Chapter 96: Gods and People Are Everywhere (2)
On the north bank of Taihu Lake and on the small plain in the western part of Suzhou, Li Jingda, the governor of Jiangyin, immediately shook.
For two consecutive days, Li Jingda gathered 8,000 troops in the morning and afternoon, and randomly chose to challenge the three camps on the left, center and right of the Wu Yue army. Qian Wenfeng, the governor of Wu Yue, learned from his mistakes and wisely allowed the soldiers of the Southern Tang to insult him in every way, and strictly ordered the battalions not to fight. The strategy was just one word: guard.
Early in the morning of March 23, Li Jingda led all 15,000 troops to Wu Yue's left-wing camp to challenge. The other two battalions of Wu Yue, who were not surprised, only strengthened their own alerts and quietly waited to watch the "stage show" of the Southern Tang Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Li Jingda stopped showing off this time.
After three drums, the Central Camp, which had the largest number of people in the Southern Tang Dynasty, suddenly "exploded". Countless soldiers, in groups of two, held a giant shield made of thick wood, quickly rushed in four directions. The most huge shield rushed towards the left half of the camp gate of Wuyue's left camp, and all the soldiers outside behind contracted and retracted into the four-sided array composed of giant shields.
Wu Yue Zuoying, who had been waiting for the battle, immediately ordered the shooting of arrows, striving to stop the sudden crazy Southern Tang soldiers. However, the usually sharp bows and arrows shot at the giant tree, and could only become temporary decoration "branches" on it. They could not shake the giant shield at all, nor could they stop the slow speed. The Wu Yue generals guarding the camp were shocked and immediately ordered the shooting of the arrows for help, and urgently summoned all the guards to gather at the wall where the enemy was raiding the enemy.
When the Wu Yue army was in a hurry, rockets shot out between the gaps in the giant shield, nailing straight to the wood of the village wall that was nearly one person high.
"Fight the fire." A deputy general of Wu Yue who was guarding this side subconsciously gave the order. Just as Wu Yue distributed some troops to put out the fire, the soldiers of South Tang accelerated again and held a giant shield that had been tied into a hedgehog-shaped body to force the village wall.
When it was only five steps away from the village wall, more than ten giant shields in the middle of the giant shield formation suddenly stopped moving forward and rushed to one side like a tide. Two rows of Southern Tang soldiers who had already raised bows and arrows were exposed behind them, shooting arrows forward continuously.
Just as the Wu Yue soldiers raised their shields to avoid the arrows, the formation of the Southern Tang soldiers changed again, and the archers quickly retreated to both sides. Under the cover of the arrows behind the wooden shields next to them, two hundred Southern Tang soldiers, one group of 20 people, worked together to carry ten giant wooden blocks, quickly piled the wooden blocks in front of the village wall at an equal distance, and then ran away quickly again.
The blocks of soil were like enlarged wedges, but they were turned back. A hundred armored cavalrymen were already prepared behind them, forming a ten-man team and rushed straight towards the incline of the "big wedge".
The enemy actually used cavalry to rush over the village wall. The deputy general of the battalion just realized this problem. The first row of cavalry had rushed down from the village wall and crashed straight into the Wu Yue soldiers who were busy.
Row after row, the cavalry roared in, instantly pushing the panic range of Wu Yue soldiers. After ten rows in a row, the area inside the village wall was almost wiped out. At this time, another row of cavalry rushed over, but they did not join the cavalry attack formation. The soldiers jumped off the horse and put the tied rope sleeve into the top of the wood of the village wall, and then hit the horse's buttocks hard at the same time. The frightened horses rushed forward quickly and pulled this section of the village wall down.
The anxious soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty cheered and lined up from the gap between the "big wedge"; at the same time, every two archers were protected by a giant shield and rushed to the top of the "big wedge", trying to find Wu Yue soldiers who had either escaped or resisted stubbornly.
The cavalry divided into three routes to assault in three directions. The infantry immediately followed surrounded the panicked Wu Yue soldiers. The archers faced high and shot from the side. Li Jingda actually formed a three-dimensional attack battle formation in such a small area.
Later, other soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty opened the wall of the village with all their strength and quickly entered the camp. The defensive city formed by giant shields outside the camp quickly narrowed down. The giant shields quickly moved to both sides of the village wall, turning the enemy's camp into their own camp, and taking the lead in the guest, allowing the Wu Yue reinforcements who had arrived to call him alone.
However, the battlefield does not wait for people.
Just after a quarter of an hour, the Southern Tang soldiers, whose number comparison exceeded 3 to 1, swept away the 5,000 people from the Wuyue Zuo Camp, and the giant shields were combined again to prepare to attack the enemy's central camp at a later position.
Li Jingda killed more than 8,000 people in two consecutive battles, and less than 10,000 people were still able to fight. The number of people on both sides changed from evenly to half of the opponent. Qian Wenfeng, the governor of Zhongwu who was in charge of the central camp, saw that the situation was not good, so he led a thousand cavalry to take charge of the rear of the palace and ordered the central camp and the right camp to quickly retreat to Suzhou. The Wu Yue soldiers, who had long been unwilling to fight, immediately ran away.
At this time, Li Jingda looked at the enemy's 1,000 cavalrymen, and then looked at his poorly few cavalrymen. He had to give up the meaningless pursuit and ordered everyone to clean up the battlefield and clean up the baggage left by the enemy camp, then move the camp and slowly press forward towards Suzhou.
Compared with the fine control of the medium-sized war by Li Jingda, the king of E of the north, Lin Feng in the south played a lot, and there was nothing else. He now controlled more than 120,000 soldiers.
When Chen Hui and Chen Hongjin led 40,000 troops to advance to the north of Wuyue Fuzhou, Lin Feng, King of Qi Li Jingsui, and General Liu Congxie, quickly dispatched the remaining 80,000 troops:
The 30,000 mixed army was led by Yan En, the governor of Yum, and quickly surrounded Fuzhou along the Xianyou route near the sea;
Seventy-two double-chariot warships brought 10,000 mixed troops composed of elite soldiers of the Southern Tang army and Quanzhou soldiers, and rushed northward along the coast;
The remaining 40,000 troops turned their attention and pointed the attack arrow at the southern Han in the south. In Lin Feng's dictionary, there was no problem of being bullied and not fighting back. Since the Southern Han dared to take the opportunity to send troops to the Guizhou-managed area, they must pay the corresponding price for rash actions.
Cheng Yuehai led elite troops from Chu and Guizhou areas to take the lead in attacking and sneaked to Chaozhou, which was adjacent to Zhangzhou, for infiltration reconnaissance;
The remaining twelve double-chariot warships intercepted Quanzhang soldiers and surrounded the south from the sea;
Zhang Hansi, the former deputy commander of the Qingyuan Army, led an army of 20,000 to cross Zhangzhou and attack Chaozhou by land.
The entire Quanzhang area suddenly became a war zone, and various armies set out to set off their own fronts. Of course, Lin Feng was not a paper talker, so he would carefully consider the baggage questions that could affect the entire army. Before each army set off, he collected the remaining grains from Quanzhang and took them away for as much as half a year, and told the heads of each army that after each army arrived at its destination, the food and grass questions could be temporarily borrowed locally; the subsequent grain would be in charge of Quanzhou and the King of Qi was responsible for the coordination.
On the morning of March 23, when all the combat soldiers took the order and left, Lin Feng issued the first important notice to the entire Quanzhou and Zhangzhou after discussing with the King of Qi:
The former governor of the Qingyuan Army, Liu Congxiao, was promoted to General of the Cavalry and was to take office in Jinling City. The Qingyuan Army will no longer exist from today; the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty decided to reduce the rent and taxes for three years in Quanzhou, and all commercial taxes will be reduced by half.
Just as Quanzhang and other places were discussing the two major events of public and private affairs, the second important announcement followed: the 120,000 army of the Southern Tang army is currently sweeping across Wuyue Fuzhou and Southern Han Chaozhou. Any merchant can offset the same amount of commercial tax by just contributing grain; if it is shipped to the one-north and one-north front line, there is still a chance to acquire a share in the supermarket and participate in the Datang Merchant Industry Association.
Chapter completed!