Chapter 77: The Battle of the Gentlemen (I)

Looking at the green mountains in the distance, Zhu Qiong said excitedly to He Changqi: "General He, there will be a decisive battle tomorrow." ”

"Hmm," He Changqi nodded lightly. They have fought so many battles in Qinghai, and in He Changqi's mind, the upcoming battle is just a routine, and there is nothing to make a fuss about.

"General He, how many Tibetans have you killed in Qinghai in the past few years?" didn't go to the battlefield once, Zhu Qiong was very curious.

"It's not about how many people you kill, you're already a captain of 100 people, you have to think about how many enemies you kill in your hands, and how many departments cooperate with each other."

"Whoa."

But He Changqi still told Zhu Qiong some things to pay attention to.

These two people are both from Yanzhou, but their backgrounds are slightly different, He Changqi is a meritorious and official position, but he is from a common people. Zhu Qiong's family is well-off, born in a small official eunuch family, and his mother is from the Dou family surnamed Dai Beigui, so he entered the military supervision and became a protégé of the Son of Heaven.

Anyway, it's a fellow.

As he spoke, it was getting late, and the wind was blowing from the west, blowing the fishy smell of the sea. In front of me is a Gobi Desert, faintly reflected in the twilight sun, faintly reflected a layer of blood.

Therefore, including the Turks themselves, they said that the Tang Dynasty was a battle of gentlemen this time.

Some old people still remember the tactics of various generals in the early Tang Dynasty. The most famous is Li Jing, who has calculated secrets and masterful strategies, so that he has pressed his opponent to the death from beginning to end in every battle. Called the god of war by the Turks. There is another person, Li Ji, this person is very ghostly and demonic, in every battle, it seems that the enemy has the upper hand from beginning to end, but when the cards are shuffled in the end, the situation immediately changes, and then the opponent loses, and he doesn't know how to lose. Some people are not convinced, once it is still like this, and it is still like this twice. That's why he's a demon.

In general, the Tang Dynasty fought not only by the ferocity of the soldiers, but also by the strategy of the generals. This is also a characteristic of the Central Plains region. Therefore, Ashina Yuer was not convinced, and wrote a letter, saying that there is a kind of battle between you Tang Dynasty people and our pharyngeal people on the frontal battlefield and a showdown.

I didn't expect the people of the Tang Dynasty to really agree to come down.

After staying in Gongyue City for four days, I prepared some things, that is, some weapons and vehicles. The weapons are still relatively primitive and backward, advanced trebuchets and gunpowder, because of the drought in Guanzhong, the distance is far away, and they still have not been transported to the Western Regions.

Then the army set out, marched for three days, not very far, and after three days stopped and set up camp on the edge of the desert on the shore of the Aral Sea. This kind of terrain is undoubtedly very beneficial to the pharyngeal face. And clearly tell the noodle man that you will have ten days to prepare.

There are ten days to prepare, which is enough to recruit and mobilize all the strong men of the tribe.

Either send a large number of scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the pharyngeal face, and many scouts, most of whom are mainly Hu people, who have crossed the iron gate and quietly infiltrated the Khorasan region. The latter acted covertly, while the former was overt.

It is not a conspiracy, even if the Turks fight on their own, they will also send scouts to find out the situation of the enemy.

The selected site is not only an open area, but also the Seven Rivers region (referring to the Ili River, Karatal River, Aksu River, Lepsa River, Ayaguz River, Chu River, and Talas River that flow into Lake Balkhash, and generally refers to the surrounding area centered on Lake Balkhash, Issyk-Kul and Chu River called the Seven Rivers Region, which was lush in the Tang Dynasty and was one of the main settlements of the Western Turks). No matter from the right time, place or people, it is very beneficial to the pharyngeal face.

Li Wei's arrangement finally alarmed more Turks.

These leaders are not Ashina Qiuer, who has not been optimistic about his face from beginning to end, although there are few Tang troops, they have all survived bloody battles, and the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is famous, how can he be matched by this young man?

However, why did the people of the Tang Dynasty do this, give up their own strengths, and use their own shortcomings? Or did the Tang emperor become careless?

Well, this battle is very interesting.

Originally, secretly supporting Qiu'er only weakened the Tang army and gave the Tang army a small obstacle. I didn't expect the Tang Dynasty army to be like this. Not only the Turks, but also the nearby Eastern Cao State, Kang State, and Cao State sent envoys to meet and watch the real combat effectiveness of the Tang Dynasty army. If it was as tough as they imagined, the river area would have been saved. If you lose a big battle, you have to obediently pay tribute to the big cannibals.

The envoys of the cadres of the Moon Department, the Shatuo Department, and Moheda were puzzled. I don't know what kind of medicine is sold in the gourd of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and in their hearts, they think that there is no need to do this. It is very easy to dismember the pharyngeal face, but after the first battle, the vitality of the pharyngeal face was greatly damaged, and the army was directly dispatched, and it was dismembered. They don't know the history of the Spring and Autumn Period, otherwise they can laugh at Li Wei as the second Song Xianggong.

Li Wei did not answer.

After arriving at this open area, he set up a large camp, and then dug two trenches in one day, and the trenches were also dug strangely, very deep, nearly a meter deep, and then very narrow, and a person could not move his body in them. This puzzled the envoys. The trench function is known, stopping the speed of the opponent's army attack. And then what can this trench do? Not to mention horses, even a person can easily step over.

Left a group of questions, and Li Wei did not answer.

The sun was gradually setting, and the scouts were bringing news in a steady stream, and Tang Jun did this, which also made Ashina Qiuer feel very puzzled. Can't see through! I just felt that it was very advantageous, so I recruited all the middle-aged men in the clan, even teenagers and old people in their forties and fifties, and also recruited them and made mobilization, saying that it was very imposing, the people of the Tang Dynasty were blind and arrogant, and they were looking for their own death, and we were alive. If we don't win this battle, our entire tribe will perish.

He said many encouraging words, but he gathered all the horses of the tribe and gathered nearly 30,000 troops. Anyway, all the old foundations have been taken out, if this battle is lost, the pharyngeal face will not be dismembered by the Tang Dynasty, and it will really perish by itself.

Li Wei nodded and said, "Got it." ”

Walking back to the middle tent, I received another message, a letter from Heizhi Changzhi. The refugees in Guanzhong tossed the black tooth Changzhi so much that they didn't want to think about it, but they knew that the emperor loved the people, and they didn't dare to forcibly disperse it. But these people thought that when they came to Qinghai, the court would build houses for them, distribute arable land and food, and even prepare clothes. But where is there so much arable land in Qinghai? Yes, in Hexi, from Niuxindui to Xingsuhai, Chihai, Wuhai, Baihai, and then to Dafeichuan and Fuluochuan, there are large areas of grassland suitable for arable land.

It also made Heiya Changzhi feel very depressed, there were not so many people in the past, but Qinghai was saturated, but so many people came. The truth is not this truth, as Tuntian, the Song Dynasty was the most powerful, but there were very few people who went to Tuntian. Why? The first is that the Song Dynasty levies half of the harvest as a tax, and the second is that the Song Dynasty soldiers are weak, so the Western Xia and the Liao people fight at every turn, and it is very unsafe to stay at the border. Which one of the people is willing to go? The fields were ploughed, but no people went to cultivate them.

Li Wei did a very good job, temporarily replacing taxes with soldiers, as long as the soldiers are out, the family is exempt from all taxes. In fact, how much tax can be levied on the poor income of the peasant? Of course, sooner or later it will be levied, and this will not be levied until Qinghai is completely safe and there is no need for so many government soldiers. At present, it is still dominated by commercial taxes.

One drawback is removed, but there is another. After all, it is the common people, and the Tubo people were so fierce a few years ago, so they were afraid to come to Qinghai. There are also obstructions from local officials. This year, the situation has changed, and the Tibetan and Tang dynasties have reached a peace agreement, which is another wrong view, how can there be peace? The Tang Dynasty is waiting for an opportunity, and Tibet is recovering its vitality, and sooner or later it will still have to fight. Unless Qinghai and the Western Regions belong to settle down. But is there anything that easy to settle into?

The common people don't know, they just think it's peaceful. In addition, the state and county officials had no way to stop the people from fleeing the famine, so it was a dead end anyway, so it was better to go to Qinghai. That's why there will be more people.

However, coming to Qinghai is not what they imagined. What if there is no land, and there is no one to prepare houses and food and clothing for them? The inferiority of human beings has flares, and the officials treat them well, but they have intensified their quarrels and quarrels. In addition, Qinghai Tuntian is a sideline, and the main business is to guard against Tibet and wait for opportunities to fight, and it is also mainly to train plateau warriors. In the absence of competent civil officials, how many incidents have occurred in Qinghai in the past few months?

Black Tooth Changzhi even has the heart to cry.

The letter was written in a bitter way. I don't know who ghostwrote it, it was written so miserably, that grievance, even more pitiful than Dou E.

After Li Wei saw it, he couldn't cry or laugh. Dropped the letter and wrote a letter as well. He had the right to deal with military and political powers, including the mobilization of porcelain, silk and tea to come to the river to exchange grain with the countries in the river, all of which were directly under his command. I wrote a letter to Luoyang, but it was only a newspaper, not a request for instructions. It just so happened that he was also going to transfer people from Guanzhong to settle fields in the area of Broken Leaf Water, so he asked Black Tooth Changzhi to escort these people to Broken Leaf City.

The letter was sent. Another piece of news about the Isabu. This is a nomadic people, although the Tang Dynasty set up a prefecture, but they have a wide range of activities, usually in the winter to the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea. At this time, he was not there, and he was about to run to the upper reaches of the Urals.

Li Wei had no choice but to give up, crossed the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, and went north, the weather was cold, and many areas were deserted, even if there were, they were mainly primitive Caucasian and Urals, there was no guide, there was no way to identify the direction, even if they encountered people, they could not communicate with words.

Then he called the generals and began to command.

Some steps have been discussed with Pei Xingjian and Liu Renliang in Luoyang. After coming to Gongyue City, he made some discussions with Wang Fangyi and Li Jinxing. This is not a real gentleman's battle, and Li Wei is not good at this face. It is to fight the big cannibals in the future and do an experiment and exercise.

I have read many history books and learned from history. The most famous infantry or light cavalry versus cavalry and heavy cavalry is the Battle of Qiuzi in Lü Guang. Lü Guang had a total of 70,000 soldiers in his hands, of which only 5,000 were cavalry. Attacking Qiuzi, the king of Qiuzi did not support it, and asked Huhu for help. King Hu sent his younger brothers Na Long and Hou Daokui to lead 200,000 cavalry, as well as Wen Su and Wei Tou, with a total of nearly 700,000 troops to rescue Qiuzi. Not only that, but there is also a must, that is, armor, this kind of armor has no gaps like a chain, and the bow and arrow cannot be shot through at all, that is, it is invulnerable.

Li Wei and Pei Xingjian both have objections to this.

It can't be said that the Hu people don't have technology, and the Hu country in the Western Regions also has some industrial base, and the smelting technology cannot be underestimated. Another example is Helian's vigorous Xia Kingdom. The master craftsman was loyal to Helian Bobo, and in order to keep improving, when making weapons, if the bow and arrow could not wear armor, the craftsman who made the bow and arrow would die. If it is shot through, the armor maker will die. When repairing the ten thousand cities, the city wall was inserted with a sharp iron cone, and if it was one inch deep, the masons would be killed and built into the wall.

Therefore, the Xia Kingdom has a first-class city and first-class weapons. This is a special case and cannot be counted, but it proves that it is possible that the Huhu people used heavy armor similar to the Great Eclipse and Byzantium.

Not only is this terrible heavy armor, but the bearded people are also good at spears, bows and horses, and are also good at using lassoes. This noose can still be seen in the hands of the Turks and Khitans, and it is usually used for disobedient horses, and it is used on the battlefield to become a weapon for people. The galloping horses are used to it, and besides, the set of people, one set is accurate.

The weapons and armor are sharp, and the personal force value is high, 700,000 against 70,000. This asymmetrical war began.

However, Lu Guang thought of a way to create a hook and sickle, which can not only hook your horse, but also stretch out the hook and sickle to tear your armor, and then serve with a bow and arrow, and use a light horse to solve the problem if you slip through the net. The two sides faced off, and the decisive battle was fought west of the capital city of Kutz. Lü Guang won a great victory, and the king of Qiuzi fled in panic, and the number of people waiting for the king to surrender reached more than 30 countries.

This period of history is not credible, and the three of them have infinitely magnified the records in the history books. The first question is whether the beard has the ability to make invulnerable armor. Secondly, it is doubtful whether there is the ability to use all 200,000 people of this armor. Even the Tang Dynasty probably didn't have this ability, after all, it was just a tribe of the Hu people. The other is the mortality rate, it is not very credible to say that more than 10,000 enemies were killed in this battle, although the 700,000 army was a combination of various departments, and the army was not aligned, which was similar to the battle of Fu Jian in the south of the Yangtze River, but only killed more than 10,000 people, and the 700,000 army could be defeated? The weak Song soldiers and the army of the late Ming Dynasty would not be so greedy for life and afraid of death.

However, following the example of this battle, countless deductions have been made.

Li Wei valued it very much because it was also used by the later Yue Jiajun.

But it was still the cavalry that was the most powerful, the Yuejia army was fighting, the hook and sickle were used, and the swords were used, but they were only auxiliary troops, and finally the cavalry. This is to deal with the big cannibals and provide one more way to fight. And the battle with the pharyngeal noodles is precisely a military exercise.

The night passed quickly, and Ashina was not harassed. The battle between the Tang Dynasty and the gentleman, I also want to be a gentleman. Not only did he not be harassed, but he leaned on the mountains in the distance and slept soundly all night, ensuring his physical strength. After dawn, he boiled the pot and cooked food, and when he was full, he calmly led 30,000 troops to come slowly.

Tang Jun is also very calm, but this is not calm, it is a kind of self-confidence.

When the pharyngeal army was only ten miles away from the barracks, Li Wei waved his hand, and Xin Chengsi and Jiang Sijin led 3,000 people, divided into two teams, and entered the trench. The only difference is that they hold some strange weapons in their hands, like guns instead of guns, like hooks and not hooks. It was more than seven feet long, and had a spear head, but there was a barb under the spear head, and a sharp curved sickle on the other side, like a large scythe. Never seen before.

In addition to this strange gun, there are also some heavy knives, not ordinary horizontal knives, but the kind with a thick back. Some big axes.

Soon after the 3,000 men entered the trench, smoke and dust rose in the distance, and the noodle men came.

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