Chapter 48 Reinforcement arrives The turtle in the urn
"kill!"
Deafening shouts came from Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen's back. Countless iron soldiers like wolves and tigers danced with scimitars and rushed towards the unprepared Goguryeo army.︽
Facing Luo Shixin's huge geese formation, Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen decided to fight with a large cone formation without thinking: the cone formation, also known as the peony formation, is a combat formation with a forward like a cone. The characteristics of this formation are sharp and fast, the two wings are strong and powerful, and it is a very effective attack formation. According to the formation, it can also be imagined that the cone formation is a formation that specifically restrains the geese formation.
Everything in this world has its pros and cons. The strong aggressiveness of the cone array also means weak defense, condensing the power on the left and right wings in the middle, causing the loopholes behind to expand infinitely, becoming a fatal point.
Tielle led by Qibing Heli was the fatal point of Goguryeo, and it defeated the weak rear army to an incompetential system.
The soldiers in Goguryeo did not have the tacit understanding of the Marine cavalry, and they immediately became in chaos once they failed.
Luo Shixin, Li Daozong and Su Dingfang, who had been holding back for a long time, saw that reinforcements had arrived and it was the time to counterattack. At almost the same time, they turned into defense to offense and launched the offensive.
Liu Rengui, who was commanding the three armies in the rear, also ordered people to beat the snare drum at the first time. The storm sound gave people a surging and exciting rushing forward, which was the snare drum that the entire army charged.
The flags danced, and the original bluffing formation became extremely real in an instant.
The Tang army was able to emerge from the sky and appear in their rear, so it was natural that it could add an army that they did not know in front of them.
Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen had no choice but to escape when facing this disadvantage.
The front and back roads were cut off. There was no way to go on the cliff on the left, and there was only the North Mountain on the right to escape.
They saw Li Daozong rushing to the foot of Beishan Mountain with an intention of blocking the road on their mountain, and they had no time to think carefully. They led the central army to flee to Beishan Mountain.
Luo Shixin and Su Dingfang rushed and killed the defeated soldiers of Goguryeo to the greatest extent...
Under the three sides of Luo Shixin, Su Dingfang, and Qibian Heli's encirclement, the Goryeo army was defeated, the Tang army beheaded 11,000 levels, and the rest of the Goguryo soldiers and horses fled to the North Mountain.
It is worth mentioning that Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen are selfish. In order to escape safely, they did not inform their ally Hei Shui Mohe tribe and left them behind the palace behind the last.
After Li Daozong allowed most of the Goguryeo soldiers to go up the mountain, he decisively attacked and cut off some of the Goguryeo soldiers and the Hei Shui Mohe tribe to go up the mountain, and surrounded them from all sides. He captured them all alive.
Looking at the panicked Goguryeo soldiers on the North Mountain, Luo Shixin couldn't help laughing and shouted: "The Tang Dynasty will win!"
"The Tang Dynasty will win!"
"The Tang Dynasty will win!"
"The Tang Dynasty will win!"
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Just like a group of two middle-aged teenagers, tens of thousands of soldiers holding up the scarlet weapon, shouting with their last remaining strength, shaking the sky.
Gao Yanshou, Gao Huizhen looked at the dense Tang Jun at the foot of the mountain with a breath of breath. Hearing the chilling cry, the fear in his eyes could not dissipate.
“Beautiful job!”
When Su Dingfang and Li Daozong came to report his life, Luo Shixin excitedly patted the former on the shoulder, but punched the latter.
Drive Goguryeo to the North Mountain was part of their plan.
Luo Shixin thought about the annihilation of 100,000 Goguryeo soldiers, but the price was too high.
After Luo Shixin's use of troops was only 40,000 after conquering Anshi City. Most of them had experienced siege battles and were somewhat lacking in physical strength. The climate in the northeast was harsh, and the soldiers were not accommodating the land and land. They had certain problems with their energy and spirit, and were also troubled by the wounded soldiers. They could not exert their original combat power. Even if they were given the 20,000 troops of Qiheli, they were only 60,000. Compared with the 100,000 troops of Goguryeo, there was still a difference in the number of people in a certain sense.
If the goal of complete annihilation is extremely likely to arouse the Goguryeo soldiers to take a desperate bet, fight back, and survive to death, causing huge casualties to them, and even have a little chance to die and live and turn defeat into victory.
It is not cost-effective to calculate it like this.
Therefore, Luo Shixin deliberately left a dead end for Goguryeo, forcing them to the North Mountain and trapped them to death on the north.
Gao Yanshou and Gao Huizhen's food and grass have swept away Qiheli. The food and grass they carried with them lasted for a few days. As long as the food and grass were exhausted, Goguryeo, who escaped into the mountains, would be like a turtle in a jar, without any threat. The Tang army could take them down without spending one soldier.
However, the fight between trapped beasts should not be underestimated.
Luo Shixin was worried that Goguryeo would imitate Xiang Yu's counterattack before he was exhausted. Tens of thousands of troops rushed down from the mountain, causing them great casualties. So he arranged for Li Daozong to intercept part of it first and eat the tail behind the hall, weakening the strength of the Goguryeo army that was forcing the north. Even if they had the courage to fight to the end, the Tang army could still have a certain advantage in military strength.
Li Daozong deserves to be a famous general in modern times and has completed this task very successfully, which is fully in line with Luo Shixin's scheduled plan.
With one hero and three gangs, Luo Shixin was able to reach this point in Goguryeo and was inseparable from the overall quality of the Tang army soldiers.
Li Daozong politely returned the gift: "Everything is right for the chief executive."
At this time, a dark and thin alien man came up: "The last general Qie Heli, respecting the order of His Majesty the Khan of Heaven, will come to support the chief executive."
Luo Shixin's eyes fell on Qibi Heli, and he did not reject the alien general. He stepped forward and said, "General Qibi has come too timely. If he can win this battle, General Qibi should be the first to be successful."
Qi Bi He Li said righteously: "Qi Bi He Li is ordered to act. If there is no major general manager and several general managers who attack the strong with weak and attract the attention of the enemy, we will not achieve such achievements and dare not take credit. Besides, we all serve for the Tang Dynasty, so how can we distinguish each other?"
"Well said!" Luo Shixin saw that Qi Bi Heli looked square and admired Li Shimin's way of winning over the hearts of the people. He knew that Qi Bi Heli was not saying beautiful words, but from the heart. Li Shimin had the energy of all rivers, and he valued many foreign generals. Any foreign generals he valued were devoted to him. The most famous of them were Qi Bi Heli, Ashinasheer, and the three generals of Zhi Di Si Li.
As the prince of Tiel, Qibian Heli came from the Tiel Khan family, but sincerely served for the Tang Dynasty and regarded himself as a member of the Tang Dynasty. There was another small incident in history. When Qibian Heli returned to the grassland to visit his mother, he captured Xue Yantuo. Xue Yantuo was also a Tieler person and persuaded Qibian Heli to surrender and let him return to the grassland to escape from the Tang Dynasty to serve as the Khan. Qibian Heli drew his sword and shouted fiercely: "How could there be a Tang martyr who was surrendered to the court? The heaven, earth, sun and moon, I wish to know my heart!" He said very domineeringly that he would rather die than surrender.
Luo Shixin never regarded him as an outsider for the aliens like Qibing Heli who were sincerely serving the Tang Dynasty. He enthusiastically pulled him down and entrusted him with important tasks, allowing him to block the foot of the mountain with Su Dingfang and Li Daozong to go north to prevent Goguryeo soldiers on the mountain from breaking through.
After this battle, Luo Shixin, as the head coach, did not need to take action personally, but detailed arrangements were still necessary.
When he was listening to Liu Rengui's report on the captives, Luo Shixin suddenly got the request of the imperial physician Wang Ling.
The imperial physician Wang Ling was originally a doctor in the Imperial Medical Office, but because of his hard work, he was favored by Sun Simiao. He accepted it as his apprentice and personally taught medical skills. He helped Sun Simiao organize the National Pharmacopeia "Tang Xin Materia Medica", thus greatly improving his status and becoming a core member of the Imperial Medical Office. During this conquest of Goguryeo, Luo Shixin asked Li Shimin to expand the military doctor and improve the overall quality of the military doctors in the army, so he transferred the imperial physician from the Imperial Medical Office to be appointed as a military doctor and went to the army to fight.
Wang Ling was sincere and eager to learn, and voluntarily followed the army to fight. He took it as a matter of course to become the leader of the military doctor this time.
During this conquest, Wang Ling repeatedly asked him to rest and take medicine based on the different reactions of most soldiers, and minimized the symptoms of unacceptable conditions in the army. He made many achievements in this regard. Luo Shixin's credit book contains a lot of military doctors he led. The unknown hero is talking about them.
Luo Shixin asked Liu Rengui to suspend the report and invited Wang Ling into the commander's account.
Wang Ling is a very simple middle-aged man, thin and small. Seeing that his face was a little anxious and angry, Luo Shixin hurriedly said, "What's wrong, Doctor Wang?"
Wang Ling said in a hurry: "Master General, the other party's arrow is poisonous. It's too cruel to use such despicable means on the battlefield."
"What?" Luo Shixin encountered this situation for many years. He wiped poison on his weapons and stood up anxiously and said, "Take me to see."
As Wang Ling came to the medical camp in the rear, all the wounded soldiers of this war were treated by the doctor here. When they saw Luo Shixin coming, they all bowed and greeted him with injuries. Luo Shixin's prestige in the army was still extremely high, and it can be said that he was deeply grateful for the morale of the army.
Luo Shixin smiled and nodded in return, greeting each other, so that they could heal their wounds with peace of mind.
As he went deep into the medical camp, Luo Shixin smelled a faint stench, which became heavier and heavier.
When we arrived at a special camp, several military doctors had already carried five or six bodies by their side.
"Wait!" Luo Shixin called the military doctor, looked at the eleven rotten arrow holes on the deceased soldier, his eyes were filled with anger, his fists were clenched unconsciously, and the bones made a sound of stir-fried broad beans.
Walking deeper, soldiers on the ground lying on the ground howling in a low voice, with thousands of people, and they had more or less arrow holes that had already begun to decay.
Taking a deep breath, Luo Shixin said word by word: "What kind of poison is it? Can it be cured?"
Chapter completed!