The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 983 Fierce Battle on the Sandy Slope

His gaze temporarily turned to Mingshui.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Mingzhou and Mingshui were two different places, located in today's Handan City, Hebei Province.Mingzhou is a county seat, while Mingshui is a county seat. The distance between the two sides is not more than a hundred miles. There is a river flowing between the county seat and the county seat. It is named after this river.

Historically, because of the famous general Luo Shixin, he died in Mingshui City.

Under Li Shimin's planning, Luo Yi and his son led [-] Tang troops out of Dingzhou and came straight to Mingshui.

Luo Cheng is the vanguard. He has long wanted to take action against Su Dingfang of Mingshui. Back then, Su Dingfang almost killed Luo Yi with an arrow. This time, Luo Cheng held back his strength, and it was only natural to avenge his father.

After getting the order, he took [-] elite soldiers as the front, and went to Mingshui to kill.

Su Dingfang had been prepared for a long time. When Li Jing's army went to war with the Turks, Su Dingfang stood still in order to guard against the Luo family's father and son in Dingzhou's plot.

Because of Yang Yong's order, during the truce with the Tang Dynasty, never fire the first shot. If the Tang army provokes and invades, they must fight back without mercy, and there is no need to ask for orders.

Therefore, Su Dingfang immediately convened a high-level military meeting to discuss the strategy of retreating the enemy. All the generals with more than a thousand leaders attended, and of course his deputy Qu Tutong also came.

Originally, Su Dingfang had [-] rebels stationed on the front lines of Mingshui and Dezhou. After Li Jing's troops arrived in Shandong, Su Dingfang reduced his troops, and Mingzhou County and Mingshui County became his focus of defense.Mingshui County currently has [-] troops stationed, led by Su Dingfang himself, and Mingzhou County has [-] elite soldiers, guarded by General Qu Tutong.

In addition, 1 troops were deployed at Shatupo upstream of Mingshui River and Dongying Bridge, more than 5000 miles west of Mingzhou County. These two strongholds each had [-] troops and were guarded by two Thousand Chiefs.

Su Dingfang knew that the Luo family's father and son were not good at coming this time. Under the situation where the enemy is strong and we are weak, he adopted the general strategy of taking defense as offense. The Tang army in the Dingzhou area has made overall plans and taken care of everything, which can be described as seamless.

But the opponent he met this time was also relatively strong, and they were the Luo family father and son who were proficient in civil and martial arts.They had already figured out the deployment of Su Dingfang's troops. The tactics they adopted were to order Luo Cheng to lead a partial division to pull out all the strategic strongholds near Mingzhou County, focus on attacking Mingzhou County, and force Su Dingfang to leave the city for a decisive battle. Then Luo Yi The main force of the army attacked Mingshui County from the rear and took down the county in one fell swoop. Su Dingfang was bound to be attacked by the enemy, and it was impossible to escape.

Luo Cheng's 3 horses first arrived at the sand slope in the upper reaches of the Mingshui River, neither camping nor leaving the village. Luo Cheng lined up and shouted curses in front of the formation.

According to Su Dingfang's order, the two defenders of Shatupo should stand firm and not fight.But often it is the orders of the emperor who will be outside.The two commanders in charge of guarding Shatupo, one named Shen Liang and the other named Ma Hun, disagreed after receiving the report.

Ma Huan, the chief general, thinks that there is no opportunity to lose the opportunity in front of him. Luo Cheng is young and vigorous, with arrogance and arrogance. They have come from a long way, and they belong to the exhausted army. They should take the initiative to fight a battle to boost the morale of the soldiers and combat the arrogance of the Tang army. Arrogance, and then it is not too late to guard against it.

The deputy general, Shen Liang, did not advocate going to war, because the Luo family father and son were too famous, and it would be easier said than done to defeat Luo Cheng.Our task is to hold the sandy slope and prevent the Tang army from crossing the river, so he advocated strictly implementing Su Dingfang's order and sticking to it without fighting.

But he is not the general, of course he has no right to make decisions, he can only make suggestions, but the general has the right not to listen to his suggestions.

Ma Huan ordered Shen Liang to guard the sandy slope, and he ordered three thousand troops to break out of the fortifications and charge towards Luo Chengren's horse.

The sandy slope is the only highland here, because the Mingshui becomes very narrow here, if the Tang army crosses the river here, Mingzhou County will be exposed, and holding the sandy slope is equivalent to guarding the north gate of Mingzhou County.

Three thousand soldiers of the rebel army rushed down the slope with shouts, and rushed to the Tang army with a powerful momentum.

On martial arts Ma Huan knew that he was not Luo Cheng's opponent, so he didn't line up at all, and he didn't fight him one-on-one. Instead, he charged forward as a group, intending to defeat Luo Cheng, a tired army who came from afar, in one fell swoop.

But Ma Huan was wrong, not to mention [-] versus [-], the difference in military strength is huge, even if the two sides have equal strength, Ma Huan has no chance of winning.

Because Luo Cheng doesn't look young, but he has been in the field for a long time and has rich experience in leading troops. His arrogance belongs to the natural expression of that kind of outstanding ability, but it is a bit too arrogant, not the kind of half-filled bottle. The pride of bottle wanderers.

His men and horses were indeed exhausted, but the reason why he didn't set up camp and fortress, and called for formation when he came up, was afraid that the rebels would stick to their positions and not fight. Although he didn't pay attention to this small sandy slope, the cost of storming was high after all. , This is intentional step to give the other party a loophole, Ma Hun was fooled.

As long as they come out to fight, Luo Chengcheng doesn't care, single-handedly or group fights, Luo Chengcheng is happy.As a result, there was a messy battle on the sandy slope, and Ma Huan's 3000 men were no match for Luo Cheng's men, and within a meal, only one-third of them were trapped by Luo Cheng's men. The people and horses became a solitary boat in the vast ocean, dying and struggling.

On the slope, Shen Liang was condescending and could see clearly, and his subordinates suggested to rescue them quickly. Shen Liang knew that if he got out, the sandy slope would be gone, and there were still 2000 troops left in the slope, and all of them would be a drop in the bucket, and would not save anyone at all. .

Therefore, at this time, Shen Liang could only choose to see death, but he could not remain indifferent. He hurriedly sent people to ask for help from Qu Tutong in Mingzhou County and Su Dingfang in Mingshui County.

Luo Cheng trapped a thousand people like Ma Huan in order to be a bait, but Shen Liang was not fooled and did not fight. Later, Luo Cheng finally lost his patience and ordered that after a cup of tea, Ma Huan's More than 1000 people were wiped out, and Ma Huan also died in the chaos.

Then Luo Cheng launched a fierce attack on the sandy slope, and Shen Liang led two thousand rebels to fight back. First, they used bows and arrows to repel several attacks by the Tang army.

Just when Shen Liang's entire army was about to be wiped out, a reinforcement came by the Mingshui River, and it was Qu Tuyong who led 1 horses to support him.

The 1 men attacked Tang Jun's ass, but Luo Cheng was defeated, and he was defeated for more than ten miles before stopping his position.Counting the number of people, the Tang army lost [-] people in this battle, but still failed to take Shatupo.

Luo Cheng was so angry that he screamed strangely, but he was still clear-headed. He knew that he would never cross the river unless the poisonous nail of Shatupo was pulled out. The rebels would kill him mercilessly, and he would be buried at the bottom of the river, even though the Mingshui river was not wide and the water was not deep.

Therefore, Luo Cheng saw that it was going to be late. After several days of marching and another small defeat, Luo Cheng was exhausted and the morale of the Tang army was exhausted. Luo Cheng had to send an order to set up camp.

At this moment, someone came to report, and Qu Tutong chased after him with his troops.

When Luo Cheng heard this, he was furious, "How dare you bully me? Order troops to fight!"

(End of this chapter)