Chapter 121: Gaoyang Drunkard
(4th Update)
Just when Chen Liuling of Wei rang the bell to warn, the general banner of Zhonggen Qiang had already appeared more than ten miles west of Chen Liu, and more than 1,000 people in the vanguard of the Qin army had already approached the city......
More than 10,000 troops were dispatched, not in a swarm, but in accordance with the marching method in "Wei Xuanzi", divided into several parts: the army, the heel army, the revival army, and the pawn.
In this army, there were more than 200 people in the Xing army, all of whom were light cavalry scouts, and in Heifu's opinion, their attire was exactly the same as that of the "cavalry figurines" in the terracotta army: short armor on the upper body, tight trousers on the lower body, long riding boots on the feet, small round hats on their heads, buckles on the hats, and bows and arrows on their backs.
The Xing army was to move twenty miles before the main army, divided into several cantonments, three or five miles apart, and was responsible for probing the enemy situation on the road ahead.
The heel army was the forward foot soldiers, with 2,000 men, all lightly armed and unarmoured. Once the Xingjun discovered the enemy's situation and transmitted the information to the rear, the heel army had to quickly step forward and cooperate with the Xingjun army to defeat it and open up a smooth road for the army.
The largest army was behind the front, with as many as 7,000 men, where the banner was, and the soldiers carried heavy food and marched slowly.
On both sides of the army, a thousand "detachments" were arranged to advance in parallel, and the detachments were responsible for occupying favorable terrain, pursuing the enemy when the battle was won, and protecting the flanks of the army when they were temporarily on standby.
Wei Yu thinks so: "The so-called generals are the ones who are within the four odds." ”
In other words, if a general can skillfully command these four parts of the army, so that they cooperate with each other, head to end, march and fight, how can he be invincible?
Think about it, if you can arrange every march and battle so carefully, like a sudden golden sound in a film and television drama, countless ambushes on both sides of the road are everywhere, and the scene of annihilating the enemy army is really difficult to appear unless it is located in a narrow road in the mountains and rivers. The Qin army almost won every battle, and the big reason was that the excellent marching method put an end to low-level mistakes.
The marching formation of the Qiang Qiang was all seen by Heifu, and he not only secretly bowed his head, but also remembered these things in his heart.
In terms of marching and fighting, he is still a beginner brother on the battlefield, and this battle to destroy Wei has to be watched and studied hard.
No matter what era it is, each title and official position has corresponding professional skills. Thinking about how to get promoted all day long but not knowing how to learn, even if pie in the sky makes you suddenly ascend to a high position, you will only make jokes and be punished in office.
But unfortunately, the "thousand people" of the Heifu did not fight for the "heel army" that was the easiest to make meritorious contributions, but became a pawn to defend the flank of the army......
Heifu was not too disappointed, in the army of more than 10,000 people, unless you are mixed with the main general's lineage, it is not easy to fight for merit.
He also reprimanded Dongmen Leopard, who muttered that he was afraid that there would be no merit to stand up this time: "Don't complain, everyone is doing what he is told." Xiao Tao, you are sharp-eyed, take care of the bridges and roads on the flanks, the East Gate Leopard, and lead people to drive away all the Wei people who try to get close! Even the people and women in the fields must be driven away! ”
This is the task of the pawns, now they are in the unfamiliar Wei realm, there are enemies everywhere, they can't help but be vigilant, if there are really bold Wei people who run to the side to watch the excitement, it is really looking for death.
Green corn seedlings had grown in the fields next to Qianmo, and farmers could occasionally be seen working in the fields, but after seeing Qin Jun from a distance, everyone was stunned for a while, and then they fled back to the village as if they had seen a ghost.
On the next road, the gates of the several Liju that the army passed were closed, and the Wei farmers looked at the Qin people who trampled through their fields in horror and fear, but no one dared to come out.
The Qin army was not a benevolent and righteous army that advertised "no offense in autumn", everything was prioritized by the convenience of the march, and the destruction of the local agricultural economy was not within the scope of the generals' consideration.
There was nothing to do all the way, and when they were close to Chenliu City, two children playing by the stream were naked, and while laughing and playing, they accidentally entered the guarded area of the pawns. The two children looked at the group of Qin people in front of them wearing strange armor and wearing strange buns, and they were suddenly stunned.
Dongmen Leopard had already shown a fierce face, raised his sword and walked towards the two, but after thinking about it, he put down his sword again, showed a fierce face, and shouted to drive them away.
"In a few years, my son will be as old as them."
Heifu breathed a sigh of relief and said to everyone: "The inspection of the first rank in the army is very strict, even if you kill them, it is not a beheading, and if you don't have to, don't do it to civilians." ”
Everyone only agreed, their trip was relatively smooth, they had not experienced bloody battles, and it was not enough to fall into the madness of killing people when they saw them.
Generally speaking, the Qin army is still relatively calm, although in order to behead military merits, there has always been a bad habit of killing prisoners of war, but the tiger and wolf army of "Violent Qin" rarely appears like the slaughter of the city during the melee between Chu and Han.
What the Qin king wanted was conquest and unification, not retaliatory destruction and destruction, and the generals of the Qin state also had the ability to use strict military laws to restrain the Qin soldiers' every move.
After this episode, the division and the army arrived at the foot of Chen Liucheng......
Chenliu is an important county east of Daliang, located in the traffic artery, with a large population, more than 10,000 people, and the circumference of the city is four or five miles, which is much larger than the Anlu county seat of Heifu's family.
The city wall is rammed with loess, about four zhang high, a city gate is opened in the east, west, north and south, and there is a corner tower of six zhang high on both sides of the gate......
It was only at this time that the Qin soldiers, who were preparing for a big battle, were stunned to find that Chen Liucheng had already opened the city gates, the banner of Wei had been cut off and thrown under the city, and the banner of the heel army had already floated on the corner tower.
"Not really."
Even the black man was a little shocked, the forward of the heel army was only ten miles in front of him, could it be said that it only took their two thousand men an hour to bring down this city? Chen Liu did not carry out effective resistance?
Didn't you say that Chen Liucheng still had three thousand Wei troops?
With such doubts in mind, the soldiers were asked to enter the city to maintain order and search for the remnants of the enemy.
Walking into the west gate of Chenliu, Heifu found that there was still a battle on the inside of the city gate, where more than 100 corpses were lying horizontally, and they died tragically, or they were killed by crossbow arrows, or they were poked out of several blood holes by the spear.
"Is it Wei Jun?" Ji Ying, who was walking behind Heifu, whispered.
"Look at the variety of clothes and weapons of these people, they don't look like Wei pawns......" Gong Ao continued.
"It's a local light man."
Heifu had already guessed their identities, and couldn't help but sigh that the Wei army stationed in Chenliu actually left without a fight, but it was a local ranger who shed blood to defend their hometown.
Half an hour later, the few remnants of the enemy in the city were also cleared, unfortunately, because there were too many Qin troops, but there were too few light heroes who resisted, and the black man and their tun were only mixed with two heads, which could not meet the standard of his tun commander to be promoted to the rank of collective merit......
The heads of those who resisted were cut off and piled up in a pile, and the headless corpses were hung high on the inside of the city gates, looking horrifying.
The people in Chen Liucheng were driven out of their homes by the Qin soldiers, and stood by the door tremblingly, looking at the corpses of relatives and friends, while waiting for the general Qiang's entrance ceremony into the city.
Heifu also led his men to stand by the door, holding spears to maintain order.
He looked out at the fearful and hateful faces on either side of the road, and saw a middle-aged man in Confucian clothes in his forties, his crown crooked, and his placket stained with wine, looking undecent.
This person was pointing at the Qin army who had entered the city, and in the ear of a young man with eyes full of resentment, he was talking something......
……
"Hateful! That captain had 3,000 soldiers, but he fled without a fight! It's hateful! ”
The Li merchants in Gaoyang are well-known among the Chen Liu's rangers, and they like to stand out in everything, and they are quite respected by their peers.
But today, because he was stopped by his brother, he failed to join the last resistance of more than 100 light men and doormen under the leadership of Chen Liuling.
At this moment, he stood in the crowd kneeling to welcome the Qin army into the city, looking at the corpses of those former companions, as well as the Qin pawns who were showing off their martial arts, he couldn't help but feel resentful, and he almost couldn't hold back, thinking about stabbing the black-faced Qin official who was wearing armor and was looking at them with a sword!
"If it weren't for my brother pulling you, you would be one of those headless corpses right now."
Li Shiqi on the side disdained this, in his opinion, it was not worth the death of these rangers who were bareheaded and grabbed the ground with their heads.
The eldest husband was born in the world, and he should follow the example of Zhang Yigong Sun Yan, and the princes are afraid when they are angry, and they live in peace and the world rests! Even if he dies, he must be like Su Qin, after doing a big thing that shakes the princes, he will die vigorously and let the world look sideways! How can he easily give his precious life for the sake of a doomed regime?
"Shang, put away your resentment."
Li Shiqi patted Li Shang and said in his ear: "Chen Liuling eats the king's Lu, and it is his duty to defend the land, so he can only repay the king of Wei with a death." But Wei has no kindness to you and my brother, so why should he be martyred? The fall of Wei is a foregone conclusion. Or think about it, how to survive under the rule of Qin in the future, I heard that Qin doesn't like rangers, what do you plan to do in the future? ”
Li Shang was still a little indignant, and he was very dissatisfied with his brother's attitude, so he turned back to him and said, "I also heard that the Qin State also dislikes Confucianism. ”
Li Shiqi chuckled under his breath.
"Although I am wearing Confucian clothes, I seem to be a Confucian student, but what I learned is the art of vertical and horizontal strategists, of course, in today's world, the Qin State swept through the Central Plains, and without the melee of the princes, the art of vertical and horizontal will not come in handy......"
Li Shiqi inevitably has some regrets, he has sharp teeth, can speak well, and boasts of his ability to blow up, but he was not born in the world of great controversy, which is really a pity.
"That's right." Li Shang sneered: "Whether you are a Confucian scholar or a vertical and horizontal strategist, there is no way out, what should my brother do?" ”
Li Shiqi's face was as usual, and he said lightly: "I heard that when Qu Yuan committed suicide in the Chu State, a fisherman told him that a saint is not stagnant in things, but can move with the world. The world is turbid, why not mud its mud and raise its waves? Everyone is drunk, so why not feed the bad and drink it? ”
"I think the words of the fisherman are true!"
In this world, the key to people's survival lies in a change of word, since the times are like this, then ......
Li Shiqi tore off the crooked Confucian crown on his head, and ripped off the placket of his clothes, and suddenly became a bohemian maniac.
"When the Holy King is alive, I am a depressed Confucian student; When the princes contend, I am the strategist who looks at each other; Now that the Qin State has occupied Chenliu, I can't be a Confucian strategist, but I can still feed it and make it drunk, and imitate the drunkenness of everyone......"
He laughed: "From now on, I am a Gaoyang drunkard!" Li Shiqi should seek to be a small official of the Qin State, and join the world! ”