Tiantang Splendid

Chapter 5302 Leading you into an urn
Jian Duomo felt little hesitation and immediately decided to go up the mountain to support the military camp.

Since the garrison in the military camp has been able to hold out until now, it means that the Tang army's strength is not as invincible as rumored. Now that I have climbed the mountain and cut off the Tang army's rear, I can surely defeat the enemy in one fell swoop by attacking from both sides with the garrison in the military camp.

That was the Tang army, which roamed the oceans and was renowned throughout the world!
Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, has anyone in the world ever been able to win a single battle against the Tang army?
I will be famous throughout the world if I annihilate this Tang army!
However, while he was full of confidence and ambition, his soldiers were unwilling...

Although he had no choice but to obey the military order to climb the mountain, the low morale made the whole army listless and without fighting spirit. They walked slowly and dragged their feet, and in less than half an hour they had not covered five miles. Several times, he was riding along when he suddenly realized that he had taken the lead and was dozens of feet ahead of the main force. He was so frightened that he quickly reined in his horse and stood still to wait for the troops to catch up.

Enraged, he brandished his whip and galloped back and forth beside the troops, lashing out at the soldiers without any rhyme or reason, while repeatedly shouting and urging them on.

The officers and soldiers had no choice but to quicken their pace slightly.

When they finally reached the mountainside, shouts of battle indeed came from the military camp at the summit. Jian Duomo was greatly encouraged. He drew his sword, pointed it at the summit, and shouted, "Quickly, quickly, follow me and charge! Annihilate the Tang army!"

The officers and soldiers discovered that the Tang army was indeed entangled with the defending troops. At this moment, rushing forward would be equivalent to cutting off the Tang army's retreat. If they could annihilate them within the camp, it would be a great achievement!

Their morale soared, and they charged forward, roaring as they followed Jian Damo.

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Li Jingren had already led three hundred soldiers, equipped with long-handled swords, to lie in ambush in the dense forest on the left, waiting for the enemy to attack the camp so that he could unexpectedly cut off their retreat.

Inside the military camp, the captains were groaning incessantly: "General, is the enemy coming any further?"

Running around on the walls dressed as enemy soldiers and shouting inside the village is no easy task. You have to switch between playing yourself and the guards, constantly changing your lines. It's even more tiring than a real battle!

After all, when you're really fighting, you're completely focused and your body is in a state of extreme excitement. You don't feel pain or fatigue at all. Only after the battle stops do you feel completely drained. But now, with all the fuss and deception, it's hard to maintain that level for long.

Everyone had been running around like crazy for ages, but the enemy was nowhere to be seen, so morale was inevitably low and some people were getting impatient...

Li Jinxing also hesitated. The enemy commander was not a coward. He knew that the fighting in the camp had not ended and that an attack at this moment might cut off the Tang army's retreat, but he still dared not send troops.

If the Lin-yi reinforcements decide to cower at the foot of the mountain and wait for the Zhenla reinforcements to arrive so they can attack from both sides, then things will get complicated.

We can't just abandon the military camp we just acquired and run to the foot of the mountain to launch an attack, can we?
The thousands of Lin-yi reinforcements aren't a bunch of pigs; annihilating or defeating them in open battle isn't something that can be done quickly. If the Zhenla reinforcements do indeed arrive and occupy the camp at this juncture, we'll have to turn back and fight our way back...

"General, the enemy is coming!"

Li Jinxing's spirits lifted: "Should we all come up the mountain to attack?"

"That's right. Only about a hundred men were left to guard the horses and supplies, while the rest of the troops came up... In addition, I captured an enemy scout, and after interrogation, he said that the commander of this reinforcement army is the Crown Prince of Linyi!"

"Aha?"

Li Jinxing was overjoyed: "Such a good thing?"

There was an unexpected surprise!

He immediately ordered: "Everyone, don't stop! Demolish the gap in the wall that we just blocked. When the enemy comes, let them in without resistance. We'll trap them like turtles in a jar! Brothers wearing enemy clothes, tie strips of cloth around your heads immediately to avoid accidental injury!"

Jian Duomo led his troops out of the dense forest. Looking up, he saw that the fighting inside the camp was fierce and many sections of the wall had collapsed. At this moment, he could attack the Tang army from the rear and capture them easily!

"Follow me and charge forward to slaughter the enemy!"

"Go, go, go!"

"Kill!"

The Lin-yi soldiers' eyes lit up, and they let out strange cries. Then, Jian Damo rushed forward like a swarm of bees, pouring into the military camp through the breach in the city wall. Sure enough, they encountered no resistance whatsoever.

Jian Duomo rushed through the camp and saw two groups of people fighting each other. He shouted and charged forward with his sword.

To his surprise, the two groups that were fighting suddenly stopped. One of the soldiers, dressed in the uniforms of the Lin-yi army, pulled out a strip of cloth from somewhere, tied it around his forehead, and turned around to charge at him along with the Tang soldiers.

Tang soldiers continued to appear from the houses on both sides, launching a pincer attack.

Jian Duomo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized what was happening and shouted hoarsely, "We've fallen into a trap! Retreat! Retreat!"

But it's not that easy.
The troops behind had no idea what was happening ahead. They were still dreaming of annihilating the Tang army and achieving unparalleled merit. When they saw the troops in front stop, they not only did not care but were even dissatisfied. They kept pushing forward. If they didn't rush up and kill a couple of Tang soldiers, how would they be rewarded after the battle?
Do you want to keep all the credit for annihilating the Tang army for yourselves?

The thousands of Lin Yi troops were thrown into complete chaos. The troops in front were terrified and wanted to retreat and escape, while the troops behind wanted to squeeze in and compete for credit, blocking several gaps in the wall and making it impossible for them to advance or retreat.

Inside the military camp, Tang soldiers were already charging forward, brandishing their swords. Li Jinxing was still leading the charge. He spotted Jian Damo, whose armor and weapons were different from those of ordinary soldiers, in the enemy ranks. His eyes lit up and he charged straight at him.

Jian Duomo's hair was practically standing on end. He turned around and saw that the Tang army had already charged up behind him, while his own soldiers blocked the gap in the wall in front of him. In a panic, he raised his sword and slashed down, shouting sharply, "Get out of the way! Get out of the way!"

He was the Crown Prince of Linyi, of noble lineage and illustrious status. How could he die here?

Anyone who blocks my escape route deserves to die!
The tyranny cultivated over a long period of brutality took effect at this moment. The soldiers blocking the breach were terrified and either advanced or retreated, actually making way for a path.

Hearing the screams of the soldiers behind him, Jian Duomo knew that the Tang army had charged forward. Without even turning his head, he spurred his horse out of the gap and breathed a slight sigh of relief. Looking around, he saw dozens of his personal guards on horseback following him. Without thinking of anything else, he shouted, "Go!"

Then he ran back the way he came.

As for whether his soldiers were dead or alive... he couldn't care less.

The Lin-yi army was cut off by the breach. Those who entered the camp were brutally slaughtered by the Tang army, while those who remained outside saw Jian Duoduo fleeing and quickly followed suit in a rout.

However, they had only retreated a short distance when they saw a Tang army ambush force emerge from the forest on one side and quickly form ranks on the hillside. These soldiers were clad in armor and wielded long-handled swords, their blades raised and their bodies as immovable as mountains!
"The Mo Dao Formation!"

Jian Duomo was a knowledgeable man. Even though he had never seen it, he had heard of it and knew that it was the most powerful type of soldier in the Tang army besides firearms. However, he never expected that his first time seeing it would be on the battlefield, where the enemy and the enemy were facing each other and it was a matter of life and death.

Even though he was filled with fear, there was no room for retreat at this moment. Kendama gritted his teeth, spurred his horse, brandished his sword, and charged forward: "Follow me and break through the enemy lines!"

Although the "Mo Dao Formation" is renowned and the enemy has blocked the entire mountain road, it is only a mere hundred or so soldiers. If our thousands of troops rush forward, we can surely break through them!

Once the Tang army is defeated and they return to the foot of the mountain to form a defensive formation, and the Zhenla reinforcements arrive, they can launch a pincer attack from the east and west, and still turn the tide of battle!

"Charge! Charge! Charge through!"

Kendo's eyes were bloodshot as he frantically spurred his warhorse to accelerate, hoping to turn the tide of the battle once they broke through this obstacle!

However, when he rushed up to them, he found that the Tang army's "Mo Dao" team not only did not move an inch in the face of the charging warhorses, but also showed no fear. In fact, he could see excitement and exhilaration on the faces of the Tang soldiers. Jian Duomo's alarm bells rang, and at the critical moment, a sense of fear overwhelmed him. He tried to rein in his warhorse and avoid the Tang army's sharp edge.

But he forgot one thing: he was surrounded by his personal guards on his back and left and right, seemingly protecting his flanks but also trapping him in the middle. He tried to rein in his horse to slow down, but the cavalry behind him crashed straight into his warhorse and charged into the Tang army's front without slowing down.

"Hi!"

The Tang soldiers raised their long-handled swords high, creating a forest of blades. Then, they exhaled, took a step forward, and brought their swords down.

Dozens of long-bladed, five-foot-long Mo Dao (陌刀) blades slashed down in an instant, the sharp sound of the blades cutting through the air whistling. In the next moment, they would slice through anything that met their blades. At the same time, soldiers behind them stepped forward and rushed through the gaps between them, raising their blades and turning to meet the enemy. They let warhorses and people crash into them, the huge impact cutting through their blades.

Blood splattered, and both men and horses were shattered.

The light cavalry charge was like waves crashing against rocks, but the "Mo Dao Formation" remained unmoved, and the Lin Yi soldiers were cut apart.

"kill!"

The Tang soldiers shouted again and took another step forward. Their long swords pushed forward in unison, trampling over the blood and corpses on the ground, advancing like a wall!

Jian Duomo was horrified, but there was no way to avoid it. He watched helplessly as the Tang soldiers in front of him, their faces filled with excitement, slashed down with their gleaming swords. The light of the swords blinded him, and his vision went blank.

My mind went completely blank.

Over a hundred Tang soldiers, heavily armored and strong, marched forward in perfect unison, raising and slashing with their long-handled swords. Everything in their path was cleaved and shattered, the sword flashing and blood flying everywhere.

Li Jinxing led the troops in the camp to charge out and slaughtered them like tigers among sheep. The Linyi army had long been terrified by the "Mo Dao Formation" and had no will to resist when the pursuers came from behind. They either dropped their weapons, surrendered and begged for mercy on the ground, or fled for their lives into the mountains and forests on both sides.

In the short time it takes to drink a cup of tea, the three thousand Linyi reinforcements suffered heavy casualties and were routed.

(End of this chapter)