Chapter 687: The Navy and Army Fighting Bravely
After approaching the coast, the huge fleet of the Don Army, outside the visual range, stopped.
In order to achieve the effect of the surprise attack, the marines went first, and when they reached the outside of the port, they also stopped.
Marine Corps Captain Qiao Bin, 31 years old this year, is a tall and thin man, a little hunchbacked, when he enlisted in the army, because of his thin figure and a little hunchback, he was ridiculed by the officers and soldiers.
Later, in the 6th year of Zhenguan, in the battle of Dongting Lake to exterminate the water bandits, the attack of thousands of conscription troops was frustrated and had to temporarily retreat.
Qiao Bin grew up by Dongting Lake since he was a child, familiar with the nature of the water, he only took three soldiers from the same township, with the familiar terrain, sneaked into the water village of the water bandits at night, captured the two main leaders of the water bandits, and forced 3,000 water bandits to surrender to the official army.
Qiao Bin was thus promoted to officer, and later rose all the way up to become a naval captain of Zhengliupin.
Qiao Bin sent a small group of soldiers to row the sampan to the outside of the port, and they quietly approached the pier along the breakwater and touched the sentry of the Baekje people.
The Marines then sailed into the harbor and boarded the pier, where they annihilated the Baekje defenders on the pier after a short fierce battle.
When he interrogated the prisoners and learned that there were only 1,500 Baekje people occupying the Tang army base, and that 300 had been annihilated on the dock just now, he simply did not wait for the large army to land, and he led the marines himself and attacked Jeolla City.
After Cheng Chuliang landed with a large group of Tang troops, he saw that the jubilant battles of the soldiers of the Marine Corps had ended.
When Wang Jue saw this situation, he couldn't help but smile, but Sima Jiong and Cheng Chuliang felt very depressed.
This battle has played out everyone's confidence.
On the morning of the next day, Sima Jiong, Cheng Chuliang, Wang Jue, and Liu Anjin, Shen Ming, the envoys of the First and Second Armies of the former Dengzhou Eastern Expeditionary Army, held a military meeting, and they decided to dig ditches and build trenches along the boundaries of the original base and hold on to waiting for reinforcements.
Two days later, the Baekje people mobilized more than 10,000 men to attack the Tang army.
At the head of the county town of Jeolla, where the Governor's Office is located, Sima Jiong and Cheng Chuliang were observing the situation of the Baekje people.
Baekje lacked horses, especially after Jeju Island was occupied by the Tang Dynasty, the source of their war horses was even more restricted, and they could only buy war horses from Goguryeo, coupled with the geographical restrictions, the role of cavalry was not very large, so the number of Baekje cavalry was very small.
The Baekje people who came to attack the Tang army this time were about 13,000 people, and there were less than 500 cavalry.
Cheng Chuliang has rich experience in actual combat, and he can see the shortcomings of the Baekje people at a glance. He pointed to the Baekje team and said, "These fools, the terrain here is so open, they don't even have a large number of cavalry to cover them, aren't they looking for death?" ”
Cheng Chuliang is confident, although they only have 5,000 horses, they are all cavalry, and there are currently more than 8,000 war horses here. Li You, the king of Qi, has strong support for overseas bases, and the equipment and supplies are the best.
Although Sima Jiong was born as a military general, he was a local army, he was Sima, and now he is also a general, but he has never commanded a field battle. He said: "General Cheng, you are better at fighting than me, and you have the final say in how you want to fight." ”
Cheng Chuliang was robbed of the limelight by the Marines yesterday, and he was trying to fight a beautiful battle, and let those navies see who is the hero on land.
He briefly discussed with Liu Anjin and Shen Ming, and then started to act separately.
The Baekje people came to Jeolla Castle and were about to attack the city when they saw the gate open, and about 1,000 Tang cavalry came out of it.
After the Tang cavalry lined up outside the city, they rushed directly towards the Baekje people.
Although most of the Baekje people were infantry, they couldn't help but be angry when they saw that the Tang Dynasty people only had such a small number of troops and dared to attack their own brigade.
The general of the Baekje army shouted, "Archers come forward." ”
Hearing the command, 3,000 archers came out of the middle of the line and lined up in several horizontal lines, ready to fire their arrows.
The general of the Baekje army said in his heart: "Just a little person like you, I won't wait for you to rush over, and I will turn you all into hedgehogs." ”
The general of the Baekje unified army, who had long been experienced in battle formations, saw that the Tang army was starting to attack, and did not rush to order the release of arrows, he wanted to wait for the Tang army to get closer, and then deal a fatal blow to it.
The Tang army was very cooperative, they advanced very slowly, and even after entering the range of bows and arrows, they still advanced slowly.
The general of the Baekje Unified Army secretly laughed at the generals of the Tang Army in his heart, and said with a smile: "Everyone, see it, these Tang Dynasty people don't know how to fight at all, haha." ”
"Hahahaha", the Baekje generals around him laughed together.
It turns out that when the cavalry attacked, the speed was very slow at first, but they would gradually accelerate, and when they entered the range of the bow and arrow, they would launch a charge to shorten the distance between the two armies as much as possible, not only to violently attack the enemy, but also to reduce the casualties caused by the opponent's bow and arrow.
However, these Tang cavalry in front of them did not seem to have such common sense, and had already entered the range of bows and arrows, and still moved forward unhurriedly.
At this time, soon the general of the Baekje army despised the Tang army, and even those archers were very happy, they themselves were well-trained and superb in archery, and in their eyes, these slow Tang cavalry in front of them were like fixed targets for archery practice, and they were sure that they could hit with an arrow.
The general of the Baekje army deliberately let the Tang army advance another 80 paces before he yelled viciously: "Shoot the arrows and kill them." ”
"Woo", the dense rain of arrows screamed towards the Tang Military Society, and the general of the Baekje Unified Army cracked his mouth and smiled, just waiting to see the joke of the Tang Army turning over on his back.
However, after an instant, the general of the Baekje army could no longer laugh, and his big mouth was not only still open, but even his eyes were round.
"This, this? How is this possible? "The general of the Baekje army is dumbfounded!
Under the baptism of dense arrow rain, the Tang army continued to advance unscathed, and began to accelerate gradually.
It turned out that although the general of the Baekje Unified Army had rich combat experience, he did not know about the heavy armored cavalry of the Tang Dynasty, let alone the Tiefutu and the Kidnapping Horse trained under the guidance of Li You.
At this moment, in front of the column of the Tang army were 360 heavily armored cavalry, and in order to save the physical strength of the war horses, they launched the charge at a different distance than ordinary cavalry, so the Baekje people could not understand their movements.
When the general of the Baekje army saw that the Tang army had launched a charge, he hurriedly shouted: "Shoot the arrows, stop them quickly." ”
The archers saw that the sword they released could not kill the other party, and they were already panicked in their hearts, and they set up a few more arrows in a hurry, seeing that the monsters of the Tang Army had arrived in front of them, they panicked one by one and fled in all directions.
Just when the Baekje people were in chaos, Tiefutu was in front, and Cheng Chuliang and others rushed in after him.
The invulnerable Tiefutu was like a group of tanks, mercilessly crushing those poor Baekje infantrymen, and Cheng Chuliang and the others brandished sharp Tang knives, and everywhere they passed were stumps and broken arms, and rivers of blood flowed.
The Baekje people were in great disarray and were overwhelmed.
The general of the Baekje army relied on his own strength and screamed desperately, trying to stabilize his position.
At this moment, Liu Anjin's first army was on the left and Shen Ming's second army was on the right, outflanking them.
Three cavalry teams quickly cut through the battle formation of the Baekje people and galloped across the country.
The Baekje people collapsed, and they tried their best to flee with their legs open, but unfortunately, the human legs could not outrun the horse's legs, and they had to surrender on their knees except to be killed.
Soon the battle ended.
In this battle, the Tang army completely annihilated the invading enemy, annihilating a total of 12,800 enemy troops, including more than 7,000 prisoners, including the general of the Baekje unified army.
In the evening, the Governor's Mansion held a celebration banquet, and Cheng Chuliang and other army generals danced with their eyebrows, showing off their brilliant achievements.
Wang Jue and other admirals began to feel depressed, and while they were drinking alcohol, they were thinking about how to extinguish the prestige of these arrogant armies.
However, it was not easy for the navy to make meritorious contributions, because the naval forces of the Baekje people were all avoiding the Tang Dynasty navy, and they only appeared near inland rivers or islands and reefs with complex terrain, and there were not many of them, and defeating them would not show the prestige of the navy.
Marine Corps Captain Qiao Bin said: "Lord Dutong, there is a suggestion for the humble position. ”