Turbulent Times Chapter 1198: Damn Pei Ji

As the sound spread, amidst the sound of horns and drums, the tribal troops of the Li family army on the two wings finally realized through the cheers from the Whirlwind Camp that a group of their own troops had fled back from the direction of the central army.

Shocked, the generals on the two wings of the Li family army suddenly suspected that Li Shentong wanted them to block the Far East Army, but Li Shentong himself and Pei Ji ran away instead.

Thinking in this way, the generals of the Li family army on the two wings could no longer care about other things, and immediately started to flee with their own troops. The situation is a little better if the wise general knows to send a group of dead soldiers to leave behind. However, most of the generals felt flustered and resentful because they thought that the coach Li Shentong had led the Chinese army to escape, and they only cared about leading the people to escape, but instead plunged themselves into a situation where they could never recover.

This sudden and strange situation caught Li Shentong by surprise, and he couldn't even figure out why Pei Ji would do such a stupid thing. He also ordered the soldiers around him to shout loudly, indicating that he was still on the battlefield, but it is a pity that this kind of thing is easy to be preconceived. He ordered to retreat, and it was too late to turn around.

In addition, the battlefield is huge, and it is clearly already evening at this time, making it even more chaotic.

Wang Junlin ordered the messengers next to him to blow the horn for all pursuit.

More than 40,000 cavalrymen from the Whirlwind Battalion rushed straight down to the fleeing Li family army!

The rout like a tide began to appear on the two wings of the Li family army.

Full of anger, Li Shentong led his cavalry up from the flanks, trying to block the Far East Army's attack. Yet a breakdown has taken place.

Li Shentong's main formation rushed towards this side. At the same time, an order was issued to try to distance the army of the central army from the defeated troops on the two wings and reorganize a tight defense, but it was still too late. The defeated army and the troops of the Chinese army have formed a situation where there is me in you and you in me.

The collapse of a cliff gradually turned into the collapse of half a mountain.

Countless corpses flowed down the Fen River, and flames flowed in the night sky.

On the opposite side, the Far Eastern Army, which had been fighting fiercely for a day, resumed its offensive like a raging wave, crushing towards the half of the Li family army that had not yet collapsed. Li Shentong subconsciously held back the chaotic formation and led the army towards Taiyuan City He left in defeat, because he knew that Linhe county could not be defended at all, nor could it accommodate so many of them.

Li Shentong was always worried that he would not be able to stop the frontal attack of the Far Eastern Army, but he never thought that it was his army commander Pei Ji who really gave him a fatal blow...

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It was dawn, and countless routs poured into the gate of Taiyuan City. Li Jiancheng, who had just been sent by Li Yuan from Chang'an City to Taiyuan to supervise the battle, stood on the city wall that was higher than the usual city wall and watched this scene. His whole body was shaking. It was already freezing cold, and as the Duanhou army led by Li Shentong entered the city gate, the Far East Army came like a tide, rushing towards the capital of Hedong, which Li Yuan had been operating for more than seven years.

Although Taiyuan is not comparable to Chang'an City, it is also an ancient capital with a long history.

Taiyuan City is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the Fen River, the second largest tributary of the Yellow River, flows through it from north to south. It has been known as "Splendid Taiyuan City" since ancient times. Moreover, Taiyuan was named Jizhou in ancient times, and it is traditionally one of the Kyushu in China, and even the first of Kyushu.

Taiyuan City was originally a majestic city, and after Li Yuan became the lord of Taiyuan, he has built Taiyuan City into an iron wall that is rare in the world

It is even more difficult to attack than Chang'an and Luoyang City.

Watching the gate of Taiyuan City slam shut, Wang Junlin and his army did not approach Taiyuan City rashly, and stopped at the mouth of a canyon several miles outside Taiyuan City.

Wang Junlin saw that his side had been fighting for a whole day, and they had chased for more than a hundred miles just now. They didn't rest for a moment, and they were exhausted. Wang Junlin ordered to set up camp at the same place, and sent out guards, secret sentries, and rangers to prevent Li's army from sending troops to attack the camp.

Wang Junlin scanned the terrain around him, and finally settled on a steep hillside, then dismounted and led a group of soldiers up to the top of the hillside.

He looked around and saw a high mountain rising from the ground.

Facing the Fen River in the west, south and north of Shanxi, it looks like a huge green snail floating on the water. It is called Wang Dawa, the ridge in the north is called Huangmawei, and the mountain is steep; the forest in the south is lush and the pavilions are hidden.

It is said that this mountain is the site of the Taiyuan Wang family, and there is a library of the Taiyuan Wang family on the mountain, which is very famous among scholars all over the world. The emerald snails on the back are beautiful, and even in winter, the environment is elegant and refreshing.

Wang Junlin looked around for a while, only to feel that the Fen River in the north is turbulent, and the waterway is difficult to attack, and the south is where the Far Eastern Army is at the gorge, and it is also easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is enough to fight against ten thousand, not to mention that the city wall is so tall and strong that it is obviously difficult to blow it up even with explosives. I can't help but secretly startled, frowning and thinking about the way to break the city.

In Taiyuan City, after the city gate was closed, Li Jiancheng ran down and found Li Shentong in the chaotic army formation. He was wearing a cloak and holding a steel knife. A tiger that chooses to eat.

Although Li Jiancheng is the heir of the Tang Dynasty, he is Li Shentong's nephew, so he dared not hold Li Shentong accountable or complain. That's good, it's good that uncle comes back, as long as uncle is here, we can stop the Far Eastern Army..."

Li Shentong had already dismounted from his horse. Thinking of Pei Ji being able to become his military commander, Li Jiancheng seemed to have contributed a lot. He turned his head and looked at him: "Blocking the Far Eastern Army... Huh! Don't you ask me why I lost?"

"No matter why you lost, as long as you can learn from it..."

"I really want to know why I lost!" Li Shentong roared, "Follow me! Let's ask that old man Pei Ji!"

He turned around abruptly and led the generals to the inner city. The generals below did not need Li Shentong to order more, and had already begun to consciously command the soldiers to guard the city wall. Seeing that the Far Eastern Army outside the city wall did not immediately attack In the military village, Li Jiajun also breathed a sigh of relief.

The Li family army fled for their lives just now, and the Far Eastern army chased and killed them. Li's army suffered a lot of casualties. The nearly 10,000 sailors withdrawn from the waterway, and the more than 30,000 defenders in the city, add up to 80,000 troops, which is quite a lot of troops.

Li Jiancheng followed Li Shentong forward, sighing in his heart, not long,

"Where is Pei Ji now?" Arriving outside Pei's mansion in Taiyuan City, Li Shentong yelled at the guard at the door.

"If you go back to the general, the second master has just returned to the mansion, and this meeting has already rested."

There was a strong murderous intent in Li Shentong's eyes, and he sneered: "He didn't hide, isn't he afraid that I will kill him when I come back?"

"The villain has seen the handsome man and the world

Son. "At this time, a literati dressed as an aide walked out of Pei's mansion, saluted Li Jiancheng and Li Shentong, and then said: "The second master came down to pass the word that he was just a civil servant, and he left early on the battlefield to save his life. It was not intentional to destroy the morale of the army and affect the morale of the army. "

Li Shentong snorted coldly: "This is his explanation? Pei Ji is a well-known scholar in the world, and he should know integrity and righteousness. At the most critical moment on the battlefield, he did not want to sacrifice his life for righteousness. Shaken, unanimously defeated, what is the use of such a famous Confucianist?"

The staff of the Pei family said again: "Commander, son, my second master also said that the commander-in-chief fought hard, and the son came from a long way. My second master has already hosted a banquet in the mansion. Please invite the commander-in-chief and the family to the banquet." , he will personally explain the reason to the Marshal at the banquet and make amends."

Li Shentong said sadly: "I have only 40,000 of my 100,000 troops back, so I don't have the mood to participate in any banquet!"

"But I want to ask Pei Ji for clarification right now." Li Shentong looked at Pei's house expressionlessly, with a sneer on his face, murderous intent flashed in his eyes, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

"If anyone dares to stop Pei Mansion from taking over, he will be killed without mercy." Li Shentong ordered brazenly.

The thousands of troops he brought obeyed the order completely, and soon took over the entire Pei Mansion.

At the same time, Li Shentong and Li Jiancheng walked into Pei's mansion with slow but firm steps.

Although the ancestral home of the Pei family in Hedong is in Wenxi County, the mansion in Taiyuan City covers an area of ​​more than 100 mu, which is more magnificent than some palaces in the Sui Dynasty.

Li Shentong walked through Pei's front yard, took a peek inside, and realized that Pei Ji hadn't come out to see him at this time, so he snorted even more dissatisfied, and then continued to walk deep into Pei's mansion go.

Wait until he kept walking to the depths, Li Shentong suddenly felt a throbbing in his heart. This feeling was very strange, and it came so suddenly and strangely. Anyway, this kind of feeling is not good, there is a premonition of impending disaster.

Li Shentong stood still in place, closed his eyes and thought carefully for a moment, thinking that even if Pei Ji had some ideas, or there were some master guards in the Pei residence, the entire Pei residence was already under his control, and he did not What was missing, but he was still worried, turned around and said loudly: "Come on!"

A team of personal soldiers ran over and saluted him with their sabers.

Li Shentong waved the knife in his hand, and said in a deep voice: "A thousand more troops will be dispatched to search the entire Pei Mansion for this Commander. We must search every corner, and then let Pei Ji come to see this Commander!" /

The personal soldiers took orders and quickly began to implement Li Shentong's orders.

For a long time, Li Shentong's intuition about his own safety and danger has always been very accurate, and often when an unusual thought arises, it means that some kind of unpredictable change has occurred. If they were more superstitious, they would take an abnormal wind, an inexplicable rain, or a sudden thunderstorm as warnings from the heavens.

Of course, there seem to be many great figures in history who seem to have this intuition.

The difference is that some great people are self-willed and have a faint intuition but feel that they can reverse their destiny, so they ignore their intuition. Of course, the endings of countless history books or folk stories have proved that if you don't believe your intuition, you will die. It's ugly.

Even though Li Shentong suffered a defeat today, he is not a self-willed person. He has always been cautious, and it is because of his caution that he can live to this day.

So, he became alert to the inexplicable palpitations he had just had, so he ordered another search of Pei's mansion, and asked Pei Ji to come to see him, not intending to go further into the depths of Pei's mansion.