The sudden appearance of Liu Rengui made Li Hong feel reassured. In this way, the Silla and Baekje coalition forces outside the city could not pose a threat to him at all.
Originally struggling with whether to take the initiative or defend the city passively, now there is no need to waste brain cells. After Xiong Qu and Liu Xiang arrived, Li Hong issued an order to actively attack the Silla and Baekje coalition forces at Yinji Sanji. .
Yin Shi, in the previous life, was from 3 to 5 o'clock in the morning. It is said that this time period is called Yin Shi because tigers are the most ferocious, aggressive and brave time of the day during this time period.
What's more, there is no moment of the day that is darker than the darkness before dawn. What is more advantageous is that the night battle at this time uses the ink-like darkness to provide cover for prerequisite operations.
Similarly, after fighting the enemy and taking the initiative on the battlefield, dawn will come quickly, and there is no need to worry about the enemy being able to retreat again through the night, or to reverse the situation. Therefore, at the third quarter of Yin hour, this time point is the best time for night battles and sneak attacks.
Li Hong, who had been napping for about half an hour, listened to the noisy and gentle sound of horse hooves in the barracks under the city wall. He took the cold wet towel prepared by Hua Meng and wiped his face. After casually gargling his mouth, he stood in the city wall. In the middle of the stamping, Xiong Qu and Liu Xiang watched attentively, each leading ten thousand Jinwu guards and setting off from the gates of the two cities.
As for the city, only three thousand soldiers from the Pagoda Camp were left to serve as a symbolic defense force.
As the city gradually became quiet, the triangular fire in the distance flashed several times again, and Hua Meng also responded with flags. After the Jinwu guards quietly lurked on both sides of the Silla and Baekje camps, Liu Ingui would begin to obey Under Li Hong's order, he began to launch a surprise attack from the rear of the Silla and Baekje coalition forces.
War is always cruel and merciless. Whether it is a war between humans or a war between beasts, in the final analysis, the purpose is the same.
For the sake of its own territorial interests, ferocious beasts are willing to attack their own kind at all costs. They are even more willing to eat what they need, so they need to attack what they need.
There is no slight difference in the original intention of humans and animals to launch war. Conquer seems to be a great and domineering word, but its meaning after being used by humans in war is just to make their territory wider like animals. , making your own things in your own territory richer.
Once an intruder breaks into his home, humans, like animals, will either use their strength to drive away the intruder, or they will be driven into another desolate and barren place by the intruder to establish their own territory.
In this era, whether it is the Turks, Shiwei, Mohe, or the peoples of the Korean Peninsula, or even the Tang people, they are like the next complete food chain according to the laws of nature, but the Tang people stand at the top of the food chain and become He is just the ruler of this land.
Just like the tiger in the mountains and forests, it is constantly patrolling and expanding its territory, taking more fertile resources into its own hands, and incorporating wider land into its own territory.
The sound of arrows sounded accurately at the three o'clock in the middle of the night in the quiet and desolate place with a sparse moon and stars, like a thunder, ringing over the camps of Silla and Baekje.
Within a moment, the hurried horn sounded in the barracks of Silla and Baekje. The sound of people going into battle, the sound of cold scolding and ruthless orders resounded one after another throughout the entire camp.
Behind the ropes and trenches, the soldiers of Silla and Baekje, under the same urgent and panicked generals' orders, quickly lined up their spears and spears in rows. Behind them were archers bending their bows and setting arrows. , in the dark night, everyone raised their ears and listened carefully to the sound of horse hooves that shook the earth when the enemy cavalry was galloping at high speed.
However, the reality was not at all what they expected. When they had assembled a complete defense at the front of the position at the fastest speed, and the army behind them had also entered the defensive camp, and when everything was ready, the front What should have appeared, the deafening sound of horse hooves and the killing sounds of Tang people did not appear!
Wen Junjie quickly ran out of Jin Famin's royal tent again, looked anxiously at the soldiers who were already waiting around him, and shouted loudly: "What's going on? Why didn't the Tang people attack the camp?"
It was impossible to think that he was the only one who heard the three sound of arrows, and there was no bombing of the barracks, but why couldn't he hear the sound of the galloping hooves of the war horses? Could it be that the Tang people were bluffing
Xie Fulou also had a worried look on his face. After learning from the experience of being annihilated by the Tang Dynasty during the day yesterday, his soldiers today were all sitting in armor, fearing that the Tang Dynasty would stage another surprise attack.
But at this moment, when he had set up a battle formation and was preparing to face the attack of the Tang people's iron hooves, the frightening sound of iron hooves was not heard in his ears!
"Did you hear the sound of iron hooves?" Xie Fulou, who also ran out of the king's tent, looked at the deputy general next to him and asked with some uncertainty.
"did not hear it."
"Wait, what's that sound?" Under the dark night, Xie Fulou felt the ground beneath his feet begin to tremble.
Chevro stared at his feet, feeling the slight trembling of the earth, and suddenly looked up at the night sky again, pricking his ears to hear the direction from which the hoofbeats that seemed to hit his heart were coming.
"Boom, boom, boom..." Wen Junjie frowned. After the Tang Dynasty launched the arrow, it took almost a cup of tea before the sound of iron hoofs appeared. Why did he feel that something was wrong
The sound of booming booming was getting closer and closer, but both Wen Junjie and Xie Fulou discovered a problem invariably. Why was the sound of hoofbeats much slower than those of other cavalry
"Are the people of the Tang Dynasty playing tricks? Are they trying to scare us?" Wen Junjie looked at Xie Fulou who was running over and asked for advice.
"I don't know, but the sound of hoofbeats is really weird, even worse than us...! This is the heavy cavalry! The heavy cavalry of the Tang Dynasty!" Xie Fulou's face suddenly turned pale!
Why didn't I think that since the Tang people had used light cavalry to charge during the day and annihilated nearly 30,000 of their own men, how could they not know that they and others would set up defenses specifically against the light cavalry!
So this time they switched to heavy cavalry to charge the camp!
"That's not right..."
Just as Wen Junjie said the word "wrong", a messenger rode past Jin Famin's royal tent on a horse. However, before he could get close to Wen Junjie, he was shot by dozens of arrows that came out of nowhere. middle.
In the dark night, a few lights near the king's tent witnessed the cavalryman rolling off his horse with a dozen arrows stuck in his body like a hedgehog, but the horse continued to rush forward until he was about to arrive. When Wen Jun came to his side, the archers shot his horse to death!
"Who is it?" Wen Junjie swallowed back the words that followed the word "wrong", looked at the horse that fell to the ground after a puff of dust was raised in surprise, and walked over quickly.
Xie Fulou followed closely behind him. When the two of them walked closer, they saw that it was their own war horse, so Wen Junjie roared again: "Bring over the man who fell off the horse."
The rumbling hoofbeats were getting closer and closer. Wen Junjie and Xie Fulou looked at each other again at the same time. They realized that the soldiers behind them suddenly began to panic, and it was only then that they heard the rumbling sound. , it came from behind them, not from Liujing City in front of them.
"General... Army... behind me... Tang people..." The soldier who was shot like a hedgehog, with a helpless smile on his face, tried his best to tell the general behind him what to report, and finished speaking intermittently before dying.
Wen Junjie glared around fiercely, looking at the archers who were hiding in the dark to protect the king's tent that he couldn't see. He was so angry that he didn't know what to say!
"Resist the enemy immediately!" Xie Fulou looked at the messenger beside him. If he reacted slower at this time, the Tang people's heavy cavalry would probably rush into the camp.
As the orders of Wen Junjie and Xie Fulu were conveyed, nearly 70,000 soldiers were stationed in the entire camp, centered on the royal tents of Silla King Kim Fa-min and Baekje King Bo Yufeng, and began to move in a massive and overwhelming manner. He turned around to resist the enemy, preparing to meet Tang Bing who appeared out of thin air behind him.
Heavy cavalry are fully armored cavalry. During war, even the entire face is hidden behind the helmet, leaving only two holes for the eyes to look straight ahead.
The war horse under its crotch is the same as the owner on its back. It is also fully armored, and even the horse's face is covered with protective gear. However, unlike Western heavy cavalry, the Tang people's heavy cavalry is equipped with long-range crossbows. This important weapon diversified the heavy cavalry's ability to overwhelm enemy camps in the army.
In today's era, only the wealthy Tang Dynasty could effectively equip a large number of heavy armored cavalry, and also equip an army with light cavalry to raid formations.
Fully armored cavalry is an important means of combat to overwhelm enemy camps. Because both soldiers and horses carry heavier loads than light cavalry, they are much slower than light cavalry.
But shortcomings can sometimes turn into advantages in a vague way, that is, even Li Hong did not expect that the hoofbeats of heavy armored cavalry came from a distance, disturbing the generals of Silla and Baekje. Judgment of orientation.
Therefore, when Wen Junjie and Xie Fulou looked pale and were still wondering where these Tang heavy cavalry came from, the fully armored heavy cavalry, which was like a tank in the previous life, had already begun to crush them. The barracks behind them.
Since all their attention was focused on Liujing City, and they were caught off guard by the Tang Dynasty yesterday, before their foothold was stable, the Tang army's whirlwind tactics proactively wiped out their vanguard. So they were frightened and poured all their defenses into Ryugyong City.
Therefore, at this moment, the fully armored cavalry of the Tang Dynasty seemed to be in no one's land, and at a speed that was not very fast, they began to crush and rush through the rear of the Silla and Baekje armies.
These heavily armored men can't turn or pursue, they can only shoot crossbows, and then they hold their horses like bulldozers, mechanically rush to the front of the enemy from the rear, and then slowly turn around, like a harvester, The fields were being harvested back and forth.
(End of chapter)