President of Datang [Transmigration Book]
Chapter 146
Li Tan directly called Yuan Zhe over and asked him to lead the team to meet Tian Shengong first, while he wanted to sneak attack Li Guiren with a sharp knife.
Yes, Sharp Knife, this is the name he gave to his direct troops. It sounds very vulgar, but it is very practical.
Because the sharp knife is really like a sharp knife, as long as it reaches the battlefield, it can tear apart the formation of the place, and go straight to the weakest point of the opponent.
Yuan Zhe was terrified to death when he heard Li Tan say this, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, even if you want to sneak attack Li Guiren, you have to go with the big army. After all, Li Guiren is now..."
Li Tan said directly: "Li Guiren has now bypassed Jiyu City and is rushing to the nearby city. Now Puzhou City only has such a small force. I think he doesn't want to go head-to-head and consume too much."
Yuan Zhe was also shocked when he heard the news. He didn't even suspect how Li Tan got the news.
However, although he didn't ask, Li Tan was still thinking about excuses, just in case.
Hey, that's the bad thing, if he wasn't worried about being suspected, he would definitely not send any scouts, and let Zhiyi go directly.
After all, scouts may suffer casualties, but Zhiyi will not cause problems.
But he couldn't explain the fact that people can get news while sitting in the car.
It was precisely because he didn't want to explain too much that Li Tan planned to leave with a sharp knife as soon as possible.
His sharp knives are different, and the obedience of this team is the highest among all teams.
So no one in Sharp Knife doubted his source of news, or those people didn't even think about how Li Tan got the news. They only knew what Li Tan asked them to do, and they did.
Anyway, Li Guiren was attacking, even if he wanted to attack Jiyu City, it would be a feint attack, or he should hand it over to his subordinates to command.
And besides himself, Li Tan, he has never heard of how powerful people are. Yuan Zhe should be able to handle it, or the soldiers he brought this time are fundamentally better than the opponent, and the equipment is also better than the opponent. .
As long as Yuan Zhe doesn't fall into the trap like Tian Shengong, then there shouldn't be any problems.
Yuan Zhe watched Li Tan wearing the prince's uniform and galloping away into the night, feeling very powerless, thinking that it would be great if Jing Zhaoyin or Dali Siqing were there.
They must be able to persuade the king, at least they can know where the news from the king is, whether the news is accurate or not.
Yuan Zhe didn't doubt Li Tan, but he was worried. Before the expedition, both Ji He and Zou Shi repeatedly told him to take good care of His Royal Highness King Ning. After all, he bears the hope of many people and cannot fall down easily.
But the pressure on him was too great, so they all hoped that Yuan Zhe could share some of it.
Yuan Zhe also thought about it at the time, and he would not let Li Tan go to the battlefield if he could.
Even though Li Tan has all kinds of mysterious witchcraft in his hands, there are also disadvantages. When there are too many people, he can't take care of a few. His own safety is more important.
As a result... Li Tan led people to attack at night before his ambition was implemented.
Yuan Zhe sighed and continued to lead the team forward. He thought about the number of people that Li Tan brought over just now, and felt that as long as Li Guiren didn't bring tens of thousands of people, his king should be fine.
Thinking in this way, Yuan Zhe still accelerated his marching speed and rushed to Jiyu City in one breath, and it was already the night of the second day by this time.
Although it was already dark, Jiyu City was still brightly lit, or the west gate of Jiyu City was brightly lit—the generals under Tian Shen Power Leader were waiting for Li Tan's arrival.
However, when Li Tan's guard of honor arrived, the man... didn't come.
Seeing Tian Shengong's pale face, Yuan Zhe couldn't help but said, "You still have injuries on your body, and your body is even more exposed. How can you stand outside?"
He also regrets it now, because he thought he was going to Jiyu City soon, so he didn't send someone to inform Tian Shengong of the night attack.
If he had known that Tian Shengong would come out to greet him even if he was seriously injured, he should have told him earlier.
Tian Shengong's expression of anticipation gradually became extremely disappointed, and he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty... don't you want to see me?"
Yuan Zhe dragged him into the carriage and said, "What are you talking about? Is the king so narrow-minded in your heart?"
Tian Shengong didn't speak, still looking downcast.
Yuan Zhe wanted to pat him on the shoulder like before, but he thought he was injured, so he didn't do it. He just said: "Okay, don't look like this, why? Can't afford to lose?"
If it was Tian Shengong in the past, he would definitely refute, but now he seems to really have lost that momentum, he said with a wry smile: "Yeah, I can't afford to lose, so many lives."
Tian Shengong blamed himself. Since waking up, he thought more than once why he wasn't more careful.There are obviously so many flaws, why didn't they check more?Or... why didn't he die and was not buried with his brothers?
So he can go underground and say sorry to those people.
If it is said that he lost in a head-to-head battle, although Tian Shengong would regret it, he would not feel so guilty, because he had tried his best in that case.
But now...he was aggrieved by the loss, and those soldiers who died because of this were even more wronged.
Seeing him like this, Yuan Zhe felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know how to comfort him. He couldn't just say that if he lost, he would lose and just win back next time.
He knew that what Tian Shengong cared about was not losing, but the lives of those soldiers.
If you can't comfort him, then you won't comfort him, so he simply said in a low voice: "Your Majesty took a sharp knife to attack and kill Li Guiren."
"What?" Tian Shengong's attention was indeed diverted, he suddenly became excited, and opened his mouth to say something, but a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Yuan Zhe was taken aback by him, and quickly said: "Don't, don't, don't worry, it was Li Guiren who led people around Jiyu City to attack and kill other cities. When the king got the news, he took people there .”
"What?" Tian Shengong was shocked: "Li Guiren bypassed Jiyu City? But... I... I didn't get any news from here."
After finishing speaking, he stared blankly at Yuan Zhe for a while, then suddenly lowered his head even more dejectedly - so he couldn't even do such a small thing well?
If the king didn't get the news, then... other cities...
Tian Shengong became dazed when he thought of this, and Yuan Zhe, who was at the side, noticed the change in him and was suddenly at a loss.
He originally wanted to tell Tian Shengong the real reason why Li Tan didn't follow, but why did Tian Shengong look even more dejected!
Yuan Zhe put his hand on his shoulder lightly, but he didn't know what to say, for fear that the more he said, the more wrong he would be.
Sensing his concerned gaze, Tian Shengong raised his head and forced a smile and said, "Let's go, we've set up a reception banquet. Although the king didn't come, we still have to let the brothers eat and drink enough."
Yuan Zhe nodded vigorously, but it was said to be a welcome banquet, but in fact, it seemed to Yuan Zhe that it was basically a bonfire party, or the kind of barbecue for himself.
But the more this is done, the more the tense atmosphere before the war can be concealed.
Yuan Zhe sat beside Tian Shengong and said with a smile: "Okay, you, but you can't touch this wine, you can only watch us drink it."
Tian Shengong had a worried face, and forced a smile after hearing this. Yuan Zhe asked, seeing him like this: "Are you worried about the king? Don't you need to know this? Who is the king, and he also brought Sharp knife, I might say that now they are all starting to clean the battlefield and collect the loot, hey, you say... can the king kill Li Guiren?"
Tian Shengong was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "This... Li Guiren is also a famous general in the world... This..."
Yuan Zhe stroked his chin and said, "I've never heard of a famous general in the world who knows witchcraft."
After hearing this, Tian Shengong suddenly became confident: Yes, their king can do witchcraft!
And Li Tan, who was said to know witchcraft by them, was holding Zhiyi by the back of his neck, and whispered: "I just swore to everyone that Li Guiren must be in this direction, why haven't I seen it yet? This is what you said before It's different."
Zhi Yi's body was suspended in the air, his four paws kicked wildly and said: "You think Li Guiren is dead and can't run? He is also moving."
In order not to let the people around him hear, Li Tan continued to lower his voice and said, "Then can't you position yourself more accurately?"
Zhiyi was very angry: "You think I am a satellite positioning system?"
Li Tan took it for granted, "Aren't you the system?"
Zhi Yi: It was speechless.
Just when Li Tan wanted to let him continue to provide more accurate information, he heard the scout come back and say, "Your Highness, we have found traces of the traitor."
Li Tan lifted his spirits and asked: "Is it accurate? Could it be that the other party has set up doubts?"
The scout said with certainty: "It has been checked, and there is no problem."
Li Tan shook the reins and said, "Catch up!"
He didn't have much doubt. After all, Li Guiren's actions were so secretive, he probably wouldn't have thought that Li Tan would be able to know their marching route, so he wouldn't be too defensive.
While chasing him, he asked, "Have you estimated how many people are there?"
In fact, he knows how many people there are. After all, there is Zhiyi's trick, but he can't be too omniscient. After all, it is strange to know Li Guiren's actions out of thin air.
Maybe when the time comes, he will have to say that there are spies he planted with Li Guiren in order to fool him.
The scout in front said: "There are about 5000 people, and I don't know why, it seems to be divided into two teams. Now I guess the team behind may be the baggage team."
"Huh? Five thousand?" Li Tan was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to look at Zhiyi who was crouching on his shoulder, his eyes full of doubts.
After all, Zhiyi later told him that there were about 2000 people.
This number of teams is actually quite large for a sneak attack, but considering that Li Guiren is going to attack the city, this number is reasonable, after all, as long as he is not found on the way.
So now... where did the extra 3000 people come from?
He didn't doubt the scouts. After all, if the scouts judged that there were more than 2000 or about [-] people, it was normal. After all, it was not easy to identify the number of people through these traces in the middle of the night.
But with so many people missing at once, the scouts should be right.
But there is nothing wrong with Zhiyi, then there must be a problem with one team.
Li Tan thought about changing the formation from charge to semi-defense, and then continued to move forward.
The number of people he brought out was not too many, just over 1000.
He originally thought that if the other party had 2000 people, although their number was smaller, this number was the limit he could take care of, or he could guarantee that there would not be too many casualties with this number.
It is probably impossible that there will be no casualties at all. After all, they really rushed together. Li Tan's eyes are not cameras, so it is impossible to see them all.
But now that he has the ability to attack, he can completely pick a group of people by himself, so it is no problem to beat Li Guiren.
But if the other party has 5000 people, Li Tan has to think about it, after all, the gap in the number of people is a bit big.
Of course, it is impossible to retreat. They all chased them out. Before they set off, they vowed to capture Li Guiren alive. Now that they heard that there were too many people, they turned around and ran away. Does he want to lose face?
When he was thinking about how to deal with the two teams, Zhi Yi whispered in his ear: "It is sure, there are indeed two teams, but the distance between the two teams is a bit far, not very far, but this formation ...it's weird."
Li Tanxin asked with a thought: "Are you sure the second team is from An Lushan? Could it be that other righteous men knew his whereabouts and were chasing him?"
Zhi Yi said: "Don't think about it, it must be from Anlu Mountain."
Li Tan felt a little regretful, it would have been nice if it was his own.
However, he was still very puzzled: "Why do you want to separate? Is it really a delivery team? But if it is a delivery team, then it shouldn't be separated. What if it is attacked by surprise?"
The most important thing is that he is going to attack the city. As long as the attack is successful, what do you want?There is no need to bring a transport team at all, just like Li Tan didn't even prepare for the food road.
Zhi Yi said in a low voice: "Maybe the elites in front are responsible for attacking the city, and these are ordinary soldiers, responsible for opening the city gate or breaking the rear."
Li Tan nodded, now there is only one possibility.
However, since the two teams are separated and there is still a certain distance between them, Li Tan is very relieved. He can attack the team behind him first.
Even if the front team wants to return to help, it is not so fast. If they can directly eat the back team in the process, then basically there will be no pressure.
Li Tan suddenly asked in a low voice: "How many people are in the team behind?"
Zhi Yi said, "3000 people."
Li Tan did some calculations, even if it is one thousand, one thousand against three thousand, it is not very easy to fight, but it can be fought, the most important thing is that they are sneak attacks, the opponent has no idea that they will come out, their advantage when they are caught off guard bigger.
Thinking of this, Li Tan lowered his body and said, "Speed up!"
He speeded up, and the sharp knife also speeded up. This is the benefit of the sharp knife. No one will ever ask the king why he did this. It is dangerous to do so. They will always follow Li Tan, whether it is going up the mountain of swords or down into the sea of fire.
However, the speed of the opponent was also quite fast. Li Tan was jolting on the horseback, wondering if he had lost blood, and if he needed to give himself a sustained time before entering the battlefield.
The scout finally brought the latest news: "Your Highness, the distance between the opponent's team and us has narrowed to ten miles."
Li Tan said immediately after hearing this: "From now on, don't make any noise, don't talk, it's best to catch them off guard."
Of course, his order is probably useless. After all, from the moment he left the brigade to the present, apart from his conversation with the scouts, there was no other sound except the sound of horseshoes.
These warriors with sharp knives basically can't speak without speaking during the war.
After the instructions, the team increased their speed again. Although the sound of horseshoes was loud, there was no way to do it. Li Tan was even bargaining with Zhi Yi to see if the system had this thing.
Zhi Yi whispered, "If I hadn't disconnected from the headquarters, I probably would have, but now..."
Well, Li Tan understood, but although he was a little regretful, he didn't regret it either.
After all, if Zhiyi hadn't disconnected from the headquarters, it meant that he didn't come to Chang'an and was still staying in Liangzhou.
If it is in Liangzhou, what is the use of those high technologies that can cover up the voice?Fight against Tubo and Turks?Maybe it needs to, but it doesn't make much sense.
Now Li Tan only hoped that the enemy army in front would be better because there were so many people on his side, and the sound of marching could drown out the sound of their horseshoes.
However, his hope was doomed to fail because he overlooked one thing - the sharp knife was cultivated by him with all his heart and soul, and he was not short of money, so the sharp knife used was the best, and everyone could be equipped with a set of sharp knives. horse.
But not all armies are like this, at least this time the army he brought, the cavalry with real horses, except for the sharp knife team, there are only 2000 people left.
However, Li Tan led tens of thousands of people this time.
What ratio is this?
He is like this even if he is rich, An Lushan...Although he is rich, it is impossible for everyone to have horses.
Therefore, only a part of the enemy army in front had horses, while the rest were on foot.
The person at the end of the line should not be able to hear the hoofbeats in front of him, but now...he heard it.
The body that had been running all night was very exhausted. The moment he heard the sound of horseshoes, his first reaction was: Why did the general bring people back?
However, he soon came to his senses, and suddenly shouted: "There are horseshoes behind us!"
Not only him, but many people around him heard the sound of horseshoes.
The news quickly spread to the front, and the general who led them immediately ordered to shrink the formation and put on a defensive posture.
When Li Tan arrived with his men, he was very regretful when he saw the opponent's formation with the torch: "We have been discovered, but they are not cavalry, so... charge me!"
Infantry vs. cavalry, don't say whether they have an advantage or not. It is basically fate to survive.
Many people here were not hacked to death by the enemy, but trampled to death by horseshoes.
The sharp knife really lives up to its reputation. It stabs the enemy's camp in an instant, tearing the enemy's formation from the middle and messing it up.
At this time, the local general couldn't help scolding his mother: How could he have imagined that there would be such a team of cavalry.
After scolding his mother, he said, "Be careful, they are Turks!"
The cavalry is equal to the Turkic people, and it has basically been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Except for the nomads, no other nation can organize such a cavalry team.
Now most of the nomads are basically collected by Anlu Mountain, but the Turkic people are their own country, and they have not agreed to cooperate with Anlu Mountain.
They want to wait, after An Lushan has lost both sides in the fight with the Tang court, and then take action to reap the power of the fish.
So in this case, the first reaction of the anti-thief generals was that the Turks finally made a move.
But soon he realized: Turkic is not close to Puzhou, it is impossible to come in so quietly, right?Otherwise, how could the imperial court not have heard of it?
The court he was talking about was the Great Yan court established by the rebel An Lushan.
Just when he was wondering, he suddenly heard a young, outrageous voice with a smile: "The eyes are not very good."
After hearing this, the general looked up reflexively, and then saw a young man in the uniform of the Prince of Tang riding on a horse, looking at him with a smile.
The general was puzzled for a moment, but he quickly judged that this should be the leader of the opponent, and immediately said: "Go and kill him!"
Everyone knows that the thief is captured first.
Then this sentence became the last sentence the general said in this world, and the scene he saw Li Tan also became his last impression of this world—because after that sentence, he inexplicably changed from Immediately fell down, and was stepped on by someone's horse's hoof.
It was under Li Tan's control that the general fell off the horse, because he summoned a spider and pulled him down directly.
Of course, what Li Tan was thinking at the time was to use a spider to pull him over, and then catch him alive, to see if he could ask anything.
In the end, I didn’t expect to pull it over—there were too many obstacles in the middle, and the soldiers of the enemy and our own soldiers were all obstacles. As a result, the man fell off the horse and was trampled to death.
Li Tan: ...
This is probably the most aggrieved general who died on Anlu Mountain, right?
Even Li Tan didn't even know his name.
Alas, he doesn't even know who I am.Li Tan thought with some regret that this guy might be going to be a fool.
He regretted it, and the other soldiers regretted it even more. It was a great achievement to kill the opponent's general, and it would be an even greater achievement if he could cut off the opponent's head.
Just now everyone rushed over with all their strength to win this meritorious service, but who knew that the other party fell off the horse.
Although the general is dead now, who killed it... I don't know.
And even if you know it's useless, it should be the horse who really counted as a meritorious service.
Without such a great achievement, the warriors with sharp knives turned their grief and anger into strength, and slashed harder.
Li Tan saw that the opponent was still resisting, so he said: "Shout twice, and the general of the rebels is dead. The rest of them just need to disarm and surrender, and I will save their lives."
In fact, he doesn't want to keep the lives of these people at all. After all, each of these people may have one or several lives of Tang people.
However, Li Tan did not forget that Li Guiren's team was divided into two teams, and Li Guiren was obviously not in this team.
Now he still has to go after Li Guiren's team, so he must make a quick decision before giving these people the opportunity to tip off the news.
What surprised him was that even though they already knew that their general was dead, they didn't give up their resistance to follow the team in front, but continued to fight against the sharp knife in vain.
Li Tan couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he saw it: "Yo Huo, be stubborn, since you don't want to surrender, then... let's all die here!"
Under the moonlight, Li Tan looked indifferently.
Because the opponent didn't have many cavalry, few people from the sharp knife encountered real danger. Of course, it was also because they dispersed the opponent's camp from the very beginning.
It's just that it would take some time for so many people to beheaded honestly one by one, let alone they are still resisting.
During this process, Qing Kong whispered next to Li Tan: "My lord, that's not right. This doesn't look like a luggage team. They didn't bring any luggage. They seem to have brought their own dry food and weapons."
Li Tan is also a little strange, since it is not a baggage team, and the speed is not dragged down by the baggage trucks, why are they separated from the front troops?
If you want to attack from both sides, it would be fine to divide the troops, but just now he confirmed with Zhiyi that the route of this team is the route that Li Guiren led the troops.
Could it be that Li Guiren had already guessed that someone would intercept and kill him, so this group of people stayed to intercept the pursuers?
But it doesn't make sense, anyway, if it was Li Tan, he wouldn't do this, and he wouldn't bring so many people here in the first place.
Since it is a sneak attack, it is necessary to use the fastest speed, and when the opponent is completely unable to react, directly hit the opponent by surprise.
The cavalry is the king in this respect, so all the sneak attacks should be with cavalry, but this... there are more infantry and less cavalry.
Just when Li Tan was wondering, the war ahead was drawing to a close.
Li Tan inquired about the casualties, and he was relieved when he learned that there were wounded but not killed soldiers.
He didn't pick up the raccoon just now, he didn't want these fighters to rely too much on him.
If you get used to the days when someone is healing from behind and they rush forward, if he is not there, these fighters will rush over so stupidly, wouldn't that be death?
Now it seems that the combat capability of the sharp knife is still good.
Qing Kong followed up with statistics, and then left some people to clean up the battlefield and send the wounded back to Jiyu City by the way, while the rest continued to chase.
During the pursuit, Qing Kong followed Li Tan and said, "My lord, the situation is even more strange."
Li Tan lowered his body as much as possible and asked, "How?"
Qing Kong looked puzzled: "No one from the other party ran away from the beginning to the end, or no one tried to report the news."
Li Tan was also a little surprised after hearing this: "Why don't they call for reinforcements?"
Empty... If you know about Empty, you won't be confused.
Li Tan asked again: "Could it be that someone wanted to escape, but you didn't pay attention?"
It is possible to be trampled to death by horseshoes or hacked to death by random knives when you are not paying attention. After all, swords and guns have no eyes on the battlefield.
Qing Kong shook his head and said: "No, it's really not. Those people kept rushing forward. Although some escaped, they chose the opposite direction."
Li Tan suddenly regretted it a bit. He knew that he should leave someone behind to ask about the situation, so why did he kill them all?
However, the orders were all issued and the people were all killed. Thinking about it now doesn't seem to work.
He cheered up and said: "When you catch Li Guiren and ask him, you will know."
After listening to Qing Kong, Rao was always calm, but he couldn't help but get excited.
It was obviously a very common sentence, but it gave him infinite courage.
Li Tan led his men to continue chasing Li Guiren. After chasing and chasing, it was dawn, but this time he was smart and asked the scouts to distinguish whether the opponent was cavalry or a mixture of cavalry and infantry.
The sharp knife's scout is probably the first-class scout in the country. Not only did he analyze that the opponent was a mixture of infantry and cavalry, he even calculated that the opponent's cavalry should not exceed two hundred at most.
Li Tan: ...
If the calculation is based on a maximum of two hundred, the other party will bring 2000 people, a ratio of one-tenth.
Li Tan slowed down for a while, worried that if he ran so desperately, he would really be hanging on the road. Anyway, the opponent had more infantry, and they were all cavalry who would catch up sooner or later.
He thought for a while and said in disbelief: "He brought so many infantry, is he serious about this sneak attack? Or is it that Anlu Mountain is so poor that it can't even support a 2000-man cavalry team?"
If it is the latter, then it is really good news.
However, An Lushan has been operating in Fanyang for many years, and Li Longji rewarded him very generously, so this should not happen.
Qing Kong said: "Is he so confident that we won't get his whereabouts? Could it be that... someone in Puzhou is hiding his tracks for him?"
When he said this, Qing Kong never thought about why Li Tan knew about Li Guiren's whereabouts. Anyway, his king knows witchcraft.
I didn't see that all the great witches around An Lushan worshiped him as their teacher back then, and even called him the great king in private.
Since it bears a word of God, it is normal to know something that ordinary people don't know, or to have a prophet.
Li Tan never thought that his subordinates had such big brains.
However, at this time he became vigilant, and he did not doubt what Qing Kong said at all.
After all, there are too many generals who betrayed Datang, and there are also many who took refuge in An Lushan.
The time it took for them to conquer Jinzhou was too short, and Puzhou was not prepared. Maybe some people who were greedy for life and afraid of death would take refuge in Anlu Mountain and secretly hide their whereabouts for them.
If it weren't for Li Tanyou Zhiyi's trick, I'm afraid he wouldn't know that Li Guiren had changed his mind to attack other cities until now.
Thinking of this, he said bitterly: "Don't let me know who that person is! Otherwise, I'll cut him alive!"
Qing Kong trembled after listening to it. Now he knows that his family's king said that he would kill the other party alive, it is definitely not empty talk. The Yang family has proved this point with their own lives.
But after knowing that the opponent had infantry, Li Tan didn't let the soldiers rush so desperately.
That way of traveling is an overload on their bodies, and it is even more harmful to the horse.
Anyway, with so many two-legged opponents, how could they outrun them with four legs?
Sooner or later, he will be able to catch up, and Li Tan has calculated that he is still far away from Qiping City. He is confident that he can stop Li Guiren in the process.
It's just that he also miscalculated after all, when Zhiyi told him that Li Guiren didn't head towards Qiping City, but turned around and got into the mountains and forests on the road, Li Tan's expression was stiff.
He turned his head and looked at Zhiyi in disbelief and asked, "Is there a road in the mountains that leads to Qiping City?"
After counting for a long time, Zhi Yi said, "That's a detour. In the end, you have to go back to the main road to go to Qiping City."
After all, the road system is underdeveloped these days. If there are not many residents in a city and it is not very prosperous, then it is likely that there is only one right road leading to the city, or there is only one road.
This is the situation in Qiping City today. There are only 1 residents in this small city. There are too few people and there is not much communication with the outside world, so there is no other way at all.
But if this is the case, then why did Li Guiren go into the woods?
After thinking about it, Li Tansi felt that there was only one last possibility: Li Guiren knew that he was leading people to pursue him.
So the question is, how did Li Guiren know his whereabouts?
Li Tan suddenly decided to pursue him, so even if there were secret agents in the team he brought, it would be impossible to notify him in time.
Of course, the most important thing is that among those people, only Yuan Zhe knew what Li Tan was going to do, and the other soldiers only knew that His Royal Highness Ning Wang led the people out of the team, and no one knew what he was going to do.
It's amazing that there is another Tian Shengong who knows now, but neither of these two people can betray him.
When the team was intercepted and killed just now, no one left to report. Li Tan has been observing the situation on the battlefield, and is still oppressing the barbarians.
The purpose is to prevent Li Guiren from knowing the news in advance, and then set a trap.
Although for Li Tan, those traps are useless, not to mention that he has a barbarian, even if he doesn't, he only needs to send some people to explore the way.
Anyway, it is impossible for him to fail to save the lives of these people.
So how did Li Guiren know that they were chasing them, and how he decided to sneak into the forest is probably a mystery at present.
Li Tan is also very entangled now. The mountains and forests are the enemy of the cavalry. If they want to catch up, they must dismount.
But the problem was that he was too excited when he knew that Li Guiren was going to attack Qiping City, and he came out with his people without even changing his clothes, and he was still wearing the prince's regular clothes.
Riding a horse in this suit is no problem, but walking on mountain roads...even if you are not exhausted, it will be a drag.
This is very embarrassing.
Qing Kong was very winking, he came up and said: "Your Majesty, why don't I take someone to chase after Li Guiren, are you going to intercept those deserters at the foot of the mountain?"
After the first battle just now, the confidence of the sharp knife is very sufficient. The confidence of the soldiers was originally established in the victories of the wars.
Li Tan struggled for a while and said: "No, Li Guiren is a cunning and cunning man who is good at setting up ambushes. Don't worry if I don't go. If there is any danger, I can at least protect you from death."
Clearing the air and keeping quiet, this is indeed very important. With Li Tan as the backing, they can feel more at ease exploring the way ahead.
Otherwise...everyone who has studied the art of war knows the term Fenglin Moru.
Li Tan looked at the mall and found that there were clothes, but it was not easy to explain, but now he didn't have so much time.
He gritted his teeth and said, "You go ahead, I'll change into some light clothes."
Qing Kong quickly said: "I serve the king..."
Li Tan waved his hand: "No need, you take them and move on, I will come soon."
This can't be followed by Qing Kong, otherwise Qing Kong will have to watch his clothes change in a second as if changing his face, and I'm afraid he will be scared to death.
Even if I am not scared to death, I am afraid that I will start to doubt life.
After finding a boulder, Li Tan chose a set of strong clothes that were more in line with the Tang Dynasty style in the mall to change into, and threw away all the bits and pieces of accessories on his body-in this mall, some things look good, but I don't know why, but the designer always likes to hang some bits and pieces of ornaments on it, which is very inexplicable.
After Li Tan tidied up, he rode his horse again and followed him. When Qing Kong saw him, he was shocked: "Your Majesty... so fast?"
Li Tan coughed lightly: "What are you paying attention to? Hurry up and leave some people to watch the horses, and we will go into the mountains."
Clearing some hesitation: "Your Majesty, we have left some after cleaning the battlefield and escorting the wounded. Let us leave some more. We only have less than 1000 people, and the other party has 2000 people."
Li Tan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, sometimes it's not the number of people that affects the outcome of a war, or it's not just the number of people."
Li Tan asked people to bring the pistol into the mountain, and he pretended to carry the pistol on his back—of course, this was actually just a decoration, and the pistol could not hit farther than his skills.
What's more, he can also release summoned objects.
Thinking of this, Li Tan suddenly discovered that this mountain forest was actually a natural hiding place for the five poisons' summoned creatures. With such dense jungles and bushes here, there is no need to worry about spirit snakes, centipedes and the like being discovered.
After thinking about it, he still used the spider, but this time, after summoning the spider, he directly changed it to the active attack mode.
In this mode, no matter whether Li Tan is directing or not, as long as it finds the enemy, it will rush up immediately.
As soon as Li Tan saw the spider rushing over, he just used his skills, at least one person could be caught.
He let the spider walk at the front of the team to act as a pathfinder. Even if he encountered a trap spider, he was not afraid, anyway, it could be summoned again.
Some people in the sharp knife saw the huge and outrageous spider. From the beginning of fear to the current habit, they already knew that it was the king's "pet".
What's more, because these "pets" have made outstanding achievements repeatedly, they almost regard these "pets" as comrades-in-arms.
"Tch, those are just tools,
Yes, Sharp Knife, this is the name he gave to his direct troops. It sounds very vulgar, but it is very practical.
Because the sharp knife is really like a sharp knife, as long as it reaches the battlefield, it can tear apart the formation of the place, and go straight to the weakest point of the opponent.
Yuan Zhe was terrified to death when he heard Li Tan say this, and quickly said: "Your Majesty, even if you want to sneak attack Li Guiren, you have to go with the big army. After all, Li Guiren is now..."
Li Tan said directly: "Li Guiren has now bypassed Jiyu City and is rushing to the nearby city. Now Puzhou City only has such a small force. I think he doesn't want to go head-to-head and consume too much."
Yuan Zhe was also shocked when he heard the news. He didn't even suspect how Li Tan got the news.
However, although he didn't ask, Li Tan was still thinking about excuses, just in case.
Hey, that's the bad thing, if he wasn't worried about being suspected, he would definitely not send any scouts, and let Zhiyi go directly.
After all, scouts may suffer casualties, but Zhiyi will not cause problems.
But he couldn't explain the fact that people can get news while sitting in the car.
It was precisely because he didn't want to explain too much that Li Tan planned to leave with a sharp knife as soon as possible.
His sharp knives are different, and the obedience of this team is the highest among all teams.
So no one in Sharp Knife doubted his source of news, or those people didn't even think about how Li Tan got the news. They only knew what Li Tan asked them to do, and they did.
Anyway, Li Guiren was attacking, even if he wanted to attack Jiyu City, it would be a feint attack, or he should hand it over to his subordinates to command.
And besides himself, Li Tan, he has never heard of how powerful people are. Yuan Zhe should be able to handle it, or the soldiers he brought this time are fundamentally better than the opponent, and the equipment is also better than the opponent. .
As long as Yuan Zhe doesn't fall into the trap like Tian Shengong, then there shouldn't be any problems.
Yuan Zhe watched Li Tan wearing the prince's uniform and galloping away into the night, feeling very powerless, thinking that it would be great if Jing Zhaoyin or Dali Siqing were there.
They must be able to persuade the king, at least they can know where the news from the king is, whether the news is accurate or not.
Yuan Zhe didn't doubt Li Tan, but he was worried. Before the expedition, both Ji He and Zou Shi repeatedly told him to take good care of His Royal Highness King Ning. After all, he bears the hope of many people and cannot fall down easily.
But the pressure on him was too great, so they all hoped that Yuan Zhe could share some of it.
Yuan Zhe also thought about it at the time, and he would not let Li Tan go to the battlefield if he could.
Even though Li Tan has all kinds of mysterious witchcraft in his hands, there are also disadvantages. When there are too many people, he can't take care of a few. His own safety is more important.
As a result... Li Tan led people to attack at night before his ambition was implemented.
Yuan Zhe sighed and continued to lead the team forward. He thought about the number of people that Li Tan brought over just now, and felt that as long as Li Guiren didn't bring tens of thousands of people, his king should be fine.
Thinking in this way, Yuan Zhe still accelerated his marching speed and rushed to Jiyu City in one breath, and it was already the night of the second day by this time.
Although it was already dark, Jiyu City was still brightly lit, or the west gate of Jiyu City was brightly lit—the generals under Tian Shen Power Leader were waiting for Li Tan's arrival.
However, when Li Tan's guard of honor arrived, the man... didn't come.
Seeing Tian Shengong's pale face, Yuan Zhe couldn't help but said, "You still have injuries on your body, and your body is even more exposed. How can you stand outside?"
He also regrets it now, because he thought he was going to Jiyu City soon, so he didn't send someone to inform Tian Shengong of the night attack.
If he had known that Tian Shengong would come out to greet him even if he was seriously injured, he should have told him earlier.
Tian Shengong's expression of anticipation gradually became extremely disappointed, and he asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty... don't you want to see me?"
Yuan Zhe dragged him into the carriage and said, "What are you talking about? Is the king so narrow-minded in your heart?"
Tian Shengong didn't speak, still looking downcast.
Yuan Zhe wanted to pat him on the shoulder like before, but he thought he was injured, so he didn't do it. He just said: "Okay, don't look like this, why? Can't afford to lose?"
If it was Tian Shengong in the past, he would definitely refute, but now he seems to really have lost that momentum, he said with a wry smile: "Yeah, I can't afford to lose, so many lives."
Tian Shengong blamed himself. Since waking up, he thought more than once why he wasn't more careful.There are obviously so many flaws, why didn't they check more?Or... why didn't he die and was not buried with his brothers?
So he can go underground and say sorry to those people.
If it is said that he lost in a head-to-head battle, although Tian Shengong would regret it, he would not feel so guilty, because he had tried his best in that case.
But now...he was aggrieved by the loss, and those soldiers who died because of this were even more wronged.
Seeing him like this, Yuan Zhe felt uncomfortable, but he didn't know how to comfort him. He couldn't just say that if he lost, he would lose and just win back next time.
He knew that what Tian Shengong cared about was not losing, but the lives of those soldiers.
If you can't comfort him, then you won't comfort him, so he simply said in a low voice: "Your Majesty took a sharp knife to attack and kill Li Guiren."
"What?" Tian Shengong's attention was indeed diverted, he suddenly became excited, and opened his mouth to say something, but a mouthful of blood spurted out.
Yuan Zhe was taken aback by him, and quickly said: "Don't, don't, don't worry, it was Li Guiren who led people around Jiyu City to attack and kill other cities. When the king got the news, he took people there .”
"What?" Tian Shengong was shocked: "Li Guiren bypassed Jiyu City? But... I... I didn't get any news from here."
After finishing speaking, he stared blankly at Yuan Zhe for a while, then suddenly lowered his head even more dejectedly - so he couldn't even do such a small thing well?
If the king didn't get the news, then... other cities...
Tian Shengong became dazed when he thought of this, and Yuan Zhe, who was at the side, noticed the change in him and was suddenly at a loss.
He originally wanted to tell Tian Shengong the real reason why Li Tan didn't follow, but why did Tian Shengong look even more dejected!
Yuan Zhe put his hand on his shoulder lightly, but he didn't know what to say, for fear that the more he said, the more wrong he would be.
Sensing his concerned gaze, Tian Shengong raised his head and forced a smile and said, "Let's go, we've set up a reception banquet. Although the king didn't come, we still have to let the brothers eat and drink enough."
Yuan Zhe nodded vigorously, but it was said to be a welcome banquet, but in fact, it seemed to Yuan Zhe that it was basically a bonfire party, or the kind of barbecue for himself.
But the more this is done, the more the tense atmosphere before the war can be concealed.
Yuan Zhe sat beside Tian Shengong and said with a smile: "Okay, you, but you can't touch this wine, you can only watch us drink it."
Tian Shengong had a worried face, and forced a smile after hearing this. Yuan Zhe asked, seeing him like this: "Are you worried about the king? Don't you need to know this? Who is the king, and he also brought Sharp knife, I might say that now they are all starting to clean the battlefield and collect the loot, hey, you say... can the king kill Li Guiren?"
Tian Shengong was stunned for a moment, and said with some hesitation: "This... Li Guiren is also a famous general in the world... This..."
Yuan Zhe stroked his chin and said, "I've never heard of a famous general in the world who knows witchcraft."
After hearing this, Tian Shengong suddenly became confident: Yes, their king can do witchcraft!
And Li Tan, who was said to know witchcraft by them, was holding Zhiyi by the back of his neck, and whispered: "I just swore to everyone that Li Guiren must be in this direction, why haven't I seen it yet? This is what you said before It's different."
Zhi Yi's body was suspended in the air, his four paws kicked wildly and said: "You think Li Guiren is dead and can't run? He is also moving."
In order not to let the people around him hear, Li Tan continued to lower his voice and said, "Then can't you position yourself more accurately?"
Zhiyi was very angry: "You think I am a satellite positioning system?"
Li Tan took it for granted, "Aren't you the system?"
Zhi Yi: It was speechless.
Just when Li Tan wanted to let him continue to provide more accurate information, he heard the scout come back and say, "Your Highness, we have found traces of the traitor."
Li Tan lifted his spirits and asked: "Is it accurate? Could it be that the other party has set up doubts?"
The scout said with certainty: "It has been checked, and there is no problem."
Li Tan shook the reins and said, "Catch up!"
He didn't have much doubt. After all, Li Guiren's actions were so secretive, he probably wouldn't have thought that Li Tan would be able to know their marching route, so he wouldn't be too defensive.
While chasing him, he asked, "Have you estimated how many people are there?"
In fact, he knows how many people there are. After all, there is Zhiyi's trick, but he can't be too omniscient. After all, it is strange to know Li Guiren's actions out of thin air.
Maybe when the time comes, he will have to say that there are spies he planted with Li Guiren in order to fool him.
The scout in front said: "There are about 5000 people, and I don't know why, it seems to be divided into two teams. Now I guess the team behind may be the baggage team."
"Huh? Five thousand?" Li Tan was taken aback for a moment, then turned his head to look at Zhiyi who was crouching on his shoulder, his eyes full of doubts.
After all, Zhiyi later told him that there were about 2000 people.
This number of teams is actually quite large for a sneak attack, but considering that Li Guiren is going to attack the city, this number is reasonable, after all, as long as he is not found on the way.
So now... where did the extra 3000 people come from?
He didn't doubt the scouts. After all, if the scouts judged that there were more than 2000 or about [-] people, it was normal. After all, it was not easy to identify the number of people through these traces in the middle of the night.
But with so many people missing at once, the scouts should be right.
But there is nothing wrong with Zhiyi, then there must be a problem with one team.
Li Tan thought about changing the formation from charge to semi-defense, and then continued to move forward.
The number of people he brought out was not too many, just over 1000.
He originally thought that if the other party had 2000 people, although their number was smaller, this number was the limit he could take care of, or he could guarantee that there would not be too many casualties with this number.
It is probably impossible that there will be no casualties at all. After all, they really rushed together. Li Tan's eyes are not cameras, so it is impossible to see them all.
But now that he has the ability to attack, he can completely pick a group of people by himself, so it is no problem to beat Li Guiren.
But if the other party has 5000 people, Li Tan has to think about it, after all, the gap in the number of people is a bit big.
Of course, it is impossible to retreat. They all chased them out. Before they set off, they vowed to capture Li Guiren alive. Now that they heard that there were too many people, they turned around and ran away. Does he want to lose face?
When he was thinking about how to deal with the two teams, Zhi Yi whispered in his ear: "It is sure, there are indeed two teams, but the distance between the two teams is a bit far, not very far, but this formation ...it's weird."
Li Tanxin asked with a thought: "Are you sure the second team is from An Lushan? Could it be that other righteous men knew his whereabouts and were chasing him?"
Zhi Yi said: "Don't think about it, it must be from Anlu Mountain."
Li Tan felt a little regretful, it would have been nice if it was his own.
However, he was still very puzzled: "Why do you want to separate? Is it really a delivery team? But if it is a delivery team, then it shouldn't be separated. What if it is attacked by surprise?"
The most important thing is that he is going to attack the city. As long as the attack is successful, what do you want?There is no need to bring a transport team at all, just like Li Tan didn't even prepare for the food road.
Zhi Yi said in a low voice: "Maybe the elites in front are responsible for attacking the city, and these are ordinary soldiers, responsible for opening the city gate or breaking the rear."
Li Tan nodded, now there is only one possibility.
However, since the two teams are separated and there is still a certain distance between them, Li Tan is very relieved. He can attack the team behind him first.
Even if the front team wants to return to help, it is not so fast. If they can directly eat the back team in the process, then basically there will be no pressure.
Li Tan suddenly asked in a low voice: "How many people are in the team behind?"
Zhi Yi said, "3000 people."
Li Tan did some calculations, even if it is one thousand, one thousand against three thousand, it is not very easy to fight, but it can be fought, the most important thing is that they are sneak attacks, the opponent has no idea that they will come out, their advantage when they are caught off guard bigger.
Thinking of this, Li Tan lowered his body and said, "Speed up!"
He speeded up, and the sharp knife also speeded up. This is the benefit of the sharp knife. No one will ever ask the king why he did this. It is dangerous to do so. They will always follow Li Tan, whether it is going up the mountain of swords or down into the sea of fire.
However, the speed of the opponent was also quite fast. Li Tan was jolting on the horseback, wondering if he had lost blood, and if he needed to give himself a sustained time before entering the battlefield.
The scout finally brought the latest news: "Your Highness, the distance between the opponent's team and us has narrowed to ten miles."
Li Tan said immediately after hearing this: "From now on, don't make any noise, don't talk, it's best to catch them off guard."
Of course, his order is probably useless. After all, from the moment he left the brigade to the present, apart from his conversation with the scouts, there was no other sound except the sound of horseshoes.
These warriors with sharp knives basically can't speak without speaking during the war.
After the instructions, the team increased their speed again. Although the sound of horseshoes was loud, there was no way to do it. Li Tan was even bargaining with Zhi Yi to see if the system had this thing.
Zhi Yi whispered, "If I hadn't disconnected from the headquarters, I probably would have, but now..."
Well, Li Tan understood, but although he was a little regretful, he didn't regret it either.
After all, if Zhiyi hadn't disconnected from the headquarters, it meant that he didn't come to Chang'an and was still staying in Liangzhou.
If it is in Liangzhou, what is the use of those high technologies that can cover up the voice?Fight against Tubo and Turks?Maybe it needs to, but it doesn't make much sense.
Now Li Tan only hoped that the enemy army in front would be better because there were so many people on his side, and the sound of marching could drown out the sound of their horseshoes.
However, his hope was doomed to fail because he overlooked one thing - the sharp knife was cultivated by him with all his heart and soul, and he was not short of money, so the sharp knife used was the best, and everyone could be equipped with a set of sharp knives. horse.
But not all armies are like this, at least this time the army he brought, the cavalry with real horses, except for the sharp knife team, there are only 2000 people left.
However, Li Tan led tens of thousands of people this time.
What ratio is this?
He is like this even if he is rich, An Lushan...Although he is rich, it is impossible for everyone to have horses.
Therefore, only a part of the enemy army in front had horses, while the rest were on foot.
The person at the end of the line should not be able to hear the hoofbeats in front of him, but now...he heard it.
The body that had been running all night was very exhausted. The moment he heard the sound of horseshoes, his first reaction was: Why did the general bring people back?
However, he soon came to his senses, and suddenly shouted: "There are horseshoes behind us!"
Not only him, but many people around him heard the sound of horseshoes.
The news quickly spread to the front, and the general who led them immediately ordered to shrink the formation and put on a defensive posture.
When Li Tan arrived with his men, he was very regretful when he saw the opponent's formation with the torch: "We have been discovered, but they are not cavalry, so... charge me!"
Infantry vs. cavalry, don't say whether they have an advantage or not. It is basically fate to survive.
Many people here were not hacked to death by the enemy, but trampled to death by horseshoes.
The sharp knife really lives up to its reputation. It stabs the enemy's camp in an instant, tearing the enemy's formation from the middle and messing it up.
At this time, the local general couldn't help scolding his mother: How could he have imagined that there would be such a team of cavalry.
After scolding his mother, he said, "Be careful, they are Turks!"
The cavalry is equal to the Turkic people, and it has basically been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Except for the nomads, no other nation can organize such a cavalry team.
Now most of the nomads are basically collected by Anlu Mountain, but the Turkic people are their own country, and they have not agreed to cooperate with Anlu Mountain.
They want to wait, after An Lushan has lost both sides in the fight with the Tang court, and then take action to reap the power of the fish.
So in this case, the first reaction of the anti-thief generals was that the Turks finally made a move.
But soon he realized: Turkic is not close to Puzhou, it is impossible to come in so quietly, right?Otherwise, how could the imperial court not have heard of it?
The court he was talking about was the Great Yan court established by the rebel An Lushan.
Just when he was wondering, he suddenly heard a young, outrageous voice with a smile: "The eyes are not very good."
After hearing this, the general looked up reflexively, and then saw a young man in the uniform of the Prince of Tang riding on a horse, looking at him with a smile.
The general was puzzled for a moment, but he quickly judged that this should be the leader of the opponent, and immediately said: "Go and kill him!"
Everyone knows that the thief is captured first.
Then this sentence became the last sentence the general said in this world, and the scene he saw Li Tan also became his last impression of this world—because after that sentence, he inexplicably changed from Immediately fell down, and was stepped on by someone's horse's hoof.
It was under Li Tan's control that the general fell off the horse, because he summoned a spider and pulled him down directly.
Of course, what Li Tan was thinking at the time was to use a spider to pull him over, and then catch him alive, to see if he could ask anything.
In the end, I didn’t expect to pull it over—there were too many obstacles in the middle, and the soldiers of the enemy and our own soldiers were all obstacles. As a result, the man fell off the horse and was trampled to death.
Li Tan: ...
This is probably the most aggrieved general who died on Anlu Mountain, right?
Even Li Tan didn't even know his name.
Alas, he doesn't even know who I am.Li Tan thought with some regret that this guy might be going to be a fool.
He regretted it, and the other soldiers regretted it even more. It was a great achievement to kill the opponent's general, and it would be an even greater achievement if he could cut off the opponent's head.
Just now everyone rushed over with all their strength to win this meritorious service, but who knew that the other party fell off the horse.
Although the general is dead now, who killed it... I don't know.
And even if you know it's useless, it should be the horse who really counted as a meritorious service.
Without such a great achievement, the warriors with sharp knives turned their grief and anger into strength, and slashed harder.
Li Tan saw that the opponent was still resisting, so he said: "Shout twice, and the general of the rebels is dead. The rest of them just need to disarm and surrender, and I will save their lives."
In fact, he doesn't want to keep the lives of these people at all. After all, each of these people may have one or several lives of Tang people.
However, Li Tan did not forget that Li Guiren's team was divided into two teams, and Li Guiren was obviously not in this team.
Now he still has to go after Li Guiren's team, so he must make a quick decision before giving these people the opportunity to tip off the news.
What surprised him was that even though they already knew that their general was dead, they didn't give up their resistance to follow the team in front, but continued to fight against the sharp knife in vain.
Li Tan couldn't help raising his eyebrows when he saw it: "Yo Huo, be stubborn, since you don't want to surrender, then... let's all die here!"
Under the moonlight, Li Tan looked indifferently.
Because the opponent didn't have many cavalry, few people from the sharp knife encountered real danger. Of course, it was also because they dispersed the opponent's camp from the very beginning.
It's just that it would take some time for so many people to beheaded honestly one by one, let alone they are still resisting.
During this process, Qing Kong whispered next to Li Tan: "My lord, that's not right. This doesn't look like a luggage team. They didn't bring any luggage. They seem to have brought their own dry food and weapons."
Li Tan is also a little strange, since it is not a baggage team, and the speed is not dragged down by the baggage trucks, why are they separated from the front troops?
If you want to attack from both sides, it would be fine to divide the troops, but just now he confirmed with Zhiyi that the route of this team is the route that Li Guiren led the troops.
Could it be that Li Guiren had already guessed that someone would intercept and kill him, so this group of people stayed to intercept the pursuers?
But it doesn't make sense, anyway, if it was Li Tan, he wouldn't do this, and he wouldn't bring so many people here in the first place.
Since it is a sneak attack, it is necessary to use the fastest speed, and when the opponent is completely unable to react, directly hit the opponent by surprise.
The cavalry is the king in this respect, so all the sneak attacks should be with cavalry, but this... there are more infantry and less cavalry.
Just when Li Tan was wondering, the war ahead was drawing to a close.
Li Tan inquired about the casualties, and he was relieved when he learned that there were wounded but not killed soldiers.
He didn't pick up the raccoon just now, he didn't want these fighters to rely too much on him.
If you get used to the days when someone is healing from behind and they rush forward, if he is not there, these fighters will rush over so stupidly, wouldn't that be death?
Now it seems that the combat capability of the sharp knife is still good.
Qing Kong followed up with statistics, and then left some people to clean up the battlefield and send the wounded back to Jiyu City by the way, while the rest continued to chase.
During the pursuit, Qing Kong followed Li Tan and said, "My lord, the situation is even more strange."
Li Tan lowered his body as much as possible and asked, "How?"
Qing Kong looked puzzled: "No one from the other party ran away from the beginning to the end, or no one tried to report the news."
Li Tan was also a little surprised after hearing this: "Why don't they call for reinforcements?"
Empty... If you know about Empty, you won't be confused.
Li Tan asked again: "Could it be that someone wanted to escape, but you didn't pay attention?"
It is possible to be trampled to death by horseshoes or hacked to death by random knives when you are not paying attention. After all, swords and guns have no eyes on the battlefield.
Qing Kong shook his head and said: "No, it's really not. Those people kept rushing forward. Although some escaped, they chose the opposite direction."
Li Tan suddenly regretted it a bit. He knew that he should leave someone behind to ask about the situation, so why did he kill them all?
However, the orders were all issued and the people were all killed. Thinking about it now doesn't seem to work.
He cheered up and said: "When you catch Li Guiren and ask him, you will know."
After listening to Qing Kong, Rao was always calm, but he couldn't help but get excited.
It was obviously a very common sentence, but it gave him infinite courage.
Li Tan led his men to continue chasing Li Guiren. After chasing and chasing, it was dawn, but this time he was smart and asked the scouts to distinguish whether the opponent was cavalry or a mixture of cavalry and infantry.
The sharp knife's scout is probably the first-class scout in the country. Not only did he analyze that the opponent was a mixture of infantry and cavalry, he even calculated that the opponent's cavalry should not exceed two hundred at most.
Li Tan: ...
If the calculation is based on a maximum of two hundred, the other party will bring 2000 people, a ratio of one-tenth.
Li Tan slowed down for a while, worried that if he ran so desperately, he would really be hanging on the road. Anyway, the opponent had more infantry, and they were all cavalry who would catch up sooner or later.
He thought for a while and said in disbelief: "He brought so many infantry, is he serious about this sneak attack? Or is it that Anlu Mountain is so poor that it can't even support a 2000-man cavalry team?"
If it is the latter, then it is really good news.
However, An Lushan has been operating in Fanyang for many years, and Li Longji rewarded him very generously, so this should not happen.
Qing Kong said: "Is he so confident that we won't get his whereabouts? Could it be that... someone in Puzhou is hiding his tracks for him?"
When he said this, Qing Kong never thought about why Li Tan knew about Li Guiren's whereabouts. Anyway, his king knows witchcraft.
I didn't see that all the great witches around An Lushan worshiped him as their teacher back then, and even called him the great king in private.
Since it bears a word of God, it is normal to know something that ordinary people don't know, or to have a prophet.
Li Tan never thought that his subordinates had such big brains.
However, at this time he became vigilant, and he did not doubt what Qing Kong said at all.
After all, there are too many generals who betrayed Datang, and there are also many who took refuge in An Lushan.
The time it took for them to conquer Jinzhou was too short, and Puzhou was not prepared. Maybe some people who were greedy for life and afraid of death would take refuge in Anlu Mountain and secretly hide their whereabouts for them.
If it weren't for Li Tanyou Zhiyi's trick, I'm afraid he wouldn't know that Li Guiren had changed his mind to attack other cities until now.
Thinking of this, he said bitterly: "Don't let me know who that person is! Otherwise, I'll cut him alive!"
Qing Kong trembled after listening to it. Now he knows that his family's king said that he would kill the other party alive, it is definitely not empty talk. The Yang family has proved this point with their own lives.
But after knowing that the opponent had infantry, Li Tan didn't let the soldiers rush so desperately.
That way of traveling is an overload on their bodies, and it is even more harmful to the horse.
Anyway, with so many two-legged opponents, how could they outrun them with four legs?
Sooner or later, he will be able to catch up, and Li Tan has calculated that he is still far away from Qiping City. He is confident that he can stop Li Guiren in the process.
It's just that he also miscalculated after all, when Zhiyi told him that Li Guiren didn't head towards Qiping City, but turned around and got into the mountains and forests on the road, Li Tan's expression was stiff.
He turned his head and looked at Zhiyi in disbelief and asked, "Is there a road in the mountains that leads to Qiping City?"
After counting for a long time, Zhi Yi said, "That's a detour. In the end, you have to go back to the main road to go to Qiping City."
After all, the road system is underdeveloped these days. If there are not many residents in a city and it is not very prosperous, then it is likely that there is only one right road leading to the city, or there is only one road.
This is the situation in Qiping City today. There are only 1 residents in this small city. There are too few people and there is not much communication with the outside world, so there is no other way at all.
But if this is the case, then why did Li Guiren go into the woods?
After thinking about it, Li Tansi felt that there was only one last possibility: Li Guiren knew that he was leading people to pursue him.
So the question is, how did Li Guiren know his whereabouts?
Li Tan suddenly decided to pursue him, so even if there were secret agents in the team he brought, it would be impossible to notify him in time.
Of course, the most important thing is that among those people, only Yuan Zhe knew what Li Tan was going to do, and the other soldiers only knew that His Royal Highness Ning Wang led the people out of the team, and no one knew what he was going to do.
It's amazing that there is another Tian Shengong who knows now, but neither of these two people can betray him.
When the team was intercepted and killed just now, no one left to report. Li Tan has been observing the situation on the battlefield, and is still oppressing the barbarians.
The purpose is to prevent Li Guiren from knowing the news in advance, and then set a trap.
Although for Li Tan, those traps are useless, not to mention that he has a barbarian, even if he doesn't, he only needs to send some people to explore the way.
Anyway, it is impossible for him to fail to save the lives of these people.
So how did Li Guiren know that they were chasing them, and how he decided to sneak into the forest is probably a mystery at present.
Li Tan is also very entangled now. The mountains and forests are the enemy of the cavalry. If they want to catch up, they must dismount.
But the problem was that he was too excited when he knew that Li Guiren was going to attack Qiping City, and he came out with his people without even changing his clothes, and he was still wearing the prince's regular clothes.
Riding a horse in this suit is no problem, but walking on mountain roads...even if you are not exhausted, it will be a drag.
This is very embarrassing.
Qing Kong was very winking, he came up and said: "Your Majesty, why don't I take someone to chase after Li Guiren, are you going to intercept those deserters at the foot of the mountain?"
After the first battle just now, the confidence of the sharp knife is very sufficient. The confidence of the soldiers was originally established in the victories of the wars.
Li Tan struggled for a while and said: "No, Li Guiren is a cunning and cunning man who is good at setting up ambushes. Don't worry if I don't go. If there is any danger, I can at least protect you from death."
Clearing the air and keeping quiet, this is indeed very important. With Li Tan as the backing, they can feel more at ease exploring the way ahead.
Otherwise...everyone who has studied the art of war knows the term Fenglin Moru.
Li Tan looked at the mall and found that there were clothes, but it was not easy to explain, but now he didn't have so much time.
He gritted his teeth and said, "You go ahead, I'll change into some light clothes."
Qing Kong quickly said: "I serve the king..."
Li Tan waved his hand: "No need, you take them and move on, I will come soon."
This can't be followed by Qing Kong, otherwise Qing Kong will have to watch his clothes change in a second as if changing his face, and I'm afraid he will be scared to death.
Even if I am not scared to death, I am afraid that I will start to doubt life.
After finding a boulder, Li Tan chose a set of strong clothes that were more in line with the Tang Dynasty style in the mall to change into, and threw away all the bits and pieces of accessories on his body-in this mall, some things look good, but I don't know why, but the designer always likes to hang some bits and pieces of ornaments on it, which is very inexplicable.
After Li Tan tidied up, he rode his horse again and followed him. When Qing Kong saw him, he was shocked: "Your Majesty... so fast?"
Li Tan coughed lightly: "What are you paying attention to? Hurry up and leave some people to watch the horses, and we will go into the mountains."
Clearing some hesitation: "Your Majesty, we have left some after cleaning the battlefield and escorting the wounded. Let us leave some more. We only have less than 1000 people, and the other party has 2000 people."
Li Tan waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, sometimes it's not the number of people that affects the outcome of a war, or it's not just the number of people."
Li Tan asked people to bring the pistol into the mountain, and he pretended to carry the pistol on his back—of course, this was actually just a decoration, and the pistol could not hit farther than his skills.
What's more, he can also release summoned objects.
Thinking of this, Li Tan suddenly discovered that this mountain forest was actually a natural hiding place for the five poisons' summoned creatures. With such dense jungles and bushes here, there is no need to worry about spirit snakes, centipedes and the like being discovered.
After thinking about it, he still used the spider, but this time, after summoning the spider, he directly changed it to the active attack mode.
In this mode, no matter whether Li Tan is directing or not, as long as it finds the enemy, it will rush up immediately.
As soon as Li Tan saw the spider rushing over, he just used his skills, at least one person could be caught.
He let the spider walk at the front of the team to act as a pathfinder. Even if he encountered a trap spider, he was not afraid, anyway, it could be summoned again.
Some people in the sharp knife saw the huge and outrageous spider. From the beginning of fear to the current habit, they already knew that it was the king's "pet".
What's more, because these "pets" have made outstanding achievements repeatedly, they almost regard these "pets" as comrades-in-arms.
"Tch, those are just tools,
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