On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 338 A strange combination of circumstances

"Sun Tzu's Art of War: Planning and Attack": Know yourself and your enemy, and you will never be in danger in a hundred battles.

Cui Che is well aware of the strength of his subordinates.

Since the surrender of the Khitan, Cui Che has been preparing for the war with Goguryeo. In the past few years, he has sent many agents to Goguryeo, but he can only detect some information about the central, western and northern parts of the five Goguryeo tribes, but he has never been able to get through.

Yalu River.

As for the remaining eastern and southern parts, as well as the interior that defends Pyongyang, we are completely blind. We can only get a glimpse of it through sporadic records in later history books and research by researchers.

This kind of understanding is naturally not enough. Fortunately, there is no way out, and there is a bright future in another village. I did not expect to catch a woman from a wealthy Pyongyang family in Houcheng.

This woman had no feelings for her family and country. In order to escape and regain her freedom, she told all the information she knew about the other three regions of Goguryeo, including Pyongyang.

The Guilou tribe, one of the five tribes today, was able to seize control of Goguryeo and continues to this day, which also means that its strength far exceeds the other four tribes.

Through this woman's introduction, Cui Che learned that there was a group of uniformed cavalry guarding Pyongyang, and heavy infantry wearing armor and carrying heavy swords on their shoulders also constituted the main body of the military force in the Goguryeo Gyeonggi region.

Cui Che did not doubt whether Goguryeo had enough iron to arm a large-scale heavy cavalry and heavy infantry.

The Anshan mining area in later generations is now located in Goguryeo. How could there be a lack of iron ore output?

When Cui Che learned about this, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​​​besieging the city and sending lightly armed cavalry to go deep into the east of the Yalu River and plunder.

He did not break his promise to the woman that he would release her after the war, but during this period she still had to serve his four concubines.

The armored cavalry the woman mentioned, namely the Goguryeo heavy cavalry, also reminded Cui Che that he did not know the other party's military deployment and whether the heavy cavalry had been sent to the Western Front.

But just in case, people were ordered to place a large number of obstacles around the four camps to prevent possible heavy cavalry attacks on the camps.

In the past, Cui Che did not have this habit.

It's not that he underestimated the enemy. His performance in truly underestimating the enemy should be similar to that of Shi Wansui.

When Shi Wansui marched and fought, he often did not regulate the camp. Even when he was camping, he did not arrange for the troops to be on guard duty in turns.

That is to say, the enemy is afraid of him and dare not attack easily, otherwise he will definitely suffer heavy losses.

Cui Che believed more in the combat effectiveness of his soldiers.

In previous wars, Cui Che was eager for the enemy to attack the camp, just like the battle of Xian'e River, where Datou Khan and Dulan Khan ran into trouble twice in front of the Sui army camp, greatly dampening the vigor of the Turkic soldiers and setting the stage for the future.

Victory lays the foundation.

How could he waste time and effort digging trenches, leaving the enemy with awe at their encampment?

Unusually for today, he was not afraid of Goguryeo's heavy cavalry, but worried that the Turks, Khitans, and Xi tribe servants who followed him on the expedition would not be able to withstand the impact of the armored cavalry.

Although the allied forces have clear barriers and the chaos will not affect the Sui army, if the friendly forces are defeated, it will also affect the morale of the Sui army officers and soldiers.

Instead, he was so confident in his soldiers that Cui Che even wished that the enemy would attack his camp.

Just like the Battle of Xian'e River, Datou Khan and Dulan Khan ran into obstacles twice in succession in front of the Sui army camp, which caused the morale of the army to be low.

In fact, Goguryeo did have a uniformed cavalry, but it did not participate in the war.

Just like Cui Che was reluctant to let his Yan cavalry dismount and attack the city, the armored cavalry was also Gao Yuan's treasure. Until the critical moment of national subjugation, he would not easily join the western battlefield and face the Sui army directly.

Another reason is that Gao Yuan really doesn't have the courage to show off his carriage and horses with Cui Che outside the city and have an upright showdown.

Heavy cavalry is really not of much use in city defense battles.

Now the 40,000 cavalry following Ulji Mundeok were all light cavalry.

It's just that it was a mistake, and it did thwart Eulji Mundeok's plan.

Eulji Mundeok is now hiding among the mountains east of Liaodong City, which is also called the Liaodong Mountains by later generations.

Liang Wanchun, who returned in a hurry, had no time to wipe the blood on his armor, so he gasped and persuaded:

"General! The enemy is working outside the camp and has set up many obstacles. I'm afraid it will be difficult to attack at night."

As a cavalry commander, he naturally had to follow Eulji Mundeok out of the city.

Previously, Liang Wanchun took the initiative to volunteer and led his scouts to venture close to the coalition camp and found that the coalition forces were overhauling their fortifications.

After being discovered by the opponent's sentry, after a fierce battle, Yang Wanchun finally brought the news back to Ulji Mundeok.

Eulji Wende was surprised.

In the past few years since the defeat of Xiliaohe, Ulji Mundeok has deepened his understanding of Cui Che.

It was precisely because of his understanding of Cui Che that Ulji Mundeok planned to take advantage of his lack of attention to the defenses outside the camp and launch a night attack.

But it was not the Sui army camp that was attacked, but the relatively weak Khitan people.

If we can win the first battle, our morale will wax and wane, and we will be more confident in defending the city.

Eulji Mundeok didn't know why Cui Che had such a change, and even suspected that there was a spy within himself who leaked the information. However, this cavalry was not his direct line unit, so Eulji Mundeok certainly did not dare to launch an attack at this time.

Internal self-examination.

However, Eulji Mundeok had a plan in mind to use this spy to release some false news to induce Cui Chel.

Eulji Wende's battle of wits and courage with the air is quite similar to that of Dulan Khan.

The next day, early in the morning, Cui Che left some of his troops behind and assigned them to Mai Tiezhang to guard the camp with him.

He led an army of more than 200,000 to Liaodong City and formed a formation.

At the top of Liaodong City, Gao Jianwu saw the allied forces' flags covering the sky outside the city. He was inevitably panicked when he first entered the battlefield.

Gao Yuan himself was unwilling to take risks. When Liaodong City was on the verge of collapse under Gao Ying's siege, Gao Yuan did not want to experience it again.

If there is no person of high status in charge, the northern lord Gaopuluo and the western lord Guannu Jiacheng are bound to compete for dominance. Only then did Gao Yuan send his younger brother Gao Jianwu to Liaodong.

Outside the city, more than a dozen cavalrymen marched out, using the newly learned Goguryeo language to intimidate the defenders, claiming that if they did not take the initiative to offer the city, after the city was broken, they would end up waiting for the city.

Although Gao Jianwu was afraid of the might of the Allied forces, his officers did not give in. What greeted the Allied cavalry was a hail of arrows, which frightened the Allied cavalry who were shouting in the city and fled.

Of course, Cui Che knew that this kind of move would only provoke the Liaodong defenders to desperately resist, but without making a statement in advance, how could he indulge his subordinates afterwards, causing Kumoxi, Khitan and Goguryeo to form a deep hatred.

Liang Wanchun is actually a fictional character in Ming Dynasty novels.

No more today. I wasn't going on a trip. Something happened to my friend, so I hurried over with a few other friends.

I will go back tomorrow and write more tomorrow night. I really don’t have time to type here now.

(End of chapter)