Sugawara Michizane said slowly: "I was ordered to lead the army to intercept the Tang army, and fought five times in three days. The first battle was at Kurosaki Bay. I know the power of the Tang army's magic weapon, the bow and crossbow, and I dare not let the two sides open their battles and fight head-on. .So just when some of the opponent's soldiers landed on the shore, the minister led the fine cavalry to charge forward!"
Daigo glanced at him, seeming to be curious about how strong Tang Jun's magic weapon crossbows are. In order to avoid being attacked by these magic weapon bows and crossbows in a large area, Sugawara Michizane didn't even dare to rely on the location and deploy layers of defenses .
Sugawara Michizane continued: "I don't dare to get too close, so as not to enter the attack range of the magic weapon catapult and magic weapon bed crossbow on the Tang army's warship. I can only wait for their soldiers to gather more before fighting. As a result... ... "
"How did it turn out?" Daigo asked.
Michizane Sugawara said in pain: "The battle formation consisted of less than 20,000 infantry, and I had 100,000 elite cavalry. I failed to rush to the front of the formation several times, but was shot by the strong bows and crossbows all over the sky, causing heavy casualties."
"It's not that you haven't entered the attack range of the magic weapon trebuchet and the magic weapon bed crossbow, how can you still be like this?"
Michizane Sugawara sighed, "No, but in the infantry formation of nearly 20,000 people, there are countless magical weapons such as Fuyuan crossbow, horned crossbow, and arm tension crossbow! Often a single crossbow arrow can kill a cavalry company. People and horses are worn on the ground, our armor is useless, not even a single crossbow arrow can block it!"
Daigo opened his mouth wide.
He knew very well what kind of disaster it would be if a cavalryman was shot by a crossbow and would be turned on his back.
Michizane Sugawara wiped away his tears, and continued: "However, I organized three charges and fought three times, and finally rushed into the Tang Army's infantry formation!"
Daigo closed his eyes, imagining the battle situation at that time.
In the first cavalry charge, they were hit head-on. Teams in front fell down, horses neighed and people howled. Many people were nailed to the ground by crossbow arrows and could not move. It was only a short period of fighting, and thousands of cavalry were killed and injured. Panicked, forced to retreat.
In the second cavalry charge, the army was mentally prepared and charged a longer distance, reaching a place very close to the formation of the Tang army. But helplessly, the rain of arrows from the Tang army kept falling, never ending. The soldiers in the front continued to fall, and the ground was full of corpses of people and horses, which seriously hindered the cavalry from running, and finally they had to retreat again.
The third battle of the day was the last. Before that, the cavalry had to clean up the corpses of their comrades on the charge road. The corpses collected were piled up like a mountain, more than 10,000, and the smell of blood was so strong that people could hardly breathe.
The grief-stricken Sugawara Michizane rushed forward with his personal guards and cleared the way ahead. The monks worked together to intercept the rain of arrows—these backbones of the army were used as a force to determine the outcome in the past, but now they don't even have the clothes of the Tang army. If you touch it, you will be shot and killed countless times!
In the end, although the cavalry formation was also shot to pieces and countless people were killed on the spot, they finally reached the front of the Tang army.
"However, the formation of the Tang army is Yanyue formation. The arc formation minimizes the impact of the cavalry, and there are still circles of heavy vehicles on the periphery, and the horses cannot step over it!"
Sugawara Michizane's voice trembled so badly that he could hardly speak. He took a few breaths before he could continue: "I know this formation is a disaster for the cavalry, but I must lead the cavalry to rush over and stop it." Tang Jun landed! This is the only chance for me to stop Tang Jun, if they go ashore without too much damage, there will be no chance of stopping them in the future!"
Speaking of this, Sugawara Michizane burst into tears again, choked up so that he could not speak.
Daigo didn't urge him, just staring at the attic that was gradually reduced to ashes in the fire.
"I took the monks as the vanguard, rushed into the Tang army's infantry formation, and handed over their soldiers! The soldiers under my command finally started to kill the enemy. One after another, the soldiers of the Tang army fell on us. knife
Now, regardless of life and death, we didn't even think about retreating, so we kept rushing forward... "
Michizane Sugawara clenched the saber in his hand, his face twisted into a bun, and his eyes became terrifying, "We killed a lot of Tang soldiers, Your Majesty, do you know that those are your most elite soldiers, they fought to the death to prove that After all, I am a qualified emperor warrior!
"But we were still blocked. Not only that, our follow-up cavalry was also besieged by the great monks of the Tang army, causing countless casualties! The most terrifying thing is that during this period, the Tang army let more than ten thousand riders get off the boat. Surround our cavalry on both sides!"
"More than ten thousand fine riders? Surrounded?" Daigo interjected.
Michizane Sugawara said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty heard correctly, our 80,000 or 90,000 cavalry were surrounded by less than 20,000 elite cavalry! That is an elite cavalry composed entirely of qi-training monks. Not an ordinary war horse, but also possesses the strength of a Qi refining monk!
"I hate you! I fell into the trap of the Tang army and fell into their trap. I thought it would be a victory if I rushed into the opponent's infantry formation, but I didn't expect that it was just the beginning of a nightmare! Our front line was in a quagmire , was tightly restricted by the Tang Army's long spear formation and crossbow formation, and our center and rear formation was massacred by the Tang Army's fine cavalry!
"I heard from Yang Xingmi before that the Great Tang had a fine cavalry composed entirely of qi-training monks. I didn't pay attention to it at that time, because I didn't see it on the warship, so I thought that such a fine cavalry didn't exist—even if It exists, and it is not in this Tang army!
"But I'm wrong, that guy Yang Xingmi has such a deep scheming! He showed all the combat power of the Tang army on the surface, but he just hid this one. The elite cavalry did not show up! The minister was completely unprepared, and just like this led the country's most elite cavalry into the death place he had arranged!
"This Yang Xingmi is definitely not someone who is easy to deal with... When he met the minister on the warship, he was arrogant and looked down on the minister everywhere. The minister thought he would underestimate the enemy and make mistakes, but Unexpectedly, when the two armies were at war, he would be so insidious and vicious! He had set him up from the very beginning!"
Daigo bowed his head in silence.
Sugawara Michizane is still too upright and not good at calculating. If it was Fujiwara Tokihei, he might be able to fight Yang Xingmi. But the scheming person was so frightened by Tang Jun that he fled with his clansmen at this time, and he didn't even have the courage to face Tang Jun.
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Daigo let out a long sigh and looked up at the sky, feeling sad and ironic.
The 100,000 fine cavalry were strangled in Herosaki Bay by 20,000 Tang Army cavalry and 20,000 infantry. It can be seen from Yang Xingmi's tactical layout that his purpose is not simply to land, not to simply repel the blocking enemy, but to - Tu Jun!
What he wants is to kill all the hundred thousand fine riders!
"How much did you gain? Didn't you say that you killed many Tang troops, how many?" Daigo asked, this question has nothing to do with the situation of the battle, but only with dignity.
Sugawara Michizane smiled happily, even a little proudly, as if he had done something extraordinary, he stretched out two fingers and shook them.
"Two, two..." Daigo's lips moved, but he couldn't say the word "ten thousand".
According to Michizane Sugawara's description, it is impossible for Tang Jun to lose 20,000 people.
Sure enough, Sugawara Michizane said, "Two thousand! Two thousand Tang troops!"
Daigo only felt the blood rushing to his forehead, but now his heart was ashamed. Hearing this number and seeing Sugawara Michizane's proud expression, he really wanted to punch him to death!
"One hundred thousand for two thousand, fifty people for one!" Daigo bit his cheek, "How proud are you?!"
"That's two thousand Tang troops! It's the Tang army! There are more than a hundred magic weapon catapults, more than 800 magic weapon bed crossbows, tens of thousands of magic weapons
Tang Jun with a strong bow and crossbow! "Michizane Sugawara emphasized seriously.
He was surprised by Daigo's reaction, shouldn't he be proud? I fell into a trap and faced a cavalry composed entirely of Qi training monks. Isn't it enough to kill two thousand Tang troops? How many soldiers died on the way to the battle, even Tang Jun didn't see it!
Fujiwara Tadahira is the most military-savvy person trained by the Fujiwara family. He used 200,000 sailors to fight the Tang army. What was the result? Didn't it only cost the other party three or four thousand people
Daigo was so angry that he stood up and let out a beastly roar at Sugawara Michizane: "Aren't my people human? Are all the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty immortal soldiers? Fifty people change one person, why?! This world Is there a war more outrageous than this?! You still think that the record is outstanding, I, I, I... "
He has been "I" for a long time, but there is nothing to say. When it comes to this point, should Sugawara Michizane be held accountable and beheaded
Unexpectedly, Michizane Sugawara was silent for a moment, then suddenly looked at Daigo and said word by word: "Of course there are more outrageous wars than this. After the third battle on the first day, and in the next two days, I fought two more battles with the Tang army. I rely on you Xiongguan Jiancheng, mountains and rivers are deployed for defense, and the Tang army is attacking from the front.
"The situation of the two battles was not much different. The soldiers of the Tang army did not take the city rashly, but just set up the magic weapon catapult and magic weapon bed crossbow, and violently poured spirit stone fireballs and crossbow arrows at the city gate.
"Daming Pass held on for four hours, but the Tang army smashed down the city wall. The guards were killed and injured countless times. Then the Tang army blasted open the city gate and rushed in. At that time, the Guanzhong soldiers only cared about escaping and trampled on each other. I don't know how many people died. In the end, only a few thousand of the 80,000 guards escaped, and the casualties of the Tang army were hundreds at most, which is not worth mentioning."
"The same is true for Linjiang City, the difference is that it only guarded for three hours.
"The Tang army relied on magical soldiers to break through the city from a long distance and seriously injured our army. Our bows and crossbows had far less range than them, so we could only be beaten passively. Later, when they saw us retreating from the city wall, they even moved forward the trebuchet and crossbow, and used spirit stones Fireballs and rain of arrows cover and bombard the inside of the city!
"I have organized soldiers to go out of the city several times to take the initiative to charge the battle, but the result is just a replay of the battle in Heisaki Bay. In Herosaki Bay, the Tang army's magic weapon trebuchets and bed crossbows are still on board. When they arrived in Linjiang City, they were all deployed. in front!
"In the end, as long as they saw our city gate open, they would concentrate their bows and crossbows to shoot at the city gate. Our soldiers died in the gate hole before they could rush out of the city..."
"At the end of the war, the soldiers of the Tang army were dispatched, just to harvest military achievements and clean up the battlefield! Nearly 70,000 soldiers in Linjiang City surrendered one after another after the Tang army entered the city. It happened again! And this time, Tang Jun's losses were even smaller... "
Having said that, Michizane Sugawara finally couldn't speak anymore, lowered his head, covered his face with his eyes and sobbed.
He didn't need to go on.
How can Daigo not know what happened next? The news of the Fujiwara family's sudden departure from Heian-kyo was learned by the generals in the army, and soon spread widely.
The Tang army doesn't even need to bomb the city now, as long as it appears in front of the city, the defenders without generals will collapse, and the Tang army only needs to take over the city.
Invincible is not enough to describe the strength and smoothness of Tang Jun's current offensive.
Daigo looked at Sugawara Michizane who was sobbing, and was speechless for a long time.
The pain in Michi Sugawara's heart is really not humane. In the first battle, exchanging 100,000 men for 2,000 men from the Tang army was a great shame in the history of war, but compared with the following battles, it was the highlight of this war.
Such a shameful highlight.
As the main minister of war, the "pride" shown by Sugawara Michizane before is just an alternative catharsis of extreme sadness.