Standing on the plateau, Li Chengsi quietly looked at the meandering troops.
Ahead is a deep ravine leading out of it.
I don’t know what kind of creation of heaven and earth caused the terrain of Cixi, Yifang, and Hengshan to become so fragmented. The vertical and horizontal hills and valleys are post roads and even rivers. People live on high plateaus, overlooking the mountains. They are densely packed.
Forests and grasslands dot the mountains and river valleys, making the scenery less monotonous.
Magical landscape.
On the carriage were large and small brightly colored flower cloth packages, which were the property that the soldiers had looted from the people. Without too many words, everyone knew that this was a unit with very poor military discipline.
Generally speaking, this situation mostly occurs with peasant armies, such as the Chao Army back then. But the current troops are different. They are very alert and have very good morale.
Rangers appear on the mountain plateau. They are shrewd hunters who can detect the activities of enemy scouts through clues and hunt them down.
The vanguard soldiers at the front were fearless of death. They knew that they would most likely die at the first moment of a conflict, but they still shouldered the responsibility of clearing the way responsibly.
The formation of the main force is a little loose, but not to an outrageous degree. They maintain a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside. Once they encounter an enemy, they can organize themselves in a short time without any orders from the officers.
The Jin army is not without good military discipline.
I heard that the three armies of Shinzhi, Jianzhi, and Yunjie, which were adapted from the year before last, are very good, and military discipline is very strict.
Li Chengsi once saw from a distance that more than 10,000 people in the three armies were in good order, marching in four columns and chanting loudly.
On the other hand, Kuang Ba, Fei Teng and other troops were scattered and scattered, like a group of stragglers.
Li Chengsi once believed that troops with good military discipline must have strong combat effectiveness, and troops with poor military discipline must have weak combat effectiveness. But the reality is completely different.
In the battle against the Khitans, the three armies of Qin Zhi, Jian Zhi, and Yun Jie were unable to defeat the enemy with one blow. On the contrary, Kuang Ba and other troops with poor military discipline were invincible, and the Khitans did not dare to look south.
The ironclad fact told him that often the most brutal warriors were the most powerful warriors on the battlefield.
He has given up on paying close attention to military discipline now. He just wants to show off. Anyway, no one has ever violated battlefield discipline, and it has always been maintained very well. If there are some military style issues, let him go, as long as he can defeat the enemy.
I rode far to the south to count the horses.
The horse stepped through the remaining snow on the ground and rushed up the slope with difficulty.
Li Chengsi was about to leave, but stopped again when he saw this.
The messenger finally arrived at the plateau. After dismounting, he walked quickly and handed over a military report. He briefly reported: "Feiteng's army encountered the enemy in Daxiangdian. The thieves were guarding the fence and there were no less than two thousand soldiers. Yinhu
Commander Yelu Changbao has led his troops to Daxiangdian."
Hu Yao is a box-type quiver that can hold twenty-four arrows. It is widely spread among the Khitan, Xi, Shiwei and other tribes. It is one of their symbols. It is greatly different in shape from the popular quivers in the Central Plains.
no the same.
Yelu Changbao was one of the members of the third surname of Yelu among the eight tribes of Khitan. He had always been at odds with Abaoji. It is said that when they went to the Uighur Shulu tribe to choose a wife, they both fell in love with the same person.
During the war with the Khitan, Yelu Changbao came to surrender with his flying cavalry. Li Keyong happily accepted them and gave him the command of the Yinhu Yao Army, which was mainly composed of Xi people.
The army is small in number, probably around 3,000 or so. It is mainly infantry, with very few cavalry, only about 200. However, almost everyone can ride a horse, and it would be good if they can be transformed into mounted infantry.
Li Chengsi read it in silence and said nothing.
"Where is Kang Du's head?" He found Yu Hou from the army and asked.
"The brigade is in Lanzhou and has been staying for a few days. It has just received supplies. The Zhangqian Army acting as the vanguard has arrived at Fangshan County in Shizhou." Yu Hou replied.
Li Chengsi silently calculated the distance, still hesitant in his heart.
Seeing that the pioneer envoy was thinking about something, the messenger bowed and left quietly. When he went down to the post road at the foot of the mountain, he met three more messengers coming together.
"Report, General Shi has captured Jichang County and killed more than 700 rebels." The messenger panted and went up the mountain to report.
Li Chengsi clenched his fists and finally made up his mind.
Shi Jingrong drove 8,000 men who had been forcibly recruited from Cixi Prefecture to attack the city. They attacked for five days and finally captured the city that was guarded by no more than 1,000 prefecture soldiers.
This victory, which had been expected for a long time, gave Li Chengsi great confidence.
"Go south!" He got on his horse and headed straight down the mountain.
The Feiteng Army suffered a small loss in Longmen County before, losing more than 700 people, and its current strength is only over 2,000. The military envoy Li Sibi was furious and killed more than ten military schools. After some reorganization, he took the remaining
People are moving south aggressively, trying to regain their place.
Li Chengsi did not stop it at the time, but ordered the Yinhu Yao army to approach the unit and provide mutual assistance.
Now it seems that Cizhou has been conquered, and there is no need to worry about the future. It seems that we can go further. If we want to fight a war, looking forward and backward too much will miss the opportunity.
On March 12, Li Chengsi personally led Kuang Ba's army to Cizhou. After staying one night, he led his army south to join Li Sibi and Yelu Changbao. Of course, he did not forget to send an envoy to Lanzhou to report the military situation.
, asked Kang Junli to speed up his march and march south to Cixi.
Kang Junli supervises several troops with nearly 40,000 infantry and cavalry. They are the main force of this southward march. If they arrive quickly, their confidence will be greatly increased.
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Daxiangdian is located more than 100 miles north of Longmen and more than 70 miles away from Jichang County, Lisuo, Cizhou. It is a rare mountain basin.
After Yang Yi led his troops to this place, he immediately ordered the trees to be cut down and fences to be guarded because of the rampant activities of bandits and cavalry.
Two days later, Wang Kang, the commander of Longmen, personally delivered the first batch of 3,000 dendrobiums of grain and beans to the army. Yang Yi left the 500 native regiments escorting the grain and grass behind, and the driver and master returned to Longmen warehouse.
After the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, for three consecutive days, enemy flags could be seen everywhere on the mountains near and far.
On the 11th, he even saw the Kunfa Khitan soldiers, which opened his eyes - of course it might have been a joke, but it was almost the same.
By today, dense arrows were already flying between the mountain plateau and the valley. The two sides had engaged in close combat several times, each leaving behind many corpses.
Yang Yi personally led his troops to charge and kill a member of the Jin bandits' military academy, which slightly curbed their arrogance.
"General, there seem to be more and more traitors." Wang Tingwan, who was born in the Wang family of Longmen, said.
Almost like Li Chengsi, the two of them climbed up to a plateau and overlooked the entire battlefield.
There are indeed more and more Jin troops. Looking at them, it seems that they want to go around to their rear through the path in the plateau and surround the more than 3,000 people in the village.
"Are you panicking?" Yang Yi glanced at Wang Tingwan and the Wang family's children behind him, and said sarcastically: "It's no wonder that you come from a famous family. Your legs tremble when you encounter such a small scene. You really make your ancestors look bad."
Wang Tingwan's face suddenly turned red, he was angry.
"What? Not convinced?" Yang Yi sneered and said, "Look at my military officers and soldiers, are they as panicked as you?"
Wang Tingwan subconsciously looked over and saw the Xia Army soldiers sitting on the ground, calmly wiping their weapons. In the terrain of Cixi, you might be able to run into enemy soldiers head-on while walking, and then start a battle. More
Not to mention that there were already signs of thieves' activities nearby, but Xia Bing was so calm, and Wang Tingwan didn't know what to say.
"If the bandit army marches south in large numbers, how dare I send your troops to fight?" Yang Yi asked again.
Wang Tingwan subconsciously wanted to beg, but his pride prevented him from doing so, and he stayed there without speaking.
"Trash!" Yang Yi glanced at him contemptuously.
Wang Ting, please don’t look away.
A burst of fierce shouts of killing suddenly erupted from the bottom of the mountain.
Hundreds of people from both sides met in a narrow road in a valley. Without any nonsense, they started fighting with bloody swords.
Yang Yi glanced at it casually, then turned her head and looked at the vast mountains in the distance.
"General." The soldier reminded him.
Yang Yi followed the direction of the soldiers' fingers and saw several groups of Jin soldiers coming along the plateau. However, the target was not them, but the Xia soldiers who were fighting bravely in the valley road below the plateau. In short, they wanted to come from the plateau.
Condescending attack.
"Do it!" Yang Yi ordered.
The two military academies each brought more than a hundred people and fought with the Jin soldiers who came up.
Yang Yi took off his bow and walked on the plains like a leisurely stroll. With a casual arrow, a Jin soldier fell to the ground.
Not sure whether he wanted to regain his position or something else, Wang Tingwan also took off his bow and raised his hand to shoot an arrow, but the shot missed.
He nervously wiped the sweat from his hands and shot another arrow, but it still missed. The Jin soldiers noticed movement. A soldier stepped aside, picked up his bow and arrow, and struck with an arrow, shooting down Wang Tingwan's gun on the spot.
Futou.
"Plop!" He sat down on the ground in fright.
Yang Yi laughed loudly, raised his hand and shot an arrow, and the Jin army's archer fell down in response.
Wang Tingwan's archery movements are actually quite standard. He should have been taught by a famous teacher, but the effect has been seen by everyone.
Among the archers in the army, some are very accurate in their archery skills, but in fact their movements are not that standard. Many of them are wild and they figured it out by themselves.
Yang Yi was born in a major and had undergone rigorous martial arts training since childhood. When he saw Wang Tingwan's solid basic skills, he was quite friendly. However, he missed two arrows in a row and was almost shot to death by a counterattack, which greatly disappointed Yang Yi.
The battlefield is so cruel.
A rising star trained by the Longmen Wang family with a lot of money, when he went into battle for the first time, he was almost shot to death by thieves who came out of who knows which ravine. Is it unfair? Not unfair at all. The battlefield is like this, there is no line between life and death.
It's a fluke, anyone can die, no one is the protagonist.
Yang Yi continued to roll call and fired more than ten arrows, killing nine thieves.
His soldiers also picked up their bows and arrows, and shot down the traitors one after another.
After resisting for a while, the bandit soldiers finally collapsed on the mountain plateau. When the bandits below saw this, they immediately lost their fighting spirit and retreated.
"General." The soldier picked up a quiver and handed it to Yang Yi.
"Hu Yao!" Yang Yi looked over and over for a long time and asked: "Khitan people or Xi people?"
"I don't know." the soldier replied.
"The Khitans are good at riding, and the Xi people are good at walking. It is undoubtedly the Xi people." Yang Yi said: "The Jin people have indeed increased their troops."
Wang Tingwan walked over timidly, but hesitated to speak.
"Commander Wang, it's as you wish." Yang Yi punched Wang Tingwan on the chest and said with a half-smile.
Wang Tingwan had no roots at all and sat down on the ground again, looking at Yang Yi stupidly.
"I'm going to withdraw my troops to Longmen." Yang Yi smiled and said, "I'm going to be a guest at your home."
Of course, the Jin soldiers who came after them might also go back to visit Wang Ting Wan's family.
"This..." Wang Tingwan was confused.
Didn't they just defeat the Jin rebels? Why are they withdrawing their troops again?
As if she could tell what he was thinking, Yang Yi gave him a military boot and said, "It's easier to lure the traitors away after defeating them. It's time for you to learn the art of war and military strategy."