Chapter 10 The military is determined to provoke before the attack
Su Dingfang is a fierce man!
This is something that history proves. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
He has a rare reputation for bravery, and he is famous for his bravery. After the chaos in the world, he defected to the Hebei rebel army led by Dou Jiande and Liu Heimin, and made many military exploits in the troubled times.
He was under the command of Dou Jiande from the beginning, after his defeat, did not descend to the Tang Dynasty, until the early years of Zhenguan he began to serve the Tang Dynasty, and followed Li Jing to conquer the Eastern Turks, as Li Jing's vanguard led two hundred cavalry to break through the Jieli Khan's tooth tent, for the Tang Dynasty to destroy the Eastern Turks made a great contribution.
In the second year of Tang Gaozong's Xianqing, he was promoted to the head of the marching army, began to take charge of his own affairs, and was deeply appreciated and trusted by Tang Gaozong for his extraordinary achievements and integrity, and was repeatedly entrusted with important tasks. The expedition to the Western Turks, the Pyonglingling, the Yibaije, and the invasion of Goguryeo, and the Dingfang exterminated three countries before and after, and captured their monarchs alive.
Such feats are truly recorded in the history in which Li Qin lived.
Li Qin knew Su Dingfang's reputation and understood his strength, so he would use him as the vanguard to raid the front army of the Goryeo in the current battle against Yuan Taizuo.
In Li Qin's mind, brave generals like Su Dingfang, who have already made a great name in history, although they are a little young at the moment and have not reached the peak of their history, they still have general abilities.
Let him swoop in front of the Goryeo army and arouse their anger - Li Qin thinks he should be up to the task.
As it turned out, Li Qin's idea was not wrong.
People with grass, horse bits, horseshoe wraps, starry night raids.
The standard attack camp equipment allowed Su Dingfang to break through to the front army of Goryeo twenty meters before he was discovered by the scouts of the Goryeo army.
The scout opened his mouth in horror and wanted to scream, but his throat was sealed by an arrow from Su Dingfang, who was quick-eyed.
The pain distorted the scout's countenance, and he reached out to pull out the arrow that had been inserted into his throat, but was unable to do so.
He fell from his horse, and his consciousness was immediately plunged into darkness. At this moment, a question was still in his mind: "Why did the Sui army appear here?" Isn't the east of Liaodong City the native of my Great Goryeo? ”
No one told him why.
Su Dingfang would not give him an answer.
Su Dingfang continued to gallop past his body that had fallen into the dust, followed by five hundred cavalry behind him, mixing his bones with mud.
Like the wind, Su Dingfang passed!
Passed the loose and lazy cordon of the Goryeo scouts!
His actions did not cause much movement in the front army, and the Koreans still thought they were safe.
After all, this is the land of Dagoryeo. The two countries are fighting each other, and they are walking in the big rear, where they need to be so careful. Could it be that with the weak nature of the Sui soldiers, would they still dare to come to us to do something to us?
The Koreans, who had won two successive victories against the Sui, did have such confidence.
They really think that they are the number one power in the world.
Therefore, when Su Dingfang burst into the front fifty meters of their team, they still didn't know anything.
They walked lazily, complaining about why they had been ordered to march overnight, and imagining what kind of reward they would receive after defeating those Sui troops.
Lazy, unprepared, arrogant, this is the Goryeo front army that Su Dingfang encountered. Although they are well-equipped and well-trained, their unsuitable mentality has left them with less than 10% of their combat strength.
When the dull sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded in the darkness, their faces were blank.
"Friendly cavalry? Where did it come from? "At the first moment, they didn't think it was the enemy who came over.
It wasn't until the dense sound of horses' hooves approached that they realized that they had no intention of stopping, that they vaguely understood that they might have been attacked.
"Enemy attack! Defense! The officer in the team finally shouted.
However, it was too late.
As the war horse continued to speed up and sprint, Su Dingfang and his soldiers also prepared their own blades:
More than fifty soldiers from Sujiazhuang clenched the spears in their hands together with Su Dingfang. They are all people who have practiced internal strength, although the level is not high, but it is enough to bear the impact of the spear into the body. They are the forerunners of the team;
On the flanks behind them, more soldiers leveled their swords. This was originally used by infantry against cavalry, but now it is used by cavalry, and it is not abrupt.
The queue is like an arrow, and its strength is like a gun!
This gun is not a flower spear played by some people in the rivers and lakes, but a short spear shot from a bed crossbow. It's so strong that even the city walls can shoot a big hole in you, not to mention the flesh and blood of some people.
Galloping like the wind, aggression like fire!
When the fierce mountain wind blew, the hearts of all the Koreans couldn't help but be cold. And then, the killing caused by the breakthrough of the Goryeo army led by Risu Dingfang trampled this piece of cold ice to pieces.
With just one wave of raids, the Koreans tasted the taste of being burned by fire.
This is a real fire, a Molotov cocktail specially prepared by Li Qin for the Koreans.
Li Qin handed it over to Su Dingfang, who understood the good of this thing, so he equipped it with the last wave of crossbowmen in the team.
"Anyway, it's not good to have a crossbow or something in the dark at night. It's better to use this to give the Koreans a chance to taste the flames. Su Dingfang immediately gave the positioning of this weapon.
Gun stab! Knife cut! Flames in the air!
A series of blows killed the Korean people who were already unprepared.
In the dark of night, during an unprepared march, encountering such a strong attack by the enemy cavalry was inexplicable to most famous generals.
The generals of the front army were unable to organize a defense, and could only watch as the Sui army pierced back and forth in their ranks.
One wave, two waves......
killed his subordinates, scorched the corpses, and slaughtered a strong army with high morale into a rout.
"It's over!" This general only felt that he was in front of him, and his future was completely "bright".
What to do?
The general was not panicked, he still remembered the creed of "leaving things that he could not handle to his superiors".
So, he ordered someone to fly quickly and report that Yuan Taizuo, who was still a few miles away, knew.
He put all the plans to subdue the enemy on Yuan Taizuo. As for the moment, he only thinks about reducing losses as much as possible and making the casualties of the front army a little more "good-looking".
The generals with a little ability are all "mathematicians", and they are accustomed to seeing life and death, and it is easy for them to calculate every living life as a cold number.
"The Lelang Battalion and the Xiangping Battalion will defend on the spot, and when that guy hasn't rushed over, set up a defensive line for me, quick!" General Goryeo gave a loud order, and he ordered the two battalion heads, which had retained their full formation, to set up the defenses.
"My lord, it's not easy. It's messing up right now! The soldiers around the general whispered to persuade him.
"Don't you do it if it's not easy? I don't care about the existing losses, and the remaining losses must be reduced for me. No matter how difficult it is, we still have to do what we have to do! General Goryeo was very adamant about his point of view.
Trying his best to save the losses of the former army and make himself look less useless in the eyes of the upcoming Yuan Taizuo, this is the biggest hope in his heart.
As for those who have been attacked by the former army, let them die.
General Goryeo's heart has long been refined into a cold and hard piece.
He had already made the decision to give up.
In his opinion, Su Dingfang is a hungry wolf, and he has no ability to fight against hungry wolves now. All he could do was cut off the meat from his body and use the meat to feed Su Dingfang's stomach, so as to delay Su Dingfang's actions.
"Cut the meat and feed the eagle!" He felt like he was doing something similar to this right now.
Just cutting meat and feeding eagles, he sacrificed his own flesh and blood, and he sacrificed his own power and future.
"But it's really uncomfortable!" Even though he knew it was the right thing to do, his heart was still bleeding. Right now, what he can hope for is: "Lord Mo Lizhi can come faster, so as to solve the current chaos, take down the bold guy on the other side, and tear him apart." ”
Peel the skin and tear the bones! This is the ambition of the Korean people for Su Dingfang.
Looking at the chaotic front team of the Goryeo Army, looking at the horror and hatred on the faces of a certain escaped Goryeo soldier, Su Dingfang naturally knew that he had completely aroused their hatred.
It stands to reason that at this point, Su Dingfang should retreat back and return safely with his soldiers and horses. After all, the task given to him by Li Qin has been successfully completed.
All that remains is for him to retreat and lead the Goryeo army into the mountains.
However, Su Dingfang did not do this, and he still flaunted his might among the remnants of the defeated soldiers of the Koreans.
This is not because he is carried away and greedy for merit, but because he truly understands Li Qin's combat intentions.
Although he is still young, Su Dingfang has his own thoughts about the current battle situation: he thinks that the current retreat will not be a good way to cause the Korean people to go completely crazy.
"The front army is the front army in the end, and fighting the front army will make the Koreans hurt for a while, but as long as the Chinese army does not give an order, the front army will not be able to pursue me even if it hates me. The organizational structure of the Korean people is still very primitive and very respectful. I'm going to have to teach them another lesson and make them even more mad. Su Dingfang thought so.
He didn't see the former army general send someone to ask for help from Zhongjun Yuan Taizuo, but he still guessed a similar situation.
So what he is doing now is to stall for time, pay attention to the movements of the Koreans, and try to give him a back look after a certain big man is about to arrive!
"Hit and run, what kind of Yuan Taizuo is in Goryeo...... He was a haughty man who was tough on the Sui Dynasty. I'm going to give him a big back, he's going to go crazy. Su Dingfang made such a judgment based on the information given to him by Li Qin.
So, he led his men to constantly wreak havoc on the already chaotic Goryeo front army, looking like a hungry wolf eating and arrogant and proud.
Time passed little by little, Su Dingfang secretly paid attention, and soon found that the people and horses with majestic momentum all the way came from the darkness in the distance.
There are many!
Su Dingfang could see from the torches shot out of the darkness that there were at least thousands of Goryeo elite horsemen who came.
"There are so many people, and the momentum is so amazing, it seems that it is an important person from the Goryeo Army who has come." Su Dingfang thought. He guessed that it was most likely Yuan Taizuo himself.
"In that case, then I must retreat." Su Dingfang whispered, and immediately beckoned to the soldiers behind him: "Let's go, we must withdraw." Of course, before retreating, we must shout that at that level. ”
"Good!" The advantage of a small group of troops is that it is convenient to command, and it is like an arm, Su Dingfang just said this, and his subordinates quickly understood his intentions, and quickly turned around and left.
In the end, when Yuan Taizuo, who was wearing a fish-scale gold armor, led three thousand elites to ride over to the front army, he saw the back of Su Dingfang and the others in the glittering firelight, and heard the words shouted by Su Dingfang's order: "Mo Lizhi, are you satisfied with this gift?" ”
The night was deep and the flames were fierce. In the contrast between darkness and light, Su Dingfang's shout suddenly spread far and wide.