Boling County, the eleventh year of Daye, late autumn.
When the north wind began to blow violently and the coldness gradually spread, it had only been more than 20 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The Sui Dynasty, which had once reached its peak, had completely entered a chaotic era. Rogue bandits were plundering, and rebels from all walks of life were everywhere, attacking cities and plundering territory. Huge
Chaos is brewing. The basic order has collapsed.
Yuchi Jingde led 40,000 soldiers from the Tiger Battalion to destroy the strongholds and plunder the territory. In the field battle, they defeated the Cui family's 70,000 troops with a small number of hits and a large number, and finally surrounded the Cui family in Boling County.
But then Li Jing led the Cui family to flee into the city with more than 50,000 troops, and the situation began to reverse.
Considering that the morale of the army was low and that 50,000 clan reinforcements had arrived outside the city, Li Jing changed his strategy of holding on to the city and gathering 100,000 troops inside and outside the city. He still chose to take the initiative and engage in a field battle with Yuchi Jingde in the wilderness.
In this battle, Li Jing's military strength was twice that of Yuchi Jingde.
Under Li Jing's skillful mobilization and command, although Tiger Camp's grenades and other sharp weapons continued to kill and injure the enemy in large numbers, they never caused the enemy to collapse.
Therefore, the war was extremely fierce from the beginning, and the fighting lasted from morning to afternoon and was not over yet.
The sky has turned dark, but the flames are burning, blood lines are spreading, the entire wilderness ground is dyed crimson, and flaming arrows are streaking across the sky.
The light in the sky faded, and the corpses stretched out. Soldiers holding swords stood up unsteadily from the pool of blood. Looking around, the cavalry of the Tiger Camp was like a torrent, roaring and killing, and in the cavalry
In the middle of the team, the sound of noise has also spread, and the infantry and gun formations of the Tiger Camp are facing the mixed infantry and cavalry formation of the powerful coalition forces.
If someone could stand at a high altitude and look down, they would find that fifteen miles northeast of Boling County, countless canines were fighting, the fire burned the sparse woods and dried weeds, howling in the wind, holding torches,
The team of mobilized soldiers spread like a long dragon through the low mountains, giving people an indescribable deterrent effect. The huge flag still fluttered in the wind in the darkness.
Yuchi Jingde's talent in military command and training is very good. After following Wang Junlin for more than three years, he has trained several times on Shedao Island and accumulated a lot of practical experience. He has gradually become a military leader among the commanders of Wang Junlin's battalions.
First person.
Although Li Jing is not famous now, only Wang Junlin knows how terrifying this man was called the God of War during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. He even directly led the army to destroy the entire Turks during the Tang Dynasty. The difference now may be just experience.
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Yuchi Jingde had never heard of Li Jing before. Although the opponent's force was two of his, he did not expect that such a person who had never heard of him would actually
Ran and he were evenly matched.
Noisy sounds surrounded the surroundings. On the mountains, Li Jing was wearing a large cloak and riding his war horse. His eyes were fixed on the entire battlefield. He occasionally issued an order to send out reserve troops or make adjustments to military formations.
, to cope with changes on the battlefield.
He once carefully considered for a year between King Qin An and the Taiyuan Li family supported by the family, and finally chose Li Yuan and his son.
Because he expected that since the end of the Han Dynasty, the real control of the world has always been the clan, which has never changed, and it is now the time when the clan's power is at its peak. Although Wang Junlin can be called a legend, in Li Jing's view, he is only one person after all.
, rather than God.
And this battle is a battle for him to prove his ability in front of the various clans and Li Yuan and his son. It is very important to him.
In this battle, the ratio of the armies of both sides was a little more than one to two, and the combined number of both sides was nearly 150,000.
In later generations, two thousand people could fill an entire playground, and the number of people expanded more than seventy times. The mountains and wilderness were densely packed with people.
Amid the chaos, he can clearly see the shape of the entire battlefield, identify the affiliation of each army, and even predict how the battlefield will evolve beyond the mountains and fields beyond his field of vision, etc.! These are the basic skills of a truly famous general.
Quality.
Li Jing's reputation was not prominent. Yuchi Jingde did not take it to heart at first.
However, as soon as today's battle began, Yuchi Jingde realized how powerful and difficult Li Jing was, and found that he had encountered the most difficult opponent in his life today.
Since the battle started at noon that day, Li Jing has mobilized the power of his army to the extreme. The battle fronts of both sides have been spread out, and there are front lines that are several miles long. In the five or six hours of fighting,
It went on and on all the way. By this time, the distance between the two sides was more than thirty miles. Nearly 20,000 people had left their blood and lives in the wilderness of Boling County. Up to now, the victory or defeat was hard to come by.
see it clearly.
Under the expression that others could not detect, Li Jing's whole body was trembling slightly, and the solemnity and tension in his heart were far greater than what he showed on the surface. He knew very well that if he lost this battle, it would be very difficult for him in Li Yuan
The status in the camp has a great influence.
Moreover, he also knew that if he lost this battle, the morale of the powerful coalition forces would be condensed. But if he lost, the morale and morale of the already low military forces would immediately collapse. And for the army, no matter what its previous combat capabilities were,
No matter how strong the generals are, how good they are at fighting, but if the army's morale has been shaken and its morale is gone, it will be impossible to fight the war.
Of course Li Jing knew that the impact on military morale was related to the increasing number of rogue bandits in the past few months, and more deeply, it was related to the impact on the counties.
It has to do with the government's treatment of disaster victims. Yang Guang's court and local officials never thought that almost all of the soldiers' families and relatives were farmers. When soldiers' families and relatives with the same status as themselves were affected by disasters, the court and government not only did not treat them, but also
When they drove towards Fanyang County in a heart-wrenching manner, the morale of the army already had irreparable cracks.
The reason why the 100,000 elite members of the clan alliance led by Li Jing could still maintain morale was mainly because Li Jing tried his best and tried every means to maintain it, but it was also because the clan alliance itself had never been short of food, grass and military pay.
Therefore, at this moment, Li Jing's entire life seemed to be burning.
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At the beginning of the day's battle, the Tiger Battalion's 20,000 cavalry troops surged in, intent on defeating the front line of the powerful alliance with the most powerful blow. Li Jing organized a tight defense with arrows and spear formations.
Our own cavalry rushed through the Tiger Camp's rear defense at the same time without giving in at all.
For a moment, Li Jing even wanted to personally lead the entire army to attack Yuchi Jingde's main formation, because he could see that Yuchi Jingde, the commander of the Far Eastern Army's Tiger Camp, obviously underestimated him.
If he really takes this decision, the battle in front of him may be directly decided after both sides launch the most powerful offensive.
It's just that Yuchi Jingde can afford to bet that if the Far Eastern Army loses this battle, Wang Junlin can send reinforcements. Li Jing has even received news that the Far Eastern Army's Xiongwu Camp is on the way. This is why he is anxious to fight this battle first.
Yuchi Jingde could still make a comeback, but Li Jing could not afford the gamble, so he did not dare to do so in the end.
The Far East Army is worthy of being the strongest army in the world, and Yuchi Jingde is worthy of being the number one man in Wang Junlin's army. After a sharp attack failed, the Tiger Battalion quickly switched to an offensive and defensive formation, and this formation was slightly weak.
of moving back.
The Far Eastern Army was not only good at using infantry and spear formations in field battles, but was also very good at using cavalry, especially Yuchi Jingde. Cavalry combat was what he was best at.
In front of Li Jing's eyes, the cavalry formation of the Far Eastern Army was galloping and killing like thousands of wild dragons. He also quickly organized the cooperation of infantry and cavalry. Through river ditches, woods, flames, and arrows, the infantry and cavalry under his command continued to get closer to the opponent's enemy.
The battle formation divided and tore everything into an intertwined chaos.
The battle lasted for more than five hours and spanned more than 20 miles. The Far Eastern Army's cavalry offensive changed from violent to cautious, and now the two sides played steadily and steadily like chess.
Li Jing knew in his heart that Yuchi Jingde no longer had the initial contempt at this time, but this was not a good thing.