The highlight of the battle between the Xuanwu Army and the Taining Army was the group of armored cavalry charging directly into the spear formation.
But the peak fighting spirit was the close combat between the two Jiedu Envoys. People and horses passed by each other between the lightning and flint.
A great head rose into the sky, and the winner was decided at this moment.
The tidal wave of armored cavalry continued to break through the spear array and poured into the Taining army's central array, knocking away and trampling everything in their way.
As the iron hooves flew, the sound of fighting resounded through the sky.
In this close combat situation, the effectiveness of Li Yunze's formation to kill Zhu Jin was not very conspicuous.
The battlefield was too chaotic and noisy, and the scale was so huge that the soldiers in the distance had no idea what was going on here.
But it doesn't matter, Li Yunze will let them know.
Under the admiring gazes of many armored knights who had gathered, Li Yunze called to everyone, "Scatter in all directions and find everyone shouting together, Zhu Jin is dead, Taining has been defeated."
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Witnessing Li Yunze's bravery and heroism in beheading an enemy general among thousands of troops, the armored cavalryman really admired him greatly.
Their morale was high and they scattered out. Looking for their comrades, they shouted together, "Zhu Jin is dead, Taining is defeated~~~"
Like a stone thrown into a calm pond, the ripples get bigger and bigger and farther away.
The Taining Army, which had already been attacked by armored cavalry, was in disarray. Hearing the call, he looked in the direction of the Chinese army. However, he saw only armored cavalry everywhere, but no Chinese army, and even less Jiedu. The general's flag.
There is no doubt that the morale of the army fell rapidly, and then gradually evolved into a rout.
And once the rout on the battlefield begins, it cannot be stopped.
The armored cavalry, which had the advantage of mobility, began to attack and drive in battalion units, tearing the Taining army into countless pieces.
This battle has reached this point, and the outcome has been decided.
The Taining army, which lacked mobility, collapsed and was surrounded by groups.
A broken army that has lost its organization and cannot form a formation cannot withstand the impact of armored cavalry.
When the Xuanwu Army began to recruit surrender, most of the defeated troops had no choice but to accept it.
If they don't accept it, the armored cavalry will charge over, and they will have to lie down to nourish the earth.
The Taining Army included tens of thousands of auxiliaries and civilians. Except for those who died on the spot, the rest were basically prisoners.
After successively defeating the Tianping Army and the Taining Army, the morale of Li Yunze's men was inflated to the extreme.
Many generals came to Li Yunze to ask for a fight, hoping to continue their efforts and continue to use long-range raid tactics to attack Shi Pu's headquarters of the Wuning Army, which set out from Pengcheng even further away.
However, these invitations to fight were all rejected by Li Yunze.
It's not that he doesn't want to fight Shi Pu, but the current conditions don't allow it.
First of all, the distance is too far. From here to find Shi Pu, it will be at least hundreds of miles away. In order to achieve the purpose of the surprise attack, a forced march is required. For the armored cavalry who were already engaged in continuous forced marches and high-intensity combat, it was already difficult to persist.
The second is the personnel consumption caused by forced marches and high-intensity combat.
If the army marches for a hundred miles and strives for profit, the general will defeat him; if the army reaches fifty miles and strives for profit, the army will reach half the distance.
The ancestors have long made it clear that those who rush to march a hundred miles to compete with the enemy may lose their generals, and those who rush to march fifty miles to compete with the enemy will only be able to make it to half of the soldiers.
Although the training equipment of the armored cavalry trained by Li Yunze was extremely impressive, after running for hundreds of miles, the number of stragglers lost along the way and in battle had already reached thousands.
Judging from the endurance of soldiers in the cold weapon era, it has already exceeded the limit. If it were not for successive victories, it is even possible that his own side would collapse first.
The final reason was that too many prisoners were captured, and a large number of manpower was needed to guard them.
The infantry of the Xuanwu Army are still rushing here desperately, but according to the distance, they can't reach it in less than ten days and half a month.
There were tens of thousands of prisoners from the Tianping Army and the Taining Army, and Li Yunze had to guard them with heavy troops.
You must know that most of these prisoners are professional warriors, not refugees who can't afford food.
After comprehensive consideration, Li Yunze chose to eat the fruits of victory first, instead of breaking off sticks like a bear and dropping everything on the ground.
"Jiedu."
A general suggested to Li Yunze, "There are too many prisoners, why not reduce them?"
After hearing this, Li Yunze looked at this as if he had seen a ghost. After a moment, he waved his hand and asked him to retreat.
The so-called reduction of Ding is completely literal.
If there are too many prisoners, reduce them. As for the way to reduce the number of prisoners, of course, use horizontal swords to reduce them.
"This era." Li Yunze shook his head repeatedly, "It's such a troubled time in which good people will go crazy, the Virgin will fall, and the saints will turn black."
Tens of thousands of people can be wiped out with just one reduction. This is the norm in this troubled world.
"I don't know how to respect life at all." Li Yunze sighed repeatedly. "No matter what era it is, talents are the most important cornerstone. No one has nothing, and all land and materials are meaningless. Population is so precious, from birth to growth At least ten
Years of hard work are all gone with just one knife..."
Whenever times are in trouble, there will always be heroes who stand up to end the troubled times. This is not only the skill of heroes, but also the inevitable result of people's determination.
After all, no one wants to live in an era where they can be cheated at any time, and it is so natural.
There is only one head. If it is gone, it is really gone and will not grow back.
The suggestion of his subordinates to reduce the number of troops also made Li Yunze determined to suspend the war and resolve the immediate matter first.
Li Yunze will not reduce his number, but he will not raise tens of thousands of prisoners in vain.
He launched a recruitment campaign among the prisoners, and those who were willing to join the Xuanwu Army and want to be loyal to him could take the army test.
Those who pass the military test are considered full-time soldiers and are provided with all the money, food and salary.
Those who failed to pass the military entrance test but performed well entered the auxiliary army, and their money, food and salary were all halved, waiting for the opportunity to become a full-time soldier.
As for the rest, it can only be a civilian husband.
It doesn’t matter if you don’t want to do it, Li Yunze doesn’t support idle people here, and if you don’t work, you won’t have food to eat.
The civilians were quickly mobilized and began to repair the wounds caused by the battlefield. At least they should seize the time to replant the destroyed fields.
I won’t say whether it will be effective or not, but at least you have to show your attitude and actions first.
Then there is the expansion and maintenance of roads, that is, the construction of official roads.
In ancient times, except for the Qinzhi Road, which consumed countless manpower and material resources, the official roads of other dynasties were better close to the city, and were paved with gravel and yellow sand.
And roads paved with bluestones like Zhuque Street are all image projects that consume national resources. There is only one like this in the world.
The real official road is the legendary wild road with three feet of soil on a sunny day and mud on a rainy day.
Moreover, due to long-term rutting and erosion by rainwater, the official road is not only full of potholes, but also has large potholes everywhere that can directly bury people.
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With such traffic conditions, it is no wonder that the marching speed cannot be increased.
Just like before in Bianzhou and Songzhou, Li Yunze began to urge the people to build roads.
In ancient times, road building was a very labor-intensive matter. Even Qin Zhidao used hundreds of thousands of laborers and spent countless hours building it bit by bit by boiling soil.
Of course, it is impossible for Li Yunze to mobilize hundreds of thousands of people to steam soil and build roads. The person who did this last time was named Yang Guang, and then he was kicked out.
He brought generators and stone crushers from the modern world, and used the generators to drive the stone crushers to crush large quarried stones into small stones.
Then, cement mortar was made with graded cement bought from the modern world, and the concrete road was paved with a slightly higher middle and slightly lower sides.
Due to the lack of large machinery, the work that originally could be completed by a construction team of several hundred people in a few days took tens of thousands of people on Li Yunze's side half a month to complete.
Of course, this is to compare with the modern world, so of course there is no comparison.
In the late Tang Dynasty, it was already astonishingly fast.
Moreover, the road built is not a traditional dirt road. It is an authentic cement road where the foundation is first dug deep, gravel and gravel are laid to lay the foundation, and then concrete is poured.
Although people in the Tang Dynasty don't know what concrete roads are, they have eyes and legs. You can see the road after drying, and you can feel comfortable walking on it.
Drainage ditches made of masonry are built on both sides of the cement road, and all trees must be planted at least five meters away.
The road built by Li Yunze is centered on Caoxian County, going directly to Bianzhou in the west, Songzhou in the south, Yanzhou in the east, and Yunzhou in the north.
The fastest repaired road is naturally the road to Yanzhou.
After all, the Taining Army Jiedushi was killed by Li Yunze in the midst of thousands of troops. It had already spread through the word of mouth among the defeated soldiers, and his reputation could be said to be famous all over the world.
The Taining Army, which had lost its Jiedushi and most of its soldiers and horses, was a ripe fruit that Li Yunze needed to reach out to pick.
Taking Yanzhou has another advantage, which is to cut off the connection between Zhu Xuan and Shi Pu.
The news of Li Yunze's great victory over the Tianping Army and the Taining Army had already reached the ears of Shi Pu, the military commander of the Wuning Army.
Without any hesitation, he led Wu Ning's army to turn around and returned to Pengcheng on guard, staying behind closed doors.
To be honest, Shi Pu was really frightened by Li Yunze's overwhelming strength, which easily defeated the powerful soldiers of the two towns.
Two days! Two towns were tied!
In this era where the basic unit of measurement for war is the month, this tyrannical combat effectiveness is simply too astonishing.
When the infantry brigade from Bianzhou finally arrived, Li Yunze immediately left the work of guarding the civilians, integrating and training the prisoners of war from the two towns to the infantry.
As for himself, he headed straight towards Yanzhou with the armored cavalry who were finally freed from many affairs.
Here in Yanzhou, as early as the news of Zhu Jin's defeat and death came back, a civil strife had already broken out.
A group of Taining troops who stayed in the city showed the traditional virtues of warriors in this era and raised troops to besiege Zhu Jin's home.
Zhu Jin's son Zhu Yongzhen and others were hacked to death in the chaos, and his wife was arrested.
The purpose of the rebels' rebellion was very simple. Zhu Jin's people were all killed in the battle, and the main force of the Taining Army that sent troops was also wiped out.
How could the rest of them be able to block Li Yunze's offensive.
So they rebelled to surrender to Li Yunze.
If you can't beat him, just throw it. It's also a traditional skill of this era.
In history, Zhu Yongzhen dedicated Yanzhou City to Zhu Wen when his father, Zhu Jin, was out looking for food.
When Li Yunze arrived at Yanzhou City with his troops and horses, the city gates were wide open and the defenders took the initiative to leave the city and ask for surrender.
After entering the city, Li Yunze took over the city defense, especially the generals of the Taining Army who had led the rebellion, and spent a huge sum of money to send them away.
After dark, Li Yunze, who had finished his work, arrived at the Jiedu Mansion that originally belonged to Zhu Jin.
When I opened the door and was about to eat, I was shocked to see a beautiful woman who still had charm inside.
After questioning, I learned that she was actually Zhu Jin's wife.
Looking at the beauty in front of him, Li Yunze rubbed his chin thoughtfully, "Isn't it Zhu Jin's nephew who wants to learn Zhang embroidery?"
