Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 652 The Republic and the Emperor ([-])
[Siege and aid] refers to our army besieging or pretending to besiege an important city or an important target of the enemy, so that the enemy has to make changes in military deployment in order to protect this important target/important city, and move the surrounding troops to this important The target/important city is close, and our army can take this opportunity to ambush the enemy's reinforcements on the only way to fight the enemy's encirclement and annihilation battle. The siege is fake, but the reinforcement is real.

Li Shimin's Battle of Hulaoguan was a classic siege of Luoyang City, which lured 30 troops of the Chinese Allied Forces into the trap, and was finally wiped out by World War I.

According to reliable sources, the Queen's army is preparing to encircle Pyongyang City, and Liaodong Dadu's guardian Fang Yiai is now sitting in Pyongyang City.

"All troops gather towards Pyongyang City, protect me, and wipe out all the Yan troops besieging the city!"

Fang Yiai quickly asked the surrounding Tang Jun to move closer to him to protect Pyongyang City.

"If the Yan army dares to besiege the city, our reinforcements will cooperate with the defenders to give the Yan army a center to bloom!"

This is a very classic tactic. It was used by Liang Guo in the Southern Dynasty to defeat the 30 army of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Lieshui Valley
This is the largest land passage from Liaodong to Pyongyang City. If the Tang army in Liaodong wants to support Pyongyang quickly and on a large scale, it can only pass through this. Other roads are relatively more difficult.

"We just pretended to besiege the city of Pyongyang, and Fang Yiai was so frightened that he gathered his troops, and the Tang captives were left alone!"

A nobleman of the Yan Kingdom was very happy that the strategy of besieging the city and fighting for aid was successful.

The Queen's [-] troops marched to the north, and fired a few artillery pieces in Pyongyang City. After frightening Fang Yiai, most of them were mobilized to wait for the Tang army's reinforcements, leaving only a small number of troops outside Pyongyang city. Pretend to attack Pyongyang city.

The purpose of frightening the guard Fang Yiai, the governor of Liaodong, was also very simple, and asked him to issue a gathering order to the Tang army in Liaodong.

In order to prevent the main force of the Tang army from escaping back to Liaodong, the queen also arranged a pocket formation with [-] troops moored on the sea. In the narrow terrain of the Lieshui River Valley, they couldn't even run.

The [-] troops in the Lieshui River Valley, the [-] troops on the sea, the [-] troops pretending to attack the city, and the Queen's total strength is [-].

As for the total strength of the Tang army, although it lost a lot during this period, Emperor Li Zhi sent another [-] Tang troops from the Central Plains into Liaodong, hoping to wipe out all the guerrillas in Liaodong as soon as possible.

A total of 16 Tang troops, plus 24 puppet troops, made a total of 40 troops.

The Tang army general in charge of leading the battle is none other than the famous Tang general Xue Rengui.

The reason why Su Dingfang was not sent was because Su Dingfang had accepted the favor of Yan Junming and had an ambiguous relationship with Yan State, so Emperor Li Zhi was worried that Su Dingfang would collude with Yan State, so he sent Xue Rengui who had no ambiguous relationship with Yan State as the coach .

fourteen days later
Xue Rengui's 15 troops arrived in Xiping City. When he got here, he looked at the map and hesitated.

"The Great Protector is being besieged by the army of Yanlu. Why is the general hesitating? If Tanglu breaks through the city and kills the Great Protector, how shall I explain to His Majesty?"

The eunuch who supervised the army urged Xue Rengui to march to rescue Pyongyang City as soon as possible and rescue Dadu Hufang Yiai.

"If the Yan captives intercept and ambush here, and then close the door here to beat dogs, our army may be in danger of being wiped out!"

Xue Rengui deserved to be a famous general. Although he didn't know the queen's strategy of besieging the city and fighting for aid, he could sense the danger just by looking at the map.

"If I were Empress Yanlu, I would definitely fight like this!"

In order to convince the supervising army, Xue Rengui added something, and pointed to the Lieshui River Valley on the map, and at the same time pointed to Xiping City on the map.

"Then what do you mean, General?" the supervisor asked.

"Please also sign the commander and lead [-] troops to garrison Xiping City to prevent Yan captives from attacking the city." Xue Rengui vaguely guessed that the army of Yan State might attack Xiping City.

"Don't be joking, general. According to reliable sources, the [-] troops of Yanlu are attacking Pyongyang City with all their strength. How could there be any extra troops that are dedicated to attacking Xiping City? Moreover, our army is in the middle of Pyongyang City and Xiping City. In the meantime, if Yanlu dared to divide his troops to attack Xiping City, our army can destroy the Yanlu who besieged Pyongyang by advancing, and destroy the Yanlu who besieged Pyongyang by retreating. Such a good situation, how can we be invincible? The general is not a guerrilla by Yanlu all these years The team showed fear and did not dare to fight Yanlu head-on?"

Xue Rengui had nothing to say about the supervisor's words, because the supervisor's words were indeed very reasonable. Tang Jun's advantage was too great. It's hard to really hold Tang Jun, and there is even a high probability that it will be blossomed by Tang Jun's center.

"Perhaps, the commander is really too cautious. With the few soldiers of Yanlu, it is reasonable to say that he would not dare to divide the troops." Xue Rengui said so, but it was still in the middle of the night, while the supervising army was sleeping. At that time, a deputy general was arranged to garrison Xiping City with [-] Tang troops.

He is really too cautious!

After marching for several days, on the north bank of the Lieshui River,
When he got here, Xue Rengui hesitated again. Instead of letting all the main force cross the river, he let the vanguard cross the river to explore the situation first, dig trenches on the other side of the river, prevent horses, and build a temporary defense system to cover the main force crossing the river. , to prevent the Yan army from suddenly attacking halfway.

When the 20 troops of Yuwen Hu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty were crossing the river, they were attacked halfway by Lanling King Gao Changgong, and then they were defeated by the center of Lanling King during the siege.

Seeing that the main force was crossing the river, the supervising army became anxious again: "The general guard is in danger at any time, but the general is hesitant to move forward. Could it be possible that you have a grudge against the Fang family, general?"

"If Yanlu captures Pyongyang City and kills the chief protector, how will the general explain to His Majesty?"

Facing the questioning of the supervising army, Xue Rengui patiently explained: "I am afraid that I will be attacked halfway!"

Sure enough, there was an ambush on the other side of the river.

"Xue Rengui is worthy of being a famous general of the Tang Dynasty. He didn't take the risk of letting the main force cross the river quickly, but let a group of vanguard troops cross the river first to investigate the situation. How cautious!"

The queen received the information from Lieshuihe ahead. She knew that it was unrealistic to defeat the main force of the Tang army by attacking halfway across.

Afterwards, the armed cavalry of the Yan State was dispatched. This is the newly formed armed cavalry of the Yan State. Naturally, its combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the Tiefutu that was destroyed in the Liaobei Plain, but the victory lies in its greater number.

Five thousand cavalrymen charged at the vanguard of the Tang army who was crossing the river, and attacked the vanguard of the Tang army halfway across the river.

They can't be allowed to build a defense system after crossing the river. In that case, the plan to close the door and beat the dogs will be completely bankrupt.

Tatata!
"kill!"

clang!
Pooh! ——

"what!!!"

The vanguard of the Tang Army, which was crossing the river, was beaten halfway across the river, neither advancing nor retreating, and finally defeated.

"Yanlu actually attacked here halfway. Fortunately, only a small group of vanguard troops crossed the river. If the main force crossed the river, the consequences would be disastrous!" The main force of the Tang army.

"However, according to reliable sources, isn't the main force of the Yan army attacking Pyongyang? Why are there so many Yan troops here?"

(End of this chapter)