Li Shimin intends to send Xuanjia Jingqi to intervene in the battlefield, because the bombardment has stopped now. After all, the two sides are in a melee, and if they continue to bombard, that is an indiscriminate attack and will accidentally injure their own people, so Xuanjia Jingqi has a reason to intervene.
However, there is another problem. In case Du Qi sent elephant soldiers to join the battle again, even if the Xuanjia Jingqi was unmatched in ferocity, in front of the elephant soldiers, the Xuanjia Jingqi would be hard to resist.
This is Li Shimin's inner worry.
retreat!
Li Shimin was unwilling.
Attack!
However, there are difficulties.
Li Shimin was in a dilemma for a while.
However, Li Shimin is not an indecisive person. After thinking about it in his mind, he immediately made a decision, and ordered: "Send down the order and dispatch four thousand ordinary cavalry to intervene in the battlefield. Two thousand on the right wing and two thousand on the left, stop the Xia soldiers who have been killed. .¡±
"yes!"
The orderly sent the order down quickly.
Along with the sound of horseshoes, a war horse rushed out quickly. The sound of rumbling horseshoes trampling the ground made Changbaipo under the night seem to be trembling.
"kill!"
Tang Jun cavalry shouted.
The sound of shouting and killing continued.
This group of Tang troops galloped near the broad Changbai slope, and then entered from the two wings. Where the cavalry of the Tang Army was located, there were already few elephant soldiers, because today's elephant soldiers were already trapped in the crowd. Although the elephant soldiers were fighting, it was impossible to stop Datang's cavalry suddenly, after all, they couldn't get out.
It was too late to say, but soon, the cavalry soon intervened in the battlefield and began to fight on the battlefield.
The cavalry rushed into the soldiers of Xia State.
Although the cavalry were ferocious, the soldiers of the State of Xia resisted desperately, especially the elephant soldiers. Therefore, even if the cavalry was powerful with 4,000 soldiers, the Tang army's offensive could not suppress the soldiers of the State of Xia for a while.
The two sides continued to fight.
This fight started at night, and when the fight reached the horizon, there was already a tinge of white belly, and there were still shouts of killing, and countless soldiers were fighting on the battlefield.
All four thousand cavalrymen of the Tang army were trapped.
Xia Guo soldiers guarded like a mountain.
The fight on the battlefield is still inconclusive.
Li Shimin saw this scene. At this moment, his eyes were a little red. After all, after staying up all night, his eyes were bloodshot. Even Li Shimin had dark circles under his eyes, and he was very tired.
Li Shimin is not young anymore.
Not young people in their early twenties.
Li Shimin yawned, and sighed as he watched the stalemate. In this battle, from yesterday to now, he had invested no less than 60,000 to 70,000 troops, but he never killed Changbaipo. Even, his soldiers were killed and injured countless times. As far as the eye can see, the hillside is full of corpses, and the blood is flowing down, even converging down from the hillside, forming a river of blood at the foot of the hillside, filled with a disgusting smell of blood. Especially now that the weather is hot and the corpses are lying around, the smell is even stronger.
Yu Shinan also saw the army that was still fighting, but it was obviously very tired. He advised Ao: "Your Majesty, Du Qi's army is still defending tightly. Even Du Qi sent not many troops to fight. We are now It must be extremely difficult to conquer Changbaipo in one go. I suggest that you withdraw your troops immediately and attack after a short rest."
The rest of the generals also suggested.
If you can directly conquer Changbaipo, then it doesn't matter if you fight mentally. The problem is, trying to win Changbaipo right now is tantamount to a dream, so we should retreat first.
Li Shimin was silent for a moment, then nodded and said: "Send the order, withdraw the troops!"
After the order was issued, the sound of the gong of Mingjin withdrawing troops resounded on the battlefield, and the soldiers of the Tang army no longer loved to fight, and quickly left the battlefield. In addition, there were only a few cavalry left, and they also left the battlefield and retreated.
Tang Jun, like the tide receding.
The soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who survived on the mountain were all relieved, but immediately, each soldier cheered.
They won!
They defended Changbaipo.
Li Shimin was retreating with the army, he heard the shouts on the Changbai slope behind him from a distance, looked back, and then left without looking back.
In Changbaipo's first confrontation, he lost.
Failed to conquer Changbaipo.
Next time, Du Qi will not have such good luck.
Du Qi is still on the mountain?He didn't go to rest for the time being, although Shangguanyi and others persuaded Du Qi to go and rest, but Du Qi was just on the mountain.
Du Qi is the monarch of a country.
He couldn't join the battle easily.
It is impossible to be like a general and lead by example. But Du Qi can be with the soldiers, he does not participate in the battle, just sitting on this mountain, he believes that he can give the soldiers strength.
Because Du Qi is here, people feel at ease.
No one should panic.
No one will retreat.
Du Qi waited for Xue Rengui to send someone to count the losses and deal with the corpses on the battlefield. All the corpses on this Changbai slope must be disposed of. If it is left in place, once the weather is hot, the corpse will soon stink and even cause disease, so all the corpses must be disposed of.
For this matter alone, even if many soldiers were mobilized to participate, it took half the morning.
All the corpses were burned.
Even the blood at the foot of the mountain was all buried to avoid causing illness.
All the results of the battle have also been counted.
Xue Rengui came to Du Qi, saluted and said, "Your Majesty!"
Du Qi nodded and said, "How is the battle going?"
Xue Rengui said: "Reporting to Your Majesty, we lost more than 14,000 soldiers in this battle, and so many people died in the battle. However, we killed as many as 58,600 soldiers from the Tang Army. With the help of Changbaipo¡¯s geographical advantages, with the help of our mortars, gunpowder, grenades, etc., although we suffered huge losses, we also gained countless gains.¡±
"It's a victory."
"All the gains of the soldiers, as well as the soldiers who died in battle, have been registered."
"All the seriously injured soldiers are being diagnosed and treated, and the slightly injured soldiers will be treated later. After all, the slightly injured soldiers will not be life-threatening. The seriously injured soldiers must be diagnosed and treated first, and then the slightly injured soldiers will be treated."
Xue Rengui continued: "But the elephant soldiers who fought last night, although the giant elephants were extremely strong and stood like hills on the mountain, they still damaged 500 giant elephants. The remaining 500 giant elephants were injured to varying degrees. .¡±
Du Qi nodded and said: "No matter what, this victory is a good start. We were able to annihilate nearly 60,000 opponents in one battle against more than 200,000 Tang troops. Very good."
Xue Rengui nodded.
He was a little excited.
Because the battle last night was indeed quite fruitful.
Du Qi changed the subject and said, "Go and gather all the rest of the soldiers and gather them to this hillside. I have something to say."
"yes!"
Xue Rengui immediately went to deliver the order.
Only the remaining 50,000 troops and all the elephant soldiers lined up and stood together on the Changbai slope.
All eyes fell on Du Qi. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com