On the top of the mountain, Li Shan helped Li Yuan sit on a big rock. He turned around and looked around. Originally there should have been three halls here, but now they have all been demolished... It's so tragic. It is said that when Renshou Palace was built, more than 10,000 civilians died.
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Although he was tired, hungry, and injured, Li Yuan refused to rest and took Li Shan to sit down with him. Many important ministers such as Zhongshu Ling Yang Gongren, Shangshu's right servant She Xiao Yu, and the injured Huangmen Minister Tang Jian
, Zhongshu Minister Yu Wenshi and Wen Yanbo sat down around Li Shan...well, Pei Shiju sat silently in the corner.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty. More than an hour ago, Longzhou Sima Lin Xingcan led 3,000 soldiers southward from Lishui and arrived ten miles away from Tiantai Mountain." Li Shan gave everyone a reassurance before answering Li Yuan's previous question.
Li Shan and Zhang Zhongjian led six to seven hundred personal guards to come to the rescue. Liang Jun tried to lure the enemy deep and defeat them in one fell swoop. Zhang Zhongjian chose to avoid the side attack... Among the choices between the east and west, Li Shan chose the west.
Just like Ling Jing's previous question, Li Shan also thought that if Liang Jun could not defeat him, he would probably madly attack Tiantai Mountain at the last moment, trying to capture Li Yuan, and Li Shimin would come to save his life.
This is why Li Shan chose Seomyeon.
Some time ago, Li Yuan set out from Chang'an to come to Renshou Palace to escape the summer heat. Li Shan was summoned to arrive in advance and walked around the entire Renshou Palace. He knew the terrain here very well. There was a long wall to the west of the palace, and Du Shui was outside.
It is a tributary of Lishui River.
In the previous battles, Liang Jun lost nearly a thousand troops, and had to divide his troops to confront Zhang Zhongjian's troops who were stationary. The troops were no longer enough to fully control Renshou Palace.
Li Shan sent Fan Shiyi and other scouts across the river to check, and found that there were only a few dozen Liang soldiers at the foot of the mountain on the west side. There was no way, the trail going up the mountain was extremely narrow, and no matter how many troops there were, they couldn't use it. What's more, at the last moment, Liang soldiers
The army violently attacked Tiantai Mountain, and Liang Luoren concentrated almost all his troops on the central road.
So Li Shan asked his guards to search around, found several small boats on the upper reaches of Dushui River, transported his guards across the river, climbed the city wall and sneaked into the palace, made a surprise attack, and easily killed dozens of Liang soldiers.
Li Shan asked Zhang Zhongjian to lead more than 400 personal guards to continue on the outside, and he took 200 personal guards up the mountain from the trail to support the defenders.
Yu Wenshi and Tang Qi looked at Tang Qi who was still outside from a distance and asked: "Huairen, who is leading the army outside?"
"Commander of the bodyguard Zhang Zhongjian." Li Shan said sternly: "Although he is Yuan Junzhang's old corps, he is not reused. When the army was organized in Mayi, Zhang Zhongjian rushed into the formation with a hundred horses and captured He Xiaodong alive."
"Later Zhang Zhongjian served as the Shuozhou Bing Cao and joined the army. This man bravely championed the three armies and was also proficient in the art of war. He made great contributions in the great victory at Cangtou River."
"Another Su Dingfang, Wang Junhao?" Li Yuan said with a smile: "Does Huairen want to be appointed as a civil servant?"
"Your Majesty is joking." Li Shan was a little embarrassed, and there was a small sound around him.
It was interesting for Li Shan to think about it. The bodyguards around him led the four people in front and behind him. The earliest servant Guo was the general of Danyang House of Li family in Longxi.
In the next three terms, Su Dingfang was granted the title of Duke, and Wang Junhao was also granted the title of County Prince. It is estimated that Zhang Zhongjian may also be granted the title after this battle. After all, there is nothing better than rescuing... What's more, Li Shan has no title now.
However, the title cannot be mentioned again. It is reasonable for Zhang Zhongjian to be knighted.
But it's not really about Li Shan's good vision, it's mainly about taking advantage of the time travellers. In history, Su Dingfang, who destroyed the Three Kingdoms and captured his master, Zhang Zhongjian, the leader of the Three Fengchen Heroes, and Wang Junhao were brought in entirely by Su Dingfang.
Tang Jian, the assistant minister of Huangmen, suddenly asked in surprise: "Since this man made meritorious service last year, why did he abandon his post and join the Handan sect?"
Li Shan sighed, "This man was quite famous in the army back then, but he was just a small military leader, mainly because..."
Speaking of this, Li Shan hesitated for a moment, and Yuwen Shiji remembered, "Oh, is that the guard who accompanied Huairen in and out of Sinong Temple this year?"
Seeing Li Shan nod, Yuwen Shiji turned to Li Yuan and explained, "No wonder, that man is ugly."
Li Shan said seriously: "It is indeed ugly, but if he is reused, his achievements in the future will not be inferior to Su Dingfang's."
Li Yuan nodded with a smile, "Is the Duke of Daiguo immeasurable?"
"Uh..." Li Shan didn't expect Li Yuan to ask such a question, so he replied hesitantly: "Last year, I was still trapped in Guji Town. Zhang Zhongjian rushed from Mayi to Yanmen, urging the Duke to send troops."
"Actually, Zhang Zhongjian and Duke Dai are old acquaintances. Maybe your Majesty has also met him."
Li Yuan was stunned for a moment before he remembered that when he was training troops in Mayi and defeated the invading Turks, the vanguard of the army at that time was Li Jing, the Prime Minister of Mayi County. Zhang Zhongjian might be under his command, or maybe he was his old army.
Li Yuan did not ask any more questions, but he already knew that Zhang Zhongjian was obviously promoted by Li Shanjian. He was his direct descendant in the Daizhou Army, and he was once Li Jing's old subordinate... but he chose Li Shan instead.
Abandoned his post after the war.
Everyone on the top of the mountain was relaxing after being nervous, and no one knew where the conversation was going. But on the mountainside, the brutal fighting was still going on.
The terrain on the mountainside is slightly flat, and there is a large piece of flat land. The soldiers of the Tang Dynasty are resisting desperately, and the Liang soldiers are advancing step by step. The King of Qin, Li Shimin, has already gone into battle personally with a sword, and even had a face-to-face encounter with the opponent's general Liang Luoren.
It's a pity that even though Yuchi Gong and Qin Qiong were on his side, he couldn't take the other party's life.
During the chaotic battle, Duan Zhixuan, who was wearing multiple wounds, held a broken spear in his left hand and a long knife in his right hand. He stabbed the spear head straight and the knife flashed, killing several people in succession, but also attracted more than a dozen Liang soldiers to attack.
Duan Zhixuan yelled loudly, but was forced to retreat. He stumbled, tripped over a corpse, and saw a spear stabbing towards his chest.
Knowing that he couldn't hide, Duan Zhixuan's face twisted, and he threw the broken gun with his left hand. The next moment, a crisp sound rang in his ears.
A long knife struck the head of the spear accurately, and the sharp tip of the spear missed Duan Zhixuan's throat, while the short spear he threw accurately hit the opponent's chest.
Duan Zhixuan, who was sitting on the ground, flashed a familiar figure in front of his eyes. A burly man holding a long knife jumped over two fallen corpses. Behind him were dozens of fierce soldiers.
It was Wang Junhao... Duan Zhixuan recognized him. After all, since Li Shan went to Dai County, Wang Junhao has always been by Li Shan's side and never stayed away.
From the corner of Duan Zhixuan's eye, he saw more than a hundred soldiers passing by the remaining soldiers who were almost dead or injured. Hou Hongtao at the front was wielding two swords and charging fiercely while being guarded by shields on the left and right. Liang Bing's momentum was shattered.
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Duan Zhixuan gained strength from nowhere, jumped up, and shouted: "Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming!"
In fact, the Liang soldiers at the front had already discovered that the hundreds of soldiers who had just joined the battlefield must be reinforcements. After all, after three days of fighting, everyone knew that the defenders were exhausted.
But after the shouts resounded through the mountains, within a short period of time, Liang Jun's morale went from being frustrated to stagnating, and the riot quickly spread.
Li Shimin leaned against the mountain wall tiredly, looking at Liang Luoren not far away who looked livid but did not dare to step forward.
Although he knew that continuing the attack was the only way to survive, and although he didn't know where the reinforcements came from, Liang Luoren knew that he had no chance.
There are still nearly two thousand soldiers under his command. Although there are hundreds of Tang cavalry outside, Liang Luoren still wants to try...if he can break out of the siege and escape back to Lingzhou.
After Li Shan led 200 personal guards to reach the top of Tiantai Mountain, only two quarters of an hour later, Liang Jun stopped the attack and began their near-death escape.