"Don't you want to go home? Think about home, think about your grandparents!" Unwilling to let the young man die, Li Xu leaned close to him and almost used a begging tone to enlighten him.
"I have no home. My grandfather was captured by you and went to Liaodong the year before last, and he has not come back yet. My mother was weak and could not stand hunger. She also died last spring. My lord, please let me go home. My home is here.
Down there, do I still need to beg you to let me go?" Huang Gou Sheng tilted his head and glanced at him, then replied with a sneer.
"I'm not a thief, you are!" He spat out another mouthful of blood and cursed bitterly.
Li Xu drew a long knife from the back of the saddle, pushed the front armor with the tip of the knife, and then knocked the mount hard with his legs. Heifeng made an angry protest, took four hooves, and rushed down the hillside. Behind them, there was
More than a thousand light cavalry, driving various war horses, including some tall mules, galloped in formation, like a torrent.
The terrain underfoot is not suitable for cavalry operations. The land is too soft, the weeds are too lush, and the stones and pits hidden under the weeds all pose fatal threats to the high-speed cavalry. In the past few days, there have been nearly
Hundreds of brothers were injured under the hooves of their own horses rather than at the hands of the enemy. But at this moment, Xuzi could not cherish the soldiers. So far, the most effective method to deal with the rebels was cavalry assault. Two to three large-scale breakthroughs can greatly damage their morale.
Or even completely defeat them. If infantry were to engage in the battle, both sides would have to fight for at least two hours to achieve the same effect. A long fight would bring greater casualties, and the county soldiers would be attrition with the enemy.
Can't afford it.
This time when they moved to Xingyang, Master Zhang Xutuo only brought out 15,000 brothers. The remaining brothers had to be left to Master Pei Caozhi to guard the home. Once the nest was raided by thieves, the pessimism spreading everywhere could clearly be seen.
This team was quickly defeated within a few days.
Before leaving, Lord Zhang Xutuo made an agreement with the new Lord Tongshou Jia Wuben that within one year after arriving in Xingyang, he would gradually return the soldiers he had taken away from Qi County. "If the materials provided by the imperial court are sufficient, within one year,
General Nei Li and I will definitely be able to train 20,000 new soldiers. When the time comes, Qijun and Xingyang will attack from the front and back, and we will wipe out all the bandits in Henan!" Lord Zhang Xutuo promised firmly, as if he didn't take his opponents seriously at all.
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"I will make a one-year agreement with Mr. Zhang. You can go, but within one year, Jia will guarantee that the brothers will have no worries!" Jia Wuben, who once served as a general of Yingyang, also responded with a big smile.
Qianyun.
Both of them tried their best not to look at the worry in each other's eyes. The war was imminent, and they needed to show some confidence to stabilize their military morale. But both the host and the guest knew that one year later, there might not be much left of the brothers who would be alive after the Wanwu expedition.
In this world, wars are fierce and dangerous. Throughout the ages, those who kill three thousand enemies and suffer eight hundred losses have been considered good generals. However, the number of enemy troops we have to face is hundreds of thousands, and it is possible that the number will continue to increase as time goes by.
Since leaving Qijun, they fought four battles with different enemies in half a month. They defeated the enemy every time and never had too much entanglement with any group of bandits. Zhang Xutuo did not intend to fight against the enemy along the way.
The bandits who consumed too much strength were all sent by Li Mi to die. As the new military advisor of the Wagang Army, the biggest difference between Li Mi and his predecessor Xu Maogong is that he does not care about sacrifice. Of course, the ones who are currently being sacrificed are the small fish and small fish in the periphery.
Shrimp, the real enemy is hidden at the very back. Before testing the specific strength of the official army, Li Mi will not easily fight with the official army.
Therefore, the county soldiers are not willing to easily let the enemy find out their true strength. They use cavalry as the main force in every battle, and the infantry is only used for local coordination, or to be more precise, to clean up the battlefield after the battle. This kind of
The tactic of just showing your teeth to others can easily be misunderstood by the bandits, and will amplify the actual combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers several times. This is what Zhang Xutuo wants. If the wings of the Wagang Army can be cut off without a fight, he doesn't mind.
Make the illusion more sensational.
Creating an illusion also often means that some people have to make sacrifices. The most arduous task is undertaken by the light cavalry trained by Asahi himself. Over the past few days, they have been cutting off pieces of flesh and blood from the bandits like boning knives.
.At the same time, they themselves are like a sword that has been used for a long time, and the blade is full of gaps.
"Shoot the arrow, shoot the arrow!" Facing the steel knife that was rushing towards him, Mingwei General Wang Dongsheng shouted in a panic. He was originally the sixth master under Zhou Wenju, the thief in Wei City, and had just been assigned to be the commander-in-chief of the first army.
In less than three months, Li Mi had not even figured out what rank and rank the official title of General Mingwei should belong to. If he died now, he would feel that he would be too sorry for this official title.
The rebel archers standing in the back row of the team drew their wooden bows for hunting and shot out arrows in succession. Like the general Wang Dongsheng, they had only been serving as Wagang soldiers for less than three months. They had no idea how to compete with regular officers.
The army has no experience in combat. Although everyone has defeated local soldiers and horses who came to conquer before, those opponents were farmers who were as confused as they were. The results of the battles between the two sides basically depended on luck. One wind, one rain.
, or a stone suddenly rolled from the mountain, may affect the situation of the battle.
But today, what they saw was a team that was not affected by external conditions. Thousands of feather arrows fell from mid-air, which only caused the advancing team to pause for a moment. Immediately afterwards, this
The other team rushed forward even more urgently, regardless of how many people were injured.
"Shoot the arrows, shoot the arrows!" Seeing that his opponent's charging speed showed no sign of slowing down, Wang Dongsheng shouted even more panicked. He began to doubt whether his position as General Mingwei was worth it, even though he was the only one among the brothers from the same village.
He became a general, and he was the only one who allocated more than 40 acres of land at the foot of Wagang Mountain, built a big house, and married a wife. But if he died in the battle, these things would probably belong to others in the blink of an eye.
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The second wave of arrows fell from the sky again, shooting down ten galloping horses. The enemies on horseback suddenly disappeared. Under the command of a leader on a black horse, they all adopted the posture of hiding in stirrups. This posture
Make it difficult for the feathered arrows to hit them, and even if they are hit, it is difficult to kill them with one arrow.
The enemy rushed over very fast, and in a blink of an eye, the distance between them and the rebels was less than fifty steps. All the brothers felt the shaking of the ground, and the sound of roaring horse hooves suppressed the drums and shouts of both sides, shaking everyone's hands and feet.
Numb. The archers trembled and bent their bows again. They only had one chance to shoot an arrow. But with such a poor killing effect, they didn't know if they would have time to escape after the next arrow was shot. Some people's faces changed.
They turned pale, and the hand holding the knife began to tremble uncontrollably. Some people bent down low, and their legs couldn't help trembling. Most of them wanted to escape, but the rushing horses were too tall, which made people feel uncomfortable.
Don't dare to look up. Even if everyone has a chance to stop it, they will be crushed to death by those fallen corpses.
"Spearman, take three steps forward. Squat down!" At the critical moment, Wang Dongsheng remembered a trick taught by Master Xu Si of the Wagang Army. Master Xu Si's current official position is champion general, general manager of the internal army, and the combined titles and titles
It was as long as a door curtain. Wang Dongsheng couldn't even remember those dazzling names. He only remembered that the army that Xu Mao practiced was very neat and much stronger than his brothers. He originally wanted to find time to learn Xu Mao's skills.
How to train these people under his command to be as strong as the internal army under Xu Maogong's command, but before he could say a few words to the other party, he received the task of going to Jiyin to intercept the official army.
"If you encounter the cavalry, you can only shoot three times, so use your spearman well, they can save their lives at the critical moment!" Before leaving, Xu Maogong whispered to him. In Wang Dongsheng's impression, Xu Maogong looked like
He was far more reliable than the second leader Li Mi. However, village owners and leaders from all over the country respected Li Mi, so Wang Dongsheng had no choice but to follow the crowd.
Many rules in the village are not written on the surface, but if you violate them, you will definitely die ugly. It is precisely because Wang Dongsheng kept this in mind that he slowly climbed from a soldier to his current position.
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The brothers holding wooden poles and spears quickly stepped forward and used their weapons to form a deadly jungle. There was a big gap between their paces, so the spear wall appeared uneven. Even so, the spear wall was still extremely strong.
To a large extent, the morale of the army has been stabilized. The archers and swordsmen hiding behind the spear wall regrouped and pulled out their weapons from their waists. Everyone still has a chance to win, as long as the brothers with spears can stop the horses.
In a moment, everyone can surround and kill the officers and soldiers on horseback. In terms of number, the rebel army is ten times more numerous than the officers and soldiers.
As if he saw that the bandits were on guard, the cavalry's forward speed suddenly slowed down. This phenomenon made Wang Dongsheng secretly happy, "Archers!" he shouted in a long voice, preparing to let the archers under his command take the third step.
A salvo was fired. But at this moment, he suddenly found that the sky above him darkened.
Five hundred, at least five hundred, Wang Dongsheng thought in horror. Five hundred arrows suddenly flew up from the rushing cavalry, rushed into the sky, blocked the sunlight, and then neatly smashed into the spearmen's team.
The spearmen with only simple thin armor immediately fell down, and a huge gap appeared in the spear wall as if it had been washed away by the flood! Before the rebel soldiers could scream in surprise, the spearmen on the opposite side fell.
Suddenly, a figure reappeared on the bare horse. The officers and soldiers rushing at the front rolled their bodies onto the saddle from the belly of the horse, and raised their weapons high.
At the front was a long black knife, as dark as ink and as cold as frost. Then, the scenery in front of him suddenly became extremely unreal. Wang Dongsheng only saw a flash of black knife light, and then his front team looked like in autumn.
The whole area fell down like crops. Amidst the neighing of war horses and the cries of people, the battle flags disappeared one after another. The brothers who were once known for their bravery turned around and ran away in front of the enemy's horses.
The man, the horse, and the knife made half a circle diagonally, and the spear wall blocking the road collapsed. Wang Dongsheng knew what he had to do, and he turned the horse's head around without hesitation and walked away. (To be continued)
