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Chapter 1179 Guanlong Shock
Li Chongrui was the second legitimate grandson of Li Gu and was highly valued by Li Gu.

The eldest grandson is a politician, focusing on maintaining the status quo; the second grandson is a warrior, focusing on development. The priorities are clear, and both offense and defense are possible. This is also the choice of many great families to continue their family line.

The infighting in the officialdom did not involve life and safety, so he was not worried about his eldest grandson being an official in the local area. However, Li Gu was very worried about his second grandson leading a large army to Hebei to wipe out the Turks. The battlefield was fierce and dangerous, and the curved swords and sharp arrows did not care about your status.

This was the first time that Ci Sun led such a large army to engage in a head-on confrontation with the northern nomads.

If he wins the battle, then Li Chongrui will have passed the most important test. After being tempered on the battlefield, he will be reborn and transformed. He will shed his superficiality, become steady and solid, and be able to stand on his own.

If you suffer a major defeat, it is possible that the confidence you have built up over the years will be completely destroyed, your mentality will collapse, and you will never be willing to set foot on the battlefield again.

The core of the world today is the aristocratic family, and the most powerful among the aristocratic families are the Guanlong aristocratic families. They, the Longxi Li family, are both the royal family and the core of the aristocratic families.

Li Gu is the patriarch of this ancient family. It is no exaggeration to say that Li Gu is the person with the greatest influence on the world and is more deterrent than the emperor.

If Li Yan was the emperor in public, then Li Gu was the emperor who supported the emperor behind the scenes. He even began to be in power during the reign of Li Yuan.

A figure flashed at the gate of the courtyard, and his trusted confidant Li Zhong walked in. Li Gu glanced at him, then retracted his gaze, his face unchanged, and continued to wave his hand gestures. Since Ci Sun went to war, he asked for a military report a day to keep abreast of the developments on the front line.

A few days ago, the army went all the way south and joined up with Li Ji and Cheng Yaojin. Under their leadership, they were invincible all the way, recovered lost territory, and won battle after battle. Li Gu was in a good mood, wondering if he had won another battle today.

Li Gu was cheered up, waved his hand, and performed the White Crane Spreads Wings skillfully.

Then he frowned. Usually at this time, Li Zhong would cheer and then compliment him with a smile, saying that an old horse is still as strong as it was in its youth. It is a blessing for the Li family and the Tang Dynasty that he still has such a strong body at his old age.

But today, he did not hear such agreement. Li Gu slowly retracted his words, turned around, and was suddenly stunned. There was actually another person following behind Li Zhong, wearing military armor, but it was tattered, covered in blood, and looked very sloppy.

The man had messy hair, a shaggy beard, and a dusty face. He looked at him with a sad expression.

Li Gu knew that Li Zhong was not a person who took things lightly. The one who brought him here without informing the public must be an important person. Although he secretly blamed the person for being so careless, he still smiled and asked, "Who is this?"

"Grandpa, Chongrui, you're back!" Li Chongrui saw his grandfather, who was his pillar of support, looking at him kindly. He could no longer suppress the grievance in his heart. He stepped forward and knelt in front of Li Gu, hugged Li Gu's legs and burst into tears.

'Well'

Li Gu was stunned, his face full of astonishment, then he heard what the other party said clearly, his eyes suddenly widened, he bent down in disbelief, picked up the person's head, and looked at it carefully.

Through the messy beard and dusty face, he pulled aside the drooping hair and took a closer look. It was indeed his grandson whom he had raised since childhood. He subconsciously asked, "Chongrui, what's wrong with you? Aren't you leading troops in Hebei?"

"Uh no."

Suddenly, Li Gu shuddered, his old face suddenly turned pale, his body shook involuntarily, and his head was dizzy. Li Zhong was old and experienced, and had anticipated this situation. He hurried forward to support him and said with concern: "Master, please take care of your body."

Li Gu ignored Li Zhong. He was knowledgeable, intelligent, and had a deep understanding of the inner workings of this era. He could deduce the general situation of things with just a little bit of phenomena, and was often 80% accurate.

But at this moment, Li Gu would rather not have such insight. As the core figure of Longxi Flying Cavalry, Ci Sun should have been fighting in Hebei, thousands of miles away. But now he appeared at home alone, and he must have encountered an unpredictable event.

With 200,000 of the most powerful cavalry in the world guarding us, what big trouble could happen?

Nothing but defeat.
He was able to leave behind 200,000 people and run back alone, which shows that it was not a small defeat. Li Gu felt dizzy. On the one hand, he was shocked by the sudden blow, and on the other hand, his brain was overloaded. His energy was drained, and he was lacking in energy and felt a little weak.

Even though he had anticipated the worst outcome, he still hoped that his guess was wrong. He asked with trembling expectation, "Chongrui, didn't you go to Hebei to fight the Turks? Why did you come back without permission?"

He really hoped that his grandson had suffered some injustice and was acting like a spoiled brat, so he ran back alone in anger, instead of what he thought?

Since Li Chongrui was old enough to understand, his grandfather has always remained calm even when faced with a huge problem. But at this moment, he was obviously a little out of control, with a look of disbelief mixed with expectation, and a face full of wrinkles and white hair.

"Grandpa, the Longxi Flying Cavalry is finished."

Li Chongrui was even more distressed, but it was better to suffer a short pain than a long one, so he could only say with tears in his eyes: "Ten days ago, we were attacked by the Turkic army. The army on the northern front was almost wiped out, with only a few thousand remnants left."

"On the next day, the Turkic army rushed back and surrounded Cheng Yaojin's troops who were attacking Ande City." "The Turkic people in the city rushed out again. Under the attack from both inside and outside, the army on the southern front suffered heavy losses. Even Duke Lu Cheng Yaojin and a group of generals were captured. After two battles, our army was defeated and all the Longxi flying cavalry died in Hebei."

Li Chongrui was in a bitter mood. After the northern army was defeated, they followed Li Ji to the south, intending to join Cheng Yaojin's army in the south. When passing through Zhaozhou Xindu, he learned about the situation of the southern army through some scattered defeated soldiers.

Upon learning that they had also suffered a great defeat and Cheng Yaojin had been captured, no one dared to go east again.

Seeing that there was no hope, Li Chongrui did not stay any longer. He said goodbye to Li Ji and took the rest of the people to bypass Hedong and return directly to Longxi.

"Hmm" Li Gu was shocked to hear the bad news, and his heart was blocked. He felt a heat current surging up uncontrollably. He knew what it was and tried to suppress it, but then he thought of the annihilation of the 200,000 Longxi flying cavalry, and the breath was strong.

"Wow" a mouthful of blood spurted out with a strong breath, and the world in front of him was shrouded in a blood mist, and then it darkened and he lost consciousness.

"grandfather."

"Master of the house."

The two familiar calls seemed to be close at his ears, yet far away in the horizon. Li Gu tried to struggle to wake up, but in the end he was powerless. Darkness fell and the world was silent.

At this time, such scenes were not only happening in the Li family.

The Guanlong clans in the northwest have been in chaos. The Yuan, Yuwen, Dou, Dugu, Yu, Wei, Du, Xue, Yang, Houmo, Doulu, Daxie, Helan and other clans in the Guanlong nobles have received the news one after another.

After all, it was a huge battlefield with hundreds of thousands of people fighting, and they were all cavalry, so it was normal for some defeated soldiers to escape.

These people also returned home exhausted. The scene in Li Gu's home was played out in the mansions and ancestral homes of the major families, and Guanlong was shaken.

In Hebei, the Turks finally wiped out the Longxi Flying Cavalry, but they also suffered heavy losses. Under the desperate situation of being surrounded on all sides, the Tang army showed a strong will to survive and launched a vigorous counterattack, causing huge casualties to the Turks.

All 50,000 Khitan and Jurchen tribes were killed in the battle, even the two great leaders Yelu Shi and Suhemutai were not spared.

The two tribes of Shiluodie and Zhuolibuhua, as well as Ashina Moduo in the city, all suffered more than 10,000 casualties in the battle.

Shi Luodie understood the principle that a siege must be accompanied by a gap, but the Turks did not understand. Therefore, Shi Luodie did the opposite. In the process of annihilating the Longxi Flying Cavalry, he aimed to completely annihilate the Longxi Flying Cavalry instead of crushing them, which also caused great losses to the Turks.

In addition to the original 100,000 Longxi Flying Cavalry on the southern front, there were an additional 20,000 siege infantry. Therefore, the Turks paid a huge price to eliminate these people. At the cost of more than 80,000 casualties, they wiped out the 100,000 Tang troops under the city of Ande.

After seeing the cavalry being wiped out and even their commander being captured, most of the 20,000 infantrymen who were attacking the city chose to surrender. Without the protection of the cavalry, the infantrymen were only one-tenth as strong as the enemy, not to mention that the enemy had nearly 100,000 cavalrymen, so there was no way they could win.

Only about 15,000 of the 20,000 infantrymen were left, most of whom were lost in the previous siege.

Later, when the main force of the Turks attacked, they took a defensive position and formed a battle formation to prevent the enemy cavalry from charging. However, the infantry had little attack power when facing cavalry, so the Turks ignored them. After the Longxi Flying Cavalry was annihilated, they faced the siege of 100,000 Turkic cavalry.

There was no more resistance, just surrender.

In this battle, the Turks killed one thousand enemies but lost eight hundred of their own men. After the two wars, a statistics showed that there were less than 100,000 combat-capable soldiers left among the Turks.

At this point, the first phase of the Hebei War came to an end. The core military force of the Guanlong clan, the Longxi Flying Cavalry, was eliminated, and the Tang Dynasty also lost the ability to eliminate the Turks in the short term. The two sides began to enter a stalemate stage.

Although the Turks won, it was a pyrrhic victory; although the Tang Dynasty was defeated, its foundation was not damaged, as it still had hundreds of thousands of troops around it.

In order to temporarily avoid the attack, Shi Luodie led his army to retreat to Leshou City, an important town in the central region.

The soldiers in the city were in a state of panic when they learned that the Tang army had been defeated. When they saw the Turks coming, they opened the city and surrendered. Anyway, they had been captured by the Turks before, and the Turks did not kill or burn people, and they even distributed land, so there was no need to resist to the death.

Relying on Le Shou, the army rested for several days and finally recovered.

Many tribal leaders gathered in the Khan's tent outside the city, began to summarize the situation and discuss the next steps.

(End of this chapter)