The sound of clanking gold and iron sounded, and under the Weizhou City, the Weizhou Army wearing cyan armor and the Guiyi Army mainly wearing cotton armor began to slowly retreat after ringing the gold.
After Murong Nobunaga and others captured and killed several brave generals of the Weizhou Army, Zhang Zhao immediately arranged for the three battalions of Er Zhujing, Zhao Cunyi and Luo Shande to take the initiative to attack.
However, the two parties only had a brief contact and then retreated.
The Weizhou Army suffered several waves of arrows. In addition, there was a shortage of iron armor, because those with iron armor followed the officers and ran to rebel. These waves of arrows directly caused the Weizhou Army to lose dozens of people.
The Guiyi Army retreated because Zhang Zhao saw several crossbows appearing on the top of Weizhou City.
Moreover, the city was crowded with people, and many archers were ready to attack, which cut off the possibility of the Guiyi army to seize the door. If they really tried to seize the door, they would probably suffer a lot of casualties and would not succeed.
The bed crossbow, in particular, is particularly useful when facing dense military formations. Although there are only a few of them, they can be used in a row.
At this time, there were no defensive equipment such as shield cars and chrysanthemums. It was not cost-effective to risk people's lives to grab the door.
Zhang Zhao planned to wait for the camel cyclone cannon to be in place, then use a small trebuchet to smash the bed crossbow at the top of the city, and then use a churron and other vehicles to cover the blasters of Fenjindu, and go directly to the city gate to blow open the city gate.
Zhang Zhao retreated slightly. At the top of Weizhou City, the general Wang Shouye was even more confused. He looked at the soldiers pouring out from Danzheng Gorge under the city, and his brain was almost in a state of shutdown.
These soldiers were very difficult to deal with at first glance. There were at least several thousand soldiers among them. Except for some of the rangers who seemed to be Yuanzhou Dangxiang, who were a little confused, the rest of the troops had strict orders, were uniform, and had rules for advancing and retreating.
After they stationed three to four thousand troops in the west of the city, they quickly divided more than two thousand troops and horses to block the path south of the city leading to Qinzhou and other places.
Then at least two to three thousand Qingqi dispersed. Although they were unable to surround Weizhou City, with the number of Qingqi, anyone who wanted to leave the city would not be able to escape pursuit.
For a moment, Wang Shouye suddenly felt as if he was in the late Tang Dynasty and was being attacked by Tubo Zanpu's elite army.
But reality told him that this was impossible. He was not a loyal minister of the country, but was rebelling. But where did so many well-equipped soldiers come from?
"General, a large banner has been erected on the opposite side. Please send a letter to the rebel military governor Zhang!" A young colonel with good eyesight pointed at the large banner in the distance and shouted loudly.
"Guiyi Army? What are they doing here?" Wang Shouye and one of the generals were stunned, and one of the generals scratched the bun on his head.
"He returned to the Zhang family of the rebel army and was at ease in the melon sands. Why did he come here after traveling thousands of miles?"
"No! How can the Zhang family of the Guiyi army get thousands of soldiers? Let alone lead an army of more than ten thousand to our place. If he has this strength, doesn't he quickly annex the Longyou prefectures in Hexi?"
All the generals were puzzled as to why the Zhang family of the Guiyi Army came here.
This is actually a misunderstanding, because Shi Jingtang only granted Zhang Zhao the official positions of Hexi Jiedushi and Shanlan River Surrounding Observation and Disposal Envoy, canonized the angel, and blocked it in Qinzhou, which is Tianshui, so the edict has not yet been issued at all. into the hands of Zhang Zhao.
As for the ceremonial guards such as the full six banners of the Jiedushi and the Yamen flag, they had not been produced at all, so Zhang Zhao used the large banner of the Jiedushi of the Guiyi Army that had been obtained by his great-grandfather Zhang Yichao.
The Weizhou general at the head of the city was confused when he saw another young general galloping towards him on a tall red horse.
The horse was very fast, running hundreds of steps in the blink of an eye. The rising sun shone on the red horse, and its sweat and red hair actually reflected a layer of auburn golden light.
"Pegasus! This is Pegasus! The sweat-blooded Pegasus of Dawan Kingdom!"
There was a schoolboy next to Wang Shouye who was very knowledgeable. His ancestor had been a town commander, so he immediately recognized that the lightning-fast red horse in the distance was unusual.
Suddenly, the city was buzzing with people, and the surrounding soldiers came running over. A group of people gathered together, marveling at the rumored sweat-blooded horse.
"Wu Ying'er, your Alang was not unjustly defeated. He has such a Pegasus. He can arrive hundreds of steps in a blink of an eye. Who dares to do it?" Someone shouted to Wu Ying'er, the first person to recognize the Pegasus Pegasus.
'stop! Woo! There was a strange noise, and you were about two hundred steps away from the top of Weizhou City. The young general dismounted, took a huge hard bow, and shot a loud arrow towards the top of the city.
"Inspector Sikong, Hexi Jiedushi envoy Zhang Gong has issued an edict to fight against rebellion! You will open the city and surrender immediately. We will only punish the culprits. If you dare to resist, your relatives will be implicated." Cui Huxin shouted at the bottom of the city.
Wang Shouye hurriedly asked someone to find the noisy arrow that had been shot onto the tower. Sure enough, there was a letter tied to the noisy arrow.
"The inspector Sikong, Hexi Jiedushi and Zhang, the Shanlan and Hekuo four-state governors, were ordered to fight against the rebels! The Hexi army's 30,000-strong army marched east from Lan, Hui, and Yuan, and the Hedong army also sent troops to Ziqing and Ningnan, and surrendered. Those who resist will live, those who resist will die!"
All the generals were silent. They were not very worried about the saying that the Hedong Army was celebrating itself and Ningnan was marching south. They also guessed that it was probably an exaggeration.
Because if you want to go south from Qingzhou (Qingyang, Gansu) and Ningzhou (Ningxian, Gansu), you must walk along Malingshui (Huanjiang River).
There is a huge gap between the dry season and the wet season in Malingshui. It has not yet reached the wet season, so it is impossible to sail at all.
Without the advantage of boats, it would be difficult for the army to march south from Ningzhou. What's more, the Ya soldiers and Zhenjun in Ningzhou had already followed them to cause trouble. Even if the imperial army came, they would have to attack Ningzhou first.
It's just that the Hexi Army's arrival was a bit unlucky. When everyone was rebelling and making trouble, they never thought that people would come from the west.
Therefore, all the elite soldiers have left, and are now gathering in Pizhou to fight against Chang'an. Those who are left behind in their hometown of Weizhou are all old and weak.
At this time, the Jiedushi army generally consisted of two parts. The strong ones were the tooth soldiers, most of whom were recruited or brought by the Jiedushi himself when he took office.
There are also a small number of local tooth soldiers who have been passed down from father to son and from son to grandson in the local area, waiting specifically for Jiedushi to recruit them.
This group of people are better at fighting and are the core force of the entire Jiedu Yamen.
The rest are supplemented by local recruitment. They usually follow the generals of various towns and are divided into various towns. They are considered semi-professional soldiers. Some of them are united soldiers with a term of service, and they are all natives of the hometown.
If you refine it a bit, you can divide them into three parts.
The tooth soldiers are a professional army, corresponding to elite mercenaries.
The semi-professional town army is actually a remnant of the old government army system and can be regarded as a government army.
The united soldiers are the soldiers recruited from the local township regiments.
Of course, this is only true for ordinary vassal towns. Silver spears can save the army. Freaks like Jingyuan Yabing who occupy state capitals, marry each other, and create military democratization are not included in this scope.
At this time, Wang Shouye and others who stayed behind were the local town troops and unity troops, while the Hechuan rebels were actually the Ya soldiers recruited from various places by Zhang Congbin, the former Jiedushi envoy.
Zhang Congbin took part of it with him when he went to Luoyang to take up his post, and kept part of it in order to control the place.
Regarding this rebellion, which may not be called a rebellion in many eyes, Wang Shouye supported it, but his family members were all in Weizhou, so they were not so active.
This is also the way to survive for this kind of suppressing army. They provide food, weapons, and even some brave men who follow the tooth soldiers to cause trouble, but they never take the lead.
If the Ya soldiers win, the court will do nothing to them, then the Ya soldiers will eat meat and they will drink soup.
If the tooth soldiers lose, they will either surrender quickly or stab them in the back in exchange for a lighter punishment or even no punishment from the court.
Of course, there are also times when the game gets out of hand. Sometimes the tooth soldiers take money, food, and weapons and feel that they are not enough, so they will kill them completely.
The kind of military rebellion in a certain place and the massacre of a certain city is usually caused by local forces who have gotten away with it.
Sometimes, other Jiezhen troops and horses sent by the imperial court had trouble fighting the Forbidden Army. They could defeat the rebellious tooth soldiers without backstabbing them, and they could only follow in their misfortune.
Overall, this is a very difficult and dangerous job to control, comparable to dancing on eggs.
Zhang Zhao certainly knew this. He knew what was going on when he saw that Weizhou City was generally intact and there were no traces of looting in the surrounding countryside.
That's why he asked Cui Huxin to surrender. If he could capture the lair of the Changyi Army rebels, he would be in an invincible position, and he could attack, retreat or defend.
Wang Shouye sighed. Zhang Zhao's guess was correct. Almost all the tooth soldiers of Zhangyi Army ran to the east, and they were the only few thousand in Weizhou City.
Moreover, these thousands of people are not professional soldiers like Ya soldiers at all. They are hundreds of town troops who still have a bit of armor, plus more than 2,000 soldiers recruited from the whole city.
Weizhou is located on the border of Guanxi, and everyone can fight, so even a few thousand troops can be mobilized to fight in a decent manner.
But they will definitely not be able to fight a tough battle. As time goes by, these united soldiers will collapse mentally and may even start chaos on their own.
If there really were thousands of tooth soldiers, he would not be afraid of Zhang Zhao and would have started fighting with the Guiyi Army under the city.
"General Wang Zhen, don't listen to this. Where is this so-called Hexi Jiedushi Zhang from? It's not clear yet.
Moreover, the imperial court had never controlled Hexi. Historically, Hexi Jiedu was concurrently held by Lingwu Jiedushi, but it was just a false position. How could it be ordered to let Hexi Jiedu quell the chaos?
If they were the thieves and thieves of the Liang and Lan generations, if we opened the city gate, wouldn't we be able to let a sheep fall into a tiger's mouth? "
"Yes! General Sun Shi's words are reasonable. Moreover, the congratulatory troops and envoys are still outside. If we sell their small belongings, if they win, they will definitely not give up when they come back. Our city in Weizhou has high walls and thick walls. , we still have several thousand people, let’s hold on tight for now.”
Soon, the generals at the top of the city made a decision. Sun Shijiang, who urged not to surrender, took the opportunity to draw his bow and shot an arrow at Cui Huxin at the bottom of the city.
Cui Hu's heart didn't even move. The powerful bow in his hand could shoot to the top of the city. The bow in his opponent's hand didn't have such strength at first glance.
Sure enough, the arrow became limp and floated a dozen steps in front of him, without even the strength to penetrate into the ground. However, this also showed the attitude of the city, they would not surrender.
Seeing this situation, Zhang Zhao calmly waved his hand in the distance. It seemed that he had to hit these guys so hard.
"Install cyclone cannons on site, cut down wood to build siege equipment, and order Hanhai Town to deploy a battalion of light cavalry to guard the surrounding areas and prepare to attack the city."
