Chapter Thirty-Nine: Attacking in Turns
During the three days of the attack, Su Dingfang racked his brains and failed to take advantage of Yang Wanchun in Anshi City. ~Top Novel,
The Tang army did take advantage of the stone-throwing cart, but the Goguryeo soldiers also had the risk of mountain cities; The morale of the Tang army was high, and Goguryeo fought against the water, and the fighting spirit of the trapped beast was high. The Tang army was well-trained, and the Goguryeo soldiers in Yang Wanchun's hands had rare combat effectiveness. Su Dingfang is a world-famous general with both wisdom and bravery, Yang Wanchun may not be as good as him, but he is also the first person in the Goguryeo military strategy, a figure who made Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty return home in history.
Although it was only a short three-day siege, Su Dingfang's changeable siege tactics and Yang Wanchun's soldiers came to block the water and cover the earth, which made all the Tang generals who watched the battle breathtaking.
Originally, those generals who thought that Luo Shixin was making a big fuss couldn't help but look at each other when they saw Yang Wanchun's command level and the combat effectiveness shown by nearly 20,000 soldiers in the city. This knew that Goguryeo should not be underestimated, but at this most critical time, they were still in vain, thinking about the fate of the Sui Dynasty in the past, they couldn't help but sweat coldly. For Luo Shixin, who is in charge of all situations, there is an indescribable sense of admiration.
Su Dingfang attacked for three days and failed to take advantage, so Luo Shixin withdrew him and let Li Daozong follow.
Li Daozong is the same brave and good at fighting, but the strengths and behaviors between people are different, and their tactics are also different. Li Daozong attacked for three more days with his tactical play, but still had no effect.
Luo Shixin then ordered Zhang Shigui, Ma Wenju, Mo Huer and others to attack in turn, although there was no substantial progress, but there was no chance for the other party to rest and breathe.
On the thirteenth day of the assault on the city of Anshi. Luo Shixin suddenly heard something unusual in his sleep.
Wearing battle armor, he walked out of the barracks, and the soldiers on the front line hurriedly reported: "At dawn." Yang Wanchun led more than 1,000 people to quietly kill out of the city, intending to destroy the earth mountain built by our army. General Mo found out in time. He led his troops to meet him. ”
"How's it going?" Luo Shixin asked.
The soldier replied: "After several battles, General Mo repelled the incoming enemy, but the other party's intention did not succeed. ”
"After General Mo stabilizes the situation, come to my camp to investigate." Luo Shixin pondered for a moment, then turned around and returned to the tent. From the very beginning, he had no idea of supporting, and the Tang army was well-trained, and it was a compulsory course to prevent marching operations in local attack camps. If only 1,000 people attacked the camp, they could cause great losses to the Tang army, and there was no need to fight this battle. Walking directly with the tail between them is more direct.
At this point, Luo Shixin has absolute confidence in the soldiers in his hands.
After waiting for about two pillars of incense, Luo Shixin got the news that Mo Hu'er was asking to see him outside the tent.
Seeing Mo Hu'er striding in, Luo Shixin's eyes fell on his gauze-wrapped arm, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "Injured?" ”
Mo Hu'er said with a bitter face: "Dazed, let a man who doesn't want to die scratch it, it's not very serious, just wake up." "The time of the enemy attack is the time when people are most sleepy, and Mo Hu'er commanded the front line for a day. Tired and tired, he was at the height of his sleep, when he was attacked by the enemy, and he did not bother to put on his armor at that time. Directly wearing pants, he commanded the soldiers to meet the enemy.
After many years of battlefield career, the little guy has also grown into a real man, and he treats knife and gun injuries as nothing.
Luo Shixin didn't say anything comforting and careful. The relationship between them didn't need to say these things, and asked directly about the situation: "The other party's soldiers." How does it feel? ”
Mo Hu'er said cautiously: "It won't be much inferior to the group of tiger cubs in my hands, it's fierce enough." Enough to dare to fight and kill. We just hedged together, and we lost more than 50 brothers, and more than 60 injured are being treated, and almost half of them are seriously injured. Of course, they were no better, ninety-six died, and the key thing is that none of them were injured, all of them died. I gave him a knife in the chest, kicked him out, and the intestines and internal organs flowed out, or I had to go to Lord Yama to report it after a few breaths. It's just that I didn't expect him to throw the knife in his hand as a hidden weapon before he went to report. ”
The layman may not understand the ferocity of this, but Luo Shixin is clear.
Goguryeo's attack was intended to destroy the earth mountains built by the Tang army, so as not to lose the advantages they had laid. If the attack fails, it will retreat decisively, and it is precisely the principle of using troops not to be greedy or to love war. The team of 1,000 people suffered nearly 150 casualties at just a brief contact, which shows that the enemy and us are fighting with hatred and fierce enough.
On the surface, the Tang army took advantage of a certain amount of casualties, but in fact it was not.
Goguryeo was an attacker, at a certain geographical disadvantage, and the soldiers could not be treated in rotation. Under such circumstances, it is very rare to be able to inflict more than 100 casualties on the Tang army. Ninety-six people, none of them were seriously injured alive, which can also be seen that the other party is indeed fierce.
Yang Wanchun has studied hard in the Central Plains for more than ten years, but he still learned certain things.
Luo Shixin was also glad that he did not act hastily because of his "foresight", he had personally experienced the combat effectiveness of Zuo Tiancheng's group of Sui Dynasty soldiers, some of them maintained their original combat effectiveness, and the other part was because they had been running for life for a long time, and many things that had killed the enemy in the battle formation had been pulled down, and their strength was limited. Moreover, they are lurking in the city of Anshi as ordinary people, lacking equipment and equipment, and their 1,000 people may not be able to shake Yang Wanchun's injured tiger and wolf army seriously.
After more than ten days of brewing, Yang Wanchun must not have much energy to take care of the little abnormalities in the city of Anshi, and it is time to act.
Luo Shixin personally wrote a military order, asking Qibi He Li to act according to the instructions, and asked Hou Jie to call him and tell him to personally hand over the instructions to Qibi He Li.
After thinking about it for a while, Luo Shixin issued another order, "Chop off the heads of all the Goguryeo who died in the night attack for me, and hang them high in front of the two armies with bamboo poles." ”
A good commander will boost the morale of the army according to different situations, and bring out the potential abilities of the soldiers.
Yang Wanchun is undoubtedly such a commander, looking at the heads of the soldiers hanging high not far away, his eyes are almost covered by bloodshots, his eyes are cracked, and blood-colored flames are surging, and he roared: "Back then, the Sui soldiers were brutal, and they invaded my homeland and slaughtered my people. Our fathers and fellow villagers were either killed or taken into captivity, which is an unprecedented tragedy in our two hundred years. ”
"I, Yang Wanchun, were ordered by my king to settle the homeless people in this small city of Anshi, intending to use this as a starting point to reorganize Goguryeo so that the elders in my hometown could enjoy peace again. But who would have thought that although the Sui Dynasty was destroyed, there were beasts ten times more ferocious than him! The entire city of Baiyan City was destroyed by beasts, and he also said that he would level my city and slaughter all the people of my city. Seeing that there is no ......" He pointed to the heads of people in the distance and shouted: "The fall of Anshi City, not only you and me, but our family, wife and children all ended up like this." What we in Goguryeo longed for was a peaceful life, but there were beasts that came to destroy our lives and told him what we should do in the face of tigers and wolves outside the city. ”
"Kill!"
Yang Wanchun was good at managing soldiers, and the soldiers under his command were convinced of his words, and had no doubt that he was lying.
This killing shouted earth-shattering.
The Tang army outside the city attacked again, and their attack was still so effective and reasonable. But Goguryeo's reaction was not slow at all, especially when they were angry, they broke out with unprecedented fighting spirit, and they fought more fiercely, fiercely and ruthlessly.
No matter how well-trained the Tang army was, no matter how changeable the tactics of the Tang army, Yang Wanchun relied on the elite soldiers he trained single-handedly relied on the advantages of the city defense of Anshi City, and responded to all changes with the same, disintegrating the Tang army's offensives again and again, wave after wave.
Yang Wanchun looked at the Tang army that was repulsed again, and looked at the orderly soldiers with a little pride, revealing a little pride: this is the army he trained with his own hands, and it is also the result of his hard work in the Central Plains for more than ten years.
"Win by governance!"
Yang Wanchun silently recited the core four words in the "Art of War of Wu Zi" in his heart, he has been taking Wu Qi as an example in Anshi City for many years, taking the management of the army as the first military priority, and finally spent ten years with the support of Gao Jianwu to train into an unstoppable force, but ......
Thinking about the current situation in Goguryeo, Yang Wanchun didn't know where he should go.
"At least bear the hurdle in front of you and think about the future!" Yang Wanchun thought of this, and said to the deputy general beside him: "I'll go to sleep for a while, there is a situation to call me!" ”
Yang Wanchun didn't want to sleep now, but he knew very well that he had to seize the opportunity to sleep without a free moment, and only in this way could he ensure that he was sleepy when he shouldn't.
Because of his ability to come to the Central Plains, he never dared to underestimate the heroes of the Central Plains: in Luo Shixin's camp, there are Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Zhang Shigui, Mo Huer, Ma Wenju and other well-known generals, but he is the only one in Anshicheng. He must be mentally prepared to face the repeated attacks of many heroes and heroes.
Yang Wanchun didn't realize that he hadn't left the city wall for half a step since the Tang army came, and all his energy was spent on dealing with the offensive of generals such as Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Zhang Shigui, Mo Hu'er, and Ma Wenju, and he couldn't care about some small situations in the city.
Of course, even if he realized it, it was impossible to think so much and so widely, after all, people's energy is limited. Li Daozong, Su Dingfang and the strategy are not below him, Zhang Shigui, Mo Huer, and Ma Wenju will not be much inferior to him, in the face of their turn offensive, Yang Wanchun can only be very energetic, and there is no other energy to estimate the other.
In this deliberately created situation, Zuo Tiancheng's department, which had already lurked into the city before the Tang army set out to fight, finally took action. (To be continued......)