Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Battle of Chang'an (I)

Li Xuanqing didn't worry about the offensive and defensive formation drills, Xu Tianxiang's talent in the formation was about to catch up with him, and he didn't have to worry about anything about the most basic formations such as the Sharp Arrow Formation and the Circle Formation. At this moment, Li Xuanqing led the archers and scouts in front of the camp to practice in front of the defenders of Chang'an.

The scout team Li Xuanqing didn't have anything to teach, and after giving Hu Xiaosi the methods of some messy scouts he brought from later generations, he let him play freely, and this kid seemed to be very interested in this aspect, and swore to take his soldiers to investigate the military situation in Chang'an, but Li Xuanqing didn't care, so he should practice for him.

"Give your two teams an hour to train everyone's rate of fire, based on the open space in front of you, at a distance of forty zhang, and see which team can shoot the most arrows in the shortest possible time." There are really not many ways to speed up this archer, at least Li Xuanqing doesn't know what way to speed it up, so in the end, he still thought of this to see if he can increase the rate of fire, at least a hundred archers cover the shooting, it is still a bit powerful.

Because it was a covering shot, there was no need to even place the target, and the two teams just shot the arrows in the quiver at the fastest speed under the leadership of Li Tianyi and Wang Houchun. It's just that the scene that was supposed to be harmonious was broken by these two living treasures. The two guys quickly pinched up, and the soldiers below saw the commander pinching it, and they also began to glare at each other, and the speed of the bow and arrow in their hands unconsciously accelerated, as if one less bow was missing a piece of meat.

These two teams of archers were originally specially selected, and they were originally either Orions or soldiers who had a foundation in mounted archery since childhood, so although it was the first time to practice shooting, the arrows shot out could still basically fall within the range drawn by Li Xuanqing. Therefore, Li Xuanqing did not stop Li Tianyi and Wang Houchun from deliberately making strange things and encouraging morale. The archers carried two quivers, a total of sixty arrows, but the fellows were stunned to shoot them all in less than a quarter of an hour.

Originally, Wang Houchun wanted to go to the rear camp to transfer new arrows, but was stopped by Li Xuanqing, this is not good, he will go to the battlefield tomorrow, if he breaks the arms of these guys, his plan will fall short, so he issued a hard target, all the arrows shot must be recovered before they can continue to shoot, otherwise military law will be engaged.

But just when Li Xuanqing was about to continue to say something, Zhang Tianhu's herald arrived. Li Xuanqing frowned, and after ordering the two of them to lead the team to practice freely, he hurried to the Weizheng camp.

Li Xuanqing's camp was the far ahead, so Zhang Tianhu was already in a meeting when he arrived, and he didn't say much when he saw him coming, and glanced at the vacant seat on his left.

After Li Xuanqing sat down, Zhang Tianhu briefly said what he had said before, and continued: "Tomorrow, the west city gate will be in charge of our Lingwu army, and the Fengxiang army of the coalition army, the Hezhong army and the Shence army of the imperial court will be in charge of the north city gate and the east city gate. Do you have any strategies? ”

Li Xuanqing sighed secretly when he heard this, and sure enough, his worries still became a reality, the commander of the coalition army really couldn't bear to attack the city after the reinforcements arrived. It's just that the reinforcements mobilized by the various sections are basically recruits, and this group of recruits who have never been on the battlefield plus demoralized veterans are used to attack Chang'an City, which has 50,000 defenders and has perfect city defense, I have to say that this is simply a matter of careless human life.

In fact, Li Xuanqing is a little wrong to think like this, it is a bit wrong to blame these festival envoys, Chang'an City hoarded more than 100,000 troops, and every extra day had to consume a large amount of grain and grass, and the imperial court had long been poor and had no money, and these grains and grasses needed to be raised by each festival envoy himself. The Guanzhong area has experienced wars, barren people, and water conservancy has been in disrepair for a long time, and it has long been the rich land of Yongzhou in history. Therefore, after the arrival of reinforcements, several Jiedu envoys decided to take advantage of the morale recovery to capture Chang'an City in one fell swoop, anyway, the morale of Zhu Mei's army was not high. Isn't siege warfare just a dead man? Can this troubled man be compared to grain and grass? Therefore, the coalition army command, including Han Zun, the envoy of the Lingwu Army, decided to work together to take Chang'an in three ways without thinking too much.

"Wei Shuai, what sequence is our Wei attacking?" After a while, Li Xuan raised his head after cleaning up all the links.

Zhang Tianhu took a deep look at Li Xuanqing, as if he knew what he was thinking, nodded and said: "The second sequence, the third guard, the fourth guard, and the fifth guard have a total of 10,000 people, plus the first iron spear battalion of the Lingwu Army commanded by the marshal, there are 3,000 people, a total of 13,000 people. Under the command of both the general and the iron spear, Wan Yi was in charge of the front-line command. After a pause, he saw Li Xuanqing's brows unfolding little by little, knowing that he had an idea, and asked, "Do you have any ideas?" Say it. Don't worry, that kid Wan Yi was my subordinate in the early years, so you don't have to worry about someone blindly commanding. ”

Li Xuanqing took a deep breath and said slowly: "Tomorrow, when the first echelon retreats from the city, we must leave enough manpower to protect the ladder, I will dispatch the most elite team to be led by me personally while the first echelon retreats, and forcibly enter the city. Leave me a cup of tea to open the city gate, and the guard only saw that there was movement at the city gate, and then drew the iron spear and the second series of elites to charge towards the city gate. I expected them to be able to open the gates as well. ”

"Secondly, after the iron guns enter the city, the urn city will be in chaos, I will lead the small team on the city wall to open the inner gate of the urn city along the city wall within a quarter of an hour, and the guard commander must pinch the time to press the whole army, whether it is to take the city gate or climb the ladder, we must guard the outer city gate and the inner gate of the urn city in the shortest possible time, so as to win time for the marshal army to break into Chang'an City."

Li Xuanqing's strategy was very simple, relying directly on the martial arts of himself and others, and the strong combat power that broke out in a short period of time caught the opponent off guard, forcibly opening the city gate, causing the army to break into the city defense. But this strategy seems simple, but in fact, it is a test of the ability of the front-line commander to connect each link, as long as there is a problem in one link, it will fall short, and the first to enter the city will be killed by the enemy's superior forces.

The people present were all senior generals of the Third Guard, although the commander was a new soldier, but they were all veterans who had experienced the battlefield, so they could naturally see the danger of this strategy. It's just that in addition to this method, if you follow the method of conventional offensive and defensive warfare, once the time drags on for a long time, the morale of the recruits will be lost due to huge casualties, and although the previous veterans can fight, they are demoralized after being attacked by Li Keyong and cannot play a key role. If that happens, I'm afraid it's going to be a tug-of-war. Besides, what if Li Ke uses it again? Throughout the war between Li Keyong and Zhu Wen, they were basically victorious and undefeated, although in terms of substantive effect, Li Keyong did not take much advantage.

"Lvshuai Li, how sure are you? This is the life and death of tens of thousands of people, and the big marshal is still watching from behind, in case of failure, who will bear this responsibility? After being silent for a long time, someone finally stood up and questioned Li Xuanqing.

Li Xuanqing glanced at it, knowing that it was Zuo Tiancheng of the First Brigade who stood up, and he didn't say much, for Zuo Tiancheng, a general who is over the middle of the year and seeks stability in everything, Li Xuanqing's method is actually taking risks, not to mention his own life, and if he doesn't do it, he will drag more than 10,000 people in the second sequence to accompany him to the funeral.

"I'll take care of it. Just do what Lvshuai Li said, if I am defeated, I will go to the camp of the commander to plead guilty. Just when everyone was stunned by Zuo Tiancheng's words, Zhang Tianhu suddenly stood up, "There is nothing on the battlefield that is undefeated, and there is no victory that can be obtained without sacrifice, we are all soldiers, if a soldier does not have the courage to sacrifice, is it still called a soldier?" Li Xuanqing's method is by far the most suitable strategy. Zhang Tianhu waved his hand, as if returning to his previous years of Jin Ge Iron Horse, his tone was impassioned, with confidence that he had never had before, "I order, all the soldiers of the Third Guard are ready to wait for tomorrow's earth-shattering battle." The deputy guard is responsible for informing the fourth guard and the fifth guard commander to mobilize elite troops to line up early tomorrow morning, and at the same time let Wan Yi prepare for the gathering at the west gate of Chang'an City tomorrow. The 3rd Guard Brigade was commanded by Su Yang and temporarily under the control of the 4th Brigade. After giving all the orders in one breath, Zhang Tianhu glanced at the audience, his cold eyes were like a lone wolf in the night, "I will say it again, you must do your best in the first battle tomorrow, if someone dares to disobey the order, Yang Feng Yin disobeys, don't blame me for saying ugly things in front, in front of military law, there will be only one word, kill!" ”

Zhang Tianhu's words were full of endless killing intent, and all the noise in the big tent was nipped in the bud at once, and the generals couldn't help but shudder, only then did they remember the appalling experience of the guard in front of him, who dared to speak at this time. Li Xuanqing nodded secretly, sure enough, he was an iron general on the battlefield, and everyone couldn't raise their heads after just a few words, no wonder Han Zun was able to hand over the troops that would be responsible for attacking the fortifications tomorrow to him, and he did not hesitate to transfer the killer weapon of the Lingwu Army, the iron spear.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak or say much, Zhang Tianhu waved everyone back to prepare, but left Li Xuanqing alone.

"Let Su Yang go to the city with you tomorrow and grab the city gate. Although his martial arts skills are not as good as yours, he will not cause you trouble. After Zhang Tianhu asked the deputy guard to convey the military order, he recruited Su Yang in, and after briefly talking about Li Xuanqing's strategy, he said with a solemn face: "Su Yang, you take the team directly under your command and come under the command of the Fourth Brigade, and tomorrow you will be with Xuanqing to be responsible for grabbing the city gate, and at the same time protect his safety, there must be no mistakes." ”

"No." Su Yang still maintained a dead face, standing there motionless.

Next, Zhang Tianhu and Li Xuanqing carefully studied the strategy just now, including the time and force connection that need to be pinched, the weapons and personnel allocation, the route of the troops charging after entering the city, the countermeasures of the other party, and the need to prepare for the response in case of occurrence.

The two kept writing and drawing on the paper, strictly calculating the use of troops and the connection of time, and before they knew it, two hours had passed, Zhang Tianhu asked someone to bring food, and the two talked while eating.

"You mean that the Dengcheng squad all carry copper shields?" Zhang Tianhu groaned slightly and asked.

"The Ascending Squad needs to buy time for the follow-up troops and be able to withstand the attack of the initial defenders, so it must be equipped with the best equipment." Li Xuanqing put down his job bowl and said, "There are nine gates in the west of Chang'an City, and we can only choose the main gate in the middle as a breakthrough, so the Dengcheng detachment will face ten times or even a hundred times the enemy army. ”

"That's not what I meant, I know the pressure they're going to face. I was just wondering how sure you are that you'll be able to storm the walls in the first place? Know that you can do it alone, but what about the others? Zhang Tianhu endured it for a long time, and finally expressed the doubts in his heart.

Li Xuanqing was a little amused when he saw him, but he didn't answer him this question, but asked him to understand it when he landed in the city tomorrow.

"Stinky boy, you dare to be sloppy with me. Alright, let's go back and see your Fourth Brigade. I'll ask Su Yang to bring you what you want. Zhang Tianhu saw that he was playing dumb riddles with himself, and scolded with a smile.