Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Li Shimin, who knew that he was no match for Cui Yingying, saw that something was going wrong, so he immediately broke away from the team with dozens of his bodyguards and fled towards the rear.

Cui Yingying's attention has been attracted by Li Shimin at this time. When she saw him escaping, she was not willing to let him go.

Not caring about clearing the battlefield, he led the remaining thousands of cavalry under his command in hot pursuit.

The two groups of men chased and escaped, and soon approached the place where Changsun Wuji and Zhang Taixin were fighting.

The two sides who were still confronting each other cheered up when they saw the cavalry suddenly rising up.

When Changsun Wuji saw Li Shimin running at the front, he immediately sent a team of soldiers to rescue him.

As for Cui Yingying, seeing that Changsun Wuji's military formation was strict and still in a confrontation, she did not dare to continue the pursuit, but returned to Zhang Taixin's military formation to rest and recuperate.

In this way, the two sides began to confront each other again.

What everyone did not expect was that at this time, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji clearly had the absolute advantage and initiative, but they did not take the initiative to launch an attack.

Before, Changsun Wuji led the army, but it could be said that the other party was cautious and still waiting to see the situation.

But now, Li Shimin returned to the camp, and Cui Yingying had just wiped out his cavalry, and was being chased all the way in an extremely embarrassed manner.

Due to emotions and reasons, the first thing Li Shimin did after returning to the camp was to order an attack to wash away his shame with blood.

But Li Shimin did not do this. Instead, he slowly moved forward according to the previous strategy, without any intention of rushing to a decisive battle.

This makes people a little confused.

What is even more confusing is Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin.

At this time, the gap between them and Li Shimin was beyond what the 1000 remaining cavalry could make up.

If Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin had the troops at their disposal at this time, it would be impossible to withstand the opponent's attack.

But even so, they still maintained their formation, with high fighting spirit, and slowly retreated back, without any intention of escaping.

Chu Mo, who was hiding in the rear, did not understand the intentions of both parties at first, nor did he know what their plans were for such a confrontation.

He suddenly woke up when he knew that the secret guard had come to report that the coalition forces with the five surnames and Qiwang were less than five miles away from here and were rushing towards the confrontation between the two armies.

The coalition of Five Surnames and Seven Hopes should be Cui Yingying's last trump card.

But since he was able to detect the movements of the coalition forces, Li Shimin must have received the news a long time ago.

Although they knew that reinforcements from the other side were approaching, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji did not want to launch an attack as soon as possible to quickly eliminate the enemy force, but they still pressed forward step by step. It was obvious that they had other ideas.

But what puzzles Chu Mo the most is that now Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji can clearly crush each other, but they are not in a hurry to launch attacks, and they have not even used their own backup team. They obviously have trump cards.

And Chu Mo believed that it was impossible for Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji to escape Cui Yingying's spying with such weird behavior.

But the opponent still wanted to join forces with the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes Alliance Army. Obviously, they had a trump card in their hands, and they were confident enough to engulf Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji's army, and they still had enough power to deal with the remaining reinforcements.

Both parties were so confident in themselves that Chu Mo had to doubt what the other party's trump card was.

Thinking of this, he did not dare to be careless at all, and directly ordered to disperse all the secret guards, and it was necessary to explore everything within a 20-mile radius.

But even so, the news from the secret guards was that except for the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes coalition forces and the remnants of Li Changlin who were already preparing to flee, no reinforcements from either side were found.

Just when Chu Mo was furious because of the unknown movements between the two parties.

Finally, the coalition forces of the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes arrived on the battlefield and joined forces with Cui Yingying, rapidly increasing their strength.

This time, the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes mobilized 15000 coalition troops, plus Zhang Taixin's 8000 troops and Cui Yingying's 1000 cavalry, the military strength directly reached 24000 troops.

The strength suddenly exceeded the 20000 people controlled by Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji.

After receiving the news, Chu Mo originally thought that Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji would directly order their soldiers who were "recuperating" in the rear to go into battle to balance the strength gap between the two sides.

But what surprised him was that instead of sending orders to mobilize troops, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji continued to push the military formation forward unhurriedly.

At this time, not only Chu Mo was confused, but Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin, who were confronting him, also felt a strong sense of uneasiness.

If it were said before, they would have wished that Li Shimin would continue like this and delay time for them to join forces.

But now, his military strength suddenly surpassed that of his opponent, and he also directly defeated Li Shimin's 3000 cavalry, turning them into losers.

The opponent has a new defeat, and their morale should be low at this time.

Logically speaking, Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji should urgently need a big victory to improve their morale and consolidate their military morale.

But now, instead of rushing to attack, the opponent still maintains a steady pace and slowly advances. What kind of medicine is being sold in the opponent's gourd?

Finally, after some discussion, Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin were the first to become unable to sit still.

They decided that no matter what Li Shimin's ideas were or what backup plans he had, as long as they defeated his main force head-on.

Even if Li Shimin and the others had all their plans, it would be of no use.

After the agreement, Cui Yingying began to assemble her cavalry again, and then trained 1000 cavalry from the Five Surnames and Seven Hopes Allied Forces, and once again formed a 2000-man cavalry force.

After simple adjustments and arrangements, Cui Yingying once again led the 2000 cavalry directly to the rear of Li Shimin's army, spread out their formation, and prepared to charge with Zhang Taixin in front.

However, this time the situation was far less relaxed than before.

When the cavalry formed a battle formation and prepared to charge, Li Shimin also showed his fangs.

The original rear formation quickly turned into a front formation, and countless huge shields were set up.

And from the gaps in the shield, densely packed spears and firecrackers protruded.

From a distance, it looks like a hedgehog with thorns all over its body.

At this time, Cui Yingying realized that the support army brought by Changsun Wuji was a complete Tang army that was fully prepared and supplied with supplies.

At the front of the battle formation, Zhang Taixin, who was also preparing to launch an attack, was already stunned and understood why the opponent's marching speed was so slow.