Chapter 466: The Great War Begins
Wang Ming's mission in Goguryeo was completed smoothly, however, good luck would not always be with him.
He couldn't have imagined how a team of several hundred people had the courage to attack an army of more than 100,000 people, but when the Goguryeo soldiers who escorted the supplies evacuated saw them, their legs shook and they unconsciously retreated.
Seeing that jet-black iron armor, they felt as if they had seen a nightmare, this nightmare, which had haunted them for more than a month, killed at least tens of thousands of Goguryeo soldiers.
Therefore, after a scene of blood and bones splashing, Wang Ming was successfully kidnapped, including some arch guards around him, all of whom fell into the hands of these ironclad warriors.
However, by the time the Goguryeo army formed a formation and surrounded them, they had already begun to retreat into the mountains and forests.
Wang Ming was very important to Yuangai Suwen, and the general in charge of the evacuation did not dare to let him make a mistake, so he must be pursued.
However, it is inevitable that they once again step into the ambush circle of the Tang army, and ordinary people cannot imagine what it is like for 3,000 people armed with crossbows to pull the trigger and shoot without stopping, but the Goguryeo people have become accustomed to it, that is, those who impact the front will be shot like hedgehogs, and they can no longer die.
Therefore, as long as these soldiers did not want to commit suicide, they did not dare to continue to rush forward, so Zhao Long and others successfully played a robbery game among the hundreds of thousands of troops, and then retreated unharmed.
"You're, Han?"
When Wang Ming was brought to Zhang Gongjin by Zhao Long and others, he was still in a state of complete confusion and did not come back to his senses.
"Well, in Xia Wang Ming, it is the Tang Dynasty who is doing business in Goguryeo······"
"Ben Jiang doesn't care what you do, explain the scene in Yanjin City to Ben General, otherwise, every time you have a cup of tea, I will cut off one of your fingers until you are killed."
The word 'cut you to death' appeared so successfully in the Northeast more than a thousand years ago, and the effect was very good, Wang Ming didn't use a cup of tea time to explain the situation of Yanjin City, of course, he hid this earth-shattering plan, and it was the truth that Wang Hao designed it.
He believed that if Li Shimin saw the scene of tens of thousands of Tang soldiers being burned alive in front of his eyes, he would definitely lose his mind, and when the time came, he would definitely not give up if he did not kill all the Goguryeo people.
Even a person like Zhang Gongjin, who is accustomed to seeing the tragic scene of battlefield fighting, just made up the picture described by Wang Ming a little, and couldn't help but shudder.
"Yuangai Suwen used the lives of hundreds of thousands of soldiers as bait, just to lure the Tang army into the city, why don't I believe it so much?"
Zhang Gongjin almost gritted his teeth and asked Wang Mingxun.
"Among these hundreds of thousands of soldiers, there are tens of thousands of real Goguryeo people! Didn't you see that the real Goguryeo people had already begun to evacuate with food and grass supplies?
In fact, Silla, Baekje, Wa Kingdom, and the leaders of the tribes have been controlled by Yuangai Suwen, and the army that went out of the city today to fight with the Tang army will be mainly soldiers from these countries, and he wants to consume the Tang army at the same time, and bury all the strength of these countries, so that after the Tang army retreats, Yuangai Suwen can return and eat Silla, Baekje and other countries to strengthen his strength. ”
The reason why Wang Ming explained the problem so thoroughly was because he felt that these three or four thousand people could not change the current situation at all, even if Yuangai Suwen let hundreds of thousands of troops escort him to retreat with the grain, grass, gold and silver he had collected from Yanjin City in the past few days, there were still more than 500,000 troops in the city! These people, hiding in the woods and still surviving, to touch the wall built between two mountains, that is a dead end.
"Yuangai Suwen is really a ruthless person. Say, what can we do now to solve this situation? ”
"Well, the plan has already been arranged, if you have a way to notify the Tang army outside the gate of the north city and let them not enter the city, perhaps, it can be saved, I really can't think of other ways."
Hearing this, Zhang Gongjin's face turned dark, listening to the drums in the city, the north gate side of the city was about to fight, but it was almost impossible for his thousands of people to pass through Yanjin City, which was still garrisoned by more than 500,000 troops, and the left and right sides of Yanjin City were cliffs, and they couldn't climb up at all.
Outside the north gate of Yanjin, the city gate was wide open, and the soldiers in the city poured out of the city like a tide, and at least tens of thousands of people gathered at least a few dozen steps away.
"The Goguryeo people really want to use the tactics of crowds, give orders, re-ride the armor of the phalanx, wait for the enemy army to approach to eighty paces, and start to attack."
On the herald's platform, Su Dingfang watched the scene at the gate of the city with a telescope, if it was a person with dense phobia, he would be frightened by the scene at the moment, and the scene of more than 100,000 people rushing out was really terrifying.
The position of the Tang army's formation was almost 500 steps away from the city gate, and Su Dingfang's order was to try to disperse the Goguryeo coalition army as much as possible, so that when the heavy cavalry charged, there would be a gap to go.
"Brush Brush Brush ~"
The jet-black armor was pulled off the helmets by the soldiers, and at this time, they could only watch the scene on the battlefield through the eye holes of the steel wire, which made it impossible for the enemy's bows and arrows to shoot their eye sockets, which can be said to have achieved the ultimate in defense.
Yuangai Suwen's trump card army is 100,000 cavalry, and it is impossible for him to use his most elite troops to fight a tough battle of attrition, so these people who rushed out are all infantry armed with long weapons, and they thought that such a torrent-like impact would crush the Gao De army at once as they had done in Pyongyang City, however, they underestimated the strength of the regular army of the Tang Army.
The heavy cavalry must have a distance of more than eighty paces for the war horse to run, and after visually approaching the position, Xue Li, who was in charge of the first charge, raised his halberd, and the heavy cavalry team of 5,000 armored iron armor was led by him and the deputy general Cheng Mingzhen.
"Boom ······"
The horses and the crowd collided like two torrents, and the knights in the front row, under the leadership of Xue Li, only brandished their cavalry spears and fired the spears of the Goguryeo coalition army, and the war horses immediately knocked the people who charged them in the front row and flew backwards.
The infantry pikemen, without a tight formation, maintained a rhythmic front and rear thrust, and when facing the ironclad heavy cavalry, it was almost like sending them to death.
This scene reminded Li Shimin, who was on the Shuai platform and watched the battle formation scene with a telescope, of the scene of Quyuan ploughing the land, where each column of heavy cavalry was like a plowshare, and after plowing through the crowd of the Goguryeo Alliance Army, they suddenly became like broken soil.
Seeing this scene under the city wall, even if he was as ruthless as Yuan Gai Suwen, his fingers couldn't help but tremble.
No wonder the Tang army dared to fight head-on with his army of more than 700,000 men with only 100,000 horses, it turned out that they had such strength.
But that's 5,000 heavily armored cavalry!
Could it be that at the beginning, Li Shimin sent his most elite flying cavalry army?
Before Yuan Gai Suwen had time to calculate in his heart how much it would cost Li Tang to build so many steel armors, he saw an even more terrifying picture.
Thousands of chariots of the Tang army began to move, and the rain of arrows and stone bullets forcibly suppressed the spread trend of the Goguryeo coalition army, and disintegrated his strategic intention of using the tactics of crowds to directly impact Li Shimin's tent.
Then, he saw the infantry of the Don Army go into battle. There are less than 20,000 people, and they are still full of iron armor, and even with heavy armor defense, they each hold a heavy shield in their hands.
Therefore, on the head of the city, the rain of arrows thrown down by the Goguryeo coalition army indiscriminately was just the clanging sound of their armor and heavy shields, which almost did not cause any damage to the Tang army, and those Tang soldiers who held heavy shields in one hand held a jet-black war knife in the other hand, only at the edge, there was a touch of snow.
This kind of sword can easily stab into the body of the Goguryeo coalition army, or cut off their heads, if the heavy cavalry only shocks the coalition army to pieces, then these infantry are completely harvesting the lives of the coalition soldiers.
The closer you get to the city wall, the more people gather, even if Xue Li's arm strength is strong and he can knock out all the barrels of his weapons, but the war horse can no longer squeeze forward, and the war horse that can't move will lose its role on the battlefield, and the heavy cavalry surrounded by the crowd tactically crowding of people is very dangerous, even if their armor can defend against most of the attacks, it is still easy to be shocked by the heavy weapon and die of internal organs.
The whistle that was held in Xue Li's mouth when he was on the top of the armor was blown by him at this time, and under the flying of the halberd, he picked up a lot of Goguryeo soldiers who surrounded him, and killed a loose passage in the direction of the left flank, and the team behind him, many heavy cavalry also withdrew with him in the direction of the left flank after hearing the whistle.
And Cheng Mingzhen, another major general of the vanguard army, fought a bloody way in the direction of the right flank and led a group of men and horses to withdraw to the main formation.
"Change horses, count the number of people."
After Su Dingfang's order, at the head of the city, Yuangai Suwen, who saw the scene on the Tang army's side, knew how local the Tang army was, and he would actually prepare 5,000 iron-clad war horses in advance to replace the heavy cavalry directly, that is to say, in the Tang army camp opposite, 10,000 heavy cavalry could be armed at any time, which was really a piece of news that made him spurt blood, but it also strengthened the plan he wanted to implement and leave all the Tang troops in Yanjin City.
"Report to the general, this time the heavy cavalry team has killed one hundred and forty-seven people, seriously injured one hundred and eighty-nine people, and lightly injured three hundred and fifty-eight people, and the rest can fight again."
"Rear up the team, make up for the casualties, and re-align."
Five thousand horsemen, the team of more than 150,000 people, just more than 100 people, this is very lucky, after all, such a large-scale rush, there are many accidents, many soldiers, because the war horse was tripped by the corpse of the enemy, the body was pressed under the horse, and was trampled to death, after all, this is a war of life and death.
Soon, the 5,000 cavalry lined up in front of the battalion again, and this time they charged, they killed more than 100 people and wounded about 10%, and the Goguryeo coalition army that died on their horse's hooves and cavalry was at least 20,000 or 30,000, and the results of the battle were obvious.
Those wounded heavy cavalry were quickly unarmored by some people wearing white coats, hemostasis with bleeding symptoms, fracture symptoms, bones, internal organs damage, some in the inspection site, Shi Jin needle, or various medical means to drain blood, etc., not at all like the previous Sui attack on Goguryeo, after the injury, completely rely on their own support, quite uncomfortable to kill themselves such a scene.
When Su Dingfang sounded the whistle, let the crossbowmen, archers, and dense shooting suppression, and the infantry evacuated the battlefield, in the mountains and forests outside the southern gate of Yanjin, Zhang Gongjin was sweating profusely. ()
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