Volume 1 A Son of Heaven and a Courtier 031 A vulnerable people's army

The author said: Today this section is updated with 4k words, and it is a war scene, which should not be missed......

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Qiu Yizhi slept for only a moment, but a personal soldier came to report: "Two women outside the tent ask to see." ”

Without waiting for the news, the two women lifted the curtain and entered the tent, looking at Qiu Yizhi with a smile. Sure enough, it was Wen Lingjiao and her maid He'er, Yizhi said angrily: "You are so bold and dare to go and return." I have spared you twice, and there is no room for maneuver under the law of the country, are you not afraid of a thousand cuts? ”

"Hehehe, the little woman is here to rescue the son, don't you know that the son is in danger? My Tianzun Sect army has killed the officials and soldiers cleanly, and I went to take a look outside the tent, but there is a soldier in Youyan Dao? Wen Lingjiao still had that gentle tone, but the words she said were murderous.

Yizhi was shocked when he heard this, and immediately sat up from the bed, not expecting to wake up from a nightmare, but he already had the sword hanging at the head of the bed in his hand. Shocked, another herald reported that "General Cui Nan has invited His Royal Highness to discuss military affairs." ”

Yizhi secretly pinched his arm hard, and the pain was terrible, so he was sure that it was not in another dream, so he asked, "Is General Cui inviting me alone?" ”

The herald said, "No. I also invited His Royal Highness the Third Prince, presumably His Royal Highness has arrived, and I also ask His Royal Highness to go quickly. ”

Yizhi listened, waved his hand to let him back to his life, hurriedly dressed himself, and walked quickly to Cui Nan's big tent after leaving the tent.

Cui Nan and Wei Hu are of the same grade, and they were appointed as the commander-in-chief only because of the difference between before and after, so his camp tent is the big tent of the Chinese army. It is not only the big tent of the Chinese army, but it is naturally different - a complete topographical map of Henan Province is hung in the center; A set of tables and chairs is arranged under the picture, and the table is placed with a waking wood arrow; There was a row of horses on each side, and about 20 officers at and above the rank of inspector in the army had already sat down in order. Cui Nan sat firmly on the chair, saw Qiu Yizhi's income, and calmly got up and bowed his hand slightly. Seeing this, Yi Zhi was also busy with a military salute and sat down in order of identity.

After the few officers stationed a little far away from the big tent of the Chinese army were in place, Cui Nan cleared his throat and said: "Today, there is a report from the Malays, there are a large number of rebels twenty miles southeast of the camp, about 50,000 people, who seem to be attacking Bianzhou, and we have not yet noticed the movement of our army. The general and General Wei have discussed and decided, and the general will personally lead 5,000 cavalry to disrupt his formation, and General Wei will lead the main force of the infantry army to respond in the rear, I don't know what suggestions the generals have? "Just look around. Cui Nan is very dignified in the army, although he has always been silent and rarely spoken, but once he speaks, he will be able to convince the public, and none of the officers will even talk to each other after listening to it.

Yi Zhi pondered for a long time, and saw Zheng Miao glaring at him, knowing that he was unwilling to come out of his self-respecting identity, so he got up and said: "General Cui's plan is ingenious and straightforward, and he has the style of a famous general in ancient times, which is admirable. I am afraid that the battlefield will change rapidly, so Yi's wish will lead the personal soldiers of the headquarters to go with the general, and His Royal Highness the Third Prince will act with General Wei, so that they can always take care of each other, and they will not live up to the order of King Youyan to let my two brothers learn military affairs with the army. "The two brothers have been playing and playing together since childhood, and they are both extremely smart people, and they understand it with every gesture, and what Yizhi said is exactly what Zheng Miao wants to say in his heart.

Qiu Yizhi is right, the situation on the battlefield can be described as unpredictable, and very people may look against it. Back then, Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan, was about to win against the Turkic cavalry, who knew that he would be sniped by a crossbow, if it wasn't for Yizhi's father as a savior, I am afraid that this generation of famous generals would die before they could leave the army.

Cui Nan is a battle-hardened general, how can he not understand this truth, if the two princes have an accident in the army, even if the prince can spare him, he will not be able to serve in the army anymore. I also thought of my past experience in suppressing the people's army, most of which were rabble, did not understand the art of war, and did not understand strategy. So he beckoned Wei Hu, and the two whispered a few words, and then said loudly to everyone: "The two highnesses are the first soldiers, our army will definitely boost morale, this battle will be won and undefeated, if there are those who do not obey the order, they will not be spared!" ”

All the generals got up and saluted, turned around and left the big tent of the Chinese army, and went back to the headquarters to arrange.

The originally orderly military camp instantly became murderous. The soldiers of the infantry army had already finished lining up, and from the chief, the hundred households to the thousands, they checked the equipment and wear of the sergeants under their command one by one. The leader of the gang took out the freshly steamed meat buns and distributed them to each soldier on the expedition, leaving them to eat before the battle. The remaining sergeants of the large battalion were not idle, and gathered the grain and grass in one place to facilitate the centralized guard.

After the preparation was completed, the armor was in front and the crossbow was in the back, led by the generals of each department, and slowly set off from the south gate. The cavalry, having fed their horses and polished their weapons, did not follow the infantry, but set out from the east gate and made a slight detour to the enemy's position.

The cavalry came first, and the enemy was approached in one meal. At this time, the Malay report said: "The enemy seems to be on guard, and has left the camp to line up." Yizhi listened, frowned, thinking that the big army rank was advancing rapidly, very hidden, and there were no enemy sentries along the way, how could he leak the news, and turned his head to see the main general Cui Nan next to him was also puzzled, after all, he had been in battle for a long time, but he was not very surprised, and ordered: "Investigate again, report quickly!" Then he turned his head and asked, "What is Your Highness's opinion?" ”

Qiu Yizhi thought for a while and said: "Since the army has been drawn here, if it is useless to return, it will turn back to the camp, lest it hurt morale." If we don't inform General Wei to advance slowly, we will lead the army to test it first, even if there is a change, with the speed of our army, we can walk away. ”

Cui Nan nodded while listening: "Your Highness, I will follow the plan." ”

The horses of the Youyan cavalry are all good horses on the grassland, and a few years ago, when Zheng Rong defeated Piximi, he captured countless horses, and obtained a few sweaty horses from Dali Khan, which improved the bloodline of the war horses, so they are much stronger than the horses of the Central Plains, regardless of endurance, weight, and speed. The army was a little horsepowered, and in a short time, it was already in front of the people's army.

The civilian army obviously did not expect the officers and troops to march so fast, and they were still arranging in a chaotic formation. Cui Nan hurriedly beckoned to the horse archers beside him and whispered a few words. When the archer received the order, he opened his bow and fired two arrows in succession, and he shot to death a leader of the people's army who was sitting on a horse and commanding the array. Seeing this, the surrounding people's troops immediately became chaotic and fled in all directions, rushing the unformed formation to pieces.

Cui Nan saw that the opportunity could not be missed, so he ordered his 4,000 cavalry to line up in a conical array of 500 people, and specially ordered Qiu Yizhi to be in the center, and listened to the order to enter the enemy formation one after another, and the other thousand horse archers answered in front of the formation. When the army received the order, they sounded their horns together, lined up in formation, placed their round shields on the chests of their horses, and rushed towards the enemy with spears in both hands.

If the Youyan army is charged against the enemy's heavy cavalry, you can first block it with a strong bow and crossbow, and then block it with a spear and a huge shield, and the cavalry on both wings will attack at the same time to cut off the enemy, no matter how sharp the cavalry charge will be invisible. Such exquisite tactics were honed in countless battles and training, and countless blood, sweat and energy were consumed, which was the capital of Youyan's army to become a strong soldier in the world.

However, the farmer who was still working in the field yesterday obviously did not have such qualities, like an unarmed passer-by who was unsuspectingly stabbed by a peerless master, and fell to the ground before he could react.

This people's army has neither elite equipment nor combat experience, and only a few inferior horses and hoes and wooden forks for ploughing the fields. However, the number of officers and soldiers in the prefectures of Henan Province is only a few thousand, and in addition to the thousands of vacancies in the army's salaries, there is a considerable discount, and there are many old and weak soldiers in the army who are unable to fight. Therefore, this Tianzun Sect rebels, against the Central Plains official army, all rely on the four words "many people and many people" to be able to stir up Henan.

However, the Youyan cavalry is so elite, and they are not afraid in the face of the Turkic knights in all directions on the desert, and the scattered civilian army has no combat effectiveness in front of them, and a simple charge actually kills the large array of tens of thousands of people. Seeing that the battle was going so smoothly, Cui Nan did not straighten out the formation, and directly ordered the rear team to change to the front team, and rushed into the enemy formation again. The people's hearts were already torn apart, and everywhere the cavalry went, they were invincible, clinging each other and trampling each other to death, and ten times more were killed than were killed.

After two back-and-forth attacks, the Youyan cavalry had already returned to their original position. Cui Nan waved his sword, and a thousand horse archers released a rain of arrows, and there was another commotion in the people's army. Cui Nan took advantage of this to rearrange the array and count the soldiers and horses, and only lost a few horses. At this time, Wei Hu had also arrived with reinforcements. Cui Nan discussed with him a little, and the 1,000 archers who were originally behind the palace were also included in the charging queue, and then led the army into the enemy formation.

When the people's army saw the Youyan cavalry attacking, they had already dispersed in the wind, and no half dared to hit the stone with an egg. Cui Nan's troops were like entering a no-man's land, and they killed behind the enemy for the second time like piercing rot, but they no longer returned to charge, but were divided into two rows and lined up horizontally, forming a thin barrier.

At the same time, the infantry led by General Wei Hu in front of him had also beaten their drums and fired, firing a burst of crossbows, specifically looking for the leader on the horse to snipe. The crossbow machine was extremely powerful, and a short arrow pierced through the enemy line and shot at a lined up Dark Swallow Knight. The distance was too far, and the short arrow had become the end of a strong crossbow, although it did not hurt the flesh and skin, but it was firmly nailed to the gap in the willow leaf armor of the knight's abdomen and difficult to pull out for a while, which made the knight embarrassed, and provoked Qiu Yizhi behind him.

But I saw that the Youyan army in the distance took the "Dangya Battalion" as the vanguard, lined up in an airtight formation, holding a short knife while striking the shield to make a deafening sound of metal impact, and shouting a very rhythmic slogan of "Drink" in the mouth.

The people's army did not have a leader to reorganize its morale, and it was already frightened, how could half of those who dared to use their arms as a car, turned their heads and ran backwards. But seeing that the cavalry of the brigade was lying in front of him as if the gods had descended from heaven, they threw down their weapons one after another, pulled their legs and fled to both sides. I didn't think that the formation on the side of the officers and soldiers had been extended, and the infantry and cavalry would be in one place, and there was no gap for fleeing for their lives; On the other side, he was shot with a crossbow, and escaping at the risk of death was no different from sending him to death.

However, in a moment or three, tens of thousands of chaotic people have been surrounded by more than 10,000 officers and regiments, and they can no longer help themselves when they only wait for the order of the official and army commander.

In this short half moment, in the anxious waiting of the captured people's army, it seems to have been stretched for a long time.

Although they are the rebels of the Tianzun Sect, the vast majority of them are peasants in Henan Province, and few of them know how to read among tens of thousands of people, and even the teachings preached by the angels seem to understand or not. They used to live day after day facing the loess with their backs to the sky, and the state and county officials went to the countryside to collect taxes and handle cases, but they didn't even have the courage to raise their eyes to look at it, as long as there was half a pot of millet gruel on the stove, they would not dare to raise the flag to rebel even if they were killed. But since last year, Henan Province has somehow not had a single rain, and the large wheat seedlings that have been pulled hard have been gnawed clean by a group of locusts. Everyone waited for the imperial court to send relief, but what they didn't expect was that what they were waiting for was the official who urged taxes, drove all the old and young people in a village together, and demanded the payment of money and grain from house to house.

Those who still had a few copper plates in the house were hurriedly handed over, and they were finally exempted from a whipping, and those who had no money and no food were beaten and should still pay a piece of money and grain. At this time, someone broke into the village and hacked the tax collector to death without saying a word, saying that they were angels sent by Tianzun to save the people from the hands of the earth demons. Someone asked who this demon was. Those angels said that the yamen, the officials and the army, the imperial court, and the emperor sitting in the capital were all earth demons, and only by killing them could the common people have a good life. He also said that those who are following the angels to do great things at the moment will be given food and a full meal immediately, and those who refuse to go will be the puppets of the earth demons, and they will be hacked to death on the spot.

Everyone was already hungry and dizzy, and they didn't know if this was a rebellion, thinking that they would die, and that they would be a full ghost, so they took out their usual hoes, guillotines, dung forks, and flat poles and followed. Fortunately at first, this Tianzun really had boundless mana, and he effortlessly captured several county seats, robbed a few rich landlords, and was about to attack Bianzhou City when he filled his stomach, but he didn't expect to meet the officials and soldiers from Youyan Dao here, and he was cleaned up in three or two clicks. Although the croppers have never seen the world, they still know what the crime of this rebellion is, and if they are caught, they will inevitably be stabbed in the back of the head, but now it is too late to regret it, and they will treat themselves as fat on the board, and as for how to cut and chop, it all depends on the butcher's mind.

At this time, after meeting the giant shield in front of him, he gave up a horse, and immediately sat on a young general, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, it was Zheng Miao, the third son of Youyan King. Where did the people's army recognize his identity, only to hear him shout: "We are the officials and soldiers of Youyan Dao, and we have come to suppress the rebellious people in the name of the imperial court." Now Nian'er and the others are all ignorant and ineffective, deceived by the cult, thinking that God has the virtue of a good life, and they don't quickly put down their weapons, but Rao Er will not die! Although the voice was not hoarse, it was extremely penetrating, so that the chaotic people within a few feet of the battle could hear it clearly.

Everyone was looking at each other, but one of them seemed to be a Tianzun disciple, and shouted: "Don't believe in the earth demon bewitchment, people are just dead, it is better to fight and die together!" Kill me ...... everybody."

Before the word "kill" could be blurted out, the man had been pierced by more than a dozen crossbow arrows, and he was already killed after two convulsions on the ground, and several civilian soldiers around him were affected, hit by two arrows, and rolled on the ground and wailed.

Everyone was stunned by this scene, but the officers and soldiers surrounding them had already roared in unison: "Put down your arms, Rao Er will not die!" Lay down your arms and don't die!! "One voice after another, like the roar of a mountain torrent, and the collapse of a mountain.

Where did the people's army still have the will to resist, they threw down their weapons one after another, stood in place, raised their hands and surrendered.

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PS. It's a battle scene again, and the author deduced it on the game (Total War) again. This time it was really simpler, in the face of the light infantry that lacked organization and equipment, the well-trained and well-equipped heavy cavalry was the Grim Reaper. It is very easy to completely disrupt the infantry formation and destroy the enemy's morale with two or three simple charges.