Chapter 538: Fan Lihua won three battles and three victories
The art of war has clouds, knowing oneself and knowing the enemy, invincible in a hundred battles, although Fan Lihua is alone, but she has enough confidence in her ability, she fights on the grassland and the desert all year round, the grassland is her home, she has already studied the map thoroughly in advance, and suddenly formed a very three-dimensional topographic image of the northern part of the desert in her mind, from the Yinshan steppe to the Black Gobi, and then to the Yu Dujun Mountain, mountains and rivers are readily available, which is comparable to the satellite of the future world, her ability is an innate talent, and no one can copy it. Including Li Hao.
On the other hand, on Xue Yantuo's side, before he figured out the details of Fan Lihua, he blindly attacked, which is the taboo of the big taboo. Lama sent 70,000 troops to attack the Tang army, Fan Lihua led the troops to feint, in fact, she had already built a temporary dam ten miles upstream of the Hunyi River to cut off the river in the upper reaches of the Hunyi River, when Xue Yantuo's army was ready to cross the river to pursue, Fan Lihua directly ordered the destruction of the temporary dam in the upper reaches of the Hunyi River, and the water rushed down, directly submerging most of Xue Yantuo's army.
Fan Lihua took advantage of the chaos of Xue Yantuo's army to suddenly attack, defeated the enemy army, chased and killed for more than 30 miles, and there were corpses everywhere, and the Xue Yantuo army that escaped in the end was only 10,000 people, and the 60,000 army was gone.
After a great victory, Fan Lihua turned around and went to attack Hui Hui, the current Khan of Hui Hui is called Po Run, a very strange name, this is naturally transliterated, Po Yan only took the throne last year, because the previous Khan Tu Mi Du rashly sent troops to attack the Tang Dynasty Youzhou and failed, not to mention the heavy losses, the hundreds of remnants who fled back also brought the plague back to the country, Po Yan therefore spread rumors, saying that Tu Mi Du lost the blessing of the gods, abandoned by the gods, if he took charge of Hui again, will lead the people to destruction.
The more ignorant they are, the more they believe in ghosts and gods, the Hui people listen to rumors, and the clan is full of voices against Tumidu, Po Yan took the opportunity to make trouble, rebelled, and forced Tumidu to step down, Tumidu fled north with a group of loyal men and horses, and Po Yan became a khan.
Po Yan only became a khan last year, this year ushered in the Tang army, when Fan Lihua led the troops through the Yinshan grassland, Po Yan found the Tang army, and also communicated with Xue Yantuo Khan, asking to send troops together to deal with the Tang army, but unfortunately Mo Mo was too arrogant, thinking that he could deal with 20,000 Tang troops, ignoring Po Yan, and then suffered a big defeat in the first battle, and it was 70,000 people who lost to 20,000 people, which was a big shame.
When Fan Lihua pursued the remnants of Xue Yantuo all the way, the 20,000 troops of the Hui just came out of the Yu Du Jun Mountain, the Yu Du Jun Mountain was very large, stretching for thousands of miles, although Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui's tents were located in the Yu Du Jun Mountain, but the distance was still quite far, Fan Lihua went northeast for two days, and met the 20,000 troops of the Hui Hui.
After the previous battle, Fan Lihua's 20,000 army still has more than 17,000 left, and the strength of the two sides is almost the same, so they will start fighting directly.
Facts have proved that Fan Lihua is indeed too awesome, although the Tang army does not know her original pear blossom array, but even the simplest arrangement, she also commanded it very appropriately, and the response was very fast, plus the Tang army was originally brave, as soon as the battle began, the Tang army had the upper hand, Fan Lihua sent the flank cavalry to outflank from both sides, and attacked the enemy with cavalry and long-range attacks, increasing the striking area, at the same time, she met the enemy with 10,000 Chinese troops and 20,000 cavalry, which will face huge pressure, and a bad one will be wiped out, but Fan Lihua is not an idle person, She also exerted her usual brave style, took the head of the general in the army, and cut the enemy's main general off the horse, and the Hui army suddenly had no leader, turned into a plate of loose sand, and was killed by Fan Lihua to the point of collapse, coupled with the cavalry and shooting on both sides, the Hui army had no way to escape, and the whole army was annihilated.
After defeating the Hui army, Fan Lihua did not attack the Hui Ya Tent, but chose to attack Xue Yantuo's Ya Tent, because she knew that with her remaining troops, whether it was the Hui Hui Ya Tent or Xue Yantuo Ya Tent, it would be impossible to defeat it, and she also knew that Li Shimin sent herself not to destroy Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui, but to test her ability.
Since this is the case, she wants to expand her credit to the maximum, so far, her credit is big enough, and her strength and food and grass are only enough for her to fight again, since it is only enough to fight one battle, then she naturally has to pick a big fight, so the credit is great, so she chose to attack Xue Yantuo's tooth tent, after all, Xue Yantuo is much stronger than Hui Hui.
After resting for a day, Fan Lihua led the army straight to the Xue Yantuo tooth tent of the Yu Governor Army, where 50,000 Xue Yantuo troops were stationed, and when he heard that the Tang army was coming, he panicked, and hurriedly sent troops to lay down the defense line according to the mountain situation, and the previous defeat had scared him.
Yu Du Jun Mountain is very famous in history, because it is the famous Yanran Mountain, the mountain undulates and stretches, like a giant beast dormant, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Fan Lihua led the troops to attack, because of the relationship between the strength and the terrain, more than 3,000 soldiers, defeated and fled, Xue Yantuo defenders saw that Fan Lihua was defeated and fled, immediately boosted morale, went down the mountain to pursue, after all, they had 30,000 cavalry, and the Tang army only had more than 7,000 people left.
Xue Yantuo's iron cavalry chased more than 20 miles, and it seemed that he was about to catch up with the Tang army, and suddenly rushed out from the foot of the mountain more than 3,000 Tang army crossbow teams, the reason why the Tang Dynasty was invincible, there were two magic weapons, one was the extremely strong cavalry, and the powerful crossbow team, and the crossbow team was a combination of these two magic weapons, the existence of a big killer, the entire Tang Dynasty's crossbow team added up to no more than 30,000, Xue Rengui took away 15,000 crossbow teams to conquer Goguryeo, and Fan Lihua took Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui with only 3,000.
As soon as the crossbow team appeared, three thousand strong crossbows fired a salvo, the sky was full of arrows, and the Xue Yantuo army suddenly turned over on their backs, and more than a thousand cavalry fell to the ground with arrows, which is not only, because the Xue Yantuo cavalry team was in a galloping state, the front of the people and horses fell to the ground, which will inevitably have an impact on the rear, just like a car accident, suddenly, the rear cavalry was also tripped, in the chaos of the army, there were horse hooves everywhere, once it fell, don't think about standing up again, although the Xue Yantuo army commander found that the situation was not right and tried his best to stop the army, but the cavalry team of 30,000 people, How can it be said that if it is stopped, it will be stopped, and the Lord Xue Yantuo will have no choice but to order Mingjin, which is a signal to retreat.
When Xue Yantuo's army stopped, more than 4,000 cavalry had died, most of them died under the hooves of the horses, and the formation was also in chaos, the 3,000 crossbow team rode up, the bowstring "buzzing" sound was endless, and the arrows continued to greet the enemy army, at the same time, Fan Lihua had already led the troops to counterattack, she took the lead, holding the iron tire strong bow given to her by Xue Rengui, with a steel arrow, an arrow was shot, far through the three people, the Tang army's morale was suddenly greatly boosted, although the current Tang army is in a weak position, But morale was extremely high.
Xue Yantuo's army has begun to retreat, after all, the task given by Tama is to hold on, not to break the enemy, this time Xue Yantuo's main general is greedy for merit, he has made a big mistake, he can't make mistakes again and again.
However, when he was greedy and led the troops to pursue, there was no turning back, Fan Lihua led the cavalry to pursue in the rear, the crossbow team belonged to the light cavalry, the speed was extremely fast, chasing and shooting all the way, constantly encroaching on the enemy, 10,000 people chased more than 20,000 people to fight, and the other party did not have the slightest temper.
When Xue Yantuo's army fled back to Yu Du Jun Mountain, there were only 3,000 men and horses left, on the other hand, Fan Lihua's side, from the battle to the present, the damage was no more than five hundred, which was almost a one-sided massacre, but fortunately, Mo Mo sent people to the rescue with troops, and Fan Lihua withdrew and gave up the pursuit.
Three battles and three victories, 20,000 troops still have 10,000 left, more than 100,000 enemies, such a record even Li Hao has never created, Fan Lihua's first battle refreshed the Tang Army's combat record, the soldiers under Fan Lihua's account are extremely excited at the moment, first they also expressed their disbelief in this female general, they think that a dignified man, but to be ordered by a woman, this is very embarrassing, but now, they can't accept it.
The changes in the soldiers in the barracks, Fan Lihua could naturally feel it, she knew that her goal had been achieved, and immediately wrote a military report to send a fast horse back to Chang'an, and at the same time, she temporarily withdrew her troops to the Yunzhou Governor's Mansion on the grounds of supplementing grain and grass, waiting for the next order from the imperial court.
When Fan Lihua was in the overseer of the army mountain, the long-awaited recruitment of horses in Chang'an City finally began, and there were countless people who signed up for this competition, but there were only sixty-four people who entered the audition, which was the number of people set by Li Zhi at the beginning, which was convenient for the subsequent knockout rounds.
The first is two rounds of martial arts, the first round from sixty-four people to select thirty-two people, the second round from thirty-two people to select sixteen people, can pass these two rounds of martial arts competition, in the martial arts must not be too weak, the place of the competition is located on the Suzaku Street, only one mile away from the Suzaku Gate.
There is a big square ring set up on Suzaku Street, sixty-four contestants draw lots to determine the order of appearance, most of the sixty-four people who participated in the competition this time are the sons of princes and nobles, or the young and handsome people in the clan of the gate lords, there are only three people with white bodies, and look at the three people with luxurious clothes, it seems that the family background is not thin, it is estimated that they were born in a rich family, and there is no real common people.
This competition can be said to be a grand event that Chang'an has not had for a long time, and Li Shimin also took hundreds of civil and military officials to the Zhuque Gate to watch this martial arts competition, it can be seen that he also attaches great importance to the matter of recruiting horses, and people within a radius of hundreds of miles have flocked to Chang'an City to see the excitement, and the huge Chang'an City is overcrowded.
At this moment, on a hill in the north of Chang'an City, Ganye Temple is in a depression, and there is not even a single pilgrim, because everyone goes to Chang'an City to see the excitement, and now there are still people who come to incense.
A beautiful nun stood in front of the temple gate and quietly looked at Chang'an, this nun was Wu Meiniang, who was a monk in Ganye Temple, with the law name Mingkong, taken from her name Wu Cong.