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- Time, go back to two days ago.
Night.
On the south bank of Huangshui River, there are corpses all over the ground!
It turned out to be Xue Fu.
Xue Fu looked tired.
Just as Shi Jin and Tiance were both in financial crisis after the Guanzhong War, the Khitan's manpower and material resources were also stretched thin. Facing Tiance's two-sided offensive, Yelu Deguang could only focus on defense. In addition to arranging capable personnel in the Northeast to suppress those who might rebel N¨¹zhi and Bohai Sea concentrated the fighting forces in Shangjing, while the containment forces were distributed in Youzhou, Yunzhou and the south bank of Huangshui River. The other vast areas inevitably fell into a state of emptiness. Xue Fu led 3,000 cavalry, three people and one horse, taking turns to transfer, passing Yuanyangbo and then to Goubo, and then advanced to Yangcheng Lake-this is the upper reaches of the Luan River. The Luanhe River makes a bend here and will first flow north for two hundred miles, then east, and then turn south.
While Xue Fu let his exhausted soldiers rest, he asked some soldiers and horses to drive local herdsmen to pull out the wood from the Yangchengbo pasture, tie the wood into a raft, and sail down the river one day later, and landed at the Luan River bend to the south, bypassing a certain population. From Songshan Prefecture, he rushed to Huangshui. Under the leadership of his guide, he walked for more than hundreds of miles, almost as if he was in a deserted land. The whole city was almost in a straight line. Even the fast horses in Youzhou could not keep up with the speed of his attack.
When they arrived near Huangshui, more than half of the nine thousand war horses were abandoned due to excessive fatigue.
It was already one day late for Youzhou to receive the news that Xue Fu had arrived at Yuanyangbo. They had to go northeast through Miyun to deliver the letter out of the customs. They had to walk more than a hundred miles to Bei'an Prefecture in the middle reaches of the Luan River and cross the Great Wall. Cross the Luanhe River, go eastward for 150 miles to Shenzhou, then 200 miles to Yuzhou, turn north for more than 100 miles, arrive at Dadingfu in Zhongjing of the Liao Kingdom, and then pass through Enzhou and enter Songshan Prefecture. . Then head north from Songshan Prefecture to Huangshui. There are prefectures and counties along this road, but the route is half longer than the one Xue Fu took.
Maybe it¡¯s God¡¯s blessing. Perhaps because of the skill of his guide, Xue Fu had no accidents along the way. When he was approaching the south bank of Huangshui River, just as everyone was about to take a breather, a light of fire came from the southeast and approached the south bank of Huangshui River.
No one knows what it is. But Xue Fu counted the time and guessed that it was a messenger, so he organized a thousand elites who were still able to move regardless of the fatigue of the soldiers, and let the others rest on the spot. He led a thousand riders to follow the light of fire in the darkness. , rushed into the unsuspecting military camp - the camp on the south bank of Huangshui River has been preparing for attacks from the north bank these days, focusing all its energy on dealing with Dinghan Mountain, and is not wary of the south. There was no spare time to take care of it, and Xue Fu was caught off guard!
After daybreak, looking at the corpses of the camp, the surviving 800 sweat-blooded cavalry were all afraid. Fortunately, Xue Fu made an accurate judgment and followed the messenger to launch a surprise attack. Otherwise, the company camp on the south bank of Huangshui River, which is hundreds of miles long, would have been empty and real. . Even if Xue Fu wanted to attack, he didn't know where to start!
The Sweat Blood Cavalry Regiment was extremely tired by now, but when the follow-up troops who did not participate in the night attack last night arrived. Xue Fu ordered to cross the river!
The north bank of Huangshui has been cleared, but there are boats and rafts on the south bank. When Ding Hanshan saw an army crossing the river, he couldn't help but be shocked.
"Is the Khitan preparing to turn from defense to offense?"
Then someone exclaimed, pointing at a ship in front of them and shouting: "Look! Look! What is that!"
Ding Hanshan moved the telescope and could hardly believe his eyes!
"That is¡¡"
Standing on the boat is actually a red satin blood spear!
"Red Satin Blood Spear! The Blood Sweat Cavalry is here!"
The entire north bank of Huangshui boiled instantly!
What happened to the Khitan soldiers on the south bank? Damn it now!
The Blood Cavalry is here!
Reinforcements from home are coming!
This is the most important!
The entire exploration camp roared loudly, and Ding Hanshan rushed forward with great excitement, but after receiving Xue Fu, his first words were: "How was the battle in Beijing?"
Ding Hanshan was stunned and immediately replied: "We haven't been able to wait for news from the south. The Governor has decided to start the war tomorrow!"
Xue Fu was startled, and Ding Hanshan said: "I will report to the main camp immediately!"
"How long does it take to get from here to outside Shangjing City?"
"With a light horse and a fast horse, we can arrive there in a day and a night. If we rush quickly, the Governor will arrive at noon tomorrow"
"It's too late!" Xue Fu interrupted him and said: "It's better not to report the change before the battle! That will upset the governor's heart!"
Ding Hanshan said: "What should we do?"
Xue Fu only pondered for a moment and then said: "From now on, I will take over all military power south of Shangjing!"
Ding Hanshan was stunned for a moment, then said: "Yes!"
??Xue Fu ordered again: "All the 1,800 sweat-blooded cavalry regiments that are still able to move will change their horses! Together with the Kancho Camp and the Sixth Mansion of the Longxiang Iron Armor Army, they will march directly north. All other Mobei tribes will accompany them without notice. I am the governor, and I will go directly to the battlefield in Shangjing!"
By this time his team was very tired. In the age of infantry, if you fight for profit within fifty miles, you will defeat the general!
If the cavalry were replaced, the distance would not exceed three hundred miles! Therefore, when Cao Cao pursued Liu Bei, his light cavalry traveled three hundred miles a day and a night, and then entered into Zhuge Liang's comment to Sun Quan: The final strength of a strong crossbow cannot penetrate Lu Zhen!
The cavalry in the Late Tang Dynasty had no obvious technological leap forward compared to the Three Kingdoms era in this regard. Ding Hanshan looked at Xue Fu's men and couldn't help but want to admonish him, but Xue Fu still decisively ordered: Change the horses!
More than 70% of the war horses he brought were dead or injured after crossing the river! The rest are still alive and can barely ride. Fortunately, the war horses brought by Ding Hanshan are enough to ensure that one man and two can ride on them even after they are evenly distributed to Xue Fu!
"No need to send any signals! Ding Hanshan leads the way, and Ma Humeng holds the red satin blood spear and goes directly to the capital!" Xue Fu also changed his horse and murmured: "I hope it's not too late!"
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The battle in Beijing is an inter-ethnic battle in Northeast Asia!
??Zubu, Dilie, Shiwei, Bohai, Xi Clan, Nuzhi Of course the most important ones are Han and Khitan.
They are either under the banner of the Tang Army or the Liao Army, fighting for the destiny of their respective ethnic groups in the next decades or even centuries in their respective camps - through this war!
If the big clan loses, they will be enslaved, and if the small clan loses, they may be exterminated!
There is only one nation that is transcendent. Even if it loses, there will always be a chance for a comeback.
"That's the Han!" On the road from Beijing to the Northeast. The Empress Dowager of Daliao, Shu Luping, was analyzing the situation to Yelu Deguang's eldest son, the eleven-year-old Shouan Gong Yelv Jing.
Shu Luping said to his grandson: "This is the place where the Han people are devastated. This hateful nation seems to have existed since the beginning of the world, and has stood firm through thousands of years of ups and downs. However, this is also their shortcoming! Therefore, they do not have as strong a sense of national crisis as we do, so it is difficult for their people to make up their mind to die!"
The Queen of Khitan, the current Queen Mother of Daliao, the wife of Yelu Abaoji, and the most powerful woman in the entire north until last year, has now entered her twilight years, but her body is still strong. She can still ride a horse every day, so the bumps in the carriage are nothing to her.
"But I heard that Tiance is not like this." Yelujing is only eleven years old, but he has grown quite majestic, with the height of an ordinary thirteen or fourteen-year-old boy. Shuluping was sitting on the carriage, and he was riding War horses followed beside them, "They raised troops from the Western Region and broke through many obstacles. In several battles, they fought hard to get out of trouble and open up a new situation when others would die if they came. They are different from what grandma said."
"Tiance is not a Han!" Shu Luping said sternly in the carriage: "Maybe their ancestors have Han ancestry, maybe they speak Chinese, maybe they consider themselves Han, but Tiance is definitely not Han people! You have to remember this, in case your father fails to defeat them this time. The important task of fighting Tiance in the future will fall on your head sooner or later. You must not be deceived by Han Yanhui and those people and turn Tiance into a trap. Treat them as Han Chinese from the Central Plains."
"Why?" Yelujing said: "Various Bianwen stories clearly explain the origin of Tiance. They are the descendants of the Four Towns of Anxi. How come they are not Han people?"
"Perhaps they are the descendants of the four towns in Anxi, but they are already two different ethnic groups from the Han people in the Central Plains." Shuluping said: "The old Anxi tribe struggled to survive under the siege of various enemies in the Western Regions, so they They will have a sense of crisis that the Han people in the Central Plains do not have, and they will have the determination to fight for their lives in desperate situations! They will have the courage to regard their lives as bets, and they will have the unity that only small tribes and small countries can have!"
"Unity can only exist among small tribes and small countries? Why can only small tribes and countries be united?"
"Because it is difficult for people in a big country to be truly united." Shulu Ping said: "People must live for themselves, seek benefits for themselves, and fight for themselves! But it is difficult for one person to accomplish great things alone, so They need to help each other to compete with the outside world. In the Northeast and Mobei, a small tribe is a whole. They must fight against the heaven and earth as one person to survive. Unity is not a virtue, it is a need. A tribe must unite to compete with other tribes for survival resources, and a tribe must unite to compete with other tribes for strength. However, the Han people have no such need!
"The territory of the Han people is so big that it is almost boundless, except for the occasional ones like our Khitan or?For powerful tribes like Tubo and Uighur, all other small tribes are the targets of their oppression, like pigs and sheep, left to be herded and exploited. Therefore, except for the western and northern borders, for most Han people, from birth to death, they have almost no chance to encounter foreigners who threaten them. They are Han people, regardless of doing business and farming, studying and practicing martial arts, or the objects of competition. They have always been Han Chinese, and most Han people have little chance to compete with foreigners. They have not had such experience since childhood, so when they grow up, they are destined to be more accustomed to competing with their own tribe. There will definitely be more internal fighting than external fighting.
"As long as the Han people are the largest and richest nation under the sky, their situation will continue, unless one day they are knocked down from their high thrones and they feel the crisis of national subjugation and genocide. , only then will unity be possible.¡±
Yelujing seemed to understand: "But Tiance is a small country and a small clan, so they can be so united internally, right grandma?"
"Yes."
"But Tiance has returned to the Central Plains now"
"Yes, this is also the scariest thing about them now. With the spirit of a new nation, they returned to their motherland with endless manpower and material resources. They brought desperate courage, life-saving determination and the spirit of unity to the motherland. It revived the corrupt state of the mother state, and the mother state provided them with endless manpower support. This is also the reason why Tiance has been invincible in recent years."
Speaking of this, Shulu Ping sighed: "It's a pity that we didn't see this through earlier, otherwise, there would be no defeat in Mobei." At this point, the eyes of the Queen of Khitan. There was a rare flash of fear: "Currently Tiance only controls the northwest. Once they control the entire Central Plains and use their people and their power for external purposes, how will other nations under the sky survive!"
"Grandma, I heard Han Yanhui say that Shi Jingtang can't defeat Zhang Longxiang. If he really unifies the Central Plains and Tiance is so terrible, what should we Khitans do?"
At this moment, a messenger horse galloped closer and said a few words to Shuluping in the car. Shuluping said with a hum, "I understand," and sent the messenger away.
Yelujing asked what happened, but Shuluping didn't seem to hear his grandson's question and continued the interrupted topic: "Shulu'er, don't be afraid of Tiance. You just need to work hard to support Daliao and survive." In ten, twenty, thirty years, until people like Zhang Mai and Yang Yi are dead, the Khitan will still have a chance!"
"Why?"
"No matter how mighty the water of the Yellow River is, after it is poured into the sea, it will be assimilated by the sea water very quickly, at most in two generations. The Central Plains will definitely return to normal."
Shu Luping did not explain any more, but just looked in the direction of Shangjing. Just now the messenger told him that the battle in Beijing had begun, although she refused to admit it - she had no control over the situation there!
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While Shuluping was educating her grandson on the road, the Khitan inner circle, which her husband Abaoji was proud of, had already launched an attack on Tiance's Tang army.
Tiance¡¯s front army entered the battlefield south of Shangjing City step by step. The remaining 9,000 people were unable to resist the Khitan¡¯s strong breakthrough. The 9,000 tribal troops were torn into two halves with almost no ability to fight back.
Drag La Duokuo and swing his giant axe. Instead of chopping, he used smashing. The ax with an extended iron handle and a weight of more than 80 kilograms was like a mace in his hand. He didn't care about accuracy. When he saw someone in front of him, he just waved, and then there was a dead person or a dead horse in the world.
The strong impact, terrifying lethality, and the scene of flying flesh and blood made the Mobei tribes under Tiance tremble with fear!
But all this failed to scare Tiance Zhongjun.
Corresponding to the Khitan's cone marching formation, the Tang army's central army was divided into five depths. The first layer was composed of Ying Yang and Ten Thousand Cavalry. Facing the intimidating momentum of the Khitan heartland, it still stood firm as Mount Tai. The main force of the second layer was composed of 10,000 people. The third level of the mounted infantry recruited by Liang Xin consists of 10,000 people. The main force is the Longxiang Iron Armor Army. The main force of the fourth level is the Yingyang Cavalry plus the defensive infantry transferred from the rear army. The fifth level is a mixed preparation for war. Team.
Five depths, the first three are arranged in the shape of an early moon, with the most elite troops concentrated on the left and right tips, and the fourth depth is a semicircle. Originally, Li Bin planned to use a high shield to resist horses as the first layer, but Yang Yi refused.
"Our trip this time is not to defend, but to fight! The Khitan wants to charge, and we will accompany him to charge!"
After the Khitan soldiers and horses broke through the vanguard, if you look down from a high altitude, you can see that the Khitan's overall formation is still a huge cone, but the base formation has changed, becoming a small team of five to ten cavalry. Fifty to one hundred riders form a large group, several riders form a small group, and dozens of riders form a group.?A large clump, thousands of big clumps and tens of thousands of small clumps, the clumps advance, the cavalry clumps are almost equidistant from each other, they echo each other, and they are not trampled due to the close distance, and can maximize the To avoid the lethality of local bows and arrows, this marching formation is a cavalry strategy developed in Mobei for thousands of years. However, Mobei elites like the Khitan could not effectively execute it. Later, it was passed to the Mongols and Temujin took it. A very vivid metaphor: "Entering is like a mountain peach bark bush"!
When the first wave of cavalry entered the three-arrow shooting range of Mobei Arrow Branch, the second level of Tiance¡¯s Chinese Army had already issued an order: ¡°Get ready!¡±
The main force of this second layer of troops is newly recruited troops from Ganliang. Most of them are mounted infantry. The population is mixed with Han people, but they have a high degree of recognition of Tiance's regime. Xiliang has produced warriors since ancient times. These people are under the guidance of Guo Shiyong and Zhang Mai. Under the jointly established military training system, the military quality is not low, and after last year's actual combat training of thousands of miles, he is already an elite soldier!
Twenty-eight hundred infantrymen sat down at the same time, straining their waists and spreading their legs. They were using waist crossbows! You have to sit down on the ground to fire the bow and arrow, but there are five arrows in one crossbow, and the effective range is three times that of Mobei's arrows!
"put!"
Fourteen thousand feathered arrows shot straight into the Khitan formation with a sound that was so sharp that it hurt the ears!
If there are sheep grazing nearby at this time, hearing the noise is enough to scare the sheep and run away. If the Bohai Infantry Regiment were close to the left at this time, seeing such a dense rain of arrows and such rapid arrow speed would be embarrassing! The feather arrows fired by the high-intensity waist crossbow are not at the same level as the archers of the Bohai Infantry Regiment!
But that¡¯s just at this time. Only then can we see why the elite are elite! When the Khitan people heard the sound of breaking through the sky, they almost didn't need the general's order. Thousands of cavalrymen all fell to the ground on their horses and huddled up, minimizing the damage area and maintaining the formation of Shantaopicong. It can effectively reduce the damage of long-range weapons. The first round of arrows flew over, but only a few twenty or thirty knights fell!
"Go! Go!"
???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? could make a beast-like sound, and his black dragon was still running at the front, without he¨O¨O¨Oing the hurt that he had just suffered, he rushed straight into the land of the two arrows!
"Prepare¡ª¡ª"
"put!"
The closer the Khitan gets, the more lethal the arrow rain will be!
There was another fierce sound of breaking through the air, and then hundreds of horses fell off their horses almost at the same time!
But due to the Khitan's special cavalry formation, those who were hit by arrows in front of them fell off their horses regardless of whether they were hit by arrows or not. Even if the horse is hit by an arrow and falls down, it will not affect the progress of the comrades. Although the arrow rain came violently, it could not affect the charging speed of the inner cavalry at all!
"Prepare¡ª¡ª"
The waist crossbow was pulled open for the third time. It takes a lot of energy to open this special waist crossbow!
But before releasing the arrow, the first-level general suddenly ordered: "Dismount!"
All the cavalrymen dismounted and crouched!
Twenty-eight hundred demon crossbowmen lowered their shooting angle, from parabolic shooting in the sky to low-altitude and sweeping shooting!
"put!"
Just when the sound of breaking through the sky sounded. Laradokuo let out a huge roar, the sound was not loud enough for humans:
"Khitan! Khitan! Charge!"
Twenty thousand people in the heart and mind roared at the same time: "Khitan. Khitan! Charge!"
That was really a spectacular sound, that was really a tragic scene!
Facing the oncoming arrows, none of the Khitan knights chose to retreat - if they had dodged, they might have reduced casualties, but it would have affected the impact speed! It will even affect the comrades behind!
At this moment, I don¡¯t know how many people continue to move forward knowing that they will die!
"Khitan" On the viewing platform. Li Bin also made a trembling guttural sound. The warriors of this nation across from us are worthy opponents! How can it be that we have been sweeping across the desert for two hundred years without any reason!
Hundreds of cavalrymen rolled and fell, or died under the arrows of the Tang army, or under the hoofs of their comrades!
Going to the top of the capital city, Yelu Deguang couldn't help but shed tears!
The warriors of the Khitan Heartland have never paid such a high price for a single charge!
Tiance is on the Tang Army¡¯s side. Ying Yang Wanqi immediately got on his horse the moment after the arrow rain was launched, and ten captains issued orders at the same time: "Ying Yang Po Hu! Charge!"
It¡¯s not about holding back horses and waiting for the enemy¡¯s impact, it¡¯s not about using shields to delay the enemy¡¯s horseshoes, it¡¯s about cavalry versus cavalry, horse fighting against horse fighting!
?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Can be forced to fight against force! Head-to-head!
Two thousand clumps of Khitan cavalry, in a cone-shaped formation, broke into the midst of thousands of Ying Yang cavalry!
The Khitan¡¯s saber struck the Han warrior, and Tiance¡¯s horizontal sword, pierced Hulu's body!
But the first round of impact relies more on the momentum of the horse rather than the strength of the human arm!
The two peaks of the Chuyue formation came into contact with the enemy earlier than the concave comrades in the center. While the dozens of horse warriors at the left tip used their swords to cut off dozens of Khitan heads with long swords, the dozens of horse warriors at the right tip were at the same time. The pikemen also used their spears to pick out dozens of Khitans and pierce their intestines!
When two horses are galloping against each other, there is no room for tricks. As long as you see accurately, one shot and one knife can make the difference between life and death!
But in the center, the situation was not good. A Han military captain put his spear forward and relied on the enemy's own momentum to overturn the oncoming Khitan with one shot. However, at the same time, he was dragged by Duo Kuo and swept across with an axe. , the gun was broken, then the arm was broken, and then the whole person was smashed out of the saddle, and he died in mid-air! The whole process takes less than half a second!
His men surrounded him like crazy, but what they got in return was a sweep of huge axes!
The abdomen of the abdomen that forms a cluster with Du Duo Du Duo also has a centurion improper use! One by one, the skin bushes rolled over and attacked, killing all the twenty-five cavalry on the way forward in the shortest time!
The central point on the first floor was breached!
"Broken! Broken! Broken! Broken!"
This is a roar, but also a victory!
Going to the top of the capital city, Yelu Deguang saw it and ordered the drums to be beaten!
The sound of drums spread throughout the battlefield, and the hearts of thousands of knights were greatly boosted!
But at the same time, the long branch of Tiance¡¯s army stood up again!
Yang Yi issued an order!
A firework soared into the sky, Shi Jian's dragon iron armor, and Guo Zhang's five thousand cavalry and archers set off at the same time!
"Blunt its edge and break its wings!"
The heart of the heart is at its peak, and Datang's two reserve troops have already marched towards its two wings! (To be continued) - Didn't finish reading? Add this book to your favoritesI'm a member and bookmarked this chapterCopy the address of this book and recommend it to your friends for pointsChapter error? Click here to report
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