Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 311 Angel Comes
Luo Shixin waited until the military discussion was over before asking his brother, "Fifth Brother, do you really want to guard Xuantu City here?"

Luo Cheng said with a smile, "The original plan didn't have this, but the plan didn't catch up with the changes. The most important thing to lead an army to fight is not to stick to the plan, but to adapt to the changing situation. To be able to take Xuantu City, so the original plan was to besiege the city and fight for aid."

"Attacking Xuantu is fake, and it is true to fight a few ambushes. After doing one or two votes, we will withdraw and fight against the Goguryeo people. But now that Xuantu City has been taken down, we have no casualties, and secondly, we have a large number of people. There is no need to run away when there is food, grass and weapons.”

How can an ambush be compared to defending the city?

It was so cold that even with a sled and sledge, it was impossible to survive in the wild for a long time.This kind of season, in fact, is of great help to the defenders.

It is better to sit on the sidelines and wait for rabbits than to go mobile guerrilla laboriously.

Luo Shixin said worriedly, "But Fifth Brother, didn't you always say that we should avoid tough battles?"

"One moment, another moment. We must avoid a tough battle, because if a tough battle is fought, there will definitely be a lot of casualties. But now we are ordered to cross the river. If this is the case, then we must choose a more favorable way. Don't worry, Let's defend the city and fight without fear."

"What if the Goguryeo army comes to surround?" Shi Xin was still worried, "Didn't you say that there are 15 Goguryeo troops on the front line of the Liaohe River, and they can mobilize twice that amount as backup at any time."

Luo Cheng patted Shi Xin on the shoulder, "Xiao Liu, it is true that there are 15 Goguryeo people on the front line of the Liaohe River, but in the previous battle of Wu Liluo, we have wiped out 3000 of them, and this time we have wiped out 15 of them. Five hundred. They don't have 13 anymore, only [-]."

"Besides, these 13 people are still scattered among more than 200 large and small mountain cities on the Liaohe River's thousands of miles of defense. It is impossible for all the Goguryeo people to surround us. At most, the Goguryeo people from the Xincheng area will come to surround us. I reckon The troops they can deploy are 2 to [-], ranging from [-] to [-]."

For Luo Cheng, he now has 3 auxiliary soldiers without any casualties, and he is guarding a city with sufficient weapons and food.Even if it comes to fifty or sixty thousand, Luo Cheng is fully confident that he can keep it.

Instead of running around in the snow every day, how can I relax and wait for work, and wait for the rabbit to relax.

Offensive and defensive changes, that's how domineering.

The side defending the city, in such a cold winter season, can completely fight one against five, or even seven against ten.

Luo Shixin groaned, he and Luo Chengdao, the 100 brothers they brought from Zhangqiu before, now more than [-] have been killed in battle.

"I know, every brother who died in battle, I remember it in my heart. I have already written to the eldest brother-in-law and fourth brother-in-law, asking them to find suitable teenagers in Qi County for us to adopt as the stepsons of the brothers who died in battle. I guarantee that every one who dies in battle will have successors."

"My eldest brother-in-law wrote in, saying that he has adopted [-] teenagers for them, established a camp for adopted children, also known as the Changbai Orphan Camp, and now teaches them martial arts every day, and has invited scholars to teach them how to read and write. Don't worry. , the brothers who died in battle have successors, and all of us will have successors."

Brother Zhangqiu fought less and less, but Luo Cheng's team was getting bigger and bigger.

There used to be 600 people, but now he has 2 horses under his command, as well as [-] county and county soldiers and [-] township braves from Xuan Tucheng.As long as Luo Cheng survives, he will have enough capital when this campaign is over.

Even for Yu Wenhua and such a guy, he has the capital to be fearless.

Presumably at this time, Yu Wenhuaji also knew that he had won Xuantu City, and he probably regretted it in his heart. This opportunity, but Yu Wenhuaji helped him get it, and he had to thank him.

"Fifth Brother, if we defend Xuantu City, then our Heavy Cavalry Battalion will have no chance to play."

Luo Cheng knocked on Xiao Liu, "It's not like defending Xuantu City is really just shrinking inside the city. Do you know what a real battle of defending the city looks like? It has to be a three-dimensional defense, and you can't just shrink it." In the city, otherwise you will be passively beaten. Therefore, I will set up several fortresses and camps outside Xuantu City, and station some soldiers and horses to help defend Xuantu City."

Dividing troops out of the city to defend seems to be wrong, but in fact this is the art of war that every general with actual combat skills knows. This is the same reason as not blocking the city gates when defending the city.

"Fifth Brother, then I'm going out of town."

"Don't worry, I already have this arrangement."

Luo Cheng's arrangement was to build a camp in the southeast and northeast of Xuantu City, and set up camp a few miles away from Xuantu City. He chose a hill similar to Xuantu City. Although these two places are not dangerous , but they are also two manors, with wells and running water in them.

Luocheng garrisoned a cavalry regiment and an infantry regiment in each place.

Because there is a new city in the northeast, Luo Cheng specially arranged Luo Shixin here.

"In the front compartment, Luo Siye led the headquarters in the front compartment, and Luo Shixin, a part of the heavy cavalry regiment, stationed in the Sifangtai camp."

"Qi Guoyuan, the commander of the rear compartment, led the headquarters of the rear compartment, and a part of the heavy cavalry regiment Wei Chiliang, stationed in the Shiligang camp."

There are more than [-] soldiers in each of the two places, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and [-] county soldiers and township bravery.

And Luo Cheng personally led [-] people in the headquarters of Zhongxiang, [-] auxiliary soldiers, and [-] people to guard Xuantu City.

Shixin's heavy cavalry battalion, Luo Cheng, was upgraded to a heavy cavalry regiment, using spare equipment, to expand the number of heavy cavalry to [-] cavalry.Three hundred riders, one hundred riders stationed in each of the three places.

Regarding Luo Cheng's arrangement, in the military discussion, all the generals had no objection.

For everyone, although the next battle is to defend the city, no one has thought about passive defense, and they all want to actively defend.Active defense, of course, must maintain the ability to attack.

One city and two villages are distributed in the shape of a character. They watch and help each other, and they can support each other.

Before the Goguryeo people could react, the vanguard army attacked in several ways, sweeping the villages and manors outside Xuantu City every day, and a large number of people were driven into the city every day.

For those who used to be Han people, or people of Han descent, Luo Cheng showed preferential treatment. After they entered the city, their personal property was guaranteed, and they were registered by Wu Sanbao, the acting county magistrate.

As for the other barbarians of the Khitan, Mohe, and Goguryeo tribes, the treatment is almost worse.They were also registered, and the Baojia system was implemented, but it was the Baojia continuous sitting system. They were also arranged in isolation, all weapons were confiscated, and livestock food was temporarily registered and taken away. Food is a supply system, and only one meal at a time is given. , barely food and clothing.Moreover, outside the place where they lived, there were fully armed guards from the Sui army. Whoever dared to make trouble would be killed first and played later.

A few days later, the population, livestock, and food outside the city were almost harvested, and Luo Cheng asked these new Sui people who had been trained for a few days to be dragged outside the city to build fortifications.

If you don't work, you have nothing to eat. Only by working can you have food.If you do poorly, you still can’t get enough to eat. If you do well, you can eat well.

Wei Zheng is now the foreman of the large fortifications outside the city, and he leads a group of civil servants around every day.

Seeing the passing of days, the periphery of Xuantu was already a piece of scorched earth.

The fortifications of the three camps became more and more complete, but the Goguryeo people never appeared.

In a flash, it was the Shangyuan Festival, and the Lantern Festival was cooked and eaten in the barracks, but there were still no Goguryeo people.

The Goguryeo people never showed up, but the scout battalion Qingqi escorted a group of angels from the palace in Zhuojun.

(End of this chapter)