Li Ye led 10,000 reinforcements into Quchifang. He shouted sternly: "General Wang Qi, you lead 1,000 heavy armored infantry to support the other courtyards!"
"Follow the order!"
A heavy armored infantry general waved his hand and shouted: "Follow me!"
He led a thousand heavy armored infantry towards the Qinglong Temple.
Li Ye ordered again: "General Yang Lianfa, you also lead two thousand crossbows to support the other courtyards!"
"Follow the order!"
Another General Yingshi Lang also led two thousand crossbowmen to the direction of Qinglong Temple.
Li Ye is not worried about other areas. Two thousand heavy armored infantry are enough to kill everything, and there are two thousand soldiers to fill in the gaps. There should be nothing wrong there.
What Li Ye was really worried about was Leyouyuan. Leyouyuan occupies a large area. Although it is a dedicated road up the mountain, you can actually go there even if there is no road. The Yan army can easily send a surprise force to kill the Tang army behind it.
There were only 3,000 Tang troops on Leyouyuan, so it was difficult to stop the Yan army's attack.
Li Ye led 7,000 reinforcements to attack Leyouyuan. Sure enough, a 1,000-man Yan army surrounded the Tang army from behind. The 3,000 Tang army encountered 10,000 Yan troops from the front and rear. They suffered heavy casualties and were already in danger.
The 7,000 reinforcements led by Li Ye suddenly came, and the 1,000 Yan troops who attacked from the north were in chaos. Li Ye opened his bow and set an arrow, and shot more than 20 arrows like a volley of arrows. The arrows were all fired, and more than 20 generals were shot dead in succession.
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Without the command of their generals, the soldiers of the Yan army were at a loss and their morale collapsed. Seeing that they were surrounded and had no other choice, they had no choice but to kneel down and surrender, begging the Tang army for their lives.
Li Ye led his army to the top of the mountain and joined the defenders. The Tang army's morale suddenly became high and their momentum was overwhelming. The enemy troops retreated steadily and collapsed down the mountain.
At the same time, the 6,000 Yan army that invaded the other courtyards also suffered a devastating blow from 2,000 heavy armored infantry and 2,000 Tang army crossbowmen. Their bodies were piled up, blood flowed into rivers, and the ground was covered with stumps and limbs.
The heads are too horrible to look at.
The remaining two thousand Yan troops were so frightened that they fled from the other courtyard shouting in terror. The two Yan troops were defeated almost at the same time.
Zhang Zhongzhi originally planned a sneak attack and caught the Tang army by surprise. He took the opportunity to rush into the city. At this time, he heard that the reinforcements of the Tang army had arrived. He had already lost more than half of his 20,000 troops. If he continued to fight, the whole army would be destroyed. He could only sigh.
, ordered the troops to retreat and withdrew from Qujiang Pool.
When Li Ye rushed to the other hospital area, he saw broken corpses all over the ground, with hands, feet, half a head, and the body cut into several sections. The air was filled with an extremely fishy odor of internal organs, which was disgusting.
He unexpectedly saw many heavy armored infantrymen squatting on the ground and vomiting. These were all newcomers to the heavy armored infantry. The Tang army used the strategy of the new to lead the old, where a veteran leads a new apprentice.
These recruits and apprentices have actually been on the battlefield, but they have never experienced such bloody killings, such as half of the head being chopped off, brains flying everywhere, the body being split in half, and all the internal organs flowing out. They have not experienced such extreme bloody killings.
I couldn't bear it mentally.
The veterans didn't try to comfort them. We all came here like this. After killing too many people, we got used to it and didn't feel it anymore.
In this battle, the Tang army paid the price of more than 1,500 casualties. Most of them were Leyou original defenders. Among them, the heavy armored infantry also suffered the death of more than 170 people. Almost all of them were new soldiers with no experience.
, after being alone, he was knocked down by the enemy, stabbed in the head with a dagger from the eye, and died instantly.
Although the heavy armored infantry is powerful, it also has obvious weaknesses. First, it is afraid of heavy blows. If it is hit behind by a heavy hammer, the armor will not be broken, but the internal organs will be seriously injured.
The second weakness is that the field of vision is not wide, and it is easy to be attacked from behind, dragged down with a rope, or knocked down, which is very dangerous. Therefore, heavy armored infantry must fight as a group and must not be left alone.
The more than 170 people who died in the battle were all overthrown and killed by the Yan army because they were alone. Li Ye sighed and ordered his men to take off their armor and take away the Mo Dao.
There were more than 700 Yan soldiers who surrendered. This was the first batch of soldiers Li Ye captured during the Chang'an battle. He captured a battering ram a few days ago and captured more than 20 people, but he couldn't tell.
Something of value, I wonder if these prisoners of war can provide valuable intelligence.
Li Ye immediately ordered Li Xiyue to take these prisoners of war down for interrogation overnight, and ordered Guan Pei to repair the ice wall and restore the defense of Quchifang.
It was already the third watch, and Li Ye dragged his exhausted body back to his tent, fell down and took a nap.
Li Ye had just slept for an hour when he was woken up by Li Xiyue, "Your Highness, I got important information from interrogating prisoners of war in my humble position, and I need to report it immediately."
Li Ye let himself wake up and then asked: "What important information?"
"A captured Yan Army general stated that the Yan Army also has heavy armored infantry, about two thousand people. They conducted simulation training in the military camp yesterday afternoon and trained to enter the nest car and climb the city."
The first half of this information is of little significance. Of course Li Ye knew that the Yan army also had heavy armored infantry. This was standard equipment and every frontier army would equip it. Even the Longwu Army almost equipped two thousand heavy armored infantry, but they did not ask for it.
, the Longwu Army was all cavalry, and they thought the heavy armored infantry was cumbersome.
Dugu Lie had already told Li Ye that Fan Yang's army had 3,000 heavy armored infantry, and Li Guiren and Cai Xide each commanded a portion. Cai Xide was fighting Li Guangbi in Hedong, so Li Guiren's heavy armored infantry should be outside the city.
There should be about two thousand people, so the first half of the information is meaningless to Li Ye.
But the second half of the information is very important. The heavy armored infantry of the Yan Army actually participated in the training of the Chao Chariot. Then the first batch of Yan Army to board the city are most likely heavy armored infantry. But in this way, your own defense plan will be
There is a loophole.
After pondering for a moment, Li Ye immediately said to his soldiers: "Go quickly and bring General Xu Zongran and Wang Sima to see me!"
The soldiers rushed away, and not long after, Xu Zongran and Wang Suizhou arrived at the Chinese army's tent one after another. They saluted and said, "See you, Your Highness!"
Li Ye nodded, "Wang Sima, sit down for a moment. I'll have a few words with General Xu first."
There was a couch next to it, and Sima Wang Suizhou sat aside to drink tea.
Xu Zongran is the Black Spear. He has followed Li Ye for many years. He has great experience and great achievements. He is now also a tiger general. He is two meters tall and extremely strong. He serves as the commander of the heavy armored infantry.
Li Ye asked: "I came to you to ask, have you ever done a similar experiment, using a big yellow crossbow to shoot heavy armor?"
Black Spear thought for a while, "When I was in Anxi, Li Siye experimented with the rhubarb crossbow."
"The results of it?"
"Thirty steps is the boundary. Beyond thirty steps, we are not afraid of the big yellow crossbow. But within thirty steps, the big yellow crossbow can penetrate heavy armor. However, the Anxi heavy armored infantry all have a close-fitting inner armor. Even if the armor is penetrated,
We are still safe, unless we are shot with iron arrows within thirty steps, then the inner armor will not be able to protect us, and we will definitely be shot through the body."
"Do the heavy armored infantry in other Jiedu Prefectures have inner armor? For example, Fan Yang Jiedu Prefecture."
Black Spear shook his head, "The Ordnance Supervisor only gave heavy armor and Mo Dao. We decided to equip the inner armor ourselves. This is the case for the Anxi Army, and we don't know about other armies' humble positions."
Li Ye thought for a while and asked again: "What kind of weapon is made of which Mo Dao can cut continuously?"
"Reporting to your highness, the long sword made of iron and steel, as well as our own long sword and heavy armor, the Mo Dao can't cut it. As long as other weapons are not very thick and strong, we can cut them in two with one sword."
Li Ye nodded and asked Suizhou, the king of Sima next to him: "Are there any heavy weapons with long handles in the arsenal? It is best to use heavy weapons made of iron."
Wang Suizhou stood up, pondered for a moment and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, there are many long-handled copper hammers and long-handled axes, but they are not made of iron, but ordinary pig iron weapons."
"What's the quantity?"
"There are probably several thousand of each kind. I forgot the exact number. I have to look it up."
"Do you have a Goulian gun?" Li Ye asked again.
"Yes! There are tens of thousands of hook guns to deal with war horses."
Li Ye nodded, "Wang Sima immediately took people to get 5,000 heavy weapons and hook-and-gun guns each. I want the equipment on site."
Wang Suizhou bowed and left, and Li Ye said to Black Spear again: "The Yan army will probably use heavy armored infantry to attack the city from Chaocha. The heavy crossbow troops will first respond to the enemy's attack from both sides, and you will fight the front.
, as long as we can withstand the enemy's first round of offensive after entering the city, we will be able to defeat Chao Che."