Chapter 2: Hu comes but keeps himself
On the school field, the united soldiers shouted like wolves howling and tigers, rising with the north wind, and snowflakes falling all over the sky. The pool of blood gradually coagulated, and the red color was soon covered with white. Qin Jin looked at these united soldiers who had just fought a battle, they might be called wolves in front of Cui Anshi's entourage, but in front of An Lushan's hundred battles, they were probably sheep
The unity soldiers are one of the ten households of the good family in this county, which is roughly similar to the regimental training of the later generations of the Qin and Jin dynasties, and this kind of local soldiers with strong local colors makes them all have the most obvious weakness, that is, once they are unable to retreat from the enemy, they will be their parents, wives, and brothers who will be plundered by the rebels. It is precisely this weakness that can also achieve their combat effectiveness in a decisive battle.
Qin Jin had heard a theory in later generations that an army fighting for some reason was equivalent to losing its soul.
"I want to ask you, are you afraid of death?"
"Don't be afraid! Follow Shaofu Jun to kill the thief!" the united soldiers replied categorically.
"What about your parents, wives and brothers?" Qin Jin asked another cruel question, this time the response became sparse, he did not continue to ask, but continued: "The crimes committed by the rebels in Hebei Province are too numerous to mention, and they will rob all the young women for their own use, drive the strong men to fill the siege for them, and finally rob them of their life savings. Can you allow this tragedy to happen in Xin'an?"
Everyone has parents, wives, and brothers, and the thought that this kind of tragedy might befall them makes the Tuan soldiers feel angry in addition to fear, and they also have a heartfelt disgust and hatred for the soldiers.
"Never!"
"So, from now on, you are not fighting for the court, nor for the chiefs!
The united soldiers nodded as if they didn't understand, they couldn't understand this kind of crepe statement about what they were fighting for, but they all had the instinct to protect their parents and wives, so they quickly agreed with Qin Jin's statement.
Qin Jin was not satisfied with his ideological work to stimulate fighting spirit, and when there was no pain, people's feelings about the crisis would naturally not be very strong, but as long as the seeds of what to fight were sown in the hearts of these people, in this era, it would one day grow into a towering tree.
However, he knew in his heart that the fertilizer that watered this seed was the innumerable amount of blood and flesh and bones.
On the day of the county commander Choi Anshi's ambush, his henchmen in Xin'an City were also searched for by the unity soldiers, and according to the idea of the school captain Qi Bihe, these people who wanted to surrender and rebel against Hu were cut down to clean up the matter. However, Chen Qianli didn't think so, he thought that the murder on the school field was a desperate situation and had no choice but to kill him. According to the imperial court system, at this moment, the Henan Mansion should immediately be issued to explain the reason for the killing of the county order, and then according to the Tang law, the people will be punished and publicized to deter people with bad intentions.
But now that Luoyang has fallen, and Henan Yin Da Xi Xun has also surrendered An Lushan, everything should be dealt with in power and slowly. After all, Cui Anshi was born in the Cui clan of Qinghe, and his relatives and the old people involved in him are also backed by the big family, if he is not killed for any reason, he may bring countless troubles to Qin Shaofu in the future.
These things are trivial for Qin Jin, and his clear familiarity with the historical trend makes him unable to have a glimmer of illusion like others, and the sense of crisis has always followed him, like a thorn in his back. Just when the county court was vigorously searching for the rebels, he was carefully studying the map of Henan Province, and after reading it, he was aroused into a cold sweat.
Xin'an is located about sixty or seventy miles west of Luoyang, which can be said to be close to Luoyang, and the rebel cavalry can come here in the morning and evening, even if the foot soldiers have two days of hard work, they are full of battles. In addition, there is a more fatal point, Xin'an was the Han Hangu Pass, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty moved the Hangu Pass from Hongnong to the west of Luoyang in order to expand the Guanzhong place, making it a dangerous pass.
Since the Han Dynasty, Xin'an has always been a necessary place on the road from Luoyang to Chang'an. Although the city has been gradually abandoned since the beginning of the Two Jin Dynasty, the importance of this humble county town to Luoyang is self-evident. In other words, the An Lushan rebels must have been determined to win this city. Under the premise of the rebels' full blow, this kind of resistance with a huge disparity in strength is tantamount to using a mantis arm as a car.
And he had just emphasized the main purpose of fighting for Xin'an in the morning, and if he proposed to withdraw his troops at this time, it would definitely make everyone think that he had gone back on his word. Isn't this a cocoon?
Qin Jin looked at this simple map, and was stunned for an hour, if it wasn't for Chen Qianli coming in a panic, maybe he would be able to stay for an afternoon.
"Shaofujun, the rebel cavalry was found outside the east gate, how should we deal with it?"
Chen Qianli's voice trembled a little, he had never fought before, and he didn't know how to deal with the rebels' siege. Qin Jin has never fought before, and it would be a lie to say that he is not nervous, but now that he is the backbone of more than 10,000 people in the county, he does not dare to easily show even half of his unfavorable emotions in front of his subordinates. Not only could he not show it, but he also had to appease Chen Qianli's nervousness.
"Since the rebels who came are cavalry, they will not attack the city for a while, when have you ever seen cavalry attack the city?"
When Qin Jin saw the rebels outside the city from far and near, he was still taken aback, and his hands were clenched tightly together in horror and lost half of his blood. He grew up in a time of peace, and had never experienced war, let alone seen the shock of the cavalry iron stream wrapped in the biting wind and roaring. Although the cavalry was only a few hundred men.
The rammed earth walls at his feet seemed to tremble with the clatter of the horse's hooves, and for a moment he even thought of giving up. However, when he saw such a menacing cavalry pausing under this rammed-earth city, his heart suddenly brightened.
Knowing history is indeed Qin Jin's insight beyond his time, but it will also become his burden and burden, and it will hit his determination and courage to resist. The well-known historical trend is that the rebels broke through Tongguan and conquered Chang'an. But there was no reborn self in history, if there was no oneself, the head of Xin'an City at this time may have planted the banner of the rebels, and these soldiers and generals who were stagnant under the city may have become Cui Anshi's guests.
Isn't that the change? A butterfly flapping its wings in the Americas is enough to trigger a tsunami in the Pacific Ocean. Who can guarantee that his sudden rebirth and well-known history will not be unrecognizable because of this? Qin Jin, who had unloaded his psychological baggage, once again regained his initial self-confidence, and when he once again faced the hundreds of rebel iron cavalry outside the city, he already had a preliminary countermeasure.
Chen Qianli exclaimed, "People, that's the people." Do you want to drive the people to attack the city?"
There are only a few hundred people outside the city, and even if the Xin'an city wall is only a few feet high, it is not so easy to take down. Sure enough, the soldiers did not drive the people to attack the city, but pushed the people strung together with hemp rope to the forefront, and then there was a chaotic rush of arrows, and the people were killed by arrows one after another.
Suddenly, there was a dry howl from the city wall, and the united soldiers in the city were agitated, "My brother is ...... below."
Soon, the rebels pulled out a bunch of civilians and continued to do the same, shooting and killing. Qin Jin immediately understood that the rebels were threatening the defenders in the city with a slaughter, and if they did not surrender, they would continue to kill.
"Shaofujun, go out of the city to meet the enemy, the soldiers are slaughtering our Xin'an father!"
Captain Che Biga was furious and frequently asked for battle.
It was almost difficult for the Mo sword soldiers to survive in front of the Fan soldiers riding bows, and Qin Jin wanted to refuse. When the words came to his mouth, he suddenly changed his mind, and the range of the crossbow was more than 300 steps, while the soldiers rode the bow no more than 100 steps. If the crossbowmen cover the city, and the Mo sword soldiers fight according to the city, it is enough to restrain the soldiers from riding bows. However, there is also a problem with this style of play, that is, the Mo Dao soldiers cannot move more than 200 steps from the city, and they must hope that the rebel cavalry will take the initiative to enter the firing range of the crossbow.
In any case, in the face of the Tang army out of the city, the soldiers did not dare to shoot the people unscrupulously. It is enough to have this one. As for letting the crossbowmen and the Mo Dao soldiers go out of the city to fight together, he didn't even want to think about it, with the current level of training of these unity soldiers, they might not be able to do it.
At this time, a group of black shadows at the edge of the woodland in the distance attracted Qin Jin's attention. Soon, these black shadows came from far and near, and they were a cavalry and horse team of less than 100 people. His heart sank suddenly, and the rebel cavalry arrived one after another in an instant, indicating that there was already a large army marching here, and these small groups of cavalry were the rangers who reconnoitred the enemy before the large army.
The roar of horses' hooves was heard again, and the rebels who had arrived first no longer shot the civilians, but turned their horses' heads as if they were facing a great enemy, and opened up to meet the enemy.
"It's the Tang Army!" When Chen Qianli blurted out, the two cavalry forces in front and behind had already collided together. With a scale of less than 100 people, he forcibly attacked hundreds of rebel cavalry, and Qin Jin admired the courage of these Tang troops. The Tang army initially disrupted the formation of the Fan soldiers with its speed advantage, but failed to successfully break away from contact with the Fan soldiers and fell into a stalemate. Once they were glued together, the numerical inferiority was immediately revealed, and casualties began to appear one after another.
Qin Jin immediately realized that there was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in front of him.
"Kiyoga!"
"In!"
"Order you to lead three hundred Mo sword soldiers out of the city to fight the Tang army to flank the Tibetan soldiers!"
This time, Qin Jin did not limit the distance they could go out of the city, as long as they could successfully flank the attack, it would effectively alleviate the fear of the united soldiers when facing the soldiers. It's just that the idea of flanking the front and back is very good, and once you go out of the city to fight, it is not at all what you imagined. Under the leadership of Qi Bihe, the unity soldiers were brave and needless to mention, but they never expected that the soldiers would actually divide their troops to fight back, and immediately killed and injured more than a dozen Mo sword soldiers, which made Qin Jin, who was watching the battle at the head of the city, feel distressed and regretful.
Perhaps the arrow wound on his left arm affected his mobility, his movements became more and more sluggish, and he was very clumsy in wielding the Mo knife, and the unity soldiers gradually became exhausted, and the casualties began to soar. Just when Qin Jin was about to order Mingjin to withdraw his troops, the rebels were divided into left and right and withdrew from the battlefield like a whirlwind.
Hundreds of civilians who were not shot were rescued. The crowd in the city forgot to cheer for a while!
This sudden battle won inexplicably, the remaining Tang cavalry and Mo Dao soldiers returned to the city before the mystery was revealed, it turned out that the Tang cavalry shot the other party's leader with a crossbow, the dragon was leaderless, and the soldiers hurriedly withdrew from the battlefield. Qin Jin couldn't help but secretly call it a fluke, at this time, Fang knew that the gap between the united army and the Fan army was so big, if he rashly fought with him head-on, he didn't know how much he would lose, but he was afraid that it was possible for the whole army to be annihilated.
Chen Qianli, who had been watching the excitement, approached Qin Jin and said in a low voice: "The armor on these people is not an ordinary style, but I am afraid that their status in the army is not low." ”
With Chen Qianli's reminder, Qin Jin paid special attention to these surviving Tang cavalry, they were obviously led by a thin middle-aged man, and even faintly heard someone shouting a few times.
In the county court hall, Qin Jin quickly learned the identity of this person, but he never expected that the first celebrity he met after coming to the Tang Dynasty turned out to be him. Immediately afterwards, Qin Jin gave birth to a trace of pity and sympathy, because soon, an edict from the Tang Emperor Li Longji would take this person's life!
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