I saw the fortifications built by Zhang Qingyun's army first, and the city walls piled up with carriage frames and grain bags, although they were only about one and a half meters high.
But this height is enough to slow down the cavalry. When crossing this wall, the speed will definitely slow down.
And you don't know if there will be anything else here. If there are rolling logs or other obstacles, it is likely that the jumping horse will fall.
And there are sharp spears beside the city wall, and there should be a large number of soldiers guarding there.
There are four very large exits in four directions. Xiliang headquarters soldiers in black armor guard the exits, their sharp spears giving off a cold light in the sun.
The camp lined with spears was like a hedgehog full of stings, leaving these prairie cavalry at a loss as to where to start. Most of the cavalry on the prairie wore leather armor, and some even had no leather armor at all.
All in sheepskin and cowhide.
They had no good way to deal with such a spear formation. They could only kill the soldiers in the opponent's square formation through long-range attacks, and then find a way out, or fight a way out through the holes leaked by the dead soldiers.
Only in this way can we break into the phalanx of the Xiliang army, but it is so difficult to kill those fully armed Xiliang soldiers with long-range attackers!
Even the sharp scimitars in their hands could not leave many scars on the heavily armed Xiliang soldiers, let alone the arrow fletching used by most of the archers in their hands, but the arrows were made of bones.
It is difficult for this kind of arrow to be effective against people wearing leather armor, let alone against Xiliang headquarters soldiers who are fully armed and wearing thick armor.
Therefore, if they want to break through such a large formation, the last and most effective way is to use their lives to carve out a passage and use the lives of their Qiang warriors to charge forward and break through the phalanx of the Xiliang army.
Break through the Xiliang headquarters soldiers wearing heavy armor.
If you are lucky, you may face those non-Xiliang headquarters soldiers, so you still have a chance to survive. If you face those heavily armed Xiliang headquarters soldiers, you will only die.
Most of them have fought against Xiliang Headquarters soldiers and know how powerful those Xiliang Headquarters soldiers wearing black armor are.
Therefore, when choosing between fighting the soldiers of the Xiliang Headquarters and the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, they prefer to fight the soldiers of the Seventh Legion. Although the soldiers of the Seventh Legion are also extremely brave, they cannot compete with those soldiers of the Xiliang Headquarters who are incomparably brave and inhumane.
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In the hands of the soldiers of the Seventh Legion, they still had a chance to survive. In the hands of the soldiers of the Xiliang headquarters, they were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, with only one way to die.
That is a group of lunatics who have no regard for their own injuries. Many times, the opponent can clearly avoid being injured, but in the process of killing the enemy or choosing to lightly injure them, they choose to kill the enemy.
Obviously they can kill an enemy with two to three swords, and they don't need to be injured at all in the process, but they choose to rather be slightly injured and damaged than to kill the enemy as soon as possible.
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Many Qiang warriors watched helplessly as their comrades died at the hands of soldiers from Xiliang Headquarters. They could do nothing but watch, and they had to be careful not to be targeted by soldiers from Xiliang Headquarters.
"Let's launch another attack the next day!" said the General of the Gun Tribe on the frontal battlefield: "They are preparing for their battles and waiting for work. Our army's long-term running has caused the soldiers' physical strength and willpower to decline very quickly. At this time
We can only be at a disadvantage when fighting against each other!"
The tribal leaders nearby had no objection: "Yes!"
Those who followed them were all elite soldiers from their tribes. They did not want their herdsmen to lose too much. Now all the major tribes and allies can live together in harmony, even if there are big conflicts between them.
Under the mediation of the Great Chanyu, the two parties put aside their conflicts and agreed to deal with the outside world.
But this does not mean that the hatred between them and other tribes has disappeared. They are not taking action now because they have a common enemy and they need to jointly resist the invasion of the Xiliang army.
Therefore, the two sides did not take action on the battlefield, but chose to cooperate together. However, after the war is over, the conflicts between the major tribes will once again intensify or be revived.
At that time, they needed to have a large number of elite soldiers and tribal warriors in their hands. Only elite tribal warriors could protect their tribes and their own people.
If they lose too many people on the battlefield, the leaders of the major tribes believe that other tribes will never miss this opportunity, and they will definitely annex their tribes.
There are many phenomena like this on the grasslands. Strong tribes will devour smaller tribes, kill all the men of that tribe, or turn them into slaves, and then turn the women into the women of their tribe's warriors.
And those children who are taller than the wheel will be killed, because as long as they are tall, the children who are taller than the wheel will already have memories. Having memories means hatred, and they will not cultivate a lot of enemies to resist.
Deal with yourself.
So the best way is to eradicate the roots and kill these children who are taller than a wheel. Those babies will surrender to them under the care of their tribe.
The tribal warriors captured by them will become their slaves, herding sheep for them and making their tribe stronger!
Therefore, if you want to prevent your tribe from being swallowed up on the grassland and want your tribe to survive forever, the best way is to keep your tribe at its peak forever and have a large number of people in your tribe.
Tribal warrior.
Only if you are strong enough, others will not dare to offend you. Only if you are strong enough, no one will dare to provoke you.
Therefore, on this battlefield, they must do their best, but while doing their best, they must also know how to preserve their own strength. Preserving strength does not mean that they will do nothing on the battlefield.
Soldiers sent out on the battlefield will do their best to sacrifice their lives and sacrifice their lives for the future of the Qiang people.
But they will definitely leave some manpower behind. This is a rule among large tribes, and this is a default habit of everyone.
No tribe will push out all the power in their hands without hesitation. Even if the war is won, their tribe will not be easy.
It is very likely that they will be swallowed up by other surrounding tribes, or be annexed by some forces larger than them. No one wants to see their tribe destroyed.
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"There is news from the Lord's front line that the Qiang army has surrounded General Manager Zhang Qingyun." A soldier rode up next to Prime Minister Li and said: "General Manager Zhang Qingyun followed the advice from Hailar and stayed on the spot waiting for help. Now
Around General Manager Zhang Qingyun, there are all soldiers from the grassland tribes, but because General Manager Zhang Qingyun has already prepared to build various defenses, the enemy has not yet broken through the defense line!"
"Show me the battle report!" Li Xiang took the battle report from the front line from the soldiers. When General Manager Zhang Qingyun launched the war, the Xiliang scouts had already rushed to the side and recorded all the changes on the battlefield.
Come down.
After reading the battle report, Li Xiang's worried face also showed a smile. Zhang Qingyun was the most capable general in his hands, and he was also the only official he could trust besides the soldiers at Xiliang headquarters.
Because in the empire system, Zhang Qingyun's loyalty value has reached die-hard loyalty, just like the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters. This is why the soldiers of Xiliang headquarters respect Zhang Qingyun very much.
Because in the eyes of the Xiliang Headquarters soldiers, Zhang Qingyun and them are in the same group, and everyone is one of their own. For their own people, the Xiliang Headquarters soldiers choose to believe without any scruples and trust without any scruples.
So they respect Zhang Qingyun very much. Compared with other officials in the northwest yamen, Zhang Qingyun is very popular and respected among the soldiers in Xiliang Headquarters.
No matter where he goes, Zhang Qingyun will be respected by others, even if he is not.
Whenever he has any trouble, soldiers from the Xiliang headquarters will stand up for him, and there is also an army from the Xiliang headquarters to protect him at all times.
"Order the entire army to advance at full speed!" Li Xiang put away this battle report, and then said to the soldiers on the left and right: "I will rush to the edge of the battlefield in the evening!"
In the battle report, Zhang Qingyun's troops have been stubbornly resisting, so that the Gun Clan army has not made much progress. The opponent can only destroy the fortifications outside the city wall.
He was not able to penetrate deeply into the Xiliang army. Zhang Qingyun, who was in the middle of the army, was very safe.
It's just that in Li Xiang's eyes, safety is only temporary safety. He must rush to the battlefield faster, and then cooperate with the surrounded army to wipe out an enemy army first.
Only by destroying the opponent's encirclement first can you win the battlefield and release the soldiers who surrounded you.
Therefore, Li Xiang has to rush to the edge of the battlefield as quickly as possible so that he can collect all kinds of information on the battlefield. For him, it is impossible to deduce the enemy's movements just by looking at battle reports and maps, or that the battlefield is constantly changing.
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Sometimes even the plans you have made will change due to various reasons, so there is a saying that if the plan cannot keep up with the changes, people are not as good as God.
Therefore, he could only make timely responses by going to the edge of the battlefield and observing with his own eyes and understanding the battlefield.
The Xiliang cavalry had been running continuously on this grassland for about two days. At this time, the soldiers were extremely tired. They thought the Lord would ask them to stop and rest, but the order they received was to speed up their advance.
After receiving their fate, the soldiers of the Xiliang headquarters speeded up without saying a word. They would not ask the lord why. The lord asked them to speed up and did not let them stop and rest. There must be a plan to attack that side. It must be because of something.
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Otherwise, the Lord would not let them keep walking and moving forward under the stars and the moon.
When the soldiers were tired, they would lie down on their horses to rest. When they were hungry, they would eat the mutton they had roasted before, along with the water they had packed on the way. Because of the mutton test, they did not need to eat the dry food they had brought.
The roasted mutton could be stored for two days at most, and they had to eat it before the heat melted away, so no soldiers abandoned it or marketed it.
They put the dry food aside and only took it out when they were hungry or had no other food.
Compared with the roast mutton they had just eaten, these things were very difficult to swallow, and could even be said to be as good as pig food.
But in an era when there was no food, those things were life-saving rations.
The soldiers of Xiliang headquarters are very simple and frugal, and they will not throw away things they don’t need or have used.
The army marched forcibly for a while again. When they came to a small stream, Prime Minister Li asked his soldiers to stop. This place was only less than 30 miles away from the Qiang army.
Thanks to them coming from the northwest region, they would have been discovered if they were in the southern region. Now the southern grasslands are full of Qiang scouts, and they are always on alert.
They were afraid that someone would come to aid Hailar and Zhang Qingyun's army. There were only three armies coming to the grassland.
Now there are two armies that have been firmly trapped by them. They are using the two armies surrounded by them as bait to lure the third army to come.
The king of Xiliang, Li Xiang, put a lot of pressure on them. Li Xiangzhu was like a sharp knife hanging on the top of the high-rise buildings on the grassland, because they didn't know when the sharp knife would fall, and they didn't know where the sharp knife was hiding in the yurt.
Where in.
Therefore, they sent a large number of soldiers to patrol the south. Whenever they found a large number of convoys, they immediately organized troops to intercept them. They were afraid that someone would unload the contents.
Soldiers are responsible for blocking, while special personnel will enter this terrifying scene. Although there are many awakened people in the army, most soldiers have acquired strong bodies through training.
Li Xiang led the army to stop. There was a small lake here. It was not very big. It should be a place left after a heavy rain. Such places can be found everywhere on the grassland.
The grass here was so abundant that the cavalry led by Li Xiang swept it away in an instant, turning the originally green grassland into withered yellow.
This is one of the disadvantages of carrying large-scale cattle, sheep, and horses. Although they will not destroy the foundation of those pastures, such large-scale cattle and sheep will increase our burden.
"Let all the officers above centurion come to my tent." After Li Xiang stopped, he immediately gathered the middle and senior officers in his hands. The battlefield attack was not child's play, and the gang rushed forward.
Especially when the combat effectiveness of both sides is about the same, tactical coordination becomes particularly important.
So Li Xiang summoned all his mid-level and high-level generals for the next battle!
