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When they got closer, they immediately rolled into the saddle and fell off their horses.

"The last general, General Yun Lu, Captain Chi Baolin, visited the Grand Governor."

Wei Chigong nodded at his son, and also responded with the courtesy of the whole army.

"General Yunlu, but Xiangguo asked you to come?"

Wei Chi Baolin sent a letter from Li Chao, which was written by Li Chao, that is, to talk about the soldiers and horses he brought, 5,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion, and the other 20,000 volunteers of His Majesty's Qinfeng Volunteers. Li Chao asked Wei Chigong, who was the governor of the right army, to prepare for the reception, and at the same time prepare supplies.

"Twenty thousand volunteers?" Wei Chigong's face was a little dark.

Sure enough, you really got so many rabbles to come, why did you bring so many people over to scare the Goguryeo people? As soon as he thought that he had suddenly increased the pressure on the supply of food, grass and ordnance by 20,000 'volunteers', he couldn't help frowning.

The face, which was already as black as charcoal, became even darker.

"There is no problem with the supply of grain and grass, there is still grain stored here, but this ordnance supply, the governor of Pontus is afraid that he will not be able to supply 25,000 people at once." Wei Chigong sighed at his son.

Wei Chi Baolin smiled and said to his father, "Please rest assured, the governor of the capital only asks for the preparation of 25,000 people's grain and grass, as for the supply of ordnance, as long as the powder magazine is handed over to us, the rest of the ordnance does not need to be replenished for the time being." ”

Wei Chigong was shocked.

Li Chao came with 25,000 recruits, and now he doesn't even need to equip it, this, these 20,000 people are really soldiers? Or is it that these people are called volunteers, but they are actually just the people brought by Li Xiang?

Wei Chigong no longer told his son about the rules of the army at this time, and directly pulled his son over, leaned in front of him and whispered, "Tell me, what the hell is Li Xiang doing?" What's going on with these volunteers? Are they folk husbands? ”

Yu Chi Baolin didn't dare to hide it in front of his father, and said it immediately.

"Pikemen? 20,000 pikemen? Wei Chigong felt that Li Chao was crazy.

How can there be such a configuration, the Tang Dynasty government army basically takes the team as the basic combat unit, both pure team and flower team.

The so-called pure team and flower team refer to a team that is fully equipped with a weapon, which is called a pure team, such as a fully equipped spear, or a fully equipped knife card, or a fully equipped bow, these are pure teams.

The flower team refers to a mixed group of troops, which are also infantry, but a team may have spearmen, sword players, and archers.

Generally speaking, at the team level, there will be no mixed infantry and cavalry, but there are many melee ranged mixed formations.

And even if it is a pure team, it is only a single arm at the team level, and further up, it will also be mixed, and when it reaches the scale of more than 1,000 people, it will also be mixed with infantry and cavalry.

Mixed organization can greatly enhance combat effectiveness and enable the troops to have independent combat capability.

But now, his son actually told him that Li Chao brought 20,000 volunteers, but they were all pikemen, is there such an army?

An army of 20,000 men, all of them are a fucking class, and they are the worst class of pikemen.

"Dad, it's not 20,000 pikemen, it's musketeers."

"Set up a big firework, it's the musketeer? What's the use of that? The battlefield is not a New Year's holiday, so what's the use of setting off fireworks for the enemy? Beauty to kill them? Wei Chigong said very dissatisfied.

And even a general with little experience should know that to fight a war, you have to match the military branches. Engage in 20,000 pikemen, can this battle be fought?

Volunteers who have no equipment and no experience, even if they fill the plains, can really engage the enemy, and if the enemy shoots from a distance with bows and arrows, how will they deal with it?

What if the enemy breaks the formation with cavalry?

Anyway, a simple 20,000 pikemen basically have no ability to adapt.

"Dad, it's a musketeer, not a pikeman, it's different."

"What's the difference, when it comes to flowers, it's a pikeman who can set off fireworks at most."

Yu Chi Baolin squatted in a circle, what could he do when he met such an unreasonable father and boss.

Forget it, let's let the teacher prove it to Daddy in person when he arrives.

Wei Chigong sighed for a long time.

Not in a very good mood.

The Turks wanted to set up a southern attack, and Li Ji in Hedong responded to the enemy, while Wei Chigong also guarded against the desire valley in Hebei, and transferred the defenders on duty to the northwest line of Youzhou such as Jundu Pass.

As a result, something went wrong with this tune, and the Goguryeo people suddenly came to kill.

The lack of defense in the northeast of Youzhou allowed 50,000 Goguryeo people to fight into the Hebei Plain.

Although Wei Chigong quickly led his troops to meet the enemy, he had already missed the best opportunity to block the Goguryeo people from the Hebei Plain.

On the plains of Youzhou, Wei Chigong led his troops to fight a few battles with the Goguryeo, but he did not take advantage of anything.

Because the strength of Wei Chigong's troops was far less than that of the Goguryeo, he had to set aside a part to defend the key places in the northwest, so as not to take the opportunity for the Turks to knock on the pass at this time.

If it weren't for Wei Chi Gong's bravery, and the soldiers of Youzhou Mansion were also elite, if they were others, they might have been defeated and annihilated by the Goguryeo people a long time ago.

But Wei Chi Gong has nothing to be proud of, some are just depressed, if he has more soldiers in his hands, if the Turks do not threaten the northwest, he can concentrate the troops in his hands and really compete with the Goguryeo people, he will definitely be able to get out all the they fight.

But now I have to be aggrieved.

Li Chao came with troops, Wei Chigong was happy, and he didn't get angry because of a mother-in-law on his head, after all, Li Chao's reputation for using soldiers like a god is still very bright.

But as soon as Li Chao came, he got 20,000 pikemen, isn't this a joke?

sulked by the dock, and finally waited for Li Chao to arrive with his 20,000 pikemen.

Seeing the white robe, Wei Chigong became even more depressed.

These white-robed volunteers didn't even have a helmet, no armor, not even leather armor or cloth armor, as if they were farmers who came to shop, except for carrying a spear, I really couldn't feel that they had the slightest taste of soldiers.

Sure enough, there were 20,000 pikemen, and there was nothing but spears. Wei Chigong wanted to turn around and leave, counting on Li Chao to repel the Goguryeo people, but it seemed that he couldn't count on it.

It is rumored outside that Li Chao has lost his mind and is crazy and messes up politics in the court, which is simply mediocre. Unexpectedly, now that he went out to command the troops, he actually got 20,000 pikemen. Hey, what is the use of these people except for wasting military rations?

Li Chao met with Wei Chigong and greeted him cordially, but Wei Chigong responded lukewarmly.

"General Weichi, where are the Goguryeo people now?" Li Chao is very concerned about the current situation.

Yu Chigong still had the same expression that someone else borrowed his rice but returned his chaff, "The last general fought with the Goguryeo people a few times, and there were some casualties on each other. At present, in Pingzhou, the Goguryeo people are facing each other across the water, and the Goguryeo people have surrounded the city of Pingzhou, and the general will not be able to break through the Goguryeo people's water interception line and cannot be rescued, and the city of Pingzhou is now in danger. ”

After listening to the introduction, Li Chao figured out the situation.

The Goguryeo people were unprepared for a surprise attack and entered the Hebei Plain, but although the Tang army was unprepared and did not stop them outside Hebei, they retreated to Guancheng and fought on their own, but it was also very timely.

The Goguryeo people plundered the countryside, but so far, they have not breached a single city.

Yuguan, Pingzhou City, Macheng, Shicheng, and the four cities of Pingzhou have not been lost. However, Wei Chigong had too few troops in his hands, and he had to prevent the Turks from the northwest from attacking, so he could only rescue Pingzhou with a small number of troops.

There are only 3,000 defenders in Pingzhou City, relying on the young men in the city to defend the city together, and they have desperately persevered until now, but they have almost reached the limit.

If Wei Chigong could no longer break through the Goguryeo people's defense line of wetwater, then Pingzhou Lulongcheng would really fall.

"Well, the situation is better than I expected. The Goguryeo people were unprepared for the surprise attack and caught us off guard, but they were also very incompetent, and they didn't even take a city for so long. I was also worried that after they entered the Hebei Plain, they would attack the city all the way, and even besiege Youzhou City. ”

Li Chao said very easily, and he didn't seem to be worried about Pingzhou City at all.

"Xiangguo, his subordinates are incompetent, and his soldiers are outnumbered, and he can't break through the defense line of the Goguryeo people." Wei Chigong said angrily.

Wet water, that is, the Luan River in later generations. And Pingzhou, in the north of Tangshan in later generations, is in the west of Shanhaiguan.

To the west of Pingzhou, it is Jizhou, and Jizhou used to be Youzhou.

Pingzhou is the throat of Hebei leading to western Liaoning, and Yuguan was originally the throat of the throat. But now the Goguryeo people have come over, fortunately, Yuguan and other Guancheng have not been lost, although Wei Chi Gong has few soldiers and failed to relieve the siege of Pingzhou, but he also held the west bank of the water and did not let the Goguryeo people fight.

But the Goguryeo people were not in a hurry to fight, because they didn't take these gates in Pingzhou, and if they didn't take these cities, they couldn't fight with confidence.

Now the focus of the Goguryeo people is to besiege Pingzhou, and if they capture Pingzhou, they will have a stronghold, and then they will be able to take several other cities in Pingzhou, especially Yuguan, if they can take Yuguan, then the Goguryeo army will be able to connect with their western Liaoning.

"Xiangguo, the last general has already prepared food and supplies and things for the army in Youzhou, please move Xiangguo to Youzhou."

Li Chao waved his hand and looked northeast.

"Rescue is like fighting fire, Pingzhou City is in danger, every quarter of an hour we delay, Pingzhou City will be in danger of falling, and the lives and property of soldiers and civilians in the city will also be in danger. Don't go to Youzhou, go directly to Pingzhou. ”

Wei Chigong looked at the 25,000 men and horses behind Li Chao, especially the 20,000 extremely dazzling white-robed pikemen, and couldn't help but hesitate.

"Xiangye, don't you wait, the government troops from all over the country are already on their way to assemble."

"Don't wait for them, there are 25,000 men and horses, plus the more than 10,000 horses in your hands, which is enough to relieve the siege of Pingzhou." Li Chao waved his hand and said.

Wei Chigong felt a little toothache.

Li Chao's 5,000 Shenji battalion, plus his 10,000 horses, can defeat 50,000 Goguryeo? He felt a little hanging, but Li Chao had already given the order, and the whole army advanced to Pingzhou.

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