Turbulent Times Chapter 1577: Another dark hand of Li Shimin

However, the result almost made the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army laugh, and Li Shentong was so angry that his face turned purple. For every stone bomb they threw, the Far Eastern Army's trebuchet fired three. The performance is too poor, it is not bad if two or three of the ten hit the target.

Besides, when their rock-throwing locomotives stopped, the Far East Army's rock-throwing locomotives were better aimed. After Li Jiajun's rock-throwing locomotives fired two stone bombs each, they were all destroyed.

At this time, half of the fake giant crossbows left by Li Jiajun finally reached the firing range. The power was not bad, but unfortunately they shot too close. The string bow can also shoot them.

So, before the soldiers of the Li family army could shoot their first thick and long crossbow arrows in a panic, they were thrown at once by an infantry phalanx from the Far Eastern Army with a steel string bow, killing all the operators. Shot dead on the spot.

This reminded Wang Junlin of a classic battle in later generations when the United States fought against Iraq. Both sides used tanks at the same time. The American tanks fought back and the Iraqi tanks chased them. A certain distance, this distance is the effective shooting distance of American tanks, but it exceeds the shooting distance of Iraqi tanks. As a result, Iraqi tanks can only be beaten, and they cannot hit American tanks at all.

In short, this is the battlefield effect brought about by the obvious gap in weapons and equipment.

So future generations should advocate science and technology to strengthen the army, science and technology to build the army, and science and technology to revitalize the army. And weapons and equipment represent combat power to a large extent.

On the contrary, the low-tech pit-filling truck built by Li Jiajun is very efficient. Although there are many people who have been smashed into pieces by the Far Eastern Army's catapult, many pits have been filled in the process. This may be Li Jiajun's only harvest today.

Without the cover of trebuchets and giant spears and crossbows, the light cavalry of the Li family army could not charge, so they had to withdraw to the camp in embarrassment after leaving more than two thousand corpses behind, under Li Shentong's desperate order. The Far East Army, as always, did not pursue and kill them.

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Heifengkou.

"How many Li family troops have we defeated, ten thousand?" Zhang Tiangang looked ahead, and there had been no Li family troops to attack for a long time.

The captain of the second division said with a smile: "Including the first few waves, there were not ten thousand, but eight thousand. According to the information from the Military Intelligence Office, Hou Junji sent Zhang Yishan from Longguan to bring ten thousand people over. However, although we defeated them wave after wave, we only killed about 5,000 people in the next wave. The other 5,000 people obviously retreated in spite of the difficulties, and they didn't think of a way to defeat us. Before, it was estimated that they would never attack us again to die."

Zhang Tiangang nodded slightly, agreed with the captain of the second division, and said with a serious face: "So we may encounter a hard battle at any time, tell the brothers below, don't easily repel the tens of thousands of Li Jiajun just because of these two days The attack will underestimate the enemy."

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Longguan City.

"What, that idiot Zhang Yishan led 10,000 horses and was easily defeated by the enemy army at Heifengkou." Hou Junji suddenly stood up from his seat, and his face became extremely ugly. He knew that this was partly because of the terrain of Heifengkou However, I also found that I may have seriously underestimated the combat power of the 3,000 special forces of the Far East Army.

Hou Junji knew very well that from Chencang County to Longguan City, the road to transport food and grass must pass through Heifengkou, which meant that the Special Forces had cut off his lifeline.

Now the grain and grass hoarded in Longguan city can only be used by them for a month at most.

If they can't defeat the special forces team within a month, take back Heifengkou, and re-open the grain road between Chencang County and Longguan City, they will be trapped to death.

As for Chencang County, there is no extra troops at all. Even though there are 80,000 troops in Chang'an City, as the capital of the Li Yuan Group, the last 80,000 troops will definitely not dare to move without authorization.

Right now, Hou Junji understood that although he still had an army of nearly 60,000 and the city of Longguan was still firmly in his hands, he... was already in danger. The most important thing was that since the Far East Army started fighting against them, they seemed to have never won a big victory in three directions, which made him more and more uneasy.

Frowning and pondering for a while, Hou Junji said: "The current plan is to send another 20,000 troops to attack Heifengkou and open up the grain road again, so that we can solve our current difficulties."

Hearing the words, the staff next to him said anxiously: "General, with the advantage of Heifengkou's geographical advantage, the number of troops we can invest in Heifengkou is limited each time. Under such circumstances, we are not the opponent of the Far Eastern Army's special team at all. , I am afraid that it will take a lot of casualties to take down Heifengkou and open up the grain road again."

How can Hou Junji not understand this truth now, but the food road must be opened up, even if the 20,000 people are exhausted, it must be opened, otherwise Longguan City will be destroyed without food and grass At that time, 120,000 people from Shangguanhu, Zhou Hu, and Jiang Mulang outside the pass were allowed to enter the pass, and that would be a big deal.

So, he immediately ordered: "Come here, send an order to Zhang Yishan, and I will send him another 10,000 people to attack Heifengkou, and tell him that if he can't attack Heifengkou, and can't get through the grain road, hold your head up." Come see me."

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On the eastern battlefield, Yuchi Jingde, Lu Han, and Guan Xiaotong commanded an army of 150,000 troops, but Li Shimin blocked him from east.

In addition to the fact that Li Shimin has been preparing how to deal with the Far East Army's attack in recent years, he has been fully prepared in terms of army, tactics, weapons and equipment, intelligence, food and grass, etc., but also because he has unknowingly Another method similar to that of Wang Junlin was adopted.

Wang Junlin adopted the method of secretly establishing enemy bases in Hedong and Guanzhong, and waited for the time to deal a fatal blow to the Li Yuan Group.

Li Shimin secretly trained and supported two horse thieves.

That's right, it was two armies of horse thieves, one horse thieves and Goguryeo's Yuan Gai Su Wen together restrained Luo Yi's 100,000 troops in Youzhou.

There is also a group of horse thieves hiding in Shanggu County in the six counties of Hebei.

Shanggu County is one of the six counties in Hebei under the rule of Wang Junlin and the county next to Xiahe River under the rule of Li Yuan Group. There are many mountains, valleys, deep forests and dense forests here, and it is easy to hide people. With the powerful intelligence capabilities of the Far East Army, it was not discovered before.

It has to be said that Li Shimin is worthy of being the chosen one, with various means and the heroes gathered around him are quite capable.

Because these 10,000 horses are hidden in all the Taoist temples and temples in Shanggu County. Before that, they were all monks or Taoist priests from these Taoist temples and temples. Just half a month ago, they suddenly gathered together and became 10,000 horse thieves. , and this team of horse thieves is powerful, even a

It is not much worse than the cavalry of the Tiger Battalion of Yuchi Jingde of the Far East Army.

The most important thing is that this ten thousand horse thief is very good at sports warfare and lightning guerrilla warfare. The rest of the troops were hiding somewhere, and they couldn't be found for a while.

These days, Li Jing led a thousand special forces, and with the cooperation of Youzhou Luoyi people, he had almost wiped out the ten thousand slippery horse thieves in Youzhou. When I came to Shanggu County, I tried my best to find these five thousand horse thieves who were making trouble everywhere, and then wiped them out.

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With the arrival of winter, there have been several heavy snowfalls in Shanggu County.

The snow on the wilderness was constantly rolled over by the wheels because of the transportation of grain and grass, and it was mixed with the soil into a muddy slurry. After the upper layer was frozen, it was barely passable for pedestrians. Easy to fall.

As for the vehicles full of food and ordnance, these muddy grounds cannot bear it.

If it weren't for the strong and durable vehicles used by the Far East Army to transport grain, they would have fallen apart a long time ago, and it would be even more difficult to maintain such a fast speed.

This is after Shanggu County was occupied by Wang Junlin's Far Eastern Army in the past few years, the government has deliberately repaired several official roads.

However, the war cannot happen on the official road. The places where the two armies confront each other have no roads, and they are all barren mountains and wild mountains.

Therefore, most of the food transport teams have no roads.

It is also for this reason that the route of the Far Eastern Army's east grain transport team has no secrets at all to the horse thief of Li Shimin who is hiding nearby.

In fact, if Wang Junlin and Nie Xiaoyu knew that the leader of this band of horse thieves was called Duan Zhixuan, they wouldn't be amazed at each other's strength and toughness.

Duan Zhixuan, originally ranked tenth among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion in the Tang Dynasty. Duke Du Ruhui, Duke Zheng Wei Zheng, Duke Fang Xuanling Liang, Duke Shen Gao Shilian, Duke E Yuchi Jingde, Duke Wei Li Jing, Duke Song Xiao Yu, and even ahead of Chen Yaojin, Li Ji and Hou Junji.

From this ranking, one can see how extraordinary and powerful this person is.

In the original history, Duan Zhixuan was given a very high evaluation by Li Shimin. The so-called "never fear in the face of danger, a true general" refers to Duan Zhixuan.

In the original history, Duan Shixuan led the army to destroy Wang Shichong and Dou Jiande, two heroes who persisted until the end of the Sui Dynasty and even established themselves as emperors.

Naturally, such people would not foolishly lead the horse thieves to attack the city of Shanggu County, but just plunder the villages and towns. Of course, the food and grass of the Far East Army is the most important thing.

So, these days Duan Zhixuan has led five thousand horse thieves who come and go like the wind, and he has fought countless times with the grain team of the Far Eastern Army. In fact, half of his 10,000 horses lost these days were robbing and burning the Far Eastern Army. He was killed by the Far East Army during the grain and grass process.

This time, Duan Zhixuan focused on the huge food and grass transportation team in front of him again, but the Far Eastern Army was well prepared, and the five thousand horsemen from the Tiger Camp escorted the food and grass, so the two sides fought several times along the way, and Duan Zhixuan could not Successfully robbed and burned grain and grass.