ps: I’m finally back. I haven’t seen you for a week. I miss you so much. I didn’t expect so many brothers to vote for me. I’m really ashamed. Suddenly I saw Brother Eagle Zhou promoted to the hall master. I’m here to express my gratitude and congratulations!
After winning medals in the Battle of Raoleshan, Zhao Yuanping and Gao Mingxun made new achievements again. They were the first batch of Huaiyue coalition troops to enter the Qingjin Gate of Youzhou. It was not until the entire city was cleared that Jieli arrived at the gate of Youzhou City.
.Both of them understand that Governor Li is about to take over Youzhou, Lulongyi Fan will usher in a new ruler, and the Yingzhou Army will also expand again. By then, there will be a lot of promotion opportunities, and those who can
It depends on how far you will be promoted.
So as soon as Xie Li's order to summon the army was given, both of them made preparations enthusiastically all night long, ready to fight again.
But in Xie Li's plan, Wukui Camp and Yalu Camp were not the vanguards of this southward march. He considered that the two battalion heads were too tired in the battle to cross the mountain pass of Jundu and attack Youzhou, so he wanted to
Let them set off later, so I plan to hand over the vanguard task to the Kumoxi camp.
Jie Li turned out to be Ta Ma of the Sudden Division. The Sudden Division's combat targets at that time included the Kumoxi people and the Western Khitan'a Yamato tribe. His military talent against Kumoxi princess Salanna was better than that of the Waiyo coalition forces.
Most of the generals were more familiar and understood, so he also had considerable trust in Camp Kumoxi.
But Xie Li changed his mind that night because Zhao Yuanping's words were very powerful.
When Zhao Yuanping learned that the next target of the battle was Cangzhou, he no longer had the idea of grabbing credit. He hurried to Jieli's tent to get the vanguard's wèizhi. His reason was also
I was impressed by this from two aspects.
First of all, although the Wukui camp has not been rested and has always been in a state of emergency march, Zhao Yuanping believes that the soldiers of the Wukui tribe did not show fatigue because they have one man and two horses. More importantly, the battle in Youzhou City is compared
Simply speaking, the internal response of the major wealthy families in the city was very powerful. There were neither fierce wall battles nor fierce street battles, and there were basically no losses. Therefore, the Wukai Battalion was fully capable of carrying out the rapid march south.
Secondly, Zhao Yuanping hoped that Jieli would give him a chance. He wanted to personally take action to take Cangzhou into his hands as smoothly as possible and preserve the Zhao family lineage.
These two reasons are sufficient. Although I am new to the Kumoxi camp, it is better not to arrange for Salanna to go to the battlefield in person. After all, Salanna is the concubine of the governor. If there is someone
It is difficult for Xie Li to explain the accidental injury. Since Wu Kuiying can still fight, they can be considered to start. In addition, Zhao Yuanping's idea of preserving the Zhao family can be deeply understood by Jie Li.
It would definitely be more convincing to persuade Zhao Yuande.
Zhao Yuanping wanted to be a pioneer. The same was true for Gao Mingxun. This old Bohai general who faced the Wukui tribe's repeated "transfers" is now really high-spirited, and his courage and confidence are much greater than before! He hopes that Yaluying will start first
The first reason was the same as Zhao Yuanping's, and the second reason was to oppose Zhao Yuanping's starting move. He believed that if the persuasion failed and a fight started, Zhao Yuanping would definitely be in a dilemma when facing his own relatives. In order to
In order to win the position of vanguard, Gao Mingxun even put aside his "close comradeship" with Zhao Yuanping, and his opposition was quite fierce. All he had to do was make it clear that Zhao Yuanping would passively avoid the war.
Gao Mingxun's objection actually strengthened Xie Li's willingness to use Zhao Yuanping. The reason is very simple. Xie Li's simple Hu people's thinking. This is something that should not happen.
"Captain Li has taught us for many years that we are first and foremost a warrior, a soldier. Soldiers have their own missions and responsibilities. As the saying goes, 'The mission is more important than Mount Tai, and the responsibility is higher than anything else.' Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty. I believe that Commander Zhao is not You will live up to the Governor’s expectations.”
Zhao Yuanping got his wish and got the command of the vanguard. He eagerly led the Wukai Battalion to go south immediately. Under Zhao Yuanping's urging, the Wukai Battalion reached Yongnu in one day and the Juma River in two days, and then the army Yongji Canal Heading south, on the third day, Yao A's headquarters in Jiadu had already stationed in Qianning Military City, which was only eighty miles away from Cangzhou City.
It's not that Zhao Yuanping is eager to make meritorious deeds. His simplest idea is to persuade the Zhao family to submit as quickly as possible to avoid the possible war. And the speed of persuasion must be as fast as possible, because he dominates the capital. Qi also confronted Governor Li on the border of Pingzhou, which in Zhao Yuanping's opinion was quite unwise.
Cangzhou has 11 counties combined into one military city. At the end of Emperor Xizong's reign, there were still more than 50,000 residents and more than 200,000 registered residents. It is an out-and-out Shangzhou, and it is also the foundation and support of the Yichang Army Jiedu Prefecture. However, Over the years, especially in recent years, Cangzhou has always been on the front line of the battle between Wei Bo's Xuanwu and Lu Long's armies. The entire territory has been devastated, not to mention Gonggao, Hu Su, Leling, Wudi and other commanders who have suffered the most fierce battles. The county is almost depopulated, and even the city walls of Cangzhou, the state capital, still have many collapsed areas that have not yet been repaired.
Today's Cangzhou is no longer as prosperous as it was in the past. The people have no clothes to wear, no food to eat, the fields are in ruins, and the villages are withered. When Weibo and Xuanwu towns negotiated with Lulong that day, they promised to return Cangzhou to Liu Shouguang. It was not There is no reason. In the eyes of Wei Bo and Xuanwu, such Cangzhou is not only of little value, but may also be a heavy burden. Especially for Xuanwu, after occupying Dizhou, it is equivalent to having a foothold in the north of the Yellow River. The Yellow River has already It was no longer a natural moat blocking Xuanwu's northward advance. Hebei had become a smooth road, and the army could come and go unhindered on the land of Hebei. As for Cangzhou, to Xuanwu, it was like a chicken rib.
The Zhao family completed the relocation of the whole family more than a month ago. Moving from the prosperous land of Youzhou to the declining Cangzhou requires a lot of courage. Being able to become the governor of a town is not a temptation that has never been reached. The Zhao family could resist it, so both Zhao Yuande and Zhao Ba set foot on this land without hesitation.
But now, Zhao Yuande suddenly felt that what he did looked like a joke. It only took a little more than a month for Lu Long's world to change. The hat on his head was "Yichang Army Retention". The hat has not been put on properly yet, it will be taken off in a blink of an eye, and even the entire Zhao family is in danger of being exterminated!
Is it destined that the Zhao family in Hejian can only be attached to the tail of others, but cannot become a person above others?
Zhao Yuande was very unwilling, but extremely helpless. When the news came that Youzhou changed hands and the Huaiyue Allied Forces appeared in Qianning Military City, the old military leader who had been immersed in military affairs for decades quickly saw the current situation clearly. The situation. The plan of "three parties gathering together to annihilate the enemy in Shicheng" is simply ridiculous to the extreme and is full of too much wishful thinking. In comparison, the governor of Yingzhou used his army to detour hundreds of miles and raid You from east to west. Zhou's heavy punch was the real coup. It caught people off guard, shocked them, made them depressed and despairing, and also made them admired in their hearts.
What's even more ridiculous is that his own Saburo actually wanted to go straight to the enemy's rear, avoid Shicheng and rush to Yuguan...
As long as Zhao Yuande glanced at the map, he could immediately understand that he could send an army to go around hundreds of miles from outside the pass and bypass the steep Xiongguan border wall in the other direction. Not only could he invade Youzhou, but he could also divide his troops to move south.
, Such an organization and mobilization ability is so amazing! Even if this is just a partial division, even if it only has 3,000 people, the strength of Yingzhou that can send this army is very powerful, definitely far beyond the so-called tripartite alliance.
In the face of such an enemy, you still want to divide your troops. What a stupid act!
If Zhao Yuande knew that this partial division had tens of thousands of soldiers, half of whom were cavalry and half of whom were mounted infantry, then his heart could only be described as shocked.
In desperation, Zhao Yuande had to admit that Yingzhou's strategy was truly bold. Compared with Yingzhou, his side did seem a bit too stingy.
Zhao Yuande regretted it very much. If he had known this, why would he have come to this shabby Cangzhou in the first place? Hejian Zhao family had only been left for two months after becoming a Yichang army soldier with a bad reputation. He wanted to get out immediately.
What is the laughingstock of the whole world if it is not? If it is just to make people laugh, that is all. The key is that now the whole clan is in danger of being destroyed!
Thinking of this, Zhao Yuande couldn't help but sigh. When he was in Youzhou, why didn't he see that the little Captain Xuejie had risen so quickly?
The problem now is that their frontline is no more than a hundred miles away from Cangzhou City. At this distance, the cavalry can arrive in one day, and the infantry can never exceed three days. Cangzhou City is riddled with holes, and many places on the city wall
There are gaps that have not yet been repaired. Even if you want to repair it now, it is too late. What's more, the city is short of manpower, and most of the soldiers were deployed by Zhao Ba before he left. How should we defend it?
Ba Du had a total cavalry force of 5,000 men. Zhao Ba transferred 3,000 men, but there were still 2,000 men left, but there were not many horses left. So Zhao Yuande could only piece together 500 cavalrymen, and the rest were used as infantry.
Use. He searched the whole city again and found nearly a thousand men. Not to mention their bodies and ages, these men could barely be considered men.
Repairing the city wall now would only consume food and physical strength, so he planned to form a formation in the city and fight from behind.
The next day, when Zhao Yuande put on the battle armor that had been removed for several years and led the incomplete army out of the city to get into position, a fluttering general's flag appeared several miles away to the north, and then a large group of cavalry rose up.
A sheet of snow and fog separated the sky from the earth.
When the snow and fog dissipated, a standard cavalry array appeared in front of Zhao Yuande. The three cavalry teams were divided into three groups: left, middle and right, each separated by half a mile. The cavalry in the center was the thickest, with hundreds of cavalry arranged in rows across the front.
There were six rows after that, each row was separated by two horse bodies in front and back; there were about 200 horses on the left and right sides, three in a row, arranged in a wild goose wing shape, ready to make a roundabout attack at any time.
Zhao Yuande took a closer look and was immediately horrified. Although the opponent's thousand cavalrymen were not many, they were all tough. It could be seen from the posture of the horses that these cavalrymen were good at riding horses. Not to mention that all of these cavalrymen were wearing armor, and
The equipment was neat, the cavalry in the central array all held long carbines, and sabers were straddled on the horses; the cavalry on the left and right sides also had sabers straddling the horses, but everyone held a short crossbow in their hands!
Seeing this, Zhao Yuande's scalp felt numb. He had already determined that his battle would be a disaster. (To be continued...)