Chapter 2129 Removing the waste and keeping the essence
Bright red blood dripped down, and Yelu Dashi's body immediately tilted, and he fell straight down from his horse. The remaining soldiers of Xiliao were shocked, and they hurriedly came forward to inquire anxiously. They saw that their king had his eyes closed.
All I could do was wipe away the few strands of dirty blood hanging from the corner of Yelu Dashi's mouth. Yelu Dashi's chest and skirt were also stained red. Although he was still breathing heavily, he was suffering from a sudden attack of rage, vomiting blood and fainting. His life was now in danger.
For this reason, the grief-stricken and indignant remnants of the Western Liao tribe had to escort the unconscious Yelu Dashi to change the route and travel more than a thousand miles to try to escape the pursuit of the Qi army through the Taklimakan Desert. Zhemo also had to pass through the "Book of Mountains and Seas"
It is called "Youze", and in later generations it is called Lop Nur. However, it is not known how many people died in the desert, nor how many people were able to return to the capital of Xiliao, Husi Wour'er (later Kyrgyzstan,
Bulana City in Tokmak, Chuhe Prefecture)......
Even if Yelv Dashi is already extremely angry, even if he still has a large number of close soldiers to protect him to the death, he may not be able to complete this extremely arduous journey of escape.
Only two days later, in the Xizhou Uighur territory where the battle between the Qi Dynasty and the Western Liao empires began, Aslan Khan, the supreme ruler of the Uighurs who originally belonged to Yelu Dashi, asked Xiao and Tang for leniency.
I wish to submit to the Qi Dynasty.
After all, the smoothbore artillery used by the Qi Dynasty for the first time in this battle not only caused the defeat of the enemy's army, but also completely shattered the resistance of the various tribes attached to the Western Liao. Several battles were fought within the Western Liao's territory.
Aslan Khan, the Uighur in the state, could better understand that the power of the Qi Dynasty's army was even far beyond his expectation. Yelu Dashi's Western Liao Empire was defeated so simply, and he could no longer become his backer.
, in order to protect himself, Aslan Khan switched his allegiance to Xiao Tang, which was both a natural move and an unavoidable one.
Therefore, the Xizhou Uighurs, who were originally attached to Yelu Dashi, but later left Western Liao and joined Mongolia in the official history, and were praised by Genghis Khan as the "fifth son" of their ruler, have since ruled Gaochang, Shanshan, Yanqi, and Qiuci.
, Jingjue, Cheshi...etc., the Han Dynasty established the Western Region Protectorate and the territory of the homelands of various countries were also brought under the rule of the Qi Dynasty.
However, even if the Qi Dynasty continued to advance into the Western Regions, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the various tribes was unprecedentedly high. There were still some tribes in the Xizhou Uighur territory that were unwilling to surrender and were causing trouble, so they inevitably had to send troops to suppress the conquests and start small-scale wars.
"Brother Xian, our army won a great victory last time and relied heavily on artillery, but it still didn't show off our abilities. Now that we have to pacify the rebel tribes under the Uighur rule in Xizhou, we are now using our fists and kicks. Now it's still me.
This is a great opportunity to serve our brother with great contributions to the country."
This time he marched into the Western Regions with Xiao Tang, and as a close official who presided over the formation of troops during the battle, Zhu Wu saw Xi Sheng smiling and talking to him, he also smiled and nodded, and replied: "Yes...
.I have been favored by Brother Meng and have been in charge of confidential military affairs in the Privy Council. Although I have always been diligent during my tenure, the skills I learned in the past still have to be rushed to the battlefield to show off my abilities... Although I am now in Yelu Dashi.
The Liao Dynasty we built has been severely damaged and will be destroyed by our dynasty sooner or later. But I am really not willing to go back like this..."
Zhu Wu, who had been fond of studying military formations since he was a child, was forced by current events to fall in love with the two brothers Chen Da and Yang Chun. Now he has become famous and has finally fulfilled his long-cherished wish. He now holds an important position in the Privy Council of the Qi Dynasty. , of course, there is no need to resign and become Mr. Quanzhen according to the trajectory of the original work, and then follow Fan Rui to join Gongsun Sheng and become a monk and practice Taoism for the rest of his life.
Later, Zhu Wu and Xi Sheng, as the principal and deputy supervisors, led several groups of troops to conquer the local rebellious tribes. They restrained the enemy's cavalry in the star-spreading formation, created by the champion Hou Huo Qubing, and used the cavalry to kill the nomads in the north. The cavalry's car formation...even the previous exchange and discussion with Wu Lin, the famous general who guarded Xichuan, and the stacked formation that mainly used infantry to fight against the enemy's cavalry was adopted from him, and the two formation masters adapted to the situation. It was a joy to perform.
When Zhu Wu used various formations that he was familiar with, he had already realized that the Song Dynasty paid special attention to the use of military formations due to the lack of war horses. However, because the Song Dynasty used culture to suppress military force, it had long been Many high-ranking civil servants with military power have never had any actual combat experience. For example, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty, in order to control the commander who would lead the army in battle, gave the general a map of the frontline military formations, tactics, and tactics in the deep palace garden before sending troops. And to control the army from a distance, order the commander to obey, and the civil servants to supervise and supervise the army... Therefore, the formation of the wheel, the formation of the eight trigrams, the formation of the wind, the formation of the wild goose in the well, the formation of the flying dragon, the formation of the rainbow, the formation of the six flowers and seven armies, and the formation of the east and west guaizi Horse Formation...the name sounds fancy, but it is a completely useless formation that is very popular, but it really has no practical use on the battlefield.
However, Zhu Wu started out by occupying a hilltop in the green forest and commanding three to five hundred thieves. Step by step, he has now become an important military official who dispatches an army of hundreds of thousands. With his military philosophy, he is completely It can be related to practical applications. Long before he went to the Western Regions with Xiao Tang, Zhu Wu was committed to integrating the military formations of the previous dynasties to eliminate the waste and retain the essence, and completely and systematically recorded the coordination of horse and infantry, shooting suppression, encirclement of enemy troops, and surprise attacks. The number of troops explains what kind of practical tactics should be used under what circumstances, emphasizing the importance of using practical formations at the tactical level. Xiao Tang naturally also strongly supports Zhu Wu's ideas, and now in the large and small wars of entering the Western Regions , he, a strategic strategist who is proficient in formations, also has ample opportunities to verify and use it.
Xi Sheng, the pharmacist who is also famous for his ability to arrange troops and formations, has always been Zhu Wu's right-hand assistant. In the original work of Water Margin, the pair originally served Song Jiang and Wang Qing, but according to the original trajectory, they were competing in formations. Fa's mortal enemies now work together in tacit understanding and complement each other, until Xi Shengyu died of illness at the age of fifty-three...
Zhu Wu was still thinking about the application of the Qi Dynasty's tactics in large-scale group army operations and as small as hundreds and nearly a thousand troops. This prompted the Central Plains Dynasty to become more conservative in conventional military formations from the Song Dynasty until the Qi Dynasty. During this period, horse and infantry forces were advocated for coordination, both offensive and defensive capabilities, and were committed to maximizing the combat power of the army through practicality, and achieving optimal effectiveness through reasonable troop formations.
Until the Qi Dynasty expanded the border to the Western Kara Khanate, which was originally subordinate to the Western Liao Dynasty, the Seljuq Empire, which had been defeated at the Yelu Dashi, intended to take advantage of the opportunity and gathered some subordinate states to move westward to explore. .The imperial army established by the Chinese civilization and the army of the Middle Eastern civilization met again in the hometown called Talas...Zhu Wu still shouldered the important task of arranging the various armies to arrange their troops. After this battle, he He was ordered to return to the Privy Council of the capital, and since then he has never gone to the battlefield in person.
Before and after he retired from office, Zhu Wu had been in charge of the military units under the Qi Dynasty's rule to conduct drills and prepare standing formations. In his spare time, he often went to the Liangshan Ancestral Hall Cemetery to pay homage to Chen Da. Yang Chun, the two people he knew best,
In addition to his brothers who have been together for a long time, he also often goes to the Jiangwu Academy to teach students, and is responsible for recording the application of formations used in various wars since the Xiao and Tang Dynasties, the results of the war, and notes on his experiences, which were compiled and compiled in the Qi Dynasty's revised
Among the military classics.
Therefore, until Zhu Wu's death, all the formations recorded in the military classics of the Qi Dynasty were compiled and written by him, such as Sun Bin's Ten Formations, Zhuge Wuhou's Bagua Formation, Li Jing and Li Yaoshi's Six Flower Formation...etc.
And those masters of military art who are always reminded of their famous formations. For those who are keen to study the due and evolution of formations in ancient Chinese military history, the name Shenji Military Advisor Zhu Wu is also familiar.
And can be passed down from generation to generation.
