Chapter 611: The stirrup and the horseshoe are beginning to show their might

In the spring of the third year of Zhongping, after preparations in the autumn and winter, the Han army and the rebel army were accumulating strength, and the Han army in Liangzhou finally sent troops under the order of Fuquan on the school platform in the county seat of Ji County.

"Nanrong, you don't have to send it far, this time the army is attacking Jincheng, and the money and food depend on you!"

Outside the county seat of Ji County, Fu Quan faced Fu Xie and seriously told him that at the end of last year, he was recommended by Fu Quan as the county guard of Hanyang County, and the soldiers and horses led by Fu Quan to directly enter Jincheng County naturally had to rely on Fu Xie's help.

Of course, Fu Quan is willing to give Fu Xie face like this, naturally because he can see that his ability is much better than Fan Jin, and Fan Jin has been in the remote and bitter cold place of Liangzhou for too long, and he has also resigned several times, hoping to live in his hometown Nanyang. However, in Fu Quan's opinion, Fan Jin's attitude seemed to be a bit like filming the rebels attacking Hanyang County again and again, for fear that he would also have bad luck, so he left his post early and returned home.

"No! Let you rest assured that there is a pen, and there will be no delay in money and food! Fu Xie saluted and replied, he was still very grateful to Fuquan, in addition to the love that was formed by the pacification of Taiping Road in the past, that is, the love of recommending himself as the Taishou of Hanyang County this time.

Fu Xie was originally a scripture scholar, so he naturally hoped to be on either side of his side, not to be a lieutenant guarding the border. Originally, when he was edicted, he wanted to resign, but then it was not because of the rebellion of Han Sui and Bian Zhang, because he couldn't bear to be controlled by thieves in Liangzhou, so he stayed in Anding Lieutenant for a long time, and then with the defeat of Han Sui in Fuquan, seeing that the situation was favorable to the Han Dynasty, he had the idea of resigning, but before he could figure out how to resign, Fuquan's recommendation made his dream come true, and he was naturally very grateful.

"Good!" Fu Quan shouted, then got on his horse, and under the escort of a group of Liangzhou civil and military personnel, he led his army of 30,000 people along the way, and went straight to Jincheng.

At the same time, there are still two other lines of soldiers and horses, one is led by Guan Yu, who led the five hundred Liangzhou cavalry given by Fuquan, and led the 10,000 cavalry sent by the imperial court from the north.

On the other hand, Huang Zhong led Fuquan to fight in the south and north in the past, and the remaining more than 3,000 elite horsemen set out from Longxi County and directly attacked the thieves in Longxi County.

The three-way army, Fuquan has strict orders, anyone who has the slightest resistance, will be killed, and those who are famous for being traitors will slaughter the clan. The potential meaning of this is that the rebels who surrendered before the war can accept surrender, but once they fight with the Han army and resist, then there is no need to seal the knife, and as for those traitors who are famous, they don't need to be estimated, and they will be slaughtered directly as punishment by defeating them.

At this time, he just came to Liangzhou, that is, Fuquan is desperately short of troops, and he still needs to use some prisoners as cannon fodder, and now, he wants to fundamentally let the rebels in Liangzhou know the fate of the rebellion, and even in Fuquan's heart, his order is more like hoping to slaughter all the rebellious Qiang people in Liangzhou.

The county seat of Jixian County in the rear is getting farther and farther away, and the scribes around Fuquan have different faces, and they have different views on this war.

In Li Ru's opinion, the strength of the rebels in Liangzhou was slightly more than them, but Fuquan now dared to divide his troops to attack, which was really a bit self-righteous, even though Fuquan had the qualifications to break the rebels before, but this does not mean that the combat power of the rebels is very low. You must know that at the beginning of the rebellion, at that time, Beigong Boyu's unscrupulous people relied on this rebel army to sweep Liangzhou, and now they have replaced it with a more powerful Han Sui than them, what courage does Fuquan have to dare to divide his troops to attack?

Of course, Li Ru once asked Fuquan this question privately, not even him, but Liangzhou locals, and even the famous officials in Yizhou and the Central Plains brought by Fuquan before, also admonished this matter openly and secretly, but they were all strongly suppressed by Fuquan and let them sit and wait for the war, and everything would be fine.

In this regard, Li Ru and the others couldn't understand it, and only thought that Fuquan relied on Huang Zhong's cavalry, and it was the elite of the hundred battles he had been leading, so they said so.

Among them, among these people, some people are willing to believe in this matter and do not go to many things, such as Jia Xu, who are all sitting quietly and waiting to watch the play. And curious people like Li Ru, they originally wanted to take a private look at Huang Zhong's army and then make advice, but no matter how they inquired, they couldn't find Huang Zhong's cavalry, which really made them curious, what kind of ecstasy soup was sold in Fuquan's stomach?

Perhaps, all this can really only be known by waiting for the war, in fact, for Fu Quan, he even feels that sending more than 4,000 horsemen is too much. Even if there are more than 10,000 bandits entrenched in the Longxi regions, and they are not ordinary miscellaneous cavalry, they are definitely not the opponents of Huang Zhong's department, as for the reason, that is, he has equipped Huang Zhong's department with horseshoes and stirrups.

The northwest of Zhidi Road in Longxi County is Caohan County and Heguan County, which is the birthplace of the Han thieves rebellion in the Liangzhou rebels. Today, with the rebellion of Liangzhou Yicong Didao Kingdom and Song Jian, the Han rebel forces in Longxi have already covered Longxi County, and even the news that the short-sighted Song Jian has planned to use the occupied place to call Wang Jianguo can be seen that the rebels in Longxi County are rampant.

Huang Zhong led his troops as early as two days before Fuquan sent troops, and now they have arrived at Caohan County, the main entrenchment point of the Longxi rebels, the reason why this is so, is to take the Longxi rebels by surprise, so as to end the battle as soon as possible, and cooperate with the main force of Fuquan to carry out the next plan.

In fact, it is precisely because of this that when Huang Zhong's more than 4,000 cavalry appeared outside Caohan County, the rebels hurriedly gathered more than 6,000 cavalry to fight.

Since the end of the Sui Dynasty, Huang Zhong has led his troops, under the secret order of Fuquan, to hide troops in Longxi to train troops, in order to wait for this day. At that time, after seeing the stirrups and horseshoes that Fu Quan secretly showed him, Huang Zhong was shocked, especially the stirrups, which were really cavalry weapons, so he couldn't help but be arrogant compared to the rebels now.

At the beginning, Huang Zhong, like many generals under his command, disagreed with the stirrup, thinking that only the incompetent would equip it, but when he equipped it himself, and after seeing a little-known soldier standing up on the stirrup, and using more force, and making many incredible movements, he suddenly changed his opinion.

This is completely turning an ordinary cavalry into an artifact of elite cavalry, Huang Zhong didn't dare to imagine it before, he knew that if there were 100,000 cavalry equipped with stirrups now, I am afraid that it would occupy half of the Han Dynasty at once, and it would not be a problem.

And after Fu Quan said that he would secretly train his troops with Fu Quan's cronies and wait for the order of the Han army to attack, Huang Zhong's heart couldn't help but warm, and he was even able to hide in an unnamed valley in Longxi County with more than 4,000 horsemen for almost half a year, and he didn't even come forward these days. It is precisely because of this that after Huang Zhong led his troops to send troops, the rebels in Longxi County did not react for a while, because their attention had always been in Hanyang County, where the adjacent Liangzhou Thorn History Department was located.

Of course, Huang Zhong also understood that if Fuquan strictly ordered himself and his soldiers not to talk about horseshoes and stirrups, if such things flowed into the rebels, what kind of hidden dangers would it bring. So he is very supportive, as for whether there will be leaks in the army, Fu Quan and Huang Zhong are not worried, after all, Huang Zhong's subordinates are all the remaining elites of Fu Quan in the past, and they can be said to be very loyal people, and they want them to betray Fu Quan, unless Fu Quan dies, or their command is handed over to someone else.

The two armies of the Han army and the rebels met in the plain outside the city of Caohan, the Han army had more than 4,000 horsemen, the number was slightly smaller, and the rebels of Caohan, after a cursory observation, had temporarily gathered more than 6,000 people, and there were reinforcements from all over the rear to rush, but there were many people, but the victory was decided from the beginning.

The two sides looked at each other from a distance, and the short-sighted Song Jian scolded: "Why did the Han army come so quickly? Scouts are useless! Bad for me! Extremely useless! Originally, he was ready to discuss with Han Sui, Wang Guo and others, and he would be the emperor of the soil on this one-third of an acre of land in Caohan, and he only needed to provide them with money, food, and soldiers as agreed, but before the dream was achieved, he was suddenly attacked by the Han army. However, the Han army was small in number, and he already had a chance.

"Don't worry! Han soldiers are outnumbered, don't be afraid! The kingdom on the side glanced at Song Jiandao with disdain, and he didn't want to say anything about this short-sighted person who was like a wall, he wanted to be called a widow so early, it was really a brain in water. If it weren't for the fact that the Song Jian family was very powerful in the local area and the kingdom was not as good as the kingdom, he would have annexed this friend who was the same Liangzhou Yicong as him and had rebelled from the Han army in Longxi County together.

"Good! Let these thousands of Han soldiers die today! ”

As soon as these words came out, the morale of the rebels was suddenly shocked, and many of Song Jian's diehards shouted "Long live" when they heard this, in order to boost their momentum.

On the other side, Huang Zhong saw that the rebels were so excited, so he could naturally guess the other party's thoughts, but today's battle was destined to not be explained by common sense. As he raised his hand, the passionate horn sound of "woo, woo" suddenly swept across the field, and the soldiers of the Han army who had been waiting for half a year were boiling with enthusiasm.

Seeing that the morale had risen, Huang Zhong drew his sword and shouted: "Make meritorious contributions, at this time, kill!" ”

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

……

In the sound of horns in the sky, more than 4,000 iron horsemen who were waiting for the battle roared, shouting to kill the righteousness, and in an instant, the battlefield was filled with a deafening roar, and the earth trembled because of the iron hooves.

"Boom...... Rumble ......"

The rebel soldiers looked at each other, and for the first time in their lives, they felt that the world was turned upside down, the sound of horses' hooves was too loud, like thunder on a sunny day, why was it so loud? You must know that they are also rebels who once had 100,000 iron cavalry, although the number may be exaggerated, but it is not far off, but this is it, it is not as exaggerated as it is now......

"Could it be that the Han army gave the horses' hooves and couldn't put on iron shoes?" Wang Guo was shocked, and casually made a joke to ease the surrounding atmosphere, but he didn't know that this sentence had already revealed the inner mystery.

"No matter, kill!" Song Jianke didn't care about the Han army, in his opinion, the Han army's 4,000 horses came over, and it was completely sent to death, and his own army was completely going to destroy them, so he led his subordinates to fight immediately.

The two cavalry, like two torrents of steel, gradually drew closer, but then the rebels saw a scene that shocked them.

I saw that Huang Zhongbu did not mean to engage in close combat, but flew diagonally, facing the Liangzhou cavalry, and then in the incredible eyes of the rebels, they all stood up directly, bent their bows and arrows, and the kingdom and Song Jian were surprised and then exclaimed: "Horse shooting? ”

Don't let the two of them think too much, the sound of the horn became more and more intense, hundreds of long arrows flew away from the bowstring, straight into the cavalry array, wave after wave of arrow rain endlessly, the rebel cavalry shouted horse neighing, chaos into a mess, some smart people immediately dismounted, want to use the mount as a wall, draw the bow to fight back, but unfortunately the rebel soldiers who can hit the opponent are very few, and most of these people were covered by the arrows of the Han army in the next round, completely killed.

With a snort, Song Jian looked down at his right chest, a feather arrow still trembled, blood flowed out of the wound, staining the red armor, the wound that did not enter half of the arrow was enough to show how powerful this arrow was.

When Song Jian's personal guards saw this, they were immediately shocked, and hurriedly found an iron shield beside him to defend, and the kingdom's personal guards also looked good when they saw this. Suddenly, I heard Song Jian howling in his mouth: "Seventy or eighty steps away? The Han army is possessed by the gods, and it is ......"

Don't blame Song Jian for his gaffe, although the cavalry will shoot arrows on horses, but the range of many cavalry is negligible, ordinary people are only twenty or thirty steps, can shoot fifty steps, they are all powerful people, the range is more than seventy or eighty steps away, it is even rarer, and those who shoot more than fifty steps, basically most of the feather arrows shot will not have much strength after they reach the place.

But now, the Han army has more than 4,000 horsemen with a range of seventy or eighty paces, and after the feather arrows arrive at the place, the penetration power has not been lost, this is really too evil, the Han army's more than 4,000 horsemen have this ability, this is really terrifying, this battle can't be fought, how to fight, can't be fought at all.

After all, these rebels, it seems that there are more than 6,000 horsemen in terms of numbers, but if they want to make up the Han army now, they may not be able to get together a hundred people at all, and among these people, those who dare to guarantee that their feather arrows can continue to penetrate after they arrive at the place, and those who pierce through the enemy's iron armor are even less.

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