However, the result almost made the soldiers of the Far East Army laugh and made Li Shentong turn purple with anger. For every stone bomb they threw, the Far East Army's trebuchet fired three. The most important thing was that the accuracy was too poor.
, it would be good if two or three of the ten hit the target.
Moreover, once their trebuchets stopped, the Far Eastern Army's trebuchets could better aim. After the Li Jiajun's trebuchets each fired two stone bombs, they were all destroyed.
At this time, the remaining half of the copycat version of the giant crossbows of the Li Jiajun finally reached the firing range. The power was not bad, but unfortunately they shot too close. Not to mention the giant crossbows of the Far Eastern Army, even the steel string bows
Able to shoot them.
Therefore, before the soldiers of the Li Jiajun panicked and fired the first of their thick and long crossbow arrows, an infantry phalanx of the Far East Army fired them all at once with steel string bows, killing all the operators.
on the spot.
This reminded Wang Junlin of a classic battle in later generations when the United States fought against Iraq. Both sides used tanks at the same time. The American tanks retreated and fought, while the Iraqi tanks chased and fought. The American tanks always maintained a certain distance between the two sides.
, this distance is the effective shooting distance of American tanks, but it exceeds the shooting distance of Iraqi tanks. The result is that Iraqi tanks can only be beaten and cannot hit American tanks at all.
In short, this is the battlefield effect brought about by the obvious gap in weapons and equipment.
Therefore, future generations should advocate science and technology to strengthen the army, build the army with science and technology, and develop the army with science and technology. Weapons and equipment represent combat effectiveness to a large extent.
On the contrary, the pit-filling truck that Li Jiajun built with little technical content was very efficient. Although some were constantly smashed into pieces by the Far East Army's trebuchets, many pits were filled in the process. This may be because
Li Jiajun's only gain today.
Without the cover of trebuchets and giant crossbows, Li's army's light cavalry could not charge. After leaving more than two thousand corpses behind, and under Li Shentong's frustrated orders, they retreated to the camp in embarrassment. The Far East Army continued as usual.
He didn't go after him.
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Black wind outlet.
"How many Li family troops have we defeated? Ten thousand, right?" Zhang Tiangang looked ahead. It had been a long time since the Li family troops had attacked.
The captain of the second squadron said with a smile: "Including the first few waves, there are not 10,000, but 8,000. According to the intelligence from the Military Intelligence Office, Hou Junji sent Zhang Yishan from Longguan to bring 10,000 horses. However, we
Although we defeated them in waves, the subsequent wave only killed about 5,000 people. The other 5,000 people obviously retreated in the face of difficulties. Before they figured out a way to conquer us, they probably
For a while, they will definitely not attack us again to bring death."
Zhang Tiangang nodded slightly, agreed with the words of the second squad leader, and said with a serious face: "So we may encounter a hard battle at any time. Let me tell the brothers below that we must not just simply repulse the Li Jiajun's attack of ten thousand people in the past two days.
underestimate the enemy."
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Longguan City.
"What, that idiot Zhang Yishan led 10,000 troops and was easily defeated by the enemy troops at Heifengkou." Hou Junji stood up from his seat suddenly, his face became extremely ugly. He knew that this was partly due to the terrain of Heifengkou.
But he also discovered that he might have seriously underestimated the combat power of the Far Eastern Army's three thousand special forces.
Hou Junji knew very well that from Chencang County to Longguancheng, the highway capable of transporting grain and grass must pass through the Black Wind Pass, which meant that the special forces had cut off his lifeline.
Now the grain and grass stored in Longguan City can only be used by them for a month at most.
If they cannot defeat the special forces within a month, recapture the Black Wind Pass, and re-open the grain route between Chencang County and Longguan City, they will be trapped alive.
There are no extra troops in Chencang County. Even though Chang'an City now has 80,000 troops, as the capital of the Li Yuan Group, these last 80,000 troops certainly do not dare to move without permission.
At this moment, Hou Junji understood that although he still had nearly 60,000 troops and Longguan City was still firmly in his hands, he... was already riding a tiger. The most important thing was that since the Far East Army started fighting against them, they
It seemed that he had never won a big victory in any of the three directions, which made him increasingly uneasy.
After frowning and thinking for a moment, Hou Junji said: "The current plan is to send an additional 20,000 troops to attack Heifengkou and re-open the grain road, so that we can solve the difficulty we are facing."
Hearing this, the staff next to him said anxiously: "General, due to the geographical advantage of Heifengkou, the number of troops we can invest in Heifengkou is limited each time. Under such circumstances, we are not the opponent of the special forces of the Far East Army at all in field operations. I'm afraid
It will take a lot of casualties to capture Heifengkou and re-open the food channel."
Now, how can Hou Junji not understand this truth, but the food road must be opened, even if all 20,000 men and horses are used up, it must be opened, otherwise Longguan City will be self-defeating if there is no food and grass.
If Shangguan Hu, Zhou Hu and Jiang Mulang's 120,000 troops were allowed to enter the pass, then something big would happen.
Therefore, he immediately ordered: "Come here, send an order to Zhang Yishan. I will send him another 10,000 people to attack Heifengkou. Tell him that if he cannot attack Heifengkou and cannot open the grain road, come to me with your head raised."
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On the eastern battlefield, an army of 150,000 led by Yuchi Jingde, Lu Han, and Guan Xiaotong was blocked by Li Shimin from the east of the river.
This is not only because Li Shimin has been preparing how to deal with the Far East Army's attack in recent years and is fully prepared in terms of troops, tactics, weapons and equipment, intelligence, food and other aspects, but also because he has unknowingly adopted the same method as
Another method similar to Wang Junlin's.
Wang Junlin's method was to secretly establish bases behind enemy lines in Hedong and Guanzhong, and wait for the time to deliver a fatal blow to Li Yuan's group.
Li Shimin secretly trained and supported two horse thieves.
That's right, it was two armies of horse thieves. One horse thieves and Yeon Gaesumun of Goguryeo held down Luo Yi's 100,000 army in Youzhou.
There is also a group of horse thieves hiding in Shanggu County, one of the six counties in Hebei Province.
Shanggu County is one of the six counties in Hebei under the rule of Wang Junlin and is adjacent to Hedong under the rule of the Li Yuan Group. There are many mountains, valleys, deep forests, and it is easy to hide people. The Far Eastern Army's powerful intelligence capabilities were not discovered before.
It has to be said that Li Shimin is worthy of being the chosen one, with many powerful methods and many heroes gathered around him.
Because these ten thousand horses were actually hidden in all the Taoist temples and temples in Shanggu County. Before, all the monks or Taoist priests from these Taoist temples and temples suddenly gathered together half a month ago and became ten thousand horse thieves, and this
The horse thieves are very powerful, and even
The combat effectiveness of the cavalry of Yuchi Jingde's Tiger Camp is not much worse than that of the Far Eastern Army.
The most important thing is that these ten thousand horse thieves are extremely good at mobile warfare and lightning guerrilla warfare. They are extremely slippery. The Far East Army mobilized troops to surround and kill them for more than half a month, but they just couldn't catch them all. They only killed nearly half of them, and the rest
I don't know where the men and horses were hidden, and for a while they couldn't be found.
These days, Li Jing has led a thousand special forces, and with the cooperation of Youzhou Luoyi horses, has almost wiped out the 10,000 slippery horse thieves in Youzhou. Now, like a firefighter, he has led people to Shanggu
The county tried every means to find these five thousand horse thieves who were causing trouble everywhere, and then wiped them out.
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With the arrival of winter, there have been several heavy snowfalls in Shanggu County.
The snow on the wilderness was constantly being crushed by the wheels for transporting grain and grass, and mixed with the soil to form a slurry. After the upper layer froze, it was barely possible to walk on it, but the uneven and slippery road made it difficult to walk on it and it was easy to fall.
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The muddy ground could not bear a cart filled with food and ordnance. As soon as the cart left, the ground turned into mud again, making it very difficult to travel.
If the trucks used by the Far Eastern Army to transport food were not very strong and durable, they would have fallen apart long ago, making it even more difficult to maintain such a fast speed.
This is because after Shanggu County was occupied by Wang Junlin's Far Eastern Army in the past few years, the government specially repaired several official roads.
However, the war could not take place on the official road. The place where the two armies faced each other had no roads and was all barren mountains.
Therefore, there are no roads in most places for grain transportation teams.
It is precisely for this reason that the route of the Far Eastern Army's eastern grain transport team has no secrets at all from Li Shimin's horse thieves hiding nearby.
In fact, if Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu knew that the leader of this group of horse thieves was named Duan Zhixuan, they would not be amazed at how powerful and difficult the other party is.
Duan Zhixuan, originally ranked tenth among the twenty-four heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion of the Tang Dynasty, was the general of the auxiliary country of the Tang Dynasty, the governor of Yangzhou, and the duke of Baozhongzhuang. He was only the eldest son of the Duke of Zhao, Sun Wuji, the king of Hejian, Li Xiaogong, and the Duke of Lai, Du Ruhui.
, after Duke Wei Zheng of Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Duke of Liang, Gao Shilian, Duke of Shen, Chi Jingde, Duke of E, Li Jing, Duke of Wei, Xiao Yu, Duke of Song, and even before Chen Yaojin, Li Ji and Hou Junji.
From this ranking, we can see how extraordinary and powerful this person is.
In the original history, Duan Zhixuan was highly praised by Li Shimin. The words "Fearless in the face of danger, a true general" refer to Duan Zhixuan.
Originally, in history, Duan Shixuan led the army to destroy Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, two heroes who persisted until the end of the Sui Dynasty and even founded the country and proclaimed themselves emperors.
Naturally, such people would not foolishly lead horse thieves to attack the city of Shanggu County, but only plunder villages and towns. Of course, the Far Eastern Army's food and fodder is the priority.
Therefore, Duan Zhixuan has led five thousand horse thieves who come and go like the wind and have fought countless times with the Far Eastern Army's grain team. In fact, half of his 10,000 horsemen have lost these days in the process of robbing and burning the Far Eastern Army's grain and grass.
Killed by the Far Eastern Army.
This time, Duan Zhixuan again focused on the huge grain and grass transport team in front of him, but the Far East Army was well prepared, and the grain and grass were escorted by five thousand elite cavalry from the Tiger Camp. Therefore, the two sides fought several times along the way, but Duan Zhixuan never succeeded in plundering and burning them.