"Long live Datang, long live Datang, long live Datang......"

In the shouts of the mountains and tsunamis, teams of soldiers and horses poured out of the Tang army camp south of Taiyuan City like a tide. There were no cavalry, all infantry brigades, an astonishing number of no less than 50,000, densely arranged in the open wilderness in front of the Mongol army camp.

The battle jackets of these soldiers are not the same color, the Tang army soldiers wearing red battle jackets on the right wing of the military formation, although they are called the Tang Army, but they inherit the ideal of the Red Jacket Army of the Shandong Peasant Rebel Army at the end of the Jin Dynasty - to capture the Central Plains by Tartar!

The equipment of Li Pu's Tang Mansion soldiers is just ordinary, and it can't be compared with Chen Dexing's soldiers and Eight Banners soldiers at all. Most soldiers were armed with leather armor, a spear or shield with a ring-headed sword, or a bow and arrow, and no crossbows.

Only a few elites, such as Jin Wuwei, Qianniuwei and Li Pu's personal soldiers, Yulin Army, were equipped with iron armor. Among them, Jinwu and Qianniu are half-iron armor and half-leather armor, and the Yulin Army is all-iron armor and is also equipped with steel and silver guns. However, there is no Yulin Army in the Tang Army that is out of battle now, only the Right Army of Jinwuwei, Qianniuwei and the Leading Guard, and the light cavalry of each guard has not been used. The total number of troops marched was about 28,000.

As for the current heavy weapons of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, they are three-bow crossbows plus heavenly thunder arrows, of which the heavenly thunder arrows are self-produced, and they do not use granular H medicine. Now hundreds of three-bow bed crossbows have been moved out and placed at the forefront of the Tang Army's great array.

Together with the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou's feudal army, and the two Han marquis were loyal lackeys of the Great Mongolia in history, and they were the vanguard of the extermination of Li Pu. But now Li Pu and Chen Dexing's strength is obviously greater than Mongolia! And if you join the Mongolian side, it is very likely that you will be sent to fight Chen Dexing to the death, Shi Tianze and Zhang Rou are not so stupid. So they all joined the side of the Tang Dynasty, and one became the chief of the Henan Road march and the envoy of the Xuanwu Army (the seat of governance is in Bianliang). One became the envoy of the Shuntian Army Festival (governed in Bozhou).

The Xuanwu army of the historian sent out 20,000 people to follow Li Pu to Taiyuan this time, and now there are 15,000 people. The Shuntian army of the Zhang family sent 10,000 troops to the north with Li Pu. Now 7,000 men are in force.

The soldiers of the two families plus the soldiers of the Tang Mansion gathered a total of 50,000 people, and they were placed in the wilderness south of Taiyuan City, which was also crowded with people, and they couldn't see it! Called the opposite Baturu and Brother Wang Tian's scalp straight numb!

There are so many people in Li Pu! They originally thought that Li Pu had a maximum of 40,000 or 50,000 people in his hands, but now they actually put out at least 50,000 at a time! If it weren't for the fact that the distance between the Mongolian camp and the southern camp of the Tang Army was not large enough, I am afraid that Li Pu still has an army to drive out of Taiyuan City!

At the same time as the Tang army launched a battle formation, the large camp of the Mongolian army also opened a large group of men and horses, formed a queue, backed by the large camp and a small half of the long trench that had just been dug. The Meng Yuan army only had 20,000 troops in the south of Taiyuan City, and now it is 16 thousand households that are dispatched. Because they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of numbers. Therefore, Baturu did not let his Mongol cavalry ride out of battle - there was no chance for the Mongol cavalry to charge on the battlefield today.

As for scattering with horse bows, don't even think about it, there are at least 20,000 archers in the opponent's army of 50,000. The archers of the Li family, the Shi family, and the Zhang family are no worse than those of the Great Mongolia. Many of the sons and nephews of the three families are famous "condor shooters".

Therefore, Baturu has honestly put on a defensive formation today. Wang Jiameng's army took a thousand people as a unit, and discharged five horizontal formations in front. The 10,000-strong troops of Baturu formed a second line of defense behind Wang's army. And all the Mongols took their bow and were ready to repel the offensive of the Eastern Tang army with a rain of arrows.

As long as the 30,000 troops deployed in the northeast and west of Taiyuan City are gathered, then in today's battle, the Great Mongolia still has some chance of winning.

Thinking of this, Baturu suddenly pulled out his scimitar and shouted, "Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols!" Warriors. Hit hard, so that the Han people will always remember the prestige of Great Mongolia! ”

Wang Tiange, who had already received Kublai Khan's promise and was about to become a Mongol, also shouted: "Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols, the warriors of the Wanggu Division." There is no advance or retreat! ”

Immediately afterwards, all the Mongols shouted: "Immortal Heaven bless the Mongols!" ”

At this time, on the opposite side of them. The war drums of the Tang Army rumbled. Thousands of armor soldiers suddenly separated from the Tang Army formation, in a tight battle drum. Two phalanxes were formed, and they slowly moved forward!

The bloody battle of Taiyuan has officially begun!

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The crowd is overwhelming. Surging north.

Large groups of refugees, helping the old and the young, pushing wheelbarrows, driving carts, carrying their only belongings and food, slowly marched forward against the north wind.

About a third of the team still had weapons in their hands, mostly spears, hunting forks, and soft bows.

Only a few rich men dressed in brocade robes and riding on horses carried good swords and swords and good bows around their waists, and some of them wore armor on their horses, and servants with shields followed them.

These rich people are the landlords of the north. A society of complete equality and no disparities between people was certainly unthinkable in 13th-century China. No matter whether the south is facing the north, there are always people who are developed and some people who are down. Since there is a wealth and a poor person, there will be an upward channel, and there will also be a solidification of the class. In the Southern Dynasties, the upward channel was the imperial examination - everyone was basically equal in front of the examination papers, and the threshold for Confucius and Mencius was not high. Therefore, this upward channel attracted most of the elites of the Southern Dynasties, and at the same time dominated the distribution of social wealth in the Southern Song Dynasty.

And in the Northland, the imperial examination system has been abandoned for decades. And in these decades, the main upward channel for the people of the Northland is force! Those with poor force dominate the countryside and become a local tyrant. Those with stronger forces pulled up their teams and defected to Mongolia to become a Han army, thousands of households. Like Li Pu, he simply became the emperor himself! And this upward channel has also attracted most of the elites in the north to practice martial arts - the threshold for practicing martial arts is higher than that of Xi Wen, and the fairness is not as good as the latter, after all, making meritorious contributions on the battlefield is not a simple competition, and there are too many factors that affect the results......

But the Han people in the north, who grew up under the unfair upward channel, defeated the Han dynasty for the Mongols, who only had a high level of study!

But now, these elites of the northern Han people have better allegiances - the Northern Ming and Eastern Tang Dynasty.

Now these Haoqiang, who organized their families and their tenants and obeyed the orders of the Ming King Chen Dexing to move north, have naturally chosen to be loyal to the Northern Ming. As long as they arrive in Yanyun, they will be given the title of Shijue to serve in the Northern Ming Army, and they will not only be assigned to Shijue Grange in Liaodong or Yanyun, but they will also be compensated accordingly for the land they lost due to migration.

And those who are not up to the standard of powerful landlords, but they are also considered to be powerful Northland men can also go to the army to serve, as long as they are selected to be soldiers, they will have 10 yuan of settlement money and 150 acres of military merit land. And now that the Northern Ming Dynasty is flourishing, there are many opportunities for meritorious service!

Therefore, the tens of thousands of refugees here, as long as they arrive in Yanjing, will be able to provide Chen Dexing with at least thousands of elite soldiers in less than a year!

Guo Kan rode his horse and walked in his queue of steel-armored soldiers, stopping from time to time to look at the faces of the northland men passing by his side - almost every face had a look of envy! How could they, the Northland men, not see that these shiny silver plates were a good thing?

In this army of His Royal Highness King Ming, a small number of people are wearing such steel armor! The army of His Royal Highness King Ming won't all be equipped like this, right? How strong does an army have to be with such equipment?

It seems that the choice to take refuge in King Ming and follow King Ming to fight the world is too correct! This is from the dragon's work, but it can ensure the wealth of several generations or even more than ten generations.

In the north wind howling, the sound of horses' hooves sounded like thunder, and countless Beidi sons turned their heads to look, only to see a team of black-clothed knights galloping towards them. Look at their vigorous appearance on horseback, they are not under the Mongols!

This Ming King's cavalry is actually so strong!

The galloping black flag vest grabbed the reins in front of Guo Kan, and the healthy horse under his crotch neighed, standing upright with his hind legs, and then his front hooves landed on the ground and stopped steadily.

"Guo Lvshuai! The Mongols have been discovered! One of the vests in front of him reported loudly.

"How many?" Guo Kan didn't panic, just asked lightly.

"There are five thousand people, one person and two horses, and there are always a thousand people when the horse rangers are scattered!" As he spoke, the waistcoat reached out and lifted a human head from under the horse's neck, and said with a smile, "As a result, I caught my tongue to ask about the situation." ”

"Good! Attaboy! Guo Kan smiled and nodded, "What's your name?" A certain family turned back to you to repay your merits in front of King Ming. ”

The vest arched his hand and said: "The little one's name is Ma Si, and he is the second leader of the black flag, and he has not yet been sealed." ”

"When this battle is over, you will be a soldier!" Guo Kan waved his hand to let the horse armor soldier retreat, and then summoned more than a dozen powerful leaders - in fact, they were not real leaders, but in order to facilitate their actions, Guo Kan temporarily designated a few leaders.

"There are 5 Mongolian thousand-man teams rushing to us!" As Guo Kan spoke, he glanced at the ten powerful leaders with his eyes, and took in all their expressions—everyone was terrified.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Guo Kan smiled and pointed to a town not far away that seemed to be uninhabited. "Go over there first, block the entrances to the town with carts, arrange the old and weak inside, and keep the strong guards outside, and then find some planks to prop up as shields and put them on the carts. In this way, the guards will be properly guarded. The ten of you are now a thousand household officials, go and manage your own people, pick out the elite, form a battalion, how do you fight in the township on weekdays, now organize people like this, and follow Guo to fight the Mongols! (To be continued......)