Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 428
The northwest wind blew so hard that it almost broke the flagpole.

Except for a few people who stayed in the camp to guard the horses and luggage, most of the cavalry soldiers got on their horses, maneuvered to a certain place quickly, and worked hard like rain.

Some civilians who were caught by them also mobilized and kept busy.

At the same time, there were nearly a thousand riders cruising around the Bian army, taking risks to approach them from time to time, trying every means to slow down the marching speed of the Bian army, although with little success.

Zhe Siyu calculated the time, most of the Bian army will rest in that fortress tonight.Then march again and arrive at the preset attack location around noon tomorrow.

Hope the weather will not change tomorrow!

Shao Shude received the urgent news from Zhe Siyu the next morning.

He had someone simulate the situation, and then fell silent, as if he had seen the scene of Cao Bin being besieged by Brother Yeluxiu's cavalry in the Battle of Qigou Pass.

At that time, Cao Bin used a grain truck as an outer barrier, and Brother Yeluxiu attacked, causing serious casualties, so he turned to a confrontation.

It stands to reason that Cao Bin has the food, grass, and equipment he just brought from Xiongzhou, and the Liao army will have nothing to do with them in a while. Isn't it just a matter of restraining the cavalry of the Liao army and creating opportunities for the other two armies?

But Cao Bin's response was to open the car barrier in the middle of the night and lead people to escape...

With this will to fight, Li Ke, who was besieged by the Chengde cavalry, can beat you eighteen streets.

In this battle, the Song army killed tens of thousands of people.

After Cao Bin fled with the remnants of his troops, the Liao army came after him again, and his troops collapsed on the lookout.

It's not that Li Keyong has never been defeated in front of Chengde and Youzhou, but he can always repel the chasing cavalry, calmly deal with the defeat, and not hurt his muscles or bones.

They are mainly infantry, why is there such a big gap?

Perhaps, almost seven or eighty years have passed since the establishment of the Bianliang Forbidden Army by Zhu Wen to the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. Referring to the decline curve of the Shence Army, it is almost at this level.It may be because of more battles in the past, it has fallen slower than the Shence Army, but it is inevitable for an army that has existed for decades to become depressed.

"Send a message to Zhejun Envoy, and I will wait for the good news. If you can defeat Bianjun in this battle, you will be credited with it." After Shao Shude finished speaking, he left the camp to check the Kip Fort that had just been captured.

Here are all small scenes, there is no big suspense for using the elite infantry to fight against Zhang Quanyi's county soldiers and field soldiers.Maybe Xin'an County is more difficult to fight, but Zhang Quanyi repaired that city for the first time. Does he attach so much importance to "Hangu Pass"?

On the post roads in Zhengzhou and Luoyang, there were many carriages and horses, and Liu Han, who was the first to set off, had a huge head.

Xia Jun's cavalry was different from the cavalry of Zhu Jin and Luo Hongxin they met.

They don't come hard.

Zhu Jin was born as a cavalry general. In the beginning, he always used elite cavalry to forcefully charge the infantry protected by baggage vehicles, causing heavy casualties.

After suffering a few losses, he began to harass the grain road, but it still had no effect.

In the end, it may be that the people became frantic, and this year they used cavalry to forcefully charge the infantry formation, trying to gamble, and finally the entire army was wiped out and fled in embarrassment.

The Taining Army, which once had more than [-] elite cavalry, was no longer a concern.

"General Liu, has the bandit Xia given up on the harassment?" Zhu Yourang, a member of the army, asked while looking at the cavalry of the Xia army scattered in the distance.

"Zhu Suishi, the Xia army may not have given up, maybe it is waiting for us somewhere. However, our army rested all night last night, with sufficient strength and high morale, and we are not afraid of Xia's bandits." Zhu Yourang was originally a wealthy businessman in Bianzhou. Wang Shou is the adopted son, and now he is serving as an important member of the army. In fact, he has the taste of a military supervisor, and he dare not offend too much.

Liu Han, like Yang Yanhong, is a former general of the Xuanwu Army.

Yang Yanhong commanded the Xuanwu Cavalry Army, with a high position and authority.However, it was precisely because the position was too high that Dongping County King was very envious of the cavalry in his hands, so he recruited Li Si'an and others under him, which gradually led to being marginalized.

But it is impossible for the generals of the old army to completely use them.

Everyone is a family of generals and schools for generations, with many inheritances, and they still have skills.

Li Si'an has to use Yang Yanhong, otherwise is there enough cavalry?Is it enough to rely solely on Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, and Xie Yanzhang?

Liu Han is now the commander of the left and right Baosheng armies, commonly known as the capital.

He set off from Zhengzhou with 4000 people and served as the vanguard of the army to assist Luoyang.

I just didn't expect that the cavalry of the Xia Army had already moved to this area. It seemed that the west of Xin'an County had been completely corrupted. Maybe the main force of the Xia Army had already entered the city of Xin'an and was about to besiege the city.

The wind blew stronger and stronger, and with a piercing sound, a flag was broken on the spot.

The face of the person who saw it was startled, and Zhu Yourang also screamed in fright.

"Cang——" Liu Han drew out his horizontal knife, looked around, and said, "The west wind is blowing strongly, and it's the right time of day, so what's wrong?"

He asked people to put away the broken flag and replaced it with a new one.

"Don't stop, keep going! Is it possible that the thief Xia can still go straight to my cart?" Liu Han stared at the crowd, and said: "I have walked so much in blood and fire, and the murdered bandits have two hands. You can’t count them all, so you’re afraid of them? As long as the soldiers are united, they can poke a hole even today.”

Everyone laughed when they heard the words, and their morale recovered.

After so many years of fighting in the north and south, in the wind and rain, in the blood and fire, they have been killed all over the place.The mere summer thief, if you dare to rush over, let them see the killing skills we have been pondering all day long.

"If the Xia thief comes, the long spear in a certain hand will surely drink his blood, one for each."

"If there are too many Xia thieves, how will you treat them?"

"That's not easy? One shot and two."

"Haha."

Several people adjusted the atmosphere, and everyone's morale improved again.

This is the advantage of having more veterans who have experienced blood and fire in the army. They know when to do what, and they are not very afraid of death. They dare to fight and fight, which is of great help to the war.

The convoy moved on.

Some scouts stepped forward boldly, but were quickly pushed back.

Everyone didn't care, they were used to it, and it didn't affect them at all.

The only thing that makes people dissatisfied may be that the wind and sand are a bit heavy, which makes people very irritable.The draft animals pulling the cart were also a little restless, and they were not very obedient.

After walking a short distance, the wind and sand became bigger and bigger.On the edge of the gray sky, the sound of horseshoes can be heard faintly.

"Mou!" A cow went mad irritably, the driver couldn't control it, and the grain cart was pulled crookedly and rattled.

"Not good!" Liu Han strode onto a donkey cart, the dust covered the sky, although it was not so hard to keep his eyes open, it was still extremely uncomfortable.

Where does the wind and sand come from in Henan?
The sound of hooves became more and more urgent.

"Clang" an ox cart rushed out of the queue, went down into the field, and then rolled over to the ground.

Most draft animals get agitated, they are not used to this environment.

In fact, it's not just draft animals, people are also uncomfortable, and the sound of "peh peh" keeps going.

Some people used their hands to cover their nostrils, and the long lance couldn't hold it anymore.

"Ah!" A driver fell to the ground in pain.

He just wanted to appease the donkey pulling the cart, but he was kicked.

The donkey cart rushed out at a jaw-dropping speed, and the sergeants standing on it staggered to and fro, scolding endlessly.

Like an infectious disease, the draft animals cried anxiously and painfully one after another, and the queue gradually became chaotic.

"Crash!" The two cars collided together.

It turned out that the draft animals in the car in front refused to leave, but were "rear-ended" by the car behind, and a mule cart rushed out of the queue.

"It must be Xia's trick!" Liu Han roared.

The wind and sand poured in, directly blocking the second half of his words.

"Whoosh!" With the help of the wind, more than ten feathered arrows were firmly nailed to the carriage.

A cow was shot, and it was so painful that it rushed up regardless. Some sergeants were caught off guard and knocked down, screaming again and again.

And the blind movement of this cow also drove other draft animals, and the whole convoy was in a mess, and everyone was thrown off their feet.

"How did Xia thief get close?" Liu Han asked angrily.

"Too messy." Someone replied.

Some junior officers spontaneously assembled some crossbowmen and shot in the direction of the feathered arrows, and some screams were faintly heard in the wind and sand.

"Boom!" A bullock cart rushed across, knocking the crossbowmen to their knees.

The sound of horseshoes was close to the ear, and a huge gap appeared on the right side of the convoy.

This can actually make up for it, as long as there are sergeants rushing over, armed with long spears and lined up, supplemented by bows and crossbows, they can be blocked.

But now the convoy was in disarray, and the sergeants were running around to avoid the frenzied livestock.

However, the subjective initiative of the lower-level officers of the Bian Army is still very good. Someone led some sergeants, panting, climbed over the grain truck and rushed to the gap.

"Om!" A rain of arrows fell, and the dozen or so sergeants who had just climbed over the car screamed incessantly.

"Boom!" The No. 1 cavalry rushed in, smashed down the hammer in his hand, and a Bian soldier fell down silently.

But the camp was too chaotic, which was not conducive to the deployment of the Bian army, and it was also not conducive to the charge of the cavalry, so only a few people rushed in with him, hacking and killing.

Most of the cavalry galloped and fired on the periphery, taking advantage of the favorable opportunity of the Bian army's chaos, and sent the overwhelming rain of arrows over.

Zhu Yourang got under the car directly.

With a roar, Liu Han charged forward with his own soldiers.

One soldier raised a long-handled ax and knocked off the cavalry who had just rushed in, and the other stepped forward, raised a knife in his hand, and beheaded him.

"Don't retreat!" Liu Han picked up the abandoned long spear and knocked down a Xia army cavalry.

The cavalryman looked braver and got up quickly, but was hooked to the ground by the hook and sickle spear that came in a surprise attack.

"Pfft!" A spear nailed him to the ground.

The arrow rain became more and more dense.

Liu Han's armor looked like it had grown white hair. He rushed to another place, stabbed a cavalryman of the Xia army to death, and asked angrily, "Where's the crossbowman? Drive the Xia thief back!"

No one answered.

Most of the crossbows were placed on the vehicle. Who could find them in such a mess?Someone has already overturned the cart and fled.

"Buzz!" Another group of cavalry crossed the field, circled to the other side of the convoy, and fired arrows again and again.

Enemy on the back!

The crash started in one corner and then spread to the entire car formation.

Some brave soldiers of the Bian army still relied on carts and fought back with step bows, while some soldiers brandished long spears and fought desperately.

However, the establishment system has been chaotic, there is no cooperation, and the resistance is not systematic, so naturally there is little effect.

The momentum is gone!

As some Xia army cavalry dismounted and the whole team rushed over, the annihilation of this Bian army was inevitable.

Zhe Siyu stood in the wind and sand, watching quietly.

After a long time, he sighed: "There is a shortage of mounted infantry."

(End of this chapter)