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Chapter 358 Luanshui defeat

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82_82308 Lou Shide said lightly: "The court once discussed this issue. The Khitan was weak after all, and it was also a barrier to the northeast of the Tang Dynasty to some extent. Once the Khitan was destroyed, the Turkic forces would enter Liaodong. This is definitely not a scene that the court would like to see, so protecting the Khitan was actually also protected Liaodong."

"I understand!"

Su Honghui held his fists and petitioned: "I am willing to be the vanguard and lead the headquarters to pursue the Khitan fugitive."

Lou Shide knew that he wanted to make meritorious service and did not make things difficult for him, so he nodded happily and said, "Then please General Su!"

Su Honghui immediately led 30,000 Tang troops to head north quickly and recovered Miyun that night, but he continued to march day and night, and caught up with the Khitan army at noon the next day. A fierce battle broke out on the grassland north of Miyun.

After passing through Yanshan Mountain directly from Miyun, the vast grassland is convenient to the north, and then you can go directly to Liaodong to the east, and to Raolezhou to the northeast. When passing through Raolezhou, it is Songmo Governor's Office, the old nest of the Khitan.

After leaving Miyun, the Khitan army scattered like birds and beasts, and their tribes returned to their hometowns day and night. The news of the Turkic attacks on the rear had already spread throughout the Khitan tribes, and everyone was anxious. At this time, the idea of ​​seizing the wealth of the Tang Dynasty and women had long been left behind. Everyone was worried about their wives and children, and they wanted to fly north.

The Khitan army of 120,000 people suffered two heavy blows in a row, and the morale of the army had long been disintegrated. Sun Wanrong and Yi Yuanyu led more than 20,000 people from the tribe to flee north in a hurry. Sun Wanrong had heard that the Tang army had caught up with the rear army. More than 10,000 rear army was wiped out. The Tang army's 200,000 troops were chasing behind him, and one by one was annihilated by the tribes that were beyond their reach. Sun Wanrong was panicked and led his army to flee north desperately, and did not dare to stop and rest at all.

Two days later, he led his army into Raolezhou, which was the territory of the Xi people. Seeing the wide Luan River from afar, Sun Wanrong breathed a little relieved and ordered the army to rest on the spot, waiting for the infantry led by Yi Yuyuan behind to catch up.

The Khitan cavalry dismounted, led their horses to the Luanshui River to drink water, and then took out dried meat and horse milk wine to fill their stomachs. Many soldiers were exhausted and fell to the ground and fell asleep. Sun Wanrong sat on a piece of grass, eating dry food while looking at the surrounding terrain.

They are located in a low hilly grassland area. There are towering Yanshan Mountain dozens of miles south. The Luan River, which is more than ten feet wide, winds through the hills like a jade belt. Sun Wanrong is not very familiar with this area, but he suddenly realizes a very realistic question. How should they cross the Luan River?

The Khitans used sheepskin rafts to cross the river, but now their sheepskin rafts are all thrown into the rear army, and they have no tools to cross the river. Do they still have to go north and bypass Luanshui? That means they have to walk hundreds of miles more.

Sun Wanrong felt a headache. The usually simple problem was stumped by him now. He immediately stood up and looked south. He hoped to see a forest and then cut wood across the river.

But he did not see a tree, but there was Yanshan dozens of miles away, and there should be a large forest at the foot of Yanshan Mountain. At this time, Yi Yuyuan led thousands of infantry soldiers to arrive in panting.

"Khan!"

Yi Yu shouted: "There is a forest twenty miles south, and we need to cut wood across the river!"

Sun Wanrong was worried about this and was overjoyed when he heard this. He immediately ordered: "The whole army will get on the horse and go to the south to cross the river!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a personal soldier suddenly pointed at the south and shouted in horror, "Khan, there is an enemy!"

When Sun Wanrong turned his head, he was immediately scared to death. He saw a large group of cavalry appearing on a grass hill about two miles south, with thousands of people lying on the ground. A huge Tang army flag was erected in the middle. Sun Wanrong shouted in dismay: "Retreat quickly!"

This cavalry was the 5,000 cavalry led by Li Zhen. They had been waiting for the defeated Khitan troops to retreat east. He also knew about the Turkic army's attack on the Khitan's nest, so the Khitan would withdraw its troops soon.

Li Zhen received the information provided by the Xi people and waited by the Luan River that the Khitan must pass, but he did not expect that the first defeated army he had waited for was Sun Wanrong's army.

Li Zhen looked at the panicked Khitan soldiers coldly. With his hand, the low trumpet sounded immediately. The sound of the Tang army's war drums were like thunder. Li Zhen issued an order to attack.

"kill!"

With a wave of his sword, he rode his horse and led five thousand elite cavalry to sweep down from the grass hill. The shouts of killing sounds shook the sky. The war horses were rushing at lightning, and the horse's hooves rolled, like the strong wind under dark clouds, sweeping towards the Khitan army two miles away.

At this time, the Khitan cavalry was in chaos and had no will to resist. They could not find their own horses, and many people jumped on other people's war horses and turned around and fled.

Yi Yu was wronged to see that the situation was not good, and the morale of the army had collapsed and could not resist. He immediately shouted to Sun Wanrong: "Khan, there is no time to resist, so quickly retreat north, otherwise we will all die here."

Sun Wanrong's face was pale, but he was really unwilling to give up. He had 20,000 troops and only thousands of people on the other side. He rode his own war horse and shouted: "Cabinets gather left and right wings to fight me!"

Yi Yu was wrongly aware that Sun Wanrong was still trying to resist. He stopped persuading him and turned his head and ran away. Dozens of personal guards surrounded him and fled to the north desperately.

The two thousand left-wing troops led by He Yanbashou took the lead in breaking into the Khitan infantry group, slaughtering and attacking the infantry group like a slaughter, and instantly knocked down a large number of soldiers.

The morale of the Khitan army had been lost and was defeated in a battle with the Tang army. The chaotic infantry formation collapsed first. Then the cavalry formation could not resist the sharp impact of the right-wing cavalry of the Tang army and finally defeated the Khitan army.

"kill!"

The Tang army shouted loudly, and their morale was greatly boosted. They chased the enemy and left. The defeated soldiers were fleeing desperately. They trampled on each other, suffocated and trampled to death.

At this time, Zhang Li led a thousand cavalry around the enemy and cut off the Khitan army's retreat in the north. In the extreme chaos, tens of thousands of Khitan soldiers turned to the east to escape like a herd of driven cattle.

Not far to the east is the Luan River. The river water is about ten feet wide, and there are no bridges or ferries by the river. The defeated soldiers have nowhere to escape, and they all jumped into the river to swim.

Most of the Khitan troops did not know the nature of water. Countless people drowned in the river. The bodies blocked the river. The human body was buried in the mountain and the corpses accumulated like mountains, forming a bridge of corpses several feet long. The defeated soldiers behind them stepped on the corpses of their companions and tried to escape to the other side, but they also fell into the river. Only moans, screams, and cries were heard, and everything seemed crazy, terrifying and chaotic.

Li Zhen's Tang army cavalry had no time to accept the surrender of the Khitan army. They had hatred and ruthlessly massacred the defeated soldiers. The Khitan army just ran desperately. On the vast grassland, there were Khitan defeated soldiers running around, but they couldn't escape very far, so they were chased and surrounded by the Tang cavalry.

At this time, Li Zhen issued an order to accept the surrender, "Accept the enemy's surrender, all those who resist will be killed!" The Tang army began to accept the surrender, which made the Khitan army find a way out. In the end, most of the desperate Khitan army had to kneel down and kowtow to beg for mercy.

But after Sun Wanrong commanded the army to resist, he sneaked away. Li Zhen personally led two thousand elite cavalry to chase Sun Wanrong. They whipped their horses and galloped in the whistling wind.

About half an hour later, more than a dozen small boats appeared in front of them. At that time, the small boats used by merchants to cross the river were now snatched by the Khitan army.

There were already a crowd of people on the bank of the river. This was another small Khitan tribe deserter, about 2,000 people. When they learned that the Tang army appeared in the south, thousands of people wanted to cross the river and escape from it.

The west bank of Luanshui was full of war horses discarded by the owner. More than a dozen small boats were filled with escaped soldiers. Two small boats were overloaded and sank in the river due to overload. A huge whirlpool swept nearly a hundred soldiers into the bottom of the river.

Yi Yu was sitting on the first ship unjustly. He and dozens of personal soldiers were lucky enough to cross the Luan River. When they got ashore, they ran eastward. They were eager to get the warm hospitality of the Xi people, but he didn't know that the son of King Li Pidi of Xi was in Li Zhen's hands. Li Pidi was worried that there would be no good gift to Li Zhen to exchange for his own son.

At this time, two thousand Tang cavalry came overwhelmed by the sky, and the Khitan soldiers cried and shook the sky. The ships left the shore and rowed to the other side. The soldiers who did not boarded the boat either knelt down and surrendered or fled north along the river bank.

Thousands of Khitan soldiers knelt on the riverside, and Li Zhen was anxious. If Sun Wanrong was not here, he might have crossed the river and fled. If Sun Wanrong could not be caught, he would have lost the opportunity to make great contributions in vain.

"Is Sun Wanrong here?" Li Zhen drew his sword and pointed at the Khitan prisoners of war on the knees all over the ground and shouted angrily, thousands of prisoners of war were silent.

At this time, Jiu Zhi shouted in a Khitan saying he had just learned: "Whoever gives Sun Wanrong, let him go home!"

Thousands of Khitan soldiers suddenly heard a slight commotion. Suddenly, someone pointed at the prisoners of war with their heads down next to him and shouted: "He is here!"

The group of prisoners suddenly became in an uproar. Several prisoners of war jumped up and were about to escape. Li Zhen pointed at the sword and shouted: "Catch him and the others!"

Dozens of Tang soldiers rushed up and knocked these Khitan soldiers to the ground. One of them cursed: "Li Zhen, you have the will to kill me!"

The Tang army soldiers beside Li Zhen immediately recognized this person and said to Li Zhen: "General, he is Sun Wanrong!"

Li Zhen was overjoyed. He urged the horse to step forward slowly and sneered: "You deserve to die. The Tang Dynasty will definitely kill you, but it's not now. I want to use you to exchange for my career and wealth."

In the spring of the first year of Tiance of the Tang Dynasty, Sun Wanrong, the army of Khitan Khan who rebelled against the Tang Dynasty, was completely defeated in Miyun under the joint attack of the Tang Dynasty and the Turks.

The eight major Khitan tribes no longer recognized Sun Wanrong's position as Khan, and each withdrew their troops, but were chased by the 200,000 Tang troops led by Lou Shide, and tens of thousands of Khitan troops were wiped out.

Sun Wanrong led 20,000 troops to be ambushed by the cavalry led by Li Zhen, the general of the Inner Guard. The entire Khitan army was defeated, with more than 4,000 killed and tens of thousands surrendered. Sun Wanrong hid among prisoners of war, but was identified by his personal soldiers. Sun Wanrong was captured by Li Zhen and sent someone to escort back to Luoyang. In March, Wu Ze issued an order to kill the Khitan enemy Sun Wanrong in Zhaozhou.

Another Khitan enemy, Yi Yu, was wrongly killed by King Li Pi, Xi, and sent his head to the Tang army camp. At this point, it lasted for more than half a year. The Khitan rebellion that burned to Hebei was finally quelled by the Tang army...
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