I Xiaoxiong

Chapter 284 Stop
"Cavalry. How can we have any cavalry? Go back and tell Guizhang that our Yuzang tribe has no cavalry. They are all mounted infantry and can only fight on foot."

Yuzang Luntai wore a relatively light leather armor, and did not choose a more protective iron armor, mainly because the iron armor was too heavy. Even so, the weight of nearly [-] catties still weighed heavily on the strong horse under his crotch. It was not easy for Qinghai Cong to move forward.

After learning that the Qingyi Festival Guizhang had encountered the Jin army earlier, and that the Jin army's troops were all cavalry, Yu Zang Luntai immediately ordered his troops to slow down their marching speed.And directly rejected Qingyi Festival Guizhang's request to mobilize [-] cavalry from the Yuzang Department to cooperate with the former army in combat.

"Brother, isn't this too obvious?"

After the messenger left, a rather handsome young man in armor beside Luntai said that it was his younger brother Yuzang Echen.

Yu Zang Luntai said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter. If Qingyi Festival Guizhang's troops don't lose much after this battle, he has no reason to trouble me. If he loses heavily, hehe, I'm even less afraid of him."

Yu Zang's minister said: "But what if the Majesty blames it?"

Yu Zang Luntai didn't say anything after listening, but just smiled mysteriously, and then said, "Don't worry, Majesty, he can't care about these things anymore."

Seeing his brother's expression, Yuzang Echen didn't say anything, but he was still somewhat worried.

Before the Yuzang Ministry, the [-] Nanzhao army led by Duan Zhixing, Duke Yongding of Nanzhao, was also marching slowly. .

After learning that Guizhang's former army had encountered the Jin army and started fighting, Duan Zhixing looked worried.Regarding Gui Zhang's request to use cavalry, his excuse was that the horses were not acclimated to the environment and could not be ridden for combat.

Before sending out troops, he once climbed a high mountain near Gansongling to look out, and saw the formation of the Jin army from a distance.

At that moment, all he could think of was eight words, "The morale is so high that it is invincible."

He saw this sentence in the classics and history books of the Central Plains, but he didn't know where it came from, but when he saw the banners of the Jin army covering the sky and the spears like a forest, he knew this sentence The words are true.

He had never seen such an aura before.Even at this moment, he regretted leading the army here.

Why do you want to be an enemy with Da Jin?What can Qingtang people give Nanzhao?
Nanzhao has a special location, bordering Qingtang and Dajin at the same time, so it will naturally be influenced by the two great powers.But whether it is the official system or clothing, etiquette, diet, etc., Nanzhao was deeply influenced by the Jin Dynasty.

Even domestic edicts and plaques on official offices are all written in the Central Plains.

This time his elder brother, Duan Zhiping, the lord of the country, was also bewitched by Zhongshu Ling Gao Huaiqing, thinking that the Great Jin Dynasty was about to decline. Before that, there was King Wu's side of the Qing Dynasty, and later, there was chaos caused by Honglian Dao, plus the Qingtang people's national attack He still remembered Gao Huaiqing's words in the main hall of Taihe City.

"Now the Lord of Qingtang is attacking Jin with his whole country, and all the elites are out. If you don't help him, when the Daoqingtang people take down the entire Jiannan Road, they will definitely attack Nanzhao. And the state of Jin is in turmoil. The idea shows that the Jin court is unpopular, and the Central Plains will be in chaos. At this time, it is time to join forces with Qingtang. Even if we can't get Yizhou and other places that are the core of central Shu, we can win Rongzhou, Lizhou, Yaozhou and other places. The territory of Nanzhao has doubled."

After these words were uttered in the hall at that time, it can be said that everyone responded.

The generals in the army and the nobles in the country all supported the joint Qingtang expedition to Jin Dynasty.

Only Shang Shuling Wang Shu Duan Yongxing and a few people opposed sending troops to the Jin Dynasty.

He also remembered what Uncle Wang said, "I have been to Dajin to pay tribute. Do you know how long it takes to go from Taihe City to Shangjing? Do you know how many troops Jin has? Have you seen the walls of Shangjing and Xijing again? ? You dare to attack Jin without even seeing Chengdu? You really don’t know how to live or die.”

Now it seems that Uncle Wang's words are still correct.Even if it wasn't for Uncle Wang's opposition to sending troops this time, the position of coach must be his
But neither brother Wang nor the court ministers have this insight.

Even Duan Zhixing himself was very short-sighted before he came to Songzhou. All he wanted to do was to make more achievements in this war, so as to gain more say in the future when he and the Qingtang people divided Jiannan Road.

In addition, it is best to capture more ordnance of the Jin army, such as armor, bows and crossbows.If possible, it is best to catch more veterans and generals of the Jin army, so that the Nanzhao Army Middle School can learn the tactics and formations used by the Jin army.

As for gold, silver and treasures, those are irrelevant.

But since he arrived in Songzhou, he began to feel that even if Qingtang and Nanzhao mobilized almost most of the troops they could mobilize, it was still difficult for them to win this battle.

After realizing this, all he thought about was how to preserve his strength in this battle so that the [-] Nanzhao soldiers would not suffer unnecessary casualties.

It is best to return to Nanzhao in peace.In this way, even if the Great Jin and Autumn Period settle accounts and raise teachers to question their crimes, it is not impossible for Nanzhao to take advantage of the terrain to defend, and even repel the Jin army.

Among the 3 people, 2 people have their own thoughts, so the original strength advantage of the Qingtang side was also eliminated.

Gui Zhang was extremely annoyed that the other two films were dawdling behind.But there is nothing to do, because now he can only advance slowly in combat formation.

He knew that as long as he dared to show any flaws during his march, the Jin army's iron cavalry on the opposite side would definitely see every stitch.

This is the scary thing about cavalry. Not only does it have strong mobility, but it also has an assault capability that far exceeds that of infantry.

The infantry, facing the cavalry in open terrain, can only form a dense formation.As long as the formation is a little loose, it will be a disaster for the infantry.

If the infantry wants to fight against the cavalry, it usually needs a large number of strong bows and crossbows, as well as a certain number of cavalry to cooperate.

However, the Qingtang people's bows and arrows are weak, and Guizhang only has a thousand horses that can be used for cavalry battles.

And this thousand-horse army is more often used as scouts, guards, and road-opening tasks.Wanting them to cooperate with the infantry and fight against the iron cavalry of the Jin army is also nonsense, because the people of Qingtang have never practiced the coordination of infantry and cavalry.

Their way of fighting has always been to dismount and stand in formation, one after the other.

So now facing the "flying a kite" of the Jin army's iron cavalry, we can only use the most stupid way, "going in like a wall".

The Qingtang people are advancing steadily, and their leader, Qingyi Festival Guizhang, also looks as stable as Mount Tai.

But the anxiety in his heart is only known to him.

The army he is leading right now is a partial division, but he does have to bear the heavy responsibility of breaking the situation on the frontal battlefield.But right now it seems that the roundabout attack can basically be declared a failure.

Standing in front of them was the iron cavalry of the Jin army. Just by looking at the banner on the big banner, they knew that it was Shi Wannian, the heroic general of the Jin army.

Like Xue Cong in Hexi, they are both fierce generals known as "enemies of ten thousand people".

They have dealt with each other before.During the Battle of Shule, Shi Wannian led his army to chase after the army behind Qingyi Festival Guizhang Palace.

Its bravery was witnessed by Guizhang on Qingyi Festival.And the precise judgment of the battle situation when he led the cavalry into the battle is also fresh in Gui Zhang's memory.
At this time Guizhang's lieutenant Ben Song said: "General, retreat."

Gui Zhang said coldly: "What did you say?"

Several lieutenants around him and Qianhu all looked at Onishaki and Benmatsu.

Ben Song said: "The iron cavalry of the Jin army are all high mountains and mountains that we cannot cross. How can tens of thousands of us fly over to the side of the Jin army? At this speed, even if we can reach the battlefield safely By then, it was already dark and the battle was over, how about going to the Chinese army to starve and suffer cold?”

"But this is what the Majesty meant." Gui Zhang hesitated.

"No matter who it is, Gansongling is behind us. If there is a problem with Wanhu in the Chinese army, the road ahead will be unstable."

Gui Zhang looked forward for a while, then looked back at the two parts that were still moving slowly in the distance.

"The whole army stops, the rear team becomes the front team, retreat!"

(End of this chapter)