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Xu Qing listened to Luo Huiliang's briefing on the situation in Xiongjin, the former Baekje region, and even the entire Korean Peninsula at the Xiongjin Governor's Office, and obtained first-hand information. Just 20 days ago www.biquge.info, King Kim Ph-min of Silla made the decision to arm the rebels of Goguryeo and Baekje and form a coalition with them to attack the Tang army stationed in Pyongyang and Xiongjin City, and he increased his troops in Pyongyang and Xiongjin City to surround the Tang army in Pyongyang and Xiongjin City and prepare for total annihilation. It was only that the combat effectiveness of the Tang army was extremely strong, and the reserves of food and military supplies were enough for half a year, and the cities where they were stationed were the former Goguryeo New Palace and the former Baekje Old Palace.

After that, Xu Qing ordered Tian Wenyao, the right vanguard officer, to lead 2,000 cavalry of the right forward army, and Nie Hu to lead 1,000 cavalry of the new army to quickly reinforce the defenders of Pyongyang. At this point, Xu Qing sent all the cavalry of the former army of 6,000 people to reinforce the Pyongyang defenders.

After the arrival of the 3,000 troops escorting the prisoners of war, Xu Qing ordered Xue Rengui to lead 10,000 Fan Yang horse infantry troops to aid the defenders of Pyongyang, and ordered Zhao Tuozhi and Dong Yuanhe to protect Xue Rengui's safety. Xu Qing led a regiment and a battalion of female soldiers of the New Army, 500 warrior regiments of Jianshanzhuang and 20,000 veterans of the Datang Trading Company to garrison the Xiongjin Governor's Mansion. Zhao Mengchen, Liu Sisi and other masters closely protected Xu Qing.

On the eighth day of landing on the Korean Peninsula, Xu Qing received good news from Pyongyang, Xue Renxian and Yang Yi led 3,000 cavalry to launch a lightning raid on the night of their arrival in Pyongyang, against the 50,000 Silla army and 90,000 Goguryeo rebels besieging the old Andong Metropolitan Protectorate, burning down the company camp. In this battle, more than 40,000 enemies were killed and more than 20,000 were captured.

When Xue Rengui led 10,000 horse infantry troops to Pyongyang, Yu Shiwen's 5,000 horse infantry army had not yet arrived, Xue Rengui waited in the old Andong Metropolitan Protectorate for five days, and the 5,000 horse infantry army led by Yu Shiwen avoided the interception of the Silla army and rushed to Pyongyang. Xue Rengui joined forces with Cui Zhenhai, Yu Shiwen, Tian Wenyao, and Nie Hu, with a total of 20,000 troops, including two regiments of male soldiers and two battalions of female soldiers of the New Army.

Cui Zhenhai ceded military command to the famous Xue Rengui. Xue Rengui took the lead and deployed troops to counterattack the Silla army and Goguryeo rebels who had only left Andong but not Pyongyang, totaling 80,000 people. The horse infantry army led by Xue Rengui brought ten siege weapons and crossbows and more than 200 trebuchets.

The combined forces of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels retreated to the eastern, southern, western and northern cities of Pyongyang, with the southern city having the largest number of troops, the northern city having the least troops, and the eastern and western cities secondary. Xue Rengui attacked Beicheng first. Ten crossbows lined up and fired "jackdaw arrows" at the enemy troops in the northern city, and the arrows rained down suddenly. After the rain of arrows, 200 trebuchets threw stones at the walls at the same time, not to kill the enemy with stones, but to build small hills as high as the walls under the walls.

After that, 2,000 men of the New Army, wearing armor jackets, helmets, and iron masks on their faces, held shields in their left hands, pistols in their right hands, and swords on their backs, took the lead in rushing up the city wall and shooting at the enemy at close range. The left and right forward armies, also protected by armor and grimace tin masks, followed the Forces nouvelles and stormed the walls.

The combined forces of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels could not even defeat the ordinary Tang army of the same size, so how could they be the opponents of the Heoqing New Army and the Forward Army, and by the time the rest of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels rushed to reinforce when they heard the news, the battle was over. More than 10,000 troops of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels at the North Gate were wiped out, and the surrenderers and fugitives accounted for 10% each.

Xue Rengui commanded more than 10,000 Tang troops who had not yet climbed the city wall to become the front army, and fought in array with more than 30,000 Silla troops and Goguryeo rebel coalition forces who rushed to reinforce them.

After the archers killed and injured a large number of enemy troops, the Tang army dealt with the Turkic cavalry's big killer - the Mo knife array, under the cover of the shield army and the archery army, advanced forward as a whole like a city wall, the Mo knife hand held a Mo knife (also known as a horse chopping knife) more than a zhang long, a knife down, the enemy's horse was about to fall, the enemy cavalry fell from the horse, the Mo knife hand made up another knife, the enemy cavalry will die.

The Modao Formation used to be the favorite of Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, as long as he fought with the Turkic cavalry, Li Shimin would definitely come to the front line to watch the Modao Formation's tactics, which made the Turkic cavalry famous and fearful.

The manufacturing process of the Mo knife was kept strictly secret by the Tang Dynasty, and those who privately possessed and privately made the Mo knife were sentenced to death -- but the manufacturing process of the Mo knife was later secretly learned by the Japanese, and the Japanese were afraid of being discovered by the master, so they made a makeover of the Tang Mo knife and became unknown to the Tang people -- it is a pity that the manufacturing process of the Mo knife was later lost in China, and the Mo knife formation tactics were also lost, and the infantry-based army of the Song Dynasty was repeatedly defeated in front of the Liao cavalry, the Jin cavalry, and the Mongolian cavalry, and finally perished.

The Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels were not equipped with the Mo knife, and they did not have a way to deal with the Mo knife formation, in front of the Tang Mo knife formation like a meat grinder, the once invincible Turkic cavalry could only flee from the wind, the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels were not the first time to see the power of the Tang army's Mo knife formation, only a few times contact with the Mo knife formation, and after leaving a large number of dead bodies, the whole line retreated.

The Modao Formation must maintain a strict formation, and advance as a whole like a city wall in order to give full play to its power, which is not suitable for individual combat, so it is not suitable for chasing the enemy. In the early Tang Dynasty, many generals in the army were obsessed with the Mo knife formation, and then fell in love with the Mo knife, creating a set of Mo knife techniques, which can be used for individual combat, but the Mo knife is too heavy, and it takes a lot of strength to make the Mo knife knife method, which is not something that ordinary soldiers can dance. A general who can dance well with a sword must be a fierce general who can charge into battle.

The number of the Tang army was much smaller than that of the Silla army and the Goguryeo rebels, Xue Rengui did not send troops to pursue the enemy, and he could not maintain a formation when pursuing the enemy, in case the enemy was in a hurry, he turned his head and counterattacked, and the Tang army without the protection of shield bearers, archers, and Mo swordsmen might encounter danger, so Xue Rengui only ordered the archers to shoot fiercely at the fleeing Silla army and Goguryeo rebels, and then Mingjin withdrew his troops and entered the southern city of Pyongyang.

Many years ago, when Xue Rengui was fighting against the Goguryeo army and the Baekje army, he dared to lead two or three thousand of his men without the protection of Mo swordsmen, archers, and shield bearers, and penetrated into the enemy army several times or more than ten times, impacting the enemy, disrupting the enemy's position, and killing the enemy, like a tiger entering a wolf pack. At that time, Xue Rengui had a large group of good brothers to cooperate, and many of his subordinates were able to create such a powerful army by passing on his martial arts. Now some of Xue Rengui's old subordinates are old, they can't dance without weapons, they can't rush to the front, and some of them are disarmed and returned to the field after being suppressed and squeezed out by Wu Zetian and the Hou Party, and there are not a few old subordinates who follow Xue Rengui's side, and the army of two or three thousand people created by Xue Rengui back then can disrupt the formation of 50,000 Goguryeo and Baekje armies, and the mythical army with almost no damage has disappeared.

Xu Qing's new army was able to do this, but it relied on pistols, anti-arrow suits and grimace iron masks, relying on weapons, not martial arts, although Xu Qing's new army was the elite of the old Sui army, and their martial arts were not weak.

When Xue Rengui commanded the troops trained by others to fight, he could no longer fight bravely, but must fight for the performance of his weapons and the command ability of his generals. Datang's steelmaking and forcination technology was advanced, and its weapons were much more sophisticated than those of neighboring countries, and it was also the most advanced in the world at that time. With advanced weapons, we must give full play to the performance of advanced weapons; our soldiers' courage and strong combat effectiveness are to increase the hope of survival on the battlefield, not to fight with the enemy's life; we defeat the enemy, and we do not fight with the enemy for the lives of soldiers, but fight for science and technology, weapons, and strategy and tactics. This is Xu Qing's admonition to the teachers and students of the whole school as the principal of the Xuanyi Military Academy, and Xue Rengui has benefited a lot and kept it in mind.