Tibet

Guo Qingyun ordered several of his men to guard the war horses in the distance. He led other scouts to climb up to the left side of the valley and climbed a big tree. The situation in the valley was clearly visible. The valley was brightly lit and covered with leather tents.

This discovery really excited Guo Qingyun. They found the main force of the enemy.

One of the scout men whispered: "Should we arrest a sentry and interrogate them to see how many troops they have?"

Guo Qingyun shook his head. This was an unwise idea. Not to mention that it would alert the enemy, and the sentries may not know how many troops they had. More importantly, they didn't understand each other because of the language barrier. They didn't know what the other was talking about. What was the point of interrogating them?

Guo Qingyun drew a sketch, wrote down the approximate troop strength, and handed it to a fire chief.

"Ading, take three brothers back immediately to report, and I will continue to monitor you!"

The fire chief took the sketch and put it away, and hurried away with three of his men.

Guo Qingyun took his other men to a safer place to monitor the enemy's main force from a distance.

At noon the next day, Ma Lin led 10,000 cavalry and appeared thirty miles away. At this time, he received a report from Guo Qingyun's men. Ma Lin looked at the sketch. From the sign, the main force of the opponent was thirty miles away. There are about 20,000 people.

Ma Lin sneered. As he expected, the Xi army deliberately attacked Ruluo's defense as a trick to lure troops. When his own army went to rescue them, they ambush him halfway.

Now that Xi Jun was hiding thirty miles away, he knew where the other party would ambush them. It must be in the Dragon King Valley.

Ma Lin led an army of 50,000. He now has an army of 10,000, which is used to paralyze the enemy, making them think that these 10,000 troops are going to rescue Ruluo to defend the enemy, but in fact there are still 40,000 troops behind.

The key is how to annihilate 20,000 enemy troops?

Ma Lin thought for a moment, then turned around and ordered: "Invite the guide Song Canjun!"

Not long after, the guide Song Kuan hurried over, bowed on his horse and saluted: "See you, general!"

Ma Lin unfolded the map, pointed to the thirty miles ahead and said: "Thirty miles ahead is the Dragon King Valley. Is there a path around the Dragon King Valley?"

Song Kuan nodded, "Of course, there are paths to the east and west!"

Ma Lin immediately took a brocade bag, handed it to the soldiers together with the command arrows, and ordered: "Take Song Can's army to the back to find General Wei Ran, and ask him to lead an army of 10,000 people to the east path to the south of Dragon King Valley. See what I do. Then let General Tian Weiguo bring the other 30,000 troops to see me!"

"Follow the order!"

The soldiers took Song Canjun away, and Ma Lin immediately ordered the entire army to rest on the spot and wait for the arrival of the army behind them.

At dusk, Ma Lin led an army of 10,000 people to the outside of the Dragon King Valley. Guo Qingyun showed up with his men. He stepped forward and clasped his fists and said: "General, 20,000 Xi troops are ambushing on both sides of the valley, waiting for the general to enter the valley. "

Ma Lin nodded and asked, "Do you still have any men on the mountain?"

"Report to the general, no more!"

Ma Lin looked at the sky and saw that it was almost time. He immediately ordered: "Fire the signal arrow!"

The soldiers immediately fired nine gunpowder arrows into the sky, which was the signal to take action.

Ma Lin immediately ordered: "Send the order to the entire army to cut down the big trees!"

Thousands of soldiers took action together and cut down thousands of pine trees in just a few moments, blocking the entrance to the official road.

Ma Lin ordered again: "Shoot gunpowder into the woods and pour kerosene on it!"

Tens of thousands of gunpowder arrows were fired into the pine forest together, and the pine forest began to burn. The soldiers poured a large amount of kerosene on them. The fire became even more intense, and thousands of big trees blocking the official road also burned.

The terrain and environment in Liaodong are very similar. The Dragon King Valley is almost exactly the same as the Bailang Valley in the north. It is about seven or eight miles long and is flanked by low slopes. The slopes are covered with pine forests, and 20,000 Xi Army soldiers are ambushing them. In the woods on both sides of the hillside, the Tang army waiting to rescue Ruluo's guards had received news from spies that 10,000 Tang army cavalry were coming from this side of the valley.

The soldiers were ready for a fight.

But at this moment, the pine forest behind them suddenly caught fire, and the pine forests on the mountains on both sides caught fire.

Immediately afterwards, the fire spread rapidly from both ends of the valley.

The 20,000 soldiers suddenly panicked and didn't know what to do.

At this time, General Xi shouted: "Go to the official road to avoid the fire!"

This seemed to be a good idea. Twenty thousand Xi troops ran down the hillside and gathered on the official road.

But they don’t understand fire protection knowledge! When the fire actually broke out, most of the victims were not burned to death, but were killed by the thick smoke.

Flames soared into the sky, thick smoke billowed, and the two mountaintops burned. The fire was so fierce that even the Tang army had to retreat twenty miles away, otherwise they would not be able to withstand the suffocation caused by the blazing fire and thick smoke.

Thick smoke filled the ground, and the entire thirty-mile radius was shrouded in fire and smoke.

The fire burned for three days and three nights before it gradually subsided. The Tang army had evacuated the Dragon King Valley area, leaving only five thousand soldiers to deal with the aftermath.

When the soldiers walked into the Dragon King Valley, it was like a hell. There were big charred trees standing on the mountains on both sides. Twisted corpses were lying on the official road. They were all suffocated by the thick smoke. Huge trees were blocking the road on both sides. Under the trees, corpses were piled up like mountains. Many soldiers wanted to escape over the giant trees, but they couldn't escape at all. In the end, they piled up and died.

All 20,000 Xi troops were wiped out, and no one survived.

The port of Longyuan Mansion in the Bohai Kingdom is located in a bay called Longwan. It is also the only seaport in the Bohai Kingdom. It is a natural harbor. There are thousands of warships of all sizes parked in the harbor, including Japanese turtle ships. There are also imitation Tang ships from the Bohai Kingdom.

However, Bohai State did not have a navy. Their ships were mostly merchant ships, not as solid as the Japanese turtle ships.

In the Battle of Baijiangkou a hundred years ago, the Tang army's ships' poles showed their power, either breaking the Japanese warships in half or smashing them into pieces. After learning from their mistakes, they designed their warships to be round, so that the Tang army's poles could no longer break them in half.

Secondly, a lid was added on the top to resist the Tang army's poles, and a dragon head was designed in front. Japan named this kind of ship Tuanlong, but it looked like a turtle, so it was also called a turtle ship.

There were more than 600 turtle ships in Longwan. For the first time, they sent 30,000 troops into Bohai State and destroyed Bohai State. The Japanese high-level officials were extremely happy and immediately sent turtle ships to add another 20,000 troops. They must completely control Bohai State and make it their first territory on the mainland.

At this time, there were more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers in the harbor, training not far from the harbor.

At noon, the sentry tower in the south of Longwan discovered something unusual. A fleet was coming from a distance, and the harbor immediately sounded the alarm.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

The alarm bells rang urgently, and 12,000 Japanese naval forces rushed onto the turtle ships. Two hundred turtle ships began to sail out of the bay and headed for the southern sea.

The turtle ship does have its unique features, that is, it is stable and resistant to wind and waves, but its shortcomings are also obvious, that is, it is slow. In fact, everyone knows that warships are designed to be streamlined and long, with sharp front ends like knives, which is to minimize resistance.

But the turtle ship went the other way and made it into a round fish shape. How could the obstruction range not be large? If the sailing resistance is large, then the speed of the ship will naturally not be high.

In order to solve the problem of slow speed, the turtle ship was designed with multiple people rowing, with eight oars on each side, three people rowing one oar, and a ship can carry about 60 people, but only 48 people are needed to row the oars, so how many combat soldiers are left? That's right, only 12 people.

There were only twelve combat soldiers on a boat, which was far from enough, so the military required the rowing soldiers to fight at the same time, which led to the Japanese style of fighting. When the two armies fought, the boats did not move, and everyone was busy drawing bows and shooting arrows, and no one rowed.

After a round of fierce fighting, everyone put down their bows and arrows and continued to row.

At this time, the Tang army's cabin appeared, and the two fleets were only ten miles apart.

Li Chengshi saw that there were no warships coming out of Longwan in the distance, so he immediately ordered: "Send flags and launch the tail-cutting tactics!"

The tail-cutting tactics is to cut off the enemy's retreat. Every tactic of the Tang army is responsible for the generals. When the flags are sent out, the ships behind will send the same flags.

Liu Mingzhan, the general of the Tiger Guards, shouted: "Raise the red flag, the third team will follow me!"

The 5,000-stone warship that Liu Mingzhan was riding sailed quickly, and the ships he led followed one after another.

On the sea, a fleet of fifty 3,000-koku warships sailed rapidly from the side, overtaking the Japanese turtle ship fleet and heading towards Longwan.