The city of Kyoto was blazing with flames. Mo Xingde looked at the soldiers and horses gathered outside Chunming Gate with a rather solemn expression.
In fact, the main force of Kyoto's troops has not yet left the city, but has completed preparations inside the city.
Although before the Rouxuan army came to the city, the saint handed over the command of all the troops and horses in Kyoto to Mo Xingde, and the Dragon Scale Guards were nominally among them, Mo Xingde naturally did not dare to actually mobilize the guards from the beginning to the end.
The Dragon Scale Imperial Guard has one soldier and one soldier.
The Shence Army and the Wuwei Battalion combined had more than 20,000 people, which was the main force. In addition, there were officials from various bureaus in Kyoto, and they could barely make up 30,000 people.
Although the defense of Kyoto for days had caused huge losses to the Rouxuan Army, the defenders actually suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
There are still more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Rouxuan Army outside the city, but the number of soldiers and horses in the east city of Kyoto is more than 20,000.
The Rouxuan Army deployed troops and horses at other gates to contain them. Although there were not many troops, Mo Xingde had to dispatch troops to guard them.
In addition, in the huge city of Kyoto, if all the troops and horses are used to defend the city, once something happens in the city, there will be no time to react, so the people from the Ministry of Justice will not move, and there are also some officers and soldiers from the Military Guard Battalion who are responsible for patrolling the city to deal with unexpected events. So at the beginning
There are only about 20,000 troops deployed in Dongcheng.
Although they have some advantages in terms of military strength, they are not actually much more.
But at this moment, Dongcheng is full of soldiers and horses.
Originally, more than 2,000 people were deployed in each of the other directions, but Mo Xingde had already mobilized a lot of troops from each direction, leaving only 1,000 troops in each of the other three directions. Four more troops were quickly added to the east city.
Not only can a thousand troops not cover the casualties these days,
The number of people is even superfluous.
At present, 20,000 soldiers and horses are massing in the east city. Except for the cavalry who left the city from the left and right side gates to assemble, the remaining main soldiers and horses are getting ready to attack.
Although there was a crowd of people outside Chunming Gate, they were not the regular Kyoto army, but the more than 10,000 people the saint had promised to hand over to him.
Most of these people are the slave guards of the high-ranking officials in Kyoto, and some are young soldiers recruited in Kyoto.
Under heavy rewards, there must be brave men.
The imperial court issued a decree that these young men who had been temporarily gathered together would be rewarded as long as they bravely killed the enemy on the battlefield, and the rewards were also very clear.
If you bring back one head, you can be promoted one level, up to the fourth rank. If there are brave men who can get more heads, the court will give them fertile land. If there are more than four heads, each rebel head can be exchanged.
Hundreds of acres of fertile land.
Such temptation is certainly extraordinary.
The wages of avarice is death.
For many people, this was an excellent opportunity to shine, so not only were the domestic slave nursing homes of dignitaries reorganized, but many knights and warriors in Kyoto were also tempted to join them.
Tantai Zhangyue spent two days organizing these people into a team, and then handed them over to Mo Xingde.
After repelling the last offensive of the Rouxuan Army early this morning, the team arrived at Dongcheng. The generals made some simple explanations, and then began to distribute weapons after noon. After the distribution of spears and swords, there were no battle uniforms. The temporary
These recruited men could only wear their own clothes on the battlefield.
Except for a very small number of people who have never been on the battlefield, most people don't care at all, as long as they have something in their hands.
Weapon, I feel that I have a chance to make meritorious deeds.
After all, most of these people have practiced several times on weekdays and are full of confidence.
Mo Xingde's eyes twitched slightly when he saw that the team had been lined up by the generals outside the city.
He knew very well that after this battle, not many of these people would survive.
The saint wants to send these people out as firewood to consume the enemy's army.
"General, do you really want them to rush forward first?" A general next to him looked down at the civilian sergeant who seemed to be very excited, with a look of unbearability on his eyebrows, and said in a low voice: "The fight between the two armies is different from the fight in the market. They
Even if I have practiced three moves and two moves, I have never had battlefield experience, so if I fight like this, I will almost die!"
Even the regular troops in Kyoto were afraid of fighting head-on with the Rouxuan border troops, but now they had to ask a group of people who had never been on the battlefield to charge into battle. It was really like risking their lives.
"This battle is related to the fate of the country of the Tang Dynasty. We must ensure that nothing goes wrong. We can only win but not lose." Although Mo Xingde was full of iron-blooded energy, he was quite emotional at this moment: "Originally, I thought the saint was worried that we did not have enough troops.
, add some people as backup. I also planned before. If the two armies fight and our army is really too strenuous, we can only send more than 10,000 people up." After a pause, he said: "At noon today, the saint summoned us.
, I went to interview the saint, and I found out that the saint had already made a decision, and that he was prepared to let these people die from the very beginning."
"Let them rush up and consume the rebels?"
Mo Xingde nodded and said: "The Rouxuan Army only has 10,000 people now. If this team kills them, the strength will be insufficient."
Under the rebels, even ten thousand pigs rushing into the enemy's formation can disrupt the enemy's formation, not to mention the more than ten thousand young men who want to be promoted and prosperous. They will definitely not be able to defeat the rebels, but they can disrupt the enemy's formation.
The enemy's position consumes some of the rebels' strength. Once it has been consumed, the final battle that determines victory or defeat can be launched." He turned to look at the generals around him and sighed: "One general can make thousands of bones dry up, let alone now.
A decisive battle concerning the fate of the country."
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of horns coming from the Rouxuan Army.
There is no doubt that the Rouxuan Army is also preparing for battle.
"You all remember, no matter what happens, you must act according to the plan." Mo Xingde said to his generals: "After the three sounding arrows, there are three rockets. After the rockets take off, immediately launch an attack across the board. Don't
If there is any hesitation, you must stand still until the signal is sent. If anyone makes a rash move, I will definitely kill him!"
All the generals bowed their hands and said yes, then retreated and prepared their own preparations.
The tens of thousands of militiamen under Kyoto City were organized into four teams, and each team was commanded by a general sent by Mo Xingde.
At first, there was some noise from several teams, but soon the noise gradually disappeared. The generals of each team rode in front, looking at the Rouxuan military camp dotted with flames from a distance.
The Rouxuan Army's side was also full of people, with messengers shuttling back and forth between the teams, and a small number of ranger scouts exploring from time to time not far from the Kyoto militia formation.
Kyoto's cavalry was deployed at Tonghua and Yanxing gates on both sides. Their purpose was obviously obvious, that is, they wanted to appear on both sides of Rouxuan's army and stab their sides.
The Kyoto army suddenly left the city for a decisive battle, and the Rouxuan army was naturally too late.
Bring back thousands of soldiers and horses from other sects.
However, there are not many cavalrymen in the Rouxuan Army.
Among the four northern towns, the Rouxuan Army is a direct descendant of the Taishi family. Not only does it have the largest number of troops, it also has the largest number of war horses.
When guarding the pass and guarding the border, the enemy is the grassland tribes, who mainly rely on cavalry. The Rouxuan Army has naturally vigorously developed cavalry over the years. Not only are the horses supplied by the court, but they also secretly trade horses from the grassland tribes. Therefore, the Rouxuan Army has
There are a large number of war horses and tens of thousands of cavalry have been trained.
This time when going south, in addition to leaving some cavalry to garrison Rouxuan Army Town to prevent raids by Tusun people and even Wuchuan Town, among the more than 20,000 frontier troops led by Taishi Cunxu, there were 5,000 elite cavalry. Precisely because of the number of cavalry,
There were quite a few, and a large amount of food and grass was needed to maintain them, so after entering the capital, Taishi Cunxu's first goal was Luokou Granary.
During the continuous siege of the city, the cavalry could not be used. At the beginning, the siege was mainly done by infantry, with sergeants who were good at cavalry and archery serving as backup in the rear. However, the fighting later became too fierce and many cavalry also attacked.
Among the dead and injured Rouxuan soldiers, there were hundreds of cavalry. But even so, among the more than 10,000 Rouxuan troops, there were still more than 4,000 elite cavalry. In fact, the number was roughly the same as the number of cavalry in Kyoto.
The total number of cavalry in Tonghua and Yanxing was only four to five thousand, so Taishi Cunxu got the information about the opponent's formation, and immediately deployed four thousand cavalry on both wings, and the central army formed a shield formation.
In front are the spearmen, followed by the spearmen, and at the end are several rows of archers, while the swordsmen are arranged in the rear.
This tactic was originally used to deal with the prairie cavalry. The Rouxuan Army had practiced it countless times before it became clear.
When the trumpet sounded and the messengers were delivering orders in the camp, Rouxuan's soldiers arranged their formations extremely quickly and familiarly, moving extremely fast.
Although the soldiers were exhausted after many days of fighting, when the enemy came, these frontier troops still mustered up their energy and prepared to face the enemy.
In fact, most soldiers found this a relief.
Rather than storming the towering and fortified capital, conducting field battles outside the city would be more suitable for the Rouxuan Army.
The first one to sound the war drums was the Kyoto Army. Amidst the rumbling of the war drums, four huge formations began to advance towards the Rouxuan Army.
The Rouxuan Army did not act rashly.
The Kyoto army suddenly came out of the city for a decisive battle. This was beyond the Rouxuan army's expectations. Many generals wondered if there was some trick. Seeing the Kyoto army slowly advancing, the Rouxuan generals wanted to see what the enemy's tactics were.
There was something fishy, so before Taishi Cunxu ordered the charge horn to be blown, everyone held their ground.
Under the moonlight, the Kyoto Army began to speed up. At first, the four attack formations were relatively neat. However, as the march began to speed up, the formation gradually became messy. In the end, some people began to howl loudly. There were no
After training, these Kyoto militiamen began to no longer care about other people around them, but instead held the weapons in their hands and ran.
Some generals had done something to them before.
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The bag officer is promoted to one level!
Although some people thought it was an exaggeration. After all, no matter how exhausted the frontier troops were, they could not just let themselves be slaughtered. However, most of the people listened with excitement, thinking that they could work hard to get a bright future, so they really didn't want to miss such an opportunity.
Amidst the shouts and howls, the four teams, which were originally neat, soon became like quicksand, completely scattered, without tactics, and could not even hear the general's command. Countless people rushed like wolves and tigers towards what they thought was already there.
The exhausted Rouxuan soldiers.
But as the distance got closer, the Rouxuan soldiers who were waiting in full formation discovered that the black soldiers rushing towards them did not have uniform uniforms or leather armor. At first glance, they looked like a group of disaster victims who had seen food.
, it’s just that they have more weapons in their hands.