Chapter 66: A Bloody Battle
"Master, let me ask you, why did you agree to go out with my third grandfather to participate in this dangerous ambush mission, and also serve him as a deputy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoDon't you always dislike him for being illiterate, how much is his heart? As soon as Li De saw that the master was a little tired, he came up diligently to relax the master's muscles and bones, and asked while pinching.
"Silly boy, the division was just a grain supervisor at that time, even if he fought bravely before and had meritorious service in protecting the grain, it would not have been his turn to play for the division in this kind of war. Your third grandfather has given him a chance, of course he has to go as a teacher, if he can't participate in this kind of battle, I'm afraid he will regret it for life. Besides, although your third grandfather has a lot of ghosts, he is very brave in battle, and he rushes back to the front, sacrificing his life to protect the brothers behind him. When you go to the battlefield with people like your third grandfather, you are at ease. As he spoke, Old Doctor Sun patted a certain position on his body with his hand, and motioned for the little apprentice to knead it vigorously.
"Master, are you going to pull it down today?" Li Deyi asked with a shy face. "Let's talk about it tomorrow, I'm tired today. You can do whatever you need to do later, and you don't have to spend time here for the teacher. ”
After pinching it for the master, waiting for the master to rest, Li Deyi left the master's place, and still went to the sword and armor camp to pick the hammer. Today he deliberately stayed a little longer, watching how those skilled old blacksmiths made iron and steel, and asked the old iron head for advice while watching. Li Deyi is now a little medical officer, and his skills are very big, seeing that the two brothers and sisters are the family members of Weibei Camp in the future, these blacksmiths naturally have to answer questions, and even ask deep questions in some places, involving their ancestral skills, and they also answered some slightly. If these stunts are replaced by someone else, such as those apprentices who have hammered them for more than ten years, they may not be able to catch them.
The sun rises every day, and the days go on every day. Get up early and take the children to exercise in the morning, eat breakfast after the morning exercise, and eat three meals a day This custom is still after Taizu pacified the world in the Ping Zhou Dynasty, Taizu himself vigorously promoted it, it is said that so that people's bodies can grow well and grow strong. Taizu is the strongest man in the world, and he is also the emperor, with Tianxian in his mouth, and if he goes down in one sentence, from then on, people in the world will begin to eat three meals a day. After breakfast, class, and then dinner, after taking the children to dinner, Li Deyi ran to the master and begged the master to continue. From this point of view, Li Deyi is worthy of being the grandson of his third grandfather Li Youshui, and he likes to listen to people's chatter.
After entering the door, Old Doctor Sun was obviously prepared, and actually finished eating dinner in advance. Seeing the little apprentice enter the door, he opened his mouth and said, "It's really exactly the same as your third grandfather, and he regards the teacher as a storyteller." The addiction to listening to books is so big, no matter the wind or rain, I come on time every day. From the day when I met your third grandfather Li Youshui, he pestered me to tell him to read to him. As a teacher, he insisted on supporting the face of the scholar back then, but he never promised to tell him books. I didn't expect it, I didn't expect it, I got old, and it was planted in the hands of his grandchildren. This croaking and pulling, it will become a series of storytelling, that's it, I should be your grandfather. Did your third grandfather tell you about this before he died, so that you could change the law and pester the old man to tell the story? Li Deyi smiled and said, "No, absolutely not, my third grandfather has never mentioned this to me." Besides, I listened to the story and learned from the master, but I didn't listen to it in vain. Master, I have all the things you keep talking about. ”
"Well, it's pretty much the same, if you really listen to the storyteller, and forget it after listening to it, Master, I'm going to move the board." Old Doctor Sun deliberately said with a serious face. Li Deyi smiled cheekily and said: "I am the second best apprentice in the world, the first is my senior brother, where would the master be willing to beat me." Master, what does that board look like? I haven't seen it yet. Old Medical Officer Sun was so upset by Li Deyi's clever and obedient behavior that he raised his hand and gave Li Deyi a head to give him a look, and said loudly: "Do you still use a board to beat you?" It's your mouth, your third grandfather wasn't like this back then. Less nonsense, where did you pull it yesterday? ”
"Speaking of which, you and my third grandfather led the troops to Qingyang Gorge overnight to go out of the customs and ambush the Tuliao people." "Well, for the teacher, he and Li Youshui led the team to Qingyang Gorge on the night of the star. If you want to say that this Qingyang Gorge is really narrow, no wonder it is called Sheep Gorge, and only the sheep are in it to walk, and the slightly larger horses can't enter. I can't complain that a few days ago, the elite cavalry of those Tuliao people who came to sneak attack all rode short Mengwu horses, and did not ride the tall horses raised by the Tuliao people themselves. Fortunately, the commander was prepared, and only let us take the foot soldiers, and there were no cavalry. Old Medical Officer Sun recalled slowly. Li Deyi was surprised and said: "Purely relying on foot soldiers, isn't it very troublesome to raid the Tuliao people at that time?" The Tuliao people are all cavalry. Old Medical Officer Sun glanced at his apprentice and said, "The two thousand soldiers who came this time are the elite of our Weibei Battalion's infantry elite, otherwise why do you think you only brought two thousand people out, because you can't pick out a better person." They are all young strong men who can run hundreds of paces quickly with their whole body armored, and can still directly meet the enemy without resting. The cavalry of our Weibei battalion rode all Xiwan horses, these horses are only available to the Tuliao tribe in the west, these horses are all slowly saved up by Di Dashuai over the years, and those short Mengwu horse marshals didn't look down on them at all. Our war horses can't enter Qingyang Gorge at all, so we can only send foot soldiers. Besides, who told you that we were going to raid the cavalry of the Turpents? Can their men run, tents and forage? ”
"Master, what did you just say? These two thousand foot soldiers are all armored? Obediently, how much steel armor does this have, our Weibei Camp now even counts the leather armor, and there are only a lot of armor in total. Li Deyi said with a stump. Old Medical Officer Sun glared: "Do you think that our Weibei Camp has always been so poor, when the big marshal was there, we controlled several necessary roads out of the grassland, no matter if you go north or west, as long as you pass through the north gate, you have to pay taxes to our Weibei Camp." At that time, the Weibei camp was rich and rich, and the worst foot soldiers were all wearing leather armor, and the guys in their hands were even brighter and shiny, blowing and breaking their hair. How is it like today......"Master, those 2,000 foot soldiers didn't bring pack horses, where were their armor rested?" Li Deyi continued to ask. Di Dashuai imitated the marching backpack that was said to have been designed by Taizu back then, and designed an armor bag for each of them. Their iron scale armor was kept in their bags, which they carried behind their backs when they marched, and then took them out and draped them neatly before the battle. Old Doctor Sun replied.
"Master, don't talk about that. Listening to this set of iron scale armor, I feel uncomfortable. Our current life is really incomparable to Di Dashuai's time. You then scroll down. As soon as Li De heard about the rich days in the past, and then thought about the current days, his heart was not happy, and he quickly interrupted the master. Oh, Wei Shi and Li Youshui led the team to Qingyang Gorge, in order to prevent the soldiers from walking alone in the canyon and getting lost, they took out the ropes prepared in advance, let the soldiers tie them around their waists, and in groups of five, they passed through the canyon in order. The valley was narrow and closed, so I could only move in small steps, and walked for a whole day and a night, and only came out of Qingyang Gorge the next night. After leaving the valley, Wei Shi discussed with Li Youshui, and decided to continue to walk in concealment along the side of the mountain overnight, slowly moving closer to the vicinity of the North Gate Pass, and not going deep into the grassland for the time being. When we spent another four days rushing to the vicinity of the North Gate Pass, we found that the Tuliao people under the pass were attacking the city very urgently, and the commander was still defending the city and did not go out of the city to fight. We lurked in the nearby mountains, observed the battle, and waited for the right moment. ”
"Master, how does Dashuai Di know that you have gone to the gate to ambush you? What should you do if you don't arrive after riding a horse three times? After listening to what the master said, Li Deyi couldn't help but ask. Old Medical Officer Sun smiled and said, "Our Di Dashuai has created a way to deliver news, and now we can't tell you as a teacher." Before that departure, Dashuai passed on this method to me. Li Deyi then asked, "Why don't you pass it on to my third grandfather?" "He hasn't cultivated the original qi, so he can't learn this method."
Li Deyi was curious: "Oh, so that's the case." When will I be able to learn? "You? You have to touch the edge of the five links. Cultivate the original qi honestly, and when the time comes, the teacher will naturally teach you. After the old doctor Sun finished speaking, he continued: "At that time, the outside of the gate was covered with heavy snow, and the weather was cold, and in order to act in concealment, we could not make a fire to keep warm, so we could only let the soldiers dig a shallow pit, and the big pit could not be dug, and the ground was frozen hard. Then try to find some leaves to cover your body, and a few of us gather in a pit to keep warm together. In those days, many soldiers were frozen out of chilblains, and for the division and your third grandfather to get a little better, I found a tree hole and got into it. After the two of us led the team to patiently ambush for five days, there was finally movement on the gourd. After several months of continuous rotation of the Tuliao siege, all the troops and horses were already a little tired. But in the past few months, Di Dashuai has insisted on defending the city with foot soldiers, and the cavalry has been recuperating, even if there have been several times when the Tuliao people have broken into the city, Di Dashuai has never sent cavalry reinforcements, but gritted his teeth and carried it with foot soldiers. On that day, it snowed heavily, and there were white flowers everywhere outside and inside the gate, and ordinary human eyes couldn't see how far they could not see at all. Di Dashuai took the opportunity to secretly move the city gate that had been killed with stones, and after the Tuliao people attacked the city in the morning without success, he suddenly opened the city gate, rode out with a fire-eyed fierce beast, and followed by 10,000 cavalry of the Weibei battalion. The leading siege troops of the Tuliao people were defenseless, and they were slaughtered countless by a wave of surprise attacks by the cavalry of our northern battalion. Yelupo, the general in charge of the siege of the Tuliao people, was hacked to death by Di Dashuai on the spot, and tens of thousands of Tuliao soldiers fled directly. But after all, the Tuliao people grew up immediately, and they reacted in just a moment, sending their 30,000 elite cavalry to meet them. ”
"Master, didn't you say that the Tuliao people have 150,000 elite cavalry, why are there only 30,000 elites at this time? What about the others? Li Deyi asked. All the people of the Tuliao people are soldiers, boys can ride horses and shoot arrows when they are ten years old, and old people can ride horse-drawn bows when they live to sixty. At that time, the Tuliao people had not yet built a city and settled, and they were still nomadic everywhere, so the Tuliao people came from the whole clan that time. The horses they could ride, and the men who drew the bows, numbered hundreds of thousands. But only the middle-aged men of the tribe are the elite, and the rest of the old and weak, kneeling slaves can only be cannon fodder. If these cannon fodder are sent to meet the elite cavalry of Marshal Di, I am afraid that it will cause a major rout in a short time, and not only will the morale of the army be affected, but also the rout will impact their own cavalry team. The Tuliao people are not fools, knowing that Di Dashuai personally commanded the elite cavalry to fight, of course they would not send cannon fodder to kill Di Dashuai in vain, so they immediately sent their own elite men and horses to meet the battle. Besides, do you think that 30,000 cavalry is the same as the 1,000 soldiers and horses in our Weibei Battalion now? Say rush, it only takes a moment for the whole family to rush up? Being able to mobilize 30,000 elite cavalry to meet the battle in an instant is also the point that the Tuliao people can only do so if they are accustomed to fighting. If it were left on the other border armies of our Pingzhou Dynasty, it would not be possible to mobilize these 30,000 horses for a day, let alone meet them immediately. ”
"Master, how is the elite cavalry of the Tuliao people back then compared to the 20,000 Mengwu tribe cavalry we fought a year ago?" Li Deyi couldn't help but compare. "Mughul? Can't compare, can't be compared at all, the Mengwu were not originally of the Tuliao race, but were later conquered by the Tuliao people, and the entire tribe was merged into the Tuliao people, they can only be regarded as second-class people among the Tuliao people, whether it is horses or equipment, they are a cut behind. However, the Tuliao people at that time did not have the strength they have now, claiming to control hundreds of thousands, but in fact, the most capable elite cavalry was only about 100,000. Moreover, at that time, Fan Guoshi had just served the Tuliao Khan, and he had not summoned craftsmen to invent the 'explosive arrow', so his combat power was still worse than today's Tuliao cavalry. Li Deyi couldn't help but say again: "Master, Di Dashuai only brought out 10,000 elite cavalry, can he beat the 30,000 elite cavalry of the Tuliao people?" ”
"This kind of army fighting, just compared to the number is useless, if the side with more numbers can win, then everyone simply don't fight, stand in line, and the side with fewer people will automatically admit defeat. Besides, if there are many people, it will be useful, how could our Pingzhou Imperial Court be easily attacked by hundreds of thousands of Tuliao people last year? The fierce battle of the army is still the most important thing in morale, if the morale of which side is defeated first, most of them will be defeated and lost, Di Dashuai has been on the battlefield for a long time, and naturally understands this. His old man personally commanded his elite personal guard cavalry to rush to the front, relying on the crotch of the fire eyes of the fierce and powerful, a face made the Tuliao cavalry suffer a big loss, the Tuliao cavalry vanguard general Xiao Yinnu was directly killed by the fire eye, the surrounding Tuliao cavalry was directly frightened by the fire eye and fell off the horse, and was trampled by the follow-up horses to say that there were thousands of people. When Old Doctor Sun said this, his face looked a little excited. Li Deyi also said excitedly: "Obediently, my brother's 'Humvee' is terrible, I didn't expect his father to be even more fierce, and he can scare nearly a thousand horses at a time. The old doctor Sun smiled: "What's more, your 'Humvee' is just a donkey, and that fiery eye is a purebred." Not only does he have a huge range of power, but he can also control the power that only bursts out in front, so he can best cooperate with the cavalry army to fight, and he deserves to be the world's first BMW horse. ”
"Ah, that's amazing." At first, Li De fantasized that the 'Humvee' would one day be as majestic as his father, and that he would be unstoppable on the battlefield. Old Medical Officer Sun took a short break, and then said: "As soon as they first fought, the Tuliao people suffered a big loss, but they deserved to have grown up on horseback, and they quickly responded. The elite cavalry actually divided into two groups in the battle, trying to bypass the sharp spearhead of Dashuai Di and go straight to the rear of the Weibei battalion cavalry. Although Di Dashuai is brave, in the face of such flexible cavalry tactics, there is no good way for a while, so he can only hope that his sons can withstand it. Although the cavalry of our Weibei battalion is already elite, the Tuliao people are even more skilled, and they divided their troops into two ways to bypass Di Dashuai in a short period of time, and went straight to our rear team, not to mention, they can still shoot arrows with bows in such a short time! That's tens of thousands of arrows, this wave of arrows rained over, and the cavalry of our Weibei battalion suffered a big loss, many brothers were directly shot, and many were shot on war horses. ”
"The Tuliao cavalry is really elite, the battle situation is changing rapidly, and its commander can order the soldiers to divide into two roads in such a short period of time, and also fire a volley of arrows, it is really ......" Li Deyi couldn't think of anything to describe. Old Doctor Sun said, "Do you know why they have such a quick response? It is the credit of the Great Khan of Naturao. The Great Khan of Natu Liao made a special kind of arrows, and when he selected the training soldiers, he ordered that as soon as the arrows were fired, everyone should shoot their bows in the direction of his shot, and those who were a little slower would be immediately beheaded. He often trained his soldiers in this way during safaris, and they were eliminated in batches, and they were trained over time, and the rest were naturally elite soldiers who shot at the sound of the sound. Even so, fortunately, both sides were cavalry, and the Tuliao people only had the power of this arrow in a short time, and then the men and horses on both sides hedged together. ”
"The Tuliao cavalry is very good at equestrianism, but at that time the cavalry of our Weibei battalion was all armored, and they all wore half-body steel armor. Fighting each other, it is obvious that our cavalry has the advantage, but the Tuliao people are outnumbered, and they have not suffered much loss. In this one, the losses on both sides are almost too much. Old Doctor Sun recalled. Li Deyi interjected: "It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay if you don't suffer." Old Medical Officer Sun raised his hand to give the little apprentice a look at his head: "Silly apprentice, there are more than 20,000 Tuliao people than us, and if we continue to fight like this, we will be exhausted after a few more times." Marshal Di also felt that something was wrong in the battle array, so he drove his crotch to the fire and began to gallop around the periphery of the battle between the two armies. At this time, Wei Shi and Li Youshui were secretly watching the battle on a mountain bag thirty miles outside the North Gate Pass, and when they saw that Di Dashuai began to ride around in a circle with a fire eye, they stared at it. One lap, two laps, three laps, the fire eye is extremely fast, and it goes around three times in the blink of an eye. Weishi and Li Youshui glanced at each other, knowing that this was the marshal and let us act. ”
Li Deyi couldn't help but ask: "Master, both sides are cavalry fighting, although your two thousand foot soldiers are all elite, they can't outrun the war horses." Is it useful for you to go up at this time? Old Doctor Sun said: "Our foot soldiers are strange soldiers, do you understand? Pay attention to a surprise to win. Why are we going to participate in the frontal battlefield of the Great Marshal?! When we were leaving, the marshal had already prepared fire oil, fire letters, and other things that ignited fire, and we went to the camp of the Tuliao people to set fire. ”
Seeing the signal from the commander, the division immediately ordered all the soldiers to wear armor. Taking advantage of the fact that all the minds of the Tuliao people were on the battlefield of Di Dashuai's North Gate Pass, your third grandfather led the team to quietly detour towards the rear camp of the Tuliao people. The Tuliao are accustomed to warfare, and not long after we set out, their scouts discovered us. Seeing us coming straight for their camp, they immediately sent two thousand cavalry to rush out to intercept us. At that time, if we were stopped by this cavalry, we would not be able to attack the rear camp of the Tuliao people, and we would not be able to cooperate with Di Dashuai to fight. Your third grandfather turned his heart at that time and shouted: "Brothers, the commander of the North Gate is fighting hard with the Tuliao people, and now the victory or defeat depends on us people, if we can burn the camp of the Tuliao people and destroy the grain and grass of their horses, we can win." Swear not to retreat, follow me! At this time, there is still more than a mile away from the camp of the Tuliao people, if we rush up like this, even if we successfully rush to the front of the camp of the Tuliao people, we must be too tired to have the strength to fight, this is not a way. ”
When the old doctor Sun said this, he couldn't help but grope his gray beard with his hand, it seems that although many years have passed, the old man still feels thrilled when he thinks back to that battle.