Volume Four, The Year of the Curtain, Chapter 91, Continuation of Yan Shi
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Prince Chongming's face was very pale, and his hands in his sleeves were trembling slightly. He looked at the palace that was half in ruins and half in scorched earth. He wanted to say something, but nothing came out.
This ambush battle was carried out completely according to the ideas and arrangements of him and Long Qing. They had predicted beforehand that the Tang Army, which was in desperate situation, would launch a desperate counterattack. However, no matter how they thought about it, no one could have imagined that the Tang Army's counterattack would be like this.
It's horrifying that the price Yan paid for this was so heavy.
The father died, the palace was burned, and the elite combat power that had been accumulated for many years was almost used up in this war. In the end, only the Northeast Frontier Army of the Tang Dynasty was obtained, one-sixth of the enemy's strength. Is this really worth it?
"I did not lie to Xian Zhilang. Half of the cavalry from Zuozhang Royal Court are now preparing to hunt down the remnants of the Tang army in the eastern states and counties. The cavalry guarding the Xiling Temple is indeed over 10,000."
Long Qing was silent for a moment and then said: "I admit that I still underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Tang army after all. If the person commanding these heavy cavalry is not Xian Zhilang, but the original Xiahou, or we have become prisoners now. But I still believe that the Tang Dynasty will be destroyed.
The things we do are worth it.”
Prince Chongming looked at him and said, "Why are you so confident?"
Long Qing said: "Because this is not a matter for our Yan country, but for the whole country. To attack the Tang Dynasty with the help of heaven, Haotian wants to destroy the Tang country. Who can stop it?"
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Xian Zhilang left a large number of troops, except for the heavy cavalry, on the way back east.
Correspondingly, Prince Longqing also invested a lot of force in this area. In addition to the grassland cavalry under his command, the allied forces of the Song and Qi states, as well as the Yan Guozhou Junxiang Army, and more importantly, there was another
More than a thousand cavalrymen from the Xiling Temple joined this war.
The Xiling Temple Guard Cavalry and the Prairie Cavalry joined forces and successfully divided and dispersed the Tang Dynasty's Northeast Frontier Army. The Tang Army did not have heavy cavalry cover, so they decided to break up their formation and return to the Tang Kingdom through the blockade.
If it is on an ordinary battlefield, there is no big problem with the response of the current generals of the Tang Army. The problem is that this is not an ordinary battlefield, but on the land of Yan State.
The feud between Tang and Yan was very deep. The land in the three northeastern counties of Tang was snatched away from Yan many years ago. War would break out between the two countries every once in a while.
In recent years, General Xiahou has been in charge of Tuyang City. His behavior has become more and more violent and cruel. The killings of the Northeastern Frontier Army in the Yan Kingdom were too bloody. In the eyes of the Yan people, the Tang people were all evil invaders; and in Yandong
In the eyes of the people, every Tang person is a demon who should be sent to the underworld.
As a result, the pursuit turned into a brutal national war.
All the people in Yandong were mobilized. Even though they knew that the most likely consequence of encountering the Tang army was death, there were still many young and middle-aged men carrying sticks and farm tools, going up the mountains and fields to look for traces of the Tang army, and then reported to the police as quickly as possible.
The government will then transfer it to the Xiling Temple Cavalry and the Prairie Cavalry.
Tens of thousands of Tang troops, after being divided and surrounded, dispersed on their own, and then were surrounded again, gradually turning into countless small groups, trudging through the mountains and forests of Yandong towards the Tang Dynasty.
Some Tang soldiers fell into a trap set by the hunters of the Yan Kingdom, and were coldly ignored. Some Tang soldiers were looking for food and were discovered by strong men on the farm, and were beaten to death with sticks by hundreds of people.
A peak somewhere in Kunshan County.
Several Tang soldiers looked at the Yan people who were gradually searching for the top of the mountain. The expressions on their faces gradually changed from the initial anger and confusion to calmness, and then they began to organize their equipment.
Some Yan people shouted angrily at them from a distance of tens of feet: "When you killed my Yan people's women and children, did you ever think that you Tang people would be like a lost dog today!"
An arrow flew over and accurately hit the Yan man's throat.
A Tang soldier with an expressionless expression drew back his bow and said indifferently: "When the two countries are fighting, either you will kill me or I will kill you. I have killed seventeen Yan soldiers in my life. How do you get this debt back?"
There was a commotion among the Yan people surrounding the mountain, and then there was even more anger and hatred. A white-haired old man shouted sternly: "Don't be afraid, everyone, their arrows are limited. Songjiazhuang killed three Tang cavalry last night. Is it possible?"
There are hundreds of men in our Chenjia Village, but we can't do anything to these horseless Tang thieves?"
The Tang soldier who shot the arrow earlier was a low-ranking officer of this team. The rest of the team had died on the way back to the west, and now only four of them were left.
He looked at the Yan people who were gradually approaching with excited expressions and holding agricultural machinery. He frowned slightly, led his subordinates, and started shooting arrows. After shooting the arrows, he drew his sword.
Until he was exhausted, he looked at those Yan people and said: "Idiots."
Then he took his subordinates and rushed off the cliff to his death.
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In the Battle of Chengjing, the most elite Xuanjia heavy cavalry of the Northeastern Frontier Army of the Tang Dynasty was destroyed.
This is the first time in the memory of many people in the world that the Tang Kingdom has suffered such a heavy blow. It is also the first time that the Tang Xuanjia heavy cavalry, known as the eternal invincible, has been annihilated on a large scale.
The whole world was shocked.
The death of Emperor Yan and the burning of the Imperial Palace of Yan State, which should have been more shocking, were completely forgotten by people. In the eyes of the world, destroying the Xuanjia Heavy Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was worth paying no matter how high the price was.
The news spread to Xiling Temple as quickly as possible.
An extremely strange and depressing atmosphere echoed in the solemn and murderous black temple of Judgment. The red-clothed priests and the black-clothed deacons of the Judgment Department were kneeling on the ground, not daring to breathe.
The fall of the Tang army was of course excellent news for the Xiling Temple. Prince Longqing, who had returned to the Taoist sect, had made such great contributions to the Xiling Temple, which also made many people in the Adjudication Department feel refreshed.
However, the current owner of the Judgment Temple is Ye Hongyu.
The people in the Temple of Judgment didn't know what the God of Judgment would think about this matter, especially the matter of Prince Long Qing's outstanding military exploits.
Ye Hongyu sits on the ink jade throne, like a pearl embedded in an inkstone, and the blood-red judgment robe on her body is like a red cloth wrapped around a pearl.
She really didn't expect that Long Qing would do such a big thing.
She never expected that from the beginning to the end of the battle in Chengjing, she did not receive any news. This showed that her control over the Judgment Department still had loopholes, and the headmaster still did not trust her.
At this moment, she recalled that two years ago, she responded to Ning Que's request and went thousands of miles north to hunt down Long Qing. At that time, Prince Chongming commanded Yan Fang, but he did not respond in time, which made her very unhappy. Thinking about it now, that brother
It was only natural that the two of them put on such a good show in front of the world.
Looking at the red priests and black deacons kneeling in the hall, Ye Hongyu raised the corners of her lips slightly. She knew what these people were thinking, and she also knew that they were afraid of her anger.
But why the anger?
Ye Hongyu stood up from the black jade throne, looked at everyone and said, "Get ready. It seems that it won't take too long for the cavalry from the temple to appear in the Tang Kingdom."
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