Chapter 0356: A Counterattack
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The 10,000 infantry of the Zhe clan were divided into three teams and slowly moved forward, while the 5,000 horsemen of the horse army scattered in the rear sweeping formation, which was actually to expel and supervise the battle. Cui Huxin, the www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, is the patriarch of the Golden Valley of the Liugu Department, with 1,000 soldiers from his own tribe under his command, and 2,000 slave soldiers to attack the right side of the Zhou army.
A single infantry engaged, Cui Huxin did not have the confidence to defeat the Zhou army, although he also knew the intentions of the Zhi Kui clan, but the Zhi Kui clan had an overwhelming advantage, and he had to succumb.
The Chinese army is 4,000 people in the Su Lun Abo Division, and he originally had nearly 10,000 young Zhuang soldiers in his headquarters, who were swallowed up after surrendering to the Zhe Clan, and were scattered and incorporated into the Chinese army. As for the 3,000 people of the right army Wang Tinghan and Zhou Jianzhang, they were basically composed of the remnants of the town army in the late Tang Dynasty, and they were stationed in Liangzhou City as the tooth army, and their combat power was slightly higher.
After leaving the formation and advancing fifty paces, the Zhou army also quickly changed formations, and all departments began to move, and the front row of horse-rejecting guns was withdrawn, but a large number of crossbowmen were transferred. The right side of the Zhou army moved first, and the Ma army suddenly began to divide its troops, and the other team went around the south from the flank, apparently to support the left army.
Hao Tianying kept looking at the Uighur army three or four hundred paces away on the opposite side, and when Xue Keyan and Wang Tingxun led the Shuofang army of 3,000 horsemen away, the Uighur army still did not respond, and could not help but breathe a sigh of relief. As for the rolling step formation, Hao Tianying didn't pay attention to them at all.
In fact, there was quite a lot of movement in the division of troops on his side, and only 2,000 of the 5,000 horsemen were left on the opposite side, and of course the Uighur prince saw it, but he moved forward in formation, and the prince did not care. In his mind, when Cui Huxin's infantry formation was defeated and retreated, he just launched a charge at the enemy's horse step, and if he broke through the right side of the Zhou army in one fell swoop, the benefits promised by Jiashi would be doubled.
It's ridiculous that Zhang Yue, the commander of the Changyi Festival of the Zhou Army, actually secretly contacted him, signaled to remain neutral, and asked the court to seal it after the war, so that Jingqiong Khan could justify his name. In the case of the Great Zhou, it was just a book issued, but in the case of the Uighurs, it was for his father Khan, after all, Jingqiong Khan also won the throne at the instigation of the Zhe clan, which could eliminate many internal contradictions, and the relationship with Cao Yuanzhong, the marshal of the Shazhou Guiyi Army, could also be eased.
The Guiyi Army was founded by Zhang Yichao, and when the Tang Dynasty died, only Sha, Gua, and Su were left, Zhang Chengfeng was once ambitious to be the emperor, and built the Jinshan Kingdom of the Western Han Dynasty, and later changed its name to Dunhuang State, which was almost destroyed by the Ganzhou Uighurs, and even Suzhou was lost, and the Uighurs of Ganzhou were able to survive as the country of father and son. In the second year of Liang Qianhua, Zhang Chengfeng died of illness, and Cao Yijin, the town general of the Guiyi Army, who was also a wealthy family in Shazhou, won the power alone, and was elected by the state people to preside over state affairs, banned the country name, and renamed the Guiyi Army, which has been passed down to Cao Yuanzhong for four generations.
At the peak of the Guiyi Army, it was awarded by the Central Plains court as the envoy of Hexi, Longyou, Yi, Xi, Beiting and other prefectures, and the observation and disposal envoy was mainly respected by the Central Plains, but since the change of dynasty since the Later Liang, the emperor changed like a marquee, and the Ganzhou Uighurs, Xizhou Uighurs, Khotan, and Liangzhou went to the Central Plains and Tokyo to pay tribute, each seeking canonization, and they all got rid of the Guiyi Army in name, and the situation gradually became bad.
Since the Zhou army recovered Huizhou in the third year of Guangshun, Cao Yuanzhong has repeatedly sent envoys to Tokyo, and has been awarded by the court as the envoy of the Guiyi Army, the inspector of the school, and the Tongping Zhangshi. and sent Ganzhou Shandan Wangcheng to return Suzhou, but Jingqiong Khan of course did not agree.
Therefore, this time the troops were sent to support Zhe Jiashi, which was also for the sake of Ganzhou's own safety, so as not to be attacked by Shazhou and Liangzhou at the same time. However, according to the current battle situation, the chances of winning are very high, and Prince Luo saw that the Zhou army and horse team on the opposite side were divided, so he hesitated for a moment and chose to ignore it directly.
Zhang Yue saw it from a distance in the Chinese army, and his heart was overjoyed, although he didn't know how Cui Huxin, Su Lun Abo, Wang Tinghan, Zhou Jianzhang and others would accept the requisition of Zhe Xiao Jiashi, but they were definitely not willing, as long as they had the opportunity, they would definitely get rid of control.
Moreover, the Zhe Kui clan is just a family, the composition of the soldiers is complex, and the main reason for joining the army is to make ends meet, even if it is a family elite horse, the discipline is very poor, and it is not impossible to mess with them, Zhang Yue bet on these two points. In addition, whether Shen Nianban will come to help, there has been no clear reply so far, and Zhang Yue is not sure.
But the problem is that even if the battlefield of 10,000 infantry suddenly reverses, the Chinese army of Zhe Kui Jiashi still has 15,000 cavalry troops, and there are still more than 10,000 cavalry in the hands of Zhe Zong Xing and Zhe Ge Zhi.
Zhang Yue sent a few eloquent guards to the various armies to give orders, briefly explaining Zhang Yue's strategy, and the officers of the various armies were surprised and delighted when they received the order, and had to sigh secretly, this is really a big gamble. However, the Chinese army has already changed its formation and deployed it, and the left and right armies have to cooperate.
Soon, the right army of the infantry array transferred by the Zhe Kui clan advanced to the range of the strong crossbow first, and the left army of the Great Zhou Dynasty commanded Gao Changhai in the front, and Li Shiwen in the middle formation. According to the content of the order that the soldiers of the Ya Ya came to pass the order just now, Li Shiwen and Gao Changhai had reached an agreement, and let the four hundred crossbowmen who crossed in front of the formation prepare for a while.
"Put!" At this time, Gao Changhai shouted, and the crossbowmen immediately released their arrows, and the sound of swishing through the air was whizzing, and the arrows went away like flying locusts, and there was a commotion in the front row of the soldiers, and more than 100 people fell, and there was a burst of miserable howls. They didn't wear iron armor to protect them, even the officers had to wear leather armor to go into battle, and that kind of calfskin shield had little protection against the crossbow.
When the soldiers entered a hundred steps, the strong archers also released arrows with the crossbowmen, and suddenly the density of arrows was even greater, and the front row of the soldiers fell again. But the soldiers who fell to the ground soon found that they were obviously hit by an arrow, but they only had skin pain and no pain, and they didn't shed a drop of blood.
didn't bother to think about this problem, in order not to be trampled to death by his companions behind him, he quickly got up and continued to walk forward. Cui Huxin immediately discovered these subtle and unusual details, and was immediately pleasantly surprised, and couldn't help but turn his head and look back, the two thousand horsemen who supervised the formation behind him were transferred from the Zhige branch, and they couldn't see the movement of their front formation at all.
The Ma army can engage the enemy in a maximum of two or three rounds of arrow rain, while the infantry formation is slower, but it can put five or six rounds. By the third round of arrow rain, more soldiers had fallen in the front, and they all screamed and got up as soon as they fell. At the same time, Cui Huxin also noticed that the situation was the same on the side of the Chinese army, which was about 250 steps apart, and the last two rounds of arrow rain fell up.
Cui Huxin can already be sure that Zhou Jun intends to let himself go, but he also understands the purpose that it is very dangerous to rebel at this time. There were 2,000 cavalry and 7,000 Uighur cavalry, and once there was chaos, these Tibetan soldiers who were not even in an orderly formation would be trampled into pulp.
The soldiers in the front row should have trotted forward at this time under the shouts of the officers, but they walked slower and slower, and asked each other why the arrows did not die, could it be that the arrows of the Zhou army were too bad?
The soldiers didn't know, but the low-level officers knew that they were outcasts, and they immediately asked each other, but they deliberately let the soldiers move forward slowly, but many of them were the backbone of the Zhe Kui clan, and they yelled when they found out about this situation, and even some people in their own formation fought regardless of it.
This shouting and commotion was finally seen by the Ori clan horse team in the rear overseer, and began to blow the horn and drive forward on horseback. Seeing that everything was in chaos, the army's heart began to fluctuate, Cui Huxin hesitated, no one contacted him before the war, and there was no organization at all, this fact was impossible to operate.
And his wife and children are all detained in Jialin Prefecture, although they were entrusted to Shen Banruo and Shen Jialan's uncles and nephews who were also hostages before the war, but now if something happens, I don't know if I can survive.
"Wait a minute! Do you want to send him to death if you are a slave and a servant? The court only chases the traitor and folds Jiashi, which has nothing to do with you, why not fight back, follow the Great Zhou, and punish the traitor together! More than 20 people suddenly rushed out of Zhou Jun's crossbow hands, clasped their hands together and shouted loudly.
The sound on the battlefield was noisy, and it could not be heard from the back, but it could be heard clearly in the front row, and the pace of the soldiers suddenly became hesitant. Cui Huxin gritted his teeth violently, pulled the war horse led by his own soldiers and turned over, and roared loudly: "Follow the Great Zhou and punish the traitors together!" Kill......"
The soldiers who don't know anything about fart, shouting should be as simple as possible, they chant twice, and then they can find out the meaning, Cui Huxin knows this well, and trotted and mobilized with his own soldiers in the gap between the infantry formations, and shouted: "
It's the other way around...... The Ori clan annexed our tribe and robbed us of our belongings and women......
The Ori clan levies our grain and does not give us anything to eat......
Let's rush to death! It's the other way around! It's the other way around! ”
Every time Cui Huxin shouted, the soldiers followed the message, and the three thousand infantry on the right side heard it, and they stopped advancing one after another, shouting and scolding each other, and the noise began to turn their heads under Cui Huxin's mobilization, and the already untidy formation suddenly became more chaotic.
Almost at the same time, the left army was in chaos, and the Chinese army Su Lun Abo also followed the noise of the people, his tribe was annexed by the Zhe clan in the third year of Guangshun, and many young and strong people were forced to intermarry and become soldiers of the Zhe clan, and many of the Chinese army were from his clan.
On the contrary, the right army reacted slowly, and Wang Tinghan, Zhou Jianzhang and other town troops were oppressed by all kinds of oppression all the year round, becoming insensitive, timid as a mouse, and at the same time opposing both the left and the center, they were still waiting and watching, but they did not advance again.
Woowoo...... The sound of the horn resounded throughout the field, and the horse team of the former army of the Ge branch who supervised the battle moved forward first, and there were still 8,000 horsemen left under the command of the right army and Zongxing, and half of the troops were also divided to drive the 3,000 infantry of Wang Tinghan's department forward, and the knights immediately opened their bows and arrows and entered the state of readiness.
Knock knock knock...... The sound of drums of the Zhou army was shocking, and the left and right armies were moving closer to the Chinese army, while the two horse armies spread two hundred miles outside followed forward, but they did not rush to charge.
And in the middle of the battlefield between the two sides of the 10,000 soldiers, at this time the formation was completely chaotic, the soldiers' oppressed emotions suddenly exploded, became red-eyed, shouted as hard as possible, the chaotic soldiers were holding knives and guns, and they followed the officers to turn around, and the three large formations that were originally a little shaped became three piles of people at this time, and they were in chaos. (To be continued.) )