Chapter 446 This is the Silver Spear Effect Festival
Jielibijia was stunned when he saw Feng Hui's troops coming out of the slightly shabby defense city. His eyes widened in disbelief.
A nearby minister laughed exaggeratedly and said, "We are waiting for tens of thousands of fine horses to come, and they will send more than 2,000 people out of the city to fight. This is the Khan of God!"
Hearing what the close minister said, the surrounding Gaochang Uighur officials all started laughing.
Jialipika could win among the four sons and then deal with his two elder brothers and one younger brother. He was not a benevolent master.
The people below have long been accustomed to flattering the king of Gaochang Uighurs. Anyone who dares to object will have to worry about whether he can save his life.
Amid the flood of flattery, Jielibiga narrowed his eyes in comfort, but he still understood something in his heart.
From here, it can be seen that the Chiting Guard City is filled with densely packed Liang troops, but it is not certain whether there are 20,000 troops.
And he had to figure out the number of people, because if there were 20,000 soldiers here, then the Liang army would most likely come from Yizhou, and these people would be the vanguard.
Zhang Zhao was using traders on the Silk Road to find out the situation of the Gaochang Uighurs, and the Gaochang Uighurs were also using traders from their own country to find out about the reality of the Liang Kingdom.
Although it was impossible for them to find out the secrets, they still knew how big the Liang Kingdom was and what the situation was like in the country.
Just after Zhang Zhao sent an envoy to Gaochang City for the first time to ask Jielibijia to revoke the title of Heavenly King, Jielibijia was discussing with his surrounding ministers and generals to prepare for the Liang Kingdom.
The inference they gave was actually very close to Zhang Zhao's arrangement.
Because we want to attack the Gaochang Uighurs, that is, we need to cross Qiaosha from the north to Futu City, and capture Yizhou from the east. There is no need to guess hard.
The difficulty lies in judging the opponent's main attack direction and making targeted arrangements.
The only thing that exceeded Jie Libijia's expectations was that while Zhang Zhao was still sending envoys to communicate with him, he suddenly surrendered to the Chen family in Yizhou.
This allowed Jielibiga to fall to Yizhou before he could strengthen the defense of Yizhou.
Judging from the number of troops sent out by the Liang Kingdom in the past, Jie Lipijia judged that the ability of the Liang Kingdom to send out troops was about 30,000 to 50,000 people.
If the scale approaches or exceeds 50,000, a nationwide mobilization is necessary.
Obviously, if the Liang Kingdom had to dispatch more than 50,000 people to defeat the Gaochang Uighurs, Jieli Pijana would laugh out of his dreams.
Just relying on this long supply line and the three major natural dangers of the cruel Mohe Yanqi, the Great Ghost Qi and the Shatuo Qi, the Liang Kingdom could lose its troops and generals.
Therefore, if it is true that more than 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers arrived at Chiting to guard the capture, these few books can confirm that the Liang Kingdom came from Yizhou.
It is impossible for an army of 30,000 to 40,000 people to be divided into two groups.
Even when the Khitans defeated Futu City, they dispatched more than 30,000 cavalry. The Liang Kingdom could not capture Futu City with only 10,000 or 20,000 cavalry.
Not to mention, tens of thousands of Saktu's Geluolu cavalry came to Futu City. If the Liang Kingdom divided their troops like this, Jieli Pijana would have to look up to the sky and laugh three times.
How beautiful it is to let Saktu and Zhang Zhao of Liang State fight dogs!
But there is a problem. It is impossible for Chiting to stand there and let him count the soldiers and horses of the Liang Kingdom captured by Chiting.
This requires a close fight to fully mobilize the Liang army guarded by Chiting, and then use the combat effectiveness and the appearance of army flags to determine the number of the Liang army.
In fact, what Jie Libijia didn't know was that Feng Hui gave up two thousand troops and horses to form an array against the city.
It was just to make the Gaochang Uighurs confused about how many troops and horses he had under his command, and then use the powerful Hanshandu and Yinqiandu to give Jielibijia an illusion.
Feng Hui's troops outside the city quickly completed their formation, with Barbarian Bear on the left, Dunzhu on the right, and Wu Jixing's troops who came with Feng Hui to throw 600 silver spears.
Wu Jixing is a very interesting person. Historically, after Feng Hui completely wiped out the Lingzhou party Xiang Tuoba Yanchao's tribe, Li Wenqian, the queen of Liangzhou, burned himself to death behind closed doors.
Feng Hui then sent Wu Jixing to lead two thousand Ya soldiers into Liangzhou and appointed him as the governor of Hexi Province.
As soon as he took office, he actually "mingled" with the various tribes in Liangzhou, and the tribes in Liangzhou were still unable to defeat his two thousand silver spearmen, so they could only cry to the Later Jin Dynasty.
The Later Jin Dynasty sent Chen Yanhui, the governor of Jingzhou, to mediate. The various ministries in Liangzhou cried and hugged Chen Yanhui's thighs and refused to let him go. They voluntarily returned to Chen Yanhui's command and asked the Later Jin Dynasty to appoint Chen Yanhui as the governor of Liangzhou.
Shi Jingtang was also afraid that after Feng Hui established a foothold in Liangzhou, he would imitate the Li family of the disaster-rescuing army and began to deny Wu Jixing's position as a post-regent in Hexi Jiedu.
Wu Jixing had no support and could only return to Lingzhou. From then on, he followed Feng Hui and worked in the Fusui border area of Lingzhou, where he had outstanding benevolence and trust.
Historically, after the death of Zhang Xichong, there were not even ten Han people left in Lingzhou, and the Dangxiang tribes were arrogant and arrogant. They were all governed by Feng Hui and his subordinate Wu Jixing.
Otherwise, I am afraid that before the Song Dynasty loses Lingzhou, it may be gone in the Later Han Dynasty.
But in this era, Wu Jixing believed that he was in the right place.
Because the atmosphere in Liang's country is completely different from that of the Central Plains imperial court, there is a feeling of vitality and everything is competing.
What Feng Hui had analyzed with him before coming here was that the Liang Kingdom was located on the west side of the Hexi River and had Xia Sui, who was a powerful warrior, and could end this troubled world more than any other country in the world. This conclusion was fully agreed upon by Wu Jixing.
Bang bang bang! The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and a Gaochang Uighur cavalry wearing brocade robes and holding a white flag galloped over from a distance.
This is the messenger who came to speak with a white flag.
Wu Jixing curled his lips and raised the bow in his hand mockingly.
"Do you still want to come here to persuade me to surrender? Does Thief Hu really think that he is the Khan of Heaven?"
With a bang, the arrows streaked across like meteors, and the knight in brocade robes who ran over fell to the ground without saying a word.
Jielibiga's face turned red with anger, and he stood up from the gorgeous Tiankhan Liujia with great anger.
"The left Shenwu army attacks, with the Shannan tribes as the front army."
The tribes in the south of the mountains mentioned by Jielibijia are the tribes south of Bogda Mountain. They are the armed herdsmen of local tribes who have no military pay.
After receiving the order, tens of thousands of Gaochang Uighur cavalry began to dispatch.
In an instant, smoke and dust began to fill the vast sandy land to the west and north of Chiting Shouchu.
This is the favorite trick of the cavalry in the Western Regions. Due to the relative drought here, a thick layer of loess is often accumulated on the ground. The attacking cavalry will often raise dust everywhere before the army is dispatched to build momentum and cover the attack.
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Wu Jixing also immediately began to change his formation. He asked Guo Guangcheng and Chen Huiming, who each led 500 cavalry, to lead the cavalry team to retreat behind the infantry.
The first is to avoid being the first target of attack and to be able to maneuver quickly if attacked. The second is to leave a distance for the impact of the war horse.
Amidst the dust in the sky, a squeaking sound suddenly sounded. Combined with the almost invisible aura, it was quite intimidating.
On Wu Jixing's side, although the infantrymen took out their bows and picked up arrows from Hu Lu, they didn't know which direction to shoot, because at this moment they couldn't tell from which direction the enemy cavalry was going to attack?
Wu Jixing quickly raised a red pennant, and then the soldiers behind him began to tap the breastplates of their comrades with their left elbows to signal to gather over.
The soldiers who received the signal quickly rallied under the command of the officer, and a small number of Peng Platoon soldiers raised the Peng Platoon.
The three sections of infantry that originally stood side by side in three square formations turned into a small formation somewhat similar to a rhombus in an extremely fast time.
And they were distributed in a "pin" shape. Six hundred people with Wu Jixing's silver spear were directly pushed to the front.
Unlike ordinary infantry who need to form a square formation to fight against cavalry, Wu Jixing's style of play stems from his self-confidence.
If the opponent is a cavalry who dares to charge into the formation, they will probably be defeated one by one if they play like this.
However, Wu Jixing did not believe that the Gaochang Uighur cavalry had the ability to directly charge into the spear phalanx. The thousands of light cavalry earlier had already exposed their combat power.
Raindrop-like arrows came along with the fierce smell of earth on the pavement. Within seventy or eighty steps, the Gaochang Uighur cavalry who had been hidden in the dust appeared in front of everyone.
They didn't actually rush in from all over the mountains and harass them with bows and arrows in the traditional way, but they actually formed an arrow formation and fought in close combat with spears and sabers in hand.
For a moment, both sides were stunned, surprised by the other's going beyond the norm.
The cavalry of the Gaochang Uighurs thought they would see an infantry formation in a square formation, but they turned out to be three steel hedgehogs in the shape of a cross.
Wu Jixing thought that what he saw would be an overwhelming mass of Dangxiang people, with each cavalry being widely spaced, and the main means of output being cavalry using bows and arrows. However, a group of heavy cavalry came in for melee combat.
The term "heavy" does not refer to wearing iron armor, but refers to the heavy cavalry whose task is to rush into battle.
In an instant, the arrows were like locusts, the arrows of Gaochang Uighurs were shot, and the arrows of Wu Jixing's silver spear were also shot.
The smoke became even bigger, and countless Gaochang Uighur cavalry horses fell to the ground, creating waves of rising smoke.
Although there were quite a few arrows hit by the silver spears, all of them were armored, and the arrows fired from the horse bows were basically unable to break through the armor.
Only those who are extremely unlucky will be hit by arrows that come out of a hole in the nail leaf and penetrate it.
"Raise the gun!" Wu Jixing shouted.
Thirty steps later, if the opponent dares to hit him directly, then he will definitely suffer a lot today.
This proved that the experience and courage of the cavalry on the opposite side exceeded his estimation.
But if the opponent did not dare to hit him directly, but instead rode his horse through their three infantry squares in a Z-shaped formation, it means that Wu Jixing's judgment was correct.
The combat effectiveness of the Gaochang Uighur Cavalry is only that high, and they will definitely be easily defeated.
Amidst Wu Jixing's roar, more than three hundred spears were raised.
The barrels of these long guns are painted with a layer of white paint. Under the sunlight, they emit a hazy white light. This is the source of the silver guns in the Silver Spear Festival.
In the dim sky and earth, a flash of silvery white is extremely bright, and even the steel tip of the spear is shining, like a sudden dazzling light, which is very shocking.
Behind the three hundred silver spears are wooden crossbows that are constantly firing and a small number of divine arm bows.
The charging Gaochang Uighur cavalry was like a sesame cake that was being beaten repeatedly. Although the main body was not seriously damaged, the sesame seeds on the surface of the cake were falling off.
Finally, frightened by the fierce shooting of strong bows and crossbows and the unattractive silver spears, the Gaochang Uighur cavalry did not dare to run into Wu Jixing and others.
Instead, when he was about to reach thirty steps, he made a herringbone and walked around.