Chapter 900: Men want to save face
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In July, Zhu Biao led his troops back to Shangdang and met Song Zuoxian, another commander of the Tang Army in Bingzhou. The first word is thanks!
After the great victory a month ago, Zhu Biao did not continue to attack Shangjun, but immediately retreated to the east with wounded soldiers and prisoners of war.
That's 40,000 wolves. If they can be digested and transformed, Zhu Biao will be able to play a running shot, and the real cavalry arms will have it.
However, the 100,000 wolf horsemen in Bingzhou were killed in the battle soon after the defeat was decided, and the hatred of the Tang Army in their hearts and the resistance to Zhu Biao can be imagined. It is simply impossible for these captives to be transformed on the spot, as were the case with previous prisoners of war.
Zhu Biao only has a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses, and it is impossible to pull 40,000 prisoners of war to fight again. In this way, the only way to retreat is to their own territory.
During this period, after a month's journey, his thoughts and intentions were naturally discovered by the state army. If it weren't for Tang Bin and Song Zuoxian's timely attack on the Bingzhou army and a large number of containment of the strength of the Bingzhou army, Zhu Biao might not have been able to drag back 40,000 people.
Perhaps among the 40,000 prisoners of war, there are still many hard-boned men. But since these people are willing to surrender, the vast majority of people should not be too strong-willed.
Soft grinding and hard bubbles, threats and temptations, there will always be a large number of makeovers and state wolves riding.
Zhu Biao ate it all in one bite, it was impossible. But if it's 18,000 people, it's fine. So he had archers.
The Tang Army accelerated the progress of material reserves.
When Zhu Biao led the troops to come, because he didn't know if he could change the situation in the northwest battlefield, even the Tang King, who was full of confidence in Zhu Biao, did not dare to take the determination of a big battle lightly.
After a war on the side of Bingzhou, the consumption is too heavy.
At present, the Tang camp is fighting a big battle in the state, and the rest of the directions will all be offensive, and the soldiers and horses will turn into a defensive state.
More than 500,000 people, tens of thousands of craftsmen with the army. Millions of mules and horses, plus more than a million troops, the consumption of grain and grass is also calculated in millions of stones. The military expenditure should be taken one step further, calculated in tens of millions of silver dollars, plus countless swords, guns, armor, bows, crossbows, and arrows......
A large part of this consumption is in transportation, Tang Wang couldn't see the effect of Zhu Biao's real victory, so he rashly ordered, he was too not a qualified camp leader.
Until now, 90,000 wolf riders have disappeared. This team that has plagued the Tang Army in the past. Three pavilions went to two pavilions at once. This effect made the Tang Wang side ecstatic, and they were also full of self-confidence.
The transfer of goods and savings immediately accelerated.
In the cities on the front line, the empty warehouses were quickly filled with bags of grain and countless swords, weapons and armor. 500,000 people, 500,000 carriages, horses and vehicles, tossing and turning on the road.
This is reminiscent of ant colonies. A horrible group!
"Sure enough, it's the Celestial Empire. A prince can also organize such a terrifying force! ”
Wang Shao stood on the top of the city and watched it from a distance, and he didn't know how many times he had sent out such an emotion, but it was never too much.
"Fireflies are compared to Haoyue, and I am a speck of dust compared to Da Zhou." Feng Lei said.
He was the first day to see. But I have heard it many times before, and today's view only confirms what I said a few days ago. It's also very emotional!
The two fought this time and joined the army with Zhu Biao. But in reality, there is nothing, more like two military observers.
But this is on their own initiative. I have to follow Zhu Biao to see the world. Instead of Zhu Biao, for the sake of the stability of the land of Qi, he slipped the two of them before the army marched.
After entering the Central Plains, Wang Shao and Feng Lei really felt how vast the Central Plains was. Compared to the huge Qi land, it is just a state. The Central Plains, on the other hand, have 138 states.
There is also the Battle of the Wolf Cavalry of the Merge State. 100,000 soldiers with three horses, good bows and bright armor. Elite archers with sharp swords and horses, this alone is not something that the national strength of Qi can support.
Although this elite army was quickly defeated and lost under the impact of Zhu Biao's iron cavalry, the two of them had no intention of underestimating this army. As long as you are a soldier, you can know how much advantage you will have on the battlefield with such a fast-moving archer.
It took more than a month for the accumulation of materials to accumulate, and the Bingzhou army on the opposite side had long been vigilant and guarded. At the same time, the remaining Bingzhou wolf cavalry was also sent out, roaming and attacking and killing, but under the prevention of Zhu Biao's army, under the restrictions of the narrow range of Yanmen and Shangdang counties, the effect was not great.
"The Central Plains War is two different concepts from the wars we fought in the past."
The movement has developed to this point, and even Zhu Biao can't help but feel emotional. Is this still a classical war? It's comparable to the overall battle of World War I and World War II in his previous life.
It's completely different from so many raids and killings he's fought before!
For a protracted war of more than a million troops, the amount of logistical reserves is too large and too great. Can't hide it from each other at all! Want to sneak attack? At most, it can only be a pioneer in time, like a thousand miles of surprise attack or something, there is no way to talk about it.
When a war reaches a certain point, it is a collision of national strength.
Just like the two major battles on the Western Front in World War I, before one side attacked, millions of artillery shells took as many as three or five days or even a week to prepare for artillery fire, which was a naked collision of national strength.
Under Huguan City, as a friendly army, it can be regarded as a crushing position, and Zhu Biao also led people to watch the so-called containment of the Tang Army.
The number of people is really not much, there are 200,000. However, with 150,000 people, a large, two and three earthen cities were built outside the city in just three days, blocking the gate of the pot gate tightly. Moreover, the 200,000 Tang troops set up 400 thunderbolts of all sizes outside Huguan, flying all over the sky, just like the meteor rain in a magic blockbuster, which is spectacular!
"Four hundred thunderbolts!"
This meeting is not unexperienced, and he has also had three or four hundred thunderbolts erected in a major war. Moreover, this Huguan has always been the forefront of the Tang army's confrontation and state army, and it is not unacceptable to have so many siege equipment in reserve.
But Zhu Biao also knew that when he was standing under Huguan today, looking at the sky full of fire and rain, thousands of miles away in Taiyuan County, Yangyi, the main force of the Shangdang army led by Song Zuoxian drove into the third county town encountered in Taiyuan 500 miles, and in order to pull out the first big nail on the transportation line, hundreds of thousands of troops besieged on all sides, and thousands of thunderbolts were erected.
These thousands of thunderbolts have been transported with the army before! What a burden is that? What kind of concept is it?
The Tang Army's powerful logistics and transportation, smooth management, and its military engineering, like the assembly line craftsman system of the pre-Qin era in Zhu Biao's previous life, must be accurate!
At least, in these thousands of Thunderbolts, hundreds of Thunderbolts between the three models, all parts can be replaced and complemented by each other.
This is a very good strength.
The weapons system of the Northern Han Dynasty could not do this. Although the master craftsmen are not lazy, if Tang Jun has such a high degree of unity, he has never had it.
The thunderbolt transport of the Han army is still a thunderbolt car, assembled and placed in one place. This not only takes up a lot of space, but also costs a lot of manpower. Compared with the Tang Army, there are many weaker ones.
Wang Shao and Feng Lei are people who have never seen the world. A battle of such a scale has completely compared the unarmed Qi civil war. They naturally also thought of the larger-scale battle that Song Zuo was in first, what kind of scene would it be? Fascinated the two.
It's really a toad that can't jump out of the well, I don't know how big the day is.
In the past, the two of them were all nested in the Qi country, and the most powerful military force they had ever seen was only the original pacification of the eastern corner by the coalition forces of various countries, in the eyes of the two, it was already a great martial art. Therefore, the rumors of Zhu Biao's record sound like a complete myth to them. And the myth is too far away from itself, and it is not very realistic.
Now, seeing the appearance of the battlefield in the Central Plains, they can finally lower the myth and reality in their minds to a plane.
Zhu Biao didn't stay long in Huguan, because Song Zuoxian's troops had already advanced thousands of miles and were directed at Taiyuan County.
Unlike the previous Yangyi, the Yangyi garrison was only 30,000 or 20,000, but the Taiyuan county garrison was nearly 100,000, not to mention that there were 120,000 people in the city, but they were all supported by the state army.
Moreover, the area of the city defense and the city is also different, the city defense of Yangyi is only six or seven zhang, and the city defense of Taiyuan County has been increased to twelve zhang, and the area is also seven or eight in Yangyi city.
Therefore, for the Tang army of Song Zuoxian, the battle of Yangyi was just an appetizer, and the county seat of Taiyuan was the real test.
In the thirteen years of fighting, Taiyuan County has been conquered by the Tang army more than once, but because it is located on the endless plain, except for the city, there are no mountains and rivers that can block the wolf riding in the state, so a gain also means a loss in the near future.
Now, the big war has just begun.
Even if the wolf cavalry wants to cut off the logistics and transportation routes of the Tang army, it will not make a move at this moment.
"If, I am the commander-in-chief of this offensive, our 50,000 elite horsemen, I will immediately put them into the state and turn it upside down.
Cavalry has always been an offensive class! The ghost has now become a defensive deterrent. I really don't know what Song Zuo thought first. ”
Yes, King Tang directly asked Zhu Biao to fight independently. However, Zhu Biao is on the territory of the main family, why should he give the main family three points of thin noodles?
He's not really stunned! I don't care about it, I just want to win.
Didn't this fight be fought for him? The 50,000 cavalry army really entered the interior of the state, even if it can make a mess of the state, and it will lose a lot of itself.
The cavalry of the Tang Army had not tried this technique before. As a result, the cavalry that went in couldn't outrun the wolf cavalry, and they all died miserably.
"Great. Let's kill the wolf cavalry of the state in one battle first, and six or seven percent of the troops. I think those two are red-eyed, and they love face.
They have been fighting in the northwest for so many years, and they haven't been able to take it down. Now it's up to us to win, and it's really winning, and those two are not disgraceful. ”
"People fight for a breath and the Buddha receives a pillar of incense. Men are all about face. (To be continued)