Chapter 36 thirty five

Li Shimin and others rode their horses and continued on. Fang Xuanling, who was following behind him suddenly, seemed to have heard something, and said, "Your Majesty, listen!" The sound became louder and louder, the ground seemed to tremble, and the horses of the guards around Li Shimin were neighing uncomfortably in circles.A guard said in surprise: "Look, there is a big black cloud in the sky!" Li Shimin closed his eyes slightly, and spit out a sentence: "That's not a cloud, that's two hundred thousand enemies coming." Everyone's expression changed.Seeing everyone's nervous expressions, Li Shimin laughed loudly: "It's nothing special! I started fighting at the age of sixteen, and I have never been afraid of anything. Let alone two hundred thousand horses, even if the enemy has an army of one million, I will take it seriously. It’s worthless.” The cavalry behind were inspired by Li Shimin’s words, and shouted in unison: “Your Majesty is not afraid, and the ministers are not afraid!” Li Shimin said loudly: “Okay, as long as no one is afraid, we will win this battle! The cavalry stay, you guys come with me—" He pointed to Fang Xuanling and the others, and rode their horses to the edge of the temporary bridge first.

Surrounded by countless banners and banners, Xieli's brigade finally approached the Wei River.He stood on a small hillside and looked towards the opposite bank. The first thing he saw was the endless banners under the city of Chang'an, and then he saw a small cavalry phalanx formed in front.Then his eyes fell on the temporary bridge across the Wei River.Jieli said to himself: "It's strange, why didn't they demolish the bridge." When he saw the six people at the bridge, his expression became even more astonished——Li Shimin was among them!Jieli thought, "What is Li Shimin doing? Did he set up an ambush to lure me into the bait?"His brain was running fast, and he began to glance around, his eyes full of suspicion.

At this moment, there was an earth-shattering shout of killing from the left wing.Jieli asked loudly, "What's going on?" A general responded, "It seems that Yaerjin has encountered a large group of Tang troops, and the two sides are fighting fiercely." Jieli turned to look at the right wing again, where Tuli and Qibiheli were There was no movement in the team.A look of hesitation appeared on Xieli's face, and he decided to stand still for the time being and wait for news from the two wings. A strange scene appeared, with hundreds of thousands of cavalry on one side and only six people on the other side, they faced each other quietly across a temporary bridge.

Fang Xuanling said softly to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, why don't you step back first, as long as Xieli whips his whip, his horseshoes can crush us into meat in a blink of an eye." Looking at the powerful enemy army on the opposite side , He, who has been through battle for a long time, also has a heartbeat and his body trembles a little.Li Shimin responded in a low voice with a smile on his face: "If you encounter a tiger suddenly on the road, what should you do? Remember, you dare not move it even if you turn around and run away, it will definitely pounce on you." Then, Li Shimin raised his eyes and looked forward, found Jieli's big banner from the enemy's formation, and found Jieli's figure under the big banner. He shouted loudly at this figure: "The opposite is Jieli Khan. ?”

Jieli responded: "Yes, it's me! Li Shimin, I heard that you became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so I thought of asking you a question, who should be in charge of the ups and downs of the world today?" Li Shimin glanced at Jieli: "I Knowing that Khan has a big heart, he wants to fight for the world with me, but fighting for the world does not only rely on swords and guns! The ancients said, "If you have the right, you will get help, but if you don't, you will get little help." If you want to be the co-lord of the world, you must first ask the people if they agree! How about it, will my answer satisfy Khan?"

Jieli sneered: "Li Shimin, what's the use of talking big, look at the iron cavalry behind me." Li Shimin responded: "I'm not talking big. The people of the Tang Dynasty are all soldiers, and they are waiting for Khan." , Li Shimin laughed out loud, looking very calm. At this moment, a fast horse galloped up to Xieli, and a general stepped forward and whispered something to him, and Xieli's expression changed drastically.The general reported to him the news of the two wings. Yaerjin on the left was attacked by the Tang army, losing thousands of people, and he himself was seriously injured.Tuli also discovered an unknown enemy situation on the right wing.Jieli felt guilty for a while. He estimated that the Tang army in Chang'an was only 30,000 to 20,000. He didn't expect that the elite cavalry on his left wing would be attacked by the opponent. It was beyond his expectations.

Jieli looked up at the city of Chang'an where the banners were flying. There seemed to be thousands of troops in ambush there. A cloud passed over his face. Jieli was a resourceful man, but he had a suspicious personality, a bit like Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period. The situation on the battlefield made him uncertain for a while, so he decided to withdraw temporarily, and let him figure out the situation.He gave an order to an attendant beside him: retreat twenty miles! The hundreds of thousands of troops began to retreat slowly. Li Shimin and others were still nailed to the head of the temporary bridge. They looked calm, but in fact everyone's clothes were soaked in sweat.

After Xieli's troops retreated for 20 miles, they set up camp. He sent people to continue to investigate the situation on the two wings, and found that Yaerjin had indeed encountered a strong enemy. The banners of Yuchi Jingde and Hou Junji appeared in the Tang army attacking them. They are all generals under Li Shimin's command.As for what the right wing's unknown military situation is, Tuli and the others still haven't figured it out.Jieli already knew in his heart that Tuli and Qibiheli didn't want to fight at all, but were waiting for him and Li Shimin to fight to the death.The so-called unknown enemy situation was actually just an excuse to prevaricate him, which made Xieli very annoyed, but he couldn't say it clearly, so he had to send people to comfort the generals on the two wings, and at the same time send people to further spy on the real situation in Chang'an.

Li Shimin came to inspect the battlefield under the hill where the Tang army set up an ambush.Tang Jun's active attack this time won a small victory, but Yuchi Jingde and Hou Junji's men lost a total of more than 10,000 people.Looking at the endless corpses on the wasteland, Li Shimin couldn't help sighing in his heart, Jieli's cavalry were really good at fighting.When he heard that at the most critical juncture of the battle, the situation on the battlefield was only turned around by the Flying Tigers rushing into the enemy's formation, wounding Yaerjin and capturing the enemy's banner, he turned his attention to Hou Junji and said: " This time you have made great achievements, I will reward you well, reward your Flying Tiger Army, go, take me to your camp, and I will inspect them personally."