Chapter 153: The Xuanjia Army attacked the camp late at night
"The Goguryeo army has been attacking for ten days. Now Pingzhou has been captured and is camping on the border of Youzhou. Why has the Tang Dynasty not counterattacked yet?" Li Ke asked, and their small army also quietly moved to the junction of Pingzhou and Youzhou.
Li Junxian explained: "The Youzhou garrison must not move easily because there are at least 100,000 victims who need to be taken care of.
So if you want to fight back, you must transfer the troops from adjacent Hedong and Henan to the two places, not that fast."
"You can't do it if you don't know. After ten days, the wheat in Yingzhou and Pingzhou has been ripe. We are just watching the enemy grab the food?"
These words made Li Junxian silent. This was half of the life-saving food on Hebei Road. Without this batch of food, I don’t know how many people would starve to death in winter. Watching the enemy snatch it away was definitely a shame for the Tang Dynasty defenders.
After gritting his teeth, Li Junxian made up his mind and said, "According to our information, after the Goguryeo will take the waterway to transport grain on the seaside in the southern part of Yingzhou, I will take the five hundred Xuanjia Army to surprise their naval camps, so that they can't transport grain out, so that they can delay for a while, and it should be able to hold on until our army counterattacks.
But in this way, we can no longer protect His Highness and the miraculous doctor. You must sneak back to Youzhou from the small path now."
Du Shaoqing, who had not spoken at this time, said, and stopped Li Junxian, "Now you only have 500 people. The navy that rushed up to attack the enemy is to die."
"If you can hold them back from transporting grain, you will die as much as possible." Li Junxian didn't blink.
"No, you can't hold on.
The enemy is a navy army, so you don’t want to go to the camp on the shore. Once you get on the boat and enter the water, your cavalry will be useless. At that time, the opponent’s 50,000 troops will be divided into 5,000 troops, and you will not be able to stop it. That will be in vain.
Even if you successfully attacked and destroyed the enemy's plan to transport grain on water, if they traveled on land, they would only take some effort and the food would still not be preserved."
Li Junxian was speechless when refuted, and hated her teeth. The Tang sword in her hand was sheathed into the ground.
"I have a way to retreat the enemy's 50,000 troops."
What? Hearing Du Shaoqing said this, Li Junxian hugged the other party’s arms, “Doctor Du, do you have a clever plan?”
"Yes, the enemy doesn't know that we are behind their camp now, so although we have only a few 500 people, we are the most famous Xuanjia Army in the world, with great combat power.
Now the border of Youzhou is a 10,000 army led by General Yuchi to guard the Youzhou defense line. It is confronting Goguryeo's 50,000 army, and no one dares to act rashly.
Our five hundred people can attack the enemy's camp at night. As long as the night attack is successful, General Yuchi's 10,000 people can cover it up and kill it. It will be no problem to defeat these enemies at that time."
"But our five hundred people will not succeed at night attacks? The enemy is guarding the enemy to delay time and let their own people harvest wheat." Li Ke said worriedly.
"My Xuanjia Army is fighting hard, and there is no enemy army that cannot attack at night." Li Junxian guaranteed.
Du Shaoqing smiled and said, "That won't work. Xuanjia Army is the lifeblood of His Majesty. How can you fight to the death? I have been analyzing the medicines used by the opposite army these two days.
In order to prevent the troops from being infected with the plague, they kept boiling medicine juice and burning herbs and incense camps for twelve hours. These days, by smelling the smell, I have already distinguished the prescription.
Although these Goguryeo doctors have some tricks, they are normal in my eyes. I have sent someone to collect some medicinal materials. If we attack at night, killing people and cheating are not the purpose. The purpose is to rush in and make them confused. Let's throw the medicinal materials I added to him in the chaos and add some ingredients to their incense."
"Mysterious Doctor, is your method OK? If you add any medicine, can you still kill the 50,000 troops in one go?" Li Junxian said curiously.
"It's impossible to die, but it can cause them to get slightly poisoned, nausea, vomiting and fatigue. Although the medicine is not effective, it's enough for General Yuchi to come and deal with them.
At that time, 10,000 Tang soldiers and horses will deal with 50,000 Goguryeo soft-footed shrimps. If they are done, they can be captured." Du Shaoqing said with a silence.
Li Junxian and Li Ke were both applauding each other. If there was really such a medicine, then even a 100,000 army would probably be plotted against.
"Okay, I'll send a message to General Yuchi now. Both sides agreed on an action plan. We attacked from the rear, rushed through the road, and then headed straight to the Tang camp. Then, when the medicine effect was fulfilled, we would come back and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop, so as to minimize casualties.
However, as for the candidates for sending letters, if the troops are divided, they will have to be assigned to protect the two. Ye Xi is short of staff. If we just go to deliver the letters alone, if there is a problem, then the plan will be over."
Du Shaoqing said, "I recommend one to send the letter. Don't we have a killer? Although this guy is not good at it, it is not difficult to hide his traces and get through it. As for keeping someone to protect him? Haha, I, Du Shaoqing, are also a martial arts practitioner, and I should fight into the enemy camp with you."
Li Ke also said, "I will go, how can I retreat when I fight for the country?"
"No, absolutely not. Your Highness and the miracle doctor have never been on the battlefield, so you must not take risks. Although the last general is humble and unaware, he also knows that the two are more important than this batch of summer grains. He would rather not attack at night than protect the two." Li Junxian refused sternly.
There was no choice but to compromise in the end. Li Ke took out his token and handed it to the killer with Li Junxian. Although this guy was reluctant, he had not been exposed for more than ten days of time. He was trying hard to play a good person, no, he was playing a good killer with chivalrous sentiment.
At midnight, the moon was dark and the wind was high. Four hundred and eighty cavalrymen from the Xuanjia Army carried horses and wrapped their hooves and quietly arrived at a location 500 meters away from the Goguryeo Camp.
The Goguryeo army has occupied here for half a month, so they only care about defending the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty in the west. They would never have expected that a group of troops would emerge from the east of their territory.
Li Junxian waved his long sword and everyone turned over to the horse. On the original arrow pouch, each of them had a small bundle of hay-like things. This was the medicinal material collected by Du Shaoqing.
The Xuanjia Army of the Tang Dynasty was originally a team of heavy cavalry. In this era, a heavy cavalry was invincible like a tank. But coincidentally, this time it was cured by the plague in China. In order to speed up the march, the entire army was light and simple to carry without armor.
So at this time they were light cavalry without armor. It was also beneficial to lose heavy armor. The distance of five hundred meters was like an arrow from a string, and it accelerated to the extreme in 200 meters. The Goguryeo Camp just heard the sound of horse hooves approaching, indicating that the warning horn had not blown the second air, and Li Junxian had already broken through the camp and entered the first place.
Chapter completed!