defeated the enemy in one fell swoop, the land of Shandong would be in his hands.
Liu Heitai was known for his cunning. This plan also took a lot of effort to convince the Turks who were bent on plundering, so that he could successfully lure out the main force of the Tang army.
Moreover, Liu Heitai also learned the lessons from the Luoshui and Hulaoguan battles this time. Although he had strong troops, he did not spread his troops horizontally. Instead, he deployed heavy troops in the middle. As long as the Tang army could not break out of the formation, , must be locked in the formation.
"Damn it!" Liu Heitai was tall and had good eyesight. He saw the Turkic cavalry in front of him scattering to avoid them.
The Turkic cavalry were willing to fight in the front line because Liu Heitai agreed to very harsh conditions, but who would have thought that this group of Turks would not work hard.
Li Dao
This is a good sign, which means that the Turkic soldiers will indeed not try their best to help Liu Heita.
After the hundreds of Turkic cavalry in front dispersed, what was revealed in front of Li Daoxuan was a densely packed large number of soldiers, including cavalry and infantry, with a banner with the word "Liu" flying high in the formation.
With a sharp shout, Li Daoxuan, who was densely covered with dozens of feather arrows, jumped into the battle without fear. The horse in his hand was already stained with blood. Thousands of Tang Army elite cavalry behind him accelerated in unison, and the thunderous sound of horse hooves was shocking. Terrified.
But soon, very soon, Li Daoxuan discovered that something was wrong. The horse's speed gradually slowed down, and its sharp momentum gradually blunted.
The enemy soldiers in front of them were too dense to kill, and the mud on the ground was too thick, which greatly affected the speed of the horses. The most important thing was that the enemy troops were placed in small formations with various obstructions such as giant trees and simple fences.
Surrounded by more than a hundred personal guards, Li Daoxuan reined in his horse slightly and looked around. Two cavalry were outflanking him from both wings. The Turkic cavalry in the rear gradually gathered. If they could not break the formation quickly, they would be surrounded by the other side.
Li Daoxuan was startled and turned around to glare. Where were the 20,000 Tang army infantry who should have set off long ago?
If the infantry took advantage of the situation, the Turkic soldiers who were unwilling to fight to the death would definitely not rush into the formation, and the two cavalrymen under Liu Heita would not dare to outflank them from both sides without any scruples.
Is it true that as Li Shan said, Shi Wanbao dared to let a prince die in the battle?
"Your Highness, Your Highness!"
Hearing Liu Jun's anxious shouts on the right, Li Daoxuan looked sideways, but was dazzled by the sun.
It was obviously a warm winter day, but it was like a scorching summer sun, making Li Daoxuan feel dizzy.
