Li Maozhen frowned as she looked at the military newspaper in her hand.
The weather is getting warmer, even if you live in Youzhou in the north, the sun at noon is already scorching, which means that summer is coming. At the same time, this also means that the Khitan army's offensive against Ping, Gui and other states has lasted for more than a month.
Li Ye sits in Chang'an, leaving the northern border war to King Qi's disposal, which puts a lot of pressure on Li Maozhen. In the past two months, it can be said that I have been sleeping all night, and I have never had a moment of leisure.
Fortunately, although the battle in the northern border was fierce, there was nothing strange about the battle situation. The Tang army is still in the first stage of the war. According to Li Ye's arrangement, the Tang army will mainly adopt a defensive position at this stage, relying on mountains and rivers, passes, and strong bows to consume the Khitan army.
After the Khitan army has suffered a certain loss and the soldiers are exhausted, the war will enter the second stage, and it is possible for the Tang army to launch a counterattack and march to the grassland.
Yuguan in Pingzhou and Juyongguan in Guizhou, as the two important towns, are now firmly blocking the Khitan onslaught. Although the casualties of soldiers were not small for more than a month, the losses caused to the Khitan army were several times greater than their own. If Khitan had no ingenuity, it would be difficult to bring the flames of war to Youzhou City.
Such a war scene makes sense.
Since ancient times, as long as the border defense is normal, prairie cavalry can rarely attack the Central Plains. Since the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the national power has declined. The three towns in Hebei did not obey the orders of the imperial court. Although they are arrogant soldiers, but on the issue of border guards, they relied on the strength of the towns themselves, and there were no major problems.
Before coming from Chang'an, Li Maozhen remembered what Li Ye said, as long as the Youyun Sixteen Prefectures are in our hands, the soldiers will have a favorable location to rely on, and the prairie people will attack openly, unless we are too weak.
The Tang army who fought in the north and south in these years is naturally not a weak brigade. Therefore, even if the Khitans were able to cross the grasslands, it would still be very difficult for them to approach the city of Youzhou.
With the battle situation like this, Li Maozhen had nothing to worry about.
But she is not a mediocre general. The fighting situation for nearly two months made her discover something unusual. At this point in the war, although the Khitan army seemed to have been dispatched, their fighting strength was not at all commendable in front of the Tang army.
This is a matter of course.
But Li Maozhen doesn't think so.
She has carefully deduced and estimated that if the Khitan army took out these troops in front of them, even if the Tang army did not have all kinds of powerful magic weapons and crossbows newly developed by craftsmen, they would not have the strength to attack the Great Wall.
"Yelu Abaoji hid the Sijin Department! It was another army that attacked under the banner of the Sijin Department in Yuguan. According to the Beikou battle report, the Khitan army that attacked them these days is not an ordinary army, it is very It might be the Sijinbu!"
A flash of inspiration flashed in Li Maozhen's mind, and she suddenly thought of this.
This made her feel tense.
After the Khitan army attacked Beikou, she mobilized half of the tiger guards who had been preparing to enter Tanzhou to face the sudden Khitan army to meet the enemy.
Originally, she thought that this was enough to deal with the situation in Beikou, but based on the current battle reports from various places, if there were really Sijin troops among the hundreds of thousands of Khitan troops outside Beikou Pass, then half of the Tiger Guards would not be enough to defend the city. You have to push them all up!
After thinking about it, Li Maozhen immediately called Zhao Bingkun and asked him to lead the remaining 50,000 tiger guards to Beikou.
Since Zhao Nianci died in battle, Zhao Bingkun has been in poor spirits, which is why Li Maozhen finally sent the Tiger Guards to the battlefield.
Hearing Li Maozhen's military order, Zhao Bingkun said in a hoarse voice: "If all the tiger guards are dispatched, King Qi will not have any troops in his hands. Now that there are stalemates in various battlefields, if Khitan has any other tricks, how can King Qi Isn't it helpless?"
Seeing that although Zhao Bingkun was skinny and bloodshot in his sunken eye sockets, but his thoughts were still clear, Li Maozhen felt relieved.
The other party is the humerus that supported her to achieve the king's career. Although she no longer has the great career of King Qi, she has always remembered the love of the military disciples for her.
"It's almost summer. It's time to decide the outcome of this war. It is inevitable to do our best. As long as all the passes can be defended, we can realize the plan that King An set in advance."
Having said this, Li Maozhen clasped her fists at Zhao Bingkun, "Tanzhou will be entrusted to General Zhao!"
Zhao Bingkun returned the salute and accepted the order. It was enough to say so far, and he didn't mean not to accept the military order.
At this time, the fierce battle at Beikou pass was in full swing.
Countless Khitan infantry crawled up the city wall like ants, and under the leadership of the Qi training monks who jumped up to the top of the city, they launched a fierce attack on the guarding Tang army. Naturally not to be outdone, the guards and soldiers rushed forward one after another with knives and guns. When the two sides collided, they were turned on their backs and flesh and blood flew all over the place.
Er Gouzi slashed down, disemboweling the Khitan warrior in front of him, spilling colorful and warm viscera all over the floor, just as he was about to strike again, he accidentally stepped on the opponent's liver, slippery and almost fell , although he stabilized his figure in time, he was slashed on the shoulder by the Khitan warrior who followed.
If he was not wearing armor, this knife would break his arm shoulder-length, but with armor protection, Er Gouzi just felt a sharp pain in his shoulder. He gritted his teeth and saw the Khitan warrior's horrified eyes, and sliced off the opponent's head with one knife .
The comrade next to Dutou Dan was killed by several Khitan monks, and he himself was entangled by a strong monk. Seeing that he was struggling to deal with it, his armor had already been hacked several times, Er Gouzi With a roar, he rushed over in two steps, and rolled to the ground holding a Khitan monk who wanted to make a cold shot.
The two fought for a long time in the pile of bloody corpses, even using their teeth, and finally the winner was decided. Although this Khitan monk has not achieved Qi training, he is also very powerful. It was impossible for Er Gouzi to defeat the opponent, but he was the one who stood up crookedly in the end.
This is not only because Er Gouzi attacked the opponent and seized the opportunity, but also because his armor was tougher and stronger than the opponent, and finally hit with his head, smashing the opponent's facial features with his hard pocket, and thus turned defeat into victory in a desperate situation. .
Frontier troops like the Beikou garrison now have the same armor and weapons as the Chang'an Forbidden Army. They have just been refitted at the beginning of the year, and now they are playing an extraordinary role. Although the Khitans were brave, they were far behind the Tang army in terms of armored soldiers.
However, Er Gouzi, who was lucky enough to recover his life, was shot through his thigh before he could stand still. The defense here is weak. He fell down with a howl, and was about to be hacked to death by two Khitan men rushing up, but suddenly the opponents fell sideways as if they had been hit by a firing pin.
It was Zhang Zai who knocked the Khitan into the air like a bull.
Zhang Zai in front of him could no longer look at him. He was covered in blood like a blood gourd. The solid nail leaves had been cut many times. The worst thing was that two nail leaves were still hanging down. like a beggar.
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Zhang Zai pulled Er Gouzi up and threw it behind him, picked up a round shield from the ground and handed it to him. He held a knife in both hands and fought the Khitan warrior in front of him while screaming for someone to come over and take the cow egg, Er Gouzi, and Er Gouzi. Gouzi take it down.
If it was half a decade ago, Er Gouzi would have found it incredible to see Zhang Zai fighting forward in the bloody battlefield; if it was five days ago, when he saw Zhang Zai wielding a knife, he still remembered the fighting skills, Er Gouzi Zi must be dumbfounded.
If it was three days ago, Er Gouzi would have been stunned when he saw Zhang Zai, who looked like a murderous god.
But now, Er Gouzi has no waves in his heart.
If he had to say something, he wanted to applaud Zhang Zai.
Ever since he came back as a ranger last time, Zhang Zai and others have been pestering Niudan every day, asking the capital to teach him the way of battle. Niudan was not very happy at first, but as the head of the capital, his subordinates wanted to train seriously, so he had no reason not to teach them all.
As a result, three days later, Niudan was no longer Zhang Zai's opponent, whether he was fighting alone or with a team.
To be able to become a literary teacher, Zhang Zai is undoubtedly smart. There are many people in this world who are obsessed with reading, but there are also people who have a sharp increase in their wisdom through reading and reading. Zhang Zai obviously belongs to the latter.
No matter what kind of skill, he only needs to be taught by Niudan once, and he can master it. After he has practiced for a while, he can basically learn from it.
Of course, this is also because Zhang Zai is a writer. Although today's Confucian scholars are not good at fighting, the root cause is that they don't value the bravery of ordinary people. It's not that Confucianism didn't pay attention to these from the beginning. Among the six arts of a gentleman, archery and imperial defense are all included.
Those who have no strength to bind a chicken or twist a knife are called scholars, and they are not Confucian gentlemen.
The original Confucian scholars most admired the four words of worshiping generals and becoming prime ministers, that is to say, they must be able to fight when they are on horseback and rule when they are dismounted.
Although the awe-inspiring aura of the scribe is not the aura of the Daoist sect, it can obviously improve the physical fitness. So now Zhang Zai, after going through the stage of fighting with his eyes closed on the first day, knowing how to advance and retreat on the second day, and being able to use his combat skills freely on the third day, he has grown into a border killer. .
The price is not nothing.
In Niudan, there were originally three Confucian scholars.
But now, both Liu Dahe and another Confucian scholar died in battle.
Of the more than thirty Confucian scholars who arrived at Beikou in the early days, there are now less than ten left. On the eve of the start of the war, a large number of Confucian scholars came, there were as many as 300 people, and now less than 30% are left.
Compared with the casualties of border soldiers, Confucian scholars suffered a larger loss, and it was much larger.
The results are not without.
Confucian scholars who can still fight now have basically become killing gods.
If it is just personal bravery, in the eyes of Er Gouzi, it cannot be called the God of Killing, but if it is not only personal bravery, but also stimulates the blood of the comrades around him, making them several times braver than usual, then it is definitely a battlefield God of killing.
This is the case with Zhang Zai and the Confucian scholars at the moment.
On the Central Plains battlefield, Shangguan Qingcheng witnessed Yangzhou Confucian scholars with his own eyes, and what erupted on the battlefield had a positive effect on the morale of the army. She would be amazed if she were standing here now.
Because Zhang Zai and the others not only improved the morale of their comrades, but also enhanced the combat power of their companions, allowing them to follow them to cooperate in the battle, and their strength to a higher level.
It is a power that is not the power of a military general, but it is the power that leads to the same goal by different routes.