"General, the Xiliang army has stalled and has set up camp on the spot. It is now taking various defensive measures!" A soldier ran to a Qiang general and said.
"Standing still!" The general frowned: "It seems they have discovered us!"
They originally wanted to attack the Xiliang Army secretly, but they were already prepared in their hearts to be discovered by the Xiliang Army. The Xiliang Army's intelligence was better than theirs, the Qiang scouts.
Therefore, the other party will definitely find them from a very far away place. This time they are not very hidden when they come out. They only need to pay close attention to get the news and intelligence.
However, the Xiliang army has set up camp on the spot, and the other party must have something to rely on, so they have to be on guard and be cautious at the same time!
"Give me the order to slow down the whole army." Since sneak attacks are no longer possible, there is no need to march as quickly as before.
Let your soldiers relax, recover, and replenish their physical strength. Such people will be much better off when they encounter enemies.
The Qiang generals who were surrounded from other directions also received news from there.
They had already made psychological preparations, so when facing the Xiliang army, they camped on the spot and resisted. They only felt a little surprised, but didn't have much other feelings.
The Xiliang army was much better than them in terms of intelligence. They had already made preparations for positional warfare before coming, so they were not timid when facing the Xiliang army stationed here.
They had received news before that this Xiliang army was not the 7th Army Corps that had made a splash on the grasslands, nor was it the Xiliang Headquarters Army Corps that had withstood the indiscriminate bombardment of their main force of the Gun Clan on the main battlefield.
This army was led by Zhang Qingyun of the Northwest Yamen, known as the General Manager of Xiliang. Zhang Qingyun had a very high status in the Northwest and was the highest-ranking official under Prime Minister Li.
The number of the army he led reached hundreds of thousands, which sounds like a lot, but if you look carefully at the composition of this army, you will know whether this army can fight.
They did not know the specific number, but the main body of this army was composed of local garrisons and the Eighth Army. The soldiers of the Eighth Army were all soldiers who had never been on the battlefield.
Only a very small number of soldiers are soldiers from the Seventh Army and Xiliang Headquarters, and those who can fight are only soldiers from the Seventh Army and Xiliang Headquarters. The remaining soldiers only need to fight the troops of the two legions in front, and those at the back
It will be self-defeating.
There is also a large amount of food, grass, weapons and equipment in this army. If they can capture the food, grass, weapons and equipment in this army, it will be enough to support them in continuing to fight a war.
Moreover, Zhang Qingyun's identity is very important and will be an important bargaining chip for them to negotiate with Xiliang in the future.
The Xiliang army in the Northern Expedition this time was only a part of the Xiliang army, although if they went all out, they could gather an army of millions.
Because of the pressure from the major forces around Xiliang, Xiliang King Li Xiang was unable to mobilize all the power in his hands. Only then did they have a chance to defeat the Xiliang army!
Therefore, they must control Zhang Qingyun's bargaining chip to negotiate with Xiliang in the future, and at the same time ensure that Zhang Qingyun will not die in this melee.
If Zhang Qingyun died in this melee, they didn't know how angry Xiliang King Li Xiang would be. You know, Li Xiang was more like a general than a monarch.
He will act out of anger, and once he is really pissed off, he is likely to end up with reckless consequences.
That is to drag all the soldiers from Xiliang Headquarters to this grassland!
Therefore, they mainly focused on attacking the troops that invaded the grassland. They wanted to beat Li Xiang to the point of pain, making him feel distressed and distressed, but they also prevented him from abandoning everything to attack.
If Li Xiang was to go crazy, the surrounding major forces would definitely be happy to see Xiliang wipe out the Qiang people. After Xiliang wiped out them, they would definitely suffer heavy losses.
At that time, all the major forces need to do is to step forward and pick up the peaches and gain some advantages.
There are no advantages and no disadvantages to them.
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"Brother Zhou, do you think we can wait until the reinforcements arrive?" A new recruit said nervously to a veteran next to the soldiers of the Seventh Legion.
This was their first time on the battlefield. In the past, they could only fight with bandits and robbers, and they could only see blood. They had never really been to a cruel place like the battlefield.
However, the veteran who followed the new recruit Danzi was an old soldier who had experienced hundreds of battles. He was supposed to go deep into the grassland with the Seventh Army.
Because of the injuries sustained in the last war, I had to recover some time ago. When I heard the transfer order from my superiors, I immediately walked out of the medical center and became a senior officer in the army.
It is a low-level military position in the Xiliang army. Don't underestimate this military position. This is already a position that many Xiliang soldiers are eyeing. As long as you hold that position, you will get twice as many training resources as others.
What is most important to soldiers like them? That is of course the source of cultivation. The more cultivation resources you obtain, the faster your cultivation speed, the faster your strength improves, and the faster you can distance yourself from others.
Humanity and sophistication are very important in the Xiliang Army, but what is more important is strength. The more military exploits you have in the army, and when your military exploits accumulate to a certain level, you will be able to gain a certain status.
Even your superiors can't stop your promotion, and even if you have a bad relationship with your colleagues around you, as long as you can get a lot of military exploits, you will be able to rise smoothly.
Who told Xiliang that positions are judged based on military merit, and those who are capable are promoted and those who are unable are demoted?
The veteran looked at the nervous recruit and smiled and said: "What are you afraid of? These prairie people don't have much armor on them. The spears we have in our hands are not more than six feet tall. We just need to form a formation and they will rush over.
We will stab them into bloody holes for you!
But you must remember that you must not be afraid on the battlefield. Even if the enemy rushes in front of you, you cannot move the spear in your hand. If you are afraid, your flaw will be exposed. Once you expose your flaw, your life will be in danger. At the same time,
The comrades around you will also be killed by the enemy because of you.
You have to believe in the compatriots around you, you have to believe that they can withstand the enemy's charge, and they also have to believe that you can withstand the enemy's charge.
As long as our formation is not broken, we will kill as many prairie cavalry as they come!"
The veteran is not afraid of these nomadic cavalry on the grassland. What he is afraid of is the iron cavalry under the three major families in Liangzhou. The reason why he was so seriously injured and treated in the medical center for a year is because he was on the battlefield.
Faced with heavily armed cavalry.
Facing the menacing cavalry, even a spear formation lined with spears could only withstand the first wave of the opponent's attack.
The first wave of iron cavalry who rushed at the front were rushing forward completely without their lives. This was because they were afraid of the heavy armor on their bodies, and the war horses also wore heavy armor. However, when they rushed into the long-haired formation, they still
Armor will be pierced by sharp spears.
They just kept charging forward with those sharp spears, and the rest was done. After they fell, they stood up from above, picked up their long knives and rushed into the formation.
They fought bravely and without fear of death to create a torn hole for the troops behind them, and the soldiers behind them rushed in through the gap in a steady stream, killing the people around them.
At that time, he was just a new soldier. He followed the veterans and fought with the knights who were fully armed and fell off their horses. Both sides were experienced practitioners.
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Without that set of weapons and equipment, the two sides would have about the same combat effectiveness, but when the other side is fully armed, many of their attacks are immune to the other side.
If it were not equipped with true energy, the long knives in their hands would at most leave a few marks on the opponent's armor and would not be able to break the armor at all.
When they use their true energy, the opponent will also use their true energy, so the shortcoming of both sides' combat effectiveness is the difference in weapons and equipment.
Just when they were about to be unable to withstand it anymore, soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters rushed to the battlefield. The soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters had only a little bit of zhenqi on their blades, and they directly split those people open with their powerful force.
Since then, the veteran has blind confidence in the soldiers of Xiliang Headquarters. As long as he sees the soldiers of Xiliang Headquarters on the battlefield, he will feel a very peaceful feeling.
He firmly believed that the other party would definitely be able to support him. He firmly believed that with these people, the enemy could not break through their front. As long as the Xiliang headquarters soldiers were still there and the Xiliang banner was still there, they would stand firm on this grassland.
Waiting for reinforcements to arrive.
"We will definitely be able to hold on until the reinforcements arrive!" A look of admiration flashed in the veteran's eyes: "You will definitely be able to see the lord's demeanor by then, and you will definitely be able to see the Xiliang Iron Cavalry running unscrupulously on the grassland.
No one on the battlefield can stop the Xiliang cavalry led by the lord himself."
He said with a smile and said to the young man: "Don't you always want to be a cavalry? As long as you perform well enough in this war, I will definitely recommend you to your camp to become a cavalry after you return.
But before that, you must behave well for me, and you must not expose my identity and your identity!"
When he spoke at his best, his voice was so small that only the two of them could hear it.
"Don't worry!" Recruit Danzi patted his chest and said with a smile, "I promise I won't embarrass you, and I promise I won't let anyone else know who you and I are!"
"Dong dong dong!"
While the two were chatting, the sound of war drums suddenly sounded. The veteran immediately understood the meaning of the drums: "Get everything ready for me, the enemy is coming soon!"
On the battlefield, there must be someone in every team who understands the meaning of the drums and the meanings of the flags.
After hearing Shi Chang's words, everyone immediately started to move. War drums were beating from other parties nearby, and they quickly gathered together.
They pushed the carriages used to transport grain to the ground and built a city wall as they had thought before. The wall was the carriage frame and the bricks were the bags filled with grain.
However, this alone was not enough, so he deliberately set aside four gates. On the main battlefield where the two sides fought, Zhang Qingyun set aside a giant gate that could accommodate more than twenty people running side by side.
The most elite Xiliang infantry in his hands were stationed here. After receiving the order, the Xiliang soldiers had already set up a spear formation and at the same time lined up all the horses outside.
This can effectively withstand the impact of the opponent's war horse, because these giant horses can slow down the opponent's war horse. After the speed of the war horse is slowed down, the lethality will not be as high.
Behind the army are a large number of long-range attackers. Archers are very difficult to train, but if you use crossbows, you will only need to train for a period of time to obtain a large number of soldiers.
Archers are somewhat difficult to train, which requires a long period of training. Li Xiang only has so many archers because he recruited them directly from the system.
Otherwise, with his current background, he would not be able to organize so many archer soldiers. The lethality of archers on the battlefield is higher than that of other infantry combined.
Of course, this is under the protection of soldiers and in a high position, otherwise the opponent's cavalry and infantry army will go back immediately.
Who made the threat of archers to them too high, who made the training speed of crossbowmen too fast and the cost too low.
Therefore, when facing those long-range attackers, the first thing they want to do is to kill them. The only way is to kill those who are placing cold arrows in place first.
In this way, they can fight with the opponent's melee troops with peace of mind. However, this time, the Xiliang army has firmly protected the long-range troops in the middle of the army.
If you want to kill the long-range troops in the middle, you have to get past the outer layer first.
Under the command of Zhang Qingyun, hundreds of thousands of troops were only organized, and a few white tents had been set up. Some tents were very close to the door, and some were very far away.
There are also some traps between the tents to prevent enemy liquid crystals from sneaking in!
Some things may not appear in your eyes, but you must be fully prepared.
The army formed a huge circle and was divided into four squads. According to Zhang Qingyun's experience when he followed Li Xiang in the Northern and Southern War, every once in a while, the soldiers at the back who had been resting for a long time would come to replace the soldiers at the front and let the soldiers in the front retreat.
Take a rest.
In this way, if there are four shifts, the soldiers on the front line will not feel too tired. They will have enough time to rest and eat.
You can make fires to cook inside, allowing the soldiers to eat warm meals. Because the surrounding area is a low-lying area, there are a lot of water sources, so they have no shortage of water sources.
During the march, Zhang Qingyun had already chosen the direction and the place. The most important things for the army to march were water sources and food and grass. As long as these two places were taken care of, everything would not be a big problem.
Soon, bursts of fragrance could be heard in the camp, but a large group of black prairie cavalry appeared outside the army, and the voices of the soldiers guarding the city were immediately heard.
