The sound of drums spread across the land with the south wind.
Five thousand cavalry troops marched out of the camp gate one by one and formed an array in the wilderness.
The pursuers had already stopped in the distance. The hundreds of horsemen of the Hedong Army fled into the camp fence. The Xuanwu Army only had more than 2,000 horsemen. Is it possible to attack the camp directly?
"Deputy Ambassador Chen, please sit down in the camp and I will lead my army to drive away the enemy. General Yang Shi, the Leopard Cavalry Commander, has already gone to meet General Manager Pei. Don't worry." Zhejiyu said to Chen Cheng beside him.
Deputy Ambassador Chen came on behalf of the commander-in-chief and assumed the role of supervising the army to a certain extent. Naturally, Oritsugu Yuu had to explain his intentions to him.
"Military affairs have their own commanders and commanders, who are responsible for coordinating all parties, transporting grain and grass, and transporting hungry people." Chen Cheng said with a cupped hand.
In fact, he wished he could leave now. Without him, Zhao Guangfeng would be the commander-in-chief's number one aide. As time goes by, he might gain more appreciation from the commander-in-chief and shake his position.
It's a pity that I won't be able to leave for a while! Chen Cheng returned to the camp with his entourage, and then climbed up to the high platform to take a look.
"General An, how was the battle in Heyang?" Chen Cheng asked.
In fact, he had already guessed that the Hedong Army was probably defeated. Li Keyong was a strict man, similar to his deceased father Li Guochang. Once his men made mistakes or suffered a defeat, what would happen to them would depend on their moods.
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An Renyi made a mistake before and was afraid of Li Guochang's punishment, so he led his troops south to surrender to Qin Zongquan, and later returned to the tent of his younger brother Zong Heng. After Qin Zongheng was ambushed and killed by Sun Ru at a banquet, he led his troops south to join Yang Xingmi. Because he was a scarce cavalry talent in the south, he immediately
He was treated as a distinguished guest by Yang Xingmi and his status was respected.
This time Kang Junli and others suffered a defeat. It is understandable that An Xiuxiu was afraid and led his troops to flee south. Chen Cheng even guessed that this person originally planned to imitate An Renyi and defect to Qin Zongquan, but he was chased in a hurry and died halfway.
Seeing that the Dingnan Army was camping here, he made an impromptu decision and surrendered.
In fact, Chen Cheng was unwilling to take An Xiuxiu in. The cavalry might be very valuable to Qin Zongquan or Yang Xingmi, but it was meaningless to Marshal Shao.
What Lingxia lacks is wealth, but there is never a shortage of people who are good at riding and shooting. It can even be said that there are a lot of them. Even Shatuo cavalry is there! There are one or two small Shatuo tribes inside and outside Yinshan Mountain who are asking the Marshal.
Pay tribute.
An Xiuxiu really chose the wrong person. If he went to find Yang Xingmi, he would be overjoyed. He wanted wealth and wealth, beauty and beauty, so he came to the Prince of Lingwu County. With his skills and soldiers, but
It may not be looked upon favorably.
This matter needs to be decided by the commander-in-chief! Chen Cheng thought about it and decided to send an envoy to the west soon to inform An Xiuxiu.
"Returning to Deputy Envoy Chen, Xuanwu's army was very rogue. As soon as they arrived, they took advantage of their superior strength and divided their troops to move northward, attacking Ze and Lu, hoping to cut off the return route of the army in Hebei Province. Kang Junli, the envoy to recruit him, was unexpected and panicked.
After Wenxian was defeated, he rushed to Ze and Lu, repelled the Xuanwu army, and then came to his senses." An Xiuxiu expressed deep resentment towards Kang Junli in his words. Perhaps, he was the abandoned son who was left behind by Kang Junli to divorce.
The feeling of being an abandoned child is not pleasant, and Li Keyong is not a tolerant person. If he loses the battle, the outcome is unpredictable, wouldn't he just abandon his wife and son and run away?
"General An came back from the front line in Hebei, right? How is the war situation there?"
"Meng Fang established tens of thousands of troops, but he was so anxious that he could not pull them out."
Tens of thousands of soldiers? Chen Cheng was speechless when he heard this. Hebei has a really large population and is really rich. If the three prefectures of Xing, Ming, and Ci were acquired by Li Keyong, I'm afraid it would not increase the number of hundreds of thousands of people immediately.
The strength has skyrocketed. I just don’t know if Zhu Quanzhong will intervene. Hedong is already extremely rich. It has already occupied Ze and Lu prefectures. If it is punished again, Ming and Ci prefectures, no one can control this strength, right?
No, there is still a chance! Li Keyong behaves in an unorganized manner and controls his subordinates harshly. He is not like a master. No matter how much capital he has, he will squander it all indiscriminately. There is still a chance.
Chen Cheng glanced at An Xiuxiu, as if he had seen through Li Keyong's future, and said with a smile: "General An has many capable soldiers, let's settle down in the camp first. After a while, there may be wars, and then there will be wars."
You have to use the general’s courage.”
"Since I'm here to vote, I naturally have to help Prince Lingwu." An Xiuxiu said happily.
The less than 700 cavalrymen under his command are all his old subordinates who have been with him for many years, and their fighting ability is not weak. However, since Prince Lingwu has many cavalrymen, he may not think highly of them, so he still has to fight to the death.
Otherwise, I'm afraid it will be difficult to get ahead.
Thinking of this, An Xiuxiu also felt a little regretful. He was being chased too quickly and was in a panic. He saw a large camp in front of him with a flag with the word "Zhe" hanging on it. It was probably from the trouble-making army, so he did it without even thinking about it.
I voted in. Now it seems that it was too hasty. If I go to Caizhou, I will definitely be put to good use by the Qin Zongquan.
Even if Qin Zongquan's decline is obvious and he will die on his own, in the south of the Yangtze River, the towns with Kunai cavalry are still not competing to recruit him? Isn't An Renyi doing well there?
The two people inside the camp were talking, while the cavalry troops outside the camp had already set up their formation and were ready to launch an attack at any time.
Yu Oritsugu is a person who is quite "domineering" and "arrogant". When he encounters hostile and unidentified troops outside, he will attack them as soon as possible.
When he was conquering Lingzhou, he even planned to build a base in Beijing to watch, and he would not hold back when raiding various tribes. In the eyes of the soldiers in the outer town, there was nothing wrong with using the word "brutal", although he had always been respectful in front of Marshal Shao.
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However, before this expedition, Shao Shude came to him for face-to-face advice and told him that the first priority was to gain population. Even if they needed to fight, it had to be for the sake of population. For example, someone was blocking their access to population, such as the need for food, etc.
Therefore, he restrained his temper and did not rush forward immediately.
There were only about 2,000 cavalrymen on the Xuanwu Army side. Seeing the Dingnan Army putting up such a posture, they knew that this matter could not be resolved today. With the distance between the two sides, it was too late to withdraw now, but the general might not be willing to do so.
, he sent several riders forward, shouting that they wanted to talk.
"Military envoy, the Xuanwu Army is located in Henan. There should not be many cavalry. Why not take this opportunity to make a surprise attack and kill as many as possible." Liu Zijing stepped forward and whispered.
"We won't fight if we can." Oritsugu Yu hesitated and said, "Send people forward and tell them to get out."
"As ordered." Liu Zijing immediately ordered several people who were skilled in bow and horse.
Soon, five or six cavalry rushed out from behind the formation, led by Lieutenant General Li Shaorong.
This man was holding a long horse pole, and several people behind him were also holding horned bows and lances, and galloped towards the Xuanwu Army.
"Get out!" Li Shaorong reined in his horse and roared angrily.
The Xuanwu Army primary school opposite was furious and said: "I'm waiting for a nice word, and I don't want to hurt the peace between the two families. You, a rough guy, are so rude when you come up. Have you asked your general?"
Li Shaorong smiled evilly and said: "Let you go away, this is what my general means. When a warrior is doing things, why do he talk so much? Go away or not?"
"You!" The primary school commander of the Xuanwu Army was also angry and said, "Are all the Dingnan Army so domineering? You should know that my Prince of Wuxing County owns the two towns of Xuanwu and Huainan, and has 100,000 armored men."
"Get the hell out of here!" Li Shaorong clapped his horse and stepped forward, heading towards the enemy's primary school.
The five thousand cavalry troops are actually divided into two styles. One is the cavalry recruited from the grassland. Their strengths are climbing up the mountains and down the slopes, galloping and shooting. This is actually the traditional advantage of the grassland cavalry compared with the Central Plains cavalry. The Central Plains cavalry
If you are well equipped, you can shoot crossbows at long distances (if equipped). When fighting at close range, your armor coverage rate is high and you can take advantage. But when bows and arrows are effective at mid-range, the steppe cavalry has an advantage.
To put it bluntly, the Central Plains cavalry still bears a strong imprint of infantry.
Li Shaorong happens to be a traditional Central Plains style cavalry, that is, he is good at short-range combat. And he was born in Linzhou and has very good riding skills, so he is very confident when fighting the enemy face to face.
The knight of the Xuanwu Army did not expect that Li Shaorong would rush over after a disagreement, and was a little unprepared. Seeing that the two knights were very close, Li Shaorong suddenly shouted: "Kill!"
The voice was so loud that it almost made people's hearts skip a beat.
Hearing the sound of "dang", Li Shaorong used his horse to swing the weapon of the Xuanwu Army Primary School away, then quickly approached him, stretched out his hand, and struck him directly on his horse.
"You're so bad at riding, did you develop it later?" Li Shaorong laughed loudly, turned around on horseback, and ran back to the main formation.
There was a burst of fierce cheers from the cavalry army! In front of the battle, Lieutenant General Li showed off his beautiful hands.
The aesthetics of warriors is so direct. The small school of the Xuanwu Army talked a lot of nonsense, but it didn't help! It's better to come over and fight. If you win, you can listen to everything.
"Give Vice General Li a meritorious service and release this man." Oretsugu ordered.
Li Shaorong was stunned for a moment, but he still responded loudly.
He threw the prisoner to the ground and said with a sneer: "General, today you are showing mercy, why don't you get out of here? If it had been in the past, I would have cut off your ears and nose."
The little school boy got up and walked back with his face red.
"You need to practice your riding skills a little, even if the infantry on horseback dare to challenge us in front of our cavalry army, you are overestimating your own capabilities!" Li Shaorong said unforgivingly, still making fun of others.
Chen Cheng watched from the high platform, silently.
An Xiuxiu shouted happily. The Xuanwu army took advantage of the large number of people and chased them with more than 2,000 cavalry and 600 to 700 cavalry. Will this hit the iron plate? Five thousand fine cavalry are lying in front of you. Do you dare to charge?
"General An, the main force of Zhu Quanzhong's army is in Heyang?" Chen Cheng suddenly asked.
"There was a group of people in Ze and Lu who were driven away by Kang Junli," An Xiuxiu said.
"Heyang is not far from here." Chen Cheng sighed.
Only more than 16,000 refugees have been received at this time, which is still far from the intended target. If Zhu Quanzhong returns to Henan Prefecture and tens of thousands of troops come over, it will be difficult for the army to deal with the disaster.
Originally, the commander-in-chief's plan was to strike a balance between Hedong and Xuanwu, take advantage of their conflicts, and recruit refugees. Now it seems that there is a danger of giving up halfway.
I really agree with what the commander-in-chief often says, how can things in the world go as I want? If so, all the enemy troops will be surrendered.
Thinking of this, Chen Cheng suddenly wanted to be good at specializing for a while: Why not go to the south to recruit more soldiers while Zhu Quanzhong's army has not returned? Anyway, the war in Henan is endless, and everyone's conditions have been reduced a lot, so there may not be a need to recruit according to the standards of the yamen army.
People.
Rewards are given out three times a year and one bushel of grain is given every month. There should be many people applying, right? These people can be used as a reserve source of soldiers for the disaster-defeating army. They can farm during busy farming periods and train during slack farming periods. If anything happens, they can be summoned quickly.
Get up and fight a few times, and you'll feel better.
In the worst case, they can also be used as supplementary troops for various armies. When fighting or illness causes a vacancy, the establishment can be filled at any time, eliminating the need to mobilize state troops.
There are tens of thousands of troops in the disaster relief force. Apart from various party members, there are almost no locals from Lingxia. Wouldn't it be great to use the strong people from Cai, Henan to weaken Zhu Quanzhong's capital?
Time waits for no one, recruiting troops is urgent!