Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 322

The sound of tinkling gold and iron resounded, and under Weizhou city, the Weizhou army wearing blue armor and the Guiyi army mainly wearing cotton armor began to retreat slowly after the ringing of gold.

After Murong Xinchang and others captured and killed several generals of the Weizhou Army, Zhang Zhao immediately arranged Er Zhujing, Zhao Cunyi and Luo Shande's three battalions to take the initiative to attack.

However, the two parties only touched each other for a while, and then they both asked for money and withdrew.

The Weizhou army suffered several waves of arrow rain, and the number of iron armor was insufficient, because those with iron armor followed the officers to rebel. These waves of arrow rain directly caused the Weizhou army to lose dozens of people.

As for the Guiyi army retreating, it was because Zhang Zhao saw several bed crossbows appearing above the city of Weizhou.

Moreover, the city was crowded with people, and many archers were ready to shoot, cutting off the possibility of the Guiyi army robbing the door. If they really wanted to rob, they would probably suffer a lot of casualties and would not succeed.

Especially the bed crossbow, which is very useful when facing a dense army formation. Although there are only a few of them, they can be tied together.

At this time, there are no defensive equipment such as shield cars and sled cars, so it is not worthwhile to take human lives to grab the door.

Zhang Zhao was going to wait for the camel whirlwind gun to be in place, then use a small trebuchet to smash down the bed crossbow at the top of the city, and then use a catapult and other vehicles to cover the blasters of Fenjindu and go directly to the city gate to blow open the city gate.

Zhang Zhao retreated slightly, and the town general Wang Shouye was even more confused on the top of Weizhou City. He watched the soldiers pouring out of the Tanzheng Gorge from below the city, and his brain was almost in a state of shutdown.

These soldiers are very difficult to deal with at first glance. There are at least thousands of soldiers among them. Except for some rangers who seem to be Yuanzhou party members who are a bit chaotic, the rest of the soldiers and horses have strict orders and order, and their advances and retreats have rules.

After stationing three or four thousand soldiers in the west of the city, they divided up the trail leading to Qinzhou and other places in the south of the city with more than two thousand troops in a very short time.

Afterwards, at least two or three thousand Qingqi scattered in all directions. Although they were unable to encircle Weizhou City, with so many Qingqi, anyone who wanted to leave the city would not be able to escape being hunted down.

For a moment, Wang Shouye suddenly felt as if he was in the late Tang Dynasty and was being attacked by the elite army of Tubo Zanpu.

But reality tells him that this is impossible. He is not a loyal minister of the country, but is rebelling. However, where do so many well-equipped soldiers come from?
"Town general, a big banner has been erected across the street, and it is written to the Jiedu Envoy of the Rebel Army!" A small school with good eyesight pointed at the big banner in the distance and shouted loudly.

"Guiyi Army? What are they doing here?" Wang Shouye and a general were stunned, and a general scratched the bun on the top of his head.

"He returned to the Zhang family of the Rebel Army and is at ease in Guasha. What is he doing here after traveling thousands of miles?"

"No! How can the Zhang family of Guiyi Army produce thousands of soldiers? Not to mention leading an army of more than ten thousand to us. If he has this strength, why don't he swallow the Hexi and Longyou states first?"

All the generals and schools were puzzled, and they didn't understand why the Zhang family of the Guiyi Army would come here.

This is actually a misunderstanding, because Shi Jingtang only granted Zhang Zhao the official position of Hexi Jiedu Envoy and Shanlan River Kou Observation and Disposal Envoy. None of them are in Zhang Zhao's hands yet.

As for the ceremonial guards such as the full-frame Six Banner Festival and the Yamen Banner for the Jiedushi, they have not been made at all, so Zhang Zhao used the big banner of the Guiyi Army Jiedushi that his great-grandfather Zhang Yichao had obtained.

General Weizhou at the head of the city was in doubt when he saw another young general galloping towards him on a tall red horse.

The horse was very fast, and it ran hundreds of steps in a blink of an eye. The rising sun shone on the red horse, and its sweat and red hair reflected a layer of reddish-brown golden light.

"Pegasus! This is a Pegasus! The bloody Pegasus of Dawan Kingdom!"

There is a small school next to Wang Shouye who knows the goods. His ancestors were a town commander, and he recognized at a glance that the red horse that was as fast as lightning in the distance was unusual.

All of a sudden, the city was buzzing with people, and the surrounding soldiers all ran over, and a group of people gathered together, marveling at the rumored sweaty horse.

"Wu Ying'er, your family's A Lang is not wronged, he has such a Pegasus, hundreds of steps to go in an instant, who dares to be?" someone shouted to Wu Ying'er who was the first to recognize the sweaty Pegasus.

'call out!Woo! ’ There was a strange sound, and you were about two hundred steps away from the city of Weizhou. The young general got off his horse, took a huge hard bow, and shot a loud arrow towards the city.

"Inspector Sikong, Hexi Jiedu envoy Zhang Gong to rebel against rebellion! Immediately open the city and surrender, you should only punish the chief villain, if you dare to resist, you will implicate your relatives." Cui Huxin shouted loudly from the bottom of the city.

Wang Shouye quickly asked someone to find the arrow that shot up the tower, and sure enough there was a letter tied to the arrow.

"The inspector Sikong, the Hexi Jiedu envoy and the four state envoys of the Shanlan River Kuo, Zhang, received an imperial edict against rebellion! Thirty thousand soldiers from the Hexi army left Lan, Hui, and Yuan to the east, and the Hedong army also sent troops to Ziqing and Ning to go south. Those who resist live, those who resist die!"

All the generals were silent. The so-called Hedong Army celebrated itself and Ning went south, they were not very worried, and they guessed that it was probably an exaggeration.

Because you want to go south from Qingzhou (Qingyang, Gansu) and Ningzhou (Ningxian, Gansu), you have to walk Malingshui (Huanjiang).

However, there is a huge gap between the dry season and the wet season in Malingshui. It is not yet the wet season, so it is impossible to sail.

Without the benefit of boats, it would be difficult for the army to celebrate and go south, not to mention that the dental soldiers and town troops in Ningzhou had already followed them to make trouble. Even if the imperial army came, they would have to attack Ningzhou first.

It's just that the Hexi army came a little bit badly. When everyone rebelled and made trouble, they never thought that people would come from the west.

Therefore, the elite soldiers have all left, and are now gathering in Binzhou to fight Chang'an. Those who stay in Weizhou, their old nest, are all old and weak.

At this time, the Jiedushi's army generally consists of two parts. The strong ones are tooth soldiers, most of whom are recruited or brought by the Jiedushi himself when he takes office.

There are also a small number of local dental soldiers inherited from fathers and sons in the local area, waiting for the Jiedu envoy to recruit them.

These people are more capable of fighting, and they are the core force of the entire Jiedu Yamen.

The rest is part of the local recruitment. They are generally divided into various towns with the town generals. They are considered semi-professional soldiers, and some of them are united soldiers with a limited service period.

If you refine it, you can divide them into three parts.

Dental soldiers are professional troops, corresponding to elite mercenaries.

The semi-professional town army is actually a remnant of the Fubing system in the past, and can be regarded as a Fubing.

The united soldiers are the local conscripts of the township regiment in the township.

Of course, this is only true for ordinary feudal towns. The silver guns are effective for the Jiejun, and the freaks of the Jingyuan Yabing who occupy the state city, marry each other, and democratize the military are not in this scope.

At this time, Wang Shouye and others who stayed behind belonged to the local town army and united soldiers, while He Chuan, who rebelled, was actually a tooth soldier recruited by the previous Jiedu envoy Zhang Congbin from various places.

When Zhang Congbin went to Luoyang to take up his post, he took some of them away, and kept some in order to control the place.

For this rebellion, which may not be called a rebellion in many eyes, Wang Shouye supported it, but his family members were all in Weizhou, so they were not so active.

This is also the way of survival for this kind of town army. They provide food, grass, weapons, and even some brave men make trouble with the tooth soldiers, but they never take the lead.

If the tooth soldiers won the fight, the imperial court would have nothing to do with them. Then the tooth soldiers ate meat and they drank soup.

If the dental soldiers lost, they would either surrender quickly, or backstab a wave in exchange for a lighter punishment or no punishment from the court.

Of course, there are also times when the game is off. Sometimes the teeth soldiers take the money, food and weapons and feel that it is not enough, so they will completely kill them.

The kind of military chaos in a certain place and the massacre of a certain city are usually played by local forces.

Sometimes it was the other Jiezhen army horses and imperial troops sent by the imperial court who were able to deal with the rebellious tooth soldiers without their backstabs, and they could only follow the bad luck.

In general, this is a dangerous job that is very difficult to control, comparable to dancing on eggs.

Of course Zhang Zhao understood this. He saw that Weizhou City was largely intact and the surrounding countryside had no signs of being looted, so he knew it.

That's why he asked Cui Hu to go forward to surrender. If he could copy the lair of the Zhangyi Army's rebels, then he would be invincible, able to advance and retreat.

Wang Shouye sighed, Zhang Zhao's guess was right, almost all the soldiers of the Zhangyi Army ran to the east, and there were only a few thousand of them in Weizhou City.

Moreover, these thousands of people are not professional soldiers like dental soldiers at all, but hundreds of town troops with a little armor, plus more than [-] united soldiers recruited from the whole city.

Weizhou is located on the border of Kansai, and everyone can fight, so thousands of united soldiers can be pulled out to fight in a decent manner.

But they will definitely not be able to fight tough battles. After a long time, these solidarity soldiers will collapse in their hearts, and they may even mess up on their own.

If there were really thousands of tooth soldiers, then he would not be afraid of Zhang Zhao, and would have fought with the Guiyi army under the city.

"General Wang Zhen, don't listen to this statement. Where is this so-called Hexi Jiedu envoy Zhang? It's not clear yet.

Moreover, the imperial court has never controlled Hexi, and the Hexi Jiedu has always been held concurrently by the Lingwu Jiedu envoy, but it is only a vacant post, so how could he order Hexi Jiedu to quell the chaos?

If they are the bandit slaves of Liang and Lan's generation, if we open the city gate, wouldn't they be like sheep? "

"Yes! General Sun Shi is right. Besides, He Bingmai and others are still out. If we sell their small goods, if they win, they will definitely not give up when they come back. Our city of Weizhou is high and thick. , we still have a few thousand people, let's just hold on and talk."

Soon, the general at the head of the city made a decision, and Sun Shi, who urged him not to surrender, took the opportunity to draw his bow and shot an arrow at Cui Huxin who was under the city.

Cui Hu didn't even move his heart. The strong bow in his hand is one stone and three, so he can shoot to the top of the city. The bow in the opposite hand doesn't have such strength at first glance.

Sure enough, the arrow floated softly to a dozen steps in front of him, without even the strength to penetrate the ground, but this also showed the attitude of the city, they would not surrender.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Zhao calmly waved his hand in the distance, it seems that these guys still have to be hurt.

"Install the whirlwind cannon on the spot, cut wood to make siege equipment, and ordered Hanhai Town to dispatch a battalion of light cavalry to guard the surrounding fields and prepare to attack the city."

(End of this chapter)