Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 969
Standing on the plateau, Li Chengsi quietly watched the troops moving forward.

Ahead is a deep gully, revealing it.

I don't know what kind of good fortune made the terrain of Cixi, Fengfang, and Hengshan so broken.The vertical and horizontal hills and valleys are post roads and even rivers. People live on high plateaus overlooking the mountains.Dense forests and grasslands adorn the mountains and valleys, making the scenery less monotonous.

Fantastic landscape.

On the carriage were large and small colorful calico parcels, which were goods looted by the soldiers from the people.Without too many words, everyone knows that this is a unit with poor military discipline.

Generally speaking, this kind of situation often occurs in the peasant army, such as the Chao army back then.But the current army is different. They are very alert and their morale is quite good.

The ranger appeared on the mountain plateau.They are shrewd hunters, able to detect the activities of enemy scouts through clues, and hunt and kill them.

The leading soldiers are brave and fearless.Knowing that at the first moment of conflict, most of them will die unexpectedly, but they still take the responsibility of clearing the way with due diligence.

The formation of the main brigade was a little loose, but not to an outrageous level.They maintain a state of looseness on the outside and tightness on the inside. Once they encounter an enemy, they can self-organize in a short time without the order of the officer.

The Jin army is not an army without good military discipline.

I heard that the three armies of Qinzhi, Jianzhi, and Yunjie adapted from the year before last are very good, and the military discipline is very strict.

Li Chengsi once saw from a distance that more than [-] soldiers from the three armies were in order, marching in a four-way column with loud slogans.

On the other hand, Kuangba, Feiteng and other armies are scattered and scattered, like a group of stragglers.

Li Chengsi once thought that troops with good military discipline must have strong combat effectiveness, while troops with poor military discipline must have weak combat effectiveness.But the reality is quite different.

In the battle against the Khitans, the three armies of Qinzhi, Jianzhi, and Yunjie were unable to crush the enemy with one blow.On the contrary, Kuang Ba and other troops with poor military discipline were invincible, and the Khitan did not dare to look south.

The iron-clad facts told him that often the most savage warriors are the ones who can destroy the front and break the edge on the battlefield.

He has now given up on strict military discipline, meaning, just put on a show.Anyway, no one has ever violated the battlefield discipline, and it has been maintained very well. If there is a little military style problem, let him go, as long as he can defeat the enemy.

A few riders came from afar from the south.

The horse stepped over the remaining snow on the ground and rushed up the slope with difficulty.

Li Chengsi wanted to leave, but stopped when he saw this.

The messenger finally arrived at the plateau. After dismounting his horse, he walked forward quickly, handed over a military report, and made a brief report: "Fei Teng's army encountered the enemy at Daxiangdian, and the thieves lined up a fence to guard them. There were no fewer than two thousand soldiers. Yinhu Commander Yelu Changbao has led the army to Daxiangdian."

Hu Jie is a box-shaped quiver that can hold 24 arrows. It is widely spread among the Khitan, Xi, Shiwei and other tribes. It is one of their symbols. It is quite different from the popular quiver in the Central Plains in terms of shape. .

Yelu Changbao was one of the members of the three surnames of Yelu in the eight tribes of Khitan. He had been at odds with Abaoji. It was rumored that when they went to the Shulu tribe of Uighur to choose their wives, they both fell in love with the same person.

During the war with Khitan, Yelu Changbao brought his troops flying cavalry to vote, and Li Keyong readily accepted him, and handed over the Yinhu army, mainly Xiren, to him to lead.

The army was small in number, about three thousand, mainly infantry, and very few cavalry, only a mere two hundred or so.But almost everyone can ride a horse, and it would be nice to transform into mounted infantry.

Li Chengsi finished watching in silence, without saying anything.

"Where's Kang Dutou?" He asked the Marquis of Junzhong Yu.

"The brigade is in Lanzhou. It has been staying for a few days. It has just waited for food and grass. The tent army acting as the vanguard has arrived in Fangshan County, Shizhou." Yu Hou replied.

Li Chengsi silently calculated the distance, still hesitating in his heart.

Seeing that the vanguard envoy was thinking about something, the messenger left quietly after saluting.When I went down to the post road at the foot of the mountain, I met three messengers coming together.

"Report, General Shi has conquered Jichang County and killed more than [-] bandit soldiers." The messenger went up the mountain out of breath and reported.

Li Chengsi clenched his fists and finally made up his mind.

Shi Jingrong drove the [-] men who had been forcibly conscripted from the two states of Cixi to attack the city for five consecutive days, and finally took down the city guarded by less than a thousand state soldiers.

This long-expected victory gave Li Chengsi great confidence.

"Go south!" He got on his horse and went straight down the mountain.

The Feiteng army suffered a small loss in Longmen County before, losing more than [-] people, and the current strength is only in the early [-]s.The envoy Li Sibi was furious and killed more than ten military academies in a row. After some rectification, he led the rest of the people to the south in a fierce manner to get back the place.

Li Chengsi didn't stop him at that time, but ordered the Yinhu army to approach the department and help each other.

Now it seems that Cizhou has been conquered, and there is no need to worry about the future, and it seems that it can go a step further.When it comes to war, there is so much looking forward and backward, it is a good opportunity to miss.

On March [-]th, Li Chengsi personally led Kuang Ba's army to Cizhou. After staying overnight, he led his army southward to join Li Sibi and Yelu Changbao.Of course, he didn't forget to send envoys to Lanzhou to report the military situation, and asked Kang Junli to speed up his march and go south to Cixi.

Kang Junli's army of nearly [-] cavalry is the main force going south this time. If they arrive quickly, their confidence will be greatly increased.

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Daxiangdian is located more than [-] miles north of Longmen and more than [-] miles away from Jichang County, Cizhou Lisuo. It is a rare mountain basin.

After Yang Yi led his troops to this place, because of the rampant activities of bandits and cavalry, he immediately ordered to cut down trees and set up fences for defense.

Two days later, Longmen Commander Wang Kang personally delivered the first batch of [-] hu of grain and beans to the army. Yang Yi left behind the [-] soil groups that escorted the grain and grass, and the driver and master returned to the Longmen warehouse.

After the eighth day of the eighth day, for three consecutive days, enemy flags could be seen everywhere on the mountains near and far.

On the [-]th day, he even saw Kun sending Khitan soldiers, which opened his eyes—of course it might be Xi Ren, but it's almost the same.

Up to today, dense arrows have been intensively coming and going between the mountain plateau and the valley road.The two sides fought hand to hand several times, each leaving a lot of dead bodies.

Yang Yi personally led the army to charge and kill once, beheading a member of the Jin Bandit Military Academy, which curbed their arrogance a little bit.

"General, there seem to be more and more bandits." Wang Tingwan, who was born in the Wang family of Longmen, said.

Almost like Li Chengsi, the two of them climbed onto a field overlooking the entire battlefield.

The number of Jin troops is indeed increasing. Judging by their appearance, it seems that they still want to go around to the back of them through the small path in Yuanjian, and surround the more than [-] people in the village.

"Panicked?" Yang Yi glanced at Wang Tingwan and the Wang's children behind him, and said sarcastically, "It's no use for you to come from a famous family, but when you encounter such a small scene, your thighs tremble, which really makes your ancestors look good."

Wang Tingwan's face turned red, he was angry.

"Why? Dissatisfied?" Yang Yi sneered and said, "Look at the soldiers of my Jinglue Army, are they as panicked as you?"

Wang Tingwan looked over subconsciously, and saw Xia Jun soldiers sitting around on the ground, wiping their weapons calmly.With the terrain of Cixi, it might be possible to bump into enemy soldiers head-on while walking, and then start an encounter.Not to mention that there were already signs of thieves' activities nearby, but Xia Bing was so calm, Wang Tingwan didn't know what to say.

"If the bandit army goes south in a big way, how dare I send your troops to fight?" Yang Yi asked again.

Wang Tingwan wanted to beg subconsciously, but his pride prevented him from doing so, and he stood there silent.

"Trash!" Yang Yi gave him a contemptuous look.

Wang Tingwan turned his face away.

There was a sudden burst of fierce shouts from the foot of the mountain.

Hundreds of people from both sides met in a narrow road in a valley, and without any nonsense, they fought bloodily.

Yang Yi glanced casually, then turned her head and looked at the vast mountains in the distance.

"General." The soldier reminded him.

Yang Yi followed the direction of the soldiers' fingers, and saw several teams of Jin soldiers approaching along the plateau, but the target was not them, but the Xia soldiers who were fighting bravely in the valley road under the plateau.In short, they wanted to attack from above.

"Do it!" Yang Yi ordered.

The two military academies each brought more than a hundred soldiers, and started fighting with the incoming Jin soldiers.

Yang Yi took off his walking bow, and walked across the field like a leisurely stroll. With a random arrow, a Jin soldier fell to the ground.

I don't know if he wanted to regain the position or something, Wang Tingwan also took off his step bow and raised his hand to shoot an arrow, but the shot missed.

He wiped the sweat from his hands nervously, and shot another arrow, but it still missed.The Jin soldiers noticed the movement, and a soldier retreated to the side, picked up his bow and set up an arrow, and shot down Wang Tingwan's head on the spot.

"Plop!" He was so frightened that he sat down on the ground.

Yang Yi laughed loudly, raised her hand and shot an arrow, and the archers of the Jin army fell in response.

Wang Tingwan's archery movements are actually quite standard, and he should have been taught by a famous teacher, but everyone has seen the effect.

Archers in the army, some people's arrows are very accurate, but in fact their movements are not so standard, many of them are wild ways, and they figured it out by themselves.

Yang Yi was born in a professional class, and has experienced strict martial arts training since she was a child. When she saw Wang Tingwan's solid basic skills, she was quite kind.But he missed two shots in a row, and was almost shot to death by a counterattack, which disappointed Yang Yi.

The battlefield is so cruel.

The up-and-coming star cultivated by the Wang family of Longmen with a lot of money, was almost shot to death by the bandit soldiers who came out of nowhere in the valley for the first time.Injustice?Not wronged at all.This is how the battlefield looks like. Between life and death, there is no luck at all. Anyone can die. No one is the protagonist.

Yang Yi continued to call names, fired more than ten arrows, and killed nine thieves.

His personal soldiers also picked up their bows and arrows, and shot and killed the bandits again and again.

After resisting for a while, the bandits finally broke down the mountain plateau.Seeing this, the thieves under the plateau immediately lost their fighting spirit and retreated in rout.

"General." The soldiers came back with a quiver and handed it to Yang Yi.

"Hu Jian!" Yang Yi looked over and over for a long time, and asked, "Khitan people or Xi people?"

"I don't know." The soldier replied.

"Khitan is good at riding, and Xi Ren is good at walking. There should be no doubt that Xi Ren is good at walking." Yang Yi said: "The Jin people have indeed increased their troops."

Wang Tingwan walked over timidly, hesitant to speak.

"Commander Wang, do as you wish." Yang Yi punched Wang Tingwan's chest with a faint smile.

With no roots under his feet, Wang Tingwan sat on the ground again, staring at Yang Yi in a daze.

"I'm going to withdraw my troops to Longmen." Yang Yi smiled and said, "I'm going to visit your house."

Of course, the Jin soldiers who chased them may also go back to Wang Tingwan's house as a guest.

"This..." Wang Tingwan was puzzled.

Isn't this just repelling the Jin thieves, why are they withdrawing again?
As if seeing what he was thinking, Yang Yi hugged him with his military boots, and said, "It will be easier to attract the bandits after defeating them. You should learn your art of war and strategy."

(End of this chapter)