Chapter 337: Battle
The party and the iron harriers are all good at riding horses and charging into battle, but it is really a waste to let these nobles and lowly state soldiers and dirty tribal warriors go together as consumables to climb the city wall, and they can only lead the state army to plunder and fight the grass valley everywhere. However, there is no grass valley near Lingzhou to fight, since getting the news that the Dingyan army is going to attack Lingzhou, the hussars will be able to shoot arrows to help defend all the shade households gathered into the city, and the rest of the old and weak under the cover of the newly established Duhan army, gradually evacuated to the west of Liangzhou and the farther grassland tribes, Lingzhou was originally adjacent to the desert Gobi, even the wheat that was about to ripen in the farmland outside the city was also ordered by Xingu to cut all the fodder for war horses.
"Captain Qian, I was surrounded and beaten by this party barbarian all day long, and I was so angry, why don't you let my brothers go out and kill them. The ten-division prince Kaiwen looked at the Dingyan army that came up like a tide, was hit by the arrows of the city, and retreated like a tide. Although there is a strong city to hold, but it is besieged by the Dingyan army, which really suffocates these people out of the belly, and the hussars should be born to ride a horse to kill. Qian Qingzhi's face sank and said: "The lord strictly ordered us to guard Lingzhou, don't make any trouble for me." Chu Kaiwen looked at the black pressure below and pressed the ant-like Dingyan army, and said: "If the lord's army comes, it is time to let us go out of the city to pursue the enemy army, right?" Qian Qingzhi said with a smile: "All the armies are like wolves and tigers, it would be good to leave us with some meat residue." ”
On the ninth day of October in the fourth year of Taiping Xingguo, the autumn was high and the horses were fat, and the Anxi armies swore in Liangzhou to crusade against the party Xiang Cai. In addition to Zhang Zhongyao's moderation of the Flower Hat Army to stay in Dunhuang, Luo Youtong led the Chi Hunting Army to stay in Liangzhou to suppress the Qingtang Tubo. Xin Gu and Pu Hangu rushed back to Lingzhou to hold on, while Wu Yingying personally led the six armies of Longya, Tayan, Jiaorong, Lian Rui, Jinfan, and Iron Bone to help. In the past ten days, all the tribes of Anxi gathered in Liangzhou, and the nearby horse thieves and barbarians fled far away when they heard the wind, and the Qingtang and Tubo were even more panicked.
Before dawn, the huge martial arts arena was silent, and Wu Yingying had already led his generals to the school review platform to personally watch the entire army one by one. Only the sound of footsteps was heard in the field, the iron armor was sonorous, and occasionally the neighing of war horses, and then the cavalry calmed down, and in a short time, more than 30,000 tigers and soldiers had been standing in order, and the captains of each battalion led the flags fluttering in front of the phalanx formed by the sergeants, and the west wind was whistling in the sky above the military array with a solemn atmosphere.
"Half a month ago, the Dangxiang Tuoba clan and other despicable tribal leaders attacked the camp of the White Feather Army, the White Feather Army is still insisting on resisting more than ten times the enemy army, for the honor of the sergeant, they will fight until the last moment, our brothers fought very bravely, but they were outnumbered, some were killed, some were captured, our camp was burned, horses and property were looted, and the sheltered troops were plundered as slaves!"
"From Jiangnan to Lanzhou, from Lanzhou to Longyou, Hexi, we rushed all the way over, there are up and down in the army, and there is more brotherhood. The siege of Lanzhou, the imperial court ordered to go to Bianliang as a hostage, I can go. After passing through the Western Regions, the imperial court ordered Wu Anxi to pay tribute to 10,000 war horses and 50,000 catties of jade, and I can agree. Now the imperial court supports the party's Tuoba clan money and grain, kills the soldiers of Anxi, and plunders the shade of Anxi, which is tolerable and unbearable. ”
"If we retreat, our enemies will laugh at our cowardice, rob us of our property and our shadows, and even threaten to turn us into slaves to be trampled on. The Dangxiang Tuoba clan has already gained an inch, relying on the support of the imperial court, gathering 50,000 rabble, and is attacking Lingzhou. Now, if anyone offends me, I will offend him! The status and honor of our sergeants are not given by the imperial court, but are won by their own own skills, blood, and lives on the battlefield. If the Tuoba clan dares to provoke, we will defeat them, drive them away, destroy them, and return a tooth for a tooth!
Wu Yingying would pause with every word, and a hundred high-pitched men selected from the Dragon's Tooth Army repeated his words loudly to ensure that the more than 30,000 soldiers present could hear them clearly.
"If we retreat, the enemy will laugh at our cowardice and rob us of our property and shade," Zhou Yun was one of the hundred heralds on the school stage, and the 30,000 robes were eye-catching, and he felt as if he had become the embodiment of the Jiedu envoy, and shouted loudly with all his strength, even more excited than Wu Yingying himself. The sergeants below were also infected by the emotions of Wu Yingying and the hundred sergeants, and many of them silently repeated in their hearts, and then muttered in their mouths, "The status and honor of our sergeants are not given by the imperial court, but won by their own family on the battlefield with their own skills, blood and lives." Until the end, more than 30,000 sergeants shouted in unison, "Defeat them, drive them away, destroy them", "A tooth for a tooth! Blood for a tooth!" and "Again and again." Frightened, the birds around the school yard fluttered and flew into the air, and as they flew, they made a quacking sound.
Wu Yingying looked at the sergeant who had been agitated with satisfaction, and suddenly, I don't know which captain who knew the inside story changed his slogan and shouted: "The lord is the son of heaven!" "Wu Jiedu is the son of heaven!" Led a large number of sergeants also shouted in unison, supporting the matter of Wu Heroes, together with the oath of the emperor are only discussed among the officers above the rank of captain, and now the captain actually shouted out loudly under the excitement of his heart, and the rest of the captains have responded in unison, this rumor has been circulating among the sergeants for a long time, and now it is suddenly inspired on this occasion, which makes Wu Yingying and the commanders of the army a little caught off guard.
"Wu Jiedu is the emperor!" "From Jianghuai to the north, the captain of the Dragon Tooth Saber and Shield Battalion Jin Ji pulled out the horizontal knife at his waist and shouted loudly, most of his soldiers followed Wu Hero for the rest of his life, and shouted at the same time, "Wu Jiedu is the emperor!" Captains, centurions, sergeants, no one instigated and commanded, only by instinct, let out a mountain of shouts, the momentum was so loud that even the war horses in the battle array couldn't stand it, longitudinal neighing, mixed with the sonorous sound of swords and shields colliding, the sky roared back and forth The cold west wind seemed to be overpowered, and the entire Liangzhou City could hear it clearly, "The lord is the emperor!" "The festival envoy is the emperor!"
The generals of Wu Heroes, Xiao Jiu, Lin Hong, Cai Ran, Zhu Dao, Bai Sheng and other generals who had only been established not long ago, all took out their swords at their waists and shouted with the sergeants, "The lord is the emperor!" and "Long live the lord!" Since ancient times, the soldiers have been arrogant and have been in command, and today's situation, if there are rebels in the army who betray Wu Heroes, I am afraid that if they can't wait for the next day, they will be dismembered by the noisy sergeants, and the heads will be presented to Wu Heroes to show their loyalty.
Wu Yingying stretched out his hands to the sergeants in the school yard and made a quiet gesture, the deafening cheers just stopped slightly, he slowly looked at the excited sergeants in the school yard, his heart was surging, in the eyes of the imperial court unruly Anxi Army, more than 30,000 bloody men were willing to trust each other with their lives, what a glory this is.
"The heart of the army," Wu Yingying paused, and there was silence in the huge school field, and after a while, the hundred heralds reacted, and shouted loudly and with all their might, "The heart of the army is wanted!"
"This is where I belong!" This sentence made all the sergeants fall into a great excitement, and some people shouted, "Long live the emperor!", "Long live the emperor!", "Long live! Long live! Long live!"
Wu Yingying frowned, stretched out his hands again, and said in a deep voice: "If you share the joys and sorrows, and the wealth and prosperity together, you will be invincible!" Although his own voice was not high, the hundreds of heralds shouted together, and the momentum was not small, and in the end, the call sign of "invincible!" overwhelmed the "Long live the emperor!" The 30,000 sergeants chanted together "Joy and hardship" and "Prosperity together", "Invincible!" "Invincible!" The feeling also changed from excitement to joy.
The whole army marched towards Lingzhou. After Wu Yingying watched all the sergeants embark on the journey, he stepped off the review platform, turned over and jumped on the white horse that he rode every day, and led the herald to chase the dragon's tooth army walking in the middle of the army. Along the way, the sergeants saw Wu Yingying's white horse and the general's flag cheering loudly, and the long march that was originally unbearable was like a safari.
Lingzhou is in the east of Liangzhou, the sky is clear today, and the direction of the Anxi army is rushing towards that round of red sun, "My lord is the true son of the dragon!" Many sergeants are full of joy, thinking that this is the auspicious rui who supports the lord as the son of heaven, and the sergeants always find many reasons to believe in their choice.