Chapter 3 Fighting for hegemony (Part 7) Xuzi chases the footsteps of the bandits, from Linzhuan to Fengshan, and from Fengshan to Ying County
In the past month, the county soldiers fought at least twenty battles under the command of Qin Shubao. Each battle was a complete victory. The enemy army became weaker and weaker with each battle. In the end, they did not dare to look back. They just tried their best to escape, escape, and escape from Beihai County.
, escaped through the wilderness at the junction of Qi, Lu, and Beihai counties, escaped through Ying County in Lu County, and went all the way into the dense forest at the foot of Dai Mountain.
Qin Shubao is a qualified general. Even if Xuzi examines his tactical arrangements with the eyes of a soldier, he feels that they are impeccable. "Master Zhang Xutuo has a keen eye to recognize talents!" Xuzi was impressed in his heart, although he could clearly feel that the government
Some low-level officers in the army are rejecting him, and they can clearly feel that Qin Shubao has regarded him as a potential opponent.
The competition between the two has so far been dominated by the competition between men. Qin Shubao knows how to measure his limits and has the overall situation in mind. Xuzi is also very careful not to overstep the limit. The most direct consequence of this competition is to lead to the entire bandit suppression.
The process has been greatly accelerated. In the original plan, everyone thought that it would take at least May to completely eliminate the remaining bandits in Beihai County. However, it was only in mid-April that most of the rogue bandits had disappeared in Beihai County.
"Since the imperial court has allowed us to pursue cross-border pursuit, let's stop tying our hands and feet. This battle will last for at least two years of peace! Otherwise, once we leave, the bastards will come back and cause trouble!" After learning that he fled back to the old camp of Niushan,
After hearing the news that the largest group of rogue bandits had moved, Luo Shixin suggested to everyone that his view was unanimously agreed by the entire army, including the county soldiers who were temporarily recruited from Beihai County. Everyone suddenly discovered that the rogue bandits that had roamed hundreds of miles were vulnerable to a single attack.
Therefore, the morale is high, and I can't wait to wipe out the enemy in one go.
After entering the Daishan area, the bandits regained some courage. The surrounding terrain was complicated, which was not conducive to the deployment of cavalry. The bandits lived in the mountains all year round and knew how to use woods and rocks to protect themselves. In addition, a group of bandits entrenched in Lu County also felt that they were dying.
, Xingye came over to support his accomplices. After the enemy and we fought three more moderate battles, the bandits were defeated and abandoned their position again, fleeing to Womapo at the southern foot of Daishan Mountain.
"If we continue fighting like this, we won't be able to finish it for another ten or eight years!" Luo Shixin was the most impatient. After a few days, he lost his patience and fought on the plains. After every battle, his horse would be covered with enemy's noses.
Since entering the mountainous area, the gains in the three battles were not as great as in the previous one.
"It won't take long for them to be short of food. Although Daishan is big, the game in the woods alone cannot feed thousands of people. Now, I am not afraid of the large number of reinforcements named Qi, but I am afraid that no one will help him consume food. Last time, Wang Bo was also there.
Drilling back and forth between Daishan Mountains, until the end, why don't you obediently come out and fight us?" Qin Shubao is very patient. Whenever Luo Shixin is scratching his head and ears in anxiety, he can find the right words to comfort him.
"I always feel like they are playing some conspiracy!" Wu Qi, the new Beihai County Magistrate, was timid and reminded him in a tentative tone.
"A conspiracy can only be effective if it matches our strength!" Qin Shubao smiled and shook his head, "Our morale, numbers and supplies are far better than those of the other side. It is difficult for them to pull off too many tricks!"
"That's true!" Everyone laughed and agreed that the combat effectiveness of the bandits was not at the same level as that of Qijun's fine cavalry. Even the recruits from Beihai County, after more than a month of actual combat training, would no longer be able to fight against the bandits alone.
lose to them
Strategically, he despised the enemy. In terms of specific tactics, Qin Shubao still paid enough attention to the rogue bandits. He adopted the same tactics as Zhang Xutuo used to defeat Wang Bo's army, using infantry to form a gentle camp at the foot of the mountain to monitor the cavalry, while the cavalry maneuvered on the outside.
Cooperate and be responsible for cutting off all supplies sent to the mountains
If the enemy retreats to the main peak of Mount Dai, they will starve to death within three months. If the enemy retreats down the mountain to Bocheng and the army catches up from behind, they will surely be killed again.
When not fighting, Mount Dai looks magnificent. Although its actual height may not be as high as the peak that Xuzi saw when he left the fortress, because it is surrounded by plains, it looks like you are overlooking the world. From the foot of the mountain to the main peak, the mountains are huge.
More than a dozen hills, large and small, are covered by woods of different colors. Looking from the bottom up, the color of the whole mountain is very layered. The place closest to the top of the mountain is vaguely covered with residual snow from last winter. Most of the time, it is covered by clouds and fog. Occasionally, it is covered by clouds and mist.
When the clouds clear and the fog disperses, thousands of golden lights are reflected
It is said that the main peak of this mountain is difficult to climb. Only Confucius, Qin Shihuang and Han Wu Emperor have reached its highest point. The story of how Confucius successfully climbed to the top is not recorded in the history books. Both Qin Emperor and Han Wu used tens of thousands of people to climb.
When talents reach their goals, what kind of scenery is there above the clouds? Xuzi also wants to see it, but he can't say it publicly. The lessons of the past few years have taught him to behave more or less.
Therefore, deep down in his heart, he desperately hopes that this battle will end as soon as possible. If the battle is over, he can find a reason to secretly leave the team alone. The mountain people who volunteered to lead the way once told him that there will be more beautiful things deep in the mountains.
The scenery includes waterfalls falling from the sky, cliffs rising from the ground, and eagles with wings spread as long as the body of a war horse. Xuzi didn't think the guide was bragging, because he could see several with his own eyes every day when he led the patrol.
The pride of heaven hovers above its head. It is not friendly to humans who invade its territory, whether they are bandits or soldiers. It always expresses its protest with a high-pitched cry.
"The hawk's cry is very strange today!" Dugu Lin tapped the stirrup with the handle and whispered.
"The birds are so panicked when they fly!" Luo Shixin added loudly, and then all the cavalrymen drew their weapons. A large group of people were preparing to enter the mountain. Qin Shubao did not invite the soldiers from Lu County to help in the battle. Those who came must be the enemy.
Not a friend
"There is a gentle slope over there, which is more suitable for us to attack!" Qin Shubao pointed diagonally forward with the long spear in his hand. The soldiers accelerated together, and the leopards swarmed towards the distant hillside. There were few trees on the gentle hillside, and the position was stuck.
The road into the mountains
"Another group of desperadoes are here!" Asahi led the team forward while drawing a black knife from behind on the battlefield. He did not dare to have any sympathy for the rogue bandits. In fact, after seeing what the rogue bandits did in Beihai,
After what he did, his sympathy for the bandits became less and less
They were originally weak people who had been bullied, but after they picked up the knife, they went to persecute those who were weaker than themselves. Regarding this change in human nature, Asahi did not understand that in his mind, people who have experienced suffering should be more capable.
It’s better to be compassionate, but most of the situations he saw were just the opposite of subjective assumptions. Many people who have experienced suffering not only have no sympathy, but also have a mentality that they can only vent their anger by seeing others suffer even worse.
"The rogue bandits don't know how to train soldiers. Of course they hope to have as many people as possible under their command. In order to raise more soldiers, they have no choice but to rob the robbed people and lose food, so they have no choice but to become rogue bandits!" Dugu Lin once said during a casual chat.
Explain why rogue bandits are keen on ruining the common people, but Xuzi does not agree with this statement. He always feels that there are different explanations for the tragedies that happened in Qijun and Beihai, but he can’t tell what the specific answer is.
Under the command of Qin Shubao, the cavalry quickly occupied favorable terrain. To everyone's expectation, the bandits who realized that they were threatened did not form a mess like the minions under Guo Fangyu and Qi Guoyuan. On the contrary, they quickly formed a group.
In the phalanx, the cavalry and infantry covered each other and retreated to the hillside on the other side of the road. The county soldiers rushing in front eagerly fired their arrows. They had been using this cavalry diffusion tactic for a month, but they didn't know if they missed the target.
How many bands of bandits were there? And today, after the first wave of arrows shot into the enemy formation, the opponent's formation just trembled, and then immediately a sky full of arrows shot back.
The rogue bandits had a numerical advantage, and the range of the foot bows in their hands was slightly longer than that of the mounted bows. The riders who rushed forward to harass the enemy quickly retreated. Some were injured and fell off their horses during the retreat, and blood stained the green grass along the hillside.
He screamed for support from his companions, but before the main formation could make any response, he and his mount were already filled with arrows.
The battle started almost without any time for both the enemy and us to make any preparations. As soon as the contact came into contact, the county soldiers who had been invincible for more than a month suffered a small loss. The leader of the bandits responded extremely quickly, and the bandits under his command were also considered elite. These were soldiers.
It was a situation they had never encountered before. For a while, they simply could not adapt to the changes on the battlefield.
"Shi Xin, Zhong Jian, let's harass with arrows first, and increase the horse's speed as fast as we can! The idea is a bit tricky, but there are not many flaws!" Qin Shubao pointed to the enemy's left wing and whispered an order.
The enemy is arranged in a regular square formation, with the infantry in the center and more than two hundred cavalry scattered on the two wings of the infantry. This formation has few flaws, but it may not be able to withstand the mixed attack of light and heavy cavalry that Qijun's elite soldiers are best at. As long as Li Xu
and Luo Shixin can cause chaos in the infantry in the center, and Qin Shubao's two hundred armored cavalry can step forward from the front to meet each other on the narrow road. The brave will win. Regardless of courage and combat effectiveness, it is absolutely impossible for Qijun's elite to lose to a group of people who have come from afar.
Bandits
Six hundred light cavalry rolled down the hillside like the wind. They had practiced this tactic countless times and practiced it countless times on the enemy. Although this small number of men and horses were like a wisp of smoke on the open slope, but in the blue smoke
The murderous intention contained in it makes the sunshine in the sky become cold. No one shouts, and there is no sound of horns and drums to cheer. The rustling of horse hooves is the only melody in the wind. The smoke and dust brought by the horse hooves are rolling faster and faster, getting thicker and thicker.
Suddenly, the trajectory of the smoke turned around, and countless sharp arrows rose into the air.
Not only the sharp arrows shot by the county soldiers, but also the enemy troops shot out white feathers all over the sky. The wind of death roared before and after the war horses. Some people fell to the ground while running, and some ownerless horses neighed and fled away from the battlefield. Most of the county soldiers
But he is still galloping, bending his bow and shooting arrows while galloping
Most of the arrows fired by the bandits missed their target. To hit the fast-moving horses required very good shooting skills. The minions were not trained to the level, so they had to shoot aimlessly. Li Xu shot three arrows while galloping.
, every arrow took away a life. The cavalry behind him also maintained the same shooting rhythm as the general. Most of the feather arrows missed, but due to the dense formation of the bandits, nearly a hundred feather arrows still hit the target.
Target
The enemy formation shook, but there was no enemy general on horseback waving his command flag. Someone came out from the depths of the phalanx with a shield, and more soldiers in the back row raised their bows and arrows to protect the spearmen in the front row.
, shooting at the head of the high-speed moving cavalry
"Leave, leave quickly!" Li Xu shouted, his whole heart jumped into his throat instantly. The opponent's actions were so surprising. He had discussed with Zhang Xutuo and others the wolf-cavalry tactics of using infantry against the Turks.
Area coverage shooting is one of the most appropriate choices
The cavalry quickly adjusted their direction and rushed diagonally out of the range covered by the arrows. The formation of the bandits did not collapse. Are they still bandits? Some people were unwilling to give up. They rode their horses to escape while firing back with their bows. This was a killing move taught by Li Xu.
But today, this ultimate move completely failed, and scattered arrows hit the shield wall, like dew hitting a rock, with no gain.
Li Xu drew his bow again a hundred steps away. This was an unexpected distance for the rogues. Since Yicheng, he rarely misses and kills the enemy general with one arrow at this distance, which is enough to completely confuse the rogues.
The long arrow was like a shooting star, directed towards the enemy general standing in the first row. At the moment when the arrow was about to reach in front of the enemy general, he suddenly felt that the figure on the horseback was very familiar.
"It's not him, it can't be him!" Xuzi screamed, wishing he could fly over with his wings, break the arrow in two, and in this flash of lightning, the enemy general in the distance raised his shield, "Ding!
"A sound sounded from Xu Zi's heart. The feather arrow was blocked. His tense heart suddenly relaxed, and sweat dripped down from his forehead.
Before Asahi could think about whether to launch a second round of cavalry attack, the enemy general responded. He first looked at the cavalry galloping back, his movements were very slow, as if he was looking for something. Then, he held the command flag in his hand.
After waving several times quickly, the cavalry on the two flanks of the phalanx immediately rushed down to meet Li Xu and Luo Shixin's horse heads.
"Bend the bow, shoot repeatedly!" Li Xu's order was transformed into a horn sound by the ordering soldiers and spread throughout the battlefield to control the cavalry. This is the second appropriate method to crack the cavalry and archery tactics. Li Xu, Zhang Xutuo, Qin Shubao and others
After discussing similar tactics, everyone believed that if they wanted to achieve the desired goal, the number of both sides should be roughly equal. However, the rogue bandits only had more than 200 cavalry, but they did not hesitate to attack the official army.
The sound of the arrow tearing through the air was shrill and harsh, but the effect was not obvious. When shooting at a moving target, the county soldiers and bandits were not very accurate. More than 30 of the enemy cavalry who rushed over fell off their horses between two shots, and the rest were killed.
His head was close to the horse's neck, and the weapon in his hand was pointed steadily forward.
"Woo--Woo-Woo-Woo" the horn sounded again on the battlefield, and the enemy's formation changed and the entire infantry square formed into a triangle as it advanced, like a sharp knife with teeth, slowly moving toward
The county soldiers pressed over
In the middle of the battle formation is a young general, with silver armor and white robes, and a sharp edge like frost.
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