Before dawn, Li Xiu was awakened by the sound of the trumpet in the military camp. Then he received a call from Li Shimin, asking all the ministers to wait in the tent. Then Li Shimin took them out of the city, and escorted five thousand cavalry behind him and stopped on a dirt mountain outside the camp.

Li Ji's army had already left the camp, and then formed a military formation on the plain in front of him. Opposite the Tang army, the Goguryeo army led by Gao Yanshou also slowly pressed down. The scene of more than 100,000 troops being dispatched together was extremely shocking. At first glance, there were dense black heads. Li Xiu, standing on the high ground, looked at the army slowly approaching on both sides, and even had a little illusion, feeling like two huge ant colonies below.

The information Li Shimin received was not wrong before. Gao Yanshou did as the information said, launching an attack on the Tang army three days later, and the actions of more than 100,000 troops could not be hidden at all. Therefore, as soon as the Goguryeo people moved, the Tang army was ready to fight. It is worth mentioning that Li Daozong also led 6,000 elite cavalry to ambush on the flank, ready to fight out at any time.

As the Goguryeo army approached, the two armies were also ready to fight. Without the generals in later Romance novels, the generals on both sides had no nonsense. After all, fighting is a war. When people appear on the battlefield, they have actually degenerated into the most primitive beast, and any language will become very pale and powerless.

The Tang army was well-equipped and had a long range of bows and arrows, so when the Goguryeo army reached its range, the Tang army immediately launched thousands of arrows, and the catapults behind the army also began to show their power. The turbulent bombs and gunpowder bombs were constantly throwing out, and falling into the Goguryeo army immediately caused screams and chaos.

However, Goguryeo was also prepared this time. There were special people in the army to supervise the battle, so even if there were major casualties, the army continued to advance firmly. Finally, the Tang army finally reached the range of the Goguryeo people. Then Goguryeo archers began to fight back, and countless arrows were intertwined above the heads of both sides. The dense rain of arrows seemed to block the sunlight, and the battlefield became much colder.

However, after a few rounds of bows and arrows, the army of both sides finally began the first head-on confrontation. At this time, the bows and arrows had lost their function. The shield and spearmen in front occupied the main force. The two armies were like torrents of steel. As soon as they came into contact, they collided with sparks of iron and blood. The wailings of countless soldiers were composeing a tragic note for this movement.

Li Xiu stood on the earthen mountain outside the battlefield, holding a telescope in his hand and looking at the battlefield below. However, after watching for a while, he put down the telescope in his face. In contrast, Li Shimin next to him looked at the situation on the battlefield expressionlessly, and the casualties of the Tang army soldiers were completely ignored by him. This is not because Li Shimin was cruel and ruthless, but because there was no mercy on the battlefield. The so-called kindness does not control the soldiers is what it means.

Although Gao Yanshou did not use all his troops this time, in fact, the real elites only accounted for half of his 150,000 troops, and the remaining ones were troops collected by various tribes of Goguryeo. Therefore, only 70,000 people were attacked this time, and the remaining 80,000 were divided into several armies by him, guarding the left and right wings and the rear. In addition, there were a considerable number of them as reserves to prevent emergencies on the battlefield, so that soldiers could be sent to rescue.

However, even if there were only 70,000 people attacking head-on, it was far more than Li Ji's army. In fact, Li Ji had only more than 20,000 people. Therefore, facing several times the Goguryeo army, Li Ji also took a defensive position at the beginning. The 20,000 troops lined up in close formations, allowing the Goguryeo army to attack like a rock, but remained unmoved.

Gao Yanshou also knew that the Tang army was consuming his morale. As the saying goes, three drums were exhausted. If they could not break through the Tang army's formation for a long time, then they would soon usher in the Tang army's counterattack. With the combat power of the Tang army, it was not impossible to break through these 70,000 of them. Moreover, he also knew that the Tang army would definitely not have only these in front of him, and there would definitely be other Tang troops ambushing nearby.

It is precisely because of the above that Gao Yanshou also ordered the army to attack wildly. Now they are competing with the Tang army to endurance and time. If they can break through the Tang army's formation, then they will have an advantage on the battlefield and force the Tang army to mobilize the troops nearby, but he also has a trump card, and the outcome is still unknown, but if he cannot break through the Tang army's formation, it would be bad.

Just as Gao Yanshou was commanding the army to fight desperately to attack Li Ji's army, Li Shimin, who was standing on the nearby dirt mountain, suddenly shouted excitedly: "Here you come!"

With Li Shimin's shout, Li Xiu and the ministers around him were also startled. Then someone immediately looked in the direction Li Shimin looked at him, and Li Xiu also picked up the telescope again. After looking for a while, he found that several thick wolf smokes were rising right behind the Goguryeo army.

"This... is this a signal from General Cheng?" Li Xiu couldn't help but shouted in surprise when he saw the ignited wolf smoke in the distance. Although he knew Li Shimin's rough combat plan, he did not understand the details. First, there was no need, and second, he focused on logistics scheduling and had no energy to pay attention to these.

"Yes, Zhijie came in time. I was worried that he would delay the time, but I didn't expect that as soon as the fight started, he came from behind!" Li Shimin smiled and pointed at Yanzhu in the distance.

Hearing Li Shimin's words, the ministers around were all exclaiming. As Cheng Yaojin joined the battlefield, Goguryeo's rear army began to become in chaos. Although Gao Yanshou arranged an army of tens of thousands of people behind him, he could not stop Cheng Yaojin's attack at all. At this time, Li Ji also discovered the smoke pillar behind Goguryeo, and now he began to command a small group of cavalry to start counterattack.

Faced with this situation, Gao Yanshou was also shocked. He did not expect that there was a Tang army behind him, and the offensive was so fierce that the tens of thousands of troops he placed behind could not stop it. The only way now is to divide the troops to rescue, but the Tang army in front would probably not let him divide the troops so easily!
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