What are people most afraid of? I’m afraid it’s no wonder that it’s the unknown and the future. Compared with the scenes of war and fighting that can be heard and seen, the scene of fighting with only the sound of fighting but no visible fighting can also create some fear in people's hearts.
The scenes of fighting that I imagine in my mind are often the most fearful and bloody scenes in my heart, so this is why there are not many night battles in this era, because night battles are extremely strict on the psychological will of both the enemy and ourselves. Harsh considerations.
The three thousand defeated troops of Silla and Baekje were shot dead by Wen Junjie and Xie Fulu under the cover of night. At this time, on the tower of Ryugyong City, the young Goguryeo laborers who had cheered for the Tang army heard the news. When he heard the invisible sound of fighting, his face turned pale with fear and became silent.
As the left general of the Jinwu Guard, Liu Xiang faced the strong Goguryeo laborers who could hear the sounds of fighting but could not see the fighting. He quickly swept the horses from their backs and received Li Hong's order. Finally, he shouted and walked on the city wall: "Did you hear that? That's Silla and Baekje shooting their cowards who retreated from the battle! They are cruel and hard-hearted to their own people! If you don't cheer up, take Use the courage to guard your royal city. When the city is destroyed, not only you, but also your families and children will be ruthlessly killed by Silla and Baekje! Now, I, the Tang Army, will be the strongest shield for you. Likewise, in order to guard your royal city today, we completely wiped out the Silla and Baekje coalition forces! This tells you that their strength is very weak! As long as we hold on to the fortress of the city, we can easily repel them. "Except! In addition, I am here to warn you that if you are found to be retreating when the enemy attacks the city, I will throw you off the city wall immediately!"
In a short time, this passage was heard one after another on the walls of Ryugyong City, translated again and again in Tang dialect, shocking and stabilizing the hearts of the young Goguryeo laborers on the wall who were timid about the armies of Silla and Baekje. .
The current strong military strength of the Tang Dynasty is no longer simply the strength of the Tang soldiers, but the strength of the entire system. Logistics and other supplies, including the establishment of medical camps, are the greatest guarantee of the strong military strength of the entire Tang Dynasty.
Nowadays, in Liaodong, especially in the four towns of Anxi, the emphasis on logistics such as medical camps has made the entire Tang Dynasty pay more and more attention to other links besides the combat effectiveness of the army.
Although this advanced strategic preparation follows the era's main idea of "before troops and horses are moved, food and grass go first", in terms of detailed distinctions, it still qualitatively improves the entire military strength and is ahead of the era's emphasis on military affairs. The most obvious manifestation is that the casualty rate of the Tang army has plummeted in recent years.
The Ten Thousand Jinwu Guards and the Three Thousand Buddha Battalion did not pay a big price in this battle. Especially the Three Thousand Buddha Battalion's battle not only made Li Zhi and Wen Chen look at each other with admiration, but also had always had a contemptuous attitude towards the Buddha Battalion. Liu Xiang, the left general of the Jinwu Guard, and Xiong Qu, the right general of the Jinwu Guard, also changed their attitudes towards the Futu Camp a lot after this battle.
Especially the right general Xiong Qu personally led the Jinwu Guards to kill the enemy today. He had a more intuitive impression of the combat power of the Futu Camp. He even secretly doubted whether these soldiers of the Futu Camp were already in the battle. In terms of combat effectiveness, they surpassed their Jinwu Guards!
Li Hong stood on the city tower and had just finished arranging the replacement of the Jinwu Guards. The 10,000 people who left the city to face the enemy today changed their defenses with the 10,000 people who had not left the city, giving them a night to rest.
After hastily eating on the city wall, and just wiping his mouth, Yu Tuqi ran up and whispered: "Your Highness, look outside the city."
"What's wrong?" Li Hong walked from the city tower to the city wall in confusion, followed the direction of Yu Tuqi's finger, and looked at the simple tents in the distance outside the city under the light of the fire.
Yu Tuqi handed the binoculars to Li Hong, with a bloodthirsty look on his face, and whispered: "Your Highness, look at the places where the fire is the brightest, the places surrounded by real tents, are there any suspected king's tents?" tent?"
Li Hong took the telescope, and in an instant, the area outside the city that was originally blurry and unrealistic with the most firelight in front of him was indeed filled with two royal tents on one left and one on the right. Naturally, there were patrolling soldiers wandering around with halberds.
Far away from the king's tent, where Silla and Baekje soldiers camped, some of the so-called tents were herdsmen's tents, and more were improvised with soldiers' armor and other materials put together. It's just a curtain wall to block the wind.
After careful observation, Li Hong was sure that the two king's tents were definitely genuine king's tents and definitely not ostentatious king's tents. Looking at the expressions of the generals coming in and out of the king's tent, he knew that these were unlikely to be royal tents. The enemy's suspicion tactics.
But to be on the safe side, Li Hong couldn't make a judgment now. He quickly put down the telescope in his hand and said, "Summon Cheetah and Jingzhe over quickly."
"Yes, Your Highness." Yu Tuqi was shocked. He had not had enough of today's battle. Although he was slightly injured, it was nothing to him.
The trauma medicine that Miss Bai personally requested from Miss Pei for the Guards is now standard equipment for the Futu Camp and the Prince's Guards. Even the medical camp also uses these medicines, and the effect for them is naturally very good!
As for the money, he didn't know. Anyway, Miss Bai had warned that this medicine should be used sparingly, but the injury should not be delayed because of reluctance to use it.
Naturally, there is no need for Miss Bai to advise these. People who serve in the military know that if there is a good medicine, it will naturally be used from the first time the patient is injured, and there is no saying that it should be used until the end of life.
What's more, good medicine is life. The original intention of using good medicine is to protect your life to the greatest extent on the battlefield and to hold it in your own hands as much as possible. Therefore, after they go to the battlefield, they never cherish these good wound medicines. After all, cherishing and being reluctant to use good medicines is risking their lives. They still know in their hearts whether the medicine is more important than their lives.
Jingzhe and Cheetah hadn't arrived yet, but Li Zhi ran to the top of the city again, but this time, he was not wearing casual clothes, but instead wore a suit of jet-black armor. After all, his set of burnt-up golden armor was no longer there. Put it on.
Behind him were naturally the elite soldiers of the Jinwu Guard, Ge Xiyuan, Shi Zangjie and other civil servants. They all put on armor at this time, but under the dim light of the city wall, Li Hong could still clearly see the cold It was so uncomfortable for the civil servants to wear the hard armor.
Their brows were furrowed and their faces were red. The thick armor seemed to have lice on their bodies. They were twisting various parts of their bodies slightly, obviously they were not used to wearing this armor.
"My son has met my father. You should take a good rest in the palace at this time. It is enough to have your son here." Li Hong accompanied Li Zhi and stood on the city wall, looking at the firelight in the distance outside the city.
Today's victory was a good medicine for Li Zhi. The vertigo only had a brief attack and then disappeared. He stayed in the palace uneasily for less than an hour before he hurriedly ordered Yang Wu and Lian Tie to give him. He put on his armor and ran to the city wall.
Li Zhi now gives Li Hong a feeling of being washed away and returning to his original nature. His wise and indifferent temperament seems to be much more refined than before.
Stroking the scabbard of the horizontal sword in his hand, he said with a smile: "When you and your mother went to Cuiwei Palace and encountered the assassination incident, did you know that your father was highly praised and extremely moved by your performance that day? At that time, In the critical situation, neither your mother nor you left each other alone to escape. Now that you and I are trapped in Liujing, can't my father stay with you like your mother? "
Li Hong smiled bitterly, what happened today? How did his father become more humane? The feeling of being alone seemed to have completely disappeared from him. The person standing in front of him did not look like an emperor talking to the prince, nor did he look like a father talking to the prince. Instead, he talked like an ordinary father and son.
"The situation was compelling at that time, so I wanted to lure the thieves away and give my mother a chance to escape. However, I was too young to find a good opportunity. Now I can hold on to the city and create an opportunity for you to retreat. , It cannot be compared with the situation that day." Li Hong was a little confused. He didn't even know these two sentences and didn't understand what he wanted to say.
What's more, when I was assassinated with my mother in Cuiwei Palace, I didn't know what I was thinking at the time or what I wanted to do. Under the circumstances, I had no choice or time to make any more choices. I could only choose. Protecting the mother, fighting and retreating.
"Whether it's forced by the situation or it's true, my father has envied you for a long time when you and your mother shared the same adversity. Now that I can share the adversity with you, my father is only happy and not worried. So, you can't let your father. The emperor is disappointed, this city cannot be lost, otherwise, the emperor and you will be captured." Li Zhi's expression became more calm, his expression became more wise, and he gave people a sense of tranquility. similar feeling.
Cheetah and Jingzhe had just leaned out when Li Hong was looking around, but Li Hong discovered that there seemed to be one less person beside his father. Yang Wu and Lian Tie followed his father closely, but his personal eunuch Hua Ji Where did it go
However, Li Hong didn't have time to ask questions at this time, but he needed to let Cheetah and Jingzhe go as close as possible to the places where Silla and Baekje were camping outside the city to find out whether the two royal tents were real. The king of Silla and Baekje lived there.
After all, with Jingzhe and Cheetah's lightweight skills and hidden skills, they were most likely to detect the authenticity of the two tents in the place.
After Li Zhi heard Li Hong's orders to Cheetah and Jingzhe, his eyes widened immediately, with joy and a little loss in his eyes.
(End of chapter)