Sitting and waiting for death is not Li Hong's style, nor is it the war tradition of the Tang Dynasty. Taking the initiative to defend the city has made whether Jin Wuwei, Li Hong, or other Tang ministers feel depressed.
The majestic Tang Dynasty was actually facing a situation of being besieged by the small countries of Silla and Baekje. This was nearly fifty years since the Turkic Khan Jieli came to the Wei River in the ninth year of Wude, and Taizong Li Shimin was forced to enter into the Weishui Alliance with Jieli. At that time, Datang had never encountered a passive situation.
Looking at the clouds of yellow dust rolling in, Li Hong's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. He began to struggle endlessly in his heart as to whether to take the initiative or not!
If you don't attack, it will clearly convey to Silla and Baekje that the Tang Dynasty defenders are empty. If you attack, if the disparity in strength is too great, these people may never come back. In Qibi Heli and Li Jinxing Before they could arrive in advance, every soldier in Liujing City was extremely precious and could not be consumed casually. Every time a piece of combat power was consumed, significant results must be achieved.
"Your Highness..." Jingzhe and Mang Zhong looked at the billowing smoke and dust outside the city, obviously unwilling to suffer this kind of frustration.
The Tang army had always taken the initiative to attack. How had it ever been surrounded by people and passively defended in the city? Although there have been defeats against Tubo and other countries before, every time they were defeated, they were honored even though they were defeated. It was not said that they were defeated first in terms of morale.
"Order Lieutenant Tu Qi... to lead the three thousand pagoda battalion to attack immediately!" Li Hong put down the telescope in his hand and said firmly.
"Yes, Your Highness!" Jingzhe responded with a surprised look on his face.
Then he immediately ran from the city wall in the direction of Yutuqi who was not far behind him, and quickly told Yutuqi Li Hong's order.
At the same time, among the prince's guards behind Li Hong, three loud arrows rose into the sky at the same time, making a harsh sound in the sky above Liujing City.
In the palace of Goguryeo, although Li Zhi did not understand military affairs, it did not mean that he did not understand military affairs. Three sounding arrows had always been Li Hong's wartime assembly method for ordering the pagoda battalion to attack.
Therefore, when he heard the sound of three arrows overhead, his face was suddenly startled, and he hurriedly asked Ge Xiyuan, who had stopped crying next to him: "Go and investigate quickly, but the prince wants to take the initiative."
Ge Xiyuan was stunned! He raised his head and looked at Li Zhi in a daze, his mind still unable to turn around for the moment, his eyes red and swollen from crying were dull: "Why would His Highness the Prince take the initiative to attack? Now as long as we can defend the city, it will be good."
Li Zhi looked at Ge Xiyuan who was still there in a daze, and angrily slapped the table and shouted: "Why don't you go find out quickly, why are you standing here in a daze!"
When the emperor was angry, Ge Xiyuan was stabbed by Shi Zangjie next to him. He suddenly woke up and ran out in a hurry.
Yu Tuqi and the Three Thousand Pagoda Battalion behind him were ready to go. The black cavalry of the Tang Dynasty occupied the entire road in the direction of the city gate. The silent Three Thousand Pagoda Battalion and their war horses exuded a silent fighting spirit, making the people on the top of the city move. Li Hong, who was standing down, couldn't help but feel proud.
If the Futu Battalion when it was first established could be regarded as an iron army, then after experiencing the baptism of several years of war in Anxi, this Futu Battalion has become the most elite iron hooves in the Tang Dynasty, and its number has also increased from more than 10,000. to 20,000 people, and refined to the current 9,000 people.
And what's even more valuable is that this is an army that only obeys him, Li Hong, and doesn't know what the Tang Dynasty is. Although in the Tang Dynasty, it is not as impressive as the Jinwu Guards and Xuanjia Army, in the eyes of Li Zhi and many ministers It is just an ordinary cavalry, but it is already a feared whirlwind cavalry in Anxi.
Li Hong, who was standing on the city tower, took a flag fluttering in the wind from Jingzhe's hand. The black flag, like the Chinese character Tang soaked in blood, seemed about to fly up from the violently shaking flag at any time. .
With the flag in his hand waving, the city gate was quickly opened by the Jinwu Guards. The pagoda camp was like a silent black dragon. There was no noise, only the rhythmic sound of horse hooves slowly sounded on the ground.
On the saddle of each soldier's horse, there is a bright pole like a flagpole hanging on the saddle. On the waist is a sword and a crossbow, and behind the back are two quivers. As a cavalry, when the crossbows in their hands are impacting, It can also cause huge damage to the enemy. Often a roundabout sprint is enough to kill most of the enemy's troops.
Although the powerful crossbow is not as far as the sniper crossbow, its accuracy and powerful force can cause no less damage than those of the sniper crossbow.
After the Three Thousand Pagoda Battalion left the city, they did not gather their entire formation again. Instead, they accelerated toward the billowing yellow dust in the distance like a pile of loose sand.
With the rapid galloping, the deafening sound of horse hooves seemed to shake the city wall under their feet, and the three thousand pagoda camp slowly and silently turned into three cavalry phalanxes.
Looking from the top of the city, three smaller clouds of yellow dust were like three yellow fog balls, menacingly crashing into the huge clouds of yellow dust from Silla and Baekje in front.
Just like the special effects in TV and movies from the previous life, on the ground outside Ryugyong City, only four huge yellow energy groups were seen, murderous and approaching each other as fast as thunder, as if they collided at the next moment. It will burst out with endless brilliance and energy.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" The three regiments of the Pagoda Battalion, whose black figures were vaguely visible, burst out with warlike shouts of killing.
The allied forces of Silla and Baekje on the opposite side obviously also discovered the oncoming cavalry of the Tang Dynasty. The huge mass of fog suddenly slowed down in front of them. The generals in front obviously did not expect that the Tang army would actually leave the city. Attack.
It was this momentary delay that caught the cavalry galloping behind him off guard. They didn't have time to slow down and almost collided with the soldiers in front, both man and horse.
"Kill." The general of the Silla and Baekje coalition looked at the three rolling clouds of yellow dust not far away. He raised the knife in his hand and shouted, then accelerated again and crashed into the Tang army's battle formation in the middle.
The distance of five hundred steps shrunk to four hundred or three hundred steps in the blink of an eye. At this time, no matter which side it was, there was no possibility of evasion. Whoever evaded first would receive a devastating blow from the other side.
At this time, strong fighting spirit was the weapon that swayed the balance of war. Wei Tuqi led the Chinese army's Qianfutu Camp, looked back at the huge flag on the wall behind him, opened his eyes angrily, and shouted at the people around him Said: "Set up the crossbow!"
As Yu Tuqi's voice disappeared into the rumble of iron hoofs, whether it was the battle formation led by Yu Tuqi, who was in the middle army, or the battle formations about 800 steps apart, the generals of the three armies immediately issued orders. Troops set up crossbows.
"Kill!" Among the three armies, they all shot out arrows from their crossbows instantly when they were less than 250 steps away from each other. The Tang cavalry, who were originally in a square formation, unexpectedly fired the crossbow arrows after giving the order. , quickly turned into three fan shapes, thereby causing a larger area of damage to Silla and Baekje.
Li Hong's brows were still tightly knitted together as he watched the Three Thousand Pagoda Camp rapidly changing formations while galloping, and then he saw layers of black arrow rain appearing in the open space of the two camps as if out of thin air!
And the layers of arrow rain seemed to be endless. Starting from the distance of 250 steps between the two sides, and then to the distance of 100 steps, in this short period of time, the black arrow rain actually disappeared. It was interrupted, as if a black curtain was squeezed shorter and shorter by the two camps.
The soldiers of the Futu Camp can fire ten arrows in a row within three breaths. This is like a benchmark. Only by meeting this most basic requirement can they enter the other tests of the Futu Camp. All tests are Only by successfully passing can you become a qualified soldier of the Futu Camp.
Therefore, Li Hong was not surprised at all when he looked at the continuous rain of arrows. His only worry now was that when the screams and shouts of killing came, could Yu Tuqi lead a thousand people to attack from the front? Enter the interior of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces.
Yu Tuqi and the soldiers of the Futu Camp behind him quickly shot all the arrows in the quiver behind them while galloping a hundred and fifty steps away. At this moment, all of them had no time to notice that the people on the opposite side were already on their backs and screaming. The sounds, cries, and neighing of war horses intertwined with the troops of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces.
After the distance reached a hundred steps, and after the last round of arrows was fired, a thousand people suddenly bent down on the galloping horses almost at the same time, as if they had been tempered a thousand times. Then they reached back with their right hands, and the long horsetail fixed behind the saddle was grasped tightly in their hands with an impact.
The cold horse tree shone with an eerie murderous aura as the sunlight filtered through the billowing yellow dust. The original fan-shaped battle formation of a thousand people turned into a cone-shaped battle formation after Yu Tuqi gave the order, like a line. The soldiers of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces, who mutated into the shape of a dragon, trampled the people in front of them and screamed, crying and screaming. They easily tore a hole in the front and completely disrupted the enemy's formation. .
At this time, the pagoda camps on both sides of Yutuqi suddenly bypassed the rushing Silla and Baekje coalition forces. They were trampling on the corpses of their own people and war horses, trying to face the Tang army directly. At this time, the armies on both sides of Datang chose to avoid it.
I saw the flag in Li Hong's hand waving rapidly on the wall of Liujing City, and then I saw two thousand cavalry from the Pagoda Battalion of the left army and the right army, like two thousand black dragons, quickly moving out on the ground, The enemy army was unable to change direction under the rapid impact, and had to continue to move forward into the dust left by the Tang army.
On the top of the city, Li Hong stared intently at the formations of Silla and Baekje that began to scatter. At the same time, he also watched the two thousand pagoda camps on the left and right that he had used his flag to move away from direct conflict with the enemy.
I saw that the two thousand pagoda battalions did not care about the Silla and Baekje coalition forces who were less than fifty steps away from the sides, and continued to gallop behind Silla and Baekje on both sides.
The situation looked like there was some danger chasing them behind them, making them unable to even care about the enemy troops not far away.
(End of chapter)