Chapter 587: Suppressing the Fu army, no less than the old Zhang Xutuo elite
Chapter 587
Yang Qian shook his head helplessly. After the footsteps faded away, many civil servants in the tent couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"He really thinks we don't know anything." Changsun Wuji patted his chubby Michelin figure with several tires stretched out and was very happy.
"Okay, okay, after all, he is General Zhou's biological brother, everyone should give him some face." Yang Qian rubbed his brows helplessly and said with a bitter smile.
"Since he is willing to serve as an official of the Sui Dynasty, let us just treat him as an official of the Sui Dynasty."
Zhou Faming, to be honest, his talent is not as good as that of his brother Zhou Fashang who is twenty years older than him.
Just before he came to surrender, Yang Qian had already mastered the information about him. This guy was in chaos after the world.
Zhou Faming had already begun to have evil thoughts. When Li Mi crossed the Yellow River to attack Luoyang, the eastern capital, Zhou Faming believed that Li Mi could be the master of the world.
Immediately Zhending directly raised the flag of rebellion and surrendered to Li Mi, who was appointed as the general manager.
As a result, Li Mi lost consecutive battles in Luoyang, the eastern capital. Zhou Faming felt that Li Mi was unreliable and decided to proclaim himself the king, King of Hengshan.
After all, it was decided that Hengshan County was in charge. When he rebelled, he simply took the name of the county. However, he still had some methods of governing, and his military and military strategies were not as good as those of his brothers.
It took more than half a year to capture half of the entire Hengshan County.
As a result, Dou Jiande sent troops to attack, but Zhou Faming lost several battles and simply abandoned the county and fled southward like a bandit.
Zhou Fashang was very troubled when he heard the news about his biological brother, but he could not bear to have his young brother die in this troubled world.
On the one hand, he sent someone to tell Yang Qian, and on the other hand, he sent someone to write a letter to Zhou Faming, telling his brother, if you still want to survive, you should quickly join Yang Qian.
The result was that Zhou Faming was not willing at first, always feeling that he was the gifted son of destiny.
Along the way, we continued to try to capture the city, but as a result, we had fewer and fewer soldiers and horses...
After hearing that Yang Qian had led the main force of the Suppression and Fu Army to move north, Zhou Faming, who finally admitted that he was incompetent, had no choice but to rush over to serve.
"The soldiers and horses under his command should be reorganized and eliminated. As for Zhou Faming... well, let him accompany the army first. Grandson, I will leave him to you first."
Changsun Wuji put away his smile and replied seriously.
"Don't worry, my lord, I will take a good look at what he is capable of."
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Dou Jiande looked at the envoy Zhang Gongjin who was standing in the palace, stroking his thick beard and saying nothing for a long time.
But below, his client, Song Zhengben, and the Minister of Internal Affairs, Kong Desao, were quarreling with Zhang Gongjin.
In short, it doesn’t matter how awesome your Suppressing Army is, what happens to our Xia King, and what does your Tang King do.
If you have the ability, you can cross the Yellow River first.
Zhang Gongjin sneered again and again, and could only refute three out of ten sentences at most. There was no way, this was not the home court, not to mention, the king of Xia had 500,000 troops.
Nowadays, the total strength of the Zhenfu Army is probably only 200,000, and a large number of prisoners of war are even educated before being disarmed and returned to their fields.
Because the Zhenfu Army has always adhered to the strategy of elite troops, the armor rate of the Zhenfu Army's troops is 100%.
This is probably something that is almost impossible to happen in this era. Even when the Sui Dynasty was at its peak, the rate of wearing armor was no more than 50%, of which at most 20% were iron armor, and the rest were mostly leather armor.
As for Xia's 500,000-strong army, less than 30% of them were armored. Among them, only 30,000 were elite in iron armor, and the rest were made up of leather and paper armor.
There are fifty thousand soldiers and horses wearing paper armor alone. We have to admit that the paper armor invented by Yang Qian and his son has added a kind of high-quality and affordable armor to this era.
In addition, many of these 500,000 troops are a mob and lack training. It can be said that many of them were probably farmers digging in the fields before Yang Qian left Jiangdu County and marched north.
However, although Zhang Gongjin cited a large number of reasons, he believed that Xia State was not the opponent of the Suppressing and Fu Army.
But after all, the two sides have never had a duel, so it is naturally impossible to win over Daxia, which has an army of 500,000, just by talking.
In the end, after a fierce argument between the two parties, Dou Jiande finally spoke. "Everyone, that's it, don't be rude to the envoys."
"Zhang Gongjin, since you are a minister of the Tang Dynasty, it is normal for you to be so sure that you, the Tang Dynasty, can defeat me, Daxia, just like my ministers of Daxia, you are also sure that I, Daxia, can defeat the Ruzhen and Fu army."
"It is impossible for Gu to agree with the good intentions of the King of Tang. If he wants to pacify Hebei, he can just raise an army to conquer it."
"It seems that this is King Xia's final reply, right?" Zhang Gongjin nodded, seeming to ask uncertainly.
"Yes, you can tell the King of Tang that Gu admires him for his revenge for Emperor Wu and Jingnan. Unfortunately, Gu wants to meet him only after our two armies are divided."
Zhang Gongjin nodded, saluted King Dou Jiande of Xia and replied sternly, "Gongjin will definitely bring the words of King Xia."
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Zhang Gongjin left the court, but all the Xia officials were still angry with themselves.
"Your Majesty, I think that the King of Tang is too arrogant and domineering. Your Majesty is willing to rule across the river from the King of Tang, but what he wants to do is conquer our Xia Kingdom's territory."
"Now it seems that Yang Qian is clearly a jackal and a leopard who aspires to the world. It's just that he doesn't want to touch anyone. He actually wants to be my enemy in Daxia..."
Dou Jiande waved his hands disapprovingly, these words were all nonsense. He wanted to rule across the river, but he just wanted to capture the counties behind him that had not yet been pacified, and then plan for the world.
And he, Yang Qian, is different? Looking at the territory currently occupied by the Zhenfu Army, it is clear that the rear has been stabilized, so he came here specifically to cause trouble for himself.
"My dear fellows, what do you think is the chance of winning in a battle between Daxia and the Zhenfu Army?"
"Your Majesty, our Daxia army is in great shape, well equipped with well-trained soldiers and well-fed, and we are sure to be victorious."
"I submit my opinion to General Liu..."
After the dynasty dispersed, Dou Jiande retained several of his confidants, including Xu Yuanlang, who had recently led the army to seek refuge with him.
Xu Yuanlang had previously raised troops in Dongping County. Later, seeing that Wagang Village was powerful, he joined Li Mi's command.
After Li Mi was defeated by Yang Qian's Zhenfu army under the city of Dongdu, he simply withdrew to his old base.
But he didn't expect that Yang Qian would use his troops to attack Yuwen Huahua and the rebels, and also shoot rabbits with straw.
He beat Xu Yuanlang until he was rolling and crawling, and escaped across the Yellow River. He led more than 10,000 remaining soldiers and defected to Dou Jiande.
"Xu Qing, in our country of Daxia, Xu Qing is the only one who has experienced fighting against the enemy with the Zhenfu Army."
"So I am keeping you here alone because I want to ask you how strong the Suppressing Army is."
Xu Yuanlang smiled bitterly and sighed, saluting Dou Jiande. "When it comes to combat power, I'm afraid this Suppressing Army is no less powerful than Zhang Xutuo's soldiers and horses in the past."