Zhang Shu is the younger brother of Zhang Ting, the Taishou of Lingwu County, and Yang Yuanqing for many years, deeply trusted by Yang Yuanqing, he is strict and upright, does not show favoritism, nicknamed the iron-faced judge, up to the head of Yang Yuanqing, down to the ordinary soldiers, he treats everyone equally, even his brother Zhang Ting has also received his torture rod, and has a prestige in the Fengzhou army.

Zhang Shu looked at the list in his hand, got up and saluted: "Back to the general manager, four questions were missing, one is the other party's account spacing, and the rest are D-level items, the problem is not big, and I will ask you again later." ”

Xu Shiyun took the interrogation book from Zhang Shenjun's hand, which was densely packed with nearly 200 questions, divided into four major items according to the degree of importance, which made him breathtaking, until today, he finally got a glimpse of the strict system of the Fengzhou Army, and compared with the Fengzhou Army, the Wagang Army is really a rabble.

Yang Yuanqing patted him on the shoulder, and said earnestly: "The reason why the Fengzhou army was able to defeat the 300,000 Turkic army by itself is not accidental, the secret is that there is a strict system, leading troops to fight is not by luck, let alone by patting the brain, all strategic decisions are based on a large number of intelligence analysis, the reason why I withdrew twenty miles is to wait for Li Shuliang's spies to send to the door, and then I asked their intelligence from the spies, I hope that through this campaign, you can quickly adapt to the system of the Fengzhou army, I can let you stand alone. ”

Xu Shiyun nodded silently, and he convinced Yang Yuanqing from the bottom of his heart.

At this time, several personal soldiers took a set of armor and placed it on the ground, Yang Yuanqing said with a smile: "Let's take a look at the enemy's equipment." ”

Armor, horizontal knives, spears, shields, bows and arrows, boots, Yang Yuanqing looked at them one by one, and said to Xu Shixian: "They are all the most sophisticated things made by the Ordnance Supervisor, even the boots are three-layer cowhide soles, and their equipment also exceeds that of the Fengzhou Army. I can conclude that these 20,000 people are Li Yuan's most elite army, and with such an elite army, they don't dare to fight me face to face. It shows that Li Shuliang is too cautious. ”

Yang Yuanqing glanced at Xu Shiyun again, and when he saw him thoughtful, he asked, "How do you think this battle should be fought?" ”

Xu Shiyun pondered for a long time and said: "If you want to win with the smallest casualties, you think that you should give full play to the strengths of the Fengzhou army in the night battle, but you can't think of a way to break the defense of Li Shuliang's camp." ”

Yang Yuanqing stared at the few thistles on the table, which were samples they had collected from outside the enemy camp, and he smiled faintly: "To break his defenses." It's easy for me. ”

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The sky gradually darkened, Li Shuliang's army still did not pull out the camp, the Fengzhou army had appeared five miles away at noon, although there were only more than 1,000 cavalry, but this was a very clear signal, the other party wanted to fight with him, Li Shuliang, who had always been cautious, did not dare to act rashly.

As night fell, the horses of the Fengzhou Sui Army Brigade began to appear two miles north of the camp. Li Shuliang stood on the high guard tower, he could clearly see the opposing army, lined up neatly. Uncle Li's conscience was extremely uneasy, he didn't understand what the other party meant by the formation at this time, could it be that they wanted to fight at night?

Unless the two armies attack the enemy camp at night and win in the chaos, under normal circumstances, they generally do not engage in night battles, mainly because the command flag is not visible at night, and the soldiers of the two armies are easily confused and kill each other.

But nothing is absolute, if one side has had special night combat training. Through a strong command can also carry out night battles, the Fengzhou army has a special night combat training, and also has night combat experience, Yang Yuanqing led this army is the most elite of the Fengzhou army, night combat is their advantage.

Li Shuliang faintly guessed Yang Yuanqing's intentions, and he said to Liu Hongji nervously: "Look at their formation." It's about to storm the barracks. ”

Liu Hongji bit his lip tightly, the nervousness in his heart was even greater than that of Li Shuliang, the other party must have found a way to break their defense, he looked back at the camp, he was very worried that the other party would attack with fire, after all, Yang Yuanqing was famous for his good use of fire.

"Marshal, do you want us to collect all the camp tents to prevent Yang Yuanqing from burning the camp."

Li Shuliang considered that if the camp tent was removed, it would be more conducive to the opponent's cavalry to play an advantage, as long as the defense was tight, the opponent's rocket range was not enough, and it could not shoot in, he weighed the pros and cons, and shook his head, "If they can attack with fire, their cavalry can also kill in, leaving the camp tent is not good for the cavalry to run, the key is to use a strong bow and crossbow to press the opponent, so that they can not get close to the camp tent." ”

At this time, suddenly a soldier shouted: "Commander, what do you think it is?" ”

Li Shuliang and Liu Hongji looked in the direction of the soldier's finger together, and they all saw that a vague tall object appeared in the night, two or three zhang high, like a giant guard tower, slowly approaching the camp, and stopped dozens of steps away from the camp.

Li Shuliang and Liu Hongji glanced at each other, and the two of them had a thought at the same time, 'Could it be the shooting tower?' ’

Liu Hongji looked at the distance, but he still insisted: "Dashuai, just in case, let's withdraw the camp tent!" Yang Yuanqing is good at using fire to attack, and we must guard against it. ”

This time, Li Shuliang did not insist and accepted his suggestion: "Pass the order, and all the big camps in the camp will be withdrawn." ”。

At this time, this kind of wooden frame two or three feet high appeared on all sides of the camp, and the soldiers talked about it, and no one knew what kind of object it was. There was an invisible pressure in the hearts of each soldier, and they began to feel a little uneasy, the Fengzhou army was famous, and every time they appeared an abnormal thing, they would put pressure on the other party, and in a certain case, this was actually a kind of psychological warfare.

Yang Yuanqing immediately looked at the enemy camp hundreds of steps away, his eyes looked coldly at the enemy camp, and a soldier rushed to report to him, "Chief Qiqi, the other party has withdrawn the camp tent." ”

Yang Yuanqing's eyes were sharp, and he also saw the other party's big white tent disappearing one by one from a distance, and he couldn't help but curse in a low voice, "Damn it!" ”

The other party obviously realized that he was going to attack with fire, and took precautions in advance, which was beyond Yang Yuanqing's expectations, Xu Shiyun whispered beside him: "Since the other party has our intention to attack with fire, do we still want to use fire attack?" ”

"Nope! Keep using fire attack! ”

Yang Yuanqing gave the order for a fire attack, even if it couldn't burn the camp, it could deter the enemy.

One by one, the giant balls were lifted up, which were made of fire cloth, about one person high, and were poured with fire oil, which were originally used to burn the camp tents of the enemy army, but Liu Hongji found the clue. persuaded Li Shuliang to tear down the big tent in time, so that Yang Yuanqing's plan to attack with fire failed, but this fireball still had a strong deterrent power.

The fireballs were thrown from the towers, which were actually crudely made catapults. Without a winch, it was pulled entirely by manpower, and it would take two or three hundred men to throw the fireball two hundred paces away, but it was enough.

"Prepare to attack!"

The captain shouted, more than 200 people pulled the rope together, and a soldier lit the cloth ball with a torch, and the flames spread rapidly. Suddenly, a large fireball appeared.

"Put!" The lieutenant gave the order.

Hundreds of soldiers pulled the ropes at the same time, the long pole was thrown out, and a huge fireball rose into the air, roaring and smashing towards the enemy camp, the fireball crossed the spear array high and smashed into the dense crowd of crossbow soldiers, and the soldiers shouted and scattered to dodge. There were still a few people who couldn't dodge and were knocked over by the fireballs, and their bodies were on fire. Screaming and running in all directions.

A large fireball tumbled and rushed into a dozen large tents that had not had time to be dismantled, and the big tents were suddenly ignited, and the flames soared into the sky, and then four large fireballs flew into the air, and the soldiers on the ground ran away with their heads in their hands.

Although the fireball did not cause serious damage, there was chaos in the camp, and in the midst of this chaos, suddenly a soldier found that there were rows of rafts moving in front of the gun array, and hundreds of soldiers of the Fengzhou Army were prostrate on the ground to push the rafts, and soon. In front of the gun array, a raft road two hundred paces long and thirty paces wide appeared, and this raft road easily broke the thistle terrestris scattered all over the ground in front of the gun array.

Moreover, such raft roads appeared in the east, west, and north directions, and it was clear that the Toyoshu army was going to attack from three directions at the same time.

Liu Hongji realized that the situation was serious, and he was so anxious that he ordered repeatedly. "Shoot! No raft laying! ”

In the darkness, thousands of arrows were fired, and the dense arrows shot at the Fengzhou soldiers on the ground, but the Fengzhou soldiers had already taken precautions, raised huge shields to cover each other, and faced the dense rain of arrows, the raft continued to move forward, and there was still a zhang away from the gun array, the soldiers took off the skin bag from their backs, and sprayed the fire oil in the skin bag into the gun array, and the fire quickly burned in the gun array, and the gun array was inserted too densely, and a piece of the gun array was ignited.

This is Li Shuliang's 100 secrets, he forgot that the spear shaft is wooden, although it can withstand the impact of the cavalry, but they can't withstand the burning of the fire, the spear pieces are burned, the spear tip falls to the ground, the spear shaft is burned into charcoal, revealing pieces of gaps, and the cavalry can easily break through.

At this moment, a dull drum beat sounded in the darkness: "Knock-knock-knock"

The drum beat slowly, every time it sounded, it seemed to knock on the hearts of people, in the sound of drums, the most powerful army of Fengzhou, two thousand heavy armor Mo sword army went into battle, they were more than 600 people in a team, divided into three teams from the east, west, north three directions to the camp to kill.

The heavily armored Mo knife army was neatly arranged, stepping on a raft, walking towards the enemy camp step by step, every step was as dignified as a mountain, holding a shield in one hand, holding the Mo knife stick in front of the chest with the other hand, the Mo knife was straight up, on the top of their heads, the long blades of the snow were bright and sharp as dense as a forest, this powerful Mo knife formation made the enemy feel deeply frightened.

Li Shuliang's face was pale, his carefully deployed gun array and tribulus array were easily destroyed by the Fengzhou army, the methods used were extremely simple, but he couldn't imagine it, and the other party's heavy infantry was unheard of by him, he began to panic, not knowing how to deal with it.

Only the deputy general Liu Hongji rode a horse and commanded the crossbowmen to shoot, and the dense rain of arrows shot at the heavily armored Mo knife army from three sides, but the armor of the heavy armor infantry was made of stainless steel, and only the bed crossbow could shoot through, and the general bow and crossbow were within a range of thirty steps, and there was nothing to do with them, and Yang Yuanqing In order to be safe, each Mo knife hand also held a shield.

The arrows were like a storm, clanging on the heavy armor, shooting on the shield, but no one was shot down, the heavy armor Mo knife army still walked step by step, the soldiers in the front row waved the Mo knife, and swept the rows of spear shafts that had been burned into charcoal.

They were getting closer and closer to the enemy camp, 'fifty paces............ Thirty steps............ Seeing that the enemy was approaching, the crossbowmen in front of the Ten Paces turned around and fled into the inner camp.

Yang Sien roared, threw away his shield, raised his Mo knife high, and slashed at the cart blocking the road in front of him, and the rest of the soldiers also roared angrily and swung their knives away.

The crossbowmen hiding behind shouted, turned and ran, the cart shattered in an instant, and the heavily armored Mo sword army rushed into the enemy camp......

"Pikemen fight! Cavalry on both flanks! ”

Liu Hongji waved his war knife and roared loudly, organizing the Tang army to resist the strong attack of the Modao army, and Li Shuliang didn't seem to have woken up from the shock, he couldn't believe what he saw in front of him, it was less than an hour, and he thought that the impregnable defense was so easily breached.

He saw that the Fengzhou heavy infantry was extremely fierce, with long blades slashing, invincible, human heads flying, torsos splitting, corpses piled up on the ground, there was no complete corpse, and horse legs and horse heads were also everywhere, which was unbearable.

It was a fierce army he had never seen before, with long blades splitting and three or four heads flying in response, marching in line like an iron wall, fierce as a sickle mowing grass, sweeping through everything, invincible to everything.

At this moment, the war drums of Fengzhou sounded again, and the 8,000 Fengzhou iron horsemen rushed to the camp from three directions along the raft road, and smashed into the camp like a raging wave.

Liu Hongji was so anxious that his eyes were red, the enemy's heavy infantry they couldn't resist, and now the enemy's eight thousand elite cavalry were killed, their disadvantages were fully revealed, and this battle was no longer able to return to the sky, he rushed to Li Shuliang and shouted: "Commander, we will lose this battle, withdraw quickly!" ”

Li Shuliang had already woken up from the chaos, and at this time he was also flustered, and turned around and shouted, "Retreat!" ”

He didn't care about Liu Hongji, and led more than 1,000 soldiers to break through to the north, Liu Hongji was so anxious that he shouted: "Commander, withdraw the army from the south!" ”

Li Shuliang couldn't hear it anymore, he led his troops to fight desperately to fight a bloody road, just broke out of the encirclement, but saw hundreds of cavalry standing dozens of steps away, headed by a general, with a golden helmet and iron armor, the saddle broke through the sky, holding a huge bow in his hand, seeing Li Shuliang rushing out of the encirclement, he sneered, pulled the bow like a full moon, an iron arrow came out of the string, an arrow shot into Li Shuliang's mouth, and the iron arrow pierced through the brain.

Li Shuliang looked up to the sky and planted it from his horse and died tragically under Yang Yuanqing's iron arrow.

Yang Yuanqing put down his bow and ordered: "Pass my order, those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

The main general Li Shuliang was killed, the deputy general Liu Hongji was nowhere to be seen, the fighting spirit of the Tang army in the chaos collapsed, and they surrendered on their knees, hundreds of soldiers who broke through from the south were surrounded by cavalry, and all were killed, so far, Li Shuliang's 20,000 troops except Liu Hongji with more than 300 people successfully broke through from the south, the rest of the army surrendered about 15,000 people, and 20,000 elite soldiers were all wiped out.