Wang Junlin knew very well that in addition to Wei Chi Jingde's cavalry, the speed of infantry and the range of long-range attacks were very limited in the effect of ambushes on the other side, and in the daytime. What's more, they are more than 6,000 fewer than each other.

Therefore, in addition to hiding the cavalry under the command of Wei Chi Jingde in the secret mountain roads on both sides and rushing out of the flank attack, he was ready to block the frontal attack of nearly 20,000 Goguryeo reinforcements with 11,000 infantry. Therefore, these 11,000 infantry are strictly not an ambush, but a frontal block.

The place where Wang Junlin chose to fight the Goguryeo people head-on was the narrowest place about 300 paces wide in the Heishui Grand Canyon, and his command station was set up on the top of a relatively flat hill on the side, and three big drums, various command flags, as well as various command and signal troops such as horns and gongs were already in place. Shen Guo'er is also among them.

Lu Han and Guan Xiaotong led their respective 3,000 infantry, plus the officers and soldiers of Luo Chunlai's 5,000 Water Division, who were currently going to serve as infantry, arranged a formation under this low mountain and set up some fortifications in front of them. On both sides of the hillside, some flat land was specially sorted out, and there were twenty giant stone throwers on each.

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Li Guangsheng rode on his horse, looking at the battle line of Wang Junlin's army in front of him from a distance, although it was dense, but the number of people was only about 10,000, but the neatness of this battle formation made him feel incredible, and it just blocked all this passage, the most important thing was that he couldn't see any cavalry.

"General, the cavalry has completed its preparations for the charge."

"Okay." Li Guangsheng looked around at the surrounding terrain, glanced at the command platform where Wang Junlin was from a distance, and the stone throwing positions on both sides that they could no longer see clearly, and thought that the opposing cavalry should be hiding somewhere behind the mountains on both sides, in case the opposing cavalry raided the two sides in the battle between himself and the opposing infantry, he might have big trouble, and after a little contemplation, he instructed the adjutant general next to him: "You take 3,000 cavalry to scatter on both sides and protect the flanks, especially the baggage, grain and grass." ”

"Others, kill all the Sui people in front of me." Li Guangsheng put his palm in front of his eyes and compared, and then stretched his arm straight forward, slashing towards the middle of Wang Junlin's army deployed in the canyon: "Pass the order, attack in a column and kill the enemy formation, and be careful of the gunpowder weapons of the Sui army when rushing over." ”

"Yes, General." The herald ran as fast as he could.

Li Guangsheng's handsome banner tilted forward slightly, and the army that had just arrived at the sound of the horn shouted killing and slowly rushed towards the Sui army blocking the way, of course, there were 500 Sui troops a hundred paces ahead of them who were forced to move forward.

There was no explosion of the mines that Li Guangsheng had expected, so the five hundred Sui troops were intact except for the twenty or so people who were killed when they forced them forward.

Wang Junlin dared to lead 11,000 infantry to defeat Goguryeo's 20,000 army, including 10,000 cavalry, in addition to his confidence in the combat strength of the army under his command, but also because he was fully prepared.

The temporary arrangement of the 300-step long position is connected with iron nails to lock the horses into a chain, and the thorns must be paved on it, and then the horse rejection gun of Zhang Er, followed by a long-range crossbow.

When the five hundred Sui army captives who were forced to walk in front by the Goguryeo people were more than 20 steps away, Guan Xiaotong shouted something, and the 500 people ran desperately to both sides, and the Goguryeo reinforcements 100 steps away behind were no longer blocked, in fact, they didn't have time to stop at this time. However, there was no need to stop it at this time, there could not be mines within twenty paces of Wang Junlin's army, because that would injure themselves.

At the moment when the five hundred Sui prisoners ran away from both sides, the bows and crossbows of both sides began to attack.

The long-range strong crossbows on the side of Wang Junlin, and the bows and arrows in the hands of the Goguryeo cavalry began to attack. Of course, the stone throwers on the hillside of the two sides of the king also began to shoot, but only one stone thrower on each side threw gunpowder packs, and the others were stubborn stones.

Because the previous attack on Daluo City did not consume bloody gunpowder, and some time ago Yang Guang was sent 2,000 catties to blow up the Liaodong city wall, so now Wang Junlin does not have many gunpowder bags here.

At the beginning of the long-range attack of the two sides, Li Guangsheng and other Goguryeo generals changed their faces, compared to the other party's arrow rain salvo falling, their arrow rain seemed too sparse, the most important thing is that Wang Junlin Each soldier was wearing iron plate armor, and wearing a low-eyebrow face protection iron helmet, the arrows shot by the Goguryeo reinforcements in addition to a few unlucky eggs were hit by arrows in the eyes, the first wave of arrow rain on a distance of more than 120 steps did not have much damage.

The 20,000 Goguryeo reinforcements had less than one-fifth of the iron armor, and most of them were only half-body cuirasses, and as for the helmets, only one-tenth of the soldiers had them, although they all had shields, but they could defend against most bows and arrows, but they couldn't stop the 100 long-range crossbows and dozens of stone-throwing machines fired by the stubborn stones and gunpowder bags, and more than 200 people died in the first round.

Li Guangsheng's reaction was quick and decisive, and he instantly understood that long-range combat was not the opponent of the Sui army, and at the sound of an order, the Goguryeo cavalry began to accelerate the charge.

Goguryeo's 20,000 reinforcement infantry was in the middle, the cavalry was on both sides, a distance of about 100 paces, and under the full speed of the charge, bows and arrows, stone throwers, and long-range strong crossbows only had time to fire one more round, but after the continuous fast crossbow was close to the range of 70 paces behind, the effect of the continuous fire was reflected, and the lethality was extremely great.

In addition, the long-range strong crossbow and giant stone throwing machine on the King's Landing side have been modified with gears, which shortens the preparation time for each shot, reduces the number of operators, and increases the power and accuracy.

At this time, each long-range crossbow has two soldiers who are desperately using a winch to wind the crossbow machine, within a hundred paces, every fire, every crossbow. The guns were able to shoot through seven or eight, or even as many as ten Goguryeo reinforcements, at once.

In short, when the Goguryeo cavalry rushed to the front of the Sui army, more than 500 people were killed and wounded. In the process, the Sui army was only shot by the Goguryeo bows and arrows, and more than 20 people were killed.

In the face of the Goguryeo cavalry charging at him, the soldiers wearing iron armor and holding spears at the front of the Sui army standing in the rain of arrows did not panic at all, they were as peaceful as standing in the sun and enjoying the spring breeze.

Although due to the trouble of transporting heavy equipment such as giant stone throwing machines and the fact that the roads were not very good, Wang Junlin was a little late when he led the army here, and only grabbed an hour to deploy defenses. But with the efforts of 14,000 soldiers, they completed all the defensive positions except digging trenches, and the horses were chained.