Prosperous Tang Dynasty

Chapter 297
In fact, the situation in Suiyang is not urgent at all. After all, in history, Zhang Xun stayed until October of the second year of Suzong Zhide, that is, October of next year, which is more than a full year away.

Moreover, although Zhang Xunshou Suiyang's troops are far inferior to those of the rebels, they are not just defending like Nanyang City. Instead, they defend and attack. The casualties were heavy.

Later generations have historically demonstrated that Zhang Xun's leadership ability is even better than that of Guo Ziyi.

After all, although Guo Ziyi is also powerful, Guo Ziyi has tens of thousands of elite frontier troops as his base after all, and Zhang Xun simply relied on a gang of temporary recruits to fight against the rebel army ten times his own in Yongqiu and Suiyang. In the past two years of see-saw, if Li Fei hadn't intervened, Zhang Xun would have died in battle. He would have killed and wounded nearly 20 rebels with the help of the Tang army with a peak of no more than [-] in his hands. This is a miracle in the history of war.

None of the later dynasties did not respect Zhang Xun.

Li Fei brought An Dong cavalry eastward from Nanyang, and the people he saw most along the way were the people who fled south from Hebei or Luoyang to avoid the war.

"Leaving their homes, the people who suffer the most from wars are always the people!" Li Fei lamented.

Although the food he carried was limited, Li Fei still helped many hungry people along the way, which earned him a good reputation among the refugees.

On August 27th, Li Fei led his army into the boundary of Suiyang.

Riding on a high slope, Li Fei used binoculars to check the situation of the rebel camp, to see if there was any possibility of attacking the camp.

Because of the casualties caused by the siege of the city and the casualties caused by Zhang Xun's frequent attacks, although the rebels continued to recruit troops, they were still less than when they besieged Suiyang at this moment, only [-].

Looking at it this way, if the rebel army is unable to take Suiyang for a while, sooner or later they will retreat and reorganize and fight again.

However, since Li Fei has led Anton's cavalry to Suiyang, he will not let the rebels retreat and regroup, but will completely resolve the siege of Suiyang in one battle.

The strength of the anti-army under Yang Chaozong's command is much worse than that under the command of Wu Lingxun in Nanyang City, not only because of the difference in numbers, but also because Zhang Xun led the Suiyang defenders to kill a large number of people. As a result, the morale of the army was unstable and morale was low.

Such rebels, not to mention only [-], even if there are [-], Li Fei is absolutely confident that he can forcibly defeat them with head-to-head confrontation.

However, in that case, the loss of Anton's iron cavalry will certainly not be small.

Nowadays, every Anton Iron Knight soldier is extremely precious to Li Fei, and he has no choice but to lose one Anton Iron Knight soldier so that Li Fei can avoid losing one less.

Therefore, if the rebels are caught off guard by a surprise attack, it would be perfect to defeat the rebels as quickly as under the city of Nanyang.

"Unfortunately, because Zhang Xun often takes the initiative to launch sneak attacks, the rebels have always been on guard. Even if we make a surprise attack, the effect will not be much better than a head-to-head attack." Li Fei said disappointed.

"My lord, the chance of surprise attacking the anti-army camp may not be great, but the surprise attack on the anti-army grain road will be 100% successful!" Mao Youde, the military adviser, suggested next to him.

"This proposal is very good. The main purpose of the surprise attack is to catch the enemy by surprise, shake the enemy's morale in an instant, make the enemy lose their positions, and defeat the enemy in one fell swoop. If the enemy's food supply can be cut off, the same can be achieved. This will cause the enemy to panic and their morale will be unstable. At that time, there will be no supply of food and grass, and the enemy can only retreat. When the enemy abandons the tortoise shell of the big camp and retreats, they can easily defeat the enemy with an ambush!" Li Fei smiled and obviously agreed with Mao Youde's proposal very much.

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It's just a rebellion against the army's rations. Li Fei didn't send out all Anton's cavalry, but only dispatched [-] cavalry, led by Lu Xin.

Among them, [-] were veterans of Anton's cavalry, and [-] were recruits recruited in Nanyang City. This was to train these recruits by the way, so that they could adapt to the battlefield as soon as possible.

"Kill!" Only fifteen miles away from the rebel camp, Lu Xin led [-] cavalry and rushed towards the rebel grain transport team.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!" The general of the anti-army grain transportation team shouted in shock when he saw the four thousand Anton cavalry rushing menacingly.

This anti-military food transport team seems to have 5000 people, which is a lot.But in fact, only 500 were rebel soldiers, and the other [-] were just coolies captured by the rebels.And even the [-] anti-army soldiers are all the original counties who rebelled and surrendered, and their combat effectiveness is no better than that of the mob.

Even, in the entire anti-army food transport team, only this general had a horse, and the other soldiers were all infantry.

This kind of power is not enough to resist four thousand cavalry anyway.

The general of the anti-army food transport team didn't even have the courage to resist, so he turned his horse and prepared to leave everyone else to escape.

"Pfft!" However, before he could escape ten meters, an arrow pierced his chest.Suddenly, the body of the general of the anti-army grain transport team fell from the horse.

The general of the anti-military food transport team not only turned around and fled, but was shot dead before he could escape a few steps.The other anti-army soldiers were even less courageous to resist, and they also turned around and fled.

However, they were just pawns, how could they outrun the four-legged war horses sitting on Anton's cavalry.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu" of ordinary bows and arrows in their hands, shooting to death about twenty or so fleeing rebel soldiers.

Immediately afterwards, the war horse was overtaken almost in the blink of an eye, and other rebel soldiers who fled.

"Pfft!" The horse spear in Lu Xin's hand pierced through the body of the rebel soldier.

Other Anton Cavalry veterans also fiercely pierced the bodies of other rebel soldiers who were overtaking with their horses.

But those recruits, the rain of arrows was not very good. Although they dared to slash and kill the rebel soldiers with their knives, there were also some recruits who slashed the rebel soldiers, because the blood of the rebel soldiers was splashed on their faces, which was thick and pungent. The bloody smell pierced their nostrils, instantly turning their faces pale.A few people with weaker wills even vomited directly.

Fortunately, the rebel soldiers only cared about escaping and did not turn around to fight back, causing almost no casualties.

"After all, they are only recruits who have only been trained for 20 days. It is not easy to do this for the first time. I hope that after this bloody first time, they can adapt quickly. Otherwise, if they really go to the big battlefield, how many will they have?" People don't know if they survive!" Lu Xin shook his head and said with emotion.

Of course, it is impossible for Lu Xin to have the slightest soft-heartedness, whoever is a soldier does not come here like this, either the enemy dies or he himself dies.It is difficult for a soft-hearted person to survive the battlefield.

After about dozens of breaths, I saw that I couldn't run the horse no matter how I ran, except for the more than 300 people who were killed, the remaining more than a thousand rebel soldiers simply threw their weapons and knelt down and surrendered.

A battle of looting food quickly ended in less than a quarter of an hour.

Lu Xin and others intercepted more than 1 shi of grain, enough to feed more than 6 rebels for ten days. The harvest is really not small! ——
(End of this chapter)