The first thousand two hundred and eleven chapters dare to ignore me
Xin Ai Huang Taiji was still riding on horseback, and he was in a good mood as he watched his elite cavalrymen transform into hard-working engineers, moving stones from nearby, and then piled up small piles of stones on the wide road, or piled them up.
Low parapet.
The stone formations they created were not even very dense, but rather scattered. The stone formations were not very tall, and the tallest ones were only half a person tall. Many of them were just random stones thrown on the road.
Because their purpose is not to directly build a city wall in this area that is several kilometers wide, that would be impossible.
Their purpose was just to make this area unable to allow large convoys to pass smoothly, forcing the Datang Army's vehicles to disperse, so that they could take advantage of it.
After all, the Tang Army's transportation force's biggest means of resisting the Tatar cavalry was to form an array. And an array, whether it was a hollow square array of infantry or a vehicle array, required a wide area, especially for vehicles.
Generally speaking, a large open area is needed to maintain a tight vehicle formation.
If it is just an ordinary road with no traffic on both sides, these vehicles cannot maintain a huge phalanx and can only advance in traditional columns.
In this case, it will give the cavalry who love Huang Taiji a greater chance!
Xin Ai Huang Taiji's plan is quite simple, but extremely efficient.
When Liu Mengyang and others arrived at this area with the transport troops, they were all shocked by the Tatars' persistence!
What they saw at this time was a rocky beach!
That's right, it was a rocky beach. Liu Mengyang could definitely say that this poor place was definitely a flat road a day ago.
For a moment, he seemed to think that he had gone to the wrong place, but when he raised his head and glanced at the hills to the north and south, he knew that he had gone to the wrong place.
But why are there so many rocks here, and there are also mounds of earth dug and built?
Obviously, this was done by the Tatars opposite!
These Tatars are really speechless. In such a large area, they actually chose to intercept and ambush us here? They think they are stupid.
The reason why Liu Mengyang dared to lead the transportation troops through this canyon area was because although this place could barely be called a canyon, it was definitely not a dangerous place. At most, it was just a low mountain on both sides.
There are two low hills that can be climbed directly by riding a horse.
At most, there is a small river nearby, but the water is no more than waist deep, so even if you cross the river directly, it will have no impact.
Even if they are blocked by others, they can turn around and leave at any time, because this canyon is very flat and only two or three kilometers wide, which will not affect the combat and maneuverability of the troops at all.
Therefore, this place looks like a canyon, but it is definitely not a dangerous place. The enemy is unlikely to intercept or ambush in this place.
But that’s what the Tatars across the street did!
Moreover, the method of interception was particularly weird. There was no cavalry charge formation, no tall city wall built, and no traps. They just dug a lot of pits in the canyon and piled up a lot of dirt.
, and many stones were moved from nearby areas.
Forcibly turning a flat land into a bumpy rocky beach!
What is this for?
It was not difficult for Liu Mengyang to guess that they must have wanted to break up their own vehicle formation. Passing through such rocky terrain, their own vehicle formation could not be maintained at all.
Should we take a detour?
Liu Mengyang began to think about the possibility of taking a detour in his mind. This grassland is so wide that it is almost the same no matter where he goes. The reason why he chose to take this road was just because of inertia. The main force of the Ninth Army before,
It's along this route.
Before this, there was no concept of road at all!
Most of the roads on the grassland cannot be called roads at all. In fact, they are no different from other places on the grassland. At most, there are more people walking on them.
Therefore, the term "detour" does not exist strictly speaking, because there is no road in the usual sense here, it is just a marching route at most.
At the same time, the troops of the Ninth Army have traveled on this route many times and are familiar with the situation along the way. More importantly, taking this route is the closest one.
Otherwise, Liu Mengyang would not have chosen to take this path.
Detouring is feasible, but it will also increase the distance and increase some uncontrollable risks.
What to do?
While Liu Mengyang was thinking, a captain next to him rode over and said, "Commander, do you want to open a way?"
"Open a road?" Liu Mengyang did not think of this possibility. When he saw this 'rocky beach', his first thought was that the Tatars were ambushing them and then took a detour. However, he was not interested in the idea of opening a road directly.
Never occurred.
If you want to open a road, you need to remove the rocks on the road and fill the pits. Not to mention clearing everything, but at least a few passages must be cleared.
But during this process, the Tatars will definitely not be indifferent. They are also people with bows, arrows and swords, so they will definitely not sit back and watch the way open and remain indifferent.
At this time, Cao Guangtao also stepped forward and said: "If we open the road directly, it would be very risky. The enemy will definitely try their best to block it. By then, I'm afraid we will be in a hard fight here!"
But after Liu Mengyang heard Cao Guangtao's words, he seemed to think of something, and then murmured the word "fight hard" on his lips, and then a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
This smile is not a sneer, but a smile full of confidence!
Immediately, everyone heard Liu Mengyang say: "Since the Tatars are so confident, then naturally we cannot retreat. Let's fight them right here!"
After Liu Mengyang finished speaking, he gave the order to his subordinates: "Call the entire army to prepare for war. Today, we are going to fight a bloody road!"
While waiting for his subordinates to take orders and prepare, Liu Mengyang immediately took two steps forward and looked at the rocky beach ahead and the thousands of Tatar cavalry behind the rocky beach!
Then he said to a soldier behind him: "Hurry up and report to the military headquarters immediately!"
When he said this, he paused for a moment, and then said in a very serious tone: "Let's just say that the headquarters intends to use the baggage as a lure to fight to the death with the Tatars. This battle is dangerous and it may be difficult to keep the baggage safe. I hope the military department
Send friendly troops quickly to assist!"
When Liu Mengyang's soldiers heard this, they still didn't react for a while. He heard the conversation between several officers just now. Even if he wanted to open a way and rush over, he would definitely not reach the point of fighting to the death. It was really impossible.
, they could still retreat and take a detour, but when they got to Liu Mengyang's mouth, it turned into a fight to the death!
And there is no plan to use baggage as bait!
The soldier didn't understand, but that didn't stop him from obeying the order!
After Liu Mengyang finished speaking, he quickly wrote another letter in charcoal, stamped the regimental headquarters camp and his own private seal, sealed it with wax and handed it to the soldiers, asking him to send it to the military headquarters as soon as possible.
The soldier began to gallop with doubts. He didn't know what Liu Mengyang's plan was, but he could tell from Liu Mengyang's expression that the matter was serious and could not be delayed at all.
Naturally, this soldier didn't know, nor did the other officers, that Liu Mengyang was planning to do something big!
How big is it?
This will completely annihilate this transportation force!
Liu Mengyang once again took out his monocular and looked at the five thousand Tatar cavalry in front of him!
He murmured: "As long as we can maintain the previous battle loss ratio, it doesn't matter if we fight with the Tatars. If we can annihilate this cavalry, even if the whole regiment is wiped out, it will be a big profit."
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At this time, there were no other subordinate officers or soldiers around him, so no one heard his muttering. If any subordinates heard what he said, it would probably cause an uproar.
Liu Mengyang never thought about breaking through, and he didn't even care whether he could deliver the baggage to the military headquarters. Anyway, the military headquarters brought more baggage with the army, and there was no shortage of the supplies he escorted in a short time.
In addition, there are too many reserves of supplies on the Great Wall. If we lose such a transport force, we can send out a few more at any time!
But if you use your own transport force to kill the opponent's thousands of cavalry, you don't have to kill all of their 5,000 cavalry, but just kill most of them, then you will make a lot of money.
Because he knew that if his transport unit was annihilated, within two days at most, a second transport unit from the Great Wall would appear again, or even two in a short period of time.
But can the Tatars pull out another five thousand cavalry to intercept the grain road?
Even if it is possible, how long can the Tatars maintain their strength?
Going north to fight on the grasslands, engaging in mobile warfare and siege warfare are all nonsense. In Liu Mengyang's opinion, it is just a life-for-life with these Tatars. It is best to fight off hundreds of thousands of Tatar cavalry.
, even if it pays the same price of hundreds of thousands of soldiers killed and injured, it is worth it.
Because he knew very well that the loss of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops would be a severe pain for the huge Tang Empire at best, but as long as the Datang Empire was given a few months, it would be able to recover.
But at that time, there were probably not even many young Tatars left in the north...
Fighting for anything is more effective than fighting for population!
Liu Mengyang held this idea, and many senior generals actually also held this idea. However, for most middle and low-level officers and even ordinary soldiers, this idea was too extreme.
Even senior officers, not everyone is like Liu Mengyang, who can regard the lives of soldiers as cold numbers and think that exchanging three thousand infantry for three thousand cavalry is a huge profit.
Liu Mengyang also knew that he had this idea. He could do it in private, but he could never do it in public, let alone talk about it, otherwise it would 100% shake the morale of the army!
Liu Mengyang, with the mentality of destroying the entire 13th Baggage Regiment and creating opportunities to kill most of the cavalry on the opposite side, led his troops to forcefully break into the rocky beach!
This move also made the opposite Xin Ai Huang Taiji frown deeply!
At this moment, he was quite unhappy because he felt that the barbarian from the Southern Tang Dynasty on the opposite side ignored him!
Such a big trap is placed here, can they not see it?
No!
They can see it!
So why did they come here again?
Because they feel that this trap is easy and they can break through safely!