On the tenth day of the fifth month of the first year of Zhou Guangshun, when Li Wenge, the Eighth Route Army of the Eighth Route Army, the general of the Right Xiaowei, led the Yanchuan Independent Regiment of the Left Route Army to trek day and night in the mountains northeast of Gyeongju, Suizhou, located in the northwest of Guanzhong, was already looking like a tense and fierce battle.

On the third day of the first month of May, the two battalions of the right route army of the Guanbei marching camp army went north out of Weiping Pass, marched all the way for two days, and took advantage of the shallow water period before the flood season to wade across the Tuyan River, a tributary of the Wuding River, and launched an attack on Suide County. Suide County was garrisoned by Fei Ting's soldiers, and there were originally 500 ethnic soldiers stationed in the county. The eight departments of the party are good at cavalry combat, and have always neglected the defense of the city, and the state city garrisoned by the Tuoba family is slightly better, and the county seat is far lower than the state city by one level, and the county city wall of Suide County is only one zhang high, and for the fierce Zhejia army, the city wall of this height is basically not an obstacle.

Even so, if the Fei Tingjia resisted with all his might, this county town with a radius of less than two miles would still be able to resist for a while. The two battalions of the Zhejia Army had less than 700 troops, and the strength advantage was not great compared to the defenders. Forty miles north of the county seat is the ranch of the Fei Tingjia, where there are 500 elite cavalry of the Fei Tingjia, and Chengping County, sixty miles to the east, is garrisoned by the Fang Dang family, where there are 600 Fang Dang soldiers, if the army is combined, the two families have a strength of 1,500 people, which is not counting the 500 Tuoba soldiers stationed in the upper county of the state capital.

With such a force, the Fei Tingjia should have been able to hold Suide, but in the past year, the private trade with Yanzhou has caused the Fei Tingjia's aristocratic circle to generally lose their vigilance against this southern neighbor, although the Tuoba family has warned them countless times, but the patriarch of the Fei Tingjia, Fei Tingrenshu, and the elders of the clan have turned a deaf ear. Because the Yanzhou side persistently maintained trade with the Fei Tingjia and other tribes, and provided the Fei Tingjia with enough winter food, grass and other materials for the winter in the difficult winter of last year, only the Tuoba family, who had a blood feud with Yanzhou, could not get the opportunity to trade, so the Tuoba family's warning was extremely weak.

The people of the Fei Ting family still remember that at the end of last year, the Tuoba family, whose reserves were almost exhausted, forcibly expropriated 500 sheep from the Fei Ting family, and this arrogant move almost caused an uproar among the clan. If it weren't for the fact that the Tuoba family's annexation of the Xifeng family deterred the other tribes, maybe the patriarchs of the various tribes would rush to Xiazhou this spring to ask Tuoba Yi Yin Xingshi for their guilt.

Although the dissatisfaction of the major families was forcibly suppressed, this further reduced the prestige of the Tuoba family in the eight departments, and several major families in the west began to have doubts about the Tuoba family. In contrast, Yeonju, which has always maintained a friendly trade status, is becoming more and more important.

In the past eight months, through uninterrupted trade and trade, Yanzhou has not only sent a large number of fine workers into the territories of major families to carry out espionage activities such as mapping, mapping, military intelligence, and so on. It even established a solid spy base in the two counties of Suinandi. Just ten days before the dispatch of troops, the infantry of the Eighth Route Army, which was all four infantrymen, changed into business uniforms and infiltrated the two counties of Suinan.

Therefore, when the Zhejia army appeared outside the city, Fei Tingrenyang, the general of Fei Tingjia's defense of the city, almost did not have time to mobilize his troops, and Yanzhou Xizuo in the city killed the streets in groups, and the infantry of both infantry may not be anything in the field battle outside the city. But in the street fighting, it was extremely easy to face the Fei Tingjia soldiers who had not yet had time to assemble. Fei Tingrenyang had just issued less than five orders, and the Yanzhou soldiers in the city had already occupied the southern city wall and cut down dozens of Fei Tingjia soldiers guarding the southern city.

Then they opened the gates of the southern city.

As a result, hundreds of tigers strode across the moat and roared across the suspension bridge

Up to this time, Fei Tingrenyang's successful assembly of troops was no more than a hundred people.

The two armies fought in the street for a quarter of an hour. The hundred-strong Fei Ting soldiers were defeated, and Fei Ting Renyang was very depressed and fled from the north gate under the command of a dozen personal slaves, and fled to the family's base camp pasture.

Fei Tingrenyang was not a straw bag, and he was still wondering at the moment after the defeat and abandonment of the city, why the family cavalry scouts scattered around the county town had not been able to spot this invasion of Yanzhou soldiers in the first place.

The chief of the scouts in the city had not had time to report to him today, and none of the dozen or so cavalry scouts sent out during the day yesterday had returned to the city last night.

Suide falls.

Fortunately, the Zhejia family did not chase and kill, and Fei Tingrenyang went out of the city forty miles to collect more than 200 defeated soldiers and withdrew to the pasture.

That night, the Fei Ting clan held a meeting of the patriarchs overnight, and the elders of the clan were extremely angry with the Yanzhou side. Fortunately, all the caravans in Yanzhou withdrew to Suide City before this start of the army, otherwise these clansmen might really use these merchants to kill them to vent their anger.

On the second day, Fei Tingjia gathered 500 cavalry and 300 infantry, and transferred 500 young and strong soldiers from the clan to form deputy soldiers, and more than 1,000 people marched to the north of Suide City.

Fei Tingjia's idea was originally good. With 500 cavalry in hand, the mobile advantage is much better than that of the Zhejia soldiers, and the infantry and cavalry cooperate, and the Zhejia family has not gained a firm foothold in Suide, and it may not be impossible to recover Suide.

However, to the surprise of Fei Tingrenshu, who personally commanded the army, was this. The Folded Army did not hold the city as he expected. Instead, he sent a battalion of the headquarters and two Yanzhou soldiers with more than 500 troops out of the city to line up. Only one battalion was left to defend the city.

In Fei Tingrenshu's view, the folding family is simply looking for death.

With the sound of a trumpet. The 500 Fei Tingjia cavalry divided into two groups and swept towards the enemy's flanks from the left and right directions, preparing to use bows and arrows to mount the enemy's infantry array at a distance of about fifty paces.

At this distance, the enemy infantry basically had nothing to do with the Fei Tingjia cavalry, but the Fei Tingjia cavalry was able to calmly shoot and kill these enemy infantry who could only run on two legs one by one.

The army formation of 500 people basically has no depth at all, and Fei Tingrenshu, who was standing on the high slope in the north, saw very clearly that these infantry were basically only equipped with infantry armor and wooden guns and shields, and there were no bows and arrows.

The noble elders of the Fei Tingjia family, who had accompanied the battle, relaxed and prepared to begin to appreciate a one-sided slaughter.

If the power of the cavalry is limited in the narrow mountains and valleys, the infantry may still have the possibility of fighting to the death. But now in this vast and flat terrain, there is no such thing as a fluke.

Then they heard a loud and high-pitched trumpet sound from the enemy's ranks.

Tick Tick Tick Tick ......

Just when everyone was stunned, with this strange sound, a slight thunder suddenly came from the direction of Suide County......

Blue skies...... Thunder......?

With this continuous "thunder" getting louder and louder, the west side of the city wall. On the north bank of Tuyan Water, a black line faintly appeared......

The more than two hundred Fei Listening Family cavalry who were originally plundering and diffusing along the west flank suddenly widened their eyes-

This is the cavalry - the cavalry of the brigade.

The six cavalry of the Security Cavalry Regiment were all led by the commander of the Patrol Cavalry Regiment, Kang Shidi, and smashed towards Fei Tingjia's cavalry like an iron fist.

These cavalrymen were all dressed in standard cavalry armor, riding tall horses, and the lacquered spears, horses, and sabers in their hands were of the same standard and of the highest quality. The cavalry that rushed to the front all carried horned bows and crossbows in their hands.

A massacre......

The absolute superiority of troops, equipment, and weapons, coupled with the unexpected suddenness of the battlefield, a pivotal Fei Tingjia cavalry collapsed in the blink of an eye.

After a volley of crossbow arrows, the two dozen Fei Tingjia cavalrymen who rushed to the front rows were planted from their horses. Although the range of the three-arrow horned crossbow was less than one hundred and fifty paces, it far exceeded the range of the Fei Tingjia cavalry bows and arrows.

Just after the cavalry had fired their crossbow arrows, they turned their horse's head to the west without hesitation, and in the blink of an eye, they had galloped to the west of the main force.

Immediately appeared in front of Fei Tingjia's cavalry, and it was a security cavalry behind, who also held a soul-stirring crossbow machine in their hands.

The distance of the second salvo was only a little more than a hundred paces away from the Fei Tingjia cavalry, and at this distance, some Fei Tingjia warriors with strong arms had already begun to draw their bows and shoot arrows.

The second salvo at once reimbursed more than thirty Fei Tingjia soldiers, in the security cavalry team. Two fighters were shot off their horses.

Seeing that these cavalrymen who had finished shooting crossbow arrows began to turn their horses eastward, the Fei Tingjia cavalry finally couldn't hold on.

The terrifying crossbow weapon could shoot more than 200 arrows at a time, which was almost a covering shot in this small space.

The previous cavalry fired crossbow bolts and then flashed to the west, followed by a second volley.

Now the second group of cavalry is flashing to the east, that is, the third salvo is behind......

In fact, the distance between the two armies has been reduced to less than sixty paces at this moment, and for the galloping cavalry, this short distance is only a few blinks of an eye, and at this distance the utility of crossbow arrows and bows and arrows is not much different.

But the Fei Tingjia cavalry, who had suffered a heavy blow head-on, had no time to think about this. In the face of such an enemy, standing in front means sending them to death.

Even if it is a real hand-to-hand fight and is cut down by the enemy, these fighters are not too afraid, after all, they have all seen blood. Casualties on the battlefield were inevitable. Everyone understands this.

But this kind of is still far from the enemy, and dozens of his robe brothers have been killed in batches. I can't do it myself, this feeling is really terrifying.

Warriors can fight bravely, but they will not stand still and endure the slaughter of the enemy......

What's more, at this time, the two cavalry that detoured to the east and west were already approaching the two wings, the cavalry on the east side had just rushed to the position parallel to the Fei Tingjia cavalry, and the ground cavalry on the west side had already detoured to the west side of this cavalry land.

The knights began to turn their horses' heads back into their pockets, and the right flank of the Fei Tingjia collapsed in less than a quarter of an hour. After the second cavalry dodged, the patriarchs and elders of the Fei Tingjia stood on the high slope and saw clearly, and the enemy cavalry rushing up behind them held a long horse lance in their hands.

Even the Horned Crossbow is a weapon that requires a lot of materials and craftsmanship, and it is impossible to use this weapon to equip troops in large quantities, at least until large mechanical tools are put into use. The 1,000 cavalry of the Security Cavalry Regiment was only equipped with two cavalrymen with a total of 120 horned bows and crossbows, which was already an extremely luxurious equipment for the other brother units of the Eighth Route Army.

Fortunately, it's worth it.

The cavalry troops commanded by Kang Shi swept back the frantically fleeing enemy cavalry in the blink of an eye.

In a panic, the cavalry was quite literate. Instead of running directly back to the infantry unit, he bypassed the infantry line and jumped to the rear.

Kang Shi sneered, held the saber high in the air, drew an arc, and then rushed out first.

On this day, the security cavalry regiment was undoubtedly the protagonist on the battlefield of Suide, and Kang Shi led 600 cavalry to defeat Fei Tingjia's cavalry from the left flank of the camp army front in Guanbei. Then he led his troops around the main line of the enemy's infantry, and launched an assault on the hundreds of Fei Tingjia lieutenants and cavalry routs in the rear, and under the lacquered spears and sabers of the cavalry regiment soldiers, these lieutenants, who had been used as labor, collapsed in a very short time. These unarmoured, unarmed and unbowed, had little to do to fight back before the cavalry attacked. From south to north and from west to east. Kang threw a nice left hook.

When the Fei Tingjia cavalry in the east was attacking the right flank of the Guanbei Army, they were attacked by two security cavalry deployed in the east of Suide City.

When Zhi Yuqing, who was in charge of the army in the center, sounded the charge again, hundreds of infantry began to move forward slowly, slowly approaching the rear with neat steps, and the rear was already a messy position.

This was the end of the battle, Fei Tingrenshu and Fei Tingrenyang did not do anything in vain, and as soon as the superior cavalry of the Guanbei side appeared. These two generals of the Fei Tingjia understood that there was no suspense in this battle.

The enemy army actually ambushed so many cavalry in the rear of the battlefield, what else was there to fight in this battle?

The whole advantage of the nomads over the agrarian peoples was the cavalry that could move quickly, and now that the cavalry advantage had been reversed, the battle was decided.

During this period, Fei Tingrenshu hesitated.

With this hesitation, Kang Shi's left hook had already entered his own back.

So, the horn sounded, and the Fei Ting's soldiers began to retreat.

In the battle of Suide, Yu Qingkang stone was beheaded two hundred and eighty-five. One hundred and thirty men were taken prisoner, and one hundred and fourteen horses were captured.

Fei Tingrenshu brought back more than 500 defeated soldiers, but the Fei Tingjia's combat effectiveness had been completely defeated in this battle, because the only cavalry that could fight the Fei Tingjia lost most of it, and Fei Tingrenshu only brought more than 100 horsemen back to the family ranch.

After this battle, the enemy army in the west of Suizhou has been cleared, and the Feitingjia tribe of up to several thousand people can no longer pose a threat to the Guanbei army, on the contrary, this tribe is now like a tiger that has been skinned, and there is no defense against the Guanbei army. The cavalry led by Kang Shi quickly outflanked and dispatched to the west. Reconnaissance and cordoning of mountain exits and mountain passages to the west began.

The barrier has been lost to the west of Chengshang County in Suizhou Prefecture, and the soldiers and horses of Zhe Yuqing can attack at any time to attack the defenders of the Tuoba family in Suizhou from the southwest.

Fei Tingrenshu, who was trembling under the authority of the Zhejia army, is now cowering in the pasture, shrinking the grazing range of his subordinates while urgently asking for help from the state city, in fact, he also knows. In this case, there is also a shortage of troops on the side of the state city. It's hard to send reinforcements.

The only hope is Chengping County in the east. There are hundreds of elite soldiers stationed there.

However, what Fei Tingrenshu didn't know was that the Yeli family didn't say that they would send troops to rescue Suide now, and even if they kept the city peaceful, they couldn't do it!

On the day of the start of the Battle of Suide, a group of strange whereabouts of the cavalry brigade suddenly appeared on the meadow in the south of Chengping County, these cavalry who crossed the northeast mountain range of Yanzhou and crossed the Tuyan River were not small, well-equipped, and the Yeli family had sent a brigade of thirty cavalry out of the city to find this cavalry, but on the west bank of the Luyan River in the east, although the cavalry of the Yeli family found this cavalry, they did not dare to come forward to attack.

Because on the wide stretch of the river, a fleet of hundreds of large and small ships came.

Standing on the shallows, the white-bearded Zhe Congruan looked at the group of soldiers of the Guanbei Army who were wading ashore from the boat, smiled and turned his head to Wei Xun who was standing behind him: "Chengping County is just a larger village, and it can be done in one drum, do you have to wait for your people to come back before you do it?" ”

Wei Xun said unwaveringly: "It's better to wait for Lao Hao to come back before making a move, it's always good to be able to die fewer people!" ”

Zhi Congruan sighed: "The fighter plane is urgent, once the Tuoba family and the Yeli family join forces, it will be difficult to fight!" ”

Wei Xun was speechless for a while, and only after a moment did he say softly: "My lord said that relying on swords, bows and crossbows alone will not be able to level the difficult army!" ”