A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 89
Longxi.

On the arid Longxi Loess Plateau, the hospital army was marching. Huaiyu sent No. 24 Tongqiqian to explore the road. Chai Shao limited him to Xiangwu City, Weizhou, 180 miles away, within two days.

Huaiyu, who was leading the army alone for the first time, was very cautious.

Five riders and one pond, dispatched 24 ponds to explore the road in one breath, each pond was separated by one mile, and the pond riders traveled twenty miles forward, and each pond rider had to be able to look at each other and not leave their sight to prevent ambush.

When encountering dangerous mountains and evil mountains, infantry should be sent to climb the mountains with flags for inspection.

Caution is the boat.

The terrain in Longxi is the Loess Plateau, dominated by loess beams and river valleys. The terrain here is dangerous, and ambushes can be found everywhere, so we have to guard against it.

Huaiyu didn't even care about the hot weather, he had already put on the chain mail, and the rhinoceros leather vest outside, and Lian Yezhaobai and Baihoowu, two beloved steeds, put on black lacquer vests.

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"call out!"

A sharp arrow flew through the air, and Wu Junbo, the leader of the Tang cavalry team, raised the cowhide round shield, and with a bang, the arrow nailed hard on the shield.

Wu Junbo broke out in a cold sweat. Fortunately, as the leader of the Tang cavalry team, he was mentally prepared and kept being extremely careful. When he saw the dangerous valley ahead, he was even more careful, and he had already held the shield in his hand.

His arm was numb due to the shock of the arrow. Looking at the trembling arrow feathers that were still nailed to the shield, he quickly stepped back, while quickly raising the Zhangbaqi spear in his right hand, and shook it violently.

The other four riders in Bentang kept a certain distance from him, searched in different lines within sight, saw him waving the flag, and immediately asked loudly, "Leader, what's the situation?"

"There is an ambush!"

Wu Junbo shouted to his companion while riding his horse back.

"How many people, Turkic wolf cubs, or Qiang barbarians?" the companion shouted.

After retreating about twenty steps, Wu Junbo did not continue to retreat, but began to observe the direction of the arrow. At this time, several people rushed out from there, and they were getting on their horses.

"Turks!"

While shouting, Wu Junbo quickly groped for the hulu on his waist. He was equipped with two hulu, one for arrows and the other for arrows and five-color flags.

He drew the red flag, held it up and waved it.

The flag gun shakes, representing the discovery of the enemy.Raising the small red flag means that you have encountered an enemy suddenly.

If it is discovered in advance that the enemy is waving the yellow flag, many enemies are waving the green flag, and few people are waving the white flag. It is only a matter of terrain that is waving the black flag.

While waving the flag to warn, Wu Junbo retreated to keep a distance from the enemy.

Tang Qi passed on the signal and quickly passed the enemy's situation back.

Wu Junbo has always kept a certain distance from the enemy. When the enemy advances, he retreats, and when the enemy retreats, he advances. He does not fight easily, and will never leave.

Twenty miles behind, the hospital army of 800 people is still marching in a hurry.

As soon as Tangqi galloped back, he also stuck a red flag on his back.

Red flag hunting.

"Boss, Turkic cavalry were found in the valley ahead. They attacked Tang cavalry in a sneak attack, and they have been discovered. They are twenty miles away."

No one in the marching team intercepted the Tang cavalry. According to the military law, the Tang cavalry can gallop in the camp and reach the front of the general. No one is allowed to intercept or ask privately.

"how many people?"

"It's not quite clear yet."

"Explore again!"

Huaiyu raised her hand, "Find a flat and wide terrain nearby,
Put on armor, line up, and prepare for battle! "

The benefits of being cautious were reflected. They discovered the Turkic soldiers [-] miles ahead of schedule. Whether they encountered a small group of rangers or a large group of enemies ambushed, at least they were given enough time to prepare.

The hasty horn sounded, and all the battalions moved.

Huaiyu's messengers sent troops to and from the Mercedes-Benz army, and the flags at all levels were also moved.

Ma Zhou became excited. Huaiyu's expedition trip made him feel like he had been beaten to death. He wished he could turn himself into Ban Dingyuan. He marched ninety miles yesterday and camped all night without incident.

As a result, shortly after setting off today, Turkic soldiers were discovered.

"The Turkic people were found 20 miles away from Tangqi, and Longxi County is only more than [-] miles away. Could it be that Longxi County has been captured or surrounded by the Turks? Longxi County is less than [-] miles away from Weizhou in the northwest. Niu Xianfeng Did something happen over there?" Ma Zhou asked.

"First line up to repel the enemy in front of you, and then rush to Longxi County to find out." Facing the sudden enemy situation, Huaiyu found that he was not afraid or even nervous, and was surprisingly calm.

Whether it's just a stolen Turkic ranger or something, let's fight first.

Although it was the first time to lead the army, Huaiyu was still calm and composed.

Huaiyi led the cavalry battalion and quickly went out to guard.

On a relatively flat river beach, the hospital battalion was tensely putting on armor and arrayed.

"Hurry up!"

The team leaders were urging loudly, and the civilian men of the supply battalion also came to help the infantry put on their armor, and the remaining civilian men began to use vehicles to form a barracks. This is a more conservative formation, and it is also a camping method when marching at night.

A team flag was inserted into the ground under the great efforts of the tall standard bearer. The flag bearer stood still like an iron tower. In front of him was the leader of the team holding a spear and a horizontal knife. One person stood in front of the independent team.

The standard-bearer Zhi Banner, there is a Jue Banner on the left and right, and the three of them stand in the second row.

Then there are 45 soldiers in the team. At this time, they are divided into five rows, seven in the first row, eight in the second row, nine in the third row, ten in the fourth row, and 11 in the fifth row. On the front, the deputy of the team raised his horse and stood at the end to lead the formation.

They formed a wedge, twenty paces forward and backward.

Put on armor and line up.

After the civilian men put on their armor for the soldiers, they quickly retreated to the back. They also took up spears, bows and arrows, and wore horizontal knives, ready to support the battle at any time.

"Archers and crossbowmen listen to the order, go forward, and rank ahead of the front team!"

Recently, Huaiyu has been learning a lot about the tactics of the Tang army's battle formations, and it is quite standard to line up with the enemy at this time.

The soldiers of the Tang army fought in various formations, such as horizontal formations, square formations, etc. Huaiyu now uses the simplest square formation.

The battle team stood at the front. The front row of the team was the battle front team, and the rear team was the jumping team. The crossbowmen began to deploy in front of the battle front, attacking the enemy from a long distance, and then retreated to the battle front to assist in the battle.

Behind the battle team is the garrison team. The main function of the garrison team is to guard the formation and take turns to replace the team in the front row at any time.

The cavalry is deployed on the two wings of the central army and is not easy to attack.

His chief officer and military flag are in the center of the whole army, and the flag is in the presence of people, so it cannot be easily shaken.

Behind him, there is a general reserve team drawn from the cavalry and infantry, which can only be dispatched at the most critical time to ensure the maintenance of the battle formation, whether it is Qin Qiong or Cheng Yaojin, or Wu Daddy or Lu Huairang, when they talked about the tactics with Huaiyu, they all emphasized over and over again that there should be no promiscuous warfare.

The supply team is at the end of the army.

This arrangement allows Huaiyu to choose the battlefield in advance. The location he chose is backed by the river and the mountains. The enemy can only attack from the front. It is safer to put the baggage team at the back;

The Turks hadn't shown up yet, but the atmosphere was already tense.

Everyone was nervously preparing, Huaiyu secretly observed, and found that most of them were nervous, but it was mainly caused by excitement, and there was not much expression of fear. Even the civilian men of the delivery team over there were sharpening their guns and knives before the battle, eager to try.

Everyone is eager to fight, and even more eager to fame.

Tang Qi kept sending back information.

There are quite a number of Turkic people, and the specific number is still being inquired about.

Huaiyu's cautiousness, or the Tang army's marching system, helped them a lot.

The discovery of the enemy twenty miles away made it impossible for the Turkic people to catch him by surprise. Even if they rushed quickly, they would have to take at least three, four, and 10 minutes for the distance of twenty miles.

This gave the hospital battalion ample time to prepare.

It took about 10 minutes, the hospital battalion has been formed, and a line of defense has been built with a baggage car.

"Why hasn't the wolf cub come yet, yeah I can't wait." Xin Zhao laughed.

Er Leng, who just came to Longyou from Sanyuan with Huaiyi, also raised a long-handled ax and shouted, "Yeah, the big ax is already hungry and thirsty!" This is not Xu Er Leng's first time on the battlefield, he is The second son in the family, his father took him to the battlefield several times when he was in the imperial army before he was discharged from the army. It's a pity that although the second idiot has seen swords and guns and even bleeds, he didn't make any meritorious deeds, at most he made a little money The booty was recovered.

At the moment of the war, he was even in the mood to sing a sour song.

"I miss my sister, I haven't eaten a grain in the three days I've been thinking, I miss you in the first half of the night and I can't blow a lamp, and the second half of the night I miss you and I can't turn over!"

Xu Erlianzi sang this song boldly and unrestrainedly, which made many recruits who were nervous at first relaxed a lot.

Just as Er Lengzi was getting into the song, the bull horn sounded.

Oh oh oh!
The passionate ox horn raised the war atmosphere that had been diluted by the sour song in an instant. In the distance, the Tangqi of the hospital army had slowly retreated and appeared in front of everyone. They always kept a distance from the enemy and did not let them The Turkic man lost his sight and retreated all the way.

When they retreated to the front and back of the formation, they did not retreat into the formation, but continued to spread out and wander around.

Huaiyu raised his hand to look at his watch.

It has been exactly half an hour since Tangqi reported that the Turks were discovered, and this Turkic cavalry is still relatively fast.

This silver-black watch was brought by him before the expedition. It is a special commemorative model of a certain brand. It was given to him by his girlfriend who loves sports. It has a stainless steel strap, a carbon fiber anti-wear dial, and a scratch-resistant glass mirror. Waterproof to a depth of 200 meters, the dial displays self-illumination for 25 years, and is known as the magic seal soldier.

This watch had been with him for more than a year. After the two broke up, he had kept it in the bottom of the case. Now it is quite practical to wear it again.

The apricot tree gourd silver needle flag flutters in the wind.

Turkic cavalry menacing.

Huaiyu took out a telescope from the mirror box at his waist, which was also one of the outdoor equipment given by the girlfriend.

Through the binoculars, Huaiyu could clearly see the Turkic cavalry who were still far away. This was the first time he really faced the Turkic army, and there were quite a few of them. The hair-haired ones are very free-wheeling, and their equipment is rather messy. In this summer, some wear horn helmets, and some wear wolf-head, bear-head, and tiger helmets. They are not afraid of the heat, and many of them are wearing leather robes.

There are also many iron armors.

Everyone of the Turkic cavalry carried bows, many arrows, and almost all of them were equipped with spears. The secondary weapons were mainly Turkic sabers, iron bones, maces, whips, hammers, and axes.

All of them were very arrogant.

They came in a mighty way, kicking up dust all over the sky, and didn't stop until two hundred steps away.

A huge smell of fishy smell came, and it was full of coquettish air.

The Turks who were so arrogant that they stopped only [-] paces in front of the Tang army, came up to ride and shoot eagerly before the people behind them arrived, and even showed off their riding and shooting skills on purpose.

It's just that the hospital army has already completed their formation, and the front row is full of [-] crossbowmen, and the soldiers in the back are all carrying bows. Facing their approach and provocation, those children who are good at archery are not polite. fight back.

A Turkic cavalryman charged too close, and was shot off his horse by a big Kansai archer. His companions wanted to snatch him back, but in the end, several soldiers from the government sent more arrows to kill him. A hedgehog was shot, and even the companion who came to drag people was shot down again.

The Turkic people suffered a loss by underestimating the enemy, and they didn't even dare to come up to snatch the two corpses.

Soon, after a commotion, the Turks began to retreat slowly.

They retreated about a mile and regrouped.

"Boss, while the Hulu have just arrived, the formation is not complete, the troops are exhausted, and our spirit has just been discouraged, why don't we kill them and fuck them." Zhao Xin, the secretary of the army, suggested.

The Turkic horns sounded again.

Huaiyu has been watching the Turkic army carefully with a telescope, smoke and dust are everywhere, and cavalry keep coming from the rear, but there are already thousands of cavalry in front of him.

"Not urgent."

About a quarter of an hour later, the Turks arrived one after another.

Some experienced soldiers of the government judged that the opponent estimated that there were fourteen to five hundred horses.

There are 800 people in the hospital battalion, and [-] soldiers and [-] auxiliary soldiers. However, their soldiers are basically composed of volunteers and civilians. There are one thousand and two armored soldiers.

There are five hundred cavalry in total.

In terms of numbers, the hospital army is superior, but it is hard to say in terms of strength.

The Turkic horns kept ringing, a little arrogant and provocative.

"Drumming!"

Huaiyu decided to stay the same and respond to all changes. Facing the Turkic cavalry who had mobility advantages and were born good at riding and shooting, he planned to occupy this favorable terrain and use the army formation to fight against the Turks.

"The order was given that if the wolf cavalry charged into the formation, the enemy would approach a hundred paces, and the crossbow team would shoot a volley with crossbows, within sixty paces of the enemy, the archer team would shoot a volley of bows and arrows, and within fifty paces of the enemy, the battle team would also shoot a volley of bows and arrows.

The enemy approached twenty steps, and the crossbowmen retreated to the two wings of the front team, and continued to shoot at the enemy with their bows and crossbows.If the enemy rushes into the first battle front, the crossbowmen will attack the enemy with knives and sticks from the battle front! "

"Stick to the army formation, do not fight waves, anyone who dares to fight waves, behead!"

"If the enemy retreats, the infantry must not pursue for more than thirty paces!"

If you step against a horse, you are born at a disadvantage.

The only thing we can rely on is the location and the army formation. Fortunately, the Tang army has always been equipped with bows and arrows, and has the advantage of long-range strikes. The Turkic Qingqi has little advantage in fighting more.

Huaiyu was glad that he was leading soldiers from the early Tang Dynasty, even if they were not regular soldiers, they were the children of the soldiers with a good foundation. If they brought the corrupt guards and frontier soldiers of the late Ming Dynasty, they could only rely on a few servants to support the scene , that really needs to be explained here.

Speaking of which, none of these soldiers' sons in the early Tang Dynasty and the powerful children in the frontier areas were inferior to those generals and family members in the late Ming Dynasty.

Two to one, the advantage is mine.

But just to be on the safe side, Huaiyu hurriedly called a Wu family trilogy and told him to hurry back to Fuqiang city to report and ask for help!
(End of this chapter)