Chapter 20, The First Battle (4)
The time spent by the Heavenly Court's court meeting was actually very short, because how to deal with it In fact, the Heavenly Emperor and several emperors had already had ideas, and the court meeting just arranged these ideas to the relevant gods. Those low-level gods, who only had a crimson halo, could not hear anything when the emperor with a blue and purple halo spoke, and they also did not have the right to speak and ask questions. Any decision that needs to be made known to them, or that requires them to carry out their work. Whatever really needed to be done by them had to be communicated to them by the gods with their golden halos. In this sense, it seems that it is of little significance for these gods to participate in the court meeting, but in fact, it is not.
At this court meeting, the discussion was how to deal with a foreign god whose karma was not under the Emperor of Heaven, and any god whose karma had reached the golden yellow was always very sensitive to matters involving himself. If anyone has something to do with him, he will naturally feel something. This kind of ability, in China, is called "whim".
Of course, if Yahweh's position is only golden, then the Emperor of Heaven and several emperors can easily hide this spiritual sense from him; But if the karma has already reached the level of bruising, it is not easy to hide from His spiritual sense. If his karma had already reached pure purple, then only by gathering the power of the gods of the entire Heavenly Court, and then with the help of the various prohibitions of the Lingxiao Treasure Hall of the Miluo Palace, it would be possible to conceal his spiritual sense. In fact, when discussing how to deal with those gods with high karma, this method is also the practice of the Heavenly Court.
Because before the court meeting, the Heavenly Emperor and several emperors already had basic ideas, so they quickly arranged various arrangements. Then the court was disbanded—after all, in the entire heavenly court, all the gods had their duties and were very busy.
There are more than 20 red mountain gods in Shangluo Mountain within a radius of hundreds of miles, and at this time the court meeting has been dispersed, and these gods have received the will of the Emperor of Heaven and returned to their own places. The task given to them by the Emperor of Heaven was very simple, that is, to interfere as much as possible with the pursuit and suppression of Huang Zide's troops hidden in Shangluo Mountain, at least, to save Huang Zide's life.
Chang Yan is the mountain god of Black Tiger Mountain, and before he set off to participate in the Heavenly Court Meeting yesterday, he had already noticed Shang Xiuying's department, which was hiding from the official army in his jurisdiction, and he also knew that Shang Xiuying's department was trapped in illness, and He Dalong also led troops into the mountain. Even before He Dalong entered the mountain, he specially offered him a small prison (a pig, a sheep) to ask for His help. Chang Yan was quite satisfied with this sacrifice, but he knew that this kind of thing was related to the direction of the world, and it was not something that a mere mountain god could interfere with at will, so he didn't dare to get involved. However, the situation is different now, he has received the edict of the Emperor of Heaven from the Emperor Xiyue, and now he naturally can't let He Dalong succeed.
"He Dalong, how are they now?" As soon as Chang Yan returned to his temple, he asked the ghost guards on duty in the temple.
"Your Honor," the ghost pawn quickly replied, "Not long ago, there was a battle between He Dalong and Huang Zide's department, and then Huang Zide's department retreated to the east, and He Dalong was chasing. ”
This ghost pawn's answer was not very detailed, but Chang Yan knew that it was not that this ghost pawn was careless in doing things. It's because where the army is, there is naturally a surging aura. A ghost pawn, who approaches rashly, will definitely be injured by this evil spirit. However, listening to what this ghost said, at least now that Huang Zide's department has not collapsed, then there is still room for interference.
"Where is the battlefield? You take me there! Chang Yan said.
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Liu Jiexuan has been blocking He Dalong on this mountain road for almost two hours. In the battle of the last pass, Liu Jiexuan used Yuanyang Town to inflict huge casualties on He Dalong. But He Dalong soon moved back to the city. He drove those borrowed soldiers to charge, and then, as soon as the two sides were engaged, covered the battlefield with bows and arrows. The rebels, who were not well armoured, immediately suffered considerable losses, and more than 40 people were wounded by arrows. Although most of them were minor injuries that would not be immediately fatal, ten fighters were incapacitated, and two of them were shot in the vital point, so it is difficult to say whether they will survive or not. Of course, the situation of the officers and soldiers who were in close contact with them was even worse, and almost half of the hundreds of people who rushed up this group died. But now He Dalong's side is the most important thing to lack is people. As long as He Dalong concocts it twice more, Liu Jiexuan's subordinates probably have no one who can still fight.
So Liu Jiexuan could only spit two mouthfuls of saliva at He Dalong with hatred, and then scolded "The dog will not die well", then put the seriously injured on horseback and retreated with the team.
He Dalong led the men and horses to chase after him. Liu Jiexuan is actually not familiar with the local terrain. However, he knew the direction in which Shang Xiuying and they were going, so he only needed to take He Dalong and not run in that direction. Liu Jiexuan took He Dalong to the east for a while, and encountered another pass. As soon as he saw this pass, Liu Jiexuan was overjoyed. For there were many tall pine trees growing on the edge of the pass, and the thick canopy of them covered the sky like a large umbrella.
"It's such a great place! Hahaha! ”
Liu Jiexuan led people to run under the tree, and then set up a mandarin duck array to block the road, and then shouted loudly to He Dalong, who was chasing after him: "He Dalong, you Laozi and I are waiting for you here!" You release the arrows again! Lao Tzu depends on how many people you come up to die! ”
He Dalong also stopped, he looked at the pine trees over there, and knew that his old method would not work—the light arrows thrown would be blocked by the dense foliage of the pine trees. And if you don't use this trick, just send someone to rush up, the mandarin duck array of Liu Jiexuan on the opposite side is not so easy to deal with, if you really want to rush away with brute force, I don't know how many people will die. Of course, he He Dalong is not afraid of the dead, and it is not him who dies anyway. But he is not afraid, and his soldiers will not be afraid, after all, it is they who die! There are really a lot of dead people, and the rest of the people will definitely mutiny and disperse in a hurry, and at that time, it will not be him chasing Liu Jiexuan, but Liu Jiexuan will chase him.
But it's not a matter of waiting like this, if you have a quarter of an hour of confrontation here, then Shang Xiuying will have a quarter of an hour more time to run, and now it is already afternoon, if you delay it for a while, it will be dark. In this era, as soon as it gets dark, most of the army loses the ability to act because of lack of organization. The army he has at his disposal is no exception. Considering the elite of the enemy army, perhaps he should have been more worried about whether people would attack him at night.
"Kamo!" He Dalong shouted.
"Father!" He Mao stepped forward.
"Mao'er, you first keep an eye on those state soldiers, let them rush a few times, don't let them be too treacherous, don't push too hard, rush a few more times, and consume their physical strength." He Dalong said.
The reason why the state soldiers were used first was because the state soldiers were not their own people, and if they died, they would die. Moreover, it is not easy for them to cause a mutiny among the soldiers in their own ranks. Of course, it's best not to die too much, because this will make the soldiers on your side more and more demoralized.
He Dalong called his own son again: "Chengzu, you take a few people over there to explore the road and see if there is a way to bypass, I see, this place will not be able to take it for a while." ”
He Chengzu answered, and left with a few scouts. He Dalong squinted his eyes again at the impact of the state soldiers. The state soldiers began to slow down halfway through, and when they reached the front, several soldiers with spears roared loudly and stabbed their spears into the great shields of the rebels—apparently they had seen the battle ahead, and knew that any attempt to attack their opponents beyond their shields would provoke a terrible counterattack, and if they only attacked the front of the shield, the pikemen of the "thieves" would not be able to reach them. So, in their opinion, attacking only the shield, although it is very inefficient, is much safer. He Dalong urgently needed to catch Shang Xiuying and even Huang Zide's great merit, but this great merit had little meaning to them. The credit belongs to others, but the life is their own, and they really pounce on it when they are stupid.
In fact, if they could really keep stabbing other people's shields with spears like this, He Dalong would definitely be very satisfied. Anyway, He Dalong didn't expect them to break through the defenses of those elite "thieves". They can hit someone's shield hard, or at least they can consume some of the shield's strength. He Dalong can now also see that the big shield on the front is the core of the entire Mandarin Duck Array, and if the shield wants to work well, the person who operates the shield must have a good strength, if the strength is exhausted, the shield will not be too flexible to use, and then it will be impossible to say that there will be a chance.
However, things are not as good as he imagined. The shield man held the shield in both hands, and suddenly crouched down, and behind him, an arrow shot out violently, and suddenly disappeared into the chest of the state soldier in front - there are also long-range attacks in the mandarin duck array.
In Qi Dashuai's mandarin duck array back then, there were one or two musketeers. The bird guns they use can penetrate all kinds of armor very effectively, and if they can hit, the lethality is quite good, almost no less than the assassination of spears. When the Japanese were cleared, these birds did not know how many Japanese they had killed. But now, things have changed. Nowadays, in the official army of Jokhang, the bird gun is also a common weapon, but over the years, the things made by my Jokhang Ministry have always cut corners, and this bird gun is naturally no exception. Generally speaking, if the bird guns obtained by the Jokhang official army were carefully loaded with a sufficient amount of gunpowder, they would definitely explode as soon as they fired. Even if even half of the gunpowder is loaded, there is no guarantee that it will not explode. Therefore, when it is generally used, soldiers will only load a third or even a quarter of the gunpowder on the bird. In this way, the bore will not be blown up, but the lethality of the bird gun will naturally be greatly reduced. It can barely be used against the basically unarmored rebels, but when it is used against the Jin army outside the gate, the power is not as good as the bow and arrow. In addition, at the beginning, Qi Dashuai's muskets were often fired from close proximity, and when shooting, the distance between the musketeers and the enemy was often only ten paces. Shooting at such a distance, the hit rate is naturally surprisingly high, and almost every time a gun is fired, a widow will fall. However, today's Jokhang official army, even family members do not necessarily have the courage to put the enemy within ten paces and then open fire. In the face of enemy troops, especially when facing strong enemies, they tend to open fire when they are about 100 paces away from the enemy. As a result, naturally nothing can be fired, and even because of the constant fire, the barrels of the guns will finally be red, and then at this time the enemy will rush up again, but they can no longer shoot.
The rebels did not have a bird gun, so they had to use bows and arrows instead. However, according to Xuan Yi's suggestion, these archers adopted the tactics of Qi Dashuai's opponents, those Japanese robbers.
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