After going down the mountain, the captain who stayed in the camp immediately reported to Fan Lihua that they had harvested this time, and got 50,000 stone of grain and grass, 50,000 stone of grain is a huge number, enough for them to fight from here to Silla and come back, but the problem is that they are in a hurry, how can they march with so much food, this time they didn't even bring baggage, in order to give full play to the advantage of the fast speed of the heavy cavalry, if they bring so much grain and grass, it will seriously slow down the trip, for these grains and grass, Fan Lihua had to discuss with Xue Rengui.

The result of the discussion between the two was that each soldier brought two months' worth of grain and grass, and the rest of the grain and grass was left behind, so that the Chongzhou Assassin sent someone to move it back and hand it over to the imperial court, which was also regarded as a trophy, which was also a great achievement.

It is impossible for ordinary soldiers to take away two months' worth of grain and grass, but the soldiers of Tiance Mansion can, because the soldiers of Tiance Mansion are all heavy cavalry, and their standard configuration is one person with three horses, two horses for riding, and a horse to carry armor and weapons, no way, their equipment is too complete and sophisticated, if you don't get a horse alone, you really can't take it away.

Since each man had three horses, there was no problem with the spare horses to carry their own rations, except that the march would be a little slower, otherwise the horses would be very tired, but even then they could travel 80 to 100 li a day, nearly twice as fast as the average march, and according to their calculations, if they did not encounter enemy resistance on the way, they would reach the capital of Silla in a little more than a month.

After another day of delay here, Xue Rengui sent someone to inform Chongzhou Thorn Shi to transport grain and grass, and Fan Lihua sent a fast horse to deliver good news to Li Hao, and then they had to count the days and march.

Don't look at the territory of Silla is not big, but they actually divided ten states, probably imitating the Tang Dynasty's ten-way system, Fan Lihua They led the army to the east first, and then turned south, and the road was also very smooth, that is, they were delayed for seven days when crossing the river, after all, they were all heavy cavalry, and they would sink when they encountered water, and they had to build a raft to cross the river, so that their itinerary was even more urgent.

A month later, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui led the army into Shuozhou and marched close to the east coast, because in this way they could avoid many rivers, and they were not afraid to climb the mountain, but they were afraid to cross the river.

As soon as they entered Mingzhou, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui encountered the resistance of the Silla army, and it was not a small force, it turned out to be an army of 50,000, and the Tang Dynasty only knew that Silla had an army of 120,000, but in fact, how could the real strength of Silla let the Tang know that last year, they had an army of 150,000, and in the past year, Prime Minister Park Ji-yong instigated the King of Silla to recruit troops on a large scale, and the national army has reached as many as 180,000, which is a heavy burden for Silla, with a population of less than one million, and raising troops requires a lot of money and foodFortunately, in recent years, the maritime trade has developed, and there are often merchant ships of the Tang people who come here to trade with them, and the Tang Dynasty has sent them, and they have also sent them, and they can still afford to raise so many soldiers for the time being, in fact, most of the merchant ships that came to trade with them are Li Hao's merchant ships, anyway, the Tang Dynasty is now too much grain to eat, and the domestic grain price has dropped several times, and it can make a lot of money by selling it to Silla at a high price, and by the way, it can also nurture their ambitions and let them perish themselves, why not.

The area of Mingzhou is mountainous, the road is rugged, not suitable for cavalry combat, the heavy cavalry of Tiance Mansion is difficult to exert its might, although it has defeated the Silla army several times, but they have been escaped by the other party, the Silla army seems to have found that they are not the opponent of the Tang army at all, after losing 20,000 horses, they began to deal with Fan Lihua and them, with the help of geographical advantages of various attacks, ambushes, etc., although there were no major casualties to the Tang army, it is ...... It's annoying and disgusting.

Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui were in trouble for a while, if it was on the plain, their iron cavalry would be able to trample all these miscellaneous pieces into powder with a single charge, but now the other party does not confront them head-on, and specializes in playing side balls, which is annoying.

After studying the map, Fan Lihua decided to continue the march, send a small force to cover around the large army, the enemy dared to attack and disturb, the bow and crossbow fought back, never pursued, to ensure that the large army was not harassed, as long as it survived to the southern edge of Mingzhou, it would enter a plain, and they would be the king at that time.

According to Fan Lihua's plan, continue to march, the enemy army really continued to send small detachments to harass in turn, the Tang army specially sent several units of 1,000 people to guard on the edge, once they encountered the enemy, the bow and crossbow fired back, and never let the enemy harass the normal rest of the large army, so they marched south step by step, the journey was seriously slowed down, it had been forty days since they set off from Chongzhou, they only arrived in the middle of Mingzhou, and when it was fifty-five days, they finally arrived at the last mountainous area in the south of Mingzhou, Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui were a little anxious in their hearts, At the beginning, Li Hao agreed with them that the time was sixty days, but now there are only five days left, and they must rush to Jincheng within these five days.

At this moment, another 30,000 reinforcements were sent from the direction of Jincheng, and together with the remaining 30,000 troops before, they attacked Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui in front and back.

It was really not a good thing to fight in such unfavorable terrain before they had traveled out of the mountains, so Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui made a decision to set fire to the mountains, intercept the enemy forces in the rear with fire, and then rush into the plains to meet the reinforcements who had just arrived from Jincheng to support.

The soldiers of Tiance Mansion fought a bloody battle with the enemy army in the mountains, and the mountains and forests in the rear covered dozens of miles, but it did not have much effect, and the Silla army in the rear also arrived.

Looking at the Silla army chasing behind, Fan Lihua said with a solemn face: "General Xue, we don't occupy the time, the right place, and the right people, we can only rely on ourselves." ”

Xue Rengui said: "I heard Li Shimad say that the brave wins when we meet on a narrow road, and now we can only rely on our bravery." ”

Fan Lihua nodded and said, "You can attack the front with confidence, and the enemy army in the rear will be handed over to me." ”

"Good!"

Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui's soldiers divided into two routes, one in front of the other to meet the two armies of Silla, in the vast mountains and forests, the war was raging, the sound of fighting shook the sky, and the blood stained every piece of land, like a Shura slaughterhouse.

Just when Fan Lihua and the Silla army were fighting fiercely, Li Hao had already led the fleet on the east coast of Silla, which was only a few dozen miles away from Jincheng, and it was only a day away.

This time, Li Hao brought 10,000 Weihaiwei Navy, mobilized 35 Galen warships, 20 transporting troops, and 15 transporting materials, and the materials they brought this time were enough for them to fight here for half a year, and the Galen ship can be said to surpass the existence of this era, which is basically equivalent to the aircraft carrier of the future world, and a fleet is parked at the seaside of a country, that is, a military base, which can be attacked and defended, as long as it is not alone, it is almost invincible.

The landing will naturally not be smooth sailing, there is also a military defense line on the coast of Silla, although it is very weak, but when they found out that a large number of ships were coming, they immediately reported to Jincheng, which is only a few dozen miles away from Jincheng, and it is strictly forbidden for any ship to approach, even if it is a merchant ship, they will send troops to expel it, let alone such a large fleet.

When Li Hao's fleet was a few miles away from the sea, he saw that the coast was full of soldiers and horses, numbering tens of thousands, and it was obvious that these soldiers and horses were definitely not here to welcome him.

Li Hao stood on the side of the ship and looked at the dense army on the shore with a telescope, and sneered: "A group of barbarian monkeys, delusional mantis arms as a car, pass on our military orders, and prepare for war!" Dock! ”

The chess commander next to Li Hao immediately began to play the flag, the person standing on the top of the mast repeated the flag, and the other ships received the order and immediately began to get busy, and the small windows on both sides of the ship were pushed open, and at the same time, the ship leaned towards the shore. Although there were no cannons on these ships, there were twenty bed crossbows on each ship, and these small windows were the firing ports of the bed crossbows.

Seeing the Tang army's ships approaching, the Silla troops on the shore immediately knew that the comers were not good, and they all moved forward with bows and arrows, and as soon as the ships came into range, they were ready to be covered with arrows.

There were still less than two miles from the shore, and the crew came and asked, "Boss, do you want to move forward?" ”

Li Hao asked: "Has the water depth been measured?" ”

The man replied, "Not yet tested!" ”

Li Hao said coldly: "Measure the depth of the water, and measure it again ten zhang forward." ”

"Yes!"

The people on the main ship immediately began to measure the depth of the water, Li Hao looked at the enemy on the case indifferently, although he had now entered the range of the bed crossbow, but he was not in a hurry, he wanted to go a little further, a little further, he could kill more enemies, this group of wild monkeys was afraid that they had not seen the power of oil yet.

Soon, the soldier came to report again: "Chief Administrator, the first time you measure ten zhang and eight feet, the second time, nine zhang and nine feet!" ”

Li Hao said: "Pass my military order, go forward, throw the oil tank first, and then shoot the fire arrow!" ”

"Yes!"

Li Hao's words immediately turned into a flag and conveyed it to each ship, and Li Hao silently calculated the data in his heart, of course, he calculated the draft of the sea ship and the water depth on the coast, in case of grounding.

The Galen ship is so huge, the draft is naturally larger than the ordinary ship, if these Galen ships are empty, the draft is five meters, in order to reduce the draft of the ship, he specially used ten more ships, each ship transports five hundred soldiers, and does not load any supplies, the draft will not exceed six meters, according to his calculations, their ships are within a hundred meters of the coast, but they will not be so stupid, because it will be within the range of the bow and arrow.

A hundred feet further on, only a mile to the coast, the Silla army had already fired arrows at them, countless arrows in a beautiful arc, and finally landed in the sea, a little way from their ships.

At the same time, all the ships turned, turned sideways, and aimed at the shore, and countless crockpots shot out of the small black windows, and when they hit the ground, they smashed into pieces, and black oil flowed all over the ground.

"What is this?" The Silla people looked at the black liquid on the ground and asked in amazement.

"Is it oil?" Someone asked.

"Whatever it is, get out of the way!"

……

Twenty warships had more than two hundred crossbows shooting out of the crockpots, and these crockpots were very large, like small wine jars, a jar of oil was four or five catties, at least four or five pounds, and in a matter of moments, the coast was pitch black, almost covered with oil.

"Ignition!" Li Hao gave an order, and the flag bearer waved the flag.

Countless huge arrows were shot from the twenty ships, and the tips of the arrows were all with blazing flames, and even if the rate of fire was so fast, the flames were not extinguished.

More than 200 fire arrows landed one after another, and a huge fire suddenly rose on the coast, and the burning Silla army cried wolf howls and ran wildly in all directions, looking from afar, as if the fire dragon was devouring the enemy army.

"Pass my military order, stop the boat thirty feet near the coast, and land!"

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