On August 15th, all Tiande Army troops left Shanyang Pass one after another.
Shao Shude looked at this well-equipped military fortress with some reluctance, and he was about to set up camp and break out of camp. There were countless night guards and patrols, but he couldn't even think about getting a good night's sleep.
Of course, there is a sequence of events when the army is dispatched. A few hundred people from the Fengzhou Army go first as the vanguard, then the main force of the Tiande Army, and finally the Xicheng troops and baggage troops. There are more than 5,000 troops in the army, and the atmosphere is solemn and murderous.
Head straight towards Shuozhou City, two hundred miles away.
Qiu Weidao set off with the Chinese army. He was still wearing the bright red uniform, with a knife and a bow, but no armor. Shao Shude always had an unreal feeling about his attire: a eunuch who wields a knife and a gun, but also
Being able to shoot arrows really subverts previous perceptions. Unscrupulous film and television dramas are harmful to people!
Because the scouts discovered the enemy's activities nearby, the army was more cautious when traveling. Many of the weapons that were usually placed on the vehicles were also taken off and carried with them. For example, Shao Shude brought thirty arrows with him.
He carried an additional thirty special arrows for him to choose and use. However, he still did not bring a long gun. The small gun of more than two meters that he used was fine. The large gun of four feet that ordinary soldiers were equipped with could be carried while marching.
The picture is so beautiful, but also so tiring.
Shao Shude didn't know much about these things before he traveled. After joining the army, he learned a lot of basic knowledge. Troops in a marching state are the most likely to collapse when they are suddenly attacked. Because at this time, long guns are placed on the carts, and armored warriors
Strong soldiers may not necessarily wear armor, because it consumes too much physical strength, so flags, drums, etc. are also put away. Once they are attacked, the queue is not organized, the equipment is incomplete, and the command is not effective, it will be a ghost if you are not defeated.
In order to avoid this situation, it is necessary to spread the scouts widely and disperse them far away. The Tiande army has a Youyishi named Tian Xing, with the rank of ten generals. In addition to 500 cavalry, there are dozens of brave men under his command.
Resolute, scouts with excellent riding skills and familiar with the mountains and geography, patrolled the army more than ten miles away from the left and right of the army day and night. There were also about twenty scouts in the west city. Shao Shude had contacted them before, and they were all very good at it. Their main task was reconnaissance.
Enemy situation, capture prisoners.
The battles between the scouts were bloody and cruel. They were all experts at surviving in the wild, tracking, and fighting. They often deliberately searched for traces of the other scouts, and then staged scenes of bloody captures and counter-captures.
battles, so the casualty rate of scouts is generally appallingly high.
If one side's scouts are suppressed or even suffer heavy losses, then the general of the army will receive less information from the outside world, and may even be misled by the wrong information given by others. Later in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming army's scouts were raped by Jurchen hunters who were born in the deep mountains and forests.
Hunting and killing, the battlefield is one-way transparent to the Tatars, and this battle will be impossible to fight.
The scouts of the Tiande Army mainly come from the Sinicized Turks and Uighurs in the territory. They have been placed in Fengzhou since the Taizong period. Later, some miscellaneous tribes came one after another. Those who entered the system (to serve as soldiers) were basically Sinicized.
Han people wear Chinese clothes, speak Chinese, and even have Han names. Some of those who have not entered the system still retain their tribal lifestyle. When recruiting scouts, these people are often found, and they are cost-effective.
For example, the Shatuo people who are making trouble next door actually had a large number of able-bodied people selected into the Hedong Town Army in the early years. For example, Fan Xichao once selected 1,200 Shatuo people to join the army and stationed them in Jinyang. These Shatuo people who entered the system served as soldiers and fed them.
According to Li Deyu, the Tuo people were "nature-oriented and familiar with human relationships", and they were basically the same as the Han people. Shao Shude deeply doubted that many people with Chinese surnames and names in Fengzhou were actually Hanized vassal people, but they
Maybe I don’t even know the bloodline of my ancestors, and now I can only judge who I identify with.
The scouting level of the Tiande Army is quite good. After all, they have been fighting against the Dangxiang and the Uighurs all year round. If they spread out in groups of three, they can still detect the enemy in time. They were the ones who sent back the news last night, and they even captured an enemy soldier.
Scouting prisoners, Duandi is extremely powerful.
However, the enemy's more than a thousand cavalry are a huge threat. The scouts have reported that they often send out dozens of cavalry to squeeze the activity space of the Tiande army's scouts, and then round up and kill them. The purpose is to turn the Tiande army into a
The blind man lost the initiative on the battlefield. Youyi made Tian Xing have to recruit hundreds of Tibetan soldiers from the auxiliary army who could ride horses after summoning Hao Zhenwei, the commander-in-chief, and asked them to bring all their equipment, weapons and three-day rations with him.
Go out on an expedition to drive away the enemy's cavalry or even push them back.
When things have developed to this point, no one can pretend that the enemy does not exist. Xue Zhiqin is commanding Shuozhou soldiers and horses to protect the flanks of Li Guochang and his son, so he naturally does not dare to neglect. Yunzhou is being attacked by more than 10,000 soldiers and horses from Helianduo and Qixinzhang.
During the siege, there was strong pressure to return reinforcements. Xue Zhiqin was known as a brave man, and his fighting style was to rush and fight fiercely. The outcome would be determined in one battle. Since he was defending Shuozhou and heard that the German army arrived from Tian, he naturally had a strong ability to defeat him quickly.
Then the urge to return support to Yunzhou.
Of course, this is Xue Zhiqin's psychological state analyzed by the Tiande Army based on the current battlefield situation. It is difficult to say what the reality is. What if his mission is only to defend Shuozhou?
On August 20, after three days of bloody battles to kill the scouts, the cavalry on both sides suffered heavy losses, so the next two days were relatively peaceful. Youyi Commander Tian Xing no longer made a stinking face every day, as before, and his men
There are not many people who are losing money, and the situation has improved a lot.
On this day, the main force of the Tiande Army arrived at a place called Shuicaoling. The Zhongling River turned a corner here, forming a miniature delta with fertile soil. There was a village on the delta, with about a hundred households, except for a few
Most of the families outside the family were surnamed Kang. They mainly farmed and herded some cattle, sheep and horses. They were not very wealthy, but they seemed to have enough food and clothing - Hedong had not suffered a large-scale war for many years.
, folk life is indeed much better than Fengzhou.
"Kang family, the Hu people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu should have moved here during the Yuanhe period." Song Le quietly approached Shao Shude and whispered: "After being annexed by the Shatuo tribe, they are all Shatuo people now."
"Shatuo people?" Looking at the people wearing buns, wearing Hanfu, and speaking Chinese, Shao Shude couldn't connect them with the Shatuo people.
"A high nose, deep eyes, and a beard, just a fake Shatuo!" Lu Huaizhong spat out a grass stem from his mouth and said disdainfully.
"What Lu Huochang said is true. The Hu people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu lived in Lingxia and Daibei in the early years of the Kingdom, much earlier than Shatuo. Unfortunately, there were no capable talents, and Shatuo gradually overpowered him.
It was slowly annexed. Many scholars and people in the east of Hedong ridiculed it as the 'fake Shatuo', and Zhu Xie tribe, the most powerful of the three Shatuo tribes, also despised it." Song Le introduced with a smile.
The Shatuo tribe is also called the Zhuxie tribe because its leader has always been the Zhuxie clan. Compared with the Sage and Anqing tribes, which have a large number of Hu people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu, the Zhuxie tribe is more "real".
The tribesmen have always regarded themselves as descendants of the Yuan Cong family of the Zhu Xie family. For example, in the later Tang Dynasty, Kangfu, a Shatuo native who was regarded as the commander-in-chief of the feudal town, held an official banquet at his house to entertain guests. Among them was a minor official named Luo.
After Kangfu heard that his ancestors came from Jinshan Prefecture in the Western Regions with Yizu of the Later Tang Dynasty (Zhu Xie Zhiyi), he was in awe and immediately said to the people around him: "Luo Pingshi is a humble official. His family is very high. Zhensha
Tuoye." Those who heard this snickered.
The ones who were "snickering" were naturally the Han people present. In their eyes, neither the real Shatuo nor the fake Shatuo could be said to have a "very high family". However, the "fake Shatuo" was born among the Hu people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu.
Kangfu has an undisguised envy of the real Shatuo, or a sense of inferiority, which shows that the gap between the real Shatuo and the fake Shatuo is still very deep.
The three tribes of Shatuo, Zhuxie and Sage, and Anqing are not all the same after all!
Shao Shude observed carefully and found that these Shatuo people who had been completely Chinese were indeed a little different. At least, he saw a few good-looking "foreign horses" among them. They were tall, muscular, and full of youthful energy.
He is energetic and his appearance is similar to that of white people from later generations, but he is wearing Han Chinese clothes, and the overall style of his painting is quite inconsistent.
"Pay attention to these Shatuo people, don't let them harm the supervisory army." Shao Shude swallowed, turned around and gave an order to divert his attention.
"Yes!" Lu Huaizhong, who was on duty, responded with a military salute.
"Don't humiliate the people too much. We are the king's master. We got the water and drove them aside. Don't behave like thieves like Li Guochang." Xu Shi was worried, so Shao Shude ordered again.
"The leader of the team has a kind heart, but this is not possible in troubled times. I heard that some thieves kill people to train their courage, and even eat human flesh..." Lu Huaizhong muttered a few words, and when he saw Shao Shude's expression was not good, he quickly closed his mouth and walked away.
He trotted away to avoid other people's busy work.
"Lao Lu always talks weird things, but he is actually a very nice person. When we were in Fengzhou, I chatted with him about the peaceful situation after the troubled times were settled. He was lovely to listen to, and he never did anything to harm the people. Well, at least under my nose.
No." Shao Shude smiled at Song Le and said.
"The one who is close to vermilion is red, the one who is close to ink is black; if the sound is harmonious, the sound will be clear, and if the shape is straight, the shadow will be straight. Captain Shao is a gentleman by nature, with a kind heart, and the people around him will naturally be the same, and he is very good." Song Le smoothed over.
He stroked his beard and walked away with a smile: "When he captured his people, he was unable to cultivate the land to support his parents. His parents were cold and hungry, his brothers and wives were separated, he indulged his people, and the king went to conquer them. Who can be the enemy of the king?"
Therefore it is said: 'The benevolent are invincible.'"
Song Le's words were a little hard to pronounce, and Shao Shude didn't understand them very well, but he still understood the words "the benevolent are invincible". He smiled bitterly, which didn't make sense in a time of chaos. In this era, it is popular to be more powerful than others.
Be ruthless, be more shameless than others, and have no limits than others, otherwise you don’t know how you will die.
The benevolent are invincible, let's survive first...