Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 226 Weizhou
Tang Jun's offensive is like waves, endless.

Du Quyan was in a hurry, and he was the only soldier in the city, more than [-] people.The Qu Department doesn't know where it is yet, and the Luma Department is still in the mountains, except for the two hundred cronies that Lu Maqi brought over, there are almost no other people.

No, actually there are.There are still some Chinese slave tribes in Weizhou City, which can send hundreds of Ding, but it is still a drop in the bucket.

Tang Jun came so fast, it was so fast that it made people speechless.Is this fatal?With the continuous spring rain, they arrived here from Dingxi village in six days.

"Kill!" There was another neat shout outside the city.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Tang army passed by one of the collapsed ones, and then lined up in small formations layer upon layer in teams, rushing in along the gap in the collapsed city wall.

On the only section of the city wall where people could stand, the archers of the Duqu tribe were condescending and shooting wildly.

Tang Jun continued to attack forward with a large shield on his head, not slow at all.

Near the small gap, more than a thousand soldiers from both sides gathered, fighting desperately.

In this head-to-head combat, equipment, training, and courage dominate.The Tubo people did not have many armors, and many of them only had a fur coat. They suffered heavy casualties under the greeting of swords and spears, and the front line was pushed back bit by bit.

"It won't work like this, we still have to charge the city." Lu Maqi looked at the dilapidated city wall and said anxiously.

The city wall has been repaired, otherwise it will be even more broken. The Tubo people really don't like this thing. Everywhere they go, they have to tear down the city wall.It's just that I didn't expect that now I have tricked myself.

"How many people do you want?" At this time, Du Quyan stopped talking nonsense and said straightforwardly.

He did have the idea of ​​surrendering before, but he hesitated. Before he could figure it out, Tang Jun came to kill him.The matter has come to this point, there is nothing to say, let's finish this battle first!
"Give me 500 men, equipped with horses, and I'll charge. The Tang army attacked too hard, and they couldn't hold it unless they disrupted their positions from the outside. You have seen the broken city, and there are wind leaks everywhere." Lu Ma Ask someone to bring the horse over and say.

"300 people for you." Du Quyan hesitated and said.

"Okay!" Lu Maqi replied.

The battle for the breach in the city wall continues.

The Tibetans could hardly hold on anymore.No matter how much courage you have, it will still cool down in the face of endless death.But they also caused a lot of casualties to the onslaught Tang army, mainly from the bows and arrows on the city wall.

The Hexi Dangxiang herdsmen who rushed to the front had already been routed once, and this was the second attack after containment, and they were about to collapse again.The soldiers of the Dingyuan Army who followed closely behind also killed or injured more than a hundred people, and the battle became more and more cruel and intense.

The north gate of Weizhou City opened wide.

Lu Maqi took his own [-] entourage, plus [-] cavalry from Duqu's tribe, and after a little reorganization, he launched an attack on the Tang army's infantry brigade lined up outside the city.

The last [-] Hexi Dangxiang herdsmen on standby received the order and went up to meet them.

"Commander Yang, the morale of the Hexi party has fallen, and I'm afraid it won't be able to hold it back." Wang Yu didn't want to speak at all, but he couldn't help but remind him because the safety of the entire army was at stake.

"The thousand cavalry pawns of the Xinquan army are ready." Yang Yue continued to observe the battle on the other side of the gap in the city wall without looking back.

Wang Yu didn't speak anymore, but he still quietly ordered Wei Mengbao, the envoy of Youyi of the Dingyuan Army, to prepare his cavalry to prevent any changes.

This Yang Yue is too ruthless!If I go back this time, I'm afraid I will be punished by the commander in chief.

Hexi Dangxiang had a total of 4000 people at the time of the expedition, fighting to the death all the way, and now there are probably less than [-] left.If more than half of them were killed or injured in a single battle, then that's fine, but with such a small amount of consumption, it can be seen that they are really unbearable to fight.That thousand cavalry will definitely not be able to stop the Tubo cavalry.

As if seeing what Wang Yu was thinking, Yang Yue smiled and said, "Just give a big reward to those who survived. With them as an example, are you afraid that no one will take the bait? The Chao army fought in the past, didn't it? Fighting all the way, dying all the way, replenishing all the way? After several battles, most of the team members have changed. Wang Junshi, haven’t you gotten used to it yet?”

Wang Yu turned cold and glared at him.

"Commander Yang, all the people from the Fifth Division of Yinshan Mountain have not died yet. They can all see it. If they deliberately consume friendly troops like this, will there be anyone willing to fight to the death in the future?"

"How can there be no immortal in war?" Yang Yue smiled and said: "The commander will give compensation to those who died in the war. The family will receive a monthly ration and give them a hu. What does this mean to the Tibetans? Wang Jun will not refuse you know?"

"Twelve dendrobium grains a year, 120 dendrobiums in ten years. How much is the life of a Tibetan? What's more, they don't necessarily die." Yang Yue said again: "The Tibetan tribe in Yinshan will not have any opinion on XX. On the contrary, they will still be grateful to someone, because when they plunder the Tubo tribe next, they will make a fortune. The Tubo is strong and strong, and they are all in this city. If they are killed, the old and young in the tribe will not get whatever they want."

"Commander Yang, the commander-in-chief wants to appease the various tribes in Tubo. After you killed all the people, will anyone dare to surrender in the future?"

"These killers, when they invaded the Helong states during the Guangde period, they should have thought of today." Yang Yue said disapprovingly: "Besides, you may not have understood the commander's intentions. It is difficult for the states to be settled. How can the commander-in-chief not worry? How can the commander-in-chief feel at ease if there are more than a hundred thousand men and women who don’t consume some on the battlefield? In the past, the Chao army engulfed good people and wandered between ravines. People. If these Tibetans don’t die a few times, then they have some skills. It’s not a bad idea to be included in the government. I thought Wang Junshi would understand the truth, but now it seems that they are ignorant. It’s really strange. .”

How dare you mention the Nest Army!Wang Yu gritted his teeth, this old man, is it great to be born as a general?
But he also had to admit that Yang Yue's words made some sense.Tens of thousands of government troops are a detached force in the town.Those who entered the Yajun establishment were given a fixed amount of food every month, five festival rewards a year, and additional rewards depending on the situation if there was a war.These money and goods were naturally provided by the Fan Han people in the town, or plundered from outside.

Yajun soldiers, regardless of Fan Han, are all privileged people riding on the heads of ordinary people and domineering.The Han people have to support them, and the Tibetan people also have to support them.

They are a group in themselves, if the people of the Tuo people want to rebel, the Tuya government army will never be relentless in suppressing them, because it will harm their interests.

It really doesn't make much sense to talk about the difference between Fan and Han in front of them.

During the Xuanzong and Wuzong years of the Guo Dynasty, the party items were levied several times.In the eight towns in the northwest of Beijing, there are many Dangxiang yamen troops, and they are also the ones who killed the "wild Dangxiang".

Wang Yu had never heard of the word "class", but he understood the general meaning.

The Yajun itself is a class, and the soldiers of the Yajun know who pays them.As an individual, there may be those who sympathize with their own clan, but as a whole, they will never betray their own class.

Benefits are the things that touch the soul the most.

While the two were talking, the [-] cavalry led by Lu Maqi really broke through the blocking of the herdsmen in Hexi.But he was not happy for a long time, a thousand cavalry pawns of the Xinquan army rushed out from the slanting stabs, and took advantage of the favorable opportunity when their horses came down quickly.

As if to confirm what Yang Yue said, the thousand cavalry recruited in Pingxia Dangxiang were relentless, and they stabbed repeatedly with spears, smashing those Tubo-like Dangxiang clansmen to pieces.

Lu Maqi was startled and angry.The weakness of the Hexi herdsmen's resistance surprised him, but the ferocity of the cavalry made him feel terrified.He knew that this was an encounter with a regular army and he had to cheer up.

"Bang!" A blunt instrument hit his small buckler, and his arm was almost numb.But he endured the discomfort, swiped the saber with his right hand, and killed the cavalryman at high speed.

Lu Ma turned the danger into safety, but a large number of men he brought fell off the horse, causing many casualties.

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" The branch and feather arrow shot, and the back of the horse looked like a flower bloomed.

With armor on his body, these arrows did not penetrate deep into the flesh and did not cause fatal damage, but Lu Maqi no longer dared to fight anymore, so he rushed out of the battle group and ran towards the southeast.

The [-] cavalry soldiers of the Dingyuan Army were stationed on horseback to watch the battle.The horses were snorting and restless.But it was not their turn to dispatch. The cavalry of the Xinquan Army had already killed all the enemy cavalry. Some people carried their heads with lances and galloped left and right outside Weizhou City.

Not far away, cheers that shook the sky erupted, and the infantry of the Dingyuan Army had already entered the city.Most of them continued to move forward, chasing and killing the defeated Tubo soldiers along the streets, and some of them picked up the ladder and rushed to the city wall to slaughter the Tubo archers.

You guys had a lot of fun with archery just now, now take your life!

Weizhou City, defended by [-] Tubo soldiers, only lasted for half a day before it collapsed under the attack of more than [-] Yamen troops.

Yang Yue rode forward with his own soldiers.

His expression was a little excited. Weizhou City, which had been trapped in Tibet for more than a hundred years, had already been collected by him!

Several generations of the Yang family, guarding Lingzhou, Shouyouzhou, and Xiazhou, have been entangled with the Tubo people for decades, and more than ten people died on the battlefield.

Yang Yue looked up to the sky and laughed, Tubo, you have today too!
"Orders! Collect grain, fodder and horse fodder, collect civilian houses, and resettle wounded soldiers." Yang Yue quickly controlled his emotions and ordered: "The commander-in-chief has an order before he goes out to disturb the people. Anyone who violates the military order will be beheaded!"

The soldiers quickly conveyed the order.

"Vice Envoy Zhen." Yang Yue shouted again.

"The last general is here." Zhen Xu, who was transferred from the State Army to the Xinquan Army as a deputy envoy, responded.

"Torture the Tibetan captives, let them lead the way, raid their tribal pastures, and bring back all the people and animals."

"As ordered."

"Marquis Fan Du Yu."

"The last general is here." Fan He, who had been promoted from Deputy General of Zuoying of Wuwei Army to Marquis of Capital of Xinquan Army, responded.

"Gather the horses abandoned by the Tubo people, the more the better. Soldiers are precious and fast. Tomorrow, I will rush to Luomenchuan."

"As ordered."

Luomenchuan is the place where people who wanted to invade the border gathered for fear of heat, ninety miles southeast of Longxi County (between Longxi and Wushan counties today).Forty miles east of Luomenchuan is Fuqiang County (now Gangu County) in Qinzhou.

Weizhou City is Xiangwu County, five miles to the east of today's Longxi County, fifty miles to the southeast is Longxi County.In other words, the cavalry set off from Weizhou and walked 140 miles southeast to Luomenchuan.

The Luma tribe fought against the Dingnan Army on the banks of the Zuli River before, and the Luomenchuan area is rich in water and grass, so there must be some people staying behind.If the fast horses charged away, they would be caught off guard, and they might be able to plunder a large number of cattle and sheep.

The three Tubo tribes in Weizhou were attacked by Yang Yue's trick, and there was a time difference, and they probably vomited blood.

However, along the way, they marched forcibly, fought in the rain, and then stormed the city of Zhou, and then led cavalry to attack Luomenchuan.Such oppression makes everyone exhausted, and there will definitely be complaints in the army.

Is this Yang Yue helping the commander-in-chief to test the limit that the soldiers of the Dingnan Army can bear?Without the prestige of a general, but doing such a thing, I am afraid that even the Xinquan Army will not be able to lead it well in the future.

　The chapter in the afternoon is estimated to be updated in the evening.

　　
　
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