"Saturu, who deserves to swallow sand and eat dirt, dare to trap me in a thief?"
The bearded Tuoba Sigong roared in and out of the account. However, no one can or dare to respond to him. It was not until he vented for a long time that someone asked for instructions in a low voice:
"At the festival, I don't know how we should stay..."
Tuoba Si respectfully took a look, but it was his other mother-in-law brother, the Yinzhou defense envoy Tuoba Sijian; there were other half-brothers, Xiazhou soldiers and horse envoys Tuoba Sixiao, Sijing and others, also Looking at him blankly. Most of his anger suddenly disappeared, and he said gruffly:
"Since the pirate army from the south has surrounded, we have to fight first, and there is absolutely no reason for our party Xiangerlang to retreat without a fight..."
"Let them rely on the natural victories of Yi and Fu Ershui, take a good touch with these peaceful thieves, and discipline them to know the bravery of our party Xiang Erlang..."
With such a generous encouragement and expression of his attitude, the atmosphere of many generals in the account, which was originally somewhat low, finally became invigorated, and soon followed Tuoba Si Gong’s formation and rushed to take the lead. Ran away.
However, when only Tuoba Sijian and others who had not received the order were left in the end, Tuoba Sigong turned his optimistic tone and spoke heavily again:
"You have to make some preparations too. Once you go to war with all your strength, lead the horses and bawls through the water first..."
"Festival!" "Brother" and "Commander", Tuoba Sijian and other brothers were surprised and cried out inexplicably, "How pessimistic is this?"
"Just to avoid worries about the future..."
Tuoba Sigong no longer had the anger he had before, and said solemnly:
"It is possible for that Shatuo child'Flying Tiger' and his subordinates to temporarily avoid the front and not hesitate to join forces with our ministry, but they are waiting for the call; the death of Sizhong has not yet caused you to wait. Are you alert and valued..."
"According to the previous news, that is the place that is known as the thieves of thieves and most resembles the officers and the army. Now it is the one who has stolen the vast land of the south, and the Huang Ni puppet regime must be deeply jealous..."
"As long as these rumors are good enough, even if they are only eight-point goodness of ordinary officers and soldiers, and come with a large area and a large number of people, it is enough to make our army deep in danger and overturning;"
"Not to mention that there is still news in Shangjing City, saying that there are still some Taiping thieves sheltering the remnants of the Puppet Dynasty, and they have been resolutely rejected on the Nanguo Wall so that the officers and soldiers have not been able to do all the work after all... Otherwise, again. Why should our ministry and Nasha Tuo children join forces to cut off the south of Gyeonggi and send troops to pretend to attack for a while?"
Speaking of this, Tuoba Si Gong paused the whip in his hand and said:
"Even though there are now twenty-three pieces of the Dangxiang eight surnames, which claim to be one body and control the 30,000 people, it may not be easy for the thieves to please. But in any case, you must remember that if things are not in harmony, remember. Priority should be given to the protection of the people of my Tuoba clan..."
"Secondly, we can consider appropriate assistance and response to the Fei Tingshi and Wang Lishi, so that the two families that have a close relationship with them can save one or two; other Ye Lishi, Fangdang family and other families can also wait for opportunities. Close one or two..."
"As for the Pochao clan and Miqin clan headed by the Xifeng clan, it's okay to act according to the opportunity."
And in another tent, the contemporary patriarch and leader of the Xifeng clan mentioned by Tuoba Sigong, the Xifeng Changqing, the official worship of the Yuzhou governor, is also facing the other two clans who have gathered together. , Mi Qinrong, solemn face-to-face instruction:
"This is by no means that simple; when Tuoba Si Gong convened the various ministries, he claimed to lead the group to seek fame and fortune in the court, and plundered wealth and silk children in the Tang Dynasty. The Tuoba tribe even took the lead in plundering. The fact that he killed the enemy before and after, but this time he has spared no effort to oppose the thief... Is it possible that his hidden heart of loyalty to the monarchy suddenly burst?"
"I want the Xifeng clan to be the first Bianbang pillar of the Dangxiang clan to surrender to the Tang Dynasty, but why did the Tuoba clan come from behind and have overwhelmed it for many years... It was not the Tuoba clan who seized the imperial emperor and then controlled After all the benefits of communicating with Tangdi, why did we use this to buy the ministries to suppress my ministry?, and now we have obtained the Jingjie from the Yinxiasui prefectures from the Tangdi, but how will my generation be able to deal with it in the future? what."
"However, Tang Ting looks dim and weak today, and it is being replaced by others. Isn't this a god-given opportunity for us to take advantage of the situation to get rid of Tuoba's restraint and suppression; so no matter how the Tuoba tribe gives orders, you and me three The ministry must have spare energy in case of an accident... It is absolutely impossible to make the money and children of the ministers who died and shed their blood and money will go to nowhere..."
However, after they agreed, they were discussing the details of how to communicate privately and advance and retreat together, but they did not prevent someone from outside reporting loudly:
"Ministry commander, an emergency report before the army, the Fangdang clan who deployed on the east bank of Fengshui to the east has been defeated and returned. Only less than half of the three thousand Fanluo children under his tribe fled."
—I am the dividing line of defeat —
On the banks of the slender Fengshui River, the second army Youlang General Zhao Yinbow, holding a gun, a knife, a saddle, and a blood-splattered armor, also watched the ups and downs of the corpses in the river. Those were all Dang Xiangfan soldiers who were drowned in panic and shot from behind.
And beside these slowly floating and flowing corpses, there were many engineers holding ropes pushing rafts made up of inflatable sheepskin robes, and wading up to the opposite bank dozens of steps away, and then moved more. After the rope was pulled over and the seat was fixed, a simple temporary pontoon was erected.
Immediately amid the sound of the chants, there was the lightly outfitted scout cavalry as the forerunner, leading the mount to cross the tower bridge, which was unhurriedly at the beginning; then the armored battalion soldiers and the infantry battalion packhorses.
After defeating the Shatuo and Tatars in the south of the city, and the retreating tribes, the horse teams of the Second Army were not very useful in the see-saw battle in Chang'an. So they turned to take charge of the outer parts of Chang'an. Purging and blocking. The result was just in time for the outpost to encounter the Dangxiang army in Huxian County for help.
However, after this matchup, the Taiping cavalry, headed by Zhao Yingong, who was originally quite prudent and solemn, really discovered the so-called Fan Hu cavalry who "grew up on a horse since childhood and were born with a bow and arrow." It's just such a performance and goodness;
In addition to the dexterous and changeable skills of manipulating the mounts, which give them a considerable advantage in small groups of scattered fights; other aspects of equipment training, combat skills and even physical fitness cannot actually be relatively balanced with the overall quality. The riding pawn is on the same level.
Because, except for a few big waists and thick tents or guards and guards, most of the party members and soldiers and horses are generally stubby, thin and thin; they are not as good as the daily meat supplements, but nourishment. And well-trained Taiping pawns and their affiliates.
Their armor rate is very low, only fur cloaks, a few sophisticated iron tools and skin (skin) cards, the arrows shot are mainly inferior cast iron, and even bony arrow clusters, which are only a few steps away. Can not shoot through the fine scale armor and densely woven thick cloth lining of most Taiping pawns. On the contrary, the wooden bids and flying shuttles behind him are more threatening.
Not to mention the three-piece long and short set of crossbow/short blunderbuss, short spear/hook gun, narrow sword/thick sword, which are necessary for every Taiping pawn, and the knife, axe, club and hammer that can be replaced at any time in the rear saddle. The secondary weapon used in the cavalry of the same generation can also be called equipment armed to the teeth.
And when needed, the Taiping pawns can even use special holsters to hang explosive bombs and kerosene bombs with long cords to throw and destroy the enemy's formation, so as to find opportunities to open the gaps and contracts that penetrated into the formation while sweeping the formation. Entry point. Or bombard specific fortresses and camps as a means of killing and covering the team before attacking.
Perhaps the only bright spot and advantage against Dang Xiangjun is their mount-Ping Xia Steed. Dijinze (now southeast of Yijinhuoluo Banner, Inner Mongolia), Hengshan (now Hengshan County, Shaanxi), and Tiandushan (now northwest of Guyuan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region) are all well-known horse producing areas.
Because there were many wild horses domesticated by the local feudal clan and the breeds were excellent since ancient times, they were regarded as an important special product and source of wealth in the border tea-horse market; so the poet Yuan Zhen of the Tang Dynasty said "buy Dangxiang horses in the north and capture Tubo parrots in the west".
In contrast, although the Taiping Army reared a rather large herd, the best mount was the Nanyang official horse that was captured and produced by Shannan Dongdao in the early years. It can only be said that it is well-regulated and good-natured.
Therefore, these feudal lords may still be able to stay in the wind during the initial wandering battle, and even take advantage of their easy horsepower and riding skills, and the rangers in the outpost have suffered a lot.
But once the Taiping pawns who have completed the dense array are close, it is easy to be in a large-scale staggered hedge. The relatively strong protection and superior sharp weapons of the Taiping pawns give the greater advantage and exchange ratio to destroy and rush. Scattered on the spot.
As for the foot fight after being forced to dismount, it is even more unbearable. The looped legs formed by long-term horseback riding make them particularly clumsy and heavy between running and jumping. As long as they are resisted by swords and cards, they are difficult to get rid of. They use spears to stabbing like rice, let alone chasing in cavalry. Under the hack.
Therefore, this battalion of assault cavalry under Zhao Yin's bow, with the cooperation of another battalion of cavalry; just the first round of the formation of progressive radiation, dispelled the first formation of party cavalry assault. Then there was the shock and destruction of the wave-dropped bombs, which defeated the party Xiangqi who had comeback in the second round.
Then, in the active charge, the third group of the Party Xiangjun was being reorganized. The third group of the Party Xiangjun was being reorganized; it was chased and driven to the north, and it was chased and driven back to the infantry department of the original group. The crowd stomped and trampled, so that the party Xiangjun was shaken and could no longer be dealt with.
It’s just that the party Xiangjun who was fleeing afterwards showed their good at fleeing and turned into the wind-like generations of skills (the unsatisfactory running on the grasslands outside the Great Wall were naturally eliminated), and the result was ordered to clean up the battlefield in accordance with the regulations. The Taiping Army couldn't catch up with it, but was fleeed a lot.
Therefore, in addition to the hundreds of prisoners captured one after another, the biggest gain was the nearly a thousand party horses that were scattered all around. However, after they crossed the west bank of Fengshui, the party's army's main counterattack was finally under the increasingly drowsy sky, and it was long overdue. (End of this chapter)