Chapter 1188: Doubt
Wei Dongsheng left in great despair. As a military leader in Hunan, he is also a local tycoon. When the soldiers in his hand were over, his power immediately fell by countless levels, and he would definitely be sad in the future. I don’t know when he would turn over.
Lu Yuan left depressedly.
It seemed that he had won this battle, but the tenacious fighting spirit and determination to fight to the end of the battle made him very shocked.
This subverted his understanding of the army and his years of military experience.
If more than 10% of an army is destroyed, morale will inevitably plummet, and more than 30% will be eliminated. It can basically be judged that the army has lost its combat effectiveness. If more than 50% of the army is almost ruined.
Just like the army led by Wei Dongsheng.
But the Tang army was different.
Lu Yuan couldn't figure it out.
Wei Dongsheng couldn't understand either.
But for Li Ze, all this would not be strange.
Since he began to build this army, he had been thinking about building this army into a soulful and faithful army.
An army of faith, no matter how much the losses are, will not collapse due to failure, but will only work hard to change the final result and do its seemingly insignificant little strength.
In fact, they don't know what the final result will be.
But they firmly believe that their side will win.
Since Yixing Society, Li Ze has been doing this without any effort.
The Tang army's discipline was strict, but relying solely on strict discipline did not necessarily win the recognition and respect of the people. Yixingshe did a lot of work in the army.
When the Tang army was stationed in a place, they were organized to help the local area build bridges and roads, help the people to farm in spring, harvest in autumn, and help widows and widows and orphans.
Whenever you go to a place and suffer disaster, the first batch of people who appear there will always be the army of the Tang Dynasty.
Doing it once a while will not change anything.
But if you have been committed to doing certain things for more than ten years, quantitative change will lead to qualitative change. When this army feels the people’s sincere support and love for them, they will naturally develop the idea of protecting them.
The army is no longer simply fighting machines, but when it has its own goals and produces its own soul, it will naturally have many more things that other people cannot understand.
In fact, no matter which army it is, there will always be some heroes that inspire others. Even in the history of Hunan's own army, such heroes can be captured and produced one by one.
However, when an entire army like the Tang army is like this, it is scary.
When Lu Yuan was running towards Tiaoziling, he was still thinking about why this was the case?
If the army in Tiaoziling is like this, then how can we fight this battle?
Even if this battle is won, how can we fight with other Tang troops next?
This is just one-third of the troops of one of the twelve guards of the Tang army.
Lu Yuan was scared of the future for the first time.
He was a cavalry general, and this time he encountered the infantry of the Tang army. The cavalry had innate suppression of infantry on the battlefield, but the south did not gain a foothold by cavalry. Because of insufficient war horses, it was impossible for them to form a large-scale cavalry legion like the north.
Lu Yuan is a little unimaginable now. What would happen if he met the world-famous cavalry in the north one day? For example, Li De's rangers, such as Cheng Delang Cavalry.
In the past, Lu Yuan thought that even if he was not an opponent, he still had the power to fight. But now that he has seen the power of the real Tang army, his remaining confidence has become shaky.
In fact, it was not just Lu Yuan, but Wei Dongsheng felt this way. Ding Hao, who was commanding the besiege of Tiaoziling, also had the same feeling.
Ren Xiaonian has become the turtle among the men. Although they unexpectedly captured Tiaoziling at the last moment, there was less than 7,000 Tang troops in the small Tiaoziling military village. Nearly 30,000 Hunan troops had gathered around them and besieged Tiaoziling. They fought for three days, and they got nothing except leaving a thick layer of corpse on Tiaoziling.
The military camp on Tiaoziling is like a nail, pricked in front of Ding Hao. Whether you are burning or hammering, it is neither melting nor bent, and stands stubbornly.
When Ji Zhijiang arrived with 20,000 troops, Ding Hao breathed a long sigh. Because of the three consecutive days of fierce attack, his army had already made a real effort, and then declined and exhausted.
If you attack such a strong position with such a strong defense, if you do not achieve fruitful results in the first battle, then it will be difficult to achieve great results in the future.
The 30,000 Hunan troops are indeed depressed.
After all, they are not the most elite troops in Hunan.
Those troops are still confronting the Right Wei Guard in Yiyang!
"General Ji, it's up to you!" Ding Hao didn't hesitate and threw the ball directly to Ji Zhijiang.
Ji Zhijiang is Xiang Zhen’s confidant, and they are Xiang Zhen’s partners. Although they are on the same boat now, Ding Hao is still happy to let his soldiers breathe.
More importantly, the Wanlingnan Army brought by Ji Zhijiang is much stronger than the army under his command. Ding Hao still has a clear understanding of this.
Ji Zhijiang took over the baton to attack the Tiaoziling military camp.
More trenchers were raised, but this time they were fired no longer stone bombs, but bundles of firewood and grass bales poured with heavy tinder oil.
The most important thing to build Tiaoziling is the stone fort that guarded the road before the military camp. In the past three days, Ding Hao has failed before this stone fort.
Qin Kuan is the leader of this stone fort defense battle.
In the past three days, in order to defend this stone fort, Qin Kuan had lost half of his subordinates. Defending this stone fort was the key to the success of the entire defense. Ren Xiaonian had already replenished him twice.
To repel the enemy's attacks, they pay not only the lives of soldiers, but their stinging bombs and grenades have been exhausted, and they have very little left to the advantage above weapons.
Ji Zhijiang did not rush to attack, but was projecting these firewood bundles of burned tinder at the stone fort, as if he wanted to completely submerge the entire stone fort with a fire.
Ding Hao has used this move, but he does not have strong turmeric oil. Therefore, the effect is greatly reduced, and the things that are also thrown away can be easily eliminated by the defender.
However, the Lingnan army used a large number of hot oil bombs, although not as powerful as the Tang army, but it was still hot oil bombs.
The entire stone fort seemed to be burning.
Looking at the burning stone castle, Ding Hao's face, which had been gloomy, finally showed a smile.
"After taking them, our entire army heading east, and then taking Yu Xiaowen and Li Mi, haha, General Xiang's efforts this time were considered a great achievement. The entire Tang army's guards were eliminated by us, and it was impossible to attack us again in a short time." Ding Hao waved his arm and said.
Ji Zhijiang nodded. After looking at the stone fort, the Tang army was withdrawing from the stone fort in a mess and retreating towards the main camp above. He finally smiled.
After taking down this stone fort, Tiaoziling captured 70% or 80%.
"Attack!" he ordered loudly.
The Lingnan army, which had about two thousand people, rushed towards the stone fort with shouts.
There were no enemies in the stone fort. The biggest task of their charge this time was to completely control the entire stone fort and prevent the fire from extinguishing, and then they were rushed down and taken away by the Tang army.
Qin Kuan lay in the shallow ditch, covering his mouth with a cloth towel. Originally, the cloth towel was wet with water, but at this moment, under the high temperature behind him, it was already dry in a blink of an eye.
The armor on his body was like a red iron plate, baking his back, and from time to time there were falling stones hitting his back.
He pulled off the cloth towel and opened his mouth wide and breathed hard, but except for a hot spring in the air, there seemed to be nothing to breathe, and the scorching pain in his lungs.
He groaned, buried his face in the ground, trying his best to get the nutrients he wanted from the soil beneath him.
It is true that the large army retreated. Under such an attack, there will be no place to stay in the stone fort.
He now has a thousand people, and these people are hiding among the layers of corpses around the stone castle.
They came out last night, originally hoping to give a head-on blow when the enemy attacks again and strike a reverse attack.
Qin Kuan did not expect the Lingnan Army to come, nor did he expect the Lingnan Army to attack in this way.
Now, behind him was a raging fire, and in front of him were the Lingnan Army rushing towards him with thousands of shouting.
He had no way out.
He could only fight to the death.
The only advantage is that the enemy has not yet known that there is such a team of people waiting for them here.
No one would have thought that these people would put themselves in the Jedi.
In fact, this was not what Qin Kuan wanted, but due to the situation, he could only follow the trend.
As for whether you can go back alive next, is it very important?
When they were surrounded here, everyone did not think about going back alive.
The Lingnan soldiers rushed up.
The fire in front of them stopped them, and they were waiting for the fire to subside and extinguish.
Qin Kuan suddenly exploded at the moment when these Lingnan soldiers relaxed.
He jumped up and cut the head of a Lingnan officer in front of him with just a knife. Before everyone could come to his senses, he rushed into the Lingnan soldiers like a leopard that had been hunting for a long time.
One after another, the Tang army jumped up from the ground with corpses and rushed into the Lingnan army.
Ding Hao's face changed at the foot of the ridge.
Chapter completed!