Chapter Ninety-Six: God-Man Everywhere (2)
On the north shore of Taihu Lake and the small plain west of Suzhou, the Southern Tang Dynasty Ewang and Jiangyin Jiedu, who won a small game, made Li Jingda tremble immediately.
For two consecutive days, Li Jingda gathered 8,000 troops in the morning and afternoon, and randomly selected them to challenge in front of the three camps of Wu Yuejun's left, center, and right. Wu Yuezhong Wu Jiedu made Qian Wenfeng eat a trench and grow a wisdom, let the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty insult in every way, and strictly ordered all battalions not to fight, the strategy is one word: guard!
Early in the morning of 23 March, Li Jingda led all 15,000 troops to Wu Yue's left-wing battalion to challenge.
Who knows, Li Jingda will no longer "show" this time!
After three drums, the middle battalion with the largest number of people in the Southern Tang Dynasty suddenly "exploded", countless soldiers in pairs, holding a giant shield made of thick wood quickly rushed in four directions, and the largest giant shield rushed towards the left half of the camp gate of Wu Yue's left battalion, while the soldiers on the periphery of the back all shrank and retracted into the quadrangle formed by the giant shield.
Wu Yuezuo's battalion, which had been waiting for a long time, immediately ordered archery, trying to stop these suddenly crazy Southern Tang soldiers, but the usually sharp bow and arrow hit the giant tree, which could only become a temporary decorative "branch" on it, and it could not shake the giant shield in the slightest, nor could it slow down the speed by half a minute. The general of the garrison Wu Yue was shocked, and immediately ordered to shoot a distress arrow, and urgently summoned all the defenders to assemble at this section of the wall, where the enemy raided.
When Wu Yuejun was in a hurry, rockets were shot out from between the gaps in the giant shield, nailed straight to the wood of the wall nearly one person high.
"Fight the fire!" A deputy general Wu Yue guarding this side subconsciously gave an order. Just when Wu Yue divided part of his forces to fight the fire, the Southern Tang soldiers accelerated again, holding a giant shield that had been tied into a hedgehog and forced in front of the wall.
When it was only five steps away from the wall, more than ten giant shields in the middle of the giant shield array suddenly stopped moving forward, surging to one side like a tide, revealing two rows of Southern Tang soldiers who had already raised their bows and arrows behind them, shooting forward without stopping.
Just when the Wu Yue soldiers urgently raised their shields to avoid the arrows, the formation of the Southern Tang soldiers changed again, and those archers quickly retreated to both sides, and under the cover of the arrows behind the wooden shields next to them, two hundred Southern Tang soldiers, in groups of twenty people, jointly carried ten giant wooden blocks and ran over, quickly piled the wooden blocks in front of the wall at an equal distance, and then ran away quickly.
The clods of dirt were like magnified wedges, but they were turned upside down. The 100 armored cavalry who had already prepared the armor behind them formed a ten-person queue and rushed straight towards the slope of the "big wedge".
The enemy actually used cavalry to rush through the wall! The lieutenant general of the garrison had just realized this problem, and the first platoon of cavalry had already rushed down from the wall, crashing straight into the Wu Yue soldiers who were scrambling.
Row after row, the cavalry roared in, instantly enlarging the panic range of Wu Yue's soldiers. After ten consecutive rows, the area on the inside of the wall had been almost swept away. At this time, another platoon of cavalry rushed over, but they did not join the cavalry attack formation, and the soldiers jumped off their horses, put the rope nooses that had been tied into the top of the wall, and then struck the horse's buttocks hard at the same time, and the frightened horses rushed forward and dragged this section of the wall down.
The soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who had been waiting for a long time, cheered and lined up from the gap of the "big wedge"; At the same time, every two archers were protected by a giant shield and rushed to the top of the "big wedge", trying to find the Wuyue soldiers in front of them, who either slipped through the net or resisted.
The cavalry was divided into three ways to assault in three directions, followed by the infantry to round up the panicked Wu Yue soldiers, the archers were condescending in front and shooting on the side, Li Jingda actually formed a three-dimensional attack battle formation in such a small area!
Later, other Southern Tang soldiers demolished this section of the wall, and quickly swarmed into the camp, and the defensive city shape composed of giant shields outside the camp quickly shrank, and those giant shields quickly moved to both sides of the wall, turning the enemy's camp into their own camp.
However, the battlefield waits for no one!
Just after a quarter of an hour, the Southern Tang soldiers, who were more than three to one, swept away the five thousand men of Wu Yuezuo's battalion. The giant shield was regrouped, ready to attack the enemy mid-camp behind the position.
In two consecutive battles, Li Jingda killed more than 8,000 people, and there were less than 10,000 people who were still capable of fighting, and the number of both sides changed from evenly matched to only half of the other side! Qian Wenfeng, who was sitting in the middle camp, saw that the situation was not good, and he took a thousand cavalry to take charge of the palace, and ordered the middle camp and the right battalion to retreat to Suzhou quickly. The Wu Yue soldiers, who had long had no will to fight, immediately ran away.
At this time, Li Jingda looked at the enemy's 1,000 cavalry, and then looked at the pitiful cavalry on his side, so he had to give up the useless pursuit, ordered everyone to clean up the battlefield, and clean up the baggage left by the enemy camp, and then moved the camp and slowly pressed towards Suzhou.
Compared with Li Jingda, the king of Hubei in the north, who has a fine control of medium-sized warfare, Lin Feng in the south plays a lot. Without him, he now has more than 120,000 soldiers under his control!
When Chen Yu and Chen Hongjin led 40,000 troops to advance to Wuyue Fuzhou in the north, Lin Feng, Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, and the hussar general Liu Congxiao discussed in detail and quickly dispatched the remaining 80,000 troops:
The mixed army of 30,000 was led by Yan En, the envoy of Baisheng Jiedu, and quickly outflanked Fuzhou along the Xianyou route by the sea;
Seventy-two two-chariot warships brought 10,000 mixed troops composed of elite soldiers of various armies of the Southern Tang Dynasty and soldiers of Quanzhou, and rushed north along the coast;
The remaining 40,000 troops turned their spearheads and aimed their attacking arrows at the Southern Han in the south. In Lin Feng's dictionary, there is no problem of being bullied and not fighting back, since the Southern Han Dynasty dares to take the opportunity to send troops to the Guiguan region, they must pay the corresponding price for their rash actions.
Cheng Yuehai led the elite troops in the Chudi and Guiguan areas to take the lead in attacking, sneaking to Chaozhou, which is adjacent to Zhangzhou, to conduct infiltration and reconnaissance;
The remaining twelve two-chariot warships intercepted the Quanzhang soldiers and outflanked them south by sea;
Zhang Hansi, the former deputy commander of the Qingyuan Army, led an army of 20,000 to pass through Zhangzhou and attack Chaozhou by land.
The entire Quanzhang area suddenly became a large war zone, and various armies opened their own fronts one after another. Of course, Lin Feng is not a soldier on paper, and he will of course carefully consider the baggage issues that can affect the whole army the most. Before the departure of the various armies, they collected the grain stored in Quanzhang and Zhangzhou for up to half a year and took them away, and made it clear to the heads of the armies that after the armies arrived at their destinations, the grain and grass problems could be temporarily borrowed locally; The follow-up grain is in Quanzhou, where King Qi is responsible for overall planning.
On the morning of March 23, when all the soldiers had been ordered to leave, Lin Feng, in consultation with the King of Qi, issued the first important notice to the entire territory of Quanzhang:
The original Qingyuan Army was promoted to the general of the hussars and will go to Jinling City to take up his post, and the Qingyuan Army will cease to exist from today; Datang Shengshang decided to reduce the rent in Quanzhou for three years, and all business taxes were halved!
Just when Quanzhang and Zhangzhang were discussing the two major events of one public and one private, the second important announcement followed: the 120,000-strong army of the Southern Tang Dynasty was currently sweeping through Wuyue Fuzhou and Chaozhou of the Southern Han Dynasty, and any merchant could offset the same amount of commercial tax as long as he contributed grain; If it is shipped to the front line of one north and one south, it will also have the opportunity to obtain the qualification to invest in the supermarket and participate in the Datang Merchant Industry Association.
One stone stirred up a thousand heavy Lang, and the entire Quanzhang area really began to be busy for the war.