Chapter II: Border Troubles

Ouyang Xuan, the general in front of him, didn't know him, and there weren't many people, less than five thousand. His own personal guards only brought a thousand people, all of whom were elite soldiers who had been trained all year round, and they immediately raised their rifles and waited for Ouyang Xuan's order. Ouyang Xuan drew his long sword, "Who is coming?" "An immortal nameless ghost under a certain sword". "This general is the Mencius of the Han family in the internal history of the original Liang Wang, Han Duo is also, and today he wants to hate his father", he said and raised his gun. Ouyang Xuan raised his sword and shouted: "It turned out to be the son of Han Anguo, I heard that I once went to Yunmeng Mountain to seek a teacher and worship art, but I don't know if I have made progress. More than 20 years have passed, and there is still such a hatred, which is worthy of being the descendant of Yunmeng Mountain." Ouyang Xuan did not give the order to shoot, but stepped forward with his sword raised. "King Lone advised Han Gongzi to return early, otherwise he would die here and insult the prestige of the Han family."

"Don't say much, accept life." After saying that, he rushed forward with a gun, and the horse was very fast, and he looked like a good horse. Ouyang Xuan couldn't show weakness, urging the horse forward, when the horse's head was staggered, Han Duo's right hand was in front and his left hand was behind, and he stabbed Ouyang Xuan with a spear. Dodging the spear edge, swinging the sword straight up along the barrel of the gun, Han Duo used his backhand to stab Ouyang Xuan's heart with a move back when the spear passed. When the two horses were staggering, Ouyang Xuan saw the gun reversed, understood its intention, flashed sideways, the tip of the gun slashed through his chest, and used his sword to block the gun to prevent it from sweeping the gun. Leaned back and swung his sword straight into Han Duo's back. The tip of the sword had just touched Han Duo's armor, and the two horses separated. The two circled their horses again and killed back, and Han Duo relied on the advantage of his weapon and swept from the bottom to the top with his spear. Ouyang Xuan held the sword from the inside to the outside to block the barrel of the gun, when the two horses were staggered, suddenly the wrist forced, and before Han Duo could react, he turned his wrist and slashed Han Duo's neck, Han Duo hurriedly drew the gun back to the rack, just listened to the click, poof. Han Duo's gun broke, the blade of the sword slashed through his neck, and the blood in the carotid artery gushed out under the tremendous pressure of his heart. With the defeat of Han Duo, Ouyang Xuan circled his horse and came to the front of the Han army, "Don't get out of the way quickly, otherwise Hugh blames the king for being ruthless." The assassination of the king and the killing of the nine clans are serious crimes, can you be responsible? ”。

The leading lieutenant, but a stubborn one, waved the saber in his hand and shouted: "All the soldiers, avenge General Han, follow me to cover up and kill." This was beyond Ouyang Xuan's expectations. Seeing that the Han army was activated, Ouyang Xuan retreated to his own battle formation, and pointed forward with his sword, "Shoot me, don't leave a single one." As soon as the words fell, there were bangs one after another, and the Han army in the distance who was charging on horses fell under the horses like dumplings. After the bullets in the magazine were fired, they hung up their guns and took off their sabers, waiting for orders, but they were pitiful for these Han troops, who had not yet rushed to the front of the battle, and had already lost seventy-seven eighty-eight, and finally there were less than five hundred people left, standing outside a stone's throw away, at a loss. Ouyang Xuan's sword blade fell, thousands of personal soldiers, rushing forward, the saber in his hand flashed in the sun, a group of five, two main attackers, two secondary attacks, one bow and arrow, facing the Han army like a tiger down the mountain, just a round of rushing and killing, there was no longer a living Han soldier. Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Ouyang Xuan felt an indescribable pain. Ordered people to collect the corpses together, dig a pit and bury them, set up a monument here, and wrote: Xia Wangxuan returned to China to level the troubles through this, and was stopped by the Han army, and beheaded the Han general Han Shiduo and his subordinates 5,000 here. After cleaning up, it was already evening, and Ouyang Xuan ordered everyone to continue to hurry without stopping.

But he didn't notice that on the mountain beam in the distance, there was a team of men and horses, watching the changes in the battlefield from beginning to end. "Wei Qing, quickly order General Han and all the soldiers to be relocated and buried thickly." "No! Your Highness, the Five Thousand Phase Gate Feather Forest cannot be killed by one of them. If it is the teacher of ten thousand people, wouldn't it sweep the world? ”。“ This is the fate of loneliness. After searching for several years, he found more than a dozen soldiers of the Xia King, and now he is handed over to you, and he forges the training period according to his method. In addition, the king of Xia has a ringing device in his hand, I don't know what it is, you go to ask in detail, so you can be prepared", Liu Che said helplessly. He turned his head to Gongsun He and said, "General Gongsun, order you to change the garrison of Chang'an tonight, and follow Gu into the palace tomorrow." "No!" To get sick, ordered you to take 10,000 light soldiers, and set off tonight, out of the upper valley, Zuoxia County, if you can capture Liaodong is very good. Xia gathered troops to the west and resisted the Huns, and the eastern front must be empty, so take advantage of it". "No!" Your Highness, this is inappropriate. Yu Xia was embarrassed, for fear of angering the Ouyang family. His Majesty strictly forbade provoking the Xia Kingdom, is it against the order of the Lord. The ministers were afraid of angering the King of Xia and causing trouble to the army. After all, the King of Xia is famous for his good warfare, and the countries of the Western Regions and even the Xiongnu military ministers are afraid of his edge. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is cautious". "General Su, I'm too worried. A mere feudal country, in terms of material, material and manpower, how to compete with my Han Dynasty? ”。 Su Jian turned around and stood in front of Liu Che: "Your Highness, this is a bad word, in terms of material resources, Xia Country now has abundant stocks, and the grain alone is several times as much as my dynasty." On people, Xia Guo has been promoting preschool education for 20 years, advocating folk education, and now Xia people are literate and sixty percent, and there are countless sharp weapons for the people. Today, there are self-propelled ironclad ships launched into the water and sailing, and the advantages of firearms are not the enemy of our dynasty. In addition, the Xia State implemented the military system for all the people, and the people were 28 years old (18 years old, in ancient times, single 8 refers to 8 years old, 28 is 18 years old, and 38 years old refers to 28 years old) to enter military service, and receive training for four years and return to their hometowns. In the event of a war, it can be a war, hiding soldiers and people. With Shi Huang Lao's way of inaction, the national strength is very strong. The prince is cautious".

"Hmph, the Ouyang clan is just a martial artist, forgive him and he has no ability to reach the sky. Just act according to Lonely's orders, others must say more", after speaking, he turned around angrily and ordered to return to the palace.

Ouyang Xuan traveled day and night, and finally returned to the Xia Gu Palace three days later. State Minister Ma Ningzheng anxiously wandered and paced on the Jin'an Palace, and when he saw Ouyang Xuan coming back, he immediately stepped forward and saluted: "Lord, the military situation is urgent, forgive the ministers for being presumptuous." "It's okay, how urgent, come quickly." "Returning to the lord, after Yi Zhi swept through the countries of the Western Regions, he waved 300,000 troops along the Qilian Mountains to return eastward, and the army in his headquarters had reached Ningxia County (the territory of King Xiutu occupied by Ouyang Xuan. Today's Ningxia area), besieging Yinchuan City (also Ouyang Xuan's name according to later generations, when Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty set up the city of Han City, before the territory of King Hutu, there was no city) for several days, General Zhang Jian and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the army to rush to help. It's just that the Xiongnu divided their troops and launched a fierce attack with Yinchuan, Lingzhou (now Wuzhong City), Wanhudui, and Wuhai (now Wuhai City, Ouyang Xuanzhi County was named after later generations), and the people suffered many losses, and now all the Xiongnu armies are blocked." "It's just in time, tomorrow I will lead the army to fight in person. Come and assemble the musketeers and the artillery battalions", the deacon's own soldiers answered the promise and gave the order. This Ma Ning is the eldest of Ouyang Xuan's students, and after he became a prisoner, after his parents died, he has been renting land with his younger brother and sister to live. The suffering is also beyond the reach of ordinary people. was admitted to the other courtyard by Ouyang Xuan, because he was loyal, extremely witty, and sensible. was focused on training by Ouyang Xuan, and after the establishment of the Xia Kingdom, he followed Nie Ping to take care of the affairs of the Xia Kingdom for several years, and after Nie Ping retired, he succeeded Nie Ping as the Minister of State. Through more than ten years of experience, he has implemented the phalanx policy formulated by Ouyang Xuan, and also compiled the seventy-two chapters of "Xia Lu", which was greatly praised by Ouyang Xuan. Be a matchmaker and marry her beloved concubine to Ma Ning. He has three sons and two daughters, all of whom are studying with the prince and his entourage. He was very loyal to Ouyang Xuan, and took care of the Xia Kingdom in an orderly manner, which made Ouyang Xuan a lot easier.

Now Ouyang Xuan has a rifle army of 20,000 people and an artillery battalion of 5,000 people, and the artillery is no longer a 60 gun, but a towed 90 mm self-propelled rifled gun similar to the later generations, and the wheels are made of special vulcanized shellac to reduce the shock. The 60 mortar is the basic equipment of each cavalry and infantry battalion, the rifle corps and artillery battalion can only be personally commanded by Ouyang Xuan for the time being due to ammunition production problems, the rifle corps adopts the army establishment of later generations, there are three divisions in total, each battalion has two water-cooled heavy machine guns and five light machine guns, because there is no rubber and many things are still on the drawings. In less than half an hour, the whole army was assembled. Ouyang Xuan didn't have time to visit Liu Hui and Bo in the palace, so he directly led his troops westward.

Two days later, they arrived at the outskirts of Yinchuan City at noon and joined forces with Zhang Jian and Ouyang Hong's reinforcements. The two men each led 50,000 horses. Zhang Jian is already middle-aged, and his body is still as tough as ever. originally wanted to lead the charge like Ouyang Xuan back then, but was pulled back by Ouyang Hongqiang and harassed the periphery. Alleviate the Xiongnu offensive on Yinchuan City. After all, there were 100,000 horses besieged under the city, and Ouyang Hong did not easily send troops to attack. Just attack the rear every day when the Huns are attacking the city, and at the minimum cost, drag the Huns soldiers and horses, looking for suitable fighters. At this time, Ouyang Xuan's soldiers and horses galloped to help in time. Ouyang Xuan listened to the detailed reports of his son and Zhang Jian, and highly praised his son for not attacking rashly at any cost. For the cultivation of this son, Ouyang Xuan also put a lot of effort into it, and went to school and lived with the villagers and children since he was a child. When he grew up, he was directly sent to the pro-soldier team for strict training, and he didn't drink less gold and stone water. Every year, he has to work in various factories for half a year to learn and cultivate science and technology and life ability, and the military commander has been taught by Ouyang Xuan systematically with the new generation of officers in recent years, and now he has the style of Ouyang Xuan. It's just that he is more mature in appearance, after all, he is also twenty-five years old. His face will not be as young as Ouyang Xuan. Standing with Ouyang Xuan, if someone hadn't reminded him, he would have reversed the father and son.

"Since my father's reinforcements have come here, my sons think that they should divide their troops to go to help. Please ask your father and the king to lead the troops to Lingzhou and Wanhudui to help." "Well, that's a good idea. It's just that the Hun cavalry is very fierce and cannot rush straight, so it needs to be attacked skillfully. Gu Zhunru went with his troops and horses, and remember to reduce the damage of his soldiers." "Erchen takes the order", Ouyang Hong took the order. Gather the soldiers and horses of the headquarters and gallop south. "My lord, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is now very similar to the demeanor of the lord back then." "Haha, General Zhang is too modest, and now you are also old and strong, and you still have to go into battle to kill the enemy? The style is not diminished in the past". Ouyang Xuan watched his son lead the army out of the gate, and he also said with infinite emotion. After drinking a cup of tea, he ordered: "General Zhang quickly go to give the order, and the whole army will be arrayed." Lone wants to kill the Huns and regret setting foot in Monan". "No!" Zhang Jian gave up his hand.

In the evening, the Xia army completed the formation five miles away from the east gate of Yinchuan City, with the artillery battalion behind, and the cavalry and rifle corps on the flanks interspersed in the infantry phalanx, relying on shields. The Hun army knew that Ouyang Xuan was here, and gathered heavy troops to line up with the east gate and two miles away. As the horn sounded, the forward of the Hun army pulled the iron chain and launched a charge, seeing this, Ouyang Xuan showed a smile. "Order, artillery battalion, rapid fire of three shells, target enemy rear and charging path".

The muzzle of the gun creaks and creaks under the action of the winch, and it is gradually raised, and it is aimed. Then the order flag was raised, and Ouyang Xuan's sword was commanded to fall. The sound of thump rang out one after another as the blade fell. They were all 90 mm high-explosive bombs, and in an instant, there was a rumbling sound on the front position, although it was two miles away, the loud noise also made Xia Jun's ears a little uncomfortable, and he could clearly feel that the ground was trembling. After three rounds of artillery fire, the Huns' charging line was already in disarray, and the rear army was even more dead and wounded. Less than one of the ten who could stand, Ouyang Xuan's sword pointed forward. "The whole army marched forward in formation. Cavalry flank cover". The Xia infantry phalanx slowly advanced in a line, and the rifle soldiers interspersed in the phalanx followed the phalanx with their muzzles, and when they reached the attack range, the sound of thumping gunfire suddenly erupted. The Huns, both on horseback and standing, fell to the ground from the outside to the inside like dominoes. When they rushed to the east gate, the battlefield was calm again. The city's soldiers descended the drawbridge and opened the gates to welcome reinforcements. The captain of the Yinchuan City garrison was injured and knelt down on one knee in front of Ouyang Xuan. "His Majesty did not fail in his mission, led the whole city of soldiers and civilians, resisted the Hun army for 11 days, the defenders lost 1,000 people, thousands were wounded, more than 3,000 people were killed, more than 10,000 wounded, fortunately the city was not lost." "Well, well, reward. Those who participate in the defense of the city will be rewarded. The soldiers and civilians who died in the war all entered the temple to worship and support their families. In addition, the garrison army was ordered to go down to the city to rest, and the rifle corps defended the city instead." "No!"

Climb the city wall, check all the way along the trail, and come forward to check on the injured soldiers and civilians. Fortunately, they are all bow and arrow wounds, which are not difficult to treat. The white wolf brothers and sisters followed Ouyang Xuan all the way down, but their mouths were already dry, so they hurriedly asked people to fetch water and drink. Ouyang Xuan initially estimated that there must be at least 80,000 Huns in the first battle of the East Gate, and now there are less than 20,000 Huns in addition to the West Gate who are preparing to escape, and there is no one alive except for the corpses of the Huns outside the other gates. "General Zhang, order the cavalry to go out of the West Gate to pursue the remnants of the Huns." "No!" Zhang Jian led the order to go down and arrange. Ouyang Xuan stood on the city tower, watching the cavalry go out of the west gate, chasing and killing the panicked Huns, and he was also full of emotion. Isn't that exactly what Genghis Khan was like in later generations? I hope that my arrival will not happen again in the Battle of Cliff Mountain. Just when Ouyang Xuan was delusional, he urgently sent a report: "Report to the lord, five days ago, Liu Che, the prince of the Han Dynasty, led his troops to force the Emperor of the Han Dynasty to abdicate. He had ascended the throne three days ago, and the first emperor and the night were nowhere to be seen, and he did not attend the Zen throne ceremony. In addition, the Han generals Huo Qubing and Luoyang led 10,000 Han troops to Zhao State". "Oh? There is such a thing. Okay, you're Liu Che. Come on". The deacon's own soldiers stood at his side. "Quickly send 800 urgent generals to send orders to General Lang, strictly prevent Shanggu, Yuyang and Youbeiping from attacking, if the Han army comes to attack, it will be killed. Damn, since you are looking for death, this king will fulfill you. I want to take advantage of the void and think of the beauty". "No!"