Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Abaoji witnessed the whole battle from beginning to end.

No, it's not really a fight.It was just a tentative charge, and it cost sixty or seventy riders.

The enemy reacted quickly, surrounded by chariots, and couldn't get close at all under the bows and bows.

The power of riding a bow is not at the same level as that of a step bow.

"Khan, why don't you get off your horse and attack?" Yeluyu suggested, watching Bohai and Xiren's pawns who had dismounted behind him.

"Then attack." A Baoji nodded.

I want to walk away steadily.

"Steady!" A Baoji shouted.

Wanting to look back at him steadily.

"Let's just taste it." A Baoji said, "Don't force it. If the Xia people are not flustered, forget it."

"Okay!" Yu Wen raised Tie Guduo, and ordered soldiers.

A Baoji broke off a willow branch casually, and still stood on the hillside, watching silently.

He didn't hold out much hope.

It was the first wave of charge just now, and instead of collapsing and fleeing, the enemy formed a circle around the car, which already explained everything.

Going deep into the enemy's rear to intercept grain roads, the ideal situation is to encounter enemy soldiers who are completely invincible.Scattered in a hurry, no fighting spirit, comfortably let you get supplies.

But if the situation is reversed, it is very dangerous.He heard that Li Shimin, the former Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was surrounded by people and nearly died when he intercepted Liu Heita's grain road.

Are these people in front of you hard stubble?Maybe not, but definitely not a rabble.

There was a lot of killing on the hillside. The Xia people hid behind the chariot formation and fired a salvo of bows. The Khitan soldiers who charged forward were poorly equipped and had to rely on dense large shields to block the arrows.

However, some brave men of the Xia people climbed onto the carriage and shot down from above, disregarding that they themselves became the target of the Khitan soldiers.

What's more, the archer throws it from a distance, which is very lethal against unarmored infantry, which is very annoying.

A Baoji frowned.

The melee between the two sides soon began, one side desperately attacked the car, while the other was condescending, stabbing with long spears and chopping with knives and axes.

One after another they fell down screaming.

One after another, they rushed forward bravely.

He could tell that the Xia people were not elite, and they could even be said to have mediocre combat effectiveness.But the problem is that the Khitan infantry is also very average, and they really can't eat them for a while.

The first wave of offensive collapsed, leaving behind more than a hundred corpses.

"Don't fight anymore." A Baoji stopped Yelv Yuwen, who was about to organize a second wave of offensive.

Yeluyu was unwilling to be reconciled, and said, "Khan, in fact, it can be shot down."

"How many people will die?" A Baoji asked.

Yelu wanted to be steady but stopped talking.

"At least 2000 people." A Baoji said, "Is it worth it?"

Yeluyu let out a steady sigh.

"How did I teach you how to fight?" A Baoji said to himself: "When rounding up wild animals, you must wait until they are exhausted. Turning it into the art of war is to take advantage of our Ma Duo's advantages and run for hundreds of miles. In fact, by surprise, the enemy was lured to go deep, gathered and wiped out. The enemy army here is well-prepared and desperate, so they will not fight. If enemy reinforcements arrive in a hurry, and the marching army is disordered, they can fight. What can be fought, You have to figure out what you can't fight. Let's go, send some people to watch, scare and frighten this group of people, don't make them feel better. Let's graze the horses, recharge our batteries, and wait for the time."

"Okay!" Yelu Yuwen said nothing, and immediately ordered the troops to withdraw.

After a while, thousands of people disappeared behind the hillside.

Xixi Ye jumped into the carriage and observed carefully.

The Khitan left some rangers behind and followed them from afar.He had a hunch that the thieves must be watching in the dark, ready to deal them a fatal blow at any time.

If he was leading the imperial army, he was not afraid at all, so he ordered a change of formation and set off at this time.There is still a hundred miles away from Yingzhou, and I can still hold on for a few days.But he is not sure about a bunch of local folks.

"Let's go!" After hesitating for a long time, he finally made up his mind and moved on.

"Go back to Bailang County?" someone asked.

It only takes two days to return to White Wolf, but it takes four days to go to Yingzhou.

"Go to Yingzhou, I'm afraid of shit!" Xixi Ye jumped out of the carriage, asked someone to bring a horse, turned on his back, holding a riding bow, and said: "I'm watching from the outside, you just go, it's okay. "

"Obey!" The masters had no choice but to suppress their worries, and continued to move forward after changing formations.

This walk is two days.

On the first day of June, fifty miles away from Yingzhou City, the number of Khitans surrounding them increased significantly.

Yelu Quanzhong was a little nervous, he was wearing a leather armor that was taken from the corpse of a Khitan soldier, and the spear in his hand was almost sweating.

In the middle of the night last night, a Khitan brigade raided and almost broke through the camp.

Fortunately, the western commander took the lead and led hundreds of Puzhou soldiers to fight hard, and then the Khitans were repelled.

In that battle, Tu Er died, and Yue Sanlang was also wounded, but fortunately he was not seriously injured, he was still alive and kicking.

"Boom! Boom!" The Khitan threw off a large number of heads, and left laughing.

Yelu Quanzhong carefully looked at those heads.

If you don't wear a fur head, you should be a native of Tutuan.He subconsciously looked west. Could it be that the Khitan people brought some grain delivery team?

Morale in the convoy was a little low.When camping in the evening, there were many people whispering, Yelu Quanzhong couldn't help but asked Yue Sanlang, "Will someone come to attack tonight?"

Yue Sanlang glanced at him, and asked back: "Could it be that Khitan soldiers grow out of the ground?"

"What do you mean?" Yelu Quanzhong was puzzled.

"Khitans are also human, and they are also afraid of death, so they won't fight us head-on." Yue Sanlang said, "If there are still three or five days to go, I'm not sure if I can make it to Liucheng, but it's only one day now, so let's go!" With Yu Yong, no matter what, I can survive."

"Then during the day..." Yelu Quanzhong was talking about those heads.

"It should be some unlucky ghosts that let the Khitan thieves get wiped out." Yue Sanlang said: "Perhaps the moment the Khitan people rushed over to test them, they didn't hold back. Some people were defeated, affecting morale, and then the whole army collapsed. Yes, we persisted for a few days, and then the camp was broken by the Khitans. After all, it is really hard to be watched all the time, and there will always be mistakes. We—— are actually quite strong, haven’t you noticed?”

"Uh..." Yelu Quanzhong sat down leaning on his spear, and said, "It's better to have reinforcements come over."

"Don't think about it. Most of the previous messengers are dead, and the news hasn't reached Yingzhou." Yue Sanlang said: "It's only one day. If Khitan comes back tomorrow, fight hard. There is no need to save arrows, shoot as much as you have strength , all shot. But—”

"But what?" Yelu Quanzhong asked.

"We are a little closer to Yingzhou, the Khitan people may not dare to come tomorrow." Yue Sanlang said: "Actually, if you were a Khitan person—"

"I'm originally from Khitan." Yelu Quanzhong said.

"Crack!" Yue Sanlang shook his ear and neck, and said, "If you were a Khitan chief—"

"Actually, when my parents were still around, my family had some status. I can be regarded as the grandson of Fu Guzhi." Yelu Quanzhong said.

"Crack! Crack!" two times in succession.

After playing well, Yue Sanlang said: "If you are A Baoji, is it necessary to keep an eye on us? From Linyuguan to Liucheng County, there are many food transportation teams on the five hundred li journey."

"Yes." Yelu Quanzhong nodded.

"You are a good young man." Yue Sanlang patted Yelu Quanzhong on the shoulder, and said, "If you shoot the arrow accurately, you dare to fight. Seeing the opportunity in the future, it would be good to recruit a state soldier."

Yelu Quanzhong smiled, but said nothing.

In addition to farming, he has been insisting on reading.Lu Yan and Lu officials next door often help him answer questions and explain them, which is very helpful.

After some time, officials Lu might ask a friend to let him study in Youzhou.Two hundred dollars a month, save a little, and a meal at noon is almost enough.

He is going to be a Jinshi, what kind of warrior should he be?
The sky quickly darkened, and the sound of horseshoes outside had completely stopped. This night seemed to pass peacefully.

******
"Leapfrog tactics..." Shao Shude said in a low voice, looking at the stickers on the map.

The Wansheng Yellow-headed Army is already advancing towards the Haku Village and will arrive within a few days.

The Khitans tried their best to stop their advance, but so far, they had little success.

The Wansheng Yellow-headed Army suffered some battle damage, but the main force still survived, their morale was not low, and the Haji Village was just around the corner.

The establishment of this stockade is attributed to the Heiji Army.

This cavalry infantry picked out the elite and suddenly went northward at night, galloping for more than a hundred miles.After arriving at the destination, they immediately cut down the surrounding elms and willows, and before the Khitan people could react, they roughly built a camp.

After the Khitan found out, they surrounded them from all directions, but the attack failed.But as time went by, the camp became stronger and stronger, and the thieves had nothing to do.I can only monitor around, hoping that the black army will run out of food.But with the continuous advancement of the Wansheng Yellow-headed Army, this hope was also dashed.

It jumped more than a hundred miles in one night, like a frog jumping vigorously, straight into the hinterland of Khitan.Yelu Shilu, you must be sweating profusely by now, right?
"Next step, Jing Fan Shu." Shao Shude's finger moved up a little.

In the second year of Zhenguan in the former Tang Dynasty (628), the Songmo tribe (mainly the Khitan) came to vote, the imperial court established Changzhou, and the overseas Chinese governed Yingzhou and Jingfan garrisoned.

This place is in the area of ​​Naiman Banner of later generations, and it is more than 100 miles away from Haji Village.

Going deep into the territory of Khitan was getting farther and farther, and the Khitan people couldn't stop Wang Shi head-on. All they could do was harass the logistics line, or run away altogether.

Shao Shude's finger slid down from Jingfan Garrison again, and then went west, pointing at Yingzhou.

The grain road forks here, and one goes west, leading directly to Linyu Pass.One goes south, leading directly to Luhe Town (near Jinzhou).

Luhe Town is the place where military rations were stored in the former Tang Dynasty, and it is located by the sea.This military town is actually relatively isolated, and can only go north to Yingzhou.To the west, because the Liaoxi Corridor has not yet fully emerged, it is impossible to go.

In the former Tang Dynasty, the military rations were transported to Luhe Town by sea, and Shao Shude is doing the same now.

This is a relatively secret logistics supply line, and the distance is shorter. Abaoji is a bitch, can he know?

"Your Majesty, Abaoji has shown his feet." Chen Cheng walked over and said.

"In May, the entire battlefield was shrouded in clouds and fog, so I couldn't see clearly." Shao Shude nodded and said, "It's clear even now."

Things like the fog on the battlefield are the norm.Fighting against nomadic tribes like the Khitan with a lot of horses, the fog is even worse.

Both sides are constantly sending out scouts to spy on the other side's intelligence, and are also sending out a large number of rangers to intercept and kill the other side's scouts.

When Shao Shude first marched, he didn't know how the Khitan people would respond.

Chen Cheng and others have deduced that Abaoji will generally choose three tactics.

The first one is to concentrate the main forces of all the ministries, regardless of their care, and all rush to Yingzhou to fight to the death with Wang Shi, and the winner will be decided on the spot.

The second is to concentrate the main force, take advantage of their strong mobility, first defeat the relatively weaker ones, improve their morale, shake our fighting will, and then lead a decisive battle with a big victory.

The third is to adopt the strategy of luring the enemy to go deep, delaying and harassing the front, and then lead the army to go deep into the food supply road behind our side.

Now it seems that Abaoji chose the third tactic.

Shao Shude did not comment on whether his choice was correct or not.In fact, apart from the first decisive battle, the latter two tactics have their own advantages and disadvantages.

Just now scouts from the west came to report that a large number of Khitan cavalry appeared between Linyuguan and Yingzhou, and they attacked the grain transportation team everywhere, causing certain losses.

After hearing this, Shao Shude had a good idea.

He knew that Abaoji was coming, although no Khitan captives had been captured yet, and there was no confirmation, but he had a premonition that Abaoji was coming.

"Let Shi Jiantang and Shao Zhili search in the mountains." Shao Shude ordered: "A Baoji is running around, and there must be a lot of horses. At this moment, Baoqi is hiding in which mountain valley to graze. Find him."

Soon someone drafted a decree.

"Take your own invincibility first, and wait for the enemy's victory." Shao Shude said: "Zang Dubao is doing well, fighting steadily, step by step. Yelv Shilu is like a headless chicken, wandering around him, I think There is nothing you can do. Send Zang Dubao an order not to worry. There is nothing wrong with me. After the establishment of the two villages of Haji and Jingfan, first store up the grain and grass, and don’t rush forward. Every time you go north, you will Yelu Shilu was going to panic a little bit, and the further back he got, the more he couldn't hold his breath. Push him down steadily, don't give him a chance."

"On the other hand, I sent a message to Liang Hanyong. After dawdling for so long, I haven't broken through yet. Is the knife still worth it?" Shao Shude asked again.

After receiving the imperial edict, the messenger left in a hurry.

"How's Chengjie going?" Shao Shude looked at Chen Cheng and asked.

"Still mopping up the rear. I reported yesterday that more than [-] tents from the Khitan and Xi tribes have come to surrender, and Wang Yanzhang has led people into Liaoyang and other places. The bandits are weak this way." Chen Cheng replied.

Shao Shude hummed and sat back on the dragon chair.

He is not worried about the outcome of this battle, in fact everything is under control now.What he is worried about is that the enemy will run away and stop playing with him.

Zhu Di's 50-strong army conquered Mobei, complete with infantry, cavalry, and artillery, and was astonishingly powerful. However, the results of the battle were actually not ideal, and several times they returned empty-handed.

It is most helpless if the enemy does not fight with you.

But Shao Shude has already made a plan in this regard, so it doesn't matter.You run, as long as you run, losses are inevitable, just chase, as much as you can chase.Zhu Di is not interested in grasslands, but I am, so run away.