Xue Kui raised his hammer to intercept the Black Savage Dragon. The two fought fiercely and it was hard to tell who was the winner. The Black Savage Dragon was unable to advance, and the momentum of the attack was greatly reduced.
At the same time, east of Jingxing, the fierce battle between the 50,000 elite Sui troops commanded by Yang Gao and the 50,000 Tang troops led by Li Yuanji reached a fever pitch.
The dust was billowing in the wilderness, and the sky was filled with yellow sand. Hundreds of thousands of armies from both sides of the Sui and Tang Dynasties were fighting with blood and flesh flying everywhere. The rebels were shouting and their horses were neighing like thunder. The soldiers clashed and the sound of killing was loud.
As time went by, the balance of victory had completely tilted towards the Sui army. Most of the main soldiers of the Tang army were taken away by Li Keyong. The 50,000 soldiers and horses led by Li Yuanji also had many second-line auxiliary troops, while the 50,000 Sui troops led by Yang Gao were all carefully selected elites. When the troops are of the same strength, the superior will decide.
On the battlefield, corpses lay everywhere, and blood flowed into rivers. The left and right wings of the Tang army had been completely defeated by the Sui army. The Sui army continued to press forward from three directions towards the center of the Tang army.
But here, the Sui army encountered fierce resistance from the Tang army. The Tang army in the center was the most powerful main force among the 50,000 troops led by Li Yuanji, and there were also fierce generals Xin Yunjing and Lu Gu. Several attacks by the Sui army were blocked by their troops.
Yang Gao knew that this was just the last desperate struggle of the Tang army. The Sui army had now completely secured the victory. As long as the Sui army was given more time to conduct a few more rounds of assaults, the Tang army would be able to completely defeat the Tang army.
But Yang Gao knew that Temujin had already led his army to fight, and had already fought with Xue Rengui's men. Although Xue Rengui, Xue Kui, Geng Yan and other generals are all famous and fierce generals, Temujin and his subordinate generals are also outstanding men at one time. Yang Gao did not dare to be careless and was eager to defeat Li Yuanji and go to support Xue Rengui.
Under the center of the Tang Army, Li Yuanji's eyes were blood red as he stared at Yang Gao who was under the commander's flag on the opposite side. The unfavorable situation of the Tang Army made his already ferocious face even more terrifying. Reluctance and humiliation surged into his heart. He raised the horse in his hand and pointed it at Yang Gao, who was facing him, and screamed: "Yang Gao, the shame you have brought to me will be washed away with your blood!"
Looking at Li Yuanji who had fallen into madness, Yang Gao turned his head and looked at Tumen Pass not far behind him. An idea flashed in his mind and he came up with a plan. He summoned a messenger and whispered: "You Immediately return to Tumenguan to convey my will to General Lin Renzhao, and this is the arrangement!"
"According to the order!"
The messenger quickly received the order, rode away, and rushed towards the wall.
The armies of the Sui and Tang Dynasties fought fiercely for a while. Under the commander's flag, Liu Yanqing's eyes suddenly lit up. He rode his horse and hurriedly came to Li Yuanji. With a smile on his face, he said: "Your Highness, I am so happy, so happy! Yang Gao'er wants to win." Eager to move troops and horses to the two wings to suppress our army, his center was already very empty. The general thought that if His Highness could mobilize an elite cavalry to attack the Sui army's center with lightning speed, the situation would change instantly. . If you are lucky enough, you can even kill Yang Gao in one fell swoop!"
Li Yuanji had already hated Yang Gao to his bones at this time. When he heard what Liu Yanqing said, he agreed without thinking.
"Brothers, come with me and charge! Capture Yang Gao's son alive, and I will protect him as king in front of my father!"
Li Yuanji gave a long shout and rode forward. Chang Zhang pointed directly at the Sui army's battle formation in front and rushed out first. Six thousand Tang Army cavalry behind them, wearing bright armor, launched together and rushed out like a tide.
"What's going on? What's going on?"
Tang Army generals Xin Yunjing and Lu Ju, who had just repelled a new charge by the Sui Army, had not yet taken a few breaths when they suddenly discovered that thousands of cavalry guarding the Chinese army were whizzing past them, heading towards the Sui Army's position with great momentum. .
"What are you doing, Your Highness?"
Lu Ju's expression changed drastically. These thousands of soldiers and horses were their last reserve force. Without the support of the reserve force, they would not be able to stop the next round of Sui army's attack.
Xin Yunjing saw Li Yuanji's intention at a glance and said: "Your Highness may have seen the Sui army's central army spreading towards the two wings, and felt that the Sui army's central army had no defense, so he wanted to win with one blow!"
"Your Highness takes it too much for granted!"
Lu Gu's expression did not change for the better: "Yang Gao is an emperor. Even if the Chinese army is dispersed, the ones left behind must be elite soldiers and strong generals. It's not that easy to win with one blow!"
"He is the prince, how can you and I control him?"
Xin Yunjing shook his head helplessly, remembering the former Commander-in-Chief Chai Rong very much: "If General Chai was still here, how could we be in today's situation?"
"Kill me!"
Li Yuanji took the lead, slashing horizontally and vertically with the sword in his hand, and each thrust was accompanied by a roar from him.
"Ding dong, it has been detected that Li Yuanji has entered a fighting state. The force is +3. The base force is 85. The current force has increased to 88."
It is said that Li Yuanji's martial arts skills can only be considered above average. With the combat power of the Sui army, Li Yuanji would hardly have a chance to break through. But this time, the Sui army seemed to make way for Li Yuanji very deliberately. Wherever Li Yuanji went, the Sui army made a hasty resistance and got out of the way.
"Put Li Yuanji closer!"
Under the commander's flag, Yang Gao looked calm and stared coldly at Li Yuanji who was charging hard in the chaos, looking back from time to time.
On the high slope not far behind Yang Gao, Lin Renzhao, the general who was supposed to be in charge of Tumen Pass, was standing high. Behind him, ten heavy ballistas were lined up. The god's arm bow.
The God's Arm Bow uses tough mulberry wood as the crossbow, solid sandalwood as the crossbow body, and hemp as the string, which is light and strong. According to historical records, the God's Arm Bow is "a real crossbow."
Wanyan Zongbi once said, "When I was on the southern expedition, I saw the weapons used by the Song Dynasty. The most wonderful weapon was the divine arm bow, and the second best was the heavy axe. It was fearless outside. Now I have made it like this."
Although the God Arm Crossbow is extremely heavy and requires much more force to open the string than a bow, it has an extremely long range and can shoot from 240 to 300 steps. It can also fire several or even dozens of arrows at the same time. It has strong combat power and extremely high aiming accuracy.
When Yang Gao exchanged the Divine Arm Bow for the Luoyang War, the purpose was to strengthen the defense of Luoyang. But who would have thought that the Sui army fought fiercely with the Tang army at Hulao Pass most of the time. The Tang army outside Luoyang adopted a long-term siege strategy. Tactics, so this Cross God Arm Bow has never been useful.
Since it didn't work, Yang Gao never let it be shown to the world. He was waiting to use its super range and power to kill someone by surprise. He just didn't expect that the weapon that was supposed to be prepared for Li Shimin would actually be used on Li Yuanji.
"Little Yang Gao, come and accept your fate!"
Li Yuanji roared and kept urging the horse under his crotch. His red eyes seemed to want to skin Yang Gao alive.
"Signal!"
Seeing Li Yuanji getting closer and closer, Yang Gao's mouth curled up slightly with a sneer on his face. The flag soldiers behind him raised their flags and waved them. Lin Renzhao, who had been waiting for the signal, immediately shouted: "Aim, target, Li Yuanji, shoot!"
Whoosh whoosh! ! !
There was just a sound of bowstrings, and the first round of sharp arrows had already shot out of the air, shooting towards Li Yuanji at an extremely fast speed.
Li Yuanji was caught off guard and was shot through by this powerful arrow in an instant. Multiple blood holes suddenly appeared on his body, and blood spurted out.
