Chapter 197 The Anxi Army Attacks!

One thing Chen Ying said was very pertinent. Although the Hebei Rebellion was dissatisfied with the counterattack of the Tang Dynasty's imperial court against Hebei's alternative policies, and the old subordinates of Dou Jiande and suffered the pain of Li Yuan killing Dou Jiande, these were not the main reasons. The main reason was that the Hebei Rebellion was directly supported by the Eastern Turks.

The Eastern Turkic Khan not only sent more than 10,000 elite cavalry to be driven by Liu Shishan, but even more than 200,000 Eastern Turkic troops followed the twenty-nine states, including Feng, Shuo, Yun, You, Ping, Dai, etc., and were eyeing the border line that lasted more than 2,000 miles long, and would break through the pass at any time.

In this way, the troops stationed in the northern border prefectures of the Tang army were not only unable to suppress the Liu Shishan Rebellion nearby, but were worried about the sudden attack of the Eastern Turks. Since Li Shentong's defeat, a huge gap has emerged. It takes time for the elite Tang army in Guanzhong to be transferred to Hebei, which also provides Liu Shishan with the opportunity to grow when the rebellion was weakest.

Although Li Jiancheng now led the four elite troops of the East Palace, the left and right guards, and the left and right guards, and the left and right Wuwei, the left and right Xiaowei and other 100,000 troops to enter Xiangzhou, Liu Shishan ignored the gains and losses of one city and one state and formed a circle with Li Jiancheng. If Li Jiancheng wanted to resolve the rebellion of Liu Shishan, he still needed to reach a joint resolution with the representatives of the Hebei clans. However, this took time.

At this time, Chen Ying's memorial to ask for battle came.

Li Yuan's heart was like a long drought and rain.

This memorial was like a timely rain. Chen Ying led the Anxi Army to fight against the Western Turks. At this time, the Eastern Turks would definitely pay close attention to the war between the Western Turks and weaken the support from Hebei. What is more favorable is that the 400,000 Western Turks army is not a soft persimmon.

If Chen Ying is already a tiger, then the Western Turks are a group of evil wolves. Now, these tigers and wolves are both beneficiaries in any case. You can talk about it later when dealing with Chen Ying. However, the Hebei rebellion must be resolved as soon as possible.

Once the Western Turks perish and the Eastern Turks are defeated and surrendered, since Chen Ying likes the Western Regions, he will enthrone Chen Ying in the Western Regions. His grandson will inherit Chen Ying's title in the future. No matter what, Li Yuan will not suffer any loss.

After dealing with Liu Shishan, Hebei, and disappearing Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army, it would not be too late to deal with Chen Ying at that time.

After all, Li Yuan was the founding emperor. He did not dare to react excessively to Chen Ying for a while, which did not mean that he would not do it. He sat down and watched Chen Ying become a big shot.

Since the Hebei Rebellion, it has sounded a wake-up call to Li Yuan. It is inappropriate to govern the world with the people of Guanzhong. Although Zhong can guarantee the loyalty of the Guanzhong clans and the people of Guanzhong to the Li Tang court, it will make the hearts of the aristocratic clans in the world.

Without hesitation, Li Yuan wrote the word "correct" on Chen Ying's memorial.

Li Yuan turned up another pile of memorials. Li Yuan looked at the words on the memorial in surprise. It was actually sent by Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng, who was on the front line of Hebei to quell the rebellion, actually discovered that using Henan people to govern Henan, using Hebei people to autonomous Hebei, and using Guanzhong people to govern the world is actually a temporary solution to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

The selected officials from their hometowns and backgrounds guaranteed the loyalty of local officials before the Tang Dynasty unified the nine provinces, but in the long run, it left two major hidden dangers. One is that the officials hired may not be competent; the other is that the path to becoming a scholar in the world, especially poor scholars. Now that the Tang Dynasty has established the Central Plains and owns the world, it naturally has the elegance of tolerating talents in the world. This expedient strategy in wartime should be changed.

Against this background, Li Jiancheng expressed his feelings to Chen Ying, and three reform measures were taken to "first, a one-year period will be suspended, and a year later, the Ministry of Personnel will assess the political achievements of officials in various places, and gradually eliminate those who are incompetent; second, choose the right time to abolish the various governments and replace them with prefectures and counties, and take local governance authority to the central government; third, for a long-term plan, please ask Your Majesty to imitate the old system of the former Sui Dynasty, reopen the imperial examination, and recruit the best people in the world to serve the Tang Dynasty!"

Looking at Li Jiancheng's reform strategy, Li Yuan's eyes lit up and he felt very happy!

He was decisive and decisive, and Chen Ying's character was also his habit of doing things. As early as Chen Ying's memorial was issued, Chen Ying didn't care whether Li Yuan would agree. Anyway, the request for instructions had been requested. As long as he won, Li Yuan would definitely endorse him, but once he failed, he would bear all the consequences.

The training of the 100,000 troops in Anxi outside Mulan City is actually only a basic training for queues, internal affairs and discipline. In fact, relying on queues alone cannot scare the enemy to death. Tactical and strategic skills need to be scattered to various places for training.

In Tomur in the middle of the Tianshan Mountains in the west, it is the training ground for the Shooting Army. Within a radius of hundreds or thousands of miles, the figures of the Anxi Shooting Army are scattered in valleys of all sizes.

In the Hezil Valley, there is a regiment of 300 soldiers of the Shooting Army, who are undergoing intense training.

At this time, the regiment captain divided the three brigades into two camps to conduct offensive and defensive drills. Hezil built a stone fort, stationed a brigade's troops, while the other two brigades were responsible for pretending to be the enemy to conduct feint attacks.

Although it was just an exercise, it was already full of anger. In this era, there were no exercise bullets from later generations. They just pulled out the arrowheads and stained with red paint. The referee team judged injuries or deaths based on the part of the arrow.

However, the lightest crossbow used by the Shooting Army is one stone, which requires 120 kilograms of pulling force. Under such a huge bow and arm strength, even if there is no arrow, as long as you hit the face, neck, throat, etc., it can still cause casualties. Even if you don’t hit the key parts of the face, just like a soldier who hits a helmet or an arrow, the head will feel like a sledgehammer hitting it, and it will not be able to recover for a long time.

As for shooting, it will be like pounding a baton. At the least, it will be blue and purple, and at the worst, it will even be severely broken even if it is broken.

It was this exercise in the context of practical combat that made the soldiers on both sides of the exercise really furious. The two brigade coaches who participated in the attack shouted at the robes beside them with red eyes: "It's all good to cheer up. If you can't attack this time, don't eat it!"

Just as one hundred and forty soldiers on the attacking side were yelling at the hillside, the brigade coach charged and shouted at the soldiers beside him: "Assault team, don't gather together, one in a group, scattered, scattered, rush up like you like, close your eyes and shoot you to death, serpentine maneuver..."

"Heavy crossbowman, fire cover!"

If this is an army of hot weapons, this kind of exercise will not be surprising at all. However, in the army of the cold weapons era, this kind of cross-cover and mutual cooperation in offensive method would definitely not exist. However, it exists. There is no need to ask. This is also Chen Ying's masterpiece!

The coach shouted excitedly: "Occurrence, offense..."

A cavalry rushed over with smoke and dust, rushed to the regiment captain, shouting: "Captain, the latest military order: end the field training immediately and lead the troops back to the camp!"

The captain took the order and saw that it was really issued by Chen Ying. He was slightly stunned and subconsciously said, "Didn't it be agreed that the field training will last for three months? It's not until the heavy snow covers the mountain. Why is it going to end in just one and a half months? Could it be..."

The captain's eyes flashed, "Is it going to fight?"

The vice-captain's eyes lit up, and he smiled and said, "I'm sure you will be together!"

The captain said with boxing and high-fives: "Okay, I should have been like this long ago. I have been holding it in for more than half a year and have been fed up! The trumpet soldiers, trumpet gathering, we will go back to the barracks!"

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On the banks of the Kushan grassland, a Tang army soldier from the Yueqin Zhechong Mansion was carrying out a cavalry and shooting exercise under the leadership of the Zhechong Duwei. However, this was not a confrontational exercise, but an assault exercise. There were wild wolves on the grassland that harmed livestock. It disappeared and spread to the military. The military volunteered to encircle and suppress the wolves with more than 1,500 cavalrymen from the Zhechong Mansion here.

"East..."

As a Tang army scout discovered the traces of the wolves, the soldiers of the Yue cavalry were covered with arrows without saying a word. The dozens of wild wolves did not even have the chance to scream, and they were shot into hedgehogs by arrows.

Chen Ying classified this kind of recruit training as seeing blood. The wild wolves, wild boars, even rabbits, yellow sheep, and even wild horses in the entire Tianshan area were in trouble. After being surrounded and suppressed by Anxi soldiers like a net, most of the animals became delicious on the dinner table of Anxi soldiers.

In fact, it is not only small animals, but also bandits, robbers, sand thieves, and horse bandits from the Western Regions. They have all become the targets of training and are also one of the important links for new recruits to see blood.

"Yamanya" means dangerous in Turkic language. It was originally a landslide lake formed by a mountain torrent. Later, for some reason, the lake was dry and a small basin formed. In addition to the east and west exits, it was surrounded by cliffs eroded by lake water.

Of course, with the unique terrain, it has also become the nest of the famous bandit Asalan (meaning the Lion King), in the Western Regions. It has more than a thousand powerful horse bandits.

In order to encircle and suppress Asalan, the Shosheng Army led by Duan Zhixian had a total of six Zhechong Mansions and more than 9,000 troops surrounded Yamanya.

In order to train the new army soldiers, Duan Zhigan asked someone to block the two exits of Yamanya, and then let the four soldiers from Zhechong Mansion take turns to climb the cliff and shoot at the horse bandits under Asaran from a high point. This is naturally not an arrow without arrows in the exercise, but a real sheep-headed arrow.

It can be said that arrows bite flesh, and arrows can see blood.

When Asalan saw that the situation was wrong, he hurriedly asked Duan Zhigan to surrender.

Duan Zhigan said that your greatest value is to let the new recruits see blood, so they happily and cleanly rejected Asaran's surrender.

Asaran wanted to cry without tears, and roared to the sky: "Is there anyone who bullies people like this?"

At this moment, the cavalry commander arrived. Duan Zhigan continued the military order and said with a smile: "The game is over, prepare to return to the team!"

Duan Zhigan doesn’t seem to let Asalan go. This guy specializes in intercepting robbers who have traveled past business travelers for more than ten years in the Western Regions. God knows how many caravans he robbed and how many treasures he robbed?

As Duan Zhigan's general attack was issued, the soldiers of the Shooting Army and the shield hand slapped the shield one by one with a horizontal knife. With a terrifying bang, more than 6,000 Shooting Army soldiers lined up in three rows and pushed towards Yamanya silently. Looking at the Tang soldiers getting closer and closer, Asaran desperately led the horse bandits under his command to launch a counterattack against the Tang army.

However, what Tang Jun responded to them was arrows like a storm...

After half an hour of battle, Duan Zhigan was very satisfied with the result of the battle. The four soldiers of the Shooting Army of Zhechong Mansion shot and killed more than 600 enemies, but they were not killed in battle. Although more than a dozen wounded soldiers appeared, no one fled.

With the arrival of the cavalry, their leisurely days finally ended.

As the soldiers of Anxi Army returned to the team, Chen Ying's chariot had been rumbled to start.

On August 9, the sixth year of Wude, Chen Ying read the soldiers of the Anxi Army at Mulan City School and convened the generals to meet. Chen Ying looked at Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Guo Xiaoke, Su Dingfang and other generals all arrived, and he said straight to the point: "This general has only one goal. Do you know that you will take down Geluo Ridge before the heavy snow covers the mountain?"

The generals whispered: "It's clear!"

Chen Ying said: "It's good to be clear!"
Chapter completed!