Chapter 82: The Chaos of War (I)
If Wang Hanxin had the ability to predict the future, then he might not have sent He Jianyi to be a lobbyist for the Tieli Department and the Sub-Mo Ministry, because at the same time, someone did something different from him but coincided with him, and that person was Liu Xianzhi.
At the beginning of the army, Liu Xianzhi sent Lu Qinghan and Ge Boling to lead the most elite 6,000 cavalry troops of Taiyuan Jingluo Mansion to Liaodong to help Su Chengdong. However, the purpose of his cavalry to join Su Chengdong was not to help Su Chengdong go to battle with the Turks, but to obtain food and grass supplies from Su Chengdong in order to carry out the next action, which was to attack the northern part of the mountain and the Wuluohu department in the north.
Liu Xianzhi's thoughts coincided with Wang Hanxin's, and his first thought was to shake the subordinates of these Turkic armies, so as to achieve the goal of destabilizing their front. It's just that in his plan, as long as one of them is struck, it is enough to shake the rest of the tribes, if these tribes feel that the Silk Country still has the strength to deal with themselves, the panic in their hearts will make them fall into a dilemma, they dare not offend Tuqi, but they don't want to completely break with the Silk Country, as long as they have this heart, Abicilir has to have some scruples about them, and the value generated by this internal friction alone is better than tens of thousands of male soldiers.
So the result of the matter was that He Jianyi successfully persuaded the Tieli Department and the Sumo Department to send troops to plunder the northern tribes, and the cavalry led by Lu Qinghan and Ge Boling quickly appeared in front of these tribes.
Of course, this news of the Silk Country will spare no effort to spread it to the entire Liaodong battlefield, and the soldiers of the northern tribes are suddenly in chaos. As Wang Hanxin and Liu Xianzhi expected, the question of whether to stay or stay has become a point of contention. And this is the inner struggle of almost everyone, whether it is the leader or the soldiers, everyone wants to return to the army immediately to rescue their homeland, but they are afraid of the powerful Turky army in front of them. If you leave, I am afraid that you will be chased by the Turks. Although the combined strength of the various divisions was almost equal to the number of the Turkic army, the quality of the equipment and the combat ability of the soldiers were very different, and if there was a battle between the two sides, the soldiers and horses that were like arrows would soon collapse on all fronts, and they would be turned into unburied corpses in the wilderness without returning home.
Similarly, Abicil was informed of the situation. The pressure on his heart was no less than that of the tribal leaders, and in fact the situation he faced was even worse: seeing that a large part of Liaodong had fallen into his hands, the Tuqi soldiers had to plunder every place they captured, and all the soldiers were willing to follow the Great Khan to continue the attack rather than stay in the captured area, because the attack meant that he could continue to loot more goods, while the defense could only face the hateful gaze of the inhabitants of the occupied area. This was obviously something he had thought too simply, and the Tukchi soldiers were not used to being rulers, but were keen to be a bandit who came and went like the wind. And the two most important strongholds in the eastern Liaodong territory, Xinyang and Liaoyang, have never been able to capture, if it is said that Xinyang City is because of Su Chengdong's reinforcements echoing it from afar and morale is greatly boosted. Then the delay in capturing such a lonely city as Liaoyang City fully illustrates the helplessness of the Tuqi army against the fortified city. At the moment, Abicilir wanted these two cities above all else, because their symbolism had outweighed its strategic significance, and taking these two cities would mean the fall of Liaodong. Moreover, a few days ago, he had received a letter from Youzhou, which stated that the 100,000 troops there had reached the limit, and that their space for activities was gradually shrinking under the encirclement of Taiyuan, Youzhou and Xue Boren. will lose the initiative on the battlefield. Therefore, if he can't take Liaodong as soon as possible, the troops there will retreat. He will fall into a dilemma, and the balance of victory in the war will tilt to the side of the Silk Country. If anything goes wrong with these subordinate tribes at this time, then his hope of victory is even more slim.
After thinking about it, he found the leaders of these tribes and all the high-ranking generals, and conveyed his meaning to them. Abichelil pointed out that the purpose of the Silk Country's joint efforts to attack their rear was to unstabilize the morale of the soldiers on the front. This also fully proves that the Silk Country does not have the confidence to defeat the Turks on the main front, and if they are in chaos at this time, they will be in their hands. Now the Silk Country must think that our position is in chaos, then they will take the initiative to fight a decisive battle with us, if the tribes can stabilize their positions, take this opportunity to defeat the Liaodong Army of the Silk Country in one fell swoop. Then Xinyang City and Liaoyang City will also be self-defeating. Therefore, victory and defeat are here, and I hope that all tribes will work together to break this deadlock.
At his instigation, the tribal chiefs and generals agreed, and Abichlir took their sons and nephews hostage. Then deliberately leaked the news, so that the Liaodong Army learned that the Tuqi army was unstable, waiting for the other party to leave the camp to fight a decisive battle with him.
Sure enough, within two days, Su Chengdong's Liaodong army left the solid camp and came to the plain to set up a position. Of course, the Turkic army also immediately responded to the opponent's actions, with the strength of each tribe as the main force, as the vanguard to take the lead, the cavalry of the Turkic army was outflanked on both flanks, and Abicheril himself led the guards to sit in the rear for the Chinese army, and began a decisive battle with the army of the Silk Country.
However, as soon as the war began, the situation was very abnormal, and before the cavalry-based Turks began to act, Su Chengdong's army, which was mainly infantry, took the initiative to take the offensive posture. The 30,000-strong army formed ten dense phalanxes and steadily advanced towards the Tuqi side.
This is something that Abicil could not ask for, once the other party and the soldiers of the various tribes are mixed together, there will be a gap between them and the main formation, then his cavalry troops can instantly wedge into this gap, cut off the opponent's rear road, and then attack the opponent's main formation.
However, when Abicheril conveyed his instructions to the troops on both wings, the ten policies of the Liaodong Army suddenly split into two and began to rush towards the two wings of the Tuqi Army!
This was unexpected, because it was so stupid. These 30,000 people pose no threat in front of the Tuqi cavalry, but the entire front of the Liaodong Army is completely empty, as long as their vanguard troops advance, they can complete the flanking situation with the cavalry on both wings, and they can directly pose a threat to the opponent's own formation, and the Liaodong Army will be cut into three pieces that are difficult to support, and then be eaten one bite at a time. Su Chengdong is a seasoned tactician, and it is impossible for him to make such a stupid mistake.
What kind of medicine is sold in his gourd? Abicielel suddenly became suspicious, and the hand that commanded the striker's attack froze in mid-air without swinging. (To be continued.) )