Chapter 21 Qizhou
While Wang Jiqing was struggling with whether to save or not, Li Yuanche in Qizhou City was about to face the cruelty of war. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
Qizhou, which is located in the northern Xinjiang of the Great Jin Dynasty, is the most important military town on the northern border of the Great Jin Dynasty. The geographical location of Qizhou is very important, and it is a necessary place for barbarians to attack the Central Plains. Since ancient times, Qizhou has been a battleground for soldiers.
In the general's mansion in Qizhou City, a controversy about Valenburg is raging.
"Marshal, Valenburg has been besieged for three days, if our army does not send troops to rescue again, General Li Bi is afraid that they will not be able to hold on."
"The last general asks for orders and brings 10,000 soldiers of the Left Army to Warenburg to support."
Valenburg is a border town closest to the barbarians in Jiuzhai in northern Xinjiang. Three days ago, Qizhou City received a message for help from Valenburg: the barbarian army of 50,000 had surrounded Valenburg. At this time, there was only one general surnamed Li in Valenburg who led the 3,000 soldiers stationed there.
"No, the last general thinks that he should send troops to take down the Zhenshi Gorge from both flanks, and then send troops to support Valenburg."
"That's right, if we can't solve the problem of Zhenshi Canyon, our army will only increase casualties even if we send more reinforcements."
Zhenshi Canyon is the only place to pass on from Qizhou to Warenburg, this canyon is quite strange, the valley is flanked by high cliffs, and only a path for one or two people leads to the outside of the valley.
This time, Valenburg was besieged, and the barbarians took the opportunity to occupy the other end of the Zhenshi Canyon, and arranged an ambush for archers at the mouth of the canyon.
After Li Yuan received the news of the request for help, he sent two reinforcements totaling more than 20,000 people to the rescue, but they were both ambushed in the Zhenshi Gorge and suffered heavy casualties.
Li Yuan went north this time, and his henchmen's descendants only had more than 50,000 people. At this time, before the war began, more than half of the soldiers were lost, and the generals in the army were inevitably a little impetuous.
"This time, the barbarians surrounded our Valenburg but did not fight, and what they fought was the idea of using Zhenshi Valley to ambush our reinforcements, and the marshal must not be impulsive."
"This can't be done, that's not possible, can't it be just to watch my three thousand soldiers in Valenburg being trapped alive!" A rather fiery general slammed the table with one hand.
Li Yuancai encountered such a tricky thing when he led his troops to the north, if he couldn't save Valenburg in one fell swoop, I am afraid that it would chill the hearts of the soldiers of Jiuzhai in the frontier, and then he would not be able to gain a foothold in the northern Xinjiang.
"Che'er, what do you think?" Li Yuan saw that several generals in the army were noisy at this time, so he looked at his son, who had just returned from Quanzhou. This son of his has been very calm and witty since he was a child, and Li Yuan wanted to hand over the rescue of Valenburg to him. Although Li Yuan also felt sorry for his only son, he also knew that only after experiencing the baptism of war would his son really grow up.
"Father, my son is willing to take 10,000 soldiers of the forward battalion to Warenburg." Li Yuanche also understands the situation at this time, he has no military merits, and if he wants to gain a foothold in the army and subdue the hearts of 150,000 soldiers in the border area, it is obviously not enough to rely on the identity of the son of Marshal Zhenbei, and only by winning the current battle can he truly gain the recognition of the 150,000 bloody soldiers in the frontier.
Li Yuanche received the military order, and hurried back to his small courtyard to discuss with his staff member Mr. Fushan.
"Mr. Fushan, is there a good plan for the siege of Valenburg?" opened the map of the frontier, Li Yuanche didn't talk nonsense, and asked directly.
"Lord, the old man, Zhou Ping, Zhao Lin and others came for a few days first, but they have an idea." Mr. Fushiyama knew that the tense was urgent at this time, so he didn't sell it.
"Oh?" Li Yuanche looked up.
"Zhou Ping and Zhao Lin had already set off for Shanzhou the day before yesterday." Mr. Fushiyama walked over and pointed to the map.
Shanzhou, Shanzhou? Heavy crossbow!
Li Yuanche saw it and understood it instantly.
Shanzhou is the last supply town for military supplies in the Great Jin Frontier, and it is also the last defensive line in Northern Xinjiang. Therefore, the city of Shanzhou is equipped with dozens of heavy crossbows for city defense. It is very difficult to build a heavy crossbow that can be used for continuous fire, and the imperial court only receives a few dozen from Jiangnan every year, which is a secret armament of the imperial court, and it is not allowed to be rationed in ordinary cities.
At this time, in the face of the situation that Zhenshi Valley is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is impossible to break through it without heavy crossbows.
"There is a strict order from the imperial court, and heavy crossbows cannot be mobilized unless there is an order from the military department." Li Yuanche stood up, "I'm afraid it's very difficult for Zhou Ping and others to borrow a heavy crossbow. ”
"Lord, don't worry." Mr. Fushiyama laughed, "If others want to borrow a heavy crossbow, it is naturally impossible. But there is no problem with you, Lord. Mr. Fushan didn't wait for Li Yuanche to ask, and said directly, "The new garrison of Shanzhou is not someone else, it is the third son of the Wang family, Wang Zeren, the eldest son of the second master of the Wang. ”
It turned out to be his future third uncle. It's no wonder that the heavy crossbow is from the south of the Yangtze River, and the Wang family is naturally not at ease to hand over the management of others to any state city equipped with a heavy crossbow. Although the marriage contract between himself and the Wang family is secret and unknown to outsiders, the third son of the king is a descendant of the Wang family, and I am afraid that he already knows it at this time. Thinking that with this relationship, this heavy crossbow must be able to be borrowed.
On the second day, when Zhou Ping and Zhao Lin returned to Qizhou with two heavy crossbows, Li Yuanche, who was wearing a silver armor and red robe, ordered 10,000 Shanxi disciples and rushed to Valenburg.
In Zhenshi Valley, Li Yuanche personally led people to block the backshield, opened the way with a heavy crossbow, and prepared to force through Zhenshi Valley.
"Put!" At the sound of an order, a row of three sharp arrows more than two meters long shot straight at the other end of the canyon with a shocking force.
The arrow from the string is unstoppable!
Seeing that Taniguchi was opened by a crossbow arrow, Li Yuanche took the lead, and rushed out in a killing shout, and the shadow guard gray who was acting as a personal soldier behind him saw that his master rushed out, so he hurriedly led someone to follow.
After a rush, 10,000 horses finally rushed out of Zhenshi Valley.
Li Yuanche did not pause for a moment, and took advantage of the morale of his own men and horses, and directly killed Valenburg.
"Reinforcements are coming, reinforcements are coming!" The soldiers on the lookout post at Valenburg hurriedly cheered when they saw a group of men and horses galloping from the direction of Qizhou.
"Open the gate of the wall, cooperate with the reinforcements, and slaughter these barbarians for me." General Li Bi, who was defending the city, had been trapped for a few days, and when he heard that reinforcements were coming, he immediately ordered to leave the city.
In the Battle of Valenburg, Li Yuanche led 10,000 soldiers of the Great Jin Dynasty and killed more than 30,000 barbarian tribesmen. The main general Li Yuanche even captured the second prince of the barbarian clan, Anton Zan, and killed the barbarian general Zuo Ke. After this battle, the barbarian vitality was greatly injured and temporarily withdrew from the army for a truce.
Since then, the brave name of this young famous general in silver armor and red robe will soon become famous all over the world.