The last military reform of the Tang Dynasty was carried out under the auspices of Zhao Ziliang ten years ago, and the entire military system was divided into three parts, namely the forbidden army system, the garrison army system and the local army system, of which the forbidden army and the garrison army were equivalent to the standing army, and the local army was equivalent to the armed police force. These three systems are different in the armament of weapons and armor, and the markings are also different, making them easy to identify. Either way, you can't leave the station without an order from the Regent's Palace.

This time, the mastermind behind the scenes used nearly 5,000 cavalry at a time, which shows that this person's energy is extraordinary, and he must be ready to assassinate and ambush Lieutenant General Zhao Ziliang here.

Zhao Ziliang's face sank like water, and after listening to Zhu Xianzhong's analysis, he asked: "Are you sure that the enemy army is the Tang army and not the Western Qin army or horse bandits?" ”

Yu Zhu Xianzhong said: "Your Majesty, the trained army soldiers and horse bandits are completely different in many physical surface features, and this Wei Chen dares to vouch for it with a human head, these enemies are definitely not horse bandits but soldiers!" The reason why Weichen judged that the enemy was the Tang Army was because the equipment on any soldier of any army in our Western Qin, including clothes, shoes and socks, was all supplied by logistics, but the Tang Army was different, the Tang Army only supplied weapons, armor, uniforms, and military shoes to the soldiers, while underwear and socks and other personal things were solved by the soldiers themselves. Also, Your Majesty, please see, this is the soldiers taken from the corpses of the enemy! If it is a horse bandit, it is impossible for them to wear an identity nameplate on a large scale, and as a real soldier, no matter what kind of order they receive, they will carry it out, but they will not take off their identity nameplate, a soldier without an identity nameplate is equivalent to automatically giving up the identity of a soldier and all honors, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu orders them to discard, they will refuse!"

Zhao Ziliang saw that Zhu Xianzhong had a few pieces of black square copper in his hand, his eyes shrunk, if he remembered correctly, these square copper plates were the identity nameplates of Tang Army soldiers, when he presided over the military reform of the Tang Army, one of the reform projects was to issue a metal identity nameplate to any Tang Army general, the nameplate recorded the name and number of the soldier, this nameplate is made of stamping technology after mixing and smelting brass and several other metals, and the words on it cannot be changed. Just like the words on a coin, this nameplate is not easy to rust, and even if you wipe it every month or so, it will always be as bright as new.

Zhao Ziliang said in a deep voice: "So in the Tang Dynasty, there are people who want Gu to die, and don't want Gu to go to Chang'an? ”

Zhu Xianzhong didn't make a sound, just hugged his fists, and then stepped aside.

Judging from the relevant clues obtained now, the possibility that the mastermind behind this incident is someone inside the Tang Dynasty is greater than that inside the Western Qin Kingdom, but Zhao Ziliang is not relaxed at all, the death of the two princesses of Xinping and Wang Zhiyun made him grief-stricken, there are only five women with official names in his life, Chen Qingying and Mrs. Meng passed away one after another a few years ago, and now Xinping and Wang Zhiyun both died in this assassination, and there is only one Nie Sanniang left by his side.

Everyone looked at Zhao Ziliang in horror, although he seemed to be very restrained and calm on the surface, no one would really think that he was fine, even if an ordinary commoner was killed at once, two wives would go crazy, let alone a king?

Although all the clues now point to the inside of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Ziliang did not believe that this mastermind must be someone inside the Tang Dynasty, even if the matter is already somewhat clear, is it impossible that someone inside Xiqin is colluding with people inside the Tang Dynasty? It's not impossible!

Thinking of this, Zhao Ziliang sneered: "It seems that some people saw Gu abdicate and thought that Gu was already a toothless tiger that was too old to hunt, so he couldn't wait to attack Gu!" ”

At this time, a small colonel ran in and reported: "Your Majesty, General, some brothers have heard a large number of footsteps approaching us, and we suspect that the enemy will not be able to use infantry when they see the cavalry charging into battle, and according to judgment and preliminary estimates, there are at least 12,000 infantry coming this time!" ”

All the officials and generals changed their faces, this time the accompanying army is not counting more than 1,000 people in the baggage battalion, only 3,000 guards and 500 dragon guards, the dragon guards need to escort the royal driver, royal family members and accompanying officials and eunuchs and palace maids, so the only ones who can really be used to fight against the enemy are only 3,000 guards, and if the enemy's current strength is counted as cavalry, the total number of troops is more than five times that of the guards, which is definitely a chilling number!

Zhao Ziliang was not flustered, he had experienced too much over the years, and he had experienced it more than once in his life, he asked calmly: "How far is the enemy army from here?" ”

Xiao Xiao said: "It won't be more than six or seven miles!" ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while, and said to Zhu Xianzhong: "It seems that we still need to send a sentry to risk exploring the surrounding enemy, if we can find out the deployment of the enemy army, it is the best, if we can't find out the specific deployment of the enemy, we must also determine the location of the enemy's main general, otherwise we have no chance of winning!" ”

Yu Zhu Xianzhong agreed: "Yes, Weichen will immediately send the elite of the scout battalion to attack!" ”

"Also, why did the enemy use so many infantry after the failure of the cavalry charge? If the cavalry can't do it, can't the infantry? Isn't the enemy commander worried about our cavalry taking the initiative to break up their infantry formations? If the light is blind, it is difficult to say whether the commander's military order can be carried out, and maybe he will kill his own people! You must know that we are all cavalry, since the enemy commander has chosen to do it, it is impossible not to know our reality and use infantry to encircle the cavalry, who can do it? Unless all these 10,000 or so infantry are hoplites, which army has so many hoplites? ”

Zhao Ziliang's series of questions made all the officials and generals present look at each other, this is indeed a question that is a little difficult to explain, and I don't know what the enemy's main general has planned!

Zhao Ziliang saw that no one among the crowd answered, and he was a little disappointed by this, he no longer sold Guanzi, and directly ordered Zhu Xianzhong: "Pass the order, and all departments of the guard army will collect and control and protect the war horses; All of them were arranged in a defensive formation No. 3, all carrying round shields; The whole battalion extinguishes all lights, and the military order is conveyed by the torches, so keep the fire outside the camp unextinguished! ”

Zhu Xianzhong immediately understood Zhao Ziliang's intention to make this deployment, that is, to defend the enemy army from large-scale bows and arrows for long-range strikes, you must know that there is basically no cover for dodging in the camp of the escort army, and the only armor that can be used to dodge is the small round shield, which is cavalry equipment, and the use of the No. 3 defensive formation can play its maximum defensive role, and the concentrated use can defend against large-scale bow and arrow strikes.

It is absolutely impossible to use infantry to attack cavalry on the battlefield, and it is even more impossible at night, so Zhao Ziliang guessed that the purpose of the enemy's main general to use infantry is nothing more than to use bows and arrows to strike at large distances.

For cavalry, the defense against infantry bow and arrow strikes is much weaker than that of infantry, and more than 10,000 people only need a few salvos to fill the entire camp with arrows, and who can be spared if they are not well prepared? Therefore, Zhao Ziliang ordered all the guards to carry a round shield to lay out a defensive formation with the No. 3 defensive formation, which can transform the city shield formation in a very short time and resist the long-range bow and arrow strikes to the greatest extent.

There is another reason, the No. 3 defensive formation is an infantry formation, which can be arranged into a labyrinth formation in the camp tent, and once the formation begins to operate, it can begin to strangle the enemy troops entering the formation, which is the best defensive formation for infantry defense and raid.

Once the number three formation was disbanded, the soldiers were able to find their horses as fast as they could and begin to counterattack in a cavalry formation.

The purpose of extinguishing the lights in the whole battalion is to make the enemy in the dark unable to understand the reality of the battalion, and if the enemy sends a small group of men and horses to investigate or carry out a tentative attack, it will inevitably be exposed by the fire outside the camp, and will be accurately hit by the elite archers and marksmen in the camp, even if you try to extinguish the fire, you can't do it, because the fire is within the range of the bow and arrow in the camp.

Soon after Zhu Xianzhong returned to the camp to take command, the enemy infantry had already arrived nearby, and the outposts sent out to investigate the enemy's situation suffered considerable losses, but some information was still transmitted.

"The enemy is mainly concentrated in the northeast direction, and none of the outposts sent out from several other directions have returned, and the possibility of them returning is already very small!"

Zhu Xianzhong frowned when he heard the report of the captain of the scout battalion, none of the other directions of the outposts returned, that is to say, there was no news from these directions, it is possible that there are heavy troops in ambush in these directions, but it is also possible that there are only small groups of men and horses arranged by the enemy in these directions, specifically intercepting and killing the outposts, so that he cannot obtain the news, so that he cannot find out the reality of the deployment of troops in this direction.

"The enemy commander is indeed clever!" Zhu Xianzhong sneered, "But so what? We never thought of breaking through overnight, no matter how his troops were deployed, I never moved like a mountain, waiting for him to attack! He doesn't have much time, and once the morning dawns, when the soldiers discover our banner and find that they are besieging the Saint King's guards, then there will be a lot of excitement! ”

After the reform of the military system, whether it is the Tang Army or the Western Qin Army, the possibility of the commander of the army wanting to rebel has been reduced to a very low level, not only because the military power of the commander is dispersed, but also because there are special officials in the army to carry out ideological education for the soldiers, and the enemy commander can only use the night to see the other party's banner clearly, let the soldiers attack, once the two sides face each other clearly, the generals and soldiers will have doubts about the legitimacy of the military order, you must know that attacking friendly troops is not possible under any circumstances.