Chapter 1149: A Critical Battle
"This battle will be a crucial battle for us to establish a state in Annam." Wang Junlin secretly thought in his heart, he knew that if this battle was won, the Goguryeo army would not and would not dare to send troops to Annam County for several years, on the contrary, if they were defeated, his 10,000-strong army would suffer heavy losses, and his vitality would be greatly damaged, and the Annan Kingdom and Goguryeo he established would definitely be in constant war in the future.
Moreover, Silla and Baekje will also have different hearts, after all, now the Great Sui Emperor Yang Guang returned with a million troops in a crushing defeat, which made the image and prestige of the Great Sui in subject states like Silla and Baekje plummet, and it has long lost its original influence.
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Wang Junlin had already arranged his tactics, with the 11,000 cavalry he brought as the core, and the 30,000 cavalry each of Silla and Baekje as the two wings, while the 3,000 cavalry led by his lieutenant Chi Jingde and the 1,000 cavalry of Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba each gathered in the middle, and on either side of them were nearly 6,000 Sui cavalry gathered by the two teenagers in the early stage.
As the sound of the horn resounded through the valley mouth of Sanyang Valley, Wei Chi Jingde led 3,000 cavalry and 1,000 each of Luo Shixin and Li Xuanba, a total of 5,000 Wang Junlin's cavalry lined up in a long formation of 200 people, each row of 25 people, and the spears and swords erected on the array shone silver in the sun.
Each of the three rows is a combat unit, the first two rows of scale armor use a one-foot four-foot spear, the third row uses a thickened and widened one-handed waist knife, each wearing a medium-defense, light-weight chain mail, the same row of cavalry is only three feet apart from each other, two steps between companies, and seven steps between the front and rear rows.
The 6,000 ordinary cavalry of the Sui army on both sides still killed the enemy with their own cavalry tactics, and the cavalry of Silla and Baekje on both sides also had their own cavalry tactics.
Wang Junlin did not personally lead people to charge, he was still in charge of the command and dispatch of the whole audience in a higher position in the back.
Wei Chi Jingde was responsible for the unified command of the front line, at this time Wei Chi Jingde came to the front of the formation ten steps, looking at the Goguryeo army on the opposite side, he didn't need to say anything to mobilize, for more than ten days, he was chased by the Goguryeo people, so that the whole army from top to bottom was full of strength, and the fighting spirit was already monstrous.
Both sides are excellent war horses, but the state of the war horses of the Goguryeo army is obviously not good, which is a sign that there is no good rest all the way.
Horses on both sides felt the atmosphere of the battlefield, and violently began to plow the ground with their front hooves and shake their heads from side to side with a snort.
At this point, the two sides began a brief standoff.
The generals on both sides used this time to observe the enemy on their opposite side, while the soldiers hurried to complete the final preparations for battle.
Wang Junlin took the telescope to observe the half-ring, and found that the nearly 50,000 Goguryeo cavalry were the cavalry of Yuan Taizuo's lineage, and they showed an 'elite' atmosphere. Because Wang Junlin knew that only the truly elite cavalry who had experienced a hundred battles could remain calm no matter what kind of opponent they were facing.
Shen Guo'er stood beside Wang Junlin, looked up at the sky, the sky was gloomy and pressed on the top of her head, there was no wind in the air at all, she seemed to realize the stuffiness of the weather, and the precious rhino armor that Wang Junlin found for her was not as heavy as the iron armor of the soldiers, but it was far less comfortable than the dress woven of silk, and she couldn't help wiping the sweat from her forehead.
Although Shen Guo'er has strong martial arts and has the protection of the little silver snake, it is the first time that the two sides have faced a battle of more than 100,000 cavalry, and she knows that in such a battlefield, her personal force seems very small and she has to be cautious.
In fact, at this moment, Shen Guo'er found herself a little nervous. She didn't know that Wang Junlin had already given her a high evaluation of her performance. Since ancient times, people who have not fought in war have been exposed to ugliness at the moment they really go to the battlefield, including many famous ministers and military attachés with a long history, not to mention that Shen Guoer is just a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl.
Shen Guo'er took a deep breath, forcibly suppressed the tension in his heart, and looked at the location of Wang Junlin's Chinese army general's banner, which was composed of four chariots and dozens of horsemen and heralds of various colors. These things were transported here with great difficulty from the naval warships waiting for them on the northern coast, and in addition to the five-color flags that commanded the battle, there were several large drums, buttons, horns, etc., all of which symbolized the command of the battlefield.
At this time, Wang Junlin was wearing stainless steel armor, standing on a chariot, pursing his lips, and observing the situation on the other side intently.
Shen Guo'er knew that this stainless steel hundred refining armor was personally created by the ancestor Nie Xiaoyu for Wang Junlin, and Wang Junlin had not worn it before, but at this time he was wearing it on his body.
This armor, slashed by ordinary people with ordinary swords, is only a trace. And the most precious thing is that this armor is lighter than ordinary chain mail. This armor is already priceless.
Wang Junlin took the telescope and looked carefully at the entire Goguryeo cavalry camp, he hoped to find a flaw from the large array of the Goguryeo cavalry, but it did not succeed, the other party's soldiers were also old, and although Yuan Taizuo was the prime minister of Goguryeo and a civilian official, he had already proved that he was quite good at commanding the troops and arranging the formation of the Sui army when he fought with Yang Guang in the west.
"In that case, let's fight head-on first!" Caught off guard, Wang Junlin spit out these five words viciously in his mouth, "Herald Chi Jingde led his three thousand men and horses to charge the front of Goguryeo and tear apart the enemy army!" "Since the enemy army has no flaws exposed, it is natural to attack the front.
As soon as his words fell, Shen Guo'er saw several big flags pointed forward a few times, and the sound of war drums and horns suddenly sounded together, and his ears resounded with a deafening sound of ".........knock knock knock" and "woo .........", and then, a thunderous sound came from the ground under his feet, as if the ground was shaking.
"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" Wei Chi Jingde led 3,000 men and horses to shout three times in unison, and then rushed towards the Goguryeo army like a giant python.
For a moment, Shen Guo'er held her breath.
Shen Guo'er saw that there were thousands of Goguryeo cavalry shouting chaotic killing sounds and also greeted him, and when he was a hundred paces away, he led his bow and shot at the first few rows of Yu Chi Jingde and his party, but all the cavalry under the command of Yu Chi Jingde were wearing fine armor, and even their faces were covered, only a pair of eyes were exposed, and even the vital points of the war horses they sat on were protected by thin iron armor, although they did not have the weight of heavy cavalry, but they had the protective ability of heavy cavalry.
Therefore, the bows and arrows of the Goguryeo people fell like straw poles when they hit the cavalry that rushed to the front.