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On July 25th, Li Siyuan received news that the Yan army was discovered in Shideng Mountain west of Xiangyuan City. This Yan army was cavalry. The total number was roughly the same as Li Siyuan's cavalry. The general flags showed that this cavalry came from Liaodong Baoan.
Army, the leading general is named Zhao.
The defenders of the Yan Army in Xiangyuan were the troops of Youyan Security Army Li Xiaoxi and the remnants of the "Pseudo Jin King" Li Cunxu. The troops stationed in Licheng were the troops of Liaodong Security Army Zhao Zaili. Li Siyuan roughly knew these situations, so the appearance of Shideng Mountain
Intelligence from the Liaodong Security Army showed that Licheng's cavalry had been attracted to the direction of Xiangyuan. This was definitely good news for An Chongjie to surprise Licheng!
On July 28, after cavalry scouts killed two people, they sent back a message. Thousands of Yan troops were building a military camp at the foot of Wuyang Mountain in the south of Xiangyuan City. Judging from the situation that has been investigated, a total of ten camps were discovered.
Camp flag.
The original Hedong Army and the old Lulong Army had fought side by side for two years. The two sides cooperated closely and knew each other's basics. Li Siyuan knew that the Yan Army's organization was very stable, with a battalion of about 500 people and a battalion of only 100 people. It would not be like elsewhere
The number of soldiers ranges from dozens to thousands, and the number of soldiers in a battalion ranges from hundreds to tens of thousands. Therefore, Li Siyuan initially judged that the reinforcements of the Yan army at the foot of Wuyang Mountain should be about 5,000. This is another piece of good news!
The facts are not much different from Li Siyuan's conjecture, except that among the Yan army reinforcements at the foot of Wuyang Mountain, five battalions were specially built logistics battalions that came from Luzhou.
Li Siyuan was very happy, but he was also deeply worried. Although the trail from Huangya Cave to Zhuozhangshui River Valley was secretive, many senior officers in the Han Horse Infantry Army of the original vassal knew about it. Perhaps among the Yan Army.
There are such officers.
Based on the above concerns, Li Siyuan immediately started small actions. He frequently sent his cavalry to operate in small groups around Xiangyuan, in an attempt to arouse the suspicion and uneasiness of the Yan army and try to attract more Yan troops to gather in the direction of Xiangyuan.
The Yan army's combat thinking originated from Li Chengzhong, and Li Chengzhong's combat thinking came from later generations. This kind of combat thinking attached great importance to battlefield intelligence, to the point of requiring control. The frequent attacks of Li Siyuan's cavalry squad greatly threatened the Yan army.
The Yan army's control of battlefield intelligence is something that the Yan army will never tolerate.
The battle on the Xiangyuan battlefield began with a cavalry battle. The Yan army was dominated by the cavalry of Zhao Zaili of the Liaodong Security Army, supplemented by the cavalry of the Youyan Security Army in Xiangyuan City, the Turkic tribal cavalry in Jiemuli, and a cavalry battalion of the Guizhou Army.
A total of 3,500 cavalrymen began to expel and sweep away Li Siyuan's cavalry within fifty miles of Xiangyuan.
The Yan Army cavalry started fighting in strict accordance with the "driving war" regulations. The Liaodong Security Army and the Guizhou Army Cavalry Battalion were organized into 27 combat cavalry divisions in units of one hundred cavalry. The Youyan Security Army and Turkic Tribe Cavalry were organized into units of ten cavalry.
units, forming more than 80 patrol teams.
Zhou Kan commanded the temporary Yuhou Department. The area within fifty miles of the Xiangyuan area was divided into small grids on the map and sand table. The twenty-seven combat cavalry each received supplies that could sustain three days of combat and stationed in the areas they were responsible for.
This area is separated by ten miles from each other.
More than eighty cavalry squads are evenly distributed in the middle of this area, each responsible for patrolling within a radius of four to five miles. Once Li Siyuan's cavalry is discovered, five cavalry or less can come forward and annihilate them. If there are more than five cavalry, the horn will be blown to summon them.
The nearby patrol team will surround and hunt. If the enemy has more than 20 horsemen, gunpowder arrows will be fired into the sky to summon the nearby combat cavalry.
In the first year of Tianfu, Li Chengzhong established a Taoist temple in Liucheng to support two Taoist priests, Sun Siyu and Zhang Junen, who were good at alchemy. He also named the Taoist temple "Science Research Temple" in a very wicked way. At that time, he recruited dozens of young children to serve as the temple.
Taoist temple, studying with two Taoist priests.
The two Taoist priests began to develop gunpowder in the direction indicated by Li Chengzhong. With the abundant support of manpower and material resources, they actually achieved phased results in the second year of Tianfu - granular black gunpowder appeared in the alchemy of the two Taoist priests.
In the furnace. Li Chengzhong was very happy at the time and immediately pointed out the use direction of this black gunpowder - making simple explosive bags.
However, in the subsequent experiments, the explosion effect of the simple explosive pack was not ideal, and its biggest effect was just to pull it into the Dongshan Iron Mine and use it to blast the ore. Moreover, the power of this blasting was not high, but
It just exploded the ore rock, which was far from the "earth-shattering" effect Li Chengzhong expected.
At that time, Li Chengzhong always believed that the problem occurred in the structure and sealing of the explosive package, so he asked the scientific research team to improve the manufacturing process of the explosive package. This detour lasted for a year. During an accidental conversation, Li Chengzhong realized that the problem
In fact, it was still about the gunpowder - considering safety factors, the two Taoist priests did not dare to add "black stone powder" (pulverized coal) to the gunpowder.
In response, Li Chengzhong issued a tough order, requiring the scientific research concept to carry forward the spirit of "not afraid of dangers and sacrifices" and resolutely complete research and development tasks.
In the spring of the first year of Tianyou's reign, at the tragic cost of the death of two Taoist boys and the maiming of five Taoist boys, the Scientific Research Institute made a major breakthrough in the research and development of gunpowder. Two Taoist priests, Sun Siyu and Zhang Junen, successfully developed a combustion comparison gun.
It is a new generation of granular black powder that has a strong explosive effect. For this purpose, even Sun Siyu's left little finger "heroically sacrificed his life".
After the emergence of a new generation of black powder, the scientific research team re-researched the production of explosive packets, achieved obvious results in many experiments, and put it into actual combat for the first time in the winter of the first year of Tianyou. On December 15 of that year, the North City Gate of Gaoping was opened.
It collapsed with a loud noise and became the first sacrifice of a new weapon called gunpowder in the world's military history.
Afterwards, under the instruction of Li Chengzhong, the Scientific Research Institute and the military workshop under the Equipment Division of the Logistics Department jointly developed several gunpowder military products. Gunpowder arrows were one of the more successful and practical products.
Gunpowder arrows are not complicated. In later generations, they were actually something that even a three-year-old child would play with. After lighting the fuse, you can hold it directly in your hand and aim it at the sky. After countless experiments, the formula was determined.
The amount of gunpowder can reach a height of between fifteen and twenty feet in the air. There is also a sealed gunpowder pellet inside the arrow, which explodes when the gunpowder arrow reaches its maximum height, and the black smoke produced is very conspicuous in the sky.
The biggest function of this thing is to warn. For the scout troops, it is a powerful tool for transmitting simple messages within short and medium distances. However, so far, the output of gunpowder arrows is not large, and only some of them can be distributed among the Yan army.
Troops, cavalry and scouts are allotted to the first-level officer of the group leader, three coins each; front-line combat infantry are allotted to the first-level officer of the capital, five coins each.
Zhou Kan decided to use this sharp weapon first in this cavalry expulsion battle. Once the patrolling cavalry discovered Li Siyuan's cavalry of more than twenty cavalry, the captain could launch gunpowder arrows to summon the surrounding combat cavalry. Within a moment, he could ensure
At least a hundred cavalry have rushed to the battlefield; within half an hour, the number of cavalry gathered from four directions will reach more than 400!
The cavalry under Li Siyuan's command mainly came from the Han Horse Infantry Army, while the elite Black Crow Army cavalry of the original Hedong Army was firmly controlled by Li Sizhao and Zhou Dewei. In fact, no matter whether it was the Han Horse Infantry or the Black Crow Army, they had no combat targets for a long time.
The Xuanwu Army had many cavalry, but their experience in dealing with infantry was far greater than that of cavalry.
On the contrary, the Yan Army cavalry has five or six years of cavalry combat experience. In the battle with the Khitan cavalry, the Yan Army cavalry gradually formed its own set of regular cavalry combat regulations, and in daily training, the Yan Army cavalry
The main combat imaginary enemy of military cavalry has always been locked on the cavalry itself.
There is no doubt that Li Siyuan's cavalry is the same as the original Hedong Army cavalry. Many of them come from the grasslands. Their riding and archery skills are no less than those of the Yan Army's cavalry. However, when it comes to cavalry tactics, they are not as good as those of the Yan Army's skilled cavalry.
The army cavalry.
Most of the cavalry of the Liaodong Security Army were recruited from outside the customs, and were systematically trained by Zhao Zaili. They also had experience in fighting against the weak Xuanwu Army cavalry. In terms of individual combat level, they were no longer weaker than the Yan Army's main cavalry force, the Huaiyue Allied Forces.
and the Zhaozhou Army. At this moment, under the planning of the temporary Yuhou Department, they immediately formed a local combat advantage over Li Siyuan's cavalry.
Horns sounded, rockets shot into the sky, and Li Siyuan's cavalry squad ran around like headless flies under the encirclement and suppression of the Yan army's cavalry. From the first day of the expulsion, Li Siyuan's cavalry suffered heavy losses, and that night
Sixteen cavalry squads did not return to the main camp, resulting in the loss of nearly a hundred cavalry.
Such a loss made Li Siyuan very sad, and it also aroused his high alertness. While he asked the cavalry officers who returned to the camp in detail about all the news on the battlefield, he stopped the original strategy of devoting cavalry to the battlefield in shifts. The next day
, many cavalry teams returned to the camp one after another, and the officers of each team reported various reports. Some said that the Yan Army cavalry was good at tracking, some said that the enemy was good at riding and shooting, some said that the enemy troops were densely packed everywhere, and some said that the enemy was good at riding and shooting.
Some say that the enemy is setting up an ambush in a large area. Some even say that the Yan army's cavalry can attract thunder from the sky and will lead them to rectify the law. In fact, they are heavenly soldiers and generals, unable to defeat the enemy...
All kinds of news were flying all over the sky, which not only caused Li Siyuan to be as loud as a fight, but also caused rumors to spread in the camp, making people panic. Li Siyuan had no choice but to kill seventeen cavalrymen who were spreading rumors, and then suppressed the panic.
Go down.
After three consecutive days of expulsion operations, the Yan army's cavalry achieved a great victory, beheading 178 soldiers, capturing 30 people, and seizing more than 100 horses, other swords, guns, armor, etc. Only 19 people were killed and 30 were injured.
The remaining people.
The right to obtain intelligence on the Xiangyuan battlefield was regained by the Yan army. The surrounding fifty miles were filled with Yan army cavalry galloping freely.
It is absolutely impossible for Li Siyuan to obtain useful and reliable information from the returned defeated troops. Even if he fails, he must understand how he failed. In addition to exploring the cause of the failure, the most important thing is to understand the opponent.
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