Eastern Jin Invincible Iron Army

Chapter 313 Play County
Liu Laozhi was riding a black steed, his body undulating with the movement of the horse.Behind Liu Laozhi were more than [-] cavalrymen. These cavalrymen rode steadily on their horses, swaying their bodies and closing their eyes to rest their minds.On the muddy dirt road, horseshoes splashed mud flowers.

The cavalry march, even though it is only moving, is actually very hard.However, the infantry soldiers of the Xia Army marching aside envied the cavalry on horseback.The formation of the team was a bit messy, and many soldiers began to stagger.But these soldiers did not complain, but gritted their teeth and insisted.

The military supervisors at all levels have declared King Xia's latest will to "attack Jizhou and recover North China." Many soldiers of the Xia Army are from Jizhou, so they face their hometown with incomparable enthusiasm.

Juxian is the throat of the Shandong Peninsula. Once the Xia army occupies Juxian, the safety of the Jiaodong Peninsula can be guaranteed.Therefore, Gao Jingzong was determined to win Beihai County.In order to take Beihai County as soon as possible, Liu Laozhi personally led the 101st Brigade of the Xia Army's 105st Division, the Cavalry Regiment directly under the [-]st Division, and the [-]th Supply Brigade with a total of more than [-] people to attack Beihai County.The Xia army aggressively attacked Beihai, and the Yan army in Beihai County took the initiative to retreat, focusing on defending Juxian County.

The houses in the small village could be vaguely seen in the distance, and the cavalry of the cavalry regiment directly under the Xia Army's First Division had already surrounded the small village.In fact, the purpose of encircling the village was not to prevent the enemies of the village from escaping, but to give Liu Laozhi a place to rest.

In fact, this village can be known without reconnaissance. It is an uninhabited village, and it seems to have been deserted for five or six years.Many adobe houses have cracks, and many houses have only a stilt left. The village covering an area of ​​more than [-] mu is full of broken walls and ruins. Looking around, there are a few adobe houses that have not yet collapsed. There are also large and small holes in the roof.In some houses, there are some decayed beams and wood on the trusses, and there are no tiles.

Liu Laozhi's personal guards wanted to take people to clean up the piles of bones all over the ground, Liu Laozhi waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it's not good to disturb the undead!"

It seems to be the practice in rural society at this time that rich and noble households live at the head of the village, while poor and lowly households live at the end of the village.The same is true for this deserted village. Entering the village, the most conspicuous one is the well-preserved Lin family mansion, which covers an area of ​​nearly [-] acres, and has seven courtyards with layers of blue bricks and gray tiles.

Liu Laozhi is also from a wealthy family in Pengcheng, and their old house of the Liu family in Pengcheng is much more luxurious than this abandoned mansion.However, this house made Liu Laozhi feel depressed.

Ran Ming felt very depressed at this time. Just after he entered the village, he discovered that the village was not abandoned by the villagers, but was wiped out by the whole village. There were many bones everywhere, including the bones of adults and children. bones.Especially in the well-preserved master bedroom, there was a skeleton with large characters on a high-quality nanmu bed. The palms of the corpse were nailed to the bed, and all the bones of the limbs were broken.

Due to the large pelvic bone, this skeleton is obviously a female skeleton. It is conceivable that the owner of this skeleton also suffered inhuman torture during his lifetime!
Liu Laozhi was very angry, because he saw a skull under the bed. The whole skull was only a little bigger than a fist, and it was obviously a very small baby.Liu Laozhi and Liu Laozhi are also used to seeing life and death, but Liu Laozhi couldn't remain indifferent when he saw that the whole village was wiped out!
At this moment, Zhang Xu, who joined the army in the first division's office, appeared behind Liu Laozhi. There was nothing unusual on Zhang Xu's face, and he was very calm!

Zhang Xu said: "This village was wiped out. I counted the skeletons found at the scene. There are more than 400 large and small bones!"

Liu Laozhi pointed to the skeleton on the bed again and said: "This is rape first and then murder, not even a single baby is spared, it's like a beast!"

Zhang Xudao: "There is nothing unexpected about this. This is Beihai County. When Ran Wei founded the country, Duan Kan of Xianbei fled from Chenliu to Qingzhou. Beihai County became his sphere of influence. Here is Duan Kan later. Jiangyan, here is the intersection of Jin and Yan forces, but it is not difficult to guess, it must be the hands of Xianbei people, in this world, even if it is a beast, there is no Xianbei beast, more beast than this It’s not like they haven’t done that.”

Liu Laozhi nodded, and said angrily: "Everyone in Xianbei deserves to die!"

"Who says it is not? Although it is said that things are selected by nature, the strong are respected, and the fittest survive!" Zhang Xu said calmly: "But the Xianbei people are really inhumane. They burn, kill and loot everywhere. Strong, there is no other way, the Xianbei people are bloodthirsty and easy to kill, they also like to eat people, especially in the third year of Yongxing (AD 352) when the Yan army broke through Yecheng, because the Wei army resisted the Yan army for a hundred days, Xianbei There were heavy casualties, and the Xianbei people would rather open their mouths in Yecheng, and more than [-] people in Yecheng were killed and eaten by them in one winter, and more than [-] people..."

"Hu people deserve to die!" Liu Jianzhi said: "If the king hadn't led us to resist the Hu people, we would not be able to survive. Now that the Jie has been destroyed, the Huns have been destroyed, only Xianbei, we have defeated the Xianbei, as long as Only by eliminating the Xianbei people can we Han people live on this land!"

"Dong dong..."

The rhythmic sound of war drums came. Unlike ordinary war drums, Xia Jun learned the unique secrets conveyed by Ran Weijun's drums, and learned from the sound of war drums that Liu Laozhi and Zhang Xu understood the message conveyed by the drums.

"There are a hundred Yan army sentry cavalry approaching, and the sentry is engaged in a battle!"

Zhang Xu said: "At this time, there are still thirty miles away from Juxian County. I didn't expect the Yan army's sentry cavalry to be so far away."

Liu Jianzhi said: "It's just in time, order the cavalry regiment to rush, don't let a Xianbei go, and charge some interest first."

As soon as Liu Laozhi's voice fell, the messengers of the First Division's division headquarters conveyed Liu Laozhi's order in accordance with the rhythm of the code.

Liu Yunfei, the commander of the Cavalry Regiment directly under the First Division who was lying on the ground with his legs crossed to rest, jumped up and shouted at Buqu: "Assemble, assemble, prepare to attack, hurry, hurry, hurry."

Following Liu Yunfei's order, more than [-] cavalry from the First Division cavalry quickly jumped on their horses, and they galloped towards the northwest of the deserted village guided by the sound of war drums.Although Liu Yunfei's subordinate's reaction was not slow, it took only a stick of incense to hear the order to launch an attack.However, when they rushed to the northwest corner of the barren village.

"Xuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu>The rain of arrows, as dense as locusts crossing the border, nailed the hundred Xianbei cavalry to the ground.

"Commander Qiu, you don't have to be so ruthless. A mere 1000 enemies should be shot with [-] or more than [-] crossbow arrows, right?"

Looking at these Xianbei cavalry who couldn't die any more, Liu Yunfei felt a tight feeling.In order to reduce the load on the horses, the cavalry usually wear light armor and light cowhide shields. However, facing the Xia army's more than [-] one-stone hard crossbows and three-stone crossbows shooting at each other, in just ten breaths of time, this one There are more than [-] crossbow machines, and they shoot two rounds on average. This is a total of more than [-] arrows, and less than [-]% of the crossbow arrows miss. The average is [-] per person, especially a few unlucky Xianbei cavalry , Only the face was shot with dozens of arrows, and the whole face was densely shot.

Liu Laozhi was not angry when he heard the report of the results of the battle.In Gao Jingzong's imagination, the war mode is bombing from the sky, machine guns, tanks, artillery, and tactical missiles. Of course, in this era, Gao Jingzong did not have the capital to realize this strategic thinking.However, Gao Jingzong proposed dense strikes, which is to use dense arrow rain to restrain the Yan army cavalry.Therefore, after the reorganization, the various ministries of the Xia Army have greatly improved their crossbows and bows and arrows.At this time, the Xia Army's bow and crossbow equipment level, although not as good as the Song Dynasty's over [-]% equipment rate, had already surpassed the Tang Dynasty's [-]% equipment rate, reaching an astonishing [-]%.

In order to ensure the continuous attack of the crossbow, Gao Jingzong added a supply brigade, a troop organization second only to the division, to meet the troop's consumption of arrows.

When did regiment commander Qiu Ningyuan fight such a generous battle?They have only one regiment, and they bring two pots of arrows (fifty), and the transport team transports three pots, with an average of 120 five arrows for each crossbow. 120 five arrows weigh more than eighty catties.If it weren't for the limited transportation capacity, Gao Jingzong would have thought that each crossbow would be equipped with two hundred arrows like the rifles of later generations.

On March [-]st of the fourth year of Shengping, the leading troops of the Xia Army's first division, directly under the cavalry regiment, took the lead in shooting the first arrow towards the city wall of Ju County, heralding the beginning of the Xia Army's Northern Expedition.

(End of this chapter)