The Rhapsody of Mounted Blade Players

This time, Ye Tianlong's army only had more than 200,000 militiamen in addition to 300,000 regular soldiers. After all, most of the militiamen had to stay in the newly recovered Zhongxiang territory to maintain public order, and at the same time, they were also prepared to guard against Vietnam and Vietnam. Dali's invasion.

After Ye Tianlong sent out troops, the first opponent he chose to attack was the Dali Kingdom. As a result, as Ye Tianlong advanced, the Dali Kingdom's army was not seen yet. Instead, it ran into an army from the southwestern Yi.

When Ye Tianlong discovered this southwestern barbarian army, this barbarian army of tens of thousands of people was burning, killing and looting excitedly in a county town.

"Quick! Go in and save people!"

After seeing this situation, Ye Tianlong immediately sent his soldiers into the county to defeat the barbarians and save the people in the county.

The equipment of these southwestern barbarians is not even comparable to that of regular armies such as Jin soldiers and Xixia soldiers, or even to insurgent armies such as Fangla Army and Zhong Xiang Army. Most of the barbarian soldiers do not even have a piece of leather armor or cloth armor. Simply holding the upper body, most of the weapons only have a wooden spear, or even a very rough wooden stick.

However, although the equipment of these barbarian soldiers was poor, they grew up in the deep mountains and old forests, but they had a ferocious spirit. After the actual fight, the Song soldiers with the same simple equipment were no match for them.

For example, in this county town, the defenders in the city resisted for less than a day before being captured by the barbarians. Fortunately, Ye Tianlong and his army arrived in time.

Facing the attack of the Qinglong Empire's army, these barbarians launched several violent counterattacks, but their equipment was so poor that they suffered heavy losses from just a few rounds of arrow rain.

Only half an hour later, more than 10,000 southwestern barbarians in the city were cleared out by the soldiers of the Qinglong Empire. Most of them were killed on the spot, and more than 3,000 were captured.

Through questioning these prisoners, Ye Tianlong learned that these southwestern barbarians were instigated by the Dali people.

Originally, these southwestern barbarians did not dare to go deep into the interior to attack and plunder Han Chinese towns, but the Dali people used their own army of more than 200,000 as a fortress, indicating that this army would become their strong backing.

Once the elite Han troops are provoked in the process of attacking those Han cities, Dali's army of more than 200,000 will rush to support them.

In exchange for having the Dali army as a backing, the southwestern barbarians had to hand over a full 50% of the money and population they gained from plundering to Dali, and the other cities they had conquered had to be taken over by Dali.

With the backing of Dali's army, these southwestern barbarians dared to send troops to attack the Han cities.

After Ye Tianlong listened to the explanations of the Yi prisoners, he immediately saw that these Yi people were used as weapons by Dali! But these stupid Yi people still think they are taking advantage of it.

In addition, Ye Tianlong also learned that in the current Dali Kingdom, it is not the emperor Duan Heyu who can really make the decision, but the Gao family. The Gao family can be said to be the real powerful family in Dali. Even who can be the emperor has no choice. I asked the Gao family for their opinion. There was even a man named Gao Shengtai who served as emperor for two years and changed the name of the country to "Greater China". Now, although the Gao family abides by Gao Shengtai's legacy, they have returned power to the Duan family. , but his power in Dali is still greater than that of the emperor.

This invasion of the Central Plains was the idea of ​​Gao Liangcheng of the Gao family. Although Duan Heyu wanted to stop it, it was a pity that he was unable to compete with the Gao family, which had a strong influence in Dali and had deep roots in Dali. He could only watch it all happen. .

Speaking of which, Duan Heyu is the prototype of Duan Yu in the martial arts novel "Dragon and the Eight Parts"! I just don’t know if he in the virtual world of this game knows the Six Meridians Divine Sword and Beiming Divine Art.

After figuring out the situation in Dali, Ye Tianlong led the army and began to move forward, defeating several groups of southwestern Yi troops on the way.

However, the Dali army that had promised to be a strong backing for the southwestern barbarians never showed up. Even according to Shi Qian's investigation, the Dali army was still withdrawing into the country.

The Dali Kingdom's army had snatched a large amount of gold, silver, jewelry and young people during this period, and Ye Tianlong would not let them run away like this.

So he immediately asked Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and Sun An to lead 30,000 heavy cavalry and 50,000 light cavalry to catch up with the Dali army, then entangle the opponent, wait for the main army to arrive, and then completely annihilate it.

Although Ye Tianlong's order said so, Lin Chong and others felt that with more than 80,000 cavalry, they were completely enough to defeat the army of Dali. After all, Dali's military strength had never been strong, otherwise there would be no need to use various types of cavalry. They secretly plotted to seize the territory of the Song Dynasty, and they had already led their troops to fight over it.

Relying on the high mobility of the cavalry, it only took Lin Chong and the others about three days to catch up with the Dali army. Then they hid the troops in a forest and rested for a long time before marching towards the Dali army. It was time to launch a surprise attack.

The soldiers of Dali Kingdom obviously did not expect that they would all run away at once, and that the Qinglong Empire's troops could catch up so quickly. Therefore, when facing the cavalry raid led by Lin Chong and others, they were completely unprepared. The team was directly cut off by the heavy cavalry and cut into several sections.

Then Lin Chong and the others sent the 50,000 light cavalry to the battlefield and began to eliminate the divided enemy armies one by one. Under the situation of being divided, the Dali army could not support each other, but Lin Chong and the others could rely on the superiority of the cavalry. The mobility of the troops quickly gathered them, and most of the time they were able to take advantage of the strength on local battlefields. Coupled with the fact that they were all cavalry, they really killed those Dali soldiers without the ability to fight back.

After the battle lasted for more than two hours, most of the more than 200,000 Dali troops were killed directly, and another 70,000 to 80,000 were taken prisoner. Only less than 10,000 people escaped. The Qinglong Empire suffered less than a hundred casualties, which can be called a classic example of defeating more with less.

Moreover, Lin Chong and the others also captured alive Gao Liangcheng, the culprit who planned the invasion.

When Ye Tianlong arrived with the main army three days later, he was surprised to learn that Lin Chong and the others had actually annihilated the Dali army. After learning that there were not many casualties in this battle, Ye Tianlong did not continue to pursue Lin Chong and others for disobeying military orders. After all, the generals were out and military orders were not obeyed. As a qualified general, he had the right to do so. During battle, those who make their own decisions based on the actual situation do not have to follow the orders of their superiors in everything.

As for Gao Liangcheng, who was captured alive, Ye Tianlong planned to take him back and behead him in public to comfort the compatriots who died in this war.

At the same time, Ye Tianlong also sent an envoy to Yangjumei City, the capital of Dali Kingdom, to discuss compensation matters with Emperor Duan Heyu of Dali Kingdom.

After all, this time it was Dali who took the initiative to invade his Qinglong Empire and was defeated, so naturally he had to shed some blood to appease his anger.

The conditions Ye Tianlong offered to Duan Heyu can be said to be very harsh. First of all, Duan Heyu must depose himself as an emperor, and then be demoted to a county king. He must also recognize the Qinglong Empire as his father's country, and must pay money to the Qinglong Empire every year. Yearly coins, considering that Dali is a small country and does not have much money, Ye Tianlong offered it a price of 200,000 taels of silver per year. If cash is not enough, you can also pay with various Dali specialties and grains. In order to ensure that Dali will pay the money obediently every year, the Qinglong Empire will also station 20,000 troops next to Yangjumei City, the capital of Dali, as a surveillance force.

After seeing such excessive conditions for the first time, Duan Heyu was so angry that he wanted to curse, but he soon forced himself to calm down, because at this time, hundreds of thousands of troops from the Qinglong Empire were on the border. Waiting for his reply! If he dared to say no, he had no doubt that the emperor of the Qinglong Empire would directly lead his army to Yangjume City to reason with him personally.

Therefore, in the end, Duan Heyu had no choice but to personally sign this extremely humiliating armistice treaty. From then on, Duan Heyu, a very capable emperor in the history of Dali Kingdom, completely fell into decadence. Tiandu hid in the palace, drowned his sorrows with wine, and never paid attention to the government affairs again.

Ye Tianlong naturally didn't know what happened next. After he sent Wang Qing and Tian Hu to lead 20,000 of their original soldiers to Dali, he once again led the army towards the Vietnamese invading army.

Compared with the weak Dali army, the Vietnamese army's combat effectiveness is somewhat stronger, but not much stronger. At most, it is about the same combat effectiveness as the northern Han soldiers under the Jin people.

As for those Han soldiers in the North, Shi Wengong led an army of 50,000 people and beat them casually. Ye Tianlong felt that he now had more troops under his command, so it shouldn't be difficult to deal with the Vietnamese.

What surprised Ye Tianlong was that the Vietnamese might have gained confidence because of the previous fight against the Song soldiers. After learning that he was leading a large army to kill, not only did they not retreat immediately like the Dali army, but they took the initiative to greet them. I want to have a fight with him.

Ye Tianlong naturally had to satisfy the opponent's request. That morning, the armies of both sides formed their formations on an open plain and launched a decisive battle.

This battle lasted for more than three hours. Ye Tianlong did not release any water, so he led his soldiers to kill 180,000 of the 230,000 Vietnamese army on the spot, and the remaining 50,000 were taken as prisoners. .

After defeating the Vietnamese invading army, it took Ye Tianlong less than half a month to recover all the territories originally occupied by the Vietnamese.

Later, in order to deter those ambitious Vietnamese monkeys, Ye Tianlong used the heads of eighteen Vietnamese soldiers to build several huge temples more than ten meters high at the border.

I believe that after those Vietnamese monkeys see these Jingguan, if they want to invade again, they will definitely think carefully before taking action.

To be honest, Ye Tianlong wanted to directly destroy this disgusting white-eyed wolf country. However, due to the complex terrain in Vietnam, if he wanted to completely destroy it, he might not be able to do it for several years. After all, future US military weapons The equipment is so advanced, why don’t we suffer in this place?

Therefore, Ye Tianlong will not take the initiative to attack Vietnam for the time being before solving the great enemy of the Jin people. He will just drive them back first.

Just as Ye Tianlong spent several months on his side to finally deal with the invading armies of Zhong Xiang's rebel army, Dali Kingdom and Vietnam, Song Jiang's side finally waited for the landing of the Koryo and Japanese armies.

What Song Jiang didn't expect was that the Koryo and Japanese people actually landed separately. The Koryo army chose to land on the coast near Qingzhou, while the Japanese army chose to land on the coast near Dengzhou.

Song Jiang's defense focus had always been on Dengzhou before. Now that he learned that the Gaoli Kingdom's army had actually landed near Qingzhou, he was surprised and quickly asked Lu Junyi to lead 25,000 regular soldiers and 30,000 militiamen to Qingzhou to resist the Gaoli Kingdom. army.

He himself led 25,000 regular soldiers and 35,000 militiamen to resist the Japanese army.

The reason why the total number of militia troops is only 70,000 is because many people had learned that Goryeo and Japan were preparing to fight across the sea, so those who could afford it all left with their families, resulting in the Jingdong East Road. The population has become extremely sparse, and Song Jiang finally cobbled together these 70,000 militiamen from various places.

Now Song Jiang had to rely on the 25,000 regular soldiers and 35,000 militiamen in his hands to resist the 250,000 Japanese army.

The only thing that made Song Jiang happy was that the weapons and armor of these Japanese people were very crude. Most of the soldiers were only equipped with simple bamboo armor and leather armor, and only a few generals were equipped with iron armor.

In terms of weapons, most soldiers are equipped with bamboo spears, and there are about 20,000 warriors equipped with one-handed long swords that look a bit like Huanshou swords. Since Japanese people are generally short in height, they are less than 1.5 meters tall. It looked like a sword, so these Huanshou swords, which were only one-handed weapons in the hands of Han soldiers, turned into two-handed long swords in the hands of these Japanese warriors.

In addition to melee weapons, the Japanese are also equipped with a lot of bows and arrows. The bows of the Japanese are also very unique. Due to the lack of high-quality wood that can be used to make bows and arrows, most of the bows and arrows of the Japanese can only be used. Made of bamboo, and bamboo is an inferior bow-making material, and the power of bows and arrows made from bamboo will be very low.

In order to avoid this defect, the Japanese people began to make the bow longer and longer. However, because the Japanese people were too short in height and their wingspan was not long enough, if the bow body was made too long, it would be difficult for the Japanese people to have small arms. Even those with lower legs may not be able to fully draw the bow. Therefore, the bow makers of the Japanese country made continuous improvements and finally produced a Japanese bow with an asymmetrical bow body. This kind of Japanese bow is unique to the Japanese country. The upper bow body is longer and the lower bow body is shorter. , so that when the Japanese soldiers open their bows and nock arrows, the shorter half of the bow body will not touch the ground because the Japanese soldiers are too short. At the same time, this design can also make it easier to fully draw the bow and arrow.

What Song Jiang didn't expect was that the Japanese people, who in his eyes were all shorter than him, sent a general over just after landing to say that they wanted to challenge the Qinglong Empire generals in the city.

Song Jiang glanced at the so-called Japanese general who was barely 1.6 meters tall, and then at the donkey-sized war horse under him. After being confused, he readily agreed to the opponent's challenge.

In order not to frighten these Japanese people so much that they dare not come out to fight to death in a single fight, Song Jiang chose to send Wang Ying, a short-legged tiger who was as tall as the Japanese general, to fight in the first battle.