5. Storm Liuboling
On the day of the winter solstice, the sky of the whole Shuofang is cloudy, the wind is cloudy, the day is like dusk, and soon the sky will be snowy and dense, hitting people's faces or hands, more painful than cutting with a knife. lā
The Pingxia party items on the Liuboling camp would never have thought that the Tang army would launch a strong attack on them in such a climate!
It's so cold that I can't even pull the bowstring.
But the drums still sounded, and the party members in Pingxia saw through the wooden fence that countless black-clothed and black-armored Shuo soldiers under the Liubo Ridge were lined up in multiple teams, braving the cold wind, stepping on the heavy snow, holding battle flags, long swords, and even blades in their hands, bravely killing the mountains they occupied.
And the southeast side of Liuboling in the city of Zeyuan, there are also a large number of Tang army soldiers, all of them are the men and horses of the Shence decisive army, Gao Chongwen and Luo Yuanguang and even the entire army, may have been arrogant, but now they can only temporarily succumb to Gao Yue's "obscenity", follow his deployment, and attack in a roundabout way into the depths of Liuboling, the target is Changze Prison.
Only the stone ridge on the northwest side of Liuboling was the target of the Dingwu Army and the Yining Army.
This Tang Army's offensive can be described as shocking, Gao Yue does not choose what focus or flanks - now the Fourth Route Army has nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, and most of them are elite in battles, and there is no shortage of armaments, and the garrisons from all over the Pingxia Party are only 10,000 people together.
The snow is getting heavier, the wind is getting stronger, and the sky is getting darker.
In the mountains of Liuboling, the party people were almost too cold to hook the string and draw the bow, and the Tang army was the same, unable to shoot divine thunder rockets or fire flying crows, and could only engage in short combat in the end.
On the different mountain paths, the Shuofang army with torches shouted, and the party swooped out to fight together, each wrist was wrapped around dense strips of cloth, so that the hand and the cold sword were combined, enough to swing and slash, after a fierce battle, the soldiers stepped on the blood-soaked snow, threw the torches, and then baked the blades on it, so that it swirled around the snow foam melted water vapor, and then continued to attack the party camp.
When they arrived at the camp gate, the fighting was even more brutal and fierce, and the party members were stacked shoulder to shoulder, holding wooden spears seven or eight feet long, desperately resisting the Shuo soldiers who were constantly coming forward to fight.
Some Shuo soldiers climbed over the wall, and then threw torches on the roof of the houses of the party members, who did not use bricks and stones, but were made of rammed earth, and the roofs were not tiled, but covered with cow hair or wool.
Flames surrounded the party community that was still resisting, and many people were burned and on fire, still howling and fighting to the death, and would not give in.
It was really impossible to completely defeat it, so the Shuo army could only continue to set fire to the camp until it turned into a sea of fire, and then attack another battalion.
Flames erupted from one camp after another, and fire, blood, and snow spread wantonly on Liubo Ridge.
At the stone ridge, the party built a large camp in front of the mountain cliff, and used the unloaded wheels to pour water into ice on it, which was densely blocked at the main gate, so that the Tang army attacking the fortress could only attack around the small roads on both sides, but the paths were all blocked and controlled by the bows and arrows shot from the wall, and the Tang soldiers who were killed by the arrows were full of them.
In the end, Su Pu led the fire fighters of the fifth battalion of Feishan to go up, and seven or eight dazzling divine thunder fires shot out (this is not Greek fire, Greek fire produces flames with fuel, and then shoots them out with pressure pipes, but the fire blowers here shoot special gunpowder), burning the ice on the wheels, and also burning the wheels, and the other Tang soldiers broke it, and the fire fighters stepped forward to shoot fire at the gate and the wooden fence, and the wind swept the fire, and then the party was burned and could not support itself, and they fled one after another.
The Dingwu army invaded it, and was surprised to see many Pingxia party women, who also fought with troops, but this battle was not as good as the reward game between the soldiers - the elite soldiers of the Dingwu army killed most of this group of women without difficulty, and the rest were all tied up, and the screams and cries of the women in the wall made people listen to the extra creepy.
The Yining Army detoured to the area behind the Stone Ridge to set fire to and intercept it, and hunted down and killed the party members who had fled from the mountain.
Four hours later, Shiling and Liuboling were caught in flames, most of the party's camps were burned and destroyed, and countless people were thrown into cliffs, killed in battle, and captured.
As for the Shence Decisive Army, after arriving in the wilderness of the Ishizawa Plain, it was first attacked by the Wuyankou Party Cavalry, and then thousands of Party Cavalry rushed from Naiwangjing and Changzejian, all of them did not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, and fought together.
The battle lasted until the afternoon, when more than 2,000 Shuofang soldiers came from Liubo Ridge to meet the decisive victory of the Shence Army, and the party cavalry was defeated and began to flee to Naiwangjing further east.
"Beat the drum and march towards Changzejian!" Gao Chongwen's iron helmet eaves were covered with ice and snow, and he shouted.
To win the decisive victory, the soldiers and horses can only withstand the heavier and heavier wind and snow and attack the set goal.
At this time, at Naiwangjing, Qingtianzi Yuanhui personally led 5,000 party cavalry to unify Wancheng to this point, and gathered thousands of defeated soldiers to regain momentum.
After hearing that the Tang army had captured Liuboling and Shiling, Yuan Hui was afraid and angry, and said to his subordinates that although the Tang army won a small victory, it was tired after a long battle, and our army had just entered the battlefield, and the spirit was flourishing.
"Liuboling, Wuyankou and Naiwangjing must not be lost, otherwise not only will Shannan Luzi Pass not be protected, but my Tongwan City will also fall into a place of inaction!"
Seven miles west of Naiwangjing, Yuan Hui met a Tang army, which was really close to the dusk of the day, and the wind and snow had weakened a lot, but the fog was thick.
When the Tang army saw the shadows in the fog, and a large group of party cavalry appeared on the opposite side, they immediately retreated without hesitation.
But then, there were constantly small groups of Tang troops chasing in Yuan Hui's field of vision, because the intelligence was not accurate, he did not expect that there would be a party reinforcement in the direction of Tongwan City, and they were successfully defeated by Yuan Hui, and two or three hundred Tang soldiers were killed and captured.
Yuan Hui learned from the captives that now the Tang Dynasty's Shence Decisive Army had gone to besiege the camp of Changze Supervisor, so Yuan Hui said that we should go to the camp of Wuyan City first, and then go to defeat the Tang army in the Changze area after the fog dissipated.
That night, the fire and the remnants of the fighting sound of Liuboling and Shiling were still endless, and Gao Yue sat in the camp of the Dutong Army Envoy at the foot of the mountain, constantly listening to the news delivered from the front, "The Dingwu Army cleared the remnants of the two mountain ranges, and the Yining Army Chi City Zeyuan and Changze Jian are ready to reinforce the army of the decisive army, and they must seize these two places, and then advance to Wuyankou, and finally capture Wuyankou, otherwise victory will not be victorious!" ”
At the fourth watch, a large number of generals of the Yining Army took a short rest, and then began to pass through the city of Zeyuan along Liuboling, following the direction of the guide car.
Almost at the same time, Yuan Hui gathered a total of 10,000 horses from the Pingxia Party and marched from Wuyankou, aiming directly at Changze Prison.
An hour later, the two outposts met each other.