Turbulent Times Chapter 1574: Only then will there be a real battle
Daye fourteen years, November 1st, Heifengkou.
After a great battle, the sky gradually darkened.
Zhang Tiangang ordered people to set up warning ropes and copper bells in the surrounding woods, and lit piles of bonfires forming columns on the road where the enemy troops came.
Zhang Tiangang believes that the enemy army also needs to rest, so the possibility of attacking at night is not high. However, he still strictly abides by the relevant regulations and sent out multiple groups of guard posts. The officers and soldiers of the three teams will also take turns on duty tonight. Every hour a detachment of soldiers prepares to meet the enemy's night attack.
On the Heifengkou mountain ridge at the foot of Zhang Tiangang, from the south **** to the west road at the foot of the mountain, there are more than 800 corpses on the short tens of meters of the hillside. Strangely twisted, their eyes were wide open, and their faces were ferocious. It was obvious that they had all experienced a painful and violent struggle before dying.
The stream farther away has been clogged with corpses to form small pools. The stream has soaked the corpses into white, and dyed the withered grass and soil on both sides of the waterway into blood red and dark black.
The one-sided battle continued two or three times in the afternoon, the intensity of which can be seen from the shocking scene in the woods opposite the second unit of the Special Forces.
Around these trees, there were many corpses of soldiers of the Li Family Army. From the depths of the woods to the front of the front line of the Special Forces, the weapons and shields of the soldiers of the Li Family Army were scattered everywhere.
At this time, under the command of several councilors, the captive captain named Huang Sifeng had already set up a temporary camp, and even the people who helped the medical team set up a small field hospital.
After seeing dozens of injured subordinates, Zhang Tiangang walked up the ridge to take a look. Today's battles seemed to be printed out of a mold. The Li family's army transported nearly two thousand soldiers through this road People, braving the long-range attack of the Far Eastern Army, finally rushed out desperately, and then were repelled... After a while, another two thousand people will come to die.
Looking at the battlefield full of corpses in front of him, the captain of the second division asked curiously: "Commander, today's battles were won too easily. We killed more than 2,000 enemies, right?"
Zhang Tiangang nodded, his face was full of murderous intent, and he said lightly: "Only killed more than two thousand soldiers of the Li family army, which is far from enough." Zhang Tiangang smiled and pointed to the battlefield below, "These After people are killed by us, we should be able to meet the real test tomorrow, and the real elite of the Li family army and more troops should also come."
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"Report... General Qi, a Far Eastern army appeared from our Longguan to the Chencang grain road. They occupied the Heifengkou and cut off the grain road." Rampage, came to guard Hou Junji, knelt down on one knee and said loudly.
Hou Junji was one of the young generals of the Li Yuan Group who was also known as the Three Tiger Generals along with Liu Hongji and Chai Shao. He could be regarded as Li Shimin's confidant.
These Tianhou Junji generals Guan Long are as solid as gold, as Shangguan Hu, Zhou Hu and Jiang Mulang have never been able to attack the top of the city.
Of course, this has a lot to do with the fact that the terrain of Guanlong is too steep.
After all, even with explosives, it is difficult to blow up the city wall that is more than ten feet high and connected to the mountain at once.
At this moment, Hou Junji's expression changed, and he said, "What, the Black Air Vent was blocked by people from the Far East Army?"
"This is probably someone from the Far Eastern Army's special forces." An aide next to him also had a look of surprise on his face, and said at the right time.
Hou Junji frowned. Although Guanlong City had stockpiled some food, grass and ordnance before, it was too much consumption these days, and the food, grass and ordnance transported from Chencang had to go through Heifengkou.
"How many people are there in the Heifengkou Far East Army? Can you see their flags clearly?" Hou Junji was not an ordinary person, he quickly suppressed the anger in his heart and asked anxiously.
The spy immediately said: "Reporting to the general, the enemy army of the Far East Army did not find any flags, and it is difficult to inquire on the other side of the Heifengkou, the number of people is estimated
The count is between two thousand and four thousand. "
Hou Junji sighed, and said: "Yes, most of them are the special forces of the Far Eastern Army. These days, there are shadows of the special forces of the Far Eastern Army on the battlefields in the east and north. It makes no sense that we don't have them in the west. I have always suspected They have crossed the mountains and sneaked into our pass. These days I have sent many people into the mountains but they have not found them. I don’t want them to cross the mountains and come to our back and block the black wind. I know that place. It is easy to defend and difficult to defend. It is useless to attack with more troops, and the troops that can be invested at a time will not exceed 2,000 people, so this is troublesome.”
The staff said: "The grain, grass and ordnance in Guanlong City can last for a month at most."
Hou Junji looked better, and said: "A month should be enough, they have a maximum of four thousand people, and even if it takes a month, they will be exhausted."
The staff also smiled and said: "It is clear in the military records of Duke Tang's order before that one beheading of the Far Eastern Army Special Forces and the Military Intelligence Office is equivalent to five beheadings of ordinary soldiers. , and then kill all the people in that special team, even if you lose thousands of people, this battle is worth it."
Hou Junji nodded, his face was no longer heavy, but rather happy, he focused his attention on what the spies said about the cutting off of the grain road, thought for a while, and said, "Come on, Send me an order to let Zhang Yishan lead 10,000 people to Heifengkou to deal with the special forces, and try to kill all the special forces."
But the staff thought for a while and said: "I heard that the Far Eastern Army's special forces team is very good at stealth. I guess Zhang Yishan will have no problem taking Heifengkou back, but it may be difficult to kill all the special forces team. When the battle reaches a certain level, the opponent will hide in the mountains and forests again, waiting for an opportunity to rob and burn my grain road. Therefore, I suggest that we can station 5,000 troops at Heifengkou, and send some more people to **** the grain and grass together."
Hou Junji thought for a moment, nodded and said, "That's right, let's prepare accordingly."
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Chencang Ancient Road, in front of Ganlong Pass.
Shangguan Hu Zhuma looked up at the dangerous pass from Tianshui County to the depths of Guanzhong, and sighed depressedly: "Wu Si and Naluo Shixin in the north have already occupied two counties, and they have wiped out seven or eight of the Li family. There are tens of thousands of horses, but we have only occupied two small county towns for a month, and we are firmly blocked by this **** Longguan..."
Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhou Hu's even more resentful voice, "Who said it was not! This **** Longguan, we also used the explosives sent by the prince. These days, we have three parties Nearly 10,000 people were killed and injured, but they didn't explode, and they never even attacked the city!"
Jiang Mulang frowned tightly, just sighed, did not speak, but suddenly remembered that Wang Junlin had said when he assigned tasks to them at that time, as long as they can capture Longguan in this war, they will be considered a big victory , also achieved the strategic goal.
The Longguan in front of us is actually an extremely steep canyon between two high mountains. A small river passes through this valley, flowing southeast from the Borrow River in Tianshui County to the Weihe River converging in the Guanzhong.
This canyon is about a hundred paces long and no more than six or seven feet wide. It's really crowded with four riders running in parallel.
But in such a place, a solid pass city was built by the mountain to control the natural danger, and Li Yuan even sent a full 60,000 horses, and famous generals like Hou Junji garrisoned troops and food for a long time. It was Wang Junlin who personally led the army to attack this place, and it was extremely difficult to break through.
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Zhang Tiangang led 3,000 troops, together with more than 2,000 civilians and more than 100 captives, occupied Heifengkou on the official road from Longguan to Chencang County for two days.
During these two days, Zhang Yishan sent by Hou Junji had already organized troops to attack Heifengkou seven times.
This time, the Li family's army was hit by the special forces' trebuchets with gunpowder packets at a farther distance.
However, through the recent attacks, the Li family's army seems to have figured out the effective range of the special force's trebuchet.
There are four hills to pass within a straight-line distance of more than one mile in the direction of their attack, so the Li family's army will be in the special forces
Under the watchful eye, the whole team swaggered to the maximum effective range of the Far Eastern Army's trebuchet attack, and then suddenly crossed the hill at the fastest speed and appeared on the south slope, ran frantically to the north **** in front, and hid behind to rest After a while, then jump to the next hill. It has to be said that the effect of this method is still very obvious.
On the contrary, after two days of long-term catapult throwing here, the Far Eastern Army has become more and more aware of the shooting angle, strength, length of the matchlock, etc. of the catapult. As soon as you jump off the top line, you will be bombarded with precision and power by trebuchets on the south slope.
The morale of the Li family's army seems to be getting lower and lower every time. By the time of the attack at noon today, the special forces only used the powder packs fired by the catapult and combined with the light crossbow guns fired from above to complete the expulsion. action.
The Li family's army had to retreat after only passing three hills, and they hadn't even been able to rush down the last south **** along the road for tactical deployment.
When the No. 3 team responsible for today's casualties was firing gunpowder packs with trebuchets, Zhang Tiangang kept observing the enemy's movements with binoculars. The flags in their hands were all held up feebly.
Every bombardment by the Special Forces can cause a violent commotion. Zhang Tiangang watched helplessly as several people who looked like generals of the Li family army shouted loudly, asking their own soldiers to kill those who retreated, but it was of no avail. Faced with such an attack with no defense at all, such as gunpowder bombing, the generals of the Li family army had a deep feeling in their hearts. of fear.
"Longguan guard Hou Junji has received news that these people were sent by Hou Junji, but Hou Junji obviously underestimated our strength." Zhang Tiangang put down his binoculars and let out such a sigh of emotion.
"Why do they come up with thousands of people every time?" The person who asked the question was the captured Captain Huang Sifeng. The people built the camp and the fortifications on the hillside, not to mention food. He even helped the medical team treat the wounded.
To be honest, Huang Sifeng's contribution was not small. They built a lot of ravines under the command of several counselors arranged by Zhang Tiangang at the place where the soldiers of the Li family army could not see behind the hillside of Heifengkou.
You know, these councilors are asking them to dig and build ravines in accordance with the Far Eastern Army's battlefield fortification regulations.
At this time, it was the rest time for the prisoners and civilians. Many prisoners and civilians stood on the ridge and looked north. Zhang Tiangang didn't let anyone stop him. Anyway, the special operations team felt that this was no longer a battle, but the Li family army. The soldiers came up again and again to die.
"That's why the unit of the Far East Army had to take people desperately to occupy the hillside the day before yesterday. It’s easy to dodge. No matter how many people there are, not only is it useless, but it’s not easy to retreat, and it’s easy to be bombed by our gunpowder packs or pierced by light crossbows and guns.” Zhang Tiangang looked at the several mountains opposite. The winding official road has several ups and downs on it. Although the Li family's army was able to safely avoid the gunpowder packages fired by the special forces' catapults when they were on the north slope, this undulating terrain also lengthened their movement. Every time the Li family's army walked to the south slope, they would be bombarded by their catapults.
The movement of the Li family's army is mainly on these visible roads, because it is impossible for them to climb off the road and climb the cliffs, and it is even more difficult for them to move at high speed in the woods for a long distance.
He Yongyi, the captain of the second division, smiled and said: "It seems that we only need to add enough gunpowder packs and crossbow guns."
"Don't be careless." Zhang Tiangang shook his head and said, "My lord said that this Hou Junji must not be underestimated, otherwise it would not have blocked the 120,000 troops of Shangguan Hu, Zhou Hu and Jiang Mulang at Longguan. Outside. After Hou Junji hears about the situation here and reacts, maybe he will adopt the correct tactics, then..." Zhang Tiangang raised his binoculars to look to the north as he spoke, grinning and said in a deep voice : "There will be a real battle then."
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