Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 574 What Can You Give?
The howling horse (qù) chokes, the Pixiu is majestic, and thousands of troops and horses swallow mountains and rivers.

Well, in fact, there are not many people, just over two thousand riders, but standing there is imposing.

They came from the west and led their horses all the way until they encountered the enemy in front of them.

Recently, Shao Shude has been rectifying the habit of riding a horse instead of traveling when there is nothing to do in the army.

As the main direct line of the Tie Lin Army, You Yi envoy Xu Hao certainly didn't dare to hit the knife's edge, but he didn't think so in his heart.

The commander-in-chief gave an example of a Khitan man named Yelu Abaoji, saying that his cavalry had one man and three horses, but the military discipline was strict, even harsh. Ready to mount.

Who is Yelu Abaoji?Nobody's name.So capable, why not rob Youzhou?
But these words were nothing more than slander in private, he hadn't been so hard to think about confronting the commander-in-chief face to face, but the anger in his heart always wanted to be vented, so he could only take the enemy in front of him.

"Pang Shigu, a rat, has been huddled in a rat's den all day long. I didn't expect Mengzhou soldiers to dare to go out of the city. I'm tired of work. Put on armor and mount a horse!"

With an order, the sergeants put on armor in pairs, and then their own auxiliary soldiers stepped forward to take away the excess pack horses. After the 2000 men got on the horses, they divided into several groups and killed the enemy cavalry who were also in a hurry to form a team.

The first wave of three hundred cavalrymen raised their spears obliquely and slowly accelerated.Xu Hao was not the first to dispatch, he was still standing on a high slope overlooking the enemy's situation.

There were [-] enemy cavalry in front, and [-] infantry who had lined up. The bows should have been wound, and the spears were raised outwards, shining coldly.

The enemy cavalry had no desire to fight, and the "Zhang" banner slowly retreated, as if looking for the protection of the infantry.

"Haha, bastard!" Xu Hao smiled, grabbed his skin and took a sip of wine, then looked around guiltily.

The soldiers kept their eyes on the ground, while the soldiers kept their eyes on the battle situation ahead. Xu Hao breathed a sigh of relief and put his skin away.

The horses were galloping, shouting like thunder, and three hundred cavalry charged with extraordinary momentum.

"Raise the lance!" The leading officer controlled the speed, tucked the lance under his armpit, and straightened it forward.

"Huh!" The soldiers also controlled the speed of their horses, maintained their balance, and raised the long lance.

The formation of the enemy infantry is slightly loose.

Zhang Jiye bit his lip tightly, suddenly regretting it.

I shouldn't have retreated, maybe I should take five hundred cavalry to fight before leaving, it's too timid before a fight, it's too bad for morale.

But when the cavalry fought, both sides were holding long horses, and the dense crowd was facing each other. What if they died?
The possibility of death is high, right?There are so many people, there is no way to hide, so you can only use your eyesight and hands to stab the enemy first?But you stabbed one, and the others?The oncoming crowd is full of long lances, no matter how powerful you are, you have to drink your hatred on the spot, right?
It is right to rely on infantry to kill cavalry, I am not wrong, the Bian army has always done this.

"There is a show!" Xu Hao took out the wine bag again, and said, "The second batch, go!"

With an order, another three hundred cavalry rushed out, closely following the first group not far behind.

This group of people did not all carry horses, only a hundred or so riders in the front were holding them, and the two hundred riders behind were wielding sabers, iron maces, and bones.

A cloud suddenly floated in the sky, and the ground darkened.Zhang Jiye was startled, subconsciously pushed hard, and the horse raised its head and neighed.

Xie Bin was loudly boosting morale.

He also regretted that he shouldn't have brought two thousand recruits out.But going to the ferry requires people to work, so I brought it out, and now I feel faintly that something bad may happen.

His son-in-law's panicked behavior made him unhappy. He usually talks loudly and does things in a very orderly manner. Why is he timid at this moment when he needs to risk his life?
The cavalry continued to charge forward.

Seeing the panic of the infantry formation, they no longer controlled the speed of their horses, and their roars became louder.

"Kill the Bian thief!" The cavalry officer shouted.

"Kill the Bian thief!" The sergeants responded in unison.

"The thieves will be the wine bags and rice bags! The third batch, go!" Xu Hao threw the wine bags, got on his horse, took a long spear, and rushed out holding it sideways.

Four hundred cavalry followed closely behind, aggressively.

The clouds drifted away, the golden sunlight fell, and the tremors on the ground became more and more intense.

The thousand cavalry soldiers of the Iron Forest Army were divided into three groups, looking down from the sky, they looked like three distinct wavy lines, rushing forward turbulently.

A rain of arrows flew out from the enemy's formation, and the nervous recruits fired without waiting for orders.

And their actions also misled others, most of them shot their arrows without hearing the blowing of the horn.After shooting, the veterans looked at each other in blank dismay, while the recruits were pale and at a loss.

There was also the sound of horseshoes from the front left.

Hundreds of cavalry lined up in a loose formation, holding long spears, and behind them, smoke and dust billowed, and cavalry loomed in and out from time to time, it was unpredictable, there seemed to be tens of thousands of cavalry, ready to outflank their rear.

"Don't panic, they don't dare to charge! Hold your ground! Even if people want to charge, horses don't dare to charge, hold on, hold on!" Xie Bin shouted loudly, but no one knew how many people could hear him.

"Kill the thief!"

"kill!"

The roar from the other side seemed to be close to their ears. Seeing that they were still speeding up and didn't seem to stop at all, the recruits panicked.

"Run!" Someone let go of the long spear that had been inserted obliquely into the ground, turned around and ran, but his feet went numb, and he fell to the ground.

The spear fell slowly to the ground.

If one falls, there will naturally be a second and a third...

Xie Bin almost covered his face with his hands, what a bad thing for homeless recruits!
He used to beg for Qin Zongquan with the king of Dongping County. When Cai's cavalry rushed up, they covered the sky and covered the sun, which was even scarier than today's scene.But the infantrymen of the Bian army held a small antler and piled it in front of the formation, and calmly shot the Cai thief cavalry with their infantry bows, without panic at all, but what the hell do these people look like?

"Clatter!" The sounds of spears falling and colliding followed one after another, and the originally calm veterans were also affected by the recruits and panicked.

"Kill!" Xia Jun's cavalry officer saw that there was an advantage to take advantage of, and raised his horse speed to the extreme.

The three hundred cavalry behind him also became excited, ready to wave their long spears.

The second wave of [-] cavalry was still a short distance away from them. At this time, the formation was slightly dispersed, and it was no longer so close.

The third wave still controlled the speed of the horse and followed behind.

"Boom!" The cavalry rushed into the chaotic crowd.

The lead officer fell off his horse.

He rolled skillfully, picked up a long gun, and shouted: "Kill!"

With one shot, the enemy soldier was killed.

More and more people fell off their horses. They picked up the spears left by the enemy soldiers one after another and killed the enemy on foot.

And behind them, some robes are waving a heavy horse lance, sweeping a large area.

Someone abandoned the horse, reined in the rein with one hand, and chopped with a short sword in the other.

The second wave of cavalry arrived.

They controlled the speed of the horses very well, and went around to the flanks. The cavalry cavalry rushed in obliquely first, followed by Pao Ze, who was wielding sabers, iron maces, and bones, trampling on the horseshoes, and the swords saw blood.

The [-]-step army collapsed almost instantly, and the chaotic soldiers ran everywhere.

"Let's go!" Xie Bin galloped out of the chaotic soldiers, followed by seven or eight blood-soaked soldiers.

Zhang Jiye woke up suddenly, turned his horse's head and ran towards the city gate.

A wave of arrows rained from behind, and Zhang Jiye suddenly had two more feathered arrows as "decorations".

He ran faster.

The five hundred cavalry had never seen such a useless general.

However, their morale had fallen, and they had no intention of fighting any more at this time, and they broke away one after another.

There was the one with a bad temper, who galloped his horse and scolded Zhang Jiye: "Seeing that you are Lao Jie's son-in-law, you think you have some skills, that's it?"

"Damn it, coward, do you dare to take us back to fight?"

"If you dare to go up, I will go up. Do you dare to kill Xia thief?"

"Brothers, it's better to tie him up and dedicate it to Shao Shude, and I can still get a pen as a reward."

"Haha! I'm afraid this idiot is worthless, but his wife and daughter are."

Zhang Jiye turned a deaf ear and just ran away blindly.

The suspension bridge had been lowered, and the windy man rushed into the city gate first, leaving a series of cursing behind him.

The rout soldiers also frantically ran towards the gate of the city.

But they were one step too late, and there were dense arrows oncoming.I don't know how many strong bows and crossbows are shooting, on the city wall, behind the city gate, everywhere, and even the cavalry of the Xia army who took the opportunity to chase over also fell down a large area.

The suspension bridge was slowly raised, and the crying of the broken soldiers was loud.

……

Zhang Quanyi pursed his lips tightly and went down the tower with a solemn expression.

Today's "big show" shattered many of his fantasies.

3000 people went to the ferry to carry the food and grass that had been transported with great difficulty. As a result, they encountered the Xia Bandit cavalry army and were wiped out in the first battle.

Now there are more than [-] prefectural and county soldiers and more than [-] refugee recruits in the city, and the defenders of the city are trembling, let alone doing other things.

His soldiers, from Huang Wang's era to Zhu Quanzhong's era, could not defeat Shao thief!

But he doesn't want to surrender yet, he wants to wait and see to see what benefits Shao Shude can give him.

Judging from his past practices, it seems that he will immigrate to Heyang on a large scale.If the household registration is prosperous, it would be nice to let him be a Heyang Jiedu envoy.

In this world, it is impossible to have no territory and no soldiers.

The feudal town has been separated for more than a hundred years, and arrogant soldiers and generals are all over the place. Even the hero who sweeps the four directions may die and the country will be wiped out, like rain blowing away with the wind.

Standing on the sidelines, relying on the hero, and waiting for a price, seems to be the safest method.

With territory and soldiers, even if Shao Shude or Zhu Quanzhong is defeated, they can still rely on the new owner and continue to maintain the wealth of the Zhang family.

What can Shao Shude give him?Can it exceed his interests in Luoyang?

Su Junqing followed Zhang Quanyi silently, with a serious expression, neither sad nor happy.

Some things are very different from what you see with your own eyes and what you hear with your ears.

He is different from Zhang Quanyi, he is just a shogunate bureaucrat, and his roots are in Heyang.Now Heyang seems to be about to change, and he is also very anxious.

However, he wasn't sure if Shao Shude could win, because Kou Yanqing on the east bank of Qinshui had a heavy army, while Xia's army had few soldiers, so he didn't dare to pursue him because of his military prestige. The two armies faced each other across the river, and the situation seemed to be deadlocked.

But in the end, Shaw Brothers has a better chance of winning.

Because Zhang Guihou and others were coercing the people across the river to Zhengzhou, it seemed that they had no intention of staying long.Maybe they won't withdraw the whole army, but they will leave some strongholds on the north bank, just like Zhou built many fortresses in Hezhong Mansion as bridgeheads, but what is the significance of this to him, the Su Clan?
People change their minds.

Zhang Jiye stumbled over, with two ridiculous feather arrows stuck in his back, and he wobbled as he walked.

"My lord!" Zhang Jiye choked up.

"Papa papa!" Zhang Quanyi waved his hand vigorously, and slapped seven or eight slaps in the face, Zhang Jiye felt dizzy.

A large group of cavalry rushed in, people shouting and neighing.

Xie Bin got off his horse and wanted to stop him, but when he saw the indifferent and contemptuous eyes of the soldiers, he stopped again.

As a warrior, he is as timid as a mouse, afraid of battle and the enemy, in this era, it is enough to be despised to death, without any chance of turning over.

"Pfft!" Zhang Jiye spat out a mouthful of blood and fainted to the ground.

"General Xie, you are in command of all the soldiers in the city, guard the city carefully, and don't make any mistakes." Zhang Quanyi turned around and left without looking at his son.

Su Junqing signaled with his eyes, several soldiers hesitated for a moment, then stepped forward and carried Zhang Jiye away.

"General Xie..." Su Junqing called softly.

"Judge Su, I still have to patrol the city. We'll talk about it later." Xie Bin straightened his armor and said with a sad face.

"It's okay, let's patrol together, patrol together." Su Junqing said with a smile.

"Alright." Xie Bin hesitated, then agreed.

He is not stupid, he knows that Su Junqing must have something to say.As for what to say, I can guess it all.

He didn't mind listening.

(End of this chapter)