Yang Su's army was mobilized, and Li Jing and Wei Mulan also set off with the army to experience the first war in their lives. www.biquge.info Yang Su's army is 50,000 horses, and 30,000 soldiers are cavalry, but Yang Su also has 2,000 chariots, and the opponent of Yang Su's army is Ashina's 120,000 light cavalry, which has dominated the Western Regions for many years. Yang Su did not have the slightest fear in the face of a more than twice as powerful enemy, and the whole army drove straight towards Ashina Zhan, and finally the two armies were about to face each other.

Yang Su placed 30,000 cavalry in front of him, while 2,000 chariots carried all the baggage and infantry in the back. Seeing Yang Su's formation, Ashina Zhan Huang was so happy that he jumped off his horse, knelt on the ground and kissed the land, thanking God. Generally, the original army will put the chariot on the periphery as a movable city wall, and the cavalry is hidden inside, and the light cavalry from the grassland is not easy to collide, and now Yang Su puts the cavalry in the open field, which is simply sending sheep to feed the tiger.

Ashina Zhan Huang didn't know one thing, for more than ten years, the Sui Dynasty unified China, the government and the people were very rich, the Sui Dynasty's army, especially the cavalry, everyone wore armor made of the whole piece of fine iron, not only people, horses. This armor was both strong and lightweight, and in the later Tang Dynasty, it had an extremely loud name called Mingguang Armor.

Because when Yang Su's army marched, the armor of the men and horses was placed in the chariot, and Yang Su also specially ordered people to paint the armor with the color of leather. Therefore, the scouts sent by Ashina Zhan never found anything special about Yang Sujun, and Ashina Zhan had no idea that his army's bows and arrows were at the shooting distance they were accustomed to, and there was no way to shoot through Yang Sujun's armor.

There are also 5,000 of Yang Sujun's 30,000 cavalry are horse crossbowmen, and horse crossbowmen hold strong crossbows with a range of 600 paces, which can only be done by bed crossbows placed on chariots, but the weapons industry of the Sui Dynasty is developed, and the medium-sized crossbows used by cavalry on horseback have evolved. Horse crossbowmen formed a formation to attack the enemy, the most famous in history is the battle of Qin and Zhao Changping during the Warring States Period, Qin General Bai Qi broke the Zhao army with 20,000 horse crossbowmen, and Gongsun Chan in the Three Kingdoms period was also good at using horse crossbow cavalry.

Ashina commanded the Turkic cavalry to attack from all directions, and the Turkic cavalry's consistent tactic was to rush to the range where their bows and arrows could shoot the enemy, shoot around the enemy's position, first break down the enemy's formation, and then rush over and slash.

Yang Sujun's horse crossbow team, every 500 people formed a matrix, when facing the enemy, according to the order of the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth rows of fire, row by row, when the fifth row of crossbow arrows fired, the first row, the second row of soldiers had already reloaded the crossbow arrows. And so on and so forth, and the rain of crossbow arrows continued without interruption.

The advantage of the crossbow team is that the entire matrix can be shot while advancing, expanding the depth of the attack. Generally, the effective killing range of the bow and arrow is 300 paces, and if you want to hit the target accurately, you often have to get close to less than 200 paces, but the crossbow arrows of the horse crossbow team have an effective range of 600 steps, in other words, when the enemy finds himself caught in a rain of arrows, there is no time to escape.

Ashina's light cavalry lacked good protection against arrows, so when the rain of arrows from Yang Su's horse crossbow team came, they suffered heavy casualties and could only howl in fear. Five thousand crossbowmen, each firing thirty arrows, had 150,000 crossbow arrows to greet the Turkic soldiers caught in a rain of arrows. The first wave of attacking troops was completely annihilated, and the second wave of attacking troops could only turn back and flee backwards, colliding with the third wave of attacking troops, squeezing and trampling each other, and the Turkic army was in chaos.

At this time, the 25,000 heavy armored cavalry of Yang Su's army launched a charge, the Turkic army howled and cried, scattered and fled, and Ashina Zhan was hit by three arrows and ran away from the battlefield as if he was dead. At the end of the battle and the clearing of the battlefield, the Turkic army left more than 20,000 corpses, and Yang Su's army only had a dozen killed, and the total number of wounded was less than 100.

Li Jing stared blankly at the battlefield full of corpses, this battle was completely different from the war he originally expected, there was no fierce fighting, there was no untenable battle, and the battle with the participation of 170,000 horses ended in less than an hour.

His own understanding of war is like that of a newborn baby facing the world, so it is no wonder that Yang Su has always scoffed at his so-called strategies on paper. Yang Su led the troops to fight, and every time he won a big victory, because Yang Su had excellent weapons and equipment, the training of combat skills of the second heavy personnel, and the acquisition and preservation of military intelligence, in fact, Yang Su won the battle before fighting, so Yang Su did not need to be strategic to fight, and he could adapt to the situation when he was in battle.

Yang Su left the army in Lingzhou, and returned to Beijing to report to the emperor that he had won the victory, and after the victory, the whole army was waiting for the promotion to make a fortune, and they were all looking forward to the reward of the imperial court, of course, Yang Su never disappointed his troops.

Soon the court report came, and Li Jing was promoted to the head of the seven thousand households, that is, the deputy head of the thousand households. Originally, the seven products were all thousands of households, and the general guard was generally eight products. However, Li Jing did not serve as the county magistrate of three counties before joining the army, he was already the eighth grade, Li Jing had no qualifications to command the army, and could not directly be the head of a thousand households, so he was given the position of seven products and a thousand households.

And Wei Mulan got the official title of Wei, although Wei didn't even have nine grades, but he could be regarded as a quasi-officer, younger than the centurion and older than the tenth, Li Jing kept Wei Mulan by his side as the chief of the guard.

At the same time as Yang Su's army, the middle road Gao Gong army of the Northern Expedition to the Turks had 50,000 Chinese troops and 10,000 Ashina Ran dry Turkic light cavalry, but Gao Gong did not send a large number of scouts to understand the enemy situation like Yang Su, and he asked his general Zhao Zhongqing to be the vanguard and lead 3,000 cavalry to explore the road.

The opponent of the middle road Gao Gong army is Ashina Yongyu Lu, he used a small number of troops to engage Zhao Zhongqing, Zhao Zhongqing won seven battles and seven victories and continued to pursue deeply, came to Qifubo, met more than 1,000 Turkic herdsmen and tens of thousands of livestock, Zhao Zhongqing and his subordinates happily slaughtered sheep to celebrate.

Unexpectedly, Ashina Yongyu Lu's army appeared at this time, Zhao Zhongqing had to form a phalanx to resist on all sides, because the weapons and equipment of the Chinese army were much better than those of the Turkic army, and the range of arrows was long, Zhao Zhongqing held on for five days and finally Gao Gong's large army arrived, and Zhao Zhongqing's 3,000 vanguard army was almost killed and wounded.

Ashina Yongyu Lu tens of thousands of horses attacked 3,000 people and couldn't defeat them for five days, where did he dare to compete with the Gao Gong army, of course, he fled. Gao Gong saw that the battle was futile, so he had to send envoys to ask the court for help, and on the other hand, the whole army continued to pursue, crossed the Baidao River, crossed the Yin Mountain, and advanced for 700 miles.

If you count the number of people who died of exhaustion, died of illness, fell into a ravine and fell to their deaths, and fought and fought with their own people, the Northern Expedition of Gao Gong's army can be said to be a failure.

A few months later, Ashina Zhan's arrow wound healed, he saw that Gao Gong's army was good to bully, and sent a small force to lure Han Hong, the head of the Daizhou Military Region of Gao Gong's army, to attack, Han Hong is Han Baohu's younger brother, Han Hong did not collect military intelligence, only led 10,000 cavalry to desperately chase the Turkic army, but was surrounded by Ashina's 100,000 light cavalry, fortunately, Zhao Zhongqing of the nearby military region quickly brought 20,000 horses to the rescue, and saved his life when Han Hong's whole army was wiped out and was about to kill himself.

In this battle, more than 1,000 Turks were killed, and more than 10,000 were killed by the Gao Gong army. The emperor was furious, not only dismissed Marshal Gao Gong from his post, but also refused to let him be the prime minister, and told him to go home and think about it behind closed doors.

Yang Su from Lingzhou, Han Seng Shou from Qingzhou, Shi Wansui from Yanzhou, Yao Wei from Hezhou, the four roads concurrently launched the Northern Expedition again. The armies were not ready, the news came, the Turkic Khan Ashina Yongyu Lu was assassinated and killed, Ashina Zhan Huang called himself the Great Khan, but the other Turkic princes and nobles refused to admit it, so Ashina Zhan Huang launched a civil war, the Turks were in turmoil, and there was no war in the north for a while.

The cost of hundreds of thousands of horses in a day is very staggering, and the imperial court cannot let the soldiers wander the border, since there is no war for the time being, of course the army will be disbanded. The system of the Sui Dynasty, the army was demobilized and will return to the dynasty, Li Jing has to report back to the imperial court, the soldiers return to the house, and Wei Mulan has to go home to farm.

Finally about to break up and say goodbye, Wei Mulan cried profusely: "Chief Li, you must come to see me when you are free, my family lives in Zhouzhuang Village, Yingguogou, Yucheng County, Shangqiu County, and I have a younger sister who wants to marry you." ”

Li Jing smiled bitterly: "I'm already married." ”

"It's okay, she'll be your concubine. ”

"Don't talk nonsense, how old are you, your parents are there, how can you marry your sister as the main one?"

"Yes, you don't know I can do it, you must come and see me. ”