Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 528
From the moment the torrent of steel rushed into the crowd, Zhao Kuanglin was in a daze.

This scene is so similar, everything seems to be close at hand.

The heavy horse lance easily pierced the human body, and the corpse hung on the lance blade, causing the lance to sag slightly.After piercing another person, the knight let go, threw away the horse lance, drew out the iron mace, and smashed left and right.

Wherever the fully armed war horse rushed, there would be broken bones and tendons.

Wherever the gleaming saber strikes, there will be blood and flesh flying everywhere.

Shen Bing cried for his father and mother, and collapsed to both sides.But there were hundreds of armored cavalry oncoming, like the cold wind in winter, destroying all the withered grass.

That's right, Xia Qi's charge has never been all-in-one.Even for a thousand riders, they were also divided into three batches.If that's not enough, the Leopard Cavalry still has [-] auxiliary soldiers in leather armor. Do you want them to charge too?
In fact, there is no need.

Zhao Kuanglin ordered to beat the drums, and the Suizhou soldiers who were pretending to be fleeing immediately turned around and killed them.

They gave Shenzhou Bing the final blow.

How could they, who were panicking and fighting alone, compare to the Suizhou soldiers who formed an formation and killed them.

With a volley of infantry and a stabbing with a long spear, a thousand soldiers marched along the state's wall, easily harvesting the heads of the Shenzhou soldiers.

"Steady, steady, walking too fast, do you want to die?"

"At this point in the battle, I have never seen a comeback, and I fought steadily."

"Who told you to shoot several arrows in a row? Didn't you hear the sound of the horn?"

"Don't panic, hold the spear tightly, the thief is more panic than you."

"What are you doing so stupidly? Don't know how to cooperate? Don't shoot when it's time to shoot!"

"Sometimes you don't need words, you have to figure out how to fight."

"Speed ​​up, don't let them form an formation!"

The old thief Cai with gray temples shouted loudly and kept greeting.The fledgling country bravery and state and county soldiers who have never been to the battlefield, miraculously stabilized under the influence of their calm emotions, and what they learned during daily training came back to their minds. Bravery completely ended Shen Bing's last trace of will to resist.

"Survivors will not die!" Shouts echoed from both sides of the battlefield.

This is an old rule, in order to prevent the enemy from fighting back and causing fearless casualties.On the other hand, surrendering troops is also a resource, and it is shameful to waste it.

Cui Xiu shouted "willing to surrender" at the first time. He had been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

The thief is handsome, although he has the side of a desperate and reckless man, but he also has the wisdom to survive in troubled times.It's all over now, keep the green hills, don't be afraid of running out of firewood, saving your life is more important than anything else, and there will be opportunities in the future.

Cui Xiu knelt on the ground very alone, and when he threw away the equipment, he was slaughtered.

A few long guns were pointed at him, and a military academy stepped forward and kicked him.Cui Xiu rolled on the ground several times and continued to pretend to be dead.

"Tie it up!" Several soldiers stepped forward and tied up Cui Xiu and their two hapless sons.

Once Cui Xiu and his son surrendered, the others didn't want to resist.Except for a few lucky ones who fled into the forest in the dark, most people knelt down and begged to surrender, throwing their weapons all over the ground. There were about 600 people.

Listening to their accents, there are people from Shenzhou and Caizhou, Lao Cai is a thief!

Tang, Deng, Sui, Shen, Guang, Cai, Chen, Xu, Ru, and Luo are Cai thieves in a broad sense, and strictly speaking, they can be traced back to the Sui Dynasty.

In the 19th year of Emperor Kaihuang, more than [-] Turkic captives were relocated to Yunzhou, Shuozhou, and Luoyang to settle down.

In the first year of Renshou, the Sui army conquered Khitan and won a great victory. They captured [-] men and women, half of whom were given to Turks, and the rest moved to Chang'an and Henan, where all men were killed.

There were even more kingdoms and dynasties, and hundreds of thousands of Hu tribes came to live in the above ten states.

Shen, Guang, Cai, Tang, and Deng are Cai thieves in a narrow sense, especially Shen, Guang, and Cai, and they are the fighters among Cai thieves. The savings were wiped out, and the 5000 remnants were dispatched to Helong to prepare for the Tubo.

Shenzhou soldiers are not Cai thieves, who are Cai thieves?

No integrity, desperate and ruthless, this group of people - all included!
"Cui Xiu, when did Du Hong appoint you as the governor?" Zhao Kuanglin stepped forward, put his foot on Cui Xiu's chest, and asked.

Cui Xiu was a little embarrassed, he was a self-appointed assassin.

Zhao Kuanglin understood, and said: "Since ancient times, heroes don't ask where they came from. After surrendering, if they make new achievements, they may not be able to become rich in the future. Isn't it better than being a grass thief?"

"Everything the general says will be obeyed. The three of us, father and son, will swear by the water that we will never betray each other."

After Wang Chong took off his armor, he walked over, just heard the last sentence, and smiled: "You still don't know who you lost to, right?"

Cui Xiu thought for a while, Zhao Kuanglin couldn't afford to raise so many armored cavalry, so—could it be someone from Zongben?
"I would like to descend to Tangzhou Zheshuai and be a slave and handmaiden. I am willing."

Damn, so unscrupulous!
Wang Chong directly whipped him up, and reprimanded him, "The one you surrendered was Prince Shao Taifu of Lingwu County, not Zhe Linggong, do you understand?"

Zhao Kuanglin glanced at Wang Chong calmly, then turned his head away, the water was too deep.

"Understood, stop hitting."

"Get up now, let's go north and stabilize the situation in the state first." Wang Chong put away his horsewhip and said.

"As ordered."

"It's all here, just grab it and leave. It's really not fun. It's better to occupy the city first, recruit surrender and rebels, and then go north to Huaishui to threaten Caizhou." Wang Chong said to Zhao Kuanglin: "Beating Caizhou is not as good as beating Caizhou." Is Ruzhou much more convenient?"

"What General Wang said is very true, first enter Shenzhou and then talk, if it is really not possible, then make a fuss." Zhao Kuanglin responded.

After cleaning the battlefield, it was already midnight when the prisoners arrived at the city of Shenzhou.

Cui Xiu yelled at the bottom of the city, and finally the city gate reluctantly opened.That creaking voice was full of hesitation.

The captured civilians have been released, and now there is a shortage of manpower, and every ounce of troops is very valuable. Almost all of the more than 2000 Suizhou soldiers have entered Shenzhou.

Leopard riders are certainly capable of fighting, but those horses are too edible, and there are so many of them.

Zhao Kuanglin even wondered whether Shenzhou could afford to supply these thousand armored cavalry with Shenzhou's current crude governance level.

"Advance people report victory to Zhe Shuai, and then reorganize and surrender troops." Wang Chong made a final decision, and Zhao Kuanglin had no objection.

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Xiangyang, Beijin of Chu State.After crossing the Hanshui River, we went out of Fangchengguan from Nanyang and passed through Zhou, Zheng, Jin, and Wei.

There are Funiu Mountains and Tongbai Mountains in the middle, and the terrain is difficult and dangerous. Only at the southeastern foot of Funiu Mountains is a narrow and narrow belt-shaped flat land, which connects with Nanyang Basin in the southwest and Henan in the northwest. traffic corridor.

Fangcheng can be traced back to the fourth year of Lu Xigong in the Spring and Autumn Period (656 BC). Chu State inspected the northern defense line from Funiu Mountain, Tongbai Mountain to Liechang Mountain, and found a gap in this natural defense line, which is Fangcheng Mountain. So a city was built at this pass to block the north-south corridor.

Beyond the pass is Ye County in Ruzhou.Within the pass is Fangcheng County, Tangzhou.

This road has been called Wanye Corridor since the Qin and Han Dynasties.In the war between the North and the South, most of the time they chose to go this way, with few exceptions.

Liu Bang went down to Wancheng from Luoyang and took this road.

When Liu Xiu raised an incident in Nanyang, Wang Mang sent Wang Yi and others out of Kunyang (south of Ye County) to meet Liu Xiu and return to Luoyang.

Liu Xiu conquered Deng from Duyang (Fangcheng) and enlisted him in Nanyang, and he also followed this path.

At the end of the Later Han Dynasty, Cao Hong attacked Jingzhou and fought in Wuyang and Ye County; Liu Bei stationed in Xinye, marched into Ye County, and set up an ambush to defeat Xiahou Dun.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Chen Xianda fought against Huan Tiansheng, Lu Yuan attacked Nanyang, and Wei Xiaowen Emperor attacked Xiangyang, all of which fought here.

The 2 horses of Zhe Zongben set off from Guwancheng, now Nanyang County, passed through Bowang Gucheng, and traveled 120 li to Fangcheng County.

Going northeast out of Fangcheng County, ninety miles to Fangcheng Pass, it is already the end of October.

Fangcheng Pass was built at the pass at the eastern foot of Fangcheng. Outside the pass, there are deep vegetation and few people, but it is flat and easy to walk.

"Our army is 1, but only half of it is capable of fighting. It is hard to say how many troops Ge Congzhou has, but he only has more than [-] capable of fighting, and the main force is stationed in Jiacheng. In Ye County, there are only state soldiers and Tutuan. In Fangcheng Pass, all the generals of the Weisheng Army gathered together, Zhe Zongben personally deployed the battle plan.

Jiacheng, a county in Ruzhou, is 120 miles northwest of Ye County.

When Liu Bei defeated Xiahou Dun in the past, Cao Cao led his army south from Luoyang and stationed in Jiacheng, ready to help the front line.

Pei Yuan, an important member of the army, was present, but did not say a word.

This is not his business, his main job is to supervise the army.Once it is found that someone has changed, and the evidence is conclusive, after discussing with Zhe Zongben, they can be hunted down on the spot-Pei Jianjun has a hundred soldiers, each with a crossbow and a knife, killing a general is not a big problem .

"Everyone has learned the art of war. Ye Xianchu is there. If you don't pull him out, the future will be worrying. And Ge Congzhou's idea is to fight with him when our army has been unable to attack for a long time and is exhausted. The new army went south and defeated me in one fell swoop. Xie Yanzhang's cavalry stationed in the old city of Kunyang in the north of Ye County, and its main force was located in Jiacheng, this plan couldn't be more obvious." Zhe Zongben turned around in the house, everyone's eyes All stared at him.

"There is nothing to hesitate." Zhe Zongben said: "I have been fighting for many years, and I know that some tough battles have to be fought, and Ye County must be won. Once the [-] cavalry in Ge Congzhou's hands are wiped out, the rest of the state and county soldiers, The Tutuan soldiers are easy to deal with, our army can go north and directly capture the Bian Army Guangchengze Mujian, take all his horses, and then march to the Luoshui Valley, cooperate with Li Tangbin, and encircle the bandit army on the front line of Xiaoshan."

Guangchengze is [-] miles west of Ruzhou, with a radius of [-] miles, and flows into Rushui in the southeast.

In the later Han Dynasty, Guangcheng Garden was built, and it was the place where the emperor taught hunting and martial arts.During the Daye period of the Sui Dynasty, a horse prison was set up, and Emperor Taizong of the country once hunted in this field.

There is a hot spring in Zebei, called Guangcheng Tang.Before the Anshi Rebellion, the emperor often stayed in the eastern capital, and he was fortunate to have this soup.

Nearby is the Qingshu Palace, which was built during the Zhenguan period. Later, it was found that the summer was too hot and there were many poisonous snakes, so the palace was stopped and the treasures in the palace were distributed to the people.

Zhu Quanzhong was not interested in this palace either, but he set up a new horse farm here and moved some of the horses here to supply the nearby battlefields on the Western Front—of course his ranch was not limited to Guangcheng Prison. After Youzhou, Wang Rong became more courteous in offering horses, and almost knelt down to ask Zhu Quanzhong for help. Chengde Town, which is known to have "one hundred thousand horses", is his largest "ranch".

"In this battle, the general Zhe has been the envoy of You Yi since ancient times—" Zhe Zong had just finished speaking halfway when a certain staff member hurried in and reported to him in a low voice.

After hearing this, Zhe Zongben had a strange expression, half happy and annoyed, and was silent for a while.

(End of this chapter)