Chapter 197 Anxi Army Attack!

There is one point, Chen Ying said very pertinently. The Hebei Rebellion, although there were Hebei clans dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty's counterattack on Hebei's alternative policies, and there were also Dou Jiande's old subordinates, who painfully killed Dou Jiande because Li Yuan killed Dou Jiande, but this was not the main reason, the main reason was that the Hebei Rebellion had the direct support of the Eastern Turks.

The Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan not only sent more than 10,000 elite cavalry for Liu Shishan to drive, but even more than 200,000 Eastern Turkic troops were eyeing the border line of more than 2,000 miles along the 29 states such as Feng, Shuo, Yun, You, Ping, and Dai, and would break through at any time.

In this way, the garrisons of the northern border states of the Tang Army were not only unable to quell Liu Shishan's rebellion nearby, but had to worry about a sudden attack by the Eastern Turks. Since the defeat of Li Shentong, there has been a huge gap, and it takes time for the elite Tang army in Guanzhong to be transferred to Hebei, which also provides Liu Shishan with an opportunity to grow when the rebellion is at its weakest.

Now although Li Jiancheng led the elite of the four rates of the left and right guards of the East Palace, the left and right Siyu rates, as well as the left and right military guards, the left and right Xiaowei and other 100,000 troops into Xiangzhou, but Liu Shishan did not care about the gains and losses of one city and one state, and Li Jiancheng went around in circles, Li Jiancheng wanted to solve Liu Shishan's rebellion, and he also needed to reach a consensus with the representatives of the Hebei clan. But it takes time.

At this time, Chen Ying's invitation to fight came.

Li Yuan's heart is like a long drought and a rain.

Chen Ying led the Anxi army to conquer the Western Turks, and at this time, the Eastern Turks would definitely pay close attention to the war in the Western Turks, and would weaken the support of Hebei. Even more advantageous, the 400,000 Western Turkic army was not a soft persimmon.

If Chen Ying is already a fierce tiger, then the Western Turks are a pack of vicious wolves. Now that this tiger and wolf are in phase, no matter what, Li Yuan is the beneficiary. Dealing with Chen Ying can be said later. However, the Hebei rebellion must be resolved as soon as possible.

Once the Western Turks perished and the Eastern Turks were defeated and vassalized, then since Chen Ying liked the Western Regions, Chen Ying would be sealed in the Western Regions. His grandson will inherit Chen Ying's title in the future, and no matter what, Li Yuan will not suffer.

solved Liu Shishan in Hebei and disappeared Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army, and it was not too late to clean up Chen Ying at that time.

Li Yuan is the founding emperor in the end, and he didn't dare to overreact to Chen Ying for a while, which doesn't mean that he won't do it, and sit back and watch Chen Ying sit big.

From the Hebei Rebellion, it sounded the alarm bell for Li Yuan. It is inappropriate to rule the world with Guanzhong people, although Zhongzhong can guarantee the loyalty of the Guanzhong clan and the people of Guanzhong to the Li Tang court, but it will chill the hearts of the world's clans.

Li Yuan did not hesitate and wrote the word "quasi" on Chen Ying's recital.

Li Yuan flipped through another pile of folds, and Li Yuan looked at the words on the folds in surprise, it was actually sent by Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng, who was on the front line in Hebei to quell the rebellion, actually discovered that governing Henan with Henan people, using Hebei people to govern Hebei, and Guanzhong people to rule the world was actually an expedient measure to treat the symptoms but not the root cause.

The selection of officials based on their origins ensured the loyalty of local officials before the Tang Dynasty unified Kyushu, but in the long run, it left two hidden dangers, one is that the hired officials may not be competent; The second is to block the road to the advancement of scholars in the world, especially those from poor families. Now that the Tang Dynasty has settled on the Central Plains and owns the world, it is natural that there should be, and the elegance of the world's talents should be accommodated, and this wartime expedient policy should be changed.

In this context, Li Jiancheng made a statement to Chen Ying, and the three reform measures were "first, for a period of one year, the large-scale personnel transfer will be suspended, and after one year, the officials will evaluate the performance of officials in various places, and gradually eliminate those who are incompetent; Second, choose an appropriate time to abolish the local authorities and replace them with prefectures and counties, and bring the authority of local governance to the central government; Third, for the sake of the long-term plan, please follow the old system of the former Sui Dynasty, reopen the imperial examination, and recruit the world's handsome people to serve the Tang Dynasty! ”

Looking at Li Jiancheng's reform strategy, Li Yuan's eyes couldn't help but light up, and his heart was at peace!

Resolute and resolute, Chen Ying's character is also his habit. As early as after Chen Ying's request for war was issued, Chen Ying didn't care whether Li Yuan would agree at all, anyway, the request had already been asked, as long as he won the battle, Li Yuan would definitely endorse him, but once he failed, he would have to bear all the consequences.

The training of Anxi's 100,000 troops outside Mulan City actually only includes the basic training of queues, housekeeping and discipline, in fact, relying on queues alone cannot scare the enemy to death, tactical and strategic skills need to be dispersed to various places for training.

Tomur, in the middle of the western Tien Shan Mountains, is the training ground of the Shooting Army. Within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles, large and small valleys are scattered with the figures of the Anxi Shooting Army.

In the Hezil Valley, there is a regiment of 300 men and men of the Shooting Corps, who are undergoing intense training.

At this time, the regimental lieutenant divided the three brigades of his headquarters into two camps to conduct offensive and defensive drills. Hazir built a stone fort with a brigade of troops, and the other two brigades were tasked with feigning the enemy's attempt.

It's just a drill, but it's already in full swing. In this era, there were no drill bullets for later generations, but only the arrowheads of the arrows were pulled out, and they were stained with red paint. The referee determines whether the injury or death is based on the part of the arrow.

However, the bow and crossbow used by the archery army, the lightest is also a stone, that is, it requires one hundred and twenty catties of tension, under such a huge bow arm strength, even if there is no arrow, as long as the face and neck, throat and other parts can be shot and injured, even if you don't shoot the vital parts of the face, just like shooting the helmet, the soldier who is hit by the arrow, the head will feel like a sledgehammer hit, and it can't be slowed down for a long time.

As for shooting in the body, it will be like pounding with a baton. It can be bruised at best, and even broken ribs in severe cases.

It was precisely in this kind of exercise, which was conducted against the background of actual combat, that the soldiers on both sides of the exercise really caught fire. The two brigade commanders who participated in the attack shouted at the robes beside them with red eyes: "Fucking cheer up, if you can't attack again this time, don't fucking eat it!" ”

Just as one hundred and thirty or forty soldiers on the attacking side were screaming and attacking towards the hillside, the brigade commander shouted at the soldiers around him while charging: "Commando, don't get together, one team and one group, disperse, scatter, rush up like you, shoot you with your eyes closed, serpentine maneuver......"

"Crossbowman, fire cover!"

If this is a hot weapon army, this kind of exercise will not be strange at all, but in the army of the cold weapon era, this kind of cross-cover, mutual cooperation offensive method is absolutely impossible to exist, but it exists, no need to ask This is also Chen Ying's masterpiece!

The brigade commander shouted excitedly: "Attack, attack......"

A cavalryman galloped all the way to the regimental lieutenant, and shouted: "Captain, the latest military order: immediately end the field training and lead the troops back to the camp!" ”

The lieutenant took the order and saw that it was really signed by Chen Ying. He was slightly stunned, and subconsciously said, "Didn't you say that the field training will last for three months, and it won't end until the heavy snow closes the mountain, why is it only a month and a half to end?" Is it ......?"

The captain's eyes flashed, "Is there going to be a war?" ”

The deputy lieutenant's eyes lit up, and he smiled and said, "Eight or nine is not far from ten!" ”

The lieutenant clapped his fist and said, "Wow, this is long overdue, Lao Tzu has been holding back for more than half a year, and he has had enough of it!" Trumpeter, blow the trumpet and assemble, let's go back to the barracks! ”

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On the upper bank of the Kushan grassland, a soldier of the Tang Army who rode into Zhichong Mansion was conducting a cavalry shooting exercise under the leadership of Lieutenant Zhichong. However, this is not a confrontational exercise, but a surprise exercise, and there are wild wolves on the steppe, which plague livestock. The disappearance spread to the military, and the military volunteered to take a more than 1,500 cavalry from the Zhichong Mansion to encircle and suppress the wolves here.

"East ......"

As a Tang Army scout spotted the wolves, the Yue cavalry soldiers didn't say a word and were covered with a rain of arrows. More than a dozen wild wolves didn't even have a chance to scream, and they were shot into hedgehogs by a rain of arrows.

Chen Ying's characterization of this kind of recruit training as seeing blood, the wild wolves, wild boars, and even rabbits, yellow sheep, and even wild horses in the entire Tianshan region have fallen into blood mold, and under the encirclement and suppression of the soldiers of the Anxi Army like a net, most of the animals have become a delicacy on the dinner table of the soldiers of the Anxi Army.

Actually, it's not just small animals. There are also bandits, robbers, sand thieves, and horse bandits in the Western Regions, all of whom have become the targets of military training, and they are also one of the important links for new recruits to see blood.

"Yamanya" means danger in Turkic language, and it was originally a dammed lake formed by a flash flood. Later, for unknown reasons, the lake dried up, and a small basin was formed, with two exits to the east and west, surrounded by cliffs eroded by the lake.

Of course, with its unique terrain, it has also become the lair of the famous bandit Asalan (meaning Lion King) in the Western Regions. There are more than 1,000 strong horse bandits here.

In order to encircle and suppress Asalan, the archery army led by Duan Zhixian surrounded Yamanya with six Zhichong Mansions and more than 9,000 horses.

In order to train the soldiers of the new army, Duan Zhigan asked people to seal the two exits of the east and west of Yamanya, and then let the soldiers of the four Zhichong Mansions take turns to climb the cliff and shoot at the horse bandits under the command of Asalan.

It can be described as an arrow biting flesh, and the arrow sees blood.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Asalan hurriedly begged Duan Zhigan to surrender.

Duan Zhigan said that your greatest value is to let the recruits see blood, so you readily and cleanly rejected Asalan's surrender.

Asalan wanted to cry without tears, and roared up to the sky: "Are you bullying people like this? ”

At this time, the cavalry herald came, Duan Zhigan followed the military order, and said with a fluttering eyebrow: "The game is over, prepare to return to the team!" ”

Duan Zhigan is not like letting go of Asalan, this cargo specializes in intercepting bandits who pass by merchants, and has been crisscrossing the Western Regions for more than ten years, God knows how many caravans he has looted and how many treasures he has robbed?

As the order of Duan Zhigan's general attack was issued, all the soldiers and shieldmen of the shooting army slapped the shield with horizontal knives. In the frightening bang, more than 6,000 soldiers of the shooting army, lined up in three rows, silently advanced towards Yamanya, looking at the Tang soldiers who were getting closer and closer, Asalan desperately led his horse bandits to launch a counter-charge against the Tang army.

However, the Tang army returned to them with arrows like a storm......

After half an hour of fighting, Duan Zhigan was very satisfied with the result of the battle. These four soldiers of the shooting army of Zhechong Prefecture shot more than 600 enemies, and they were not killed, although there were more than a dozen wounded soldiers, but no one escaped.

With the arrival of the herald cavalry, their leisurely days finally came to an end.

With the return of the officers and men of the Anxi Army, Chen Ying's chariot has rumbled into action.

On August 9, the sixth year of Wude, Chen Ying reviewed the officers and men of the Anxi Army in Mulan City and convened a meeting of the generals. Chen Ying watched Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Guo Xiaoke, Su Dingfang and other generals all arrive, and he said straight to the point: "This general has only one goal, before the heavy snow closes the mountain, take Ge Luoling, is it clear?" “

The generals shouted: "It's clear! “

Chen Yingdao: "It's good to be clear!" “

At the same time, subsequently, Chen Ying swore an oath at the flag, and then led 100,000 soldiers of the Anxi Army to attack along the Silk Road!