Chapter 357: Pinghai
Because there were many friendly troops traveling with us, it was necessary to arrange the position and order, so it took most of the day from discovering the enemy's tracks, confirming the contact and size, and organizing the combat state, to entering the target site, and by the time we arrived, all we had left was the post-war scene of messing and corpses everywhere.
Then we sent out a team of horses to follow the traces left by the large group of men and horses in the battlefield, and in the dark, we hurried to find the place where the battle was taking place.
On the rolling field, the crowd of people who have been running and shouting can't see the original appearance of the trampling, and an east-west road runs throughout, barely providing a reference for a certain direction for this battlefield where the battle is in full swing.
From the maximum multiple of the mirror on the high platform of the lookout car, I can observe that a northern army with a cyan bird flag is in a fierce battle with the Shenji army that is camping on the opposite side.
I saw the overwhelming smoke and flames flying out of the camp of the southern army, and splashing down on the northern soldiers like a star, drowning their array in the smoke of the fire, which was spectacular.
At this moment, I saw at least seven or eight kinds of firearms such as the fire nest car, the flying fire thunder, etc.,
In terms of the principle of tactics, there is not much difference from my troops, and after breaking up the enemy's formation with dense long-range projection, the infantry men rush forward to fight in close combat, and strive to expand the results of the battle from the gap and confusion opened by the firearms.
But in terms of specific weapons and tactics, as well as in terms of effectiveness, there is more than a generation behind, and just so many types and configurations are enough for the people in charge of logistics to go crazy or crazy.
Not to mention maintaining independent combat and self-sustaining capabilities, it is no wonder that for a long time, the Shenji Army has powerful projection firepower, but it can only be used to rely on the fortress camp to defend the key points, or under the name of each army, under the cover of the infantry formation, to carry out field defense or attack the fortification.
It's just that under the blow of these firearms, these northern soldiers also showed a rather tenacious and tenacious side, and their main way of correspondence was to train in a well-trained shield array, staggered and combined forces to resist the explosions or incendiary objects projected from the opposite side, or to follow the trajectory to disperse and avoid.
Even if it is overturned by a head-on hit, as long as it is not dead or seriously injured, they will support each other to get up again, and even if it is blocked and the flames flow down, the people around them are not in a hurry, rolling it to the ground, and extinguishing it with sand and wet barriers.
Obviously, it is a team that has fought with the Southern Dynasty for a long time and has quite a lot of experience in warfare.
And the flying fire mines and large fire oil bombs that were projected from the Divine Machine Army with a lethal surface were only a few after all. Most of them are rockets, fire nest cars, whirlwind cannons, leather cannons, bombardiers, plus a small amount of traditional ordnance such as iron arm bows and crossbows.
And once the melee starts, these large instruments lose most of their usefulness, and are not as effective as traditional bows and crossbows.
Therefore, under the blow of firearms in the sky, this northern army not only did not fall behind, but also fought vividly, but also approached the camp position set up by the Shenji Army several times, broke into the demolition and filled in several defense lines and fortifications.
It can be described as a hierarchical ladder ratio, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, which gives birth to an unshakable illusion. They could even cover the approach of the crossbowmen, and with fast and fierce projectiles, they disrupted and overwhelmed the firearms units placed in the front line.
However, this qiē, which is all under my command, has changed when it is put into the battlefield.
With the sound of drums and trumpets, the wings facing us quickly shrank and turned into a group of people who came forward to meet us.
The Sixth Auxiliary Army, which was the first to complete the formation, also strode forward and collided head-on with this split enemy army, saying that it was too late, that time was fast, and in this moment, many changes had already taken place.
Rushing to the front, there were some soldiers armed with tubular mallets and small shields, only to see them trot, suddenly stopped, Kankan pulled out a long horizontal formation, with small shields to prop up those mallets, and then slammed on the edge of the shield, listening to the sound of ping-pong suddenly, on the opposite side, suddenly fell down a number of vanguard soldiers who rushed to the front.
Quickly beating the hand, all three shots of the medicine in one breath, these auxiliaries shouted and got up and brandished their mallets, approached and killed into the formation, waved the cards and sticks, and the blood splashed from the ramming, and the men and horses of the rear team also bypassed their columns, and smashed the enemy army from both wings with guns and knives.
As a result, as if they had never seen this kind of cover-fire and assault tactics, the team sent by the enemy formation to meet them could not hold out for a few faces, and retreated.
Trailing and chasing, leaving a corpse all the way, the crossbowmen who had just turned in this formation, with the support of the rain of arrows, forced back those pursuing auxiliaries, and they could be on the edge of the formation and stopped.
But then, the battle was not so smooth, and after the division of troops to meet the setback, most of the northern army quickly gave up the continuation of the offensive and efforts, and under the cover of darkness and twilight, the whole team shrank and slowly retreated north.
And the Shenji Army in those camps, as well as the infantry soldiers and horses responsible for covering the Shenji Army, did not go out of the camp to pursue again, just watched the enemy army hundreds of paces away, just completed the turn and changed formation, and left.
However, my subordinates, after seeing the appearance of the Sixth Auxiliary Army Brigade, still have some eagerness to take the initiative to ask for battle, and it turns out that they are prepared, and most of the enemy troops gathered together are not so easy to gnaw down.
Under the repeated attacks of several allies who took the initiative to ask for battle, they were still able to change formations relatively calmly and cover alternately, and only lost a few men and horses after the break.
This kind of combat quality and command efficiency cannot help but impress.
"This man is a flat navy,"
After inspecting the style of the captured military flag, some people recognized it.
"One of the five major military orders under the command of the Andong camp of the Northern Dynasty......"
"The farthest can be traced back to the Qianyuan period, the source of the old Anton's crusade army ......"
"No wonder it's so hard to fight......"
Therefore, in the territory of Andong Province, there are many high mountains and valleys, continuous ravines, the climate is very cold and the people are fierce, so it is also rich in excellent foot soldiers and archers.
At that time, the ancient Goguryeo Kingdom, possessed it, and got the danger of mountains and rivers, gathered the fierceness of all ethnic groups, and survived the three major expeditions of Emperor Yang of Sui and the two crusades of Taizong of Tang Dynasty in a corner of the land.
Only in the life of Gaozong, he was dragged down by the famous general Li Ji with the scorched earth tactics of "killing the cultivators in the spring and burning in the autumn", and was destroyed in the famine and civil strife, and became the protectorate of Anton under the rule of Xue Rengui, and after hundreds of years of see-saw and management.
During the reign of Qianyuan and Taixing, the crusading army sent by the Duke of Liang crossed the sea from Denglai and attacked, expelled the rebels of the Andong Protectorate, and then outflanked the back road of the Fanyang rebels' lair.
Then, by recovering the remnants of the Anshi rebels, most of the tribal clans in Andong were swept away one by one, and the Bohai Kingdom of the Great Clan was shattered, and finally in the Taixing period, it became one of the twenty-four provinces in the world.
And after the Andong crusade army along the way, stationed in Tun and colonized on the spot, established a state and county, and changed the local subordination to the appointment of liuguan, the so-called Longwu Army Group of Weihe World was also formed, which was called a branch of the Andong lineage.
Among them, it is divided into two major lineages, the first generation of Andong Shou to capture Xue Song, and the other is the Liao County crusade to make Luo Xian.
Xue Song is a general from the rebel camp of the Liang family, but the family is quite prominent, the ancestor is the first head of Anton's march and the capital to protect Xue Rengui, the uncle Xue Nan is a famous general of the Kaiyuan Western Expedition, and his father has also served as a deputy envoy of Pinglu Jiedu, so his family has a legacy in Andong.
And Luo Xian is the first batch of followers of the Kaiyuan Emperor Xixing on the way, accepted by the Liang Gong, after the change of Ma Diao, he was entrusted with an important task, and stayed halfway to lead those soldiers who did not want to go west, recruited the dead on the spot, and dealt with the rebels from all walks of life entrenched in the pass for a year, alias Jingnan Army.
It wasn't until Liang Gong re-led his troops out of the Sanguan Pass and recovered all the way to the pass that he returned to his command and became the leader of the army that stood alone all the way, and Anton's crusade army was led by these two Zhengzuo.
Therefore, Anton's many generals and families use these two lines to look forward. In the midst of the great turmoil in the world after the Iomi Rebellion, there was also a certain split among the princes and feudal families in Andong.
Among them, the Xue family was appeased by Emperor Chengguang, and together with a group of generals, they were finally returned to the Northern Dynasty and became an important force and bridgehead for intervening in the princes of Andong.
As for the Luo family, they are more inclined to the Liang family in the South China Sea, and they branched out to Hainan very early to worship as a minister, so there is the Luo Fan of Eight Leaves. As a result, successive dynasties have been secretly in contact with the south.
In my early years, my cover identity when I was active in Los Angeles was also from a certain branch of Anton Roche.
Thinking of the past under another identity, I really have a lot of nostalgia and melancholy.
Having said that, among those Anton generals who returned to the Northern Dynasty,
The Ping Navy is undoubtedly one of the best, the so-called "mountaineering and wading, invincible" Liaodong powerhouse. The so-called Pinghai is because they have been used as a reinforcement force many times, rushing to the coastal states in the south, and have rich experience in fighting against the invasion and plundering of the coastal Southern Korean army, and they have the name of "Taohai Pingbo".