Chapter 472 Don't look down on Li Er, he is the best horse emperor
Chapter 472 Don’t look down on Li Er, he is the most capable emperor on horseback
Author: The best is like no water
Chapter 472 Don’t look down on Li Er, he is the most capable emperor on horseback
The location of Liaodong City was very important, so Goguryeo could not allow it to be captured by the Tang army.
However, Goguryeo did not engage in a large-scale decisive battle with the Tang army, and its understanding of the Tang army came more from the intelligence collected.
In addition, the more important point is that the Goguryeo people have the confidence to successfully defeat three fierce attacks by the Sui Dynasty's million-strong army decades ago.
In their opinion, the Sui army and the Tang army had similar origins, so it was natural for them to be included.
The last point is that the Gaogu (Gou) beauties believed that they were more tolerant of severe cold than the Tang army and had an advantage in fighting in the cold winter.
The powerful minister Yeon Gaesumun who really took power in Goguryeo was extremely ambitious and wanted to defeat the main force of the Tang army through a cold winter field battle.
In this way, as long as the Tang army was defeated, those defeated soldiers would be just dreaming if they wanted to flee thousands of miles back to Youzhou in the cold wind and heavy snow.
If hundreds of thousands of Tang troops were buried in the ice and snow, there is no chance that Goguryeo would still have a chance to peek into China.
Yuan Gaisuwen was very ambitious and wanted to defeat the main force of the Tang Dynasty in one battle, and even captured Li Er to take a peek at the Middle Earth.
After all, I have won before, so I feel like I can still win now.
After reconciling with Gao Jianwu, the two pieced together a force of more than 100,000 troops.
This is basically the entire field mobile power of Goguryeo at this time.
Due to the freezing weather and the difficulty of marching, they trudged all the way until the twelfth lunar month before finally arriving near Liaodong City.
After learning that Liaodong City had not been captured yet, Yuengai Suwen breathed a sigh of relief.
If Liaodong City has already fallen, then this risky attack will have lost its cornerstone.
On a hill forty miles southeast of Liaodong City, Yuan Gaisuwen and Gao Jianwu stood side by side.
Looking at the densely packed Tang army camp in the distance, Gao Jianwu put down the single-barrel telescope smuggled from Datang at a high price and asked worriedly, "Can we win?"
Yeon Gaesoo-moon, who also put down the monocular, responded in a deep voice, "I have lost so much and come here, I must be attacked."
They gathered soldiers and horses from all over the country and rushed here. They lost thousands of soldiers and horses along the way, and the number of logistics workers transporting supplies was lost several times that.
If we return without fighting at this time, it will really become a big joke.
"It's a rare opportunity now."
Yeon Gaesumun stretched out his hand and pointed in the direction of the Tang army's camp, "The emperor of the Tang Dynasty is over there. This is Goguryeo's best opportunity."
In his mind, he imagined that he could defeat the main force of the Tang army, even shoot out Li Er's eyes, and then pursue them all the way to Chang'an City. Everything in the prosperous Tang Dynasty would be theirs.
Seeing that Gao Jianwu was still hesitant, Yeon Gaesumun felt contempt in his heart, but he persuaded him sternly, "It's cold and freezing, and the weather is with me. The Tang army went on a thousand-mile expedition, but they couldn't even capture Liaodong City. The location is favorable to us."
.Our soldiers protect our homeland and our country. Humanity is with us.
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"Goguryeo is the right place at the right time and with the right people and we will definitely win."
After taking a tube of chicken blood, Yeon Gaesumun breathed out, "We all know why the Tang army wanted to march in winter. If they can't be driven away, wait until spring comes."
"knew."
The livid-faced Gao Jianwu turned his horse's head and said, "Then fight!"
Gao Jianwu's strength was average, with only 40,000 to 50,000 troops, and the other troops belonged to Yeon Gaesumun.
Originally, in history, Gao Jianwu would be destroyed by Yeon Gaesumun after failing to fight for power in two years.
But now it is a matter of life and death for Goguryeo, so we can only join hands to resist the Tang army first.
While Goguryeo was busy preparing for a decisive battle with the Tang army, the Tang army was naturally not idle either.
Li Er in the big tent was discussing the battle procedure with a group of generals.
Faced with such a battle that would surely go down in history to destroy the country, everyone was extremely enthusiastic about putting forward their opinions. Even the young Xue Rengui loudly explained his opinions to Li Er.
After everyone had finished speaking, Li Er's eyes fell on Li Yunze, who was sitting on a horse in the corner with his eyes closed and concentrating.
"Zihou, what do you want to say?"
Li Yunze opened his eyes and said calmly, "The main attack is on Yeon Gaesumun's headquarters."
Li Er raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?"
"Yeon Gae So-moon was a powerful minister and had irreconcilable conflicts with Goguryeo King Gao Jian-mu. If the Tang Dynasty did not come to fight, they would start fighting among themselves."
"Yeon Gaesumun is stronger. After defeating his troops, even if he is allowed to escape by chance, he will definitely attack Gao Jianwu immediately."
Xue Rengui was very confused when he said this, "Why is this?"
Li Yunze glanced at him, "Because he has lost his strength, Yeon Gaesumun can no longer suppress Gao Jianwu. If he doesn't want to die, he can only strike first."
Xue Rengui was still waiting to ask again, but Li Er over there already said, "That's it."
Both sides are gearing up and looking forward to the decisive battle that will determine the fate of the country, and both believe they can win.
Goguryeo's confidence came from what they believed to be the right time, place and people, as well as their confidence in defeating the Sui army before.
The confidence of the Tang army came from their fully guaranteed logistics, which overcame the strength of the surrounding countries, and the high morale brought by the emperor's personal expedition.
Two days later, the heavy snow that was flying all over the sky finally stopped, and the dark clouds dispersed in the sky, revealing a rare sunshine.
Both sides prepared meals in advance, and then troops drove out of the camp one by one and gathered in the open space between the two armies.
The Tang army did not show its strength advantage, because it had to leave enough troops and horses to block the Liaodong City behind it, and the number of Tang troops sent to the battle was not much greater than the Goguryeo reinforcements.
However, when the two sides completed their formation, the gap quickly became apparent intuitively.
The Tang army basically wore iron armor outside their cotton-padded clothes, and were all equipped with leather hats, leather gloves and boots.
The armor coverage rate in Goguryeo is less than 80%, and the armor coverage rate of iron armor is just over half.
Over the years, Goguryeo used smuggling at all costs to obtain many iron products from the Tang Dynasty and rebuilt them after melting them.
The most important thing is the quantity of armor, which is naturally inferior to the Tang army. Even the quality is not good.
The Tang army basically used plate armor forged by water conservancy, while Goguryeo mainly used fish scale armor and chain armor.
Yeon Gaesumun originally thought that the Tang army would be tortured by the cold weather, but when they entered the battle, he was shocked to find that the Tang army was very powerful. It was not at all due to the cold weather and the imagined inability to transport supplies in time.
And the depressed look
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In Yeon Gaesumun's view, the Tang army's supplies had to be transported with difficulty from Youzhou, thousands of miles away, to the front line in such cold weather conditions.
Considering the number of people in the Tang army, the amount of supplies required was extremely large, and the difficulty was naturally greater.
He never expected that the Tang Army's supply team could really meet the needs of so many Tang Army.
What Yuan Gaisuwen didn't know was that in order to support the Tang army in this battle, Li Yunze concentrated almost all the Sharma horses that the Tang Dynasty had cultivated over the years here in Youzhou.
Tens of thousands of Sharmas dragged specially modified sledge-like trucks from Youzhou to the front line.
In order to maintain this transportation line, thousands of Shire horses are lost every month, which really makes the person responsible for raising horses heartbroken and fainting from tears.
It's just that Li Yunze and Li Er were indifferent to this. Good steel should be used on the blade, so they raised so many Shire horses in order to play a decisive role at this critical moment.
The result of such no expense spared was that the Tang Army was able to maintain its combat power in today's decisive battle.
Even before the battle in the morning, Tang Jun ate hot food. As long as he could eat dried meat and cheese, he could eat as much as he wanted.
On the contrary, even if Goguryeo was fighting locally, its logistical supply capabilities were far inferior to those of the Tang army. Before they went to war, ordinary sergeants only had dry food.
The various differences between the two sides, individually speaking, do not have much impact, but the cumulative effect will eventually be reflected on the battlefield.
Li Yunze did not go into battle, but stood on the viewing platform with his hands folded and looked towards the battlefield.
In the military formation of Goguryeo opposite, the central army was flying the flag of its leader Gao Jianwu, while the soldiers and horses of Yeon Gaesumun were distributed on the two wings.
After thinking for a moment, Li Yunze understood Yeon Gaesumun's plan.
This was the main attack that wanted to use Gao Jianwu as bait to attract the Tang army. After all, he was the king of Goguryeo.
Then he took advantage of the main force of the Tang Army to attack Gao Jianwu and sent troops to flank the two flanks of the Tang Army. Moreover, seeing that he mainly concentrated his cavalry on the left wing, he also planned to seize the opportunity to quickly attack Li Er's central army.
"Ah."
Seeing through Yeon Gaesumun's subordinates, Li Yunze sat on the horse and hugged his knees and weighed his legs, "Li Er is not called the God of War. This trick is useless to him."
Yeon Gaesomun's plan is wonderful, but the key question is whether it can be realized.
Speaking of Goguryeo, it was also unlucky. It had been dormant in the deep mountains and forests for hundreds of years. It developed in a low-key manner and slowly accumulated strength and began to rise.
After the country's national power entered its explosive period, it was hit hard by Cao Wei, and even the capital, Wandu City, was destroyed.
That is to say, at that time, Cao Wei thought that Goguryeo had been destroyed, so he withdrew his troops. Otherwise, there would be no future problems with Goguryeo.
Goguryeo licked its wounds and lay dormant for another hundred years. When the Middle Kingdom was in chaos, it not only rebuilt Wandu City, but also gradually annexed the four counties of Liaodong.
Then he conquered Baekje, Silla, Khitan, Fuyu, etc., and became a local hegemon.
The result of being too high-profile was that he was beaten repeatedly by Gao Yang, Yu Wenyong, Yang Jian and others, and even the capital was destroyed many times.
In other words, he just defeated Yang Guang.
Of course, in history, it also resisted Li Er's personal conquests, but during the Li rule period, when Goguryeo was at its strongest, it was still wiped out by the Tang Dynasty.
Now, there is no need for Li Zhi, Li Er himself is determined to destroy Goguryeo.
After the battle began, as Yeon Gaesomun had imagined, the main force of the Tang army concentrated on attacking Gao Jianwu in the middle. It looked like they were competing for the great credit of killing the leader of Goguryeo.
Moreover, the right wing of the Tang Army was relatively weak. After several rounds of clashes with Yuan Gaisuwen's cavalry group, it was unable to cope with its ambitions.
After careful observation, Yeon Gaesumun concluded that the best fighter he had been waiting for finally appeared. He immediately led tens of thousands of cavalry without hesitation, like a torrent, bypassing the main battlefield in the middle and heading straight for Li Er's big banner.
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If he were called the God of War instead, he would probably be able to run away already.
It's a pity that Yeon Gaesumun is facing Li Er, the most tyrannical emperor among hundreds of emperors.
Everything that happened before was just Li Er's arrangement to seduce Yuan Gaisuwen.
When Yeon Gaesumun's cavalry approached, the Tang army's backhand quickly launched. More cavalry than the Goguryeo people trampled them with their hooves, colliding with each other and outflanking them!