Chapter 524: The Bloody Battle of Zhou Liucheng (3)

On the eighth day of June in the twenty-first year of Zhenguan, the main force of the Tang army finally arrived at the city of Zhouliu after two days of rapid marching, however, it did not immediately launch an attack, but established a camp on a hill five miles away from the city, and settled down, but the scouts of the Tang army attacked in all directions, harassing the four gates of Zhouliucheng uninterruptedly, making a look of imminent siege, making Zhouliucheng full of restlessness. (.. com)

Finally got to the ground, although the battle had not yet begun, but Xue Wanche's mood was very good, and he didn't care how his troops set up camp, he was alone in the big tent of the Chinese army, leaning on the rocking chair with his eyes closed, shaking comfortably, and he didn't forget to hum a little song that was not very out of tune, of course, Xue Wanche had a reason to relax, at least so far, everything went smoothly, and it was practical for Xue Wanche to worry too much, besides, the big war is coming, It is really rare to be able to take this opportunity to relax your body and mind, but it is a pity that Xue Wanche has not been able to relax for long, no, before he has finished humming a small song, he saw his own soldiers hurriedly walking in.

"General Yu, General Du is asking to see you outside the tent." The soldier had followed Xue Wanche for many years, and he knew Xue Wanche's temper, but at this time, seeing that Xue Wanche was leisurely, he hurriedly lightened his steps, leaned over and whispered in Xue Wanche's ear.

"Well, tell him to come in." Xue Wanche heard the sound, half-opened his eyes, and didn't get up, just lying down like this, and responded without a question.

"No." Seeing that Xue Wanche was not angry, the guard was obviously relieved, hurriedly answered, and withdrew from the tent.

"The last general, Du Zhengxin, see the general." Although Du Zhengxin's face was full of exhaustion and his steps were a little vain, as soon as he saw Xue Wanche's face, he immediately walked over and bowed meticulously.

"Excuse me." Xue Wanche saw that Du Zhengxin gave him a salute, finally sat up straight, waved his hand and said: "General Du has worked hard this time, and the general should be asked for credit." ”

Xue Wanche is a famous shelf among the generals of the Tang Dynasty, and rarely buys other people's accounts, even in front of Li Ke, the king of Wu who is good with him, Xue Wanche also looks like he does what he wants, never looks at the so-called magnates in his eyes, let alone any flattery, plus his royal subordinates are extremely strict, and there are very few times when he compliments people, this time he can say this to Du Zhengxin, which is already the biggest compliment, Du Zhengxin, who is familiar with Xue Wanche's character, is moved in his heart, and the corners of his eyes can't help but moisten- From Du Zhengxin's arrival in Zhouliu City to this time, it is only two days, which is very short, but these two days are like being in purgatory for Du Zhengxin's department, in order to prevent the defenders in the city from harvesting winter wheat, Du Zhengxin can be said to have worked hard, sneak attacks, ambushes, frontal fights, etc., all staged one by one, and finally survived to the arrival of his main force, but more than 1,000 elite cavalry under his command are now only more than 400 scarred remnants, thinking of the many men who died on the battlefield, Du Zhengxin had mixed feelings in his heart, and it was difficult to hold himself.

"Thank you to the general for your love, this is the life of all the soldiers, and the last general will not dare to take credit. /" Du Zhengxin quickly collected his mood, held back the tears that were about to come out of his eyes, and replied humbly.

"Hmm." Xue Wanche replied noncommittally, stood up, looked at Du Zhengxin with a slight frown: "General Du, in Yi'er's opinion, how is the combat strength of the defenders in the city?" ”

As soon as Du Zhengxin heard Xue Wanche ask about this matter, he knew that what he said would become an element of Xue Wanche's countermeasures, how dare he talk nonsense, and after thinking about it carefully, he bowed down and replied: "Back to the general's words, although the last general has fought with Goguryeo, Baekje cavalry, and infantry, most of them are not facing the enemy head-on, so they really dare not assert lightly. ”

"It's okay, just talk about your impression, you will have your own opinions." Xue Wanche saw that Du Zhengxin was so cautious, and his brows furrowed a little deeper, but he didn't have a seizure, but glanced at Du Zhengxin and asked.

"Yes, the last will obey." Seeing that Xue Wanche's face was not good-looking, Du Zhengxin did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly replied: "According to the observation of the last general, the infantry in the Goguryeo army is good at fighting, and they are not afraid of death, although the training level is far inferior to our army, but it is also acceptable, and its cavalry has limited ability, so it is not fearful, and it is not the opponent of our Tang Iron Cavalry." ”

"Oh? yes, that's interesting, let's go down and rest. Xue Wanche twitched, sneered, and waved his hand to give the order to evict the guest.

"Yes, the last general will retire." Since Xue Wanche said this, Du Zhengxin didn't dare to stay any longer, so he hurriedly bowed down and answered, turned around and was about to pay the bill, but he paused again and said hesitantly: "General, the last general asks to participate in tomorrow's battle." ”

Xue Wanche's original plan was to start a war tomorrow, but he never said anything to his subordinates, at this time, seeing that Du Zhengxin had broken through the sky, his eyes immediately narrowed, and he glanced at Du Zhengxin with a twinkle, but he didn't say anything, just waved his hand a little impatiently, Du Zhengxin saw this, he didn't dare to say anything more, bowed down, and hurriedly withdrew from the Chinese army's big tent.

"Tomorrow, hey, tomorrow!" After Du Zhengxin retreated, Xue Wanche stood silently in the tent for a long time, muttered a few words in his mouth, turned around suddenly, strode towards the large sand table in the corner of the tent, leaned over and looked at the general carefully......

Zhou Liucheng is surrounded by mountains on three sides, one side is facing water, it can be said that the tiger is in the land of Longpan, quite similar to the Jiankang of the Tang Dynasty, it is one of the few big cities in Baekje, the people in the city are as many as more than 100,000 people, in the early years of Baekje had built the capital here, and then the city was not a place to defend the war, so the capital was moved to Si Yu City, but the scale of the national capital was maintained, the earlier palace was changed to the city guard, as for the original Praetorian Guard camp in the south of the city, it became the garrison of the guest army Goguryeo army at this time, 70,000 troops were stationed here, and the hustle and bustle in the past was inevitable, However, today's camp in the south of the city is eeriely silent, except for the patrols coming and going, there is not even a single soldier wandering around, only the aura of slaughter is spreading silently.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, a group of Goguryeo generals are sitting in danger, Liang Dahai, the governor of the left army, Geng Cheng, the governor of the right army, and Gong Chaofan, the governor of the cavalry, are all present, and more than a dozen generals are gathered together, but no one makes a sound, all of them sit upright, only their eyes turn around between the empty seat and the mouth of the tent from time to time, as if there is a look of hope.

"The general has arrived!" Just when the generals were waiting anxiously, a sudden sound sounded, and all the generals who were originally bored immediately stood up in unison, and looked in the direction of the camp gate with blazing eyes.

"See the General!" With the sound of hurried footsteps, Gao Quansheng marched into the big tent with a gloomy face, and the generals hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Gao Quansheng nodded indifferently, and returned the salute, silently walked to the copywriter in the center of the big tent and sat down, his face was so cold that he was almost dripping, obviously in a bad mood - just at the previous giant meeting, when a group of coalition generals were arguing about whether to fight or wait for help, bad news came back one after another, first the Tang Army Naval Division had entered the Jinjiang River, and the Garin Baekje Naval Division was dispatched to intercept it, but was defeated by the Tang Army Naval Division, with heavy casualties, Then there were more than 60,000 people of Garin's cavalry on the way to help was ambushed by Silla, suffered heavy losses, and had to retreat to Garin to defend himself, now in this situation, in addition to the Wa Guo Sailor all the way, Zhou Liucheng has no other possible assistance, and the previous action of harvesting winter wheat was extremely unsmooth under the interference of the Tang cavalry, and the price paid was huge, although a lot of wheat fields were burned, but their own income was very little, and then counting the surrounding refugees, the per capita grain stock in the city not only did not increase, On the contrary, it has been reduced to an extremely dangerous point, and now there is only one way in front of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, that is, to defeat the Tang army in front of him as soon as possible, so as to turn the entire battle situation, however, judging from the situation of the elusive cavalry squad of the Tang Army in the past two days, Gao Quansheng really has some doubts about whether he can do this, but in front of his generals, Gao Quansheng did not dare to show it, so he could only put on a cold face and put on a majestic look.

"The generals will obey!" Gao Quansheng, who was sitting in the big seat, looked around at the generals under him, forced himself to endure the slight uneasiness in his heart, and suddenly raised his voice and shouted.

"In!" The generals came out one after another, and each bowed down to promise.

"The general's intention has been decided, and tomorrow will go out of the city for a decisive battle!" Gao Quansheng glanced at the generals, and said in a cold tone: "There are a few rules for this general, and you have listened to them all for the general: those who don't listen to orders will be killed!" Cowardly, kill! Whoever deceives the people, kill! There are those who dare to say out, kill! Tomorrow's war is not allowed to advance or retreat, do you understand? ”

"No!" As soon as Gao Quansheng's series of killing words came out, all the generals were in high spirits, and they were busy answering their promises, and a murderous aura spread in this big tent......

The day finally dawned, the hour was positive, a drum sounded, the four gates of the closed Liuzhou City suddenly opened, the Gao and Bai Coalition Army, who had been waiting for a long time, under the order of a group of generals, rushed out of the city gate with neat steps, overwhelmingly pressed towards the location of the Tang Army camp, at the same time, the mournful horn sound in the Tang Army camp echoed over the barracks, more than 34,000 Tang officers and soldiers marched out of the camp gate in turn, and advanced in the direction of Zhou Liucheng, the two sides met each other at a distance of three miles from the city, and then they each set up their troops, What is interesting is that the two sides invariably put out an attack formation - 8,000 infantry on the left flank of the Tang Army, led by the general Shi Fengshou, 5,000 infantry troops on the right flank, and 2,000 cavalry to form four phalanxes, commanded by the general Xiao Long, Xue Wanche has nearly 20,000 Chinese troops in front of the central breakthrough, including 15,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry, arranged in a regular triangle with the two wings, archers, spearmen, and axemen are in place one by one, but the tip of the spear is like a forest, the blade is shining, and the momentum is extremely solemn; Not to be outdone, the left army governor Liang Dahai led 20,000 Goguryeo troops and more than 6,000 Baekje troops as the left flank, including 4,000 Baekje cavalry and 22,000 infantry, and Geng Cheng, the governor of the right army, led 20,000 Goguryeo soldiers as the right wing, including 17,000 infantry and more than 3,000 cavalry, and Gao Quansheng led 40,000 soldiers and horses as the middle army, including 30,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry.

Both sides came prepared, the formation was deployed quickly, it was only more than half an hour before and after, the two armies had already opened their own formations at a distance of 400 paces, and the entire battlefield was quiet, except for the occasional snort of the war horses, there was not a trace of noise, only the murderous aura was gathering more and more.

"General Gao, Xiao Wangguan Tang Kou's formation is very tight, it is not easy to break through, now we have more soldiers and Tang Kou has fewer soldiers, it is necessary to attack, it is better to wait for the enemy to move first, and then attack it." On a hill where Gao Bailian's Chinese army was located, the prince of Baekje, Yu Feng, saw that the Tang army was in a tight lineup, and was worried that it would be difficult for his side to break through the Tang army's formation in one go, so he tentatively countered Gao Quansheng, who was standing beside him.

"It's okay, the brave one of the two armies wins, now Tang Kou has few soldiers on the left and right wings, I will attack it with a large army, first break the two wings, and then take the Chinese army, a big victory can be expected!" Although Gao Quansheng was also aware of the might of the Tang army, however, he thought that there were many generals under his command, but he didn't pay much attention to it, and replied disapprovingly.

Although Fu Yufeng was still a little worried, when he saw Gao Quansheng's impatient face, he didn't say much, just nodded silently, after all, although Fu Yufeng was a prince, the commander of this battle was Gao Quansheng, and Fu Yufeng was unwilling or unwilling to interfere with Gao Quansheng's command.

"Order, press forward on the left and right armies, prepare to attack the formation, beat the drums,!" Gao Quansheng saw that his husband Yufeng did not say more, and immediately turned pale, raised his horsewhip, and issued a battle order loudly, and suddenly the drums in the Chinese army formation were bursting, and the flying horse was ordered to gallop to the left and right wings, and with the order issued, the left and right wings of the Gao Bai coalition army began to move forward slowly.

"Ho-ho, ho-ho, win! Win! Win! The left and right flanks of the Gaobai coalition army moved forward as they shouted battle horns, and the clashing of swords and shields rang out like angry waves.

As soon as the left and right flanks of the Gao Bai Coalition Army moved, Xue Wanche, who was located in the Central Military Department of the Tang Army, immediately sneered, didn't talk much nonsense, raised his hand, waved violently, and shouted: "Beat the drum!" Attack! As soon as this order was given, the big drums lined up on more than ten sides of the Tang army's formation sounded one after another, and the left and right wings of the Tang army, which had been waiting for orders for a long time, also began to move forward.

"Datang mighty, Datang mighty, Datang mighty!" With the sound of the battle horn with a strong sense of rhythm, the Tang army, which was slowly pressing forward, took the lead in accelerating forward, and the Gaobai coalition army saw this, not to be left behind, and also began a wild charge, tens of thousands of horses on both sides rolled over the flat ground like two huge waves, and the distance between them became closer and closer.

There were a large number of cavalry on the left and right flanks of the Gaobai coalition army, although they were the last to arrive, thousands of war horses galloped wildly, leaving all their infantry behind in an instant, and lined up in several cone-shaped assault formations like a whirlwind to pounce on the moving Tang army, the speed was extremely fast, and it had rushed to a distance of only 100 steps from the Tang army's array in an instant.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

As soon as they saw the cavalry of the Gao Bai coalition army killed, Shi Fengshou, the commander of the left wing of the Tang Army, and Xiao Long, the invincible commander of the dragon on the right wing, gave the order to release the arrows almost at the same time, and in an instant, more than 3,000 crossbowmen of the Tang Army who were running at the same time flattened the strong crossbow in their hands, and thousands of steel arrows covered the surging Gao Bai cavalry like flying locusts, and shot down hundreds of horses in an instant, but they did not completely disrupt the impact formation of the Gao Bai cavalry, and the Gao Bai cavalry in the rush did not care about the life or death of their comrades in front of them, and still shouted to attack and kill the Tang army array.

"Flash, Mo Knife Team, now!" Seeing that the Gao Bai cavalry formation was slightly chaotic, Shi and Xiao issued the same order, but seeing that the Tang army array that was running suddenly divided left and right, two Mo knife phalanxes were exposed in the Tang army formation on the left and right wings, and more than 1,600 Mo knives were erected like a forest, forming an indestructible forest of blades.

Modao will always be the nemesis of the cavalry, the reason why the Tang army can sweep the world is because of this invincible Modao array, which is not unclear to the Gao Bai cavalry, but at this time, the Gao Bai cavalry, which is already galloping at high speed, can no longer stop the pace of sprinting, can only continue to accelerate, hoping to rely on the advantage of strength to tear apart the Tang army's array, and open a bloody road for the subsequent arrival of their own infantry.

"Pick up the knife, slash!" Seeing that the Gao Bai cavalry had rushed to the front, the captains of the various formations who were responsible for the order did not dare to slack off, and each of them let go of their throats and shouted loudly, but they saw that the blades like a forest were raised in unison, and then they were swung like wheels, and hundreds of Gao Bai cavalry who rushed to the front were split into pieces by the sword forest on the spot, blood splashed, people roared and neighed, and the wails of the tragic dead were shocking, and the poor Gao Bai cavalry was killed by the Tang Army Mo knife array more than 400 horsemen, and the rest were in chaos. There are those who desperately strangle the galloping war horses, and there are also those who turn their horses' heads to try to avoid the Modao formation, and the cavalry formation, which was already a little scattered, immediately became a pot of porridge.

"Enter!" Seeing that the Gao Bai cavalry had been in disarray, the Modao captains in charge of the command refused to let go of such a good opportunity to annihilate the enemy, and gave the order to advance one after another, but seeing that the neat Modao forest was rolling forward, it was unstoppable, the knife rose and fell, the men and horses were shattered, blood was splashed everywhere, and the stumps and flesh were flying all over the air, how tragic was it.

"The whole army presses on, kill!" As soon as he saw that his cavalry was killed by the Tang army's Mo Dao team, the dragon invincible Goguryeo Left Army Governor Liang Dahai was furious, and desperately ordered his infantry to charge at full speed, in a vain attempt to rely on the absolute superiority in strength to kill the Tang Army's Mo Dao Team first, at the same time, Goguryeo's right army Governor Geng Cheng also issued the same order, and the Goguryeo infantry on both wings, which was already galloping, immediately fell into a state of madness, and pounced on the Tang Army array like a tide. The shield swordsmen and spearmen of the Tang army, who had flashed to the side earlier, rushed forward quickly, and instantly formed a formation, colliding head-on with the Goguryeo infantry that had been slaughtered, and at this point, the battle side had fallen into a white-hot state from the beginning......

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