The strongest notes in war are often accompanied by brutal fighting, flowing blood, the wails of the losers, and the cheers of the victors.
In the early winter of the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Yuanzhen of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army attacked Pyongyang, bringing the war to a climax (harmony).
However, it was not the Tang army that was the first to launch the attack. The Goguryeo people, who had suppressed their anger and had learned some of the Central Plains's military tactics, wanted to take advantage of the Tang army's unsteady footing.
In August in the Liaodong Peninsula, it is already the time when the north wind begins to blow and the vegetation is withering.
A cold rain had just fallen, which made everyone in the Tang army feel a little bit of the winter on the peninsula, but this could not quell people's restless hearts.
The army's camp had just been halfway built when the enemy came out to say hello to them. The order to form an army was given to the army. The Tang army, who had been well prepared, quickly formed a formation.
Groups of Goguryeo people walked out of their densely packed jungle-like camps.
In front were heavily armored infantrymen covered in armor and holding large shields. Can you imagine? Later, the typical iron cans made by those bastards in the west appeared in front of the Tang army.
If Li Po were here, he would definitely think that they are really similar, and most of the weapons they hold are long heavy swords.
If there is a big cross on the chest or somewhere else, then you can definitely think that it is a bad thing like the Knights Templar.
There is no doubt that this is the embodiment of the highest casting technology of the Goguryeo people. Heavy armored infantry and heavy armored cavalry are a very important part of the Goguryeo war machine.
Most of them have little chance to appear on the battlefield. They are usually tools used by the Goguryeo royal family and Goguryeo nobles to show off their martial arts. They are almost the same as the ceremonial soldiers of the Harin Army.
Choose strong and brave men as ceremonial guards
There are not many times when their war value can be truly demonstrated, because most of Goguryeo's domestic wars to quell chaos do not need them, and they cannot keep up with the wars with the Turks and the Central Plains dynasties.
For example, how did they appear in front of the formation now? They first had cattle and horses dragging their armor to the formation, and then they changed their clothes in a grand manner. He couldn't put it on by himself, so he had to have several people help him put it on. stand up.
The former Sui army also had heavy armored infantry, but they were not as bulky as those made by the Goguryeo people. However, everyone faced the same dilemma: they were expensive to build and inconvenient to wear.
When Li Po went to Liaodong with his army, he had a real experience. The cavalry in Mayi used to be heavily armored cavalry, but when it came to the battle, they had no chance to charge into battle with their troops and equipment.
In the Battle of Heifengkou that year, the slow response of the heavy armored cavalry made Li Po so heartbroken that he almost had to be buried there.
That's really a sad story.
Therefore, the heavy armored cavalry infantry, which appeared in the Han Dynasty and developed in the wars of the late Jin Dynasty, was simply eliminated during the wars of the late Sui Dynasty.
One is that the financial resources of the princes do not allow them to be so squandering, and the other is that the role of heavy armored cavalry and infantry in war is really limited, and there are very few wars that require their use to open the door to victory.
Moreover, they are cumbersome and increasingly unable to adapt to the ever-changing battle situation. Even an unorganized peasant army will not wait for the iron cans to rush over. Once these monsters appear in the army, they will turn around and run away.
However, the Goguryeo people did have a fighting style similar to that of the Central Plains army. They were unwilling to be cowardly in the built camps. They planned to attack head-on, teach the Tang army that was not yet stable, and boost their own morale.
This is a very common principle in the art of war in the Central Plains, especially in city defense battles. Often the defenders will not stick to the city and wait for the enemy to besiege or attack the city. They must find ways to get out of the city to fight the enemy and break the enemy's strategic deployment.
and the rhythm of the battle, so that the enemy does not dare to attack the city with all his strength.
It seemed that the Goguryeo people had been preparing for a long time. Soldiers and horses kept pouring out of the camp. In less than half an hour, 50,000 to 60,000 people lined up and moved slowly towards the Tang army.
Five miles away, they stopped, but there were soldiers and horses from Goguryeo constantly joining them behind.
The Tang army was not much slower than them in formation. After the formation was completed, the army slowly moved forward under the guidance of the flags of the generals, and stopped not far from the Goguryeo army formation.
At this time, looking down from the sky, dense military formations were lined up within a radius of several miles, with flags of various colors flying above their heads. As the two armies faced off, the coldness became thicker and the murderous intent became severe.
The officers shouted one after another, and Goguryeo's cavalry also appeared in the formation one after another, numbering in the thousands.
But this did not shake the morale of the Tang army. There was no such thing as fatigue, lack of preparation or acclimatization. The Tang army was no worse prepared for this battle than the Goguryeo people, but the composition of the troops was not as complete as the Goguryeo people.
The follow-up army should still be on its way, but Zhao Shixun has no intention of retreating.
Under the flag of General Zuotunwei, Zhao Shixun stood on a high place behind the formation, his heart was burning. Several years had passed by. Since the battle of Luyang Pass, he, General Zhao, had never been in a battle formation again.
For a general like him who has grown up from fighting in battle, whether it is Chang'an or Yanmen, they are like cages. Once a tiger enters the cage, how can he still have energy after a long time?
Over the years, his dreams were full of swords and swords, and his conversations with people were the same as before. As his claws and claws became dull, he was similar to other generals who had not fought. They were getting more and more worried and could not sleep well.
Now that he can lead troops abroad, what else can he say? If he doesn't slaughter some Goguryeo cubs, he won't go back to the Tang Dynasty.
He took a deep breath of the air after the rain. It was extremely sweet, as fragrant as the taste of blood.
He tried hard to suppress the urge to pick up the sword, put aside all boring thoughts, laughed and said to the left and right: "The turtle stuck out its head, we have to chop it off.
General Zhang was ordered to stand guard for a while to see how majestic the Goguryeo people were. If they retreated, they would be killed. General Zhang Sun was ordered to take a rest first and see where those four-legged guys were coming from, and lead his men to meet them.
Send an order to General Gao. When the enemy is weak, rush forward and kill him."
The 50,000 Tang troops were all elite. Zhao Shixun had not been in the army for a long time, but he would never believe that the Goguryeo people could defeat his own army of hundreds of battles from the front.
Even though Goguryeo seemed to have a lot of troops and cavalry to help, Zhao Shixun was still full of confidence and wanted to take the lead first without waiting for the reinforcements from behind.
It was here that Laihuer Xu defeated the 200,000 Goguryeo army. How could Zhao Shixun be worse than Laihuer?