Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 475 But that's it
Outside Xiaojiangkou Village, the camp was erected at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Surrounded by the generals, Zhao Kuangning climbed high and looked far away to observe the Xia army's fortress.

In fact, it is not a stockade, but a military city.

There are all kinds of facilities in the city, and water is even diverted into the City God outside the city wall, and there is also a suspension bridge.

If there is a strong attack, the casualties are estimated to be not small.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuangning's heart tightened.If too many troops are lost here, how can we resist the Bian army in the future?

There is also Li Kan in the south, who is also an ambitious person, it is difficult!
"Can you lure the bandit army out of the city to fight in the field?" Zhao Kuangning asked the generals for advice.

The so-called "generals", well, Zhao Dewan, Zhao Fan, and Zhao Kuanglin are the capitals, and half of the ten generals, soldiers and horse envoys below are also surnamed Zhao.

Not the descendants of the Zhao family, but also adopted sons, in short, a nest of the Zhao family.

"I'm afraid it's a bit difficult." Zhao Dewan was also stumped by the fortified city, and only heard him say: "Our army has tens of thousands, and the bandit army is only a few thousand. In Fangzhou, the bandit army was defeated twice in a row. The news After passing it over, morale was frustrated. If the old man was in the city, he would not want to fight."

Another news came from Fangzhou.

Sun Dian, the governor of Fangzhou, attacked Li Bai of Jinzhou with [-] soldiers, won again, and captured and beheaded [-] people.The soldiers of Jinzhou were defeated, and Sun Dian pursued them. He was ambushed, hundreds of people were killed and injured, and he retreated to Fangzhou.

Overall it's still a win.

"Let's try it." Zhao Kuangning was a little worried, but still ordered a clerk beside him, saying: "Write the letter of war, and see if the Zongzong can accept it."

"Follow orders." The clerk bowed and stepped back.

The gauntlet was quickly sent into the city.

At that time, Zhe Zongben was supervising soldiers and horses and preparing equipment.He took the letter of war, squinted at the Xiangyang envoy who came in on a hanging basket, and said, "You're not a coward, aren't you afraid of being killed to sacrifice the flag?"

The envoy's face turned pale, but it wasn't because of Zhe Zongben's words, but because he saw the densely packed army of soldiers in the city who had already assembled.

They are well-armored, have high morale, and are well-trained. They are capable of fighting at first glance.

A total of five thousand people!On the other side of Cangcheng next door, there was also the faint neighing of war horses. Could it be that there are tens of thousands of people?
"...If there are not enough granaries, people will drop their food; if there is not enough money, they will take people's resources; For a section, he laughed and scolded: "Is this saying that I robbed? Just hit me, I have to talk about a big truth first, as if Zhao Kuangning is some kind of good person."

The relatives around him laughed.

There was a shortage of food and grass in the army. Even if some were looted, the total strength of the army increased from 4000 to [-] (Wesheng Army [-], Leopard Cavalry [-]), and the number of horses also increased from [-]. Increased to more than [-] horses.

Everyone knows that a horse's appetite is as good as three people's.This is equivalent to [-] pawns eating, and it takes [-] to [-] hu grains a month.

Calculate the family fortune, at most it will last for less than two months.Even if the loyal army does not come to fight, they will attack.

"Zhao Kuangning kindly invites you, and the old man is not polite anymore. I have ordered the battalions to go to battle!" Zhe Zongben suddenly got up, took the infantry bow handed by his own soldiers, tried the bowstring, and said: "Don't keep your hands, you can take it!" Anyone who dares to kill someone, who dares to kill, follow me!"

The generals responded with a bang.

A moment later, drums sounded in the city, and the gates of the camp opened wide.

The cavalry came first, then the infantry, and then the auxiliary soldiers.

Zhao Kuangning watched from a distance in the camp, and saw the gate of Xiaojiangkou Village open wide, overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "The whole army will go to battle, with Zhao Dewan from the governor's office as the formation envoy, Zhao Fan, the governor of Tangzhou, as the commander of the capital, and the commander of Suizhou Inspector Zhao Kuanglin is the envoy of You Yi..."

After issuing a series of orders, Zhao Kuangning, surrounded by his own soldiers, rode out of the camp gate.

As the coach, of course he has to fight, otherwise the sergeants would not give their all.

The sound of drums is endless, and there are like clouds of soldiers.

Looking down from the air, on the open valley and flat ground, the camps on both sides continued to "spit out" rows of sergeants like magic tricks.

The sergeants, battalion after battalion, lined up at their respective designated positions according to the golden drum banner.

Zhao Kuangning boarded the watchtower car and looked westward for the first time, as if struck by lightning.

The opponent lined up the standard Li Weigong formation, and counted carefully: the left army's front, the left army's cavalry, the left army's infantry, the left Yuhou's battle front, the left Yuhou's cavalry, the left Yuhou's infantry, the central army's surprise soldiers, the central Army troops, middle army cavalry, right army...garrisoned crossbowmen...disbanded...

Nearly ten thousand people, how could there be so many!
Zhao Kuangning's mind faltered a little.In his heart, he actually knew that Bandit Xia's combat power surpassed that of his loyal army.But the psychological advantage has always been that there are many soldiers and several times the advantage.

But right now, it seems that there is no four or five times the expected advantage, only two times.

No, don't panic, twice is also an advantage, and you can fight!

Zhao Kuangning settled down and looked at his own army that was forming the formation.

Formation is slower than others!
Zhe Zongben came to the front of the formation on a horse.

The cavalry of the Loyalty Army has been arranged and placed in front of the formation, and there are still some scattered troops in front of them, all of which have been arrayed.

The small formations of the infantry in the rear are still marching according to the flags, but the general outline has been formed.

The front is sharp and the back is stretched, and it travels obliquely, which is convenient for left and right, and for maneuvering. These are the three talents of Taigong, the wild goose shape of Sun Tzu, the goose stork of Wu Qi, and the rushing formation of Zhuge Liang.

This is to attack!

"Handling orders, each command formation, each is very upright. If you lose a position, you will behead one general. When the situation is established, look at the golden drum flag, and each formation will respond. Those who are timid and hesitant will be beheaded!" The soldiers sent messages separately.

Soon, the various arrays responded with drumming.

Zhe Zongben's banner returned to the Chinese army.

"Boom, boom, boom..." The drummer beat the drum vigorously.

"Clatter!" This is the sound of nail leaves colliding.

The left army and the right Yuhou army lined up at the front. The front rows were all heavily armored spearmen.

The left army cavalry was dispatched.300 cavalry and archers, and [-] cavalry with spears and horses, went out first, and went straight to the front of the loyal army.Youyu Hou's cavalry team also dispatched [-] cavalry archers, echoing each other.

There were only two hundred steps between the two armies, and the cavalry army arrived in an instant.

A part of the Ma Jun team of the Loyalty Army split up and stepped forward to intercept, but the team did not move.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" The Zhejia cavalry came roaring, arrows flew out, and the cavalry rushing in from the opposite side took a step slower and fell off their horses one after another.

These selected fine cavalry, walking horse archery, are already close to the level of Wu Jinshi's ten out of five, and they leave immediately after shooting, simply and neatly.

"Kill!" Taking advantage of the confusion of the enemy army, the horse cavalry who fell behind rushed forward and scattered the [-] enemy cavalry rushing forward with one blow.

One of the valiant warriors, with a horse under his crotch that was extremely handsome and extremely powerful, picked up a corpse of an enemy cavalry and threw it viciously, and then roared loudly, causing applause.

This man seemed to have lost his temper, and directly led more than ten cavalry, bypassing the scattered troops in front of the enemy army, and heading straight for the front army brigade.

Scattered groups of crossbowmen gathered here one after another, but they were a little far away.

The enemy horse army garrison rode their horses in pursuit, but they could only follow behind and eat ashes.

Zhao Kuangning stood on the high platform, dumbfounded.

The front army had just finished setting up the formation, and the general might still be hesitating whether to ask the sergeants in the back row to put down their rifles and shoot with their bows.

But there were only a dozen riders rushing over, and it seemed that it was not worth it. Such a hesitation made people rush to the front of the formation.

"Kill!" There was a deafening roar that shook people's minds. Ma Leng stabbed and a sergeant fell to the ground in front of him.

In the wild goose formation, the former army took two steps each, that is, the distance between people was more than three meters. At this time, he saw the opportunity. After stabbing one person, he rushed straight in, swept across, and several people stood up. He fell to the ground unsteadily, and then stretched out his hand, directly captured an enemy soldier who couldn't help retreating, and threw him across the horse's back.

"Haha! That's all." The man laughed twice, and rushed out of the formation with the captives, roaring away.

There was silence all around.

From the high platform, Zhao Kuangning could clearly see a small formation of hundreds of people in the front left completely stopped.

Is this fucking Ma Taiwei possessed by Ma Lin?Zhao Kuangning slapped the fence of the high platform bitterly.

In the battle of Zhaojue Temple, Shi Chaoyi's army lined up.Ma Lin charged and killed alone, entered the army of thousands, took the shield from the thief and returned it on both sides.

If the enemy has such a god, it will really hurt morale!
After the man returned to his side with the prisoners, he galloped left and right, shouting loudly: "The bandit army is nothing more than this!"

"That's all!" someone shouted.

"That's all!" More and more people followed suit.

"That's all!" Passionate emotions spread throughout the army, everyone followed suit, and morale burst.

The Zhongyi Army's face was ashen, and some people looked at each other in blank dismay, growing timid in their hearts.

After turning around, this person went to the front army to change a horse, and then rushed back with more than ten people.

"The thief general is coming again!" There was a commotion on the side of the loyal army, especially the small phalanx that had been attacked before. Everyone's eyes widened and they stopped unconsciously.

More than ten riders rushed straight to the front of the formation, and some people in the front row of the loyal army even subconsciously moved back.

"Haha, rat!" The man turned his horse's head and ran sideways.

The cavalry general of the Loyalty Army was furious, and waved the flag again and again, hundreds of cavalry followed behind, gnashing their teeth.

However, his movements are very flexible, and the horse under his crotch is also extremely good. After going around in a circle, he actually returned to the original place.This part of the Loyalty Army just breathed a sigh of relief. They were organizing their formation under the whipping of the officers, and were preparing to move on. He was short and escaped the fate of being captured, but his helmet was taken off.

The man circled out of the enemy line like the wind, pulled out a short spear, put his helmet on it, and laughed loudly as he galloped, "You rat!"

"Rat!" Zhejiajun shouted in response.

A thought popped up in everyone's mind, the bandit army is so sparse, this battle must be won.Immediately, he quickened his pace, and the knife and gun in his hand seemed to become much lighter.

Husband battle, courage also!

(End of this chapter)