Chapter 12 Battlefield Soldiers
The western border of Mengzhou, separated by several mountains, is still some distance from the majestic Budu Pass, just because the terrain here is open and flat, so you can glimpse a little bit of the appearance of not crossing the pass from afar. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"The heavenly palace skillful craftsman makes sharp knives, and he is idle to cut off the north and south", which is the male form of the Zongyun Mountain Range where the pass is located. On one side is the plain, and occasionally there are a few low mountains next to it, but in the middle there is a mountain range with dozens of peaks abruptly rising, like the backbone of a legendary dragon, lying horizontally in the middle of the plain, as if someone deliberately wanted to cut off the two sides, but there was really no deliberate trace. The most miraculous place is that between the mountains, I don't know which god is merciful, Xu feels that this mountain should not be cut off from the intersection of things and things, and should not be cut off from human feelings, and it is forced to open a hole between the mountains!
How many literati want to write its magnificence, but they all put pen to paper and think about it, and write down two words alone, wonderful!
And if a person stands in front of the towering, majestic and precipitous mountain, and looks from that opening to the other side of the mountain, he can only faintly see a little scenery, but there is always a sense of fly in the ointment, after all, only a glimpse of a small corner, not the whole picture, will always arouse people's curiosity, always want to know what benefits are hidden on the other side! Therefore, for many years, countless soldiers full of blood rushed here like a tsunami, trying to pass through that narrow pass, but only blamed the heavens for being ruthless, and those passions and ambitions turned into blood and water, and sprayed under the walls of the checkpoint established at that pass.
From a distance, it seems that you can still see the blood-red light at the foot of the city wall.
At the front of the level, it seems that you can still see swords stuck in the ground.
And the wind swept up the sand and dust on the ground, and blew a choking sound like a golden iron horse.
Faintly, the wilderness seemed silent, and the non-crossing gate also revealed a lonely look.
I can't help but feel a little sad.
Shen Xian stood outside the tent and looked at the majestic checkpoint, and thought of the history he had heard or seen over the years.
Since the Duke of Lu Wu was ordered by the emperor of the Julei Kingdom to break through Mengzhou and establish a feudal state, he and his soldiers have launched no less than 5,000 attacks on Budu Pass in more than 20 years, but all of them have ended in failure. Lu Wu Gong has been undefeated for many years, but in the battle between the two armies, and if the goal is to capture the Budu Pass, then he must be the most painful loser in the entire Shenwu Continent!
With more than 5,000 defeats, for a general, living in this world is tantamount to shame.
There are many strange passes in the world, and there are even more dangerous and even more dangerous passes, and there are eight or nine people who do not cross the passes, but they do not cross the pass, and they are the biggest and loudest among them! Shen Xian couldn't help but think of the Yue family army guarding the pass. What kind of army can hold this pass, so that the enemy who wants to break through the territory will taste countless defeats?
It is rumored that the Yue family army is brave and good at fighting, and the generals of the Yue family are even more heroic, and they can be called one enemy and one hundred!
Shen Xian thought of the origin of the Yue family's army, and really didn't know how a private soldier who was originally just a family had evolved into the most terrifying army in Jingwu Kingdom and even the entire Shenwu Continent today!
It is said that the Yue family is the same as the dreamer that Shen Xian is more familiar with, and it is also one of the top ten families in the world. Speaking of the Yue family, we must start with the history of the founding of Jingwu State.
After the death of Emperor Shenwu, the feudal king was in turmoil. The general Yin Tianqi first established the Giant Thunder Country and called himself the "Emperor", and the person who assisted Yin Tianqi in founding the country at that time was the head of the Dream Family. At that time, the Dream Family could only be regarded as a small family, and it was not included in the aristocracy, but with the development and prosperity of the Giant Thunder Kingdom, it gradually became an unattainable family in the world!
The same is true of the Yue family, but the head of the Yue family, Yue Wu Mu, was proud of his slight status than Meng, and he and Zhao Xuan, the founding emperor of Jingwu State, were both generals under the Shenwu Emperor, and they made meritorious contributions when they followed the Shenwu Emperor in their early years, and both of them were named earls. After the war of the feudal king, Yue Wumu supported Zhao Xuan to establish the country as the emperor, and the two established the country in Jingzhou, and at that time the Yue family had private soldiers, most of whom were the original generals. Later, Jingwu opened up its territory and expanded its territory, and the private soldiers of the Yue family gradually developed and grew into an army with millions of soldiers! This army became famous in the war against the southwest Wu Kingdom, and repelled the smash hit generals of the Wu Kingdom, and had to return to Youzhou, and Fengzhou, which originally belonged to the Wu Kingdom, was also occupied by Jingwu State, and Jingwu State, which had the four states of Jing, Wu, Feng, and Yong, was rich in resources, and soon developed into a big country in the south, and confronted the giant thunder country that rose at the same time in the south.
However, there is always such a saying called "the tree is a big move." The stronger the Yue family's army, the greater the Yue family's power, and the more and more the threat to the imperial power cannot be underestimated! The Yue family also knew the truth very well, and later it happened that the western Shu Wei State invaded Wuzhou, and the Yue family moved to Wuzhou to guard the frontier for the country on the grounds of receiving the emperor's favor. Although the Yue family rarely served as officials in the court since then, and most of them fought on the frontier, after years of operation, the Yue family had a very high status in the Jingwu Kingdom, and their words were very weighty, especially the men of the Yue family, because of certain political factors, they would marry royal family members, and gradually gained influence in the court.
In particular, the army of the Jingwu Kingdom worshiped the Yue family to the extreme! And the common people also respected the Yue family's army!
And this generation of Emperor Zhao Lin of Jingwu State, who is only in his twenties, was brought up by Yue Wuxun, the current head of the Yue family! Zhao Lin and Yue Wuxun are like sons and fathers, so you can imagine how powerful the Yue family is!
But there is a strange thing, the Yue family, which is in power and opposition, especially Yue Wuxuan, has never thought of "replacing it"! Stationed on the frontier and fighting on the battlefield, this person is the same as all the soldiers of the Yue family, but he does not let the enemy cross the thunder pool!
Although the Tiance army under the rule of Lu Wugong is also strict in military discipline and the soldiers are also brave, but if he really wants to confront the Yue family army that has been rendered like a myth, Shen Xian felt a feeling of going to death when he thought of the five thousand defeats.
Would she be sad if I died?
Thinking of Meng Bingxuan, Shen Xian felt both pride and a little bit of relief in his heart. But since you have decided to stand on the battlefield, why bother thinking about anything else? It is better to be like those soldiers in the past, throw your head and spill your blood, and be a real man!
Thinking of this, Shen Xian's eyes became a little firmer.
At noon on this day, the Tiance Army, which was still having lunch, received a battle post from the Yue Family's army. It is written on the battle post that the hour after the meal is the moment when the two sides are fighting.
Shen Xian unconsciously admired the Yue family army in his heart, just the fact that the battlefield greeting was enough to show the atmosphere and strictness of the Yue family army. After all, they are already red-eyed people who are ready to take revenge, but they can still fight according to the rules of the battlefield, it can be seen that no matter when, the Yue family army respects the opponent very much! Of course, if the time comes to kill the enemy, Shen Xian feels that those people will not be soft!
In the tent of the main camp of the barracks, several people were discussing.
This time it was the little prince who led the troops. has not been introduced, the little prince's name is Yin Tianshuo, he is in his early twenties, and his cultivation is extremely high. It is said that when he was only four or five years old, he was able to draw a bow and shoot an eagle, and at the age of eleven or twelve, he was sent to the frontier to fight with the soldiers. If there is anyone in the world who knows the military affairs of Mengzhou and Wuzhou best, except for Lu Wugong, it is the little prince!
Standing next to the little prince Yin Tianshuo is a burly soldier, is the general of Lu Wugong's own soldiers, canonized by the giant thunder country as "Tianji General", named "Sikong Wen", followed the little prince in the border pass to fight a lot of battles, experienced.
Of course, there are also a few leading generals in the account. They are all the leaders of the five battalions under the account, and the rank is "Wei", and it is customary to call them "battalion commanders". The battalion is set up under the army, and the military rank of the commander belongs to the "executive", but he does not have the right to participate in military discussions. There are a total of 100 people in each army, and they are subdivided into small groups, and there are ten people in each army, and the team where Shen Xian is located is the small army. A battalion has a total of 30 troops, that is, nearly 3,000 men and horses, and this time the army led by the little prince has a total of five battalions, which is 15,000 soldiers!
As for the Yue family's army, I heard that there are 30,000 people and horses, and all of them are elite soldiers!
No matter how you look at it, there will be only one result for the Tiance army, and that is defeat!
It's just that the little prince Yin Tianshuo did not have the slightest fear and retreat on his face, on the contrary, it was an inexplicable confident smile.
"Little Wangye, there is still an hour before the war starts, and the spies in front report that the Yue family army has gathered nearly 30,000 horses to rest on the opposite side. He doesn't set up camps, he doesn't dig up earth and build walls, and he looks at the morale as if he eats us!" said Sikong Wen, who was about fifty years old, and looked a little old, but when he spoke loudly, he looked like a young man.
Hearing Sikong Wen's words, the faces of the five battalion commanders in the camp tent were a little unpleasant. To be honest, as soon as they heard that the Yue family army had sent 30,000 elite soldiers, they really didn't know the bottom in their hearts. Everyone knows that the courage of the Yue family army is not for fun, they have also been on the battlefield for many years, and they have fought with the Yue family army many times, although they are not afraid, but they will never dare to underestimate a Yue family soldier! What's more, they used to fight against a small group of Yue family army, that is to say, at most there was less than one battalion, and they won many battles, and most of them won many battles, and most of them won more than few, but in this case, the Yue family army has never suffered serious losses! This time, 30,000 troops came at a time, and just thinking about the neat and silver armor made them feel a headache in their hearts! Speaking of which, they also knew some inside information, Lu Wugong's so-called "undefeated record" was naturally deliberately set in order to make up for the failure of seizing the pass, otherwise, who in the world could withstand more than 20 consecutive years of defeat, 5,000 defeats?
Seeing that there was something wrong with the looks on the faces of the battalion commanders, the smile on the little prince's face became even stronger. He said unhurriedly: "Our ten thousand and a half are also elite ......"
The five battalion commanders directly scolded "fart" in their hearts, but they knew best that there were still 5,000 recruits in it! The combat effectiveness of these soldiers on the battlefield was almost zero, especially for the Yuejia army, they could be called "meat shields", or even more ruthlessly, they could be called "meat pigs", that is, they would be sent up to make up the number of people, and they would be cut by waiting for people to fall on the knife! However, they could only curse in their hearts, and if they said it directly at this time, they were afraid that before the enemy finished eating, their own heads would sleep on the ground outside the tent.
The little prince's temper is notoriously eccentric!
"What are you worried about, I naturally know, but I have also made arrangements in advance! Hehe, don't worry, after an hour, the two armies will fight, and the defeat will naturally be the Yue family's army, this is my fable, everyone can wait and see!"
The five battalion commanders wanted to scold "fart" in their hearts again, but after thinking about it, it was not quite the case. Although a few of them have been fighting at the border all the year round, they have never done anything under the little prince, so they naturally don't know much about their style of acting. However, the battle that was praised as a classic back then was also a battle known to everyone about the name of the little prince Yin Tianshuo, and they had also heard of it.
Defeating 10,000 enemy soldiers with 5,000 soldiers and horses, and winning more with less, was a miracle created when Yin Tianshuo was fifteen or sixteen years old when he was in charge of the camp! It is said that when the Yue family heard the news, they were really impressed by Lu Wugong and praised Yin Tianshuo! If an enemy wants to praise his own enemy, then it means that his enemy is a person who is truly capable!
Thinking of this, the five battalion commanders no longer doubted it, and it should have been the same when it came to it! The prince sent the five of them to assist the little prince, who was originally a family, and he still had doubts, which was inevitably a little unkind. But it's no wonder that they are not to blame, because they have also heard some rumors before, the reason why the prince wants to send the five of them to the front, and let a few of his subordinates who have been following the little prince return to Qin'an City, is to let them take a cadre of soldiers to serve as meat shields, so that the prince can have enough time to arrange defenses in the rear, or evacuate safely!
But now looking at the look of the little prince, there is no such thing at all, because Yin Tianshuo's eyes reveal the joy of victory!
"However, sometimes sacrifice is inevitable!" the little prince suddenly said this, and the Sikong beside him smiled when he heard this, but the faces of the five battalion commanders changed again, and before they had time to tremble, they heard the little prince say again, "I need a force of more than 1,000 people to make a feint!"
"Please show the little prince!" The five battalion commanders were half cold in their hearts, and they made a feint, but the battle was against the red-eyed Yue family army, to put it bluntly, didn't they let people go to death?
"Well, this is natural!" Yin Tianshuo said, "These thousand people don't need elite soldiers, and new recruits can also do it, as long as they can fight in front for a moment!
"May I ask the little prince, are there any reinforcements coming to support our army?" a battalion commander asked.
The little prince looked at him, nodded and said, "Guess is good, there is a strange soldier!"
"How many people dare to ask?" the battalion commander asked.
"About 3,000 people!"
"Is there still 10,000 ambushes?"
"Nope!"
"Then, can the Martial Saint come to help?"
"That's even more not!"
"The last general implores the little prince to explain the strategy for retreating!"
"Hehehe, you have a heart!" Yin Tianshuo said, nodded and said, "This naturally has to be explained to you." First of all, there are a total of 3,000 reinforcements, all of whom are the children of the Mengjia of the Alliance! The Mengjia has been defending the Great Qi State in the eastern part of Mengzhou, which covets Mengzhou! Naturally, I don't need to say more! As for the withdrawal of troops, I will try to ask, do you know where we are now?"
"This place should be called 'Luzhang Plain', the terrain is flat and open, but there are continuous low mountains and Zongyun Mountains on both sides, and it is not as open as the grassland in the north! When the little prince asked, did he plan to use cavalry?" That battalion commander really had some ability, and he guessed correctly this time.
Yin Tianshuo looked at him with great appreciation, nodded and said, "That's right, the tactics may be a little aggressive, but in order to deal with powerful enemies, sometimes you have to take risks. Come and see!" he said, pointing to the map stretched out on the table, "Before leaving, I have received a report from the spies, and then I have speculated on the speed and direction of the Yue family's army's march, and have chosen this place as the place for battle! Although Luzhang Yuan is a plain, it is blocked by low mountains on both sides, which is neither suitable for battle nor for placing ambush soldiers. However, the two ends are different, they can enter and exit, such as the broad road, and the use of cavalry is like a quick knife, which can instantly attack the enemy army, and can also quickly retreat! Of course, I don't want to retreat this time, so there is still a placement!"
The battalion commander listened and hurriedly asked, "It's okay for the little prince to instruct!"
"Well, you have also fought against the Yue family army for many years, do you think there is anything special about the Yue family army's battle?"
"Well, the generals were stupid and didn't find anything special about it!"
"The Yue family's army has always been in strict formation, and it looks majestic?"
"This is true, just looking at their slaughtering appearance is already terrifying!"
"Hehe, a well-organized army is also like a loose army, easy to defeat!" "The little prince smiled confidently and said, "The Yue family army is good at battle and is well-trained on weekdays, but I have observed that the soldiers like to use the 'phalanx', cloth swords and shield soldiers, both offensive and defensive, especially in the face of the four bread clamps, and can change the formation to make a breakthrough." The Yue family called this method of warfare the 'Kun Square Formation Method', which had the intention of 'the earth is the square, and it cannot be made'. My father and I studied for many years, and then I thought of a method of warfare to solve it. This time we fought in the Lujo Plain, and we can say that we can make full use of the geographical advantages and achieve an unexpected victory! First of all, ......"
The five battalion commanders listened to the little prince explain the tactics of battle, and the expressions on their faces kept changing, until they finally listened, and then slowly woke up from their surprise, and they didn't appreciate the courage and resourcefulness of the young man in front of them!
"As I said, the words of that thousand-strong army ......," the little prince asked.
The battalion commander nodded and said, "Just pick some from the recruits!"
Yin Tianshuo smiled slightly, turned his head and looked at the sky outside the tent, victory, as if it was in that place!
And at the same time, the other end of Luzhangyuan was close to the place where Budu Pass, and there were faint sounds of footsteps on the low mountain. A spy who had been hiding in the mountains frowned secretly, and just as he was about to slowly bury himself deeper in the grass, he heard the sound of "whoosh" breaking through the sky, and a silver arrow shot him in the forehead, killing him instantly!
"It seems that the other party is not simple, and he sent someone here to investigate early! The Yue family army is really terrifying, and he values every enemy like this, and he is not blinded by hatred at all!" a familiar voice said, and then a man walked to the side of the sparrow's corpse, pulled out a silver arrow, and slowly walked back to the army behind him as if confirming that the spy was dead.
"Keep going!" the man shouted, and continued to march towards Budu Pass as the blackened troops behind him continued.