Chapter 20 The Capture of the City
Summer rain!
This is the beginning of the summer, and the summer rain will follow.
Summer rain and spring rain are two completely different concepts. The spring rain brings the unfinished frozen frost of winter, and the ice soaks the bones. And the summer rain is enthusiastic and unrestrained, and the excitement is high.
Summer thunder roars, summer rain pours!
Raindrops the size of beans fell from the sky, followed by a torrential wind......
The wind blew the soaked flags and hunted, and the tents where the rain beat like a drum."
Li Daozong stood at the tent gate, looking at the gray sky, and was thinking about how to tempt Yuansong out of the city to fight, when he suddenly heard the soldiers in the camp shouting: "It's water, it's water!" ”
It turned out that the new city was built on a hill, with the danger of the mountain, and the military camp of the Tang army could only be stationed at the foot of the mountain. This summer rain came suddenly, and the rain was particularly terrifying.
This line of camp is set up in a village, waterproof and arson, as a famous general, Li Daozong has already taken precautions, and chose to camp on flat land that is not easy to accumulate water. But after all, he was unfamiliar with the terrain and did not notice a stream on the mountainside. The heavy rain caused the stream to burst the levees and pour into the barracks, flooding the barracks.
This barracks that entered the water obviously couldn't stay for a long time, and while the situation was not bad, Li Daozong hurriedly ordered people to move the camp.
Looking at the whole army facing the wind and rain, stepping on muddy roads, and busy troops, Li Daozong couldn't help muttering: "It's really a place where dogs don't and birds don't lay eggs." ”
He looked at the topographic map in his hand, thinking about what better shelter from the rain was nearby, and his eyes fell on a hill a mile away, and his eyes showed an inexplicable joy.
The Tang Army is leading the camp again!
This stands tall and looks far away, and the new city as a mountain city has a unique factor in terms of vision. Yuan Song stood on the city wall, and the movements of the entire Tang army camp could be seen. Despite the heavy rain obstructing the view and making it difficult to see the details. But the huge army of 10,000 people can still be seen clearly.
"Are they going to the ruined town?"
An inexplicable meaning flashed in Yuan Song's eyes. As the name suggests, Abandoned Town is an abandoned town.
Before the construction of the new town, the abandoned town was originally called Pingzhen because of the need for defense. Yuan Binzhi built a new mountain city on the nameless mountainside in the northeast of Pingzhen, named after the new city, and relocated all the people of Pingzhen. As a result, Pingzhen was demolished and abandoned, becoming an abandoned town.
The abandoned town is located in the middle of the hills, which can indeed avoid the scourge of flooding, but because it was originally a village town, the surrounding area is flat. There is no danger to be kept.
The Tang army moved to the abandoned town just to avoid water, and it was impossible to build defensive facilities in the abandoned town: after all, the abandoned town was some distance from the new city, and the main purpose of the Tang army was to attack the new city, not to look at the new city affectionately from afar.
Fighters seem to have appeared!
Yuan Song looked at the heavy rain that still did not stop, and said, "God help me!" ”
This time Yuan Song did not hesitate, he had read military books since he was a child, and knew that the fighter plane was not easy to come by, the opportunity could not be lost, and it would not come again. Being able to grasp the fighter is a really good general: it was because he thought too much about it that he let Hu Xiegu pick the fruits of victory one step ahead of him.
He has suffered a loss once, but this time he won't!
The Tang army moved to the abandoned town to avoid the water and wait for this rain to pass. If the flooding situation is resolved, the troops will surely come to the city again. The other side has been building siege equipment for more than ten days, or it will not be long before the new city will be stormed. Until then. Attacking and defending in different positions, the fighter is even more difficult to control.
The mind is on this. Yuan Song gathered all the generals under his command and began to draw up a military plan for a night attack on the abandoned town.
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Rain. Luo Shixin was trapped in the military tent and had nothing to do, so he could only think about how to capture Jian'an City on the map.
Jian'an City is built with a cliff, the terrain is particularly dangerous, and there is a mature and stable general like Hu Xiegu to guard it, Ren is a famous general like Su Dingfang, and there is no way to do it for a while, so he gave Luo Shixin a suggestion to attack.
Luo Shixin did not agree, the siege of the city is the next method, this can not attack the city, try not to attack the city, and attack a strong city will only be chosen when it is forced to do so.
"Your Excellency!"
Just when Luo Shixin was deep in thought, he suddenly heard Hou Jie's voice.
Luo Shixin's spirit was shocked and said, "Come in quickly!" ”
Looking at Hou Jie, who was soaking wet, Luo Shixin sighed: "I'm glad you!" As he spoke, he first urged him to change into the clothes he had worked on all his life before talking, and then asked the guards to prepare ginger soup for Hou Jie.
Although it is a dreary summer, the climate here in Tohoku is sometimes cold and sometimes hot, especially at night, it will be inexplicably cold, and it is easy to catch a cold. Some soldiers in the army have already fallen ill due to water and soil adaptation, and are now being treated by the imperial doctor.
The conditions discussed between Luo Shixin and Li Shimin also included a medical team with excellent medical skills to deal with the situation that the soldiers were sick due to the lack of adaptation to the soil and water.
Hou Jie wanted to talk about the business and take care of himself, but he was forced by Luo Shixin, and he was moved to change his clothes honestly.
Hou Jie came to the big tent again, and Luo Shixin first asked him to pour a bowl of ginger soup, and then asked him to report and ask him about the situation.
"How? Can I climb that side of the cliff? Can you send the surprise soldiers directly from the cliff? ”
Ginger soup invigorates blood, has the miraculous effect of warding off cold, a big bowl of belly, Hou Jie's face is a lot ruddy, shook his head and said: "My adult's idea doesn't work, I have tried it myself, the cliff in the south of Jian'an City can indeed send soldiers up, but there are many guards on the top of the cliff, and our soldiers will find them halfway through climbing, and they will become targets and shoot them alive." There are not many footholds that can be climbed, as long as a hundred shooters, it is enough to stop anyone from climbing the cliff. ”
"This ......" Luo Shixin was a little dumbfounded, when he went deep into Goguryeo, he once went to Jian'an City. The south side of Jian'an City is a cliff, and the turbulent sea below, there is no way to go there, there is no enemy, how can there be soldiers and horses garrisoned?
Hou Jie smiled bitterly: "I think my lord is thinking of Goguryeo and them, when I was climbing the cliff, I found traces of people climbing in many places, especially the obvious place where I settled, and there were signs of iron cable friction on some mossy stones." ”
"No wonder!" Luo Shixin suddenly realized that he had an answer. This question that Su Dingfang has been thinking about these days, although it is an agreed victory, Su Dingfang has not been careless because of this, and has been carefully probing the other party's movements, but nothing has been detected, but Hu Xiegu appeared in their rear and attacked their camp where siege equipment was stored. If it weren't for Su Dingfang's speed of God, which greatly reduced the loss of siege equipment, their losses in that wave would be even greater.
Now I know that they actually came out of the precipice to fight......
Luo Shixin pondered for a moment, and immediately called his cronies to tell Li Daozong not to kill Yuansong, and to drive Yuansong in the direction of Jian'an City, and at the same time let Su Dingfang stare at the cliff of Jian'an City, if he found that there were troops to support Yuansong, he would immediately trap Jian'an City and attack it.
With the issuance of Luo Shixin's order, Li Daozong has already made a place with Yuan Song.
On the surface, he was in a plan, but in fact, he arranged for soldiers and horses to invite you into the urn, secretly sent soldiers to surround Yuansong, and at the same time divided a wave of soldiers and horses to quietly cover the new city and attack the city on a rainy night.
Under the tragic atmosphere of 10,000 hooves, roaring and shaking the sky, and shouting and killing filled the entire battlefield, the Tang army and the Goguryeo assault led by Yuan Song stood together.
Yuansong only has 5,000 soldiers and horses, and in terms of troops, which are far inferior to Li Daozong's 15,000 soldiers, they rely on odd and fast. But Jiang is old and spicy after all, Li Daozong's age is not very old, but he is a veteran of the battlefield for a long time, not Yuan Song, a hairy boy who is quite wise but inexperienced, can compare, and one move to invite Jun into the urn will put him in a desperate situation of ambush on all sides.
Li Daozong trapped Yuansong, and even had the spare strength to send 4,000 soldiers and horses to counterattack the new city.
The rain hit Li Daozong's armor, making a burst of sounds, looking at Yuan Song, who was like a turtle in an urn, and gave the order to attack on three sides.
The Tang army's attackers were on the ruined town, the formation was neat and uniform, like an organic life form, and when they saw the enemy shrinking in panic, everyone was in high spirits and strode towards the enemy.
Li Daozong danced his spear, and actually galloped to the front of the battle and laughed: "Goguryeo children, if I don't kill you this time, I will have to ......recite the name of Li's in the future."
Although Li Daozong was a prince, at this time of martial arts, the generals of the Tang Dynasty, except for Li Jing and Liu Renliang, who really had no courage, stood behind and commanded, and the others almost shrank in the rear.
Don't say that it is such a small formation, even if there are few soldiers and generals, Li Daozong still has the courage to enter the enemy formation and mess up the enemy formation.
Your own morale is like a rainbow, and it is the time to destroy the enemy army in one go. If the time is delayed, it will only weaken the momentum, and Li Daozong personally led the troops to attack, which just pushed the morale to the extreme, which is in line with the avenue of the art of war.
This little detail is the key to victory on the battlefield.
The Tang army was as brave as a tiger, and rushed up, attacking Yuan Song from three sides.
Under the strong pressure, Yuansong, who was in the middle plan, had little power to fight back, even if he was reluctant, he still retreated to Jian'an City.
Until ten miles from Jian'an City, there was still no news of Jian'an's support, and Yuan Song retreated because of the battle, and he was injured in many places and bled out.
Xincheng was defenseless against the night attack of the Tang army, whether there was a general to defend it, the elite soldiers in the city were all taken away by Yuansong, and the rest were mostly newly recruited recruits, who were timid and only held on until dawn the next day, and then let the Tang army fall.
In this battle, Yuansong was killed, Xincheng fell, and Hu Xiegu watched Yuansong die in battle and did not support......
"Sure enough, it's as solid as a rock!"
Luo Shixin looked at the battle report, and had to secretly admire, and at the same time felt a big headache.
At this time, he received new news from Zuo Tiancheng: 35,000 reinforcements from Goguryeo had crossed Anshi City and were sending reinforcements to Jian'an.
Luo Shixin's eyes swelled with battle intent and smiled: "It's finally here!" (To be continued......)