Su Dingfang shouted sharply, clamped his legs together, accelerated suddenly, and the strong horse under his crotch shot out like a sharp arrow from the string.
Guo Pu and others on the left and right took up their bows and fired arrows, shooting down several soldiers who had discovered the enemy near the camp gate.
With a loud shout, Su Dingfang, who was advancing alone, raised his horse with his hand and forcibly knocked away the enemy soldier's horse that had just been moved.
However, the camp gate was wide open and there were no obstacles. Three hundred cavalrymen holding torches entered the camp smoothly.
A night attack by three hundred cavalry on an enemy force that is at least five times our own, even so late at night, is very risky. In fact, regardless of whether the enemy camp has a large amount of food and grass stored in it, setting the camp on fire is the only option.
At this moment, Dong Kang, who was sleeping soundly in the Chinese army's tent, was still having sweet dreams with his concubine in his arms. He was the first general to follow Dou Jiande and was highly regarded. Later, he was also the first to support Liu Heitai in raising troops.
Batch people are also highly regarded.
After the Luoshui battle at the beginning of the year, Dong Kang did not flee north to the Turks, but hid... Naturally, many years of savings and more than ten wives and concubines were lost.
However, Liu Heitai soon came back, and within a few months, Dong Kang took in three more concubines.
"General, general."
"Huh?" Dong Kang, who woke up after being pushed by his concubine, reluctantly opened his hazy sleepy eyes and was about to reprimand him impatiently, but then there was a loud shout that suddenly exploded in his ears.
"General, general, you're in trouble!" the guards exclaimed from outside.
When Dong Kang put on his shirt and rushed out of the camp with a long knife in his hand, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cave for the first time.
He was horrified to see the blazing flames on the bank of Qinghe River in the south. It was a warehouse where grain and grass were stored, and they were supposed to be shipped to Luozhou the day after tomorrow.
"Fight the fire, go and put out the fire..."
Dong Kang's shouts suddenly stopped, and several torches were thrown from nowhere, setting fire to the surrounding tents.
A cold arrow passed by Dong Kang's cheek, bringing up a few strands of blood, and was nailed to the tent.
Now, Dong Kang could no longer care about the food and grass being burned.
Dong Kang looked sideways and saw several knights bent their bows and arrows in a hurry, shooting down the soldiers who rushed out of the camp.
Then hundreds of cavalry appeared in Dong Kang's sight. They shouted loudly, set fire to the tents, and drove the soldiers who hurriedly ran out of the tents to the rear of the camp.
Of course Dong Kang knew what the other party wanted to do. He wanted to completely disrupt the camp, cause chaos in the army, and trample on each other... However, this also showed that the number of enemy troops attacking was not large.
Under the reflection of the hot and bright firelight, Dong Kang grabbed a long knife and shouted loudly to gather his guards. He may not be defeated, he may not be defeated!
Just as this thought flashed through his mind, a shrill and familiar scream sounded not far away. Dong Kang looked intently, and saw a tall and majestic knight holding a horse spear, rushing out of the horse, and the tip of the spear was easily lifted.
It crossed the chests of several soldiers.
"Hurry back and drive the defeated troops back!"
"Don't worry about the left side. Follow me. If there are soldiers gathering, shout for peace!"
The majestic knight lifted up his mask and commanded loudly. The flames on the burned tent fluttered in the wind, reflecting the knight's face.
"Su Dingfang, it's Su Dingfang..."
"How could it be Su Dingfang?!"
Dong Kang watched in amazement as Su Dingfang waved his horses and horses to drive the soldiers back into the formation, galloping back and forth, with no enemy in the formation.
As a general of the Xia army, Dong Kang naturally recognized Su Dingfang, the elegant and virtuous adopted son of Zuo Pushe.
"General, general..." The concubine's cry came from behind.
As if hearing the woman's voice, Su Dingfang suddenly turned his head, holding a spear in one hand, pointing straight at Dong Kang.
Without even a trace of hesitation, Dong Kang immediately fled to the back of the camp. He was a self-aware person. Although Su Dingfang was not senior and was not valued by Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai, he was a rare brave general in Hebei. At least he was by no means a
adversary.
But the problem is that Dong Kang, the commander-in-chief, fled, and a dozen of his personal guards also fled with him.
Therefore, the countless soldiers who had just rushed out of the camp and were gradually gathering towards Dong Kang... followed Dong Kang without hesitation.
No one tried to stop the Tang army from killing people, and no one tried to stop the Tang army from setting fire to the camp.
Dong Kang's escape... is equivalent to a woman being stripped of her clothes. Before the man can take action, she throws away the last thing she owns. Come on!
The fire spread rapidly in the camp, and there were endless cries and screams. The Tang army set fires recklessly and killed many people.
Every step of the Tang army was carried out under the command of Su Dingfang, from charging into the enemy camp, to taking the lead in setting fire to the granary, and then leading the army to raid the Chinese army's tent to disperse the soldiers who had not completely gathered around Fan Yuan.
Su Dingfang led the troops and followed Fan Yuan calmly, firing arrows from time to time. After the charge, uncontrollable chaos spread throughout the camp.
At this time, you can see the appearance of Su Dingfang as a famous general. In such a chaotic battle situation, he can actually perform micro-management.
While Su Dingfang personally led hundreds of cavalry, either chasing horses to drive them away, or setting up bows and firing arrows, or personally killing small groups of enemy troops, allowing the fleeing soldiers to disrupt the rear of the camp, he analyzed the battle situation, divided his troops, and asked Liu Jun to go around from the right.
Conduct a raid.
Dong Kang gritted his teeth and stared at the familiar figure in the distance. He grabbed a war horse and mounted it. He held a long knife and shouted: "Don't mess around. Those with spears go forward, and the rest go..."
Before he finished speaking, in the bright flames, a faint shadow cut across the sky.
The next moment, General Dong Kang, who had been relied upon by Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai, suddenly had a long arrow appear on his chest. He swayed, allowing the surrounding soldiers to see clearly before he fell down.
Li Shan, who was far away on the hills outside the camp, could faintly hear the roar of the explosion. The formation behind the camp was completely in disarray. Several generals who tried to stand up to rectify were either killed by Su Dingfang's sharp arrows or pulled away by the soldiers who were eager to escape.
dismount.
Dong Kang's death in battle made the soldiers who were still preparing to resist no longer have the will to fight. The large number of soldiers who fled in a noisy manner completely collapsed the array that had begun to gather at the rear of the camp.
A large number of soldiers fled to the east, and the long swords in their hands no longer swung at the enemy, but slashed at any comrades who dared to stop them.
At this time, Liu Jun, who was making a detour, was leading more than a hundred Tang cavalry to attack from the right.
He almost ignored the crazy speed of his horse, the sharp steel knife in his hand, the shining horse's shaft, and the ferocious face that flashed past in the dark firelight.
"It's the Tang Army, it's the Tang Army here!"
Escape became the only option for the enemy soldiers.
Shouts of fear, thundering hoofbeats,
All this caused the hundreds of enemy troops who were still trying to flee in a group to collapse. More than a hundred Tangqi effortlessly penetrated the enemy formation, circled around and charged again.
Liu Jun's jaws were already broken, so he simply threw away his horse, pulled out the scimitar given by Li Shan, and started slashing in all directions.
Now, the fate of those soldiers was a bit miserable.
On the hill to the east of the camp, Li Shan could faintly see by the light of the fire that the soldiers who were forced to flee wildly by the cavalry charge had no choice but to run into the blazing fire. Several figures covered with fire were swaying, or I was forced to simply jump into the bitingly cold Qinghe water.
This is the ancient battlefield, where countless human lives are regarded as nothing... Li Shan said silently in his heart, there is no right or wrong, only victory or defeat.
Half an hour later, Li Shan rode a white horse and entered the camp accompanied by five followers. He smelled a strange smell from a distance, as if some meat had been roasted...or was it burnt?
"I just asked the prisoner that this person is Dong Kang, the general under Liu Heitai's tent." Liu Jun pointed to a corpse, "It seems that Liu Heitai's army is really short of food and grass, otherwise he would not let Dong Kang supervise the food and grass management. "
Li Shan glanced at it and ignored it, only asking about the casualties.
Su Dingfang said softly: "Zhu Shitou led people to burn the granary, but only three or four people were injured."
Along the way, Su Dingfang had already figured out clearly that Guo Pu and the other five were the generals of the Danyang House of the Li family in Longxi, and Zhu Ba, Zhu Shitou, Zhao Da and others were the disciples of Li Shan.
"Nearly twenty people died in the battle." Liu Jun cut off Dong Kang's head with a long knife.
Liu Jun led more than 500 cavalry to escape from Xiabo and went all the way south to Beizhou. When he was rescued by Li Shan, there were only more than 200 cavalry left. Now nearly 20 people have died in the battle, but this time the price is very high.
In fact, there were not so many casualties originally. Su Dingfang's command was impeccable, and his personal force and troop deployment were perfect.
However, the Tang army led by Liu Jun was filled with resentment, and the accumulated emotions needed a violent outlet. After the enemy troops had fled and collapsed, they still refused to give up and killed them all, which resulted in more casualties.
However, no matter what, 300 cavalry attacked five times the enemy's force and defeated them, killing the general Dong Kang and burning all the food and grass. This was a great victory and a perfect night attack.
There were almost no prisoners. They either fled eastward along the Qinghe River, fell into the fire cave and were burned by the fire, or jumped into the Qinghe River... With such a temperature, there was almost no possibility of survival.
Those who knelt down and surrendered... were chopped down one by one by Liu Jun's Tang soldiers and their heads were cut off.
Li Shan came with the army this time. He did not bring any weapons, but only some medicine and cloth. He immediately applied medicine and bandages to the injured.
Li Shan was working hard at both ends, thinking about the impact of this battle. There shouldn't be any problems if he continued to go south, right?
He wanted to stand up and make a promise, but Li Shan himself was a little scared...it would be better to shut up.
Although it was an accident several times and had nothing to do with Li Shan... it was really uncomfortable to be ridiculed by Zhou Zhao and Ling Bo all the time because of this matter.
Guo Pu, who was interrogating the prisoners just now, suddenly came over and said, "Lang Jun, the rebels still have hundreds of soldiers in Wucheng."
"Wucheng?" Li Shan asked strangely: "That's north of Liting..."
Fan Laosan walked over with a sullen face, "Fan Shiyi is imprisoned in Wucheng."
Li Shan was startled, what do you mean?
But the next moment, Li Shan keenly noticed that something was wrong with Fan Laosan's expression, and the faces of several Tang soldiers around him also had complicated expressions, filled with expectations and questions.
"Don't abandon, don't give up!"
Li Shan stood up and repeated: "Don't abandon, don't give up!"
Seeing that Fan Laosan's expression softened, Li Shan waved to Su Dingfang, "There are hundreds of cavalry in Wucheng. If we wait south, we may not be able to escape the pursuers."
Su Dingfang was calm and only asked: "Brother Li, what do you mean..."
"That prisoner... Kang what?"
"Kangding."
"Yes, Kangding, are you being honest?" Li Shan coughed twice, "Let him take a few prisoners and trick him into opening the city gate in the name of the camp being attacked and the food and grass being burned..."
Seeing Su Dingfang's hesitation, Li Shan came closer and whispered: "Fan Shiyi is being held in Wucheng."
Su Dingfang took two steps back, glanced at Fan Laosan from the corner of his eye, cupped his hands and said, "Everyone is following Brother Li's instructions."
Li Shan was a little worried, "Is it feasible?"
"The camp was attacked and we rushed to report the news. As long as we tricked the city gate into opening, everything should go smoothly."
Su Dingfang's execution ability was strong enough, and he quickly gathered his cavalry and headed north, but left all the thirty young men in Zhujiagou to Li Shan.
Li Shan watched the cavalry disappear into the darkness and sighed quietly: "Zhu Ba, tell me... am I too tolerant of Su Dingfang?"
Zhu Ba touched his head and said, "Mr. Lang has a keen eye. The eldest son of the Su family is indeed remarkable. Uncle Guo is also full of praise."
Unlike Fan Laosan, Guo Pu was a general of the Li family in Longxi and the leader of Li Keshi's bodyguard. He had witnessed many wars and was quite knowledgeable.
In the previous battles, it could be said that Su Dingfang's superior force played the main role, but today's night attack, Su Dingfang's perfect performance amazed Guo Pu.
Li Shan sighed again. Ever since they met that day, the importance he attached to Su Dingfang... could be seen by everyone.
Not only did Zhenxiang suddenly take action to rescue Su's mother, not only did Su Dingfang let the old, weak, women and children slow down the speed, but Su Dingfang also decided which path to take. He even let Su Dingfang make the decision for several attacks.
Li Shan's emphasis on Su Dingfang largely comes from historical records. This was a famous general who destroyed the Three Kingdoms... But for Fan Laosan and other Tang army warriors, they did not understand.
In Fan Laosan's view, even though Su Dingfang was extremely skilled in martial arts, he was once a general under Dou Jiande and Liu Heitai.
Along the way, the conflict between Fan Laosan and Su Dingfang had long been revealed, but was suppressed by Li Shan. But if Li Shan refuses to send troops to rescue Fan Shiyi this time... I'm afraid this small team will fall apart.
.
After all, Fan Laosan only had about ten men before, but now the Tang army has more than two hundred soldiers... It is difficult to prevent trouble.
However, Li Shan was just following the trend.
In my previous life, I was a rural child raised by my grandparents. Step by step, I went from a village primary school to a town middle school, then to a county middle school, and finally entered a key university.
Living hard, studying hard, spending countless energy and thoughts, in order to stay in the famous tertiary hospital in Shanghai.
Can such a person be evaluated as having no ambition?
Coming to this era, Li Shan's first thought was to leave his name in history and live his wonderful life here.
Ambition has always been buried deep in this man's heart.
On the one hand, this attack is to solve the current dilemma, but on the other hand, it is also a means for Li Shan to increase his weight.
Since you want to have more weight, then after a successful night attack, a sneak attack on Wucheng is not an unacceptable option.
On the still dark plain, Li Shan led his horse forward slowly, wondering what this night attack would bring to him.
Xingzhou had fallen, and Qi Shanxing, who was once a general under Dou Jiande, did not surrender, but led his troops to retreat south to Luozhou.
But the general manager of Luozhou is Li Yuan, the king of Lujiang County. This person is a direct descendant of the East Palace. Will he lead the troops and hold on?
It has been two days since Li Daoxuan's defeat, and the battle report will be sent to the capital soon. When will Prince Li Jiancheng choose to invite his own troops to go on an expedition?