Starting the day after Xu Ning went up the mountain, the entire army added basic marksmanship skills with hook and sickle spears to the drills.
A few days later, it turned out that Hu Yanzhuo had arrived with his troops, so Chao Gai decisively selected a thousand elite soldiers from Liangshan's main army and handed them over to Xu Ning for training at dawn and night.
But it was said that after Hu Yanzhuo received the order from the Privy Council, he rushed to Tokyo within a time limit to meet Cai Jing. Cai Jing saw that Hu Yanzhuo looked unusual, so he asked Hu Yanzhuo for countermeasures.
Hu Yanzhuo has also learned that the Dongping Mansion failed to exterminate the Liangshan grass bandits, and instead took advantage of the situation to rob the city. Not daring to be careless at the moment, he recommended General Yum Han Tao and General Tianmu Peng Qi to be the vanguard.
Cai Jing was happy to see that Hu Yanzhuo was cautious in using his troops, and immediately sent someone to bring Han Tao and Peng Qi to Beijing.
The three of them arrived and performed martial arts in the royal training ground. After seeing this, Cai Jing felt relieved and ordered the three of them to go back and mobilize local troops.
The soldiers and horses of the three places are about to allocate, but they have caught up with the Mid -Autumn Festival to Tokyo Daqing. In order to prevent mutins, soldiers and horses from all over the world must not enter the Gyegi area.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the troops from the three places set off and rushed to Tokyo to gather together. Therefore, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, little news spread in Tokyo.
Cai Jing looked at the soldiers and horses, rewarded the three armies, and took down the soldiers and horses.
Seeing that Cai Jing was eager for revenge and held a high position, Hu Yanzhuo asked for three thousand war horses.
You must know that since the founding of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, there has been a shortage of horses. The armies in various places are just scattered horse troops. Even the Tiansi Prison in Tokyo only has a total of 20,000 horses.
Although the Huyan family has a method of training soldiers with armored chain horses, it is a pity that they have been unable to form an army due to the lack of war horses. This time I seized the opportunity and ordered three thousand war horses at once. If Liangshan was successfully annihilated, I could take the opportunity to ask Cai Jing for these war horses, and then the Huyan family's armored horses would appear again.
"It's a pity that the training of the armored chain horses is too time-consuming. These three thousand war horses can only be used as ordinary war horses. The only chain horse army that can go to the battlefield this time is a hundred well-trained horses under his command.
The soldiers and horses were neatly allocated, and the three groups of soldiers and horses left Tokyo.
The front army opened the way for Han Tao, the commander of the middle army Hu Yanzhuo, and the rear army urged Peng Qi to rush to Liangshan in a mighty manner.
As soon as the three soldiers and horses entered the boundary of Jeju, Liangshan Tanma had already reported to Juyi Hall.
When all the leaders gathered together and heard that Hu Yanzhuo was actually leading the attack, the eyes he looked at Chao Yong couldn't help but change a bit.
After a while of surprise, Wu Yongcai said: "After Chao Yong said it last time, the villagers made some inquiries. This Hu Yanzhuo is after the famous founding general Hu Yanzan. He is skilled in martial arts and can use two copper whips to keep people away. Just now he explored the horse. I also found out that the three armies had tens of thousands of troops, and the horse army alone numbered more than 3,000. With the chain of horses pressing down on the formation, they were invincible. "
Xu Ning also said: "Although my Thousand Hooks and Sickles Spear Soldiers only teach three secret techniques, their training time is still short and they cannot go to the battlefield. If you can give me another month or two, I can barely do it in some ways." Use troops in the land of thorns.Ą±
When Chao Gai heard this, he frowned and said, "Is it possible that we just hunker down in the mountain stronghold and wait for a month or two?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Tang stood up and said: "Brother, please don't let other people's ambitions destroy my prestige. Brother, please give the order. I, Liu Tang, am willing to be the vanguard. Even if he has 100,000 troops, I can kill him."
Lin Chong also knew that Chao Gai had a strong temper, and was afraid that he would be deceived by Liu Tang, so he hurriedly said: "Don't be careless. If it were a side soldier, one hundred thousand would not be enough to kill the Liu Tang brothers. But Hu Yanzhuo's command is a forbidden army, and he is a general, I'm afraid The soldiers and horses under my command are considered to be the elite of the Forbidden Army, but the soldiers and horses in our village are only more than a month old. If we fight head-on, we will probably kill a thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses."
Ruan Xiaoqi shouted: "How can you be afraid of death in this battle? My head fell off, but it's just a big scar on the bowl. I, Liangshan, are all upright men. I would rather die than lose my prestige."
Chao Yong naturally knows his father's character. It would be very difficult for him to stay at home without fighting for a single game.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Hu Yanzhuo's army has just arrived and is full of vigor. We cannot fight him in a decisive battle. However, if he shrinks back without firing a single shot, I am afraid that the heroes of the world will laugh at me. Liangshan has no one. When the officers and soldiers enter my sphere of influence in Liangshan, We went to meet him. He was the best vanguard we could capture, and we also gave Hu Yanzhuo a decisive blow. However, there were many officers and soldiers, so we could only lead the cavalry. Even if we were surrounded by officers and soldiers, we could break out of the siege. Ą±
Dong Ping is also a warlike person. When he heard that his cavalry army was ordered to go to war, he quickly agreed: "Brother Yong said yes, so I, the cavalry army, will go to meet him."
Seeing that his son had come up with a plan to get the best of both worlds, Chao Gai smiled and said, "This is the best plan. We must capture Han Tao alive. The military advisor, Liu Tang, and Bai Sheng stayed to guard the stronghold. The rest of the generals followed me down the mountain. The Ruan brothers were in charge." Answer."
When Liu Tang heard that he was asked to guard the stronghold, he immediately shouted: "Brother, let me go and fight for a while."
"The people who are going this time are all cavalry troops. You are only good at fighting on foot, but you can't go. Wait for the decisive battle in a few days, and ShaoI can't fight with you. "
After the allocation was decided, Dong Ping went to inspect his cavalry army, and the other leaders who had the opportunity to go down the mountain also prepared their own horse and armor.
But Han Tao, the pioneer of Huyanzhuo, was also a martial artist. He made a jujube wood sculpture and was called General Baisheng. Although his nickname is General Yum, Han Tao has never been on the battlefield. He was only changed to General Yum because he won many people in a row during the martial arts examination and passed the martial arts examination.
Although the Northern Song DynastyĄŻs military was not strong, its national power was not. Moreover, the Zhao and Song royal families were willing to live under others and were willing to spend money to buy peace. Therefore, there were not many border wars, and younger generals rarely went to the battlefield.
The place where Han Tao works is in the Gyeonggi area, where the Forbidden Army has always been stationed, and bandits and bandits have never appeared, so this is the first time he has led troops on an expedition.
As the army marched along, the bandits and thieves fled one after another along the way, which made Han Tao relax his vigilance, feeling that no bandits dared to confront the imperial army.
Although they were less than thirty miles away from Liangshan, they did not send more exploration horses, nor did they ask the exploration horses to increase the scope of the sentinel investigation.
When Han Tao was swaying forward on his horse, he saw a sudden appearance of dust on the horizon, and it was approaching quickly.
When I was wondering, I saw the detective horse in front of me running up and shouting: "Report, there are hundreds of Liangshan bandits attacking."
Han Tao glanced at the team behind him that was stretched due to the march. If the Liangshan horse army was attacked at this time, the entire front army would probably be scattered. He hurriedly shouted: "The horse army will come up with me, and the infantry will form a formation to guard against bandits." Charge into battle."
Chao Gai and others were no more than five miles away from Han Tao's front army at this time. It seemed that Han Tao was not very vigilant and was prepared to launch a direct attack. Unexpectedly, Han Tao was so bold that he led his cavalry army to meet him.
Chao Gai saw that Han Tao's cavalry were all wearing vests. If the two cavalry collided, his own cavalry would probably suffer a lot. These 200 cavalry were the only ones in Liangshan. He couldn't help but feel distressed at that moment and waved his hand. :"stop."
"Slow down the horse and stop slowly."
Dong Ping heard Chao Gai suddenly shouting "stop" and almost fell off his horse in fright. The horse army had already charged. If Chao Gai shouted "stop", he might be in a mess without the officers and soldiers charging, so he quickly added.
(Thanks to "Money will never change", "Hao Gaoyuan" and "Sunshine Avenue" for the reward)