Chapter 273 The guns are on the ground

Messaging has always been the most difficult problem. However, Datang's message delivery is still very fast. The speed of the wheels is fast, especially the kind of eight-car Xiaoji. There are two people in each group, a total of 16 people, and they can sail more than 1,000 miles in one day and one night.

Originally, the focus of the Tang Dynasty has always been on the northwest and the land of Bashu, and the wheels and ships are naturally useless. When Hebei can be captured, it can be directly reached by waterway along the Yongji Canal. This led the Datang Weapons Superintendent to refit an eight-car wheel ship with a small wing boat. The small wing ship is a kind of ancient warship, which was made by Wu during the Three Kingdoms period, and the ship is divided into two types: large wing and small wing, which is characterized by a slender hull and a very fast speed.

The winged warship needed to be equipped with thirty paddlers, and thirty people rowed vigorously at the same time, and if it was downstream, it could run at a speed of fourteen or fifteen knots. After the wheel set can be installed, even if it is countercurrent, it can run at a speed of sixteen or seventeen knots, and if it goes downstream, it can basically reach eighteen or nineteen knots.

So here's the problem. What happened in Shahe, Luozhou, Chen Ying, could run into the hands of Li Yuan in Chang'an in just over a day, and this heart-wrenching war had already given Li Yuan a lot of headaches. finally coaxed the Turks not to intervene in this war, and he was still hypocritical and snake with Dou Jiande.

If Chen Ying took advantage of the emptiness of Zhaozhou and attacked Zhaozhou, Li Yuan was very much in favor of it. But now, Liu Heimin has arrived in Zhaozhou, Gao Yaxian has also arrived in Zhaozhou, plus Dong Kangmai and Wang Xiaohu before. The famous generals under Dou Jiande all went to Zhaozhou at this moment.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that Zhaozhou belongs to the hinterland of Hebei, and Dou Jiande's reinforcements can support Zhaozhou in a steady stream, but Chen Ying can hardly receive support from Datang. Now there is Chen Ying in front of him, and the entire Henan and Jingxiang are all from the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty is busy sending officials to various states to restore the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Now Li Yuan can't afford to lose, and when Xiao Shiwen and Xiao Xiangguo said this, Li Yuan became nervous again.

Seeing Li Yuan hesitate, Chen Shuda said: "Your Majesty, if not, order General Chen to return to Chang'an and hand over the army to His Royal Highness King Huai'an, now there are not many days left before the wedding of Her Royal Highness Princess Pingyang, and General Chen should be allowed to return to Beijing to prepare for the marriage!" ”

Chen Ying is different at this time, he and Li Xiuning are about to get married, and at this time, no one who doesn't open his eyes dares to give Chen Ying eye medicine. Offending Chen Ying now is tantamount to offending Princess Pingyang, offending Princess Pingyang is tantamount to offending His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and His Royal Highness King Qin, and the entire court has no way to gain a foothold.

Li Yuan was also very worried in his heart, Chen Ying had the last mobile force of the Li Tang Dynasty in his hands, and once there was a change in Lingzhou, he was still counting on Chen Ying's troops to go north to relieve the danger. You must know that Li Jiancheng has transferred the soldiers and horses of Qingzhou and Jingzhou to Hedong, and now in the entire northwest, in addition to Lingzhou, there are also four troops of Zhichongfu, once the Turks suddenly attack and break through Lingzhou, they can be swept down.

At that time, it is likely that the Turkic army will be under the city of Chang'an. Thinking of this, Li Yuan suddenly panicked: "Eunuch Pei, look, what should I do about this?" ”

As Li Yuan's good friend, Pei Lin listened to Li Yuan's tone and knew that Li Yuan had moved the idea of a truce. Liu Heimin is a powerful general under Dou Jiande, and he has not been defeated since he returned to Dou Jiande. Moreover, at this time, the soldiers and horses under Liu Heimin's command were more than three times that of Chen Ying.

The decisive battle, if it is won, it is better to say. But once it fails, the situation in Datang will turn down, not only the situation in Hebei will collapse, but even the Central Plains will be difficult to keep. Although there are still 50,000 or 60,000 troops under Qu Tutong's command, these remnants of the defeated generals have no bottom on how much morale they have now, and whether they can fight or not.

Pei Lin thought for a while and said, "Please give an order to your Majesty to let Chen Juma return to Beijing to prepare for the marriage!" ”

When the ministers heard this, they hurriedly knelt down to Li Yuan: "Please give an order to your Majesty to let Chen Yuma return to Beijing to complete the marriage!" ”

Just when Li Yuan made up his mind to let Chu Suiliang draw up a decree and decree that Chen Ying should return to Beijing to complete the marriage, Chen Ying had already led the left guard rate of the East Palace, the right guard rate of the East Palace, as well as the Modao Army, the Xiao Cavalry Army, and the sound of shooting, and slaughtered towards the city of Zhaozhou.

At this time, the decisive battle site discussed by the two sides was in Guangnian Town, although Guangnian Town was named a town, it was actually the county seat of Quliang during the Han Dynasty.

However, due to climatic reasons, Quliang County was abandoned and moved to the current Zhaozhou. However, because it was the previous county administration of Guangping County, when the city wall was built in ancient times, it would be tamped into a flat ground with lime, so in this Guangnian town, there is about a dozen miles of wasteland, and these steamed lime soils, even after hundreds of years, still can't grow crops.

The use of an open strip as a place of engagement is something that both sides agree on.

Although the army had not yet arrived at Guangnian Town, thirty miles away, the war had actually begun from the moment Chen Ying's army left the camp, and the scouts on both sides had begun to tear apart and fight for the initiative on the battlefield.

However, Chen Ying did not play his cards according to common sense at all. Seeing that the scouts were suffering, he ordered Zhang Shigui to send a regiment to assist the scouts in retreating from the enemy.

The Hook and Sickle Cavalry Regiment of the Xiao Cavalry Army appeared on the battlefield, and immediately lined up in a dense formation according to the training of Binh Duong, holding the hook and sickle lancer wall, advancing like a wall. For the rain of arrows of the Xia army scouts, it is not a matter for the hook and sickle cavalry of the Xiao cavalry.

I saw the sound of horses' hooves as dense as thunder, and the cold light on the blade of the hook and sickle spear flashed. The spear blade that was more than three feet long, with the huge kinetic energy of the war horse galloping, the scouts of the Xia army were instantly stunned.

The sharp hook and sickle spear blade effortlessly tore through the body of the Xia army cavalry scout, and the sound of the blade tearing through the flesh sounded, and the screams of the Xia army scout came and went. The horizontal knives or sabers equipped by the Xia army scouts were stabbed off their horses by hook and sickle guns before they even had time to draw their knives.

Strands of dirty blood spurted out of his chest, and the eyes of the Xia army cavalry scout who was stabbed bulged out, and he looked at the blood-spurting wound on his chest in disbelief, and fell down with a sense of shock and unwillingness. There were also many who were lucky enough to avoid the attack of the first row of hook and sickle guns, and passed through the gap in the cavalry wall and escaped death, but they immediately found that this was not something to be happy about, because there was still a second row of hook and sickle guns waiting for them, even if their character exploded, and they escaped this row, and there was a row behind!

When the hook and sickle cavalry charged, they usually formed a platoon with a brigade as a unit, and a regiment was a platoon of three hundreds. Fortunately, the scouts of the Xia army did not encounter a large army of the Xiao cavalry, this was just a hook and sickle cavalry regiment.

However, the Xia army scouts didn't have a chance to get lucky, many of them were extremely aggrieved to die on the layers of hook and sickle, and they were able to dodge three rows of hook and sickle guns in succession, and rushed out of the cavalry wall unharmed, which was really pitiful.

The cavalry wall rumbled forward, and the three cavalry walls swept like a violent wind, and everywhere they went, the cavalry scouts of the Xia army were picked off their horses, and the spears were sharp, and the corpses were dead everywhere.

These Xia cavalry scouts, who originally planned to inflict casualties on the Tang army, had no courage at all, and it was really difficult for them to come up with the courage to face this evil cavalry, so in desperation, they had to run back to report the situation to Liu Heimin.

At this time, Chen Ying and Su Dingfang rode side by side and looked at the battlefield, Chen Ying smiled proudly: "General Su, how is it, my cavalry is still powerful, right?" ”

When Su Dingfang saw it for the first time, he actually set off a storm in his heart. However, he covered it up very well, even Chen Ying didn't notice it, at this time he was shocked beyond words, Su Dingfang showed a smile that was more ugly than crying: "General Chen is brave, his foot riding is peerless, and he really lives up to his reputation." ”

"How's it going?" Chen Ying pointed to the Xia army scout in the distance and said: "After this battle is fought, I can capture a lot of war horses, and when the time comes, the six Zhichong Mansion of the Xiao Cavalry Army will definitely be expanded, are you interested, when I am the general of the Xiao Cavalry?" ”

Su Dingfang said: "Even if you give me three hundred hook and sickle lancers, I am willing!" ”