Chapter 274: Youzhou Iron Horse
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Shanggu County Zhiyi County has long been a state of fierce soldiers.
After Su Su received Li Chongjiu's letter, he immediately followed the original plan to let Zhao Wansan, the county commander, stay behind, and then ordered Wei Chi Gong to be a partial division, leading 500 cavalry and 500 Han cavalry out of Fanyang, detouring to Gu'an, and taking Yongnu County to threaten Luo Yi's flank.
And Su Su himself led, Zhao Quanting, Chen Ke and two generals, dispatched 5,000 county soldiers and foot soldiers, along the Laishui County Avenue, directly to take Zhuo County in Zhuo County. The county magistrate of Zhuo County, the county lieutenant is the confidant of the Lu family, and he secretly got Lu Chengqing's order, and he led the army out of the city and surrendered the whole city. Su Subing defeated Zhuo County without blood, and then entered Liangxiang County.
Just before Su Su sent troops, the 15,000 troops on Li Chongjiu's side had already been dispatched. Li Chongjiu's soldiers did not go straight south from Anle County, and went straight to Jixian County through Changping County, which is now like a fictitious county.
Instead, the whole army crossed the Great Wall to the west and attacked Huairong County. Huairong County is the passage connecting Shanggu County and Huaihuang Town, and it is a place where soldiers must fight. Seizing here, Li Chongjiu is equivalent to opening up the military capital road of Taihang Mountain, which can be said to be offensive and retreating, so he is determined to win.
Huairong County has just gone through the previous Gao Tan Sheng's plunder, and then Gao Tan Sheng was destroyed by Xue Shixiong, the city is not strong after the siege battle, and the guard force is only a thousand people. Even if Li Chongjiu's subordinates are all cavalry, but
The defenders resisted Li Chongjiu's army for three days to attack the city, and finally could not resist Li Chongjiu's army and the whole city was subdued.
After Li Chongjiu broke through Huairong County, he went directly to the military capital of Taihang Eight Mountains, from the military capital pass on the edge of the Great Wall, broke through the pass again, entered the Great Wall twice, and turned south this time.
Li Chongjiu's goal in the south was Liangxiang County, and he and Su Su's 5,000-strong army joined forces in Liangxiang County. Li Chongjiu's army was cavalry, so the speed was extremely fast, and Su Su's army was able to subdue Zhuo County, and when it first arrived under the county seat of Liangxiang, Li Chongjiu's army just arrived.
So under Liangxiang County, the banner entered the sea, and Li Chong's 90,000 troops were deployed here, and the guards in the city were all shocked.
Luo Yi in Jixian County was not surprised at all when he heard the news of Li Chongjiu's troops, he knew that Li Chongjiu would not sit back and watch Zhuojun fall into the hands of him Luo Yi, and he would inevitably lead the army to fight him.
Luo Yi is not unprepared at all, after a few days of integration, he has obtained the allegiance of tens of thousands of county soldiers and township soldiers in Jixian County, and his power has increased greatly. He thought that Li Chongjiu would go directly south from Anle County and fight him in Jixian County, but he didn't expect that Li Chongjiu didn't know whether he was afraid of himself or had no intention of fighting a decisive battle, but went around in a circle, and after conquering the two counties of Zhuo County, the main force actually appeared in a circle south of Jixian County.
Luo Yilian wrote a few letters to ask Gao Kaidao to help him, but Gao Kaidao replied that Li Chongjiu's life was suddenly Ji, Cui Xu and the two, led Liaoxi, Ding 05,000 troops, stationed on the border between Liaoxi County and Yuyang County, once he sent troops to help Luo Yi, then Yuyang County would inevitably be attacked by the two, and now for Gao Kaidao, who lost Anle County, Yuyang County is his last hometown.
But seeing Luo Yi's pleading, Gao Kaidao didn't know the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and finally he was still angry, and drew a thousand cavalry under his command to order the Turkic general Ashina Kush to lead the south, which was also regarded as a reinforcement to Luo Yi.
After getting Gao Kaidao's reinforcements, Luo Yi was quite satisfied, he could see that this cavalry was elite. Luo Yi suddenly had some confidence, and now he put his men together, full of calculations, and counted the troops around him There are also fifteen or six thousand people, which is enough to fight Li Chongjiu.
But Li Chongjiu had no intention of fighting with him, and would rather go to Jixian County on all sides, turn left and turn right, that is, not come to Jixian County to fight a decisive battle with Luo Yi. Luo Yi originally controlled only Jixian County, if the other nine counties of Zhuo County were attacked by Li Chongjiu like this, then he had Zhuo County to guard, what was the use of just guarding one Ji County.
And at this moment, Li Chongjiu's cavalry appeared in Yongnu County, in case he crossed Yongnu and attacked his hometown in Beiping County, wouldn't it be even worse.
Luo Yi thought about it and decided that he could no longer sit and guard Jixian County and wait for Li Chongjiu to come to the decisive battle, and only take the initiative to seek victory in the decisive battle. Luo Yi is confident that he is a small soldier, rising to the top of the party today, serving in the army for more than 20 years, and has experienced no less than 100 battles in large and small battles. Li Chongjiu introduced a vertical son, defeated the Khitan, Goguryeo, and subdued the Xi people, but he couldn't even fight Song Jingang, so how could he be his opponent.
At the moment, Luo Yi is very confident in defeating Li Chongjiu. Luo Yi's only worry is what if he sends troops from Jixian County, what will happen to the fire in the backyard?
Luo Yi also knows that he is very unpopular in Jixian County now, in case his army goes out and the backyard of Jixian County catches fire, he will not be a bamboo basket to draw water. Luo Yi thought for a while, and then ordered his two generals, each with five hundred Youzhou iron cavalry, and his trusted county generals, to guard Yongnu and Jixian respectively.
After the arrangement, an even worse news came, and Gu'an County also demoted Li Chongjiu.
After Luo Yi heard about it, he knew that if he waited any longer, he was afraid that even Liangxiang County would have to defect. At the moment, Luo Yiqin led 2,000 Youzhou iron cavalry, 1,000 reinforcements from Gao Kaidao, and 7,000 county soldiers and township soldiers to unite 10,000 horses and horses, and went south from Jixian County to Liangxiang to seek a decisive battle with Li Chongjiu. In the name of watching the battle, Luo Yi also hijacked more than 30 officials in Jixian County, as well as Lu Ziqian and other leading figures of the clan, to prevent them from making trouble in the rear.
When Luo Yi's army arrived in Liangxiang County, he saw Li Chongjiu's army, because of his own military strength, he withdrew from the siege of Liangxiang City and rearranged outside the city.
Luo Yi saw that the other party had rearranged the formation, and immediately said: "The enemy is afraid of our army's momentum and retreats, just to break it in one breath, who wants to be the vanguard?" ”
When the generals of the county soldiers saw this, they all said: "Although the enemy army has retreated, we have galloped for dozens of miles, and we are tired and tired, and we have not yet gained a stable foothold, so it is better to rest for a day and fight again." ”
"It's all gutsless rats! Father, I am willing to break the enemy for the vanguard! A white-robed general spoke out, it was Luo Cheng, the son of Luo Yi.
Luo Yi saw it and said with relief: "Give you a thousand iron horses, don't come back if you don't break the enemy." ”
"No."
Luo Cheng agreed to turn over and get on his horse, and immediately led a thousand Youzhou iron cavalry to break through, and Li Chongjiu's army left flank. Luo Cheng knew what his father meant, this thousand iron cavalry is Luo Yi's disciple soldiers, no matter whether it is loyal to the combat power, there is no doubt about it, Luo Yi wants him to pull out the first merit first, so that those county generals who want to preserve the strength of the army can see the strength of the Luo family's army.
On the left flank of Li Chongjiu's army, Zhao Quanting's 2,000 county soldiers, were about to retreat to the camp, but they saw the opposing cavalry, which actually galloped towards their own army. Zhao Quanting did not have the slightest fear, and under the city of Gaimu, the county soldiers used strong bows and crossbows to break the Goguryeo cavalry.
He has been training as a county soldier for a year and has been in battle several times, not the farmers of the rebel army, who are afraid of running around when they see cavalry. At that moment, Zhao Quanting ordered the covering cavalry not to come to support, and instead ordered them to cut off the rear route of the enemy's cavalry and put themselves in the front line.
Zhao Quanting's foot soldiers lined up, still with strong crossbowmen as the first row, and longbowmen as the second and third rows, and after the crossbowmen and archers, there were sword and shield soldiers, Mo sword soldiers, and infantry soldiers. Zhao Quanting was confident that the average cavalry rushed into battle like this, and there were only two words to find death.
After taking up the position, the opposing cavalry rushed faster and faster, and had approached less than half a mile in front of them. As soon as the sun shone brightly, the cavalry armor suddenly shimmered. Zhao Quanting's pupils shrank, and he suddenly gasped.
Different from the ordinary cavalry, the two-gear armor worn by the foot soldiers, the kind of armor is black and dull, even if the sun is shining, it does not reflect light, and the two pieces of iron on the chest of the cavalry are like mirrors, dazzling. Zhao Quanting saw at a glance that only Mingguang Armor could achieve such an effect.
The armor on the human body is just that, and the horse is also clothed with armor, that is, horse armor, and the curtain of the iron horse's head used to look at it, and the neck of the horse's neck, and the chest of the heavy armor leaves, as for the horse's body armor; After the ride; Parasitism is also readily available.
From people to horses, it seems to be wearing an iron mountain, Zhao Quanting sweated everywhere, and said in his heart, Is this the Youzhou Iron Horse built with the power of the Great Sui for 20 years?
Unlike when the ordinary cavalry stepped on the ground, the rumbling sound, every step of the Youzhou iron cavalry stepped down, standing like a thousand jun, and the horses and feet were all covered under the equipment, as if the ground was about to be crushed.
And when the impact came, Zhao Quanting saw that the opponent's war horse was also far from the Turkic horse.
The Turkic horses of the fan ride have always been shorter, the body height is up to the chest and abdomen of the person here, but the victory is in the long-lasting, the Sui army usually rides more than the Yanqi horse, this horse has the pasture in the north, the whole Great Sui has more than 100,000 horses, the body height is slightly higher than the Turkic horse, good at galloping. The war horses of the opposing cavalry are all tall horses, almost close to human height. Such a horse is only available in Liaodong, otherwise it is impossible to carry the strong armor on such a man and horse.
Zhao Quanting gritted his teeth, and immediately knew that he had miscalculated, and at that moment he held his sword and said: "Listen to my orders, anyone who dares to release arrows at will will be killed!" ”
The crossbowmen in front of them all calmed down when they heard this, and the opponent's armored cavalry was getting closer and closer, and it was already approaching a hundred paces, which was exactly the killing range of the crossbow, but Zhao Quanting's teeth were clenched tightly and did not move at all, staring fiercely ahead.
Seventy paces, the opponent's cavalry immediately set up bows one after another, and shot a round of arrows at the Shanggu soldiers at will, which was a trap and cavalry.
The crossbowman archers who were not covered with armor in front were shot by this arrow, and twenty or thirty people were immediately wounded, but because of Zhao Quanting's strict order, none of them shot arrows.
Fifty paces, after the opponent's heavy cavalry shot a round, he threw the bow to his side, and pointed straight ahead with his horse.
Zhao Quanting shouted at this time: "Shoot the horse!" ”
Hold the bow when it is strong, shoot the arrow when it is long, shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, and capture the thief before the king. If the cavalry rushes into battle, the war horse without armor is undoubtedly the best and biggest target, once the high-speed galloping war horse is injured and falls, the cavalry has only one end, that is, it is slapped on the ground with a bang, and then trampled into a pulp by the rear cavalry.
But the opponent's war horse in front of him is riding in armor and heavy armor, is it useful to shoot a horse?
The strong crossbow gave the answer, and the first row of two hundred three-stone strong crossbows shot a rain of arrows.