Han Hai Tang Ergui

Chapter 391 Where Did This Mo Dao Army Come From?
Xiao Shilu deliberately picked a slightly snowy weather to set off.

Because according to his estimation, these enemies who were spying on them in the dark must rely on one man, two horses or even three horses, in order to get ahead of them repeatedly in winter and ambush the sentry cavalry sent to Yunzhou.

And this kind of weather is not conducive to cavalry operations.

On my own side, no matter how strong the bow and crossbow are, I am not afraid of the impact of the cavalry in this weather, and it will be a big loss for those who come to chase them to keep them.

It's just that this veteran general from Yelu Abaoji's period never expected that it was not some grassland tribe in Mobei who had been spying on them secretly, but the cavalry of the Hexi Guiyi Army and the Fuzhou Zhejia cavalry.

After leaving Beacon Fort and walking for more than [-] miles, the sky had stopped snowflakes at this time, Xiao Shilu clearly felt that this year's winter was not as cold as before.

In previous years, there would be at least two or three times of white disasters in one winter, which could completely bury a tribe of hundreds of people, but this year, there was not a single white disaster.

In the distance is the Hun River, Xiao Shilu ordered the guards around him to find some places where the ice is still relatively thick, so as to cross the army.

However, despite the growing sense of unease, no enemies appeared.

This is not easy to handle, if he just goes back like this, his big nephew will definitely not show mercy.

Fortunately, at this moment, the sound of horseshoes suddenly sounded from all directions, Xiao Shilu raised his eyes and looked, on the snow-white ground in the southwest, a piece of white snow was moving rapidly.

Taking a closer look, it wasn't the snow that was moving, but at least thousands of cavalry in white robes chasing after them.

soon!These chasing cavalrymen exchanged fire with Xiao Shilu's broken troops behind, and the sound of killing immediately spread throughout the entire Hun River bank.

"Quick! Put on your armor! Take the horse away and set up the Yanyue Formation!" Xiao Shilu yelled angrily, and behind him he only put on more than [-] horses, and he couldn't last long.

Hearing Xiao Shilu's order, thousands of Pishi army elites began to help each other put on the armor quickly.

These half-fishing and half-nomadic Khitans active in the white mountains and black waters are excellent fighters.

Those who can enter the Pishi Army are the elite among the elite. You must know that the Pishi Army is only in the early [-]s in the entire Great Khitan Kingdom.

The grassroots organization of the Pishi Army is different from that of the Central Plains. According to the habit of grassland cavalry, they generally form a cavalry team of five people.

When fighting, the four go up first, and the remaining one will stay and take care of the horse.

Because sometimes the cavalry charge is not something that can be accomplished overnight, and it is often necessary to change horses before getting on.

If no one is watching the horses, the advantages of one person with two horses or three horses will not be brought into play, especially in such evenly matched battles that require repeated charges.

And this also has the advantage that when the enemy is defeated, the cavalry guarding the horses can immediately get on the horses, and then attack under the leadership of the officers, and can also be used as a new force when retreating.

But at this moment it was a bit different, the reason why people took the horse away was because Xiao Shilu wanted to use a bow and crossbow to deal with these attacking enemy cavalry.

hey-hey!Can't think of it, we Khitans don't fight with you on cavalry, I fight on foot, a certain man has two thousand strong bows and crossbows, let's see what kind of cavalry you can withstand.

There is one thing to say, the Khitan people at this time, how should I put it, they are not actually like the people outside the Great Wall, as can be seen from the two brothers Yelubei and Yelu Deguang.

Both of them were fanatical fans of Han culture, and Yelu Deguang wanted to be a Confucian student at first.

Yelubei has a collection of thousands of volumes, and when he floated to the Later Tang Dynasty, he still had to write poems to illustrate his ambitions.

This is because the Khitan people were an ethnic group outside the Great Wall that existed during the Tang Dynasty and were deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty.

The second is the Bohai Kingdom, which was destroyed by the Khitan. Among the fishing and hunting peoples in the Northeast, it is very Sinicized, almost similar to the Han people. The Khitan merged Bohai, making themselves more like a Han dynasty.

At the same time, due to the extremely tolerant ethnic policy of the Tang Dynasty, the Khitan people were not completely regarded as barbarians at this time.

The identity of Tang'er is very broad. When referring specifically to Han people, the name Tang people would not be used. It should be Han'er and Hanzi.

This is also one of the reasons why Yelu Deguang felt that he could enter the Central Plains.

The Khitan Kingdom is more like a strange thing in the late Tang Dynasty, between a feudal town and a foreign vassal.

The identity of their nationality outside the Great Wall is not pure. The Dadan people and Zub people are the real people outside the Great Wall.

Sure enough, the cavalry on the opposite side charged very fiercely, and the [-] cavalry left by Xiao Shilu were quickly dispersed.

And Zhe Deyuan's younger brother Zhe Deyuan didn't stop, he chased the Khitan cavalry's buttocks, and rushed towards the Khitan people by the river.

When rushing, Zhe Deyuan was still a little strange, why didn't these Khitan people mount their horses, were they scared stupid?
But in the next second, thousands of arrows were suddenly fired from the Khitan army formation, and the Khitan people who had set up the crescent moon formation shot the arrows in their hands at the same time after a few bangs of clappers.

The cavalry of the Zhe family didn't wear armor at all, and immediately shot down a large number of them, especially the horses without any protection, screaming and fell to the ground. Zhe Deyuan was shocked, and quickly led his people back.

But as soon as he retreated, another drum sounded in the Yanyue formation of the Khitan people, more than [-] riders came out, all of them were tall horses with fast sprints, and the hundreds of vanguards of Zhe Deyuan were thrown into chaos at once. .

When Zhede was willing to withdraw more than a hundred steps and start to form a team, after counting, he felt sorry for him and trembled.

He suffered two rounds of arrow rain, was chased and slashed at the buttocks, and a total of 40 people were killed, and at least [-] horses fell down.

This was really an eye-opener. After Murong Nobunaga and others arrived, they drove back the chasing Khitan cavalry. It was the first time for them to see such a situation.

The Khitan people, who had always been on horseback, set up a large formation of Yanyue bows and crossbows by the river, and then hidden shock cavalry in the formation, which is completely a typical Han Chinese style of play.

And these Han people are all cavalry carrying out raids, similar to the grassland peoples.

After Murong Nobunaga was shocked, he immediately burst into ecstasy, and he immediately cupped his hands at Zhe De.

"General, let's get off our horses too. These Lan Xi want to shoot bows and crossbows with Tang'er, I'm afraid they are crazy."

"Hahaha!" Zhe Dejian laughed a few times, this is really a misunderstanding within a misunderstanding.

The Khitan people on the opposite side must have regarded their thousands of people as some kind of grassland people. By accident, the Khitan people would use their own strengths to attack their strengths, and I am afraid they will suffer a big loss.

"The whole army dismounts. Captain Murong brings a hundred god-armed archers as the central army. Let's fight on foot with the Khitans!"

Zhe Dejian and the others here laughed out loud, Xiao Shilu over there suddenly changed his face, and the general Kun Fajun beside him roared loudly.

"Not good! Superintendent, they are not grassland rangers from somewhere, but people from the Southern Dynasty. The grassland tribes can't produce thousands of white robes!"

Xiao Shilu's nephew, Xiao Qian, also exclaimed, "Could it be a trap set by the Lord Jin? The Jin envoy was killed, but they were just acting?"

Xiao Shilu looked at the horse that had been led away, and it was too late to get on the horse again.

But fighting on foot is just fighting on foot, the Khitan people often fish and hunt in the mountains and forests, so they may lose to the people of the Southern Dynasty if they fight on foot.

"It's not that Lord Jin sent troops here, he didn't have the guts, this must be another so-called loyal minister of the Southern Dynasty who sent troops without authorization!"

Xiao Shilu roared, even if Jin Lord Shi Jingtang turned against him now, he cannot admit it, lest he shake the morale of the army.

Fighting a feudal town where the Southern Dynasty sent troops without authorization is not the same as launching a full-scale war with the Southern Dynasty.

"Murong Dalang, unfurl our flag, your lord has ordered, let these Khitan people and Tang'er from the Northland see who is back!"

Li Cunhui yelled at Murong Xinchang, and the latter immediately let the few Regret Mountains who had been following him ride carefully, and raised a flag of the sun, moon, stars and three stars waving in the wind.

Xiao Shilu seemed to be struck by lightning, he fixedly looked at the three-star flag, then shook his head violently.

"Impossible! Datang hasn't existed for decades, hum! If you pull the tiger's skin to pull the banner, I won't be fooled by you."

The formations of the two sides are similar, and the combat methods are also similar. They all concentrate on strong bows and crossbows to shoot at each other in the middle, and then spread out like crane wings on both sides, and use a small number of crossbowmen to form an outflank shooting.

There are hundreds of shock cavalry hidden in the formation, and the final decision is made.

The Khitan left hundreds of people to look after the horses, and the Guiyi Army also left hundreds of people to look after the horses.

In this cold and windy noon, but there was no snow, the Guiyi army who took the initiative to attack stepped on a thin layer of crunching white snow and launched an active attack.

'Boom! With the sound of a drum, each team hastened to beat the snare drums in their hands. The fire chief and fire deputy were lined up at both ends of each row. They controlled the rhythm of the team and let the soldiers walk out of a relatively straight line.

Every time they walk about twenty steps, the snare drum in the team leader's hand will stop beating, and the army will stop instantly, and then start to adjust the queue to make the queue more orderly, so as to ensure that no small team walks to the front of the whole formation.

Then the big drum of the commander in chief of the Chinese army will be beaten again, and then the small drum of the captain will be beaten again, and the army will continue to move forward.

A whole 3000 people infantry, armed with bows and crossbows, carried rifles on their backs, and walked out at a fairly uniform pace.

And this sense of oppression that is slowly approaching is very great.

A drop of cold sweat rolled down Xiao Shilu's forehead, although he thought in his heart that it was impossible for Datang to come back.

But this kind of powerful heavy infantry combined with cavalry tactics is the most typical tactics of Datang.

And he also took a fancy to the enemy's central army, and there were heavy infantrymen carrying shiny Mo Dao on their backs.

You must know that since the late Tang Dynasty, the Modao Army, which consumes a lot of money and is purely based on money, has gradually disappeared.

The Jiedu Envoys will definitely not form the Modao Army, so why do they form it?After spending all the money, when they rebel and make trouble, cut themselves up and cut them up more neatly?

With the money for training the Modao army, it is better to give the soldiers a little more to make them more loyal.

At least when there is trouble, because of the multiple shares given by the previous property, I just drive you away instead of hacking your whole family to death.

This is partly the reason why armored cavalry began to decline rapidly in the fifth generation.

What are you doing with such a big price for an armored ride?Death is expensive and death is expensive, and it can only be used to make a final decision on the battlefield. It is better to share the money with everyone and form good relationships.

And in this era, if you can still form the Modao Army and armored cavalry, that would be incredible!

Li Cunxu had thousands of armored cavalry, so he dominated more than half of the rivers and mountains, which made Zhu Wen feel that he should have a son like Li Yazi.

Yang Xingmi crossed the Jianghuai River and formed the Heiyun Longjian City based on the Modao Army. He fought invincible opponents all over the southeast and achieved the reputation of No. 1 in the Ten Kingdoms.

All in all, at this time, several countries in the world stand side by side, and the Jiedu envoys of various places rebel and surrender from time to time, but it is not an exaggeration to say that those who can afford armored cavalry and Modao army in the army are rare, and they must be the strong among the strong .

(End of this chapter)