Guo Qingyun ordered several of his men to guard the war horses in the distance. He led other scouts to climb up to the left side of the valley and climbed a big tree. The situation in the valley was clearly visible. The valley was brightly lit and covered with leather tents.
This discovery really excited Guo Qingyun. They found the main force of the enemy.
One of the scout men whispered: "Should we arrest a sentry and interrogate how many troops they have?"
Guo Qingyun shook his head. This was an unwise idea. Not to mention that it would alert the enemy, and the sentinels may not know how many troops they had. More importantly, there was a language barrier. They didn't know what the other was talking about. What was the point of interrogation?
Guo Qingyun drew a sketch, wrote down the approximate troop strength, and handed it to a fire chief.
"Ading, take three brothers back immediately to report, and I will continue to monitor you!"
The fire chief took the sketch, put it away, and hurried away with three of his men.
Guo Qingyun took other men to a safer place to monitor the enemy's main force from a distance.
At noon the next day, Ma Lin led 10,000 cavalry and appeared thirty miles away. At this time, he received a report from Guo Qingyun's men. Ma Lin looked at the sketch and from the sign, the main force of the opponent was thirty miles away.
There are about 20,000 people.
Ma Lin sneered. As he expected, Xi's army deliberately attacked Ruluo's defense as a trick to lure troops. They waited for his own army to come to the rescue and ambushed him halfway.
Now that Xi Jun was hiding thirty miles away, he knew where the other party would ambush them. It must be in the Dragon King Valley.
Ma Lin led an army of 50,000. He now has an army of 10,000, which is used to paralyze the enemy, making them think that these 10,000 troops are going to rescue Ruluo to defend the enemy, but in fact there are still 40,000 troops behind.
The key is how to annihilate 20,000 enemy troops?
Ma Lin thought for a moment, then turned around and ordered: "Invite the guide Song Canjun!"
Not long after, the guide Song Kuan hurried over, bowed on his horse and saluted: "See you, general!"
Ma Lin unfolded the map, pointed to the thirty miles ahead and said: "Thirty miles ahead is the Dragon King Valley. Is there a path around the Dragon King Valley?"
Song Kuan nodded, "Of course, there are paths to the east and west!"
Ma Lin immediately took a brocade bag, handed it to the soldiers together with the command arrows, and ordered: "Take Song Can's army to the back to find General Wei Ran, and ask him to lead an army of 10,000 to the east path to the south of Dragon King Valley. Look at my
Then let General Tian Weiguo bring the other 30,000 troops to see me!"
"Follow the order!"
The soldiers led Song Can's army away, and Ma Lin immediately ordered the entire army to rest on the spot and wait for the arrival of the army behind them.
At dusk, Ma Lin led an army of 10,000 people and arrived outside the Dragon King Valley. Guo Qingyun led his men to show up. He stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "General, 20,000 Xi troops are lying in ambush on both sides of the valley, waiting for the general to enter the valley.
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Ma Lin nodded and asked, "Do you still have any men on the mountain?"
"Report to the general, no more!"
Ma Lin looked at the sky and saw that it was almost time. He immediately ordered: "Fire the signal arrow!"
The soldiers immediately fired nine gunpowder arrows into the sky, which was the signal to take action.
Ma Lin immediately ordered: "Send the order to the whole army to cut down the big trees!"
Thousands of soldiers took action together, felling thousands of pine trees in just a few moments, and blocked the entrance to the official road.
Ma Lin ordered again: "Shoot gunpowder into the woods and pour kerosene on it!"
Tens of thousands of gunpowder arrows were fired into the pine forest, and the pine forest began to burn. The soldiers poured a large amount of kerosene, and the fire became more intense, and thousands of big trees blocking the official road also burned.
The terrain and environment in Liaodong are very similar. The Dragon King Valley is almost exactly the same as the Bailang Valley in the north. It is about seven or eight miles long, with low and gentle slopes on both sides. The slopes are covered with pine forests, and 20,000 Xi Army soldiers are ambushing them.
In the woods on both sides of the hillside, the Tang army waiting to rescue Ruluo's guards had received news from spies that 10,000 Tang army cavalry were coming from this side of the valley.
The soldiers were ready for a big fight.
But at this moment, the pine forest behind them suddenly caught fire, and the pine forests on the mountains on both sides also caught fire.
Immediately afterwards, the fire spread rapidly from both ends of the valley.
The 20,000 soldiers suddenly panicked and didn't know what to do.
At this time, General Xi shouted: "Go to the official road to avoid the fire!"
This seemed to be a good idea, and 20,000 Xi troops ran down the hillside and gathered on the official road.
But they don’t know common sense about firefighting! When a fire breaks out, most of the victims are not burned to death, but killed by thick smoke.
Flames rose into the sky, thick smoke billowed, and the two mountaintops burned. The fire was so fierce that even the Tang army had to retreat twenty miles away, otherwise they would not be able to withstand the suffocation caused by the intense fire and thick smoke.
Thick smoke filled the ground, and the entire thirty-mile radius was shrouded in fire and smoke.
The fire burned for three days and three nights before it gradually subsided. The Tang army had withdrawn from the Dragon King Valley area, leaving only five thousand soldiers to deal with the aftermath.
When the soldiers walked into the Dragon King Valley, it was like a hell. There were big charred trees standing on the mountains on both sides. There were twisted corpses lying on the official road. They were all suffocated by the thick smoke. Huge trees were blocking the road on both sides.
Under the tree, corpses were piled up like a mountain. Many soldiers tried to escape over the giant tree, but they couldn't escape at all. In the end, they piled up and died.
All 20,000 Xi troops were wiped out, and no one survived.
The port of Longyuan Mansion in Bohai Kingdom is located in a bay called Longwan. It is also the only seaport in Bohai Kingdom. It is a natural harbor. There are thousands of warships of various sizes parked in the harbor, including Japanese turtle ships.
There are also imitation Tang ships from the Bohai Kingdom.
However, the Bohai Kingdom does not have a navy, and their ships are almost all merchant ships, which are not as strong and sturdy as the Japanese turtle ships.
In the Battle of Baijiangkou a hundred years ago, the racquet sticks of the Tang Army's naval ships showed great power. They either blocked the Japanese warships or smashed them into pieces. After learning from the painful experience, they designed their warships to be round. The racquet sticks of the Tang Army were
I can't stop him anymore.
Secondly, a cover was added on the top to resist the Tang army's racket, and a dragon head was designed on the front. Japan named this kind of sea ship Tuanlong, but intuitively it looked like a turtle, so it was also called a turtle ship.
There were more than 600 turtle ships in Longwan. They sent 30,000 troops into the Bohai Kingdom for the first time and destroyed the Bohai Kingdom. The top Japanese officials were extremely happy and immediately sent turtle ships to add another 20,000 troops. They must be thorough
Taking control of Bohai State became their first territory on the mainland.
At this time, there were more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers training not far from the harbor.
At noon, the watch tower in the south of Longwan noticed something unusual. A fleet of ships came from a distance, and the alarm bell immediately sounded in the harbor.
"Dang! Dang! Dang!"
The alarm sounded urgent, and 12,000 Japanese navy troops rushed onto the turtle boats, and 200 turtle boats began to sail out of the bay and toward the southern sea.
Turtle ships do have their unique features, that is, they are stable and resistant to wind and waves, but their shortcomings are also obvious, that is, they are slow. In fact, everyone knows that the warship is designed to be a streamlined elongated shape with a sharp front end, like a knife.
This is to minimize drag.
But the turtle ship did the opposite and formed a fish-like shape. Can the obstruction range be small? If the navigation resistance is large, the ship's speed will naturally not be high.
In order to solve the problem of slow boat speed, the turtle boat was designed with multiple people rowing, with eight oars on each side. Three people rowed one oar. A boat can carry about 60 people, but only 48 people are needed to row the oars.
Man, how many fighting soldiers are left? Yes, there are only twelve.
There were only twelve combat soldiers on a ship, which was of course far from enough, so the military department asked the oarsmen to serve as combat soldiers at the same time. This resulted in a Japanese-style combat style. When the two armies were fighting, the ship would not move and everyone would
They were busy drawing their bows and shooting arrows, but no one was rowing the boat.
After a round of fierce fighting, everyone put down their bows and arrows and continued rowing.
At this time, the Tang army's cabin appeared, and the two fleets were only ten miles apart.
When Li Chengshi saw that there were no warships coming out of Longwan in the distance, he immediately ordered: "Sign the flag and launch the tail-beheading tactic!"
The tail-beheading tactic is to cut off the enemy's retreat. A general is responsible for every tactic of the Tang army. When the flag is played, the ships behind them will also play the same flag.
Liu Mingzhan, the general of Huben Zhonglang, shouted: "Pull up the red flag, the third team comes with me!"
Liu Mingzhan's five-thousand-stone warship sailed quickly, followed by the ships under his command.
On the sea, a fast fleet consisting of fifty 3,000-stone warships sailed quickly from the side, surpassing the Japanese turtle fleet and heading towards Longwan.