Sugawara Michizane said slowly: "Minister, I was ordered to lead the army to intercept the Tang army, and fought five battles in three days." The first battle, in Kurosaki Bay. The minister knew the benefits of the Tang Army's magic weapon bow and crossbow, and did not dare to let the two sides open their positions and fight head-on. Therefore, when some of the other party's soldiers just landed on the shore, the minister immediately led the elite cavalry to charge into battle!"

Daigo glanced at him, as if he was curious, how strong the Tang Army's magic weapon bow and crossbow was, in order to avoid being attacked by these magic weapon bows and crossbows in a wide range, Sugawara Michizane didn't even dare to rely on the location and deploy layers of defenses.

Sugawara Michizane continued: "The ministers didn't dare to get too close, so as not to enter the attack range of the magic weapon trebuchet and magic weapon bed crossbow on the Tang army's warship, so they had to wait for their soldiers to gather more before fighting." Results ......"

"How did it turn out?" asked Daigo.

Sugawara Michizane said bitterly: "Less than 20,000 foot soldiers, I have 100,000 elite horsemen, and I haven't been able to rush to the front of the formation several times, and I was shot by the strong bows and crossbows in the sky, and I suffered heavy casualties. ”

"It's not like you haven't entered the attack range of the magic trebuchet and the magic weapon bed crossbow, how can you still do this?"

Sugawara Michizane sighed, "No, but in the large array of nearly 20,000 foot soldiers, there are countless magic weapons such as Fuyuan crossbows, horn bows, and arm crossbows! Often a single crossbow arrow can pierce the cavalry and men and horses on the ground, and our armor is useless, and we can't even block a crossbow arrow!"

Daigo's mouth opened wide.

He knew very well what it would be if a cavalryman was shot by a crossbow bolt and he would fall on his back.

Sugawara Michizane wiped away his tears and continued: "However, the minister organized three charging formations, fought three battles, and finally rushed into the Tang Army's infantry formation!"

Daigo closed his eyes and imagined the battle at that time.

The first cavalry charge, was head-on, the front team fell, the horses neighed, many people were nailed to the ground by crossbow arrows and could not move, just a short time of fighting, so that the cavalry killed and wounded thousands, the army panicked, forced to retreat.

In the second cavalry charge, the army was mentally prepared and rushed longer distance, reaching a place where the Tang army's formation was very close. But helplessly, the rain of arrows of the Tang army kept falling, and there was no end, the soldiers in the front line kept falling, and the corpses of people and horses all over the ground seriously hindered the cavalry running, and finally they could only retreat again.

The third and final battle of the day. Prior to this, the cavalry had to first clean up the corpses of their comrades on the charging path, and the corpses that had been taken away were piled up, more than 10,000 corpses, and the smell of blood was so strong that it was almost impossible to breathe.

Sugawara Michizane, who was full of grief and indignation, personally rushed into battle with his personal guards, opened the way in front, and the monks worked together to intercept the rain of arrows - these backbones of the army used to be used as a decisive force for victory and defeat, but now they were shot countless times without even touching the corners of the Tang army's clothes!

In the end, although the cavalry ranks were also shot in pieces, and countless people died on the spot, they finally touched the front of the Tang army.

"However, the Tang Army's formation is the Glaive Formation, and the arc formation weakens the impact of the cavalry to the greatest extent, and there is still a circle of baggage vehicles on the periphery, and the war horses cannot step on it!"

Sugawara Michizane's voice trembled so much that he was almost speechless, and he relieved his breath several times before he could continue: "The minister knows that this formation is a disaster for the cavalry, but the minister must lead the cavalry to rush over, and he must prevent the Tang army from landing on the shore! This is the only chance for the minister to stop the Tang army, if they let them go ashore without too much damage, there will be no possibility to stop them in the future!"

Speaking of this, Sugawara Michizane was in tears again, choked up and couldn't speak.

Daigo didn't urge, looking at the attic that was gradually turning to ashes in the fire.

"The minister took the monks as the vanguard, rushed into the Tang army's infantry formation, and exchanged hands with their soldiers! The soldiers under the minister's command finally began to kill the enemy, and one after another Tang army armor soldiers fell on our swords

Next, we didn't care about life and death, we didn't think about retreating, we kept rushing forward to kill......"

Sugawara Michizane clenched the war knife in his hand, his face distorted into a bun, and his eyes became terrifying, "We have killed a lot of Tang troops, Your Majesty, do you know, that is your most elite soldiers, they sacrificed their lives to fight to the death, and proved that they are all qualified emperor soldiers!"

"But we were still blocked, not only that, but our follow-up cavalry was also besieged by the Tang Army's great monks, with countless casualties! The most terrifying thing is that during this period, the Tang Army let more than 10,000 elite horses get off the boat and surround our cavalry from the left and right flanks!"

"More than 10,000 elite horsemen, surrounded?" Daigo interjected.

Sugawara Michizane laughed miserably: "Your Majesty heard it right, our eighty or ninety thousand cavalry are surrounded by less than 20,000 elite cavalry from the other side!

The minister thought that the minister's rush into the opponent's infantry army was victory, but he didn't expect that it was just the beginning of a nightmare! Our front formation was mired in the quagmire, and was severely restricted by the Tang army's spear array and bow and crossbow array, and our middle and rear formations were slaughtered by the Tang army's elite cavalry!

"Chen had heard Yang Xingmi say before that Datang had an elite cavalry composed entirely of qi cultivators, and the minister didn't care about it at that time, because he didn't see it on the warship, so he thought that such an elite cavalry didn't exist - even if it existed, it wasn't in this Tang army!

"But the minister is wrong, Yang Xingmi's deep scheming! He showed all the combat strength of the Tang Army to the minister on the surface, the magic weapon trebuchet, the magic weapon bed crossbow, and all kinds of sharp weapons in the army, but he just hid this elite cavalry and did not reveal it! The minister was completely defenseless, so he took the country's most elite cavalry and entered the place of death he had arranged!

"This Yang Xingmi is definitely not easy to match...... When he met his ministers on the warship, he looked down on his ministers everywhere, and the ministers thought that he would underestimate the enemy and make mistakes, but he did not realize that when the two armies were fighting, he would be so insidious and vicious! He had set his ministers down from the very beginning!

Daigo bowed his head silently.

Sugawara Michizane is still too upright and not good at calculation, if it is Fujiwara Tohei, he may be able to fight with Yang Xingmi. But the scheming people were so frightened by the Tang Army that they fled with their clansmen at this time, and they didn't even have the courage to face the Tang Army.

Daigo sighed and looked up at the sky, feeling sad and ironic.

100,000 elite cavalry, 20,000 Tang Army cavalry, with 20,000 infantry troops, were strangled in Heiqi Bay. It can be seen from Yang Xingmi's tactical arrangement that his purpose is not to simply land on the shore, not to simply repel the enemy who intercepts him, but to slaughter the army!

What he wants is to kill all 100,000 elite horsemen!

"How many have you gained? Don't you say that you have killed a lot of Tang troops, how many are there?" Daigo asked, this question has nothing to do with the battle situation, only about dignity.

Sugawara Michizane smiled, smiled happily, even a little proudly, as if he had done something very remarkable, he stretched out two fingers and shook them.

"Two, two......" Daigo's lips moved, and he really couldn't say the word "10,000".

According to Sugawara Michizane's description, it is impossible for the Tang army to lose 20,000 people.

Sure enough, I listened to Sugawara Michiko: "Two thousand! Two thousand Tang Army!"

Daigo only felt that the blood all over his body was rushing to his brain, Rao is heart is now like ashes, hearing this number, looking at Sugawara Michima's proud expression, he really wants to punch the other party to death!

"100,000 for 2,000, 50 for 1!" Daigo bit his cheek, "You actually feel very proud?!"

"That's 2,000 Tang Army! It's Tang Army! There are more than 100 magic weapon trebuchets, more than 800 magic weapon bed crossbows, and tens of thousands of magic weapons

The Tang Army with a strong bow and a strong crossbow!" Sugawara Michizane emphasized seriously.

He was surprised by Daigo's reaction, shouldn't he be proud? He had fallen into a trap and faced a cavalry composed entirely of Qi cultivators, was it not enough to be able to kill 2,000 Tang troops? How many soldiers died on the way to the battle, and even the Tang army did not see it!

Fujiwara Tadahei was the most knowledgeable person cultivated by the Fujiwara family, and he used 200,000 sailors to meet the Tang army, but what was the result?

Daigo was so angry that he stood up, and let out a wild beastly roar at Sugawara Michizane: "Aren't my people human? Are the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty all immortal soldiers? Fifty people for one, why?! Is there a more outrageous war in this world......?

He "me" for a long time, and there is no follow-up, when it comes to this, do you still want to hold Sugawara Michizane accountable and behead him?

Sugawara Michizane was silent for a moment, and suddenly looked at Daigo word by word and said, "Of course there is a war that is more outrageous than this." After the first three battles, in the next two days, the minister fought two more battles with the Tang army. The ministers relied on the strong city of Xiongguan and the geographical advantages of the mountains and rivers to arrange defenses, and the Tang army attacked head-on.

"There is not much difference between the battle situation of the two battles, the Tang army armor soldiers did not rush to take the city, but just set up the magic weapon trebuchet and the magic weapon bed crossbow, and violently poured spirit stone fireballs and crossbow arrows towards the city pass.

"The Daimyoguan held on for four hours, and the Tang army collapsed the city wall, and the soldiers guarding the pass were killed and wounded countless times, and then the Tang army blasted open the city gate and rushed in directly. At that time, the officers and men of Guanzhong only cared about fleeing for their lives, trampling on each other and did not know how many died, and in the end, only a few thousand of the 80,000 soldiers guarding the pass escaped, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers of the Tang Army were at most hundreds, which was not worth mentioning. ”

"The same is true of Linjiang City, the difference is that it only lasted for three hours.

"The Tang army relied on divine soldiers to break through the city from a long distance and seriously injure our army, and the range of our bows and crossbows was far inferior to theirs, so we could only be beaten passively. Later, when they saw us retreat from the city wall, they actually moved the trebuchet and crossbow forward, and covered the inside of the city with fireballs of spirit stones and a rain of arrows!

"The minister organized soldiers to go out of the city several times and take the initiative to rush into battle, but the result was just a reenactment of the battle situation in Kurosaki Bay, in Kurosaki Bay, the Tang Army's magic weapon trebuchet and bed crossbow were still on the boat, and when they arrived at Linjiang City, they were all in front of the formation!

"Later, as soon as they saw our city gate open, they concentrated their strong bows and crossbows to shoot at the city gate, and our soldiers died in the city gate before they could rush out of the city......

Nearly 70,000 soldiers in Linjiang City surrendered one after another after the Tang army entered the city, but the Tang army refused to surrender, and the tragedy of slaughtering the army was staged again! This time, the Tang army's losses were even smaller......

Speaking of this, Sugawara Michizane finally couldn't say any more, lowered his head, covered his face with his eyes and whimpered.

He didn't need to go on.

How could Daigo not know that the news of the Fujiwara family's sudden departure from Heiankyo was learned by the generals in the army, and it soon spread on a large scale, and the generals no longer had the fighting spirit and fled from the city one after another.

The Tang army now doesn't even need to bomb the city, as long as it appears in front of the city, the defenders without generals will be scattered, and the Tang army only needs to take over the city.

The invincibility is not enough to describe the strength and smoothness of the Tang army's current offensive.

Daigo looked at the whimpering Sugawara Michizane and was speechless for a long time.

The pain in Sugawara's heart is really not enough for outsiders. The exchange of 100,000 people for 2,000 Tang troops in the first battle was certainly a great shame in the history of war, but compared with the later battles, it was the highlight of this war.

Such a shameful highlight.

As the Minister of War, Sugawara Michizane's previous "pride" was just an alternative catharsis of extreme sadness.