Chapter 289: The Unconvinced Seoul Generals
Li Yu appointed Heizhi Changzhi as the vanguard, and led the Beihai Iron Cavalry to set off first, because Seoul was only more than 130 miles away from Pyongyang, and the cavalry could reach it in one day at full speed. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
One of the Black Tooth Chang entered Seoul, summoned the generals of the Seoul Prefecture Governor's Office, took out Li Yu's letter of appointment, announced in public that he would take over the command of all soldiers and horses, and merge the Beihai Iron Cavalry Left and Right Guards, White Tiger Guards, Vermilion Bird Guards, Flying Tiger Army, and Tianshi Army into a vanguard army to meet the Silla Army heading north.
As the governor of Seoul Prefecture, Li Shangdan, who is also the general of the White Tiger Guard, is both lost and not surprised in his heart, and the black tooth Changzhi does not know which horn it came from, why did King Yan take this person as the vanguard and seize his command?
Gao Chongde, Liu Shijiang, Su Mingxiu and other cadres and colonels of the Seoul Prefecture Governor's Mansion were very surprised, I don't know what King Yan thinks, the enemy is currently in battle, and he actually made such a taboo as a military change?
The Seoul generals were surprised and unconvinced by their arrival, and the black tooth Chang Yi looked at it in his eyes, but he believed that after defeating the spirit of the Silla army with his excellent command and winning one battle after another, the generals would be convinced.
Before coming to Seoul, Heiya Changzhi had learned about the two guards and two army generals stationed in Seoul, but he still had to review the training and combat readiness of the soldiers. It is necessary to know that the way of the general, and we must understand the soldiers under our command as well as our own hands and feet, so that we can give full play to the strengths of each army on the battlefield, avoid the shortcomings of each army, and do it like an arm.
Therefore, the first order issued by Hei Zhi Chang was to review the three armies in the school field, and if he did not arrive on time, the soldiers who were not neatly dressed in the military column would be given 30 military sticks, and those who resisted the order would be beheaded on the spot!
Li Shangdan was the first to rush to the school with the White Tiger Guard under his command full of resentment, and the followers arrived in order of Vermilion Bird Wei led by Gao Chongde, the Flying Tiger Army led by Liu Shijiang, and the Tianshi Army led by Su Mingxiu.
As for the left and right guards of the Beihai Iron Cavalry brought by Heiya Changzhi, they have been camping and training in the school field since they arrived in Seoul.
After the armies arrived, Heiya Changzhi looked at the hourglass and nodded with satisfaction, "It seems that the four guards and soldiers stationed in Seoul are well trained in peacetime, and they can do the order and prohibition, so they can be regarded as a combatable soldier and horse." ”
Li Shangdan teased unconvinced: "Our army only has three days off in October, and every day at dawn, the army beats drums and gathers the army, and the whole army runs ten laps around Seoul with all its weapons, and the time left for dinner is only two quarters of an hour. In the morning, we will conduct battle formation training, and in the afternoon, we will conduct physical training. After dinner, we will run ten laps in Raocheng, and learn literacy for an hour in the evening. The level of training of our army looks at the Tang Dynasty, in addition to His Royal Highness's Anton Zhuwei and the army, which army is comparable? Didn't you think that in the eyes of the vanguard general, it could still be regarded as a battleable soldier and horse? ”
Li Yu issued the firmament training drills of the guards and armies, and their generals strictly referred to the implementation, plus they were either born as generals, or they had served in the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and they had seen the most elite troops in the imperial court, but no army could train as hard as them every day, and most of the troops could do it every three days. There was a war at the border pass, and the soldiers recruited by the imperial court from the various prefectures were only trained for two or three months all year round when they were in their hometowns, and most of the time they were no different from farmers.
In the eyes of Li Shangdan, Liu Shijiang and other generals who refused to obey him, it was undoubtedly Heiya Changzhi who deliberately belittled their hard-working soldiers and horses. All of them are staring at the black tooth Changzhi with angry faces, and there is a posture that you can stand up to you.
Only Gao Chongde and Su Mingxiu saw this, and lamented in their hearts, just one word is still enough to cause the lieutenant general Colonel Mingli to express his dissatisfaction with the commander, if he still listens to the commander's orders on the battlefield? Is the war still going to be fought?
"A Baekje general, Xing Guogong's defeated generals also know the army?" Lu He, who was the commander of the White Tiger Guard, was disdainful of the Black Tooth Changzhi and sneered in a low voice, and at the same time, as the captain of the Seoul garrison, he was extremely indignant that he, the vanguard of the air generals, had seized the command of his own general.
"The Xiongjin Governor's Mansion set up by the imperial court in Baekje was almost completely seized by the Silla army in the first year of Hamhyung, and His Royal Highness followed His Highness to exterminate the remnants of Goguryeo, wiped out 40,000 or 50,000 Silla troops, and led the northern border of Silla, so it is estimated that the people of the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion were driven to the sea by the Silla people."
"Isn't General Lian Hei Tooth from the Kumazu Governor's Mansion? Or Xiongjin Governor's Mansion Sima, presumably he must have rich combat experience with the Silla army, so I can't help but share it so that I can understand the general's demeanor of attacking the Silla barbarians? ”
"I was almost driven into the sea, where did I get any style!"
"I also proposed to His Highness that the Silla army go north, and our army will retreat a hundred miles first, and abandon the fortified city that we have built for two years, I really wonder if it will lead the army to fight?"
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A few unconvinced generals were muttering rumors on the side, as their boss, Li Shangdan looked at the neat military formation in the school field and smiled without saying a word.
Look at the more these guys talk, the more outrageous it becomes, and Gao Chongde, who is afraid that it will hinder the generals from meeting the enemy together, shouted loudly: "On the stage, no noise, and those who talk nonsense again will be dragged down to fight with fifty military sticks." ”
Several lieutenants and lieutenants put away their playful and sarcastic expressions and looked at Li Shangdan, Li Shangdan nodded, and then they closed their mouths and stood aside in a proper manner.
Gao Chongde saw this, and knew that Li Shangdan was extremely dissatisfied with King Yan's appointment of Hei Zhi Chang Zhi as the vanguard to command the Seoul garrison, and he had a hard time with Hei Zhi Chang in the open. Worried that the Silla army had not yet arrived in the city, his side first staged a farce of discord between the generals and commanders, causing the army to be discordant, how could they respond to the enemy in the future?
When several generals sneered in a low voice, although Su Mingxiu looked at the military formation on the school field, Yu Guang kept looking at the black tooth Changzhi, and saw what he did to mock others?
But after looking at it for a long time, the solemn expression of Hei Yan Changzhi did not fluctuate at all, and he did not react to the arguing of several generals. Su Mingxiu thought to herself, people who sneered at others but had no waves, either they had great talent in their hearts and disdained such petty things; Either they are ruthless, they are silent at the time, and the descendants will kill each other in the field.
I hope that Hei Yan Changzhi is the former, and Nuo is the latter, Su Mingxiu has to express extremely serious doubts about His Highness's ability to see people and allow others.
Hei Tooth Changzhi held the horsewhip in his right hand and patted it in his left hand, and pointed unceremoniously: "This division that has not experienced a hundred battles dares to call it a strong army?" ”
Liu Shijiang chuckled and said, "Maybe General Heiya doesn't know much about the combat experience of the soldiers and horses present, so he is willing to give a detailed explanation to the general......
"No need, before this future, I have looked through all the battle formation files of the Second Guard and Second Army of Seoul since its formation, but I have fought several battles in Anshi, Da'anshan, Nakseongseong, and Shimen, and most of the enemies encountered are rabble. In the face of Silla's hundred battles, the battle of the Lulu River, which decided the outcome later, was still a beautiful record led by Li Jinxing and Gao Kan, two famous generals of the dynasty, with 40,000 elite soldiers. I really don't know where the pride in your hearts comes from? ”