Chapter 109: The three armies change color for a while

"Do you believe what Chen Yaoxia said?"

Li Yilao climbed on a high place, playing with a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, and turned his head to look at Wang Qinian.

The news brought by Chen Zhaohua really relaxed the two of them who were originally a little nervous, they were both new to the task, and it was the first time to preside over the overall situation, this time it was different from when the pirates first attacked Hanging Island, but threatened to have an army of 400,000 people. Chen Zhaohua brought the news of Goryeo from the Hu people, that is, the Goryeo civil strife was riddled with weak soldiers, and its ruler Cui Zhongxian heard that there was a police on the border, and he would scold the generals, saying that it was "why bother the court with trivial things", five years ago, the Khitans could run rampant in Goryeo with some residual forces, and if it were not for the help of the Hu people, they could not even clean it up. Two years ago, Choi Chung, the lord of Goryeo, died, although his son Choi Yu was wiser than his father, but he was also not wise, and there were strong enemies outside the country to spy on the inner troubles, it was impossible to pour the strength of the whole country to seize Tamna, not long ago, Goryeo should be ordered by the Hu people to raise troops to help, and the elite soldiers produced by the strength of the whole country were only 1,000 and 1,000 stones.

"An army of 400,000? 400,000 ants may not be able to come up with them. Chen Zhaohua said at the time.

The news of the Hu people he got from Shima Guangyan naturally didn't know that the Cui father and son were actually not the lords of Goryeo, but just the powerful ministers in charge of state affairs, but the truth of Goryeo was not far from ten, which was not much different from what Li Yilao learned from his captives.

"I believe that although this person is a little utilitarian and eager, he is good at talking, but the stakes are very high, and he will not talk nonsense." Wang Qinian held the clairvoyant mirror and watched, and then laughed and said, "Speaking of which, you and I are too careful...... Here it comes! ”

When he said "coming," he meant the Koreans.

After the defeat of Tamna, it took Cui Yu more than 20 days to receive the news, and after the envoy was confirmed, it took another 20 or 30 days before he agreed to send troops. However, they also learned that the Liuqiu people who occupied Tamna had a good weapon, so they did not dare to attack head-on, but only went around from afar.

It's just that they know about the cannons, but they don't know that there are telescopes, and before they can look at Tamna Island, the small boats sent out to patrol the landing port have already discovered them. Therefore, they thought they were unprepared to attack it, but they didn't know that Li Yilao and Wang Qinian had been waiting here for a long time.

The Koreans did not come to the port of Hokuriku, and in their opinion, the "bandits" who called themselves the Liuqiu Escort Force could not fight them on the surface since they had sharp weapons at sea, so they first landed at night in the north of Tamna Island, and then quickly headed south to the port of Shanglu.

Two days ago, Wang Qinian and Li Yilao had a dispute over how to clean up this Goryeo army, and Li Yilao thought that it was natural that the soldiers would come to block the water and annihilate the earth, and where the Goryeo people would land, the Liuqiu escort would drive them into the sea. Wang Qinian resolutely opposed this, and he was more thoughtful, suggesting that all the Liuqiu escorts should be retracted back to the port of Shanghai and fight a defensive battle on the land.

Later, Wang Qinian persuaded Li Yilao on the grounds that his tactics could get more results.

The leading general of Goryeo is surnamed Cui Mingzhen, who was originally of Cui Yu's same clan, and the troops he brought were naturally not as many as the 400,000 that the envoy boasted, but there were more than 6,000 people, which was also all the mobile troops that Goryeo could get at present. He learned from the mouths of the islanders that all the Liuqiu people had retreated into the fortress they called the landing port in the south of the island, and the total number of troops was only more than 1,500 people, which made Cui Zhen extremely happy. He drove the islanders as the guides, and carried thousands of young people, adding up to more than 10,000 people.

"I have an army of millions, and those who beg for barbarians will be wiped out in response!" At first, he claimed to be an army of 400,000 when there were more than 6,000 people, and now there are more than 10,000 people who naturally want to blow into millions, and he said to the adjutant general: "I just have to guard against them from escaping by boat, so you and I will divide our troops into two ways, I will attack the landing port from the front, and you will outflank it from the side, and take advantage of the chaos to capture the big ships in the harbor. ”

The deputy general knew that there was a weapon on the ship, and Cui Zhen's plan was nothing more than to push him forward, but Cui Zhen was Cui Yu's clan, so he couldn't resist, so he could only take the order and go.

At 2:11 p.m. in the quarter of an hour, Cui Zhen led the army to a distance of about five miles from Shanglu City, where he set up camp, and the scouts came to report that there was no one moving in Shanglu Port, and when they approached a little, they were shot back with bows and arrows. Cui Zhen was a little suspicious, and grabbed two islanders and learned that some time ago, the Riliu boat had pledged a large number of slaves and treasures to come, and all of them were locked up in Shanglu City. He came to inspect it himself, and found that the upper landing wall was less than a foot long, and he could not even climb it without a ladder, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"I only beg for someone to build this city like an iron beating, and now it seems that such a low wall, you can turn around and go up, our army is strong, the enemy is few, only need to enter the city, then our army will win." He thought in his heart: "It's just that there are no ships anchored in the harbor, could it be that the people who begged for help knew that they were invincible and drove the ship away first?" ”

At 4:09 p.m., Cui Zhen reorganized his team, and when he saw that the sky was still bright, he ordered the siege to begin.

At first, seeing the Koreans camping one by one, the two were still a little uneasy, if the Goryeo people relied on the large number of people to trap the landing port, although the port hoarded enough food, and there were a few good wells, not afraid of a short-term siege, but this will inevitably affect the development of Tamna by Liuqiu. When they saw that the whole team of Koreans was preparing to attack the city, the two high-fived each other, and the tension of the approaching war was gone.

"I'll go to the fort, I'll leave it to you below, Brother Donglu!" Li Yilao said to Wang Qinian.

"Look at my banner, don't let your explosion too early, so as not to scare the Goryeo people, we have seen their ability to escape, and they are faster than rabbits!" Wang Qinian smiled: "Remember, remember! ”

"Yes!" Li Yilao pursed his lips, quite dissatisfied.

The nonchalant expressions of the two of them made the originally nervous Liuqiu escort team also relax. Li Yilao deliberately stopped when he passed by someone, pointed at his nose and said, "I remember you, you are the Wu Fang, and the one who is discouraged all day long is you, right?" ”

"Huh?" Wu Fang was taken aback, and said with a sad face: "I'm afraid this won't work, Team Li also knows me?" ”

This Wu Fang is an immigrant from Lianghuai, he came to Liuqiu four years ago, although he is young, he talks and does things in a dull manner, if he is not strong and strong, and he has fought in Lianghuai, where is his turn to enter the escort team. The last time he fought Tamna, he shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this won't work," and when others laughed at him after easily defeating the Goryeo army on the island, he argued: "I'm afraid that the Goryeo people will flee too quickly, and we won't be able to catch him." ”

"This time, you have to make it clear first, whether you are afraid that we will lose, or whether you are afraid that the Koreans will flee too quickly!" Li Yilao teased him.

"That'...... Then you don't need to ask, naturally I am afraid that the Koreans will escape too slowly! Wu Fang still had that sad face: "I'm afraid it won't work, the Goryeo people claim to have an army of 400,000, if they escape too slowly and arrest all of us, how can we feed so many animals who don't work?" ”

"Count you as acquaintances!" Li Yilao lightly punched him, laughed and went to the fort.

During this conversation, the surrounding escorts all laughed, and Wang Qinian saw that the fire was just right, and shouted loudly: "All attention!" Attention! The whole team! Check the weapon! ”

The guards, who had relaxed a little because of the laughter, became serious again, but there was not much tension left.

After the final preparations before the war were completed, Wang Qinian shouted again: "Go to the city!" ”

The equipment of the Liuqiu guards is not much stronger than that of the Goryeo soldiers, most of them have half-body armor, helmets, and masks that can be put down, except for the eyes, the vital parts of the peak body are protected by iron armor. Because Liuqiu was already able to use a simple die-casting machine driven by a water wheel, this was originally an invention made by Ou Laogen, Ou Bama and his son and Ao Sayang for coinage and printing movable metal type, and it was soon applied to the manufacture of Liuqiu's weapons, such as their bust armor, which was half die-casting and half handmade.

The weapons of the guards are all Mo knives, this kind of Tang-style Mo knives, the handle is nearly four feet long, in order to reduce the weight, the beech wood is used, and some powerful iron handles are used. The blade has two blades, which are good for slashing, and with the sharp end, it can also be used for assassination. This kind of Mo knife is the sharp weapon that the Tang Dynasty foot soldiers can resist and defeat the Turks, but the consumables are extremely expensive, a Mo knife in the Tang Dynasty can weigh up to fifty catties, even if the wooden handle is changed, this Mo knife also weighs thirty catties, and one of the criteria for recruiting the escort team is to be able to carry this knife and wave it for ten minutes!

In addition, the art of seeking the mechanism can be said to be the best in the world, and naturally there are few crossbows. On the hips of each escort, there is a hand crossbow, the crossbow is not large, and the range is only less than 50 meters, of which 30 meters can be lethal, and 15 meters can be fatal. Liuqiu's real long-range weapon is still artillery, but Wang Qinian didn't want to scare away the Koreans too early, so he didn't issue the banner of opening a cannon.

The Koreans are good at shooting, but this Shanglu port is offshore, and the bowstring elasticity is affected by the moisture in the sea, and the range of arrows is not far. As they approached the wall, they saw a figure on it, and began to draw their bows. Hundreds of people shot arrows at the same time, and in an instant, the sky was densely packed with locusts, all of which were arrows released by the Koreans.

It was the first time Wang Qinian had encountered this situation, and he was almost out of breath at first, but fortunately, the training on weekdays made him give an order almost instinctively: "Squat, raise the shield!" ”

The city walls of Shanglu City are low, and although there are battlements, they do not play much of a shielding role. On the battlefield, except for Wang Qinian's side, the rest of the guards couldn't hear his orders at all, but their own gang commander gave orders. Then the wooden shields were lifted up to form the shape of a half-tower, and the guards huddled behind the wooden shields and listened to the arrows crackle and rain down.

The archery skills of the Koreans were acceptable, and although the guards used shields to block, more than a dozen people were still shot in this round. It's just that some of their arrows are either on the top of their heads or on their chests, waists and abdomen, all of which are protected by armor.

"Crossbow fire!" Wang Qinian screamed.

"I'm afraid it won't work, we only have so many crossbows......" Wu Fang muttered, shrunk behind the shield and shook his head, he is a disciple of Lianghuai, he is used to seeing wars, and he really doesn't care about this kind of battle.

"Suddenly!"

The three-seater crossbow standing on the city wall began to fire, and this weapon invented by Ao Sayang was different from ordinary crossbows, that is, there was no need to fire frequently. A box of twenty crossbows of the same standard, made entirely of freshwater carpentry lathes, was fastened upside down on the crossbow, and each time it was fired, the top of the crossbow would slide down due to its own gravity, and the crossbowman only had to use a winch to pull the crossbow apart, and in a few moments another could be fired.

A crossbow measuring 1.5 meters long and 2 centimeters in diameter was thrown out by a string made of animal tendons, and its maximum range could reach 150 meters, which was already more than the range of the Korean bows and arrows. However, this was the limit of range, and although the crossbowman had been trained on weekdays, he had not really gone through battle, so the first three rounds of crossbow arrows all failed, and it was the best luck, and it only hit the leg of a Korean soldier, which scared him a lot.

"Thief Bird!"

Li Yilao scolded with a clairvoyant mirror on the fort, in this first round of the battle, the Liuqiu escort team only had a slight advantage on the surface, but in fact, if it wasn't for a good helmet and body armor, it would have been defeated by the rain of arrows of the Koreans.

Wang Qinian was also angry, when he was in Yuzhang Villa, according to Zhao and Ju's drill manual, he consciously learned a skill, and he would be able to be handy in the battle array, but he didn't expect to face a group of beggar-like Koreans, but he was suppressed to the point of disgrace. He wanted to send a flag several times to let Li Yilao open fire, but he raised his hand but put it down, at this time, the cannon could not knock down a few Koreans, and it was just a matter of scaring the Koreans away and making trouble around the island.

"Team up, I'm afraid it won't work, right?" Wu Fang said next to him again.

"Shut up, if you dare to break my army's heart, I will kill you by military law!" Wang Qinian was annoyed when he heard him speak, and yelled at him, but before the voice fell, he heard a "tom", and his neck was hit and almost retracted into the neck cavity. He touched his head, and a feathered arrow fell, and his face immediately changed.

"Grandma's, you dare to shoot Lao Tzu!"

Depressed in his heart, Wang Qinian scolded angrily, he pushed away the shield that protected him, stuck his head out from the battlements, and saw that the Koreans were approaching, he just wanted to get up and scold, but an arrow flew in front of him. He turned over and flashed, and the arrow hit his face armor, piercing the iron plate, and the tip of the arrow pierced his face, although it was only half a point into the flesh, but it also broke his face.

"Not only shoot Lao Tzu, but also bukkake!" Wang Qinian was furious, his eyes instantly bloodshot, but the more angry he was, the calmer he became, and shouted: "Return to the city!" Get out of town! ”

Since the arrows can't compare to others, he wants to let the two sides get together, if the hand-to-hand combat can't compare to others, where does he Wang Qinian have the face to see the big officials, it is better to wipe his neck clean!

If it is a group of rabble, such a retreat from the city, it will inevitably collapse a thousand miles, and beg the escort team for this good, although there is not much actual combat experience, the discipline is extremely strong, and after going down to the city, they only panicked for a while, and then they were reprimanded by their respective commanders, gang commanders, and battalion commanders to return to the team.

They withdrew from the city, and naturally fell into the eyes of the Goryeo people, and Cui Zhen, who stood on a high place and watched the city, was extremely satisfied.

"Pass the order, the Chinese army will move forward, and the whole army will attack!" He commanded that, with his experience, he could take the newly built city with a little more effort.