When Li Shimin woke up, it was pitch black and he couldn't see anything. The north was roaring outside and the carriages and horses were sparkling. Li Shimin quickly realized that he was still on the road.
Li Shimin had a splitting headache, dry mouth, weakness, and coldness, but he was still sweating. Li Shimin knew that he must be sick.
He moved his body hard, and felt a soreness that made him groan.
He opened his mouth and wanted to call someone, but he couldn't move. Why don't he drink some water? Besides, there were so many damn clothes piled on him, so heavy that he could hardly breathe.
But at this moment, there was a rustling sound in the carriage, which shocked Li Shimin. It turned out that he was not the only one in the carriage.
Someone reached out in the darkness and touched his forehead. His fingers were cold and slender, carrying a faint fragrance. It was obviously a woman.
Of course, as smart as he is, even if he has a severe headache and a sense of time, he immediately realizes that there is probably only one woman who can appear next to him at this time of year.
Sure enough, my sister's voice sounded in the darkness, "Are you awake? Do you want to drink some water..." It is a woman's nature to be meticulous and caring, but Li Xiuning is different. She has never dealt with her brother who is not much different in age.
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So I couldn't help but said, "If the second brother doesn't wake up, I'm afraid General Zhai's head will be in danger."
Li Shimin grinned. Although the cracked wound was painful and there was no comfortable place on his body, Li Shimin still felt at ease and said with difficulty: "Where have you been? How much time has passed?"
The voice was thin, hoarse and unclear, which made Li Shimin, who had always been physically strong, feel helpless.
"We have crossed the Yellow River... Come, drink some water."
After drinking a glass of cold water, Li Shimin finally felt refreshed and his groggy head became much clearer.
"We've already crossed the Yellow River... Why did Third Sister come out too? Could it be... that she was afraid that I would be caught by that Li Ding'an?"
Li Xiuning snorted and threw Li Shimin away. This second brother was the most disliked among their brothers and sisters. It was no wonder that the brothers turned against each other today.
"Now that we are in such a state of embarrassment, the second brother should not be joking. I came here just to see with my own eyes the majesty of the second brother destroying the city. I don't want to..."
At this point, the person chuckled...it didn't sound like he had any intention of taking care of the patient.
Li Shimin smiled silently in the darkness and thought to himself, after a small battle, the winner and the loser are yet to be determined... Did you stay in the army really just to watch your brother lead the army to kill generals and capture the flag?
Naturally, he would not say these words, but changed the subject and asked: "What are the casualties? Is General Murong back?"
At this time, even Li Shimin, who was used to seeing battles, very much hoped to hear some comforting good news from Li Xiuning.
But Li Xiuning extinguished his last bit of luck with his extremely honest words.
"Well, I heard from General Duan and General Zhai that more than 1,200 people have returned, more than 50 people did not recover when they arrived at the camp, and more than 300 people fell ill immediately. Those who can follow us back to the camp
, there are more than 900 of them, but the one who survives in the end depends on the inefficiency of the doctors."
"As for General Murong..."
Speaking of this, Li Xiuning couldn't help but sigh and said: "I didn't wait for General Murong...General Duan didn't dare to stay in the camp for a long time. He only rested there for half a night before setting off, leaving behind some injuries..."
Too bad, less than a thousand of the 3,000 Xuanjia troops returned to the west bank of the Yellow River, and Murong Luohu, the second guard on the left, was even more uncertain about his life or death. This fact told Li Shimin very clearly that if there was any disadvantage in the battle in the deep winter, he would have to pay the price.
The price is almost unbearable.
Li Shimin took a deep breath, trying to suppress the annoyance in his heart, but he was coughed instead.
Li Xiuning over there finally couldn't bear it. After all, they were brothers and sisters. She came up to caress his chest and comforted him: "My second brother is not seriously ill. He just contracted the wind and cold. It will take some time to recover, but he will be fine."
If you want to think about anything else, I'm afraid I'll have to go back to Beijing to recuperate."
This sentence was very effective for Li Shimin. He immediately became honest and suppressed the rising anger.
After breathing for a long time, Li Shimin said: "Third sister... Second brother has never asked you for anything. This time I want to ask you something. Can you send someone to Jiangjun to ask about the life and death of General Murong? If he is alive,
Can you..."
Li Shimin's anger subsided, but Li Xiuning's anger suddenly spiked up.
I have just returned from an envoy to Jin, and before I returned to Chang'an, you led your troops to fight. Now that you have returned with a disastrous defeat, you still want me to send people to Jiangjun to beg for prisoners?
Li Xiuning's voice suddenly turned cold.
"I will be returning to Beijing soon... Second brother, don't worry, I won't say anything in front of my father, but my younger sister has something to say. If you are fighting with your eldest brother and fourth brother, don't involve me anymore.
, otherwise... hmm, it's hard to talk in the army, but in the harem, not only the two of you can talk in front of your father."
"Anyone who recommends me to be an envoy to Jin in the future, I will let them die without a burial place."
As she was talking here, Li Shimin's snoring could be heard over there. Li Xiuning's eyebrows stood up in the darkness, pretending to be asleep? In anger, Li Xiuning kicked Li Shimin, causing Li Shimin to hit him with a thud.
On the carriage, everyone was immediately grinning.
Li Xiuning waved his fist again, wishing that there would be a scene of killing his brother.
Li Xiuning kicked the car door angrily and jumped out of the carriage.
"What are you looking at? The nagging person inside is going to die. Why don't you go and take care of him?"
Li Shimin was blown away by the cold wind and shivered a few times. His body felt a little more uncomfortable, but he was smiling bitterly in his heart. It was not a big deal. Why were you so angry? I'm afraid he felt guilty.
Bar?
But whether he was guilty or not, this battle did hurt Li Shimin a bit. The more serious situation he had to face was that the pro-army troops were crippled, and there were not many of his old troops stationed along the Yellow River.
Without the deterrence of the Xuanjia Army, he would have to spend more energy on rectification. The most important point is that if this battle cannot attract Li Ding'an to cross the river to attack, then this loss will be almost in vain, and he will have to drive
Guys like Wang Xingben and Lu Chongmao will use more tricks.
The effect is certainly hard to compare with such a sudden attack.
In the cold wind, Li Shimin, who had offended his sister, turned around and remembered the important matter. He was indeed not seriously ill. Of course, as the prince, His Highness, King Qin, should have a higher survival rate than others.
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In fact, the Tang army did move a step faster. At noon on the second day, Daibei cavalry wrapped in leather robes and armed with swords and bows had already appeared in groups along the Yellow River.
They were also severely frozen, but their hatred kept them from patrolling the Yellow River. If the generals had not restrained them, some people would probably rush onto the ice and cross the river to cause trouble for the Tang army.
The Bingdai army had never suffered such a humiliating defeat. All the cavalry officers and soldiers who came to help wanted to use the blood of the enemy to extinguish the fire in their hearts.
In the afternoon of the first day, Li Po received news of the attack on Longmen City, and not long after, he received a detailed battle report from Zhang Lun.
What Chen Li said was absolutely correct. Li Po was really annoyed by nothing else but the number of casualties. The casualties of more than 4,000 people directly made Li Po's eyes widen.
After leading the army for so many years, he has personally experienced the defeat of hundreds of thousands of troops in front of his eyes. But then again, the army is raised from the border, the population is small, and there is still a shortage of food and military supplies. People who are used to careful calculation cannot tolerate the number of casualties.
The ability is also somewhat inferior.
Before every battle, he had to carefully consider how he could kill the enemy while reducing his own casualties. So until now, after a battle, the casualties can always be controlled within a certain range, over a thousand.
There are only two times.
In a winter raid, more than 4,000 people were killed and injured. If Chen Li and Xun Xiang were in front of him, he would chop these two incompetent guys into pieces first.
What made him even more annoyed was that Li Tang had absolutely no faith at all. As soon as the envoy left, he would lead his troops to attack. What they said would really be untrustworthy in the future.
In fact, when he calmed down and thought about it again, those were all excuses, and the person who suffered the loss was not unfair at all.
We clearly know that the crossing of the Yellow River is a top priority, but we still neglect it. We can't blame others for being rude...
Moreover, Li Shimin actually appeared on the opposite side and came to him immediately. It was indeed Li Shimin.
Thinking about it this way, the gains and losses of Longmen Ferry and Longmen City were actually secondary. After thinking about it, Li Po cursed fiercely, "You must run fast, otherwise I will have to put you in Jinyang Prison."
You can’t go and keep company with Li Shentong and others.”
Immediately, Li Po ordered Xue Wanche to lead 2,000 troops to Longmen and join Zhang Lun and others to guard Longmen City. He also ordered grain and grass to be sent there as soon as possible.
All this hard work in the middle of winter had consumed countless manpower and material resources, and Li Po's good mood was instantly gone.
Then he called Yuchi Gong and Bu Qun over and reprimanded him. No one dared to talk about his own shortcomings, but his subordinates could not and could only bear the anger he vented.
In fact, Li Po hadn't figured it out yet. By the end of the year, the military rewards for this year had been sorted out. As more and more calls for battle came to Li Po's ears, Li Po finally realized that his mother
Yes, broken...
(Monthly ticket, monthly ticket, the women's volleyball team is not good in the first half, but is very popular in the second half. If Chinese football could be half as tenacious as the women's volleyball team, it would have dominated Asia and the world long ago. Well, let's not be too whimsical and write about ourselves.
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