Chapter 58: The Decisive Battle on the Plains (I)
The topography of Goryeo has always had a sense of turning around the mountains, and the endless plains are filled with towering peaks, and Anseong Fortress is the capital city built on such a peak, which makes you marvel at the magic of nature.
At the beginning of September, it was already midsummer in the Central Plains, but at this time Goryeo had begun to cool slightly, and the grass on the plains was continuous, and the green buds gradually faded and turned yellow.
Gao Yanshou looked at the army that stretched for more than forty miles with confidence, at this moment he just wanted to shout and express his feelings, 150,000 Pyongyang children will let those Tang people who dare to come to invade appreciate what it means to be afraid.
"General, you see, the terrain here is complicated, and our army has been marching for days, so it is not suitable to fight at this time." A counselor came up and admonished.
Gao Yanshou frowned a little unhappily, "The field of vision here is broad, and the place is complicated, now my 150,000 army is still afraid to encircle and suppress more than 10,000 people, after our army returns to the city, won't it be laughed at!" ”
Gao Huizhen, who was riding on a tall horse on the side, also answered: "What Brother Yanshou said is reasonable, only 10,000 soldiers and horses are enough, we have 100,000 troops, even if there is an ambush, what if there is an ambush?" ”
The strategist seemed to be a little anxious, and fine sweat oozed from his forehead, "Two generals, do you still remember how King Yuangai warned us when we waited out of the city, King Yuangai has the talent to go through heaven and earth, but they are all afraid of the kind of fire meteor of the Tang people, and we still rely on the natural danger here in Anshi City, and do not attack the Tang people head-on." ”
When it came to Yuangai Suwen, the two generals surnamed Gao were all pale faces, after all, no one wants to live under the command of the boss all the time. I finally had a chance to make a contribution. It's because the boss once told him not to give up in the limelight. This is also too embarrassing, so General Ergao will definitely not agree.
Sure enough, hearing the strategist say such words, Gao Yanshou showed a thoughtful expression, he was not thinking about whether to accept this advice, but thinking about how to get rid of this annoying fly.
This strategist is a close confidant of King Yuangai, and he has always been the brainchild of Yuangai Suwen, and his status is not low. It must not be killed quietly, so the only way is to put him under house arrest and wait until he returns to the country with a great victory, even if he has a big mistake in front of him, presumably King Yuangai will forgive himself.
Thinking of this, Gao Yanshou's expression suddenly became excited, and he shouted to the left and right: "Someone!" ”
Several soldiers in armor immediately leaned over to the main general, and Gao Yanshou pointed at the strategist and said, "Staff Officer Du is in poor health and talking nonsense, in order to protect his body. Ben now orders you to send Du Moushi back to the camp, and not to let him go out even half a step. If there's a slight mistake, I'll ask you about your head, do you understand?! ”
The guards were all carefully selected people, and they couldn't hear the meaning of the general's words, so they immediately patted their chests and assured that they would never let Staff Officer Du step out of the room, so they escorted Staff Officer Du down.
However, the staff officer surnamed Du widened his eyes, as if he couldn't believe what was happening in front of him, and when he was escorted away in the end, he only listened to him sigh and said nothing.
"Haha, now there is no one who can stop us from fighting to the death with the 10,000 people of the Tang people!" Gao Yanshou said with a smile.
Gao Huizhen on the side also smiled, "The name is eternal, just around the corner, let's give a military order now!" ”
Gao Yanshou showed a confident look, and commanded the herald: "The herald will order, forty miles of infantry array, ready to meet the enemy!" ”……
"Is the manager on the other side a fool?" Li Daozong swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and he was very shocked to use a new word he learned from "Poems of the Ghost Valley", because from the telescope, he could see that the Goryeo soldiers on the opposite mountain package stretched for more than 40 miles, and it seemed that there were 100,000 people all over the mountains.
Li Ji on the side of the "......" also swallowed a mouthful of saliva, held the telescope in his hand tightly, marching to fight, the most taboo thing is to show all the hole cards at once, and what is even more taboo is that the army loosely stretches the battle line too long, but now, the two generals of Goryeo have made a mistake that even those who are enrolled in the military family will not make.
"This is the heavens that want to die in Goryeo." Li Ji put down the binoculars in his hand, and his tone turned out to be heroic, "One is to send 100,000 troops, which is really unwise, the second is that the battle line is too long, it is really unstable, and the third is to avoid the battle, it is really unbrave, this unwise, unstable, and unbrave general will be destroyed by heaven." ”
What Li Daozong and Li Ji didn't know was that at this time, Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, the two generals, were complacent, and the soldiers who were able to show their strength to the Tang Dynasty gave them the pleasure of being able to compete with no one, but they would soon know that the arrogant army would be defeated This idiom that has been verified countless times since ancient times......
'At the end of the day, the Yellow River flows into the sea. If you want to be poor, go to the next level. Li Er stood on the side of the main ship of the Golden Dragon, standing with his hands in his hands, looking at the estuary of the Yellow River in the distance, and chanting the verses he saw in the "Poems of the Ghost Valley".
"Your Majesty is good Yaxing." The white eyebrows on the side nodded and bowed respectfully.
It was five o'clock in the afternoon, and the sun in the west was still shining abundantly, but the slight flush made the earth covered with a layer of red makeup.
"Yuanchang and others have been trying their best to instigate me to go to Mount Tai to seal Zen, and now I am also in Shandong, looking at both sides of the Yellow River, this change is by no means a star and a half." Li Er said with some emotion.
"What His Majesty said is extremely true, this Shandong generation has long been the same as it used to be, the old slave heard, only last year, this Shandong trading glass, tea, and the Western Turkic cattle and sheep trading family as many as more than 100, now the Western Turks have a fur trade, it is even stronger, the household of the Fang Da once specially counted the current family business in Shandong, other old slaves do not know, but there is one thing that the old slave knows."
"Oh?" Li Er asked with interest, "What do you know?" ”
Bai Mei's expression became more and more humble, "The silver in the treasury of His Majesty is now paid by these Shandong merchants in four out of ten............
Cangzhou City is a big city on the edge of the mouth of the Yellow River, and it is also the guard city of Hebei Province.
Li Er was very happy, as if this was not an expedition, but a different kind of excursion.
The scenery at the mouth of the Yellow River is excellent, the reeds are wafting with fresh breath, the winding wooden pile path, and the large wetlands make Li Er, who has been in the palace for a long time, feel refreshed.
However, the beautiful scenery can't change the ambition of the young and ambitious Li Er, for example, when he entered Cangzhou this time, the first thing Li Er did was to check the grain and grass.
As the saying goes, 'the three armies have not moved, the grain and grass go first' Li Er has a very deep understanding of the importance of logistics, and the assassin of Cangzhou Cheng heard that Li Er was going to inspect the grain and grass, and hurriedly took Li Er to the granary in Cangzhou to see.
This year, Lingnan is ripe again, the three crops of rice show a strong ability to produce grain, in the past are Jiangnan ripe and the world is full, now a Lingnan that was once wild everywhere, actually has a grain production that can be compared with the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River, can not help but sigh and excited.
"Your Majesty, these are three seasons of rice grain transported from Lingnan by waterway, although the taste is a little worse than that of Jiangnan rice grain, but the yield is very large, and it is not easy to have insects, you see, these barns are all full, enough for the needs of the front-line soldiers." Cangzhou Thorn Shi said with a face flushed with excitement.
Li Er examined these barns one by one with blazing eyes, and each of them was opened to take a look, and it was indeed as Cangzhou Thorn History said, there was a pile of grain here.
"I brought 100,000 men this time, although there is a lot of food, but we still have to take precautions and be prepared to drag it on." Li Er's tone was like a person standing on a high place and directing the country.
"What His Majesty said is that these grains are not all that Shandong has prepared this time." Cangzhou Thorn Shi's voice was a little trembling because of excitement, being able to face the Son of Heaven was enough for him to engrave on the tombstone.
"Oh? What else to prepare? ”
"In Youzhou City, there are more than ten times more grain than in Cangzhou............ (To be continued......)