The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 472 Don't look down on Li Er, he is the best horse emperor

The location of Liaodong City is very important, and Goguryeo naturally cannot let it be conquered by the Tang army.

However, Goguryeo did not have a large-scale decisive battle with the Tang army, and the understanding of the Tang army came more from the collected intelligence.

In addition to this, the more important point is that the Goguryeo people have the confidence to successfully defeat the three onslaughts of the Sui Dynasty's million-strong army decades ago.

In their view, the origin of the Sui army and the Tang army are similar, so it is natural to incorporate them into it.

The last point is that the Gaogu (hook) beauty believes that she is more resistant to severe cold than the Tang army, and has an advantage in fighting in the cold winter.

Yuan Gai Suwen, the power minister who really held power in Goguryeo, had great ambitions and wanted to defeat the main force of the Tang army through cold winter field battles.

In this way, as long as the Tang army is defeated, those defeated soldiers who want to flee thousands of miles back to Youzhou in the cold wind and heavy snow are purely dreaming.

If hundreds of thousands of Tang troops were buried in the ice and snow, it is unlikely that Goguryeo would still have the opportunity to spy on the Middle Earth.

Yuan Gai Suwen was ambitious, he wanted to take down the main force of the Tang Dynasty in one battle, and even took down Li Er to spy on Zhongtu.

After all, I have won before, so I feel that I can still win now.

After reconciling with Gao Jianwu, the two pieced together a force of more than [-] troops.

This is basically all the field mobile forces of the entire Goguryeo at this time.

Because of the difficulty of marching in the cold weather, they trekked all the way to the twelfth lunar month before they arrived near Liaodong City.

After learning that Liaodong City hadn't been captured yet, Yuan Gai Su Wen breathed a sigh of relief.

If Liaodong City had already fallen, then the cornerstone of this adventurous attack would be lost.

On a hill forty miles southeast of Liaodong City, Yuan Gai Suwen and Gao Jianwu stood side by side.

Looking at the densely packed Tang Army barracks in the distance, Gao Jianwu put down the single-barrel binoculars he smuggled from Datang at a high price, and asked worriedly, "Can we win?"

Yuan Gai Suwen, who also put down the binoculars, responded in a deep voice, "I have lost so much and come here, I must fight."

They assembled troops from all over the place and rushed here. The number of soldiers and horses lost along the way was more than a few thousand, and the number of logisticians transporting supplies was several times that.

If you return without starting a war at this time, it will be a big joke.

"It's a rare opportunity now."

Yuan Gai Su Wen pointed to the direction of the Tang Army's barracks, "The emperor of the Tang Dynasty is over there. This is the best opportunity for Goguryeo."

He fantasized in his heart that he would be able to defeat the main force of the Tang army, even shoot Li Er's eyes blind, and then chase all the way to Chang'an City. Everything in the rich Tang Dynasty would be theirs.

Seeing that Gao Jianwu was still hesitant, Yuan Gai Suwen, who was contemptuous in his heart, persuaded him with a serious face, "It's freezing cold now, and the time is with me. The Tang army marched thousands of miles, but they couldn't even capture Liaodong City. The location is in my favor." The soldiers of our army defend their homes and the country, and the harmony between people and our
. "

"The right time, place and people are all in my Goguryeo, and I will definitely win."

After pouring out a tube of chicken blood, Yuan Gai Suwen exhaled, "We all know why the Tang army marched in winter. If we can't drive them away, wait until spring comes."

"understood."

Gao Jianwu with a livid face turned his horse's head, "Then fight!"

Gao Jianwu's strength is mediocre, with only 5 to [-] troops, and the rest of the soldiers and horses belong to Yuan Gai Suwen.

Originally, Gao Jianwu would be eliminated by Yuan Gai Suwen because of his failure to fight for power in two years.

It's just that it is about the life and death of Goguryeo now, so we can only join hands to resist the Tang army first.

When Goguryeo was busy preparing for a decisive battle with Tang Jun, Tang Jun was naturally not idle here.

Li Er in the big tent is discussing the battle process with a group of generals.

Faced with such a war of destroying the country that would go down in history, everyone was very enthusiastic to put forward their opinions, even the young Xue Rengui loudly explained his views to Li Er.

After everyone finished speaking, Li Er's eyes fell on Li Yunze who was sitting in the corner and closed his eyes on the mat.

"Zi Hou, what do you want to say?"

Li Yunze opened his eyes, and said calmly, "Mainly attack Yuan Gai Suwen's troops."

Li Er raised his eyebrows and asked, "Why?"

"Yuan Gai Su Wen is a powerful minister, and he has irreconcilable conflicts with Gao Jianwu, the king of Goguryeo. If the Tang Dynasty does not come to fight, they will fight among themselves."

"Yuan Gai Suwen is stronger, and if he defeats his army, even if he escapes by chance, he must attack Gao Jianwu immediately."

Xue Rengui who said this was very puzzled, "Why?"

Li Yunze glanced at him, "Because of losing his strength, Yuan Gai Suwen can no longer suppress Gao Jianwu. If he doesn't want to be ruined, he can only strike first."

Xue Rengui was waiting to ask again, but Li Er had already said, "That's it."

Both sides are gearing up for the decisive battle that will determine the fate of the country, and they both think they can win.

Goguryeo's confidence comes from what they think is the right time, place and people, as well as their confidence in defeating the Sui army before.

The confidence of the Tang army comes from their fully guaranteed logistics, the strength of the surrounding countries, and the high morale brought about by the emperor's personal conquest.

Two days later, the heavy snow that was flying all over the sky finally gradually stopped, and the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, revealing a rare sunshine.

The two sides unanimously cooked in advance, and then one by one soldiers drove out of the camp and gathered in the open space between the two armies.

The Tang army did not show its superiority in military strength, because to leave enough soldiers and horses to block the Liaodong City behind it, the number of Tang troops fighting was not much larger than Goguryeo's reinforcements.

However, when the formation of the two sides is completed, the gap will soon be displayed intuitively.

Tang Jun basically wore iron armor over cotton clothes, fur hats, gloves, and boots.

On the Goguryeo side, the armor rate is less than [-]%, and the iron armor rate is just over half.

This is what Goguryeo rebuilt after melting many iron products from Datang Nong through smuggling at all costs over the years.

In terms of the most important armor, it is naturally inferior to Tang Jun.Not even the quality.

Tang Jun basically used plate armor forged by water conservancy, while Goguryeo mainly used fish scale armor and chain armor.

Originally, Yuan Gai Suwen thought that the Tang army would be tortured by the cold weather, but when he was about to enter the battle, he was surprised to find that the Tang army was very powerful, and it was not because of the cold weather or the fact that the supplies could not be delivered in time as imagined. And look sluggish
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From Yuan Gai Suwen's point of view, the Tang army's supplies had to be transported to the front line from Youzhou, thousands of miles away, under such cold weather conditions.

Considering the number of Tang troops, the amount of supplies needed is extremely large, and the difficulty is naturally greater.

He never thought that Tang Jun's supply team could really meet the needs of so many Tang Jun.

What Yuan Gai Suwen didn't know was that in order to support the Tang army in this battle, Li Yunze gathered almost all the Sharmas that the Tang Dynasty had cultivated over the years to Youzhou.

Tens of thousands of Sharmas dragged specially modified sledge-like trucks from Youzhou to send a large amount of military supplies to the front line.

In order to maintain this transportation line, thousands of Shire horses were lost every month, which really made the horse breeder so heartbroken that he fainted from crying.

It's just that Li Yunze and Li Er were indifferent to this, good steel should be used on the blade, and so many Sharmas were raised in order to play a decisive role at this critical moment.

As a result of such spared no expense, Tang Jun was able to maintain his combat power in today's decisive battle.

Even before going to battle in the morning, Tang Jun ate hot food, as long as he could eat dried meat and cheese, he would give as much as he wanted.

On the contrary, even if Goguryeo is fighting locally, its logistics and supply capabilities are far inferior to those of the Tang army. Before they went to battle, ordinary soldiers only had dry food.

Individually speaking, the various gaps between the two sides will not have too much influence, but the effect of continuous superposition will eventually be reflected on the battlefield.

Li Yunze didn't go into battle, but stood on the viewing platform with his hands folded and looked towards the battlefield.

On the opposite side of Goguryeo's army formation, the central army is flying the flag of its lord Gao Jianwu, while Yuan Gai Suwen's soldiers and horses are distributed on the two wings.

After a little thought, Li Yunze understood Yuan Gai Suwen's plan.

This is the main attack that wants to use Gao Jianwu as a bait to attract the Tang army. After all, he is the lord of Goguryeo.

Then he took advantage of the Tang army's main force to attack Gao Jianwu, and sent troops to flank the Tang army's flanks.And seeing that he concentrated the cavalry mainly on the left flank, he also planned to quickly attack Li Er's central army if he got the chance.

"Ah."

Seeing through Yuan Gai Suwen's subordinates, Li Yunze sat on the saddle and hugged his knees and weighed his legs, "Li Er is not called the God of War, this trick is useless to him."

Yuan Gai Suwen's plan is good, but the key question is whether it can be realized.

Speaking of Goguryeo, it is also unlucky. Before that, it had been dormant in the deep mountains and old forests for hundreds of years. Its low-key development slowly accumulated its strength and began to rise.

After the national power entered the explosive period, it was hit by Cao Wei's critical attack, and even the capital city, Marutu City, was destroyed.

That is, at that time Cao Wei thought that Goguryeo had already perished, so he withdrew his troops and went back.Otherwise, there will be nothing like Goguryeo in the future.

Goguryeo licked its wounds and lay dormant again for a hundred years. When the Central Earth was in chaos, it rebuilt the Wandu City, and gradually annexed the four counties of Liaodong.

Then beat Baekje, Silla, Khitan, Puyu, etc., and became the local tyrant.

As a result of being too high-profile, Gao Yang, Yu Wenyong, Yang Jian and others successively beat him repeatedly, and even the capital city was destroyed many times one after another.

That is to say, he defeated Yang Guang.

Of course, it also resisted Li Er's personal conquest in history, but it was still wiped out by the Tang Dynasty when Goguryeo was at its strongest during the Li Zhi period.

Now, without Li Zhi, Li Er is determined to destroy Goguryeo himself.

After the battle started, the main force of the Tang army concentrated on attacking Gao Jianwu in the middle, just as Yuan Gai Suwen had imagined. It seemed that they were fighting for the great credit of beheading the Goguryeo lord.

Moreover, the right wing of the Tang army was relatively weak, and after a few rounds with Yuan Gai Suwen's cavalry group, it was unable to do what it wanted.

After careful observation, Yuan Gai Suwen concluded that the best opportunity he had been waiting for had finally appeared, and without hesitation led tens of thousands of cavalry, bypassed the main battlefield in the middle like a torrent, and headed straight for Li Er's banner .

If this were called the God of War, he would probably be able to start running.

It's a pity that Yuan Gai Suwen faced Li Er, the most tyrannical emperor on horseback among hundreds of emperors.

Everything before was just Li Er's arrangement to seduce Yuan Gai Suwen to take the bait.

When Yuangai Suwen's cavalry approached, the Tang army's rear quickly mobilized, and more cavalry than the Goguryeo people trampled on their horseshoes, crashing and outflanking!
(End of this chapter)