Gai Su Yuanwen is worthy of being a famous general in Goryeo, several successive groups of troops have collapsed, and the encirclement and attack of the thousand people are still in order, Hou Junji knows how much control it needs to control the army to do, so he is more and more frightened, when the fourth group of three thousand people is defeated, the time has reached the twilight moment, and the battle lasted all day, as Gai Su Yuanwen expected, Hou Junji only has three thousand people, it is impossible to be careless when the two armies are facing each other, after all, the military situation is changing rapidly, in this day's time, he doesn't talk about eating, I can't even take care of drinking water huts.

When the day sank, the war horses began to snort, and the four hooves began to stomp restlessly, and the hungry war horses even lowered their heads and gnawed on the weed roots that had been eaten by them a long time ago, and it was not easy to move with a large amount of forage, most of the war horses were all the way, all the way to stocking, although it was a person and two horses, but the horse that was not ridden was generally carrying some equipment and fine food, and felt that the situation in the military formation was not right, Hou Jun ordered people to start feeding the horses with fine food, as for the soldiers of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, For the time being, there is not much fluctuation in the situation, this is the elite trained by Li Jing himself, let alone a day, when training, I tried it for three days and nights.

The problem is mainly in the horse, the horse of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army was snatched back from the battle with the Turkic Jieli Khan Weishui, the Turkic horse is not as short as the Mongolian horse, the endurance is strong, and not like the Tibetan horse is tall and strong, it is a relatively neutral horse, the running speed and endurance are not sharp, but it is not bad, the only drawback is the large amount of food, the birthplace of the Tibetan and Mongolian horses are bitter cold places, the requirements for food are less, but the birthplace of the Turkic horse is a place where the water and grass are abundant, yes, their nature is to eat, can grow fat, Two pockets of fine food on the back of an empty horse are not enough for two war horses to eat two meals, and it is not possible to continue like this.

"General. The last general felt that the situation was wrong, I carefully looked at several groups of men and horses of the Koreans, plus this group, it was already the fifth group, and I found that they basically did not reuse the sergeants and war horses, that is to say, from the day to the present attack, they launched at least 15,000 people, each time in exchange for the lives of more than a hundred soldiers for our whole day's physical consumption, and with their tens of thousands of troops to fight wheel warfare, it is not a way to consume so much. ”

Xue Rengui took the binoculars and reported to Hou Jun. At this moment, Hou Junji can basically be sure that there must have been no enemy in the rear of the attack, although no one has been disturbing the back road, but he has to guard, and the front three roads on the left and right to harass the troops, but also confirmed that there are more than 10,000 troops hidden behind them, with the combat power of 10,000 cavalry. Although he is not afraid of the strong charge, if the other party sets a trap fence to obstruct it, I am afraid that the loss of his side is not small, and the ten thousand cavalry troops are all well-equipped and well-trained elite soldiers. Hou Junji was reluctant to lose a few, he suffered heavy casualties, and it was not easy for him to explain to the other two commanders when he returned to Chang'an, after all, Li Jing's and Li Shiji's all the way were good. All that was handed over was a beautiful success.

"What do you think?"

Hou Junji is a general who has fought for half his life, and he has seen a lot of various situations on the battlefield, as a general. Adopting the construction of subordinates is a common thing in daily marching, after all, even if he is a general, there will be a lot of blind spots in vision and thinking, a great general with great achievements, listening to the opinions of all parties, and making good decisions is indispensable, otherwise he will not become a general, in this regard, Yang Lin, the commander-in-chief of the Lingnan Navy who has always been a word, can not compare with him.

"Gai Su Yuanwen paid such a big price to consume us, it is nothing more than the armor and equipment of our 10,000 cavalry army, and wants to leave us all, but the only way to leave us is to set up horse rejection traps on all sides to prevent us from charging, the trap and horse rejection stake have too much effect on the cavalry, the last general thinks that it is better to break through sooner rather than later, and the only way to break through is to let some people give up their horses, change their foot battles, wade out of the position of the trap, and remove the horse rejection pile, but the brothers of this part of the foot battle, I am afraid that under the blow of the enemy's full cavalry, The casualties will be significant. Xue Rengui was silent for a while, and said what he thought.

"Give up the war horse and change to war? Are you telling your brothers to die? ”

He Peng, the captain of the Thousand Horses, said sharply. He is the head of the three thousand cavalry captains under Hou Junji, all of the ten thousand cavalry soldiers are carefully selected warriors, and the captains who can be in charge of a thousand cavalry are naturally some real skills, so He Peng's ability is naturally not small, at least to move the martial arts, he does not lose to the current Xue Rengui, but it is not that he is not used to Xue Rengui, but this person has a problem, stingy, iron rooster, and can't see his subordinates suffer, and it is this personality that loves soldiers like a son, so that everyone unanimously recommended him to sit in the position of a thousand cavalry captains.

Although Xue Rengui was not He Peng's direct subordinate, he also knew that He Peng was quite prestigious in the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army, and he was a Shangguan, so he was not good at resisting, so he had to hang his head in a daze, after all, he didn't feel good in his own heart to let some of his brothers sacrifice, but it was Hou Junji, and his brows were tighter.

In front of the military formation, the sharp knife battalion of the Ten Thousand Cavalry Army defeated the fifth attack of the Goryeo army, the effect of such an attack has become smaller and smaller, except for the first time Xue Rengui rushed three times to kill more than 400 people, the number of the next few impacts to kill the enemy is decreasing sharply, and this time the sharp knife battalion rushed into the formation, only killed more than 100 people on the other side, and their own side also lost five people, two of them were shot in the eye with a bow and arrow, the arrow went straight into the brain, and they died on the spot, and three people were actually hacked to death by someone who split their armor and slashed to death. And the Koreans did not stop at all, the sharp knife battalion had just turned their horses and returned to their own formation, and the sixth echelon of the Korean soldiers followed up.

"It seems that the enemy has gradually figured out a way to deal with us, the paper armor is mainly connected by a main rope, they have obtained the whole armor, they should be able to find the secret that the block of paper armor will fall off when the main rope is cut off, Xue Xiaoxiao is right, it is better to break through sooner rather than later, and when they lay more traps and fences, it will be even more difficult for us to break through." Hou Junji sighed.

"Does the general really want part of his troops to give up their horses and fight on foot? The other party has tens of thousands of cavalry, and these brothers who are in charge of the road may not have any way to survive afterwards, and even if they have paper armor to protect their bodies, if they want to make a way under their dense arrow rain defense, it is not okay to go with fewer people, we can't afford such a loss! He Peng spoke again.

"It's my carelessness, from the beginning after defeating them, I should have adopted active tactics and not give them a chance to gather troops, but it is absolutely impossible to give up the lives of my brothers, and now there has been no movement from the rear, but I can conclude that the rear must be the most dangerous place, I mean, the whole army is on horseback, hang the equipment and ordnance firmly on the body, use gunpowder to drive the empty horses in front of the road, and take the Korean Chinese army from the front, they should not have imagined, we only have three thousand men, After a long day of fighting, they still have the courage to attack their toughest position, and if they are fast enough, they should be able to be caught off guard. ”

Hou Junji thought for a moment and then ordered, his military order seemed to be safe, and it was also approved by He Peng and other lieutenants, but Xue Rengui didn't think so in his heart, who said that the main force of the enemy army must be in front? What if people just anticipated the thoughts of their own commanders, laid a large number of traps in front of them, and planted ambushes on both sides to suppress the flanking attack with cavalry shooting?

If you want to live, those ordnance and equipment should be abandoned, although the paper armor is not heavy, but compared to the weight of the light cavalry of Goryeo, the weight of each horse is much more important, each horse's combat power is limited, when the weight is larger than others, escape is not far away, the correct way to escape is to minimize the load, directly destroy the excess ordnance equipment on the spot, after highlighting the enemy's defense line, even the paper armor on the people and horses must be abandoned, but once the armor is lost, the equipment is nothing, it is a defeated army, What Hou Junji will never allow himself to bring back is a defeat.

Moreover, Hou Junji agrees with Xue Rengui's previous analysis that the Goryeo people are aiming at these new equipment of the Tang Army, so Hou Junji does not want to leave these things for the Goryeo people, once the Goryeo people also have the same equipment, it will be a disaster for the Tang Dynasty.

Xue Rengui still wanted to make another effort to express his doubts and analysis, but Hou Junji's flag had been waved out at the moment he made a decision, and as soon as the military order came out, it could not be changed, and the order just issued by the main general was immediately changed again, which was a taboo in the army, Xue Rengui had to swallow his words into his stomach again, straighten his armor, and feed a few more mouthfuls of fine food to the white horse under his crotch.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The sixth echelon of the Goryeo Army was just a mile away from the Tang Army, and the Tang Army camp suddenly burst into flames, and more than 3,000 war horses that had been removed from the earmuffs ran madly towards the Goryeo Army in the rumble, the power of gunpowder Gai Su Yuanwen had already seen it, and the defeat of the Goryeo Army on the first day was because the explosion of gunpowder shocked the war horses, who were as smart as him, and had already ordered his subordinates to block the ears of the war horses with clothes, fur, balls and other things, but the three thousand horses were not a thousand light cavalry that could be stopped, and the thousand people in front of them were instantly rushed away, Immediately after that, they saw nearly 3,000 Tang cavalry rushing up behind them, and the fate of this thousand-man team could be imagined, but the leaders of the Goryeo thousand-man team on the left and right flanks seemed to be relieved, and a contemptuous smile appeared on their faces.

"Haha, okay, I didn't expect the Tang army to rush into the trap so quickly, and inform the left and right flanks to move closer to the middle, and the people who are ambushed in their rear can also be killed along their path, since they have begun to attack the Chinese army, then the arrangement in the rear is useless." Gai Su Yuanwen's face was full of joy, of course, if Tang Jun could hold on, if he could spend another day, he felt that it would be more perfect, and he could also give him enough time to lay more traps, but even now! He also thought that what had been arranged was enough to eat all the Tang army, and the best paper armor, sabers, and three thousand pairs were enough for him to surpass the king of Goryeo in military power in Goryeo, and perhaps, soon, he would be the new king of Goryeo. (To be continued......)