Chapter 743: Psychological Warfare
The establishment of the Tang Royal Military Academy naturally received the support of many people.
However, many people have no spectrum in their hearts about the combat effectiveness of this unit built with a lot of money.
Even Li Shimin is a little uncertain.
"Your Majesty, our Flying Tigers are different from other government soldiers. If we charge on the battlefield, we are not necessarily much stronger than others, and even many of the generals around Your Majesty are stronger than us; However, as a special operations force with capable personnel, excellent equipment, fast mobility, well-trained and strong combat effectiveness, our Flying Tigers have advantages that no other team has. ”
Cheng Chuliang has the momentum of a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, and he is not afraid of the eyes staring at him at all.
These generals are generally old acquaintances of Cheng Fu, and Cheng Chuliang knew each other when he was young.
"What are the advantages of the Flying Tigers? Could it be that you can really fly to Liaodong City? Oh, I forgot, you guys have hot air balloons, and you can really fly over them. But even if you flew to Liaodong City, so what? There are only 500 of you, no matter how brave you are, have you beaten tens of thousands of people's troops? People are standing in front of you, and if you cut off your head, they can cut you softly. ”
Niu Jinda saw that in the team he led, Cheng Chuliang rushed into Li Shimin's big tent without consulting him, and he was naturally very unhappy.
Although Cheng Chuliang also grew up watching him, he will not be polite at all when it is time to criticize.
"The Flying Tigers never trained to fight the enemy head-on; Soldiers, treacherous ways. We can take advantage of the superb skills of the Flying Tigers to go deep into Liaoyang City, bring all kinds of damage to the defenders, force them to come out for a decisive battle, and even take the opportunity to open the city gate to welcome the army into the city. ”
Cheng Chuliang was not afraid of Niu Jinda, and continued to express the meaning that the Flying Tigers wanted to make a move.
"Shandao, tell me, how are the Flying Tigers going to deal with the defenders of Liaodong City?"
Li Shimin didn't bother to pay attention to Cheng Chuliang, who inherited the fine tradition of Cheng Zhijin, and turned his attention to Qin Shandao beside Cheng Shiliang.
"Your Majesty, Liaodong City is an insurmountable obstacle for the large army, but for the Flying Tigers, it is not difficult to sneak up the city wall in the dark. Although the Goguryeo patrols were now very intensive, it was impossible to keep all the men on the walls at night. As long as the members of the Flying Tigers sneak into Liaodong City, we have countless ways to wreak havoc in the city. ”
Qin Shandao would come to Li Shimin's military tent with Cheng Chuliang "recklessly", and naturally discussed with Cheng Chuliang in advance the combat ideas of the Flying Tigers.
As a special forces, the Flying Tigers are not designed to fight on the battlefield head-on.
Now the Goguryeo people are hiding in the city, and if they don't sneak in, there is no way to exert the power of the Flying Tigers.
"Although there are not many people in the Flying Tigers, there are hundreds of them, how did you sneak in? What are you going to do if you sneak in? If it is a simple murder and arson, wouldn't it be more effective to directly arrange for the hot air balloon battalion to go over? ”
Although hot air balloons have not yet been popularized in Datang, Li Shimin has already seen its effect, so the hot air balloon camp is naturally no longer the hundreds of people led by Zhu Fufu.
This time, there were more than 100 hot air balloons with Li Shimin.
It's just that in order to reduce the logistical pressure, and Li Shimin has already regarded Liaodong City as the city of the Tang Dynasty, so he doesn't want to cause major damage.
Of course, if the war does not go well, Li Shimin will naturally not hesitate so much.
"We can go into the night, change into night clothes, put camouflage oil on our faces, and then work as a team to climb the walls with special cables and crossbow hooks."
"What if a patrol soldier from Goguryeo finds out?"
"Naturally, it's killed! In the second half of the night, although there will be no fewer people patrolling the city wall, there will not be many people in small groups and small teams. If we hadn't avoided it, we would have killed them before I could have warned them. ”
The situation that Li Shimin said, Qin Shandao naturally considered it.
In fact, when the Flying Tigers trained, they had already considered this situation.
Each squad has a sniper with excellent archery skills, who is specially used to pull out some of the open and dark sentry posts.
The blood-sealed crossbow bolts combined with the sniper's accurate shooting basically ensure that when you encounter a few people temporarily, you can solve the problem before the other party can react.
"Your Majesty, I add. Although the Flying Tigers wore night clothes outside the city, after entering the city, we would immediately arrange for some people to change into the costumes of Goguryeo soldiers, and cooperate with each other in the light and dark, and strive to find a hiding place in the shortest possible time. Cheng Chuliang added on the side.
"It's so adventurous! Hundreds of people go in, it's hard to have no movement at all, and if the Goguryeo people find out, don't think about retreating. ”
Li Shimin didn't want his two right-hand men to lose their sons in Liaodong City like this.
"Your Majesty, the last general has an idea. The cities of Liaodong are generally wooden houses, which cannot withstand the fire and oil bombs of the hot air balloon battalion. However, if the hot air balloon battalion specially dropped fire oil bombs on the Goguryeo military camp, and then dropped fire oil bombs on the densely populated area of the city wall for a few days, they would find that they were actually protected by the city wall, and it was not safe at all. We can even distribute leaflets saying that if they don't surrender within three days, we're going to indiscriminately drop fire oil bombs and burn them all to death in the city.
At this time, we arranged for a few more squads of the Flying Tigers to enter the city of Liaodong and quietly kill some Goguryeo officials and soldiers in the city. In this way, the atmosphere in Liaodong City will definitely change greatly, and there may even be a camp roar in the barracks. ”
At this time, Niu Jinda also put forward his own opinions.
At first, he didn't think of using the power of the Flying Tigers alone, but after listening to Cheng Chuliang and Qin Shandao's plan, he immediately perfected it.
Not to mention, as soon as he said this plan, many people in the military tent were dazzled and felt that they could give it a try.
"Is it really useful to make such a small fight?"
Li Shimin is obviously a little moved, but he is not very confident in the result.
Niu Jinda: "Your Majesty, even if they fail, the loss is very small, why don't you let them give it a try?" Liaodong City is a fortified city, and if it is to be stormed, the losses will definitely be great. If we can outwit it, it will also be very helpful for our future wars. ”
"Your Majesty, this is not a small fight, in the words of His Royal Highness the King of Chu, General Niu's plan is actually a psychological warfare plan, but this kind of combat plan has not been used by everyone. However, since His Royal Highness the King of Chu has taken psychological warfare as a combat plan alone, he must have his own unique intentions, and this time, we can just try to see how effective psychological warfare is. ”
Cheng Chuliang's words strengthened Li Shimin's confidence.
Of course, this also has a lot to do with Li Kuan's past success history.
As long as Li Kuan said something, even if he thought it was strange, Li Shimin would not directly deny it.
"Okay! Then from tomorrow at dawn, the hot air balloon battalion will attack first! ”