Chapter 254: The Battle of the Outside of Cyprus (22)
As early as in his previous life, Guo Bin had heard the so-called "when the gun goes off, the gold is ten thousand taels", of course, this is limited to the winner.
And when he saw the list of loot presented by Su Shuangyi with hands trembling with excitement, he couldn't help but twitch in his heart. If nothing else, too much.
Most of the Xianbei people's blades and equipment are not very useful. However, the 10,000 Xianbei elite cavalry under Helian is even higher than the level of ordinary Han officers and soldiers. As far as the officials and soldiers of the Han Dynasty that Guo Bin has seen so far are concerned, the only ones who can overwhelm them in terms of equipment alone are the Lang officials and guards who defend the Son of Heaven in the Beijing Division, which is the northern army of the Beijing Division, which is quite inferior to them.
Therefore, the harvest in terms of armor and blades this time was mainly provided by the 10,000 Xianbei elites in the Shenglong Valley yesterday. According to Su Shuang's statistics, the leather armor alone has reached 8,000 collars, and there are about 10,000 leather helmets and iron helmets of various kinds. In addition, there are 10,000 iron swords and 50,000 horses, of which the number of elite war horses even reaches 9,000, most of which are war horses that have been stunned or escaped by smoke and fire in the Thang Long Valley. Although most of these horses are injured, most of them can recover after treatment. It is really difficult to recover, and it is much more elite than the horses that are generally used to carry goods.
Of the remaining 40,000 horses, nearly 15,000 were captured in the Thang Long Valley, and most of them were tasked with transporting supplies for the elite cavalry of Xianbei, so they also entered the valley with the army. The remaining 25,000 horses were captured in the stables of the Xianbei camp this morning. Although the Xianbei army has one person and three horses, but when the two armies face each other, they will naturally not take the horses carrying supplies into battle, and when fleeing for their lives, most people only care about patting the horses and galloping, and their lives are important, where can they go to the stable to lead the horses?
As a result, most of these inferior horses in the Xianbei Department became Guo Bin's bag. And after statistics, in this battle of Shenglong Valley, in addition to the great achievement of killing Xianbei Dadan Yu Helian cannot be measured by numbers, the biggest harvest in the three cities outside the Saiwai is these horses.
Because of the political corruption in the Central Plains in recent years, thieves have swarmed in the four regions, and last year it triggered the Yellow Turban Rebellion, which shocked the world, which made it more difficult to circulate materials between the grassland and the Central Plains, and the cost soared. As a result, the price of horses, a status luxury, has skyrocketed. It is the second-class horse in this battle, which is much stronger than the one that Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang trafficked to Yangzhai County at the beginning, and it is more than enough to use it as a war horse. Therefore, war horses have a price in the Central Plains, let alone the Jiangnan region. If it weren't for the soaring price of horses, with Guo Bin's wealth, how could he have only armed nearly a thousand people when he was ordered to form the Yue Cavalry Battalion?
Now, although there are so many war horses in the three cities outside the Saiwai, they are all Guo Bin's private property, and it is impossible to share them with the imperial court, and he will not be stupid enough to traffic these war horses to the Central Plains on the eve of the troubled times when the war is about to start. As for how to ensure the health of these horses, and at the same time use these horses to train cavalry, so as to prepare for the chaos in the Central Plains, Guo Bin has no good way, so he can only put them away first, and then pay attention to them when the war is over in the future.
In addition to horses and ordnance, the gold and silver property taken from the dead are also innumerable, Guo Bin gave an order, and actually distributed these things to more than 20,000 soldiers who participated in this battle.
In addition, the tents used by the marching army, the wagons used to transport supplies, cheese, butter and other materials were seized innumerably.
Looking at these thin material lists, not only Su Shuang, but also Guo Bin was excited. With the harvest of more than 50,000 war horses, the three cities outside the Saiwai can truly grow into the cities outside the Saiwai, because horses are the most important means of transportation in this era, the most important strategic resources, and one of the most important means of production.
In the future, when the nearly 500,000 residents of the three cities outside the Saiwai really integrate into the grassland life and truly get used to the life and production mode on the grassland, Guo Bin will truly obtain nearly 500,000 elite iron horses, which is undoubtedly an extremely large and terrifying important strategic force in the Central Plains and even in the whole world.
Now that the war is over, Guo Bin will follow the plan and put Su Shuang in the Shenglong Valley to build a camp, and strive to build a fortress in the shortest possible time to choke the throat of the north and south of the grassland. This fortress will undoubtedly become the forward stronghold of the three cities on the grassland, and once it is completed, the Xianbei army will need to weigh more and more if they want to invade the three outer cities from the north to the south.
However, Su Shuang was responsible for presiding over the construction of the fortress, transporting materials, and cleaning up the battlefield, so naturally he had nothing to say, but he didn't understand military affairs, and if he gave the Xianbei army a counterattack, maybe it would make a big joke. Therefore, Guo Bin put Guo Da here, commanded an army of 5,000 people, and supported the construction of Su Shuang's fortress.
Guo Da and other five guards who followed Guo Bin's side, followed Guo Bin to fight in the south and the north, and were born and died several times, and were often taught by Guo Bin and other high-level leaders on weekdays, whether it was martial arts or strategic and tactical vision, they were not inferior to many generals. Moreover, they have no problem in loyalty, and their prestige in the army is extremely high, and Guo Da is calm and cautious, although it is a little insufficient to be enterprising, but if they only hold the camp steadily, it is more than enough. Therefore, Guo Bin was extremely relieved to hand over the Thang Long Valley Fortress to Guo Datun to garrison.
After arranging all the affairs in the Thang Long Valley, the army repaired another night, and after breakfast the next morning, the camp went south. This time, Guo Bin's subordinates led a total of about 10,000 people, and he placed 5,000 soldiers in the Thang Long Valley for defense affairs, and also allocated 5,000 people to Su Shuang for the construction of the city.
The galloping of 10,000 troops on the grassland is also a very spectacular sight, but although the soldiers are not the first to contact war horses, their equestrian skills are also very debatable. Therefore, when marching, the crooked cavalry did not see the majesty of the march of the army, which made Guo Bin have a great headache.
The practice of equestrianism is not an overnight achievement, and the Xianbei cavalry is so elite, isn't it because it grew up on horseback since childhood? Whether it is the understanding of horse habits or their own riding skills, the Xianbei cavalry is not many times stronger than the Central Plains people under Guo Bin. However, there is a good start, and when they become proficient, these men will surely become an elite cavalry that will be feared by the enemy. For now, let's use it as a Swift infantryman. The so-called Swift Infantry, which was invented by Guo Bin, refers to the troops who march on war horses and dismount to fight on the battlefield, just like the French soldiers who rushed to the front line of the Marne River in a taxi during World War I. At present, the soldiers under Guo Bin, except for the 700 elites who have followed him in the southern and northern wars, the other troops can be counted as swift infantry.
The three outer cities of the city, in the center of the city.
The 20,000 Xianbei army arrived yesterday evening, and the army was divided into two parts, east and west, and set up camp on the grassland after arriving. It is said that it is a camp, but the wooden wall is very simple and loose, and the layout of the camp is also very loose, and the large and small military tents are scattered in the camp very irregularly, and even until late at night, the noise in the camp gradually stops.
The army in the city only closed its doors, neither sent a large army to prevent it from setting up camp, nor sent a general to fight the battle, as if it was a turtle with a shrunken head, only holding the city steadily, and not making superfluous movements.
It's not the drama that commands the army, but the army in the city is mostly patrol security personnel who maintain order on weekdays, and their training is insufficient, and their weapons and equipment are far from perfect. Moreover, most of the mules and horses in the city had already been sent to the front line of Thang Long Valley, and if they were to send troops, they would have to fight the cavalry with infantry troops.
Of course, if it is a well-equipped and well-trained Han officer army, as long as the supplies are abundant, it will be easy to face twice the Xianbei elite cavalry. But now these people under Xi Zhicai's command, if they go out of the city, when facing the not elite Xianbei cavalry, I am afraid that they will also lose their armor in one round, which will lose morale in vain, but will ruin a big thing.
What's more, Xi Zhicai is just a civil official, with him in charge, he can naturally suppress everyone in the city, but no matter how resourceful and thoughtful he is, he can't always lead the army into battle to kill the enemy. In order to concentrate superior forces and block the main army of Xianbei Dadan Yu Helian outside the Thang Long Valley, Guo Bin had already taken away the most elite soldiers in the three cities outside the Saiwai, and the generals who could lead the army were also selected to be brought to the front line of the Thang Long Valley at the same time. Therefore, now in the hands of Xi Zhicai, it can be said that there are neither soldiers who can fight, nor generals who can lead the army, but only the police force in his hands.
Early this morning, the two battalions of Xianbei troops outside the city rushed out of the camp and directly surrounded the central city. Of course, with the current Xianbei army's mere 20,000 horses, it is not enough to surround the central city, and it is more than enough to take advantage of the fast speed of cavalry movement to cut off the communication between the three cities outside the Saiwai and at the same time block the information and communication between the three cities outside the Saiwai and the outside world.
After cutting off communications and communications on land, the Xianbei army sent about three-quarters of its men to the north gate of the central city to put pressure on the city.
I saw a Xianbei general with a beard on his face riding a horse to the city, and shouted in a slightly accented Chinese dialect: "Listen to the people in the city, we are sent by Xianbei Da Danyu to hunt in the three cities outside the Saiwai!" Those who know each other will quickly open the city gate and welcome our army into the city, otherwise if we wait for our army to fall into the city, from the army generals to the old and young, they will all be killed, and no one will be left! ”
Seeing that there was no reaction in the city, he continued to shout: "The Xianbei people in the city listen! He Lian Da Shan Yu said that if anyone dares to help the Han people defend the city, they will raze their entire clan; And if someone can open the door to welcome the army into the city, he can be named an adult! ”
His words made the Xianbei chieftains on the city tower who were observing the enemy's situation start to itch in their hearts again. I don't know why, the three cities outside the Saiwai are now facing such a crisis, and Guo Bin, the city lord, has never shown up, which is really a strange thing. Therefore, some people speculated whether Guo Bin was not in the city at all. Although this kind of speculation is correct by mistake, there are different opinions as to why Guo Bin is not in the city, whether he is afraid that the Xianbei army will run alone, or whether he is holding back his magnifying moves somewhere in the city, or whether he is out of the city to meet the enemy.