Han Hai Tang Ergui

In Bai Congxin's hands, the cruelty of war was vividly displayed.

He wanted to stimulate Hu Guang and Zhang Zhong to come to help earlier, so that the soldiers under his command would not fall into a passive position. Of course, more importantly, he wanted to lead the Saman Persian army to the north bank of Yaoshashui.

He even let go of his hinterland directly, exposing the old and weak to the blade of the Persians.

Bai Congxin was actually able to block the Saman Persian army on the south bank of Yaoshashui, allowing the two armies to face each other across the river.

But this is meaningless, because Saman Persia has more than 400 million people, and there is the entire Tianfang Sect behind it as a hinterland that can recruit warriors.

However, Bai Congxin's Shiguocheng and Lu Sanlang's Baishui City currently live temporarily have only 11 Han people, and the ruling Hu people are 47.

The gap is almost ten times. The only thing that can be relied on is that the combat effectiveness of the Han people is far superior to that of Saman Persia, and because they are armed immigrants, the ratio of males to soldiers is extremely high.

In this case, the non-stop confrontation will directly consume Bai Congxin to death.

Only after a decisive battle and the complete defeat of Saman Persia, can we avoid being killed by the enemy with size, and then achieve a comeback from the Jedi.

And after three medium-scale battles, this time the two sides will attack and invest 20 soldiers and more than 20 civilians. This battle will be a decisive battle that will determine the fate of both sides.

So Bai Congxin simply studded directly. In order to lead the Saman Persian army to the north bank of the river and cut off their retreat, he directly opened the door of his own house.

In September, more and more small groups of Persian troops infiltrated, and the Han settlement fortress on the north bank of Yaoshashui continued to fall. Both Wang Liu and Chen Sanlang were forced to go to Wanli City because Yingchun Fort could not be defended.

And not only Yingchun Fort, but the entire Wanli Propaganda Envoy made it almost impossible to defend the following ten fortresses. People dragged their families and retreated to Wanli City, gathering all their strength to hold on.

Immediately afterwards, the Han people of Beiqingzhou and other Xuanwei envoys to the north of Wanli City also began to retreat. Even Shiguo City, more than ten miles out of the city, was no longer a safe zone.

Although the Han people spontaneously organized and formed four or five self-rescue cavalry with more than 500 people.

But all of them are under 15 years old and over 40 years old, and they can barely maintain a basic early warning and rescue.

In October, there was a loud noise outside Zhenhu Fort. The rebellious Hu people took advantage of the night to smash down the small gate on the west side of Zhenhu Fort. Nearly [-] Hu people took machetes, wooden guns, and wooden sticks to start a wave after wave. A wave of shock, if it wasn't for the strong resistance of the Han people in the fortress, they would have been beaten in.

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Thirty miles north of Zhenhubao, Hu Guang led the forbidden army to Shenshe Town and Xisanwanhu Grassland with [-] cavalry, and they have arrived for two days.

Faced with this situation, Hu Guang, who has always been known for his calmness, couldn't sit still. After walking back and forth for a few steps, he muttered in a voice that only he could hear:

"Bai Congxin is too ruthless, once he succeeds, his bones will be exhausted!
He didn't hesitate to take advantage of Zhenhubao, even his own future, and the bet was that the imperial army would definitely come to support him.

Not the time!But it must be dispatched. It is not a pity for Bai Congxin to die, but if thousands of Han people in Zhenhubao are killed, the saint will definitely not forgive me.

Thieves kill talents, count you as ruthless! "

Thinking of this, Hu Guang, who was called General Tiger by the officers and soldiers, turned around abruptly and waved his hand.

"Send troops to wipe out all the mutants, and hunt down all the infiltrated Persians north of Heyang Town!"

Iron cavalry swept across the town of Hubao like a torrent, and the Han people at the top of the city looked at the bright silver-white three-star flag, cheered and then burst into tears.

The mutated people who participated screamed and were killed indiscriminately, those who did not participate touched the cold sweat on their heads, and pretended to cheer along with the Han people.

The so-called Bianmin were just farmers and herdsmen. They didn't even have a few iron knives. Tens of thousands of people fought against 3000 people in the town of Hubao. They couldn't fight for two months.

Under the sweep of Huguang's [-]-step cavalry, they quickly collapsed. After Huguang captured and killed its leader, the Han militia in Zhenhubao immediately went out of the city to hunt and kill these rebels.

The blood dyed the land outside Zhenhubao red, and it seemed that it deserved it for a while.

Almost at the same time, Abu Yusuf was also preparing to start a general attack on the Han army in Heyang Town.

The famous Saman Persian general hoped to infiltrate with a small amount of fine cavalry, completely ravage the hinterland of the Han army, cut off the retreat of the Han army in Heyang Town, and force them to retreat before pursuing.

Therefore, he selected a total of more than [-] knights, including hundreds of Ikta noble knights, to carry out the task.

But the situation did not meet Abu Yusuf's expectations. The cavalry captured many fortresses settled by Han Chinese, but most of them gave up on their own initiative. Five thousand elite cavalry infiltrated the past, and only a few Han Chinese were killed by them. to a hundred people.

Most of the rest of the people gathered in a fairly large castle, which cannot be broken by thousands of cavalry.

Moreover, the Han people also formed a very powerful cavalry, which has been protecting the logistics supply line of the Han army. Abu Yusuf tried to cut it off many times, but failed.

As for the people in the hinterland of the Han people who originally belonged to the Emir of Saman, Abu Yusuf has given up all hope for them.

Because those who dared to resist were either killed or taken away as slaves when Shiguo City was captured.

The rest are cowards who would be scared to death if they lead the way, let alone resist together.

Well, when Salar, a noble officer from Damascus, was intercepted and killed by Song Heishan and the others, Abu Yusuf had no idea that there was already a commotion in Zhenhubao.

Otherwise, all the infiltrated cavalry would definitely be sent to Zhenhubao. In that case, the game of chess might survive.

But now Abu Yusuf doesn't know this, so in the face of the situation where the infiltration battle can't achieve good results, Abu Yusuf decided to start the decisive battle directly.

According to the current situation, a small group of troops or even a few thousand people confronted each other, and the combat effectiveness of the Saman Persian army could not be compared with the Han army at all.

Then we can only engage in decisive battles among large corps, and use the gap in quantity to make up for the lack of quality.

Boom!Boom!Hundreds of war drums kept beating, and the earth seemed to tremble along with it.

The [-] Han army was dominated by the [-] Han army in Heyang Township, and more than [-] troops were placed on the two wings of Yesu Ridge and Lianghekou to guard the flanks of the army.

All the soldiers and horses have been compressed by the Persians to this place with a radius of seven or eight miles.

Abu Yousuf wore iron armor shining with dark silver light, and an iron helmet with a nose guard on his head, and his neck was integrated with the iron helmet, hanging on both sides with a clatter, which was both good-looking and good in protection.

Strictly speaking, Abu Yusuf is not a Persian, certainly not a Sogdian, he is a big cannibal.

His family is a Dashi family deeply married to the Persian nobles in Khorasan.

It is said that the ancestor of Abu Yusuf's mother was the founding hero of the Abbasid dynasty who sent troops to attack Gao Xianzhi in Talas, known as the Dashi Hanxin, Abu Muslim.

Therefore, in the entire Saman Persia, Abu Yusuf has always had a strong interest in preventing the heretics from the east, and he is also one of the people in Saman Persia who is most familiar with the Peach Blossom Stone Empire.

He is well aware of the power of the revived Peach Blossom Stone Empire, and he also clearly knows that only by raising the banner of jihad and packaging itself as a banner against the Eastern pagans, can the Saman royal family have hope can save the country.

And to let the Tianfangjiao world know the determination and ability of Samanbos, it is necessary to recover Shiguocheng, drive away Bai Congxin who is not fully supported by the Taohuashi Empire, and have another Talas to prove it to everyone!

On the broad river bend plain, the breeze blew the smell of killing water. Abu Yousuf rode out and shouted in front of tens of thousands of elite soldiers:
"My brothers, 200 years ago, not far from here, our ancestors, led by the incarnation of Allah, blocked the invasion of the Taohuashi pagans and kept our homeland.

And now, when the heretics come again to the land where their ancestors lay dead, my brothers, are these peach-blossom people luckier than their ancestors? "

"No, never! Because the descendants of heroes will defeat them again!"

A piece of cold knowledge, decades ago, there was still a Hulami faction of Tianfang Sect active in the Hezhong area.

This is a very alternative Tianfang sect, which was formed after the unjust murder of Abu Muslim by Caliph Mansur of the Abbasid dynasty.

This sect incorporates a certain amount of Manichaeism, believes that light and darkness are two opposites, advocates equalization of the rich and the poor, opposes social oppression, and likes to play the game of divine revelation.

They believe that Musa (Moses), Isa (Jesus), Muhammad and the prophets of the Hurami sect are all God's messengers in the world.

The unjustly killed Abu Muslim is regarded as the incarnation of Allah in the world, and he will return to the world at some point to punish evil and uphold justice.

What a coincidence, no, I, Zhang Shengren, don't really want to use it, but arrange a prophet for the Hulamis.

A prophet from the east, sent by the supreme heaven, and then lead them to demand justice and justice from the big cannibal, this is still possible.

After 200 years of suppression by the Abbasid dynasty, the Hurami sect has declined on the surface, but there are naturally many such sects among the people.

Now Abu Yusuf, in order to cheer himself up with the prestige of half his ancestor Abu Muslim, and to fool the lower classes of Saman Persia into fighting for the upper classes for free, has 'released' the Hurami faction.

The cheers of the Saman Persians spread throughout the battlefield, but the cost behind it was multiplying.

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"Back back, another three miles, Lu Zhen, Bai Congyu, and Chen Tingxiao each lead their troops to stand firm outside Heyang Town, let the Persians attack the city first!"

On Bai Congxin's side, he didn't have any bold words, because there was absolutely no need for them.

Those who followed Bai Congxin to this place were either the Kucha people who were ruled by the former Bai clan who was once known as the Yellow-headed Uighur, or the armed immigrants from the Han Dynasty.

Everyone knows that if you win a battle, you will be extremely rich, and if you lose, you will die without a place to bury yourself, so there is no need for verbal mobilization at all.

On the seventh day of October, Abu Yusuf's army officially arrived west of Heyang Town, and immediately began to attack.

However, Abu Yusuf was very smart. Instead of directly attacking Heyang Town, which had two large military camps outside the city, he first cut off the two wings of Heyang Town, namely the garrisons at Yesuling and Lianghekou.

Yesu Ridge is actually not a mountain, but a low hilly area, and Lianghekou is the confluence of two tributaries on the north bank of Yaoshashui.

Abu Yusuf's army was as many as 12, of which at least 7000 were in armor, while Bai Congxin's actual armored soldiers were only 200 under his control and [-] of Lu Sanlang's.

This is also an important reason why Bai Congxin has always been on the defensive. Although the Han army is powerful, it is still too small to face Saman Persia.

Therefore, it must be used with caution. If the boat capsizes in the gutter, it is very likely that the capital will be wiped out at once.

Between Yesu Ridge and Shuanghekou, the Persian army first chose Yesu Ridge, because the terrain of Yesu Ridge is relatively complicated and can hide 2 or [-] people.

Abu Yousuf was afraid that Bai Congxin would have an ambush here, so he first sent general Ziyad to attack with [-] cavalry.

As soon as the Yesu Ridge battle started, Bai Congxin in Heyang Town began to deploy troops to try to attack the rear of the Persian army.

However, there are still tens of thousands of troops in the Persian camp outside the city, and tens of thousands of Saman Persian civilians can also be mobilized, and the number reaches nearly [-].

Their morale was high, and Bai Congxin sent troops to battle three times, at most 2 people at one time, but they still couldn't completely repel the Persian army outside the city, and couldn't go to Yesu Ridge safely.

On October 2000th, the Yesuling Han army was forced to retreat. Because Yesuling was too low and there was no large city to hold on to, there were only [-] regular soldiers in the [-]-strong army. To attack, you can only retreat to the north.

After winning this battle, the morale of the Persian army was greatly boosted. Abu Yusuf immediately began to increase Ziyad's troops by [-], and ordered him to attack the Han army at Lianghekou.

But this time it was not so easy to fight, because all the Han troops in Lianghekou were cavalry, and each had three horses.

Although there is only one small ferry to rely on at Shuanghekou, they can leave at any time if they can't beat it.

On the other hand, there were only a few thousand cavalry under Ziad's command, and the infantry accounted for the vast majority. After several days of testing, the Han army could not defend the small crossing of Shuanghekou, nor could it defeat the nearly 5-man Persian army. Live this cavalry team.

The stalemate lasted until October 22. Bai Congxin ordered someone to send an order to An Cunzhong, who was born in Bashimi Wanhu Anqi and personally guarded Qianhu, ordering him to lead his army to bypass Ziyad's Persian army and go to meet Chen Tingxiao's troops.

It turned out that Bai Congxin had received the news that Huguang lifted the siege of Zhenhubao.

The Saman Persian cavalry was not as numerous as the Han army, so it was natural to take back the elite cavalry that had been sent out before a decisive battle.

It's just that once they withdrew, Bai Congxin's communication with the rear was immediately restored.

Knowing that Huguang sent troops, Bai Congxin was overjoyed, and he immediately formulated a bolder battle plan.

Let Chen Tingxiao, who is stationed on the left wing of Heyang Town, break out, and withdraw Bai Congyu, who is stationed on the right wing of Heyang Town, back into the city.

Chen Tingxiao's troops had a lot of cavalry, and it was just right for them to maneuver when they broke out. Bai Congyu had mostly infantry and archers recruited from Beiting, which happened to be used to defend the city.

The biggest advantage of doing so is that it allows the Persians to directly attack Heyang Town, which has a relatively strong city wall, and it can also give the Persians the illusion that they defeated the Han army outside the city.

After they attacked Heyang Town violently until the veterans were exhausted, Hu Guang rushed back with Chen Tingxiao and An Cunzhong outside, and the Persian army was finished.

However, doing so is not without risk. Heyang Town is not big, and it is already a bit crowded with 2 people, and 6000 people from Bai Congyu, plus a large number of livestock, no matter the living environment or The supply of water and food will be very tight.

Counting the farmers who could be used as cannon fodder, the Persian army outside the city numbered about [-] to [-], and tens of thousands of soldiers. In case of a mistake, it is not impossible for Heyang Town to be captured.

This is a big gamble, Bai Congxin bets that he can defend Heyang Town, and bets that Huguanghui will suddenly appear when the Persian soldiers are exhausted.

On October 27, the Persian army began to attack Chen Tingxiao's troops on the left wing of Heyang Town, but Bai Congxin still sent a large army to contain them.

Three days after the war, the morale was at its peak, and the Persians who risked their lives to attack more than a thousand casualties finally "captured" the left-wing camp.

The [-]-step cavalry on the left wing broke out under the support of An Cunzhong.

All the Persian troops immediately attacked the right wing without stopping, although Bai Congyu's troops on the right wing also had [-] cavalry.

But most of them are Han people who came to Hezhong after the last battle in Shiguocheng. The combat power may be OK, but the organization is not high.

Sure enough, something went wrong in Bai Congxin's adventure. People on the battlefield shouted horses, fought with swords, arrows rained like rain, and the smell of panic brought by the smell of blood filled the front, back, left, and right sides.

When the right wing was retreating into the city, it was charged by the Persian cavalry, and as a result, it collapsed, which almost caused the collapse of the entire right wing army. It took a loss of 800 people to barely stabilize the situation.

Abu Yousuf was overjoyed when he saw it on the hillside. He originally suspected that it was Bai Congxin who deliberately lured him to attack, but now he was 'convinced' that the Han army could not bear the pressure and was forced to retreat.

. . . .

Outside Tianmen Pass, Lao Zhang Zhong had already assembled his army. The Ning Yuan Army of the Yamen Army dispatched three thousand elites, led by the mighty general Dang Jin.

Jin Guofan's army dispatched [-], and Li Congde personally put on his helmet and armor and led Ma Jirong, Xue Shouli, and a group of blond Khotan army generals to stand on Zhang Zhong's left.

However, they will not dispatch immediately. They will wait until Bai Congxin sends a signal from Heyang Town, and then they will go down the Yaosha River, smash the Persian water village in the river, and cut off the Persian retreat.

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In Heyang Town, the siege battle was at its worst. Abu Yusuf brutally drove a large number of civilians, almost using their lives to fill up the trenches outside the city, and also consumed a lot of arrows from the defenders. Then the army Take turns to attack.

The battle lasted from October 29 to the beginning of December, and both defenses suffered heavy casualties.

The Shiguocheng area has a typical temperate continental climate, with a dry hot season from June to September every year, and a rainy season with lower temperatures from December to April next year.

At the beginning of December, the temperature that should have been around zero suddenly rose to sixty-seven degrees. During the rainy season, there should be less precipitation in December, but it suddenly rained continuously for several days.

This has brought great pain to both sides. If the temperature is too low, the rain will turn into heavy snow and the impact on human beings will not be great. At worst, the war will be stopped temporarily.

But the temperature suddenly rises by a few degrees, and then a meal of sleet will settle you down, and the cold will soak into the bone marrow, especially in ancient times when there were not many means of preventing cold. It is absolutely no exaggeration to say that life is worse than death.

Abu Yousuf looked at the dilapidated city wall of Heyang Town. Although he was very reluctant to part with it, he still wanted to retreat in his heart.

Bai Congxin also saw Abu Yusuf's hesitation, so he directly increased the price.

Although the Han army was also tortured by the cold wind and rain, the benefits of giving actual benefits, land, food, money, and women appeared at this time.

Compared with the Abu Yusuf Persian soldiers who used the Hurami faction to fool, the soldiers of the Han Army knew who they were fighting for, and knew that whether they were killed in battle or injured and retired, there were reliable protection regulations, so They are more able to fight the enemy hard in this cruel weather.

At this moment, Abu Yusuf already understood that Bai Congxin wanted to drag him here.

However, the victory of "breaking the Han army" along the way and the desire for success overwhelmed his rationality. Seeing the Han army marching out of the city, Abu Yusuf also mobilized the army to fight the Han army.

Just when Abu Yusuf commanded 2 soldiers and horses to besiege Baicongxin with [-] people, Lu Ketu, the son of Lu Zhen Lu Sanlang, broke through from the city to the north and found Chen Tingxiao and An Cunzhong who had been ambushing here. Twelve thousand cavalry.

At this time, Luketu had already become a famous warrior in the river. He was from Xizhubu, and he had a stronger influence on this cavalry, most of whom came from the grassland and believed in the Six Dharma School.

In the cold wind, the rain stopped for a while. Compared with the rain in the previous few days, the ground was much drier, which was suitable for cavalry to attack.

Luketu ordered people to light more than a dozen huge bonfires, all of which were managed by monks from the Six Dharma Schools.

With a loud cry, Luktu pulled out his sword, took the lead and put the blade into the fire, and let the flames lick it for a while before taking it out.

There is a special term for this ritual in the Six Dharma School called tempering. All weapons that pass through this ritual will be contaminated with mana bestowed by the Supreme Heaven, which can make enemies killed by these weapons fall into the eighteenth level of hell.

Tens of thousands of cavalry began to forge one after another, the scene was very spectacular, and then a huge wine basin appeared in front of them.

Hundreds of monks from the Six Dharma Sect, ghost-drawing talismans, generally drew countless Dao talismans on yellow paper with cinnabar, and then threw them into the wine basin to turn them into talisman water.

Anyone who drinks this talisman water will be blessed with invincibility.

Don't doubt, this is the trick of engaging in magic fights and inviting magic soldiers. Even these guys who look like monks are directly transferred from the Taoist sect.

After forging their weapons and drinking the talisman water, all the prairie cavalry felt that they were invincible.

Luketu led them, piously chanted the Sutra of Calamity, and then raised his arms and shouted:
"The disciplinary knights of the heavens, heretics are in Heyang Town, they don't know God, they are stubborn and barbaric.

Let us go there, use the sword in our hands and the longbow on our backs, and teach them what is the truth!
Barbarians who cannot feel the glory of the sky are only worthy of being beheaded by noble disciplinary knights, and their souls will wail in the [-]th floor of hell forever.

Attack and punish the knights! "

As soon as the words fell, hundreds of gold swastika flags with silver and white backgrounds were beaten up, and [-] fine riders began to slowly approach the battlefield in Heyang Town!