Changfeng Thousands of Miles End Han Song

Chapter 566 Is it a Han Chinese?

Compared with Zhong Xiang and Wang Qing's petty fights in Dongting Lake, and the bloody fights around Jinling City on the Jiangnan battlefield, the Liangshan Army's move seems to be on a huge scale.

First, Xu Ning, who was stationed in Nanyang, led troops to approach Wuguan. Then Lu Qian joined forces in Heluo with great fanfare. Tang Bin, the commander-in-chief of the Hedong army and horses, and Zhe Yan, the deputy commander-in-chief, led troops to Puzhou.Hu Yanzhuo of northern Hebei was also gathering troops and horses to enter Hedong from Jingxing.

Then Liu Fa firmly defended the three places, and Lu Qian attacked from all three directions.Isn't the momentum just huge?

For a moment, the eyes of the whole world gathered here.

At this time, Zhai Xing, the military commander of the Central Plains Province, suddenly led his troops to attack Shanzhou. Sun Zhaoyuan, who was stationed here, was not a coward. He sent his deputy general Yao Qing to fight him head-on. assault.But he was caught by the long-awaited two-headed snake Jie Zhen and the deputy one-horned dragon Zou Run.

After Zou Yuan and Zou Run's uncle and nephew joined the Liangshan Army, he had a few chances to show his face, but Brother Xie Zhen and Jie Bao seemed to have disappeared, and no reputation was spread at all.

But in fact, they were in Yimeng Mountain, recruiting mountain people and training troops. It took more than two years to prepare and train this mountain special force directly under Lu Qian's dispatch.

Of course, when it comes to special forces, it is actually far behind the special forces of later generations.But at least it can match the Shu Han's "Wudang Flying Army" mentioned in the history books.All of them are dressed in iron armor, able to climb mountains and mountains, good at using strong crossbows and hard bows, especially good at penetrating through mountains and fighting latently.

Xie Zhen and Xie Bao were originally from Orion, so it is most suitable to train this kind of army.

First of all, this pair of brothers are people who can endure hardships, and share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers of the troops. This first can win the hearts of the soldiers.Secondly, the two are cautious in nature.After all, he was born as a hunter, and if he is not rigorous, he cannot be a good hunter. If he can't be a good hunter, the Xie family brothers are afraid that they will suffer.

Therefore, the brothers from the Xie family didn't really disappear, but were entrusted with important tasks.

Lu Qian valued it so much that even Sun Li would take a high look.Don't mention how boring Sun Li in the original book is, how tasteless it is to mention the officials. Whether the Xie family brothers and the Sun family brothers are really close depends on how well these people get along now.Because everyone is a character!
It is said that the Dengzhou Department is without the mother tiger, and it is also a famous mountain in the Liangshan Army.People have many families and many relationships.

Sun Zhaoyuan is a figure honed on the battlefield in the northwest, if Xiao Xu's affairs fail, that's all.But now it is obvious that someone has already been caught in the net. If you don't run away early at this moment, if you are stubborn and don't retreat, you will not only decline yourself, but will also cause more brothers to die.Now point to the soldiers and horses and retreat.However, Xie Zhen and Zou Run commanded the army and chased him down.By the time they got out of the mountains and returned to Shanzhou City, there were less than a thousand soldiers out of the two thousand soldiers who attacked.

It was also because of these brave generals of the western army that they were blocked several times by the soldiers of the mountain battalion by going around to the front road with their feet, but they rushed away.

Zhai Xing defeated Yao Qing in Qianqiu Town. He was a hero who bullied the few with more power.The latter withdrew his troops to Xiaoshan and set up a camp. Relying on the terrain, he couldn't hold on, but Zhai Xing was no longer blocked.

Don't think that Tongguan is dangerous on the way into Guanzhong, and Weihan Road is not easy.

However, the first battle was so big, and Lu Qian approached Heluo step by step, so the eyes of the whole world were also focused on the Central Plains.Then no one knew that Hua Rong, together with Hao Siwen, the Deputy Chief of Army and Horse of Hedong Province, had gathered tens of thousands of steps and rode in Linzhou.

The focus of Xixia's military strength is set on a triangular line centered on Xingqing Mansion, with 7 people guarding Xingqing, 5 people guarding Xiping Mansion in the southeast, and 5 people guarding Helan Mountain in the northwest.The left and right hatchbacks and the four lines north and south of Henan are also equipped with troops.Among them, 5 people on Yuzhou Road in the left wing and 5 people on Yanzhou Road in Henan Province defended against Song Dynasty, 7 people on Anbei Road in Hebei Province defended against Liao Dynasty, and 3 people on Ganzhou Road in the right chamber defended against Tubo and Uyghur.Whenever you want to use troops to the west, you should gather from the east point and go west;

The brave army commander in the left wing closest to Linzhou is one of the twelve army commanders in Xixia.It stands to reason that there are 4 to [-] people, that is, there are [-] to [-] males in the area under its jurisdiction.The Xixia military system was developed on the basis of the party's tribal military system and absorbed the Song system.The army consists of three parts: the Central Guard Army, the Capture Army and the Local Army.

The former more than [-] people are the imperial guards of the King of Xixia, and the capture army is the people who captured the enemy alive as slaves during the war. It is said that they are selected brave warriors, well-equipped and powerful in combat.But what about the reality?Who doesn't know that the first-class elite of the Xixia people is Hengshan Qiang?

The rest of the elite troops, such as Iron Kites, Bubazi, and Poxi, are indeed not weak in combat power, but they are all from the Central Guards.

The greater contribution of the Capture and Survival Army was to take the opportunity to plunder the people of Han, and to plunder goods and food. As for the combat effectiveness, it was just so-so.The role they played in the war may be the team of the Liao army fighting the grass valley, or the Cossacks of the later Tsarist Russian army.

Finally, there are the large number of local armies, that is, the Twelve Army Divisions. A whole people are soldiers, which is enough to prove their combat effectiveness.

These people are not the Eight Banners soldiers of later generations, nor are they the Mongolian soldiers in the heyday. , Then there are ghosts.

And the fighting power of the party members is average.The great prestige of the Khitan soldiers was earned through head-to-head fights.What about party items?The wars with Zhao Song and Liao were all based on the desert terrain, adopting flexible tactics to advance when favorable, retreat when unfavorable, lure the enemy to lay an ambush, cut off the enemy's food road, and then gather superior forces to fight the exhausted enemy.

It cannot be denied that Li Yuanhao is a great talent, able to lure the enemy into the hub every time, and then gather an absolutely superior force to encircle and wipe out.

Good Shuichuan: One hundred thousand Xia troops against ten thousand Song troops;
Sanchuankou: [-] Xia troops against more than [-] Song troops;
But this also proved the party members' ability to fight head-on. Anyway, Lu Qian was not timid at all.

Regardless of the fact that he only assembled more than ten thousand cavalry in Linzhou, and that the horse army inside was only five or six thousand, but if he did the math or not, he just relied on those five or six thousand horse troops to sweep away the Brave Army Division in the left wing. Down.

And there is also one of Xixia's iron smelting places.

There is a passage in "Fan Wenzheng Gong's Government Memorial": "The western thief general Gang Langling has the strongest soldiers and horses, and he lives in the East Mituo Cave in Xiazhou, and there is iron metallurgy in the east seventy miles, which is the thief world. The place where iron weapons are produced.” This shows an important piece of information, that is, the Zuoxiang Army Division is in a place called Amitabha Cave to the east of Tongwan City, and there is a Xixia iron making place nearby.

The Liangshan Army's three-way army launched together, so large in scale, the Huarong and Hao Siwen Departments in Linzhou were so silent.

If you really want to cover your whereabouts, you must make the party's thief look elsewhere.

Zheyan's hostage is not there, but Zhekeda led the Zhe family's juniors, but they are in the army.Ever since he heard the news that the Liangshan army wanted to cross Xixia and break into the pass, this man was startled at first, and then he volunteered.

The Zhe family and the Dangxiang family have a deep hatred, and now that Liang Shanjun has not taken Guanzhong, they are going to slap the Xingqing government in the face, unscrupulous, Zhe Ke is very happy.This shows that the Liangshan army is not at all against Xixia, and it is impossible for the two sides to coexist peacefully.The little grudge that was still in my heart was gone!
If so, I was very happy and came to be a guide with Hua Rongjun.

Zhe's family has lived in Fuzhou for generations, and they have had blood feuds with Dangxiang people for a hundred years, but in terms of familiarity with Dangxiang's geography, I am afraid that Zhe can be selected randomly among the people of his generation, and they will not be weaker than Xiaozhong or Liu Fathom these generals of the Western Army who fought fiercely with Xixia.

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In a rainy weather, a cavalry rushed out of Linzhou City and entered the Tumao River in the west of the city.

The latter's name makes people feel peaceful, but in fact, there is blood dripping here.At the beginning of the founding of Xixia, the two armies fought bloody battles here many times.

In a certain month in the second year of Qingli (1042), Zhang Kang, who was in charge of the military and horse affairs of Goulin Mansion, and Zhe Jimin, the Zhizhou, led the troops to Linzhou with 3000 guards.Li Yuanhao, the lord of the Western Xia Dynasty, led tens of thousands of troops to attack, and the two sides encountered each other in Baizizhai.Zhang Kang and Zhe Jimin ordered their subordinates to tie arrows to their bodies, and the arrows rushed out of the encirclement.At a steep place, hundreds of people were left lying beside the road.When Xia's army entered the ambush circle, the front team fought against the soldiers, and the ambush soldiers rose up and beheaded more than 500 levels.The Xixia army was in chaos, and countless people died when they fell off the cliff, and the rest retreated.The Song army won more than [-] horses and thousands of weapons.

In March of the same year, the Xixia army attacked the Jianning village under construction several times via Tumaochuan.Zhang Kang mobilized nearly 2000 troops, and ordered his general Zhang Biao to lead thousands of elite soldiers to lie down in Tumao River with a strong crossbow; he led more than [-] recruits to lure the enemy.Because the Xixia rate has always underestimated the Hedong Army, it played the banner of the Eastern Army to confuse the opponent.Sure enough, the Xixia Army came straight to the "Hedong Army", and the two sides fought fiercely.After a while, Zhang Biao led the ambush troops to fight out, disrupting the position of the Xixia army, and the Song army sent troops to hide and kill, chasing and beheading more than [-] levels.

But with the Hengshan battlefield, the Song and Xia armies invested more and more troops and energy, and Linzhou became free.Tumaochuan has not heard the sound of swords and soldiers for decades. Although no party members dare to herd sheep and horses here, and no Han people dare to farm here.

This also makes it easier to cover up Hua Rongjun's whereabouts.

People with two horses, five thousand cavalry selected for the front, cooperated with more than a thousand local cavalry from the east of the river, brought the largest amount of dry food and water, and plunged into the Tumao River without hesitation.Out of here is a wasteland, you need to go west for a hundred miles to get to Mingtang River.

The so-called Mingtangchuan is the later Yuxi River, which is located in the border area between Dijinze (Mau Us Desert) and the Loess Plateau.Here in the later generations, it is famous as the south of the Yangtze River, the land of fish and rice.

Therefore, it is inevitable to encounter nomadic tribes of party members.

And here is still hundreds of miles away from Si Ke of the Brave Army in the left wing.

Xu Shi's long and stable life has long caused the Dangxiang herdsmen who belong to the left wing of the Brave Army Division to lose their vigilance. The rangers sent by Huarong have carried out a very thorough process from discovering the dung of cattle and sheep to finding the Dangxiang tribe along the dung. investigation, and then ran back to the army to report.The whole process went incredibly smoothly.They didn't hit a party police post in a daze.

The days of hard work seem to have paid off.From top to bottom, the whole army felt indescribably fierce and excited.

After all, this is fighting Xixia.That feeling is different from fighting Song Jun.Just like when we fought against the Liao army, the Liangshan army was full of horses, and the soldiers were full of enthusiasm.

Now, it is the same.

There is a saying in later generations that goes like this: "Soldiers who have been brainwashed by glory are not afraid of all difficulties and obstacles."

Isn't it the same now?
"Deputy governor, there are still twenty miles." Zhe Ke said excitedly.

At this time, it was around the second watch, the waning moon was not yet up, the sky was full of stars, the night was dark, and the sky was low in the wilderness.

Yue Fei and Luan Junshi led their two battalions to walk in the front, with a crown in their mouths and horses bound their hooves.The two of them each held a spear, their eyes sparkling brightly.

Now, all distracting thoughts have receded from the minds of the two of them, only two pairs of eagle-eyed bright eyes are staring at the front, paying close attention to every movement in the darkness ahead.

For fifteen miles, there was no movement.

For ten miles, the party members still did not make a sound.

Everyone is more careful, Wuli...

"Howling——" a low-pitched horn sounded suddenly from the front.

Luan Junshi frowned, but immediately opened his mouth.There are only three or four miles left, such a short distance has already exceeded his previous expectations.

And Yue Fei is even more straightforward.He got on his horse and yelled, "Kill——"

"Boom boom boom—" The sound of thunderous hooves sounded immediately.

Yue Fei controls the first battalion alone, that is like a command. "Luan Dalang, why are you still standing there, kill him quickly—"

Intentional versus unintentional sneak attack, that is a battle that can be won.

"Kill..." Two battalions of iron cavalry and a thousand cavalry Liangshan army divided into two groups and rushed straight to the chaotic Dangxiang tribe ahead.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

The high-pitched shouts resounded through the night.

But the party leaders here don't know where the enemy comes from, and where is the sacred one.

"What's going on?" Fei Ting Renrong, the chief who was sleeping peacefully, jumped up, ignoring the beauty in his arms, stepped on the cashmere blanket with bare feet, and rushed out.He heard the sound of fighting and the sound of horseshoes running like thunder. Who could this be?Are they Han Chinese?
(End of this chapter)