Travel to the early Tang Dynasty and become a salted fish

Upon hearing Li Shimin's rebuke, Chai Shao knew that the other party was determined to let the Xuanjia Army continue fighting.

Wanting to make a few more excuses, Changsun Wuji on the side immediately stepped forward and shook his head.

Seeing Zhang Sun Wuji's dissuasion, Chai Shao opened his mouth, but saw Li Shimin turned to the surrounding soldiers with a livid face and shouted:

"I, Li Shimin, raised my army from Taiyuan and fought countless battles, big and small. There has never been a precedent of refusing to save someone even if they were killed!"

"Now, on the battlefield ahead, there are countless of our robes who are killing the enemy with blood, but Duke Qiao told me that you are tired, and now you have to rest where you are, watching our robes being slaughtered!! "

"Tell me, are you willing to just watch Pao Ze die in battle and not save him?"

"I don't want to!!!"

"I don't want to!!!"

"I don't want to!!!"

Hearing Li Shimin's words, the surrounding Xuanjia army became furious and roared loudly.

When Chai Shao heard that Li Shimin didn't even say anything to me, he already understood that the other party was determined to go to support him.

And when the other party directly pointed out by name in front of so many soldiers that it was him who blocked the other party and was unwilling to rescue him, he was already a little frustrated.

After all, my original intention was for him, Li Shimin, and for the good of these Xuanjia troops.

But now, his good intentions are being treated as nothing more than a donkey's heart and lungs, and he has to bear the reputation of being unwilling to save his life. How can this make him feel so embarrassed?

So, when he heard that Li Shimin encouraged the Xuanjia Army to continue moving forward with tired bodies to support the battle, he did not say a word, and together with Changsun Wuji, he directly stepped aside and allowed the other party to do whatever they wanted. .

Sure enough, seeing that Chai Shao no longer stopped Li Shimin from pursuing him, he just gave him a cold look and continued to move forward with the Xuan Jia Army.

From Li Shimin's point of view, the reason why he has failed continuously in the past few days is because a person like Chai Shao, who is a vegetarian, disobeys orders and values ​​his own gains and losses more than anything else.

That's why I suffered successive defeats and setbacks.

Now I don't have the time or energy to pay attention to this. After Ben Shi returns to the court, he must clean up the government and send these worms and those rebels to jail and punish them severely.

Chai Shao, who didn't know that Li Shimin was already concerned about him, watched the army continue to move forward, and after sighing softly, he also rode his horse to follow.

At the same time, Cui Yingying immediately returned to the battlefield after seeing the Xuanjia Army and informed Zhang Taixin about the presence of the Xuanjia Army.

Upon hearing the arrival of the Xuanjia Army, Zhang Taixin's first thought was to withdraw from the battlefield quickly and then flee all the way north.

After all, the Shadow of the Famous Tree of Man, and the Xuanjia Army's power have been in the world for decades, and their fame is not in vain.

Now, with less than 1000 remaining soldiers, plus Cui Yingying's [-] cavalry, it is obviously impossible to stop the Xuanjia Army.

But if he wanted to escape, the two feet of his soldiers would obviously not be able to outrun the opponent's four hooves.

He was obviously reluctant to leave his soldiers behind and escape alone.

He couldn't beat him again and again, but he couldn't bear to run away. For a moment, Zhang Taixin was a little hesitant.

Cui Yingying was actually thinking about a countermeasure along the way. Now she saw that Zhang Taixin was also hesitant. After thinking about it, she came up with a plan and immediately pulled the other party to discuss it.

However, as the two of them were talking, Zhang Taixin suddenly pointed to the south and said:

"Master Cui, I just met the traitor Chu Mo. He just escaped from there. After we defeat the Xuanjia Army, you must go and capture him. When the time comes, hand him over to me, and I will definitely capture him. Cut him into pieces with a thousand swords to vent his anger."

Hearing that Chu Mo appeared on the battlefield, a strange color flashed across Cui Yingying's face.

When he was chasing Li Shimin before, he saw a group of soldiers coming this way.

However, time was tight at that time, and there were a lot of people on the other side. I didn't want to cause trouble, so I didn't take the initiative to take action. But I didn't expect that the person in that team turned out to be Chu Mo.

If he had known earlier, he would have abandoned Li Shimin and killed that shameless man.

However, it's too late to say anything now.

The top priority is how to deal with the Xuanjia Army.

Even if they cannot all be killed, their vitality must be severely damaged.

After thinking clearly, she immediately led the cavalry under her command and began to charge against the enemies who were still resisting on the battlefield.

With the addition of Cui Yingying, the enemies who were resisting were beaten to pieces in just a few rounds, and then were quickly killed by Zhang Taixin's subordinates.

After killing all the remaining imperial troops, the two ordered to start clearing the battlefield and setting up defenses.

After about half an hour, finally, bursts of rumbling sounds were heard in the distance, and then, on the horizon, a black cavalry army slowly appeared in front of everyone.

Seeing the appearance of the Xuanjia Army, everyone held their breath, waiting for death to come.

Li Shimin didn't keep Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin waiting too long.

As soon as they saw the opponent, they started to form a formation, and then directly ordered the Xuanjia Army to charge away.

However, before they even got close, a dozen black cannons were pushed out from the local camp.

Looking at the black cannon muzzle, Li Shimin secretly thought something was wrong and was about to turn around and attack from other directions.

There was a roar in the ears.

Then, shells one after another, with a huge sound of breaking through the air, bombarded towards the military formation.

bang bang bang~~~

Cannonballs exploded among the troops, blowing holes one after another in the advancing military formation.

However, this artillery seems to be extremely powerful, but the damage caused is not very heavy for the Xuanjia Army that is moving at high speed.

Soon, the Xuanjia Army waved their weapons and rushed to Cui Yingying's formation.

However, before they could raise the butcher knives in their hands, they saw the enemy in front of them suddenly setting up firecrackers and various arrows and crossbows. With an order, they directly pulled the trigger.

It turned out that after some discussion between Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin, they distributed all the fire guns and bows and crossbows captured before and this time to the soldiers, and temporarily put together a long-range combat force to stop the Xuanjia Army.

Li Shimin, on the other hand, launched an attack directly before he could find out the enemy's true and false intentions, and for a moment, he actually got into their trap.

Whoosh whoosh~~~

bang bang bang~~~

With the firing of various arrows and firecrackers, a large piece of the Xuanjia army rushing at the front fell instantly.

Li Shimin never expected that Cui Yingying and the others would have such means. Without noticing, Li Shimin would cause the Xuanjia Army to suffer such heavy losses, and he would immediately lead the army to fight in person.

Fortunately, Chai Shao stood in the way and Li Shimin was not allowed to go up and die.

Although Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin were prepared, they caught the Xuanjia Army by surprise.

However, the number of fire muskets and the power of crossbows are limited, and the damage caused to the Xuanjia army is also limited.

Therefore, after killing hundreds of Xuanjia troops, they were somewhat exhausted and were rushed forward by the opponent.

Looking at the rebels who were holding fire sticks and killing countless of their own robes at close range, each member of the Xuanjia army had scarlet eyes, and they were ready to trample them into flesh with all their strength.

However, before they could chop off the enemy's head, a sudden change occurred.

Seeing the Xuanjia soldier rushing at the front, he suddenly felt the front hooves of his horse soften, and then he was thrown away.

Immediately afterwards, the countless Xuanjia soldiers behind them, just like the first soldier, suddenly felt weak under their legs, then fell to the ground and rolled several times, and then died from broken bones and tendons.

As the Xuanjia Army horses in the first row lost their front hooves and fell to the ground seriously injured, the Xuanjia Army horses in the second and third rows directly collided with the men and horses in front, and they all fell to the ground.

The Xuanjia soldiers at the rear saw the men and horses in front colliding with each other. They immediately tightened their reins and tried to avoid them.

However, as soon as they stopped in front, the cavalry behind them rushed forward without seeing the situation clearly. Several waves of people and horses collided with each other again, causing heavy losses.

As more and more people collided with each other, the rest of the Xuanjia Army cavalry behind them also noticed the abnormality and hurriedly turned their horses' heads and rushed towards both sides.

It was only then that someone discovered that countless potholes had appeared on the originally flat ground.

These potholes are the main culprit that causes horses to stumble.

It turned out that these potholes were temporarily dug out by Cui Yingying after seeing Chu Mo use them before and felt that the effect was good.

Now I am very happy to see that it has produced miraculous results.

However, the battle is not over yet. These waves of attacks have only dampened the Xuanjia Army's spirit. The real damage is not as heavy as what I expected.

What's more important is that she has used up all her three axes, and now she is about to confront the opponent head-on. Cui Yingying feels a little unsure.

Fortunately, Li Shimin saw that the Xuanjia Army's attacks were frustrated one after another, and he was worried that Cui Yingying still had a backup plan, so he did not dare to continue the attack and hurriedly offered money to withdraw his troops.

In order to prevent the opponent from continuing to bombard with artillery, Li Shimin directly ordered the team to retreat three miles to distance themselves from the opponent, but not far away, in order to check and balance the opponent's actions.

Seeing this, Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin both breathed a sigh of relief.

However, when they thought that the other party would attack again after adjusting, their expressions became solemn again.

After thinking for a while, Zhang Taixin's eyes suddenly lit up.

Then he directly ordered some soldiers to dig trenches to block the cavalry charge.

Another group of soldiers moved the corpses of those who died in battle to the front of the battlefield and built a thick human wall, hoping to block the Xuanjia Army's attack.

The actions of the two men did not escape Li Shimin's attention at all.

Seeing that these two people dared to dig trenches and build human walls right in front of him, they immediately prepared to launch another attack.

However, before the order was given, he saw around him that many soldiers and horses were foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground.

Only then did he suddenly realize that he was too impatient for justice and did not listen to Chai Shao's words. The Xuanjia Army was indeed no longer suitable to continue fighting at this time.

Although he felt ashamed, Li Shimin did not admit his mistake to Chai Shao. He just ordered that the Xuanjia Army continue to rest in place, while he sent Changsun Wuji to Chang'an to continue to mobilize reinforcements. Cui was bound to be Yingying and Wu Xing Qiwang will stay here forever.

There was no movement from Li Shimin's side, which suddenly surprised Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin who were originally worried.

According to their understanding, Li Shimin, in front of the other party, launched such a large-scale defense, and logically speaking, the other party would definitely rush forward to cause trouble at the first opportunity.

But now, the opponent is indeed uncharacteristically just watching from a distance and has no intention of continuing to attack.

The two people didn't understand what medicine was in the other's gourd. After some discussion, they continued to carry out construction work and began to dig trenches everywhere, pretending to be prepared to hold on for a long time.

Sure enough, when Li Shimin saw Cui Yingying and the others carrying out such large-scale construction projects, his anxious heart suddenly calmed down.

In his eyes, Cui Yingying and Qiwang of the Five Surnames have become turtles in the urn at this time. As long as he firmly restrains them here, when the reinforcements from Chang'an arrive, they will be able to kill them all. this.

In this way, the two armies faced off for a whole day less than three miles away from each other, and neither one had the intention to initiate an attack.

In Li Shimin's view, he now has complete control of the initiative and there is no need for the Xuanjia Army to launch a forceful attack.

Not to mention the heavy losses, but whether we can defeat the other party in the end is still a question.

As for Cui Yingying and Zhang Taixin, with trenches and human walls to resist the Xuanjia Army's charge, it was too late to hide from the Xuanjia Army at this time, so naturally they would not take the initiative to attack.

As time went by, the sky soon became dim.

As soon as the sky darkened, Cui Yingying, who had been unable to hold on, immediately took the remaining thousands of cavalry under her command and quietly walked around the flank of the Xuanjia Army. As soon as she got close, she took out the homemade gunpowder without even looking at it. After lighting the fuse directly, he threw it into the military formation.

bang bang bang~~~

There was a violent explosion that almost overturned the entire camp.

Li Shimin, who had just fallen asleep, was also awakened by the violent explosion.

He immediately rushed out of the camp.

As soon as he came out, with the faint light of the fire, he saw that not far from the camp, Cui Yingying was leading a team of people, wandering at the door extremely arrogantly.

At that moment, Li Shimin was so angry that he pulled out the sword from his waist and was about to lead people to rush over and fight him.

If Chai Shao and Chang Sun Wuji hadn't rushed to hold him back after hearing the news, they wouldn't have rushed out at this moment.

"Your Majesty, the enemy situation outside is unclear, and it is already dark, which is extremely detrimental to our army's operations. Your Majesty, please think twice."

Regardless of the humiliation he suffered during the day, Chai Shao hurriedly spoke to dissuade Li Shimin.

However, as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he felt regretful.

Sure enough, Li Shimin almost burst into anger when he heard Chai Shao's words asking him to think twice.