Chapter 793: Breaking the Silla Army
When Li Hao first arrived in Weihai, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui also happened to lead the army to Chongzhou, because they had just arrived in Chongzhou, they were not very clear about everything for the time being, Fan Lihua first sent scouts to investigate, and at the same time entered Chongzhou City, saw the history of Chongzhou, and asked him about the situation. Fastest updates
Chongzhou Assassin Shi Huang Lang has been sending scouts to closely monitor the movements of the Silla army since Silla sent troops to station in the north of Wanxiang Mountain, in order to prevent the Silla army from attacking and harassing the people of the Tang Dynasty.
Fortunately, the Silla army did not attack the people of the Tang Dynasty on a large scale, but some Silla soldiers were not very disciplined and would still plunder and harass the nearby people, but fortunately, he sent troops to stop them every time.
The Silla army had already set up camp at the foot of Vientiane Mountain, initially building a simple cottage out of wood, but a month earlier they had begun to transport stones to the area and start building a military castle.
Military castles are not built in a month or two, even with the huge manpower, material and financial resources of the Tang Dynasty, it will take at least three to four months to build a small military castle, and the manpower, material and financial resources of Silla are far inferior to those of the Tang Dynasty, so their military castle has just been laid at present, but looking at their posture, they seem to be really ready to occupy this area for themselves.
The next afternoon, the scouts sent by Fan Lihua came back, and the scouts drew a simple map of the distribution of troops and the camp map of Silla during the exploration, Fan Lihua took the map drawn by the scout, combined with the map given to him by Li Hao, and suddenly formed a three-dimensional image in his mind, a mountain range, surrounded by Silla troops, under the foot of the mountain is the camp of the Silla army, and the castle of Silla is under construction.
Then, Fan Lihua also drew a picture, and the one she drew was a detailed map of the mountain terrain and the distribution of Silla troops, after drawing the map, Fan Lihua found Xue Rengui and showed him the map, Xue Rengui looked at Fan Lihua's map, looked at her in surprise, and asked, "Is this really the case?" Why was the Silla army so scattered? ”
Fan Lihua said: "Looking at the distribution of their forces, it seems that they are guarding something, and the thing that is being guarded...... It should be right here! ”
Fan Lihua pointed to the center of the mountain range with her finger and said, "They are deployed like this to guard here, so that no small army can rush to the mountain, but ......"
Xue Rengui knew what she was going to say, and said: "They probably didn't expect that our Datang didn't speak so well this time, and this time they actually sent a large army to attack them, they were so scattered, but instead scattered the combat power of the entire army, which was just in our favor." ”
"That's right." Fan Lihua said, "It's just that most of their troops are located on the mountainside and the top of the mountain, the mountain is moderate, if we want to attack, we need to beware of them setting up an ambush, I have looked carefully, there are three places that are most suitable for ambush, namely this canyon, this forest, and this low slope......" Fan Lihua pointed out three points on the map one after another, and said, "These three places must be avoided, as long as we don't fall into ambush, it will be easy to defeat the Silla army." ”
"Hmm." Xue Rengui looked at the map and nodded, and said slowly, "When are you going to attack?" ”
Fan Lihua said: "Vientiane Mountain is more than 120 miles away from here, we only have 10,000 cavalry, set off lightly, fast, set off tonight, rest for two hours at night, and reach the foot of the mountain at dawn, and launch an attack tomorrow morning, which should be able to catch them off guard." ”
"Yes." Xue Rengui nodded, "The night march can also avoid Silla's patrol scouts, so that's it." ”
"Then go back and prepare, and send troops at sunset tonight."
The sun had just set, and the sky was intertwined with yellow and crimson, as if unwilling to be shrouded in darkness, two armies of 5,000 men went out of the city through the two gates, and they were both the most well-equipped heavy cavalry, without a single baggage load, and after leaving the city, the two armies galloped away in the northeast direction, which was the direction of Vientiane Mountain.
The bright moonlight shines on Fan Lihua's silver-white armor, in the wilderness, a quiet, Fan Lihua holds a telescope to observe in the direction of Vientiane Mountain, her telescope is Li Hao not long ago let his brother Li Cheng "airdrop" over, is a new high-tech product in the future world, not only night vision, but also range, wind direction, wind speed, predict the weather within three hours, waterproof, no need to charge, because in the future world, photovoltaic cells have become popular, the telescope built-in photovoltaic battery life of more than ten years.
Putting down the binoculars, Xue Rengui, who was dressed in gold armor next to him, asked, "How is it?" ”
Fan Lihua said: "Now we are still fifty-two miles away from Vientiane Mountain, and the enemy army does not seem to have discovered us. ”
"Great." Xue Rengui said, "I don't think there is a need to rest for two hours, one hour is enough, these are the elite soldiers of Tiance Mansion, not ordinary soldiers." ”
Fan Lihua thought for a while, nodded and said: "Well, reasonable, then rest for an hour, after the rest is over, we will still march separately, seven to ten miles apart, we can increase the speed to the fastest, we can reach Vientiane Mountain before dawn, and kill them by surprise." ”
Soon, the army rested, set off again, like a tide rushing towards Vientiane Mountain, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui each sent ten scouts to open the way, once they encountered the enemy scouts, they directly opened the crossbow to kill.
It turned out that it was necessary to send scouts to open the way, because there were scouts from Silla in the future, and those Silla scouts wanted to go back to report after discovering the Tang army scouts, but their horses were not as fast as the horses of Tiance Mansion, and every horse in Tiance Mansion was carefully selected, which was something that could only be done with money to a certain extent.
The Tang army scouts caught up with the Silla scouts and fired crossbows directly, the Silla scouts fell off their horses and died, the Tang Iron Cavalry was so quietly close to Vientiane Mountain, less than ten miles away from Vientiane Mountain, at the foot of Vientiane Mountain is the camp of the Silla army, which is stationed with 10,000 Silla troops, and their commander Park Zhinan is in the barracks, this Park Zhinan is the younger brother of Silla Prime Minister Park Ji-yong, just became a general, this is the first time he is in charge of such a huge army, every day with his brother has a dream of dominating the world, Belongs to the kind of people who are ambitious and talented.
The Tang Iron Cavalry was already seven miles outside the Silla barracks, the horse's hooves rumbled, the ground trembled slightly, but the sentry soldiers in the barracks were all dozing, and no one noticed anything unusual.
When the Tang Iron Cavalry rushed to the Silla military camp three miles away, someone in the Silla camp woke up, and finally felt the ground trembling, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves came straight to the ear drums, which frightened the Silla soldiers to shout, and the Trumpet sounded in the Silla camp, and then the Silla army camp fell into chaos.
Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui led the army to raid the Silla camp from the west and south, the Silla camp seemed to be strong, but it was impacted by the Tang Iron Cavalry, all the fences collapsed, the Tang army rushed into the camp, showed a Mo knife, wanton torture and killing, the whole camp fell into the ghost crying wolf howl, just put on the armor Park Zhinan just rushed out of the tooth tent was scared stupid, he repelled thousands of people in the Tang Dynasty some time ago, and was complacent, thinking that the Tang army is nothing more than that, However, the Tang cavalry he saw at this moment completely subverted his imagination, this group of Tang cavalry was each armed to the teeth, holding a large iron shield in his left hand and a long big knife in his right hand, which bloomed in the moonlight, and even their mounts were covered with armor, at first glance, he thought that this was a demon soldier from hell.
Seeing that Park Zhinan was stunned, several guards hurriedly shouted: "General, the Tang people have come to take revenge on us, let's run away!" ”
"Yes, run! Escape! Only then did Park Zhinan react, hurriedly discarded the helmet, wrapped the armor on his body with a large cloth, and led the horse to flee east under the protection of more than a dozen personal guards.
Wang Xiaojie's eyes were sharp, and when he saw that there were more than a dozen people protecting one person to escape, it was very likely that he was the main general of the enemy army, so he immediately rode his horse and ran towards this side, shouting in his mouth: "Where is the thief fleeing!" ”
Wang Xiaojie's mount was strong on his feet, and a few leaps chased after him, Park Zhinan's personal guards drew their swords to intercept Wang Xiaojie, Wang Xiaojie's spear was barked, like a white rainbow through the sun, more than a dozen personal guards were as vulnerable as a scarecrow, and they fell to the ground one after another, Park Zhinan suddenly knelt on the ground in fright, and shouted: "Don't kill me!" I give up! I'm the boss! ”
At this time, he could only shout that he was the boss, otherwise Wang Xiaojie would kill him as a small soldier, and the value of the coach as a prisoner was still very high.
Wang Xiaojie used a spear to pick open the cloth on his body, and saw that he was dressed in copper armor, which really looked like the identity of the coach, he was happy, and he got off the horse and tied Park Zhinan directly.
The attack on the camp only lasted for more than ten minutes, and it ended quickly, 10,000 people killed 10,000 people, naturally very fast, except for the commander Park Zhinan, did not accept any prisoners, Fan Lihua left 2,000 people to guard the camp, and then he and Xue Rengui divided the army into eight thousand squads, went up the mountain according to the designated route, and attacked the enemy's various strongholds scattered in the mountains.
The battle at the foot of the mountain was too quiet, and the nearby strongholds naturally knew the changes at the foot of the mountain, but they were too far away, and they couldn't see clearly, and they couldn't support, and the battle only lasted for ten minutes before it ended, and the Silla army in those strongholds thought that this was just a small-scale attack by the Tang people, so they didn't take it to heart, the quality of the army of Silla was too poor, and the reason for this phenomenon was that military discipline was not strict enough, and whether a country's military strength was strong or not was not to see whether their weapons and equipment were sophisticated. It depends on whether the military discipline is strict, in history, what is the most powerful army in Asia, that is, the army led by the Jurchen Wanyan Aguta, starting with 2,000 people, ten years, destroyed the Liao State, established the Jin State, no one can beat it, if Temujin encountered the army led by Wanyan Aguta when he destroyed the Jin State, then Temujin may not be able to beat Wanyan Aguta.
You must know that when Wanyan Aguda was just starting, the equipment of the two thousand cavalry was snatched from the Liao people, which was very simple, but the Liao people just couldn't beat him, why, because Wanyan Agu led the troops and had iron-like discipline.
Similarly, why is the Song army led by Yue Fei so powerful, not only repelling the Jin people's attacks again and again, but also counterattacking the Jin country, in addition to Yue Fei's courage and strategy, there is a more important reason, Yue Fei is very strict in governing the army, and the military discipline can be called the first in the history of the Song State.
The military discipline of the Tang Dynasty is very strict, Li Hao knows how important the military discipline is, and he is even more strict with the soldiers of the Tiance Mansion, if there is no Tiance Mansion, Qinghai Wei or the most elite army of the Tang Dynasty, but with the Tiance Mansion, Qinghai Wei can only rank second now, because the Tiance Mansion is an army trained by Li Hao himself.
Fan Lihua personally led a team of 1,000 people and went up the mountain according to the predetermined route, although their army was all cavalry, but the training mode of Tiance Mansion was not something that ordinary people could understand, all the soldiers of Tiance Mansion could charge in formation when they got on their horses, and they could be ten when they dismounted.
Every Silla army stronghold has a simple camp, and there are people patrolling the periphery, Fan Lihua directly shot the periphery patrol with cold arrows, and quietly rushed to the front of the enemy camp, when the enemy found them, they were already very close to the stronghold, everyone took out a standard crossbow, a burst of crossbow shooting, a large number of people fell in the Silla army stronghold, and the people who survived were frightened and shouted, rampantly fled, completely without fighting spirit, Fan Lihua ordered the impact, everyone rushed into the stronghold with a Mo knife, and killed people when they saw them, without mercyAlthough it was the first time for some people to come out to fight, after all these hellish training, they had already become extremely ruthless, and killing people did not seem to be as difficult as they imagined.
Almost every stronghold of the Silla army was staging a disaster, more than a dozen Silla strongholds, all of them were wiped out in just three hours, the 50,000 Silla army, the number of people who escaped was definitely not more than 2,000, and the entire Vientiane Mountain was filled with the smell of blood.
In the evening, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui came to a place, according to Fan Lihua's calculations, this should be the place that the Silla army wanted to protect, here, they saw a new tomb, and the tombstone was engraved with Silla characters that they could not understand.
At sunset, the smell of blood in the mountains caused the sound of wolves in the mountains to howl one after another, Fan Lihua looked at the tomb in front of her, and couldn't help but snort coldly: "Is this tomb that they are trying to protect?" It's ridiculous. With that, she strode forward, pulled out her saber and swung it suddenly, and with a "dang" sound, the huge tombstone was actually cut in two by her, and the upper part fell to the ground.
Fan Lihua returned the knife into the sheath, strode back, and shouted loudly as she walked: "Go down the mountain!" ”