Yang Guang's eyes blinked: "General Wang, there is no joke in the army, what you said, is it true?" ”

Wang Shichong puffed up his chest and said loudly: "Seriously! At the beginning of the siege, the enemy lost more than 3,000 people, and later when besieging General Mai's headquarters, they suffered heavy casualties, and their cavalry alone attacked our army's array, losing at least two or three thousand people, so that later their cavalry did not dare to attack on horseback, and all dismounted and fought on foot. ”

Yang Guang laughed: "Okay, great, let the Goguryeo people know the power of my heavenly soldiers, General Wang, tomorrow this commander will order you to be the vanguard, fight across the river, and you must take the camp of the Goguryeo army." ”

Wang Shichong hurriedly said: "Handsome and slow, the general has something to say." ”

A look of displeasure flashed on Yang Guang's face: "What else do you have to say?" Don't you dare to lead your troops to charge? Didn't your General Wang just say that the enemy army is already frightened, and it will be defeated if it fights again? Could it be that what you just said is not the truth? ”

Wang Shichong arched his hand and said: "Fei Ye, Dashuai, today's Goguryeo army still hasn't done its best, so tomorrow is not the best time to attack!" The life and death of the last general has long been put aside, but the last general must consider the life and death of the soldiers, and even more importantly, the majesty of the commander as the son of heaven! ”

The two beards on Yang Guang's lips were raised: "The Goguryeo army didn't do its best? General Wang, is there any basis for what you say? They even sent out the hidden cavalry, what tricks did they not use? ”

Wang Shichong said with a straight face: "Great marshal, the last general said at the beginning that the Goguryeo army has strong bows and fast arrows, which is their most powerful weapon, even if it is cavalry." With their kind of cavalry equipment and tactics. It is also difficult to compete with the iron cavalry of our army. The heavy cavalry of the Youyun Turb cavalry is against each other, and even the platoon infantry phalanx of our army is difficult to break, so in the eyes of the last general, the enemy's light infantry and cavalry are not to be feared, and the only thing to worry about is their archers and catapults. ”

Yang Guang nodded: "What do you mean." At the beginning, the Goguryeo army fired thousands of arrows, and almost all the more than 2,000 people in the first batch of our army to cross the river were wiped out, but later General Mai and they rushed across the pontoon bridge and stepped on the east bank. ”

Wang Shichong nodded: "Other than that, there is absolutely no other explanation, if the Goguryeo army is not enough arrows, then after more than half of the casualties of the first batch of troops of our army, they will not shoot like that." Instead, they will save the arrows against the troops behind our army, but after General Mai crosses the river. The rain of arrows stopped, and even the second group of our troops who crossed the river did not suffer any long-range damage, which was obviously their intention to lure our troops across the river. ”

Yang Guang's face changed: "What did you say, they deliberately led us across the river?" How is this possible? Could it be that the Goguryeo army is sure that it will be able to eat our army? ”

Wang Shichong said in a deep voice: "The last general thought that this was exactly the case, including the cavalry assault on both sides, was obviously to prepare for the total annihilation of our army, but our army was not fooled, and did not send a large number of troops across the river at the first time, so as to avoid being killed and injured by a large number of their bows and arrows, they had to send cavalry to storm the river bank, instead of using bows and arrows to deal with General Mai's five thousand soldiers." It is because they think that what can be solved by cavalry is not worth exposing their real killer skills. ”

Yang Guang remembered the situation when his two thousand men rushed across the river at the beginning, and the arrows on the opposite side rained down, nodded and said: "Listening to General Wang's words, there is really some truth, generals, do you all agree with General Wang's opinion?" ”

The generals in the tent are all veterans who have been fighting for many years, and they all know that at this time, they must not spoil a big thing for personal grievances, what Wang Shichong said is just the most basic military common sense, everyone can see it, so they all nodded yes.

Yang Guang's gaze fell on Yuwen Shu's body: "General Yuwen, then you said that if the bows and arrows of the Goguryeo army are so powerful, what can our army do to break through the defense line of the Liao River?" ”

Yuwen Shu calmly clenched his fists and said: "The method is actually not difficult, it is nothing more than on this Liaoshui, multiple pontoon bridges, it is best to add twenty or thirty roads, and then tens of thousands of sergeants of our army, at the same time along the bridge to cross the river, even if the Goguryeo army is powerful with bows and arrows, it is impossible to defend it everywhere, once our army forms a breakthrough at a certain point, and then directly attacks the camp of the Goguryeo army, and forms a melee with the enemy, then its archers can no longer continue to shoot at the riverbank, if our army crosses the river, the enemy will be defeated!" ”

Yu Wenshu's words are also the voice of the generals present, today's pontoon bridge forced crossing tactics have been tested in actual combat, and the advantages and disadvantages of the opposite Goguryeo army are also undoubted, this kind of tactics is almost the inevitable choice of every general, so one by one the generals saluted and seconded, by the way, expressed their willingness to personally lead the troops across the river to ask for battle. Because everyone knows that this all-out assault will not be as unlucky as the iron rod of wheat again.

Wang Shichong stood in place, without saying a word, and began to think in his heart, what Yuwenshu and the generals could think of, it was impossible for the commander of the Goguryeo army not to know, would he stay here on the river bank and fight with the Sui army in a senseless way? No, not really. If he was that Yuan Taizuo, he would definitely find a way to slip away overnight, but how could these hundreds of thousands of people retreat in front of the enemy? Gradually, he came to think about God.

Yang Guang saw that Wang Shichong was thinking about something, and did not follow the others to echo him, he was a little unhappy, and said in a deep voice: "General Wang, what are you thinking about." ”

Wang Shichong suddenly came back to his senses, he realized that he couldn't say his thoughts, this battle according to his established policy, is to defeat, weaken rather than completely annihilate Goguryeo's Liaodong troops, today Mai Tiecane killed and wounded more than 20,000 enemy troops in the first battle, it can be said that the goal has been achieved, Goguryeo retreated at this time, not injured muscles and bones, but has the strength to defend the cities, this is what he wants.

So Wang Shichong made up his mind, and the next thing was to find a way to let the Goguryeo army retreat safely, so as not to be wiped out by the Sui army on the east bank of the Liao River. ”

Yang Guang suddenly became interested, and hurriedly asked: "Oh, can General Wang still calculate the number of pontoon bridges and the construction time that our army needs to fully cross the river?" If you have already calculated it, then quickly tell everyone that without further ado, our army can rush to control it overnight. (To be continued......)