Chang'an City, Tai Chi Hall.

In the light of the fire, the situation in Hedong and Guanzhong was marked on a huge map. As Li Shimin suffered a defeat on the eastern front, Wang Junlin of the North Road led the Far East Army Tornado Battalion and Pegasus Battalion to occupy the two counties and began to march towards Taiyuan Prefecture.

, the whole Li Yuan Group finally panicked.

At this time, Li Yuan and his civil and military officials gathered together. Ma Yuangui, Chen Yanshou, Changsun Shunde, Qian Jiulong, Li Jiancheng, Dugu Changsu, Changsun Wuji and the heads of various powerful families were all sitting in the main hall.

"The current situation is very unfavorable to us. The Far Eastern Army is attacking in three directions: east, west and north. Although the Second Young Master has not lost a single ground in the east, he has suffered a defeat. In the west, Hou Junji has blocked 120,000 enemy troops.

Outside Longguan, the food route was cut off by the Far Eastern Army's special forces. The situation is very bad. Luliang County and Xinkou County in the north have been lost, and Wang Junlin is now sending troops to attack Taiyuan Prefecture."

"It seems that Wang Junlin's troops are limited, and our defense is sufficient. However, the Far East Army was able to build a pontoon bridge on the Fen River within an hour. By this time, General Li Shentong and his army should have fully engaged Wang Junlin.

It shouldn’t collapse at the first touch. I think I will be able to hold on to the front line of the river. As long as General Li Shentong is not defeated and Taiyuan Prefecture is not lost, the foundation of Hedong will be able to stand firm..."

At this time, the person in the room, pointing at the map and talking, was Changsun Shunde, who was always known for his knowledge of soldiers. He talked for a while, and then Li Yuan, who looked a little better, spoke: "My brother Shen Tong is a good general in the world. He fights in battle."

We have rich experience and have suffered defeats in the previous battles, so we will not disappoint Gu now."

When it comes to using Li Shentong as the commander-in-chief of the North Road to deal with the most difficult problem of Wang Junlin, both Li Yuan himself and Changsun Shunde have always been the biggest pushers.

At this time, Li Yuan and Changsun Shunde were not so much determined as they were emphasizing their own vision, or expressing their hopes in words.

Others also said so. Not many people dared to say unlucky or depressing words at this time. Changsun Wuji wanted to speak several times, but Changsun Shunde glared at him and kept silent.

Dugu Changsu, who had not spoken much, sighed in his heart, looked at the map, and said: "Your Majesty, for some things it is better to prepare for the worst."

Everyone's expressions changed. Dugu Changsu represents the most powerful family in the world, is also the leader of the Guanlong noble family, the most powerful and the biggest supporter of the Li Yuan Group, and has a transcendent status, so he can say such things, and it will carry a lot of weight.

Heavy enough.

The scene was completely silent, and you could hear the drop of a needle. After an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan let out a long sigh, his face became heavy, and he solemnly said: "Can Dugu Aiqing have a good plan?"

Dugu Changsu saluted Li Yuan, then glanced at the people from various aristocratic families in the audience, and said solemnly: "We, the aristocratic families, and the King of Tang are both prosperous. Previously, we each sent out guards, and we formed 50,000 troops in half a month, but

At present, the Far East army is powerful, and Wang Junlin has evil thoughts. If he is allowed to capture Hedong and Guanzhong, not only will our family business not be saved, but our family will also be destroyed. Therefore, my Dugu family is willing to provide 1,000 servants and 5,000 tenants to recruit new soldiers.

Another one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand shi of grain will be used to train troops for war."

Most of the people from the famous families here are the heads of the family, and those who are not the head of the family are also the ones in charge. Everyone is smart and knows that what Dugu Changsu said is right. Although he is reluctant to part with the population, money and food, he also knows that this is not the time to be reluctant.

Now that the Dugu family, the most powerful family in the world, is taking the lead, they have to express their willingness to provide people, money and food.

Soon, the number of servants and tenants from various wealthy families totaled one hundred thousand, with as many as six million taels of silver and three million shi of grain.

In troubled times, the servants and tenants of generations of powerful families are not ordinary people. They are all trained by powerful families according to military training methods. A few years ago, the Hongnong Yang family represented by Yang Su quickly gathered a hundred thousand troops to rebel.

Otherwise, in troubled times, they would have been exterminated by various bandits and bandits taking advantage of the chaos.

Although it is not as elite as the 50,000-strong troops formed by the guards that were previously contributed, after a month or two of training, they will be able to fight again.

As for money and food, it is not surprising. For hundreds of years, more than 90% of the land and commerce in the world have been controlled by these powerful families. For example, the Dugu family and the Qizong and Five Surnames, which have been passed down for thousands of years, are even more wealthy than the country.

, this is also the reason why many outstanding people in the world thought that Wang Junlin could not defeat Li Yuan.

Of course, now that the Li Yuan Group is retreating steadily under the attack of the Far Eastern Army, the ideas of some outstanding people in the world will naturally change.

Li Yuan bowed to the heads or principals of all the powerful families and said gratefully: "I would like to thank you all for your support. Today, I, Li Yuan, swear here that after unifying the world, I will rule the world with you!"

The heads and heads of various noble families who had just suffered a heavy hemorrhage were feeling distressed. When they heard this, their faces looked much better. They thought that it seemed right to choose Li Yuan to support them in the first place.

When they chose Li Yuan, on the one hand, Li Yuan was ambitious enough, and Li Yuan was not the most powerful among the powerful families. If a powerful family like the Dugu family were to fight for the world, it would make other families fearful and worry about being eliminated later.

Genocide.

On the other hand, and the biggest reason is that Li Yuan is a good person and knows how to do things.

In the past, the Li family was an anomaly among aristocratic families. They did not have any enemies. You must know that for thousands or hundreds of years, there have been countless grievances and resentments among the aristocratic families. Apart from the Li Yuan family, there was no one enemy.

It's really hard to find another one.

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By the Fen River, Wang Junlin personally led the 50,000 soldiers of the Tornado Battalion who hurriedly crossed the river and fought fiercely with Li Shentong's 100,000 troops for most of the day. It was not until dark and both sides were finally exhausted that they withdrew their troops.

In this battle, the Far East Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the Li Army led by Li Shentong suffered nearly 10,000 casualties. The ratio of casualties to both sides was one to three.

During this half-day battle, more than a thousand soldiers from the engineering battalion of the Far Eastern Army had been busy all day, and had already established a simple camp on the riverside that could accommodate 50,000 troops.

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A night of silence.

In the early morning of January 6th, the east bank of Fenhe River was so quiet that it was unbelievable.

Not only did the Li family's army not harass them at night, but Wang Junlin still didn't see a single Li family army soldier even at dawn.

But then after listening to the intelligence report from the Military Intelligence Agency's secret agent, Wang Junlin realized that it was not that the Li Jiajun had not thought about a night attack, but that they were frightened back by the landmines placed around the camp by the Tornado Camp.

It's an exaggeration to say that I was scared away, but that's what happened.

Before Wang Junlin had time to finish eating the same dry food as the soldiers of the Tornado Battalion, spies from the Military Intelligence Agency quickly came with new news - the Li Family Army was attacking again.

"Your Majesty, Li Shentong saw that we were going to fight our last, so he was not in a hurry to fight us desperately..." Luo Shixin took a mouthful of dry biscuits with water and said to Wang Junlin respectfully.

Wang Junlin smiled and said: "Li Shentong is indeed not in a hurry, because he knows that if he is anxious, not only will he not be able to defeat us, but we will easily seize the loopholes to kill their troops. Last night, the Military Intelligence Agency sent a secret message from Guanzhong Chang'an with a flying eagle.

, Li Yuan, with the support of various noble families, formed another 100,000 new troops, and they need time to train these 100,000 new soldiers."

After Wang Junlin finished speaking, he swallowed the last bite of the dry biscuit in one gulp, wiped his hands on the armor, and shouted the order: "Send the order! Prepare to form the camp to meet the enemy!"

Following Wang Junlin's order, the temporary camp of the Fifty Thousand Tornado Battalion became noisy again. The soldiers wolfed down the dry food in their hands, took the time to feed the war horses the last sip of water, combed the hair for the last time, and then mounted their horses.

The inferior mount, under the command of Ling Qi, headed towards the camp one after another.

About two miles away from the main camp, on a small slope in a flat saline-alkali land, Wang Junlin ordered the army to stop.

At this time they could clearly see two miles away

Li Jiajun's cavalry, Li Shentong, is experienced and also occupies a small slope - these so-called "slopes" can be completely ignored for the cavalry, but when the two armies are fighting, any favorable factor will

The generals on both sides were unwilling to give up.

The formation of the Li Jiajun army stretched for several miles, and was dark and dense, like a long snake, coiling in front of the Tornado Battalion. The number of people was obviously at least nearly three times greater than that of the Tornado Battalion.

After these days of battles, especially the frontal battle yesterday, although the number of people in the Cyclone Battalion was small, the soldiers of the Cyclone Battalion did not have the slightest fear, but were full of overwhelming fighting spirit.

At this point, the two sides began a brief confrontation.

The generals on both sides used this time to observe the enemy opposite them, while the soldiers took the time to complete the final preparations for the battle.

What I want to say here is that Wang Junlin has always had a special force composed of a thousand dead soldiers from Snake Island. They have their own special super armor, which is heavier than the armor of the legendary heavy cavalry.

Wang Junlin has not used these thousand dead soldiers all this time. Even when he dealt with the No. 1 Killer King a few days ago, Wang Junlin did not use them.

Today, Wang Junlin is ready to use them.

At this time, these thousand dead soldiers, with the help of soldiers from the engineering supply camp, put on the remaining parts of the heavy armor--in order to save horsepower and physical strength, they just put on the body armor, drapes, arm guards, and hanging rims in advance.

, knee skirts and other parts, as well as night gowns, pocket masks, and masks must be put on temporarily, and the vests of the war horses have been put on during the last break to adjust the formation.

Then, with the help of soldiers from the engineering and transport battalions, these thousand dead heavy cavalrymen were helped onto their horses one by one.

The Li Army did not take advantage of the situation to launch an attack. Their cavalry did not even mount their horses until they saw the Far East stop. This was because their soldiers also needed to check their weapons and equipment before mounting their horses.

Wang Junlin and Luo Shixin knew that this meant that the Li family's cavalry in front of them displayed an 'elite' aura.

For cavalry, as long as they are experienced in hundreds of battles, a truly elite cavalry can always remain calm and calm no matter what kind of opponent they face.

Wang Junlin stood where the general's flag was. His command system consisted of four chariots and dozens of riders with messengers of various colors.

On these chariots, which had taken a lot of trouble to be transported across the river, in addition to the five-color flags used to direct the battle, there were also several large drums, buttons, horns and other objects - all of which symbolized the command authority on the battlefield.

If it were Tiger Camp, Wang Junlin would completely delegate power to Yuchi Jingde to command the battle.

And if Li Jing or Xu Shiji were here, he would hand over the command to these two without hesitation.

But Luo Shixin was an invincible general on the battlefield like Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms. On such a battlefield with more than 150,000 people in front, he was still a little inexperienced in commanding the battle, so Wang Junlin prepared to personally command the battle.

On the battlefield, Wang Junlin was not pretentious at all. He was wearing the fine steel armor made by Nie Xiaoyu.

I don’t know what materials Nie Xiaoyu added to this fine steel armor. It turned out to be an extremely rare dark blue. This is not just a symbol of status. It was handmade by Nie Xiaoyu himself. With Nie Xiaoyu’s magical powers,

It took three days to build, and an ordinary samurai's sword could barely leave a mark on it.

The most rare and valuable thing is that this armor is much lighter than ordinary steel plate armor. This kind of armor is already a priceless treasure.

At this time, Wang Junlin stood high on a chariot, pursed his lips, and observed the situation on the opposite side with a telescope.

He was carefully watching the entire Li Family's cavalry formation. He hoped to find a flaw in the Li Family's cavalry formation. However, Li Shentong was a veteran soldier and had rich experience in troop formations. Wang Junlin could not find a flaw in the opponent's formation for a while.

"In that case, let's kill!" Suddenly, Wang Junlin spat out these five words fiercely, "Send the order and let the cavalry of a thousand dead soldiers take the lead and attack the front of the Li family's army! Tear them apart!" Since the enemy army

There is no flaw in any part, so it will naturally hit the front.

As soon as he finished speaking, several big flags around him were nodded forward, and the sound of war drums and horns suddenly sounded together, and his ears were filled with a deafening "dong dong dong dong..."

"Wuwuwuwu..." followed by a thunderous sound coming from the ground beneath my feet, as if the ground was shaking.

"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" The front troops of the Whirlwind Battalion shouted three times in unison. One thousand Death Soldier cavalry led the way, and ten thousand Whirlwind Battalion cavalry rushed towards the Li family army like giant pythons.
To be continued...