Prancing Horse Xiliang

Chapter 47
Luancheng, county government.

Zhang He paced up and down the hall restlessly, and asked loudly, "Where are the Xiliang rebels now?"

A small school hurriedly replied: "Back to the general, he has already gone to Pingji."

"Hey, these bloody Xiliang thieves."

Zhang Heqi's face was livid, and he clenched his fists and clapped his hands hard.

After walking back and forth for a while, he couldn't help asking: "Is there any news from Ye City?"

The small school replied: "No news at the moment."

At this moment, a small school suddenly rushed in and said loudly: "General, the Xiliang rebels entered Pingji and destroyed three Wubao and two manors. Women and children remain."

"I'm mad at me too!"

Zhang He roared loudly, his eyes were about to shoot fire.

This group of bloody Xiliang rebels are so cruel and inhuman.

If he is allowed to continue burning, killing and looting, the tyrants in the interior of Changshan County may rebel.

And it is not good for him to suppress thieves by himself. If he hides in Luancheng and does not send troops, he will most likely become a scapegoat at that time.

A small school's face was bloodshot, and he couldn't help but shouted: "General, we are willing to fight to the death with the Xiliang rebels."

"Please send troops, general."

The rest of the military academies also asked for orders one after another, all of them with high fighting spirit.

Just hiding in Luancheng like this, allowing the Xiliang rebels to burn, kill and loot, is really aggrieved.

Zhang He glanced at all the military academies in the battlefield, and knew that the will of the people would not be disobeyed, so he gritted his teeth suddenly and shouted, "Okay, pass on my military order, and the army immediately breaks out of the camp and marches east to Pingji, to fight to the death with the Xiliang rebels. "

"As ordered."

All the military academies cheered up in an instant, and responded loudly.

Ten miles west of Pingji, in a dock.

Luo Zheng gnawed on a steaming leg of lamb, his mouth full of oil.

After two days, this is the No. 13 fortress that the Xiliang army leveled, and the No. 13 wealthy families that were wiped out.

The powerful landlords are the backbone of this era, not only monopolizing knowledge and official careers, but also occupying a large amount of grain fields.

If local officials and princes want to govern the place well, they have to use the gentry.If you want to expand your army and strengthen your strength, you can't offend these local tyrants, because most of the money and weapons are in the hands of these local tyrants.

For the common people, the gentry tyrants are class enemies.

However, for those princes with ambitions, the nobles are the backbone of their rule.

Butchering the tyrants of the gentry is tantamount to bleeding them.

Luo Zheng will not use a knife against those poor people, but he will never be soft on these tyrants.

After two days, all those who were trampled to the ground in Diwubao and Zhuangzi were exterminated, and only some women and children were spared.

Of course, some Wubao and Zhuangzi were places of refuge built by the common people to resist bandits, and the Xiliang army did not move.

"Report-"

At this moment, a fast horse rushed into Wubao like a whirlwind.

The scout cavalry galloped all the way, and rushed straight to the front of Luo Zheng, then reined in the horse, rolled off the saddle, bowed to the ground and said loudly: "General Qi, our scouts found the Jizhou army, It is killing and rushing to Pingthorn."

"Oh, the Jizhou army is here?"

Luo Zheng suddenly lifted his spirits, and asked: "But Zhang He's army?"

The scout soldier replied, "Exactly."

"good very good."

Luo Zheng hit Jie hard and asked: "Where is Zhang He's army now?"

The scout soldier replied: "I have already arrived at the pavilion, and there is still an hour's footsteps away from here."

Luo Zhengmo's eyes were grim, and he got up and shouted: "Pass my military order, order all the teams to return to the camp immediately, and then order the soldiers to have a full meal, to raise their mental and physical strength, and send troops to meet Zhang He's army in half an hour."

"As ordered."

A personal soldier hurriedly responded to the order and sent the order quickly.

On the official road from Luan County to Pingji, Zhang He led a [-]-strong army and was rushing all the way.

The few cavalry acted as scouts, running back and forth on horseback non-stop, or ran to a high place in front of the army, set up a pergola to look around, or entered some deep ravines and dense forests, searched carefully, and Prevent being attacked.

In ancient times, when using troops, regardless of cavalry or infantry, when a large army marched, it was necessary to have scouts to scout the way.

If you don't pay attention to the geography, it is easy to be ambushed by the enemy and defeated.

As for what I saw on TV, ambush a soldier here, ambush a soldier there, and kill the enemy army, it is purely fooling the audience. He crashed into the enemy's ambush.

To lay an ambush, many conditions must be met,

For example, when one side is defeated and one side pursues the victory, the defeated side can plant an ambush. The pursuit side needs to use the speed of soldiers, and there is no time to explore the geography, so the ambush can be effective.

Another example is at night, using the darkness to plant a small group of ambushes can achieve miraculous results.

Under normal circumstances, if the two armies confront each other, there is little chance of laying an ambush to defeat the enemy.

"Report-"

When Zhang Hezheng was leading his army on a gallop, a scout riding his horse rushed towards him like a scout.

"General, we found Xiliang rebels five miles ahead."

The scout said loudly, "It is estimated that the Xiliang rebels will be there within a quarter of an hour at most."

"It's coming so fast!"

Zhang He's eyes froze, and he immediately stopped shouting: "Here's an order, the army will form an array on the spot, ready to meet the enemy."

The military order was quickly conveyed, and seven thousand Jizhou soldiers quickly lined up on a mound, with their backs against the mound, ready to meet the enemy.

Infantry is no better than cavalry, the best way to fight with cavalry is to stop with silence and use defense instead of attack, otherwise it is easy for the cavalry to catch the weak point and be defeated in one blow.Only by forming an formation and defending ourselves first can we look for opportunities to defeat the enemy.

Soon, there was a faint rumbling sound in the distance.

Then, everyone saw dust in the east, and the rumbling sound was getting closer.

At this moment, the world suddenly fell silent, and the rumbling sound subsided.

At this time, a scout came to report, "General, the Xiliang rebels have stopped."

"Stopped?"

Zhang He's eyes froze, his brains turned sharply, but he couldn't figure out what the hell the Xiliang rebels were doing.

But soon, there was a bang.

After half a stick of incense, a black line appeared on the horizon, moving rapidly towards this side.

When three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry marched swiftly across the wilderness, the sound of thousands of hooves knocking on the ground was like thunder, and even the ground began to vibrate. That kind of momentum that seemed to destroy mountains and mountains was uncontrollable. Do not tremble.

Before the two armies fought, the morale of the Jizhou soldiers had already been taken away.

The Xiliang army was already strong and good at fighting, but after they attacked Gongsun Zan's three thousand Youyan elite cavalry in Qiao County, the confidence of this Xiliang cavalry increased rapidly, and the momentum formed when they lined up and charged was even more powerful. More fierce and sturdy.

As for the [-] Jizhou Army, nearly half of them are soldiers drawn from various counties, which really pales in comparison.

The more than [-] Xiliang iron cavalry originally formed a long snake formation, but when they entered one mile, the rear army spread out to the two wings as far as possible, lined up in a fan shape, and came all over the mountains and plains in the wilderness.

"Send the order, the army forms a circle."

Zhang He saw it clearly, and immediately gave a loud shout and passed down the military order.

When the two armies confront each other, they need to form different formations to deal with different battle formations.

If three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry formed a conical formation to attack from the front, they had to use layers of refusal horse formations to repel them.

Right now, [-] Xiliang cavalry are coming all over the mountains and plains. The army is advancing in a fan shape. They don't plan to attack head-on.

Zhang He has been in battle for a long time, but his quality in this aspect is absolutely excellent.

Just thinking that the Xiliang rebels suddenly stopped two miles away, and I don't know what the hell they are doing, I always feel that something is wrong, but I don't know the point, so I have to be more vigilant and secretly keep an eye on it.

Iron hooves churned, and the earth passed away.

In front of the Xiliang army formation, Luo Zheng put on his armor and helmet, and rode forward at the first.

The three thousand Xiliang iron cavalry are like a semicircle formed by a rope, with a concave in the middle, and the two sides extend forward in an arc to wrap, firmly controlling the formation and moving forward, as if to wrap the seven thousand Jizhou soldiers into it.

Luo Zheng is located at the bottom of the semicircle, behind him are two hundred armored serial cavalry who have just changed their outfits.

"My lord, has the Jizhou army changed?"

Xu Chu's eyesight was excellent, he saw the Jizhou army's formation clearly, and immediately reminded him loudly.

"Okay, today is the time to defeat the enemy."

Luo Zheng also saw it, and couldn't help but applaud.

Xiliang iron cavalry rolled forward, and soon entered within two arrows of the Jizhou army.

Luo Zheng's eyes showed murderous intent, he immediately waved his hand, turned the horse's head and rushed to the side.

More than a hundred cavalry on the left and right immediately followed up, giving way to the two hundred armored serial cavalry behind them.

The distance between two arrows already allows both the enemy and us to clearly see the details of each other's military formation changes.

Zhang Hece stood in the army, and when he saw this strange scene, his eyes narrowed immediately, and he became highly vigilant.

Soon, the Xiliang cavalry at the bottom of the semicircle entered within the reach of the Jizhou Army.

However, except for the cavalry on the two wings who kept their distance and roared past from both sides of the Jizhou army, the hundred taels of Xiliang cavalry in the front did not intend to go around at all, and still rushed straight over, as if they were about to attack head-on.

"what happened?"

Zhang He frowned suddenly, feeling inexplicably uneasy.

If it were an ordinary general who commanded the troops, most of them would think that the Xiliang cavalry was seeking their own death. It is definitely an act of courting death to attack the [-] troops waiting in full force with a mere two hundred cavalry. Shoot most of them.

However, such an obvious mistake, no matter how you look at it, there is a problem.

Zhang He had fought battles for a long time, so he naturally didn't think that the Xiliang Army would make such a low-level mistake.

Then the only problem is that the Xiliang rebels have tricks.

The answer was quickly revealed.

After the [-] Xiliang cavalry entered the range, Zhang He gave an order, and the [-] archers immediately fired a volley, like a rain of locust arrows sweeping the air from the Jizhou army formation, and they shot fiercely at the [-] cavalry. Xiliang cavalry on the ground.

However, the result made everyone's eyes widen.

Even opening and closing calmly, I was greatly taken aback.

(End of this chapter)