ps: Thank you for the wrath of God, seven styles, fishing alone in Longhu, brother Danghan’s reward. Thanks to Siegfried, remembering Wu Anjun, under the dragon sky, and a monthly ticket for the long journey. ps: The USB disk is damaged, it’s hard work for me.
The manuscript I had saved was finished, I was depressed and heartbroken for a thousand times, and I was in a bad mood!
After receiving the last news from the cavalry report, Zhong Shao smiled at Zhang Xing and said: "All the enemy troops have come in, more than 4,500 cavalry, this is a big piece of fat!"
Zhang Xing nodded and said to Zhong Shao: "It's almost done, let's get started."
Zhong Shao agreed and ordered the flag bearer to wave the flag.
Jie Li waited until he reached the command flag and said to the troops gathered around him: "Start the attack. According to the pre-plan, each of the first battalion will attack from the left in turn, and each of the second battalion will attack from the right. Remember,
Strictly follow the cavalry and shooting regulations. You are not allowed to rush into the formation or engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy's cavalry! If the enemy's cavalry comes out to fight, immediately return to the rear of the formation from both sides. We have our own infantry brothers from the Yingzhou Army. It is not you who are fighting at close range.
mission!"
All the heads shouted in unison: "It's your order!"
Jie Li added: "Everyone, what you are holding is a three-arrow repeating crossbow that the Dudu Mansion spent a huge amount of money to build. Do not destroy it easily."
The leaders agreed to disperse immediately and return to their respective capitals.
"Check the crossbow equipment! Buckle the crossbow!" With everyone shouting, the first cavalry battalion was temporarily formed. The cavalrymen of the second battalion checked the crossbow equipment again and then buckled three crossbow arrows.
"All troops mount up!" There was a clatter of armor, and nearly two thousand cavalrymen raised their stirrups and mounted their horses at the same time.
As the command was heard, Zhao Yuanping said with a smile beside Jie Li: "Commander, let me go to charge into the formation. I haven't had enough killing yet."
Jie Li glared: "Nonsense! You are now a senior officer in the battalion. You are not needed for the battle, and I cannot let you go!"
Zhao Yuanping lowered his head, but did not dare to say anything more.
Jie Li ignored Zhao Yuanping again and turned to Lai Xingguo, commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion on the right side of the Yingzhou Army, and Zhang Huijing, commander of the 2nd Battalion, and said: "Old Zhao, Old Zhang, let your people prepare. A fight is about to begin.
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Lai Xingguo and Zhang Huijing received the order and began to take command in the headquarters.
Another command sounded:
"One battalion of infantry obeys the order, and the whole army is in armor!"
"The second battalion of infantry obeys the order, and the entire army is in armor!"
"Team up! Look to the right!..."
The movements of the coalition forces immediately aroused the reaction of the Khitan people. Under the command of leaders at all levels, the Khitan cavalry mounted their horses one after another, drew their swords and guns, and prepared to respond to the enemy. The archers planted their arrows on the grass, waiting for orders to prepare to shoot.
At the same time, a Khitan ranger flew to report to Aping: "Sir Aping, the enemy has blocked the way back. They have formed a formation behind us!"
A Ping's heart tightened, and he quickly rushed out and galloped to the grassy hill behind. He saw a military formation suddenly appear a mile away. There were probably less than two thousand soldiers, although the military formation listed appeared very...
They are sparse, but the formation is strict and the equipment is luxurious. Especially the spearmen in the first two rows are clearly the armored lineup of the state army camped at the foot of Raole Mountain that day.
A Ping took a breath of cold air and looked towards the general flag again. Because he was not far away, he could vaguely make out some handwriting. Next to the word "Jiao" on it, there seemed to be a row of small characters "Yingzhou".
Right compartment"!
A Ping was stunned for a moment, full of doubts in his heart. The Yingzhou Army he knew should have been surrounded at the foot of Raolao Mountain. Why did another "right wing" appear here? Could it be the newly added troops of the Yingzhou Army?
?But just three or four months ago, my brother clearly found out that the total strength of the Yingzhou Army was only five battalions, which added up to less than 3,000! Even if the other party recruited new ones in these three months
Soldiers, there are more than 4,000 soldiers at the foot of Keraole Mountain, which should have included the new troops.
Or maybe the Yingzhou Army broke out from the foot of Raole Mountain? This is even more inappropriate. I didn't get any news about the Yingzhou Army's breakout, and Brother Abaoji didn't send any information about his defeat!
Aping was puzzled and couldn't help but feel an inexplicable guilty conscience. A layer of cold sweat broke out on his back. But the situation was already like this. It was useless to think about it. He quickly rode back to the formation and recruited Chitai.
Come over: "I'll give you five hundred men. Let me secure the grassy hill behind! We must guard our way back and make no mistakes!"
Chitai ordered five hundred horses, quickly galloped back to the grass hill, and defended the grass hill. Only then did A Ping calm down his nervousness slightly and turn his attention back to the situation in front of him.
The allied cavalry on the opposite side divided into two groups and began to charge towards the Khitan cavalry's main formation.
"Fire arrows!" Following the command, the Khitan archers fired the arrows from their bowstrings and flew towards the incoming coalition cavalry. However, the coalition cavalry did not attack head-on in a dense formation, but formed a long line of three in a row.
The long column ran diagonally, which greatly reduced the cross-section of the arrows, so the Khitan archers' bow and arrow coverage did not achieve very good results.
Aping didn't care about this. Instead, he was happy that the enemy dared to launch a cavalry charge. With the bravery and quality of the Khitan cavalry, Aping believed that he could kill at least 30% of the enemy's troops in a confrontation with just one confrontation.
cavalry.
Two groups of Khitan cavalry galloped out of the formation and faced the coalition cavalry charging towards the left and right sides of the formation. The Khitan cavalry were high in fighting spirit, shouting various chants, raised their weapons, and began to accelerate.
The expected cavalry charge did not come. Just as they were about to approach, the coalition cavalry suddenly turned an arc, avoiding the two groups of charging Khitan cavalry, and drew a line thirty steps away from both sides of the Khitan formation.
Pass.
The cavalry on both sides of the Khitan formation waved their swords at the coalition cavalry and cursed angrily. Some of the bad-tempered Khitan cavalry pointed at each other and spitted loudly, saying something to the effect of "You guys have the guts to hide."
Ah, let's go head-to-head with real swords and guns, and we'll beat you grandsons all over the ground."
There were also some capable Khitan cavalry who didn't use their words. They took off their bows and quickly stringed them, preparing to shoot down a few enemies. But they had no chance. The coalition cavalry suddenly raised a short hand crossbow and pointed at it.
The Khitan army pulled the trigger.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh..." A dense sound of piercing the air rang out, and a flurry of crossbow arrows penetrated into the Khitan army formation like locusts.
Amidst the screams, A Ping was so shocked that he broke out in cold sweat.
——Crossbows! Why do they have so many crossbows!?
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At the foot of Mount Raole, the autumn sun was shining brightly. Huolu was lying on his back on the meadow ten miles away from the camp in the northeast direction. From time to time he looked at the clear blue sky, or played with the two yellow grasses in his hands, feeling in his heart
An inexplicable burst of anxiety.
Since the trenches were burned by Yingzhou military fire, Jiji, who suffered heavy losses, has completely stopped attacking the Yingzhou military barracks. Abaoji pinned his hopes on building siege equipment, and at the same time he also had another expectation, looking forward to the barracks
The food inside will be exhausted as soon as possible, the war horses will be killed as soon as possible, and then the enemy will be consumed to death.
This swaying and suspenseful mentality has subtly affected all the Khitan armies participating in the war. More and more elders, leaders, and horse warriors from various ministers can't help but come to the Chinese army's tent to inquire and ask for advice.
The movement of the army that came down. Although Abaoji swore that the opponent's food supply could no longer be provided, his own siege equipment was about to be completed, and the enemy was defeated in front of him, but just waiting day by day, don't use this excuse to make all Khitans
People's doubts became more and more serious, and even Huolu himself did not have much confidence in capturing this impregnable camp.
Huolu was well aware of the progress in building siege equipment. Just by logging trees from the north of Mount Raole and then hauling them to the Khitan camp, the distance of more than ten miles was enough to make the workload of this project huge.
It's so frustrating, not to mention that none of the slaves and civilians under my command have real experience in building siege equipment. Just relying on the few descriptions from the Han and Bohai slaves, I want to complete these listening tasks.
Huo Lu, at least, has no hope at all for this big guy who seems to have incredible skills.
It seems that the only feasible way is to wait for the Yingzhou Army to run out of food. According to my brother's calculations before the war, this route would have been an excellent method, but since the Yingzhou Army has forced the supply to be extended by killing horses.
After nearly a month, this method can actually only be regarded as a lose-lose method for the Khitan army at this moment.
Because they have been fighting everywhere in these years, while the Khitan tribe has grown rapidly in strength, they have also offended all the tribes on the grassland. At the time of the decisive battle, the surrounding tribes such as Shiwei, Tuyuhun, and Lin who had originally surrendered began to rebel against each other.
They refused to provide food and grass to themselves for various reasons, the most important of which was that Fuyu City and Yue Prefecture issued an edict - no ethnic groups were allowed to aid Abaoji!
The various grassland ministries cried to the envoys sent by Abaoji and other brothers that both sides had orders from the Khitan, and they did not dare to make decisions on their own whether to listen to whom or not. This kind of crying was more like howling without tears, and it contained hidden meanings.
The profound meaning is: We have already done our best by not taking back the original servant soldiers from you. Now that you are asking for food, it will be difficult for us. You Khitan people must first figure out who is the boss, otherwise we will not be able to obey your orders.
This is an obvious wait-and-see attitude, but for Abaoji and other brothers, they have no choice but to admit this wait-and-see attitude. But while admitting this wait-and-see attitude, the pressure on Abaoji brothers is really very great. From then on,
Western Liaoze's practice of searching for all the rations that can be used by the army has already made the leaders and nobles under his jurisdiction complain. In addition, Aping's encirclement and suppression of the Huaiyue coalition forces in the south does not seem to be going well, and he continues to attack Da Da.
The battalion is applying for more and more soldiers to go south. The combination of these battles makes Abaoji and his brothers feel like they are sitting on the crater of a volcano these days, as if flames may burst out from under their feet at any time and destroy themselves to pieces.
Huo Lu saw that the corners of Abaoji's mouth were getting darker, cracked, and blistered day by day, and his red eyes revealed too much anxiety and irritability. Huo Lu knew that to solve the predicament at hand, waiting was not the answer. He had to conquer the problem in front of him.
Raoleshan Camp, as long as we capture this camp, there will be no problems!