The battle started suddenly and ended very quickly.
There were not many party members who attacked, and there were only dozens of cavalry. Under the strong resistance of hundreds of well-trained Tiande soldiers, they suffered a bloody blow and had to retreat temporarily. Bandits only like
Picking a soft persimmon and pinching it, for a hard nut that will cost heavy casualties, you have to weigh it before you bite it. In the short and fierce battle just now, they have already laid down more than forty cavalry. The main force of the cavalry was damaged and they no longer have the ability to continue.
Offensive ability.
What about the infantry? Again, the people of Fengzhou (Note 1) are relatively poor, and the party members in Fengzhou are even more impoverished, which results in their generally inferior equipment. The popularity of relatively cheap leather armor
They are all very low, let alone iron armor. It is already very good for this beggar family to have some horses, bows and knives. Many other tribes are not as good as them. Otherwise, after entering Fengzhou for nearly 40 years, they can still still
Being suppressed by the Tiande army, which numbered no more than 4,000?
Compared with the Dangxiang people in Shannan in Fengzhou, the Dangxiang people in the Yinxia area further south are slightly wealthier and more established. At least, their leaders are more ambitious, the tribe has stronger cohesion, and they have trained a certain scale of
The army is not comparable to the scattered tribes in Fengzhou. Not to mention that they have feuds with each other. For decades, they have been attacking and killing each other for property, pasture, cultivated land and even food, and they have never been able to unite.
In fact, since the Zhenwu military envoy (Note 2) Liu Miao regained Fengzhou during the Huichang period of the Tang Dynasty, the main enemies of the Tiande army have always been the scattered Uighur tribes on the grasslands north of Langshan (Note 3) and the Hexi Dangxiang who have repeatedly invaded the border.
.Shannan Dangxiang? It’s a worthless thing. It’s even less harmful than Heishan Dangxiang and Hebei Dangxiang in the Zhongshengjiang City area to the east.
"Leader of the team, in the battle just now, five of our brothers were killed, and one was seriously injured. It seems that he is in danger." The battle had just ended, and Shao Shude did not dare to take off his armor. He was sitting on a carriage to rest, but suddenly he heard
When I heard the news, my heart suddenly became heavy.
He knew everyone in the team, talked to them, and even knew their home addresses (if there were any). "Take me to have a look!" He immediately jumped out of the car, limping.
, I was hit by a horse in the battle just now, and I still feel a little pain.
Li Yanling, who came to report, stretched out his hand to help, but was thrown away by Shao Shude. He stared at the grass in front of him, where the bodies of several dead soldiers were lying. The wounded were also lying nearby, and someone was giving him water.
Shao Shude walked faster and faster. When he got closer, he pushed the person in front of him away. He first glanced at the five soldiers who died in the battle, and then turned his eyes to the side.
"Liu Gou'er!" He knelt down and looked at the man intently. After too much fighting in the battle, people's emotions may become numb. The same goes for Shao Shude. He couldn't stir up emotion even if he wanted to, but he had no intention of being perfunctory.
To right.
"Bring a pen!" He said to Li Yanling who was following behind him.
Li Yanling is in his thirties and has been in the army for nearly twenty years. He has seen too many people and things. He has abandoned all illusions and lived only for himself. But in the face of this situation, he
There are still some mood swings unavoidable.
"Alas!" He sighed softly, turned to the car beside him, and carefully took out the pen and ink from a package. He held it up gently, as if it was something sacred in his hand. Maybe it was because of something sacred.
The reverence for the symbol of reading may be due to pity for the dead and wounded, who can tell?
When Li Yanling arrived, the wounded soldier was already very weak. Liu Gouer could only hear Liu Gouer saying intermittently: "My parents have passed away, but I still have younger brothers and sisters at home. They are all young. I am afraid that I will have nothing to support..."
Shao Shude nodded and said: "Your pension will not be short of a penny. In addition, you bravely killed the enemy in this battle and beheaded two levels. One of them was a thief. According to the regulations, you should be given twenty pieces of silk, a total of two
Twelve horses."
The sergeants who gathered around were silent when they heard this. Liu Gouer was knocked out the moment the enemy cavalry charged into the formation, and he never made any gains. The credit for these two beheadings was attributed to the team leader Shao Shude and his two little men.
The chainmail-wearing thief Qu, who followed Sanlang and Li Yixian, had a high status in the begging family. According to the reward set by the court, he could be rewarded with thirty pieces of silk as a lieutenant general. But Tiande's army was not rich, so in the end he was able to reward two
Ten horses would be good.
Since Shao Shude was willing to contribute the credit for killing the enemy, and his two young followers had no objections, naturally everyone had nothing to say. Qian Shousu was sandwiched among the soldiers, looking at all this with a complicated expression, seemingly puzzled.
, seemed to have some realization, and finally lowered his head and muttered to himself, not knowing what he was talking about.
Lu Huaizhong was walking around on the grass. He rarely saw such occasions, but he admired Shao Shude's handling of it. When he was serving in the Wuchang Army, he got into a fight because his superior officer had embezzled his pension. The superior of the ten generals was from the local area.
The local tycoon originally wanted to punish him, but fortunately, Wuchang Army Jiedu Envoy (Note 4), Eyue Observation and Disposal Envoy, and Ezhou Governor Liu Yunzhang appreciated him very much, so he was spared.
However, in the first year of Qianfu, Liu Yunzhang, who admired him, was ordered to move to the town and serve as the left-behind guard of the Eastern Capital. Wei Chan, the newly appointed military commander of the Wuchang Army, was not interested in him, so he was bribed by local tyrants to make him the governor of the eastern capital.
He was accused of being exiled to Fengzhou (note 5). Of course, if we really want to look into it carefully, it may not be a bad thing for him. In two or three years, in February of the fourth year of Qianfu, Ezhou was
It would be captured by Wang Xianzhi, and it would be captured again by Huang Chao's army the next year. If Lu Huaizhong was still serving in the Wuchang Army, the end would not be too good.
He traveled thousands of miles to Fengzhou to become a "thief in the army", but Lu Huaizhong still did not forget his original intention. He particularly hated those who drank the blood of soldiers, and at the same time he also admired the officers who treated the soldiers well. Lu Huaizhong thought it was good that Shao Shude could sympathize with his subordinates.
, and is willing to work under such people, even though he used to be a deputy general, and Shao Shude is still just a team leader.
"Thank you... team leader!" Liu Gou'er burst into tears, but the look on his face became worse and worse.
Shao Shude took out a piece of cloth from his arms, took the pen and ink handed over by Li Yanling, and carefully wrote Liu Gouer's name on it, and then added an Arabic numeral 22 at the back. When he finished writing, he saw
Liu Gouer just breathed his last breath, his eyes full of nostalgia and reluctance.
After closing Liu Gouer's eyelids, Shao Shude stood up and looked at several other corpses. He knew all these people. After carefully writing their names on the cloth, he stood up and cursed at the soldiers surrounding him.
: "What are you doing here, Duchu? Go back and organize your equipment for me. Barbarian has just been frustrated, so he may not have gone far, so please cheer up for me. We are still two days away from Xicheng."
The soldiers immediately dispersed, each sorting out his guns, knives, bows and cards. After Shao Shude walked around twice, he went to the neighboring team to take a look. Fortunately, there were not many casualties this time, only a few dozen people in total.
It's like using foot against cavalry. It's not bad to achieve such results. What's more, the enemy attacked first, so our response was inevitably a bit hasty.
"Team leader, what should I do with this armor?" After seeing everyone disperse, Ren Yuji jumped out from the shadows, pointed at the blood-stained chain armor placed under the carriage, and said with a sinister smile: "Some
It’s old and worn, but if it’s repaired and wiped down, it can be of great use.”
"Yes." Shao Shude responded vaguely and nodded slightly. Generally speaking, the soldiers would ignore the innocuous things seized on the battlefield, and the superior officers would not really pursue them. But things like iron armor
, to be honest, it is more expensive, so you still have to hand it over and distribute it uniformly. Of course, the Shangguan will convert the money into silk and give it to you, but to be honest, you are all soldiers who are fighting. If you have a choice, who would want those few coins and a few horses?
Silk? Iron armor can save your life, money and silk can't, it's that simple!
Ren Yuji understood what was happening and immediately knew what to do. He was from the south and had always been shrewd. He was from the army in Luzhou Town, Huainan, and had been living in Fengzhou for several years. Apart from a few acquaintances, he had a gloomy personality.
He doesn't like to talk much, but Shao Shude trusts him very much and leaves him to do some things that are not convenient for others to show up. He is ready to wear this armor, and he believes that Ren Yuji has a way to handle it.
After all the troops ate some water in batches, the trumpets sounded again. Soon, sentries and cavalry rushed to each team, ordered to pack up and continue on their way. At this time, the sky was already getting light, and it was not difficult to leave. Dangxiang Barbarian had disappeared.
, even the corpses of enemy cavalry in the distance were taken away. Those that fell nearby had no choice but to be buried by the Tiande army. The good horses left on the battlefield were gathered up by the grain officers, and the injured horses were slaughtered.
, Fengzhou is not rich, so far it has relied on the imperial court and other towns for financial support, so every bit that can be used must be used.
The discomfort in Shao Shude's feet had eased a lot, and he could no longer walk. He followed a carriage, which contained the bodies of six soldiers who had died in the battle. It was midsummer, and the sun had already risen on the eastern horizon.
De Lao Gao, however, could not provide even a glimmer of warmth to this troop walking alone on the grassland.
Sun Ba, the tenth general, rode his horse forward and back. He was a grumpy man, a typical domineering soldier, but he was kind to Shao Shude, who had been his personal soldier. When passing by their team, he even stopped and smiled.
We chatted for a few words. But once we went to the other teams, we were all irritated again and loudly criticized them for what they didn't do well last night.
Shao Shude knew that Sun Ba had a younger brother who died in the battle when the Hexi Dangxiang invaded. This made him particularly irritable when faced with things related to the Dangxiang people, so much so that when Shao Shude recruited several Dangxiang poor men to join the army, he was
He cursed and cursed for a full hour.
But he is a good man, harsh to the officers, but caring about the soldiers, loyal to the court, and brave in battle. It is said that good men do not live long, but Shao Shude sincerely hopes that Sun Shi will live well and lead everyone to struggle for survival in this troubled world.
This requirement sounds simple, but in fact it is very difficult.
What a hellish world!
Note 1: Fengzhou, one of the Zhengzhous in the Tang Dynasty, governed Jiuyuan and Yongfeng counties and five townships. The state city (Jiuyuan County was attached to Guo) was located in Dongtucheng in present-day Wuyuan County, Inner Mongolia. It was the seat of Fengzhou in the Western Han Dynasty.
When it was first established, it was called Guangmu County.
Note 2: Zhenwu military envoy, namely Zhenwu Linsheng Jiedushi envoy, camp field envoy, observation and disposal envoy, escort vassal envoy, and Zhenbei protector. His city is north of present-day Helinger County in Inner Mongolia, which was the original Shanyu protector.
The government office was established in 758 (the first year of Qianyuan), and the current Jiedushi is Li Guochang.
Note 3: Langshan, part of the Yinshan Mountains.
Note 4: The Wuchang Army Jiedu Envoy originated from the E-yuemian three-state military regiment training envoys established in the second year of Qianyuan (759) to govern Ezhou; in the first year of Yongtai (765), he was promoted to the Ezhou capital regiment training envoy to observe
Envoy, with jurisdiction over E, Yue, Mian, Qi, and Huangzhou; in the twelfth year of Dali (777), Ezhou was appointed as the observation envoy and defense envoy, and was further promoted; in the 21st year of Zhenyuan (the first year of Yongzhen, 805)
, he was promoted to Eyue Observer Envoy and became the Military Envoy of Wuchang Army, and was given additional command of Anzhou. The first Military Envoy was Han Gao.
"Records of Shunzong" records: "In the fifth month of Yiyou (805), Shangshu Zuocheng Han Gao was appointed as the observation envoy of Eyue and the military governor of Wuchang."
The Wuchang army sought to abolish the army and establish a new one. According to the Records of the Government of Hubei, "Gao Pinggong left Hubei in the spring of the third year of this emperor's reign. Next year, he paid a visit to Lujing City God. The army of Hubei was actually 30,000, and there were 15 innovation camps."
In the second year of Tianyou (905), Yang Xingmi was trapped in Ezhou, and the last Jiedushi Du Hong died.
"Zizhi Tongjian" records: "In the second month of Gengzi, Huainan general Liu Cun was sent to Guangling to have him executed. He secretly made Cun the observer of Eyue."
Note 5: It is a common practice of the imperial court to exile prisoners to Fengzhou and exile prisoners to frontier military prefectures. For example, during Wu Zetian's period, "when King Zhen of Yue was defeated, six to seven hundred people were allowed to sit, and 5,000 people were exiled, and they were exiled to Fengzhou."