Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 551 you come and I go
"A chaotic battle." In the early morning, Shao Shude came to Liaowu.

The pier was full of people, collecting stray equipment and carrying away stiff corpses.

Of course, only the ones on the ground were carried away.A corpse that fell into the river would not come up overnight.Last night, the crowd was so crowded that it completely disrupted the establishment system. There were me among you and you among me, and there were countless people who fell into the river.

More than three hundred levels of beheading, this is the number reported by the Wuwei Army, the real casualties of the enemy may be doubled.

Shao Shude looked at the river in the distance, it was empty and there was no movement at all.

"There are few things in Liaowu." Shao Shude said something, and Chen Cheng looked at him suspiciously.

"Bring up the four winch crossbows and find a place to place them," Shao Shude ordered.

When modern fleets attacked ports, they usually landed on the flanks and detoured to attack the rear of the fortress.Because there are generally forts on the front and high places on both sides of the port, it is really a disadvantage for warships to shoot at the forts.

If there is no fort, the first choice for the fleet is to approach the port directly, plow the ground with naval guns, and cover the landing of infantry.

There are ready-made pier trestles, which are much more convenient than wading through waist-deep water and trudging through the mud to become a living target.

In ancient times, there were no forts, and most of the ports were not professional military ports. Fleets liked to attack water villages directly.

The winch crossbow was used by the Shuofang army to attack the city.It has a long range and great power.It is said in military books that it can destroy city walls, which is somewhat exaggerated, but it does have a certain effect.If the city wall is in disrepair for a long time, or if the enemy army dare not go out of the city to fight and fight, the peasants can't follow behind and take the opportunity to repair the damaged city wall, then it can be of great use.

After all, it depends on the strength of your defenders.If you defend the city to the death, you will definitely end the calf.

Next time the Bianjun navy comes again, see if you dare to shoot at my "fort".

As for the artillery carts, that is, trebuchets, Guochao usually prepared a few of them when defending the city, and some generals simply did not use them, because the "cannonballs" were not easy to polish, the damage rate of the artillery carts was extremely high, and the accuracy was even more touching.

It was the return artillery used by the Mongols to attack the Song Dynasty, smashing the city wall hard. It is hard to say how long it took to break the outer city of Fancheng. It is estimated that it was more than a year. Anyway, it took another eight months to break the inner city.This was after five years of war, the city wall of Fancheng was damaged, and the periphery was cut off, so the materials for repairing the city wall could not be transported into the city.

Use the manpower and material resources of more than 20 Mongols to build a large number of return artillery and smash a brand new solid city wall. I will give you three years to smash it open?Anyway, Hulagu, who gave the Yuan army back to the artillery technology, mainly relied on traditional tactics to attack the city.

Furthermore, who has attacked the city for three years this year?One year is almost the limit, either the siege troops retreat, or the defenders surrender, it's very straightforward.

After inspecting Liaowu Wharf, Shao Shude went to Baiyacang, which is now his residence.

There are nearly [-] infantry left in the Wuwei Army, [-] guarding the wharf, plus [-] Tibetans to assist; [-] guarding Baiyacang, with [-] Tibetans; Five hundred Tibetans.

The Wuwei Army still has more than 1000 cavalry, and together with the Flying Dragon Army's [-] cavalry infantry, they are under the command of Yang Liang.These five or six thousand soldiers with horses were stationed in a temporary camp on a high ground in the northwest of Heqing County as a counterattack force.

Heqing County, Liaowu, Baiyacang, and Yingbai just formed a square rhombus.Heqing County protrudes and is located in the east. Its northwest is the barracks, its southwest is Liaowu, and there is Baiyacang on Baiya Mountain in the northwest of Liaowu.

This deployment is actually very difficult for Bianjun.If the army attacked, it would be difficult for them to completely surround Heqing County.But if the city cannot be besieged to death, the Xia army's rear can continuously transport in defense equipment, repair materials, reinforcements, and even the wounded can be transported to the rear to recuperate.

Then what are you doing?

"It's not indecent to come and not to go." Shao Shude sat in the narrow and cramped Cangcheng, and said directly: "Quaima sent an order to Qi Bizhang to make some noise in Huaizhou. Li Hanzhi, will he come or not? Send someone to ask again, General Gao?"

The toolman boss Gao came out and said: "Of course."

Gao Renhou got up and left. After delivering the order, he would personally sit in Heqing County and command the defense of the city.Lu Huaizhong was stationed in Liaowu, and Yang Liang was stationed in the camp.The three of them each perform their own duties and just do their job well.In Wangwu County, there are already [-] Tutuan Xiangyongs who are gathering for drills one after another, and the Feng'an Army and Tiande Army are still rushing here.

In this battle, Shao Shude never thought he would lose.

"Commander, Bianjun is here." Gao Renhou had just left when Chen Cheng walked in and said.

In theory, the "Prime Minister" should have a look at the information obtained by the Department of Auditing, Datong Maxing, and military scouts.However, the Department of Listening and Watching and Datong Maxing also sent them directly through Zheng Yong, the ten personal soldiers. Chen Cheng didn't know what these were, and he didn't dare to ask.

"Fang's attack on Liaowu was defeated last night, and he came from land today, these gangsters!" Shao Shude ordered to spread out the map and examine it carefully.

"Nearly [-] infantry and [-] cavalry have arrived, and they are setting up a stronghold, located ten miles east of Heqing County." Chen Cheng pointed to a certain place on the map, and said, "It's still very cautious."

"I'm new here, and I haven't figured out the quality of our army. Of course, I have to be more cautious. I can't have all the troops rushing to the city. Once they are attacked and disturbed, they can't set up a stronghold. Could it be possible to sleep in the wild?" Shao Shude smiled: "Let Yang Liang lead the cavalry Go out and touch their fineness. Uh, order through the high recruiter."

"As ordered."

Employers are not suspicious, Shao Shude took a deep breath.I feel that I have interfered with the frontline generals too many times. This is not good, and it will easily weaken Gao Renhou's prestige.

He decided to curb his desire for micro-manipulation a little bit, and only control the general direction.For the rest, let Gao Renhou, an old warrior who has fought for half his life, take command.

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In the Baishuijiao camp, Qi Bizhang came out with more than 2000 people.

They went south along Danshui, turned east after arriving at Qinshui, and traveled all the way to the north of Wuzhi County.

This is a point that Qi Bizhang stepped on a long time ago.

After Qinshui came out of Taihang Mountain, it meandered to Wuzhi County.In the Sui Dynasty, the mouth of the canal was opened here, and Qinshui flowed northeast to hydrate with Changminggou (now Xiaodan River).The water of Changminggou flows from the northwest of the old city of Jicheng (north of today's Boai County), flows eastward from Danshuijin to the south of Xiuwu County, and flows northeast into Wuzepi.

It is [-] li wide from south to north, and [-] li long from east to west. It reaches the north of Xiuwu County in the west and the northwest of Huojia County in the east.

This section is actually the westernmost section of the Guangji Canal opened in the Sui Dynasty.However, because Qinshui is relatively turbid and contains a lot of sediment, it gradually becomes unusable.In the early years of the Kingdom, it was dredged several times. Before the Anshi Rebellion, there was a warehouse of Beibian assets along the river, with huge reserves of military rations and equipment, which were supplied to Youzhou, called "Beiku".

After the hardships, due to changes in the political situation, this section of the canal was considered abolished, and no one was interested in cleaning it up.Those who still maintain shipping today are actually flooded, but only during the wet season can they barely sail.

Yongji Canal has been abandoned, but the water is still there.

A lot of fertile land has been opened up near Wu Zepi, which is considered to be a densely populated area in Huaizhou.

But recently some officials came and repeatedly urged them to abandon their family property and move to the south of the Yellow River.

One of the newly appointed Sima of Huaizhou, Zhang Jifeng, was the most anxious. He directly seduced the land in Henan, saying that Sishui and Heyin counties had a lot of wasteland, and those who were willing to go there would be given an extra [-] mu of land per household.

But who would believe him!
The people in Heyang are very fierce. After all, this area used to be a pure military fortress.There were knives, spears, bows and galleys in the homes, and some even had armor and horses in their homes, and the officials were quickly driven away.

But Zhang Jifeng came again today.

He brought a full two thousand soldiers from Huaizhou, divided into several batches, and wanted to remove all the people by force.

No matter how fierce the people are, they live scattered in villages, usually only twenty or thirty households, and as many as thirty or fifty households. Two or three hundred heavily armed state soldiers are overwhelmed. How can they resist?The most critical thing is that no one organizes them.

"Officials, more than [-] households have been relocated in the past three days." Under the shade of a tree on the north bank of Wu Zepi, the miscellaneous officials who were in charge of specific affairs were reporting to him.

"Send it to the ferry quickly." Zhang Jifeng said impatiently.

In recent days, he has suffered a great crime.The people in Heyang didn't listen to persuasion at all, they felt that you were harming them and had to resort to means.But these people, alas!Simply bold!Zhang Sima was shot with an arrow in the buttocks, and now he can't ride a horse.Although the whole family of the people who shot him with arrows were punished, and their wives and daughters were punished as prostitutes, how could this dispel his anger.

In Luoyang, who is not polite to him?His elder brother Zhang Jiye is in the yamen, and Zhang Jifeng is the official of the shogunate. Who dares to provoke their Zhang brothers?

The people of Heyang, whether they are the rebels in Anshi, the three towns of Heshuo, or the descendants of the sergeants in the towns of Ping Zhaoyi and Liu Zhen, are all killers!
After a while, he had to find two girls to vent his anger. Zhang Jifeng carefully sat on the soft futon, tried not to touch the wound, and waited aimlessly for his subordinates to finish their work.

The sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded.

Zhang Jifeng was a little strange, didn't his father just send someone to remind him, why did someone come again?
The sound of horseshoes became more and more intense, it sounded like tens of thousands of horseshoes were galloping and trampling on the ground.

"This..." Zhang Jifeng subconsciously felt something was wrong.

"Ah!" A miscellaneous official not far away was shot by an arrow and fell to the ground.

Soon, the arrows became denser, and the screams followed one after another.

Zhang Jifeng didn't care about the pain anymore, he got up with his buttocks pouted, and just took two steps when several riders passed by his side, one of them waved a long-handled mace, and only lightly hit him, Zhang Jifeng's The chest collapsed completely.

The sudden attack of the Feilong Army stunned the Huaizhou soldiers.

More than 200 people were kicked out, and people continued to die under the bow.

At the end of the charge, more than fifty Huaizhou soldiers gathered in one place and used private houses to defend.The soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army dismounted and formed an array, crushing their resistance with powerful crossbows, step bows, long spears and heavy swords.

Qi Bizhang watched all this with satisfaction from a distance.

He was born as a cavalry general, but more and more he felt that mounted infantry might be better than cavalry.When encountering enemy cavalry, dismount and form a solid formation, and the enemy cavalry dare not come hard at all.When encountering hard bones that cavalry cannot gnaw, the advantages of professional infantry are reflected.

The establishment of mounted infantry should be expanded and the establishment of cavalry should be reduced.Qi Bizhang's ass decides his head, and his position is very clear.

"Everyone will live in peace and prosperity after returning home." A cavalryman rushed to the people of Heyang and said loudly: "The Bian bandits are cruel and heartless. It is outrageous. The king of Lingwu County has the virtue of living well. Paul and other family businesses, Mausoleum, don't worry, let's all go home."

"If the Bian thieves come next time, we will fight them. Are your guns and bows not good enough? You can't even save your family."

"Don't worry, the King of Lingwu County is a great sage. With him, the Bian thief can't do anything to you. Go back."

The soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army shouted back and forth, and the people of Heyang were skeptical when they heard it.However, after seeing that they really did not stop them from going home, they immediately thanked each of them with gratitude.

Qi Bizhang felt a little funny.

He knew about Shao Shude's forcible relocation of the people in Henan Mansion, but at one time and another, now Bian people moved the people to the South Bank, and they rushed out to be good people.

This is outrageous!
Of course, the soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army are not good people in vain.In fact, they still need one thing from the local people: food.

The cavalry's moving distance depends on whether you can satisfy the horse's appetite.Heyang is such a bird, Sun Ru, Li Hanzhi, Zhang Quanyi, Zhu Quanzhong, and Li Keyong are fighting back and forth, but there are not many people at all.It is not easy to find a place where the common people are still living and farming. Although the food and grass they can provide is limited, it is more or less a supplement. When at least a team of 500 people crosses the border, when the food and grass are exhausted, they can go on the spot. Supplementary food collection has the ability to continue fighting.

"Chop off the heads of the bandits and keep them. Let's go to the next place. This time, we will make Huaizhou soldiers suffer a lot, and let them know that if they leave the tortoise shell, their heads will be lost." Qi Bizhang got on his horse and ordered road.

(End of this chapter)