Use this army as the vanguard, called Badulu, to take the meaning of courage and fearlessness. The unit of prisoners is not a characteristic of the grassland. Even in the Central Plains, such tactics were often used in the dark ages of warlord melee. In other words, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty let all his sons-in-law, merchants and prisoners serve in the border areas, and let them make meritorious contributions to get rid of the status of lowly servants, which is also taking advantage of people's immunity.

However, the Mongols' use of Badulu was different from the Han army's conscription of criminals. The Han Wu used convicts as infantry, often poorly equipped and lacking supplies. It is only used as cheap labor, and it is actually no different from a pariah in terms of status.

The Mongols used the Badulu army in a completely different way, they equipped Badulu with the best swords, made of more than ten layers of tough cowhide and double armor, and before they went into battle, they had to feast on ox and wine. Compared with the Han Wu's contempt for the role of the prisoner, the Mongols seem to have a better understanding of the enormous force that can be unleashed when a dying man desperately grasps the last straw. They equip these death row prisoners with sophisticated armor and weapons, but they do not give them the weapons to restrain the cavalry, which will allow them to exert their maximum combat power without making them feel rebellious.

"The enemy Badulu army has about a thousand people! Be the main force of this siege! "Yang Liang has been training for a year, and he is more proficient in estimating the number of soldiers. He shouted, "Go and call the Warriors!" ”

If it is said that the military courage of Zhenwu is a trapping army, the military courage of the Tulong army is a frontless army. After Yang Luo took over the Tulong Army, he pulled out more than 500 people from the whole army who were brave and brave and had excellent martial arts, and they were independent into a battalion, which was controlled by himself. According to Yang Yu's casual temperament, he almost wanted to place the pillar troops of this Tulong Army at will with the name of destroying the front or stepping on the white, but unfortunately the numbers of these two armies are now occupied by the most elite cavalry troops in Jinghu, and the most reluctant is the book bag Zheng Yunming looked for chapter excerpts, copied the number of Zhuge Wuhou from the Huayang National Chronicles, and took the first two words as the number for this elite army, in fact, Wuhou's Wuqian army, probably the same as the Wudang army, is an elite bow and crossbow force proficient in crossbow shooting, and no one dares to go out of front under the crossbow. No one can be its front, so there is no forward. Its role is probably the same as that of today's generals. Compared to the Three Kingdoms era, the frequency of use of strong bows and crossbows has skyrocketed, and even the barbarians, who used to only know how to use sheep's horns as bows, began to use crossbows in a similar way after plundering craftsmen who could make bows and crossbows. The Central Plains army used bows and crossbows in countless troops, and in this Xiangyang City, there were as many as six or seven units with elite archers forming an army alone, and the archers at this time no longer had to use the name of the front to highlight the sharpness of their arrows. Zheng Yunming then directly applied the doctrine of taking it, and gave this name to the elite melee troops of the Tulong Army who wanted to match the trapping.

Although in terms of status, the unadvanced army is comparable to the trapping army. However, the army knows that Commander Yang and Commander Wang are different paths in governing the army, and Wang Deng led the trapped army, which is famous for its strict discipline, standing like a mountain, and not retreating from death. Yang Luo led the Wuqian Army, but it was a completely different way.

The first thing he had to do was to let the Wuqian army live in the best houses in the camp and provide the best food. The second thing is to poach the best martial arts leaders from the various armies in Jinghu to be their masters. The third thing is to devise a cumbersome set of measures to reward and punish laziness with some excessive incentives.

That's all. In terms of equipment, Yang Luo gave full play to the eclectic personality of the Tulong Army, which was different from the routine of the Zhenwu Army in strict accordance with the standardization of Zheng Yunming's weapons. In addition to the basic equipment issued by the Deputy Metropolitan Commander, the Tulong Army and its subordinate Wuqian Army often have to add many of their own personalized weapons and equipment.

Madame Lai once gave Zheng Yunming a list of weapons for the soldiers of the Warriors, and the variety of weapons was comparable to that of the Mongol tribal army, which was famous for its variety of weapons.

A typical non-commissioned officer is equipped with a set of iron armor reinforced with cowhide, as well as a scarf and leggings, a shawl, a loop, a scarf, a sword, and an iron regimental tag embedded in the armguards. Although the Iron Regiment brand is extremely strong and difficult for knives and guns to penetrate, it is very heavy because it is made of wrought iron, and it cannot be too big in order to take care of the user's physical strength. Yes, it is impossible to hold the Iron Regiment card in your hand, even if it covers your chest and abdomen. The way to use the Iron Regiment card in the army is to rotate it like a fly, and to dial the flying dikes that come from it. But in this way, the user is required to have superior arm strength. Those who can make good use of the iron regiment card can combine hundreds of thousands of horses and horses from the north and south armies, and at most no more than 10,000 people. And it is even rarer to be able to fly and maneuver with the iron regiment card on the horse, so that the enemy's arrows cannot get close. For example, among the elite Zhang Rou soldiers in the Mongolian army, there are only two people who can make good use of the iron regiment card on the horse, but Zhang Rou of Wanhu and Na Yan Yelie, the head of the escort army.

In addition, the former sergeant carried a white stick with pig iron wrapped around the head, which was inherited from the northern cavalry before the southern crossing. At that time, the cavalry of the Great Song Dynasty fought with the iron armor of the Liao State and the iron harrier army of the Western Xia, both sides were iron-armored heavy cavalry, and weapons such as knives and spears had limited lethality. As a result, the heavy cavalry of the Three Kingdoms invariably equipped themselves with blunt weapon strikers, which were iron bones in the Liao and Xia kingdoms, and simpler and more effective sticks in the Southern Dynasties. Today's Song army still carries the stick as an effective weapon against the enemy's ironclad cavalry. It's a pity that they didn't even have enough cavalry when they were in the north, and now the Great Song infantry can only use their sticks to hit the legs of the iron horse, which is just a weapon that is better than nothing.

In addition, short soldiers, rope noos, thistles, lime bags, as long as the weapons that can play a role on the battlefield, the Wuqian army will never refuse. Yang Luo's generous military salaries allowed them to purchase the equipment they wanted, and Zheng Yunming even saw the appearance of a rather strange ancient weapon in the Wuqian army. However, although such an army increases the difficulty of logistics, it can give full play to the combat effectiveness of each soldier. Under the stern supervision of the powerful leader, the combat effectiveness of this small unit has increased exponentially compared with the previous one.

Under the command of the adjutant general, the bannermen holding high the banner of the Yang character led the ironclad warriors to the city, and they were ready to gallop over and fight the enemy as soon as the Badulu army broke through from where.

"Bring the trapped army over too!" Wang Deng said: "Today's decisive day, there is no need to hide any means! Defeat the enemy army in Xiangyang West City in one fell swoop! ”

Zheng Yunming shook his head slowly: "The enemy army is not only this thousand and eight Dulu, and the trapped army cannot move without permission." In the most critical moments, always remember that you should never be rash and leave yourself no way out. ”

In the distance, the trebuchet slowly raised its huge cantilever and began to throw cannons at the west gate. The head of the city was well defended, and the damage caused by the artillery was not enough to shake the basics, but the onslaught of the artillery carts was an attitude that terrified the defenders of the walls and boosted the morale of the attacking allies. When the cavalry came to the moat, they began to set up small trebuchets, and kept attacking the lone defenders of the city with small pieces of artillery, which greatly interfered with the movement of the defenders at the head of the city.

In the distance, the horns sounded, the drums sounded, and thousands of Mongol infantry began to advance in the direction of Xiangyang in a neat formation. Zheng Yunming put down the speculum and said to the generals: "Everyone go back to their command posts, today must be a battle that will go down in history, the Mongols want Xiangyang, let them step over my Zheng Yunming's corpse first!" ”

Everyone shouted in unison: "I am willing to live and die with Xiangyang!" ”

"Don't, don't." Zheng Yunming waved his hand and said: "After the war is over, Zheng is still waiting to be crowned a marquis with everyone, but don't give his life so easily." ”

As he waved his hand to dismiss the generals, Tath stood on the top of the hill with a few of his cronies, watching the infantry advance forward in groups.

The smell of blood on Badulu's body, the sound of vigorous and powerful footsteps, the flickering cold light on the sword, and the silent progress of the crowd all made King Tasi's chest full of pride. He suddenly sang in a long voice: "The eagle flying high in the sky also has a day when it lands, the horse running on the grassland, and the day it stops, the mellow and sweet mare's milk wine, there is also a day of corruption, the beautiful girl in the Ao Bao, there is also a day when the face is old, only Genghis Khan's warriors will never grow old, his horse's hooves crush the enemy's bones, his saber will cut off the enemy's head, his spear will knock down the enemy's city, his bow and arrow hunt for the taste of victory!" Forward, forward, the army of the Great Khan is not stopped, and we will continue to ride our horses and whips until the end of the sky! ”

Every time he sang, the passing Mongol army responded with a chorus. Qu Chu slowly stopped singing, waved the horsewhip in his hand fiercely ahead, and shouted loudly: "For the sake of the Great Khan, plant the battle flag on the head of Xiangyang City!" ”

Amid thunderous shouts, groups of infantry began to approach the heavily guarded city walls of Xiangyang.

The standard-bearer at the head of the city waved the red flag in his hand, which was a sign that the enemy had entered the firing range. With the clear command of the lookout on the wall, a fire of artillery stone smashed over the wall towards the group of infantry. Today's lookouts are aided by hundreds of telescopes that can clearly see where the cannons fall from great distances, making the calibration of catapults quick and accurate. Of course, the advancing infantry did not wait for the artillery to fly over, they dispersed into a loose formation, and quickened their pace.