Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 784

Chapter [-] Anxi Army Attacks!

There is one point that Chen Ying said very pertinently.The Hebei Rebellion, although some Hebei clans were dissatisfied with the Tang Dynasty's counterattack against Hebei's alternative policies, and there were also Dou Jiande's former troops, who suffered from the reasons why Li Yuan killed Dou Jiande, but these are not the main reasons. The main reason is the Hebei Rebellion With the direct support of the East Turks.

The Eastern Turkic Jieli Khan not only sent more than 29 elite cavalry to be driven by Liu Shishan, but even more than [-] Eastern Turkic troops marched along Feng, Shuo, Yun, You, Ping, Dai and other [-] states for as long as [-] states. The border line of more than [-] miles is eyeing, ready to break through at any time.

In this way, instead of being able to stop Liu Shishan's rebellion, the troops stationed in the northern frontier state of the Tang army had to worry about the sudden attack of the Eastern Turks.Since the defeat of Li Shentong, there has been a huge vacancy. It will take time for the elite Tang army in Guanzhong to be transferred to Hebei. This also provided Liu Shishan with an opportunity to grow up when the rebellion was weakest.

Now, although Li Jiancheng led the four elites of the left and right guards and the left and right Siyu rates of the East Palace, as well as the left and right Wuwei, the left and right guards and other [-] troops into the Xiangzhou, Liu Shishan did not care about the gains and losses of a city and a state, and went with Li Jiancheng. If Li Jiancheng wants to solve Liu Shishan's rebellion, he still needs to reach a settlement with the representatives of the Hebei family.But it takes time.

At this time, Chen Ying's memorial to the war came.

In Li Yuan's heart, it's like the rain meets the rain after a long drought.

This memorial was just in time. Chen Ying led the Anxi Army to conquer the Western Turks. At this time, the Eastern Turks will definitely pay close attention to the war in the Western Turks and will weaken the support from Hebei.What's more beneficial is that the 40 Western Turkic army is not a soft persimmon.

If Chen Ying is already a fierce tiger, then the Western Turks are a pack of vicious wolves.Now that there is a tiger and a wolf, no matter what, Li Yuan is the beneficiary.Dealing with Chen Ying can be discussed later.However, the chaos in Hebei must be resolved as soon as possible.

Once the Western Turks perished and the Eastern Turks were defeated and became a vassal, since Chen Ying liked the Western Regions, he would seal Chen Ying in the Western Regions.His grandson will inherit Chen Ying's title in the future, no matter what, Li Yuan will not suffer.

After solving Hebei Liu Shishan and disappearing Du Fuwei's Jianghuai army, it would not be too late to deal with Chen Ying at that time.

After all, Li Yuan was the founding emperor of the country, and he didn't dare to react too aggressively to Chen Ying, but it didn't mean he wouldn't do it, just sit back and watch Chen Ying grow up.

Since the chaos in Hebei, it has sounded the alarm for Li Yuan.It is inappropriate to rule the world with Guanzhong people. Although Zhong can guarantee the loyalty of the Guanzhong family and the people of Guanzhong to the Li and Tang courts, it will chill the hearts of the world's aristocratic families.

Without hesitation, Li Yuan wrote the word "Zhun" on Chen Ying's memorial.

Li Yuan turned over another pile of memorials, and Li Yuan looked at the words on the memorial in surprise, it was actually sent by Li Jiancheng.

Li Jiancheng, who was on the front line in Hebei to quell the rebellion, actually discovered that it is an expedient policy to treat the symptoms rather than the root cause by using Henan people to rule Henan, Hebei people to govern Hebei, and Guanzhong people to rule the world.

The selection of officials based on their native origin and family background guaranteed the loyalty of local officials before the Tang Dynasty unified Kyushu. However, in the long run, it left two hidden dangers. One is that the officials hired may not be competent; Especially the road to promotion for poor scholars.Now that the Tang Dynasty has settled down in the Central Plains and is sitting on the world, it should naturally have the generosity to tolerate the talents of the world. This wartime expedient policy should be changed.

Against this background, Li Jiancheng made a statement to Chen Ying that the three reform measures "First, suspend large-scale personnel transfers for a period of one year. Second, choose the right time to abolish the local offices and replace them with prefectures and counties, and bring local governance authority back to the central government; third, for the long-term plan, please imitate the old system of the Sui Dynasty and reopen the imperial examinations, so as to recruit the most talented people from all over the world. Tang works!"

Looking at Li Jiancheng's reform strategy, Li Yuan's eyes could not help but light up, and he felt relieved!

As far as Chen Ying's personality is concerned, it is also his behavior habits.As early as after Chen Ying's memorial to the battle was issued, Chen Ying didn't care whether Li Yuan would agree or not. Anyway, he had already asked for instructions. As long as he won, Li Yuan would definitely endorse him, but if he failed, he would bear all the responsibility. s consequence.

The training of Anxi's [-] troops outside Mulan City is actually just basic training including formation, internal affairs and discipline. In fact, relying on formation alone cannot scare the enemy to death. Tactical and strategic skills need to be trained in various places.

Tomur in the middle of the western Tianshan Mountains is the training ground for the Shesheng Army.Within a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles, the figures of Anxi Shesheng's troops were scattered in valleys of all sizes.

In the Heizil Valley, there is a regiment of 300 soldiers of the shooting army, who are undergoing intensive training.

At this time, the captain of the regiment divided the three brigades under his command into two camps to conduct offensive and defensive drills.Heizil built a stone fort, and garrisoned a brigade of troops, while the other two brigades pretended to be the enemy and carried out a feint attack.

Although it was just a drill, it was already getting angry.In this era, there are no practice bombs for later generations, just the arrowheads of the arrows are pulled out, and the red paint is stained on them.The referee team judges the injury or death according to the location of the arrow.

However, the lightest crossbow used by the shooting army is a stone, which requires a pulling force of 120 jin. Under such a huge bow arm strength, even if there is no arrowhead, as long as it hits the face, neck, throat and other parts, it will be the same. It can cause casualties, even if it does not hit the vital parts of the face, just like shooting a helmet, a soldier who is shot with an arrow will feel like a sledgehammer hit his head, and he will not be able to recover for a long time.

As for shooting at the body, it would be like hitting with a baton.In mild cases, it may be bruised and purple, and in severe cases, even ribs may be broken by the shock.

It was this kind of exercise in the context of actual combat that made the soldiers on both sides of the exercise really angry.The two brigade commanders who participated in the attack yelled at Paoze beside him with red eyes: "Get your bloody spirits up, if you can't attack again this time, don't eat your mother's blood!"

When the [-] to [-] soldiers on the attacking side were yelling and attacking the hillside, the brigade commander yelled at the soldiers around him while charging: "Assault team, don't get together, one by one, disperse, Scatter, rush up like you, shoot you with your eyes closed, maneuver like a snake..."

"Heavy crossbowman, cover fire!"

If this is an army with hot weapons, this kind of exercise method will not be surprising at all. However, in the army of the cold weapon era, this kind of cross-covering and mutual attack method is absolutely impossible to exist, but it does exist. No need to ask, this is also Chen Ying's masterpiece!

The brigade commander shouted excitedly: "Attack, attack..."

A cavalry galloped all the way in the smoke and dust, rushed to the regiment captain, and shouted: "Captain, the latest military order: end the field training immediately and lead the troops back to the camp!"

The captain took the order and looked at it, and it was really signed by Chen Ying.He was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously said, "Didn't it be agreed that the field training would last for three months, and it wouldn't end until the mountains were covered by heavy snow. Why would it be over in just one and a half months? Could it be..."

The captain's eyes flashed, "Is there going to be a war?"

The vice captain's eyes lit up, and he said with a smile: "Ninety-nine are inseparable!"

The captain clapped his fists and said, "Okay, it's time for this, I've been holding back for half a year, I've had enough! Trumpeter, blow the horn and gather, let's go back to the barracks!"

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On the bank of the Kushan Grassland, a soldier of the Tang Army who was riding Zhechong Mansion was conducting a riding and shooting exercise under the leadership of Captain Zhechong.But this is not a confrontational exercise, but an assault exercise. There are wild wolves on the grasslands, which harm livestock.The disappearance was reported to the military, and the military volunteered, leading a Zhechong mansion with more than [-] cavalry to encircle and suppress the wolves here.

"East..."

As a scout from the Tang army discovered the traces of the wolves, all the soldiers of the Yue cavalry army were covered by a rain of arrows without saying a word.A dozen or so wild wolves were shot into hedgehogs by the rain of arrows before they even had a chance to scream.

Chen Ying's characterizes this kind of recruit training as seeing blood. The wild wolves, wild boars, even rabbits, gazelle, and even wild horses in the entire Tianshan area have suffered bloody misfortune, and they were encircled and suppressed by the soldiers of the Anxi army like a net. Now, most of the animals have become the delicacies on the dinner table of the Anxi Army soldiers.

In fact, it's not just small animals.There are also bandits, robbers, sand bandits, and horse bandits in the Western Regions. They have all become the objects of military training, and it is also one of the important links for recruits to see their blood.

"Yamanya" means danger in Turkic language. It was originally a barrier lake formed by flash floods.Later, for unknown reasons, the lake dried up, and a small basin with a large area was formed. Except for the east and west exits, it was surrounded by cliffs eroded by the lake.

Of course, due to the unique terrain, this place has also become the lair of Asalan, a famous bandit in the Western Regions (meaning The Lion King).There are more than a thousand powerful horse bandits here.

In order to encircle Asalan, the Shesheng army headed by Duan Zhixian surrounded Yamanya with a total of six Zhechong prefectures and more than [-] troops.

In order to train the soldiers of the new army, Duan Zhigan had people seal off the east and west exits of Yamanya, and then let the four Zhechong mansion soldiers climb up the cliff in turn, and shoot condescendingly at the horse bandits under Asalan's command. Naturally, it is not the arrows without arrowheads used in the exercise, but the real sheep's head arrows.

It can be said that the arrow bites the flesh, and the arrow sees blood.

Seeing that the situation was wrong, Asalan hurriedly begged Duan Zhigan to surrender.

Duan Zhigan said that your greatest value is to let the recruits see their blood, so they readily and cleanly rejected Asalan's surrender.

Asalan wanted to cry without tears, and roared to the sky: "Are there any bullies like you?"

At this moment, the cavalry messenger came, and Duan Zhigan followed the military order and said happily: "The game is over, prepare to return to the team!"

Duan Zhi feels like letting Asalan go. This guy specializes in intercepting the robbers passing by the merchants. He has been in the Western Regions for more than ten years. God knows how many caravans and treasures he has robbed?

Following the order of Duan Zhigan's general attack, all the soldiers were shot, and the shieldman slapped the shield with a horizontal knife.Amidst the frightening bang bang, more than [-] soldiers of the shooting army lined up in three rows and silently advanced towards Yamanya. Looking at the soldiers of the Tang army who were getting closer, Asalan led the bandits under his command in despair. Launched a counter charge to the Tang army.

However, Tang Jun responded with arrows like a storm...

After half an hour of fighting, Duan Zhigan was very satisfied with the result of the battle.The four soldiers of the Shesheng Army from Zhechong Mansion shot and killed more than [-] enemies without being killed in battle. Although there were dozens of wounded soldiers, no one escaped.

With the arrival of the messenger cavalry, their leisurely days finally came to an end.

As the soldiers of the Anxi Army returned to the team, Chen Ying's chariot had started rumbling.

On August [-]th of the sixth year of Wude, Chen Ying reviewed the generals of the Anxi Army in Mulan City and called a meeting of the generals.Chen Ying saw that Luo Shixin, Zhang Shigui, Zhang Huaiwei, Duan Zhigan, Guo Xiaoke, Su Dingfang and other generals had all arrived, and he said straight to the point: "This general has only one goal. Before the heavy snow seals the mountain, he knows all about taking Geluoling." Yet?"

The generals said loudly: "It's clear!"

Chen Ying said: "It's good to be clear!"

At the same time, afterward, Chen Ying sacrificed the flag and swore to his master, and then led [-] Anxi soldiers to attack along the Silk Road!

(End of this chapter)