Tian Feng shook his head and said: "Ma Teng and the others cannot be the opponent of Lei Gong, even if we support them, and the terrain of Xiliang is too suitable for cavalry operations, we will only waste our soldiers in Xiliang! We can only use it now It was the complicated public sentiment in Xiliang that created a chaotic situation that held back Lei Gong. It would be impossible for Lei Gong to completely occupy Xiliang without 2-3 years.
If turmoil breaks out even among the Qiang people, Xiliang can even delay Lei Gong for a long time. During this period, we can accumulate enough strength in Luoyang City and form a coalition to counterattack Hebei! So the past few years have been unusual for us. The key, even the turning point in the strength gap between Dahan and Daqian!"
"Lei Gong's sending troops to Xiliang can be said to be a strategic defeat. He not only consumed his strength in Xiliang, but also gave us a chance to survive this drought! What we have to do now is to use Xiliang to conquer the great The longer the military drags this world around, the better!”
Jushou also followed up and said: "This year's drought has severely hit Guanzhong. If we send troops to Xiliang, it is easy to attract Lei Gong to Guanzhong. Even if Guanzhong is dilapidated, it is not comparable to the desolate Xiliang, especially the powerful water conservancy facilities in Daqian With our ability, even the desolate city of Mayi can be built by Lei Gong into a wealthy place, let alone Guanzhong, which is known as the land of abundance. If we send troops, Lei Gong will definitely attack us!"
Yuan Shao did not want to fight with Thunder Lord at this time and said: "We only provide food, grass and weapons, and the soldiers and horses will not join the battle against Thunder Lord!"
Xiliang, Anding County!
Due to the low morale of the Xiliang coalition forces and the lack of food and grass, Ma Teng and Han Sui led all their confidants to withdraw from the entire Beidi County after discussion. They planned to trade space for time and led the army to Linjing City in Anding County. .
Ma Teng and Han Sui's idea is very simple. Linjing is close to Guanzhong and is only more than 400 miles away from Chang'an City. If Yuan Shao really supports them, such a close place can also receive Yuan Shao's grain and grass supplies nearby. If Yuan Shao refuses Support them, they will lead Lei Gong's army into Guanzhong, and everyone will fight in Guanzhong, so maybe they can escape!
Fortunately, their retreat to Anding County was a good move. Although Xu Wei obtained a northern county without spending a single soldier, he also gained tens of thousands of refugees. Anding County was originally Han Sui's territory. He had robbed almost all the food and grass from the people here, and told them: "If you want to survive, go to Thunder God. Thunder God has millions of stones of food, and everyone is asking Thunder God for food!"
Han Sui was very skilled in this method of benefiting himself at the expense of others. Not only did he harvest 300,000 dan of grain in Beidi County, but when he also asked Xu Wei to lead the army to Anding County, he immediately encountered these hungry and half-dead victims!
Of course, Xu Wei could not leave these victims alone. He could only use the army's rations to relieve the victims, and at the same time organized them to reclaim wasteland and build canals.
Xu Wei can finally see that in this troubled world with abnormal climate, everything is virtual. As long as food is real, no matter how bad the environment in Xiliang is and how low the food output is, we still have to find ways to grow food. Otherwise, no one can survive!
In order to accommodate these victims, Xu Wei recruited the experienced Wang Guojun from Daqian to become the governor of Beidi County and asked him to take care of these victims!
After Xu Wei's army stayed in Beidi County for 10 days, they continued to march towards Anding County!
After more than ten days of rest, Ma Teng and Han Sui's morale has improved a lot. The most important thing is that Beidi County used to be their own territory. Rabbits did not eat the grass around their nests, but now Han Sui eats the grass around their nests. Well, the Xiliang Allied Forces were originally an alliance of bandits. Their morale was naturally low if they couldn't grab anything. However, after a random robbery in Beidi County, the morale of the Allied Forces was finally restored. Zhang He supported 100,000 shi of grain and 10,000 shi of food. Equipped with weapons and armor, everyone finally had the confidence to deal with Thunder Lord.
Ma Teng got this batch of grain and used his prestige among the Qiang people to recruit more than 30,000 Qiang cavalry in Xiliang. The Qiang people in Xiliang were almost dying, and they would follow whoever had food! With the addition of these Qiang people, Ma Teng's Xiliang coalition force once again expanded to 60,000!
This number gave Ma Teng great confidence. He admitted that Daqian's army was well-equipped and powerful in combat, but Lei Gong was so confident that he actually handed over his main force to Wang Lei, but he only led 20,000 cavalry to pursue them. Now they have three times as many With the advantage of military strength, why can't we fight!
So Ma Teng went to Han Sui and said: "Lei Gong is arrogant. The 100,000 troops are divided into three groups. Although this can surround us, it gives us the opportunity to defeat each one. Now, although Wang Lei's right army has captured Jincheng County, it has entered Longxi County, but they are still 600 miles away from Anding County, and Wang Lei's left army has just entered Sanshui, and is still more than 500 miles away from Linjing. Lei Gong's 20,000 troops have already reached Yiju County, which is not far away from us. On the 200-mile journey, it is obvious that Lei Gong's headquarters has gone deep alone. If we take the initiative to attack Lei Gong and have a beheading battle, as long as Lei Gong dies, Dagan only has a three-year-old Lei Gong and cannot defend Lei Gong's family property. By then Wang Lei We must return to Hebei to fight for power, and Da Qian is certain that the other two groups will collapse without a fight!"
Han Sui was looking at the map and thinking. If he could stay in Xiliang, he definitely didn't want to go to Guanzhong to be Yuan Shao's younger brother. He was considering whether the 60,000 cavalrymen in Xiliang could defeat Lei Gong, and even killed Lei Gong on the spot. He couldn't kill him. Even if they defeated Lei Gong's army, they could not change their fate of defeat!
Han Sui is also aware of the power and achievements of the Daqian cavalry. He defeated hundreds of thousands of Han troops twice. Lei Gong defeated more than one million enemies in these years. Even Han Sui had to admire such achievements. China has been doing this for thousands of years. In the history of the Warring States Period, only Tu Baiqi, the leader of the Warring States Period, who destroyed Wang Jian of the Six Kingdoms, and Han Xin, the military immortal of the previous dynasty, had such a record. It is not an exaggeration to say that Lei Gong is the most famous general in the world! Such a famous general , even if you only have 20,000 troops, don’t underestimate it!
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, the Xiliang cavalry are also soft persimmons. The hundreds of years of turmoil in Xiliang have given these people some certain military skills. It can be said that the Han Dynasty is the best. All the soldiers are in Xiliang. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Xiliang cavalry is the strongest army of the Han Dynasty!
The officers of the Xiliang Army have more war experience, and the grassroots soldiers have developed the ability to kill people in such a poison farm. This has given the Xiliang Army a crushing advantage over soldiers from other counties and counties in the Han Dynasty.
This is also the reason why Beigong Boyu's rebellion was difficult to suppress even with Huangfu Song, the most famous general in the Han Dynasty, and the elite Han Central Army!
The Qiang cavalry can gather together when shouting, disperse when they roar, are as cunning as foxes, cruel as wolves, and are not afraid of death. These are the advantages of Qiang cavalry. The most important thing is that human life is not valuable in Xiliang. Everyone can
You buy and sell for them just for a few bags of grain. As long as you can win the battle and lead the Qiang people to rob them, the Qiang people will recognize you and serve you.
The reason for the tens of thousands of troops! Because there are millions of Qiang people joining behind them!
After thinking for a long time, Han Sui said firmly: "We must fight this battle! Even if we can't kill Lei Gong, we must annihilate all Lei Gong's troops!"
In September, Ma Teng and Han Sui took their 60,000 cavalry and set the Qiang battlefield in a relatively wide valley in Wangyue Valley outside Linjing City. This was the battlefield specially selected by Ma Teng and Han Sui.
The terrain is not only suitable for cavalry charges, but also easy to surround Lei Gong's army!
But this is in line with Xu Wei's opinion. He even thinks that Ma Teng and Han Sui are seeking death. Originally, their cavalry was scattered and Xu Wei's artillery power was still difficult to fully exert. But now they set the battlefield in the valley.
, which is naturally suitable for artillery to exert its power!
Both sides felt that this battlefield was beneficial, so both sides led their armies to confront each other in this valley!
Ma Teng and Han Sui came out of the military formation at this time!
Han Sui said loudly: "Thunder Lord, it was wrong for us to attack Bingzhou, but now half of Xiliang's land is occupied by you, and you have killed more than 20,000 of our army. Why do you have to kill them all? We are just a group of people."
For the poor man to live!"
Xu Wei heard Han Sui's confusing words and laughed and said: "Han Sui, you were once a famous scholar in the Han Dynasty, but now you can say such gangster words. It was obviously you who attacked Bingzhou and killed hundreds of my subordinates, and now you can actually
You still want to say that you are a victim, but it seems that you have been taught bad things by these horse thieves!"
Wang Dang taunted loudly: "Now Han Sui is the biggest horse thief in Xiliang, how can anyone else teach these things!"
This Ma Teng loudly said: "Lei Gong, don't think that you are invincible just because you have been victorious for several years. This is because you have not met our Xiliang cavalry. Since you don't know what is good, I will let you see me today."
The power of the Xiliang cavalry!"
After saying that, Ma Teng and Han Sui returned to their military formations!
Xu Wei sneered: "Let me see how powerful your Xiliang cavalry still is!"
Ma Teng pointed his spear at Xu Wei and said: "Everyone, charge and kill Thunder Lord!"
The subordinates behind him also shouted: "Kill Thunder Lord!"
Ma Chao, Pang De, Ma Dai, Liang Xing, Hou Xuan, Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, Cheng Yi, Ma Wan, Yang Qiu, Yan Xing, and Cheng Gongying each led the Xiliang cavalry. Now they are charging in the direction of Xu Wei.
Under the leadership of these generals, 60,000 cavalry formed ten long dragons and rushed over!
But Xu Wei placed his artillery unit at the front of the army. There are 50 10-pound bronze cannons, 200 flying thunder cannons with a range of 200 steps, and hundreds of new rocket launchers. These artillery are lined up. , and the artillerymen are nervously installing artillery shells!
This move of Da Ganjun aroused the vigilance of Ma Teng and the others. They had heard about the power of artillery, but they had never seen it. After thousands of miles of rumors, the legend of artillery was exaggerated hundreds of times. What a bombing. In dozens of miles, hundreds of thousands of Huangfu Song's Han people could be wiped out, and Lei Gong's artillery could hit Luoyang City from Jizhou and other exaggerated words. This naturally aroused Ma Teng's suspicion. Lei Gong's artillery is really so powerful, then The world of the great man has long been his.
Therefore, Ma Teng and others did not believe in the power of artillery. Even because of these exaggerations, they underestimated the power of artillery, thinking that Lei Gong was intimidating the Han army!
So after Ma Teng and the others saw the artillery, they didn't pay attention and continued to rush forward!
But after the Xiliang army entered the 1 mile artillery range!
Xu Wei commanded loudly: "Fire!"
"Boom boom boom!"
50 10-pound artillery shells rushed towards Ma Teng's army at the speed of sound!
"Boom, boom, boom!" The cannonballs smashed into the army. Ma Teng's charging army suddenly fell on its back, and hundreds of cavalry were beaten to pieces!
The power of the artillery shocked the entire Xiliang army. Although the power was not as strong as the legend, it was not weak. It could even be said to be the most powerful weapon Ma Teng and the others had ever seen. It could shoot farther than a crossbow. , powerful!
However, Ma Teng could still bear the injuries of hundreds of people!
He continued to command: "Continue to charge and kill the Daqian army!"
Only then did Ma Chao and others realize that as long as they rush into the Daqian army formation, the artillery will not be able to exert its power!
So they led the army and continued to advance. Even though they were hit by another round of artillery, they accelerated and charged towards the Daqian Army!
When Ma Teng and his cavalry entered the 200-step range!
200 explosive packets weighing tens of kilograms and hundreds of rockets filled with 50 kilograms of black powder were launched into the air at the same time, and they plunged into the charging Xiliang army!
"Boom boom boom!"
Nearly tens of thousands of kilograms of black powder were released on this 200-step battlefield almost simultaneously!
The shock wave generated by the explosion almost swept across the entire battlefield. The Xiliang cavalry charging at the front were almost completely wiped out. Even Ma Teng was nowhere to be seen. The horses and soldiers behind were also frightened by the terrifying power. The horses were unwilling to move forward, and the cavalry were unwilling to move forward. Not willing to charge, this kind of weapon that surpasses everyone's opinions makes the entire battlefield silent!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, the cavalry in the rear could not stop the charge. The two sides collided with each other, so that before Dagan even attacked, the Xiliang coalition's military formation was already in chaos. !
But Xu Wei would not wait for their reaction and continued to command: "The thunder cannons and rocket launchers will advance 50 steps, speed up the filling, and continue to attack indiscriminately!"
The Xiliang coalition forces did not dare to attack, so he directed the artillery to advance!
After the soldiers of the artillery battalion advanced 50 steps and filled the ammunition, Xu Wei shouted: "Thunder cannon, rocket launcher!"
"Puff puff!"
"Hush, rest, rest!"
"Boom boom boom!"
Another bombing of nearly 10,000 kilograms of black gunpowder caused the Xiliang soldiers to flip over. The entire upper valley was filled with the neighing of war horses and the wails of injured soldiers! These two bombings alone caused thousands of casualties to the Xiliang coalition forces!
At this time, Han Sui realized. It turned out that the artillery was so terrifying that it could not be resisted by manpower! However, Ma Teng led the generals of the Xiliang Army to charge at the front, which caused the generals of the Xiliang Army to suffer heavy losses in the first wave of bombing.
, even Ma Teng himself has no body left, and now the entire Xiliang army is in chaos.
Han Sui immediately shouted: "Everyone retreat!"
Even without Han Sui's order, the Xiliang coalition forces were already frightened by the power of the artillery. The soldiers behind them turned their horses and prepared to escape. At this time, Ma Teng and the others were reaping the consequences by choosing the terrain of the upper valley, which was not wide in the first place.
The place suddenly became crowded because of the escape.
Xu Wei immediately said: "Soldiers, rush forward and annihilate the Xiliang army!"
Wang Dang and Xu Wei shouted loudly from behind: "annihilate the Xiliang army!"
Seeing the chaos of the Xiliang Army, all the soldiers in Daqian were greatly boosted in morale, and they also said: "Annihilate the Xiliang Army!"