Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1212 Li Dun
After Li Keyong made his decision, the order to withdraw troops was quickly issued to all ministries.

On the night of the first month of October, Li Cunzhang personally led soldiers from Ying, Mo, Ji, Ping and more than [-] Tutuan villagers out of the camp to storm Xia's camp.

Before the battle, Li Cunzhang distributed all the looted property and boosted morale himself.Afterwards, he personally supervised the battle with his own soldiers, and those who were weak in combat and could not advance would be executed immediately.

Therefore, the Jin army tried its best to boost morale for a while, and launched a tidal offensive.

"Lead your troops quickly and set up an ambush between Qingchi and Changlu. If the Xia people pursue them, they will surely advance lightly, and they will suffer a big loss." Li Cunzhang grabbed Li Siben, lowered his voice, Secretly asked.

If the Xia people want to pursue them, they will inevitably face the problem of whether they can wear armor or not.Armor is divided into three categories: iron armor, leather armor, and cloth armor (the protection is better than nothing, or no armor). Whether it is iron armor or leather armor, it will hinder movement. Do you wear it or not?

If you don't wear it and light soldiers rush forward, I have prepared troops to intercept it for you.Li Siben was there to do this.

The fire blazed up, and the battle continued.

When the Xia people were attacked at night, they didn't panic and responded well. Most of them didn't even get up. Only the night watchmen were fighting.

Of course Li Cunzhang knew that it was impossible for him to capture the camp of the Xia people.They stretched for more than ten miles and had a strong army. If they want to break it, they can only create chaos, that is, break up one battalion, and then set fire, beat drums, shout, and send cavalry to shoot arrows everywhere.Moreover, there have been many examples of such battles since ancient times, and all of them have achieved brilliant achievements of some famous generals.

But after Li Cunzhang tried it, he found that it was useless.

The Xia people's response was very professional. The night duty sergeants fought normally, and the support sergeants sat on the ground in the barracks and tents, getting ready.Others continued to sleep, making loud noises to spread fear, those who walked around without military orders, shot and killed with random arrows, and the murderers were not guilty.

With this army, it is impossible for you to create chaos and take advantage of it.

"Follow the order." Li Siben seemed to have expected it, and took the order to leave.

Li Cunzhang thought about it again, summoned his generals, and said, "Go to the camp and gather all the cavalry to prepare for a counterattack. Don't worry about the Xia bandits' cavalry, just keep an eye on their infantry."

"Stay behind, if I leave, here..." The general hesitated.

"I can't die yet." Li Cunzhang reprimanded, "Go and handle it quickly."

"Obey." The general hurried away.

Li Cunzhang continued to stare at the battlefield ahead.

The offensive was still fierce, but he knew it couldn't last.The morale inspired by wealth comes and goes quickly.Even with military deterrence, it won't last long.

But he didn't care anymore, as long as he could attract Xia people's attention, no matter how many people he sacrificed, it would be worthwhile.

The state soldiers and soil regiment, if you die, you die, what can you do?As long as the elite soldiers are brought back, Youzhou is still in hand, and rebuilding these local forces is just a matter of one sentence.

As for whether the elite soldiers can be taken away, it is up to the destiny to do their best.The retreat is especially a test of the level of the general. Some people return with their entire army, and some have their entire army wiped out. Anyway, he has done his best, and he has arranged what should be done and what should not be done. The next step is to leave it to God to judge.

Basically, Li Cunzhang still has some confidence.Of course, the situation on the battlefield is changing, and no one can say what will happen.He is also mentally prepared for the loss, everything depends on the result of the bet.

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The camp was crowded with people, but few people spoke.Occasionally, a few made noises, but they were quickly scolded by the officer and had to shut up.

Everyone's complexion is very complicated.The recruit looked excited, and quickly packed up all kinds of things, including the looted goods.The veterans looked solemn. They discarded many unnecessary things and only brought valuable soft things.

Of course, there are life-saving weapons.

You can bring some heavy armor and load it on a cart.Long guns are also placed on the car, these are things that affect the journey very much.

Remove these, swords and bows are very important, because this is the only equipment they can fight back when they are chased by the enemy-if they don't have time to put on armor and take a spear.

The gate of the camp has been opened, and some sergeants are the first to leave the camp.The auxiliary soldiers drove the carts, loaded with various supplies such as food, equipment, and goods, and disappeared into the vast night together.

They didn't dare to raise fire, so they could only quietly go on the road relying on the mountains and rivers they had been familiar with during the past two months.

After the first group of people left, came the second group.Everyone was silent and hurried on their way.

And this is just the first camp.

It is impossible for a [-] army to have only one camp. In fact, there are seven or eight camps in total.This is still relatively small, sometimes there are even more than ten places, it all depends on the local terrain.The [-] army camp that people usually mention is actually just the largest camp where the commander lives.

Tonight, most of the camps received orders to withdraw troops, and some camps that were interspersed with Xia people and were relatively close to each other did not receive any news at all.

Obviously, they were abandoned, just like the part of the state soldiers who were counterattacking Xia Jun's camp at this moment.

The battlefield is so cold and cruel.

The army walked silently, Li Si'en handed over the horse to the soldiers to lead, and looked back to the south for the last time.

The drumbeat never stopped, the sound of killing resounded through the night sky, and the fierce battle continued.

Poor man!He sighed.He sympathized with those people, but that was all.People are selfish, and such things as dead friends and poor Taoists have never stopped happening since ancient times.

"Xi Lulu!" The horse suddenly raised its hooves and neighed loudly.

Everyone's face changed.

Li Sien frowned, even in the dark, he seemed to be able to see the nervous expressions on the faces of the soldiers.

The auxiliary soldiers quickly calmed down the horses, and the army moved on.

Li Si'en subconsciously clenched the handle of the knife at his waist, then loosened it again.

With this nervous look, even if he escaped today.Tomorrow Xia people are chasing and killing them all the way, how can they resist?

In the distance, the neighing of horses came again.

Li Si'en just glanced at it and didn't pay much attention.He knew that it was a battle between rangers and scouts.

The battle between rangers has existed from the beginning.

The significance of their fighting is to prevent the other party from approaching their own camp to spy on, so the layout is light on the front and heavy on the rear, that is, the closer to the camp of their own side, the more horsemen and the stronger their strength. Repeatedly drive and kill the other party's spies to cover own movements.

Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the former Tang Dynasty, liked to take a few rangers to investigate the enemy's camp.

He is often discovered by people, and then he uses his marksmanship skills to escape from the sky.This kind of investigation obviously failed, because he was driven away, but he really showed his bravery.

"Rest for half an hour." After walking for most of the night, Li Si'en looked at the sky and ordered.

The messengers quickly issued orders to all the ministries, and the more than [-] sergeants immediately breathed a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground one after another, taking the time to recover their strength.

Li Si'en found a high place and tried to overlook the whole field.But it was still dark and he couldn't see anything, which bothered him a little.

He didn't know where the other troops had withdrawn, he was holding a grass stalk lightly, feeling uneasy.

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"Dong dong dong..." The war drums rang, the gates of the camp opened, and a large group of soldiers came out to line up in the wilderness.

The field is full of discarded weapons, battle gear, chariots and horses.Corpses can be seen everywhere, even layer upon layer on trench walls and village walls. Looking at the cause of death, most of them were arrow wounds.

There are not many people lying on the ground who can move.Yelu was windy and cold, and those who survived the injury to the present were fierce people.Even if there is, this meeting will be chopped up with a knife, and I will send you on your way.

The farther away from the moat wall, the fewer dead bodies.Obviously, after the Jin army's attack on the camp was defeated, the Xia army did not rush to pursue it.Instead, keep quiet and wait until dawn before dispatching.

There are still cavalry of the Jin army active in the distance of the battlefield.They were leading the horses, holding hornbows in their hands, watching this side vigilantly.

The bandit army's camp was several miles away, and they couldn't see clearly from the ground, but Zang Dubao had a panoramic view of everything after he climbed onto the high platform in the camp.

There seemed to be fewer people in the camp.

"Someone is trying to cover up." Zang Dubao sneered, stroked his beard.

He was a little surprised when he heard Jin soldiers attacking the camp last night, and subconsciously judged that the Jin soldiers were about to retreat.But because of the darkness of the night, he didn't let anyone attack, so as not to be taken advantage of by the enemy.

However, in the second half of the night, he still sent sentry cavalry to other camps, ordering them to select the elite and go out to try out the camp.

Well, no news yet.But he is not in a hurry, even if this group of people really fall into the middle, it doesn't matter, he can afford to die.

"Li Lin!" Zang Dubao got off the high platform and called Li Lin, the envoy from the left wing.

"The end will be here." Li Lin responded.

"You lead three infantry commanders and four cavalry commanders to attack the middle camp of the Jin thieves." Zang Dubao ordered.

"Follow the order." Li Lin followed the order and left.

"Wang Jianji!" Zang Dubao shouted again.

"The end is here!"

"You lead five cavalry to command, you can ride on horseback, go around the bandit barracks from the left, and search in the rear. If anyone dares to block you, don't be suspicious."

"As ordered."

"Cow ceremony!"

"The last general is here!" Niu Li, the capital of the Tianxiong Army, came out and responded.

"Go to the left battalion, lead the right wing and General Tu, two infantry commanders, and two cavalry commanders, pass through the bandit barracks, and test their quality."

"The final general obeys orders." Niu Li responded.

He understood that his task was actually similar to that of Wang Jianji.Interspersed and circled, just to test whether the Jin people still have enough troops to stop them.If not, he must have run away, just chase after him.

"Send an order to General Kang's army to order him to rectify the troops and horses and attack Cangzhou." Zang Dubao gave the last order, and then returned to his tent, quietly waiting for the news.

For a while, Xia Jun moved forward in a big way, and went straight to the Jin army camp and Cangzhou City on the opposite side.

The first to arrive was actually [-] infantry led by Xie Bin, the envoy of the right wing of the Tianxiong Army.They were the first to go out of the city to clean up the battlefield, and all the way to the front of the bandit camp. As a result, the oncoming arrows were sparse, and there were even people in the camp shouting loudly.

Obviously, after their group arrived, the morale of the Jin army always collapsed, and they didn't know what happened.

"Today!" Xie Bin held up his mace.

"It's just death!" Two thousand sergeants rushed forward, hacked with knives and axes, dismantled the small stronghold used for warning, and then put wooden boards on the trench, and rushed past.

The Jin people on the wall of the stronghold fled in all directions, and then spread to the vicinity of the camp gate.Xia Bing rushed over, hacked with an ax and pulled with a horse. The gate of the camp collapsed, revealing its true face.

"Report to the recruitment envoy that the thief has escaped, you can pursue him quickly." Xie Bin laughed.

The personal soldiers understood and went to send a message immediately.

Chasing quickly and chasing slowly are completely two concepts, and the effects are quite different.

There are those who chase after the enemy's ass, relentlessly biting them, such as the Qing soldiers chasing Li Zicheng, without giving him a chance to catch his breath and regroup his troops.

There are also those who deliberately slow down the pursuit speed so as not to put too much pressure on the enemy, such as Zhao Chongguo's pursuit of Ling Qiang.

How to choose depends on the actual situation at that time.Xie Bin can realize that he should pursue quickly at this moment, at least his ability to read the battlefield is qualified, and his progress in the martial arts hall is not in vain.

(End of this chapter)