Late Tang

(Thanks to Shuimu Xiaoxiao, 320 Siqiao, Yugu Taike, xujay, Liang Caike, Danghan, Soros, Half-Life Madman, Qingkuang for your monthly ticket support, and if there is no guaranteed monthly ticket, some vote for Muzi , during the double period, vote for one, and Muzi gets two!)

-------------------------------------------------- ---

Everyone in the front compartment of Huang Chao's headquarters knew that the envoy personally led fifty cavalry to investigate, and soon brought back the news that there was an army in front of Tingting Mountain. "Judging from their banners, they should have 8000 men, all wearing red war robes, everyone with a bow, each with a gun and a knife, and even [-] cavalry!"

"Is it Xue Chong?" Meng Kai asked.

"Or it's the Li family." Ge Congzhou said, "No matter which one it is, we'll find out soon." He inspected his army, which consisted of 1000 troops in the left wing.One thousand came from the rear compartment composed of hungry people, thieves, deserters, farmers, and traders. Compared with Lin Yan's front compartment, it was far behind.Lin Yan alone has fifty cavalry, while the left side only has ten cavalry.

However, they were equipped with swords and guns. Although they were not as good as Lin Yan's front compartment, they were much better than Wang Xianzhi's troops.

"The deputy capital commander sent someone to report that a soldier and horse was also found in the direction of Jeju. There were about 8000 people fighting under the banner of the Tianping Army. Now another one is coming. Could it be his army?" Meng Kai As Huang Chao's lieutenant general, he came here this time and was in charge of commanding the rear compartment.

Ge Congzhou was fearless, it didn't matter which way he came, in the end he had to fight hand to hand.

"In my opinion, these two groups should be the Tianping Army, one is false and the other is real. Since Jeju is making a lot of fanfare, it must be false. This side must be the main force of the Tianping Army. Meng Sima, I think Don't worry too much, lead the rear from Zhou Yuan to fight."

Meng Kai thought for a while: "Since General Tongmei is so courageous, then Sima can't stop him. If that's the case, well, let's fight from the rear according to your wishes."

Ge Congzhou led a thousand soldiers in the rear compartment to move forward quickly, and killed the officers and soldiers. About two hours later, the two sides met in front of Xitingting Mountain in Qianfeng County.Ge Congzhou took a step ahead and seized the half-hillside of the next mountain, condescending.Standing on a high place and looking into the distance, there is smoke and dust billowing on the flat ground in the distance, and dozens of flags are floating in the smoke and dust.

With anticipation, Ge Congzhou's heart beat faster and faster.When Huang Chao joined the army, he joined the army. For more than half a year, he fought Caozhou, Puzhou, and Jeju. He fought bravely and made many meritorious deeds.Now, this is a big battle that has never been fought before. One thousand grass troops face eight thousand officers and soldiers.

The smoke and dust got closer and closer, and looking far away, one could already see the huge word Xue embroidered on the front banner.

Ge Cong Zhou turned his head to the pale Meng Kai and said, "Meng Sima, let's line up to meet the enemy!"

Meng Kai nodded and gave the order to line up.

A thousand teams composed of farmers, private salt dealers, robbers, deserters, captives, traders, etc., lined up against the mountain in a hurry, forming a mess.

They are small in number, have not received sufficient training, and have never fought a real tough battle. They seem at a loss in the face of so many enemies.The only thing that can keep them from being disorganized and collapsed is the prestige of the chief general Ge Congzhou, the friendship in the village, the loyalty of the desperate brothers, and the resentment towards the coming officers and soldiers.Moreover, they are no strangers to Xue Chong and his Tianping Army on the opposite side.For more than half a year, the four states of the Tianping Army have broken through three states. Many troops of the Tianping Army have been defeated by them again and again. A small amount of armor was seized from the soldiers who died in the Tianping Army.Even in the team, there are many captured soldiers who were defeated soldiers of the Tianping Army.

When a person faced such an army, they might have collapsed a long time ago, but when they stood behind the young general, they became bolder.How to fight this battle and what the outcome will be, in fact, except for Ge Congzhou and Meng Kai, they have no idea at all.

Suddenly, fear gradually overwhelmed the cohesion and confidence, and the grass army's phalanx began to falter, and there were bursts of exclamations, and the Tianping army in front of them was already close at hand.

The sound of war drums sounded, and soldiers of the Tianping Army who could not see the edge slowly came out on the plain in front of the mountain.

The armor is bright, glistening in the late spring sun.

In the front are the infantry, pushing sharp-edged shield chariots, holding spears, and wearing red-lacquered iron armor.Then came teams of archers and crossbowmen, wearing long cloaks of light leather armor.

On both sides of the backward point, there are neat cavalry, and the knights and horses are all covered with cowhide armor.

When this troop slowly approached, the armor and weapons on their bodies, as well as the sound of rumbling footsteps, and the neat array, made many soldiers of the grass army start to jump violently, their hands and feet were weak, and their faces were as white as paper. generally.The entire grass army array began to get restless.

"Our team doesn't have any cavalry. The damned Tianping army has transferred so many cavalry this time. I'm afraid it won't be easy to fight this time." Lin Yan said in a low voice with worry on his horse. "We have few iron armors, few leather armors, fewer shields, and not many archers..."

Marching Sima Mengkai was also the leader of a state salt dealer at the beginning. After Huang Chao raised his troops, he quickly pulled this old brother into the group and took an important position.Although he was also panicking at this time, he also knew that at this time, as the main general at the center of the whole army, he couldn't show this worry on his face. "At the moment of the war, don't say depressing words!"

Xue Chong rode a tall horse, under the banner of the Chinese army, looked at the sparse queue of grass thieves in front of him, and couldn't help showing a smile on his face: "There are more than a thousand grass thieves in the district, but they are beyond their own capabilities, blocking the car with their arms, and wanting to hit a stone with an egg. Hahaha. Pass on the commander's order, let the infantry advance forward, and the cavalry follow up on both sides. Today, the commander will destroy these grasshoppers first, and take him to sacrifice the flag!"

The horns sounded, and the twelve drums and twelve horns of the Tang Army Central Army sounded at the same time.

Dozens of order cavalry cavalry carried order flags in front of each formation, loudly conveying the latest orders to each formation.

The infantry in the front row unloaded their shields from the shield carts, and quickly put together an iron wall composed of men and shields in front of the formation. Behind the shield wall were forests of spears and neat teams of archers.On their two wings, Cao Shicun, Cao Yi, and Cao Xiang led their own cavalry to follow slowly.

With the sound of the horn, this huge formation slowly moved forward.

The soldiers of the grass army clenched the knives and guns in their hands, their faces were pale, and their knuckles turned white due to excessive force in their hands.

The two armies were getting closer and closer, and there was a terrible silence between the sky and the earth.

"He is about to release the arrow. The archer is pulling the string. He has no need to raise the bow. He wants to shoot from the back. Raise the shield!"

Following bursts of sharp shouts, they approached the Tang army within a hundred steps, and a dense rain of arrows made countless whistling noises, flew out of the sky, covered the sun with clouds, and finally formed a huge cloud of arrows, covering the entire battlefield. To stagnate.

At this time, many grass soldiers raised the shields they were carrying. The so-called shields are just a few pieces of wooden boards pieced together, and many soldiers even used wooden pot lids snatched from common people's homes as shields.Although it seemed extremely simple, the soldiers in the back compartment were almost all equipped with too little armor. The officers and soldiers almost had a bow and even equipped with a large number of crossbows. In every battle, the damage caused by bows and arrows was always the greatest.

As soon as the pot lids were raised above the head, the cloud of arrows that seemed to be frozen in the sky suddenly turned into a rain of thousands of arrows, which slammed down towards the formation of the rebel army.

The sound of arrows kept ringing, and the wooden pot lid in the hands of the rebels continued to vibrate violently, as well as beeping.The lid of the pot without cowhide is not strong, and it will be shaken apart after four or five arrows.

Tang Jun's rain of arrows hit intensively like a heavy rain hitting a lotus leaf.

Ge Congzhou looked forward from under a real cowhide shield, and the infantry of the Tang army on the opposite side had already raised their spears and was speeding up their march.The cavalry also galloped out from the two wings of the infantry, formed a formation of wild goose wings, and then accelerated in an instant and turned into a charge.

The rain of arrows in the sky was no longer so dense. Ge Congzhou took up his spear and shouted loudly: "Life and death are only today, brothers, follow me!"

Cao Jun threw away the pot lids of the nail-headed arrows in their hands one after another, yelling and adding courage to themselves, followed Ge Congzhou and rushed to kill, colliding with the cavalry who killed swiftly, at the foot of Tingting Mountain The battlefield on the battlefield suddenly turned into a human battle.

The infantry of the Tang army led with the square shield of strange soldiers, then the spearmen, and the regiment swordsmen followed, and the cavalry quickly outflanked from the two wings.

This is a war without any suspense. Compared with these hastily gathered refugees with poor equipment and insufficient training, compared with the elite Tianping Army who just returned from defeating the Nanzhao Army in Xichuan, there is not only a huge gap in equipment and training, but also There is also a huge gap in numbers.

Although Ge Congzhou was extremely brave, but so experienced, in front of the Tianping Army's copper-walled and iron-walled shield formation and countless forest-like spear formations, the Cao Army could not rush through, and the impact was like waves constantly washing away Reef, in vain and in vain.

At this time, the forward cavalry of the three Cao Cunshi brothers had already surrounded from the two wings.The huge impact of the cavalry's charge quickly restrained the grass army's charge.The three Cao brothers led the cavalry to charge left and right, and the Cao army's formation was quickly attacked by them.

With the Tianping Army's infantry slowly advancing and the cavalry rushing left and right, the Cao Army began to retreat step by step, and soon the entire formation was completely chaotic.

Ge Congzhou and his subordinates were covered in blood, but they still couldn't stop the officers and soldiers from attacking.

Holding a spear, Meng Kai rode his horse up to Ge Congzhou, and shouted, "Brother Tongmei, the Tang army is powerful, and this is the main force of the Tianping army! The wind is tight, blah!"

Ge Congzhou wiped the blood stains from an unknown enemy on his face and nodded, "Ming Jin retreats! Withdraw!"

There was a sound of gold clanging, and the soldiers of the grass army who were struggling to support were suddenly overjoyed, and turned around and fled without saying a word.

When Cao Cunshi, the vanguard of the Tianping Army, saw that the bandits were fleeing, he raised his gun and shouted: "Don't let the bandits run away, chase them!" (To be continued.)