Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 271 Riding

The sound of thunderous horseshoes shattered the night.

in camp.

Hearing the sound, Luo Cheng laughed.

Smiling a little smugly, but also a little relaxed.If he didn't hear the sound of hoofbeats tonight, he might be even more disturbed.After hearing that, I finally felt at ease.

"Why are you laughing, General?" Wang Tiehan asked curiously. The Goguryeo people dared to raid in the dark, which shows that they are very confident. However, most of the Sui troops in the battalion were new to the battle. Not to mention that many of them had no night combat experience, and even had night blindness in the dark. You can't see clearly at night, it's not a good fight.

"The law of using troops is to encircle them if they are ten, to attack them when they are five, to fight if they are twice as many, to divide them, to escape them if they are few, and to evade them if they are few. Therefore, the strength of a small enemy is the capture of a great enemy. "Luo Cheng said with a smile a paragraph of art of war.

"What do you mean, I don't understand." The honest man Wang Tiehan continued.

"This passage is from Sun Tzu's Art of War. It means that we must have principles in war. For example, if I am ten times the enemy, then I must encircle and wipe out the enemy. If I am five times the enemy, I will attack. If I am twice the enemy, You have to work very hard to defeat the enemy, and if the enemy is evenly matched, try to disperse and defeat them. If the army is weaker than the enemy, you have to avoid fighting. Therefore, if the weaker side fights hard, it will become a prisoner of the stronger enemy. do you understand?"

Wang Tiehan scratched his head, "But general, aren't we the weak side now? If we still fight to the death, won't we become captives of the Goguryeo people?"

Wang Junkuo sneered while listening, and sneered disdainfully at Wang Tiehan, who was listed with him as the Five Great Vajras, "Are you stupid? Why are we the weak side? We have six thousand soldiers, and Goguryeo has three thousand talents. This is my times. And we are defending from the camp, but the Goguryeo people are attacking. We are the stronger side, and now the Goguryeo people are fighting hard, and they are sure to lose."

Guo Xiaoke also nodded, "According to what the general said, even if the Goguryeo people are not weaker than us, they are at most equal to us. He should find a way to avoid fighting, but he wants to defeat us. This is the way to win."

"That's right, defending the camp has a natural advantage. If it is based on a fortified city, the defenders can easily block the enemy seven times their own. If there is no shortage of food and grass, then they can last at least one year under the siege of ten times the enemy. "Luo Cheng said with a smile, "Now the Goguryeo people don't hit the south wall and don't look back. This is a gift for us. Let the brothers cheer up and earn military merits!"

The Goguryeo people launched a violent attack.

This time, it was more aggressive than the probing attack during the day.

They really went straight to the camp, perhaps it was the dark night that gave them courage, teams of Goguryeo people reined in their horses and released arrows outside the camp, and arrows rained down from the sky.

This kind of cluster shooting is really fierce, especially in order to increase the lethality, they even used rockets.

So in the dark night, the sky is full of fire and rain like shooting stars.

The Goguryeo people did not besiege from all sides this time, but attacked a little bit by force.

About [-] Goguryeo people shot arrows to cover and suppress the defenders in the camp, and then hundreds of riders rushed directly into the camp holding shields in their left hands and spears in their right hands.

"Did you see the Goguryeo people shooting arrows outside the camp? These sons of bitches are standing so densely and still not moving. This is the best target. Let me aim at them for the hundred crossbows on the crossbow platform , and shoot them hard."

Standing on the watchtower, Luo Cheng keenly discovered a flaw in the Goguryeo people.

They tried to suppress the defenders intensively with bows and arrows, but they gave up roaming and shooting arrows. This way, the rain of arrows was indeed fierce, but it also made Luo Cheng's eyes shine.

Luo Cheng's camp of 6000 people is not that big. There are a hundred crossbow towers and hundreds of arrow towers in the camp. Although it is simple, it can be set up high enough to shoot far.Because the camp was small, these crossbow towers almost covered the entire camp.

The Qingqi of the Goguryeo brigade standing outside the stronghold and shooting arrows at a distance of only thirty or forty steps, this is the best target.

The chariot crossbow, which had been silent during the day, finally got the order to attack.

The chariot crossbows that had already been twisted and ready to go, all adjusted their direction and aimed at the densely packed Goguryeo Qingqi.

A crossbowman raised the wooden hammer in his hand and smashed it down fiercely.

The wooden hammer hit the crossbow, and the bowstring immediately bounced off.

With a loud buzzing sound, the seven spear-like crossbow guns on the large winch crossbow shot out quickly.

The seven crossbows fired at once, and the seven-gun chariot crossbow with a range of [-] steps was erected on a crossbow platform more than one foot high, and shot at the Goguryeo Qingqi who stood in a square formation [-] steps away.

With such a short distance and such a dense crowd of enemies, even a crossbow with no accuracy can shoot into the enemy group.

Seven crossbow spears whizzed towards them, directly piercing through the Goguryeo people standing in front of them. After piercing through one person, they remained unabated. Finally, they pierced through three people one after another, weakened and castrated them, and pierced into the chest of the fourth person.

Only that seven-gun crossbow shot and killed more than a dozen people this time.

A hundred large and small crossbows fired at once, killing at least 100 people in this round.

And the crossbowmen on the archery tower also held their crossbows and shot wildly.

This is a real rain of arrows, far stronger than that of the Goguryeo people.

However, this beautiful and fierce arrow rain only lasted for a short time.

Goguryeo's fierce offensive was collapsed by a direct shot.

More than 3000 bows and crossbows shot at least tens of thousands of arrows in less than a moment.

The crossbowmen almost collapsed from their shots.

The area in front of the camp was completely covered by arrows, like a large piece of arrow weed that suddenly grew out.

Everyone desperately shot out six or seven arrows.

This is an absolute saturation attack.

As soon as the Goguryeo offensive was shattered, the Goguryeo who charged were left dead.

And the two thousand Qingqi who were behind the formation and shooting arrows to cover them were even more scattered because of the dense stance.

"Damn it, happy." Qi Biao's fat face was full of fierce excitement, and he ran up to Luo Cheng and said loudly, "General, the Goguryeo people are finished. They will lose at least 500 people in this round. They will lose more than [-] people. Those who collapse will definitely run away. Let me lead people to rush to kill!"

Luo Cheng pointed to the side, under the banner of the Chinese Army, at some point, Luo Shixin had put on his armor and mounted his horse, and all the hundred black light heavy cavalry under his command were also neatly dressed.

"Lieutenant Qi, Shixin and the others have been holding back for a long time, this is the first round, let them go first."

Shi Xin nodded to Luo Cheng, then put down his mask.

"Open the camp gate!"

"Open the camp gate!"

Wang Xiongdan held a Mo Dao and rode his horse to open the way and shouted, asking people to open the gate of the camp, and let the black light go out again.

Luo Shixin and ten Yanyun cavalry led a hundred black light cavalry and rode forward.

At first it was a slow walk, then slowly accelerated, trotting through the open camp gate, the speed was getting faster and faster.

The tall long lance fell slowly and pointed forward obliquely, and the black swallowtail flag hanging under the lance fluttered.

A hundred heavy riders galloped at full speed, like a landslide, like a crack in the ground, moving forward unstoppably.

Both Jia Runpu and Qi Guobiao got on their horses and shouted, "Qingqiying, follow up with the brothers in heavy cavalry, kill!"

(End of this chapter)