Chapter Thirty-Three Invitation to Battle
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"After defeating the enemy, all the horses returned to Liangzhou and half of the prisoners were given to me. How about it?" Seeing that the victory was sure to win, Li Keyuan said half-jokingly. At this moment, it was the time to rely on the Dangxiang in Lingzhou to set a price tag to avoid recognizing people after the war. In addition to the Dijinze tribe, the Dangxiang tribe is already a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic nation, and a large number of Han slaves needed to cultivate fields and textiles, especially after being repeatedly drawn from Lanzhou.
"It's easy to say. As long as Lord Dong agrees, Lord Li will first select the captives." Zhe Ge Zhi smiled, "These people have deep hatred with my Liangzhou, so I don't plan to keep the captives. All the horses are given to General Dong." If these two Hakka troops have not achieved sufficient benefits, they will inevitably slacken off. Furthermore, if they defeat Chen De's army and have no master in Hexi, he can take advantage of the opportunity to enter. In the end, they will ask for someone to ask for horses and horses, occupy the entire Hexi, and regain the lost glory of the Tubo people. In the end, the Tubo Liugu tribe will benefit the most.
"Two, after defeating the enemy, it will be not too late to discuss these things slowly." Dong Zunhui reminded a little arrogantly, and said in a deep voice, "Chen De is invading with all his might. Although he is rampant, he has been constantly building camps these days. The army is fierce and the reconnaissance cavalry is covering each other very tightly. From my perspective, this person is not an easy person and needs to be dealt with carefully."
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhe Gezhi smiled and said, "The villages near Liangzhou have been robbed and burned and killed by our army. His army cannot delay here. Could it be that sitting in the camp can conquer Liangzhou?" His words were suspected of mocking Dong Zunhui for attaching too much importance to the enemy, which made Dong Zunhui, who was used to being flattered by his subordinates, frowned slightly, thinking that Chen De could not delay the food and grass, these vassal departments had their own thoughts. If my army delayed, it would be easy to change. He had planned this point and dared to build a fortress safely and not be afraid that our army would not fight. But this would be fine. Just defeat the army under the city of Liangzhou and recover Hexi like a sequel. In front of the official family, my old Dong's position should be mentioned up. Thinking of this, Dong Zunhui no longer thought much and said in a deep voice: "The whole team will leave the city at the third day of tomorrow, and come in line to invite the battle."
The next morning, I heard that the enemy brigade had left the city, Xin Gu general Chen De invited him to the army to watch the Song Dynasty, Dangxiang and Tubo coalition forces lined up. In this era, the enemy's front line was not an easy task, and it best reflects the level of the army's training. For Chen De and other generals, this is also a rare opportunity to observe the enemy's virtuality and reality.
The Song Dynasty imperial guards from Huanzhou showed significantly higher training qualities than the Tubo soldiers and Dangxiang soldiers. More than 20 commanders were in strict ranks as soon as they left the city gate. The soldiers also commanded the units, and four or five hundred men were arranged into square formations. Then, under the cover of the crossbows on the top of the city, each small square formation was moved back and forth according to the commanders and captains of each army.
Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the Central Plains army had extremely high tactical requirements for array battles. By the Five Dynasties, the Central Plains relied on infantry arrays to fight with the cavalry group whizzing down from the north, and their importance to formation was beyond remitted. If the imperial guards had not had a high understanding and mastery of the tactic of array battles, the Song Emperor could not rely on the formation map to control the front-line army. After all, formation and then battle had become the mainstream tactical idea of the Song imperial guards at this time. It was not until the later generations that Yue Pengju emerged that the military thought of the Song army briefly entered the "metaphysical" stage from "metaphysical" to "metaphysical" stage, but with Yue Fei's fall, he soon returned to the old path.
The more than a thousand cavalry of the Dragon Guards who came out of the city first spread a cordon, also known as the front cavalry. The role of these cavalry acted as a warning and obstruction when the enemy attacked the large formation, giving the formation time to prepare for the enemy. Under the cover of the cavalry, the infantry of the Hujie Army formed three rigorous square formations, one in the left, middle and right, each with about three thousand people, with a crossbowman in front, a knife and shieldman in the middle, and finally a spearman in the final order. Judging from the order of the formation, it was an attacking formation. After the infantry was arranged, the Dragon Guards formed a cavalry formation with about three thousand cavalry behind the infantry formation to protect the flanks and rear of the formation.
After the imperial guards formed the formation, the Liangzhou Tubo and Yinzhou Dangxiang arrays that poured out of the city were much simpler and more chaotic. In addition to a small number of infantrymen stabilizing the two wings, basically arranged eight thousand Tubo cavalry on the left wing of the imperial guards and five thousand Dangxiang cavalry on the right wing. The troops were brilliant and the momentum was extraordinary.
When the Song army was about to come out, even a murderous aura was felt several miles away. Especially the imperial guard formation in the middle, although it was mainly infantry, it was as heavy as a mountain. Even Chen De, who was used to seeing elite soldiers, shouted. The Huanzhou soldiers were the seed troops of the Western Army of the Song Dynasty in the future. They were both strict and strict in the imperial guards and the toughness of the border troops. It was indeed a powerful force.
After the Song army was finally arranged, seeing Chen De's army unable to retreat from the fortress, Dong Zunhui waved his hand to the flag-plaque officer and shouted: "Call Captain Lin of the Xiaowu Army to come forward to invite the battle."
The military order came out, and the generals and lieutenants around him had a strange face. The vicious army was the instructor of the imperial guards in the capital. A spear rod made him really amazing. When Emperor Taizu reviewed the imperial guards in the proofreading the imperial guards, he was the first in the exam. He really beat the imperial guards all over the imperial guards and was invincible. He was the instructor of the gun. The middle part of the imperial guards was a hero who everyone admired. This man was a dull man, and he had always been ordered to act and could not please him.
Shangguan was therefore staying in the position of coach, and he was not able to take charge of the troops, and it was even more difficult to be promoted. Erhuai was begging a lady who was as beautiful as a flower, but when he was burning incense in the temple, he fell into the eyes of Gaode, the adopted son of Gao Qiong, Gaode, who became interested, so he used a trick to frame him, sent the forest to the border army, and entrusted Dong Zunhui to make sure that the forest could not survive Bianjing, which cut off the thoughts of the young lady of the Lin family.
Gao Qiong is an old man in the current official vassal residence. Although he has no qualifications in the army, he is enough to be arrogant to many old governors. How dare Dong Zunhui rebel against him? Therefore, every time he fights against the vassals, he will definitely assign the responsibilities of death to this forest. It is also considered that he has great ability and has great life. After fighting and killing for more than a year, he has no small injuries, but no fatal serious injuries. Dong Zunhui is really a big trouble. Now he has finally encountered tens of thousands of soldiers fighting in a formation, so he made up his mind that he would definitely lose his life this time. A small lieutenant, in the eyes of Dong Zunhui, who was once the deputy inspector of the palace, was just an ant. Under the power of the sky, his guns and sticks were invincible, and he was very helpful.
The cavalry in front of the forest was among the cavalry. After receiving the order of the flag-plaque general, the cavalry around them showed anger. Murong Gang cursed even more: "Even if he wanted to die, he did not do so well." The imperial guards were all in harmony, and it was just a matter of inviting the vassals to fight in the past. The army in front of him was 400 squadrons to defeat the powerful brigade of 500 quadrons in Jiangnan. They fought thousands of miles to eliminate the weak and retain the strong, swept across Hexi to kill ghosts and howls, and asked the forest to lead him, a commander cavalry who was short of soldiers, to invite the battle, which was clearly a knife to kill people.
However, the forest was expressionless and only apologized to the few beside him: "It is really ashamed to have the matter of one person in the forest that has implicated all brothers." The words were filled with endless slap in their words. There should be five hundred Xiaowu cavalry commanders, but there were only more than one hundred commanders in the forest. The others were either killed in previous battles or asked to leave the commander who died. The rest were brothers who could be entrusted with life and death.
"Mr. Lin is not saying anything. I will be born with my life and licking blood on the knife. Sooner or later, Ma Xin said in a muffled voice. No one is afraid of death, but now that's it, the group of people who stayed in the forest have no way out. Like Ma Xin, he once refused a request from Shangguan to shoot a cold arrow behind the forest, and he also offended the person he shouldn't have offended.
"These group of gray grandsons," Wu Tie cursed, "I've messed up my head and threw myself into that Chen De! Go back to wipe out his mother." "Silence!" Ma Xin shouted in a low voice. He looked around at other fellow comrades of the Warriors. The so-called warmth and coldness of human relations, invisibly, the command of the Linzhongzheng became an alternative to the army. Today, the other cavalry regarded these more than a hundred people as dead people, so they didn't pay attention to what they said to each other. Some people even sneered in their hearts: "I am used to being arrogant on weekdays, and I kicked the iron plate today. No matter how I delayed it, I still have to fight."
Wu Tie looked resentful, and while sorting out the swords, guns, bows and arrows, he muttered: "I heard that Chen De's most powerful courage in the army, with the skills of Lin's gun and sticks, he would have few commanders."
These people were venting their complaints on their own. Lin Zhong felt even more guilty, and threw a trace of depressedness and depression just now behind his head. He thought of the parents, wife and children in Beijing, and had a sense of courage out of thin air, "You want me to die, I will survive." He gently held the reins of the horse, and the war horse had already been in harmony with the master. He ran out of the front with a brisk pace, and more than a hundred cavalry were following him.
Chen De's army camp became clearer and clearer. Just two times the distance, the forest suddenly ordered the horse and said, "Sit and wait here. If I die, then retreat. I think it will not be too much punishment for Lord Dong." After that, he urged the horse to move forward again.
"Captain Lin, how are we the turtle shrunk?" Several shouted loudly, all leading the cavalrymen to follow behind. A warm feeling emerged from the center of the forest. He turned around and shouted, "Let's wait here. If I have the fate to come back, we will still be happy with wine and meat." This forest not only has strong martial arts skills, but also has a generous nature and good control. Otherwise, there would not be a hundred and ten military men willing to die with him. In this command, the words in the forest had their unstoppable weight. Seeing that he did not seem to be about to break the situation on his own, he was in front of the formation and was squeamish, he stayed outside the arrow of Chen De's army and watched the one in the forest ride forward.
Seeing that the Song army sent more than a hundred cavalry, the army was not like the army envoy, and the reconnaissance cavalry was not like the reconnaissance cavalry. When he walked to the camp for four or five hundred steps, he suddenly stopped. After saying a few words to each other, the brigade stopped where he rode alone. The leading general slowly rode forward. I wonder what he intended, but the captains of each department did not order to shoot arrows. He let him slowly walk below the camp and stop when there were still dozens of steps.
Just when Chen De thought this man was an envoy sent by the Song army, he suddenly saw him lifting his horse's spear and striving to storm 7. The seven-foot spear rushed towards the coach's flag like lightning, which was shocked that the generals and schoolmen on the camp were filled with "ah" and before they could speak, they crackled, and the thick "Chen"-shaped flag pole actually broke into two sections and fell to the ground. Although the Song army's cavalry left the camp
The distance was already very close, but the gun and flag were broken, showing amazing strength and accuracy. This time, the tens of thousands of soldiers watching the battle on both sides forgot to shout, "Okay," just stared blankly at the cavalryman who quickly turned his horse's head and ran back to the formation as fast as possible. More than a hundred cavalrymen who were waiting behind also ran towards him at the same time, and some even pulled their bows and fired arrows to cover the city.
Author: I think Lin Chong’s story in the middle of Water Margin should have countless shadows in the past and present. Haha, borrow it and open your eyes to heroes. ,!
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