In the light of the fire, the situation in Hedong and Guanzhong was marked on a huge map. As Li Shimin suffered a defeat on the eastern front, Wang Junlin of the North Road led the Far East Army Tornado Battalion and Pegasus Battalion to occupy the two counties and began to march towards Taiyuan Prefecture.
, the whole Li Yuan Group finally panicked.
At this time, Li Yuan and his civil and military officials gathered together. Ma Yuangui, Chen Yanshou, Changsun Shunde, Qian Jiulong, Li Jiancheng, Dugu Changsu, Changsun Wuji and the heads of various powerful families were all sitting in the main hall.
"The current situation is very unfavorable to us. The Far Eastern Army is attacking in three directions: east, west and north. Although the Second Young Master has not lost a single ground in the east, he has suffered a defeat. In the west, Hou Junji has blocked 120,000 enemy troops.
Outside Longguan, the food route was cut off by the Far Eastern Army's special forces. The situation is very bad. Luliang County and Xinkou County in the north have been lost, and Wang Junlin is now sending troops to attack Taiyuan Prefecture."
"It seems that Wang Junlin's troops are limited, and our defense is sufficient. However, the Far East Army was able to build a pontoon bridge on the Fen River within an hour. By this time, General Li Shentong and his army should have fully engaged Wang Junlin.
It shouldn’t collapse at the first touch. I think I will be able to hold on to the front line of the river. As long as General Li Shentong is not defeated and Taiyuan Prefecture is not lost, the foundation of Hedong will be able to stand firm..."
At this time, the person in the room, pointing at the map and talking, was Changsun Shunde, who was always known for his knowledge of soldiers. He talked for a while, and then Li Yuan, who looked a little better, spoke: "My brother Shen Tong is a good general in the world. He fights in battle."
We have rich experience and have suffered defeats in the previous battles, so we will not disappoint Gu now."
When it comes to using Li Shentong as the commander-in-chief of the North Road to deal with the most difficult problem of Wang Junlin, both Li Yuan himself and Changsun Shunde have always been the biggest pushers.
At this time, Li Yuan and Changsun Shunde were not so much determined as they were emphasizing their own vision, or expressing their hopes in words.
Others also said so. Not many people dared to say unlucky or depressing words at this time. Changsun Wuji wanted to speak several times, but Changsun Shunde glared at him and kept silent.
Dugu Changsu, who had not spoken much, sighed in his heart, looked at the map, and said: "Your Majesty, for some things it is better to prepare for the worst."
Everyone's expressions changed. Dugu Changsu represents the most powerful family in the world, is also the leader of the Guanlong noble family, the most powerful and the biggest supporter of the Li Yuan Group, and has a transcendent status, so he can say such things, and it will carry a lot of weight.
Heavy enough.
The scene was completely silent, and you could hear the drop of a needle. After an unknown amount of time, Li Yuan let out a long sigh, his face became heavy, and he solemnly said: "Can Dugu Aiqing have a good plan?"
Dugu Changsu saluted Li Yuan, then glanced at the people from various aristocratic families in the audience, and said solemnly: "We, the aristocratic families, and the King of Tang are both prosperous. Previously, we each sent out guards, and we formed 50,000 troops in half a month, but
At present, the Far East army is powerful, and Wang Junlin has evil thoughts. If he is allowed to capture Hedong and Guanzhong, not only will our family business not be saved, but our family will also be destroyed. Therefore, my Dugu family is willing to provide 1,000 servants and 5,000 tenants to recruit new soldiers.
Another one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand shi of grain will be used to train troops for war."
Most of the people from the famous families here are the heads of the family, and those who are not the head of the family are also the ones in charge. Everyone is smart and knows that what Dugu Changsu said is right. Although he is reluctant to part with the population, money and food, he also knows that this is not the time to be reluctant.
Now that the Dugu family, the most powerful family in the world, is taking the lead, they have to express their willingness to provide people, money and food.
Soon, the number of servants and tenants from various wealthy families totaled one hundred thousand, with as many as six million taels of silver and three million shi of grain.
In troubled times, the servants and tenants of generations of powerful families are not ordinary people. They are all trained by powerful families according to military training methods. A few years ago, the Hongnong Yang family represented by Yang Su quickly gathered a hundred thousand troops to rebel.
Otherwise, in troubled times, they would have been exterminated by various bandits and bandits taking advantage of the chaos.
Although it is not as elite as the 50,000-strong troops formed by the guards that were previously contributed, after a month or two of training, they will be able to fight again.
As for money and food, it is not surprising. For hundreds of years, more than 90% of the land and commerce in the world have been controlled by these powerful families. For example, the Dugu family and the Qizong and Five Surnames, which have been passed down for thousands of years, are even more wealthy than the country.
, this is also the reason why many outstanding people in the world thought that Wang Junlin could not defeat Li Yuan.
Of course, now that the Li Yuan Group is retreating steadily under the attack of the Far Eastern Army, the ideas of some outstanding people in the world will naturally change.
Li Yuan bowed to the heads or principals of all the powerful families and said gratefully: "I would like to thank you all for your support. Today, I, Li Yuan, swear here that after unifying the world, I will rule the world with you!"
The heads and heads of various noble families who had just suffered a heavy hemorrhage were feeling distressed. When they heard this, their faces looked much better. They thought that it seemed right to choose Li Yuan to support them in the first place.
When they chose Li Yuan, on the one hand, Li Yuan was ambitious enough, and Li Yuan was not the most powerful among the powerful families. If a powerful family like the Dugu family were to fight for the world, it would make other families fearful and worry about being eliminated later.
Genocide.
On the other hand, and the biggest reason is that Li Yuan is a good person and knows how to do things.
In the past, the Li family was an anomaly among aristocratic families. They did not have any enemies. You must know that for thousands or hundreds of years, there have been countless grievances and resentments among the aristocratic families. Apart from the Li Yuan family, there was no one enemy.
It's really hard to find another one.
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By the Fen River, Wang Junlin personally led the 50,000 soldiers of the Tornado Battalion who hurriedly crossed the river and fought fiercely with Li Shentong's 100,000 troops for most of the day. It was not until dark and both sides were finally exhausted that they withdrew their troops.
In this battle, the Far East Army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the Li Army led by Li Shentong suffered nearly 10,000 casualties. The ratio of casualties to both sides was one to three.
During this half-day battle, more than a thousand soldiers from the engineering battalion of the Far Eastern Army had been busy all day, and had already established a simple camp on the riverside that could accommodate 50,000 troops.
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A night of silence.
In the early morning of January 6th, the east bank of Fenhe River was so quiet that it was unbelievable.
Not only did the Li family's army not harass them at night, but Wang Junlin still didn't see a single Li family army soldier even at dawn.
But then after listening to the intelligence report from the Military Intelligence Agency's secret agent, Wang Junlin realized that it was not that the Li Jiajun had not thought about a night attack, but that they were frightened back by the landmines placed around the camp by the Tornado Camp.
It's an exaggeration to say that I was scared away, but that's what happened.
Before Wang Junlin had time to finish eating the same dry food as the soldiers of the Tornado Battalion, spies from the Military Intelligence Agency quickly came with new news - the Li Family Army was attacking again.
"Your Majesty, Li Shentong saw that we were going to fight our last, so he was not in a hurry to fight us desperately..." Luo Shixin took a mouthful of dry biscuits with water and said to Wang Junlin respectfully.
Wang Junlin smiled and said: "Li Shentong is indeed not in a hurry, because he knows that if he is anxious, not only will he not be able to defeat us, but we will easily seize the loopholes to kill their troops. Last night, the Military Intelligence Agency sent a secret message from Guanzhong Chang'an with a flying eagle.
, Li Yuan, with the support of various noble families, formed another 100,000 new troops, and they need time to train these 100,000 new soldiers."
After Wang Junlin finished speaking, he swallowed the last bite of the dry biscuit in one gulp, wiped his hands on the armor, and shouted the order: "Send the order! Prepare to form the camp to meet the enemy!"
Following Wang Junlin's order, the temporary camp of the Fifty Thousand Tornado Battalion became noisy again. The soldiers wolfed down the dry food in their hands, took the time to feed the war horses the last sip of water, combed the hair for the last time, and then mounted their horses.
The inferior mount, under the command of Ling Qi, headed towards the camp one after another.
About two miles away from the main camp, on a small slope in a flat saline-alkali land, Wang Junlin ordered the army to stop.
At this time they could clearly see two miles away
Li Jiajun's cavalry, Li Shentong, is experienced and also occupies a small slope - these so-called "slopes" can be completely ignored for the cavalry, but when the two armies are fighting, any favorable factor will
The generals on both sides were unwilling to give up.
The formation of the Li Jiajun army stretched for several miles, and was dark and dense, like a long snake, coiling in front of the Tornado Battalion. The number of people was obviously at least nearly three times greater than that of the Tornado Battalion.
After these days of battles, especially the frontal battle yesterday, although the number of people in the Cyclone Battalion was small, the soldiers of the Cyclone Battalion did not have the slightest fear, but were full of overwhelming fighting spirit.
At this point, the two sides began a brief confrontation.
The generals on both sides used this time to observe the enemy opposite them, while the soldiers took the time to complete the final preparations for the battle.
What I want to say here is that Wang Junlin has always had a special force composed of a thousand dead soldiers from Snake Island. They have their own special super armor, which is heavier than the armor of the legendary heavy cavalry.
Wang Junlin has not used these thousand dead soldiers all this time. Even when he dealt with the No. 1 Killer King a few days ago, Wang Junlin did not use them.
Today, Wang Junlin is ready to use them.
At this time, these thousand dead soldiers, with the help of soldiers from the engineering supply camp, put on the remaining parts of the heavy armor--in order to save horsepower and physical strength, they just put on the body armor, drapes, arm guards, and hanging rims in advance.
, knee skirts and other parts, as well as night gowns, pocket masks, and masks must be put on temporarily, and the vests of the war horses have been put on during the last break to adjust the formation.
Then, with the help of soldiers from the engineering and transport battalions, these thousand dead heavy cavalrymen were helped onto their horses one by one.
The Li Army did not take advantage of the situation to launch an attack. Their cavalry did not even mount their horses until they saw the Far East stop. This was because their soldiers also needed to check their weapons and equipment before mounting their horses.
Wang Junlin and Luo Shixin knew that this meant that the Li family's cavalry in front of them displayed an 'elite' aura.
For cavalry, as long as they are experienced in hundreds of battles, a truly elite cavalry can always remain calm and calm no matter what kind of opponent they face.
Wang Junlin stood where the general's flag was. His command system consisted of four chariots and dozens of riders with messengers of various colors.
On these chariots, which had taken a lot of trouble to be transported across the river, in addition to the five-color flags used to direct the battle, there were also several large drums, buttons, horns and other objects - all of which symbolized the command authority on the battlefield.
If it were Tiger Camp, Wang Junlin would completely delegate power to Yuchi Jingde to command the battle.
And if Li Jing or Xu Shiji were here, he would hand over the command to these two without hesitation.
But Luo Shixin was an invincible general on the battlefield like Zhang Fei of the Three Kingdoms. On such a battlefield with more than 150,000 people in front, he was still a little inexperienced in commanding the battle, so Wang Junlin prepared to personally command the battle.
On the battlefield, Wang Junlin was not pretentious at all. He was wearing the fine steel armor made by Nie Xiaoyu.
I don’t know what materials Nie Xiaoyu added to this fine steel armor. It turned out to be an extremely rare dark blue. This is not just a symbol of status. It was handmade by Nie Xiaoyu himself. With Nie Xiaoyu’s magical powers,
It took three days to build, and an ordinary samurai's sword could barely leave a mark on it.
The most rare and valuable thing is that this armor is much lighter than ordinary steel plate armor. This kind of armor is already a priceless treasure.
At this time, Wang Junlin stood high on a chariot, pursed his lips, and observed the situation on the opposite side with a telescope.
He was carefully watching the entire Li Family's cavalry formation. He hoped to find a flaw in the Li Family's cavalry formation. However, Li Shentong was a veteran soldier and had rich experience in troop formations. Wang Junlin could not find a flaw in the opponent's formation for a while.
"In that case, let's kill!" Suddenly, Wang Junlin spat out these five words fiercely, "Send the order and let the cavalry of a thousand dead soldiers take the lead and attack the front of the Li family's army! Tear them apart!" Since the enemy army
There is no flaw in any part, so it will naturally hit the front.
As soon as he finished speaking, several big flags around him were nodded forward, and the sound of war drums and horns suddenly sounded together, and his ears were filled with a deafening "dong dong dong dong..."
"Wuwuwuwu..." followed by a thunderous sound coming from the ground beneath my feet, as if the ground was shaking.
"Kill!" "Kill!" "Kill!" The front troops of the Whirlwind Battalion shouted three times in unison. One thousand Death Soldier cavalry led the way, and ten thousand Whirlwind Battalion cavalry rushed towards the Li family army like giant pythons.
On the front battlefield, 20,000 Li family cavalrymen followed Li Shentong's order and shouted to kill. When they were a hundred paces away, they drew their bows and fired at the front of the Tornado Battalion. However, their bows and arrows hit the enemy in front of them.
The heavy armor on the body of a thousand dead cavalrymen was like fallen grass hitting them, and it was difficult to cause serious damage.
The Li family's cavalry fired several rounds of arrows unwillingly. Seeing that the Far Eastern Army's cavalry suffered no casualties, knowing that they could not resist, they fled in both directions.
Behind them, another group of Li family cavalry wielding maces and hammers rushed up. Apparently Li Shentong had discovered the specialness of the Thousand Dead Soldiers cavalry. This was how they were preparing to resist the Thousand Dead Soldiers heavy cavalry.
means.
However, they obviously underestimated the sturdiness of the armor and the sharpness of the steel spears of the Thousand Dead Soldiers' heavy cavalry trained by Nie Xiaoyu himself, as well as the speed at which they could thrust out the steel spears, as well as their power.
Although these Li family cavalry were very brave, before their weapons encountered the Far Eastern Army's thousand heavy cavalry, the long steel spears held flat in the hands of the dead cavalry had already pierced their chests or knocked them off their horses.
They were knocked down and knocked to the ground, and then the light cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion who followed behind easily pierced their bodies with their spears, or they were simply trampled to pieces by the galloping horses.
Wang Junlin's tactics seem to have achieved very good results so far.
The 11,000 Far Eastern Army cavalry in the charge were like sharp axes, while the 1,000 dead heavy cavalry were like extremely sharp ax blades, slashing through the front of the Li family's military formation.
The Li family's cavalry on the front began to waver under such a fierce attack. Although it cannot be said that they were like a herd of frightened animals, fleeing in a mess to the back and both sides, they were indeed retreating, more like an ebbing tide.
The water flowed towards the rear, and the two wings dispersed. Seeing this ax could cut the Li family's army's formation into two halves.
Luo Shixin, who had been ordered by Wang Junlin not to rush out, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Once the formation of the Li Jiajun army was torn apart and chaos broke out within the Li Jiajun army, the outcome of this battle would basically be determined————
The cavalry charge with a thousand dead soldiers and heavy cavalry as the vanguard was indeed powerful.
But Luo Shixin turned to look at Wang Junlin, and the latter's expression made him stunned.
He saw Wang Junlin frowning, and his expression was much more serious than before.
At this time, about two miles behind the Li family's cavalry formation, about two thousand cavalry formed a square formation and stood quietly.
Behind the two thousand Li family cavalry, and protected by hundreds of elite cavalry, Li Shentong stood on a four-horse chariot and was observing the entire battlefield situation intently.
"Shimin has spent so much money over the years to build a secret agent organization. Finally, the money was not wasted. At least it let us know that Wang Junlin has such a group of dead soldiers and heavy cavalry beside him, so we can prepare in advance."
Li Shentong smiled and shook his head, "It's just that Wang Junlin used heavy cavalry to disrupt our formation. If I were Wang Junlin, I would use these heavy cavalry to attack from both wings. As long as the opponent's two wings are destroyed, I can oppress the central army."
A siege."
"Wang Junlin doesn't know that this frontal charge strategy has a way to defeat it in the battle examples used by the ancients hundreds of years ago." Li Shentong said with a smile: "
No matter how Wang Junlin charges with his dead soldiers, heavy cavalry and light cavalry, we just need to avoid its edge. No matter how well-trained his Far Eastern Army is, as long as it is cavalry, the horses will be fast or slow. After the charge, the formation will be
They will inevitably become scattered. The further they run, the more chaotic the formation will be. The fast horses will rush to the front and the slow horses will fall behind. We only need to lure the enemy deep, wait until they are separated from the front and rear, and then strike back with superior force to surround and annihilate the enemy.
If the troops at the front are defeated one by one at the rear, the more than 10,000 Far Eastern troops rushing into the depths will soon collapse."
Sima Pei Ji, the commander of the army next to him, looked delighted and said: "General Li is indeed a veteran of our Tang Army. With General Li's tactics, the Far East Army will undoubtedly be defeated."
"It's too early to tell." Li Shentong shook his head, looked at the terrain on both sides, and said solemnly: "This battlefield is still too narrow. There may be some accidents when it is used, and the result will not be completely satisfactory. To be honest, I don't
If you hope for a big victory, you will be satisfied if you can win a small victory."
While chatting with Pei Ji, Li Shentong had already called over several messengers and distributed his tactics one by one.
At this time, under the charge of the Far Eastern Army with a thousand dead heavy cavalry first and then light cavalry, the military formation in front of the Li family's cavalry was retreating steadily. The entire formation was scattered and scattered, and as Wang Junlin wanted to see,
When it arrived, it was cut into two pieces.
Of course, this was something Li Shentong had already prepared for and anticipated the situation he wanted to see now.
With the support of wealthy families, the Li family's army always had plenty of money, food, and war horses, so they also formed their own heavy cavalry.
Li Shentong obviously regarded these thousand dead cavalry as ordinary heavy cavalry.
Therefore, Li Shentong thought that he was no stranger to the heavy cavalry with a thousand dead soldiers, because he had used heavy cavalry to kill the enemy many times, so he had his own opinions and acted quite confident, but he may not know,
Regarding his information, Wang Junlin has already studied every battle he has commanded and fought, especially all the battles in which he likes to use heavy cavalry to kill enemy troops. How could he not be prepared?
Even turning this good thing of his into a fatal one.
In Li Shentong's view, this unit is mainly used at critical moments.
Because, from an overall perspective, it is useless. Heavy cavalry cannot break through a solid phalanx of more than 10,000 infantry. Facing light cavalry, it is even more ridiculously cumbersome.
Heavy cavalry can never catch up with light cavalry, and what the light cavalry has to do is to constantly lure the heavy cavalry to catch up. Anyway, it is absolutely impossible for the heavy cavalry to catch up with you. Then in this case, use bows and arrows to kill them one by one.
They were shot to death.
Although the armor of the Far Eastern Army's heavy cavalry is much stronger than that of their heavy cavalry, and it seems that ordinary arrows cannot penetrate it, it is not difficult to gather such a group of archers in advance.
However, Li Shentong had to admit that heavy cavalry could achieve miraculous results if used properly. For example, on a battlefield where space is oppressive, the power of a thousand heavy cavalry charging into the formation can sometimes be enough to change the entire battle situation.
Therefore, he deliberately came here in advance and led his army to stop here. In fact, he deliberately chose this place as the battlefield, and laid a trap according to his careful planning, waiting for the arrival of the Far Eastern Army.
Of course, the reason why Li Shentong was so confident this time was because he knew that the North Route Army of the Far Eastern Army had run out of gunpowder weapons such as grenades and explosive packets in many early battles.
Li Shentong has always believed that he always suffered defeat when facing the Far Eastern Army, mainly because the opponent had terrifying gunpowder weapons. Now that the opponent's gunpowder weapons have been used up, the Li family has not been idle these days on the hidden front.
They tried their best to cut off all kinds of weapons and equipment sent by the Far Eastern Army through the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Wulin Guild, the Xiaoyu Theater and the Fanyang Chamber of Commerce across Hedong. However, it was a long way to go to the Turkic territory through Youzhou.
Besides, Li Yuan also sent envoys to several large Turkic tribes near Hedong these days, bringing gifts.
Although the Turkic Great Khan besieged Yang Guang at Yanmen Pass a few years ago, he was frightened and hurt by the Far Eastern Army led by Wang Junlin. He did not dare to respond to Li Yuan's request and send troops to attack the Far Eastern Army.
The passing Far Eastern Army ordnance team was brave enough.
Therefore, the North Far Eastern Army led by Wang Junlin is currently far away from Fanyang County, and it is difficult to supply gunpowder weapons and equipment.
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Everything was as expected by Li Shentong. When the Far Eastern Army began to charge, even the Far Eastern Army, which was famous for its neat formations, could not keep the formation very neat.
This is mainly because although the horses ridden by the Far Eastern Army cavalry are all carefully selected good horses, once the horses start galloping, the quality of the horses and the riding skills of the cavalry will immediately be distinguished. Some dead soldiers will charge with heavy cavalry.
When they reached the front, the other part fell behind. At first, the light cavalry behind them still tried to maintain their formation, but soon they found that this was impossible.
Moreover, this kind of restraint seemed to have no meaning after a thousand dead heavy cavalry penetrated deeply into the frontal formation of Li's cavalry and disrupted the formation of Li's cavalry.
Under the urging of the rhythmic drums behind them, the formation and discipline of the 10,000 light cavalrymen of the Tornado Battalion of the Chinese Army's front army seemed to be worse than before. They easily threw away the heavy cavalry.
Behind them, they were left with only a loose formation, chasing the Li family's cavalry who were about to panic.
However, after easily "defeating" the frontal formation of the Li's cavalry, the front troops of the Far East Army discovered that there was actually a well-prepared military formation about two miles behind the frontal formation of the Li's cavalry.
Many cavalrymen of the Li Family Army fled towards the rear of this military formation. The cavalry of the Far Eastern Army, whose formation had become somewhat chaotic, could no longer reorganize their formation, and the capable light cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion had no time to wait to be thrown behind them.
Behind them are a thousand dead heavy armored cavalry.
Under the orders of their generals, they picked up their spears and once again attacked the Li family's cavalry that appeared in front of them.
But this time, the charge of these Far Eastern Army front troops seemed to hit a soft wall.
The sudden appearance of the Li family's cavalry was more elite. They all rode fast horses and carried powerful bows and sharp arrows. They fought and retreated, dividing and surrounding the Far Eastern Army cavalry who rushed to the front again.
Kill with bow and arrow.
Although the light cavalry of the Whirlwind Battalion are well-trained warriors on horseback, most of the time, they cannot come into contact with the Li family cavalry who attack them. If it were not for their excellent plate armor defense and low-brow face-protecting helmets,
Facing the Li family's cavalry, they suffered heavy losses after several rounds of arrow rain at close range.
However, under such a blow, the Far Eastern Army's whirlwind battalion of 10,000 cavalry and 1,000 dead heavy cavalry still inevitably began to chaos internally, but the chaos occurred a bit quickly, and few people could see that they were in chaos.
But there is some order.
At the same time, the rest of the Li family's cavalry formation also began to move. A cavalry was separated from each of their wings, and they attacked the 1,000 dead heavy cavalry of the Far Eastern Army and other Far Eastern Army front liners from both wings.
Military light cavalry.
The Li family's cavalry from the previously "defeated" frontal formation, which had fled to the two wing formations, also gathered together again and charged back directly towards the Chinese cavalry formation of the Whirlwind Camp. They surrounded the charging front troops of the Whirlwind Camp, and
Cut off the connection with the main force of the Cyclone Camp's central army, and plan to use superior force to annihilate the front army of the Cyclone Camp's central army as soon as possible, and then join the battle with the Cyclone Camp's central army.
Li Shentong's plan has been going smoothly so far.
However, just when all the Li family's cavalry generals were ecstatic and felt that today's plan was under control, the muscles on Li Shentong's face suddenly tightened because everything went so smoothly today.
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ps: I'm very sorry, the Spring and Autumn Messenger was killed in the previous plot, and yesterday's chapter has been changed————