On the east bank of the water, on a high slope.
The young Goguryeo marshal Yuan Gai Suwen was stationed on the slope of the horse and looked at the opposite side.
The weather is fine, and both sides of the wet water are a flat river, standing on the high slope, you can look far away, and even can see a hundred miles away.
Thirty-five thousand Tang troops have already crossed the river.
Yuangai Suwen was not in a hurry to intercept it, the river was full of thick ice, and it was not a turbulent river, so it was not necessary to guard the river to intercept it, he just needed to block the road to Pingzhou.
Holding a clairvoyant mirror in his hand, Yuan Gai Suwen's vision was even farther away.
Dozens of miles away, he could see the Tang army more clearly.
Just looking at that scale, there are indeed 30,000 or 40,000 people.
These soldiers and horses are divided into two colors, mostly white and less red.
The uniforms of the Tang Army are all red, why are there so many white-robed soldiers now Yuan Gai Suwen was a little surprised, this Wei Chi Gong wouldn't really get a lot of people.
"Deliver the order, set up to meet the enemy" Although it had been confirmed that the Tang Army did have thirty or forty thousand people, there was no panic on Yuan Gai Suwen's big cake face.
He had an army of 50,000 under his command, 20,000 under Pingcheng, and 10,000 in Pingzhou to attack villages and villages, collect grain, and take gold and silver captives.
At this time, there are still 20,000 horses here. 20,000 people, half knights, half Goguryeo knights.
More than 20,000 versus more than 30,000, more than enough.
Under the clear sun.
The two armies are moving, and it seems that the two armies are close to each other, but Wangshan is running dead horses, and the two armies are dozens of miles apart, and they are really going to get closer, but it will take more than half a day's work.
This has to be the simultaneous movement of the two armies, otherwise, they may not be able to meet the battle for a day.
The Tang army successfully crossed the Wei River.
The light cavalry sentries of the two armies began to constantly go back and forth, probing each other's military situation, getting closer and closer to each other, and the two sides also began to send small groups of cavalry to each other and began to intercept each other's sentry horses.
On the plain of dozens of miles between the two sides, groups of Tang Gao cavalry began to fight, and this kind of small-scale scout cavalry battle was more considerate of the scouts' ability.
With the confrontation between this team, more and more information also reached the main generals of the two armies.
"There are 20,000 soldiers and horses in Goryeo, and they have already left the camp and lined up to approach us."
Goguryeo was established very early, as early as the Western Han Dynasty, Li Chao remembered that it was 37 BC, the Central Plains was the time of Emperor Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty.
Now in the second year of Tang Zhenguan, the real history should be the eighth year of Wude, 625 AD, such a year, Goguryeo has been founded for 662 years, which can be regarded as very remarkable.
Emperor Yuan of the Western Han Dynasty, Zhu Meng, the man of the Fuyu, was in Goguryeo County, Xuansu County, Western Han Dynasty, which was founded in Xinbin County, Liaoning Province in later generations, so it was called Goguryeo.
The first king of Goguryeo, Jumong, was actually a prince of Buyeo, who fled from Buyeo to establish Goguryeo due to discord with other princes.
In the earliest days, the Goguryeo Kingdom was formed by the indigenous people of Liaodong and some of the Buyeo people who migrated to this area.
The people were not a specific ethnic group, but simply a general term for the many ancient natives who lived in that area of the northeast at that time.
Buyeo Kingdom, in the north of Goguryeo, was an indigenous kingdom in Liaodong, which was established in the second century BC and existed for nearly 700 years until the end of the fifth century, that is, 130 years ago, when it was destroyed by Goguryeo.
The specific location of Buyeo is in the Songnen Plain.
The founder of Goguryeo was the prince of Buyeo, but after the founding of the country, he fought against Buyeo for a long time.
At that time, Buyeo had an excellent relationship with the Central Plains, because Goguryeo was established on the four counties of Liaodong in the Han Dynasty, so Buyeo united with the Central Plains to fight Goguryeo together.
In the early days, Goguryeo was expanding to the Samhan Peninsula until the Han River Valley, and later the five tribes of Goguryeo under the Goguryeo King Taejo were divided into five provinces and implemented centralized rule.
After the Han Dynasty was destroyed, Goguryeo joined forces with Cao Wei to attack the powerful Han forces that occupied the courtyard.
After Cao Wei captured Liaodong, Goguryeo turned against him and attacked the eastern and western parts of Liao, causing Cao's army to counterattack and destroy the capital of Goguryeo, and the king of Goguryeo fled.
In the following hundreds of years, Goguryeo repeatedly fought with the Central Plains Dynasty, but whenever the Central Plains was strong, they had to suffer defeat and eventually become vassals.
But when the Central Plains was in civil strife, they began to encroach and expand the territory of the Central Plains.
At the same time, he continued to attack the surrounding small countries, conquered many tribes such as the Yan, Buyeo, and Khitan, and greatly increased his strength.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Goguryeo's expansion reached its peak, and its power crossed the Liao River to the west.
The Sui unified the Central Plains, but Goguryeo did not surrender, which eventually led to the Sui sending troops to conscript.
For more than 30 years, Yang Jian, Yang Guang, father and son, two generations, conquered Goguryeo four times.
Although they failed to conquer Goguryeo, they were also severely injured.
However, the Sui repeatedly folded and sank the sand in Liaodong, which can be regarded as completely letting the Central Plains see the threat of the Goguryeo people clearly.
After experiencing the Eastern Crusade of the Sui Dynasty, no one will underestimate that the Goguryeo people are just Liaodong barbarians.
The 20,000 Goguryeo soldiers were all cavalry, which made Li Chao attach great importance to it, but he still did not change his order and continued to advance.
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The bitter cold of Liaodong has created the fierceness of the Goguryeo people.
At the same time, the half-farming and half-fishing and hunting methods also make these people very brave and good at fighting.
The east bank of the Wei River.
Yuangai Suwen's brows furrowed even more after he gathered one latest information after another.
He was a little confused.
The Tang army really got 20,000 people over, huh.
There was no armor, not even a helmet, not even the most iconic 100% equipped bow and arrow of the Tang army, these white-robed soldiers, not even a bow, they didn't even have a military robe.
There was only one spear. 20,000 pikemen Although he was young, he had also been in battle for a long time, fighting with the Tatar tribesmen, the Baekje army, the Silla army, and even the coalition forces of Baekje Silla, and the Khitans, but he had never seen such an army.
Men had a spear, and then they came up like that I'm here to die Could it be that the Tang army is going to build a large array of spears to restrain its own cavalry But this is too funny, just with pikemen, even if they form a dense array of guns, but this will not become a live target, their cavalry, not only good riding skills, but also very good at archery.
Besides, there are only pikemen, which can't withstand the cavalry.
The cavalry does not need to charge hard, they can shoot around, and like peeling layer by layer, no matter how dense the gun array is, it will be slashed.
"Newspaper" "Report to your lord, the person who found out that the commander of the Tang Army was not Wei Chigong, and the handsome flag on the opposite side was written with the word Li."
"Li Ji is not right, Li Ji is the former military governor, and he is in charge of Hedong.
Hebei is under the command of Chi Gong, the governor of the right army, why did Li Ji run to Hebei?"
Yuangai Suwen was a little puzzled.
"If you explore again, you must find out who this new commander of the Tang Army is."
It was still about twenty miles away from the Goguryeo people, and it was already nearly dusk.
Li Chao ordered the attack to be stopped and camped on the spot.
On this kind of flat plain, the other side is cavalry, fighting field battles and night battles, it is simply impossible, and if they really fight, the Tang army will not have the slightest chance of winning.
As soon as the Tang army stopped, the Goguryeo side also stopped advancing.
The two armies were twenty miles apart and camped separately.
The Tang army spent a lot of effort to erect a barracks and defend it tightly.
After watching it on horseback for a long time, Yuangai Suwen did not agree to the plan proposed by his generals to attack the camp.
Although his men were cavalrymen, the Tang camp was heavily defended, and the cavalry rushed to the camp in the middle of the night.
"Rest for the night, and tomorrow we will fight the Tang Army in a decisive battle and level them down."
Tang Camp.
After Li Chao took the generals to inspect the barracks, he selected the generals on duty, and then returned to the camp.
As soon as he sat down, Wei Chigong came in.
After coming in, Wei Chigong sat next to him.
Li Chao saw that he didn't speak, so he continued to look at his map and ignored him.
After waiting for a while, Wei Chigong still couldn't hold his breath.
"Xiangguo, I just went to look outside the Goguryeo camp, a full 20,000 horsemen, very strong, tomorrow's battle, we have no chance of winning."
"Are you trying to persuade me to quit the army?"
asked Li Chao.
Wei Chigong shook his head, the two armies were twenty miles apart, and they were in the wild plain, even if the Tang army wanted to retreat, it would be too late.
He just felt that there were very few wins, and he didn't know what Li Chao was relying on if he was in a hurry to cross the river.
"What is Xiangguo's clever plan to destroy the enemy tomorrow" "There is no clever plan, the soldiers will come to block, and the water will flood.
The city of Pingzhou is in danger, and we have to save it. ” "But if in order to save Pingzhou City, you put the only soldiers you have at the moment, then the thistle will be difficult to protect."
"Don't worry, we won't lose this battle."
Li Chao's attitude made Wei Chigong very dissatisfied, always saying that he would not lose, and his words were unfounded, so he had to come up with something real to be convincing.
Li Chao smiled and handed the long scroll he was looking at in his hand to Wei Chigong.
"Look at this."
Wei Chigong took it in disbelief and opened the long scroll.
A scroll made of rice paper, a fine piece of fine paper, is opened, and a picture is drawn on it.
If you look closely, it is a military formation.
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Wei Chigong's background in striking iron, of course, he has no artistic cells, and he can't appreciate any calligraphy and painting.
But for the military formation, it is quite familiar, as soon as he saw a huge military formation painted on paper, one by one phalanx, there are infantry and cavalry, he can't help but come to the spirit.
"Look at how this military formation is, tomorrow I plan to set up this formation against the enemy."
"This formation."
The first time Wei Chigong saw it, he felt that this array was very powerful, and it was purely intuition.
The arrangement of troops is very particular, the military formation, in fact, what is paid attention to is the coordination of the troops, a good military formation, can give full play to the coordination of these arms, and the result can give full play to the combat power.
On Li Chao's military formation map, there are countless large and small military formations combined to form a super army formation.
The most conspicuous thing in the whole array is the four huge squares, in a one-two-one formation.
And then in front of the four large formations that were arranged in three rows, there were many smaller formations.
The first is a horizontal formation of 11122111.
The second is a formation of 11222211, and the third is a formation of 11122111.
On the outer flanks and flanks, there were several more cavalry formations.
And in the middle of these large arrays and small arrays, there are many small arrays, just look at the picture, these small phalanxes should be sword players, and here in the military array, they should be the jumping soldiers of the entire large array.
Four huge phalanxes of infantry, plus twenty-four smaller infantry formations, as well as several cavalry formations and sword formations, formed this super military formation. t1706231537: