The Silla South Route Army stormed Li Shangdan's camp stationed in the middle of the mountain, and suffered more than 2,000 casualties. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The commander of the Silla army, Pin Ri, sent people to find out what was going on in another passable valley between the mountains and forests on the right side of the valley, but as soon as the scouts entered the valley, they were shot dead by the Tang army who were ambushed in the mountains and forests.

Liu Shijiang led the Flying Tiger Army to defend here, and also set up a camp halfway up the mountain in the narrowest part of the valley. Therefore, the valley itself was narrower than the valley defended by Li Shangdan, and the mountains on both sides were steeper, and the rolling wood and stones were thrown down from the Tang army camp, and the mouth of the valley could be easily choked by arrows fired from the bottom, preventing the Silla army from passing.

Wen Zhong, who led the army to attack, looked at the Tang army camp halfway up the mountain, looked at the mountain and sighed, in order not to lose the lives of the soldiers in vain, Wen Zhong had to lead the army to retreat, and the commander Pinri concentrated his troops to attack Li Shangdan's camp.

After two days of continuous attack, the morale of the Silla army was low, and no one was willing to climb the hillside covered with the corpses and blood of their companions, and become another corpse at the foot of the mountain.

In the military discussion, some generals proposed that there was no need to waste troops to attack the Tang army's camp halfway up the mountainside, and the whole army could quickly pass through the valley and enter the Zaining Plain.

"Stupid." Pin Ri scolded: "Our army's retreat is guarded by the Tang army, in case we enter the Zaining Plain and encounter a large force of Tang army to fight, our army is in danger of being attacked from the front and rear, and there is no way to advance or retreat, and there is only one way for the whole army to be destroyed." ”

"The Tang Army's reinforcements can't be so fast, right?" The proposed generals were not reconciled.

"It has been nine days since our army crossed the border, which is enough time for King Yan in Pyongyang to mobilize troops and horses to help. What's more, the Tang army can garrison the most elite Yanyun iron cavalry under the command of King Yan in Pyongyang, with 6,000 elite cavalry, and they can reach Seoul in one day. Our army is dominated by infantry, and there are only 2,000 cavalry, once they enter the Zaining Plain, these 6,000 Yanyun iron cavalry are enough to strangle our army. Therefore, before entering the Zaining Plain, the nail in front of you must be removed. ”

Pin Japanese said in a deep voice with an attitude that made the generals have no rebuttal, but how to take the camp of the Tang army has become the top difficulty for the generals of the Silla South Route Army, and they are trapped in the valley and cannot enter, and they will not be able to join up with the commander Kim Yuanshu to capture Seoul and repel the Tang army that reinforcements are coming.

Wen Zhong proposed that a team of sentry cavalry could be sent deep into the Zaeyong Plain to go to Seoul to investigate the progress of the commander's Northern Route Army. At that time, the Tang army here will become a lone army, and it will be easy to destroy them.

In the following days, seven sentry cavalry were sent through the valley to investigate the military situation of the Tang Army and the news of the Northern Route Army.

Heizhi Changzhi, who was sitting in Seoul, received a report from the sentinel cavalry sent back by Gao Chongde, and ordered Su Mingxiu to lead the army to defend Seoul, and drew out the 500 cavalry of his Tianshi Army and merged them into the Beihai Iron Cavalry, and personally led the city out of the city and ran eastward.

Heiya Changzhi received a report from Li Shangdan and Liu Shijiang, who were stationed in the southern valley of the Zayning Plain, a day earlier, that about 20,000 Silla troops attacked the valley defended by Li Shangdan.

The Silla army had 80,000 soldiers and horses attacking this time, and the other 60,000 were bound to go straight to Seoul on the North Road.

There was no danger to defend in the east of Seoul, and Heiya Changzhi had to take the initiative to attack first, crushing the 10,000 forward army of Silla first, frustrating its spirit, and laying a good foundation for the next offensive and defensive battle of Seoul.

Hei Zhi Changzhi led his army to the east for twenty miles, and when he met Gao Chongde, who was leading the army back, he immediately drew out 1,000 cavalry from Gao Chongde's army and incorporated them into his command, and the cavalry led reached 7,500 people.

Gao Chongde asked for his life, and was willing to lead his Suzaku guard to follow the general to meet the Silla army.

In this expedition, the reason why Heiya Tsuneyuki only led cavalry was to give full play to the mobility advantage of the cavalry, and the main force of the Silla army rushed to the front, and retreated calmly after quickly annihilating its forward. Therefore, Hei Tooth Changzhi resolutely refused Gao Chongde's invitation to fight, and ordered him to lead the Suzaku Army infantry to return to Seoul immediately and preside over the defense of Seoul before he returned.

Looking at the figure of the cavalry led by the Black Tooth Changzhi to the east, Gao Chongde was disappointed and ordered the rest of the foot soldiers to speed up the march and rush back to Seoul.

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Li Yu personally led 51,000 soldiers and horses to reinforce the army at this time, which was only more than 20 miles away from Seoul.

The marching officers and soldiers of the Tang Army were all wearing black robes and draped in black armor, stretching for more than ten miles, and the banners were waving like a long black dragon winding forward.

The flags held by the guards were either the Xuandi Beast Diagram or the Xuandi Golden-patterned Tang characters, indicating that the two armies in Li Yu's army came from different sources.

Among them, the Xuandi Beast Banner is the Divine Beast Guard and the Five Phoenixes, Seven Spirits, Liangyi and Two Holy Armies from the mainland of the Tang Dynasty, and the single anti-Xuandi Golden-patterned Tang Banner is the Liao Eighth Army composed of Han people from Liaodong.

During the march of the army of 51,000 men, apart from the neighing of horses, few soldiers shouted, and they marched forward with solemn faces.

Li Yu rode up the small hill on the side of the road, followed by Xing'er in military uniforms and a hundred female guards in beautiful clothes, as well as as as 200 pro-soldiers in the palace tent, Xue Jun and other officials all stood on the side.

Looking at the mighty army under his command who was slowly moving forward, Li Yu was proud in his chest, and he almost made a poem to express his excited heart at this time.

How many years of anticipation, two generations of people, dreaming of leading the army to conquer the four Yi to open up the territory and open up a new living space for the descendants of the Chinese Yan and Huang. To change the historical fate of Huaxia Chengye Xiao He and Xiao He, get out of the strange circle of the East Asian continent, and occupy all the arable land that the Tang Dynasty can step on. Transform the descendants of Yan and Huang into crazy computer viruses, and everywhere they pass is Huatu, and they retreat.

Li Yu's purpose was to push this exciting early Tang Dynasty to a new high point, and lay the geographical, material, and spiritual foundation of China's eternal history.

Li Yuyao pointed to the marching army, and asked left and right with arrogance, "How long will it take for Lone to lead this tiger and wolf army in front of him to destroy Silla?" ”

Xue Junxuan replied: "Our army is not able to annihilate the 80,000 troops of the northern invaders of Silla under Seoul, and with the power of a great victory, quickly break through the fortified cities in the north of Silla before Silla reacts, and then we can go straight to Guwon Fortress along the Hansan River." After taking Guwon Castle, Silla was in a state of semi-extinction, and its destruction was just around the corner. ”

Li Yesi also said with confidence: "At that time, our army will move south from Guwon Fortress to contain the remaining capable soldiers of Silla, and send the navy to carry 30,000 elite soldiers by sea to attack Jincheng, maybe at the beginning of next year, our army will be able to return with a great victory." ”

Li Yu shook his head, "It's still too late early next year, it's best to end the war at the end of this year." ”