The commotion of the Tang army also frightened Li Po.
He really didn't expect that the Tang army could not survive even one night, and fell into civil strife even when it was not attacked.
He had never seen such a thing in Liaodong, never seen it in Yunzhong Grassland, and never seen it in Youzhou, Hebei Province.
Of course, this is related to the fact that he has never been exposed to bandit warfare since joining the army.
The turbulent peasant uprising in the late Sui Dynasty has come to an end at this time. In fact, except for Dou Jiande in Hebei and Li Gui in the northwest, all the other princes have their origins.
In the wars Li Po had experienced before, who were the enemies?
The Turkic tribe cavalry and the Youzhou frontier army all have their own strengths. If Li Po hadn't succeeded in successive surprise attacks, they would never have been as vulnerable as the Tang army.
It can be said that the army led by Li Shentong was actually an authentic local army in the Central Plains. In the past few months of war, it displayed various characteristics consistent with the local army.
It has a certain fighting capacity, but it has nothing to do with a strong army that is tenacious and dares to fight, is not arrogant when it wins, and is not discouraged when it loses.
In addition to their large numbers, they are useless compared to frontier armies such as the Bingdai Army, and are no different from the rebels who fought against Shangguan Army back then.
If the Tang Army and the infantry of the Bingdai Army met, there might still be a stalemate for some time. After all, the time for the Bingdai Infantry Army to form an army was still short, but the result would not be much different. The foundation of the Bingdai Infantry Army was also not that of the Tang Army.
can be compared.
However, when it was first severely damaged by the cavalry of the parallel army, and then besieged by hundreds of thousands of cavalry and infantry, the Tang army collapsed almost immediately.
The commander-in-chief of the army, Li Shentong, wants to escape privately, so it is not surprising that the generals of the army have their thoughts.
Of course, without the Henan surrender army, the Tang army might have collapsed in daylight, but with Xu Shiji and other ruthless guys who always put their own life and death first, the collapse of the Tang army would have been accelerated.
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For Li Po, this was the last accident in this battle.
Having led troops in battles for many years, he was no less decisive than Xu Shiji and others. After hearing the report, he was shocked and without any hesitation, he immediately ordered all the troops to light torches.
Naturally, he knew the dangers of night battles. In the snow and cold, nearly ten thousand Turks were at the end of their game. When dawn came, he sent an army to raid. Naturally, the Turks were deceived, but the five hundred he sent out
Most of the soldiers were also injured.
This is a night battle, cruel and extremely dangerous. It is hard to imagine scenes in romance novels where sneak attacks at night are commonplace.
Therefore, the military order he issued at this time was not to take advantage of the chaos to attack, but to light torches and guard the camp so that the enemy could not take advantage of it.
Whether the decision of the army coach is wise or not depends on the result.
In the darkness surrounding the Tang Army camp, torches were lit one after another. Looking down from the sky, the scene was very spectacular.
In fact, this was indeed one of the top battles among the Jin wars. Hundreds of thousands of people were entangled in the mountains and wilderness in southern Bingzhou. Countless blood was shed in the intrigues, and finally in the
There was a result this evening.
Several groups of people sent by Xu Shiji were quickly brought to Li Po one after another.
Li Po naturally knew Xu Shiji's name, but he didn't have a good impression of these people who were killed in Henan and didn't recognize their relatives. People like Li Mi and Wang Shichong were actually on his blacklist long ago.
When he was planning to raise his troops to go south, if you asked him who he wanted to attack most, Li Yuan was actually at the back. The people he wanted to kill most were actually Wang Shichong, Li Mi, and those grass-head kings in Hebei.
Don't mention any clans or rebels. In his opinion, these guys who kill all the bones everywhere regardless of care are worthy of death. Therefore, Luo Yi and Song Jingang and others may have great value in front of others, but in front of him But there was no way to survive, and his head fell to the ground in an understatement.
Xu Shiji and Li Po thought about it for a while. According to the current situation, it might just be a matter of his words to surround Xu Shiji and others by the Fenshui River. It is no different from the previous killings of Luo Yi, Song Jingang, or Liu Wuzhou and others. The celebrity effect It doesn't work here.
The only thing that could stop his murderous intention was probably not Xu Shiji's reputation or his talent, but just his attitude towards surrendering people.
There is no need to think about it. After raising his troops and going south, he will encounter all kinds of surrenders. Xu Shiji is not the first, and he will definitely not be the last.
How is he going to deal with those he hates? Is he going to take it all in or is he going to kill them all?
At this time, the consideration of talents was actually put behind him. How to recruit surrenders and rebels, and how to treat these surrenders, were the focus of his consideration.
In fact, without much thought, a problem that had been vaguely bothering him emerged. As his territory expanded, he needed more and more people to assist him.
At this level, there is no difference between Zhang Lun and Xu Shiji. The crux is not whether to kill or not, but how to identify and use these talents so that they can do their best to advise him and lead troops on conquests, instead of doing what they did before Just like that, the word "loyalty" needs to be eaten.
Of course, this issue will take him a long time to think about before it matures. What he has to do now is just to accept the surrender of a surrendered person.
After that, he also had a small hope in his heart. The Tang army camp was in such chaos, maybe those bullshit Henan heroes would go to see the King of Hell.
Facts have proved that it is the truth in the world that if good people do not live long, they will cause trouble for thousands of years.
And that was what happened during the day of the second day. In the evening, with the rumbling noise echoing in his ears, Li Po led his troops to patrol the camp to calm the morale of the troops. Don't be influenced by the Tang army who was about to kill the dog's brains. Yingxiao and all that are just a joke.
In the midst of his busy schedule, he also carefully inquired with the people sent by Xu Shiji about the origins of Xu Shiji, Zhang Liang and others, mainly about their previous backgrounds, official positions, achievements and other things.
After asking again, Li Po felt a little more disgusted when he returned to the Chinese army's main account, but it was still reasonable.
These guys who were killed in Henan generally had low backgrounds, which was nothing. Of course, this also meant that they had done "good things" such as opening warehouses and releasing grain, and they also had their share of burning, killing and looting.
As for the Wagang bandits, committing crimes and committing crimes is their main business. The so-called heroes of Wagang actually have a strong smell of blood on them.
At the beginning of the Liaodong War, they were plundering the countryside, and later they were plundering the canal fleet.
When the world gradually became chaotic, they roared out, attacked the states and plundered the mansions. The only thing they did was to open warehouses and stockpile grain and gather people to rebel. When Li Mi joined and recruited surrenders and rebels, they quickly swelled.
Then they began to slowly undergo some changes. While their combat effectiveness was greatly improved, they also had more ambitious goals.
When they captured Luokou Dacang and their momentum increased again, from Li Mi, Zhai Rang, to Xu Shiji, Cheng Zhijie, Shan Xiongxin and other generals, they almost threw everything else aside, surrounding the mountains of grain and grass. Various warehouses in Luoyang began a battle for several years with the Luoyang defenders.
There is no doubt that they are one of the main culprits of Henan's population decline. Others, besides Sui Emperor Yang Guang, are Wang Shichong and other Luoyang defenders.
Then there was a series of internal fighting. Zhai Rang died, Xu Shiji defected to Li Mi, Li Mi was in a desperate situation, Xu Shiji led his people to defect to Li Tang, and now, he was about to surrender to Li Po again.
A group of lost dogs and unfamiliar white-eyed wolves, Li Po groaned in his heart, and even the joy of the upcoming victory was diluted a lot.
In addition to Xu Shiji, there is also Zhang Liang.
Li Po really had no inherent impression of this man in his mind, but his experience made Li Po's eyes brighten a little. This man was the military judge next to Li Mi.
Nowadays, he really lacks a strict and formidable person in charge of military law. Li Bi is pregnant, and Xue Wanjun is a bit clingy. He has never been in charge of military law before, and he is a descendant of Youzhou, so he inevitably has the ability to protect himself. Heart.
This made the operation of the Military Justice Department very unsmooth, and many matters had to be reported to him for decision-making.
Well, this is still a bit far away. It takes some time to observe what kind of temperament these Henan generals have. Once they are under his command, they can be reused immediately. So far, they are Chen Xiaoyi, Wen Yanbo and other literati. The generals are not even one.
At night, under the starlight, the names Xu Shiji and Zhang Liang were quietly removed from the blacklist by Li Po and marked as pending investigation.
The Tang army was in chaos for half a night, and I don’t know how many people died during the night. Anyway, the thick smell of blood gradually floated on the bank of Fenshui. In the rushing Fenshui, human heads rolled down the river. It was because of the panic that they lost their feet. Tang soldiers who fell into the river or wanted to escape along the river.
Under the moonlight, within a radius of dozens of miles, the figures were all Tang Army soldiers who had escaped from the camp.
Some people saw the opportunity quickly and rushed south in groups. They were like a group of nocturnal animals, trying to avoid the patches of fire.
Before dawn, the Tang Army's camp gradually became quiet. Apart from the horrifying screams of the injured, there were not many other sounds.
In the Tang army's camp, which was less than ten miles long and wide, the fighting had ended, and the exhausted people gathered together in one place, panting violently.
Li Shentong's commander-in-chief flag was still flying high, and thousands of Guanxi troops surrounded the commander-in-chief flag and held it against the surrounding Henan surrender troops.
In fact, most of the fighting in this half night was between the Henan Army and the Guanxi Army, and all the Jin troops had dispersed.
Monthly pass, monthly pass, and finally finished coding this chapter before seven o'clock. Ah Cao wanted to take a break. He hasn't gone out for entertainment in many days. Haha, to be continued.