Chapter 717: West Road Battlefield, Wei Qi arrives
Fifty thousand Wei cavalry is not a big deal in the north. After all, the number of Korean cavalry is far greater than his.
But south of the river, 50,000 cavalry were a powerful enough force to give people a headache.
Why?
Because Chu State has no cavalry.
Although people with open-minded visions such as Shouling Jun Jingshe, Xiling Jun Qu Ping, Xinyang Jun Xiang Pei, General Xiang Mo, Yangcheng Jun Xiong Tuo, etc., more or less have a cavalry under their command, but this number There won't be too many, at best there will only be a few hundred people.
In addition, there was actually no cavalry in the main army of Chu State.
I remember that Zhao Hongrun was extremely surprised when he heard about this incident.
Regardless of the reason why the Chu State did not have a cavalry establishment, at this moment, the Chu State finally felt the lack of mobility.
In mid-September, Guling County, a feudal city under the rule of Xiong Wu, the king of Guling, was the first to be sacked by Wei's "North Sichuan Gongqi" and "Youma Army". The great governor of "North Sichuan Gongqi", Bo Xile, and The leader of the "Yuma Army", Yuma, broke through the city and wiped out all the savings of Guling Lord Xiong Wu.
Subsequently, Shangshui County guards Gu Liangwei and Wuma Jiao organized 50,000 civilians and thousands of human-powered carts to take over the trophies captured by the bow cavalry and Youma troops in northern Sichuan, and transferred these treasures of Guling Lord Xiong Wu , together with the Chu people under his rule, were brought back to Shangshui County.
During this period, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu pretended to organize several resistances, and then assumed an attitude of "the enemy is too powerful to be defeated" and withdrew from Guling County, guarding his Ping'an territory. Yu County.
Although Xiong Hu has been denounced by the "Northern Sichuan Archers" and "Youma Army" these days, maybe deep down in his heart, he is still secretly happy.
After all, Xiong Hu is a staunch "Xiong Tuo Party" and is a sworn enemy of Guling Lord Xiong Wu. Do you really think that he will sincerely pull Guling Lord Xiong Wu?
Hey, it would be nice if Xiong Hu didn't add insult to injury.
As for Xiong Hu, who was "watching eagerly" from the sidelines, Bosile and Yuma simply pretended not to see him.
Firstly, the personal relationship between Xiong Hu and Shangshui County has been good recently, but secondly, Pingyu County under Xiong Hu's rule, like the fiefdoms under the rule of his auxiliary lord, Yangcheng Lord Xiong Tuo, is poor and has nothing to plunder.
As a result, Guling County, which was obviously guarded by 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers, was looted, while Pingyu County, which had only more than 10,000 soldiers, was completely calm.
Waiting for late September, two Wei cavalry groups, the Northern Sichuan Bow Cavalry and the Youma Army, continued to penetrate deep into the Chu Kingdom and attacked Ku County, the second big city under the rule of Lord Guling Xiong Wu.
During this period, the Sichuanbei bow cavalry under Bosile once again displayed their unique skill of "shooting from a distance", that is, letting the knights under them throw arrows towards the distant city wall at the moment their horses leaped up, thus extremely powerful. Earth has increased range.
At that time, General Youma could see clearly from the sidelines: He saw the northern Sichuan archers deploying thousands of cavalry outside the four-sided city wall of Ku County. Each of them had one hundred people in a team, driving the horses to run in circles, waiting to run to the city. At the nearest point, the cavalrymen made their horses leap high and at the same time quickly fired arrows towards Ku County.
Although it may seem complicated to explain, for those cavalrymen in northern Sichuan, this tactic seems to be commonplace.
For a moment, Youma only saw the Sichuan Northern Cavalry outside the four walls of Ku County. They fired arrows in a continuous stream, making the Chu defenders inside the city miserable.
Why is it so miserable?
You must know that the bows of the northern Sichuan cavalry have a longer range than the bows of Wei and Chu. What's more, these cavalry also adopted the "leap horse long-range shooting" technique, which made their range far beyond the Kuxian city wall.
The crossbowman's counterattack distance.
It is hard to imagine that the Kuxian crossbowmen, who had obviously increased the height of the city wall and increased their shooting range in disguise, could not reach the Northern Sichuan cavalry with their arrows.
This stunt amazed Shogun Yuma.
"There are rumors that the Jie cavalry have repeatedly invaded our border cities in the Wei Dynasty in the past years, killing countless people. I thought it was just an exaggeration, but I didn't expect...this group of foreign cavalry is really capable!"
Thinking to himself, Yuma had a slight change in his opinion of Bosile's foreign cavalry. He had to admit that the other party was indeed stronger than their Wei cavalry. In fact, even the "Dangshan Yuma" back then might be better.
There is no guarantee of a sure victory against this army.
Just as Yuma was thinking wildly, the clans in Kuxian City opened the city gates and surrendered.
Because the Northern Sichuan cavalry used fire arrows this time, if the cavalry were allowed to continue throwing fire arrows endlessly outside the city, the entire Ku County would probably be destroyed. In desperation, the large and small clans in Ku County chose to surrender.
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After all, they had already gotten wind of it, and learned that Wei's attitude towards the Chu people was pretty good, and that they did not do anything wrong to the common people.
For nobles like them, although their family's wealth may not be saved, they can at least save their lives.
After all, the leader of Shangshui County, Ji Run, King Su of Wei State, was not a murderous person like Tian Dan of Qi State.
As a result, Ku County was captured in just two days.
Bosile and Youma camped in Ku County for two days, repairing things, and waited until Shangshui County General Wuma Jiaoyi arrived with thousands of carts, tens of thousands of civilian transport teams, and thousands of Shangshui troops.
After arriving at Ku County, he handed Ku County over to Wuma Jiao, and once again led the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and the Youma Army to continue deep into the Chu Kingdom.
Regarding this, Gu Liangwei and Wuma Jiao can be said to love and hate each other.
What I love is that the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and the Youma Army are unstoppable. No matter whether it is a big city like Guling or Ku County, or a small city privately built by some big clans in Chu State, they can't stop them.
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The two of them only need to bring people behind to carry their belongings.
Seeing the countless treasures being transported to the county treasury in Shangshui County one after another, Gu Liangwei and Wuma Jiao felt so happy in their hearts.
Although these things do not belong to them, you must know that His Highness Prince Su is extremely generous in rewarding property. For example, Gu Liangwei and Wuma Jiao have accumulated enough wealth in the past two years to build a building no less than Shangshui.
It's just that they didn't dare to build the mansion of Prince Su of the County.
In the two years they spent in Shangshui County of Wei State, they got more than they had in the twenty years of hard work in Chu State. It is no wonder that they are now loyal to Zhao Hongrun and Wei State.
What is annoying is that the progress of the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and the Youma Army is too fast. These cavalrymen have war horses to travel, and they have not considered at all the transportation team of Gu Liangwei and Wuma Jiao behind. Damn it, they
Both were infantrymen, and they were pulling thousands of carts.
Every time before they could empty out the wealth of the previous city and county, the scouts of the Yuma Army would send people to urge them. The main message was: the cavalry is going to continue to advance, you two should quickly bring people to take over the city.
Regarding this, Gu Liangwei and Wuma cursed in their hearts with hatred, because they traveled day and night, and even paid extra remuneration to the peasants under them and asked them to work overtime, but they could not keep up with the speed of the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and Yuma in attacking these cities.
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But after every scolding, Gu Liangwei and Wuma Jiao could only go and take over the city honestly. After all, even for the wealth, they could only "suffer their anger".
At the end of September, the Northern Sichuan cavalry and the Youma Army approached "Tongqiu". However, when they saw the flag of "Pingyu Lord" erected on the gate tower of this city, the two Wei cavalry immediately turned back.
Cross Xiangshui (the upper reaches of the Guohe River) and prepare to attack "Xinqi (qi)".
Because "Tongqiu" belongs to "Xiangcheng", and Xiangcheng is now also the fiefdom of Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu, so in various senses, there is no value in attacking.
As a result, Pingyu Lord Xiong Hu, who rushed to Tongqiu in a hurry, added another feat: he made the Wei army retreat without a fight.
But on their way to attack "Xinqi" by the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and the Youma Army, these two Wei cavalry finally encountered obstacles.
Because on the southeast side of "Xinqi", about thirty miles away, is "Xinyang", which is the fiefdom of Xiangpei, the king of Xinyang.
Therefore, when attacking "New Horse", Bossile and Yuma encountered the Xinyang Army who came to support "New Horse".
It is not that Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, is treacherous, he only knows how to defend his own fiefdom.
The problem is that when Xiang Pei heard that a cavalry force from the Wei State was attacking the fiefdom of Guling Lord Xiong Wu and quickly sent reinforcements, Bosile and Youma had already captured the entire Guling city and pushed the battle line.
Arrive at "Xinyi".
Unfortunately, even if Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei sent reinforcements, they still could not save "Xinqi" from being captured by Bosile and Yuma.
Because Chen An, the general sent by Lord Xiang Pei of Xinyang to reinforce "Xinqi", foolishly chose to defend "Xinqi" at first, but was defeated by the "Prancing Horse Long Shot" skill of the Northern Sichuan Cavalry.
Then, when Chen An mustered up the courage, he led his Xinyang army to take the initiative to attack in an attempt to engage in a decisive battle with the Wei cavalry in the suburbs. As a result, tens of thousands of Xinyang troops were almost completely defeated under the iron hoof of more than 50,000 Wei cavalry.
The army was destroyed.
Even General Chen An himself was killed in the rebellion.
At this point, the 50,000 Xinyang main army sent by Xiang Pei, Lord of Xinyang, to support "Xinqi" was completely wiped out. Only a small group of remnants fled back to Xinyang desperately to bring this bad news to Xiang Xiang.
training.
Therefore, it is not surprising that Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei did not show up on the battlefield in Juyang County. In fact, war broke out on his side, and the Wei cavalry that appeared out of nowhere made him feel extremely strong.
threats.
From the end of September to the beginning of October, the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and the Youma Army controlled the "Xinqi" area. However, in Xinyang, they encountered a desperate resistance from the Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei, so they were temporarily stationed in "Xinqi".
During this period, Yuma saw that the northern Sichuan cavalry had stolen the limelight in the previous battles, and also hoped to regain the glory of "Dangjun Yuma", so he went into battle himself and adopted the tactics of "Dangjun Yuma".
He took the initiative to control the suburbs of Xinyang County and cut off the connection between Xinyang County and other regions.
As a result, Xiang Mo, who led the army and was stationed in Fangzhong County, had an even more difficult time.
Because a while ago, Xinyang Lord Xiang Pei successively sent troops to transport grain to him. Although the grain reserves transported each time were not enough for Xiang Mo to launch a war against Zhi County, at least it could still make Xiang Mo's 500,000
The army survived.
But now, the Northern Sichuan Cavalry and the Youma Army are walking in the area of "Xinqi" and "Xinyang", completely cutting off the grain transportation route.
Throughout the West Road battlefield, the Chu army's life became increasingly difficult.