The return of the son-in-law

Three days later, Li Shaojun stood in front of Li Chonghao in armor, looking like a loving father and a filial son.

"My good boy, you are the King of Qin in my Chu Dynasty. This time, you are going to replace me. You must lead by example, and you must not do anything that will harm our Chu Dynasty."

Li Shaojun paid homage and said, "My son will not disgrace his mission."

Li Chonghao said to the two generals Wang Jian and Xia Yi who were on the side: "King Qin is young and has never been on the battlefield. It is up to you to decide on major issues. Jun'er, you just need to watch from the sidelines and follow the arrangement of the two generals." Just do it, you hear?"

Li Shaojun understood that this was Li Chonghao telling him not to interfere in the affairs of the army in front of everyone, and it was enough to show a good appearance.He was quite self-aware, and took the initiative to say: "Father, don't worry, this time, I will definitely learn from the two generals, and I will definitely not let my father down in the future."

After Li Chonghao finished warning, he didn't bother to continue playing the trick of "father and son affection". He simply said with a concerned and heroic face: "Then I will wait for the good news of everyone's triumphant return in the capital. This time, I also hope that the soldiers of the Chu Dynasty will show our country's prestige and protect our people!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty, I will fulfill my mission!"

Here, Li Shaojun and others have just set off, but Jiang Yannian and the others in the northwest are extremely busy.

After Liu Jianhua and his henchmen were put to death, the number of generals, deputy generals, generals, etc. in the army who were worthy of the title was simply reduced by half, and the others did not dare to take such a big responsibility, so they had to push Jiang Yannian out.

Although Old General Shao has this kind of heart, he still has a huge family behind him, and he has to consider the life and death of his family—after all, he led his own soldiers out of Yongcheng without the emperor's permission this time, and raided the Northwest Even if Daying had good intentions, he was already eye-catching enough.If Liu Jianhua is replaced by Liu Jianhua, and he is in the Northwest camp, I am afraid that the entire Shao family will be in danger afterwards!

Jiang Yannian also knew about Old General Shao's difficulties, so he gritted his teeth and persisted, but never thought of sending someone to ask Old General Shao for help.

Because Liu Jianhua secretly used Sai Shenxian in the diet of the army, a total of about 1 soldiers were recruited, and about 1 of them had been exposed to addiction.In other words, before the official confrontation with Tatar, the Northwest Army Battalion had already lost [-] troops.

As for the remaining [-] or so soldiers, Jiang Yannian didn't dare to let them go to fight on the battlefield casually. What if in the middle of the battle it was discovered that some of them were also addicted to Immortal Sai. what to do?

Yesterday, Jiang Yannian had received the news that the spies had sent back. Although the Tatar army had been gathering a hundred miles away, several teams had been divided into several teams to advance towards the remaining half of the defense facilities on the northwest border, where there were fewer troops. It is clear that the military strength of the Northwest Army must be divided into several pieces and defeated one by one.

Jiang Yannian discussed with the lieutenant general, the general and others overnight, and decided to allocate some troops to support the other outposts on the border, and then ask the border towns to strengthen the defensive measures such as the surrounding walls, and prepare enough fire oil and stones. After the army took the ladder to the wall, they simply poured kerosene and burned it down.

It's a pity that the Tatar army has been watching outside the border city. There were a few key points outside the city, but Liu Jianhua deliberately ignored them, and they had long been abandoned.It is too late to send troops there now.

In desperation, Jiang Yannian could only give up his plan of occupying key points outside the city and cooperate with the attack to disrupt the Tatar army.

As for the Northwest Camp, Jiang Yannian made a prompt decision, ordered the camp to be pulled out, and immediately went to the border town for support.

As for Liu Jianhua and the others, Jiang Yannian naturally wouldn't take them along.When the Tatar army invaded, if these people escaped due to negligence, an important part of the evidence proving King Qin's innocence would be missing.

In desperation, Jiang Yannian had no choice but to hand over Liu Jianhua and others to Guo Zhan'an, and asked him to put them into the prison in Xuzhou first.Fortunately, the booklet has been handed in, and it won't be long before people from the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of War in the capital should take over this matter.

And the Tatar army, which had been gathering at a hundred miles away, finally launched an offensive on the northwest border city in the early morning of one day, bringing with it billowing smoke and dust overwhelming the sky!

Because of the arrangements made in advance by Jiang Yannian and others, although the Tatar army was coming in a menacing manner, and they had prepared the ladders and other sharp weapons for attacking the city, but the ladders could not be let go immediately when they came, and the second came one after another. Therefore, the iron cavalry that the Tatar army was originally proud of was useless.

The shooters on the city wall aimed at the Tatar soldiers on the ladder below, and shot one after another. Many Tatar soldiers fell from the ladder one after another, and after a while, a pile gathered outside the city wall.

However, although the archers are brave, it takes some time to draw the arrow, set up the arrow, and then shoot the arrow. Even if there are two groups of archers in rotation, there are still many Tatar soldiers going down the ladder, and they are about to climb up.

Fortunately, there was kerosene to assist, half a barrel of kerosene was poured down, and a flame was thrown down, and the Tatar soldiers who led the battle were burned into a fireball, and even the ladders were burned in many places.

Seeing that the ladder was useless, Tatar's army brought in the giant wood that hit the gate, and launched a wave of offensive against the gate by virtue of the fact that the archers could not target the people below the gate on the city wall.

Although the gate was inlaid with bronze and other objects, it couldn't resist the impact of the Tatar soldiers.Inside the city, seeing the gate shaking unceasingly, young general Sun Jinyong couldn't bear it any longer, rode his fast horse and went directly to the tent where Jiang Yannian and others were behind, and volunteered to lead his army out of the city to compete with the Tatar army .

Most of the soldiers in the tent did not agree with Sun Jinyong's approach. After all, the [-] Tatar army outside was watching. Once the city gate was opened, what if Tatar soldiers seized the opportunity to attack?

Sun Jinyong said: "Although there is an army of 30, I estimate that there are about [-] Tatar soldiers outside the border city. There are only more than [-] Tatar soldiers outside the city gate, and there are only a few hundred Tatar soldiers outside the city. People, the other Tatar army is suppressed by our archers, and they can't get through for the time being. But if the number of our feather arrows continues at the current consumption rate, it will be exhausted in less than three days. This is the best right now Opportunity, I will take people out, catch them by surprise, and let the archers on the city wall suppress the Tatar army's offensive for us, if it goes well, the Tatar army can be temporarily forced back, and there is a chance of buffering!"

Indeed, as Sun Jinyong said, although they rely on archers and kerosene to remain invincible for the time being, as the defenders of the city, once they cannot guarantee such a scale, a steady stream of Tatar soldiers will take the opportunity Come in!

If the soldiers outside the city can really be forced to retreat, and take the opportunity to grab back a few key points outside the city, then they will attack from both sides, maybe they can really turn their backs!

After some comparison, Jiang Yannian made a decision: "I'll dispatch five thousand soldiers to you immediately. Don't worry, the archers on the city wall will cooperate with you and suppress the Tatar army. Be careful."

Sun Jinyong cupped his hands and said, "Yes!"

The city gate opened, and before the Tatar soldiers who attacked the city had time to cheer, they saw the soldiers of the Chu Dynasty continuously killing out of the city, and before they could react, they directly wiped their necks with their knives.

A hundred meters away, the Tatar army saw the city gate opened wide and was about to send troops into the city, but the clan comrades who did not want to attack the city were all killed by a group of Chu soldiers.

"Come on!" The leader, General Tatar, whose eyes were almost red, yelled, and when his feet tightened, the horse under his crotch raised his front legs and hissed.

Behind him, thousands of Tatar soldiers drew their weapons, intending to step forward to fight to the death with the soldiers of the Chu Dynasty, but they didn't expect that before they took a few steps forward, a rain of feathered arrows fell from the sky, and many Tatar soldiers had no time to dodge. Within the range of the shooting range, he was hit by several arrows, swayed on the horse's back, and fell down.

"Rush! Rush! Rush! There are so many people, their archers can't shoot all of them to death!" General Tatar said, he took the lead, drew his saber and rushed up against the rain of arrows!

If the commander is like this, how can the soldiers next to him be timid?

For a moment, countless Tatar soldiers seemed to be dying, and rushed directly to the army led by Sun Jinyong regardless of the continuous stream of feather arrows shot from the city wall!

A Tatar soldier was injured and fell off his horse. The soldiers behind him seemed to have not seen it. If they had time, they would change their direction a little to avoid the comrades who fell to the ground. The horse stepped on his comrades directly!

For a moment, the cries of pain from the trampled, the shouts of the charge, and the mourning of the horses all mixed together, like a small hell on earth.

Jiang Yannian was standing on the wall supervising the battle, seeing Tatar soldiers had to kill each other, he had mixed feelings in his heart for a moment, and he didn't know what to say.

Outside the city wall, Sun Jinyong looked at the Tatar soldiers rushing over, and laughed loudly: "It's just in time! All soldiers, we have been training every day for so many years, isn't it just for this day! Tatar has invaded me for many years, even if we can't Emperor Wu drove Tatar out of this grassland like that, we also want to let them know that the Chu Dynasty is not so weak that everyone can be bullied! Set up an array!"

The humiliation of being suppressed by Tatar for many years came to my heart. The soldiers of the Chu Dynasty obeyed Sun Jinyong's order, and all the shield soldiers stood at the front, followed by spearmen and sword soldiers. The offensive of the Tatar army!

The archers on the city wall saw that the Tatar soldiers in front had encountered the army led by Sun Jinyong, so they turned around and continued to eliminate the reinforcements behind for Sun Jinyong and others.

After a fierce battle, Sun Jinyong's side finally defeated the incoming Tatar army with a slight advantage by virtue of their formation and archers.However, half of the 1 soldiers Sun Jinyong took out were lost, and only half remained; while the Tatar army said that the number of casualties was much higher than that of Sun Jinyong, but there were still more than [-] soldiers left. The general led the retreat.

Seeing that the Tatar soldiers would not return for the time being, Jiang Yannian hurriedly ordered people to go out of the city to collect the bodies of the soldiers who died in battle one by one, and then ordered people to reinforce the city gates, and temporarily repaired the missing parts of the city walls with stones.

"Soldiers must be transferred from other places, otherwise the pressure on the border town will be too great."

"No, judging from the information sent, the military situation in several other places is also under great pressure. This time Tatar has several tribes gathered together, and the number of people is several times larger than before. Once the manpower is deployed, I am afraid that Tatar will The Tatars will also notice that if they grasp this point and attack our weakly defended areas, it will be even worse."

"But the border town is the main target of the Tatar army. According to the news sent back by the spies, 3 of the [-] Tatar army were sent to other places. Today, nearly [-] soldiers came. That is to say , They still have more than [-] soldiers, and all of them are full of energy. Compared with our almost non-stop fighting for more than ten days, their advantages are too great."

"In short, we can't recruit people from other places. It's better to go to General Shao and borrow his old man's elite soldiers."

Those who spoke were all more experienced than Jiang Yannian. Although he was currently playing the role of giving orders, he was mostly listening to suggestions from all parties.

It's just that I heard that old General Shao's elite soldiers were going to be mobilized, but Jiang Yannian disagreed: "Old General Shao's personal soldiers were approved by His Majesty, back then His Majesty asked Old General Shao not to use his personal soldiers for anything other than self-defense. If we borrow it, isn't it clearly against His Majesty's will?"

"Then, then seconded from other places?"

"No need," Jiang Yannian said, "Have you all read the letter sent by the capital's military department a few days ago? Your Majesty has already sent a large army and food to support us. We only need to hold on for a few more days, and we will be able to wait for reinforcements!"

The lieutenant general who suggested to transfer the manpower hesitated for a moment before saying, "This, this is fine."

Fortunately, Jiang Yannian and others were not kept waiting for a long time. Two days later, Li Shaojun's army finally arrived in Xuzhou.