Chapter Eighty-Nine: Pulling Out the Camp

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After a mutiny, the morale of an army was hit, and even the atmosphere became extremely strange. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis is the case in the Khitan army. The Khitan cavalry looked down on the bitter soldiers of the Northwest tribes, and the two sides entered the secret battle from the open fight, and from time to time the Khitan cavalry was plotted by the Northwest tribes, and their noses were blue and their faces were swollen; There were also Khitan cavalry who found excuses to make trouble and directly dragged the soldiers of the northwest tribes out of the barracks and beat them wildly......

Yelu Chongyuan regretted it at this time, regretting that he listened to his straw bag son's words to get into this situation. After accepting Xiao Feng's strategy, he immediately ordered that all cavalry, except for the Khitan cavalry, be sent to the Youyun region to fight the Dashun border people.

The tribes in the northwest have received military orders and are in the middle of it. Didn't they travel long distances and send troops from their tribes to plunder in exchange for supplies?

The Northwest tribes, the Jurchen people, are all generally bitter cold lands, relying solely on grazing and hunting for a living, basically unable to fill their stomachs. The bitter cold land makes their physique extremely refined, and their temperament is also very ferocious. If it weren't for their small population, I'm afraid they would have turned against the Khitan a long time ago. Even now, the Northwest tribes and the Jurchen tribes are also rebelling and rebelling, so that a large part of the Liao State's military strength is placed on defending these tribes.

In fact, the Liao State is also capable of conquering these tribes, after all, they are very few in number. But it was useless to conquer it. Take Baishan and Heishui as an example, there are not many grasslands suitable for grazing, but there are many mountains, and the Khitan people are very unaccustomed to it. Yelu Hongji also knew that even if the white mountain and black water were defeated, there would not be much benefit, so naturally he would not do such useless work.

You can't fight it, you can only win people's hearts. Yelu Hongji asked the obedient tribes to send troops, promising that the items they plundered would be their own, which made many tribes return to their hearts and were willing to send troops to help the Khitan.

Yelu Hongji still trusted Yelu Chongyuan, and gave Yelu Chongyuan the task of the most important defense, which was to prevent the most powerful Jurchen clan. But Yelu Chongyuan doesn't think so, some tribes of the Jurchen tribe are capricious, which makes his tribe's strength decline quickly, and he has a lot of complaints.

This time, he took the initiative to ask for troops, in fact, it was also to prove to Yelu Hongji that he was not inferior to anyone, and not to leave him in a bitter cold place where the water and grass were not abundant, and there were no Han and Korean people who could fight in the grass valley. I don't want his political enemies, Xiao Xulie, the prime minister of the Northern Mansion, the Tongzhi of the Northern Court, and the privy deputy Yelu Yixin to underestimate his strength.

Now Yelu Chongyuan is difficult to ride a tiger, so the only way to send out the cavalry of these tribes is to let them fend for themselves. If it can have the best effect, if it doesn't work, then it can also reduce these tribes who have little to do, so that their young and strong population will be reduced, and they will not be so arrogant.

These Murowei, Jurchen, Xi and other cavalry don't know how excited they are, they have been charging and attacking the city for the past few days, and they have suffered huge casualties but have not reaped any benefits, and they have long been dissatisfied. At this moment, they can go out to fight grass valley, of course, they are happy to move forward.

After rushing out of the barracks with a strange scream, these nearly 20,000 alien soldiers ran away without a trace. Only more than 60,000 Khitan troops remained in the barracks, and there were less than 2,000 Han troops.

Soon, Zhu Daguang also learned the news. The frontier troops watching from the watchtower have seen all this. Zhu Daguang said to himself suspiciously: "What the hell are the Khitan people doing, there is no reason to divide the troops, and these troops are not enough to attack other state capitals?" The sixteen states of Youyun have twenty or thirty thousand border troops in each state capital, all of whom are veterans of a hundred battles, how can they be afraid of these cavalry. What does it mean that the Khitans sent so many cavalry? Is it ......?"

Zhu Daguang suspected that the Khitans had the intention of retreating, but the Khitan camp had not moved, and he was not sure. Although the border army on the watchtower said that more than 20,000 cavalry had left the Khitan military camp, they did not know where to go. Do the math, there are still more than 60,000 people in the Khitan military camp, and the border army in Youzhou City is only 50,000 people when it is full, and the field war is absolutely unbeatable.

Zhu Daguang hesitated for a long time, and felt that it was better to stick to it. According to his experience, the Khitans generally do not bring enough military rations for two months, and since they have sent out their troops, at least more than 20 days have passed, and there is still more than a month. Firmly hold Youzhou City, then everything will be fine.

Wang Shao also got the news through the scout, and he was overjoyed: "In this way, the strength of the Khitan army has been reduced again, but it is an opportunity for me to ban the army!" It's time to fight, otherwise the soldiers below won't be able to sit still! ”

He also understood that the enemy had sent so many cavalry, and sooner or later his whereabouts would be discovered. Since it has not been discovered yet, it is necessary to take the initiative and take them by surprise.

Wang Shao carefully studied the latest accurate maps drawn by the inspectors, and determined the route of the march. He decided to pull the army to the junction of Shunzhou and Youzhou, lay in ambush, wait for dark, and attack the Khitan military camp at night!

When the more than 20,000 forbidden troops heard such an order, they became excited. When they set out on the expedition, they held their breath and wanted to fight. After a long journey and waiting, it was finally time to fight, and all the non-commissioned officers and officers had a longing on their faces.

The equipment of the forbidden army was the best of all armies, and both cavalry and infantry had armor. According to Lu Chengqi's regulations, these armors are relatively lightweight, and after all, they are good chain mail for defending bows and arrows.

Regardless of the forbidden army. The border army or the box army is a capital with more than 100 people, the horse soldiers are the military envoys and deputy soldiers and horses, and the infantry is the head and deputy heads. There were thirteen gunners and flag heads in each of the Ma army, and more than 80 of them were archers (horse bow is a soft bow with a range of about 100 paces); Each infantry had eight swordsmen, sixteen gunmen, and more than seventy crossbowmen. The crossbowmen of the infantry were also required to fight hand-to-hand, and they were also equipped with simple knives. For the convenience of marching, heavy shields were not carried. There are a lot of light and sturdy wooden shields, after all, the mandarin duck array required by Lu Chengqi must have a sword and shield hand. Some infantry used Xuanhua axes or hemp knives. The crossbowmen are well-made divine arm crossbows, the bow body is three feet three feet long, the string length is two feet five, equipped with a mechanism, but it can be fired by one person, the range can reach three or four hundred steps, and the armor piercing is proper within three hundred steps, which is the most threatening weapon for individual combat in the cold weapon period, and there is no one. Originally, it would take some time for the Divine Arm Crossbow to be invented, but with Lu Chengqi's strong support for the development of science and technology, the Divine Arm Crossbow was invented in advance by the archer Li Hong. The production accuracy of the Divine Arm Crossbow was high, and the Ordnance Supervisor rushed to make it day and night, but only 3,000 were made, so they had to be the first to be supplied to the most elite forbidden army.

In addition to combat weapons, the auxiliary soldiers also carried two pieces of curtains, iron horses, shovels, chisels, baskets, axes, pliers, and armor beds, one pot, one fire drill, one salt bag, and one mill, and three horse reins. In addition, there is a whetstone, a felt hat, a felt suit, and a suitcase. Of course, there is also food: nine buckets of wheat rice and two buckets of rice per capita, as well as fried noodles that Lu Chengqi asked the household department to specially send people to make for each person to eat for three days.

The forbidden army is worthy of being the most elite unit in Dashun, and the equipment is almost armed to the teeth. With so much equipment, it's no wonder that every soldier has an auxiliary behind him, and some even have two auxiliary soldiers, otherwise these combat tools can't be used! However, although there were many equipment, these forbidden troops were still vigorously packed up, and in less than a tea time, they had already pulled up their tents and were ready to march.