The Qianshui plain is flat and stretches as far as the eye can see. The Tang army's hundreds of thousands of troops were arrayed there, and it looked like a black and white formation from a distance. Liu Wenjing may have been complacent because of her large number of troops, but she was unprepared for her surroundings.
When Xue Ju saw this situation, he was naturally overjoyed: God helps me! Li Shimin happened to be ill at this time, and he asked these two idiots to lead the army. How could the Tang army be undefeated? Xue Ju, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is astute and decisive, and immediately said to Luo Zonghui: "General Luo, you immediately lead your troops and horses to secretly go behind the Tang army. We will use the horns as a signal to attack the Tang army from front to back!"
"As you command!"
After Luo Zonghui left, Xue Ju turned to his son and said: "Prince, you lead the troops to challenge the Tang army. One is to delay time, and the other is to attract their attention."
"yes!"
Gaocheng City, inside the courtyard. Li Zhiyun was standing by the bed and watching the soldiers feeding his second brother the soup. Suddenly he heard Zhang Zheng calling him outside the door. He quickly walked out and said, "Zhang Zheng, are you okay?"
"Your Majesty, I just met an old acquaintance from the army on the street. He told me that Liu Wenjing led the army to form a formation in Qianshuiyuan to fight Xue Ju."
"What? They didn't obey my second brother's general order and stick to the camp?"
Maybe the two of them spoke louder, and the second brother heard all their conversation. The second brother pushed away the spoon handed over by the soldier and said in a weak voice: "Fifth brother, fifth brother..." Seeing that the second brother stopped drinking the medicine, the soldier had to put the spoon back into the medicine bowl, stood up and said loudly: " King Chu, King Qin is calling you!"
Li Zhiyun heard the sound and walked back into the house, and Zhang Zheng followed him in. Li Zhiyun walked to the bed and said, "Second brother, what's the matter?" The second brother coughed a few times, then gasped and said, "Fifth brother, did you just say that Liu Wenjing took the army out of the camp?"
"Second brother, Zhang Zheng just heard it, so it may not be accurate." Li Zhiyun was afraid that his second brother would be anxious, so he spoke lightly.
The second brother cast his gaze on Zhang Zheng's face and said, "Zhang Sima, is the information you got accurate?" Zhang Zheng hesitated, nodded, and said, "It should be accurate." He didn't dare to do anything important in the military. hide. The second brother was silent for a moment, then suddenly coughed violently. Then, he lay on the edge of the bed and vomited out all the soup he drank.
When Li Zhiyun saw it, he hurriedly walked over to help his second brother, and while helping him beat his back, he said anxiously: "Second brother, what's wrong with you? You must not be angry, your health is important..."
After the second brother finished vomiting, Li Zhiyun took the towel handed over by the soldier and wiped his mouth. The second brother leaned there and panted for a while, and then said: "Fifth brother, hurry up and get the pen, ink and paper." Li Zhiyun agreed and asked Zhang Zheng to quickly find the pen, ink and paper.
Zhang Zheng left for a while and found pen, ink and paper. The soldier found a wooden board and placed it in front of the second brother. Li Zhiyun spread the white paper on the wooden board, and then handed the brush to the second brother. The second brother was holding a writing brush in his hand and was tremblingly leaning on the wooden board to write a letter.
After the second brother finished writing the letter, he handed it to Li Zhiyun and said, "Fifth brother, hurry up and send someone to deliver it to Liu Wenjing."
Li Zhiyun took it and took a look and saw it said:
Liu Wenjing, Yin Kaishan:
Send the army back to the camp quickly, and kill anyone who disobeys the order!
Shimin
Li Zhiyun handed the letter to Zhang Zheng and said: "Zhang Zheng, ride out of the city immediately and hand this letter into Liu Wenjing's hands personally!" Zhang Zheng said he obeyed the order, took the letter, folded it, put it in his underwear pocket, turned around and walked out .
In Qianshuiyuan, Cheng Yaojin stood in front of the two armies. He was so angry that the leopard's eyes widened and his beard stretched angrily. Xue Ju's army is really like a cloud of fierce generals. The eight general managers of the Tang army went to battle and were defeated one by one. Now, he is the only one left. It's a pity that Qin Qiong is ill and is recuperating in Chang'an. Otherwise, how could he lose so miserably today? Now, only Cheng Yaojin can save Datang's final face.
Just now, after Qin Wutong was injured and fled back to his own army formation, Cheng Yaojin immediately drove his horse forward and galloped to the middle of the two armies without waiting for Liu Wenjing's order. The jade unicorn he stepped off was as irritable as him and kept spinning in circles in the open space. Cheng Yaojin pulled the reins and stopped his horse. He waved his sword with one hand and roared: "Whoever has the guts to come up quickly, I, Cheng Yaojin, will fight him for three hundred rounds!..."
Cheng Yaojin was cursing when he suddenly heard a long horn horn sound coming from behind him. He turned around and saw that there was chaos behind his array. Hey, what's going on?
In the formation of the Qin army, Xue Ju stood on horseback under the banner of the commander of the central army, surrounded by personal guards. As the horns sounded, he saw chaos in the rear of the Tang army. Xue Ju knew that Luo Zonghuan had launched an attack behind the Tang army, so he immediately drew his sword, raised it high and shouted loudly: "Pass my imperial decree, the whole army will attack!" The drummer next to him received the order and immediately beat dozens of war drums. The soldiers of Xue Ju's army shouted and rushed towards the Tang army on the opposite side like an overwhelming mountain...
Cheng Yaojin immediately stood in front of the two armies. He was waiting for someone to come up and fight him for 300 rounds, but he found that the other side's soldiers were coming up like a tide. Hey, what's going on? Didn't we agree to do it one-on-one? How come they swarmed? A group fight? Do you still talk about martial ethics? While Cheng Yaojin was in a daze, the enemy soldiers had already rushed forward. Cheng Yaojin had no choice but to wave his sword and retreat while fighting.
Xue Ju's army rushed to the Tang army's formation, and soldiers from both sides fought hand to hand and started a desperate fight. Because the Tang army was attacked from both sides, the formation was in chaos, and in less than a meal of tea, the entire line collapsed. Many soldiers fell in a pool of blood. The surviving soldiers no longer wanted to fight and just scattered for their lives.
Zhang Zheng left Gaocheng City and galloped for several miles when he encountered a large number of Tang troops fleeing. The further he moved forward, the more broken soldiers he encountered. Since the defeated troops blocked the road, he could no longer ride a horse, so he had to dismount and lead the horse forward.
Zhang Zheng stopped a escaping soldier, grabbed him by the collar, and shouted loudly: "Tell me, why are you running back?" The soldier gasped and shouted: "Defeated! The Tang army was defeated!" After saying that, he pried open Zhang Zheng's fingers with both hands and ran away in a panic.
Lost? Was the Tang army really defeated? Zhang Zheng didn't seem to believe it. However, the further he went, the more deserters he encountered. Zhang Zheng walked opposite them, like a boat against the current. In the end, he was so crowded that he could no longer move forward and had to stop. Zhang Zheng looked at the endless stream of defeated troops beside him. They abandoned their helmets and armor one by one and were in a panic. They looked so embarrassed that he sighed secretly in his heart.
Although there was no way to go any further, Zhang Zheng was still unwilling to see what happened with his own eyes. When he looked up, he found a small hill a hundred steps away on the right, so he led his horse and walked over it diagonally through the torrent of broken troops.
Zhang Zheng came to the foot of the hill, tied his horse to a big tree, and then climbed to the top of the mountain along the trail. Although this hill is not too high, it is the only hill within a few miles. Standing on the top of the mountain, you can see everything in the distance.
Zhang Zheng looked towards the direction of Qianshuiyuan, and saw that the dust was flying in that area, blocking the sky and the sun. Because the distance was too far, the situation on the battlefield could not be clearly seen, but countless Tang Army soldiers could be seen fleeing in all directions. They were like locusts, densely packed, probably no less than 20,000 to 30,000 people. This terrifying scene made Zhang Zheng's heart suddenly freeze: so many soldiers were fleeing for their lives. It seemed that the Tang army was really defeated.
Zhang Zheng walked down the mountain in a depressed mood, only to find that the red horse he had tied to the tree was missing. Needless to say, some guy who was eager to escape must have taken advantage of him.
Zhang Zheng had no choice but to walk back to Gaoshu City. After he met Li Zhiyun, he told Li Zhiyun the situation. After hearing this, Li Zhiyun couldn't help but frowned. Although he had little confidence in Liu Wenjing and Yin Kaishan, he did not expect that they would be defeated so quickly. Since Xue Ju's army has won the battle, the next step will be to attack Gao'an City. Since the city's defenders have less than a thousand soldiers, they will definitely not be able to defend it. Therefore, they must leave here quickly. Thinking of this, Li Zhiyun said: "Zhang Zheng, please gather everyone together immediately and arrange for people to carry my second brother on a stretcher. Let's leave here immediately!"
As soon as Zhang Zheng went out, Li Zhiyun heard someone shouting outside: "Zhiyun, Zhiyun..." He quickly walked out of the house and saw Liu Shuyi standing in the yard with the support of two soldiers.
Li Zhiyun hurriedly came up to him and said, "Shuyi, why are you here?" Liu Shuyi stood there with his arms on the shoulders of the two soldiers, looked at him and said, "Zhiyun, I was listening on the street. People say that our Tang army was defeated, is that true?"
Li Zhiyun nodded and said: "Your father did not obey my second brother's general order and led his army to form an array in Qianshuiyuan. As a result, Xue Ju plotted against him and lost the battle." When Liu Shuyi heard this, he was surprised: "How could this happen? What?" Li Zhiyun sighed and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Xue Ju's army will attack the city soon, and we are ready to leave here. What should you do? Otherwise, just come with us. ?" After hearing this, Liu Shuyi nodded and said, "Okay then."
"Can your legs help you walk?"
"With their support, it should be fine."
At this time, Zhang Zheng had already gathered his troops, and the second brother was also carried on a stretcher. The second brother was seriously ill and fell asleep all the time. Li Zhiyun did not wake him up, and did not dare to tell him the news of the Tang army's defeat.
Before setting off, Li Zhiyun asked a guard to give the horse to Liu Shuyi to ride, and the two soldiers took care of him. After everything was ready, he led everyone to leave the house and walked along the street towards the south gate.
Li Zhiyun was riding on his horse and saw carriages coming up from behind and driving past them. Most of the carriages were loaded with property. Li Zhiyun estimated that the wealthy families in the city must have heard that Xue Di and his son were coming and were so frightened that they took their belongings and fled the city. After everyone left Gao'an City from the south gate, they turned around and headed east, embarking on the official road leading to Chang'an.
