Chapter 233: Venting
In order to prevent the battalion from being led by no one after the captain was killed, the centurion of each battalion in Wu Yingying's army was ranked according to his seniority and ability, and the first centurion was concurrently served by the captain, and this Wang Li was the second centurion in the high-hoof battalion, and he obeyed the order and immediately scattered the two hundred horsemen in the east and west directions along the border wall of Liangzhou.
Liangzhou Valley Water, also known as Shiyang River, is a clear river formed by the confluence of high mountain snow water, which flows north into Xiutuze. It was the summer time when the water was at its highest, and the cavalry of the High Hoof Battalion could easily wade through the water while sitting on horseback. Pu Hangu took three hundred cavalry to the opposite side of Gushui, and immediately ran around the two side walls in the south of Liangzhou. Everywhere she went, she saw the dilapidated and damaged city wall, Pu Hangu wrote it down on the march map she carried, and prepared for the arrival of the army later, so she attacked from these places by the infantry army, and saw the strength of the Liangzhou soldiers nesting behind the city wall, as long as a few hundred people infiltrated it, it was estimated that the defenders would run back.
The commander of the Tibetan army watched the enemy cavalry appear in the area between the border wall and Liangzhou that he was responsible for defending, and unscrupulously approached the city wall to find out the truth, and even some brave cavalry even released cold arrows to the soldiers at the head of the city, but the Han soldiers at the head of the city were like wilted eggplants, and they did not even return the arrows. "They're also Han Chinese. I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, these Han children, the Central Plains Imperial Court treated them as vassals and treated them the same as the Tubo people, and the Tubo people treated them like slaves, and they could only swallow their anger and live on weekdays. But today, I began to feel that the eyes of the Han'er looking at him were less fearful.
Looking at the enemy cavalry under the side wall more and more restless, although there are only a few hundred horses, but according to the report of the reconnaissance cavalry in front, this time Wu Yingying, who occupied the four states of Guasha Sugan, really came to attack with all his strength, and there were tens of thousands of cavalry in the forward cavalry alone, although there were not many enemy horses, but they tossed for a long time, and the Zhe Kui family did not send a soldier from Liangzhou City to drive them away, it seems that the soldiers who defended the two side walls in front of them were used as abandoned sons who consumed the enemy's military strength.
On the careful heart secretly scolded that although he was not from a broken family, his ancestors were nobles with noble blood, how could he die behind this dilapidated side wall so much, and his family was still in Liangzhou City. Seeing that it was getting late, he called his subordinates and said in a deep voice: "The enemy is menacing, and these men are unstable, taking advantage of the fact that the enemy's army has not completely cut off the return route of our army, the whole army will retreat to Liangzhou City tonight." "The military discipline of the Tubo people is also strict, and if they retreat without a fight, they will be beheaded, and when they saw that several sacs were suspicious, they shouted violently: "If you don't act according to the order, the festival will make the adults there, and I will divide it!"
The cavalry of the High Hoof Battalion, who had been observing close to the side walls, took over the two side walls without bloodshed, and the army of the hussar battalion that followed was also stationed in them. Xin Gu listened to Pu Hangu's military situation, and intensified his efforts to send cavalry to the south of Liangzhou City, while constantly inviting battles to provocatively test the reality of the Tubo people, while waiting for the arrival of Wu Yingying's army to begin to arrange the reality. The next day, the reconnaissance cavalry in front sent back the news that the 1,000 Han army defending these two side walls was all killed by the Zhige branch on the bank of the valley because of the unauthorized retreat, in order to set an example, the Han people near the left side of Liangzhou City were in some commotion, and the Tubo army quelled the rebellion and killed thousands of people. Xin Gu immediately ordered the hussars to leave the baggage camp to defend within the side wall, and he did not wait for Wu Yingying's army to arrive, so he led 4,500 cavalry to the south of Liangzhou to camp first, so as to deter the Tubo army and prevent it from being able to go out of the city and kill in all directions without impunity.
At the head of Liangzhou City, Zhe Ge Zhi looked at the hussar camp resting in a big way under the city with a complicated face. "Jie Du envoy, the Han people have few soldiers, do you want to rush and kill for a while. Let them know how good my Rokutanibe athlete is. "The subordinate official shore Yulong looked at the hussars who were showing off their might, and he was quite a little lacking in confidence.
"Don't worry, Lingzhou Inspector Dong's subordinates can arrive in these two days, our army can't bend its strength first, and then let the court officials and Wu Yingying and their Han people kill each other, and we Tubo people will follow behind." Zhi Ge Zhi looked at the direction of Lingzhou in the east and said slowly. A few months ago, Dong Zunzhi, the imperial court Lingzhou inspector, sent people to send a large number of soldiers, armor, grain and grass, and dragged Liangzhou Tubo to the west to attack Wu Yingying, he was greedy for a while, and sent thousands of cavalry, who knew that he actually kicked on the iron plate, the benefits were not caught, and the losses of the soldiers were a lot.
After the hussars and the Tubo people confronted each other under the city of Liangzhou for three days, the Tongyuan military envoy, Lingzhou Inspector Dong Zunzhi brought the Great Song Forbidden Army originally stationed in Tunhuanzhou to help, and with him, there were also 5,000 cavalry led by Cai Keyuan, the assassin of Yinchuan. As the highest military governor of the imperial court stationed in the northwest, Dong Zunzhi immediately took over the command of the Liangzhou Battle, he is the general of the forbidden military department, and has always been slow to treat people, even when Zhao Kuangyin was a young man, he was bullied, and at this moment he commanded Tubo, the leader of the two party departments, and he was even more like a general under his command.
Only because of this time, the imperial court undertook five generations of male soldiers, martial arts are outstanding, even the north of the Great Liao also maintained an offensive posture, the Hexi army Jiedu Ge Zhi and Yinzhou Thorn Shi Cai Keyuan although they were not angry, but they deliberately stammered to him, just because the imperial court forbidden army is very important in the northwest, if Dong Zunzhi supports which chief is on the throne, then most of them can do it, even if they write to the court, the so-called relatives are different, and the court also attaches more importance to Dong Zunzhi's distinction.
The forbidden army that came to Liangzhou this time was originally to unite the six valleys of Tubo to attack Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Shazhou to the west, and they all had the mentality of taking Hexi in one go. Dong Zunzhi saw that the hussars under the city of Liangzhou only had a few thousand horsemen, and the Zhige branch was forced to retreat into the city, and his contempt for him was even greater, and he immediately said that he would repel the cavalry under the city first.
The next day, Wu Yingying led a large army to the city of Liangzhou. Xin Gu reported back to him the news that the Huanzhou Forbidden Army and the Yinzhou Party Xiang Army had joined forces to help, and judged that the enemy would soon launch an offensive.
"The party has been taught a lesson by us many times, and they still dare to come to the fire to take the chestnut, it is really a repeated teaching!" Wu Yingying sneered, "If they are hard to defend the five states of Dingjing, it will take a lot of effort to clean them up, and now is an opportunity, and then the difficult army will be bloodletted." His tone was quite relaxed, and he didn't mean to be a strong enemy in front of him, and he also infected his generals.
"The White Feather Army can beat the Yinzhou Party. Yu Furenliang immediately said, "Show the banner of our army, I'm afraid they will retreat." Wu Yingying knew that he was not talking nonsense, the White Feather Army had recruited a large number of warriors from the party clans, and if it was one-on-one, the average combat power far exceeded that of the state army, and the prestige of the White Feather Battalion of Dijin Ze was also quietly spread among the tribes. It's just that under the deliberate cover of Cai Jifeng, the commander of the allied Dingyan Army, it has not yet attracted the attention of Cai Jiyun, the commander of the Dingyan Army.
"If you scare away too early, it's not beautiful. Wu Yingying said with a smile, "This Dong Zunzhi is also a veteran, at the moment his morale is strong, and he is a combination of three soldiers, I am afraid that there will be an incident after staying for a long time, he must be in a hurry to fight, he also came from afar, the military situation in the south of Liangzhou has long been cut off by my hussars, and it is difficult to know the reality of our army." According to common sense, the military situation in his hands should still be less than 10,000 of our Lanzhou army, and the Guiyi army and Uighur warriors who digested and absorbed it would be embarrassing to use. Therefore, he has both the need to fight and the confidence to fight, so we must encourage him to have this mentality. ”