Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 888 Uighur Khanate
Yang Jiye said with a smile: "Naturally, we must fight, but we must carefully measure how to fight. If our army's strength is exhausted because of the fight against Ganzhou, even if we continue to advance westward, how can we get rid of these occupied areas?" Is the place really in your hands?"

He raised his head, and his eyes revealed the light of wisdom that he was sure of winning.Long before dispatching troops, Ye Chen ordered the Ministry of Security to make extensive inquiries, search for the geography, military strength, population composition distribution, and even the personalities of the leaders of various forces in the Hexi Corridor, and provide all the information that can be inquired to the military. The pivot department, let the military pivot department make strategic and tactical moves against the various forces in the Hexi Corridor in advance based on intelligence information.

Of course, the battlefield situation is changing rapidly, and plans are often not as good as changes. What is planned in advance may not be used, but there will be no major changes in strategy and tactics.For example, against the Khanate of the Pang Teqin Department of the Huangtou Uighur in Ganzhou, the Military Shuttle Department has already formulated some tactics.

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In the second year of Tianding, in the early morning of June 1th, Yang Jiye left two brigades with a total of 7000 people to guard Liangzhou after a day's rest in Liangzhou City to prevent the remnants of Liangzhou led by King Pan Luo and the Tubo people from Qingtang. .Then he led an army of [-] to Ganzhou, but the total number did not decrease much because Pan Luo Ajiu brought more than [-] soldiers from Liangzhou along with him.

In the early morning of June [-]th, the [-] troops of the Xiangfu Kingdom's Western Expeditionary Army stood under the city of Ganzhou. The mighty military formations stood like mountains, and all kinds of siege equipment were densely packed like forests. The solemn and dignified murderous aura enveloped the entire ancient city of Ganzhou.

In Ganzhou City, there was a tense atmosphere. All the shops were closed, the doors were closed, and there was no sound.On the streets, only teams of warriors with swords and arrows came and went in a hurry.

Rows of archers were densely covered on the city wall, their crossbows pointing at the city, waiting in full force. In the silence, behind them, there was faint dust flying. Looking in from the watchtower outside the city, you could see groups of camels , The horse team is moving quickly under the drive of the shepherd.This city is surprisingly large, and the city is also surprisingly empty. It is completely different from the style of the city in the Central Plains.If you only look at the part near the city wall, you can almost understand it as a grassland surrounded by a high wall, and the buildings are still two miles away from the city wall.

Some of these camels are equipped with whirlwind cannons commonly used in the battlefields of nomadic peoples in the Western Regions, and some are carrying huge rattan baskets with pebbles the size of bowls. Obviously, this is the defense of Ganzhou and long-range attacks important weapon.

Tall and slightly chubby, wearing a white robe, the yellow-headed Uyghur Khan Pang Teqin of Ganzhou, who had sunken eyes and a high nose, climbed to the top of the city and commanded the battle. The 1 reinforcements in Zhouzhou returned after a disastrous defeat, and only [-] came back, and each of the soldiers looked like they had seen a ghost.Pang Teqin's heart, which was as hard as iron, couldn't help but feel awe inwardly.

Pang Teqin has fought too many battles in his life. He has seen many armies, including Tibetans, party members, Han Chinese, and big cannibals. As fierce as a tiger and wolf.However, the army in front of him was completely different from any army he had seen before. They were too neat and quiet.

As long as the [-]-strong army is surrounded by the commander-in-chief, the flag bearers sing one by one, and the drummer's drums sound one by one, they will be in order, advancing and retreating in unison, and no one will make noise or even move.This is the so-called prohibition.Ponteqin never imagined that an army could do this,
They were not as fierce, sturdy, and bloodthirsty as the armies of various forces in the Western Regions he had seen in the past, but they had a feeling of being as majestic as a mountain, as quiet as a mountain, and as moving as a mountain.This feeling even made Pang Teqin feel a little weird.

Since the founding of the Xiangfu Kingdom, especially after defeating the Song and Liao empires successively, Pang Teqin deliberately asked people to inquire about the information about the Emperor Ye Chen of the Xiangfu Kingdom. He had to admit that Ye Chen was a legendary emperor.But so what?He is also the khanate who was killed in the blood mountain corpse sea. Although he attaches great importance to it, he has never been afraid of it.It wasn't until the [-] reinforcements he sent to Liangzhou with [-] casualties, and [-] of them returned in embarrassment, that he had a vague feeling that the opponent he faced this time might not be simple, and was somewhat special. Finally, there was some fear and uneasiness in my heart.

"Be provocative first, weaken the enemy's morale, and strengthen our army's prestige." Yang Jiye gave an order, and the army began to march out in the order that had already been set.

Tuobashi, commander of the first cavalry brigade of the White Wolf Legion, led five thousand cavalrymen, and with a roar like thunder, they rushed out from the army. The horses were fat and strong, strong and powerful. Menacing, fast but not chaotic, uniform armor, helmets, uniform weapons, with the battalion as a team, forming four neat square formations, they converged into a strong stream of iron in an instant, all in one row. They drove past Ganzhou City calmly.

The so-called "a layman watches the excitement, an insider watches the doorway" is also valid in war. Pang Teqin has never seen such a rapid assembly and such a well-organized military appearance, but this does not prevent him from being able to It can be seen from this that this cavalry has strict military discipline. They are not only strong in individual combat, but also well-trained. Then one can imagine the horror of this army.

In addition, Pang Teqin also found that not only everyone in Xiangfu country's army wore strange plate armor that covered their heads and faces, but even the horses wore iron armor that seemed sturdy but not very heavy.This made his face even uglier.

However, he is the Uyghur Khan of Ganzhou, and all his sons and daughters are elite soldiers and warriors. The reason for their defeat in Liangzhou is that they didn't know how powerful the opponent's gunpowder weapons were, and they could still be used in that way.After taking precautions, he is not afraid of the army in front of him, and he will never surrender, he can only fight.

Pang Teqin stared at it for a long time with worried eyes, and then slowly moved away from the fierce army below the city, and looked behind the army, to the desert and oasis further away. He has dispatched more than 20 sons that he valued the most. The seven most capable people left Ganzhou before Ye Chen's army arrived in Ganzhou, and flew to various nomadic tribes to warn and ask for help. He believed that as long as he persisted for one day, reinforcements would continue to flow Arrived, at that time the army of Xiangfu Kingdom will be caught in a double attack.

However, the Uighurs are not good at defending the city. Can they survive the catastrophe before them?This is what worries him the most.

Pang Teqin clenched the scimitar under his ribs, with mad killing intent in his eyes. He has already sent envoys to the Long family in Suzhou, and the Cao family in Guazhou and Shazhou, hoping to persuade the two families with the principle of "dead lips and cold teeth". The forces sent reinforcements to him.He believed that the Long family and the Cao family were not idiots. As long as one could imagine that after their Ganzhou was destroyed by the Xiangfu Kingdom, it would be Suzhou, Guazhou and Shazhou's turn next.

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Under the city, Yang Jiye reined in his horse and stood upright, looking proudly at the broad city, but the walls and moats are not very steep. Men on the prairie are more used to galloping horses, carrying bows, galloping on the battlefield, and wielding knives to kill enemies, but they are not used to offensive and defensive battles in cities.

For Khan Pang Teqin of Ganzhou, what needs to be considered now is how to hold on, hold on to the city, wait for reinforcements, and attack from both sides. He returned without success.For the army of the Xiangfu Kingdom, what needs to be considered is not only whether they can defeat Pang Teqin and take Ganzhou, but how to win completely, how to defeat the most powerful army on the road to the Hexi Corridor westward at the least cost. this enemy.

Everything had been planned, Yang Jiye's face sank like water, he raised his whip, and pointed at the Ganzhou City in front of him, and the messengers around him spread the order to start the siege to the whole army with banners and drums.The next moment, the army, which was as silent as a mountain, did not move.To be precise, there are only eight catapults with nearly a thousand soldiers shouting slogans in unison, pushing 25 huge new catapults to each other amidst the sound of rumbling wheels, like giants with teeth and claws coming to Gansu. Five hundred steps away from the city wall of the state.Other than that, the siege chariot, ramming cart, nest cart, and ladders used to attack the city by ants did not move at all.

Wang Heshan of the Physics Branch of Xiangfu College finally applied the principle of sliding gears and chains to the catapult machine one month before launching his troops in the Hexi Corridor, and converted it into a wheeled giant catapult vehicle.Compared with the original trebuchet, the new wheeled trebuchet has many improvements. The original trebuchet required 15 people to operate, but now the wheeled trebuchet only needs five people; the original trebuchet launch preparation time is 45 interest, now only fifteen interest, shortened by as much as three times.The most important thing is that the effective shooting range has been increased from the original [-] steps to [-] steps, and the accuracy has not only not decreased, but has also been improved.

Eight catapult companies, two companies for each, a total of [-] catapults are in charge of a city wall. The rangefinder measures the distance of [-] steps from the city wall, and begins to set up the catapult position in an orderly manner, and then proceeds with debugging , Aiming, installing gunpowder packs and other pre-launch preparations.

The guards in Ganzhou city looked at what the Xiangfu army did outside the city, and felt a little baffled from Pang Teqin down.Soon, however, they won't think so.

After each of the eight companies reported to Yang Jiye that the preparations for the launch were completed with semaphore, Yang Jiye ordered again: "Each company makes two hundred gunpowder packs a day, and the trebuchet company commander controls the interval by himself, and remember not to let the enemy find out the launch pattern. "

Yang Jiye's order was quickly transmitted to the ears of the eight trebuchet company commanders through semaphore, drums, and fast horses. Then, there was a huge rumbling sound in Ganzhou City.

(End of this chapter)