The word "side by side" king of the Tang Dynasty

"Sure enough, as your Majesty expected, there is someone on the enemy side who knows our country very well... Haha, are the troops divided into three groups?"

Li Jing looked at the latest information from the Shadow Guard and couldn't help but narrow his eyes.

Ever since the Five Kingdoms conquered the Tang Dynasty, Li Changqing felt that something was wrong, because he felt that whether it was a joint alliance or a secret deployment of troops by various countries, These are not like the operating styles of those countries, but rather like the military strategies of the Central Plains.

From that time on, Li Changqing began to suspect that the enemy had a Central Plains counselor making plans, and asked Li Jing to pay more attention.

After seeing the latest intelligence, Li Jing It further confirmed Li Changqing's guess. According to his understanding of the five countries, they would directly attack by force after having a million-strong army. But now they have chosen to divide their troops into three groups. This is a very clever strategy. You must have seen it. The weakness of the Tang Dynasty was the lack of military strength.

Fortunately, Li Changqing temporarily handed over the Shadow Guard to Li Jing. After the latter got the movements of the Five Nations Allied Forces reconnoitred by the Shadow Guard, he resolutely decided to disperse the army at the other two borders.

And the facts Proves that his decision is correct, otherwise it will definitely be too late to temporarily mobilize troops, and the other two border passes may be broken.

But even so, the situation is still not optimistic.

The northwest and southwest border passes are guarded by 200,000 troops each, leaving behind One hundred thousand troops are suppressed to prevent unruly people from taking the opportunity to rebel. There are still one hundred thousand troops at the northern border. The northern border is the gateway to the Central Plains. With only one hundred thousand troops to guard it, the pressure is not small.

"Marshal, what should we do now? Should we request military support from Chang'an?"

The counselor interrupted Li Jing's thinking and asked him.

Li Jing smiled and said:"Don't worry, a mere 300,000 troops are not taken seriously by this commander. You will know why His Majesty is not here tomorrow. There is a military conscription in the country because it is really... unnecessary."

The counselor was confused by Li Jing's words, but he felt relieved when he saw that the latter was confident and not panicked at all.

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The next day, the Byzantine Empire army launched an attack on the border.

This time the Byzantine Empire's army was not composed entirely of heavy cavalry like the last Eastern Expedition. This time the 300,000-strong army was all elite, covering a very comprehensive range of arms.

In the Byzantine army formation, Yang Chao looked at the border city wall from a distance, waved his hand and ordered:"The armored army advances forward, and the rest of the army follows closely behind, with catapults and archers to suppress and cover!"

The armored army, this is Yang Chao's plan for the Tang Dynasty. A simple chariot designed and manufactured by Liulian Qiannu. It is not complicated. It just adds a very tall and thick iron plate in front of the two-wheeled cart. Each chariot is pushed by two soldiers, which is enough to withstand Six consecutive powerful crossbows fired straight at him.

At the forefront of the army, the armored troops served as shields at the forefront, covering the gradual advance of the army.

At the same time, at the rear of the army, hundreds of catapults were continuously throwing stone bullets to attack the city wall, while tens of thousands of archers also shot a shower of arrows, suppressing the counterattack of the defenders in the city.

Everything was orderly and orderly. Under the cover of the armored army, hundreds of thousands of troops gradually approached the city wall. The defenders on the city wall were struggling to fire arrows in the rain of arrows to fight back. They seemed to be suppressed miserably.

On the city wall, Li Jing watched the formation of the opponent's army and the front row of armored troops under the protection of shield guards. He couldn't help but smile:"You are cautious enough, and you have specially made equipment to withstand the six-company strong crossbow. But it's such a pity, I don't plan to use toys like the six-gun crossbow this time."

Hearing this, the generals around him all laughed, and there was no trace of nervousness on their faces at all.

After almost three rounds of arrow rain, the Byzantine Empire army had finished shooting arrows, but the army was about to reach the city wall.

Seeing this scene, Li Jing showed a sneer and said to the generals around him:"You are in the urn, give me the command to start counterattack!"

After hearing this, all the generals suddenly showed unconcealable excitement. Aaoao shouted:"Brothers! Give me a hard beating!""

"yes!"

After hearing this, all the soldiers on the city wall felt as if they had been beaten to death. One by one, they opened the baffles of the rectangular wooden boxes around them, revealing the neatly arranged thunderbolts!

This is how Li Jing relied on an army of 100,000 people. The confidence to guard the border lies!

"Bros! Blow up these sons of bitches!"

A general grabbed two thunderbolt bombs with one hand, shouted loudly and threw them out with great force.

With his amazing arm strength, the two thunderbolt bombs were thrown directly into the enemy's army formation and exploded. Dozens of soldiers were killed, and many more were injured by the iron fragments from the thunderbolt bullets.

"Blow up these sons of bitches!"

"Kill!"

His attack was like a signal. The defenders on the city wall all fired thunderbolts one by one, and smashed them hard at the local army!

"Boom - boom——"

The deafening explosions were continuous. As a soldier on the border, who didn't have some strength? Coupled with the excitement, everyone accurately threw thunderbolts into the enemy army.

The explosion that fell from the sky directly stunned the Byzantine army, causing heavy casualties in an instant.

"ah——！"

"What is this?! Why!"

"Help! Help!"

"Retreat quickly! Retreat quickly!"

"Divine punishment! This is divine punishment! The Tang Dynasty is a country favored by the gods!"

"retreat!"

……

The formation of the Byzantine vanguard was directly disrupted by the explosion, and some thunder bombs landed in certain places and exploded, causing even bigger explosions!

Long before the army attacked, the land outside the city was filled with explosive barrels!

After the explosion of the thunder bomb detonated these explosive barrels, the resulting larger explosion directly killed hundreds or thousands of people!

These explosions set off a chain reaction, with one explosion detonating the surrounding explosive barrels. The entire battlefield was filled with brilliant explosions and flames and the screams of soldiers!

"What exactly is going on!"

At the rear of the army, Yang Chao looked at the constant explosions and flames in front of him and the countless dead and injured soldiers, his face full of horror!