In July, Zhu Biao led his troops back to Shangdang and met Song Zuoxian, another coach of the Tang Army in Bingzhou. The first sentence he said was thank you!
After the great victory a month ago, Zhu Biao did not continue to attack Shangjun, but immediately retreated eastward with wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.
These are 40,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry. If they can be digested and transformed, Zhu Biao will be able to play a shooting game, and each cavalry branch will truly have it.
However, nearly half of the 100,000 Bingzhou wolf cavalry were already defeated soon after the war started. The hatred in their hearts for the Tang army and their resistance to Zhu Biao can be imagined. It is impossible for these prisoners to be like this.
Like previous prisoners of war, they were transformed on the spot.
Zhu Biao only had 50,000 troops in total, and it was impossible for him to bring 40,000 prisoners of war to fight again. In this case, he had no choice but to retreat to his own territory.
During this period of a month's journey, his thoughts and plans were of course detected by the Bingzhou Army. If it weren't for Tang Bin, Song Zuoxian launched an attack on the Bingzhou Army at the right time, which greatly restrained the Bingzhou Army's strength. Zhu Biao would not have been able to
We can drag back 40,000 people.
Perhaps among these 40,000 prisoners of war, there are still many tough-minded men. But since these people are willing to surrender, most of them must not be too strong-willed.
Through hard work, threats and inducements, you will always get a large number of Bingzhou Wolf Riders who have changed their appearance.
It is impossible for Zhu Biao to eat them all in one bite. But it should be no problem to divide them among 8,000 people. In this way, he will have horse archers.
The Tang army accelerated the progress of material reserves.
When Zhu Biao arrived with his troops, because he still didn't know whether he could change the situation in the northwest battlefield, even the king of Tang Dynasty, who had full confidence in Zhu Biao, did not dare to make the determination to fight a war easily.
After a battle in Bingzhou, the consumption was too heavy.
At present, a battle is about to break out in Tangying and Bingzhou, and all other directions will be on the offensive, and the troops and horses will shift to a defensive state.
There are more than half a million civilians and tens of thousands of craftsmen accompanying the army. Millions of mules and horses, plus an army of more than a million, the food and grass consumption is also calculated in units of millions of dan. Military expenditures are even higher, with tens of millions of silver dollars.
Calculated as a unit, plus countless swords, guns, armor, bows and crossbows...
A large part of this was spent on transportation. The king of Tang could not see the results of Zhu Biao's victory and issued the order rashly. He was not a qualified leader of the camp.
Until now, the 90,000 Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry have been wiped out. This team that used to plague the Tang army's vital points. Three pavilions destroyed two pavilions at once. This effect made everyone on the Tang King's side ecstatic and full of self-confidence.
Material transfer and savings were accelerated immediately.
In the cities on the front line, the empty warehouses were quickly filled with bags of food and countless weapons and armor. Half a million people and half a million chariots and horses were on the way back and forth.
This is reminiscent of an ant colony. A terrifying group!
"Sure enough, it is the Celestial Dynasty. Even the princes of one side can organize such a terrifying force!"
Wang Shao stood on the top of the city and looked at it from a distance. It was already the fifth day. He didn't know how many times he had expressed this emotion, but it was never too much.
"Compared to the bright moon as a firefly, and compared to the great Zhou Dynasty, I am just a speck of dust." Feng Lei said.
It was the first day he came to see it. But he had heard it many times before, and what he saw today just confirmed what he said a few days ago. He was also very emotional!
During this battle, the two of them accompanied Zhu Biao as soldiers. But in fact, nothing happened. They were more like two military observers.
But they came here on their own initiative. They insisted on following Zhu Biao to see the world. Rather than Zhu Biao sneaking them here before the army set off for the sake of the stability of Qi State.
After entering the Central Plains, Wang Shao and Feng Lei truly realized how vast the Central Plains is. Compared with it, the huge Qi land is just one state. But the Central Plains has 138 states.
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There was also the Battle of Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. One hundred thousand soldiers were equipped with three horses, good bows and bright armor. Elite bow cavalry with sharp swords and horses. This single troop of troops and horses was not something that the national power of Qi could support.
Although this elite team was quickly defeated by the impact of Zhu Biao's cavalry, the two of them had no intention of looking down on this army. Anyone who is a soldier will know that with such a fast-moving cavalry on the battlefield,
What a huge advantage it would have.
It took more than a month to accumulate supplies. The Bingzhou Army on the opposite side had already been on guard. At the same time, the remaining Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry was also sent out to attack and kill. However, under the precaution of Zhu Biaojun, in
Due to the narrow scope of Yanmen and Shangdang counties, the effect is not great.
"The war in the Central Plains is completely different from the wars we fought in the past."
When the movement developed to such an extent, even Zhu Biao couldn't help but wonder. Is this still a classical war? It is comparable to the total war of World War I and World War II in his previous life.
It was completely different from the many raids and killing battles he had fought before!
In a protracted battle with an army of more than one million people, the logistics reserves are too large. It is impossible to hide the opponent! Want to make a sneak attack? At most, it can only be a first move in time, such as a thousand-mile attack, etc., there is no way to talk about it.
When a war reaches a certain level, it becomes a collision of national powers.
Just like the two major battles on the Central and Western Fronts of World War I, before one side attacks, millions of artillery shells are fired, and artillery preparations take up to three to five days or even a week, which is a naked collision of national power.
At the foot of Huguan City, as a friendly army, it could be considered as holding back the enemy's position. Zhu Biao also led people to watch the Tang army's so-called containment of troops.
The number of people is really not that large, only 200,000. However, they are equipped with 150,000 civilians. In just three days, they built three earthen cities, one large, two small, and three outside the city, blocking the entrance of the Huhu gate tightly. And two
One hundred thousand Tang troops set up four hundred thunderbolt chariots, large and small, outside Huguan. Fire and rocks flew all over the sky, just like meteors and fire showers in a magic blockbuster, it was spectacular!
"Four hundred Thunderbolt Chariots!"
It is not that Zhu Biao had not experienced this scene before. He had also set up three to four hundred Thunderbolt Chariots in the First World War. Moreover, Huguan had always been the front line of the Tang Army's confrontation with the Bingzhou Army, so it was not unacceptable to have so many siege equipment in reserve.
But Zhu Biao also knew that just as he was standing under Huguan today, looking at the sky full of fire and rain, the main force of the Shangdang Army led by Song Zuoxian in Taiyuan County, Yangyi, thousands of miles away, marched five hundred miles into Taiyuan.
In the third county town encountered, in order to pull out the first big nail on the transportation line, hundreds of thousands of troops besieged it on all sides, and thousands of Thunderbolt vehicles were set up.
These thousands of Thunderbolt vehicles have been transported with the army before! What a huge burden this is? What kind of concept is it?
The Tang army's powerful logistics and transportation, smooth management, and military industry were as accurate as Zhu Biao's assembly line craftsman system in the pre-Qin era in his previous life!
At least, all the parts of these thousands of Pili cars, large, medium and small, between the three models can be replaced and supplemented by each other.
This is a very impressive strength.
The weapon system of the Northern Han Dynasty could not achieve this level. Although the general was not lazy, the Tang army never had such a high degree of unity.
The Han army's Pili chariot transport was still a Pili chariot, assembled and placed in one place. This not only took up a lot of space, but also cost more manpower. Compared with the Tang army, it was also much weaker.
Wang Shao and Feng Lei were two people who had never seen the big world. Such a large-scale offensive had completely surpassed the civil war in Qi, which was not fully equipped. Naturally, they also thought of the larger-scale offensive that Song Zuo had fought first.
, what kind of scene would it be? The two of them were fascinated.
It's like a toad that can't jump out of the well. I don't know how big the sky is.
In the past, both of them were nestled in Qi State. The most powerful military force they had ever seen was when the coalition forces of various countries pacified Dongyu. In the eyes of the two of them, that was already a great martial arts achievement. Therefore, rumors about Zhu Biao's achievements are
To them, it sounds like a complete myth. But the myth is too far away from us, so it is not very realistic.
Now, after seeing the appearance of the battlefield in the Central Plains, they can finally bring the myth and reality in their minds to the same level.
Zhu Biao didn't stay in Huguan for long, because Song Zuoxian's troops had already advanced thousands of miles and were heading towards Taiyuan County.
Different from the previous Yangyi, the garrison in Yangyi was only 30,000 to 20,000, while the garrison in Taiyuan County was nearly 100,000, not to mention that there were 100,000 or 200,000 people in the city, but they were all supported by the Bingzhou Army.
Moreover, the city defense and the city area are also different. The Yangyi city defense is only six or seven feet long, but the city defense of Taiyuan County has been increased to twelve feet, and the area is seven or eight times the Yangyi city.
Therefore, for the Tang army led by Song Zuo, the Battle of Yangyi was just an appetizer, and Taiyuan County was the real test.
During the thirteen years of fighting, Taiyuan County was captured by the Tang army more than once, but because it is located on the endless plains, except for the city, there are no mountains or rivers that can stop the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry. Therefore, obtaining it once means that
A loss in the near future.
Now, the war has just begun.
Even if the Bingzhou Langqi wanted to cut off the Tang Army's logistics transportation line, they would not take action now.
"If I were the commander-in-chief of this offensive, I would immediately put our 50,000 elite cavalry into Bingzhou and turn it upside down.
The cavalry has always been an offensive unit! Damn it, now it has a defensive and deterrent effect. I really don’t know what Song Zuoxian was thinking."
Yes, the King of Tang directly asked Zhu Biao to fight independently. However, Zhu Biao was on his master's territory, no matter what, he had to give his master three points of thin noodles, right?
He's not a real fool! He doesn't care, he just wants to win.
Isn't this battle fought for him? Fifty thousand cavalry troops have really entered the interior of Bingzhou. Even if they can mess up Bingzhou, they will also suffer a lot of losses.
It’s not like the Tang Army’s cavalry had never tried this method before. As a result, the cavalry that entered could not outrun the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry, and they all died miserably.
"Commander, let's kill 60-70% of the Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry in one battle. I think those two are red-eyed and save face.
They have been fighting in the northwest for so many years, but they have not been able to win it. Now if they have to rely on us to win, then they will really win, and the faces of those two will be disgraceful."
"Everyone fights for a breath of Buddha to receive a stick of incense. Men all want to save face." (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
