Turbulent Times Chapter 1511: What a Xu Shiji

Strictly speaking, this field battle is not the first official confrontation between Li Jing and Xu Shiji, but the previous battles were all offensive and defensive battles. The reliance on weapons and equipment is very large.

But the field battle is different now. Although the quality of weapons and equipment is still very important, especially the terrifying weapons such as gunpowder packs and grenades, relatively speaking, the advantages of weapons and equipment are not so obvious.

So, who is strong and who is weak in field battles depends most on your skills, mentality, awareness and the quality of your soldiers. And don't care about your own casualties.

Because of personal experience, Li Jing is actually better at defense, but obviously his offensive ability is not weak.

As for Xu Shiji, because the Wagang Army has been attacking cities and looting land in recent years, he is famous for being good at attacking.

It's just that, right now, the two of them just switched, the one who is good at defending is attacking, and the one who is good at attacking is defending. And their offensive or defensive skills are not weaker than their original specialties.

The so-called famous generals are just like that, with both offense and defense, able to defend and attack.

Li Jing is famous for his good defense, just because he used to be the defender of Mayi County. When the Sui Dynasty faced the northern Turks, most of the time they focused on defense, and he couldn't give him a chance to attack.

As for Xu Shiji's reputation for attacking, it's not that he is not good at defending, but because he has been attacking everywhere in these years.

In this great battle, they fought for three hours until the wind began to blow and the rain stopped. The Wagang Army killed and injured more than 3,000 people, most of them infantry. The bear camp finally used the result of the grenade.

More than 200 people died in the Violent Bear Camp. Wang Junlin didn't say anything, but his face remained calm. Li Jing didn't dare to continue the fight. He gave an order, and Ming Jin withdrew his troops. The Far Eastern Army quickly retreated. Xu Shiji let go He took a deep breath, had no time to rest, quickly assembled the army, and led the Wagang army to rush towards Fengyang City.

Not to mention the role of the war horse in the battle, even if it can only be used as a means of transportation, one side can only use their legs to drive, and the other side can accumulate physical strength until it explodes in battle.

Both Li Jing and Wang Junlin knew that letting the Wagang army rush forward at this time would weaken the Wagang army's combat power and morale.

So, Xu Shiji knew that Li Jing or Wang Junlin didn't allow his army to fight them to the death because he planned to consume their physical strength, morale and fighting will, but he had to bite the bullet and hurry.

This is a conspiracy. Even if you know exactly what the other party is doing and what their purpose is, you will have no way to resolve it, have no flaws to find, and are invulnerable. Knowing it was a trick, I still had to drill in.

Just as the battle in front of us was in full swing, the Far East Army's forces at Xiaohedao Mountain Pass had almost all come out. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the two army strongholds have now become an empty city.

At this time, only three to five thousand soldiers may be able to easily capture these two military strongholds, but even if Xu Shiji knows, there is nothing he can do. As soon as his soldiers and horses move here, the spies of the Far East Army's intelligence department can grasp them in time and accurately. Under the rule of Junlin, the army will naturally be mobilized accordingly, and there is an advantage in cavalry, so Xu Shiji's sending people back is like a sheep into a tiger's mouth.

Even Xu Shiji suspected that Wang Junlin sent out the Stormy Bear Camp just to lure the Wagang Army to send people to attack the two army camps at Xiaohedao Mountain Pass.

As a matter of fact, Xu Shiji's guess is very close to the real situation, Wang Junlin thinks so, but Xiaohedao Mountain Pass is not without defenders, there are thousands of soldiers from the engineering and supply battalion.

Although these soldiers are not comparable to the Far Eastern Army's Storm Bear Camp, Tiger Camp and other troops in field battles, they are actually not weaker than the ordinary troops of other forces in the world, let alone they are only defending the army camp.

Since Wang Junlin and Li Jing led the Stormy Bear Camp to hunt down the Wagang Army's inner camp led by Xu Shiji, the remaining engineers and supply battalion officers and soldiers have not been idle. They came out, and dug another trench, laid a large number of murder traps, and buried a lot of landmines alone.

At this time, if the Wagang army bypassed the cavalry of the Stormy Bear Battalion led by Wang Junlin and Li Jing and ran to capture the crossing of Xiaohe Mountain, they would not have more than ten times the force, and they would not be able to attack two army camps without filling the trench with corpses. of.

In this way, the army was long, and along the way, Wang Junlin and Li Jing were haunted. The two armies fought and left.

It was not until the second day that the attacks stopped suddenly. Because the front is the pick-up point that Xu Shiji arranged for himself - Shuitou Town.

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In Shuitou Town, Li Jing, who led nearly 10,000 cavalry from the Violent Bear Battalion in pursuit, stopped one mile away from the bank of Shuitou River. On the river bank were the corpses of more than 400 Wagang soldiers, and behind him were nearly 10,000 cavalry from the Violent Bear Battalion.

The roadside was full of surrendering soldiers, about 3,000 in total, all of them were Wagang Army infantry who were left to the end. Facing the Storm Bear Battalion cavalry, they had no physical strength to escape and could only choose to surrender.

Li Jing led the cavalry to catch up with many Wagang Army infantry who had fallen behind. Some were beheaded, a small number fled into the mountains and fields, and nearly half of them chose to surrender.

If you are fighting against Turks or Goguryeo and other foreign races, you will not surrender under normal circumstances, but if you are fighting against the Far East Army, because of Wang Junlin's prestige and holy name, they don't feel much burden to surrender.

Li Jing couldn't care less about chasing and killing the stragglers who fled to the fields and forests on both sides, and hurriedly chased all the way to Shuitou Town, which is a key point nearly eighty miles away from Xiaohedao Mountain Pass.

Li Jing caught up with the Wagang army guards by the river, and beheaded more than 400 Wagang troops in two rounds. Rushing over, it is very likely that some cavalry will be cut off from the south bank by the water flow, and will be surrounded and killed by the opponent's army more than ten times.

After he sent people to investigate, he discovered that Xu Shiji had actually sent people to build a dam upstream.

Wang Junlin and Shen Guoer hurried to Li Jing's side, raised their binoculars to look, there were about 3,000 Wagang Army cavalry and nearly 20,000 infantry outside the station in Shuitou Town, and Xu Shiji's banner was impressively lined up. The shape was also a little chaotic, and it could be seen that they formed a line in a hurry. They seemed to be waiting for the cavalry of the Violent Bear Battalion to cross the river.

Li Jing said to Wang Junlin and Shen Guoer: "My lord, Commander Shen, the Wagang Army built a dam upstream. The water in the river is very shallow and the flow is slow. Their cavalry and infantry

They all wade through the water with ease. "

Wang Junlin asked: "Has the upstream water been released now?"

Li Jing shook his head and said: "Report to the lord, I don't know yet, I have already sent someone to go upstream to investigate."

Shen Guoer said: "The spies I sent to investigate Shuitou Town have not been successful. It turns out that the Wagang Army is here to repair this thing."

This is the second setback for the Storm Bear Battalion cavalry today. First, they were blocked by the fire from the Wagang Army camp during their pursuit, and now they are blocked by the small river in front of them. It has to be said that Xu Shiji's ability to adapt to the battlefield is very strong.

The burning of the camp and the water resistance were obviously Xu Shiji's designs. He also specially sent Du Yi to strengthen the defense of Shuitou Town in advance, so that Shen Guo'er did not find out the specific situation of the other party's construction of the upstream dam in advance.

When Wang Junlin saw the terrain of this place, he understood that Xu Shiji's choice of this place as their resting and blocking point was really perfect.

Because the terrain is narrow and blocked by rivers.

"I'm afraid it's too late to send someone to inform the engineering and supply battalion to send the catapult and the long-range crossbow." Wang Junlin frowned and pondered for a while, and asked, "How do you plan to deal with it?"

Li Jing replied: "My lord, I have just sent two thousand cavalry to dismount and go upstream to bypass."

Shen Guoer shook his head and said: "Xu Shiji should not only have reserved this manpower, there must be a support team in the valley to the east, and it should be Du Yi's unit who was stationed in Shuitou Town yesterday, most likely because he wanted to wait for me The army crossed the river to attack and flank our army.”

While the few people were talking, there was indeed the sound of roaring water from the upper reaches, and a tidal head rushing down, hitting the river bed with splashes of water, and the water quickly filled the river bed.

At this time, the Wagang Army array in the distance resounded the golden sound, turned around and left from the road between the two mountains in Shuitou Town, and finally only two thousand soldiers were left surrounded by Xu Shiji's banner. After the Wagang Army's army was far away, they calmly rode their horses and galloped away.

At this moment, the Far Eastern Army was stopped across the river, so Xu Shiji didn't have to worry about the Stormy Bear Battalion catching up. In fact, he was very sorry. The flood caused chaos, and then he led the army to take the opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

As a result, Li Jing saw through Xu Shiji's plot with a sharp gaze, and was not fooled.

Wang Junlin looked at the momentum of the water flow in the river, and saw that there was no sign of decreasing. Seeing Xu Shiji's banner getting farther and farther away, he said indifferently: "This person Xu Shiji..."

He wanted to say a few words of praise that Xu Shiji deserved to be Li Ji, the British Duke of Tang Dynasty in the original history.

In history, Li Ji followed Tang Taizong Li Shimin to pacify the Quartet, attacked Xue Yantuo twice, and pacified Qibei. After that, he destroyed Goguryeo and became the main general who opened up the most territories in the Tang Dynasty. If Li Jing hadn't been able to destroy the Turks, the biggest scourge of the Tang Dynasty, who is the **** of war is not sure!

Of course, these words cannot be said to Shen Guoer and Li Jing. Wang Junlin paused, and then said: "Fortunately, there is a special warfare brigade led by Zhang Tiangang near Fengyang City, and their army that is lagging behind Xu Shiji. If we can catch up, otherwise Xu Shiji would have led the main force of the Wagang Inner Battalion to retreat this time."

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