Chapter 170: Change of Generals
The rebel army controlled by the Red Mei Sect has about 1,000 elite disciples above the Spirit Realm, while the camp of the Spirit Realm will only be about 300 people in Xiyuanjin, which retreats to the northern slope of Zuojin Valley, and the Spirit Realm camp will only be about 300 people, which is a huge gap. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
On the fifth day, the rebels assembled in the mountains north of Zuojin Valley covered the sky and closed the day, and there were as many as four or five hundred thousand, and the absolute number was more than ten times that of the remnants of the Xiyuan Army.
However, the core advantage of the Xiyuan Army is that the grassroots generals are extremely elite, far from being comparable to the untrained homeless rebels.
There are more than 40,000 generals in the remnants of the Xiyuan Department, and 7,000 or 8,000 people from Minyong, the foundation is a little worse, but the other generals are all Jianrui selected from the Gyeonggi Prefectures and counties to train the Xiyuan Army, and the seventh capital commanded by Chen Hai is a Jiangyang Dakou sent from all over the country. There are more than 40,000 people, and there are enough seven or eight thousand people who have a martial arts foundation in the Xuan Realm, and they can be called elite wherever they are placed.
Although Yao Qitai and Tu Chongjin rebuilt their troops and horses and had not yet regained their morale from the chaos, after Chen Haiqin led the seventh capital to expand to 20,000 soldiers, it had begun to take the rudiments of a tiger and wolf army.
However, the rebel army controlled by Red Mei was one thing, and at the same time, it always gathered thousands of elite disciples together, and the speed of advance and retreat was extremely fast, and Chen Hai could not lead his troops out of the camp to fight, so he could only use all means to strengthen the defense of the three large battalions that formed a horn trend.
For Chen Hai, holding on until the Taiwei Mansion sent reinforcements was a great victory.
Holding on to the rebels and retaining the face of the Xiyuan Army is also the core strategic intention of Chen Hai to establish it at the earliest and lead his troops north into Tongbei.
Heavenly Master Gong Liang may not be willing to let the elite disciples around him suffer too heavy casualties, but when four or five hundred thousand rebel generals gather, it is impossible for him to continue the confrontation without doing anything, and it is impossible for Chen Hai to delay until the reinforcements from the Taiwei Mansion arrive, and they are forced to retreat into the deep mountains and old forests.
In addition to stepping up the capture of the walled cities in Tongbei Province, from the third day, the rebels' offensive against the three large battalions began one after another.
Four or five hundred thousand rebels, about 70,000 or 80,000 of whom were wrapped in black scarves, had complete armor, and even a large number of war horses, and their combat power was stronger than that of ordinary local armaments. Although these black turban soldiers are still not comparable to the tiger and wolf army led by Chen Hai, they can be said to be a rare elite among the outcast rebels.
These black turban soldiers can only mainly come from the bandit village in the depths of Qintong Mountain, and there are obvious traces of training, advance and retreat in an orderly manner, the establishment of cavalry, archers, shield halberd foot soldiers is relatively perfect, the armor is relatively sophisticated, and there are even a small number of chariots and weapons used to attack the camp and pull out the village.
It can be seen that the Red Mei Sect infiltrated and controlled the bandit villages in the depths of Qintong Mountain a few years ago.
This reminded Chen Hai of the scenes he had seen in Jade Dragon Mountain and Chishan City, where tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of exiles rebelled against the Red Mei Sect's 35 black-robed cultists, and after a bloody battle with the local armed forces, a large number of exiles were exterminated, but a small group of elites were still left to withdraw with the transfer of the Black-robed Sect of the Red Mei Sect.
Chen Hai suspected that the black turban soldiers gathered in the Tongbei area at this time had some of the soldiers and horses that had been withdrawn from the south of Yulong Mountain.
When the rebels launched an attack on the three large camps of the Xiyuan Army, the Heavenly Master Gong Liang, who was wearing bright yellow Taoist clothes, personally pressed more than 1,000 elite disciples of the Red Mei Sect to press the formation, and used the black turban soldiers as the Chinese army to enter the Xiyuan military camp, but what really pressed up and directly attacked the camp were a large number of homeless generals with wooden shields and iron spears on both wings and few sets of armor.
Chen Hai could naturally realize that Heavenly Master Gong Liang still had to use the brutal camp attack to temper the Wandering Army, and the Wandering Army wanted to grow up quickly, and although the tempering of the bloody war was cruel, it was the fastest and most effective.
In the face of Heavenly Master Gong Liang's cruel calculations, Chen Hai was helpless.
There is no shortage of people who are proficient in the use of military skills in the Red Eyebrow Sect's rebels, and it is not surprising that the British King Yingshu led his troops to the south to conquer the Yunmeng Domain, and suffered a great loss from the Red Eyebrow Sect.
And after some sufficient precautions and preparations, the attack and camp deployment of the elite members of the Red Mei Sect, the elite Black Turban Soldiers, and the outcasts were extremely meticulous. Even if Chen Hai led his troops out of the camp to counterattack, after peeling off the outlying exile army, he would not be able to bargain at all in the face of the elite Black Turban Soldiers and the elite members of the Red Mei Sect inside.
After holding each other for more than ten days, Chen Hai couldn't grasp the loopholes of the rebels and carried out a fierce and ruthless counterattack, let alone defeat the elite of the Black Turban Soldiers and the Red Eyebrow Sect, so he could only let the battle drag on needlessly.
In order to prevent Heavenly Master Gong Liang from concentrating on the elite disciples of the Red Mei Sect to use their magical powers, Chen Haicai divided himself into three camps to defend and expand the scope of the camp as much as possible, so that there would be enough buffer area. Chen Hai also organized Cen Yunfei, Chen Qing and others, as well as some of the defeated generals of Nangui, to form an elite Xuan cultivation team of hundreds of people to deal with the surprise attack that the elite of the Red Mei Sect might have at any time.
At this time, Chen Hai also played a vital role in the formation of a large number of craftsmen in the baggage camp.
When all the resources are mobilized, the baggage battalion can transform more than a dozen three-bow bed crossbows with a firing distance of more than 1,000 paces every day, and according to the current rudimentary conditions, more defensive side vans, iron beam cars, mobile fence walls and other combat weapons can be built and placed in the camp to prevent the elite members of the Red Mei Sect from attacking with magic.
Heavenly Master Gong Liang did not care about the lives of the homeless soldiers, and urged thousands of homeless people every day to attack the camp of the Xiyuan Army, and the bloody fighting did not stop for a day.
Even if the generals of the West Garden Army, the foundation of physical cultivation is far stronger than that of the homeless people, but after all, the number of people is a big disadvantage, after all, after the repeated battles of the homeless army, it is inevitable that they will be tired of soldiers, and the number of elites of the Red Eyebrow Sect is also a great advantage, and they are about to press the formation in the back, and they can also throw a large number of falling rocks into the camp from a distance of seven or eight miles, with a large number of flames and ice picks in between, tearing the earth, or creating a storm to sweep the camp of the West Park Army.
Although Chen Hai and the others had a lot of talismans and seals in reserve before they set off, the Red Eyebrow Sect members could refine the aura of heaven and earth as the true element at the beginning of dawn every day, and they could concentrate on casting a round of magic and magic powers every day.
The Xiyuan Army soon accumulated a lot of casualties.
The casualties of the rebels were even more severe, with thousands of people falling every day, filling the trenches dug in front of the rudimentary walls, filling the cracks in the earth with magical powers.
Rivers of blood have flowed like rivers, and they have already dyed the land north of the Zuojin Valley red.
Due to the existence of a strong man like Heavenly Master Gong Liang in the rebel army, and the number of rebels was far greater than that of the Xiyuan army, they quickly went around to the mountains south of Zuojin Valley to establish a sentry post.
As a result, Chen Hai and the others were completely surrounded by the rebels, and they could not communicate with the outside world through the blockade of Heavenly Master Gongliang and the strong men of the Red Mei Sect's Great Sacrifice Liquor, and the Qingpeng Bird and other spirit birds could not fly out of the range of the camp to reconnoiter the enemy situation on the periphery.
Subsequently, Tu Chongjin's department and Yao Qitai's department, after the initial chaos, especially those elite generals saw that there was no other way to retreat except to hold the camp, gradually got better running-in, even if there were casualties accumulated every day, the overall combat strength was never greatly weakened.
It has always been like an impregnable reef, standing in the northern part of the Zojin Valley, and let the rebels beat and destroy it.
Cao Feng and others expected that the Taiwei Mansion would send reinforcements in ten days and half a month, but in fact, they held out until the fifty-sixth day, and waited until the seventh day of the seventy-third month of the Yitian Emperor, when the rebels left nearly 100,000 dead bodies and withdrew to the mountains to the north.
Fan Chun sent people to cross the Zuojin Valley blocked by the cliff and enter the camp, Chen Hai and they knew at this time that in addition to the remaining 30,000 elites of the Xiyuan Army, the Taiwei Mansion also transferred 50,000 soldiers from the Jingzhao Mansion garrison, and all the generals Fan Chun and the supervising army envoy and Wen Boyuan, the regular attendant of the scattered cavalry, led the gallop to aid Tongbei, and only then arrived at the Taoshui River south of the Zuojin Valley.
At this time, the camp had only three days of grain left.
Tu Chongjin and the others didn't understand why the reinforcements had not arrived until today, and they were inevitably resentful, only Chen Hai, Tu Ziji, and Zhao Rong knew what was going on.
If the Taiwei Mansion recruits the elite of the Tiger Ben Army from the Qinglongyu Battalion, it will undoubtedly be the fastest move, but from now on, the Xiyuan Army will not say that there is no possibility of keeping alongside the Tiger Ben Army, and it will even be difficult to maintain its independence.
And the Tiger Army may not be willing to come over to wipe the ass of the Xiyuan Army - at this time, it is not only the outbreak of civil unrest in the Qintong Mountains west of Gyeonggi, as the strongest combat power and the most generals, the Tiger Ben Army is also responsible for military suppression in the other three directions at the same time.
In the end, Fan Chun, the general of the Su Guard, and Wen Boyuan, the general of the scattered cavalry, led the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Xiyuan Army, as well as 50,000 soldiers from the Jingzhao Mansion garrison to aid Tongbei, which should also be the final result after repeated disputes between many officials in the DPRK and the Taiwei Mansion.
However, Chen Hai and Tu Chongjin led their troops to finally hold the camp in the north of Zuojin Valley, holding on to hundreds of thousands of displaced people for nearly two months, not only did not let the displaced rebels take advantage of the opportunity, but also left nearly 100,000 corpses of the displaced rebels in the northern part of Zuojin Valley.
It is also the most critical bargaining chip for Fan Chun, the general of the Su Guard, and Wen Boyuan, the regular attendant of the scattered cavalry, to lead the main force of the Xiyuan Army to rush to aid Tongbei, and continue to retain the Xiyuan Army instead of directly dismantling.
By this time, at least the combat strength of the Xiyuan Army had been proven, which showed that the training of the Xiyuan Army in the past year had been fruitful; as for the collapse of the Leiyang Valley, which resulted in more than 20,000 casualties among the generals of the Xiyuan Army and more than 100,000 casualties in the local armed forces, it was Wei Yuzhi's responsibility as the chief general to observe the enemy.
Accompanying Fan Chun to Zuojin Valley, there was also a military envoy from the Taiwei Mansion, who brought Fu Zhao to remove the post of the chief general of the Wei Yu Xiyuan Army and was replaced by Fan Chun.
Wei Yu immediately returned to Yanjing to accept the review of the Taiwei Mansion, and the later war to suppress the rebels in Qintongshan was also responsible for the general Fan Chun and Wen Boyuan, the guard army.
Only then did Chen Hai know that the official title of "Mr. Wen" was the free cavalry attendant who was in charge of the affairs of the British Prince's Palace.
The imperial palace and the princes' palaces all set up internal palaces to take charge of affairs such as money, grain, and support, which were usually held by the close ministers or eunuchs of the emperors and the kings, and were awarded the title of permanent attendant.
The close ministers of the inner government, such as the scattered cavalry and the regular attendants, were an official position with a low rank but a very important status, and sometimes they often supervised the military and government on behalf of the emperor and the kings. The children of the eight clans of Jingjun are in charge of the government, and the emperor uses these close ministers to suppress the power of the eight clans of Jingjun, which is a tradition since the founding of Dayan.
This time, Wen Boyuan directly served as the supervising envoy of the Xiyuan Army, and he didn't have to think that it was the result of a series of operations carried out by the British King Yingshu behind the scenes, which represented that the crown prince Yingdan officially agreed that the "descendant" British King Yingshu would directly intervene in the control of the Xiyuan Army.
Chen Hai didn't know how King Yingshu won the trust of the prince, and it was hard to imagine what kind of rage the prince would be after the prince Yingdan knew the true position of King Yingshu. However, it should have nothing to do with him.