In ancient battlefields, there were no telescopes. To investigate the military situation, one could often only climb high and look far away. It took more than a dozen people climbing for a quarter of an hour to find a place where they could overlook the battlefield.
Li Shan thought about getting a telescope when he turned around, and asked, "Can you see clearly?"
"It's the Tang army." Su Dingfang said decisively: "There are two to three hundred cavalry. The other side... has no Turkic soldiers. It should be under the command of King Dong of the Han Dynasty, and there are about two to three hundred cavalry."
Fan Laosan licked his dry lips, "Mr. Lang?"
This guy has learned well and no longer makes his own decisions. Li Shan thought for a while and then asked: "How is the victory or defeat?"
"The Tang army was defeated." Su Dingfang's eyesight was good enough.
Li Shan hesitated for a while. It was an easy choice not to save him. There were only about a hundred young men in the valley, and there were no more than fifty good cavalrymen charging into the battle. They might not be able to win if they offered help, but they might still be able to win.
You will drag yourself into the water.
Moreover, Su Dingfang's mother, adoptive mother, and children were all behind him. Li Shan felt that even if he wanted to help, Su Dingfang would refuse.
But the next moment, Su Dingfang turned around and ordered, "Count the number of people and prepare to attack."
Zhou Zhao and Guo Pu on the side were both stunned, while Ling Bo snorted and looked at Li Shan, "Thanks to you, the Tang army is chasing troops south. If you don't investigate, how can you rest assured... If it's Dezhou..."
Speaking of this, Ling Bo sneered twice, "This clever and clever move is really scary."
Li Shan understood this sentence. There was a war in the north, and taking the Dezhou route might not be safe... He had just predicted that Dezhou might have fallen.
It would be fine if other people just talked casually, but Li Shan's predictions in the past two days... obviously calmed down even old foxes like Ling Bo.
Therefore, the most important thing now is to ascertain the external situation, save this Tang army, and perhaps capture a few prisoners, ascertain the situation, and then choose the most suitable path.
However, Li Shan is still quite dissatisfied. If his pursuers move south, Texas may fall... Could it be me?
What does it mean to worship my gift!
Total nonsense!
The dark-faced Li Shan looked down silently. Under the steep cliff was a not-so-wide mountain road.
"Langjun, be careful." Zhu Bal pulled Li Shan.
"It must be as high as more than ten floors." Li Shan whispered to himself.
Over there, Su Dingfang had made arrangements, and he would only lead his headquarters and Guo Pu's and Fan Laosan's troops to attack. Zhujiagou's young men were not good at horse fighting, so they didn't bring them with them.
"Zhu Ba." Li Shan whispered: "Bring everyone over."
"Brother Su, please stop and hear something."
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Li Shan has always compared riding a horse to driving a car. His riding skills are probably at the pace of being scolded by his coach. After all, he would stall from time to time, and even lean out of the window and jump out of the window in a desperate attempt to kill himself.
Guo Pu and Fan Laosan are probably experienced drivers. They can juggle on a horse, and even playing Thomas is childish... This is what Li Shan has seen with his own eyes.
But today Li Shan saw the level of a professional racing driver.
Different from yesterday's perfect timing of attack and the way of ambush, Su Dingfang held a horse and stepped forward slowly at a high speed. The opponent was not stupid, and he immediately divided into dozens and rode over.
But when the two sides began to speed up and prepare to charge into the battle, Su Dingfang lifted the reins, and the horse turned around like flowing water, made an arc, and charged into the enemy's formation from the side.
Li Shan stood on the cliff and was amazed. Seeing Su Dingfang charging into the enemy's formation, a commotion immediately arose. The guy didn't even bother to use his horse. He slashed left and right with a long knife, and immediately fell off his horse. The surrounding enemy riders hurriedly got out of the way. The formation was immediately in chaos.
Su Dingfang dared to ride into the battle alone because he was backed by powerful force and because Li Shan lent him the Mingguang Armor.
This piece of Mingguang Armor was a gift from Li Kai. It is extremely sophisticated. Even if thousands of troops are wearing it, it can gallop through it. For example, in the battle of Tiger Prison Pass, Li Daoxuan was shot into a hedgehog without any problems, which is enough to prove the armor's strong defensive power.
There was a fierce man in the formation who was killing the enemy. Dozens of cavalry were approaching from the opposite side. Guo Pu and others held big bows and shot down the enemy cavalry with a few arrows. The enemy army finally couldn't bear it anymore and scattered to avoid it.
"General, there are reinforcements!"
The hoarse roar cheered Liu Jun up, and he wiped the blood on his face. He turned around and saw that there were only dozens of reinforcements coming from the side. Their clothes were chaotic, and only a dozen of them were wearing Tang army uniforms.
Since the defeat in the north of Xiabo City, Liu Jun led hundreds of cavalry to flee eastward. After taking in the deserters, he learned the truth about the defeat that day. He was discouraged and tried to go south. No one came to help him wherever he went, and almost all the cities surrendered. Liu Heitai, for his part, even refused to accept Liu Jun's clothes in the village.
Today, we actually saw reinforcements not far from the hometowns of Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai... although there were only a few dozen riders.
The dozens of separated cavalry were defeated without any suspense, and the enemy troops gathered together, allowing Liu Jun to lead his troops and join Su Dingfang.
"Liu Hujun!" Fan Laosan urged his horse to come over and shouted, "Where is Your Highness?"
Liu Jun's face was ashen and he shook his head in pain.
"Let's go, let's go quickly!" Su Dingfang shouted: "Old Fan, you lead the way through Feilong Gorge."
Li Shan on the cliff squinted his eyes and took a closer look. Su Dingfang led dozens of cavalry to press the formation. Fan Laosan took the lead and led the Tang army to rush here.
Looking at the slowly approaching enemy troops, Su Dingfang turned his horse's head and faced the enemy head-on. He put down his horse, held a big bow in his hand, and fired arrows continuously. He only heard a few screams.
It would be foolish to retreat when facing a superior force. The enemy troops rushed towards them at a faster speed without any surprise. Su Dingfang calmly fired a few more arrows before urging his horse to retreat.
"No ambush?"
After passing Feilong Gorge, Liu Jun couldn't help but ask: "What should I do with the pursuers?"
At this moment, a shrill scream came from behind. Liu Jun looked back and saw countless black spots falling from the sky. The enemy troops passing through Feilong Gorge were in chaos.
Su Dingfang reined in the reins and stopped his horse. Looking back, he saw that the enemy's front line was just a commotion, and the screams came from the middle and rear.
Just a small pebble, can it have such power?
Su Dingfang looked up in confusion and saw Li Shan standing in the wind on the cliff.
These days, Su Dingfang has also been observing Li Shan. In his opinion, this young man is very talented and knowledgeable, good at medical skills, has a good mind, has great strategies, and is also very good at analyzing the battle situation.
Although Ling Bo, Zhang Xuansu, and Zhou Zhao hated Li Shan's crow mouth, Su Dingfang knew that Li Shan's analysis was still very reasonable, and every judgment was reasonable... but he was not very lucky.
However, Su Dingfang also discovered that Li Shan was not good at fighting, so he had his own plans for charging into the battle this time, and did not place his hopes on the stones Li Shan mentioned.
But I didn't expect that these stones could so easily disrupt the enemy's pursuit.
Standing on the cliff, Li Shan seemed calm, but in fact he was uneasy. But when he faintly saw the bloody heads of the unlucky ghosts below, and heard the shrill screams, and even the whine of the war horses, he felt relieved.
When he first arrived at the Orthopedics Department in his previous life, Li Shan once saw a patient who was hit by a mahjong thrown by a resident on the eighth floor, and his collarbone was broken.
In fact, in the previous life, throwing objects from high altitudes was already criminalized under the criminal law. An ordinary egg dropped from the 25th floor was enough to kill an adult.
Li Shan roughly estimates that this cliff is at least seventeen or eighteen stories high. At such a height... there is no need to throw any big rocks, the threat of gravel is greater, and the price/performance ratio is higher.
Therefore, Li Shan asked Zhu Ba to call all the people and move all the gravel that could be found on the cliff.
The main reason why I am a little worried is that I am afraid that there are not enough stones, the coverage is not wide enough, and the damage caused to the enemy is not strong enough.
Fortunately, the canyon is relatively narrow, and the coverage of the stones is not bad. The enemy's rear half is almost disabled... Who would have thought that a small piece of gravel can have such power.
Li Shan carefully looked around and saw that the dozens of riders in front were facing Su Dingfang, Guo Pu's sharp arrows, and retreating to face the gravel falling from the sky.
Descending the mountain from the side, taking a detour into Feilong Gorge, he could smell the strong smell of blood as soon as he entered. Li Shan didn't care. Zhu Ba and Shitou behind him couldn't help but vomited even though they had been in battle.
"The muscles and bones were broken, even the war horses..." A strange color appeared on Su Dingfang's face, "About dozens of horses escaped."
"Check and find a few with minor injuries and bring them back for trial."
"No, there are a few prisoners."
"That's good." Li Shan said a few words casually and glanced a few times, "What a pity..."
"What?"
"It's a waste." Li Shan really felt it was a waste. When he was an intern, he waited for patients every day, and there were so many materials in front of him...
Time was running out, so they stopped cleaning the battlefield. They only sent people to take away the few uninjured horses, and everyone returned to the valley.
"Really defeated?"
As soon as he sat down, Zhou Zhao couldn't help but ask this question, and Liu Jun nodded silently.
"No need to talk nonsense." Li Shan pushed Zhou Zhao away and sat down, "How is the situation outside?"
"I don't know." Liu Jun said tiredly: "Since Xiabo went south, Hengshui, Xindu, and Nangong have all changed their flags, and even small towns have raised troops to resist, but I don't know that Beizhou..."
"General Manager Beizhou led his troops northward and was defeated in Jingcheng. Xu Shanhu's troops were defeated and died."
"No wonder..." Liu Jun nodded and said, "Zhangnan has fallen."
Li Shan frowned, "You were not chased all the way by the pursuers, but you met the enemy in Zhangnan?"
"Well, we encountered enemies in the old city on the north side of Zhangnan and fled all the way south. There were originally about 500 brothers, but now there are only more than 200 left..."
Ling Bo also heard the question, "Were you not pursued in Jizhou?"
"No." Liu Jun sighed: "Liu Heita will go west to attack Xingzhou."
Zhou Zhao's face looked quite happy, "That is to say, Liu Heitai has not gone east to attack Dezhou!"
This means that the route proposed by Li Shan before is feasible, heading east to Dezhou, and then south through Bozhou to Weizhou.
As long as we get to Bozhou or Weizhou, everything will be easy. If that doesn't work, we can just cross the Yellow River to Shaanxi Province. Can Liu Heitai fly there?
But the next moment, Zhou Zhao looked at Li Shan with frowning eyes in astonishment, and then turned around to see that Su Dingfang and Ling Bo were also frowning.
Li Shan forced a smile and said, "Uncle Ling is really clever."
Ling Bo's face darkened, "Let's set off immediately."
"No." Su Dingfang said solemnly: "It's difficult to travel at night without holding up fire. Holding up fire...that's the target."