18. Duel trap pond
"I'm afraid that now that the Tang army has occupied Kunlun Pass, if so, wouldn't it be self-surrendering if we go again?" Huang Shaoqing wavered, and then he asked the people around him, otherwise we would retreat from Luo Yueshui.
Huang Changchu strongly opposed this plan: "Father, this section of Luo Yueshui is sandwiched between Hengshan and Kunlun Mountains, cramped and narrow, rugged and difficult to travel, and since the Tang army is crossing the Hengshan Mountains to seize Yongguan, it will inevitably set up a beacon fire alarm along the mountain. ”
Huang Shaoqing could only ask his son what to do.
Huang Chang was wise and brave, he suggested to his father that my cave soldiers are climbing light feet and fighting in close combat, so there is no need to confront the Tang army head-on, and then seize the opportunity to cross the Kunlun Pass from other mountain roads, and then disperse into the Xiyuan Creek Cave, how can the Tang army encircle and suppress it? After they withdraw, Nanzhao will send troops and supplies, and our side will accumulate strength and wait until the miasma rises in the spring of the next year, and then counterattack.
"Okay, let's make up our minds to fight with this group of Central Plains people for ten or twenty years, even if we can't win, we will drag the Tang Emperor to the bottom and bring him down." Huang Shaoqing, the king of China and Vietnam, said angrily.
In order to guard against the pursuit of the Tang army under Du You, Huang Shaoqing wanted his brother Huang Shaogong to lead five thousand old and weak people to the rear of the palace along the road.
At this moment, Huang Changchu suggested again that the latter of the palace must choose strong and hard-fought people, otherwise the battle will be defeated, and the main army will suffer, so please let your uncle lead 5,000 elites to fight to stop Du You.
After nightfall, Huang Shaoqing looked at ten sturdy and beautiful bulls, pulling the souls of the clansmen with ropes - the big bronze drum, and tens of thousands of barbarian soldiers were protected on all sides of the copper drum according to the belonging of each hole, walking like flying, marching towards Kunlun Pass, and then he and his son Chang Wei got on the war horse together, and also galloped in the direction of the sunset in the west.
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"The brutes are withdrawn!" At the Rongguan City, Meng Zhun was very excited, and then with the Qiang cavalry as the vanguard, thousands of Qing navy followed, shouting out of the city to launch a pursuit.
As a result, Huang Shaogong, who met the queen of the palace on the road, and below was 5,000 elite barbarians, all of whom held brute cards in the front line, holding sharp blades and battle axes, and holding long hammers in the back rows, or throwing with short shuttle darts.
The Qing Navy's guns stepped forward to cast the guns, and the barbarians made the barbarian cards made of thick rattan and the bamboo bundles tied to resist them, and the guns hit them, often slipping and flying, and then took advantage of the Qing Navy to fill the gap, the barbarians rushed forward with a license, and the rear column threw shuttle darts like rain, Meng Zhun hurriedly retreated, and lost dozens of people and horses - that Huang Shaogong also deliberately picked up the divine thunder gun abandoned by the Qing Navy on the ground, carrying it and slowly retreating.
Within two days, Nangong Yu, the soldiers and horses of the Jingluo army who were chasing from Cangwu City, were also blocked by Huang Shaogong and were beaten back.
At this moment, Du You, who personally came to Rongguan Jingluo Mansion, knew that the pursuit of the soldiers and horses on the two routes was not effective, and when the main force of the Huangdong Barbarians had withdrawn from the camp and headed towards Kunlun Pass, he was rarely angry, and urged the Qing Navy and the Jingluo Army to unite and continue the pursuit.
Kunlun Pass, where the first pass in the south is located, is in the northeast of Yongguan City, just at the intersection of Guiguan, Yongguan and Rongguan three roads, and all are high mountains and steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, once Gaoyue cuts off here, Huang Dongman will be surrounded in the narrow area of Bin, Gui and Yulin, so for Huang Shaoqing, strong Kunlun Pass is also the key to breaking through.
But Gao Yue is destined not to give Huang Dong a chance to be strong.
Wu Yijun did not defend Kunlun Pass, after they crossed the pass, Gao Yue strongly ordered: "Huangdongman claims to be 200,000 attackers, even if it is an exaggerated statement, but there should still be 50,000 elite men, it can be regarded as pouring out, our army can not passively guard the pass, such as the cave barbarian climbing the mountain, I am convenient to prevent it, but to go straight to the plains of Pennsylvania, and the Huangdongman decisive battle." If we let go of the barbarians and return to Xiyuan, then we will cross thousands of miles across the sea to attack Qinzhou and Yongguan, which will be equivalent to falling short. ”
The decisive battle is the ultimate goal of all the actions of the Wu Yi Army.
Annihilating and destroying the enemy's main force is the ultimate goal of the decisive battle.
All movements, marches, and deployments are all in the service of this goal.
After Wu Yijun ascended the Kunlun Pass, he had to leave behind a considerable part of the baggage, ammunition, and sickness, follow the battle flag of the Duke of Weiguo, and force the march desperately, and then go down the Kunlun Pass, and drive dozens of miles to the east.
When Huang Shaoqing's outpost saw Wu Yijun's large array, he was stunned.
The Tang army actually did not rush to Kunlun Pass, but took the initiative to rush to the pond in Penn and intercepted himself.
Trapping pond, according to legend, is formed by the collapse of the mountain range and the formation of a large pond of five or six miles back in circumference, that is to say, both sides of it are full of mountains, and around the trap pond and the branch canal formed by the bag-shaped flat land of more than ten miles in length and width, is the key point of Huang Shaoqing to Kunlun Pass.
After all, if the more than 40,000 cave barbarian soldiers were scattered along the mountain road, it would be difficult to gather them back if they were dispersed with the communication capabilities of this era.
In fact, the total number of Wu Yi's three armies that rushed here with Gao Yue was only 14,000, and the rest were either left behind in various dangerous passes, or fell behind in the extremely intense march.
However, under Gao Yue's strict supervision, the war horses and cannons were all in place, which was the biggest capital he relied on for the decisive battle.
Under the sun, the 14,000 Tang army was undoubtedly divided into left, center, and right formations, both flanks protected by irrigation canals.
In the eyes of Huang Shaoqing, Huang Changchu and his son, the front line of the Tang Army's three formations is full of shooters with long guns, as well as a small "bronze bell" sandwiched between them (this weapon Huang Dongman had seen it before when he fought with Du Youbu, and it could shoot many projectiles to kill and injure people), and the depth was as long as a forest, and the flag was fluttering.
"Xuan Feng stepped forward with a rattan card, resisted the long gun and the bronze bell, followed up, and assassinated the Tang soldiers with a shuttle dart and a long hammer." This is the tactic set by Huang Shaoqing.
"Did Father see the black and white beast flag? I heard that it was the battle flag of the Tang family Wei Guogong. ”
"It turns out that Gao Weigong didn't go ......all the way to Hunan" With his son's instructions, Huang Shaoqing regretted a little, but now he felt that his side still had a relatively large chance of winning: both sides had a long march, and their strength consumption was comparable, and the Tang army had an advantage in firearms, but its own number was superior, and tens of thousands of hedgehogs gathered in this trap pond were where hand-to-hand combat came in.
Huang Changchu reminded his father again: "Gao Weigong fought with Xifan and Dangqiang, and he was proud not only of those firearms, but also of the iron horses in the border areas. Once the Tang Army's iron cavalry came to clash in groups, our army was mostly a formation of one person holding a license, two people then holding a long hammer, and two people darts, if you don't form a large formation, it will be difficult to resist. ”
"Then the long hammer will be in front." Huang Shaoqing changed his thinking in time.
"Please give a brave and healthy elite, the Tang army is not familiar with the location, I don't know that there is a Gexian cave in the mountain on the right side of the pond, with several miles of twists and turns, you can go directly around the pond, and you can sneak through it, go straight to the flag where Gao Yue is, and cut his head!"
"Okay, when my Huangcheng Cave is successful and the Great Southern Dynasty is established, I will have you in my successor, and I will be at ease for my father." Huang Shaoqing was overjoyed.