Chapter 152: Wronged Souls
On the dirt slope south of the town, a few birds on the bare tree trunks suddenly flew up.
The hooves of the horses roared, and a group of knights with horses and heavy armor slowly appeared on the horizon of the dirt slope, and under the sunset in the distance, the swarthy heavy cavalry figures were dragged extremely long, as if the messengers from hell came.
In the sound of rumbling horses' hooves, the heavy cavalry rushed left and right, and two teams of black pressure light cavalry rushed out, gathered in front of the heavy cavalry, two rows of more horses, lined up in three long rows, staggered into a formation.
The long Goryeo procession that traveled from the southern dirt road also hurriedly assembled in formation.
Obviously, if the heavy cavalry and light cavalry on the opposite side launched a surprise attack instead of a formation, the Koreans would have suffered a big loss at this moment.
The Goryeo commander led by him, dressed as a Wenchen, was one of Wang Zhao's most trusted ministers, the widow of the former Zhou, and the most important promoter of Wang's reform.
He was a little frightened at the moment, in fact, he didn't know much about leading troops, but when he heard that hundreds of soldiers appeared in this small town in Beijing, he immediately persuaded Wang Zhao that he would lead his troops to expel him.
First, the town here is the main transportation route between Wang Zhao's military camp and the envoys of the Kaijing Peace Conference, and the Qi soldiers appeared here, not knowing what their intentions were, and although the lord of the country and the rebels agreed to the Qi army entering the city, they did not agree to the Qi army's arbitrary behavior in their own country.
Second, the land near this town was originally owned by a noble family, and now this family has been raided and imprisoned, and thousands of acres of land nearby, Wang Zhao has rewarded Shuangyi, this is his territory, Qi Jun suddenly appeared, how not to make him angry.
Third, judging from the information sent by the envoy of the Kaijing Peace Conference, one of the many preconditions for the peace conference proposed by the Qi people was to ask the Goryeo lord to tie up the "wings" and other ministers who bewitched the Goryeo lord to usurp the emperor.
This made Shuangyi even more angry, and from the bottom of his heart, he didn't want the peace negotiation to succeed, as for what would happen if the peace negotiation was not successful, he didn't think about it, it was a big deal to escape south, and the situation with the peace negotiation was similar.
Hearing that the Qi people's military horses appeared in this small town in Beijing, he persuaded Wang Zhao that he was tough on the Qi people, but he could gain the respect of the other party, and he personally led the troops to expel them.
The wings led the "Dragon" army, that is, Wang Zhao's Su Wei pro-army.
In fact, these thousand soldiers were also Wang Zhao's most important military force.
In later history, the battle between the Wang clan and the Hao clan recorded as the "Kaesong Change", although the two sides seem to use a lot of soldiers, each with 20,000 or 30,000 military horses, but in fact, most of them are farmers who are temporarily recruited from a vulnerable position, in addition, it is a standing army with extremely crude weapons and equipment, but the real battle between the two sides is actually the contest between the elite private soldiers of the Park family and the dragon army.
There are a total of 1,000 brave soldiers in the Dragon Army, but in fact, some have died in battle, and now, some new soldiers have been added.
These 1,000 brave warriors have all kinds of armor, leather armor and iron armor, although they are relatively mixed, but in today's Goryeo, armorers are extremely rare, and they are the elite of the elite.
And the five hundred cavalry of the Dragon Army, the war horses are all heroic, this is really the upper cavalry, and the other Goryeo cavalry, according to the standards of the Central Plains, are not war horses at all.
Overall, the dragon army is 500 heavy cavalry and 500 heavy foot soldiers, of course, by Goryeo standards.
At the highest part of the soil slope, Lu Ning stood and looked out, bowing his head slightly, it seems that Wang Zhao's military horse is not bad, looking at the spirit, it should be very brave, but it is a pity that the armament is a little cold.
The Jin family, Empress Xiao and Yi Lazy all dismounted, stood beside Lu Ning and looked at the lineup of Goryeo military horses under the slope, looking at their eyes, they also knew that they were in different moods.
The light bow attendants at the front, seeing that there were few archers in the Goryeo array, carried their bows and arrows on their backs, and lifted the horse pistols hanging under the saddle.
In terms of range, the bow and arrow that is thrown are farther away than the carbine, but if the opponent does not have an archer, but a pawn, then the short-range lethality of the carbine and the accuracy of the assembled fire are not comparable to the bow and arrow.
Although the Goryeo armor seems to be a ragtag army, the defense against long-range bows and arrows should not be underestimated, so in the event of a conflict, it is naturally better to use muskets for the first round of strikes.
Lu Ning allotted all Yu Linwei's horse pistols to the light bow and servant, after the Five Kingdoms Ministry Liwei.
Yu Linwei, after all, is a young officer who has been trained, and sooner or later he will be added to the forbidden army to act as the backbone of the grassroots level.
And the light bow servants who assist Yu Linwei, put on armor for them, and send heavy baggage, as long as they are not old and weak, they have been serving.
It is the flowing water of the feather forest guard, the iron light cavalry servant.
Therefore, no matter how skilled Yu Linwei is in controlling the musket, in the end, he still has to leave, and the musket must be left to the new Yu Linwei.
In this way, it is better to equip the musket with light bows, these servants, whose status is lower than that of Yu Linwei, do things similar to those of heavy cavalry servants, but in fact they are real personal soldiers who have always followed them.
Moreover, the light bow servants are light horses, and they are more mobile when using the carbine, and there will be more tactical tricks when assisting the Yulin guard.
Therefore, after returning to Dunhua from the Ministry of the Five Kingdoms, Lu Ning ordered the horse pistol to be assigned to the light bow servant.
Of course, although there were one hundred and forty or fifty carbines, because the failure rate was not low, it was still like rationing Yulinwei, only half of them, that is, 100 light bowmen were rationed with carbines, and the rest of the carbines were kept as spare.
Now, it is the first time that the light bow and the followers, or the horse pistols, are facing the enemy.
Over there, the Goryeo people shouted loudly, not waiting for anyone to report, Lu Ning also heard clearly, the Goryeo civilian generals who asked in the Central Plains reported their names, and asked the Qi army what was the intention of coming here, who was the general, and led the army into the territory of Goryeo outside Kaesong without authorization, and could get Han Xuanfu's approval?
Han Xuanfu naturally refers to Han Derang, as a witness and mediator of the peace talks between the two sides, and also an envoy of the Great Qi, he was awarded the title of the envoy of the three Han Xuanfu.
Looking at the Goryeo soldiers, Lu Ning sighed softly in his heart, but still stretched out his hand and made a slashing gesture.
When Pei Long on the side saw it, he immediately picked up the horn and blew it with a whin.
The light cavalry in the front row immediately rushed out, and the heavy cavalry in the rear also ran slowly.
Although the wings shouted in surprise, what he led was worthy of the army of the lord of the country, and the cavalry immediately caught up with him, wanting to drive the light cavalry away.
In the loud sound of "bang bang bang bang", the Goryeo cavalry fell from their horses one after another, and even the thick iron armor could not stop the bombardment of muskets within dozens of steps.
In the smoke of gunpowder, the horse-gun light cavalry spread out like a tide to the two wings, passing in front of the Goryeo heavy cavalry formation.
The Goryeo cavalry, the people turned over on their horses, and suddenly saw that after the Qi people rode lightly, the Qi people were speeding up the Qi heavy cavalry.
The violent impact, the spears of the heavy horses of the Qi people and the huge impact force, the Goryeo horses were poked under the horses one after another.
And the carniers and light horses, when they reached a distance, reloaded their carbines, and when they galloped again, the target became the Goryeo infantry phalanx.
The arms were extremely restrained, and the Goryeo commander's wings did not expect that the Qi soldiers would suddenly make a move, and they were caught off guard, which was simply a one-sided massacre.
Looking at it from a distance, Lu Ning let out a long sigh, however, such a complete defeat or even annihilation of Wang Zhao's dragon army is not only for Wang Zhao, but also for the Park coalition army, which can make the subsequent negotiations much smoother, and the possibility of provocation in all aspects is greatly reduced, and even the impact can be until a long time after the peace negotiation, so that South Korea and North Korea, at least in a short period of time, are intimidated by the strength of the Qi State, and will strictly abide by the peace treaty witnessed by the Qi people, let alone consider using force to change the status quo and change the dominant position of the Qi people in the local area.
Theoretically, the impact of this war of annihilation on the future and the reduction of the bloody conflict of human lives are much more than the lives sacrificed today.