The happy life of the devil and the devil

What is the biggest difficulty in fighting on the grassland?

Food supply?

Wrong answer.

For the Central Plains people who push carts and drive cattle, horses, donkeys and mules to deliver grain, transporting grain is really a difficult problem.But the herdsmen never regard this as a difficulty: when the marching speed is slow, they can drive the flock to eat while walking; marching fast...doesn’t there be horses if you march fast?

One person and three horses, including a milking mare, eat dried meat when hungry, and drink mare's milk when thirsty.Day and night, he galloped for hundreds of miles, and he could still fight wherever he went.As long as there is grass and rations on the grassland, the herdsmen said: no pressure.

So, the real problem is, how do you find each other on such a large grassland...

There are no cities on the grasslands. It doesn't mean that if you lead troops to rush there, you will be robbed of a city pestle that has not changed for thousands of years.Yes, even the herdsmen have settlements in winter, but the Beiman is the one who came to snatch them!Still not allowing people to maneuver?

At this moment, it is not clear whether King Xi's troops have lost the battle or have not touched anyone.What everyone knows is: the army of the northern barbarians has set up the golden wolf banner, which claims to have an absolute main force of 20 people, and they rushed to the imperial court!

Yuan Shao: "..."

The accompanying generals: "..."

The nobles of the Xi clan who didn't take their turn to go to the front line: "..."

Ling Yucheng: "..." Lei Yong, what do you think I am doing?

Lei Yong's mood was very complicated.

The accompanying driver has also patrolled the east more than a dozen times, and it was safe and sound before. Even if there were troublesome guys who were not open-eyed, they did not make trouble before His Majesty!

Since Ling Yucheng came, in the first year, the Haixi savages invaded the border, the Heishui tribe was defeated, and Ling Yucheng led the team to fight; In [-], when the northern barbarians invaded, they passed King Xi's brigade and went straight to the imperial camp!

Of course, it doesn't mean that Ling Yucheng recruited all of this.It's just... look at this inch!

By the way, Queen, are you going to play this time too?

Of course Ling Yucheng was gearing up.

As a military commander, after holding back for more than a year without seeing blood, his hands were really itchy.Besides, the group of people in front of Yuan Shao now, King Xi's subordinates are all old and young. If it weren't for this, King Xi would have brought them into battle long ago; The same is true for Wei, who can't be alone; if he doesn't fight, is it possible for Yuan Shao to bring the Jinwu Guard himself?

If it was two years ago, even a year ago, he would have asked for a fight by now.The so-called doing my part, since he is the best candidate, why bother to look at others?However, at this moment, Ling Yucheng just sat quietly on the side, paying attention to Yuan Shao's expression, and at the same time carefully paying attention to the reactions of the courtiers below.

The first person to speak was an old man from the Xi clan.This person is King Xi's uncle, the most respected and oldest among all the people present.He stood up tremblingly with the crutch bestowed by Yuan Shao, and when he opened his mouth, he held King Xi accountable:

"Your Majesty, King Xi led the army to meet the enemy. Not only did he fail to win, but he let the northern barbarians disturb the holy car. He really failed the holy grace and is extremely abominable! I also ask your majesty to issue a decree and severely reprimand, and then choose another general who is good at fighting to lead the army. Come back!"

Ling Yucheng silently translated in his heart: This old man lost the fight for the throne back then, and now he happened to take advantage of King Xi's leak, and read his book again and again to see if he could get the throne again.Even if you can't get it, it will be much easier to do it in the future if you take away King Xi's military power...

good idea.Can you tell me where King Xi's army is?As soon as I have news, I will send you there immediately!

Yuan Shao remained unmoved, and smiled slightly: "King Xi is young, and it is possible that he could not win for a while, so there is no need to be too harsh. As for returning aid, knowing that the northern barbarian army is coming here, King Xi must have led his troops back. It only took a few days to think about it.”

"Your Majesty!" Another person stood out from the crowd. Ling Yucheng recognized him as the father of General Fei Xiong, the head of one of the five major tribes of the Xi clan, and he was the father of King Xi in terms of seniority.If his daughter hadn't married a son of the former King Xi, she wouldn't have rushed over to help her son-in-law grab the inheritance this time. Yuan Shao once commented that she was too poor.This one was not chasing and beating King Xi, but asked Yuan Shao to move him as soon as he opened his mouth:

"Your Majesty, counting His Majesty's personal guards, there are only 5 soldiers left in the camp. A gentleman does not stand under a dangerous wall. As the Son of Heaven, His Majesty really does not need to fight those barbarians head-on. Please also, Your Majesty." Quickly return to the pass, and I will fight to the death for His Majesty, so that the Beiman will not disturb the imperial court!"

"You mean..." Yuan Shao raised his brows, with a half-smile:

"We have few people, we can't fight, should I flee back quickly, and leave all the people who are loyal to me here to be robbed?"

Suddenly he slapped the table, and there was a clatter, all the pots, bowls, cups and saucers on the tables in front of him jumped up, and the wine splashed everywhere:

"Then I became the emperor for nothing!"

"Your Majesty's holy virtue!" Standing beside Zhi Ge, a young general of the Jinwu Guard who was in a daze was startled by Yuan Shao's anger, and the weapon in his hand fell to the ground with a bang.His face turned pale, and he fell to his knees. He couldn't find any words to justify his disrespect, so he had to sing loudly.The captain on duty glanced at him, and could only kneel down:

"Your Majesty is holy and protects the people, and we will follow him to the death!"

"Follow me to the death!" The Jinwu guards standing in the tent knelt down, followed by the ministers and nobles who were discussing matters before the emperor, and then, like the wind was blowing, the guards outside the tent also knelt down row by row, and their shouts went straight to the sky :

"I swear to follow Your Majesty!"

Cough... The current situation can't reach the point of "swearing to death"...

Seeing the scene of being twisted to the blood allegiance strangely, Ling Yucheng and Yuan Shao glanced at each other, and they couldn't laugh or cry instantly from each other's eyes.

The speed of the northern barbarian army was faster than Yuan Shao's monarch and ministers expected.

I had to report that there were still three days to go, but in fact, it took only two and a half days for Yu Jia to let the Northern Man army block the gate.When Yuan Shao went up to the watchtower in person, the golden wolf danced violently in the distance, and nearby, outside the urgently reinforced wall of the village, arrows had already fallen like rain.

Northern barbarian cavalry are not good at attacking cities - in fact, as long as they are cavalry, no one is good at attacking cities.Can you imagine these four-legged beasts jumping on the city wall?

However, generally speaking, there is no such thing as a city to attack on the grassland. Even Yuan Shao's bank account is nothing more than a stronghold of spears, connected with wool ropes.This kind of thing that Beiliang called "hard stronghold" is not so much a wall, but a fence that separates the imperial camp from the accompanying soldiers.As for the settlements of ordinary herdsmen, it is even more tents connected with tents...

However, this time, the northern barbarian cavalry hit the iron plate firmly.

A large car is connected head to tail, and on the outer side of the body, the fender that is more than half a person's height is erected high.The tents were so densely packed that there were no gaps in the middle. It was not difficult for the northern barbarian cavalry's scimitars to cut through the tents, but after they were cut through, the tents were filled to the brim with unknown things.The wooden poles are tied crosswise with ropes, and the fence formed by the wooden poles, the ice and snow are piled up on both sides, and they are firmly rammed...

Behind the baffle and the ice wall, soldiers from Beiliang stood ready with bows and spears.

In two days, the settlements around the imperial camp shrank urgently.King Xi took away at least 10 people, and the empty tents were either dismantled or transformed into defensive facilities.There are also the Lele carts that the herdsmen only used when they moved, and the tent poles that will not be useful for a while...

The old and young, women and children can't fight, but it's easy to do these jobs.When the Beiman army arrived, the entire settlement had been turned into a giant tortoise shell.

Spiked on all sides.

The leader of the Northern Barbarian army, Alutai, the great-grandson of Emperor Yan's eldest grandson who fled far away in the Northern Wilderness, sent people to run around the camp, feeling depressed.

Everyone is a nation on horseback!Shouldn't it be cavalry and cavalry at this time to hedge!Dear, what are you doing by pretending to be defending the camp!

Great Yan Xiangguo is too short, too short to have time to develop its own characters; it is too long to be driven to the Northern Wilderness, so long that the generation who followed the Emperor Yan to plunder the Central Plains, and their sons have passed away .If there are still people from that year, or even if Alutai has read the records and military books of that year, they will definitely recognize that this is written by people from the Central Plains.

This is the handwriting of the Central Plains people who are good at building and defending the city.

fall!

This battle is over!

It would be a pity not to fight.Before the division of troops led away King Xi's brigade, Alutai came here with his confidants: there are old and weak women and children here, and there are treasures accumulated by King Xi, not to mention that the emperor of Beiliang is also here!In case the emperor is caught... hiss...

My mouth is watering just thinking about it!

"Everyone has seen it! Their men have all gone out before, and now the camp guards are old people and children! Open the tents, the most beautiful women, the strongest wine, you can have whatever you want!"

"Long live the sweat! Long live the sweat!"

Amid the cheers, the northern barbarian cavalry launched their first charge.

Urge the horse forward, bend the bow and shoot the arrow.People who grew up on horseback are used to using this kind of riding and shooting to tear apart the enemy's defenses.And once there is a crack in the defense, what awaits the opponent is a charging horse and a howling scimitar...

"Raise your shield!"

The thrown arrows collided with the messily lifted things, and the noises they made were different, either clanging or puffing.However, in any case, the screams were much less than in the past.

And when the row that rushed to the front started to turn the horses and was about to turn back...

"shoot!"

Every time they hide and counterattack, they are stuck in the most uncomfortable rhythm for the northern barbarian cavalry.In just three waves of tentative attacks, about a dozen people fell in front of the wall, rolling, screaming, or struggling to get out from under the fallen horse.The loss was not large, but it made Alutai, who was watching from a distance, narrow his eyes:

The speed of raising the shield to defend is uneven, and it is sooner or later when you get up and shoot the arrow.The person in command is a master, but the people behind the wall are not well-trained, and they obey the commander's orders wholeheartedly!

"Khan," the horse's hooves sounded lightly, and Alutai didn't need to look back, knowing that it was his companion, a loyal brother who grew up together, "Listen, the voice of a woman..."

There were shouts and responses from behind the wall of the village. Those who were busy dragging down the wounded, bandaging the wounds, and transporting the arrows were all women!

"Everyone heard it!" Alutai suddenly raised his voice, "their soldiers are running out, and even the women have been pulled up! Let me charge, the first warrior to break through the wall, the beauty Jinyin, Whatever he chooses first!"

This offensive lasted for seven days and seven nights.

Under the continuous attack, the hastily built wall was broken again and again, and was rebuilt again and again.At the most dangerous time, the northern barbarian cavalry almost rushed to the imperial camp, only to be driven out by the Jinwu guards who rushed over in a hurry.

Every time, the northern barbarian cavalry was closer to success, leaving dozens or hundreds of corpses and fleeing in a hurry.In contrast, the morale of the defending side was getting lower and lower, and finally when the seventh night fell, the nobles of the Xi family who were still in the camp came to Yuan Shao's imperial court collectively.

"Your Majesty, why do we keep guarding like this?"

The author has something to say: Lei Yong: Empress, you have the physique of recruiting thieves...you follow out on the east tour, and two of the three times you encounter big battles...

Yuan Shao: Reasonable, reasonable, if they hadn't met your real person, I would have thought they were here to snatch a beauty...

According to "History of the Ming Dynasty", decades after being drawn to the north, there were only [-] soldiers in the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty... a lot of [-] was used at a time...

Alutai: Laipi, don't bring such a shrinking inside...

Well, there is another one tonight