On February 23, Hu Jing led his army to the small lonely village under the trap of Daguzhai and began to confront the rebel army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, the rest of his two roads were blocked by the wild hills and mountains, and they were still moving towards Majiatun and Yazigou, which were close to the wild teeth, separated by several large mountains and hundreds of miles apart.

It is difficult to deploy troops on the valley roads that circl between the mountains, and the brave meet on narrow roads.

Hu Jing held down the tired army, ordered to retreat a little, and stationed in the high valley on the main road.

The smooth march for so many days did not give Hu Jing any sense of achievement, and he felt that the soldiers under his command were far inferior to before, whether in terms of combat strength or military discipline, this was by no means a good thing. Before the camp could be settled, he had already marked several places on his map to deduce the enemy's interception, and the enemy's intentions gradually became clear in this deduction.

He could naturally see that compared to the bandit Sha Tongtian who had just been defeated, there were generals on the emperor's side who could lead the troops to fight. Of course, this is not surprising. Sha Tongtian is just a rogue, there are no scholars around him, and he has no strategic vision at all, but Noya is not, even if there is no famous person, but there is no lack of heroes, at least there will be some discerning people with strategic vision.

The three-way march was menacing, but the forces were also scattered.

What the enemy wants is this opportunity, taking advantage of the mountain range to separate the three divisions of men and horses, and suddenly come to the middle of the battle, in order to turn the passive into the active.

However, does their army have such combat power?! Any way, I'm afraid that it will make them break their teeth. After reading the map, Hu Jing sat down among a stone to rest, let go of his worries, and pondered the things he couldn't understand.

Recently, the military discipline of the troops has deteriorated, the combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced, and the imperial court is still in arrears with a large amount of military salaries. And the reason for the rebellion of the long moon is that it is too late to reward the three armies. In the past, Lu Zhizai could still send some, but even so, there was still the Changyue Rebellion, but now, he is becoming more and more sluggish. He was also aware of the difficulties of the imperial court, the fiscal deficit, and the amount of new money issued could not cover the expenditure. But as far as he knows, after the king of Taijun came up, the imperial court issued a large coin, one big coin is worth ten yuan, so it is doubled, and the crisis should be alleviated, why can't the military salary be paid? Isn't it enough to mint so many big coins? Even if there is no money, what about the materials accumulated by the imperial court? It's okay to issue silk, these physical objects are more acceptable than coins. Some soldiers have exceeded the service period, are not young, and cannot retire and go home, and those who have made great contributions have collapsed and are slow to cash, and according to the soldiers' opinions, they will not come back to their hometowns, and they will deceive people. At the moment, it would be good if one force won the battle, otherwise, it would not be possible to control the morale of the army at all.

His tent was pitched.

The guard hurriedly came over to invite him in, and when he saw that he was still sitting stupidly, he quickly revealed his intention to improve his food.

Hu Jing is also a nobleman, and he usually lives in luxury, and he doesn't feel anything bad about the level of a general, and he is not afraid of what the soldiers say. But now, he was afraid, he knew that in such a situation, these officers, and the soldiers would maintain such a big contrast, it would cause the morale of the army to collapse, so he issued the necessary specifications and measures. Thinking of the gastrointestinal reaction caused by eating bran vegetables, he sometimes really laughed and felt that he was looking for something for himself.

He no longer shirked, but said: "Don't want the wine, pass the order, take out all the wine, and reward those soldiers who have made meritorious contributions." ”

At this time, a military whistle sounded. The sentry received a banner and reported: "The thief army took advantage of our unstable foothold and killed us, and the former army Captain Ge has already met the battle." ”

Hu Jing loosened the collar button, took the guard's chopsticks, and wondered if he should go up to see if he should go up.

"There were thousands." The soldier replied.

Hu Jing was immediately taken aback, threw his chopsticks and got up, staring straight at the comer.

Should the soldiers pour out uncooked food and seize the enemy's positions at once, or should they retreat back and leave the enemy to rest, or should they hold on to their positions and wait for the night to counterattack? The tense nerves throbbed, and the temptation to win the battle almost tore apart his own consciousness, but he hesitated. He knew that the situation of the battle was unknown, which was extremely risky, and besides, the untrained rebel army usually had a distinctive feature, they were easily impulsive, but also easily frustrated and discouraged, and the most reasonable arrangement was to find an opportunity to counterattack. Looking at his slightly moving beard and solemn face, the three people next to him didn't dare to come out, just waiting for him to give a clear order.

"Speed up cooking." Hu Jing finally decided, "Give orders to all battalions and brigades to be ready to fight at any time." ”

Several people immediately straightened up and replied loudly, "Yes." ”

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More than 3,000 rebel troops entered the battlefield under the leadership of Ji Kang.

Ji Kang could see the other party going uphill, those dense tents and curling green smoke. Although the tents were not high or wide, they were erected one after another, and for a time I couldn't count how many there were, and even Qingyan didn't know how many, which was indeed the main force of the enemy.

Although Ji Kang is better at fighting than others, he is also better at estimating the number of opponents than these people who have no experience in war, and his heart is getting tighter and tighter. People like him understand that if the pole meets the strong man who is on the levy, victory is like picking the fruit that has just been overdone, without much effort; If you meet the regimental training and local officers and soldiers, although there are some troubles, they can also win the war; If you run into the central army and the town defenders, it will be a numb scalp.

And now, it's going on the offensive.

He smiled bitterly and said in his heart: "The Central Army we encountered this time is not one or two hundred people in normal times, what kind of situation will it be if we fight hard."

To be honest, he was a little suspicious of the arrangement from above, afraid that Fan Yinghua would let them come to the bottom and die, but thinking that he volunteered himself, he also had suffering.

In front of the other party's camp was a small open field. This is the beauty of the camp selection, once faced with an attack, the front line can seize the weakness of the enemy's forces and contain the attack with superior forces.

Ji Kang was more worried, but he still sped up so as not to give the enemy more time.

As he approached, he could see the camp of the officers and soldiers spread out on the open ground, spears, axes, and armor, although the number was small, they had been turned over layer by layer, and from time to time there were a few soldiers running up the mountain, and they should have placed stone weapons, and suddenly his heart beat faster by the situation, and he trembled a little, and just said "Chong" and felt dissatisfied, so he roared: "Chong! ”

Like a flood, the rebels rushed down from all directions.

At the same time, Ji Kang also asked people to spread along the hillside in time and go around behind enemy lines, while he held the last group of men and horses and acted as a reserve and a war overseer.

As the rebels rushed almost with their eyes closed, the stones of the officers and soldiers, the bows and crossbows were no longer silent. In such terrain, several single cannon stone generators are of little use, and several times they fail to hit the target, but the crossbow shows great power in the open field.

Rows of arrows are thrown in all directions. There was no shortage of archers in the charging rebels, who raised their arrows and shot arrows, but as soon as the arrows were shot, the people were shot through. It took considerable casualties for the rebels to enter the camp of the officers and soldiers, and in an instant, a storm of flesh and blood was lifted, and there was a roar of grief and anger.

The soldiers who were suppressed by the bows and arrows were the first to take revenge on the archers behind the carriages and shields, but the platoons and chong rui among the officers and soldiers intercepted them, and the two sides fell into fierce hand-to-hand combat.

By the time Hu Jing arrived, the two sides had already gone through several rounds of fierce crushing, slashing and slashing in the bottom of the not very wide wrong valley. Since the follow-up of the officers and soldiers was not as fast as the rebels who came down the hillside, it was difficult to invest in numbers, so they had to support with bows and arrows from afar.

Hu Jing looked at it for a while, and found that there were signs of people lurking in the distance, and his heart couldn't help but be shocked, and he suddenly asked the familiar people around him: "Why are so many soldiers and horses stationed in Daguzhai?" Aren't they afraid that they won't be able to invest in this narrow place and be annihilated by our army? ”

The people next to him were all stunned by the successive victories, and they all said in a mocking tone: "These hillbillies?!" Where will there be war? Let them guard the village, the bow and arrow will not be used, and the equipment will not be available, but they are not willing to give up, and they will not desperately release people inside? ”

This is also true, these rebels are almost all one-stone bows.

Hu Jing still had questions, so he said: "I asked people to check, Daguzhai is the place where Taizu cantoned his soldiers." There are a lot of trebuchets and crossbows in it, no matter how old they are, they don't work, but they are still better than using people for naval warfare. ”

The generals were happy to belittle the stupidity of the enemy, and one of the noble colonels replied with a smile: "A matter of vision." But then again, if he didn't have to camp here with heavy troops, he would still be able to fight us in front of Noya County? Once our three-way army joins up and surrounds Yeya, they won't even have a chance to fight us. ”

Hu Jing felt that this was also reasonable, answered his question, and looked down the mountain, where the battle was more intense.

The elite of the front battalion in the official army was actually filled by the rebels in advance, and could not get enough rescue, and could not resist the crushing of the superior enemy, so they wrapped themselves in a round formation like waves under the command of the captain, covering their crossbowmen to sweep up the hillside behind.

The rebels also divided them with huge waves, and still threw troops into it, slashing and slashing like wild as always, and chasing the archers up the mountain, and for a time they had the advantage, and the sea of people was like a tide, scrambling to be the first, and it was not the appearance of the defeat in the previous battle. Seeing that the archers who were caught up and were not good at melee combat because of their equipment and were not good at climbing the mountain suffered greatly, Hu Jing couldn't help frowning, regretting that he couldn't push the large army behind him to the hillside as needed, causing the defeated officers and soldiers to flee to their own camp, causing chaos.

The generals next to him were also shocked, and they all asked to take the headquarters down the hillside.

Hu Jing assigned men to pull more archers on the line, and commanded the armor soldiers to outflank them along the hillside. His intention could not be more obvious, not to be so stupid as to throw his men and horses into the space that they could not put into, but to form a bow and arrow belt on the mountain, occupy a favorable position, and keep shooting arrows to induce the enemy to attack the hillside, so as to support the soldiers of the front battalion, and if it goes well, he can also encircle the enemy in the valley from a high place and annihilate it completely.

The herald was busy running, he looked at the sunset that suddenly appeared in the distance, and said with emotion: "There has been a saying since ancient times: Ganyan and the county are many sad people who die. Emperor Gaozu passed through this place, relying on the Qingbei Haoshi and Gan Yan Xiong soldiers, at that time, there was no chance of winning against the fierce people everywhere, but our king had a slight victory, and even became famous in the world. Only today did I know that the folk customs here can be so strong. ”

The night gradually came up, and finally it was completely dark. In the unpredictable and indifferent night sky, the stars crescent moon. Hung up early like tears.

The battlefield in the valley was still shrouded in huge shadows, and there was not much firelight to illuminate, so it was not very clear.

The situation gradually tilted, and although the officers and men were exhausted, they still immediately completed their subordinates, not only recovering the disadvantage in the valley, but also almost capturing the high ground on the hillside, if they bypassed the high slope and cut off the retreat of the rebel army, they could encircle and annihilate this rebel army.

Archers kept shooting rockets, some of which were half-burning and half-extinguishing at people, some of which caused hay, and some of which were destroyed in the air.

The rebels have almost lost all their strength and are in critical condition.

Ji Kang put in the reserve forces in his hand to resist the outflanking of the officers and soldiers on the hillside, and he collected his troops, only to withdraw from the battlefield quickly.

The few casualties among the officers and men were only relative, and the elite platoons who had been held back for a while and had suffered many losses spontaneously pursued the enemy when they saw the enemy fleeing from the encirclement.

Hu Jing looked at the sky, afraid of being ambushed, and urgently withdrew his troops.

Fan Yinghua was ambushed in a more open valley ten miles away.

Despite the defeat at the front, the officers and men withdrew their troops.

She failed in an ambush and cursed hatefully: "This old fox! It's been fighting for so long, and he can't come. Let Ji Kang come and see me. ”

Lu Chuan asked: "Are we going to kill it again?" ”

As he was talking, Ji Kang, who was in a decadent appearance, came with a few remnants around him, covered in blood, and reported the losses to her. We folded thousands of people? ”

"What?!" Fan Yinghua screamed and looked straight at him.

More than a thousand people?! She roared in her heart.

If she hadn't tried to restrain herself, she would have almost drawn her sword and slashed the defeated general.

Although this battle has been fought for a long time, the contact is not sufficient, and more than half of the casualties are even lost, how can the side have any chance of winning? Wouldn't it be self-defeating to fight a decisive battle with others with such an uncontrasting combat power?

But what if you don't fight a decisive battle?

Fan Yinghua let out a long sigh and asked with her back to Shanyin, "Do you think we can win?" ”

She still revealed her hesitant heart, I don't know what to do, just now in front of everyone, behaving calmly, so as not to panic everyone, in fact, she has no illusions, of course, the concern about retreat is greater, the hastily formed army is a rabble, once retreated, it is defeated, return to the wild tooth, and then break through, I am afraid that it will immediately disperse like birds and beasts.

Ji Kang sensed her weakness in an instant.

He stood weakly and whispered the truth: "It is unlikely that we will win, so it is better for the lord to plan early." ”

As soon as the things in his heart were opened, the unbearable mood inevitably poured down, and the middle-aged man immediately begged: "Let's withdraw." ”

Fan Yinghua turned around suddenly, her eyes shining like stars in the darkness, and she said slowly, "No." ”

"That?!" Ji Kang gritted his teeth and made up his mind to say: "Go back to the division and the county, control Taiyuan, find Sha Tongtian, and let him ask for help!" ”

"Rescue?!" Fan Yinghua smiled.

Where are there any rescuers?!

It's Qin Gang, like a lost dog, let Sha Tongtian ask for help? She finally felt from Ji Kang's seriousness that these words were not like comfort, but in the distance, there were really allies, and she immediately blurted out and asked, "Who?" ”

"Xiahou clan in the north!" Ji Kang said, "I don't know much about the specific things, I only know that Sha Tongtian is a grassland man, and his food and weapons come strangely." He may have been in collusion with the nomads. ”

Fan Yinghua asked with some disbelief: "You mean that Shatongtian has a master?" ”