Chapter 488 We have always been courteous
"Brother Li Ku has always been honest."
Cheng Mingzhen and Su Dingfang were talking outside the barracks.
"But the Abgu he brought looks rebellious." Su Dingfang likes to polish this kind of people the most, but this is not the general of the Tang Dynasty, but the future successor of Khitan.
"So what?" Cheng Mingzhen said indifferently: "If he dares to show his teeth, the old man will pull out his teeth. If he dares to rebel, the old man will personally cut off his head and spread the word."
"The main purpose of this battle is to deter and contain." Su Dingfang changed the subject, "I think the main purpose is to force the enemy and make them panic."
"The best way is to destroy the city." Cheng Mingzhen felt a little headache, "It is difficult to attack the city!"
This is not an era of all kinds of means, and siege is not generally difficult.
"That's right." Su Dingfang asked, "What do you think of Xiao Jia?"
"It's a rare talent." Cheng Mingzhen said with a smile: "When I returned to Chang'an, I met him when I was playing horses. He gave me advice, and it was confirmed later. This son has a unique vision."
"The old man taught a disciple." Su Dingfang said with a wry smile, "The old man gave me all he could to teach, but he was worse than him."
"Speaking of this, the old man thought of his own children."
Cheng Mingzhen's son is also well-known in the army.
"Don't talk about this." Su Dingfang looked aggrieved.
When people live to this age, they basically compete with the next generation. But Cheng Mingzhen's next generation is so outstanding, Lao Su feels aggrieved.
"Forget it." Cheng Mingzhen smiled, secretly proud of himself, "Korea's failure in conquest of Khitan this time, whether it is underestimating the enemy or something, is still unknown. Li Kuge wants to use the opportunity to show off his martial arts. If he can't be suppressed, it will be very difficult here in the future." trouble."
"Even if the Khitan has risen, isn't there Goryeo as a check?" Su Dingfang was very optimistic, "Koryo's attack on Khitan is insufficient. If a large army comes, I dare say that Khitan will be defeated."
"I hope so."
Cheng Mingzhen, as the governor of Yingzhou, shouldered the important task of controlling Khitan.
"Here they come."
Brother Li Ku and Abu Gu are here.
After saluting, Abu Gu looked at Cheng Mingzhen, and the unruliness in his eyes flashed away.
Brother Li Ku smiled and said: "Captain, according to the time, the sentry should have returned long ago."
yes!
Cheng Mingzhen and Su Dingfang just felt something was wrong, so they came out to relax.
But the battle formation is like this, no matter how much pressure you encounter as a general, you have to remain calm, otherwise the morale of the army will be confused.
According to the stipulated sentry distance, Jia Ping'an should have returned at this moment.
"Someone has been sent to investigate."
Cheng Mingzhen said lightly.
Abu Gu couldn't help but said, "Captain, I'm willing to go and meet you."
This person is really unruly!
Cheng Mingzhen said coldly: "The old man has his own disposal."
Abu Gu still wanted to speak, but Li Kuge gave him a wink, and then said: "Commander, if that's the case, I'll take my leave."
Cheng Mingzhen nodded.
The two went out, and Abgu said angrily, "Why don't you let us fight? I think Cheng Mingzhen is worried that we will make meritorious deeds and become famous."
"There is this consideration, but you can't question like this." Brother Li Ku felt that Abu Gu was too tough, "You have to learn to play around with them."
"What circles are you going around?" Abu Gu said disdainfully: "If I lead the army, I dare to show off my power in the city of southern Jiangsu!"
Brother Li Ku felt that he was too impulsive, "Unless the city is besieged by a large army, most Koreans defend the city by dividing their troops out of the city and cooperating with the city leader to hold on. You..."
It's okay to show off, but then you have to flee.
"That Jia Ping'an is probably not the descendant of a certain dignitary in Chang'an?"
Abu Gu felt that he had no chance to show his abilities, "Otherwise, why would Cheng Mingzhen and Su Dingfang treat him so differently? If it were someone else who hadn't returned at this time, they would have scolded him long ago."
Brother Li Ku nodded, "I doubt it too, but the one surnamed Jia... I don't seem to have heard of it."
"Most likely illegitimate children."
"somebody is coming."
The two looked up, and they saw Shuqi rushing in.
"It's the Sentinels!"
Abu Gu said excitedly: "This is a defeat! Let's go back and have a look."
"Don't be impulsive."
While admonishing him, Brother Li Ku turned around and went back, his eyes brightened.
After the death of the first emperor, the Tang army has been dormant for several years. There are occasional fights, but they can't be compared with before. The Khitan people also have some opinions on this, feeling that Datang is returning the swords and guns to the treasury, and the horses have been released in Nanshan, so their ambitions gradually flourished.
He needs to reassess the strength of Datang's army, and this expedition is the best opportunity.
If the Tang army is weak, then...
There is a price and a time limit for being faithful anytime. So expecting someone to be loyal to you for a hundred years or a thousand years is either stupid or crazy.
The best way is to keep yourself strong, so that the other party can only bow down for generations.
The two hurried forward.
There was inexplicable excitement in his eyes.
"Get out of the way!"
There is a sergeant blocking the way ahead. In the past, Brother Li Ku would go around, but now he actually scolded him.
The sergeant turned his head, "What did you say?"
"I said…"
Brother Li Ku felt that he should show the dignity of Khitan.
"Good news!"
The cavalry ahead shouted loudly.
Brother Li Ku laughed immediately, "Excuse me, the governor is still waiting for me!"
The sergeant looked at him, "Detour yourself!"
The Khitans are just a tribe of a restrained nature, not a member of the Tang Dynasty in the true sense, so the sergeant naturally wouldn't talk to him.
"you!"
Abu Gu was furious, and the sergeant sneered, "Come on, yeah, if you call a helper, you won't be a man from Tang Dynasty."
"Abu Gu!"
Li Kuge pulled him around.
"They are getting more and more impolite!"
Abu Gu said dissatisfiedly: "Sooner or later, I will break through all this!"
"shut up!"
Brother Li Ku stopped him, and the two approached.
"Where is the good news?"
Cheng Mingzhen was a little confused.
Su Dingfang smiled and said, "Could it be that Xiao Jia came out to inspect the enemy generals?"
Cheng Mingzhen also laughed, "If that's the case, then the heavens will be credited."
As for what is invincible...it doesn't exist. At this time, Datang, even with a hundred cavalry, dare to attack the superior enemy.
The cavalry got off their horses and raised their heads and said, "I will report to the governor. In the morning, I waited for the sentry at Guiduanshui, and I encountered more than a dozen enemy scouts a few miles to the left. They were all strangled by our army. I asked the confession alive and learned that there were enemy soldiers in Sunan City. Two thousand troops..."
"If it's two thousand, it's not worthwhile for me to attack the city!"
Su Dingfang shook his head.
Historically, he and Cheng Mingzhen attacked together, and Koryo fought against the city. After the Tang army defeated the enemy, they left without thinking about attacking the city at all.
Cheng Mingzhen nodded, and the views of the two tended to be unified.
"Immediately, Uncle Wuyang led more than ten people to change the clothes of the enemy army..."
Damn it!
Su Dingfang lost his voice: "He wants to go to the city to spy?"
Brother Li Ku sighed: "Abu Gu, this is Tang Jun. Look at how bold a young man is. Hide your wildness first."
"It's a good idea, but it's just a trick."
Abu Gu was quite a bit stubborn, as it has been in history, and finally tried his sword with himself.
"Uncle Wu Yang led more than ten people all the way to the city, and called to open the door..."
"This..." There was an idea in Su Dingfang's mind that was about to come out.
Cheng Mingzhen's eyes brightened, "He...has he gone in?"
Harassment is fine!
It can also frighten the Koreans.
The cavalryman said: "Uncle Wu Yang rushed in with his men, and went all the way to the guard's mansion..."
Yeah regret it, I should have brought him here to teach with Shouyue... Su Dingfang rubbed his forehead, "That kid! That kid!"
Cheng Mingzhen's body shook, "How's the battle going? Can you retreat completely?"
"Captain." The cavalry raised their heads, "Nansu City already belongs to the Tang Dynasty!"
"What?" Even though he was as steady as a mountain, he couldn't suppress the shock in his heart. Cheng Mingzhen asked, "You actually took Nansu City?"
"Yes." The cavalry said triumphantly: "Uncle Wuyang ordered people to set fire to the city, and then strangled them all the way, and the guard died in battle..."
Cheng Mingzhen and Su Ding looked at each other, and then laughed together.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Brother Li Ku was dumbfounded.
"Two hundred riders...Two hundred riders actually won Nansu City! That young man, he is not the son of a powerful man, he must be a rising star of the Tang Dynasty!"
"How could that person do this?" Abu Gu's body was shocked, and there was a look of determination in his eyes, "We have no fear!"
"If we take down Nansu City, even if we have a stronghold, the old man will personally lead two thousand cavalry to reinforce it. Old Su, you will come slowly with the follow-up troops."
Cheng Mingzhen was impatient.
Su Dingfang smiled and said, "Didn't you say that we will attack again in the future?"
Cheng Mingzhen laughed and said: "Who knew he would take down Nansu City, it would be better to hit the sun than to choose the day over there."
"Striker! Striker!"
The camp is boiling.
The cavalry swarmed out and immediately formed formation.
Someone shouted: "Uncle Wuyang led the army to take Nansu City ahead, and he won the first prize. Brothers, what should we do?"
Everyone cheered, "Kill all the Koryo dogs!"
Shouting like thunder, Brother Li Ku could not help but change his face.
"This morale is like a rainbow!"
Abu Gu said in a low voice: "That young man...I'll have a test with him later."
…
An army of thousands of people is moving slowly.
The sun was slanting westward, shining on the people and horses, and a sense of loneliness was released just like that.
"What is that?" The scouts in front were very curious.
A few **** birds flew down, pecking.
"Quack!"
A big bird raised its head, and its eyeballs turned out to be red.
"It's ours!"
Someone recognized the guard.
"It's the defender of South Sioux City!"
The leading general stiffened all over, "It's the Tang army that's coming, it's them! The whole army stopped, sentinel, sentinel immediately!"
The scouts went, and the general stood under the Jingguan, looking up at the head above.
"He actually died in battle?"
"There's still blood!"
A general cut off the arm sticking out of Fengtu with a knife, and showed the severed arm to the leading general, "There is still blood."
The blood has coagulated, but it can be seen that the death time will not be too long.
The general narrowed his eyes, "How many people?"
"More than a thousand people!"
"Don't say that the Tang army has thousands of people." The general said without hesitation: "Evacuate first."
Most of the troops he brought were infantry. If he retreated late and was chased by the cavalry of the Tang army, this road would become a road to death.
A group of infantry turned back and ran wildly. After running for an unknown distance, the scouts discovered the situation.
"somebody is coming."
The number of riders came slowly from the right, stopped for a while, observed, and then someone was waving.
"Go and see."
Those cavalry were brought over, but they were the defeated soldiers of Sunan City.
"At the beginning, more than a dozen enemy soldiers deceived the city gate, and then came in to charge. Afterwards, they came with more than a hundred riders, adding up to about two hundred riders..."
The general took a deep breath, "Take over 200 riders and take Sunan City?"
After Da Mo Lizhi heard the news, there was a high probability that he would clean up the whole family of the guard.
"Then we..."
The Tang army only had more than two hundred cavalry, and they were all cavalry. This kind of people could not defend Sunan City. They only needed to divide their troops to attack the city, and then strangled them.
"Those despicable Tang people coaxed open the city gate and set fire to chaos in the city. If not, they would not be able to take down Sunan City. At this moment, I will take you to take back Sunan City!"
The brigade set off.
…
There are still some rout soldiers hiding in the city, and there are few soldiers in Tang Dynasty, so it is impossible to search from house to house, so we can only strengthen inspections.
The fire has been completely extinguished, but there is still smoke rising from the ruins.
A few people timidly searched for things in the ruins, and when they saw Jia Pingan and others coming, they quickly knelt down.
"Send them back!"
When the follow-up army arrives, they will naturally distribute food and resettle the people.
"Go back! If you don't go back, you will be killed!"
At this time, there is no reason to speak, and threats are most effective.
An old woman walked back with her family tremblingly. Her house was in front of her. When she opened the door, it looked pitch black inside.
In a low wooden house, an old man was lying on the bed.
"You're back."
The old man coughed dryly, "Who killed it?"
The old woman said in Goryeo: "It's the Tang army. They are so fierce. They said that two hundred people broke the city. Just now I took Dalang and the others to pick up some things, but they drove them back and said that they would kill them if they didn't come back." We... you..."
The old man suddenly grabbed her hand, "Is it Datang?"
The old woman nodded, "But you are not!"
The old man ordered repeatedly: "Da Lang! Da Lang!"
He suddenly spoke Datang dialect.
A big man came over, "Aye."
The old man said: "Can you see where the army is?"
The big man said: "Aye, what they speak is the dialect of the Central Plains. The knife in their hands is different from that here."
"Help me up!"
The old man said excitedly: "Quick, help me out."
The big man hesitated, "Aye, your body..."
"quick!"
The old man sat up by himself, and the old woman dressed him while complaining, "If you die, there is no place to bury you at this time."
Then the big man carried the old man out.
"Someone is out!"
Jia Pingan, who had just passed here, heard the sound and drew his knife.
The old woman came out of the wooden house first, and Jia Ping'an felt relieved, "Tell them to go back!"
Someone just wanted to go there, when he saw a big man walking out with an old man supporting him.
"go back!"
The old woman was obviously scared, and so was the big man.
The old man raised his head and looked at Jia Pingan and others with cloudy eyes.
His body trembled...
He broke free from his son's support and walked over slowly.
"do not move!"
Jia Pingan waved his hand and frowned at the old man.
The old man approached and asked slowly: "Are you from the Central Plains?"
This is the Tang Dynasty!
Jia Ping'an nodded, "Bo Jia Ping'an of Wuyang of the Tang Dynasty led the army here, you are..."
The old man was trembling all over. The big man came up to support him, but was thrown away by him. He raised his head and said in a trembling voice, "Wang Bin, the soldier of Luochuan Prefecture, Henan County, Great Sui Dynasty, is here!"
It turned out to be a soldier from the former Sui Dynasty?
A record flashed through Jia Pingan's mind.
—After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, envoys were sent to Goryeo. Those soldiers who were discarded by Emperor Sui Yang's three expeditions to Liaodong had already settled down in Goryeo, watching the envoys and howling.
The old man trembled, "Old man... may this old man return to his hometown? Uncle Wuyang, may this old man return to his hometown?"
He knelt on the ground and cried, "That year when I was conscripted, my mother sent me by the side of the road. I stuffed several chickens and shoes made by her... Mother, I just want to go home and have a look. Aunt."
The old man looked to be about sixty years old, and he was crying tears.
Jia Pingan nodded, "Yes. After the army arrives and your identity is verified, you can cross the Liaoshui River and return to your hometown."
"Auntie!"
The gray-haired old man was so overjoyed that he strode home.
"Quick, pack your things!"
"Put away valuables."
Jia Pingan looked at this scene and somehow thought of the defeat of the former Sui Dynasty in front of Liaoshui.
No matter how hard you fight, you can't get past this line of defense.
The political struggle at the top was fierce, but at the bottom it turned into a tragedy that kept killing the army.
Tragedies like this can no longer be staged.
"Uncle Wuyang!"
The scouts came back, "I can't find the enemy army four miles outside the city."
"The enemy army is about 3,000 people."
This is a dish!
Looking at the eyes of the surrounding soldiers, I couldn't be more excited.
When did Han’er think that an enemy army of 3,000 was worthless with 200 men?
Han Tang!
"Brother, I will take someone first."
Li Jingye was impatient to make a contribution.
"Don't rush."
Jia Pingan thinks this is an opportunity.
"There are people in the city..."
If Cheng Mingzhen and others act quickly, then...
"There is no way to defend." Jia Ping'an was very sober, "There are two ways, evacuation and attack."
Sunan City left more than a dozen cavalry to guard and finish the work. If the people really want to make trouble, then leave them behind. After the army arrives, all this will become a farce.
"Strike!"
Jia Ping'an left Sunan City first.
Going no more than two miles, I saw a cloud of enemy troops.
Jia Pingan somehow remembered what the old man said earlier.
"We have always reciprocated, and we will never owe anyone!"
He drew out the horizontal knife, "Today, we won't return!"
"Victory!"
Less than two hundred Tang cavalry launched an attack on the three thousand Koryo army.
"Tang Jun is here!"
The enemy general was taken aback, and immediately ordered, "Array!"
"When the Tang people came last time..." a general whispered: "Their cavalry, hundreds of them, dared to attack an opponent ten times their size."
The general said coldly: "I'm not those idiots!"
The two sides are getting closer.
"what is that?"
A giant man in the Tang army first dragged a long thing. Now that he approached it, he swung it vigorously, and the thing smashed into the formation.
Boom!
A piece of the array fell down, and everyone discovered that it was an iron rod!
What a lot of strength.
The general shouted: "Fill it! Fill the vacancy!"
The only thing infantry can rely on to stop cavalry is a neat array. Once there is a gap in the array, it is not far from collapse.
Jia Pingan followed this gap and entered.
…
Brothers, ask for a monthly pass... Don’t keep those who have recommended tickets!
(end of this chapter)