Chapter 137: Convergence
"I'm really a crow's mouth...... Zhou Yafu and Li Guang solved the enemy army as soon as possible, and Hua Mulan led the cavalry back to defense! ”
Chu Tian always paid attention to the situation on the entire battlefield, and was surprised that after the arrival of Goryeo reinforcements, he ordered the most flexible Hua Mulan to adjust.
At this time, Mulan led the light cavalry to assault the opponent's flank, slashing more than a dozen Goryeo soldiers in a row, and blood splattered on Han Xuanjia.
When the heralds found her and asked her to return to the defense, Mulan rushed out with light cavalry and spread out to the south to block the Goryeo reinforcements.
The besieged lord of Goryeo held an iron sword, his hands trembled, and the combination of the Sarliu and Archery battalions was unstoppable, and his men and horses fell to the ground in pieces, while he fled with his own soldiers into the dense forest on the hillside, and could no longer care to command the army.
"Reinforcements from our Goryeo Kingdom are finally here!"
He could not help but be overjoyed when he saw the dusty southern canyon on the hillside, and a large number of Goryeo cavalry appeared, waving the Goryeo Taiji flag.
"Thieves, it's better to retreat for the time being."
Fang Xuanling roughly judged the opponent's strength through the sand and dust.
"Retreat!"
Chu Tian clenched his fists, it was possible to completely annihilate this Goryeo army in this battle.
The opposing side may not only have one lord but two or three lords' troops.
If you are not careful, you may turn the victory into defeat at any time.
Chu Tianming Jin collected his troops, Zhou Yafu collected the Xiliu battalion, and Li Guang collected the shooting battalion and reassembled the formation.
There is also an intangible advantage of high-level troops, that is, military discipline is strict, and they can respond as soon as possible in unexpected situations.
Hua Mulan immediately slashed, and there were thousands of Goryeo cavalry on the opposite side, who were blocked by her, and they didn't dare to attack for a while.
On the opposite side came three Goryeo lords, with a total of 6,000 soldiers and horses, including 1,900 cavalry!
Jeju Island in Goryeo is an important place for horse breeding, and the Mongols, who were good at horse politics, raised horses on Jeju Island.
Therefore, there were definitely quite a few cavalry in Goryeo.
The three Goryeo lords formed a coalition and arrived as soon as possible.
"There are only a few hundred cavalry on the opposite side, let our cavalry kill it, and we will definitely be able to win quickly."
"Two thousand against five hundred, how can you win."
"My general's strength is 65 points higher, and he can kill the enemy's general, and your cavalry will lend me for the time being."
"Yes."
The three lords quickly deliberated, and finally let one Goryeo general, who had reached 65 points, be the main cavalry general, and the other two cavalry generals would be the deputy generals.
Nearly 2,000 Goryeo cavalry launched an attack on Hua Mulan behind the palace, and Hua Mulan was not only not afraid, but also counterattacked with cavalry that was less than the opponent's number!
"Crazy! Did she think she was leading the Xuanjia cavalry of the Tang Dynasty! ”
"500 people against 2,000 people, killing themselves!"
The three Goryeo lords thought that as long as they put up a charging camp, the other party would collapse because of the wavering of the army's morale, but they did not expect that the other party would not retreat but advance.
Two cavalry clashes!
This time, Mulan used not a ring-headed knife, but a spear.
The Goryeo general on the opposite side was wearing iron armor and had a tall body, and it was expected that he would never lose to a female streamer.
The spear stabbed at Mulan, but was pushed away by Mulan's strength, and the sharp spear used the inertia of the war horse to charge and pierced the chest of the Goryeo general!
Hua Mulan directly gave up the spear, pulled out the ring-headed sword, and killed the Goryeo cavalry in the rear!
After only one round of fighting, the cavalry commander of the Goryeo lord's pride was killed by Mulan.
"I ...... My military commander with a force of 65, I gave him the best weapons and iron armor, how could he be killed in one face......"
The Goryeo lord couldn't believe it.
Anyway, he is also a gold-level general, and he has no sense of existence.
"It must be a historical military general in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it is also a very rare historical general, if you capture her, you may be able to bring her back to our Goryeo Kingdom!"
"If you can't catch it alive and kill it, it will be a major loss to the Eastern Han District!"
Immediately, the lord of Goryeo realized that Hua Mulan might be a historical military general in the Eastern Han Dynasty and could not be kept.
"Beat the drums, capture the enemy generals, and the bounty is three hundred taels! Kill the enemy general, and the bounty is one hundred taels! ”
The three Goryeo lords immediately gave an order.
The morale of the Goryeo cavalry, stimulated by the reward, was greatly boosted and they fought hard to surround Mulan.
Hua Mulan led the cavalry to assault left and right in the Goryeo cavalry, blood splashed, and hundreds of Goryeo cavalry were killed!
Li Guang led the shooting battalion to come to support in time and stabilize the front!
From the main general Li Guang to the longbowmen of the archery battalion, they were all marksmen in a sense, and they began to use longbows to accumulate sharp Korean cavalry.
One by one, the Goryeo cavalry were shot, and the unarmored cavalry was wounded or killed.
The Hosoyanagi battalion tried to move forward and engage the inmobile Goryeo cavalry in hand-to-hand combat.
Once approached by the Saragi battalion, the Goryeo cavalry would lose their advantage.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Goryeo infantry and crossbowmen made an offensive under the leadership of the lord.
The two sides had a faint idea of fighting.
The size of 8,000 men, not including auxiliaries, is already a big battle for a small civilization.
Two thousand against six thousand, Chu Tian is not good at judging whether he can win. Even if he narrowly wins, maybe the remaining forces will not be enough for the next decisive battle.
After three months of national war, this is the first day, and both sides have lost their tempers.
The number of people is unfavorable, Chu Tian wants a truce for the time being, and the other party occupies the initiative, but he doesn't want to let Chu Tian leave.
Mulan's men were slaughtered from the Goryeo cavalry, regrouped on the plains, and regrouped.
At this moment, a force with the Red Dragon Banner appeared in the rear of the Chutian camp, and at the front was a group of foot soldiers in heavy armor, numbering three hundred. This group of heavy infantry even had three hundred pack horses, which were specially equipped with heavy iron armor for them.
Without horses, it was simply difficult for the heavy infantry to march quickly.
Gongzi Wen, the lord of Dongjun, and his subordinate Pang Juan led his soldiers and horses to arrive in time, and the lord of Goryeo sensed that the situation had changed, and Ming Jin withdrew his troops and gave up the idea of destroying Chutian.
"How many people were lost?"
"176 cavalrymen killed, 109 wounded."
"That cavalry general in the Eastern Han District is really terrifying, so a little cavalry has brought us huge casualties, and the opposite side must be one of the top lords in the Eastern Han District."
"Although the number of opponents is small, if you want to destroy them, you will lose at least half of the soldiers and horses."
"The legion commander is not here, we still save the lord who asked for help first, and avoid confrontation with the army of the Eastern Han District."
The lord of Goryeo raised a banner and asked the lord of Goryeo, who was hiding on the hillside and was crippled by Chutian, to lead the rout to come down and converge.
The lord of Goryeo, who had almost been killed in battle, saw his companion and hurried down the mountain to join him.
If it weren't for the arrival of reinforcements, he would have been captured by the vicious suzerainlord lord.
The unfortunate lord counted the soldiers and horses around him, and there were only 5 or 600 people left, and the rest were either killed in battle, or scattered, and disappeared.
His cavalry was not completely wiped out by Mulan, but only escaped a lot, scattered on the battlefield, and will gradually return to the team in the future.
In order to hold back the opponent's main force, Mulan did not have the energy to chase down the opponent's deserters one by one.
"The opposing army's army is so strong, let's retreat for the time being."
The four Goryeo lords decided to take the light cavalry to the rear and then retreat mostly to the south.
Chu Tian and Gongzi Wen converged and did not pursue.
Judging from the fact that four Goryeo lords ran out of the southern gorge at one time, it must be the camp of the Goguryeo army on the opposite side, and the four thousand people of their two armies rushed over one by one.
"The terrain is already clear, with Anseongseong to the north of the canyon and Goguryeo's reinforcement camp to the south. The Goguryeo army was divided into two parts, one was to hold the city of Anshi, and the lord of the city was probably Yang Wanchun. One is reinforcements from northern Pyongyang, and the commanders are Gao Yeonsu and Ko Hye-jin. As for the Tang army, it was supposed to camp on the outskirts of Anshi City, as well as control the important hills of the northern gorge. We only need to march to the north to join the Tang army. ”
Chu Tian spread out the map and discussed the route of the march with Gongziwen.
The First National War was fought in the gorges of the Thousand Mountains Mountains, and it was a difficult battle for the vast majority of lords.
They have to battle each other in the canyon.
Chu Tian noticed Pang Juan, the famous general next to Gongziwen.
At this time, Pang Juan was full of spirit, and there was no loneliness in the Battle of Guiling and the Battle of Maling.
Pang Juan is said to be the apprentice of Guiguzi with Sun Bin, who once led Wei Wushu to break through Handan, the capital of Zhao State, and defeated the Korean army five times.
There is also the character of framing the same disciple and brother, and it is estimated that it is not very good.
Gongziwen did not have enough resources and buildings to recruit Wei Wushu, and only had a team of fourth-order Yanzhou heavy infantry in his hands, and appointed Pang Juan as the commander of the heavy armor soldiers, as a subordinate replacement for Wei Wushu.
The two joined forces to clean up the battlefield, and the spoils of war were mainly owned by Chutian, because this Goryeo army was defeated by Chutian's army.
Chu Tian counted the soldiers and horses, and the 2,000 people were killed about 100 people, hundreds of enemies were killed, and a large number of Goryeo soldiers fled.
The Han knife used by Mulan even curled up its blade because of slashing. A silver-grade Han sword was scrapped.
"Each archer carries thirty arrows, and there is currently an average of eighteen left."
Li Guang reported a data that made Chu Tian feel even more thrilling.
The archers of the Archery Battalion shot an average of twelve arrows in this battle, and their shoulders were numb. It is equivalent to a battle, consuming thousands of arrows, and hundreds of taels of silver are gone.
Some of the arrows shot can be recovered, but most of the shafts are damaged, and there are quite a few clusters of iron arrows, barely making up for a small loss.
If you continue to fight with the Goryeo army, and wait until the arrows run out, I am afraid that you will have to consider breaking through and surrendering.
There are no ranged troops, so it's a loss. The opponent fired ten thousand arrows, even Guan Yu had to be hit by arrows.
"I hope that when I get to the barracks of the Tang Army, I can get supplies."
Chutian pinned his hopes on the Tang Army.
During the war, all the supplies in the Eastern Han Dynasty came from the Tang Army, and of course, the supplies that could be received every month were limited, and it was impossible to use them indefinitely.
The canyon was not very wide, but after the area was expanded tenfold, it was enough to accommodate hundreds of thousands of people to fight, but the battle line would be very long, and it was possible for the formation to stretch for dozens of miles.
Fang Xuanling rode a horse, observed the surrounding terrain, and said: "If a partial division takes a small road to the southern section of the canyon and attacks from the north to the south, the million Goguryeo reinforcements in the canyon will definitely be wiped out." ”
"I'm most afraid that the other party has already taken precautions."
Chu Tian did not doubt Fang Xuanling's strategy, in fact, Tang Taizong Li Shimin defeated Goguryeo's army to reinforce Anshi City.
At that time, the northern chieftains of Goguryeo, Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen, led 150,000 Goguryeo and Jin Ya coalition troops to reinforce Anshi City through the Qianshan Mountains, and Li Shimin personally led 4,000 soldiers and horses to command, and Li Tao attracted the enemy's army with 15,000 people, and then Changsun Wuji led 11,000 people to attack the opponent's back by small road, beheading 20,000 Goguryeo and Jin Ya, and the rest surrendered.
In the era of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, there were countless forces that were destroyed by the Tang Dynasty, and they ruled all kinds of disobedience.
The 30,000 Tang army broke the opponent's 150,000 army, but its own losses were extremely slight.
This is just one of Li Shimin's lifelong exploits, and the title of Tian Khan is not just talking.
It's a pity that Li Shimin's strategy may not be effective in this national war.
The Goryeo lords were generally arrogant and shameless, but there should still be a group of sober elites who would certainly try to remind the Goguryeo generals Gao Yeonshou and Ko Hye-jin to pay attention to the tactics of guarding against the Tang army.
If Li Shimin had attacked the Goguryeo army according to the original tactics, he would have failed.
The lord of the Eastern Han District must also take action to remind Li Shimin to change his tactics.
Chu Tian glanced at his own combat exploits, how much the combat exploits are related to the number of enemy troops killed, the type of troops, and the level, at present, Chu Tian's combat exploits are 3513 points, ranking first in the Eastern Han Dynasty camp in the national war.
It's not that the other lords didn't fight hard, but that Chutian's birthplace was close to the Goguryeo army, and the first small-scale battle of the national war broke out. This should be considered a first win.
Chu Tian and Gongziwen marched north along the river in the canyon, about eight miles, and they met five hundred free players from a guild.
A group of freelancers use a variety of weapons and armor, and most of them have their own horses.
Because it is a national war, this group of free players is also bankrupt.
According to the Western Middle Ages, free-for-all players were equivalent to freedmen or knights.
The growing army continued to march north, about forty miles, and when it was getting late and the soldiers and horses were tired, Chu Tian finally saw the Tang army camp.
The military flag of the Tang Army hunted in the mountain wind!
Not far away, a group of Tang cavalry wearing bright light armor was patrolling, which made Chu Tian couldn't help but be moved.
Seeing the light of the sun, the world is bright, hence the name Mingguang armor! The head of the thirteen armors of the Tang Dynasty!
In the Three Kingdoms period, there was the earliest Mingguang armor, and the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty was even more exaggerated, and its excellent ones consumed thousands of pieces of fish scale armor and hundreds of pieces of long armor.
To make a pair of Mingguang armor, all kinds of complicated processes may take more than 100 days or even 200 days.
In addition to the Mingguang armor, this Tang cavalry also held a horse lance that was three or four meters long, and the cold, half-meter-long lance was terrifying.
It is said that the fierce generals Qin Qiong, Cheng Zhijie, and Li Cunxiao are all masters of using horse lances.
The heavy cavalry of the Tang Dynasty had several war horses and were well-equipped, which fascinated countless lords of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The heavy cavalry only patrolled for a short time before entering the camp.
"This is the Tang army that unified the whole country in the early Tang Dynasty and destroyed Goguryeo, Tuyuhun, Eastern Turks, Gaochang, Xue Yantuo, Western Turks, and Baekje!"
Chutian was shocked by the force of the Tang Dynasty.