Guo Rong took a group of young military academies in the forbidden army to watch a big show in Liucheng, and conducted a real military deduction that is difficult to replicate, and at the same time, Li Yu also completed a large-scale annihilation battle in Xiangping.

In the fifth year of Yuanhe, in late May, the Tang Dynasty official army and the Liaodong rebels fought a major battle near Xiangping, and at the same time, the Bohai army re-entered the hinterland of Liaodong.

In mid-June, under Li Yu's series of suspicious troops and the strategy of luring the enemy, more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Bohai State arrived at the city of Xiangping and began to attack.

Compared with Yuan He, he entered Liaodong for the first time under the command of Chen Hongzhi in the fourth year, and after losing Chen Hongzhi's command this time, the soldiers and horses of the Bohai State in Liaodong lost their previous edge and sharpness.

As far as the target is abnormal, the strategic judgment and command are even more rotten, and the entire Bohai army is flying like a fly without a head.

On the surface, the Bohai Navy, which entered the army for the second time, was like a chicken, a dog, but the senior generals of the Tang Army in Liaodong, such as Guo Rong, Li Yu, and Mo Lingjun, knew that it would be a big mistake to treat their opponents as waste because they looked chaotic and disorderly.

Because, chaos, disorder, and barbarism are the norm in the Bohai Kingdom.

Born in the Black Water Spirit, they are not good at order, organization, and strategy, and they rely more on their strong bodies and fearless courage in the white mountains and black waters.

For them, the degree of barbarism can almost be equated with the strength of combat power.

This leads to an outcome that looks awkward.

Strategically, the army of the Bohai State is not worth mentioning, and for everyone with a strategy like Li Yu, the Bohai people are not an opponent of the magnitude at all.

In terms of tactics, the Tang Army, which has complete tactics and complete inheritance, has an absolute advantage.

No need for Li Yu, no need for Mo Lingjun, no need for Lin Yu, and even a qualified battalion-level commander can beat the Bohai army.

However, in the real hard-fought battle, this disorder brought into full play the greatest advantages of the Bohai army itself.

Compared with the Bohai Army, which was at the peak of its combat effectiveness, Li Yuke, who had just fought with the more than 100,000 troops in the fifth round, was different.

Zuo Weiwei, the trump card in Li Yu's hand, and the 80,000 people of the main force in the fifth round fought fiercely for seven days, losing more than half of them.

The cavalry led by Mo Lingjun marched nearly 1,000 miles in six days, and then followed all the way, the number of battle losses was not large, but the personnel and horses were extremely tired.

The remaining 40,000 foot soldiers, in addition to the 10,000 Anton Army, which belonged to the front-line combat force, the remaining 30,000 or so were the guards of the coastal defense post.

The combat effectiveness of these guards cannot be said to be weak, but at the beginning of the establishment of the coastal defense, the main target was not land warfare, but the soldiers attached to the naval division.

In terms of the selection of personnel, the soldiers of the forbidden army and the capital were often selected from good families, or from the recruited soldiers. The coastal defense is mainly recruited and selected from fishermen, islanders, Guishun pirates, and pirates, and the requirements for physical fitness are not high in the selection of conditions, but there are extremely high requirements for water quality.

In terms of combat missions, the coastal defense is responsible for the coastal defense of the jurisdiction in peacetime, boarding ships and accompanying the naval division when the naval division goes out, temporarily docking at the harbor to be responsible for guarding, serving as the main force of the jumping gang battle during the naval battle, and landing as an infantry soldier when landing.

In terms of equipment, the coastal defense guards are not worthy of war horses, pack horses, and long soldiers, and the infantry is mainly light infantry, sword and shield soldiers, and long-range crossbowmen who are suitable for gang jumping, and are equipped with a small number of heavy infantry and a small number of engineers.

Judging from the standards of later generations, on the Jiaodong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula in the Datang Dynasty, the six coastal defense guards can be regarded as the marines reserved by Guo Rong for the naval division.

In terms of training, the formation of the coastal defense army was too short, not only the direction of training was different, but the intensity and degree of training could not be compared with that of the forbidden army and the auxiliary troops of the Metropolitan Protectorate.

No matter from any point of view, they are better at naval warfare and amphibious warfare than positional warfare and urban offensive and defensive warfare.

During the formation of the army and during the Northern Expedition, the resources of the entire Tang Dynasty were inclined to the Hebei battlefield, and the coastal defense was not able to defend the already lightly armed equipment

100 percent in place, which makes their combat capability on land have to be discounted again.

Li Yu knows the combat effectiveness of the coastal defense forces best; if we talk about naval warfare, amphibious warfare, and landing warfare, these tens of thousands of coastal defense troops are the best in the world, and no one can surpass them.

However, when it comes to land warfare, Li Yu can only hehe.

Not to mention the most elite Chang'an Forbidden Army, the Duhufu soldiers formed according to the Chang'an Forbidden Army, even the level of the feudal army could not reach, although it would not fall to the level of Silla, Baekje, and Goguryeo, but the combat effectiveness was really not high.

There is no way, the priority of coastal defense is naval warfare, followed by defensive warfare, and field warfare can only be regarded as a part-time job of coastal defense.

It is true that there are 8,000 guards in a coastal defense, but among these 8,000 people, there are no cavalry, no long soldiers, no more than 100 swords, and less than 300 heavy armor......

Although there are many heavy crossbows, they are all to match the increase in naval and defensive warfare, and it is okay to pack up lightly armored or unarmored pirates, but without the cover of heavy infantry, they can play a very limited role in field warfare.

If he didn't know that the coastal defense was really not suitable for field warfare, why would Li Yu put Zuo Weiwei in front to resist hard, and let tens of thousands of foot soldiers dig traps on both sides.

Because of barbarism and disorder, the Bohai Navy has made their actual combat effectiveness close to the peak.

Strategically, Li Yu can treat the Bohai Navy as a fool, and tactically, Li Yu can beat the Bohai Navy, but on the battlefield, especially when it is necessary to fight hard, Li Yu is at an absolute disadvantage in terms of both the number of troops and the actual combat effectiveness.

This makes it difficult for Li Yu to fall into the embarrassing situation of being a clever woman who has no rice to cook, even though there are thousands of strategies and tactics, but in the end they cannot be implemented because of the lack of combat power.

Fortunately, Li Yu is not a stubborn and pedantic person, and there is no so-called perfectionist plot.

Therefore, Li Yu chose a tactic that seemed the dumbest and most effective, and it was also Guo Rong's favorite tactic:

Defend the city, copy the back road, and gather and annihilate it.

Li Yu's fortified city is Xiangping,

Relying on Xiangping, it consumed the morale and sharpness of the Bohai people, and at the same time waited for the reinforcements sent by Guo Rong.

The cavalry led by Mo Lingjun and Dong Jia brought cavalry from Liucheng according to Guo Rong's order.

In the fifth year of Yuanhe, on June 16, the Bohai army arrived at the city of Xiangping without any pause or hesitation, without the assistance of any other siege equipment, and began to attack the city with a simple bamboo ladder.

After attacking for nearly a day, throwing down nearly a thousand corpses, the attack stopped.

On June 17, the Bohai people did not attack in a hurry as they did on the first day, but divided into 20,000 troops and set up a camp in the northwest and southwest of Xiangping, thus besieging Xiangping in the center.

While dividing the troops to encircle, the Bohai people were still not in a hurry, but sent a large number of men to cut down wood and collect materials, and it was clear that they were ready to fight a protracted war.

On the top of Xiangping Tower, looking at the Bohai people who were busy around Xiangping, Li Yu couldn't help but sigh softly in his heart:

Bohai people are really on the road.

On June 24, a full three cavalry regiments led by Dong Jia, a total of 18,000 cavalry, sent by Guo Rong, arrived at the periphery of Xiangping after a long journey.

Dong Jia's arrival brought the number of cavalry in Li Yu's hands to a full 42,000 cavalry.

With 42,000 cavalry plus 5,000 Zuo Weiwei, 10,000 Andong troops, and more than 30,000 coastal defense guards, the actual strength in Li Yu's hands also exceeded 90,000, approaching 100,000.

Compared with the nearly 150,000 soldiers and horses of the Bohai people, the 90,000 soldiers and horses in Li Yu's hands are still a lot less, but the difference is more than twice the disparity ratio, which can be called roughly the same.

More important than the difference in quantity is quality.

Whether it is the original cavalry or the reinforcements brought by Dong Jia, these 42,000 cavalry are either from Zhenwu and Shuofang, or they are elite cavalry attached to the forbidden army, and both combat effectiveness and organizational strength belong to the first-class level of the Tang army.

Plus the losses are not light

, but Zuo Weiwei, whose skeleton is still there, and the 10,000 soldiers of the Anton Protectorate directly under Li Yu, Li Yu already has the confidence to fight the Bohai people head-on.

It's just that the cavalry still needs to rest, and the cooperation between Zuo Weiwei and the Anton Army also needs to be finalized.

On June 27, the 42,000 cavalry under the command of Mo Lingjun and Dong Jia completed the repair and returned to the peak state, and Zuo Weiwei, which had been replenished by the Anton Army, had also returned to a full state.

At this moment, all Li Yu was waiting for was an opportunity, an opportunity for the enemy to slack off and he could launch a counterattack.

By this day, the Bohai people's attack on Xiangping had lasted for ten days, and under the ten days of Meng's attack, the Bohai people had lost at least more than 6,000 soldiers.

Although the Bohai themselves were more savage than the Tang army, their chaotic structure and scattered organization made them less able to withstand damage and losses.

The loss of 6,000 people has exceeded the psychological tolerance of a considerable number of people, and their morale, state, and desire to fight have reached the lowest point since the siege of Xiangping, and it can be said that the Bohai people have reached the first critical point under the 10-day continuous Mengping attack.

Li Yu knew very well that as the Bohai people reached the critical point of attack, their opportunities could come every day.

That night, the west gate of Xiangping City was quietly opened, and 2,000 heavy cavalry quietly entered Xiangping from the no-man's land in the center of the two camps of the Bohai people, completing Li Yu's final preparations.

Li Yu was ready for himself, but even he didn't expect his opportunity to come so quickly.

The next day, on the 28th of June, the sun rose as usual, the smoke of the cooking in the city still rose, and the coastal guards in the city were still holding on to the city, but outside the city, the trumpet that had been sounded for ten days did not blow in the hour of the hour, as it had been for the previous ten days.

What also did not appear was the war drums that had been beating for ten days, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who were stubbornly clad in battle.

After making sure that the enemy army did not attack as usual, Li Yu knew that the opportunity he was waiting for had come, and immediately gave his own order to counterattack.

With Li Yu's order, the soldiers and auxiliaries in the city quickly got busy, feeding the horses, putting on armor, and cutting edges, and in just a quarter of an hour, 15,000 soldiers, 2,000 cavalry, and 6,000 coastal defense auxiliaries had completed their preparations for battle.

Immediately afterwards, the gate of Xiangping, which had been tightly closed for ten days, was opened, and one team after another of elite troops, armed to the teeth, opened out of the city gate.

Caught off guard, the Bohai Navy was also forced to attack, but compared to the prepared Zuo Weiwei and the Anton Army soldiers, the Bohai people were much more embarrassed.

The Bohai people who were dreaming were awakened one by one, but when they opened their eyes, there was neither food, nor soup, nor the beauties in their dreams, but only cold orders, hot horse whips, and wooden sticks with thick bowls waiting for them.

Although extremely reluctant, under the military sticks and horse whips, the Bohai people still got up one after another, hungry, carrying grievances, dressing and armor......

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However, at this moment, the attack for ten days has always been a failure, and the hearts of the Bohai people have long been filled with dissatisfaction.

Before, the Tang army was stubbornly defending the city, holding on to it, and it was both difficult and aggrieved to fight if the attack ability was not strong, but at this moment, I saw that the Tang army ran out by itself to die.

Except for a few smart people, the brains of the vast majority of Bohai people were ignited in an instant, and the rest no longer needed the command of the generals of the Bohai people.

The menacing Bohai people held their swords and rushed towards the completed Zuoweiwei battle formation in various formations that looked nondescript to the Tang army.

As the distance between the two sides narrowed, under Lin Yu's order, the battle formation composed of eight thousand soldiers stopped, and the Mo Dao soldiers in the front part of the battle formation stood in place, forming the reference point of the entire battle array.

All the rest of the archers, crossbowmen, pikemen, spearmen, lancemen, sword and shield men, and eight-oxen crossbows were in place in turn.

Soon, a high-pitched command appeared at the front of the battle array.

"Eighty rulers, three rounds of rapid fire!"