Chapter 137: The Folding Family's Army
The light rain does not stop, this sheep intestine trail has not rained for more than ten years, but once it rains, the road looks muddy, ordinary people walk is not much of an obstacle, but the team of transporting grain can be said to be difficult.
This is a 3,000-person grain transport team, because it is in the territory of Western Xia, so this team did not put out too many guard posts when transporting grain and grass, let alone let the scouts check on the periphery.
The grain officer Mili Zhanhe is the brother-in-law of Brother Richard, the king of Jin, and this guy can be regarded as a fierce general, but he is arrogant and short-tempered on weekdays, so he was not sent to the front line of the war, but let him escort grain and grass.
The drizzle of rain made Mili Zhanhe feel irritable, and during this time the front had won many victories and seized countless booty, which made the grain officer even more annoyed. You must know that there is no such thing as military pay in the Western Xia army, basically relying on war wealth and accumulation of wealth by plunder, and staying away from the battlefield is equivalent to staying away from wealth.
The rain became heavier and heavier, wetting the soldiers' clothes, and the blue wolf road, which had been bitterly cold for three or nine days, had almost reached the realm of dripping water into ice, and the soldiers were miserable, the marching speed was getting slower and slower, and the ranks were getting longer and longer, stretching for more than ten miles, as if it was not a team of 3,000 people, but a team of 30,000 or even 50,000 people.
The longer the line, the greater the risk, but with muddy roads and heavy rain, what could Milizhan do in such a situation? He was in a bad mood and didn't bother to pay attention to these soldiers, anyway, even if the task was completed after the delivery of this batch of military rations, he would return to Xingqing Mansion and never be a grain officer again.
The scout team of the Zhejia Army has been following this grain transport team for nearly four days, and they have checked everything clearly, the head of the scout team is a distant relative of the Zhe family, and there is basically no blood relationship anymore, so although this super capable young man has made great achievements, he has only mixed a small capital head in his ten-year career.
After Zheqing, he should have reported the information a long time ago, but he was still waiting, just to see what this Western Xia grain transport team looked like in this bad weather, to estimate what the consequences would be if an attack was launched.
In this battle, there is no doubt about winning, the key is to fight beautifully, in a word, fast, ruthless, accurate. Although the team looks sparse and the distance is very long, the military discipline is still very good, which shows how strong this team formed by the young people of the Mili tribe is.
When the light rain turned into heavy rain, the miserable soldiers began to complain, the march became slower, almost like a snail crawling, and the soldiers began to quarrel with each other, and the grain carts continued to roll over to the side of the road, and the soldiers struggled to straighten the overturned grain carts.
Seeing that the speed had slowed down, Zhi Qing knew that the opportunity had come, and this guy didn't know where to find a few huge bison, ready to attack the enemy team in front.
Now this Xixia team has reached the interruption of the blue wolf road, here is the narrowest and difficult to walk section, there is a long climb of three or four miles in front, and there are many stones at the bottom, can not be moved, can only push the cart from the top laboriously, at this time the soldiers push the grain cart is very difficult, and can only blindly move forward, once stopped, the grain cart will slide, will bring great trouble to the team behind.
The soldiers pushing the grain cart were more than doubled in size at this time, but in spite of this, the grain cart slowly advanced ahead, and a whole hour passed, and the first grain cart had not yet passed this climb, and it was already early at this time, and the soldiers were hungry, their legs began to tremble, and their teeth began to fight.
However, the good news is that the rain has stopped, although the sun has not come out, and the north wind is still blowing, but the rain has stopped, and the soldiers are still a little relaxed psychologically.
But just as the soldiers were a little more relaxed, five or six huge bison rushed down the hillside, these bison were still covered with thistle, and their tails were set on fire, and they were so condescending that the bison rushed very fast, not only overturning the grain cart, but also trampling the soldiers into mud.
Faced with the sudden change, the soldiers were frightened and fled in all directions, and the situation became very chaotic, and the Milizhan River behind did not know what was happening, so they sent soldiers to investigate.
After the initial panic, the soldiers began to stabilize their positions and began to greet these crazy bison with bows and arrows, knives and guns.
A quarter of an hour later, the panic subsided, the bison was shot, and despite the casualties of nearly a hundred soldiers and the destruction of a dozen grain wagons, the crisis was resolved.
Without even knowing what was going on, the soldiers began to report to Milizhan that several bison had rushed into the ranks, that there had been minor casualties, that the situation had stabilized, and that the bison had been shot.
It's good to have bison! A bison is a thousand pounds, and now it can be roasted and eaten with bison. Having made up his mind, Mirizhan ordered the soldiers to speed up, and after this climb, they rested and roasted beef on the spot, and allowed the soldiers to drink.
When he heard that there was beef to eat and wine to drink, he immediately became energetic, accelerated the speed of the march, and after more than half an hour, the whole team passed the climb and entered a relatively flat valley.
This valley is called Scorpion Valley, and it is shaped like a scorpion, and once attacked, there is no possibility of escape. In normal times, the Mirizhan River would not have allowed the soldiers to rest here, but today the situation was exceptional, first the light rain turned into heavy rain, then the rain stopped, and then there was an episode of bison.
The Western Xia soldiers began to barbecue beef, drinking wine and eating meat at the same time, and the soldiers were extremely relaxed, and some soldiers even danced.
On the battlefield, the most fearful thing is relaxation, and once the tense nerves of the soldiers are relaxed, it will be difficult to adjust again. Mirizhanhe, who has always been a heavy drinker, usually drinks only on the way back after transporting the grain, but today he also made an exception, not only drinking himself, but also letting the soldiers drink together.
The crisis quietly came, and the cavalry of the 6,000 Zhijia army and the 4,000 infantry quietly came, blocking the mouth of the valley on the north and south sides. Blocking in the south was the 6,000 cavalry led by Zhe Keqiu's eldest son Zhi Yanlong, who was mainly responsible for the attack, while blocking the north entrance was Zhe Keqiu's second son Zhi Yanhu, whose 4,000 infantry was mainly defensive to ensure that not a single Western Xia soldier could be spared.
In this battle, there is no doubt about victory, and the key is to end the battle as quickly as possible with the minimum casualties.
Seeing that the Western Xia soldiers were staggering, Zhi Yanlong waved the machete in his hand and shouted loudly: "Sons and daughters of the Zhi family, follow this general to kill in, kill all of them, and leave no one behind." ”
The Zhejia army and the Xixia army have been fighting for more than 100 years, and there are not a few dead ghosts on the grave of the family, and the family and the Xixia army are not enemies for generations, and there is no need to mobilize at all when they fight.
The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and the Western Xia soldiers, who were still drinking and eating meat a moment ago, seemed to see the grim smile of death at this moment, and they rushed to meet the battle one by one, but in a hurry, how could they organize a defensive formation, and the whole team seemed very flustered.
Help, the unique military system of Western Xia, every team transporting grain will have a cavalry team dozens of miles away, once they encounter a request for help, the cavalry will rush to the rescue as soon as possible. In fact, this kind of cavalry team is the main force of grain transportation in the strict sense, but it is not with the team that transports grain, and is often performing other tasks, but the distance is very close and convenient for rescue.
Zhe Yanlong has been fighting with the Western Xia army for many years, of course, he knows the Western Xia military system, which is also the reason why he asked the soldiers to attack quickly, and when the Western Xia cavalry arrived, the battle was over
The Zhejia army is like a tiger descending the mountain, frantically impacting the ranks of the Western Xia soldiers, the two sides are scuffled together, although the Western Xia soldiers are brave and good at fighting, they have no choice but to respond to the battle in a hurry, and they are extremely passive when they come up, and they are only killed by the ability to parry, and there is no power to fight back, and the situation is precarious.
In the face of the cavalry impact of the Zhejia army, Mi Li Zhanhe knew that the other party was going to kill his team quickly, in this case, he couldn't care so much, and ordered the soldiers to rush towards the north mouth, the defeat was a foregone conclusion, the grain and grass must have been lost, and now the top priority is to rush out quickly, and the whole army must not be wiped out.
The defeat is like a mountain, and once the order to withdraw the army is ordered on the battlefield, it is destined to be slaughtered, especially when the two teams are mixed together, and the retreat faces even more brutal killing.
How can two legs outrun four legs, and how can infantry outrun cavalry? In the case of a hasty battle, many Western Xia soldiers began to fight before they had time to mount their horses, and the slaughter of 6,000 cavalry in this situation led to the collapse of this army.
Zhe Yanlong is a war maniac in cutting, as soon as this guy enters the battlefield, the whole person enters a state of madness, waving the machete in his hand, directly turning on the head harvesting mode, and starting to harvest the heads of the Western Xia soldiers. This cavalry is all using machetes, which is to turn on the head harvesting mode.
One by one, the heads left the body, blood spurted out, and the headless corpse fell heavily to the ground. There were rolling heads everywhere, corpses everywhere.
The Western Xia soldiers ran lifelessly in front, the Zhejia army ruthlessly pursued and killed from behind, and the Western Xia soldiers were killed one by one, it was really corpses all over the field, and this scorpion valley became a hell on earth.
The Western Xia soldiers who charged ahead did not save their lives, and were met with arrows in the sky. You must know that the bows and arrows of the Zhejia army were not rained, and they had already been packed up, just waiting for this scene of killing.
And the weapons of the Western Xia soldiers have long been wet by the rain, especially the bow and arrow have lost their combat effectiveness, in this case, the confrontation between the two sides, the result is self-evident, that is, one-sided killing, and then killing.
The flanking attack from the north and south of the Zhejia army began to force this Western Xia army, the killing mode was opened, the Scorpion Valley was full of blood, and three thousand Western Xia soldiers were hanged, and none of them ran out. And the casualties of the Zhejia army are only a few dozen, and the gap is too obvious.
By the time Tuoba Armor and the cavalry arrived, the Scorpion Valley had become a hell on earth, with rolling human heads everywhere, corpses everywhere, and food destroyed.
This battle was fought cleanly and neatly, and it played the military prestige of the Zhejia army, and it also gave Brother Richard who went deep into Xihe Road a big problem, that is, the Qujia army on Xihe Road carried out strong walls and cleared the wilderness, and could not plunder food at all, so they could only rely on the rear to transport grain and grass, otherwise the army would starve.
The plundering of grain and grass is not fatal, it is a big deal to send troops to escort it, and the fatal thing is that the cavalry of the Zhejia army attacked, leaving no stone to pass a signal, that is, it can plunder the first time, and the wine glass can be plundered for the second and third times.
In the ancient battlefield, once the grain road can not ensure safety, the army can not move forward, at this time the Jin King Richard brother is in a dilemma, attack, the Qu family army is closed, it is difficult to conquer the tall city at all, and the food population can not be plundered in the surrounding area, retreat, how to retreat without a holy decree.
Just when the Jin King Richard was in a dilemma, Chongzong Li Qianshun's holy decree arrived, requiring Richard to immediately withdraw his troops to suppress the Qiang rebellion.
The Qiang rebellion was created by Li Renli, the king of Shu, and the purpose was to make Li Chage, the king of Jin, withdraw his troops, you must know that Li Renli, the king of Shu, has a high prestige among the nobles of the Tuoba tribe, otherwise he would not be able to form a three-kingdom confrontation with Li Renzhong, the king of Pu, and Li Chage, the king of Jin.
King Richard of Jin withdrew his troops, Qu Duan took the opportunity to lead the army to regain the lost territory, and the battle lines of the two sides once again advanced to the vicinity of Rouwolf Mountain, but this not too high mountain was still controlled by the Western Xia army, but this ending was already quite good.
At this point, Qu Duan completely surrendered to Liu Zhenglong and went to visit Tong Guan himself, but this old thief did not dare to fight with Brother Richard, the king of Western Xia and Jin. However, less than a month after he visited Liu Zhenglong, the Western Xia army withdrew, which shows how powerful this three-way defense envoy is.
Since Liu Yuanjun is so powerful, then Qu Jiajun is not a dry meal, Qu Duan began to secretly gather troops, preparing to recapture Rouwolf Mountain, to repay Liu Zhenglong's support for him.
After Richard withdrew his troops, the negotiation between Wang Boyan and Li Renli, the king of Shu, was much faster, and the two sides quickly reached an agreement.
Liu Zhenglong didn't care at all about Brother Richard's withdrawal, the agreement between Li Renli, the king of Shu, and Wang Boyan, what he was most concerned about was that Li Qingluo had entered the period of childbirth, and he was going to be a father.
Son, Liu Zhenglong's first son in this world was born, and he named this son Liu Chen, which is a very arrogant name, but this is domineering.
Before Liu Chen was born, Hua Langying gave birth to a daughter named Liu Ziying, and Pan Yun gave birth to a woman named Liu Zilin, no matter what, Liu Zhenglong is now both gold and jade, which can be regarded as perfect, this guy's eyes began to focus on Xixia, and after preparing for the beginning of spring, he went to visit his cheap father-in-law, Li Renzhong, King Pu of Xixia.