The Sui cavalry had already reached five hundred steps away, and the black war horses were rushing like wild waves... The dust stirred up to cover the sky and the sun. In the darkness, the Sui cavalry raised their shields high, controlled the horse with both legs, and held the spear tightly with the other hand. The spear tip flashed with a cold light in the darkness. Once the cavalry started at full speed, they could no longer stop. They rushed forward and rushed towards the cavalry in front.

Ten thousand Tang troops had already taken their seats in a hurry. There were three thousand archers in front. They lined up in three rows and raised their bows and arrows. Behind were three thousand swords and shield soldiers and four thousand spear soldiers...

The war horses hit the ground violently, and the huge impact made the hearts of the Tang soldiers almost stop beating. They bit their lips and stared at the Sui cavalry who were approaching in front of them with a desperate look.

"Bow and arrow ready!"

The hoarse voice of the Tang army general Liu Lancheng echoed in the night sky. Three thousand bows and arrows were raised and pointed at the air at oblique angles. The archers' legs trembled, and many people closed their eyes and dared not face the murderous Sui cavalry.

"shoot!"

Three thousand arrows suddenly shot up, forming a cloud of arrows in the air, whistling towards the rushing Sui cavalry.

The Sui army cavalry held up their shields and rushed towards the rain of arrows. In the rushing cavalry tide, cavalry soldiers were constantly shot by arrows, just like waves disappearing in the tide, but it did not affect the tide coming.

When the second round of arrows arrived, the Sui army cavalry had already rushed to fifty steps away, and the murderous aura of the cavalry flying and rolled up to the face, which was suffocating. Many Tang army led their troops could no longer bear the horror in their hearts, and turned around and ran backwards.

Tang general Liu Lancheng also found that the Sui army's cavalry was too fast and there was no time to shoot the third round of arrows. He had to order the archers to retreat and order the spearmen and sword and shield soldiers to fight. In an instant, 13,000 cavalry rushed in a crazily, rushing into the Tang army's ranks, swallowing the nearly 1,000 spearmen in the front row...

The war horse continued to run, slashed with swords, and the spear stabbed under the ravage of the war horse's iron hooves. The Tang soldiers fell to the ground with a wail, their heads were chopped away, and the spear pierced the chest.

Although the Tang army soldiers fought to the death, they encountered the most elite cavalry of the Sui army. They had experienced many battles and their will was harder than steel. They killed ruthlessly and were mercilessly unwilling tolerate them. Ten thousand Tang soldiers were instantly divided into dozens of pieces, and their legs were hit by falcons.

The Sui army cavalry left only 5,000 people to deal with the 10,000 Tang army formations, and the remaining 8,000 cavalry, led by commander Yang Yuanqing, continued to rush forward and attack the still chaotic main force of the Tang army.

This is a battle between the two commanders. Li Xiaogong attempted to let ten thousand Tang troops restrain the cavalry of the Binjun and give him time to rectify the main force.

But Yang Yuanqing saw at a glance that the main force of the Tang army was not ready. He knew very well that an army had not experienced strict night battle training and would face the chaos of the army at night.

Especially tens of thousands of people fled out of the camp in a hurry. In that extremely chaotic and panic state, if they want to restore their team to the strictness of the team in a very short incense stick of time, how could more than a hundred people be able to do it, but this is an army of tens of thousands of people.

This is the fighter jet. What Ge Yuanqing wants to seize is that this fighter jet is in the military camp, which can be burned with fire and attacked with cavalry. Outside the military camp, there is only one chance of one afternoon, and the enemy's short-term chaos.

Eight thousand cavalry rushed through the interception of 10,000 Tang troops and rushed towards tens of thousands of Tang troops a hundred steps away. At the same time, the five thousand cavalry in the rear camp also came under the leadership of Wang Junkuo. The two cavalry formed a front-and-back attack on tens of thousands of Tang troops.

For an army, the most terrible thing is that the morale of the army is shaken. This is a plague of the army. Once the morale of the army is shaken, it will spread rapidly throughout the army like a real plague, causing the entire army to begin to shake and collapse.

At this time, Li Xiaogong was already desperate. The interception of 10,000 Tang troops could not get him time, even in just a quarter of an hour, the Sui army cavalry knew very well where their weakness was. They didn't stop at all, rushed over the interception of 10,000 people and came directly to them.

"Stay steady, and spearmen form a formation!"

Li Xiaogong shouted loudly in despair. He longed for a miracle to happen. His army began to form a formation to resist, but the miracle did not happen. In the dark, the invasion of two Sui cavalry caused the Tang army to collapse quickly. The Tang soldiers shouted in horror. In extreme panic, soldiers began to flee.

One person escaped and led ten people to escape, ten people led hundreds, and hundreds led thousands of people. Just like snowballs, the momentum of escape became increasingly huge. The Tang army completely collapsed. Under the cover of the darkness, tens of thousands of soldiers threw away their armor and fled in all directions.

"Encircle the enemy, and those who surrender will avoid death!"

Yang Yuanqing shouted loudly, in the darkness, the sound of surrounding drums sounded, and the sound of 'dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong

Countless Tang soldiers seemed to wake up as if they were dreaming, and they knelt down and surrendered, and the sound of begging for surrender echoed throughout the money field.

While the Tang army collapsed, Li Xiaogong was closely guarded by hundreds of cavalry to flee eastward, but after less than 500 steps, a team of more than a thousand Sui cavalry came in a slanted attack. Zhang Yin fired arrows together, and more than a thousand arrows shot in, as violent as a storm. The personal soldiers were caught off guard and fell from the horse screamed.

Even Li Xiaogong was shot in the right shoulder. Although he controlled his body, his war horse was shot. With a long neigh, he ran forward two steps, fell heavily, and lifted Li Xiaogong out more than one meter away. Before the personal soldiers came forward to protect him, the Sui cavalry team had already rushed over. More than a dozen personal soldiers were stabbed down by spears, and hundreds of Sui cavalrymen surrounded Li Xiaogong.

Li Xiaogong struggled to stand up, drew his sword in his hand, and at this time his face turned pale. Not far away in front of him, Yang Yuanqing stared at him coldly, and Li Xiaogong smiled miserably, "Yuan Qing, are you okay?"

This 'Yuanqing' sound made the coldness in Yang Yuanqing's eyes fade a little, and he said lightly: "Surrender! I won't kill you."

Li Xiaogong shook his head, "If I surrender, it will be a shame for the Tang Dynasty's royal family. I will never surrender to you."

Behind him, several Sui soldiers were about to pounce on him, but Li Xiaogong suddenly noticed that he waved his sword and shouted: "Get back!"

Yang Yuanqing waved his hand and asked the soldiers to retreat. He could understand Li Xiaogong's dignity. "What else do you have? Please say it!"

Li Xiaogong sighed slightly and said in a deep voice: "I have a daughter named Li Zhen, who is only five years old. I hope you can spare her life."

Yang Yuanqing looked at him for a long time and nodded slowly, "I will regard her as a woman and find a good home for her in the future.

Li Xiaogong bowed and gave a bow, "Thank you!"

Yang Yuanqing took a last look at him, slowly turned his horse's head, walked outside, and walked not far away. He stopped the reins and stared at the dark night sky. After a moment, a personal soldier stepped forward and whispered: "He committed suicide!"

Yang Yuanqing sighed a long time and ordered his personal soldiers to say, "Keep his entire body and tell Wei Yunqi that after Jiangling City was broken, he buried him in Jingzhou with the rituals of the king to fulfill his name as King Jing."

...

The interception battle occurred in Baimapo, Dangyang County. At noon the next day, with the deserters, they arrived at Jiangling City. On the top of Jiangling City, the Tang soldiers looked at the scene outside the city silently, and everyone's eyes were filled with shock.

Outside Jiangling City, teams of Sui cavalry escorted groups of Tang army prisoners of war through the city. Five Tang soldiers in rows walked slowly through Jiangling City under the surveillance of the Sui cavalry. They could not see the edge at a glance, and from noon to dusk, there were more than 40,000 people.

This scene shocked the Tang army soldiers on the city. No one spoke for the whole afternoon. The originally high morale suffered another major setback after experiencing the heavy blow of the Tang army being completely wiped out by the wharf.

The Tang soldiers were in a low mood. They squatted under the wall, gathered together in groups of three or three, and whispered that most of these soldiers were from Jingxiang. They began to miss their hometown and their relatives at home. A deep feeling of war-weariness spread among the Tang soldiers.

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed outside the city and shouted: "Look!"

The soldiers stood up and went to the grandmother of the city. Two hundred steps away from the east of the city, four huge catapults appeared at some point. More than a hundred Sui soldiers were pulling back and holding a huge black object in their pockets. With a shout, the spherical black object was thrown out, throwing an arc and flying towards the city wall. The soldiers on the city were so scared that they squatted down.

"Bang" the black sphere broke in the air, and a pile of paper fell off from the sphere, and was blown by the east wind, drifting into the city.

The soldiers were snatching in the air, and there was a sentence printed in woodcut plates. Hundreds of soldiers surrounded a literate civilian and ordered him to read it out...

The civilians whispered to everyone: "Fifty thousand Xiangyang reinforcements were completely wiped out by the Sui army at Baimapo Dangyang, King Jing Li Xiaogong was killed, and the defenders of Xiangyang City have surrendered to the Sui army."

This news caused an uproar among the Tang soldiers. King Jing Li Xiaogong was killed and Xiangyang City had surrendered. There were no doubt that two heavy hammers hit their hearts hard, shocking everyone. One afternoon, the preview of tens of thousands of Tang soldiers surrendered was deeply engraved in their hearts, making all the soldiers on the city believe in these two news.

"Brothers, what should we do?" a brigade coach shouted.

"what to do?"

Thousands of Tang soldiers were talking, and at this time, someone shouted, "General Liu is here."

Everyone turned around and saw Deputy Commander Liu Fangzhi leading hundreds of personal soldiers quickly walking towards the East City. Thousands of soldiers rushed forward and surrounded Liu Fangzhi. Everyone asked in a verbal question: "General, what should we do?"

Liu Fangzhi's face was gloomy. He jumped onto a high platform and whispered to everyone: "It is unknown whether the news is true or false. The general has an order. Those who dare to make random rumors and shake the morale of the army will be killed immediately!"

The defenders on the East City suddenly became quiet. Liu Fangzhi glanced at the leaflets and papers all over the ground and ordered: "The general has an order that all the papers projected by the Sui army will be confiscated. Those who dare to hide will be punished for communicating with the enemy."
Chapter completed!