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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. Since he had just arrived in Chongzhou, he was still not very clear about all the situation. Fan Lihua first sent a scout to investigate, and at the same time entered Chongzhou City, met the governor of Chongzhou, and learned about the situation from him.

Since Silla sent troops to station in Wanxiang Mountain in the north, Huang Lang, the governor of Chongzhou, sent scouts to closely monitor the movements of the Silla army to prevent the Silla army from ramming the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Fortunately, the Silla army did not raid the people of the Tang Dynasty on a large scale, but some Silla soldiers did not abide by the rules and would still plunder and harass the nearby people. Fortunately, he sent troops to stop them every time.

The Silla army had already built a camp at the foot of Mount Vientiane. At first, it only built a simple cottage with wood, but it had already started transporting stones here a month ago and began to build a military castle.

Military castles cannot be built in one or two months. Even with the huge human and material resources of the Tang Dynasty, it will take at least three to four months to build a small military castle. Silla's manpower, material resources and financial resources are far inferior to those of the Tang Dynasty, so their military castle has just been built. However, judging from their posture, they seem to be really preparing to take this area for themselves.

The next afternoon, the scout sent by Fan Lihua came back. While exploring, the scout drew a simple map of the distribution of troops and the map of Silla's camp. Fan Lihua took the map drawn by the scout, combined with the map given to him by Li Hao, and immediately formed a three-dimensional image in her mind. Above a mountain range, Silla's troops were full of Silla's troops. At the foot of the mountain was the camp of Silla's army, and Silla's castle was under construction.

Then, Fan Lihua also drew a picture, and the one she drew was a detailed mountain topography map and a Silla military distribution map. After drawing the picture, Fan Lihua found Xue Rengui and showed him the picture. Xue Rengui looked at Fan Lihua's map, looked at her in surprise, and asked, "Is this really the case? Why is the Silla army so dispersed?"

Fan Lihua said: "From their military distribution method, it seems to be protecting something, and the guarded thing... should be here!"

Fan Lihua pointed at the center of the mountain with her finger and said, "They are defending this way to guard the place, 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 Tang Dynasty was not so easy to talk to this time. This time, they actually sent a large army to attack them. They were so dispersed, but instead broke the combat power of the entire army, which was just in favor of us."

"That's right." Fan Lihua said, "but most of their troops are located on the hillside and top of the mountain. The mountain is moderate. If we want to attack, we need to beware of them setting up ambush. I have carefully looked at it. There are three places that are most suitable for ambush, namely this canyon, this woods, and this short slope..." Fan Lihua pointed out three points on the map one after another, saying, "These three places must be avoided. As long as we don't fall into the trap, it will be easy to defeat the Silla army."

"Yes." Xue Rengui nodded at the map and said slowly, "When are you going to attack?"

Fan Lihua said: "Wanxiang Mountain is more than 120 miles away. We only have 10,000 cavalry. We set out lightly and have a fast speed. We set out tonight and rest for two hours at night. We can reach the foot of the mountain at dawn. If we launch an attack tomorrow morning, we should be able to catch them off guard."

"Yes." Xue Rengui nodded, "You can avoid Silla's patrol scouts at night, just do that."

"Then go back and prepare, and send troops tonight at sunset."

The sun had just set, and the sky was intertwined with dim and red, as if it was unwilling to be shrouded in darkness. Two armies of 5,000 people left the city through the two city gates, and they were all the most well-equipped heavy armored cavalry, without a single supply. After leaving the city, the two armies rushed to the northeast, where was the direction of Wanxiang Mountain.

The bright moonlight shines on Fan Lihua's silver-white armor. In the wilderness, it is quiet. Fan Lihua holds a telescope and observes in the direction of Wanxiang Mountain. Her telescope was "airdropped" by Li Hao not long ago. It is a new high-tech product from the future world. It can not only night vision, but also distance measurement, wind direction, wind speed, predict weather within three hours, waterproof, and no charging is required, because in the future world, photovoltaic cells have become popular, and the life of the photovoltaic cells built into this telescope has reached more than ten years.

Putting down the telescope, Xue Rengui, wearing golden armor next to him, asked, "How?"

Fan Lihua said: "Now there are fifty-two miles away from Vientiane Mountain, and the enemy has not yet discovered us."

"That's great." Xue Rengui said, "I don't think there is no need to rest for two hours, one hour is enough. These are the elite soldiers of the Tiance Mansion, not ordinary soldiers."

Fan Lihua thought for a while and nodded, "Well, it's reasonable, then let's take a rest for an hour. After the rest, we will still march separately, seven to ten miles apart, which will increase the speed as fast as possible. You can reach Wanxiang Mountain before dawn and catch them off guard."

Soon, the army finished resting and set out again, rushing towards Wanxiang Mountain like a tide. Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui each sent ten scouts to set off the road ahead. Once they encountered enemy scouts, they would directly open crossbows to kill them.

Facts have proved that it is necessary to send scouts to clear the way, because there were indeed scouts from Silla Kingdom. After the Silla scouts discovered the Tang army scouts, they wanted to go back and report. However, their horses were not as fast as those of the Tiance Mansion. Every horse in the Tiance Mansion was carefully selected. This is something that only when they were rich enough to do.

The Tang army scouts caught up with Silla and shot directly. Silla scouts were all caught and died. The Tang Dynasty cavalry quietly approached Wanxiang Mountain, less than ten miles away from Wanxiang Mountain. At the foot of Wanxiang Mountain is the camp of the Silla army, with 10,000 Silla troops stationed in it. Moreover, their commander Park Ji-nan is in the military camp. Park Ji-nan is the younger brother of Silla Prime Minister Park Ji-yong. Not long after he became a general, this is the first time he has taken charge of such a huge army. He dreams of dominating the world with his brother every day. He is the kind of person who is very talented.

The Iron Cavalry of the Tang Dynasty was already seven miles outside the Silla military camp. The horse's hooves rumbled and the ground trembled slightly. However, all the soldiers in the military camp were dozing off, and no one noticed any abnormality.

When the Tang Dynasty cavalry rushed to the three miles of the Silla Army camp, someone in the Silla Camp woke up and finally felt the ground trembling. The rumbling sound of horse hooves poured in his ears, which scared the Silla soldiers to scream. The sound of horns rang out in the Silla Camp, and then the Silla Army camp fell into chaos.

Fan Lihua and Xue Rengui led the army to raid the Sila camp from the west and south. The Sila camp seemed solid, but was attacked by the Tang Dynasty cavalry, and all the fences collapsed. The Tang army rushed into the camp, showing off a series of swords and slaughtered them wantonly. The entire camp was trapped in the howling of ghosts and wolves. Park Zhinan, who had just put on armor, was frightened as soon as he rushed out of the teeth tent. He had repelled thousands of people from the Tang Dynasty some time ago, and was complacent, thinking that the Tang army was just like this. However, the Tang cavalry he saw at this moment completely overturned his imagination. Each of these Tang cavalry was armed to his teeth, holding a large iron shield in his left hand and a long sword in his right hand, which bloomed coldly under the moonlight. Moreover, even their mounts were covered with armor. At first glance, he thought this was a demon soldier from hell.

When several personal guards saw Park Zhinan stunned, they hurriedly shouted: "General, the Tang people are here to take revenge on us, let's run away!"

"Yes, escape! Escape!" Park Zhinan then reacted, quickly discarded his helmet, wrapped his armor with a large cloth, and led his horse to escape east under the protection of more than a dozen personal guards.

Wang Xiaojie was sharp-eyed and saw more than a dozen people protecting one person to escape. It was very likely that the enemy general was the chief general. He immediately rode his horse toward this side and shouted loudly: "Where can the thief escape!"

Wang Xiaojie's mount was extremely powerful, and several people leaped to catch up. Park Zhinan's personal guards drew their swords to stop Wang Xiaojie. Wang Xiaojie's long spear was slamming like a white rainbow. More than a dozen personal guards were vulnerable like scarecrows and fell to the ground one after another. Park Zhinan was so scared that he knelt on the ground and shouted loudly: "Don't kill me! I surrender! I am the head coach!"

At this time, he could only shout that he was the head coach, otherwise Wang Xiaojie would have killed him as a soldier, and the head coach was of great value as a prisoner.

Wang Xiaojie used his spear to pick out the cloth on his body. Seeing that he was wearing bronze armor, he really looked like the head coach. He was so happy that he dismounted and tied Park Ji-nan directly.

The attack lasted only for more than ten minutes and it ended soon. Ten thousand people killed ten thousand people, so it was naturally very fast. Except for the head coach Park Zhinan, he did not accept any prisoners. Fan Lihua left two thousand people to guard the camp. Then he and Xue Rengui divided the army into eight thousand teams, went up the mountain according to the designated route, and attacked the enemy's strongholds scattered in the mountains.

The battle at the foot of the mountain was too loud, and the close strongholds naturally knew the changes at the foot of the mountain. However, they were too far away and could not see clearly and could not support them. Moreover, the battle lasted only for more than ten minutes. The Silla army at those strongholds thought it was just a small-scale harassment by the Tang people, so they did not take it seriously. The quality of the army in Silla was too poor. The reason for this phenomenon was that the military discipline was not strict enough and the military strength of a country was strong.

The strength does not depend on whether their weapons and equipment are excellent, but on whether the military discipline is strict. In history, what kind of troops is the most powerful army in Asia, that is, the army led by the Jurchen Wanyan Aguda. It started with two thousand people. In ten years, it destroyed the Liao Kingdom and established the Jin Kingdom. No one can defeat it. If Temujin encountered the army led by Wanyan Aguda when he destroyed the Jin Kingdom, then Temujin might not be able to defeat Wanyan Aguda.

You should know that when Wanyan Aguda first started, the equipment of the two thousand cavalry was stolen from the Liao people, which was very simple, but the Liao people could not defeat him. Why? Because Wanyan Aguda led his troops and had an iron-like discipline.

Similarly, why was the Song army led by Yue Fei so powerful? Not only did it repel the repeated attacks of the Jin people, but it also had to counterattack the Jin Kingdom. In addition to Yue Fei's brave and resourcefulness, there was another more important reason. Yue Fei was very strict in the management of the army and his military law was the best in the history of the Song Kingdom.

The military laws of the Tang Dynasty were very strict. Li Hao knew how important the military laws were, and he had strict requirements on the soldiers of the Tiance Mansion. If there was no Tiance Mansion, Qinghai Guard or the most elite army in the Tang Dynasty, but with the Tiance Mansion, Qinghai Guard could only rank second now, because the Tiance Mansion was an army trained by Li Hao himself.

Fan Lihua personally led a team of thousands of people to the mountain according to the scheduled route. Although their army was full of cavalry, the training mode of Tiance Mansion was not something that ordinary people could understand. All the soldiers of Tiance Mansion could form a formation to charge, and dismount to take one to fight ten.

Every Silla army stronghold has a simple camp, and there are people patrolling the periphery. Fan Lihua directly shot the patrol soldiers on the periphery with cold arrows and rushed to the enemy camp quietly. When the enemy found them, they were already very close to the stronghold. Everyone took out a standard crossbow and shot a crossbow. A large number of people fell from the Silla army stronghold. Those who survived by chance were so scared that they shouted and fled wildly, with no fighting spirit. Fan Lihua ordered the attack. Everyone rushed into the stronghold with a sword in his hand and killed everyone when they saw it, without any mercy. Although this was the first time someone came out to fight, they had already become extremely cold after years of hell-like training, and it seemed that they were not as difficult as they thought.

Almost every Silla army stronghold is in a disaster. More than a dozen Silla strongholds were all taken away in just three hours. The 50,000 Silla army had absolutely no more than two thousand people escaped, and the entire Wanxiang 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 where the Silla army wanted to protect. Here, they saw a new tomb, and the tombstone was engraved with Silla text that they could not understand.

The sun sets in the west, and the smell of blood all over the mountains causes the sound of wolf howlings in the mountains to rise and fall one after another. Fan Lihua looked at the tomb in front of her and couldn't help but snorkeling coldly: "Is this grave the one they tried their best to protect? It's really ridiculous." After that, she strode forward, pulled out her sword and waved it suddenly. With a "date", the huge tombstone was cut into two pieces by her sword, and the section above fell to the ground.

Fan Lihua strode back and shouted loudly as she walked: "Go down the mountain!"
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