(The date in the previous chapter was wrong. Guo Guangyi besieged Hu Shuicheng on July 25th, not September 25th.)
The battle in Chishan Uzonga was over. How could the hundreds of thousands of Ogus herdsmen who were being chased with no way to go to the sky or to the ground defeat Bai Congxin's 40,000 fine cavalry?
Not to mention the equipment gap between the two sides, these grassland cavalry who have been brainwashed for several years and trained by a large number of rewards and a military-like merit system really look forward to death when they fight.
The ninth surname Ogus Dayinale led a thousand personal guards holding spears in formation on the mountain, and there were thousands of archers behind them to cover.
As a result, a hundred warriors from thousands of households in Xijias directly wore two layers of armor and rushed in desperately. Within a quarter of an hour, Dayinale's head was cut off and presented to Bai Congxin.
Bai Congxin deliberately did not restrain military discipline. He needed such a primal cruelty full of animal nature to calm the irritability of his terrifying erect apes accumulated during the more than two thousand miles of march.
Another purpose is to set a standard for today's battle.
If the Ogusi people with the ninth surname were unwilling to surrender this time, he would never issue such a brutal military order, but who dared them to say that Tengri would not transform into the Supreme Heaven.
The former is a matter of interests, while the latter is a matter of principle, and heavy blows must be struck.
"Let the sons be free for two days. After two days, two thousand people will be left to guard. The rest must arrive at Talas within ten days!"
Bai Congxin issued the order sternly. This place was still 700 miles away from Talas. He traveled more than 70 miles in one day, which was not too little, but not too much.
Naturally, this was the reason why Bai Congxin wanted to kill almost all of the nearly 40,000 adult men among the nine surnamed Ogus people.
The army is about to attack Guo Guangyi of Talos, how can he leave tens of thousands of men behind him!
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At Sanshankou, Huguang was munching the leg of lamb leisurely. The other soldiers, except those on guard duty, also took the time to eat, drink, rest or organize their armor and weapons. Even Chi Tian of the Gray Wolf Department was like this.
Everyone knew in their hearts, regardless of whether it was dangerous for them to rescue them like this, Suiye had such a big rebellion, and those who had truly lost their ambition and regarded themselves as Tang'er had been rescued. Those in the distance who did not want to be Hu people had been saved. But if you don’t want to resist, whether you can save her or not depends entirely on your mood.
Moreover, everyone knew very well that if these people were saved, how would His Majesty explain them? After doing something like this, you still want to escape unscathed?
As a result, everyone was enjoying the last peace before the war with peace of mind.
"Dongdong! Dongdong!" The sound of the war drums seemed louder and softer, but the shouts of the crowd of people shouting and neighing became more and more obvious. In the end, the shouts of killing in the distance shook the sky, suppressing the sound of the war drums. Come to think of it, Guo Guangyi began to urge the army to attack Hu Shuicheng again.
Guo Tianfang was squatting next to Hu Guang. He hated the people in Hu Shuicheng. If it weren't for their retreat, Guo Guangyi would not have launched a mutiny so easily at the funeral of his grandfather Guo Xuancheng.
His father, uncle and two uncles were all killed in this mutiny. After escaping to the Gray Wolf tribe, they also took the lives of his ninth uncle Guo Xuanchao and Chitian's father.
"How many days has it been?" Hu Guangzai asked slowly after carefully chewing the honey-roasted lamb leg in his hand.
Guo Tianfang quickly replied: "Tiger Lord, it's been ten days!"
"Hey!" Hu Guang grabbed a handful of sand and wiped the grease under his hands, then raised his head in surprise.
"They are really tenacious! Among the 40,000 of them, there are only a few thousand strong, and so many people are crowded in the city with little food and drink. They can withstand Guang Guangyi's ten-day attack of 50,000 people. It's interesting."
Hearing this, Li Jizai snorted disdainfully, "They are all cheap guys. They fought so hard in Suiyeken back then. Even if they couldn't hold the city, they could at least keep Guo Jiushu from escaping to Khotan. Why risk their lives now!" "
Hu Guang wiped his hands clean. Well, this level of cleanliness was of course his personal standard.
Seeing Li Jixie holding a bowl of honey japonica rice, Hu Guang took it away without any politeness and said, "Go and ask the doctor, how many people are left in the city?"
Li Jizai glanced at Hu Guang resentfully and ran away angrily.
Yao Yuanfu ordered people to build three watchtowers on the mountain near Hu Shuicheng, so that soldiers with good eyesight could monitor them continuously.
Before Li Jixie reached the watchtower, he saw Yao Yuanfu's general riding his horse towards the camp. When he saw Li Jixie, he immediately shouted, "Go and report to the general manager quickly. Hu Shuicheng suffered heavy casualties. We must not hold on." ”
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In fact, Hu Shuicheng can still hold on for a while, but it will be quite miserable.
One of Luo Dingzhong's hands drooped unnaturally, but fortunately it was not a fracture but a dislocation, and doctors soon helped him set his bones.
Puguquan was leaning among a pile of dead bodies, his face was pale, and he was looking at the sky with his eyes wide open. Several flies were crawling around his face, but he didn't move. He had obviously been dead for a long time.
Guo Guangbi was working hard to repair his flattened iron stomach, and his legs were blood red.
Before this, he tried to lift his leg several times, but his right leg seemed to have lost all feeling, and only his left leg still felt bursts of pain.
Hu Shuicheng is not big, and can only accommodate a few thousand people on weekdays. Now 40,000 people have squeezed in. Starting three days ago, except for Ding Zhuang who fought on the city wall, the rest of the people only had one wild vegetable cake to eat a day. , as for water, they can only drink the urine of young warriors.
As for urine, not much was distributed, because the young men on the city wall were rationed drinking water, and they sweated a lot from the fierce fighting, so there was not much urine at all.
Although the mercenaries under Guo Guangyi retreated like a tide, no one cheered at the top of Hu Shui City because the wall on the left section was hit with a huge gap.
Luo Dingzhong had rushed to block the gap just now, and his hand was dislocated during the fight. Now, it is very likely that as long as people outside the city rush again, they will not be able to hold on.
"That's enough, that should be enough. If you don't come, we will all die!" A young man next to Luo Dingzhong murmured.
There are more than 6,000 men in Hu Shui City. I don’t know if there are still 3,000 left. The battle loss rate has far exceeded half.
A painful smile appeared on Luo Dingzhong's lips. He knew that Manager Tiger would be here soon.
Because not only did they pay the price, but after these ten days of bloody battles, they who could only be regarded as armed herdsmen and auxiliary soldiers have been tempered in this cruel fighting. In the future, as long as they train the military formation tactics, they will be able to They are elite warriors.
Judging from Manager Hu's restless attitude, the Saint's goal is not simply to quell Guo Guangyi's rebellion, nor is it just because of Guo Tinger's incident. Everything the Saint does should be aimed at Saman Persia.
This is a powerful and grand country that occupies half of Hezhong and half of Persia. If you compare it, you will know that the Jin Kingdom of Khotan is known as the prosperous Kingdom of Anxi. It has a population of less than 900,000, plus more than 600,000 in Beiting. The total number is only 1.5 million.
As for Samampos, which has a total of four million people, unless it is completely defeated and dismembered, it will be empty talk for the Xia king and the barbarians to occupy the river.
However, the Saman Persians have never entered the scope of Chinese civilization. They are not only different from China in race, but also have completely different languages, customs, and beliefs.
It is not difficult to defeat such a big country, but it is quite difficult to rule it, unless the court maintains a garrison of 80,000 to 100,000 people in Samandria for a long time.
But the price was too high. All the benefits obtained from Samampos would probably be used to feed the 100,000 garrison, and the court would not get much. This model was destined to be impossible to maintain for long.
Is there any way to save money and effort?
have!
Luo Dingzhong slowly knelt down towards the east. The way to save money and effort was to use these leaf breakers.
They say it is Tang'er, but they are more familiar with the river. What do the people of Samandro think, need, and fear, and how to make them more obedient?
Even how to introduce the Six Methods Sect into the land of Saman Persia to replace the Tianfang Sect, no one knows better than Tang'er who has lived in Suiye for hundreds of years.
With the help of local people like them, it will be possible to basically Chineseize Hezhong in 20 to 30 years.
Saints are saintly kings and wise masters, and they will definitely understand their value.
"Raise the silver and white flag, pull everyone to the top of the city to plead, tell Manager Tiger that we know we are wrong, and ask him to send troops from heaven to save us!"
Luo Dingzhong shouted loudly. At this time, it was better to continue to resist than to plead.
Guo Guangbi gritted his teeth, moved his broken leg with difficulty, and took out the silver-white gold sun and moon flag that he had always treasured from a wooden box not far away.
This was made by someone when Guo Xuancheng was still alive. Although the sixth uncle of the Guo family also listened to the tune but not the propaganda in Suiye, his purpose was fundamentally different from Guo Guangyi.
Guo Xuancheng just wanted to pass on his position under his butt to his children and grandchildren, so that the Guo family could be the prince of Suiye County and the vassal of the imperial court for generations to come. He still valued the imperial court and the Tang Dynasty very much.
A silver-white gold sun and moon flag was raised at the head of Hushui City. The old, weak, women and children covered the city wall, and countless people kowtowed toward the east like a rising tide.
"Saint, we were wrong, please have mercy!"
"We are waiting for death, so why should women and children deserve it? Please have mercy on us, the saint."
"Please come quickly, heavenly soldiers! Come quickly!"
Guo Guangbi put his hands on the ground and crawled to Luo Dingzhong. He looked up at him with great effort, "In the past in Suiye, there were 40,000 of us with six surnames, led by you, Pu Guquan and a certain family.
When the Guo thieves entered Suiye, Ruluo Dingzhong was the one who wanted to resist the most, but was stopped by Mou and Pu Guquan. So if you can survive today, I and Pu Guquan will definitely die.
Today, all of my servants have been killed in battle, and a certain person’s legs are disabled, and there is no point in living. It is better to leave some legacy to us people. Luo Erlang, the wife, children, and children of a certain family, I leave it to you. "
Luo Dingzhong let out a long sigh, if he had known it would happen today, why bother?
"Brother Huai is smart and smart, and I like him the most. He and my second mother grew up together and are childhood sweethearts. Let Brother Huai be my son-in-law in the future.
If the saint is merciful and allows us to perform meritorious service for our crimes, I heard that there are two official titles: pacification envoy and pacification envoy below the level of Duke Houbo of the outer vassal.
Among them, the Zhenfu envoy governs a small town with a thousand people and governs 10,000 people. As long as Luo Dingzhong is still breathing, he will definitely earn a hereditary Zhenfu envoy for Brother Huai. "
When Guo Guangbi heard what Luo Dingzhong said, a smile appeared on his face. He leaned against the city wall and gave Luo Dingzhong a salute, "Your great kindness, my servant Guo Guangbi, will be repaid with a ring of grass in the next life."
After following Guo Guangbi, he shouted loudly, pressed his hands on the city wall, stood up, and shouted to the east: "The sinner Guo Guangbi is unforgivable and his death is not a pity. I only hope that for the sake of his past love, Mr. Hu will give this to Hu Shui City." Tens of thousands of people have a way to survive!”
After saying that, without any hesitation, he held up his hands and jumped down from the city wall.
Hu Guang had already arrived at the watchtower at this time. After seeing Guo Guangbi jump off the city wall from a few hundred steps away, he let out a long sigh.
Guo Guangbi also has a relationship with him. In the past, when the Hu family knights were injured in the Suiye battle, Guo Guangbi organized people to carry them back for treatment.
People! Just don't go astray. He was originally a good man who opened up the river, but today he can only lose his life with a dishonorable reputation.
"Blast the drum! Order the troops!" Hu Guangda shouted, got on his horse, and took the lead in galloping towards the military camp.
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At Guo Guangyi's military camp, the long-faced 'hero' danced his whip so hard that there was an afterimage. In the tent, several officers who had failed to fight well were being beaten with blood on their backs.
"An army of 50,000 attacked a small city guarded by a few thousand people. We lost more than a thousand people in ten days and made no progress at all. What's the point of feeding you?"
Don't blame Guo Guangyi for being anxious. You know the current situation, but he was determined to kill his wife and son in exchange for it.
This kind of thing is despised even in the river or on the grassland.
But fortunately, these two places respect power. As long as you kill your wife and children but are powerful, others will at most despise you in their hearts and dare not show it.
But if the power of killing his wife and children is not raised, it will be dangerous. The revenge and backlash will really come like a tide.
Moreover, there are still 10,000 Zhou troops at Sanshan Pass, more than 20 miles away from Hu Shuicheng. They are what Guo Guangyi is worried about.
"Those Tang'er are still at Sanshankou?"
The confidant general Hu Lunqian quickly touched his chest and replied: "Those Tang'ers were afraid of King Khan's power and did not dare to leave the stronghold for ten days.
They only have more than 10,000 people and less than 2,000 cavalry. After Hu Shuicheng is captured, they only need to use 5,000 fine cavalry to guard them. When their food and grass are exhausted, they can pursue them in tandem. "
Only now did Guo Guangyi show a smile on his face. Indeed, these Tang'ers were too incompetent and did not dare to attack for ten days. It would be really troublesome for them to attack from both sides with the people of Hu Shuicheng these days.
Now it seems that the so-called warriors of the Han and Tang Dynasties are just bragging, and the heavenly soldiers mentioned by our ancestors are just rumors.
Maybe they were indeed brave two or three hundred years ago, but now, they are just a group of cowards with no name.
Guo Guangyi raised his hand and was about to tell the cavalry team monitoring Tang'er's army to cheer up when the tent curtain was suddenly lifted open and an officer covered in blood bumped in.
"King Khan, the Tang army has come out of camp, and the Zuoduhu cannot resist it. Please ask King Khan to send troops for reinforcements!"
Guo Guangyi felt his head explode. Zuo Duhu had four thousand cavalry. How could they be unable to resist them so quickly?
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"In ancient times, Dunhuang was full of magical generals, and all the tribes admired them from afar. During the festival, Lintai has long been famous for looking at Longting. I only hate being separated from the tribes, and it is difficult to express my feelings. Sooner or later, I will destroy the wolf and tribes, and worship the holy face together."
Amidst the rumbling drum music, the 8,000 Western Expeditionary Army marching out of the stronghold sang "Dunhuang Ancient Times" and marched forward in ecstasy.
Sanshan Pass was only more than twenty miles away from the battlefield, so Hu Guang simply asked his soldiers to advance in battle formation.
The central force of the army was the 3,000 Huben troops led by Yao Yuanfu. This was the authority that Zhang Gao had given Hu Guang before setting off.
If Yao Yuanfu can make a surprise attack and recover Broken Leaf, Hu Guang can immediately form his own army Zuohu Benwei and appoint Yao Yuanfu as the general of Zuohu Benwei Zhonglang.
On the left and right sides of the Chinese army was the Forbidden Army Shenzhen Division led by Li Jixun.
Shenshe Town was an upgrade from Zhang Zhang's Shenji Battalion. The Shenji Battalion initially used camel cyclone cannons, but in the past ten years, Zhang Zhou has never encountered a few heavy targets that required Zhou Jun to use camel cyclone cannons. The infantry gradually became useless.
So a part of the Shenji Battalion, mainly those who worked on the Camel Cyclone Cannon, were merged into the Tiangong Institute to engage in research on large-scale counterweight trebuchets and preliminary testing of artillery.
The other part was expanded and became the Forbidden Army Shenshe Town and the pro-army left and right Shengwei.
As you can tell from their names, these three teams specialize in crossbows.
Li Jixun only controls a part of Shenshe Town, with 2,000 people.
The thousand people on the left side of the army like to wear colorful brocade robes outside the ring armor. They are composed of the Ganzhou Uighur Zuotang crossbowmen in the past. Later, they gathered people from all ethnic groups who were good at shooting to form an army, called Zuotang. Divine Crossbow Camp.
The one thousand people on the right side of the army are accustomed to wearing white boots, with red foreheads and silver trim. They are composed of the backbone of the Hanhai Town Tabai crossbowmen who were originally trained by Yan Jin. They are called the Tabai Camp in front of the palace and are the center of the Forbidden Army. There are few elites who can stand guard in front of the inner palace.
And despite the fact that there are only a thousand people in the Tabai camp in front of the palace, half of them are armed with swords and half can ride and shoot.
In addition to these five thousand people, there are also 1,500 elite cavalry. This elite cavalry was formed with the backbone of the Qiji Society Xiaorui from the four states of Guasha Suyin, and was led by Chen Tingxiao, who was born in the Chen family of Yinzhou.
Among the remaining 1,500 people, there are also 200 of Hu Guang's own personal followers, with Li Jixie as the personal general and general Yuhou.
These two hundred men, all composed of the descendants of the Xunchen of Helong, were unparalleled in bravery. If Li Jixie had not been powerful in battle and could equal Murong Xinchun from Guazhou, the brave general in front of the imperial army, he would not have been able to command them at all.
The rest are Suiye locals like Chi Tian and Guo Tianfang. They come to do odd jobs and let them see the bravery of the imperial soldiers.
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded, and Li Jixie rode back with an enemy general under his left and right arms. He laughed loudly when he saw Hu Guang, and then threw the two enemy generals to the dusty ground with a thud.
"General manager, these two thieves were harassing me in front of our formation. I personally rode my horse to catch up with them and captured them alive. It's a pity that the enemy general who was leading the army ran away."
When Guo Tianfang saw the two thieves lying motionless on the ground, he looked at them curiously and immediately exclaimed.
It turned out that the two thieves had their eyes protruding and their faces were bruised. They were strangled to death.
He couldn't help but look at Li Jixie in horror. He used his arms to squeeze the two thieves to death. How much strength this must have!
"Dead?" Li Jixie's eyes widened, and then he realized that the two thieves were almost dead. He immediately raised his hands involuntarily, looked at the creaks on both sides of him, and muttered.
"How could he be so careless? That day when he was fighting with that thief Murong Xinchun, he clamped his neck with much more force than this. Who would have thought that Murong Xinchun was not afraid at all, and even elbowed him in the left ribs, which almost didn't hurt. Kill a certain family."
Just as his brother Li Jixun was passing by, he couldn't help but roll his eyes when he heard this.
Who is Murong Xinchun? He is the cousin of Murong Nobunaga, the king of Liaoyang County. He was born with the strength of ten thousand kilograms. He can dance with a twenty kilogram Qi training hammer for a quarter of an hour without stopping. His neck is bigger than the thighs of these two guys on the ground. It’s still thick, can it be compared!
At this moment, rapid drumbeats came from the front, and the messengers waved red pennants and ran back and forth. It was obvious that most of the enemy troops had arrived.
Hu Guang waved his hand, and Li Jizai jumped on the drum cart and beat the huge drum pulled by the carriage by pressing three long and three short keys.
Everyone in the capital is Yuhou, and the general is Yuhou. When the team hears the sound of drums, they all order their guards around them to beat the small drums on their chests, making three long and three short sounds.
The soldiers of the unit shouted in unison with the sound of drums, "Yu Lin!" Yulin! Yulin! ' Stop after repeating three times.
Then the whole army spread out on the spot. The captains, lieutenants, and firemen of each team wore armor. The light soldiers who did not arrange for armor to go into battle helped the officers to wear armor. At the same time, the gunners of each captain came out and lined up, and then the sharpshooters came out. When the winding is completed, make a defensive position.
At this time, the enemy troops have not yet arrived, and the sound of drums becomes intensive. The captain, deputy, and fire chief who have finished donning their armor come forward, and the soldiers from each team line up and start donning their armor.
A conch horn sounded, and the watchman on Lu's bus waved a yellow flag from northeast to southwest, two up and two down.
The messenger below who had been observing immediately reported to Hu Guang: "The enemy's cavalry is about 10,000, and the distance is more than 500 steps. They are attacking in two directions, more on the right and less on the left."
Li Jihe was immediately eager to try. Even Chen Tingxiao licked his lips with excitement, but Hu Guang shook his head.
"All the horsemen on the left and right dismounted and hid in the formation. Chitian, go ahead and get on the horse with your cavalry. Look a little flustered."
Hu Guang would not let Chen Tingxiao and Li Jixie attack immediately. The reason why Guo Guangyi dared to attack Hu Shuicheng in front of him was because he thought Hu Guang was timid and had few cavalry.
If we release the elite cavalry now and let Guo Guangyi know that although his cavalry is small, they are all cavalry that can serve as five barbarians, he will not be able to run away immediately.
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Suddenly, Jian Jian sensed something was wrong while he was still on the horse. They had 12,000 horsemen and swept in overwhelmingly. However, there were only a few thousand people coming out of the camp on the opposite side, but they were not at all confused. They could even place their spears in front of them very easily. There are several large formations with bows and crossbows at the back.
As the first general under Guo Guangyi, Hu Lunqiang had good knowledge. He instinctively felt that the opposite army was not easy to fight.
Hu Lunqian immediately waved his hand and ordered his cavalry to disperse. They kept cruising back and forth around the Tang infantry two to three hundred paces away, creating a great momentum, raising dust all over the sky, trying to intimidate, and at the same time looking for loopholes.
The cavalry will not hit the infantry head-on. That would be courting death.
Especially when faced with such a well-structured infantry formation, one must constantly intimidate and then find a flaw before getting in through the flaw and scattering the infantry.
However, Hu Jian's little trick had no effect on the Zhou army at all. What a joke, the Khitan cavalry were ferocious enough at the time, and their threats and intimidation had little effect.
When Lun Jian saw this, his heart beat loudly. A layman was watching the excitement, but an expert was watching the door. These Tang infantrymen were so calm in the face of the encirclement and intimidation of the cavalry. They were by no means a timid army.
He was about to send someone to report back to Guo Guangyi, but he saw Guo Guangyi's bodyguard coming to the front of the formation holding the silver sword of King Khan inlaid with gems, and shouted loudly: "King Khan asks you, why are you delaying?"
When he heard about it suddenly, everyone felt numb.
But he didn't know that after he led 12,000 cavalry as the vanguard, Guo Guangyi tried to attack Hu Shuicheng again.
As a result, good guys, when the people in the city saw Hu Guang leading his army to rescue them, their morale became even higher. Even the women and children dared to demolish the houses in the city and throw stones at the top of the city.
Warlord Guo Guangyi was beaten out twice in the fierce charge. In anger, Guo Guangyi used his remaining reason to give up the idea of continuing to attack the city.
These "cowardly Tang troops" were preparing to turn around and attack the stronghold first, and then starve all the people in Hu Shuicheng to death in the city, so they hurriedly urged Hu Lunqian to come forward.
Suddenly, while Jian Zheng was hesitating, he heard loud cheers from the front. It turned out that the rangers in front had captured a group of Tang cavalry who were fleeing in embarrassment, and were beating them hard.
Could it be that the calmness just now was an illusion, or maybe I couldn't see clearly because I was far away?
Hu Lunqian gritted his teeth and said, "Ask Zuo Du to protect him and tell him that this is a good opportunity to make meritorious deeds. As long as there is a gap, I will personally go to the Khan King to ask for merit for him."
