Chapter 451 Prelude
The troops were about to move, and Xu Shiyun immediately summoned his henchmen Zhang Liang and others in front of him.
Zhang Liang is older than Xu Shiyun, his hands and feet have grown up, his face is rough, but his appearance is not bad, and it is not an exaggeration to describe him as a clear eyebrow, he always has a smile on his face, and he looks a little silly Henan man.
But this person is only under Xu Shiyun in Xu Shiyun's army, and even Xu Shiyun has to think carefully about what he says.
After hearing Li Shentong's military order, these grass-headed kings from Henan became noisy.
Some said that they were short of food and how to fight without a full stomach, some said that they were too tired to walk all the way, and some said that the soldiers were not accustomed to the water and soil, and it was not easy to fight with the enemy now.
Well, this kind of thing in the army, the guys from Henan have experienced a lot, and they are not lacking in the various characteristics of the warlord army.
Rushing ahead to engage the enemy is something they won't do easily, and the idea of using me in the first battle and using me to win will definitely not exist in their hearts.
Others take the lead, and it is their idea that we see the opportunity to pick up the bargain or run away.
These were all expected by Xu Shiyun, and among the clamoring of everyone, Xu Shiyun slapped the table violently, glared and roared, "Damn, do you know that we have descended?" Staring at your dog's eyes and looking around us, what? Do you want people to surround us and kill us now? ”
At this time, Xu Shiyun was rude like a real reckless man, and the group of people under him still recognized this, and his voice suddenly became quieter.
So Zhang Liang appeared on the stage, "What are you arguing about, let's see our ability to fight a battle, and it's easy to talk in the future, everyone has a number of things in their hearts, and if the general gets angry, they all understand what to do, right?" ”
"If you have the ability, you will go to Henan, and see if Wei Gong doesn't pick your fucking eating guys......"
Suddenly, there was no sound in the account, and everyone lowered their eyebrows, not to mention staring at them, and there was no one who even looked at Zhang Liang.
That's right, it's a surrender army with two heads.
Xu Shiyun is known as the main general, but his prestige among this group of people is not much higher than Zhang Liang, and even if he is more real, it can be said that he is slightly inferior to Zhang Liang.
In fact, he and Zhang Liang have their own merits.
He is better than the ability to lead the troops, Zhang Liang is better than being ruthless, this is not a simple and good old man, most of the people who offended him in the army have been buried in the soil by him.
Zhang Liang is a native of Xingyang, Zhengzhou, an authentic farmer, and when he repaired Luoyang City and Yang Guangda's shipbuilding, his hometown was not lightly harmed.
When he arrived in Goguryeo during the Three Expeditions, Zhang Liang's family was unable to continue, and he couldn't survive at all, plus the Wagang bandits were very fierce, if he still had a little worry at home at this time, he would not go to the thieves like this.
It's a pity that he was the only one left in his family, and the government was very urgent, so he gritted his teeth and instead of going to carry food for the dog emperor, it was better to earn a way out by himself.
As a result, there was an extra farmer who put down his hoe among the Wagang bandits, and he was actually very smart, and after staying in the bandits for a long time, he became more and more ruthless.
Zhang Liang gradually stood out from the crowd, and was valued by Li Mi and was in charge of military affairs, which was an unpleasant position, but Zhang Liang did it with taste and was feared by the generals.
Later, Li Mi gradually became unconscious, Zhang Liang offended too many people, and he was a little scared in his heart, so he invited himself to take up his post and serve in Xu Shiyun's army.
In fact, it is a prison army sent by Li Mi to Xu Shiyun's side.
But in the end, this prison army is more resolute than Xu Shixian, only Xiongxin and others rebelled, Zhang Liang felt that something was wrong, even if he sold Xu Shixian, Li Mi estimated that he would not be able to spare him, and Xu Shiyun was not so easy to sell, most of his subordinates were Zhai Rang's old subordinates, and they were dissatisfied with Li Mi for a long time.
If he made any movement here, most of them would be chopped into mashed meat by everyone first.
When life and death were at stake, Zhang Liang was not ambiguous, and persuaded Xu Shiyun to quickly lead the crowd to flee west in front of everyone.
Speaking of which, he gets along very well with Xu Shiyun, and everyone is afraid of his murderous name, but he is very respectful to Xu Shiyun, and he always does whatever Xu Shiyun says.
Just like when he was by Li Mi's side, he was very trusted by Xu Shiyun.
Because Zhang Liang's birth philosophy is very simple, whoever eats will work for whom, and no one else is in his eyes.
This is actually the magic weapon that he can survive in Li Mi's army so far, loyalty is not anything to talk about, but it also has its own bottom line.
Just like now, after scolding everyone, he bowed down and beat his chest and said to Xu Shiyun: "Don't worry, general, I heard that there are some stockades in the Bird Mouse Valley, and there don't seem to be many soldiers and horses." ”
"Who are we? I have never been afraid of fighting, as long as the general leads us to rush up and take the Bird Mouse Valley, these hundreds of thousands of troops will have to look down on us, and when rewarding merit, as long as the general can be reused, we can all follow the light. ”
"General, how to fight, you command, we will all listen to you."
It's so easy to have such a person around, even if you don't give you too many ideas, you have nothing to say.
And when it comes to the war, Xu Shiyun is also the one who will not give in.
In fact, as long as the two of them are in the army, this army will not disperse.
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In May, in the Bird Mouse Valley in the southwest of Jiexiu, the sound of killing shook the sky and resounded through the mountains.
The first collision between the Tang army and the army of the same generation produced extremely brilliant sparks.
Yu Wenwo, Wei Chixin, Wei Chikai, Xue Wanjun, and Zhang Lun led the troops to build more than ten villages in the Bird Mouse Valley, fighting in turns, and blocking the Tang Army in the Bird Mouse Valley.
The Tang army drove Xu Shiyun's troops, led more than 20,000 troops, and stormed Zhuzhai.
This battle was actually a contest between the Henan army and the Jindi border army.
Henan's strong army is also worthy of its reputation, arrows are raining down, Henan soldiers go forward and one after another, regardless of life and death, the madness of the offensive is really smacking.
In addition, Yu Wenwo, Wei Chixin and others did not intend to fight to the death and not retreat, and under the offensive of the Tang army, they retreated one after another, almost making the Henan army famous in the first battle.
But even so, this battle lasted for more than ten days, and if Li Po had the heart to defend a realm like Sparrow Mouse Valley, even if Xu Shiyun had the ability to reach the sky, he didn't want to rely on his more than 20,000 men and horses to push it over.
100% under the first battle, let the Tang army have one less strong force.
This battle can only be regarded as a prelude to the war, but the blood of the Henan soldiers and the border army of the parallel generation still smeared the Bird Mouse Valley.
When the Tang army thundered at the north entrance of the Bird Mouse Valley, Xu Shiyun and Zhang Liang stood on a high place, looking at the sun, moon and stars flag that gradually disappeared in the distance, and they were all silent.
After more than ten days of fighting, both of them were exhausted.
The fierceness and tenacity of the enemy in front of it is surprising, one by one, the stockades are exchanged for the blood and lives of countless Henan disciples, every time the camp is made, seeing the mountains of corpses piled up in front of the camp, and the blood flowing in the camp, Xu Shixian's heart will be heavy.
The casualties fell second, and the most terrible thing was that the enemy army could always retreat without chaos, so far he had not seen the heavy grain and grass scattered on the ground after the camp was broken, and he had not seen too many corpses of the enemy soldiers, which meant that he knew very well that the enemy did not mean to defend the Bird Mouse Valley.
Xu Shiyun, who fought in this battle, was completely arrogant, and even felt a little cold.
The enemy army is indeed geographically advantageous, but he has a division of battles...... Can't destroy these camps, and the casualties are still so heavy, is this the border army?
What made him even more uncomfortable was that Jiang Baoyi, who was supervising the battle in the back, did not care about the heavy casualties of the soldiers, and repeatedly urged him to lead the army forward.
There was a strong enemy in front and constraints in the back, even in Li Mi's army at the beginning, he had never experienced such an uncomfortable situation, so he didn't want to experience such a second battle.
Listening to the casualties reported by the generals one after another, Xu Shiyun gritted his teeth, and hated Jiang Baoyi to the core.
More than 20,000 Henan troops surrendered, with more than 6,000 casualties, the big ones were almost unbearable, and if they were so many casualties in the First World War, then this army would have collapsed long ago.
But this is the result of more than ten battles, every time there is a chance to breathe, and even every time it can give people the illusion that they can fight again.
The Henan army was indeed famous in the army under the First World War, but this army was actually disabled.
Xu Shixian's heart ached, and he immediately asked Ling to be stationed in the Bird Mouse Valley, wanting to rest here on the spot.
But Li Shentong had many words of consolation, but he still refused Xu Shiyun's invitation, how could such a critical position be handed over to a general?
Moreover, the combat power of the army is quite good, even if there are some casualties, it is still a rare strong force in the army, at this time, under the capture of the Bird Mouse Valley and the wide opening of the state gate, it should be the time to take advantage of the situation to go north, how can this elite army be missing?
In order to appease Xu Shiyun's heart, Li Shentong generously asked Pei Lian to allocate grain, grass, wine and meat, reward the soldiers after the war, and made countless promises, the most important one was to call Jiang Baoyi, reprimand a few words, and let him resume serving in Xu Shiyun's army, which can be regarded as slightly calming Xu Shiyun's resentment.
But Xu Shiyun went back to discuss with Zhang Liang in private, and both of them felt extremely disappointed. 、
Especially these enemies in the north, they are too strange, such a strong army...... Slowly retreating, instead of fighting to the death on the spot, is almost taking the initiative to give up such a dangerous place as Sparrow Mouse Valley, which is really heart-wrenching.
Perhaps Li Shentong felt that he had captured the Bird Mouse Valley, and the Tang army was already in an invincible position, but in the eyes of the two Henan generals who were almost killed from the pile of dead, this victory or defeat was already unpredictable.
The two of them were almost instinctive, so they made a decision together, and then they must no longer be at the mercy of people, if there is an accident, immediately lead the troops back to the south, the land of Jin is so big, and the south is extremely empty, it shouldn't be a thing to find a place to stay, right?
It can be said that under the First World War, the Henan army was swayed first......
(Commuter Pass) (To be continued.) )