Zhu Chengyu, the envoy of the Bohai Capital, looked at the east city from a distance and saw that the city gate had been collapsed. The "rebels" simply built a roadblock to block the doorway. He couldn't help but smile and said to the left and right: "Xijing has been destroyed." The surrounding military generals all chanted:
"How can little Xijing withstand the general's presence?"
Zhu Chengyu was speechless. When Gao Mingxiang, who had returned from defeat, approached, he comforted him with some words and ordered him to lead his troops to take a break, and then let other military guards attack the city. It was not that Zhu Chengyu was sympathetic to Gao Mingxiang, but actually Gao Mingxiang was San
There are only two to three hundred soldiers left in Qianbenbu, and they can no longer fight.
Gao Mingxiang retreated dejectedly. Zhu Chengyu was just about to order a general, so he might as well ride up from a distance and shout an urgent report: "Khitan scouts have been found in the north. Please call the envoy for instructions."
Zhu Chengyu was shocked: "Didn't you say that the Khitan people were defeated by the Tang Guoying state army? How did they attack this place?" The Bohai Kingdom has been really scared by the Khitan people in recent years. When I heard the name of the Khitan soldiers, I thought
Frightened.
The knight said with a sad face: "I don't know this, but judging from his appearance and behavior, there is no doubt that he is a Khitan."
Zhu Chengyu was still in a daze, and a general beside him asked anxiously: "How many people are there? How many miles away are they?"
The ranger said: "It was about fifteen miles away from here when we found it. There were more than a dozen teams of rangers galloping back and forth. Some of them did not dare to come forward. Maybe there is a large team behind."
The general shouted: "You're useless, don't come here anymore." When the knights left, he turned to Zhu Chengyu and said: "Recruit the envoys... Recruit the envoys."
Zhu Chengyu woke up from the shock and murmured: "Why are they Khitan people? What should we do about this? What should we do about this?"
The general sighed and said: "Recruiting envoys is the courage of the whole army. Don't mess up the rules. It is not yet known why the Khitan people came, but according to someone's expectation, there should not be many. Even if the Khitan army is strong,
At that time, there were no more than two thousand at most, let alone today? Now that we have gathered all the troops to go to Beijing, there is no need to be too afraid."
Zhu Chengyu suddenly realized, stroking his palms and saying: "What the general said is true, haha. Well. General, do you have any plans to retreat from the enemy? Can you please tell me?"
The general secretly cursed Zhu Chengyu as a loser, and said: "Leave one part to continue to trap the city. The rest will go north to meet the enemy, and then come back to capture Xijing after the enemy has retreated."
Zhu Chengyu nodded and said: "Yes, taking Xijing is just a matter of searching for things, so what's the harm in keeping him for a while? Haha. That's right. The Khitan army can only have 2,000 soldiers at its peak, so there is nothing to fear." He immediately sent an order to stay.
He lowered the right Xiaowei to guard the recruiting camp, raised the right Shence army, and left the left Xiaowei with a total of ten thousand people to go north. Although he said he was not afraid, but with ten thousand people to fight against the enemy, he was actually afraid.
The army turned and marched under the city, which immediately caused a commotion and chaos. Under the full pressure and rectification of the generals at all levels, they finally got into shape. After marching less than five miles to the north, more than a dozen troops could be seen in the distance.
Teams of rangers shuttled back and forth along the route, blocking the passage. If you look carefully, you can see that the appearance and shouting voices of these rangers are undoubtedly Khitan. Even the way of controlling arrows on horseback is very familiar. Only the clothes have changed.
It looks a bit weird.
A few groups of Bohai cavalry were brave enough to investigate under strict orders, but a few of them were shot over by the rangers. Another group was inexplicably wrapped up in the circle of Khitan rangers, half of them were killed, and the remaining half were killed.
He was also captured alive. The Khitan cavalry chased the Bohai cavalry who had escaped back to the front. One of the cavalry flew out and chased him from behind. The Bohai cavalry who fell at the back thrust his spear and stabbed him off the horse, and then fell off the horse without a trace.
Without stopping, he controlled his horse and turned around. He galloped past the Bohai column dozens of steps away, easily dodged the arrows fired by the Bohai archers, and went back in a circle.
The Bohai soldiers in front could clearly see that this cavalryman was not a Khitan, but a Tang man. This Tang cavalry performed an exquisite cavalry and archery skill in front of the Bohai army, which caused the morale of the Bohai soldiers to drop.
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Zhu Chengyu did not dare to move his army forward and hurriedly ordered the army to form a formation and prepare to meet the enemy.
The Tang cavalry officer who was an expert in cavalry and archery was none other than Zhao Yuanping. He finally got his long-cherished wish and got a good result in his first battle. He shot one person to death, stabbed another to death, and showed off his temper in front of the Bohai army.
, I really got over the addiction of fighting in battle. At this moment, I proudly returned to my own brigade and reported to Li Chengzhong the situation of the Bohai Army.
Li Chengzhong nodded and ordered the scouts to be gathered and the entire army to be deployed.
As the horn sounded and flags flew, the Waiyo coalition cavalry covering the battlefield immediately gathered up. The temporary first battalion on the left and the temporary second battalion on the right protected the two wings of the Chinese army's formation, leaving only the scouts in the middle camp.
Continue to cover the battlefield. All three battalions of infantry dismounted and put on armor. The first battalion of infantry spearmen, the second battalion of sword and shield soldiers, and the third battalion of archers were deployed in sequence, each forming three rows. The middle battalion was behind in preparation. This formation is arranged
It is really easy for the Yingzhou Army. This is what they have been practicing hard for all day, so why is there any difficulty? After a while, the formation was completed, and Li Chengzhong gave an order to continue moving forward.
The Bohai Army could be seen in the distance. Tens of thousands of people formed a square formation in front of them, which looked densely packed. The scouts reported back and reported the visible troop arrangements of the opponent's army one by one. Hearing that the opponent's front line also included spearmen, Li Chengzhong sent an order to change it.
In the formation, the first three rows of spearmen slowed down, and the four, five, and six rows of sword and shield soldiers accelerated and moved forward, changing to the first three rows. At the same time, in order to extend the frontal width of the military formation, try to form an array that could barely compete with the enemy's ten thousand troops.
The soldiers, spearmen and archers were all changed from three rows to two rows. The entire formation change process was completed during the march without any confusion.
As one of the Yu Hou, Qi Huomai watched the entire formation change process beside Li Chengzhong. If the speed and orderliness of the formation before could only make him praise him casually, then the change of formation during the march at this moment made him very happy.
He was surprised. He had always been resentful about the fiasco at Lu Mingwa after being attacked unexpectedly. Especially when he later learned that his fiasco was only due to the impromptu intention of the opponent's commander, he felt even more dissatisfied.
Worth it. During these days of marching, he had been very unconvinced. Even the infantry and cavalry cooperative drills when the army stopped in the new city made him uninterested. But at this moment, he finally began to feel that this army had defeated him.
The Yingzhou Army became interested.
The two sides are two hundred steps apart. Two archers on each side of the formation. They bend their bows and throw arrows upwards. After the arrows fall, they stick diagonally on the ground. The formations of the two armies move forward and stop at the feathers of the opponent's arrows.
, this is to shoot at the base of the formation. Although this is a common practice between two armies, it is also an extremely important part of the formation battle - using the landing point of the arrow as a mark for the archer's range, and at the same time estimating the next step of the formation's forward movement.
distance to ensure that our formation is not covered by the opponent's arrow rain.
But the Yingzhou Army made a mistake in this process. The archers who "held the position" held ordinary bows, not the Bailangshan version of the "English Longbow." Since the development of the single longbow, the Yingzhou Army
The logistics department actively made improvements. Because the original first batch of longbows did not undergo procedures such as drying and sealing the bow body, the life of the bow body was short. The small bows have been gradually phased out, and the second batch of longbows are made solely of bows.
The body-building process only took half a year. Coupled with improvements in Wangshan, rubber ribs, etc., not only the lifespan was extended, but the range was also further extended.
Zhu Chengyu sat on his horse and looked carefully at the formation of the Yingzhou Army, and then at the general flags fluttering on the opposite side. He was very surprised. He asked to the left and right: "Don't you mean Khitan soldiers? Why are they the Tang Army? Why are the Tang Army here?
? They actually have enough time to take care of this place, oh... It's strange, and it's not right. There are many Khitan people, so why did the Tang army and the Khitan people unite? Haven't they regarded each other as enemies in the past few years? Eh... General Banner
When did Li Datang, the governor of Yingzhou, reopen the governor's mansion of Yingzhou?..." He was already dizzy from everything in front of him and his words were incoherent. The generals around him were also dumbfounded and could not answer Zhu Chengyu's question at all.
But fortunately, it seemed that the opponent's number was not large, it seemed that there were only two or three thousand people. His side was almost three or four times the number of the enemy. This made him put down a lot of thoughts.
"Who is willing to come forward and pay tribute to the master?" Zhu Chengyu looked around, but no one answered. He ordered a general angrily, but it was not Jin Yinzhi. Jin Yinzhi had no choice but to slowly urge the war horse. The more people came out,
He was riding a horse but with his body hunched over. He was always ready to ride back and escape.
"To the Master" was a common method used in the pre-Qin period when two armies faced each other. The general idea is to send a general to greet the other side politely: Your army is well, you have worked hard from afar. Let the soldiers rest for a while, while everyone
During the break, you send one person out to challenge me to a duel so that the three armies can watch the ceremony and so on.
However, it is no longer popular to start the battle in the form of a duel between generals. At this time, the "master" only stepped forward to question the other party's purpose, scolded the other party for being unkind, and at the same time affirmed that one's own side has righteousness. This kind of "master"
"Compared with the pre-Qin period, the risk is much smaller, because generally speaking there is no problem of taking action, so the possibility of heroism is not high, but not many people are willing to go. Because the two armies appear in front of the formation, which means that it is very possible.
If you are targeted by the opponent, the battle will go smoothly. Once defeated, you may become the main target of the enemy's pursuit. Even in extreme circumstances, there is also the possibility of such a "killer" dying on the spot. The most typical example is
A classic case of the Three Kingdoms circulated in romance novels - Prime Minister Zhuge scolded Wang Lang to death in front of the formation.
Of course, such extreme cases are very rare, probably not one in a hundred years. But if not one in a hundred years, what about two hundred years? What about three hundred years? Unfortunately, Jin Yin was facing Li Chengzhong directly, so he encountered this
An extreme case.
Jin Yinzhi carefully came to the front of the Yingzhou Army formation, hid behind the horse's head, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Why are your troops here? This is the land of Xijing in Bohai State. I'm afraid your troops have lost their way. Please hurry up."
Come back quickly..." He didn't dare to shout randomly, for fear that he would say something too much and anger a reckless general on the other side, and then rush over to challenge him in a rage, which would be too tragic.
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In the main formation of the Yingzhou Army, Li Chengzhong smiled after hearing Jin Yinzhi's two words of shouting. He turned around to find Jieli, and suddenly remembered that Jieli was leading the army to protect the flank, so he saw Qihuomai again, and said warmly: "Begging for life, Yu"
Waiting?"
Beggar Huomai was looking at Jin Yinzhi, who was hunched over in front of the two armies. When he heard Li Chengzhong asking him a question, he couldn't help but be startled. He turned around and said, "Captain?"
Li Chengzhong pointed to Jin Yinzhi opposite him and asked Qi Huo Buyi: "How is Qi Huo Buyi and Yu Hou's archery skills?"
Qi Huomai looked back at the other side and said, "Eighty-five steps. Isn't that good?" What he meant was that the distance was too close. With my archery skills, this was a bit unfair. Besides, They are here to negotiate, so this is not only unjust, but also unkind.
But Li Chengzhong misunderstood what he meant and thought he couldn't cum. He said "oh" and turned to look at the others.
Beggar Huomai felt very uncomfortable, and without saying a word, he immediately bent his bow and set an arrow. Shooting such a fixed target was too ordinary for him, so he didn't even take aim, just shot an arrow at random. The arrow was like a shooting star, shooting straight at him. It rushed towards Jin Yinzhi and shot into Jin Yinzhi's big mouth, which was sticking his head out to shout. After penetrating, the force of the attack was not exhausted, and it flew dozens of steps before being nailed to the ground.
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