Quan Yutianxia GL

Gao Zhimin's efforts were not in vain. Early the next morning, the Donglai Army received an order to go to Husu County to support the defeated army general Xiao Hongfei in guarding the Banghai Road.

From Youzhou to Liaoxi, there are three roads that can be taken, one is the Pinggang Road, the other is the Endless Road, and the third is the Banghai Road.

Pinggang Road is an ancient road that existed in the Warring States Period. It runs from Jicheng to the northeast for more than two hundred miles, exits Beikouguan City in Yuyang County, crosses Yanshan Mountain, and passes through Baitan County to Pinggang City in Beiping County. If you run the city northward, you can go straight to Wuhou Qinshui in Xianbei, and continue eastward from Pinggang City to Liucheng, Linyu, Jiaoli and Juncheng in western Liaoning.

And the endless way has existed longer than the Warring States period. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the natural passage from the Central Plains to Liaodong and other places in the west of Liaoning. Go northeast along the banks of the Shuihe River, cross the Yanshan Mountains to the east source of Yushui River, and then follow the Yuhe River to reach Liucheng, Linyu and other places in western Liaoning.

The Banghai Road is further east of the Endless Road, from Jieshi along the Fengdashui River to the north, passing through Wencheng County in western Liaoning, passing through Husu County, and then arriving at Liucheng.

But nowadays, the two ancient roads of Pinggang and Wuzhong are gradually forgotten and abandoned, and there are very few passers-by. Only the Binhai Road is the primary road leading to Liaoxi and Liaodong.The root cause is that when Qin Shihuang built Chidao, he built it directly from Xianyang to Jicheng, passed through Wuzhong County, and reached Jieshi directly.

Taking the wide and flat straight road of the Chi Road saves manpower, material resources and time compared to crossing the high mountains. After reaching Jieshi and then going up Hebei, it basically bypasses the Yanshan Mountains. Even if there are mountains, there are no such dangers.

Each of the three roads passes through several counties and cities, and there are smooth roads and rough roads. At both ends of the three roads, there is also an important city.

Wuzhong County is a strategic buffer zone between Jicheng and Liaoxi, but the city of Wuzhong County is not tall and majestic, and the surrounding terrain is also extremely flat. If the cavalry of Xianbei kills the general, there is no need to attack the city at all, just go around , You can directly approach the gate of Jicheng.

Therefore, Husu County, which is more than [-] miles in front of Wuzhong County and only a few dozen miles south of Liucheng, has extremely important strategic significance at this time.

But it is extremely important, but not necessarily the most important. Therefore, Gao Zhimin was not satisfied with Gu Wenxiong's decision to transfer the Donglai Army to Husu County to support the defeated army. He participated in yesterday's military meeting and knew clearly that Gu Wenxiong Wen Xiong puts the most important battlefields on Pinggang and Endless Dao.

On the sixth day of May in the 23rd year of Daqing Yongwei, Gao Zhimin led [-] Donglai troops to Husu County with [-] shi of grain, and met Xiao Hongfei's defeated army smoothly.

Xiao Hongfei, who has been so busy all the time, personally picked up the Donglai reinforcements, but when he learned that the reinforcements were only 5000 people, he was overjoyed at first, but he still couldn't hide his disappointment—there were too few reinforcements, Gu Wenxiong Sure enough, the general didn't regard Husu County as a strategically important place, and even sent this young female general over.

Even today, even their army has received news from the imperial court, and they also know the reason for this 'General Zhaoyi'.

Too young, and a general bought with money...

Xiao Hongfei took the reins and looked at Chu Ning from a high position.

Because he was far away in the west of Liaoxi, when he got the news before, he subconsciously thought of the rumored Marquis in Bai Yi, and thought in his heart that this female general was at least two decades old, but he didn't expect that the exact news he got now was less than twenty-nine years old. age.

Being so young, and being a female general, and a general bought with money, is it really worth it?

Thinking of this in his heart, Xiao Hongfei turned his attention to the people behind Chu Ning—these more than a thousand people were all dressed in black tight-sleeved military uniforms, each carrying the same big burden, and holding spears in their hands. Standing proudly, he looks brave and good at fighting.

After handing over the food and grass, Xiao Hongfei couldn't wait to summon all the generals under his command to prepare for a meeting, and Chu Ning was fortunate to be among them. Unfortunately, before the meeting had time to start, he heard the report from the scouts, and there was a change in the Xianbei camp. Prepare to cross the river to attack.

It was past noon at this time, Xiao Hongfei guessed that it was probably because there was too much movement in the camp when the reinforcements were received just now, which attracted the attention of the general Xianbei on the opposite side, so he launched an attack, ready to find out the reality of the reinforcements.

Gao Zhimin had just arrived and wanted to show off his military power. Seeing that Xiao Hongfei's soldiers were preparing for battle in an orderly manner, and he didn't take the Donglai Army seriously, he took the initiative to ask for orders: "Report to General Xiao, the final general will be determined by Xianbei. The battle is only to test the truth, and the whole army will definitely not attack, so please order a battle to teach these thieves that our reinforcements are not weak."

Xiao Hongfei also intentionally called the weight of the Donglai Army, so he immediately agreed to Gao Zhimin's challenge.

With Gao Zhimin's invitation to fight, the Weimin Army couldn't take advantage of it. Chuning summoned officers above the bureau chief to discuss tactics before the battle.

Because they don't know much about the current Xianbei army, the Weimin army had to use Yan Lingge's Iron Cavalry Division and the rangers who had fought in Jizhou before as a reference, and initially decided to focus on defense.

Don't seek merit, but seek no faults - this is Chuning's temporary thinking.

After a few whistles, the resting soldiers of the Weimin Army immediately got up and assembled, and Chu Ning asked Chen Fu to distribute all the ordnance that had been shipped to western Liaoning in advance.

From top to bottom, Xuanjia Division, everyone got a set of heavy armor with a protective collar, which was as long as the knees.As for the string control division and the rest of the soldiers, they only got a set of sleeve armor.

The sleeve armor is also as long as the knees, but it has no collar and greaves, so it can't protect the neck and calves, and the armor is also a little thinner than the heavy armor, but it is lighter and less expensive than the heavy armor. Physical strength affects speed.

It took about a cup of tea before the Weimin Army finished distributing the armor and waist knives, and Chuning also put on the armor. He rode on the horse and glanced at Gao Zhimin next to him, and saw that he had also assembled his subordinates.

Gao Zhimin was also looking at Chuning, and by the way, glanced at the soldiers behind Chuning. With this look, a dense black armor came into his eyes, and he was almost shocked.

Oh shit!When did this iron armor come out?

Gao Zhimin didn't know that Chu Ning had hidden the Bingjia in Jieshi in advance, and took it out when passing Jieshi a few days ago, hiding it in the grain and transporting it all the way here.

Looking at Xuanjia Sina and Chu Ning's armor with only two eyes exposed, Gao Zhimin wished he could grab it right away.But he couldn't, because Xiao Hongfei was beside him, ready to supervise the battle himself.

Xiao Hongfei was also startled by the black-armored army, but he quickly calmed down, and glanced at the entire Donglai army. Seeing this army with extremely complete armor, he felt some confidence in his heart, and made a conclusion in his heart. , thinking that these black armor troops are the main force of the Donglai army.

Since it is the main force, then it should go where the main force should go.

Following Xiao Hongfei's order, the entire Donglai Army was divided into three parts, and they were placed on the river bank in the formation of Pin characters.

As the main force, the Weimin army was placed in the forefront by Xiao Hongfei, Gao Zhimin led [-] soldiers as the left wing, and Shen Teng led [-] soldiers as the right wing.

In this section of the Tang Dynasty, the river is only six or seven feet wide, which is about 20 meters. Fortunately, the river is extremely deep and can slightly trap the horseshoes of the Xianbei cavalry.

The formation of the Donglai Army has just been set up, and there are already a large number of newly made wooden bridges on the river bank over there.

Xiao Hongfei sent troops to break the bridge, but unfortunately the effect was not good, because within the range of the opponent's bow/arrow, dozens of soldiers were shot to death by the opponent in vain.

Seeing this, Chu Ning couldn't help sighing. Seeing that more than 20 wooden bridges had been erected, hundreds of Xianbei cavalry had rushed over.

Different from the phalanx formation on the left and right wings at the back, the Weimin Army formed a circular defensive formation. Sun Xing led the Xuanjia Division to stand in the outermost circle with a heavy shield, Liu Changgui's string control division was in the inner circle, and Chen Fu led the The personal guards kept Chuning in the middle.

The entire formation looks like a black round turtle shell, but in fact, it is indeed a turtle shell.

Moreover, it is a tortoise shell made of refined iron.

Xiao Hongfei, who was supervising the battle at the back of the formation, suddenly turned dark. How fucking afraid of death is it to set up such a battle formation? ! !

He didn't expect that this army, which he regarded as the main force, would be so fearful of battle. It was only 300 meters away from the wooden bridge. .

But fortunately Xiao Hongfei is a real veteran in the battlefield, and he has a different temperament from Gao Zhimin. Jiang smiled and said: "It seems that I have underestimated this Chu Zhaoyi."

The partial general replied: "Is this just a common sense that everyone knows? The sand near the river bank is often washed by the river water, and it is extremely wet/soft. Idiots would not lead people to rush there rashly, would they?"

Xiao Hongfei reminded: "Look at the distance between her formation and the wooden bridge?"

"200 meters?"

"It's almost this distance. The general is really curious whether this distance is an order from her or someone else's guidance." Xiao Hongfei said: "200 meters away from the river bank, not only avoiding the trouble of mud and sand getting stuck, It also exceeded the range of the crossbow on the other side, and left a landing site for the barbarians of Xianbei."

All the generals around heard the words and said yes, but in fact they didn't think so, and looked down at the black armored army.

At this moment, the Xianbei Qingqi who had rushed across the wooden bridge first had already landed, and the horseshoes stepped on the wet sand and mud by the river and slowed down automatically.

However, the distance between the two armies is quite far, most of the arrows shot by dozens of cavalry bows with extreme range were blocked by the oblique iron shield in front of the formation, and a few fell into the dark formation, as if they did not cause any damage. Casualties were average, not even a scream came out.

Murong Hu stopped at a safe distance of 150 steps away from the Black Armored Army, frowned and looked at the "Chu" general flag, and quickly searched in his memory, when did the Daqing Dynasty have such a man? Leading the general of the Iron Armored Army.

Regardless of Xianbei or Daqing, more than a thousand iron armors is not a small number. Such a heavy weapon on the battlefield will definitely not fall into the hands of an unknown young general.

But unfortunately, he thought for a while, but he couldn't think of the future of such a Chu Ming.

Due to the iron shield surrounding the outside, from Murong Hu's current position, he couldn't see the arrangement inside the shield clearly, at most he could only see the red helmet fringe that was unfolded against the wind.

While Murong Hu was looking at the guards, Chu Ning was also looking at him, and asked Chen Fudao: "If you use horns/bows/crossbows at this distance, can you shoot and kill the man in leather armor?"

Xianbei was very extravagant, those who couldn't weave could only wear fur every day, and those who could wear a full set of leather armor were definitely not ordinary soldiers.

Chen Fu squinted his eyes and looked at the knight who looked like the leader, and replied: "The range and lethality are fine, but the accuracy is hard to say. If you don't shoot him dead and hurt the cavalry next to you, you will startle the snake."

"Okay, let's spare him first." As Chu Ning said, he saw that the leader had ordered that the twenty or so cavalry who had been probing with bows and arrows before the formation had charged forward.

These twenty or so riders slapped their horses forward and rushed forward, and after entering the effective killing range, they threw arrows into the formation one after another, but they did not easily step forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat.

Seeing their cautious appearance, Chuning couldn't help curling the corners of his lips, thinking to himself, so you are also afraid of death.

"Send the order, Xuanjia Division withdraws the shield, String Control Division prepares to shoot, give them a meeting gift!"

After Chu Ning gave the order, the messenger who was waiting quietly blew a long whistle immediately, followed by two whistles, one short and one long.

After the three whistles sounded, Xuan Jiasi, who lined up in the outer circle in front of the formation, put down their shields at the same time, and the bow controller hidden behind them was already ready with his bow and arrow.

"Fire arrows!"

When the iron shield was down, more than twenty Xianbei cavalry thought they had an opportunity, and switched their bows for knives, shouting and rushing towards them, but they didn't expect that a dense rain of arrows came in an instant, and most of them were killed or killed almost in an instant.

The rest of the riders were immediately terrified, but they didn't dare to retreat when they thought that Murong Hu was guarding the bridgehead to supervise the battle. They could only pat their horses and continue to charge forward. will come.

Seeing that more than 20 elite cavalry from the clan were taken down so easily, Murong Hu was shocked in his heart, secretly thinking that this support army is the elite of the Daqing court?

Heavy shields, iron armor, strong/bows—these must be the heavy taxes and heavy troops of the Daqing court, but how many people came in this army?How many other weapons and equipment did you bring?

Murong Hu thought to himself, looked around at the thousands of cavalrymen who had already crossed the river beside him, and ordered: "Four hundred front troops, circle around the left and right sides to harass; three hundred Chinese troops immediately launch a frontal attack on this armored army; three hundred rear troops Respond with bows and arrows!"

How many people die is a trivial matter. Anyway, these cavalry are recruited from the subordinate tribes, but we must find out the combat strength of this black armor army, and find out the origin of this army, so as not to ruin the patriarch's plan.

When Murong Hu gave an order, the wind and thunder suddenly changed, horns blew, and the four hundred soldiers held their bows and arrows tightly, opened their formation and roared forward.

Xuanjiasi had already set up the shield again, Liu Changgui squinted his eyes and calculated the distance between the two armies in his mind, and when the cavalry stepped into the range, he ordered a 45-degree upward shot without hesitation.

Although this wave of arrow rain caused more than forty cavalry casualties to the Xianbei former army, it failed to break up their attack. After they rushed to a distance of about eighty steps, they began to reflect. After the rain of arrows was thrown at the guards, they were divided into two, attacking from the left and right sides.

"There is a battle-tested veteran commanding over there!" Looking at Xianbei's dense rain of arrows, a tooth general who was watching the battle from behind the formation finally couldn't help it, and said to Xiao Hongfei: "I'm afraid this Chu Zhaoyi will suffer. .”

Xiao Hongfei put his right hand on his forehead and looked into the distance. After looking at it for a while, he said, "It seems to be that old man Murong Hu."

"If it was him, Chu Zhaoyi would be very sad today."

"It doesn't matter." Xiao Hongfei said: "If she was in danger, she would have ordered the left and right wings to cover herself."

Xiao Hongfei said, but his face suddenly froze, and then he laughed loudly: "In this world, there are such rogue tactics!"

Na Yajiang turned his head to look at the battlefield, but he saw that the black armored army had spread out, and the heavy shields that surrounded the outer circle like tortoise shells had been scattered, and every five heavy shields stood together one after another. Form a shield wall that can be moved at any time, and each group of shield walls is front, back, left, and right, and every five steps or so, there are other shield walls standing back and forth.

If we say that the formation of the Guards Army was like a tortoise shell before, then the formation of the Guards Army is like a larger tortoise shell. Before, it was just a big circle around the outside, but at this moment, it is inside and outside. There are three floors scattered outside and outside, and some passages of different widths are left around each small piece of tortoise shell.

When Murong Hu by the bridge saw this formation, he couldn't help laughing out loud, but he soon stopped laughing, because, as the formation spread out, he finally revealed the secret hidden inside that he couldn't see clearly. s things.

That's a crossbow/army!

When Xianbei's former army spread out to both sides, those heavy shield soldiers who had been standing in front of the formation also spread out to both sides. The crossbow/army hidden inside was already on the string, and between the fingers, the sharp crossbow/ The arrow has already fallen into the Chinese army that is heading to the formation to prepare for the attack.

The distance of 200 meters is almost an unattainable distance for bows and arrows, but for strong/crossbows, 200 meters is not the ultimate range. Although the accuracy is not good, more than 100 guns cover the past at the same time. The lethality is quite astonishing.

After three rows of strong/crossbow shots, the Xianbei Chinese Army had already suffered dozens of casualties. Chen Fu looked at the slightly chaotic formation over there and knew that they had been terrified by the formation and did not dare to attack for a short time. He ordered his personal guards to use the flag as a unit to support the front, left, and right directions respectively.

The Xianbei cavalry who had already circled to the left and right sides were launching a flank attack, but they did not expect that the formation like an iron barrel surrounded in front of them suddenly dispersed back and forth, leaving them behind to rush into the formation. belly passage.

There is such a stupid way of playing in this world?Before the Xianbei cavalry had time to think about it, the horses that had been urged to run wild by them dispersed automatically, and rushed into the specially reserved passages one after another.

Soon, the dozens of cavalry who rushed into the formation first tasted the power-these passages are not spacious, and the outermost circle seems to have a distance of seven or eight steps between every fifty percent of the shield wall, which can accommodate two people at the same time. When the three riders pass by, the middle circle is only four or five steps away, and the innermost side is only one or two steps away...

"This kind of warfare, why is it just a rogue, it is simply insidious and vicious!"

Looking at the battlefield from a distance, watching the four hundred Xianbei former troops being cut and scattered by these specially set passages, led into the formation, and finally harvested quickly, the general couldn't help but shuddered, and said repeatedly: " This method of warfare is really terrifying! As long as these Xianbei cavalry are split into the formation and rush into the passage scattered, they will become living hands. I am afraid they will never know that behind those scattered shield walls, hidden How many archers and spearmen are waiting to harvest their lives!"

Behind the shield wall composed of every five shields, there are five heavy armored spearmen and five archers hidden, plus a commander and a team leader who can respond to attacks at any time.

Every two spearmen and two archers form a group, hide with their backs to the other group, and each is responsible for the left and right sides.

At present, the shield formation of the Guards Army has three layers inside and outside, which means that every Xianbei cavalry entering the passage not only has to face the attacks of the four archers and four spearmen on the left and right, but also faces The threat of the eight archers behind the two layers of shields inside, and the gunmen in the middle who will come to support at any time.

Therefore, this is a very vicious formation, as long as the enemy rushes into the formation rashly, there will be no return.

More than [-] Xianbei soldiers rushed forward one after another, and more than half of them rushed into this turtle-like shield formation, and they were all harvested in the end.

Murong Hu saw all this, and his heart ached to the point of bleeding. He had fought dozens of battles with the Qing Dynasty's frontier army, but never had such a high number of casualties.

casualties!

Terrible casualties!

He led a thousand cavalry to cross the river, and now he was about to face off. He didn't even know the enemy's way, so he lost more than [-]% of the front and back. Even the brave Xianbei warriors, who had always been brave, were beaten so frightened that they dared not go forward at this moment... …

Yes, facing this terrifying black-armored iron formation, almost none of the Xianbei cavalry who had crossed the river dared to step forward at this moment. They deeply realized that as long as they entered the distance of two hundred steps, the first thing they had to face was Strong/Crossbow, followed by Strong Bow... Even if you are not killed by the gun, even if you dodge the bow and arrow, even if you rush to the front of the shield formation, you will definitely be stabbed to death calmly by those iron-clad monsters with only two eyes exposed.

After killing the cavalry pawns who broke into the formation, Chen Fu ordered without hesitation, and began to clean up all the Xianbei cavalry pawns within 200 meters with a strong/crossbow.

Yes, cleaning!

Other than this word, all the people watching the battle could hardly find any other adjectives in their hearts.

When the hundreds of strong/crossbows were aiming at the bridge, Murong Hu had already given the order to retreat, but this order came too late, only the retreat was enough for more than two hundred horses to step on the wooden bridge.

And the cavalry pawns who did not have time to squeeze onto the wooden bridge were all left on the bank of the bridge by the black armored army that appeared suddenly.

Looking at the Xianbei leader who had fled back, Chu Ning felt a pity in his heart. If he could keep this leader, it would be a perfect start for the first battle of the Eastern Expedition.

The author has something to say: Well, sorry, I got the place name wrong a few days ago, because I used the ancient map of the mainland version. When I was talking about the map with my friend today, she showed me the Taiwan version. I checked some information later, and found that the Lu version of the map had mistaken Husu County and Tuhe County, so I corrected it.

Hand disabled map, please refer to it