Whether it was the soldiers and horses, or the officials and the people, they all moved at the first time, showing the concise and efficient management system of the Tang State.

Except for the soldiers and horses guarding the Japanese prisoners, all the other soldiers and horses were out of the camp and lined up, and the cavalry was in front and the infantry was behind. Thousands of torches reflected the cold light of the swords and guns, and the chirping of war horses woke up the night. Everything seemed tense and orderly.

Cui Xiuning has rehearsed this scene more than once before.

"The army has been assembled, please show me." Wu Yan, the general on guard duty, came over dressed in Xuanjia and asked Cui Xiuning, who had just stepped out of the carriage, for instructions.

"Have the people of the east moved west?" Cui Xiuning first asked about this, and what she was most concerned about was the safety of the people in the mountains and regions.

"Madame, don't worry, you've already moved west."

"How are you going to fight this battle?" Cui Xiuning asked again.

The Tang army is now the supreme general who has no control over the generals. According to the garrison system of the Tang State, during the war, whoever is the general on duty is responsible for commanding.

Just like now, Wu Yan and Yang Xu and the others are only at the same level, but since he is on duty this month, Yang Xu and the others also have to listen to him temporarily.

Wu Yan said: "If it is dark today, there are many enemy troops, and the difficulty in this battle is how to annihilate them all." His subordinates planned to lure the enemy deep first, take the opportunity to outflank the infantry, and then form a pocket formation, and then the cavalry attacked head-on. ”

Cui Xiuning nodded. It is very simple to win this battle, but it is difficult to annihilate it completely. After all, it's night, and it's easy to fight into a rout. If a large number of students flee back to the mountains, won't it be a month and month in the future, and every year?

Completing the battle is Cui Xiuning's strategic purpose. During this time, she let Sheng Fan go untreated and let Sheng Fan be busy forming alliances, just to give Sheng Fan a chance to unite so that the Tang Army could be annihilated at one time.

"Good! The battle is handed over. Cui Xiuning agreed with Wu Yan's tactics, and Yang Xuhugu and the others also agreed.

But some people quit.

"Madam, it's very inappropriate for General Wu to play like this!" Lin Biju was anxious, "Our army is so powerful, just take the initiative to attack, why lure the enemy deeper?" Today, on the eastern plains, there are also a lot of winter wheat and newly opened mulberry forests. Once the enemy army penetrates, next year's spring tax will be at least two or three percent less! How can you take the initiative to use your own crops as a battlefield? ”

Wu Yan said impatiently: "Shangqing, the last general only cares about all the annihilation, where can I manage your spring tax!" What a lot of money and what a lot of money to do in this war! ”

Hu Gu also smiled: "That's the truth!" Shangqing. After destroying the great harm of life, everything in the mountains is ours, and it is not better than the tax loss? ”

Cui Xiuning said: "It's better to lure the enemy deeper, and you must annihilate them all." However, if the crops are damaged and the students are allowed to escape, they will all be punished! ”

"No!"

Soon, the army rumbled eastward. And Cui Xiuning's carriage also had to follow. But he was stopped by Lin Biju and said: "The son of a daughter can't sit down." Mrs. is now pregnant, and she is in the future of the Tang Kingdom, so she must not be in danger. The matter of this war is left to the generals. ”

Cui Xiuning had no choice but to stop the carriage, "Then according to Shangqing's words, Mrs. Ben will not go." ”

Lin Biju's heart was relieved, "Madame is like a stream, and Weichen admires it very much." ”

Half an hour later, the army of Shengfan finally appeared on the eastern plain, and discharged a line two or three miles wide. The sound of footsteps in the darkness is like the tide.

Although the Shengfan army was put together by dozens of tribes, it was a completely chaotic mess, but it still exuded a monstrous momentum, like a huge monster dormant in the night, slowly approaching the immigration area.

With the unscrupulous deepening of the Shengfan army, large tracts of winter wheat and mulberry seedlings were destroyed on the feet of Shengfan. For every mile that Shengfan went into, thousands of acres of crops were destroyed.

Although Haidong is relatively hot, it is winter after all, and the ground is covered with frost, and the night is still a little cold. But the students walk barefoot, and they are not afraid of the cold at all.

Soon, the army of Shengfan had penetrated several miles and had reached the vicinity of the easternmost village.

Since suffering repeated losses at the hands of the Han people, uniting to exterminate the Han people has become the consensus of all the tribes of Shengfan. Under the pressure of reality, the tribes who were originally fighting each other for life and death, after a long time of discussion, finally elected Da Xiao to become the first "King of the Mountain".

Without external pressure, the students would never have been able to unite. But now, with the emergence of the tribal alliance and the King of the High Mountain, the social organization ecology of Shengfan has immediately been raised to a big level.

You must know that a few years ago, the scale of the internal battle was only a few dozen or a few hundred people. But now, they can send tens of thousands of people. This is obviously a huge step forward.

If they can defeat the Han Chinese, they may soon be able to establish a slave kingdom. Historically, many tribal states have been established in this way.

The freshly baked "King of the Mountains" is a short and sturdy young man. At this time, he was riding on the back of a sambar deer, walking at the front of the group.

That's right, the King of the Mountains has a mount.

Moreover, not only the King of the High Mountain, but also the people riding sambar deer in the team were hundreds, like a strange cavalry.

This is completely learned from the Han people. The cavalry of the Han Chinese made them frightened and impressed. However, they searched hundreds of miles of mountains, but they couldn't find the tall and slender "long-faced monster".

They can only use sambar deer instead of the "long-faced monster".

The sambar is a large deer species, the size of the red deer, the male deer can reach five feet tall at the shoulder, and the weight can reach 400 catties. For the short life, the sambar is barely enough as a short-range means of transportation. But if you want to replace the cavalry's war horses, it will never be possible.

To put it bluntly, riding a sambar bar is just to satisfy the vanity of the students.

The Han people have that monster to ride, and the descendants of their mountain gods also have sambar deer to ride? It's not bad.

"King, the Han people's stockade is in front, and the warriors' knives will be full of blood!" A sambar rider said to Howling.

Da Xiao grabbed the horns of the sambar under his crotch, controlled the direction of the sambar, and said with a laugh: "All the men of the overseas Han people have been killed, and all the women who can give birth to children have been arrested!" ”

"Oh and~ hey! Babble, much! The students danced excitedly and shouted, screaming and rushing to the village.

But then Howling suddenly grabbed the sambar deer's horns, stopped moving forward, and said suspiciously: "Thunder? It's the decaying grass season (winter), how can it thunder? ”

The army of Shengfan stopped together, looked up at the sky, strange, there was no thunder.

Still, the thunderous sound rumbled.

Wrong! The sound is ahead!

Soon Da Xiao was surprised to find that many bonfires were lit up in the surrounding fields one after another, more and more, like stars in the sky. In the blink of an eye, thousands of fires lit up the field.

At the same time, countless Han people riding monsters rumbled over from the west, and the snow bright sword light was dense.

'Boom-'

It seemed as if the whole earth was trembling.

This scene suddenly made tens of thousands of people stunned on the spot.

How did these barbarians in the mountains have seen such a scene?

O mountain god, there are so many...... Monsters!

Just when Shengfan stopped and didn't know what to do, the seven thousand Jurchen cavalry had already completed the acceleration and rushed towards the army of more than 60,000 Shengfan with overwhelming momentum.

Seven thousand Jurchen elite horses attacked the 60,000 rabble, and the result was actually no longer suspenseful.

But that's not all. More than 30,000 infantry troops have long been arranged on the two wings, taking advantage of the depth of Shengfan, so that Shengfan himself into the pocket. When the cavalry attacked from the front, 60,000 Shengfan had already been surrounded by 40,000 Tang troops. Even the back road back to the mountain was cut off.

As soon as the cavalry attacked, the infantry troops surrounded on all sides immediately shrank their pockets and pressed towards the Shengfan in the middle within a radius of several miles.

Before the Jurchen cavalry collided with the Shengfan brigade, they launched a rain of secret arrows, and the Shengfan at the front was suddenly killed and wounded, and I don't know how many people fell off the back of the deer in an instant.

The roaring sambar deer screamed miserably when he was hit by an arrow, and with a single kick, he lifted the King of the Mountains off the back of the deer and fell into a daze.

Before the King of the Mountains could get up, he saw countless monsters screaming and rushing over......

"Boom-" Seven thousand Jurchen elite horses crashed into the Shengfan brigade, like an iron hammer smashed on a watermelon. The huge team of students suddenly shattered and exploded.

The sound of ghosts crying and howling erupted like an earth-shattering explosion, filling this hazy night sky with bloody and cruel horror.

Cui Xiuning, who was a few miles away from the battlefield, stood on the horse-drawn cart, looked at the battlefield in the east, and heard the fighting and screams, and knew that Shengfan had entered the pocket formation.

The next step is the siege.

This is not war at all, it is too asymmetrical. Even if there are more than 60,000 people in Shengfan, they can only be reduced to fish on the chopping board and slaughtered by others.

Cui Xiuning was wearing red leather armor, her lips were tightly pursed, and her face was a little pale.

Tens of thousands of lives, and they're going to be gone again. In tonight's war, all the Shengfan young and strong died here, and only some women and children were left in the Shengfan tribes, what will be the result in the future?

I guess it's the extinction of the dead race.

Cui Xiuning's hands were squeezed in cold sweat. How did you become like this in two years? Become a butcher? How did an excellent policeman who used to have a strong mind become such a cold-blooded and cruel person? Is there any difference between what she is doing now and the Yuan army that slaughtered the Han people and the ugly colonists who slaughtered the Indians?

No! No! I'm not for myself, I'm for the Han people not to be invaded and slaughtered again, I'm just killing to stop killing, and countering violence with violence.

If criminals want to kill, they must be countered. I am merely exercising the right of collective defence.

Then kill, mercy to the enemy is cruelty to oneself, treat the enemy like a harsh winter, be merciful to violent criminals, and resolutely eliminate the invading army!

Cui Xiuning finally convinced herself.

A fast horse galloped from the front, and the cavalry on the horse jumped off the horse and said to Cui Xiuning: "Mrs. Qiqi, the army is encircling and suppressing Shengfan, please rest assured!" General Wu asked his wife, is there a new military order? ”

Wu Yan sent someone to ask for instructions, of course, it was a sign of sensibility. If there is no new military order, it means that the lady does not want to take prisoners, and he can kill them all.

"Zeng Du!" Cui Xiuning did not answer the herald's words.

"In!" Zeng Du immediately stood in front of Cui Xiuning, his expression was very excited, and he seemed to be happy.

Cui Xiuning said: "You tell me honestly, is it really unusable?" ”

Zeng Du said: "Back to Mrs. Hui's words, Weichen has been in the mountains for a long time, and he knows that he is savage, stubborn, and really unusable, and he will be eaten back!" Whether you are an army or a slave, it is very dangerous. ”

Cui Xiuning nodded and said to the herald: "Tell General Wu that I don't have a new military order." ”

"No!" The herald was overjoyed, and immediately rode eastward.

There is no new order, that is, there is no need to keep prisoners.

A quarter of an hour later, the battle had come to an end. With no armor and rudimentary weapons, the Tang army, which was well-trained, stubborn, and had a large cavalry, completely fell into a situation of being slaughtered by one side.

Under the siege of tens of thousands of Tang troops, a large number of Shengfan died at every moment, and the Shengfan army was sharply reduced at an alarming speed.

It didn't take long for all 60,000 lives to be besieged and killed. Only a hundred and ten escaped from the ascension.

The plains, which were originally planted with wheat and mulberry seedlings, were full of corpses, rudimentary weapons, and sticky blood.

And the casualties of the Tang army were only more than a hundred. This is still because of the night, if it is in the daytime, more than 60,000 people will not even be able to cause more than 100 casualties to the Tang army.

In this battle alone, the young and strong men of the sixty-eight Shengfan tribes were wiped out. The scourge of extinction is inevitable. The knife that hung over the heads of Han Chinese immigrants for a long time was finally destroyed.

But tens of thousands of acres of wheat fields and mulberry fields have also been destroyed.

Three days later, Cui Xiuning, who had compensated the casualties, gave three more orders based on Li Luo's letter and his own opinions.

The first is to abolish the establishment of 10,000 households in the Jiangnan Army, and replace it with a brigade of only 5,000 people, and the chief officer is called the brigade commander and brigade supervisor. The Army was divided into ten brigades, including two cavalry brigades.

The second order abolished the original military rank system and changed the sergeants to warriors, warriors, warriors, and sharp soldiers, a total of four ranks. The junior officers were changed to lieutenants, lieutenants, and lieutenants. The middle-level officers were changed to the three levels of joining the army, the capital commander, and the Sima three-level, and the senior officers were changed to the staff generals, lang generals, governors, and generals, a total of four ranks.

Yang Xu and other brigade-level commanders were awarded the rank of General Lang, the regiment commander was awarded the rank of Sima, the joint commander was awarded the rank of joining the army, and the captain was awarded the rank of lieutenant. General Lang is currently the highest military rank awarded by the Tang Army.

The third order is to form a gendarmerie.

The word "constitution" for the gendarmerie means laws and regulations in ancient texts. The gendarmerie, that is, the judicial soldiers. Therefore, the gendarmerie is definitely not only a military judge who is in charge of the law and order of the army, but also a branch of the army that supervises civil security.

The gendarmerie is not only a police officer in the army, but also a public security and anti-riot police, and has the characteristics of having both military and police capabilities.

Why did Choi so-nyeong set up a military police? Because of the number of the Tang army, the combined army of the land and water has exceeded 50,000, and it will continue to increase in the future. The presence of the gendarmerie is already necessary.

The strength of the gendarmerie is currently only 300 people. The chief officer is called General Si Xian and Si Xian Superintendent, and the rank is equivalent to that of the brigade commander. In addition to being in charge of military law, he is also in charge of military justice, as well as maintaining law and order, investigation, arrest, etc.

At the same time, the gendarmerie is also involved in intelligence work in cooperation with the Special Inspectorate.

In this way, the Tang State has all the four major institutions of the military, police, and gendarmes.

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In mid-November, Li Luo left Kyushu Island, leaving 10,000 soldiers and horses to guard Dazaifu, and personally led more than 10,000 land divisions and more than 10,000 water divisions, a total of more than 20,000 people, to conquer Iwami Province in Kansai, Honshu.

He went to Iwami Province, of course, for Iwami Ginzan.

Naturally, all the captured Japanese monarchs and ministers were placed under house arrest in Dazaifu.

In today's Honshu, the defense of Kansai is extremely empty, not only all the samurai and elite soldiers went to Kanto, but even most of the young and strong peasant soldiers carried homemade rudimentary weapons and carried grain to Kanto to participate in the war under the strong orders of the local royal family and other powerful people.

Since November, the shogunate's third phase of mobilization has come to an end. At the same time that Xindu led 30,000 Mongolian iron cavalry to the Kanto Plain, the shogunate had already mobilized and armed nearly 500,000 troops.

Although most of these 500,000 people are young and strong, the weapons have been gathered, and there are samurai as officers, and after a period of training, they are no longer a rabble.

The daily consumption of food by an army of 500,000 is an astronomical amount. But the shogunate was not worried for the time being. After several months of preparation, the shogunate took the opportunity of the national war of life and death to collect money and grain without scruples, and many powerful people, landlords, and merchants ruined their homes, so that the shogunate gathered a large amount of grain and iron tools.

Not much to say, the shogunate had a reserve of materials for a year or even two years.

Therefore, as soon as Xindu arrived in Kanto, he faced hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops. And Li Luo in Kansai is still in a no-man's land. After going ashore, he only led more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and he was able to run rampant in Kansai.

On November 14, Li Luo finally found the silver mountain in Iwami Province.

ps: It's really hot today, everyone be careful of heat stroke. Crab crab support.

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