Dingxi Fort to Didao 250 miles, to Wujie, Dalai Valley 180 miles, infantry light equipment, two days can easily arrive. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Back two days ago, on the afternoon of November 13, Shi Chenghong and Zhang Quanyi led a brigade from Dingxi Fort to cross the garrison of the Fan tribes in the northwest of Weizhou, Longxi, but he did not attack these small tribes, so he leaked the news of the march and almost broke the big thing.

Wujie is a military city left in the Tang Dynasty, can garrison 2,000 soldiers, now this is the logistics transit place of Zhuo Luo Zunli, the permanent strength has 2,000, because the military city can not live in these many troops, so another temporary military village was built outside.

On this day, a group of cattle and sheep happened to come from Hezhou, and there were 7,000 soldiers escorted, and the officer was a garrison chief, named Pan Fu Duolong, who was the younger brother of Pan Fu Duowang of Bailanqiang, and his brother Pan Fu Duowang Guangshun supported Tuoba Bogu for three years, and died in Huining, this time he led two large thousands of households with 5,000 soldiers each, and transferred grain and grass to Xiangwu in Longxi for reinforcements, and was stationed here to rest.

At noon on this day, a herdsman from Weizhou, Longxi Province reported that a Zhou army of about 5,000 paces came from Dingxi Fort and was about to arrive at Wujie. When Pan Fu Duolong heard this, his mind immediately became active, and he led 5,000 horsemen to leave the Wujie Military City in a hurry, and went to the valley of twenty miles to the northeast to ambush and prepare to intercept it.

And Shi Chenghong didn't realize that there was an enemy army waiting for him, but he marched normally according to the enemy-occupied area, sent scouts to search and move forward twenty miles ahead, and opened the way with a regiment of Hao Jingwu leading the horse army in front, and the infantry army followed.

As a result, when they were thirty miles away from Wujie, a scout was wounded and returned, reporting that there was an enemy ambush, and the scout found that he had followed and killed. But at this time it was in the valley, and the five thousand cavalry could not be deployed, so after the horse army was broken, he hurriedly retreated five miles, and just found a slope to line up, and a group of horse troops was less and more enemies, and only more than 800 horsemen were left to retreat in defeat.

Shi Chenghong's face suddenly turned black as the bottom of a pot, the Ma army had already burned money, and he lost two hundred horsemen at once, which was a great loss, so he recalled the Ma army to Bu Yu Bianji. More than 30 baggage carriages are distributed on the periphery, and connected end to end, spliced into a large circular array. The roof and back of the car were covered with horse-repellent guns, and crossbowmen and armor-piercing cones were constantly throwing to block the attack.

As soon as the arrangement was completed, the enemy cavalry launched an attack, but in the face of the fixed baggage carriage and the forward rejection rifle, it seemed a little weak, and under the repeated impact, more than a thousand horses were lost, and Pan Fu Duolong was a little difficult to ride a tiger.

Seeing that most of the Zhou army's carriages were made of wood, and the carts carried a large number of bundles of painted arrows and guns, he had an idea and ordered the soldiers to go nearby to collect dry firewood and forage, and carry the fire to rush to the front of the Zhou army to throw it.

But if the horse team ran too fast in this way, the flames would soon be extinguished by the wind, and if they ran slowly and rushed forward, a regiment of horses of the Zhou army, which had been on standby, immediately stepped forward to intercept them. The two sides fought in a tug-of-war for more than an hour, and Shi Chenghong saw that the enemy's horsepower was almost consumed, so he ordered the soldiers to withdraw the carts and open up the large array, and the inside was an ordinary horse rejection array. Because the three brigades of the Changyi Army have not yet been equipped with the new armor produced in Huizhou, but the training method is the same, and after the tempering of the Battle of Liangzhou, the combat power is not much worse than that of the Zhenyuan Army.

Seeing that the Zhou army took the initiative to withdraw the baggage vehicle for cover, Pan Fu Duolong became cautious and first transferred a thousand-man team to charge, testing the possibility of breaking the formation, in order to avoid the opponent's horse army from entanglement again, another thousand-man team went to intercept.

The infantry formation was difficult to break for a while, but with the same strength, the Zhou army horse team was not afraid at all, but went up to the battle, cut their own thousand people under the two rounds of killing, chased the defeated soldiers from the slope and rushed down, and really broke into the headquarters of the Chinese army.

Pan Fu Duolong was caught off guard and rushed to meet the battle, and the horse team that did not want to impact the infantry formation also retreated in defeat, and the Zhou army infantry moved down from the slope and tried to outflank it. Pan Fu lost nearly half of the dragon, and when he saw that there was no opportunity to take advantage of it, he calmly withdrew with nearly 3,000 horsemen.

Shi Chenghong's horse army was too small and unable to pursue, so he cleaned up the battlefield and camped in place. Considering that the main force of the rear army will go south to Longxi, and his own army is an independent partial division without backup, and there is a strong enemy blocking the way, Shi Chenghong discussed with the generals, gave full play to his tactical strengths, and marched rapidly at night to Wujie to attack.

I don't want Pan Fu Duolong to be very vigilant, the night attack did not turn into a night battle, but it was still beneficial to the Zhou army, Shi Chenghong sent soldiers to set fire to the cattle and sheep pens, and the cattle and sheep war horses were running around, which caused a great obstacle to Pan Fu Duolong's horse team, and was defeated by Shi Chenghong's troops that night, and fled back to Di Dao.

Pan Fu Duolong was defeated and fled, the enemy troops stationed in the military city had to flee with him, and the Wujie military city was taken by Shi Chenghong's department that night, and the next day he sent the second regiment Ma Tan and the third regiment Wei Ling, a total of 2,000 infantry, to the south for 20 miles, and captured the mountain pass between Wujie and Dalai Valley to the east, cutting off the back road of Zhuo Luo Zunli. He also sent people to Jincheng in the north, to Didao in the west, and to Xiangwu in Longxi in the east to spy on the enemy's situation, so as to coordinate offensive operations with various departments.

A few days later, the outgoing Tanma brought back the Zhenyuan army scouts to the south of Jincheng, Shi Chenghong received the report in the military tent in person, and walked into the big tent was a scout Dutou, a cold-forged dark mountain armor attracted the attention of all the officers in the tent.

"Liu Guangye, the head of the scout camp of the Yuanjun Scout Camp in the humble town, has seen Shi Mingwu!" Liu Guangye raised his hand and stood upright, and performed a standard military salute of the Zhenyuan Army. He was originally a native of Yanzhou, Liu Guangsi's younger brother, known as Liu Sanlang, Qin Feng was only a team leader during the war, and was promoted to the head of the capital after the war, but the status and ability of the head of the scout battalion are extraordinary, once the lowest transfer will be the battalion commander, and some will even be promoted to the head of the regiment.

"You're welcome! Get down to business! Shi Chenghong smiled kindly, his military officer has been promoted to the general of Mingwu from the fourth grade, originally called General Mingwei, but to avoid Guo Wei's name, was changed by officials in the DPRK and China.

"Liangzhou Xuanzhongwu sent a certain southward contact, has been transferred to the town of the Yuan Army Fourth Regiment Yan Chengwang, the sixth regiment Zhang Zhixing 2,000 infantry army to the south with siege equipment, to help Shi Mingwu capture Di Dao, after the war must sweep the territory of the Tibetan Department, refuse to obey the annexes, all cleared. And Xuanzhongwu led the headquarters of 5,000 cavalry, scheduled to attack Hezhou Caohanqiang on the 23rd, at the same time, Shi Mingwu's department took Di Dao and then went west, and our department attacked, do not let Caohanqiang flee south to Taozhou. Liu Guangye said.

"Good! With the help of the siege equipment of the Zhenyuan army, it is easy to take Di Dao. Shi Chenghong said with confidence, because Di Daogu called Lintao, the city is located on the east bank of Taoshui, built high in solid, the wall is more than two feet high, and it cannot be defeated without siege equipment.

The next day, Shi Chenghong left two infantry regiments stationed in Wujie and Dalai Valley, and led 3,000 troops to the west along the Taoshui tributary to suppress the small tribes of the Tibetan people, and it took three days to march fifty miles to reach the west of Didao County, and at this time Yan Chengwang and Zhang Zhixing were also about to arrive, and then approached Didao to camp after the division, and then prepared to attack the city. (To be continued.) )