Chapter 303: Decisive Battle One
"Your Highness......" Xue Jun walked briskly with a copy of the recital in his hand, and walked briskly with a very happy expression: "Your Highness, the black tooth Changzhi came to report, early this morning, he led the army to battle, defeated the Silla Bamboo Decree Division, beheaded more than 4,500 ranks, captured 1,150 people, and the Bamboo Decree only led dozens of horsemen to escape. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info”
Li Yu threw the crossbow in his hand to the guards, snatched the good news from Xue Jun's hand, and laughed after reading it, "The black tooth Changzhi really lived up to my expectations, the Silla army lost another 10,000 soldiers, and its southern route army was blocked by our army outside the valley and could not come to converge, and our army won half of this battle." ”
Xing'er, who came up, was puzzled: "Jun Xun, the Silla army has lost two battles in a row, losing several generals, and there are only more than 40,000 troops left. At this time, it should be a moment when morale is low and the army has no fighting spirit, and our army should be a big victory in sight, how can it be said that it is half of the victory? ”
Li Yu smiled, "This is a conservative estimate, although our army has gained an advantage at present, it must not underestimate the enemy, otherwise it will not be good to let the Silla army fight back!" ”
In my previous life, when I watched those movies and TV series, the villains were careless and underestimated the enemy in an absolutely dominant situation, and they had to be arrogant in front of the other party, and as a result, they were killed by the other party who was not easy to do.
What a tragic result! Li Yu was inspired by this, if he was in an advantageous position, he would definitely have to completely crush the enemy to death before he became arrogant.
As the saying goes, if you fight a snake, you won't die, but if you are bitten by a snake!
"At present, the Silla army is not yet at an absolute disadvantage, and there is still the strength to fight, which is far from a happy moment for our army. Jin Yuanshu's use of troops can be regarded as the demeanor of a veteran on the battlefield, and he cannot underestimate the enemy with a small victory in two battles. ”
"What His Highness said is that our army has only 57,000 soldiers and horses in the confrontation with Jin Yuanshu, and there is not much advantage in troops. Jin Yuanshu is cunning and cunning, sticking to the camp and not moving, at this time, our army can't move, whoever moves will be led by the other party's nose. ”
"We can't just wait in the city, can we?" Xing'er was really dazed by the battle strategy of Xun Jun and Xue Jun, and shouted: "When Xue Jungong fought Goguryeo in Liaodong, he opened and closed widely, attacked quickly, and defeated the Goguryeo army. Jun Xun, your tactics are not good! ”
Faced with Xing'er's old-fashioned questioning, Li Yu and Xue Jun couldn't help but smile in surprise, praising Xing'er for being a daughter, but having a fierce heart to charge into battle.
Li Yu also reflected, is his combat style too conservative?
Seeing that her words had a wake-up effect on Jun Xun, Xing'er said anxiously: "Jun Xun, then let Xue Ne or Zhang Shi lead the army to fight, and kill the Silla people!" In the past few days, the group of Silla people outside the East Gate have been making noise in bird language all day long, and they are almost dying......"
Li Yu thought about it and felt that what Xing'er said was reasonable, so he summoned the guards and generals to discuss, and officially determined that Zhang Shi would lead the right guard of Yanyun Iron Cavalry to fight and defeat the 5,000 Silla army outside the east gate, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were still stationary.
As for why you didn't choose Xenne? Because Zhang Shi's force value is higher than Xue Ne, he is a fierce general who charges into battle, and this battle only needs to kill the Silla army that scolds outside the city all day long, and it doesn't need much strategy, only the courage of the general.
Xue Ne is more of a wise general, not as brave and resourceful as his father, and his archery skills are actually only at the level of his father's seven points, and his bravery is even more incomparable.
In his previous life, Xue Ne led 20,000 troops to the Khitan when he was in Xuanzong, but he was defeated and fled back with only dozens of horses. Although he is a famous general of the Tang Dynasty, his strength is still slightly inferior to that of the famous Tang generals at the beginning.
The east gate, which had been closed until the Silla army opened to the bottom of Seoul, suddenly opened today, and the Silla army outside the city was stunned.
Zhang Shiyi, who had a cross-eared beard on his face, held a snow-bright long-handled broadsword, wore black lacquer Mingguangshan armor, and wore a tiger and beast helmet on his head, took the lead, and in only three breaths, he entered the 200 Silla army that had been shouting and cursing outside the city for several days.
Jang Se controlled his horse with his legs, danced the long knife in his hand, and cut off the heads of five Silla soldiers in one look, chasing after the Silla army fleeing to the camp like a black face, and slashing all the Silla soldiers who could be touched by the long knife.
The rest of the Silla soldiers who had narrowly escaped Zhang Shi's poisonous hands were also quickly killed by the Tang army, and the galloping hooves of their mounts did not stop. Three thousand elite horsemen followed their general, Zhang Shichao, and rushed towards the camp of the Silla army outside the east gate.
The Silla army, which had been camped peacefully outside the east gate for several days, did not expect that the Tang army would go out of the city to fight today, but the incident happened suddenly, and the 5,000 Silla troops in the camp had not yet organized a tight formation to fight against the camp, so Zhang Shi led the army to kill.
Jang Se broke through the gate of the camp that the Silla army had no time to block, rushed into the midst of the many Silla soldiers who were in a panic, and slashed left and right with his sword, killing and wounding one to three Silla sergeants with each sword.
A steady stream of Tang cavalry entered from the gate of the Silla barracks, and the Silla army organized in a hurry was unable to resist and was forced to retreat step by step by the Tang army.
As more and more Silla troops were killed and the resistance became more and more weak, the rest fled the camp and ran to the Chinese camp five miles away.
After Zhang Shi led his army to kill all the Silla troops in the camp who had time to escape, he burned the Silla camp to the ground and retreated to the city before reinforcements from the Silla Central Army camp arrived.
Li Yu and a group of generals could see clearly from the east gate of the whole process, and as the fire of the Silla camp rushed up, Silla reinforcements ten miles away arrived to help with the rest of the matter.
The Silla generals, who led the army, led their troops to the city and wanted to demonstrate to the Tang army in the city, so that the archers were ready to shoot at the Tang army in the city. But before the Silla archers could release their arrows, the Tang army in the city fired crossbows and crossbows under Li Yu's order, and thousands of arrows were shot down, and more than half of the 500 Silla archers were killed and wounded. At the same time, the stone throwing machine in the city was also activated, and twenty stone bullets smashed into the Silla army with a whistling sound.
This was not the end, more than 20 fireoil fillers were thrown and smashed into the Silla army's formation, and after the explosion on the ground, the fierce fire oil that burned rapidly scattered in all directions, and hundreds of Silla soldiers were stained with fireoil and could not be extinguished. The Silla soldiers, who were in the center of the fire, were dragging their bodies mixed with the flames, and the horrors were terrifying.
The Silla generals, who wanted to give the Tang army a retaliatory deterrent, were frightened, but they didn't expect that in Seoul, the Tang army's city defense equipment was so terrifying, and they led the troops to retreat in a panic.
Looking at the nearly 100 charred corpses burned to death outside the city, Li Yu sighed in his heart, if only he could make a white phosphorus bomb. The lethality of that thing is even more terrifying, and it is projected with a stone thrower, whether it is attacking or defending the city, it is an invincible weapon.
White phosphorus spontaneously combusts when it encounters air, and even water can't extinguish it, and it can directly burn through the skin and flesh into the bone marrow when it gets on people's bodies, and it is extremely spicy.
For an army that is in the era of cold weapons and is lined up in dense formations when marching and fighting, give him dozens of white phosphorus bombs, and this battle will be won without any more fighting.
It seems that the principle of the white phosphorus bomb should be written out, and a skilled craftsman should be found to study it, maybe someone in Datang can really invent it? Li Yu thought so.