On August 25, the thirteenth year of Tianbao, at the fifth watch, on the front line of Julu County and Qinghe County in Hebei Province, more than 90,000 Youzhou troops opened dinner almost at the same time, preparing to launch a fierce attack on the position of the Tiance Army shortly after dawn, when the morning sun came out, and broke through the position of the Tiance Army in one fell swoop.

The so-called vigorous, lazy during the day, and return at dusk, although An Lushan is a scumbag in military affairs, he has a group of generals who can fight.

At three o'clock, both sides finished breakfast, made all preparations, and began to mobilize for the battlefield at the same time. An Lushan rode an iron horse, carried by four war horses to inspect the battlefield, and everywhere he passed, there was thunder of joy, and everyone shouted: "Great God of Light, God of Great Light!" ”

This group of people is also blind, An Lushan's appearance is ugly and obscene, more than 300 catties (400 catties now), big belly hanging down knees, a bunch of meat mountains are also like, the god of great light is this virtue?

In the position of the Tiance army, Li Qi rode a tall Arabian white horse, followed by Xiao Qubing and a Jianning iron guard, one carrying the Tiance military flag, one carrying Li Qi's handsome flag, three white horses galloped through the front of the formation, and everywhere they went, all the Tiance soldiers cheered and shouted: "King Jianning!" King Jianning! ”

Tiance Mansion has always been a double-headed system, Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi are too good to be a person, and now Xiao Quzhi is "killed", as the only personal disciple of Xiao Quai, Li Qi has naturally won the support of all Tiance soldiers, not to mention, Li Qi's conditions in all aspects are really excellent and speechless.

Not to mention that he is heroic and forceful, he has a leadership temperament more than Xiao Quzhi, who has both affinity and prestige, and is a natural general, with a commander plus ten, morale and ten halos. At this moment, his face was high-spirited, and even Xiao Quzhi behind him couldn't help but feel jealous, let alone 40,000 ordinary Tiance soldiers.

Those who fled from the Northland. The refugees who were selected as auxiliaries also looked at him dizzily, and couldn't help shouting: "King Jianning, King Jianning!" ”

Li Qi met the eager eyes of more than 40,000 people, cheered from the mountains and the tsunami, and his mood was also extremely excited. The big husband should be like this!

But what made him even more excited was that the master was right behind him, and the thought of being able to kill the enemy side by side with the master made his blood boil with excitement!

At four o'clock, the mobilization of the two sides was completed, the Youzhou army began to enter the battlefield one after another, and the Tiance army also entered their respective positions, and the battle was about to start, and both sides were bound to win for themselves. Full of confidence.

An Lushan, supported by two domestic servants and his confidant eunuch Li Zhu'er, slowly climbed up to an earthen platform, took out the monoculars and carefully observed the position.

On his side, dozens of trebuchets were pushed out, and their role was to try to destroy the layers of deer set up by the Tiance Army on the road; Next to the trebuchet, there are hundreds of shield carts, and the strong crossbows of the Tiance Army are too strong, and the role of these shield vehicles is to advance against the strong crossbows. The two trenches on the road were filled in and the deer were cleared. The cavalry behind can rush over like a tide, break through the position of the Tiance army in one fell swoop, enter the flock of sheep, and slash and kill wantonly.

On the position of the Tiance Army, 40,000 Tiance veterans and soldiers. The peasants and soldiers have already taken their places, although An Lushan gritted his teeth with hatred for Xiao Quai, but he also had to write a big word "service" in his heart for Xiao Quai's ability to train soldiers.

If it weren't for the exact information, at first glance who would have dared to believe that those on the opposite side were standing in order behind the position. The solemn and silent "warrior" turned out to be a recruit who had only been training for more than three months?

I don't know how Xiao Quzhi and Tiance Mansion have such a strong ability, when it comes to discipline, uniformity, and prohibitions, this team that has only been trained for three months is simply better than any other army he has ever seen.

It's also annoying to say, when Zhang Xiancheng went to visit the training of the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army, he sighed with emotion when he came back, and later when he returned to the Youzhou Army, he also used the method of stealing teachers to train a similar team, but the result was that he worked hard but made no progress.

The stricter the suppression, the more fierce the resistance, the complaints abound, and finally had to give up; He also once let a Khitan cavalry and Luoluohe practice lining up to charge, but just lining up for jogging practiced for more than half a year, and as soon as they accelerated the charge, it was chaotic again.

An Lushan thought about it for a long time, but he couldn't understand why Tiance Mansion could do it, but not on his own side? He sighed with emotion, and then became proud, thinking to himself what if Xiao Qu was a genius in military training? It's not that he was killed by himself;

What about this newly trained soldier in a neat queue and strict discipline? Although in time, after some small battles, they will definitely become an elite and strong army, but he will not give them this opportunity, and today he will destroy this army in one fell swoop with the momentum of thunder!

Three or four miles away, the telescope in An Lushan's hand could only roughly see the general formation of the Tiance army standing in formation, if he had the ability to see the expressions on the faces of those Tiance recruits, he would definitely not have the confidence he had just now.

It's a pity that he doesn't have this ability, An Lushan looked at it for a while, and then he put down the binoculars, turned his head to the standard-bearer and trumpeter beside him and said: "Pass the order, the attack begins!" ”

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On the position of the Tiance Army, the captain of the soldiers named Dai Siqing is checking the equipment and dry food of his team of soldiers one by one in accordance with the combat regulations of the Tiance Army, whether the armor is neatly worn, whether the strong crossbow is properly maintained, it has been wound, and whether the spare bowstring has been forgotten, and then check whether there is any problem with the crossbow arrows in the two Hulu, and the Tiance Army has improved the Hulu, and one Hulu is equipped with 30 arrows to 20, which is lighter and not easy to shake.

After inspecting a soldier, Dai Siqing would punch the opponent lightly in the chest, and the other party would return the salute: "Wan Sheng!" Dai Siqing nodded slightly, and went to check the next one.

Compared with the boring and tiring work in the workshop every day, Dai Siqing felt that he liked the life in the army more, high-spirited and happy!

He is a simple and grateful person, when he first entered the workshop, he was grateful for the change in his family's life and the food of the whole family; Later, he worked hard so that his children could go to primary school. After becoming the production squad leader, he was grateful to Sihai Trading Company, Tiance Mansion, Xiao Qubing and Li Qi.

After hearing that Xiao Qubing was killed by Zhang Xiancheng, the Youzhou mongrel Hu was about to rebel and fight to Dugi Dao, and he actively participated in the training and helped manage it with his heart. Therefore, he became the captain of the soldiers;

After arriving at the front line, because of the mistakes in the previous propaganda, many soldiers and peasants were afraid of the enemy, and as soon as the battle began, they were in a hurry, panicked, and shouted.

But he fired ten soldiers. But because of his encouragement, he was extremely calm and full of desire to fight, and then he was also promoted to captain of the soldiers because of his bravery, and he was in charge of fifty soldiers.

He is almost a natural soldier and a middle- and low-level officer, and many Tiance veterans have also discovered this seedling, and a veteran lieutenant has also come to him and asked him if he wants to stay in the army after the war and officially join Tiance Mansion.

Dai Siqing thought for a moment. said: "In wartime, you should be loyal to the country, and when you go home after standing up, you should be filial to your father and mother, and when this battle is over, Siqing still wants to return to the workshop to work, and do your filial piety every day." ”

He said this, although the captain was a little regretful, but he also respected this simple and loyal man even more, and Dai Siqing finished the inspection. Return to the head of the line and put your helmet on.

His helmet differed from that of an ordinary soldier. There is a small red pennant on the top, starting from the brigade commander, he carries a small flag on his back, and the Zhonglang general starts with his own soldiers to help carry the flag.

Behind Dai Siqing's side, a soldier named Zhang Yongzhong was obviously a little nervous, or nervous and excited, and he couldn't help but whisper: "Captain." My hands were shaking. ”

Dai Siqing glanced at him and said, "It's okay, in fact, I'm also afraid, in fact, the Youzhou soldiers on the other side are more afraid than us, everyone is the same!"

You just have to remember that we are better than them. We're going to win! When the time comes, don't care about anything, just follow the command of all actions! Blessed by the heroic spirit of the king of Lanling, we will win this battle! ”

Zhang Yongzhong's courage is relatively weak, and he has always regarded Dai Siqing as the backbone, but he didn't expect that the captain who has always been calm and calm is also afraid in his heart, and the Youzhou soldiers are even more afraid, his hands suddenly don't tremble so much, and the tension has disappeared.

At this moment, on the command platform of the Chinese army, Li Qi put down his binoculars and nodded to Zhao Xiaogang, Zhao Xiaogang immediately waved the flag of his chief instructor, and the following instructors at all levels responded to the flag, and the instructors at all levels began to organize and take the lead in singing the military song, and the singing changed from small to large, from the initial messy to a chorus of 40,000 people.

"The wolf smoke rises, and the rivers and mountains look north! The dragon rolls, the horse neighses, and the sword aura is like frost! The heart is like the water of the Yellow River, twenty years, between vertical and horizontal, who can resist! Hatred, long knife to go! How many siblings are buried in their bones!

What a pity to die to repay the family and country, endure the sigh, and be speechless, full of blood and tears! The horse's hooves go south, and people look north! People look north, the grass is green and yellow, and the dust is flying! I am willing to defend the territory and reopen the territory, and China wants to let the Quartet come to congratulate! ”

The passionate and majestic military song sounded, and the collective burst of power infected every soldier, and the little soldier named Zhang Yongzhong shouted loudly with the harmony at the top of his throat, and suddenly felt less nervous, replaced by a kind of passionate passion that wanted to kill the enemy and serve the country.

On the command platform, the blood of the staff of the Tiance Mansion named Li Bai was already boiling at this moment, and his eyes were full of fanatical light. He had dreamed of conquering the field since he was young, and now he was going crazy with excitement to witness such a big battle.

To be honest, in his opinion, this lyric is not very clever, but now he is infected by this majestic momentum and is speechless, he has no doubt that the Youzhou beast soldiers on the opposite side will definitely hit their heads in front of this army, and they will be defeated or even defeated!

Four miles away, the Youzhou army sounded the horn of attack, dozens of catapults and hundreds of shield carts squeaked and pushed over, and the Tiance army stopped singing and entered the combat post.

In this battle, on the two battlefields, the main force was 10,000 soldiers and 25,000 peasant soldiers, the weapons of the soldiers were hand-cranked Tiance crossbows, and the weapons of the peasant soldiers were ordinary horn bows and crossbows, single bows and crossbows;

The 2,000 infantry of the Tiance veterans were responsible for operating the eight-ox crossbow and trebuchet, and the rest were assigned to the soldiers and peasants to lead the team and supervise the battle.

In fact, Xiao Quzhi and Li Qi and others also made the worst plan, if these soldiers and peasant soldiers really can't fight, let these veterans who operate eight-ox crossbows and trebuchets fire black ~ fire ~ medicine weapons, and gasoline weapons, and can also hold the position.

However, in this way, the hole cards of the Tiance Army will be exposed, and the Youzhou Army will definitely run, but it can't kill or injure too many enemies, and more importantly, it can't train the recruit team, so at the critical moment, Xiao Qubing and others don't plan to use gunpowder weapons.

Shout! Shout! Shout! Call! Call! Call!

With the advance of the Youzhou Army's catapults and shield carts, the eight bull crossbows and catapults in each section of Tiance's side began to fire crossbow arrows and stone bullets used as symbols, and red crossbow guns and red stone bullets were shot out. Stuck diagonally on the ground or smashed a big pit in the ground and then rolled out for more than ten zhang before stopping.

Immediately after that, another red clay pot was launched, and the inside of the clay pot was red water, which smashed on the ground and immediately drew red dots, and then a row of yellow and blue feather arrows shot out and stuck in the ground.

This is the maximum range of various long-range weapons that the Tiance Army is marking, An Lushan on the earth platform and Yan Zhuang, Tian Qianzhen, Yin Ziqi next to him, as well as Cui Qianyou, Tian Chengsi, Ashina Congli and others who led the troops in front couldn't help but be a little frightened, today's decisive battle. Tiance Jun really took out all the skills to press the bottom of the box.

The range of this eight-bull crossbow is also too terrifying, the farthest estimate is at least 1,000 steps, the effective killing distance is at least 700 steps, and the distance of the catapult is slightly shorter, but from the landing calculation, the range is also 500 steps, these should be the highest technology of the Tiance Army, right?

The catapult of the Youzhou Army advanced to a distance of about seven hundred paces from the Eight Bull Crossbows of the Tiance Army and stopped, and with the heavy wave of several commanders, dozens of stone projectiles were fired. Only about 20% of the target hit, just hit the deer, or roll out a few steps or a dozen steps just blocked by the deer, then a "click" and "bang" sound was heard, and many deer fragments flew into the sky or were pushed uprooted.

At the same time, the three hundred Eight Bull Crossbows of the Tiance Army also began to fire without showing weakness, because the Eight Bull Crossbow Guns had triangular tails behind them. Again, a direct shot, the hit rate is significantly higher than that of a catapult.

Half of them hit the target. Some shoot at the shield cart and directly shoot through the shield cart, nailing the people behind the shield cart to the ground, and some directly hit the trebuchet, and with a click, the wooden frame of the trebuchet will be cracked, destroying it. Others flew over everyone's heads with a whistling whistle, frightening the Youzhou army below with a fur in their hearts.

However, these Youzhou soldiers are also veterans of a hundred battles, except for a few Han soldiers, the other Hu soldiers almost all started riding sheep at the age of four or five, and began archery at the age of seven or eight. He began to fight and loot when he was a teenager, and after becoming a soldier, he experienced countless big battles and small battles, all of which were extremely fierce, so it was naturally impossible to retreat because of such a small casualty.

Coupled with the incitement of An Lushan and others before, the hatred of Tiance Mansion, the coveting and yearning for the wealth of Dugi Province, the fight for survival, and so on, it can basically be defined as a group of outlaw bandits who only have wealth and interests in their eyes.

And this time they have an incomparably huge psychological advantage, all they think in their hearts is that as long as they clear these obstacles on the road, the cavalry will charge once, and the opponent's recruits will definitely collapse in their hearts, and the Youzhou army will definitely be able to break through their defenses and slaughter them.

The wounded and corpses were sent down quickly, except for the eight destroyed catapults, the remaining Youzhou Army catapults were firing even more against time; In front of them, in addition to dozens of shield carts protecting them, other shield carts also continued to move forward, from time to time someone was hit by a crossbow gun, and the soldiers pushing the shield cart behind were pierced through the body by the crossbow gun, or shot off the entire thigh, screaming one after another.

On the Tiance position, the eight bull crossbows continued to be fired non-stop, followed by the trebuchet, two hundred and seventy stone bullets fell from the sky with a whistling sound of breaking the air, and landed on the shield car and could immediately smash it to pieces, and the people behind the shield car were also smashed, and some people were directly hit by the stone bullets, and immediately they were smashed with meat sauce, and a cloud of blood mist and blood mud splashed up, and the scene was miserable.

The screams and wails of the crowd of the Youzhou army have resounded, but those who are not dead or injured are still trying to move forward, and the shield cart in front has advanced to the deer layer and began to clear the deer under the fire of the Tiance army.

On the position of the Tiance Army, some soldiers with slightly poor psychological quality looked at the extremely tragic scene on the battlefield, and watched a living person being directly smashed into pulp by a stone bullet weighing dozens of pounds, and their mental strength was consumed a lot, and they began to tremble violently, and some had stomach discomfort and wanted to retch, but looking at their own fire chiefs, the captains were all calm and composed, and they were not willing to behave too much in front of the commander and comrades-in-arms, and forcibly held back.

Instructors at all levels cheered them up loudly in the back, and seeing that there were already shield carts advancing to within the yellow crossbow arrow line, the lieutenants of each regiment began to give orders in a loud voice: "The first platoon forward, end the crossbow, aim, listen to my orders!" ”

The little soldier named Zhang Yongzhong watched his captain take two steps forward with the Tiance crossbow. His hands began to tremble again, and then he heard a swan sound, and the veteran captain who led the team shouted loudly: "Launch!" ”

The twenty-five comrades-in-arms in the first row of his squad pulled the trigger at the same time, and then they quickly withdrew, and the captain named Dai Siqing also took a special look at him and gave him an encouraging look. Said softly: "Don't panic, don't be afraid, it's very simple." ”

At this time, Zhang Yongzhong's mind was already a little empty, and he only vaguely heard four very simple words, and then he saw the captain of the team waving his temperament vigorously and shouting loudly, so he followed the fire chief on the left and took three steps forward, and according to the previous training movements, he picked up the Tiance crossbow in his hand. But in front of them, they only saw shield carts advancing, and from time to time they were hit by eight-bull crossbows and trebuchets, and their deaths were tragic, but at this time Zhang Yongzhong had forgotten his nervousness.

Soon, Zhang Yongzhong saw that the shield carts stopped, and countless Youzhou soldiers came out from behind, some began to pull out the deer, and some people held crossbows in their hands and fired them towards their side.

That's when it happened. He heard a short swan cry again, and the captain spoke loudly. The flag in his hand waved forward vigorously, Zhang Yongzhong pulled the trigger with a spirit, and he didn't have time to see the shooting results, anyway, many people fell on the opposite side, and he didn't know who shot it.

There were also a few casualties on his side, almost at the same moment when Zhang Yongzhong just pulled the trigger. A crossbow bolt shot at his chest, a small spark came out with a ding, and then it bounced out, a little painful, but the man was fine.

I saw the fire chief turn around. Zhang Yongzhong also subconsciously followed and turned around, and then he saw his captain Dai Siqing again, at this moment they had finished rewinding, the captain held the Tiance crossbow, looked at himself, and gave an expression of encouragement and approval.

Zhang Yongzhong suddenly found that he was not so afraid, he had just experienced a confrontation, it seemed to be nothing, it was really simple, and according to his own observation, the casualties on his side were simply disproportionate to the casualties of the Youzhou army.

He suddenly remembered that before resting last night, he listened to what the veteran captain of Tiance said, and the content was roughly that the Youzhou Army was all waste, and even if it was put right normally, it was not the opponent of the Tiance Army, not to mention that the weapons and equipment of the Tiance Army were several times better than those of the Youzhou Army.

The captain said that all the weapons of the Tiance Army, whether it is a horizontal knife, a crossbow arrow or a piece of armor on the body, are made of good steel produced by blast furnaces, and it is said that the iron in other places is made of coal (coal), but the Tiance Mansion is made of coke, anyway, the captain does not know very well, but he knows that the steel of all the equipment in Tiance Mansion is much better than that of the Youzhou Army.

The horizontal knife of the Tiance Army is sharper and more durable, the crossbow arrows have a stronger armor-piercing ability, the armor page protection of the Tiance Mansion is stronger, and the crossbow arrows of the Tiance Mansion shoot farther, so this battle is won by the Tiance Army.

Now it seems that this is really the case, didn't the crossbow arrow of the Youzhou Hu dog bounce off just a bite on his body? In that case, what are you afraid of?

This process lasted for more than a moment, and the dozens of catapults of the Youzhou Army were almost completely destroyed, and the wreckage of the catapults was quickly carried down; On the other side, hundreds of shield carts also bulldozed three deer barrasses and two trenches at this time, but it was also simple, directly filling the deer wreckage and corpses into the trench, and then laying a layer of soil.

However, they also paid the price of nearly seventy percent of the shield cart, and finally collapsed, and the surviving thirty percent dragged the shield cart and ran back desperately.

On the earthen platform, An Lushan felt that he was looking at the situation on the battlefield with a telescope, he didn't expect the long-range firepower of the Tiance Army to be so strong, and it seemed that the soldiers and peasant soldiers on the opposite side were not as panicked as they imagined, shouting and shouting in a mess.

An Lushan, who was cunning like a fox by nature, had a bad premonition in his heart, and then he thought in his heart, maybe it was because the people who were beaten were on his side, and the pressure exerted by the Youzhou army on them was too small, right?

Maybe when more than 20,000 cavalry charge to within a hundred paces like a mountain of mountains, these Tiance recruits on the opposite side will collapse, after all, this kind of indomitable and unstoppable coercion is not something that anyone can withstand.

It's not good, although he has lost thousands of infantry on his side, and there are not many people killed in the Tiance army, but fortunately, these hundreds of shield cars have cleaned up the deer on the road, and there is only a trench that is only fifty steps away from the Tiance army array, which is not too wide, and the war horse can easily cross it, but for the sake of insurance, each knight filled him with a pocket of soil.

In addition to this trench, there is only a thin horse rejection rifle less than five steps away in front of the Tiance army formation, but it doesn't matter, as long as the Youzhou cavalry rushes to the front, it is basically equivalent to breaking through, and a round of cavalry bow shooting can suppress the Tiance army.

Although it seems that at present, the firepower of the Tiance army is much fiercer than expected yesterday, and the morale of these Tiance soldiers is not as bad as expected, and there will definitely be more losses in the cavalry charge, but fortunately, after defeating them, all the way to Luoyang, there is no army that can stop the footsteps of the Youzhou army. (To be continued.) )