Zhang Shu, the original criminal cao who joined the army, was the brother of Zhang Ting, the prefect of Lingwu County. He had been with Yang Yuanqing for many years and was deeply trusted by Yang Yuanqing. He was strict and upright, and did not show favoritism. He was nicknamed the Iron-faced Judge. He treated everyone equally, from the general manager Yang Yuanqing to the ordinary soldiers. , even his brother Zhang Ting was punished by him, and he was very prestigious among the Fengzhou army. During this Eastern Expedition, he was in charge of the military law of the Fengzhou army.╱oo
Zhang Shu looked at the list in his hand, stood up and saluted: "Reporting to the manager, there are four missing questions. One B-level item is the distance between the opponent's accounts, and the rest are D-level items. It's not a big problem. I'll discuss it later. Supplementary question."
Xu Shiji took the interrogation book from Zhang Canjun. It was densely packed with nearly two hundred questions, divided into four major items according to their importance: A, B, C and D. He was amazed. It was not until today that he finally got a glimpse of the strict system of the Fengzhou Army. , compared with the Fengzhou Army, the Wagang Army is really a mob.
Yang Yuanqing patted him on the shoulder and said sincerely: "The reason why the Fengzhou Army was able to defeat the 300,000 Turkic army by itself was not accidental. The secret lies in the strict system. Leading troops to fight does not rely on luck, let alone All strategic decisions are based on a large amount of intelligence analysis. The reason why I withdrew my troops for twenty miles was to wait for Li Shuliang's spies to come to my door, and then I would ask them about their intelligence from the spies. I hope that through this battle, you can quickly adapt to the Fengzhou Army's system, and then I can let you stand alone."
Xu Shiji nodded silently, and he convinced Yang Yuanqing from the bottom of his heart.
At this time, several soldiers picked up a set of armor and placed it on the ground. Yang Yuanqing smiled and said: "Let's take a look at the enemy's equipment."
Yang Yuanqing looked at the armor, horizontal sword, spear, shield, bow and arrow, and boots one by one, and said to Xu Shiji: "They are all the most exquisite things made by the weapons supervisor. Even the boots have three-layer cowhide soles. Their equipment is more than Fengzhou Army, and then think about how it only took a very short time last night from the sentry tower report to the crossbow army to attack the camp. I can conclude that these 20,000 people are Li Yuan's most elite army. With such an elite army, they still dare not challenge me face to face, which shows that Li Shuliang is too cautious."
Yang Yuanqing glanced at Xu Shiji again, and seeing that he was thoughtful, he asked, "How do you think this battle should be fought?"
Xu Shiji pondered for a long time and said: "In order to win with minimal casualties, I think we should give full play to the strengths of the Fengzhou Army's night battles, but I still can't think of a way to break the defense of Li Shuliang's camp."
Yang Yuanqing stared at a few caltrops placed on the table. They were samples they collected from outside the enemy camp. He smiled lightly and said: "It is easy for me to break his defense."
It was getting dark, but Li Shuliang's army still did not break out of camp. The Fengzhou Army had already appeared five miles away at noon. Although there were only more than a thousand cavalry, this was a very clear signal. The opponent wanted to fight him, and he had always The cautious Li Shuliang did not dare to act rashly.
As night fell, the Fengzhou Sui army's troops began to appear two miles north of the camp. Li Shuliang stood on the tall sentry tower. He could clearly see the opponent's army in order. Li Shuliang was extremely uneasy in his conscience. He couldn't help but Understand what the other side means by forming an array at this time. Could it be that they want to fight at night?
Unless the two armies are fighting at night to attack the enemy camp. In order to win in chaos, under normal circumstances, night battles are generally not carried out. This is mainly because the command flag cannot be seen at night, and the soldiers of the two armies are easily confused and can kill each other.
But nothing is absolute. If one party has had special night fighting training, it can conduct night fighting through strong command. The Fengzhou Army has had special night fighting training and has experience in night fighting. This army led by Yang Yuanqing is the Fengzhou Army.
They are the most elite, and night fighting is their advantage.
Li Shuliang vaguely guessed Yang Yuanqing's intention. He nervously said to Liu Hongji: "Looking at their formation, they are going to attack the military camp."
Liu Hongji bit his lip. He was even more nervous than Li Shuliang. The other party must have found a way to break their defense. He looked back at the camp. He was worried that the other party would use fire to attack. After all, Yang Yuanqing was good at using fire.
Got a name.
"Commander, do you want us to close all the camp tents to prevent Yang Yuanqing from burning down the camp?"
However, Li Shuliang considered that if the camp was removed, it would be more advantageous for the opponent's cavalry to take advantage of it. As long as the defense was tight, the opponent's rockets would not have enough range to shoot in. He weighed the pros and cons and shook his head, "If they can attack with fire, they
The cavalry can also charge in. Leaving the camp behind will be detrimental to the cavalry's running. The key is to use strong bows and crossbows to suppress the opponent so that they cannot get close to the camp."
At this time, a soldier suddenly shouted: "Commander, what do you think that is?"
Li Shuliang and Liu Hongji looked in the direction of the soldiers' fingers together. They both saw a tall, vague object appearing in the night, two or three feet high, like a giant sentry tower, slowly approaching the camp.
Stopped dozens of steps away from the camp.
Li Shuliang and Liu Hongji looked at each other, and both of them had a thought at the same time, 'Could it be a she tower?'
Liu Hongji looked at the distance, but he still insisted: "Commander, just in case, we should evacuate the camp! Yang Yuanqing is good at using fire attacks, we must be on guard."
This time Li Shuliang did not insist and accepted his suggestion, "Send an order to evacuate all the large camps in the camp."
At this time, wooden frames two or three feet high appeared on all sides of the camp. The soldiers were talking about it. No one knew what kind of object it was. There was an invisible pressure in the heart of each soldier, and he began to feel a little uneasy.
, the Fengzhou Army is famous for its reputation. Every time something abnormal appears, they will put pressure on the other party. Under certain circumstances, this is actually a kind of psychological warfare.
Yang Yuanqing immediately stood hundreds of steps away, looking coldly at the enemy camp. A soldier rushed to report, "Alert to the general manager, the enemy has withdrawn their tents."
Yang Yuanqing's eyesight was sharp. He saw the other party's big white tents disappearing one by one from a distance. He couldn't help but cursed in a low voice, "Damn thing!"
The opponent had obviously realized that he was going to attack with fire and had taken precautions in advance. This was beyond Yang Yuanqing's expectation. Xu Shiji whispered from the side: "Since the opponent has already confirmed our intention to use fire attack, do we still use fire attack?"
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"No! Keep using fire attacks!"
Yang Yuanqing issued the order for a fire attack. Even if the camp could not be burned, it could still frighten the enemy.
Giant balls were brought up one after another. They were large cloth balls tied with fire cloth, about a person's height, and filled with kerosene. They were originally used to burn the enemy's camps, but Liu Hongji discovered the clues.
He persuaded Li Shuliang in time to dismantle the big tent. Yang Yuanqing's fire attack plan failed, but this kind of fireball still had a strong deterrent effect.
The tools for throwing fireballs are those high towers. They are actually a few crudely made catapults. They have no winches and are completely pulled by manpower. It takes two to three hundred people to throw a fireball two hundred steps away, but this is enough.
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"Prepare to attack!"
The captain shouted, and more than two hundred people pulled the rope together. A soldier lit the cloth ball with a torch. The flames spread quickly, and a big fireball suddenly appeared.
"Let it go!" the captain ordered.
Hundreds of soldiers yanked the rope at the same time and threw out the long pole. A huge fireball rose into the air and roared towards the enemy camp. The fireball passed high over the spear array and hit the dense crowd of soldiers with crossbows. The soldiers shouted,
They scattered for cover, but several people still couldn't escape. They were knocked over by the fireball, their bodies were on fire, and they ran around screaming.
A big fireball rolled and rushed into a dozen large tents that had no time to be dismantled. The big tent was immediately ignited, and the flames shot into the sky. Then four more big fireballs flew into the sky, and the soldiers on the ground ran away with their heads in their hands.
Although the fireball did not cause serious damage, the camp was in chaos. In the chaos, soldiers suddenly discovered that there were rows of rafts moving in front of the gun formation. Hundreds of Toyoshu Army soldiers were crawling on the ground and pushing the rafts.
Soon, a raft road two hundred paces long and thirty paces wide appeared in front of the gun formation. This raft road actually easily broke through the iron caltrops scattered all over the ground in front of the gun formation.
Moreover, there are such raft roads in the east, west, and north directions. It is obvious that the Toyoshu Army wants to attack from three directions at the same time.
Liu Hongji realized the seriousness of the situation. He was so anxious that he repeatedly ordered, "She! No rafts are allowed to be laid!"
Thousands of arrows were fired in the darkness. The dense arrows were fired at the Fengzhou Army soldiers on the ground. However, the Fengzhou soldiers were already prepared and raised their giant shields to cover each other. Facing the dense rain of arrows, the raft continued to move forward, within a short distance of the gun.
The formation was still one foot long, so the soldiers took off the skin bags from their backs and sprayed the kerosene in the skin bags into the gun array. The fire quickly burned in the gun array. The gun array was inserted so densely that all the gun arrays were ignited.
This is Li Shuliang's secret. He forgot that the spear shafts were made of wood. Although they could withstand the impact of the cavalry, they could not withstand the burning of the fire. Pieces of spears were burned, the spear tips fell to the ground, and the spear shafts
It was burned into charcoal, exposing gaps that the cavalry could easily break through.
Just then, a dull drum sound sounded in the darkness: "Dong-dong-dong"
The drum beat slowly, and each beat seemed to hit people's hearts. In the sound of the drum, Fengzhou's most powerful army, the two thousand heavily armored Modao Army, went into battle. There were more than 600 of them in one team.
Divide into three teams and attack the camp from the east, west and north.
The heavily armored Mo Dao troops lined up neatly, walking on rafts and walking towards the enemy camp step by step. Each step was as solemn as a mountain. They held a shield in one hand and held the Mo Dao sword tightly in front of their chest with the other hand. The Mo Dao was pointing vertically upward.
Above their heads, there was a dense forest of bright and sharp long blades. This powerful array of swords made the enemy feel terrified.
Li Shuliang's face was pale. The spear formation and caltrop formation he had carefully deployed were easily destroyed by the Fengzhou Army. The methods used were extremely simple, but they were beyond his imagination, and the opponent's heavy armored infantry was something he had never heard of.
, he began to panic and didn't know how to deal with it.
Only deputy general Liu Hongji rode on horseback and commanded the crossbowmen to fire. A dense rain of arrows shot at the heavily armored Modao army from three sides. However, the armor of the heavy armored infantry was made of fine steel. Only bed crossbows could shoot through it. General crossbows
Within thirty steps, there was nothing they could do with them, and Yang Yuanqing wanted to be on the safe side, so each Mo Daoist held a shield.
The arrows were like a storm, hitting the heavy armor and shields with a clanging sound, but no one was knocked down. The heavy-armored Modao army still came step by step. The soldiers in the front row waved their Modao and cut off the rows of people.
The spear shaft burned into charcoal swept away.
They were getting closer and closer to the enemy's camp, "fifty steps, thirty steps, ten steps." When the crossbowmen in front saw the enemy approaching, they all turned around and fled into the inner camp.
Yang Sien roared, threw away his shield, raised his sword high, and slashed at the cart blocking the road ahead. The other soldiers also roared and slashed away with their swords.
The crossbowman hiding behind shouted, turned around and ran away. The cart instantly shattered, and the heavily armored Modao army rushed into the enemy camp.
"Pikemen attack! Cavalry attacks both flanks!"
Liu Hongji waved his sword and roared loudly, organizing the Tang army to resist the strong attack of Modao army, but Li Shuliang seemed to have not woken up from the shock. He could not believe what he saw in front of him. It had not been an hour, and he thought
The impregnable defense was so easily broken.
He saw the Fengzhou heavy armored infantry being extremely fierce, slashing with long blades, invincible, heads flying, torsos torn apart, corpses piled up on the ground, not a single complete corpse, horse legs and heads could be seen everywhere, it was horrible to see
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This was a ferocious army that he had never seen before. It was slashed by long blades, and three or four heads flew away in response. They lined up like an iron wall, and were as violent as a sickle cutting grass, sweeping everything and defeating everything.
At this moment, Fengzhou's war drums sounded loudly again, and eight thousand Fengzhou cavalry rushed toward the camp from three directions along the raft road, charging into the camp like a huge wave.
Liu Hongji was so anxious that his eyes were red. They could no longer resist the enemy's heavy armored infantry. Now the enemy's 8,000 elite cavalry were coming. Their disadvantage was fully demonstrated. There was no way they could save this battle. He rushed to Pegasus.
Li Shuliang shouted in front of him: "Commander, we will lose this battle, retreat quickly!"
Li Shuliang had woken up from the chaos. At this time, he was also flustered. He turned around and shouted, "Escape quickly!"
He ignored Liu Hongji and led more than a thousand soldiers to break through to the north. Liu Hongji shouted anxiously: "Commander, withdraw from the south!"
Li Shuliang could no longer hear him. He led his troops to fight their way out of the siege. Just after breaking out of the siege, he saw hundreds of cavalry standing dozens of steps away, headed by a general. They had golden helmets and iron armor, their saddles were across the sky, and they were holding a huge bow.
, seeing Li Shuliang rushing out of the siege, he sneered, drew his bow like a full moon, an iron arrow came out of the string, shot an arrow from Li Shuliang's mouth, and the iron arrow pierced his brain.
Li Shuliang fell from his horse with his head raised to the sky and died tragically under Yang Yuanqing's iron arrow.
Yang Yuanqing put down his bow and said: "Pass my order, those who surrender will be spared death, and those who resist will be killed without mercy!"
The general Li Shuliang was killed in battle, and his deputy Liu Hongji was nowhere to be seen. The fighting spirit of the Tang army collapsed in the chaos, and they all knelt down and surrendered. Hundreds of soldiers were surrounded by cavalry when they broke out from the south, and all of them were killed. At this point, Li Shuliang's 20,000 troops except Liu Hongji
Except for the successful breakout from the south with more than 300 men, the rest of the army surrendered, about 15,000 people, and the 20,000 elite soldiers were completely wiped out.
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