Inside the Bolangsha Pavilion, arrows rained down like rain, and the sound of killing shook the sky.
It took almost half an hour for the hundreds of Liang people gathered here to be killed and dispersed.
They were mainly Tu Tuan villagers escorting a batch of grain and grass to Zhengzhou. They were spotted on the way and hurriedly hid in Bolangsha Pavilion, intending to rely on the earth wall here to resist.
Forget it if they encountered cavalry, they might not be able to bite them down, but what they encountered were mounted infantry who mainly fought on foot. The low earth wall was quickly broken through, and the well-equipped flying dragon sergeant sword
With chops and axes, these local villagers were killed until they cried for father and mother.
What is the secret of the art of war: attack the small with more, and attack the weak with strong.
In the battle of Bolangsha Pavilion, almost everyone faced each other.
Five thousand mounted infantry dismounted and wore armor, and everyone was brave. Even the new soldiers had been trained for several years and were selected from more than 20,000 recruits. They had sophisticated equipment and tacit cooperation to fight those without armor or light armor.
The local folk are just like chopping melons and vegetables.
"Bring the ones that are suitable for use, and burn the ones that can't be used!" Qibizhang ordered.
In fact, there was no need for him to say more. The soldiers all knew what they could take and what they couldn't take.
The carts used to transport grain include draft animals, mainly donkeys and mules, followed by draft horses, and even cattle.
The auxiliary soldiers untied the harnesses with ease, gathered the horses and mules, and organized them into the team.
These draft animals are also very useful and can carry a lot of supplies, such as grain. At critical moments, they can also be killed for meat.
In fact, in the eyes of the auxiliary soldiers, mules are far more useful than pack horses. They are resistant to rough feeding, have strong load-bearing capabilities, and can also hang boxes. If they have a choice, they would prefer that the draft team they manage be mules instead of pack horses.
change.
As for the donkeys, to be honest, they are a bit slow, but they don't mind taking some with them because they can also carry food. If an enemy horse comes after them, just abandon them.
Some soldiers began to fetch water for cooking, while Qi Binzhang found a relatively clean place and studied the map again.
The entire Bolang Sha Pavilion was busy.
Washing horses, repairing equipment, interrogating prisoners, etc., he was very busy.
This place is eighty miles southwest of Suanzao County in Huazhou and five miles south of Yangwu County in Zhengzhou. It was the place where Zhang Liang attacked Qin Shihuang. The Bian River flows in the south and goes straight to the big river.
Qi Bizhang didn't plan to stay here for long.
Now we have to run. Once we stop, we may be besieged by Liang Jun. It's not that we are afraid of them, but it's not worth it.
According to the policy formulated in advance, this time was to attack the Liang people's weak points and consume their strength, which was the so-called strategy of weakening the enemy.
There are many commercial towns on both sides of the Bian River, where merchants can be robbed. It only takes one or two successes, and the merchants will stop coming after they get wind of it, at least not in the short term.
The teams transporting materials and supplies to Liang Jun's troops stationed along the Yellow River can be attacked, people killed, food taken away, and what cannot be taken away burned.
The state and county soldiers or local peasants who rotated to the front line were ambushed and eaten by small groups. They were forced to march in large groups, but this reduced the efficiency of personnel gathering and rotation, and also increased the cost. Originally, a county needed to mobilize a thousand people.
We can just go to the front line, but we don't dare to leave now. The whole state must set off together. It is best to equip them with some experienced and combat-effective troops. The problems caused by this are too big.
In addition, there are also influences on people's hearts and morale that cannot be ignored.
When you go to Bianzhou, Huazhou and other major cities, what do the local officials, generals, and people think? Do you think Liang Jun is so incompetent that he actually sent people to the city to kill him? Over time, people will
Don't you have any other thoughts? But don't forget that when Caozhou surrendered to the Liang people, it was because they couldn't see hope and were discouraged.
To do this kind of thing of going deep into the enemy's territory to harass the enemy, cavalry is not suitable, so you have to have mounted infantry with the ability to attack difficult positions. Of course, those who are proficient in both mounted combat and infantry combat can also be used, but the cost of training a mounted infantry is too high
The cost is already much higher than that of cavalry.
After resting one night at Bolangsha Pavilion, on the sixth day of March, they led their horses on foot and walked about ten miles in the direction of Yangwu County. After the scouts reported that they found Liang Jun's cavalry, they immediately got on their horses, changed direction, and ran for ninety miles.
Killed back the jujube.
They don't need to cherish horse power like cavalry, because they don't fight on horseback, and horses are purely means of transportation. If the cavalry travels ninety miles a day, it will have no combat capability, unless you have multiple horses as backup.
Some state and county soldiers came near Suanzaojin and were cleaning up the materials discarded by the Xia army. Suddenly they encountered the Xia army who had killed the carbine and were killed and scattered, with more than a hundred casualties.
The Feilong Army rested here until midnight, then changed their spare horses, and headed all the way to Lingchang County, fifty miles northeast. They didn't know where their target was. Maybe they had no target at all, and they were just wreaking havoc as they pleased?
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In Zhengzhou City, Zhu Zhen didn't sleep all night.
He actually has a lot of soldiers on hand, with more than 30,000 men in the Yamen Army alone. In addition, there are many Tutuan countrymen, all of whom are strong men who do not need spring sowing (planting overwintering wheat). At this time, spring sowing has basically ended,
After a while, there will be more troops, and he even has the idea of gathering a large army, crossing the river to the stronghold on the north bank, and attacking the Xia people.
Unexpectedly, after the river thawed, the Xia people actually dared to come over and behaved so unscrupulously. This was because they saw the emptiness within the Xuanwu states.
Troops must be sent to stay at Luokou, Biankou, Mengjin, Heyin, Sishui and some important ferries.
Some of these strongholds are more important and require heavy troops to be stationed, such as Luokou, Biankou, Mengjin (Heyang), etc. A small number of troops can be left to guard the ferry, but in the final analysis, it still consumes 10,000 yamen troops, plus the number of
More Tutuan peasants formed a high-low match with the Yamen army to guard these important areas.
The remaining 20,000 Yamen troops are mainly stationed near Zhengzhou on the second line to provide support to various places at any time.
This troop deployment cannot be wrong, because you don’t know where the Xia army comes from, so you can only make a configuration with light front and heavy rear. But there is actually a fatal problem, that is, this configuration is to deal with the main force of the Xia army.
The strategy of crossing the river southward. Now it seems that the Xia army did not play this way. Since the river froze, they have continuously sent small and medium-sized cavalry deep into the counties and counties of Henan, intercepting and killing messengers, attacking grain transport teams, and raiding small groups of soldiers.
Horse wait.
For this reason, Zhu Zhen, Hu Zhen, and even Bianliang mobilized a large number of mobile troops to pursue, intercept, and fight these Xia army cavalry, causing considerable casualties on both sides.
The cavalry he can use now is only more than 2,000, less than 3,000. Dai Siyuan's Feilong Army of 8,000 is an excellent pursuit and interception force. Unfortunately, the left wing went to Luoyang, and the right wing was taken by Zhang Cunjing and Ge Congzhou.
After leaving Weizhou, I won't be able to come back for a while.
With the troops he has at hand, he is not sure of catching the Xia thieves running around. It may be necessary to mobilize other parties to send troops back to support them and pursue them together.
But he won't say this.
The King of Liang has just collected troops and horses, handed them over to Pang Shigu, and led them south to Caizhou. You suddenly complained to him and asked for more troops on the Yellow River. What will be the consequences?
This seems to be a slap in the face to the King of Liang, telling him that you are wrong. Look at how empty the North is now. It is almost ready for people to run away. People are panicked. Admit your mistake quickly and send troops back.
You can't say this yourself, you have to let others take the lead. Anyway, Xia Thief seems to have gone to Huazhou and has left his defense zone.
But as the senior leader of the Xuanwu Military and Political Group, Zhu Zhen still had considerable worries about the future. Even if King Liang was furious and the butcher's knife did not fall on her head, the whole group was in a dilemma, and the dilemma of focusing on one thing and losing another was obvious.
This is the first year of large-scale harassment by Xia thieves.
Their strength seems to be very strong, and they are already the largest force in the world. They can send some cavalry or mounted infantry to "play" with their Liang army, and then seize other territories to further enhance their strength.
In the second year of Dashun, the Xia thieves went eastward for the first time, but were repulsed. When they returned, they captured Shaanxi and Guo.
In the third year of Dashun, there was a fierce battle on the Weihan Valley Road. The Xia thieves controlled the four states of gold merchants and vassalized the states on the east road of Shannan.
In the fourth year of Dashun, the war in the Weihan area continued. Xia thieves entered the river and occupied this fertile land, and greatly increased the materials and troops that could be used in the Central Plains.
In the fifth year of Dashun, most of the entire Xiaohan Valley Road was lost, key strongholds such as Baiya, Heqing, and Ziguan were lost, and the entire town of Heyang fell.
This year, the Xia thieves have sent troops to raid the hinterland of Bian and Song Dynasties, which has not experienced war for many years. At the same time, they captured Shen and Guangzhou on the southern front, and entered Caizhou to plunder and plunder. Du Hong seemed to have defected there.
The strength of the Xia thieves is increasing day by day, and the strength of Liang Jun is weakening day by day. If they continue to fight, what are their chances of winning?
Zhu Zhen asked herself that she was not a repetitive villain, but if the situation was like this, anyone with any sense would know that something was wrong.
The only feasible solution now is to gather the main force, and the Xia thieves also gather the main force. The two sides find a place to have a decisive battle. The winner captures and kills more than 100,000 people and takes everything.
After a long period of fierce fighting, Liang Jun saw no hope of victory, but in a decisive battle that determined the outcome, there was more chance.
It's a pity that Shao Shude will probably not give them such a chance. He is like a seasoned hunter, constantly teasing the beast of prey he likes, causing the prey to consume its energy, lose too much blood, and finally collapse to the ground.
Let's look at it again. Zhu Zhen sighed.
Then he dug out a stack of books, which were the military records of the officers and soldiers under his jurisdiction.
His eyes kept passing over one name after another.
Some of them were recruited by him from Qingzhou ten years ago and brought out hand in hand.
Some of them were Cai thieves who had been recruited. After screening and inspection, he felt they were capable and recommended them to the King of Liang.
Some of them were from Xuanwu's old army before King Liang went out to control Bianzhou. He subdued these people and also recommended them to King Liang.
Some of them were generals from other towns who surrendered to him during many years of battles, and are now members of the Liang Army.
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Too much!
Even though the King of Liang made many rectifications, no one in the entire Liang army dared to say that any person in the army had nothing to do with Zhu Zhen.
These days, he is also practicing, arranging the more than 30,000 troops at hand, and further establishing his prestige.
Of course, these are all normal things.
How can a general fight a war if he doesn't know the soldiers?
If the sergeant is not convinced, how can he have morale?
Among the generals in the army, the capable ones are promoted and the mediocre ones are demoted. He didn't dare to do this before, but he should rectify it in the future.
It’s all just to improve combat effectiveness!
Hu Zhen has been doing this since last year, which is normal.