Although it was early winter in the North, Li Shan couldn't help but shrink his neck frequently during the march. In his previous life, he was from the Central Plains. He went to university in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he had never experienced the coldness of a bone-chilling steel knife in the North.
Seven days ago, the fleet meandered from the Yellow River to the northeast, landed at Huazhou Baima, and switched to land travel at Liyangcang. In addition to more than a thousand civilians, the grain transport brigade was escorted by 300 soldiers.
All the way north, passing Weizhou, Xiangzhou, Luozhou, arriving at Xingzhou, paying the grain and rice, everything went smoothly, but the king of Huaiyang, Li Daoxuan, was not in Xingzhou, but in Yizhou.
After hesitating for a long time, Li Shan, who was unfamiliar with the place, went to Jizhou on Guo Pu's suggestion. With Liu Heitai sweeping across half of Hebei, he felt safer among the army.
But Li Shan's main concern was another issue. Although Qi Shanxing, the general manager of Xingzhou, was from the Second Left Guard Army of the Qin Palace, he was originally from Dou Jiande's old army and only surrendered to the Tang Dynasty after the First World War at Hulao Pass.
Liu Heitai raised troops twice, and Dou Jiande's old troops gathered in all the provinces in Hebei to respond. Many of them, as the general manager of one continent, relied on all the states. Just half a month ago, Liu Hui, the general manager of Guanzhou, rebelled in the city.
Seeing the outline of the tall city in the distance, Guo Pu turned around and yelled a few words, then galloped to Li Shan's side, "Li Langjun, please rest for a while, we will arrive in another hour."
Li Shan's face was numb, and he nodded stiffly but remained motionless. Zhu Ba, who was on the side, led the two of them to hold Li Shan and get off the horse...
The journey was fine before. After all, there was a carriage, and Li Shan could still hide in the carriage... But when he came to Yizhou after paying for the grain and rice, Li Shan could only ride a horse.
With Li Shan's riding skills, running a fast horse without falling off is considered a rapid progress. Sitting in the saddle for a long time... Whoever rides knows the feeling.
Guo Pu couldn't help laughing and looked at Li Shan, who was limping on both legs, and whispered: "Stay with it for another half a month, and the cocoon will come out and it will be fine."
Li Shan replied with a vicious expression, spreading his legs as wide as possible, wishing he could get into a horse stance... There is no cotton these days, and the material of the underwear is hard to describe!
Guo Pu finally couldn't help laughing. A few days ago, Li Shan secretly asked... Li's Danyang family in Longxi, which passed down the art of war, did he have any ointment... Guo Pu said honestly that he didn't, whether it was a clan member or an attached soldier.
, you have to grind out a layer of cocoon.
"Be patient..." Guo Pu helped Li Shan move his hands and feet while staring at Zhu Ba and others' arrangements.
Although there were only thirty or forty people, Guo Pu reminded Zhu Ba and others every time they set off from Xingzhou, and every time they rested or stayed overnight, they sent out scouts, set up hidden sentries, and placed horses and ordnance in a careful manner.
"Isn't this all the secrets kept by the Li family in Longxi?"
"It's just a small path. In fact, the young men in the village seem to have learned it..." Guo Pu paused and said thoughtfully: "Of the thirty young men, four of them are good at bows and arrows. It shows that they were not picked casually.
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Seeing Li Shan's confused look, Guo Pu laughed and said: "The general's bodyguards in the army usually consist of a team of thirty people, four of whom use bows and arrows..."
Li Shan squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then asked in a low voice: "What if we encounter rebels?"
"Jizhou has not been lost yet and will not encounter rebels."
Zhu Ba on the side smiled and said: "As long as you don't encounter the Turkic elite cavalry and can escape without any danger, Dalang can rest assured..."
Before he finished speaking, a horse came rushing towards him from afar.
"It's Zhao Da." Li Shan was excited.
"Turks...Turks!" Zhao Qiqi said panting: "More than a hundred riders are chasing us!"
Li Shan was so angry that he didn't care about the numbness in his thighs and put his foot on Zhu Ba's butt, "You crow's mouth!"
"Quick, quick!"
"Stop packing, mount up, everyone mount up!"
More than a hundred Turkic cavalry faced off against thirty or forty...most of them were just rough riders...well, they couldn't be counted as soldiers, they were all rookies who had never been in battle.
Li Shan didn't bring a machine gun, so what could he do if he didn't run for his life quickly?
Holding the horse's belly tightly with his legs, he ran towards the city with all his strength. Li Shan looked back and saw more than a hundred Turkic cavalrymen waving their swords in their hands and shouting something, chasing him relentlessly.
Guo Pu did not come alone this time. He brought four personal guards of the Li family. The five of them surrounded Li Shan in the middle, for fear that Li Shan would fall.
"Don't panic, you won't be able to catch up." Guo Pu is a veteran in the battlefield. He took a rough look at the distance and said, "Don't squeeze your legs too tightly, and lean forward slightly."
He also wanted to give some advice on riding skills... Li Shan breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly thought that he could no longer feel the soreness and numbness in his thighs.
There was a dense forest ahead, and dozens of riders made a difficult turn... Li Shanzhi couldn't handle it well, but it was Guo Pu who came over and held the reins to help.
Just as he turned around, Li Shan's eyes narrowed, and he saw a group of dark cavalry approaching slowly.
Before the panicked Li Shan could calm down, Guo Pu had already let go of the reins, accelerated out of the formation, and shouted in peace.
The Li family guard on the side whispered: "One of our own."
In just a moment, the two hundred cavalry in front separated into two columns. One column stayed at the corner and stared at Li Shan and his party. The other hundred cavalry began to accelerate. In front of them, the Turkic cavalry who easily followed the horse and turned the corner had appeared.
This was the first time Li Shan saw the cavalry charging into battle in this era.
After seeing the Turks appear, the cavalrymen who were accelerating slowly did not need to command. The cavalrymen at the front suddenly accelerated suddenly and adjusted their horse speeds, forming a slightly uneven triangular pyramid array.
However, the cavalry at the rear did not accelerate suddenly, but maintained their original horse speed and were some distance away from the front.
"It seems to be the King of Huaiyang!"
The words of the Li family's personal guards came to his ears, and Li Shan looked intently. In the triangular cone array, there was a tall general wearing bright light armor. He lowered the brim of his helmet and couldn't see his face clearly. The horse in his hand was gradually protruding.
As the saying goes, "one inch long, one inch strong", the Turkic cavalry were armed with scimitars, not to mention horses and spears, and there were not many spears. They happened to be at a corner and could not make evasive movements.
Almost instantly, the sharp array tore apart the front line of the Turkic cavalry. With a shrill roar and the clash of weapons, more than a dozen Turkic cavalry were stabbed off their horses.
Li Shan saw clearly that King Huaiyang's horse thrust out like a poisonous snake and stabbed three Turkic cavalry in succession.
With only thirty or forty cavalry, more than a hundred Turkic cavalry were completely disrupted. The dozens of cavalrymen that followed from the Tang army perfectly captured the opportunity of the battle and launched a second charge without giving the Turks any chance to breathe.
This battle dazzled Li Shan, but it did not take more than ten minutes from beginning to end. The remaining twenty-odd Turkic cavalry fled in all directions. The Tang army, which had only lost a few people, had begun to clean up the battlefield.
The Li family guard laughed and said: "After King Huaiyang joined the army, every time he went into battle with the King of Qin, he always charged into the battle. He was quite like the King of Qin. He will definitely become a famous general in the future."
Hearing these words, Li Shanqing couldn't help but look at Zhou Zhao.
He led a large army on an expedition and led a small number of cavalry across the battlefield to spy on the enemy. He did not retreat when encountering the enemy. He was brave and good at fighting. He was indeed the king of Qin.
But this is really not the style of a famous general.
Famous generals throughout the ages...such as Li Shimin would never die if they sought death like this. Neither Zhou Zhao, who was familiar with history books, nor Li Shan, a time traveler, would have thought of the second one.