Chapter 25 The Rebellion in Mobei

For several years, the Death Sect secretly transferred its followers to Kansai, and when the dynasty fell, they launched a rebellion in the unstable northern part of Kansai. The Death Sect had already occupied the southwest of Kansai, and now it was attacking from the north and south, and the attack and defense of the Kansai army were changing.

In order to defend the Jingshi, the 100,000 troops in Jiangnan and the 30,000 iron cavalry in Mobei were transferred back, but the Jingshi was conquered by the Jiliushan Righteous Army after all. In order to avenge the dynasty, the iron-blooded army attacked and suppressed the Jiliushan Righteous Army in many ways, and the Jiliushan Righteous Army fled in all directions, but the fate of defeat was inevitable.

The governor of Jiangnan was assassinated, and the iron-blooded army returned to defend Anyun, and the situation in Jiangnan was no longer something that a group of warriors could handle. The Jiangnan Governor's Mansion is ineffective, and the major families that originally controlled Jiangnan were also wiped out by Ke Zhengwei, but now the Jiangnan dragons have no leader, the state capitals do not communicate with each other, and the thieves who have been silent are everywhere again.

But in the troubled times, the glory of heroes is not hidden, and a small guard in the barren land of the south, with a few rural officials and hundreds of recruited village warriors, opened the prelude to pacifying the south of the Yangtze River.

Of course, with the return of Di Xianlan's 30,000 iron cavalry, the Zhantu people in Mobei also began to move.

There were no problems in the whole winter and spring on the boundary of Yanbei, and the spring ploughing has been well completed. The Yanbei Righteous Army has been training soldiers and horses throughout the winter and spring, and the Guanshan battalion has been expanded to 6,000 people on the basis of the original 3,000 people.

Gu Chayi's 3,000 cavalry has also begun to take shape, and the training of this cavalry is mainly spear stabbing and cavalry shooting, which is also related to Gu Chayi's hobby.

Just when the Yanbei Righteous Army was preparing to develop slowly in this way and meet the challenges of the future, a large number of displaced people poured into Yanbei from Mobei.

"This is the news from the master, the Zhantu people think that Mobei is theirs, and they plan to take advantage of the fall of the dynasty to expel all the Central Plains people in Mobei. Now that the Flying Eagle Village has been attacked, these displaced people in Yanbei also fled back to escape the massacre of the Zhan Tu people. Wei Zeng told Qi Weilun the news from Feiying Village.

"Yanbei is close to Mobei, and we bear the brunt of the rebellion caused by the Zhan Tu people. Now that the Luohe Heavenly Danger and the Power Sect are defending Hexi, the Iron Blood Army can't beat it for a while. The clear water in Guanbei is still attacking Guiwucheng, and it will not go south for a while. We've been training our army for a few months, and now it's so much stronger that I don't mean it's better to send troops to teach the Tun people a lesson. Qi Weiren said.

"That's what I mean, too. Now that we have the strength to spare, if we can't subdue the Zhan Tu people, when we fight with the Iron Blood Army or the Guanbei pawns in the future, we will inevitably be attacked by the Zhan Tu people, and it will not be good to fight in many ways at that time. Besides, there are still thousands of fathers and elders in Yishan Feiying Village, and I will never let the Zhantu people hurt them. Wei Zeng nodded.

"That's a good point. Now that our army has been training for several months, these people still don't know what their combat effectiveness is, so it is better to use the Zhan Tu people to train their hands. However, the Chatu Ranger was very quick to run in the wilderness, and it was a great loss to rely on ordinary infantry methods alone. How to fight a war also needs to be well planned. Qi Weiren pondered.

"The cavalry trained by Cha Yi is just to be used, and the Guanshan battalion can also be dispatched, and if I give me 20,000 horses, I can definitely defeat the Zhan Tu people." Wei Zeng said immediately.

"Brother Xian is so confident, doesn't he already have a strategy to break the enemy?" Qi Weiren smiled.

"I've been in Mobei for three years, and I've never fought against the Zhan Tu people. There are two main tactics of the Zhan Tu people, one is that the long-distance attack is unprepared, the Zhan Tu people will kill a cow before the expedition, and the dried meat is only 30 catties, but it can be worth a month's rations, and they run around in a month, which makes people unguardable; Another tactic is to mount a guerrilla attack during the confrontation, kill the enemy with bows and arrows, and wait for the enemy to suffer heavy casualties and rout, and then attack. Both of these are based on flexibility, and our army is incomparable.

"The advantage of our army is that the range of our army's strong bow and crossbow is longer than that of the nomadic bow of the Turks, and the lethality is greater; The strong shields and heavy armor of our army are also enough to resist the bows and arrows and sabers of the Zhan Tu people. In a head-on confrontation, I only need 10,000 men to resist the attack of several times the Turks, and it is not difficult to defeat them with 20,000 men. Wei Zeng said.

"But defeating them won't solve the problem, and if they return, we'll be at peace. As the saying goes: There are only a thousand days to be a thief, but there is no thousand days to prevent thieves. Qi Weilun asked.

"Naturally, you can't defend passively, otherwise even if there are 100,000 strong soldiers, they will be consumed by the occupants of the Turks. I plan to follow the example of General Yingliewei and General Huo to take the initiative to attack the Occupy Turk tribes, and as long as the Occupy Turks are defeated, the captured people will be moved to the border of Yanbei, and then the people will be reclaimed and garrisoned. When our army attacks head-on, Cha Yi's 3,000 cavalry can disrupt the enemy's rear, which is called 'treating the people of others in their own way', except for a few large tribes, no one can stop Cha Yi. Wei Zeng said confidently.

"I heard that the Zhantu people live in pursuit of water and grass, and they have no fixed residence, so how to find the Zhantu tribe is very difficult." Qi Weilun worried.

"It may be difficult for others, but it is not difficult for me at all. Feiying Village has gathered a lot of displaced people, many of whom have come from the Zhantu people. These people are very familiar with the branch of Mobei Water and Grass, with them as guides, where can the Zhantu people hide? However, when we attack the Ocriots, the Takers will also attack us. I hope that the eldest brother and the generals of Yanbei will defend well and never make any mistakes. If we set fire to the rear of the Zhan Tu people, we will win; If something happens to us in the rear first, then the Zhantu will win. My eldest brother will have to defend well on the days when I go on the expedition. Wei Zeng reminded.

"There's no problem, Yanbei will leave it to me. Jiang Luqing is very clever, this time the Gu brothers might as well send Jiang Luqing over, with the two of them going out to occupy the Turks, they should be more sure. Qi Weiren said.

"That's what I mean." Wei Zeng agreed.

The Zhantu people have always had the meaning of dominating the grasslands and even entering the Central Plains. It was only after being defeated by the Qingyuan Emperor two hundred years ago that the Zhantu people submitted to the Central Plains Dynasty. However, the Zhantu people have never given up this ambition, and they will always take the opportunity to make trouble whenever there is a problem in the dynasty.

It's just that the threat of the iron-blooded army and the court's soft policy have divided the Zhantu people internally, and the troubles of the Zhantu people have instead become a bargaining chip for the Zhantu nobles to ask the dynasty for titles and money, and the dynasty has used this to support a number of its own forces within the Zhantu people. Therefore, in the past two hundred years, the Zhantu people not only did not dominate the grassland, but a large number of Central Plains people came to Mobei to develop land.

Three years ago, in the Kansai ****, several large tribes gathered 100,000 rangers to attack the Central Plains in an attempt to relive the dream of the overlord of the grassland. However, there is no unity within the Zhan Turks, and many people come with the idea of taking the opportunity to plunder. Therefore, in the face of the blows of the Predators, the Zhantur people were quickly defeated, and then expressed their support for dynastic rule.

Now that the dynasty has fallen, Di Xianlan's iron cavalry has retreated. The Zhan Tu people thought that this was a great opportunity to dominate the steppe, so they went south to raid. There are even some extreme Zhantu people who want to expel the Central Plains people who have settled in Mobei for several generations, so that Mobei will completely become the Mobei of the Zhantu people, so many Central Plains people have suffered a catastrophe. A large number of displaced people poured into the Central Plains from Mobei, and fled back on the route of their ancestors.

A raiding party of several thousand people had just ransacked a small town of the Central Plains, and was ready to return to the tribe with truckloads of goods. I saw a troop of more than 1,000 people coming here. The leader of Zhantu was shocked, and hurriedly asked people to find out if the Iron Blood Army had come over.

After receiving the news, the leader of Zhantu breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out to be the team of the Yanbei Righteous Army.

"It's just some peasants who have just taken up arms. Those Central Plains peasants are sheep, and we Zhantu warriors are wolves. Can a sheep be equipped with teeth and claws to fight a wolf? The warriors will teach those peasants in the Central Plains a lesson with me, and let them know that Mobei is already our occupation of the Turks, and there is only one dead end if they step into Mobei again. As he spoke, the leader of the Zhan Tu led thousands of Zhan Tu soldiers to kill him.

Seeing that the other party had less than 2,000 people, the leader of Zhantu still let the rangers shoot the Yanbei rebels out of caution. The Yanbei rebels only erected a strong shield to defend passively, and retreated under the blows of the Zhantu rangers.

This force was led by Huang Yufei, and in order to deal with the Zhantu people, everyone was equipped with strong bows and crossbows, but in the face of the blows of the Zhantu rangers, Huang Yufei ordered not to shoot.

Seeing that this enemy army was only passively beaten, the leader of the Zhan Tu relaxed his vigilance, restrained thousands of Zhan Tu soldiers, and killed Huang Yufei's team together.

Just when the Zhan Tu soldiers charged less than 100 meters, Huang Yufei gave an order, and the strong bows and crossbows were fired together, and the Zhan Tu people suffered heavy casualties under their defense.

Huang Yufei ordered the crossbowmen to fire a few rounds in succession, and then led the infantry to kill the already chaotic Chatu horse team.

The Janturians fled in all directions after being hit, and all kinds of looted things were thrown everywhere. Huang Yufei pursued for several miles before letting the soldiers clean up the battlefield.

This time, the division won the victory and annihilated more than 1,500 people in Zhantu, and captured countless horses, Huang Yufei was very satisfied.

"Don't think that the Occupy Commandos are powerful, you don't see it, it's easy to destroy them. This time, the Zhantu people went south to plunder Yanbei and expelled the Central Plains people in Mobei, they were really rampant. This time, we want to play the prestige of the Yanbei Army, so that they will tremble when they hear the name of the Mobei Flying Eagle. Huang Yufei agitated.

The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and they cheered in response.

At the same time, Wei Zeng sent a number of men and horses to attack the Zhan Tu people who were scattered and plundered. After the Zhan Tu people suffered losses, they gathered 100,000 rangers and attacked Wei Zeng's main army, and a major battle was about to break out.