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"True Heavenly Road!" As the vanguard of the first battle, the Tianbao general Yuwen Chengdu grew his mouth, and it took a while to praise it.

And the performance of the other Sui troops was not much higher, seeing a mountain slope made of ice rising from the surface of the river and extending rapidly towards Liyang City in the distance, the already quite chaotic Sui army formation was even more chaotic now. In the end, the officers who were mentally prepared in advance reacted relatively quickly, and began to form a team after coming to their senses. After tossing for more than half an hour, the front army of the Sui army walked along the expanding ice road towards the Liyang City Wall.

There was such a big movement on the Sui army's side, if you want to say that the Wagang army doesn't know, it's true. In fact, the scouts of Wagang spilled out quite a lot, scouting the area for the Wagang Army.

If you want to defend the city, you must fight a field battle, otherwise it is not just a matter of giving the initiative to people, from strategy to morale, it will be very passive. Unless they commit two crimes or are forced to do so, there are very few people who sit in the city and let the enemy attack.

Perhaps it was the Sui army that went all the way to quell the rebellion and at the same time scavenged food and pay to give Wagang some illusions, and before getting the news that the Sui army began to attack the city and seize land on the southern front, Li Mi still felt that there was no need to change the plan. In his opinion, the Sui army had some grain and grass, but probably not much, otherwise they would not have to plunder everywhere they went, and get grain and silver money from those who were beaten as anti-thieves. In any case, they can't compare with the Wagang that has taken Luokoucang and other places.

Moreover, with Yu's culture and the arrogance and self-confidence he showed, if the Sui army had a certain amount of military rations, then they should let go of attacking Wagang, the most powerful and food-rich of all the rebel forces, and come to the enemy because of the food.

Taking a step back, even if the other side has no worries about food and salary, it is also an objective fact that the army's morale is unstable, and it is impossible for them to confront Wagang for a long time. As long as you look at Yu Wenhua and fight all the way, he has never left these elites from Guanzhong in any city-he is afraid that he will have to go west. It is precisely because of this that with the departure of Yu Wenhua, all kinds of anti-thieves who don't know whether they are alive or dead began to jump out of his rear.

Although Yu Wenhua killed a stubble before, everyone who killed was terrified. But there are other forces secretly attacking, and some people are blind. In addition, the Sui army did not clean up Jiangnan and other places, and with the return of Yu Wenhua and the Shuai army to the west, the scene of the main force of the Sui army remaining in the big city seems to come again soon.

However, the chaos in Jiangnan has nothing to do with today's Li Mi. When the scouts reported what they had seen, he thought it was utter nonsense and nearly ordered them to be beaten. It's just that the speed at which the ice road was formed was not slow, and the speed at which the Sui army marched was not slow, and soon, the defenders at the head of the city also reported this situation to Li Mi, which made him shocked.

After Li Mi personally went to the city and saw the ice road from a distance, he finally changed color.

"This, this, this, Yu Culture and how did you come up with this? What's the use of our army holding on to the city? Li Mi kept walking back and forth, and the blood on his face visibly dissipated a lot, where was the bearing of the original command?

Yu culture and the Xiaoguo under the command of the world's combat power has almost become recognized. After all, this is the Praetorian Guard of the Great Sui Dynasty, well-trained, and many troops have been in battle for a long time, and the elite level can be better than that of the old Wagang battalion. Especially the cavalry in white robes formed by Yu Wenhua and his formation, it is difficult for people not to associate them with the army of 89 years ago when "famous teachers and generals are not imprisoned, and thousands of troops avoid white robes".

However, Liyang's Wagang army had just been transferred away, led by Xu Shixian, Wang Bodang and others, and went south to support.

Don't look at Yu Wenhua and only 20,000 foot cavalry, and Wagang claims to use 300,000 troops to conquer Yu Wenhua, but in fact, the troops on both sides are not the same thing.

Yu Wenhua and those 20,000 people, but the actual 20,000 soldiers - feedback from many aspects, from the chess pieces planted by Wagang, Sui Chen who had dealings with Wagang, etc., to the information given to him by some anti-Yu culture and strength. And Yu Wenhua has always been too lazy to boast about his military strength.

However, in most military operations in recent years, it is normal for 780,000 people to claim 100,000 troops, and it is normal for 1,800 people to dare to claim 100,000 troops when there is military fraud, and Li Mi is naturally no exception.

What's more, the standard of their army is much lower than that of those separatist forces that were originally Sui troops.

Often, their numbers include the entrapmented civilians, the elderly, the sick, the disabled, and their families. After a certain person "raises righteousness", when he talks about gathering a large number of tens of thousands, and how many people are powerful, it is not a pure soldier or horse, but this kind of head. Of course, according to the Sui army's algorithm or the government's records, an anti-thief is an anti-thief, regardless of men, women, old and young, gathering a crowd to make a rebellion is gathering a crowd to make a rebellion, and if the merit is counted according to the head, it must be counted - otherwise how can there be room for killing the good and taking the merit?

There is also a situation on the Sui army's side, and when it is organized, it will count miscellaneous soldiers, people, etc. as troops. Under this algorithm, with 70,000 or 80,000 people in hand, you can claim to be an army of 100,000, but it is still those soldiers who have been in battle for a long time. Therefore, when the two armies fought, whether it was the Sui army's counterinsurgency battle or the "righteous army" battle, often thousands of elites could play a decisive role.

For example, during the battle of Cangcheng, Wang Shichong fought Li Mi, according to the two sides, the two sides had to accumulate hundreds of thousands of troops, and then Li Mi used more than 1,000 elites to fight against all the men and horses of Wang Shichong who came from Luoshui, but he was only defeated and retreated. In the next battle of Luokou City, hundreds of elites came, and Wang Shichong was defeated on all fronts, fled in embarrassment, and drowned tens of thousands of people in Luoshui.

Zhang Xutuo was also scattered and defeated by the army of more than 1,000 Wagang light cavalry ambushes in Dahai Temple, and he could no longer organize it. On the original historical line, Fu Gongyou fought Li Zitong, and more than 2,000 "recruits" (elite troops formed by Du Fuwei) repelled Li Zitong's tens of thousands of main forces, and Du Fuwei's righteous son Wang Xiong used hundreds of people to sneak attack, and the tens of thousands of troops of the other party were scattered, and all of them were scattered.

In this case, one is that there are few core troops, and the other is that the organization of the troops is low, and the actual number of troops capable of fighting is not as many as it has been said.

Since the beginning of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, China has embarked on the route of the government and military system. In the period of Emperor Wen of Sui, the military system of the government was perfected, and the soldiers and peasants were completely integrated. That's right, it is the integration of soldiers and peasants, not the separation of soldiers and peasants. In peacetime, the government soldiers were farmers who cultivated the land, trained in agricultural gaps, and fought in the army in wartime. The government soldiers participated in the war with their own weapons and horses, and they were well-trained professional soldiers in this era, and they were also the main force and backbone of the army.

can be more professional than the government soldiers, that is, the imperial court guards, the generals' pro-army, and the private soldiers secretly raised by the gate lords, these are all full-time soldiers, and the latter is caught is a big crime - the death of private animals.

The combat mode of the Sui army is that the general war is to dispatch the government soldiers close to the conflict, such as the government soldiers in the Jingzhou area when quelling the rebellion in Jiangnan and Lingnan, and when counterattacking the Turks, it is the government soldiers of Guanzhong Longyou, if it is a large-scale enemy invasion, it is the Fanshang troops near the capital (the government soldiers from all over the country take turns to the Beijing division as guards), and the army of the left and right guards attack to meet the battle. At the same time, the government soldiers from all over the country began to be requisitioned, led by General Ying Yanglang, to assemble at the designated place, and the general of the Twelve Guards was sent to command again. The main responsibility of the Ying Yanglang is the training and management in peacetime, and the command in wartime is generally in charge of the professional generals of the Twelve Guards.

In addition, the state and county soldiers managed by the county commander or the commander are not in the sequence of the government soldiers, and these troops are not organized and trained for large-scale field battles, but mainly to maintain local law and order in peacetime. However, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, when the world was in turmoil, the government soldier system collapsed, and there was basically no way to recruit government soldiers, and these state and county soldiers began to become the main force in counterinsurgency. For example, the famous general Zhang Xutuo was a county commander of Qi at the beginning, and he relied on state and county soldiers to quell the rebellion, and it was not until he later became the ambassador of Henan Province that he could command the regular field soldiers to quell the rebellion.

As far as the current situation of Wagang is concerned, the only ones who can fight, and can fight with Yu Wenhua and Xiaoguo, are probably the core troops of the old battalion. That is, in the eyes of the Sui army, the old bandits, the backbone of the thieves. The 300,000 troops of the Wagang Army, which were claimed to come out, were pulled to the flat ground to fight, and if the old camp was defeated, it was impossible to say that the 300,000 people would be scattered in an instant.

In the final analysis, although there have been chaos for so many years and there are many troops who have seen blood, those who have really fought big battles, and those who can be called elites, have to count the original government soldiers. However, starting from the three expeditions to Goguryeo, there were too many losses. During the Yang Guang period, he was repeatedly conscripted (the early emperor sent generals to equalize, and they were all government soldiers), but those government soldiers who were older than the battle array could not be replenished after consumption. In the later period, under the chaotic situation, it was impossible to levy government soldiers, and all localities used state and county soldiers to protect themselves.

The rebels fought with the rebels, and in many cases, although the scale was very large, it could not be separated from the mode of banditry and brawl. Many of those who led the state and county soldiers to divide one side in the process of quelling the rebellion, including Wang Shichong, who had collapsed when he took office in the eastern capital (his starting army was a new army recruited in Huainan), and the experience of his main force came from the suppression of the "righteous army", and he may have killed a lot of people, but from the level of training to the experience of regular field warfare.

Therefore, whether the combat strength is strong or not, in addition to the number of troops, also depends on whether it is elite or not, especially how many government soldiers have fought or have been converted into military units. Therefore, Li Tang, who had the Sui army stationed on the frontier to fight against the Turks, and incorporated a large number of Chang'an Fanshang troops, was favored by people of insight It is also very normal.

However, what Li Mi's army had to contend with was one of the few forces that held one of the elite field forces of the established Sui army. The 300,000 troops of Wagang were stationed in Weizhou City, Liyang City and Tongshan between the two at the beginning, and they were fighting each other, and now tens of thousands of people have been transferred south......

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The sound of commotion gradually approached the head of Liyang City, and the whimpering sound of the Sui army's horn and the beating of the big drum gradually sounded. Li Mi also wanted to send people out to intercept it, but the sides of this gradually rising ice road were smooth and vertical, and the Wagang army could only gather at the head of the city to prepare for the battle.

Fortunately, the width of this ice road cannot be considered long, only a dozen zhang wide, and the Wagang army simply hoarded heavy troops at the position where the ice road was about to extend, ready to meet it.

On the broad front, at the forefront is Yuwen Chengbu, who led more than 2,000 people from the headquarters, using the most elite infantry as blades, stepping on drums and trumpets, and advancing along the ice road. As they finished the uphill journey, they began to enter the downhill sprint stage—the highest point of this road was thirty zhang high, and it became a condescending situation for the Sui army.

After a while, the shouting of the Wagang army on the opposite side was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that someone on the opposite side was encouraging morale in the army, and bursts of shouts rushed from a distance like a wave. Yuwen Chengdu smiled, pulled down his visor, and returned to the infantry queue with his pro-army.

At this time, the flag of Wagang seems to be in front of you. And there was a "fluttering" sound in the air, and the Sui army buried their heads and continued to move forward with their shields, and they were all wearing iron armor, but they were afraid of being shot / in the face if they were unlucky.

But as the crisp sound of the four rounds came from the heavy footsteps, the screams also rang out.

The crowd walked in formation, and no one returned fire with bows and arrows.

Suddenly, an arm-thick ballista flew into the air, and the screams began to increase.

Yuwen Chengdu turned his head to take a look, and saw that the Sui army banner behind him was slowly following, and more thick arrows were flying from the rear in the direction of the Wagang army. The condescending Sui army, especially the white-robed army that came up, quickly suppressed the Wagang army in front with bows and arrows. He then shouted: "Speed up the pace, if anyone retreats from the battle, Hugh blames General Ben for turning his face and not recognizing people!" ”

The Sui army's formation, which was twenty rows deep, soon began to attack forward. The two armies were less than fifty paces apart, arrows rained down below, and people in the front row were wounded or killed from time to time, but the offensive of the Sui army's heavy infantry advance did not weaken in the slightest. The bows and crossbows were already prepared in the back of the three rows in front, and they were just waiting to get close to a round of shock to the Wagang army.

At this moment, Yuwen Chengdu suddenly felt a slight weight on his head, and in a moment he heard the sound of "clanging" arrows hitting the iron helmet.

"Ancestor's!" He cursed, and then shouted, "Shoot the arrows!" Suddenly there was a crackling sound, and the people on the head of the city were rolling and crawling.

Yuwen Chengdu took advantage of the situation to lead the troops to chase and kill, only to see that the dense phalanx with spears in front of him also rushed up.

"Kill!" Yuwen Chengdu carried the phoenix wings and gilded hammer - this thing was given to him by Yuwen Chengjisai, saying that General Tianbao should use this thing, but it is really easy to use, as if there is a strange power to help him - and rushed forward. He grabbed a spear in one hand, rushed with his body, and swept with one hand with his weapon, the phoenix-winged gold pistol unstoppable with a strong wind. The Wagang army in front suddenly fell in a row.

Seeing this, the Sui soldiers in the back rushed up to reinforce the fierce generals in front. The Wagang army, which was not even dressed in good clothes, faced the fully armored Sui army, and many times the spear could not pierce the breastplate, and the soldiers of the Zhou army approached with swords and slashed, and the screams rang out in all directions. (To be continued.) )