Chapter 336: Raid on the Guanlu
[Yesterday was too sleepy to update, today and tomorrow three updates]
The battle on the battlefield of Hengzhou continues.
As more and more Tang troops appeared in Hengzhou, Lin Zhe also felt the pressure.
"It can't go on like this, the only way to do this is to destroy the road opened up by the Tang Empire in the Jiuling Mountain Range!"
Lin Zhe's army can entangle with the 200,000 Tang army, if the Tang army continues, Lin Zhe's army will not be able to resist, so it can only retreat, and it is best to let the Tang army not increase.
And if you want to stop the Tang Dynasty army from increasing, the only way to destroy the road opened up by the Tang Empire in the Jiuling Mountain Range is to destroy Feng Ye's army without reinforcements, and it will eventually be wiped out by Lin Zhe's army little by little.
In the end, Lin Zhe decided to give the difficult task of destroying the road to Yun Hao's 1st Cavalry Division.
Xunfeng and Tianmu have already detected the exit of the road that runs through the Jiuling Mountain Range in Hengzhou, Yun Hao only needs to lead the First Cavalry Division to destroy it, but Lin Zhe can think of destroying the road, and Feng Ye also thinks of this problem, so Feng Ye has a heavy guard at the exit of the road.
This task was extremely difficult for the 1st Cavalry Division.
It's just that now the pressure on Lin Zhe's army is increasing day by day, and he can only take a risk.
Yun Hao accepted the task given to him by Lin Zhe and issued a military order to ensure that the passage would be destroyed.
That night, under the cover of night, Yun Hao set off with the First Cavalry Division.
The 1st Cavalry Division first headed south, bypassing the nearby heavily defended city of the Tang army, and then quietly entered the area controlled by the Tang army.
Lin Zhe sent a cavalry division, that is, with the mobility of light cavalry, to raid the intersection of the passage before the Tang army could react.
However, no matter how covertly the First Cavalry Division marched, it was finally discovered by an innate grandmaster sitting in a certain city, and then more than 20,000 Tang troops surrounded and suppressed the First Cavalry Division.
If the First Cavalry Division did not have that task, Yun Hao would be able to eat more than 20,000 enemies one by one with the 5,000 cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Division, but the 1st Cavalry Division still had a task to do, so it could only quickly get rid of the enemy and march quickly towards the goal, and it was impossible for the more than 20,000 Tang troops to catch up with the 1st Cavalry Division, there were almost not many cavalry among them, and the large number of cavalry troops that entered the pass were concentrated under Feng Ye.
What made the Tang army most depressed was that they could not quickly transmit the information of the discovery of the enemy's cavalry to the front, intercept the enemy cavalry in front, and when the enemy cavalry appeared in the front, the 1st Cavalry Division had already galloped towards the next area.
Although the 1st Cavalry Division did not fight with the Tang Army, in the area of the 1st Cavalry Division's route of travel, the Tang Army stationed in various cities was disrupted by the 1st Cavalry Division, and it almost turned into a big chaos.
Turning his gaze to the path that the Tu Huang clan once opened up in the Jiuling Mountains, now the Tang Empire has expanded to accommodate a large number of people and horses.
The exit of Zhengguan Road is in a county called Zhending in the east of Hengzhou and adjacent to the Jiuling Mountains.
This passage through the Jiuling Mountain Range was very important to Feng Ye and the entire Tang Empire, and before there was no way to break through the Tianguan Zhangde Pass, the Zhengguan Road was the only road connecting the Tang Dynasty and the Guannei, and the Tang Dynasty could only send troops into the Guannei continuously through the Zhengguan Road.
Similarly, the Zhengguan Road is also the lifeline of Feng Ye's army, once the Zhengguan Road is destroyed by the enemy, not only will the Tang army not be able to enter in a short time, but Feng Ye's army will have no way to retreat, so Feng Ye put 20,000 horses at the exit of Zhengguan Road, and also established a simple checkpoint at the exit to prevent the enemy from sneaking attacks.
At noon on the twenty-eighth day of May, Yun Hao led the First Cavalry Division to throw off tens of thousands of Tang troops behind, and there were only twenty miles left from the exit of Zhengguan Road.
As the 1st Cavalry Division approached the checkpoint, the 20,000 Tang troops guarding the checkpoint also discovered the arrival of the 1st Cavalry Division, and the defenders of the checkpoint quickly combined to prepare for the upcoming battle.
At a distance of about 70 zhang from the checkpoint, the 1st Cavalry Division stopped, this distance was just outside the range of the bows and arrows of the defenders of the checkpoint, the 1st Cavalry Division was a light cavalry unit after all, even if it was equipped with a large number of firearms, it could not impact the heavily defended checkpoint.
The pursuers behind the 1st Cavalry Division are expected to have half a day to catch up, and the 1st Cavalry Division has enough time to take the checkpoint.
Facing the 1st Cavalry Division, which was out of range of bows and arrows, the archers in the defenders of the checkpoint could only hold their bows and arrows and could not shoot, while in the 1st Cavalry Division, 50 cavalrymen armed with bazookas came to the front of the 1st Cavalry Division.
The checkpoint at the exit of the Zhengguan Road was just a simple checkpoint that the defenders had spent several months setting up, and almost no stone was used, most of it was made of wood, and it was completely a wooden village.
The power of the rocket will not cause much damage to the stone city wall, but for a wooden village, the rocket is a big killer.
Sou! Sou! Sou!
The tail of fifty rockets spewed flames and flew towards the level, and the next moment, in the sound of violent explosions, the wooden simple level was directly destroyed by fifty rockets, and the defenders of the level paid the price of more than five hundred casualties, which was still because the card was blocked, otherwise the defenders would pay a more painful price.
"Go on!"
After a few dozen breaths, another fifty rockets flew towards the broken level, and the rockets with flames at the tail seemed to be vicious beasts in the eyes of the level defenders, all of whom wanted to escape from the area that was about to be hit by the rockets, but it was a pity that the ordinary soldiers reacted too slowly, and the next moment they were swallowed by the flames generated by the explosion of the flying rockets, or were hit by the scattered shrapnel.
There are also shield soldiers in the level defenders, but it's a pity that these shield soldiers are not the shield soldiers of the Xuanjia Army that was almost wiped out, the shield soldiers of the Xuanjia Army are wearing heavy armor, and the big shield in their hands is also completely iron, this kind of shield soldiers have a small chance of resisting the power of rockets, but even if they don't die, they will be seriously injured by rockets.
And the shield soldier in the defender of the level is holding a solid wood-clad iron shield, how can this shield resist rockets?
Launch! Launch! Launch!
The 1st Cavalry Division gave all the 300 rockets it carried to the defenders of the checkpoint, and more than a dozen high-ranking warriors ventured over and threw more than 20 explosive packs at the defenders of the checkpoint.
Before the 1st Cavalry Division could charge the checkpoint, the checkpoint was blown up by the 1st Cavalry Division, and the 20,000 defenders of the checkpoint suffered nearly 4,000 casualties.
"Charge!"
Yun Hao led the 1st Cavalry Division to charge towards the chaotic and ruined level!