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Chapter 252 0249 [Taishan Fengchan? 】

Far away in the city of Tokyo, Kaifeng, Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was celebrating the New Year in Genyue.

More than a hundred fireworks were launched into the sky one after another. The gorgeous fireworks attracted nearby people to applaud and cheer.

The sound of music is everywhere, and the shadows of candles are everywhere.

Thousands of soldiers of the Forbidden Army, all wearing loose robes and various Nuo opera masks, dressed up as various heavenly soldiers and gods, presented the great Nuo ceremony.

In the main hall, Cai You held up the golden bottle and said loudly: "Now that our Song Dynasty is connected with all countries, and Henan Province is prosperous, I would like to congratulate Your Majesty and congratulate the Song Dynasty!"

"Congratulations to Your Majesty, congratulations to the Song Dynasty!"

Wang Fu and other ministers raised their glasses and shouted in unison.

Song Huizong was in a good mood and laughed heartily: "Hahaha, let's all drink together!"

Seeing that Cai You had won the prize, how could Li Bangyan be content with being behind others? He smiled and said: "Your Majesty has ruled with dignity, and the world has become peaceful and the people are prosperous. This year, he has expanded his territory and regained the land of Yanyun. I feel that your Majesty's His achievements have surpassed those of the Wutang Sect of Han Dynasty."

As soon as these words came out, a trace of disdain suddenly flashed in Wang Fu's eyes.

"You!"

Song Huizong tapped his fingers, shook his head and said with a smile: "I still have self-awareness. The Han, Wu and Tang sects are all geniuses of their generation. Their martial arts have reached the extreme. I am ashamed of myself."

Li Bangyan was not embarrassed when his flattery was exposed. He added: "The Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was good at martial arts, but his civil administration was insufficient. He continued to fight and resorted to militarism, which made the people in the country miserable. Your Majesty not only expanded the territory, but also made the world extremely wealthy. . There have been many horse emperors since ancient times, but how many emperors like Your Majesty, who are both civilized, political, and martial arts masters, have there been throughout the ages?"

"Hahaha!"

This flattery made Song Huizong feel extremely comfortable and couldn't help but laugh loudly.

Li Bangyan struck while the iron was hot and suggested: "If your Majesty has such merits, you can go to Mount Tai to be enshrined in Zen!"

Taishan seals Zen!

This is the ultimate dream of every emperor.

It's just that the ancestor Zhuyu was in front of him before, causing a lot of noise, and even today, there are still people who come out to talk about it, which makes him really unable to open his mouth.

A trace of embarrassment flashed in Song Huisong's eyes, and he waved his hands and said, "Let's discuss this later!"

The banquet lasted until the fourth watch and ended with the departure of Song Huizong.

……

Xuanhe six years, the first day of the first lunar month.

The light snow last night stopped at some point, leaving only a thin layer of snow.

All the soldiers in the military camp were busy. Wu Ji bundled up his thin bedding and placed it on an ox cart. He barely slept last night, his eyes were bloodshot, but his spirit was extremely high.

The cold winter wind blows on my body, and it doesn't seem that cold anymore.

An hour later, the entire army was assembled.

Han Zhen rode on his horse and shouted loudly: "The whole army sets off!"

Boom boom boom!
The marching drum beat slowly, and Liu Qi led the heavy armored cavalry to take the lead in clearing the way ahead.

He ran three miles away in one breath and then stopped.

The next moment, the scout team mixed in the cavalry camp ran in all directions and quickly disappeared.

Half an hour later, the army arrived.

The cavalry battalion moved out of the way, and Wei Datong commanded the western army camp to become the front army, replacing the cavalry battalion in opening the road ahead.

Immediately afterwards, came the Chinese army commanded by Han Zhen.

However, there was a convoy mixed in with the Chinese army.

The fleet was not large, and it was covered with a thick layer of cowhide cloth, making it difficult to see what was being transported in the vehicle.

After waiting until the logistics and baggage troops caught up, Liu Qi waved his hand and led the cavalry battalion to the rear.

This is a standard marching routine that can deal with most emergencies.

Although the army is in progress, secretly, the confrontation between the Qingzhou Army and the Western Army has already begun.

The Western Army's scouts still followed the same old tactics.

Select soldiers with strong physiques, vigorous movements and smart minds, learn semaphore and sign language, and then put them into use.

Generally, the scouts formed a small team of three people, separated by one mile from each other, and relied on semaphores to communicate.

If you are in the dark night or in the mountains and forests, drums and whistles are used to communicate.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of scout is completely sufficient.

Because they are selected elites, their individual combat capabilities are guaranteed.

But compared to the Qingzhou Army's scout battalion, the difference was immediately apparent.

As the scouts of the Qingzhou Army, Han Zhen used the methods of training scouts in later generations, such as lurking, disguise, mapping, assassination... and so on.

If the cavalry battalion is the richest in the Qingzhou Army, then the scout battalion is definitely the hardest working.

The training intensity is almost twice that of other camps.

It's hard, but it's worth the effort.

In every battle, it is not the soldiers of the cavalry battalion who charge into battle, but the scout battalion who have the highest average combat merit.

After several battles, the soldiers in the scout camp made a lot of money, and each of them had at least seven or eight beheadings in their hands.

……

"Pfft!"

The sharp dagger flashed with cold light and drew a beautiful arc.

Red blood spurted out along the arteries, and soon the snow on the ground was dyed red.

The Western Army scout twisted his body, stared with his eyes and wanted to yell, but a big hand with a leather glove tightly covered his mouth, and he could only make waves of inaudible whooshing sounds.

It wasn't until the Western Army scouts beneath him completely stopped moving that a soldier in a white cloak slowly let go of his hand, stumbled, and fell to the ground.

I saw an arrow stuck in his shoulder, coming out of his body.

Two similarly dressed soldiers walked up quickly behind him and supported him without saying a word.

Team Zheng asked with concern: "How is it?"

"I can't die!"

The injured scout shook his head and reluctantly said, "I was careless. I didn't expect these scouts to be equipped with divine arm crossbows!"

"Bite it and bear with it!"

While talking, the team leader took out the medical bag, took out a roll of gauze and handed it over.

After the other party bit the gauze, the two immediately began to treat the injury.

One person held the tail of the arrow, and the other took the opportunity to cut off the arrow with a dagger, and then pulled it out with force.

A small stream of blood spattered along the wound.

Taking off clothes, removing armor, debriding wounds, applying medicine, and bandaging, the whole set of actions was extremely skillful, as if it had been rehearsed countless times.

After helping the wounded soldier put his clothes and armor back on, Captain Zheng chuckled and said, "You're lucky, you didn't break any bones. You'll be fine after a while."

After that, he took out an iron whistle, held it in his mouth, and blew it hard.

A crisp bird song came from the iron whistle.

Not long after, a burst of birdsong also sounded from the hilltop opposite.

"The fourth team also successfully occupied the commanding heights. The third child brought the stone back to the army and reported the news."

"Order!"

The soldier named Shitou nodded, helped the third child up and walked down the mountain.

"and many more!"

The captain called out to them, picked up the divine arm crossbow on the ground, checked it, and found that it was intact, a smile flashed in his eyes. "Bring the Divine Arm Crossbow with you and hand it over to the Military Supplies Department!"

The army now has a new military exploit: the divine arm crossbow is captured. If it is intact and delivered to the munitions department, you will be rewarded with ten pieces of gold.

The three of them shared ten guans equally, and each of them had more than three guans. This was simply free money.

In addition, it can be seen from this divine arm crossbow that the Western Army is completely anxious.

In order to gain an advantage in the scout battle, he was even equipped with a divine arm crossbow.

However, in his opinion, giving the God Arm Crossbow to rough guys like the Western Army is simply a pearl covered in dust.

……

……

In the military stronghold outside Licheng.

In the main tent, Han Shizhong reported with a gloomy face: "Capital, our spies scattered twenty miles away have not sent back any news for more than three hours. I am afraid they will all be wiped out."

This feeling of being blind made him very uncomfortable.

The most important thing is that Liang Fangping took away the remaining three thousand Qingqi. Otherwise, these Qingqi can be used as a team of 50 people, and they can also be used as scouts without worrying about being annihilated.

"nothing!"

Yang Weizhong waved his hand and ordered: "Shrink the scouts to ten miles, and use other prisoners of war to build forts, one fort per mile, with the beacon as the signal."

Han Shizhong immediately understood that this was a replica of the stronghold tactics.

Relying on the fort, one no longer has to worry about being attacked and killed by the Qingzhou Army's scouts, but the disadvantage is that the fixed fort limits the scope of the scouts' investigation.

This was a helpless move, otherwise I might not be able to defend even this ten-mile territory.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but frown and said: "Du Tong, there is no way to continue like this."

Yang Weizhong said confidently: "Don't worry, the Qingzhou Army will go south soon. The Black Mountain bandits can no longer hold on. They will not let us capture Licheng."

"The last general takes orders!"

Han Zhen responded with cupped fists.

After leaving the Baihu Hall, he ordered his subordinate Yuhou to direct the prisoners of war to build a fortress.

The Western Army is so familiar with the village fortress that it is almost engraved in their bones.

The land of Hengshan is now full of fortresses. The Xixia people hate this with all their heart, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Now that the weather is freezing, it is more convenient to build a fortress. You only need to ram the loess into walls, and then pour water on the earth wall every once in a while.

Once the water is poured, it will condense into ice in a short time.

Repeat this cycle several times, and within half a day, a thick layer of ice will solidify on the earth wall.

In less than a day, hundreds of forts were built within ten miles of the military stronghold.

The fort is not big. It looks like a large upside-down bowl from a distance, and can only accommodate three or five soldiers.

Don't underestimate these fortresses. Each person has a divine arm crossbow and as long as they have enough arrows, if they want to capture them by force, at least dozens of lives will be needed to fill them.

The Xixia people were defeated by the fortress tactics. They spent several times their troops and finally captured a fortress.

In a few days, another one will appear.

Xixia's population was already small, so it could not withstand such consumption, so it had no choice but to sign an armistice agreement.

……

The third day of the first month.

The Qingzhou Army entered the territory of Licheng and was twenty miles away from the Western Army, facing each other across the Jishui River.

Jishui, now also called Daqing River, is a tributary of the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

A few hundred years later, after the Yellow River changed its course and took over the course of the Daqing River, Jishui, once one of the four rivers, was completely wiped out of its existence.

But right now, the Daqing River is still the most important river in Jinan Prefecture, and even in Shandong as a whole.

In previous winters, due to the large flow of water in the Daqing River, even if it froze, it would only have a thin layer at most, which could be passed by a small number of people, but not large armies.

But this winter was too cold, and the heavy snowfall for three days and three nights half a month ago caused a thick layer of ice to form on the Daqing River.

Glancing at the sky and seeing the sun beginning to set in the west, Han Zhen ordered: "Set up camp!"

As the messenger passed down the order, the entire army stopped.

The prisoners of war began to cut down wood and make fires for the camp.

Although the Western Army's farthest fort was only ten miles away, it was really difficult to cover it when a large army was traveling.

After the scouts in the fortress noticed it, they immediately rushed to the military camp to report.

"Report!"

"The Qingzhou Army advanced twenty miles and set up camp on the banks of the Daqing River!"

The Qingzhou Army still came, and it came faster than expected.

In his expectation, the Qingzhou Army captured a large number of prisoners of war, and it would take at least half a month to reorganize them.

Unexpectedly, in just five days, he would go south to Licheng.

Yang Weizhong narrowed his eyes slightly and ordered: "Explore again and report again!"

After the scouts left, Han Shizhong looked excited and said: "Capital Commander, the Qingzhou Army is so urgent, this is an opportunity for us. How can we reorganize [-] to [-] prisoners of war in five days? The hearts of the army are unstable. We only need to wait before the other side crosses the river." At that time, if we send troops to stop the attack, the Qingzhou Army will definitely be defeated!"

"inappropriate!"

Yang Weizhong shook his head and said: "It's been a severe winter this year. The ice layer in Jishui is more than two feet thick, almost the same as on flat ground."

An ice layer of one foot thick is enough to allow the army to pass safely. With more than two feet of ice, tens of thousands of troops can perform Nuo opera on the river without any problem.

"Pity."

Han Shizhong sighed.

"Don't be impatient. The more the war goes on, the more calm you must be. The magic weapon for the Qingzhou Army to win unexpectedly is cavalry and firearms. These two are not incomprehensible. The trenches prevent horses, plus heavy-armored infantry, supplemented by divine arm crossbows. , enough to deal with heavy armored cavalry."

Yang Weizhong paused and continued: "As for firearms, the commander of this capital already has countermeasures in mind!"

"Why?"

Han Shizhong asked hurriedly.

Yang Weizhong replied: "The power of firearms is that the sound is stronger than the form. When it explodes, it can only penetrate heavy armor within ten steps, but the sound is like thunder and can spread for a mile, frightening both humans and animals. By escaping, From the soldiers' mouths, the capital discovered that Liu Guangshi, Wang Yuan and even Zhang Jun were defeated because the firearms sounded like thunder, frightening the soldiers, horses and livestock, causing chaos in the Chinese army."

"As soon as the Chinese army is in chaos, the Qingzhou cavalry will charge immediately. How can we be invincible?"

"Indeed."

Han Shizhong nodded in agreement.

The Chinese Army is the core of an army. It is not only the command post of the commander-in-chief, but also the location of the elite.

Once the Chinese army is charged recklessly by the enemy's heavily armored cavalry, even Han Xin and Li Jing would not be able to defeat it.

Yang Weizhong said: "You only need to prick the ears of cattle, horses and livestock to deafen them, and then let prisoners of war and Chinese soldiers plug their ear holes with cotton wool. How can there be chaos?"

"Wow!"

Han Shizhong slapped his thigh, his face full of surprise, and he said in an admiring tone: "Du Tong is really resourceful and uses troops like a god!"

"In addition, Zhang Jun and Ben Dutong mentioned a doubtful point. Every time the Qingzhou Army fought, they did not use firearms immediately. They often used firearms during a stalemate, which achieved the effect of taking them by surprise and unprepared them. However, it also exposed the Qingzhou Army's firearms. insufficient."

Yang Weizhong's eyes were blazing, and he said in a confident tone: "So, we only need to withstand a few rounds of firearms, and there is nothing we can do to the opponent. By then, it's time to put our true skills to the test!"

When it came time to fight with real swords and guns, he didn't think the Western Army would lose to a group of rebels.

Hearing this, Han Shizhong nodded and said: "What everyone said is that if you work hard, I have never been afraid of anyone. Let these rebels see the combat power of our Western Army!"

(End of this chapter)