Han Hai Tang Ergui

In a cold weapon, or an army without mechanization, rapid marching is a difficult job.

It can even be said that there have not been many armies that can march hundreds of miles in a few days and nights.

By the time they were able to march through this section of the road in a hurry, the outcome of the battle was basically doomed.Because such an army is invincible.

Especially in the era of cold weapons, this represents good nutrition, firm will, strong desire to fight, unity of upper and lower goals, after-the-fact compensation and rewards that satisfy soldiers, and absolute confidence in oneself.

The biography of Sun Tzu Wu Qi said that a man who is a hundred miles away is a general, and a man who is fifty miles away is halfway to the army, which is actually very illustrative.

It's not that a raid of a hundred miles will definitely fail, but that there are too few troops who can march a hundred miles in a hurry before fighting with others.

As far as most armies in the feudal era were concerned, it was normal for soldiers to run away after a quick march of fifty miles.

But Zhang Ting's army will definitely be able to achieve the effect of a thousand-mile surprise attack.

Because this can be said to be Zhang Zhou's most elite cavalry, and he also has a wealth of experience and conclusions about long-distance raids.

Zhang Tie divided the 3000 people into the front, middle and rear armies, and the front army had [-] vanguards. Murong Nobunaga was the vanguard officer, and Zhao Kuangyin, Zhang Xibao, and Feng Jiye were the lieutenants.

These 3000 people are all light cavalry with one person and two horses. The horses do not wear armor, and the people only wear light armor without armguards, and wear leather stomachs on their heads.

The horses are selected from the three generations of mixed sweat horses that are best at long-distance running. The weapons are not equipped with horses, but only two horse bows, one hard bow, sixty feather arrows, one horizontal knife for horse fighting, and one day's water and dry food. .

As hussars, their role was to scout the road ahead for the army and disperse small groups of enemies they encountered.

After encountering the target, entangle the target first, and launch a surprise attack after the arrival of the army.

Of course, you can also disperse the enemy army directly when the time is right, and then drive the enemy army in the direction where the army came, and let the enemy die by themselves.

Therefore, Murong Xinchang and the others are very fast. The minimum requirement Zhang Ting gave Murong Xinchang was to run the [-] miles from Xiangzhou to Jizhou in three and a half days, and then find the Khitan army and entangle them .

This requirement is not low. In history, those who ran three or four hundred miles a day were either fleeing for their lives, regardless of whether they were still fighting or not, or they were generalized and exaggerated.

The rest are all like Zhang Tie. The striker ran wildly without hesitation, found and entangled the enemy army, and waited for the large army to arrive.

Then the record became that he ran five hundred miles a day and night to defeat the enemy.

It's just that for Zhang Yu, these precious Hexi sweat horses and Hexi folded ear horses under his command are reluctant to waste them like this.

So Murong Nobunaga was required to run about [-] miles a day and night.

The main force of the Chinese army is 8000 people, one person and three horses, one horse carries heavy armor and weapons, and the other two horses ride in turns.

Take a horse to run for thirty miles first, then the cavalry dismounts and walks for fifteen miles, and the other horse runs for another thirty miles in order to relay.

The Chinese army is the main force in the battle, divided into 5000 people of half-armored cavalry.

The horse only wears a simple mask and breastplate, and the man wears a cloth-faced iron armor. Equipped with a horse bow, a hard bow, a projectile extended long-tip bow, a horned crossbow, and an iron whip/pecking hammer , Ma Zhan with a horizontal knife and a pear flower gun.

Individual elites are also equipped with a god arm bow, which is used as a heavy step to dismount at critical moments.

The remaining 500 cavalry are [-] people fully armored cavalry, each with a brother, nephew, and nephew as righteous servants.

Equipped with a horse lance, a horned crossbow, and an iron whip/pecker hammer, their fighting method is the simplest, which is to attack the most tenacious enemy.

The 2000 people in the rear army are basically doing logistical work. One is to send supplies to the large troops on fast horses, and the other is to collect the horses and cavalry that have fallen behind, and send the reserve horses and cavalry to the central army.Food and grass and other supplies are also in the rear army.

Of course, if the main force of the Chinese army cannot start the situation, the rear army will immediately go into battle.

At the end of April, Zhang Ting's whole army went north from Weizhou (Daming) at an extremely fast speed, passed through Beizhou, and entered Jizhou.

Just after Wuyi County in Jizhou, Liu Zhiyuan personally led [-] Hedong troops to cross Shenzhou (Shen County) and arrived at Hengshui County, an important town in Jizhou.

However, Hengshui County and Wuyi County were less than [-] miles apart, and Zhang Tie sneaked under the eyes of Liu Zhiyuan's army and sneaked behind them.

This is not to say that Zhang Tie's 3000 and 40,000 people cannot beat Liu Zhiyuan's [-] people, but the Khitan's [-] cavalry are obviously a more worthy target than Liu Zhiyuan's Hedong Army.

When Zhang Tie received the exact news that Yeluruan mobilized all the troops of Khitan Tokyo, Zhongjing, Shangjing and Youzhou, and collected 40,000 people to go south, his face almost died of laughter.

This is not to pinch him, it is clearly God's help!
Because even though Khitan has a strong fishing and hunting attribute, its tactics are mostly grassland style.

The joke that there are more Khitan infantry than the Song Dynasty, it will happen around the time of getting Liao Daozong Yelu Hongji, the current Khitan, the absolute main force is still the cavalry.

In the history of this kind of grassland empire, the difficulty is not to defeat them, but how to find them and force them to fight decisively.

The difficulty is how to inflict damage on a large scale after the decisive battle and severely damage its vitality.

Now that the Khitan people have experienced the disastrous defeat in Yanshi City, it can be said that the elites have basically been wiped out. What Zhang Ting fears most is actually that Yeluruan led the Khitan people back to western Liaoning.

Then retreated cruelly to the old forests in the northeast and Tongliao, Xing'an League and Hulunbeier in the eastern Inner Mongolia of later generations.

In that case, it will be difficult to kill them again.

Zhu Di has experienced this kind of suffering in history. After working hard and mobilizing many people, he couldn't find anyone, so he had to march in the desert with arms.

After all, Huo Qubing, a superhero with a built-in radar, has not appeared in China for thousands of years.

Therefore, when Zhang Ting knew that Yeluruan was staying in Youzhou and was still building Jiqing Palace, he directly ordered that the embargo on commodities in Youzhou be lifted.

They even sold a batch of rice noodles and sugar tea to the Khitan people at a low price, just because they were afraid that Yeluruan would go back to the grassland.

And this sugar-coated cannonball really had a great effect. Not only Yeluruan didn't want to leave Youzhou, but the Khitan nobles were also overwhelmed by the prosperity of Youzhou and the high-end enjoyment of a large amount of polished rice, white flour and sugar tea.

Even a great talent like Yelu Wuzhi never proposed to leave Youzhou.

After passing Wuyi, you entered the border of Cangzhou and Yingzhou. Although this is the rear, Zhang Tie is actually freer than in Weizhou and Beizhou.

Because before the army set off, Zhang Tie sent Gao Xingzhou to Cangzhou to recruit the Henghai Navy in Cangzhou and the original Beishan heroes scattered in Cang, Ying, and Mo.

At the same time, Jinyi's personal guards also went north with Huangfu Chong, Du Zhimin and others, and also got the cooperation of a large number of local tyrants in Hebei.

Throughout the four prefectures of Cang, Ying, Mo, and Yi, there are local tyrants who tipped off Zhou Jun.

They even organized horse teams to convey information to the army, and attacked traitors loyal to the Khitans and small groups of Khitan troops collecting food.

Therefore, once he arrived in Cangzhou, Zhang Tie's news about the Khitan people became clearer.

Yeluruan didn't know that Zhang Tie had come yet, but Zhang Teng not only knew that Yeluruan was here, but also knew exactly where he was and how many miles he marched every day.

However, there is not much time left for Zhang Ting, because just now the rear army You Yiqi came to report that the Tuyuhun people from the east of the river under Liu Zhiyuan's orders had already touched the north of Wuyi County, and had a small-scale conflict with the rear army behind the palace. .

Zhang Ting knew that it must be that the Hedong Army saw the traces left by his [-] cavalry troops.

Liu Zhiyuan is now sending the Tuyuhun rangers from Hedong to investigate, and when he finds out that Zhang Tie has sneaked behind him, he will probably stop attacking Beizhou and send the Hedong Jingqi to attack Zhang Tie with the Khitan people.

When Zhang Tie led his army to Cangzhou and began to search for the exact location of the Khitan army, the battle at the mouth of Hezhang Valley had reached its most intense moment.

After two days and nights of water release, the water at the mouth of the Hezhang Valley has returned to normal levels.

But the entire valley mouth has completely turned into a swamp, and the mud can reach the ankles with one step. It is completely impossible for a heavy horse to gallop while carrying a heavy load.

Guo Wei personally led 7000 people and surrounded Zhang Zhaojun and Huang Yingda's 500 people in a small hill.

To the north are Bai Wenke's 5000 people from Hezhang, to the northwest are Shi Hongzhao's 500 people, and to the front are the [-] elites from Hedong controlled by Li Chongjin, Bai Zairong and others.

The remaining 5000 people were controlled by Guo Wei himself and arranged in the south.

Almost 20,000 people were surrounded by three missing one, and the battle at the beginning reached a fever pitch.

The water-soaked soil restricted the mobility of the armies of both sides, so that forming an formation and stabbing each other became difficult. Both sides gave up the protection of the lower body such as skirts and used bows and crossbows to shoot at each other.

Zhang Zhaojun's troops have a certain camp to defend, but the territory is too small to accommodate 500 people, so they can only go out to fight.

Guo Weijun used Peng Pai as the wall and the silt as the horse to attack from three sides.

The infantry who lost their movement speed was simply the best target for bows and crossbows. The two sides poured arrows at each other in waves, which was completely exchanging lives for lives.

The melee bravery is completely useless, the only thing you can rely on is the strength of your armor, the accuracy of your archery, and your luck.

However, Zhang Zhaojun's troops were small, and Guo Wei's troops were large, so they could take turns to fight alternately, so the balance of victory began to tilt towards the Hedong Army.

But Zhang Zhaojun didn't panic, because he was ready for a decisive battle with the Hedong Army in the camp.

The bow and crossbow in the water-soaked ground can rely on the numerical advantage against the Shehe River Army, but when it comes to the hard ground in the camp, the Zhou army's melee advantage can be brought into play.

The fight below was fierce, and in the fort above, Li Rongzheng walked towards the camp where Shi Wen of the Hedong Army was with a smile on his face.

He was followed by dozens of people, and escorted dozens of soldiers pretending to be the Imperial Army.

At the same time, there were several carts, and several sets of cloth armor were placed on top of the carts.

This kind of armor stomach unique to Zhou State is favored by warriors all over the world because of its ease of carrying and wearing, as well as its excellent defensive power and extremely light weight compared to armor.

The Hedong soldiers were no exception, at least Shi Wen's eyes never left the cloth armor that was said to be given to him.

However, under the long-term influence of his elder brother Shi Hongzhao, Shi Wen maintained a trace of rationality when he couldn't help opening the door. He only let Li Rong enter the door with no more than five relatives.

Li Rong immediately showed a vigilant look on his face. He called Shi Wen through the gate of the village, and when Shi Wen arrived, he asked questions without hesitation.

"Du Yuhou wants to kill me? A certain family has arrived at the gate of the village, and dozens of relatives are not allowed to enter the village?"

In fact, Shi Wen felt that this was really a bit bad. He came up to ask for surrender so enthusiastically, but he was prepared in many ways, and his cautious appearance was not in line with the aesthetics of warriors at this time.

But after all the words had been said, Shi Wen could only evade with a smile: "This is the order of the commanding envoy."

Li Rong's confidantes immediately started clamoring, and Li Shousi stepped forward and yelled even more.

"I've heard that Shi Hongzhao of Zhengzhou is a hero. I don't want to be in such a bad situation. My soldiers and horse envoys wholeheartedly rely on him. Is this the courage of the Hedong soldier?"

When Shi Wen heard the noise from the soldiers on the other side, he was even more sure that the soldiers on the other side were indeed here to seek refuge, otherwise they wouldn't have made such an angry noise.

You must know that the two armies are not a family at this time, and their soldiers and horse envoys have all come over directly.

Li Rong's face was also full of anger, he waved his hand to stop the noise of the soldiers.

"Since there is a commander's order, then a certain family should go back to the village and wait for the commander's call.

However, since these ten sets of cloth-faced iron armor were said to be given to Du Yuhou, there is no reason to take them back. I, Li Rong, keep my word. "

Speaking of which, Li Rong personally stepped forward and pushed the cart with cloth-covered iron armor to the gate of the village with his own hands.

Ten sets of cloth-covered iron armor are not light, weighing more than three hundred catties, and naturally they cannot be transported in unless the gate of the village is opened.

Shi Wen hesitated for a moment, and waved his hand to let the soldiers open the gate of the small village in front of him.

This time, Li Rong's expression was extremely normal, and it didn't make Shi Wen feel that something was wrong.

Second, there were dozens of people standing beside Shi Wen, all wearing leather armor, and there were at least a hundred people not far from the gate of the village.

On the other hand, on Li Rong's side, they were not wearing armor, but only wearing long gowns. Even if the total number of prisoners was included, there were still less than a hundred of them. Shi Wen thought that he could completely suppress the opponent.

Of course, there was still some negotiations just now, and his side really seemed a little uneasy, Shi Wen couldn't hold back his face, and he didn't want to struggle with whether to open the gate of the village.

In case people turn around and go back, the ten sets of precious cloth armor will be lost in vain.

Shi Wen felt so, and so did the soldiers around him, especially Shi Wen's confidantes, who thought that these cloth-covered iron armors had their own way, and they were even more eager in their hearts.

With a creak, the gate of the village was opened, and immediately, one of Shi Wen's followers felt something was wrong.

Because at this time Li Rong suddenly let out a low cry, and with a sudden force in his hands, the veins on his forehead popped up. He pushed the cart and slammed into it.

The follower was caught off guard, and was knocked to the ground in an instant. The surrounding Hedong soldiers were collectively stunned for a moment, their heads still in a state of shutdown due to shock.

Li Rong took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to quickly take out the hard bow that was tied up from under the cart, and the attendants behind him handed Li Rong the feathered arrow hidden in his clothes.

You must know that this Bingzhou titan who once served as Li Congrong's personal companion is not the most proud of his arms, but his archery skills.

At this moment, Li Rong brought his life's archery skills to the peak. He stood on the cart, and a personal attendant helped him stabilize the back of the cart.

The bowstring rises and falls in the tide, and the hands spread their wings like eagles.

Amidst the sound of rapid shooting, the arrow seemed to have eyes, and shot down the surrounding soldiers of the Hedong Army one after another.

A soldier from the east of the river yelled loudly, and was about to come up to fight for his life because he was wearing armor. Li Rong yelled loudly, and shot an arrow, which hit the soldier's face.

The wounded soldier howled like a beast, and fell directly to the ground, writhing like an earthworm.

Soon, two more people came up, and Li Rong fired another arrow, which hit the neck of one of them. The soldier who hadn't put his neck down, his knees went limp, and he covered his neck suddenly, not daring to charge again, so as not to lose blood. and die.

The other one had already rushed in front of Li Rong. Li Rong put down his bow, picked up a meteor hammer from the cart, and hit it with his head.

With a spiked meteor hammer, the meteor hammer added by the traction force of the iron chain directly dented the soldier's cheek.

In an instant, Li Rong had killed seven or eight people, and all the soldiers in Hedong were terrified.

At this moment, several arrows shot from a distance, and one of them hit Li Rong's chest, but it didn't penetrate, but hung crookedly on Li Rong's chest. A ringlock armor.

The one who shot Li Rong was also a good archer under Shi Wen's subordinates. Unfortunately, due to extreme nervousness, he only hit one of the three arrows in a row, and was blocked by Li Rong's inner armor.

Li Rong roared in pain, drew his bow and shot at him, knocking the man to the ground with just one arrow.

At this time, Zhang Quan and Li Shousi roared loudly and rushed in along the gate of the village. It turned out that they were wearing inner armor just like Li Rong.

And the dozens of Wuwei Town Forbidden Army who were 'in custody' also suddenly rioted. They were not tied up, and they were dressed in dusty armor majesticly in the appearance of prisoners.

However, Li Rong's entourage, who did not wear armor, quickly took off the cloth armor from the cart and put it on quickly, and more than a hundred people rushed into the fort of the Hedong Army like a torrent.

The Hedong soldiers in heavy armor were quickly pushed to the ground. Several people pressed their hands together, lifted their necks and stabbed them in the neck. Those without armor were chased and chopped by Zhou Jun in light armor.

Li Rong's surprise attack achieved good results immediately.

But when Li Rong and the others made their move, the soldiers on the mountain had put on their armor and rushed down after clamoring.

And as soon as they arrived, the defeat of the Hedong Army was already set.

Because even if they are camping in the wild, except for soldiers on duty, it is impossible for other people to wear armor at any time.

Therefore, the main force of the Hedong Army is the more than a hundred people in front of Li Rong, while most of the Zhou Army is in armor, and their combat effectiveness is naturally not the same.

At the foot of the mountain, Zhang Zhaojun saw that it was very difficult to shoot the bow and crossbow, so he took the initiative to shrink his troops and shrank everyone to the surrounding mountain.

Let the soldiers of the Zuo Jinwu Guard outside wear two layers of cloth armor to surround the camp to form a steel human wall.

Guo Wei also used heavy armored soldiers holding Peng platoons as cover, and attacked successively, constantly consuming the physical strength of the Zhou army's soldiers.

It can be said that Guo Wei's plan has achieved at least [-]% to [-]% of the goal.

More than [-] Zhou troops were trapped and could not move. They could only fight to the death in the mud with the Hedong army, which was more than six times their number.

The muddy ground is extremely slippery, not to mention cavalry, even soldiers will fall to the ground if they are slightly unstable, and then it is difficult to get up.

The two sides fought from the beginning of the time, that is, nine o'clock in the morning, to the middle of the time, that is, after one o'clock in the afternoon.

The bloody battle for two hours made the soldiers of the Zhou army extremely exhausted, and the crowded camp was too chaotic to take a good rest and rotation.

Zhang Zhaojun was extremely reluctance to choose the dead soldiers, and taking advantage of the short break in the battle, he ordered the dead soldiers to ride horses as the lead, and let all the more than [-] horses in the camp be released.

The horses that can be selected by the main guards in the pro army like Zuo Jinwuwei are all good horses.

Therefore, as soon as thousands of good horses were released, the formation of the Hedong Army outside suddenly became chaotic.

The number of people attacking forward decreased, and the number of people who snatched horses immediately increased.

Even many generals at the first level of Marquis of Duyu were directing their own horses, even Guo Wei couldn't stop them from killing several people.

A fine horse, a celestial horse from the west of the river, attracted soldiers and generals, and the military law of the Hedong army could not be restrained at all.

The Hexi Tianma of Zuo Jinwuwei can be worth sixty or seventy guan in Hedong, and most of them will be even higher.

This is not a war horse, but that is moving money!Only fools keep the discipline and don't rob.

Zhang Zhaojun immediately took advantage of this opportunity to let Huang Yingda lead his army to rush back, repelling the already dominant Hedong army, and then immediately adjusted his deployment, using the space vacated by the horses, to shrink all the soldiers into the camp.

Guo Wei was furious, and when he saw that his nephew Li Chongjin was directing people to rob Hexi horse, he was completely speechless.

And not long after, Bai Zairong's entourage and Guo Congyi's entourage clashed, because they both believed that they were the first to catch the golden pegasus.

Of course you have to snatch it, this is the mount of horse killer Zhang Zhaojun, named Sha Lijin, and half brother of Murong Nobunaga's second generation Xueli Yanchen, even in Hexi, they are rare horses.

Guo Wei looked at Guo Jin beside him in pain and said: "As long as you defeat Zhou Jun on the opposite side, what kind of Tianma are there?
At this time, we are looting, and when the main force of the Zhou army arrives, we have not yet laid down this camp, and this painstaking design will be over.

If the right time, place and people are in place, Master Zhou cannot be severely injured, and the world will be named Zhang! "

Guo Jin was serving as the Jiedu Envoy of the Baoda Army in Yanzhou, and was attacked by a kite sent by Zhang Tie, and then fled back to Hedong after going through hardships. Naturally, he didn't like Zhang Zhou very much, so he cheered up Guo Wei after hearing the words.

"All the generals have obtained so many good horses, from now on, the prestige of my Jingqi cavalry in the east of the river will recover a little bit.

They all arranged to tell the generals quickly, saying that there are thousands of sets of cloth armor on the opposite side, and they will all be given to the generals after the stronghold is broken, so that some combat effectiveness may be restored. "

Guo Wei took a deep breath and said in a low voice: "That's the only way to go, I hope the main force of the Zhou army will come later."

However, Guo Wei obviously thought too much. An hour later, Guo Wei urged the Hedong army to attack Zhang Zhaojun's camp twice. Instead of rolling in the mud, the Zhou army united with the enemy. Back away in embarrassment.

Two attacks, not to mention taking down the camp, can't even be suppressed.

At this moment, flames blazed up on the other side of Zhangshui, and Guo Wei looked in horror. It turned out that after Li Rong took down the fort, he did not choose to force Guo Wei's army, but stormed Guo Wei's camp on the other side of Zhangshui.

In this battle, Li Rong fully displayed his talent.

After taking down the Hedong army camp, Li Rong immediately boasted in the Hedong army, claiming that the emperor of Zhou Dynasty had appointed him as Luzhou Zhaoyi Jiedu envoy, as long as Shi Wen's more than a thousand Wujie troops joined him, they would share it together The goods of the Zhaoyi Army's three prefectures and nineteen counties.

Seeing that Shi Wen was killed, the Wu Jie army expected that Shi Hongzhao would have no way out because of his strict army management, and was lured by Li Rong's promise of [-] guns alone, so he immediately stayed where he was with the consent of several Yuhou. Backwater.

It is Li Rong who understands the tooth soldier's mind at this time. If Zhang Zhaojun comes, he will definitely not be able to achieve this effect.

After recruiting more than a thousand Wujie troops, Li Rong had more than [-] people in his hands. They crossed the river with the Wujie army's rafts, and directly attacked Guo Wei's barracks where he had hoarded grain and grass. Main village.

Guo Wei on the other side of the river was shocked, and was about to arrange for Li Chongjin to lead his army across the pontoon bridge to cross the river to rescue, when suddenly there was a lot of smoke from the east.

This was sent by the scouts arranged by Guo Wei, indicating that the Zhou Army Brigade had arrived again.

Two quarters of an hour later, Yan Jin ordered Zhang Zhaojiu (Dunzhu) to lead the forward 1000 people to the battlefield.

Zhang Zhao unfurled the white gold-rimmed sun flag symbolizing Zhang Zhou's royal family, the yellow Luogai umbrella symbolizing the emperor's presence, the silver-white gold-rimmed Sanchen flag symbolizing the commander of the army, and the silver-white hanging golden-twisted banner with tall teeth.

When the Zhou army saw the emperor's arrival in the camp, they cheered loudly. They were already exhausted, and they fought vigorously, and beat the attacking Hedong army even worse.

When the Hedong army saw the arrival of Zhou Tianzi, the Dazhai on the other side of the Zhangshui River was on fire again, and they were shocked. Bai Zairong and other troops left the battlefield first to snatch the pontoon bridge, and the battlefield was in chaos.

Guo Wei was furious and ordered Guo Jin to hold his banner and kill dozens of people before stopping the chaos.

But the army's morale was lost, and Zhou's army was attacking from both sides. Guo Wei had no choice but to give up the siege, left his luggage, and burned the pontoon bridge to cross the river.

Zhang Zhao immediately joined forces with Zhang Zhaojun and Huang Yingda, and chased them fiercely in the slippery mud.

Before they had time to cross the river, the Hedong army trampled on each other and threw themselves into the Zhangshui, killing countless people, and almost all the horses they grabbed were lost.