Chapter 26: The Race for the Central Plains (2)
The mobilization speed of the Qi War has almost reached the limit of the cold weapon era.
When the imperial court announced that Daqi had entered a state of war, Chang'an City had heralds rushing out every day, and three days later, Liyang led an army of 5,000 people, thinking of marching west.
The defenders from all over the country who received the military order also responded one after another, gathering troops to prepare to join the main army of Liyang.
The whole of Middle-earth is shrouded in the clouds of war.
Yang Hao did not drive the expedition in person, he had absolute confidence in the strength of the Qi army, not to mention that the three seedlings of Great Qi were all enemies, even if all the surrounding forces besieged Great Qi together, he would not have the slightest fear.
This is the self-confidence that comes with absolute strength.
Since Xia Qi and these people are impatient, then he doesn't want to wait, Huaxia must be unified as soon as possible.
Only after reunification can we concentrate the strength of the entire country and accelerate the development process of the country.
He had waited too long for this day, and in the sixth year of Hongwu, it had been nearly nine years since he came here.
For so long, he almost forgot what the world was like.
And he himself has become no different from the people of this era, Yang Hao, who used to be violent and complaining about God, has died, and now he is the king of Daqi, a man who has changed the entire era.
When the last group of troops went out to fight against the current in a boat, Yang Hao felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
Four thousand years of history will be born in his own hands, and this is his time.
In the West, Xia Qi can be said to have invaded the whole country this time, and the number of troops in each department together has almost reached nearly 50,000.
Counting the use of slave servants, the Xia Dynasty declared an army of 100,000 to the outside world.
Such a large number of people can be said to be unique, this time, Xia Qi pressed all the bets in class, he had to win, and he only had this one principle.
If he wins, he will be the overlord of the Central Plains, the supreme monarch of human society, and if he loses, he will have nothing.
Therefore, Xia Qi was very cautious and had made sufficient preparations before deciding to do it.
In these years, when the Qi State was bored, the Xia Dynasty was not idle, and after thoroughly mastering the bronze smelting technology, all the stone tools in the army were eliminated.
Moreover, in recent years, Xia Qi has vigorously developed cavalry, and the tactical rigid chariot was swept into the garbage heap by him without hesitation.
Of the 50,000 men, there were 20,000 well-trained cavalry troops.
This is Xia Qi's confidence, as long as he destroys the Qi country, as long as he can destroy the Qi country.
Xia Qi gritted his teeth and secretly comforted himself with some nervousness.
Things were just as he thought, his sudden attack caught Qi Guo off guard.
In front of tens of thousands of troops, several strongholds deployed by Qi in the west were pulled out one after another.
And in the way of torture and killing, in front of all the tribes participating in the war, nearly 1,000 people who were captured were executed, and more than 2,000 people.
Xia Qi made all the tribes involved in this war move, and he just wanted to use this way to make those guys at both ends of the snake and mouse think of luck.
The effect of the name petition was significant, and the leaders of those tribes knew that they could not turn back, and if they did not want to be retaliated by the Qi State, they could only kill this enemy completely.
And after knowing that he had no way out, the Xia army, which invaded the Qi State, completely abandoned all morality, and did not capture a single stronghold of the Qi State, which was a tragic massacre.
When Liyang, who was still on the road, heard the description of the person who escaped, the anger in his heart had reached the extreme.
Over the years, although he has not been a civil official, he also knows what a conscience is and what a compatriot is.
Now that his compatriots are being tortured and killed like pigs and dogs, his heart seems to be dripping blood.
The order went down, and the army ran forward to avenge the deaths.
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The silver armor and fiery red robes of tens of thousands of troops drove to the front battlefield like a fiery dragon on the winding official road.
A few days later, the Xia army was less than twenty miles away from Qicheng, an important town in the Qi State.
Although Chang'an City is the capital, Qicheng is the spiritual symbol of Qi, which is equivalent to the existence of the old revolutionary base area and the place of Yang Hao's Longxing.
If this place is lost, the blow to the Qi country will be extremely huge.
With the practice of leaving chickens and dogs wherever the Xia army passed, once the 10,000-person Qi City was breached, more people would be brutally killed.
Although there are thousands of defenders on the Qi City side, the probability of such a situation is extremely low, but Li Yang must ensure that this situation does not occur in the slightest.
Send a herald, one man and two horses, to send the order to the troops converging here as quickly as possible, and be sure to speed up and delay the military plane's disposition by military law.
Under such a day and night journey, when the Xia army was less than 20 miles away from Qicheng, Liyang had already arrived in Qicheng.
After all the 15,000 troops came here to join the army, Liyang only left 1,000 defenders in the city in case of accidents.
The main forces are ready for a decisive battle.
On the flat horizon, Xia Jun's black-pressed figure appeared in Liyang's sight.
And the Xia army also saw the military formation of the Qi State.
Compared with the huge scale of the Xia army, which is beyond sight, the army of more than 10,000 people seems a little fragile.
But Xia Qi didn't dare to despise it in the slightest because of the small number of enemies.
The Xia army stopped a few miles away from the Qi army.
Viewed from the air, a vacuum was formed between the two armies, and the scorching sun seemed to make this vacuum appear a little distorted.
"General!"
Liyang's lieutenant called out.
"The order goes, the third battalion, the second battalion, the light cavalry in the front, the heavy cavalry in the rear, the first battalion, the fourth battalion harass the enemy's flank, blow the trumpet! The whole army attacked. ”
Liyang, who was waiting for the battle, would not give Xia Jun any time to rest at all.
The moment he saw the enemy, the killing intent in his heart was already boiling.
The blood debt will be paid with blood.
In this battle, he will pay tribute to his compatriots who died with the blood of the enemy.
A whining horn sounded, and the iron cavalry of the Qi Kingdom attacked when it came.
Xia Qi snorted coldly when he saw this, the enemy only sent such a few people to attack his army, which was extremely arrogant.
Isn't it cavalry? He Xia Qi has more than Qi Guo.
Xia Qi rode on the war horse, waved the short sword in his hand and pointed forward, and roared: "Kill!" ”
The Xia army screamed a few times, and the black light cavalry rushed towards the Qi army.
The light and heavy cavalry of the Qi army that attacked from the front were only more than 5,000 people.
However, over the years, through repeated deductions and actual exercises on the sand table, a set of effective tactics for the coordination of light and heavy cavalry has been explored.
The Qi army did not choose to fight the enemy head-on, and in the process of gradually approaching the enemy, the two battalions of cavalry suddenly separated to the sides, harassing the enemy with extremely accurate cavalry and archery skills.