Chapter 232: The Battle of Mianzhou (1)
That's right, it's the offense.
Originally, it was supposed that the superior coalition army launched an attack, but unexpectedly, it was the Tiance Army on the weaker side that took the lead in attacking.
This made Gao Renhou very puzzled.
"King Shou, this is self-defeating!" Li Shun, who was riding on a standing horse, saw the Tiance army that took the initiative to attack, and couldn't help but mock, "Pass my order and face the battle!" β
"General Li is cautious, and there is a fear of fraud." Gao Renhou hurriedly reminded.
"Gao Shuai, you are going back more and more, right? What can the Tiance Army deceive? Could it be that he can still conjure tens of thousands of troops out of thin air? Li Shun sneered.
Tens of thousands of troops? If this is really the world of Xianxia, tens of thousands of troops will be conjured up when they say it.
Li Ye, who has an army of tens of thousands, must not be able to make it up, he doesn't have that ability. From the sky, the attack of the Tiance army is very interesting, and the general attack should be dominated by the Chinese army, and the two wings cooperate with the arrow-shaped attack to have the best effect.
However, the Tiance army was the main attack on both flanks, and the Chinese army did not move. And in a way, it's counterintuitive, but it's happening again.
"General Li, Gao is a kind reminder." Gao Renhou said coldly.
"It turned out to be a kind reminder, thank you very much." Li Shun clenched his fists and sneered, "Gao Shuai, King Shou is something that Li wants to arrest and hand over to Jie Shuai, so I will trouble Gao Shuai's troops to contain a Tiance army, and wait for Li to capture King Shou, and then come to support you." β
Without waiting for Gao Renhou to answer, Li ordered Yang Tang on the side by the way, "Yang Tingshi, you lead 18,000 troops to contain the Tiance army on the left, and the right one will be handed over to Gao Shuai, and Li will lead the main force to capture King Shou." β
After speaking, Li Shun rode away, and the soldiers around him hurriedly followed, and the smoke and dust suddenly billowed out.
"Jie Shuai."
"This idiot." Gao Renhou gritted his teeth and said, he didn't expect that he was really bullied by dogs in Pingyang, and his former subordinates now began to point fingers at him.
"What is the marshal worried about, can the Tiance Army still be able to turn the sky upside down?" Zheng Junxiong on the side didn't understand that Gao Renhou reacted so violently.
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"I don't know, I have a hunch that this is a trap set by King Shou. King Shou is not as ignorant as we imagined, such a simple battlefield common sense, it is impossible for him not to know, even if he doesn't know, the people below him also know.
But if he does the opposite, there must be fraud. Gao Renhou glanced at the Tiance Army in the distance, which was not moving, and looked a little worried.
"Even if there is fraud, can General Li's 30,000 soldiers and horses still have an accident? That's nine thousand cavalry. β
Not long ago, 6,000 Xiqiang cavalry arrived, plus the 3,000 cavalry brought by Li Shun before, that is 9,000 cavalry. In this kind of field battlefield, that is the world of cavalry, and without seeing the two cavalry of the Tiance Army, Chengdu Mansion will be a mess?
"Hopefully."
Although what Zheng Junxiong said made sense, Gao Renhou still felt a little uneasy, but seeing that the Tiance Army had already been killed, he didn't have time to think about it so much.
At this time, there was a very dramatic scene on the battlefield within a radius of ten miles, and the two Tiance armies, each of 15,000 people, formed a flanking attack on the coalition army on the east and west sides of the coalition army.
You must know that the Tiance army has a total of only 40,000 people, while the coalition army has 60,000 people.
Although Li Shun planned to personally attack Li Ye's unmoved Chinese army, he did not ignore the Tiance army on the left and on the right. If you are flanked, it is not impossible to defeat with an advantage.
Therefore, the coalition army also divided two armies to deal with the left and right Tiance army, of which Yang Tang led 18,000 people to meet the right Tiance army in the west, and Gao Renhou's department of about 13,000 people to meet the left Tiance army in the east.
And Li Shun led an army of 30,000 to attack the central army of the Tiance Army led by Li Ye, which was not only Chen Jingxuan's request, but also what Li Shun had always wanted.
The cavalry of the Tiance army made Chen Jingxuan lose face, and he was eager to skin and dismantle Li Ye's bones and divide the five horses, in this case, if Li Shun could defeat the Tiance army and capture or kill Li Ye, he would definitely be promoted by Chen Jingxuan, and it was not impossible to become Xichuan's deputy envoy.
Therefore, Li Shun took the initiative to snatch the right to attack Li Yezhong's army from Gao Renhou, and 30,000 people lined up in a large formation, with 9,000 cavalry in front and 21,000 infantry in the rear.
Li Shunce stood in front of the formation, and on both sides, the four armies had already begun to engage in short combat, and the sound of killing shook the sky, but the middle army of his Tiance army here and opposite was still standing still, which was very strange.
Although the Tiance army on the opposite side was located in the big camp, the so-called big camp was nothing at all in Li Shun's opinion, and it could be easily knocked away by hitting the wood.
Moreover, the Tiance army on the opposite side was not very numerous, with less than three thousand crossbowmen, and only those three thousand cavalry could attract his attention slightly. But he had nearly 10,000 cavalry, so why was he afraid of those 3,000?
"General Yao, your task later is to lead your cavalry to break through the enemy army, can you do it?" Li Shun commanded to a Qiang general next to him.
"Please rest assured General Li, my Qiang Erlang will definitely be able to defeat this enemy in front of him for the commander, the so-called cavalry, in the eyes of my clan, is just the infantry of the cavalry, so there is nothing to worry about." The Qiang general patted his chest and said.
Don't look at this person's surname Yao, but he is actually a Qiang person, not all Qiang people are that kind of strange name, and many people have Han surnames.
The surname Yao was once a big surname among the Qiang people, and during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Qiang people established a kingdom ruled by the Qiang people--- Later Qin.
And the person in front of him, called Yao Shuochuan, is said to be a descendant of the Later Qin royal family, but whether it is true or not, it is unknown. Later Qin has been wiped out for so many years, and the Qiang people have been at war for many years, but now they are even more divided, who can confirm it?
"Then Li is waiting for the good news from General Yao." Li Shun narrowed his eyes.
In Li Shun's view, the Qiang cavalry is just cannon fodder, let them go to the front and fight to the death with the Tiance army, and then he can lead 20,000 infantry troops to follow behind to clean up the mess.
"Stepping on the Tiance Army and capturing King Shou alive!"
Yao Shuochuan roared, and tens of thousands of cavalry let out an earth-shattering roar, quickly lined up in a charging formation, and after giving the order, they suddenly launched.
These 6,000 Qiang cavalry were formed by the Qiang tribes in Victoria and Maozhou, and although they were temporarily under the command of Yao Shuochuan, they were all under the command of their respective tribes. And piecing together these 6,000 cavalry is already the limit of these Qiang tribes.
Wei and Mao were not rich lands, the reason why they took refuge in the Tang Dynasty was because of the oppression of Tibet, and there were not many horses here, and the 6,000 cavalry almost drained the horses of all the tribes.
However, Chen Jingxuan was 'famous' in Xichuan, and following Chen Jingxuan's dispatch, the Qiang cavalry could also be rewarded, so Chen Jingxuan could so easily dispatch the Qiang cavalry to participate in the war.
The deep and low horn sounded, tens of thousands of cavalry rode their horses and galloped, iron hooves flying, and the cavalrymen held a variety of weapons and shouted all kinds of slogans, like the earth dragon rolling, and like a raging wind transiting, exuding a kind of power that can tear the heavens and the earth, roaring towards the Tiance army and swept away.
At a distance of ten miles, if the cavalry runs, it only takes a moment to kill.
In the large camp, 5,000 soldiers of the Shenji Battalion and 3,000 Jinyi Guards were already lined up, waiting for Li Ye's orders.
Li Ye took out his binoculars, looked into the distance, and found that it was the Qiang cavalry who rushed ahead, and he was not too surprised.
Hundreds of years ago, the Qiang people were indeed powerful, but now they are no longer vigorous, and the Qiang tribes who moved to Weimao Prefecture may not even be considered nomads. Although he is still herding, he has also begun to learn how to farm.
These Qiang cavalry basically have no armor, and the weapons in their hands are also varied, all kinds of knives, as well as spears, horse lances and so on, which shows that this army is not much different from a group of rabble except for the terrifying formation.
Li Ye put away the binoculars, and Long Zhi next to him couldn't help asking, "Your Highness, do you use fire cups and rockets?" β
"Don't do it for the time being, wait for the enemy's infantry to come up, this king doesn't want to scare the enemy away, this opportunity has been waiting for a long time. They all wanted to ask the king's head to take it to invite merit, and the king would let them know that all this was a fantasy. β
When the enemy cavalry was less than a hundred paces away from the camp, Ryuji ordered the standard-bearer to wave the command flag!
For a time, two thousand crossbowmen lined up in four rows, their bows and arrows pointing towards the sky.
The crossbowmen of the Shenji Battalion can not only fire rockets, but also ordinary arrows, and even sword and shield soldiers. It's just that unless he is forced to do so, Li Ye will not let the firearms soldiers who have been trained with great difficulty to engage the enemy with knives.
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Liu Qi was tightly wrapped in armor and stood in the middle of the battle on horseback.
Looking at the Xichuan army rushing like a tide in the distance, the corners of Liu Qi's mouth turned up slightly, once upon a time, he was also a member of Xichuan, who would have thought that he could go from a deputy commander of the tooth soldiers to a general who now commands tens of thousands of troops?
Not long after launching the charge, the Right Tiance Army led by Liu Qi stopped advancing, but stopped and waited for the enemy's attack in a battle formation.
Seeing the dense enemy, the soldiers of the Right Tiance Army were not afraid, and waited expectantly, at this time, the soldiers of the Tiance Army were like a hunting wolf pack, waiting for the prey to turn into their traps.
In fact, the people Liu Qi used to meet the enemy were not 15,000 people, but 10,000 people. In addition to the 2,000 as a reserve force for the battle in front of them, the remaining 3,000 were used to support the Chinese army.
Although Li Ye swore that he would be able to worry about the Shenji Battalion and the Jinyi Guard's cavalry, he couldn't pin his hopes on the Shenji Battalion and the Jinyi Guard, so he prepared 3,000 front carriage elites. Not only him, but also Li Hong, in their eyes, Li Ye's safety is the most important.
As long as there is a watchman, even if they lose this battle, they still have the backbone, and they will not necessarily lose this time.
On the battlefield, the Tiance army was as immobile as a mountain, and wave after wave of arrows were like huge waves on the seaside, constantly reaping the lives of the enemy.
The enemy who rushed in front kept falling, and the enemy next to him quickly crossed and continued to charge. In their opinion, as long as they rushed forward, how could these Tiance Army, who had not fought much, be their opponents.
As the enemy continued to approach, the effect of the crossbow slowly lost its effect, and the crossbowmen, under the command of the officer, put down the crossbow one after another, and drew the horizontal knife at the waist. In front of them were sword and shield men and pikemen.
In the Tiance Army, crossbowmen are used as a long-range firepower unit, but it does not mean that they do not have the means of self-protection, just because of the different classes, they do not need to rush to the front line, and there are pikemen and sword and shield soldiers in front.
Not only the Tiance Army, but the entire Tang Army is like this, don't think that the crossbowmen can only shoot arrows, that would be wrong. Although the Tang army had various types of troops, in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the emphasis was different, pikemen and other crossbowmen could also be crossbowmen under special circumstances, and crossbowmen could also be sword and shield soldiers, which was not immutable.
Up to now, although the financial resources are not strong due to the division of the feudal towns, it is other feudal towns, and the wealthy Tiance Army will naturally not have this situation. If the situation didn't allow it, Li Ye even wanted to give each of the Tiance army a horse, which was not uncommon in the Tang army during the Tang Dynasty.
Having a horse does not mean that it is a cavalry, but it is not impossible to make a cameo appearance as a cavalry at the right time, and this will greatly increase the mobility of an army.
However, only the financial resources of the Tang Dynasty can support the Tang Army to do such a luxurious thing, and the current Tang Army still doesn't think about it. A feudal town is 30,000, 40,000, 670,000 troops, and the total number of troops in the Tang Dynasty at this time is millions, and the Tang army in the Tang Dynasty did not have so many people.
Now that the Tang Dynasty is in turmoil, although the court is not having a good time, the local life is better? Raising tens of thousands of troops also requires money and food, which naturally gives priority to meeting money, food, and weapons, and as for armor and so on, it cannot be guaranteed.
Take the two sides in front of you as an example, on the side of the Tiance Army, the ones that really belong to the Tiance Army are all iron armor, and the state soldiers can also be popularized to leather armor, and the pikemen at the front of the team are infantry armor. Because they are on the front line, they have a greater chance of being harmed, they are also dangerous, and naturally they need the best protection.
The Xichuan army is not good, and Xichuan is also considered to be the wealthier in the world, and it is not yet possible to achieve one armor per person. The Xichuan army is better, and can achieve one armor per person, but in the past, it was also a mixture of leather armor and iron armor, and many state soldiers did not have armor, or used good-looking but useless cloth armor (made of silk cloth).
It doesn't matter if you don't have melee combat, but when you really engage in hand-to-hand combat, the difference in armor will be reflected.
Looking at the approaching enemy troops, whether it was the sword and shield soldiers in the front row or the pikemen, they all clenched the weapons in their hands, as front-line soldiers, they were dangerous, but they also got better armor because of it.
Fear?
Perhaps.
But thinking of King Shou, who was personally supervising the battle not far away, the fear in their hearts was swept away.
While they were secretly preparing, the enemy was on in an instant.
The deafening shouts of killing were mixed with the sound of chaotic footsteps and the fresh smell of blood, and they collided directly with the sword and shield soldiers of the Tiance Army.
When I encountered something, I wanted to add more, but I had to give up. Hurry up and hurry up to code out this 4,000-word chapter.,I'm going to go home on the weekend.,I'll come back on Sunday.,So the update can't break out.,It depends on how early or late you come back on Sunday.γ
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