Chapter 316: Pre-War Preparations
Back in Lijiazhuang, Li Hao immediately began to actively prepare for the war.
After so many years of silent development, Lijiazhuang's financial resources are far more abundant than those seen by outsiders. In addition, the army can now be freely formed, and the number of troops in the village has reached 80,000.
Li Hao had always been miserable with the Turks before, and only brought 10,000 Linghui troops to deal with the Turks, in order to paralyze the enemies in the DPRK and China and underestimate their strength.
On the one hand, it is to help its ally Datang, and the more important reason is that Li Hao needs a wider territory.
Although Lijiazhuang's strength is strong, due to the size of the country, its development has reached a bottleneck, and it can only continue to develop by winning the party item.
The so-called division is famous, and Li Hao secretly planned for two days, in order to be the reason for sending troops.
A large number of large-scale siege equipment was also produced in a large number under the all-out efforts of Li Jiazhuang.
There are 50 catapults, 10 cocoons, 30 city-breaking cars, and countless other well-fence cranes.
With the help of these sophisticated large-scale siege equipment, the siege of the city is like finding something.
And the most pleasing thing is that the war horse that Li Hao spent a lot of money to introduce was also sent to the horse farm in Lijiazhuang at this moment.
That night, Yu Wenqi excitedly pulled Li Hao to the horse farm, pointed to the new war horse in Lijiazhuang and laughed loudly: "Li boy, you really opened the old man's eyes, and you were able to buy so many pure-blooded Ili horses without realizing it!" In the Great Sui era, there were not a few of these war horses in the country, and the old man really convinced you! ”
Li Hao smiled triumphantly, looking at the more than 1,000 fierce Ili horses in front of him, and he was even more confident in participating in the party this time.
The Ili horse is the best of the war horses in the Cold Weapon Age.
Although this kind of war horse is not as good as a sweaty horse, it is better than a docile character, high adaptability, and strong endurance. It is very suitable for long battles, and will not even be affected by the highland climate.
Now that the war with the party is imminent, Li Hao urgently needs to replenish the cavalry strength, and the Ili horse, a docile and good horse, is very suitable for the cavalry of Lijiazhuang to tame.
"Senior Yuwen, you have to work hard during this time, you must train this batch of war horses to the point of being able to go to the battlefield within a month, the party members are already impatient!"
"Don't worry, wrap it up on me!" Yu Wenqi patted his chest confidently: "This group of party members, during the Sui Dynasty, they were vassals to the Central Plains, and the Tang Dynasty was strong, and it was also extremely sycophant. Now that they see that Datang is in trouble, they immediately fall into the ground, and it is time for them to learn a lesson and provoke the Central Plains less! ”
"The seniors are right!"
In the following days, Li Hao incorporated the remnants of the Linghui Army into Lijiazhuang's army.
After the fierce battle with the Turks, the original Linghui army only had more than 4,000 people left, but the rest of them were also soldiers who had experienced the baptism of war, and they were naturally much better than the Tibetan soldiers secretly trained by Lijiazhuang.
Li Hao scattered the Linghui Army into various troops, and they took the lead in training, and soon turned those recruits who had never been on the battlefield into experienced old fritters.
After that, Li Hao re-recruited the old department, and then talked about the soldiers with excellent combat effectiveness into the Linghui Army, and soon the Linghui Army resumed the reorganization of 10,000 again, and its strength increased by leaps and bounds.
Li Hao started with the Linghui Army and is more familiar with this army, so he is also ready to lead the Linghui Army alone when he goes out to the party.
The rest of the troops were divided into Black Egg, Zhang Qi, Yuwen Chengyu, and other generals who became famous in the first battle.
After a month of preparation, Lijiazhuang's army can be regarded as strong and strong, and it rushed to the direction of the party.
Li Hao is now the lord of a country, and it stands to reason that the monarch should not have personally gone into battle for such a dangerous thing as attacking a city and conquering a territory, but he has always been a pioneer in doing things in the past, so no one persuaded him to sit in the rear army on this expedition.
He led 10,000 Linghui troops as the vanguard troops, and took the lead in entering the border of the party. encountered an ambush by the party, and was easily defeated by this elite force.
The entire Linghui army had 10,000 men, half of whom were cavalry.
After a battle with the Turks, Li Hao has fallen in love with the cavalry, in the era of cold weapons, cavalry, such a highly mobile, strong impact force, to a large extent, can break the direction of the battle.
And because the Linghui Army is the vanguard force, Li Hao has placed almost all the superior forces here.
In the sweat and blood of the BMW alone, except for the few black eggs guarding the rear, almost all of the rest were in the Linghui Army.
Seeing that he has reached the border of the Tang Dynasty, he can already see the defense line of the party members from a distance. Li Hao immediately ordered to camp on the spot and prepare for the first battle of the party members.
"Owner! Let's drink saliva first! Zhang Qi handed a pot of water to Li Hao, and spread out the map: "According to the information of the Tang Dynasty army before, the front should be the vanguard of the party." They have been stationed here for more than a month, waiting for us to attack! ”
Li Hao looked at the map while drinking water, and couldn't help laughing: "Wasn't that stunned Le Gu quite arrogant when he left?" I thought he would attack while we were preparing, but I didn't expect to hide here and never dare to enter! ”
"What is the owner of the village talking about, this group is several times, each is waiting for others to start the war first, and they will send troops to take advantage of it, of course they don't dare to take the initiative to attack. It's just that they can't even imagine that we are not here to resist the enemy, but to crusade against them! ”
"Who is the commander of this army, and what are his abilities?"
"The main general of this vanguard force is named Tart Barong, who is a famous general of the party, and it is said that there are thousands of people who are brave. It's just that his personality is impulsive and irritable, and he has never been promoted, this time the party besieged Datang, and he probably wanted to become famous in a fight, so he joined the vanguard army! ”
"It's good to be impulsive and irritable, I like to beat such fools!" Li Hao smiled.
"Don't underestimate him, although this is only the vanguard, there are also twenty or thirty thousand troops, and it is not so easy to deal with!"
"It's only 20,000 or 30,000 people, if we can't even eat them, how can we conquer the party? The so-called preemptive victory, this first battle must play with momentum! ”
"I understand the owner, you can watch it!" Zhang Qi smiled, and didn't seem to take this tart in his eyes.
The day after they were stationed in the same place, the soldiers of the Linghui Army washed away the fatigue of the multi-day journey, and their morale was extremely high.
Tart Barong was already an impatient, and because of the general's order, he had been in a stalemate with Datang without moving. Now that the vanguard of Lijiazhuang is in front of him, he still can't bear it anymore.
"Report! Lord Wang, Tart Barong has written a war letter, asking us to go to war immediately and fight him to the death! A messenger ran briskly into the camp tent and presented the battle book to Li Hao.
Li Hao took a casual look at the battle book and threw it aside.
Why doesn't he want to start a war quickly, the preparation for the battle took a month, and the Tibetan Khitan side is still eyeing the Tang Dynasty, if they can't solve the battle with the party as soon as possible, once they can't bear to start a war with the Tang Dynasty, isn't it a chance for the Turks to counterattack?
This is the first battle with the party members, if you can eat these 30,000 troops, you can completely ignite the momentum of Lijiazhuang. Therefore, Li Hao was not prepared to use any tricks.
"The war book is coming, who among the generals is willing to face the battle first and beat the momentum of our army?"