A thousand-year-old family that began with the Battle of Makino

Chapter 517: Guangping offers suggestions to endanger Yuanan, but the war turns to Hebei to no avail
When Bai Shu heard this, he stood up suddenly, glared angrily, gritted his teeth and said:

"How dare Stone Thief An do this?"

"Da Sima, the last general invites you to fight!"

"The humble general is asking for battle. I am willing to carry the stone thief's head as an offering to the Great Sima to comfort the people of Guangping!"

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Seeing the excitement among the generals, they all wanted to smash Shi Le to pieces, even Yuan An, who was known for his calmness.

Bai Shu took a deep breath, exhaled several long breaths, and forced himself to calm down.

Then he asked Lingqi and Shi Le about their deployment and where they were attacking now.

The rider reports:

"The arrangement of Shi Le's troops is unknown to even a villain. Prefect Bai said that the thieves came in a hurry this time. Tens of thousands of cavalry roared past Guangping and penetrated into the hinterland of Guangping.

Within one day, enemy information came from Guangnian, Kuizhang, Quliang, Ping'en, Lieren, and Feixiang. Among them, Lieren was attacked by Shi Le because he had no time to close the city gate.

Captain Yang led his troops to rescue, but was attacked by Shi Le's cavalry. Captain Yang died in the battle, and the three thousand troops who went to rescue were completely wiped out.

Governor Bai had no choice but to send orders to all counties to defend the city and clear the country, waiting for the army to return for reinforcements. "

"So, Shi Le's troops are all cavalry?"

"Yes."

Bai Shu kept pacing back and forth, thinking about countermeasures.

At this time, Yuan'an's mood also calmed down, and he was able to think of a certain strategy, and then offered his advice:

"Da Sima, the general thought that most of our troops were infantry and rushed back. The enemy relied on the strength of the cavalry. We could not capture the main force of the enemy's army at all. We could only disperse all our troops and deploy sufficient troops in each city to defend them. We are in an extremely passive position.”

Bai Shu stopped, looked back at Yuan An, and asked for advice:
"What do you think?"

Yuan An replied:

"In the past, the Wei State fought with the Zhao State to seize Zhongshan. At that time, when the Zhao State's army penetrated deep into Zhongshan and the capital was empty, it sent General Pang Juan with 500 chariots to quickly besiege Handan, the capital of Zhao.

King Zhao had no choice but to ask for help from Qi State in desperation, and promised to give him Zhongshan as a gift after the siege was rescued.

The King of Qi agreed and made Tian Ji a general. Qi State did not directly rescue Handan, the capital of Zhao, but directly attacked Wei State.

When Wei general Pang Juan learned that his country was under attack, he returned to rescue him.

On the way back, they were ambushed and fought with Qi in Guiling. The Wei soldiers were exhausted from the long journey and were defeated. The Qi army won a great victory and the siege of Zhao was lifted. "

Bai Shu's eyes became brighter and brighter, and he immediately ordered:
"Order Duan Jie to lead five thousand troops and stay in Guangzong.

Ma Xie was ordered to lead the cavalry of the Hussar Battalion and the Fifth Military Battalion, together with seven thousand cavalry, to return to Guangping first to support Bai Gong, the prefect of Guangping.

The remaining generals pulled out their camps and attacked Xiangguo. "

"Order!"

September
Baishu's army crossed the Zhang River and Ming River one after another and arrived at Shile's headquarters, Xiangguo.

The army camped under Xiangguo City and made an offensive move.

The general of Xiangguo had already dispatched fast horses to Guangping to ask for help.

Shi Le, who was massacring Ping'en County when he heard that Xiang Kingdom was under siege, was really shocked. He quickly led his cavalry back to the army, leaving only Shi Hu with 10,000 black cavalry troops to wreak havoc in Guangping. Reduce Jizhou’s grain and grass advantage.

September
When Shi Le's army returned to Xiangguo, they saw from a distance that the White Army had set up camps under the city of Xiangguo, and surrounded Xiangguo for several miles.

To the east of the city, there are white troops climbing the city wall day and night.

Shi Le was in a panic, fearing that the White Army would capture Xiang State.

Because all of his gold, silver, jewelry, food and military equipment, the families of his soldiers, his wives, concubines, and daughters are all in the city now.

On the hill of Shilema, he pulled out the weapon from his waist, pointed at the White Army camp at the foot of the mountain, and shouted to the people behind him:
"Now the White Army is attacking our country of Xiang, and all my brothers' families and children are among them. They belong to me, so rush in with me!!!"

When the cavalry under his command heard this, their morale increased. Under the leadership of Shi Le and his Su Wei army, they roared and rushed towards the White Army camp down the mountain.

Looking from the bottom of the mountain, we can see densely packed cavalry, like a tsunami, coming down from the top of the mountain and heading towards Baiying.

Shileben attacked Baiying's South Village. When he was still three hundred steps away from the South Village, he suddenly turned to the East Village. The cavalry behind him also turned very smoothly, like a flexible snake.

The guard of Nanzhai was Hu Yanying. Seeing this, he quickly pulled over his order:
"Hurry and send a message to Dongzhai, Shi Le is heading towards them."

Then another Sima was sent with a thousand soldiers and horses to assist.

Here Shi Le approached the East Village. The defenders of the East Village were unprepared because Shi Le would attack the South Village. Shi Le broke through the line and rushed into the formation.

Tens of thousands of cavalrymen poured in behind Shi Le.

The guard of Dongzhai is Taishi Jun, the captain of the camp in the palace.

Seeing that the front line was breached, Taishi Jun quickly led the palace camp to form an array at the core point leading to the east city gate from the camp, and sent a message to Bai Shu and others who were attacking the east city, asking for support.

Taishi Jun stared closely at the approaching Shile cavalry, and when he was still three hundred steps away, he suddenly ordered:

"Lance standing!"

The two thousand spearmen who had been hidden in the formation instantly stood in front of the formation, inserted the tail of their spear into the ground, and pointed the spear body at 45 degrees up and down at Shile's cavalry.

During the confrontation in Zhangshui, Bai Shu specially ordered the craftsmen in the army to create a sharp weapon to prevent cavalry raids based on the characteristics of Shi Le's cavalry. The spear is different from ordinary war spears in that it is lengthened to two meters.

From a distance, it looks like a dense iron forest.

Shi Le saw it, but could not dodge it. Fortunately, he was skilled in martial arts and he stopped his horse vigorously in front of the iron forest. However, many cavalry behind him were unable to do this and bumped into him one after another.

Shile's cavalrymen were like meat skewers, skewered on their spears.

But there were not many spearmen after all. After paying a heavy price, Shi Le finally led his men to attack the battle formation in the middle camp of the White Army Palace. However, the speed advantage he relied on was gone, and only the infantry on horseback remained.

For a time, tens of thousands of cavalry under Shi Le's command were trapped in the hasty encirclement of the White Army. The palace camp in front was really elite, and it was almost a one-for-one battle with Shi Le's guard army.

Not long after, Bai Shu arrived at the messenger and led the reinforcements to Dongzhai.

Seeing the arrival of reinforcements, Shi Le was worried that he would be trapped in the formation and unable to retreat, so he sent an order to return to the army.

With the Su Wei army opening the way, Shile's cavalry successfully withdrew from the East Village. Before it got dark, they returned to the hill where they had been watching before and set up camp.

In this raid, Shi Le lost 5,000 soldiers, including 2,000 soldiers from the Suwei Army and 4,000 soldiers from the White Army, including 1,500 soldiers from the Dianzhong Camp.

Shi Le's losses were so great because the spear forest in the palace camp caught Shi Le unexpectedly, and more than a thousand people were penetrated in an instant, most of whom were the elite Su Guards who led the charge.

This made Shi Le heartbroken.

In the Bai camp, Bai Shu and other generals also gathered together to discuss the next action.

In the end, considering that there was not much military rations left, Quang Binh had not yet completely recovered and decided to retreat.

September 6
The White Army broke out of camp and slowly withdrew towards Guangping while guarding against Shi Le's surprise attack.

Shi Le wanted to pursue him, so he was placed in the palace camp at the rear of the march. With more than ten thousand soldiers, he immediately revealed a dense array of spears.

Shi Le gritted his teeth with hatred and did not dare to pursue him, so he had to send him out of the country with gifts.

But what Shi Le didn't know was that all the iron spears in the White Army had long been used up. There were only 500 spears made by military craftsmen overnight, and the rest were fake spears drawn on wood with ink pens.

September 10th
Bai Shu's army of 50,000 men drove away the attacking Shihu army.

Shihu escaped from the gap in the encirclement.

September

Shi Hu passed by Yiyang and was ambushed by the cavalry of the Hussars Battalion and the Fifth Military Battalion led by Ma Xie and Liu Cheng.

Shi Hu fought with him ten miles west of Yiyang.

Although they were prepared and unprepared for the attack, the black cavalry were not ordinary people. They quickly reacted and formed a cavalry formation with 500 people. Relying on their numerical advantage, they surrounded Ma Xie and Liu Cheng.

Seeing that the war was going against his side, Ma Xie asked Liu Cheng to command the remaining cavalry, and he personally led the most elite knights in the 500-horse battalion with the intention of beheading Shi Hu.

However, as Shi Le's son, Shi Hu's martial arts skills were not weak, and he fought with Ma Xie frequently.

As time goes by, the number of White Knights is getting fewer and fewer, and it looks like they will be unable to sustain themselves and will collapse.

Fortunately, the magistrate of Yiyang County saw that his cavalry army was at a disadvantage, so he led a thousand Yiyang defenders and brought more drums and flags to pretend that Bai Shu's army had arrived.

Shi Hu saw the enemy coming from a distance with the sound of drums shaking the sky and the densely packed banners. He mistakenly thought that Bai Shu was chasing him, abandoned his horse and Xie, whistled, and the black cavalry troop flew away.

Only the dejected Ma Xie, Liu Cheng, and the defeated soldiers of the Hussars Battalion and the Fifth Military Battalion were left behind.

Since they came out of the White Kingdom, they have always been invincible. This is their first head-on confrontation, but they are at a disadvantage.

September

Guangping County finally calmed down, and the prefect Bai Gong organized his men to go to Feixiang and Ping'en to collect the corpses all over the city, and ordered the burial of the rural people who were killed outside.

September

Bai Shu received the losses suffered by Guangping County this time.

Ping'en and Feixiang counties were conquered and massacred. Only a few hundred survivors remained, and 70,000 people were killed.

Including the rest of the destroyed villages, more than 100,000 people were killed in Guangping County.

Bai Shu felt extremely heartbroken and asked for forgiveness.

He also personally set up an altar in the southern suburbs of Guangping and held a large sacrifice for the murdered people. He personally donated 100,000 coins, 50,000 stones of grain, and 10,000 pieces of cloth from Gongsun's mansion to the surviving people and relatives of the killed people in Guangping County.

In order to avoid this tragedy, Bai Shu built a city on the north bank of Ming River in the three counties of Guangping, Guangnian and Wu'an. He also set up outposts every five miles and military stations every ten miles to strictly guard against Xiangguo in the north. Shile cavalry.

Dozens of beacon towers were set up on the south bank of Fanshui in the south of Xiangguo, and they quickly conveyed news to Guangping.

In this way, Bai Shu left 3,000 soldiers on this Mingshui defense line and 10,000 soldiers in Guangping, all of them cavalry.

It includes all the cavalry in the Bai Kingdom's establishment, including the Hussars Battalion, the Cavalry Department of the Fifth Barracks, and three thousand newly recruited cavalry.

Anbei general Ma Xie was appointed to also lead the garrison general (town general) to command these 13,000 people, which echoed the Duan boundary of the garrison in Guangzong.

After arranging everything, Bai Shu's class returned to the court.

In this eastern expedition, the Bai Kingdom suffered heavy losses. Except for capturing Guangzong, not only did the rest have no results, but Shi Le destroyed the civil affairs of Guangping.

Without a year or two of recovery, or finding a way to deal with Shile's cavalry, I hope that Bai will not send troops, otherwise the result will not be better than now.

(End of this chapter)