Starting from the day after Xu Ning went up the mountain, the entire army began to practice basic marksmanship with the hook and sickle spear.
After a few days, it turned out that Hu Yanzhuo was leading the troops. Chao Gai decisively selected a thousand elite soldiers from Liangshan's main army and handed them over to Xu Ning for training at dawn and night.
But after receiving the order from the Privy Council, Hu Yanzhuo rushed to Tokyo within a time limit to meet Cai Jing. Cai Jing saw that Hu Yanzhuo looked unusual, so he asked Hu Yanzhuo for countermeasures.
Hu Yanzhuo also learned that the Dongping Prefecture failed to annihilate the Liangshan grass bandits, and instead took advantage of the situation and robbed the city. He did not dare to be careless at that moment, and recommended General Han Tao, General of Victory, and General Peng Qi, General Tianmu, as the vanguard.
Cai Jing was happy to see that Hu Yanzhuo was cautious in using his troops. He immediately sent someone to mobilize Han Tao and Peng Qi came to the capital.
The three of them arrived and performed martial arts in the royal training ground. Cai Jing felt relieved after watching this and ordered the three of them to go back and mobilize local soldiers and horses.
The soldiers and horses from the three places were just about to be mobilized, but it was time to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival in Tokyo. In order to prevent a mutiny, soldiers and horses from all places were not allowed to enter the Gyeonggi area.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the soldiers and horses from the three places set off and rushed to Tokyo to gather together. Therefore, before the Mid-Autumn Festival, little news spread in Tokyo.
Cai Jing looked at the soldiers and horses, rewarded the three armies, and took down the soldiers and horses.
Hu Yanzhuo saw that Cai Jing was eager for revenge and held a high position, so he ordered three thousand horses with a big mouth.
You must know that after the founding of the Zhao and Song Dynasties, there has been a shortage of horses. The armies in various places are just scattered horse troops. Even the Tiansi Prison in Tokyo only has a total of 20,000 horses.
Although the Huyan family has a method of training soldiers with iron armored horses, it is a pity that they have been unable to form an army due to the lack of war horses. This time they seized the opportunity and asked for 3,000 war horses. If Liangshan is successfully annihilated, they can take the opportunity to ask Cai Jing for these war horses.
At this time, the Huyan family's armored chain horses will appear again.
Unfortunately, the training of the armored chain horses takes too much time, and these three thousand war horses can only be used as ordinary war horses. The only chain horse army that can go to the battlefield this time is a hundred well-trained horses under his command.
The soldiers and armor were neatly allocated, and the three groups of soldiers and horses left Tokyo.
Han Tao opened the way for the front army, Hu Yanzhuo, the commander-in-chief of the middle army, and Peng Qi, the rear army's commander, rushed to Liangshan with great force.
As soon as the three groups of soldiers and horses entered the boundary of Jeju, Liangshan Tanma had already reported to Juyi Hall.
When all the leaders gathered together and heard that Hu Yanzhuo was actually leading the attack, their eyes towards Chao Yong couldn't help but change a bit.
After a while of surprise, Wu Yongcai said: "After Chao Yong said it last time, the village made some inquiries. This Hu Yanzhuo is after the famous founding general Hu Yanzan. He is proficient in martial arts and can use two copper whips to keep people away. Just now he visited the horse.
What I also discovered is that there are thousands of soldiers and horses in the three groups, and the horse army alone is more than 3,000, and with the chain of horses pressing down on the formation, it is invincible."
Xu Ning also said: "Although my Thousand Hooks and Sickles Spear Soldiers only teach three secret techniques, their training time is still short and they cannot go to the battlefield. If you can give me another month or two, I can barely do it in some ways."
Use troops in a land of thorns."
When Chao Gai heard this, he frowned and said, "Is it possible that we just hunkered down in the mountain stronghold and waited for a month or two?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Tang stood up and said: "Brother, please don't let other people's ambitions destroy my prestige. Brother, please give the order. I, Liu Tang, am willing to be the vanguard. Even if he has 100,000 troops, I can kill him thoroughly."
Lin Chong also knew that Chao Gai had a strong temper, and was afraid that he would be deceived by Liu Tang, so he hurriedly said: "Don't be careless. If it were a side soldier, one hundred thousand would not be enough to kill the Liu Tang brothers. But Hu Yanzhuo's command is the imperial army, and he is a general, I'm afraid
The soldiers and horses under my command are considered to be the elite of the Forbidden Army, but the soldiers and horses in our village have only been in force for more than a month. If we fight head-on, we may kill a thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses."
Ruan Xiaoqi shouted: "How can you be afraid of death in this battle? My head is gone, but it's just a big scar on a bowl. I, Liangshan, are all upright men. I would rather die than lose my prestige."
Chao Yong naturally also knows his father's character. It would be very difficult for him to stay at home without a fight.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Hu Yanzhuo's army has just arrived and is full of vigor. We cannot engage in a decisive battle with him. However, if he shrinks back without firing a single shot, I am afraid that the heroes of the world will laugh at me. I have no one in Liangshan. When the officers and soldiers enter my sphere of influence in Liangshan,
We then went to meet him. He was the best vanguard we could capture, and it also gave Hu Yanzhuo a show of strength. However, there were many officers and soldiers, so we could only lead the cavalry. Even if we were surrounded by officers and soldiers, we could break out of the siege.
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Dong Ping was also a warlike person. When he heard that his cavalry army was ordered to go to war, he quickly agreed: "Brother Yong said yes, so I, the cavalry army, will go to meet him."
Seeing that his son had come up with a plan to get the best of both worlds, Chao Gai smiled and said: "This is the best plan. We must capture Han Tao alive. Military advisors Liu Tang and Bai Sheng stayed to guard the stronghold. The rest of the generals followed me down the mountain. The Ruan brothers were in charge.
Respond."
When Liu Tang heard that he was asked to guard the stronghold, he immediately shouted: "Brother, let me go and fight for a while."
"The people who are going this time are all cavalry troops. You are only good at fighting on foot, but you can't go. When the decisive battle comes in a few days, you will be indispensable."
After the allocation was decided, Dong Ping went to inspect his own cavalry army, and the other leaders who had the opportunity to go down the mountain also went to prepare their own horse and armor.
However, Han Tao, the pioneer of Hu Yanzhuo, was also a martial artist. He made a jujube wood sculpture and was called General Bai Sheng. Although his nickname was General Bai Sheng, Han Tao had never been on the battlefield. This was just because he failed consecutively in the martial arts examination.
He defeated many people and won the military examination, so he was changed into a victorious general.
Although the Northern Song Dynasty had a weak military, its national power was not weak, and the royal family of the Zhao and Song Dynasties was willing to live under others and was willing to spend money to buy peace. Therefore, there were not many border wars, and younger generals rarely went to the battlefield.
The place where Han Tao worked was in the Gyeonggi region, where the imperial army had always been stationed, and bandits and bandits had never appeared, so this was the first time he led troops on an expedition.
As the army marched along, the grass bandits and bandits fled one after another along the way, which made Han Tao relax his vigilance, feeling that no grass bandits dared to confront the imperial army.
Although they were less than thirty miles away from Liangshan, they did not send more exploration horses, nor did they ask the exploration horses to expand the scope of the sentry.
As Han Tao was swaying forward on his horse, he saw a puff of dust suddenly appear on the horizon, and it was approaching quickly.
Just when I was wondering, I saw the scout horse in front of me running up and shouting: "Report, hundreds of Liangshan bandits are attacking."
Han Tao glanced at the team behind him that was stretched due to the march. If the Liangshan horse army was attacked at this time, the entire front army would probably be scattered. He hurriedly shouted: "The horse army will come up with me, and the infantry will form a formation to guard against bandits."
Charge into battle."
At this time, Chao Gai and others were no more than five miles away from Han Tao's front army. It seemed that Han Tao was not very vigilant and was preparing to make a direct attack. Unexpectedly, Han Tao was so bold that he actually led his cavalry to meet them.
Chao Gai saw that Han Tao's cavalry troops were all wearing vests. If the cavalry troops from both sides collided, his own cavalry troops would probably suffer a lot. These two hundred cavalry troops were the only ones in Liangshan. He couldn't help but feel distressed at that moment and waved his hand.
:"stop."
"Slow down the horse and stop slowly."
When Dong Ping heard Chao Gai suddenly shouting "stop", he almost fell off his horse in fright. The cavalry army had already charged. If Chao Gai shouted "stop", he might be in a mess without the officers and soldiers charging, so he quickly added.
(Thanks to "Money will never change", "Hao Gaoyuan" and "Sunshine Avenue" for the reward)