Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 989
Thirty thousand archers are definitely not a small number.

They can only escort about [-] soldiers in one trip, and there are only [-] ships. If the enemy's [-] archers fire like this, even if they can cross the Liao River, the casualties will definitely be heavy.

So the best way is to consume the enemy's sharp arrows.

From Qin Tian's point of view, there are 30 archers in Silla, so their sharp arrows are at most [-] sharp arrows.

30 sharp arrows can support them to shoot ten rounds.

If they can pretend to cross the river and consume the enemy's bows and arrows for a few rounds, then when they really want to cross the river, they will encounter less resistance.

Moreover, if the enemy's sharp arrows can also be obtained, it will also be very beneficial for strengthening their Datang's military strength.

After Qin Tian finished speaking, Li Shimin and Li Ji understood what Qin Tian meant.

During the Three Kingdoms period, Zhuge Liang used Cao Cao's suspicious character to borrow arrows from straw boats, so they can naturally follow suit.

However, at this time, Li Ji said again: "The method is possible, but I just don't know if it is feasible or not. Back then, Zhuge Liang borrowed arrows from a straw boat. It was foggy weather, and the soldiers and horses of Wei State couldn't see the situation clearly. The enemy is really coming, but the night is still very bright in summer, after seeing it, the enemy knows that we are a feint, so will they still shoot arrows?"

Many theories sound feasible, but if it encounters reality, it is another situation.

After Li Ji finished speaking, everyone was a little bit disappointed. I am afraid that the good way will fail.

However, Qin Tian shook his head: "Don't worry, I have already checked the sky before thinking of this idea. Tonight, the weather here will be gloomy, and it will be very dark at that time. As long as we pretend to attack, quietly A little bit, but let the enemy find out, at that time they thought we were going to cross the river at night, and they would definitely suppress us with sharp arrows."

Seeing that Qin Tian had already considered this issue, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

On Li Shimin's side, after pondering for a moment, he said: "Okay, then I will leave the matter of borrowing arrows from the grass boat to Qin Aiqing, you can go down and prepare."

Qin Tian nodded his head to accept the order, and then retreated.

Time slowly, night fell.

When it was almost midnight, Qin Tian ordered two thousand boats to be driven into the Liaoshui.

The night is very dark tonight. After the boat enters the Liaoshui, you can only see the white sails swaying in the wind. The rest of the hull is very blurry. There are many scarecrows and wooden boards on the bow and the body, but they are not clear enough to give people a sense of reality. It feels like someone is standing on a boat.

After the boat entered the water, it sailed to the other side in a mighty manner. When more than 2000 boats were sailing in the Liaoshui, even if they were not clearly visible, they still gave people an indescribable momentum.

In the night, the Silla soldiers on the opposite bank had been paying attention to the river surface. When they saw the shadows of boats swaying on the river surface, and there were still many of them, they suddenly panicked.

"No, I'm afraid Tang Jun will have to cross the river at night."

After that, someone hurried to report to Park Shisan.

"General, general..."

Pu Shisan was resting in the barracks, when he heard someone shouting, he immediately sat up.

"what's up?"

"General, the Tang army crossed the river at night, and now the Liao River is full of boats."

What the soldier said was a bit exaggerated. After hearing this, Park Shisan's expression became slightly concentrated: "It must be that Tang Jun knows that there are many archers in our army, and he feels that crossing the river during the day is not easy, so he wants to fish in troubled waters at night, hmph, but They are a little too naive, thinking that if I cross the river at night, I won’t be able to detect it?”

At this point, Pu Shisan stood up from the bed, and said: "Order down, order our army's archers to prepare, and shoot at the Tang army quickly, and they must not be allowed to cross the river."

As long as the sharp arrow is suppressed, Tang Jun can definitely be stopped.

Moreover, many Tang troops can be eliminated.

After Park Shisan gave such orders, the soldier immediately retreated. Not long after, [-] archers from the Silla Kingdom had already lined up on the banks of the Liaoshui River.

On the surface of the river, the ships of the Tang Dynasty are still marching mightily. The river surface is not particularly wide, but if you really want to leave, it will take a stick of incense time.

And just as the ship was slowly approaching, Silla immediately gave an order: "Launch."

The sharp arrows were like rain, and in the night sky, wave after wave of sharp arrows flew towards him, as if the whole world was surrounded by sharp arrows.

These sharp arrows were a bit impenetrable. If there were really many soldiers on Tang Jun's boat, even if many of these sharp arrows were shot into the Liaoshui, the Tang Jun soldiers would have a hard time.

Fortunately, there were not many Tang soldiers on these ships, and they were all blocked by wooden shields. No matter how many sharp arrows there were, they could not do anything to them.

Silla's sharp arrows were fired one after another, and soon, the scarecrows on the Tang army's ships were full of sharp arrows.

However, soon, after the soldiers on the ship turned these scarecrows upside down, they erected new scarecrows and continued to move forward, but at the same time they kept a safe distance so as not to be discovered by the soldiers of Silla.

Silla's sharp arrows were still firing. After a few rounds, the Tang army retreated, and after returning the sharp arrows to the shore, they attacked again.

On the Silla side, they thought they had repelled the Tang army, but the Tang army was unwilling and wanted to cross the river again, so they were not polite and continued to shoot with sharp arrows. After doing this several times, an hour was almost over.

"My lord, we have consumed almost half of the enemy's bows and arrows. It's almost enough. If we continue, the soldiers of Silla will become suspicious."

They got a lot of bows and arrows, and they also consumed a lot of the enemy's sharp arrows. In their opinion, it was almost the same.

A slight smile appeared on the corner of Qin Tian's mouth, and he nodded: "I think it's about the same, if you continue, it won't be fun tomorrow, order to go on, back off."

With an order, the ships in front that consumed the enemy's sharp arrows began to retreat one after another, and they retreated to the shore not long after.

On the Silla side, nothing unusual has been noticed yet. Seeing that they had repelled the Tang army, all the Silla soldiers were very excited.

"Hahaha, it seems that Datang is nothing more than that."

"Whoever said no, wanted to cross the river at night, but was shot by our sharp arrows like this, and was forced to go back."

"It's, it's..."

The soldiers of Silla were very excited, and quickly conveyed the news to Park Shisan. When Pu Shisan heard that the Tang army had retreated, he nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, the Tang army must have suffered too much damage, so don't worry about it." Dare to continue crossing the river, but you have to keep watching the river for me, lest Tang Jun make any further moves."

"Here!"

(End of this chapter)