16. Defend the Hundred Wells
On the third day of August, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of more than 10 people surnamed Liufu of Jinmingdao poured out of the valleys of Tumen like a tide and attacked Baijingshu, which posed a serious threat to it on the west side.
At this moment, the Baijingshu has been equipped with wooden fences and earthen ramparts, and only 200 military horses are soldiers and soldiers who are guarding the army, and most of the other more than 1,000 Qiang soldiers are from the Shuyi and Baima clans, and a small number are the remnants of the Dangxiang Si family.
Looking down from the mountain where the barrier is located, there are besieging Liufu party soldiers from all sides, people and horses are full of mountains and valleys, and the noise is like the tide of the sea, shaking the nerves of the defenders.
Sibo Daye was dressed in rhino armor, the beard and hair on all sides of his head were all clean, the cheeks and ears still had fresh razor scars, and there were several locks of hair in the center of the top, which were twisted into pigtails according to the Xianbei style.
Under the beacon erected on the central platform, Zhou Ziping, the marquis of Yu, the third yaman of the Dingwu Army, stood very calmly in front of the reeds and grass, and ordered his subordinates to light a beacon fire, and the flames and smoke rose and rolled up.
Sibo Ono looked back at him, curious as to why he was so calm.
He also knew that reinforcements from the Tang Army were on the way. However, from Baijingshu to the White Leopard River, it is mostly hilly and mountainous, and the mud incense prince still has a team to help. What is even more disturbing is that there are only 1,200 defenders here, while the enemy is close to 30,000!
Whether he can hold on until the arrival of the main force of the Tang Army is what Si Bo Ohno fears the most.
The roar shook the earth, and the party items of the six prefectures fell into disagreement, and there was no cooperation between them, and there was no tactics to talk about, anyway, it was the prince of Nixiang waving the cyan order flag on the opposite copper shovel mountain (it was this order flag, which was also secretly bought by the prince of Muxiang from the merchants of Gyeongju before), and thousands of Qiang people abandoned their horses, carried arrowbags on their backs, and swarmed up from all directions at the foot of Baijingshu Mountain!
Behind the cracks in the wooden fence of the Baijing Shutou Road, the righteous servants of the Shuyi and Baima clans coldly wound their horns and bows, and then drew arrows from the mud under them, swept them down from the fire, and shot them out one after another.
The strong men of the Liufu Party lacked armor, and most of them wore fur coats, and the sharp arrows shot from the Baijing Fortress easily pierced their limbs, chests, and heads, and burst out of their red blood, and those who lost their lives fell into the grass on the hillside, or rolled down, and the wounded held the wounds, hid behind the rocks, drew their daggers, and screamed in an attempt to dig out the arrows from there.
The arrows were stuck in the earth beforehand, and if they were shot, even if they did not die at the time, the wounds would soon form a terrible and terrible decay, and it would be far more painful to die from this torture than to fall to the ground.
Soon, the six government party items attacking the mountain also began to overlap, standing or kneeling, with the horn bow in their hands, at the wooden fence and earthen fortress where the Tang army and the righteous congregation were located, and the sound of the bowstring bouncing was like a shower, "the arrow of the fierce shot, like a flyfly, covering the sky."
The hundred wells in the midst of fireworks and flying arrows are still resisting unyieldingly.
In a valley somewhere in the Great Wall Ridge, Li Xian, another herald of Gao Yue, led the seven horsemen to swim around, and after seeing the beacon fire rising from Baijingshu, he hurriedly mounted his horse, whipped and galloped, and went in the direction of Fangchi.
He was originally hiding nearby, echoing Zhou Ziping, and when he saw the beacon fire, he had to run to the police.
The herald division among these three officials was set up by Gao Yue after fighting with Xifan many times, drawing experience from the "cage official system" of Xifan.
The cage officials in Xifan are actually post chiefs, who are responsible for delivering letters or security at the location of the post station in peacetime, and are responsible for staff officers and even leading troops to fight in wartime. Because they are all in charge of the post station, they are very familiar with the local customs and geography, and once there is a war, they can play a good role in the task of transmitting intelligence and surprise attack and infiltration in the line of fire.
Gao Yue set up the Herald Division where Li Xian and Zhou Ziping were located, and asked them to play the same liaison, patrol, and garrison duties as the officials of the Western Fan Cage, wander around the battlefield, and among the servants, exercise their own Tibetan and Qiang languages, and constantly learn and enhance their military experience.
Thirty miles southwest of Baibao River, Li Xian saw the rolling Dingwu Army's second general eight foot battalions, led by Cheng Junren, the envoy of soldiers and horses, they held long guns, regimental cards, boring palladium, and Shenlei rockets, and strictly followed the team method of "dangerous march" stipulated in Li Weigong's Law of War, and formed a double row according to the queue of buildings, winding out from the mountains.
After all the infantry troops came out, Li Xian, who was immediately on the side, saw a battalion of cavalry suddenly appear in the hill next to him, which seemed to have been set up in advance to protect the flanks of the infantry brigade.
This battalion of cavalry is Xu Si's mule battalion, a total of more than 800 soldiers, still riding high-headed mules, carrying crossbows with handles, and all the forehands are imitating regular cavalry, and they are replaced with horse forks - this time Xu Si finally got what he wanted, and Gao Yue asked him to accompany Cheng Junren to attack Baibaochuan, and he didn't need to be a reserve anymore.
"It's really clever to let me wait for Baibaochuan, one is to occupy the geographical advantage, and the other is to rush to the aid of Baijingshu, who may be besieged by the rebels." Cheng Junren and Xu Si, the soldiers and horses, said to Li Xian, who came to call the police, next to the team that continued to gather around the chariots and marched forward.
Li Xian asked Cheng Junren what to do soon?
"This general of this soldier and horse envoy will arrive at the Great Wall Ridge in the south of Baijing, and Zhou Ziping will show solidarity, and then the main force of Qihou's brigade is coming, and continue to occupy the White Leopard River." Cheng Junren replied loudly.
Li Xian led the four horsemen by himself, and then went in the direction of Gyeongju City, informing the soldiers and horses that followed; At the same time, let the rest of the three horsemen gallop to Huai'an, Fangchi, Luoyuan, Fangqu and other places in Qiangtun, and call on them to go out of more cities and Yiyi to participate in the battle.
About two hours later, in the grass field on the edge of the Dashun River, the soldiers and horses of the second general of the Dingwu Army, a total of eight battalions, collided with three or four thousand Liufu party items who came here to intercept them.
The dust was flying, and the cavalry of the party were galloping and circling in the grass, gathering and scattering, and the bald hair of many people fluttered in the wind, making all sorts of provocative cries.
Most of the nomadic Dangxiang Qiang people in the Baiyu Mountain area are tall and burly, and they are quite good at riding and archery, while most of the Dingwu soldiers who are changing formations opposite them are much shorter, but this group of Tang soldiers is carrying an extremely long pile of nearly ten feet on their shoulders, and they are very skillful in changing from the marching column mode to the horizontal team of engagement, which makes the party members shocked.
The Tang Army's large array, which changed from vertical to horizontal, seemed to be a matter of an instant, which was very magical.