Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 875
Another group of people walked on the mountain road.

There are about [-] of them, with different clothes and equipment, and they can even be divided into two distinct parts: one part has two thousand soldiers with excellent equipment, high morale, and looks brave; Most of them are long spears and infantry bows. There are very few armors and various styles. It seems that most of them are made by themselves.

Obviously, this is the difference between Wufu and Xiangyong.

Wufu is given equipment and armor by the government, eats well, wears warm clothes, trains all year round, and killing people is commonplace.

Xiangyong only practiced during the slack season, and he prepared his own equipment, but the wealthy children from well-to-do families have the money to buy a good set of equipment for themselves. Generally speaking, their skills and courage are also quite good.

Regular warriors and Tutuan peasants were mixed together, and they were in a hurry to hurry. It seemed that they had received a military order and rushed to a certain place to gather.

Yishui flows quietly, with a thin layer of ice forming on the surface, and the sun shines down, it is really crystal clear and lovely.

The post road was a little dilapidated, and the mule cart bumped endlessly on it, which greatly affected the speed.

Guo Chubin, the governor of Yizhou, also got off his horse and led him on foot.

He was appointed as the recruiter of Yimi, commanding the soldiers and horses of Yizhou and Mizhou, and reinforcing Yanzhou.

From Yizhou to Yanzhou, there are two roads, the east and the west. The west road starts from Linyi, follows the Zhishui River Valley, enters the Sishui River Valley at the expense county, and then passes through the two counties of Sishui and Qufu to arrive at Xiaqiu.

The East Road departs from Linyi and goes north along the Yishui River Valley to Yishui County.Then continue northward to Shangyuan of Shushui and Daxian Mountain, bypass Qingzhou and the southern edge of Zizhou, enter Laiwu Valley Road, pass Laiwu, Qianfeng, Qufu to Xiaqiu.

The east road is relatively far and winding, and it wasn't Guo Chubin's deliberate way of walking.In fact, he was still very active. Before the Shangyuan Festival, he gathered his generals and soldiers, and then traveled northward quickly, intending to join Mizhou soldiers in the direction of Muling Pass, and then march westward in a group.

Muling Pass was actually abandoned in the Yuanhe period.

In the Northern Dynasty, it would be called Daxian Pass.During Liu Yu's Northern Expedition, the Nanyan court believed that this great pass should be guarded and the Jin army should be blocked in the south of the pass.But Murong Chao was so self-confident that he thought it would be better to let Liu Yu in and defeat him with cavalry on the plain.In the end, everyone knows that tens of thousands of Nanyan riders were defeated by infantry on the plain, and Nanyan perished.

"Traveling two hundred miles in six days, the soldiers are tired, let's take a rest." Guo Chubin said, looking at a village in front of him.

"Obey." The general will leave soon, conveying the order.

In fact, it wasn't that the soldiers were tired, it was that Guo Chubin was fucking tired.

When I am old, I can no longer march overnight like when I was young, so why not rest?What's more, the Mi people don't know when they will come over. Let's take a rest first, drink some hot tea, and eat something-of course, a village cannot accommodate five thousand soldiers and horses, but it is enough for Guo Shijun and his followers to rest. .

The village is soon there.

Guo Chubin pointed to the most dignified looking house, and the wolf-like soldiers rushed over and drove him out.

Guo Chubin lived in carelessly, and ordered his soldiers to make tea.

The owner of the house is surnamed Huyan, who should be a descendant of Xianbei from Nanyan.There are still many horses in the village, and there are many people who practice martial arts, Guo Chubin knows well, if farming is busy when farming is busy, and when farming is slack, they are all bloody horse bandits.

In the early years of the Kingdom Dynasty, many Xi people were resettled in Yun, Yan, and Qi towns. They were all prisoners of war and moved to the interior for resettlement.Later, when the Pinglu army went south, a large number of Xi and Khitan planted here, and they have been living here.If you count the Xianbei people from Nanyan, it is not surprising that there are many horse bandits in the three towns of Yun, Yan, and Qi.

"Oh, Xuzhou is constantly fighting, and even the tea leaves are cut off. These days are really hard." Guo Chubin took a sip of the tea brought by his own soldiers, and sighed: "Yang Xingmi is also a waste. He only knows how to build a city in Huaibei like the Southern Dynasty. Ass."

The battle in Xuzhou is fierce.The Xia people conscripted Ding Zhuang to attack Xuzhou, Zhang Ting and Fan Yingcheng defended themselves and dared not fight in the field.The Huai people also only cared about building the city, and occasionally sent small cavalry to the north to sneak attacks, and the beatings were neither painful nor itchy.

If he continued to guard, the Xia people would not be able to attack the city, so they would move the people away. Shao Shude and Zhu Quanzhong both liked to do this.

"Master, how many soldiers and horses did the Shao bandits dispatch this time?" someone asked.

"No less than one hundred thousand." Guo Chubin said: "Most of them are not powerful, so there is no need to worry, but there are still tens of thousands of elite soldiers, so don't take it lightly."

Guo Chubin actually heard what the envoy from Yanzhou said.Some people from Yun fled to Yanzhou, saying that the Liang soldiers they fought with were not like Zhu Quanzhong's soldiers in the past. , Xu Bing's combat power is not good, it seems that he has fought with Liang Jun for many years, too many veterans have died, and his morale is not good when he goes out of town to fight.

However, the veteran troops of the Liang army, such as Tujiang and Yanei, still have good combat effectiveness, and Guo Chubin didn't want to meet them.

"One hundred thousand troops..." The followers were all silent.

Then someone said angrily: "This is not giving us a way to survive, let's fight him to death."

"After Chaos Chaos, all the towns expelled the Jiedu envoys sent by the imperial court one after another, and we are not the only ones doing this. Why should the Shao bandits attack them?"

"It's useless to talk so much, it's better to fight with real swords and guns."

Seeing this, Guo Chubin nodded in relief.At least so far, everyone still wants to continue fighting.

"It's getting dry outside!"

"There are thieves!"

"The thieves are rushing over, hurry up!"

High-pitched shouts sounded from outside the village.The sources are very mixed, some are scouts running back from the field, some are sergeants stationed on the outskirts, and some are soldiers patrolling the village.

Guo Chubin got up suddenly, and was about to rush out to supervise the battle.The guards hurriedly grabbed him, and after he was neatly dressed, he surrounded Guo Chubin and rushed out.

"Where did the thief come from?" Guo Chubin shouted.

The sergeants stationed outside the village had spontaneously surrounded the cart.The sergeants put on their gear urgently, took out their spears and rifles from the carts, some people were quickly winding up their bows, and others were calling for brave men, planning to recoil and buy time for the main force to deploy their defenses.

The "thief" soon appeared in the eyes.

On the post road on the north side, cavalry rushed over like a mountain torrent.

Well-trained, they dismounted more than a hundred steps away, and the drums rang out all of a sudden. The officers used various methods to gather the sergeants into formation, and then quickly put on their clothes and rushed straight forward.

"What a speed!" Guo Chubin exclaimed in shock.

They rushed forward on horseback, and then dismounted collectively. The auxiliary soldiers helped put on the clothes, handed over the equipment, and then gathered the horses. The soldiers formed a formation quickly, and then charged.

The whole process is like flowing water. I don't know how many times I have practiced it. It looks like an elite warrior.

"Woo!" The horn sounded one after another, and Yi soldiers shot a wave of feathered arrows sparsely.

The soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army who charged didn't take it seriously, shouting and charging forward.

"Woo!" The sound of the horn sounded again. This time, more arrows were shot, and the distance was much closer. The soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army fell to the ground with arrows in a large area, and the armor could not prevent the strong bows from close range at all. .

However, they also flew out a wave of arrows, all of which were heavy arrows and big bows, which were powerful.

This is the time to reflect the quality of an army.How is the basic subject of grass shooting on the move?Can you be accurate?
One minute on the battlefield, ten years of hard work behind the scenes, boosting morale by mouth cannon, can't make soldiers suddenly become sharp archers.

Sergeant Feilong gave the perfect answer.

The heavy arrows were both accurate and ruthless, and they were shot with head covering their faces. Yizhou soldiers screamed, and there were countless people who fell to the ground.

"Kill!" The sergeant who rushed to the front abandoned his big bow, held a knife, ax and epee, and jumped up against the spear stabbing from the opposite side.

With a knife and an ax on his body, blood flowed everywhere.

The line of defense that Yibing had prepared hastily was smashed through, and the ferocious soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army jumped over the vehicle barrier and rushed into the crowd behind, slashing and killing.

Yi Bing is not all soft eggs.Holding spears and axes, under the command of the officer, they beheaded the flying dragon army warriors rushing over one by one.

But the flying dragon army went forward one after another, one died, two came, two died, ten came, all ten died, and dozens of people rushed forward.

Yibing's defense line was crumbling, and some Tutuan villagers could not resist and retreated.

The sound of horseshoes sounded again from the south, and Guo Chubin, who was just about to lead the charge himself, turned his head to look, but saw that the sergeants of the brigade had just dismounted and were putting on their armor, ready to charge.

"What a thief!" He gritted his teeth and said angrily, "Isn't Shao thief still in Juye? How did Xia thief come here? Are all Qi people dead? Just let them come here."

"My lord, let's go. Our army has only two thousand soldiers capable of fighting, and there are six or seven thousand troops in the front and rear of the bandits. They are well armored and armed, and their fighting spirit is surging. Let's go!" The soldiers held Guo Chubin and remonstrated bitterly.

"Alas!" Guo Chubin stomped his feet heavily and got on his horse.

He was not pretentious at all, his movements were very nimble, and under the protection of a hundred soldiers, he ran wildly.

Seeing this, a few cavalrymen also ran away, leaving only a field of infantry fighting on the spot.

And once they left, one can imagine how much it would hit the morale of Yi Bing.The greetings of the officers did not have any effect, everyone gave up resistance, drilled into the mountains and forests on both sides of the post road, and ran towards the river valley.

The soldiers of the Feilong army quickly caught up, and the Yi people panicked and did not choose their way. Hundreds of them rushed to the surface of the Yishui River.

The ice surface was so fragile, how could it withstand the trampling of so many people, so it quickly cracked, and all the fleeing Yi people fell into the river, struggling and crying in the icy water, and fell silent after a while.

"Don't chase too far." Qi Bizhang appeared on a hillside and ordered: "After the fight, take a rest immediately and restore your horsepower. We will continue to set off after nightfall."

"Where to attack?" Qi Bizhang's nephew Qi Bi asked as a guest.

Qi Bizhang's nephew is not easy to be.Ever since he beheaded his first nephew, Ba Yegu, this was a high-risk occupation. Either he was killed due to incompetence in combat, or he was killed in a charge. Qibi Zuobin, a distant cousin, had already encountered the desperate situation of dying and surviving twice. , the luck is quite good.

"Going back to Muling Pass, looking for an opportunity to forcefully eat Mizhou soldiers." Qi Bizhang said briefly.

Fighting the few with the many, beating the few with the many, and bullying the weak with the strong, is the one who is superior in the art of war.

(End of this chapter)