Eight hundred and three: Cat and Mouse
This is the seventh day after the elimination of the Goguryeo Naval Division, Suning with a team of 10,000 horses galloped on the Liaodong Peninsula for more than two days, galloping on the avenue not far from the seaside, it is still very comfortable, and there are soldiers who know how to go into the water to catch sea fish and all kinds of seafood to add meals to the army, when the ancient army went out to carry up to seven days of dry food, Suning led the troops to the expedition and also prepared seven days of dry food, and later plundered a lot of meat in the camp of the Goguryeo Naval Division, barely enough to eat.
Along the way, they continued to loot food and supplies, and there was no problem with the large army, and they successfully created a large number of refugees who brought a lot of trouble to the Goguryeo people, and burned their residences and destroyed the crops in their fields, successfully making Goguryeo have no food for the winter, and I don't know what kind of consequences it will cause, anyway, Suning doesn't care, and looted a lot of carts from the villages of Goguryeo, and those women and important Wen Jiàn brought out from the royal capital also have a place to put them.
Xue Rengui is responsible for organizing the rear of the palace troops, reporting the latest situation of the enemy's pursuit troops at any time, and then Xue Rengui summarized and conveyed it to Suning, Suning knew and then went to give the latest instructions, the latest intelligence is that the Goguryeo general Jiang Yishi led the army to pursue Suning, 10,000 light cavalry as the front army, mainly responsible for the pursuit, and the main force in the rear followed, but the speed was still relatively slow.
Jiang Yishi brought a total of nearly 100,000 people, and it seemed that he planned to eat Suning on the Liaodong Peninsula, but Jiang Yishi estimated that he didn't figure out the situation, Suning was heading to the sea, and he didn't plan to play a game of cat and mouse with Jiang Yishi. This kind of game is too dangerous, especially Suning, who is a mouse, will not take risks at all, and now as long as you find the ships of the navy, Suning only sent the latest information to the navy an hour ago.
Ten small boats were found in a village, and Suning calculated the distance from here to the nearest garrison of the Beihai Navy, and decisively ordered fifty sailors to take five small boats to deliver a message to the navy, and fifty sailors to take another five small boats to deliver a letter to Beiping, which was better than the secret transportation channel through Guò blood droplets.
And if it is possible to meet the navy directly, it would be the best, as agreed. One from north to south. From south to north, Suning let these ten small boats go directly to the south to see if they can meet the navy, after all, not every place is boarded with the soldiers.
Suning didn't plan to leave like this. Jiang Yishi felt that he was a mouse. And he's a cat. So why didn't Suning try to play the role of eating cat and mouse once, and have a good time playing with Jiang Yishi? Even if the fleet arrived, Suning didn't plan to leave like this. The original plan was to rely on the soldiers and horses brought by Zhang Liang and Zhang Shigui to cooperate with their iron cavalry to directly lay down a piece of land in Liaodong and directly attack the waist and abdomen of Goguryeo, so that it could not take care of both the end and the end.
Jiang Yishi has 100,000 soldiers and horses, Jiang Yishi is not a person easy to deal with, but Suning feels that as long as Jiang Yishi is killed, other Goguryeo people can't bring any threat to themselves, Quangai Suwen is just a warlord, and without the help of the national strength of the country of Goguryeo, Quangai Suwen is not difficult to deal with, Yang Wanchun is just a city lord, surround his city, and then attack other places, even if he can defend the city again? With the Liaodong Peninsula, it can be directly inserted into the rear of Goguryeo.
Moreover, if you can set a trap, choose a very suitable area, let the navy help, use the absolute power of the navy, and use the absolute strength of the navy to carry out an overwhelming and devastating attack on the Goguryeo army with long-range attack weapons, and then suddenly kill the 10,000 horses hiding on the land, you will definitely be able to take the Goguryeo army by surprise.
Imagine setting a trap for the Goguryeo people, creating an illusion, when the Goguryeo army pursued to the seaside, they found that the army that left by boat had successfully escaped into the sea, and the Goguryeo people could not pose a threat to the Suning department that fled into the sea, Jiang Yishi was so angry that he was about to vomit blood, at this time he would definitely not leave soon, so at this time, the navy suddenly used eight ox crossbows and trebuchets to carry out long-range strikes on the dense army of Goguryeo, killing and intimidating them fiercely, making them fall into absolute chaos.
And at this time, Suning suddenly led a team of 10,000 horses to rush out of a dense forest behind them or on their sides, holding incendiary canisters and repeating crossbows to strike a surprise blow at the Goguryeo army, the Goguryeo army must be more chaotic, and then lose the will to fight, in fact, Suning just sent those women and Gao Jianwu and some important items to the sea ship, and the army was hiding on land.
But seeing that scene, what would Jiang Yishi think? What would Goguryeo's army think? At that time, will they still have the energy to search the surrounding area?
The navy's ultra-long-distance strike is absolutely impossible to resist by the Goguryeo Army, they are not only unable to dodge, but also unable to counterattack, the current long-range strike weapon equipped by the Datang Navy is the world's longest-range weapon, which Suning is very sure of, the latest research of the eight-bull crossbow and trebuchet, both the strength and accuracy and the range have been greatly improved, and the battle of the Goguryeo Navy Division has been confirmed.
But Jiang Yishi didn't know, he wouldn't have thought that at this time, the navy of the Tang Dynasty could already use conventional weapons to carry out long-range strikes and suppression of the army, and the overwhelming big stones and incendiary canisters and the thick arrows that came from the roar would definitely make the Goguryeo people feel cold and flying, under such a blow, how could the Goguryeo army not be chaotic? Once the military array is chaotic, Suning's opportunity will come, assault, raid!
That will be even more chaotic, more chaotic, and even more unable to clean up the mess, no matter how good Jiang Yishi is at commanding troops, under the attack of such an epoch-making weapon, under such a joint operation of the navy and army, how will he deal with it? Can he effectively command an army of 100,000 by himself? How could he command an army without the assistance of other heralds and drums? The most effective way for a general to command is 5,000 people, and the maximum capacity is only 10,000 people.
The commander-in-chief is responsible for commanding the general, not directly commanding the army. The chaos of the army and the bombing of the camp by the soldiers are by no means something that a commander can effectively control, no matter how powerful this commander is, no matter how bullish he is, and Suning doesn't believe that under that kind of overwhelming blow, Jiang Yishi can be as stable as Mount Tai? He won't move?
As soon as the horse team charged again, the Goguryeo army was completely disorganized, and at this time, the naval warships continued to approach. Then the navy disembarked and rushed to the shore to assist the army in fighting the Goguryeo army. A flanking attack on both sides is very easy, and there are also Zhang Liang's three thousand iron horsemen, which can make them go ashore early. Ambush with Suning's troops. Under the onslaught of thirteen thousand iron horsemen. Will the Goguryeo army not be in chaos?
Under the blow of at least 20,000 navies, will Goguryeo's army not be chaotic?
Jiang Yishi is awesome, awesome across the North Sea and East China Sea United Navy?
This is also the Tang Dynasty. The power of the navy has not yet been fully manifested, and the army can still compete with the navy when it uses heavy weapons, and when the gunpowder age and the industrial age come, the navy's ultra-long-range attack capability is not something that the army can confront in the period when missiles have not yet been invented.
And the navy can move, the army's batteries are not so moving, and they are all made of iron, not something that can be solved by one or two shells, so the navy can be dominant in a certain period of time, although not now, but it is almost the same, Suning believes that even if artillery is invented at this time, the range cannot catch up with the current eight-bull crossbow and the improved trebuchet, the Mo family is the ancestor of playing with wood, representing the highest skill of wood products, not the gunpowder weapons that are still in the exploration period can be compared.
Whether it is a wooden warship, a crossbow, a trebuchet, a well and other large ordnance, the Mo family can be handy in manufacturing, improving, creating zào, etc., now their skills and the quality of wooden weapons caused by the upgrading of the Tang Dynasty ordnance, even if the artillery is invented, it is far from catching up with its power, Suning thinks, it is necessary to wait for the quality of gunpowder to reach a higher level, and the technology of creating spiral patterns in the barrel can be passed.
The range of the breech gun is not as good as the breech gun, but now you can only get the breech gun first, and then consider the breech gun, before that, it was still the era of the dominance of wooden weapons, and the navy dominated by wooden weapons also had enough strength to cripple the Goguryeo army!
Therefore, the geomorphological problem is quite important, and the problem of liaison with the navy cannot be left behind, time is running out, if you want to give the last main army of Goguryeo a fatal blow here, you have to arrange an excellent time, without this excellent opportunity, Suning himself may be trapped and die on the shore, and the navy can't save it if it wants to, shooting indiscriminately?
Suning also considered Qin Qiong, and now he is basically sure that the Goguryeo army they are facing in front of them is not the main force at all, nor is it a 150,000 army, but only tens of thousands of people, but Suning is not sure whether it has been guessed by Li Boyao or Changsun Chong before his news is delivered, Suning feels that Changsun Chong has no great possibility to guess it, but Li Boyao is different, he is likely to have guessed the anomaly of the Goguryeo army.
So, the next step must be to launch a temptation, followed by a general attack, to defeat the suspicious soldiers left behind by Goguryeo, so what next? Suning felt that according to Qin Qiong's temperament, it was very likely that he would pursue the Goguryeo army and recover the lost territory by the way, which Suning did not object, but as long as the lost land was recovered, it would be good to consolidate Yingzhou, and the rest, really don't continue, the number of soldiers and horses is small, and I don't know what kind of ambush Quangai Suwen will set up, once the ambush is hit, it will be bad.
Goguryeo's country has been disturbed, and it is almost impossible to clean it up, once Quangai Suwen goes crazy and slaughters the city after capturing Beiping, then the Tang Dynasty will really suffer heavy losses, and it is a completely unnecessary loss.
To inform the Beiping side, and then he has to design the rampant anxious old cat here, he thought that his little mouse must be very proud, very relaxed, very arrogant, but I don't know that the little mouse also thinks about the old cat like this, although the old cat is experienced, but it is the old era, in the face of the impact of the new era, the new thing in the head of the little mouse is unimaginable to the old cat.
Moreover, it is not that the little mouse will not be able to beat this old cat, nothing is impossible, nothing is completely impossible, the little mouse is very confident that he will use some new things to set a trap for the old cat and kill the old cat, after killing the most powerful old cat, are there other old cats in Goguryeo? By the way, with the help of Silla, as long as Silla's soldiers and horses are not too wasteful, they will definitely not be stopped by the Goguryeo border guards for too long, or without Jiang Yishi.
Suning is becoming more and more confident that the Liaodong Peninsula must be captured, Jiang Yishi must be killed, and it is better for the 100,000 Goguryeo soldiers to stay here, and if they go back, who knows if they will regain their combat effectiveness? (To be continued......)