Chapter 340: Engaging the Enemy Outside the City!
"No! The end will be retired! "I raised my leader's order and walked out of the big tent with Xi Junmai and Duan Yunsong.
"Xi Junmai, immediately lead the cavalry out, all the way, send more scouts, find out the way, if there is a warning, report to me, Duan Yunsong, immediately recruit all the sergeants, now they should have had breakfast, pack up their equipment, immediately pull out the camp, go to Dingxiang City, tell them, this time, it is our academy as the vanguard, if anyone loses the face of this general, loses the face of the academy, hmph, after dealing with it according to the rules of the academy, immediately expelled from the academy!" We are also going to give the order to die, Uncle Li Ji clearly got Uncle Li's will, and now, it is time to test the mobility and combat effectiveness of our military academy.
I went back to the camp tent, took off the armor outside, and asked Fang Cheng to tie the chain mail that my mother handed over to my old man, put on the chain mail hood, put on the helmet, and after the whole outfit, I went out of the camp tent, and my own soldiers had already been prepared, standing outside the camp tent waiting for my main general.
Looking at these hundred Han athletes, of course, Fang Cheng is their head, and on the other side, there are the hundred Turkic warriors led by Bo Narjin, very good, I nodded majestically: "Go!" ”
"No!" In the sound of the promise, I stepped on the saddle of Chi Jin'er, and raised the whip very hangingly, and two hundred elite horsemen followed me and drove forward, as for the healthy ox Chechege, I had to ask the Shuozhou soldiers who stayed in to take care of it, and don't eat it, otherwise, the general would have to fight with him, and after the confession was completed, he would take the tail of the forward army and whip away.
After nearly two hours, the sky has already brightened, since someone came to report, it is only more than ten miles away from Dingxiang City, under the advice of Duan Yunsong, the captain who has been commanding the army all the year round, I quickly asked everyone to rest for a while, "Order the whole army, rest for two quarters of an hour first, and then set off after two quarters of an hour." Go, follow me ahead and see. "As soon as I acted, the two hundred personal soldiers behind me galloped forward with me, of course, there were the new one hundred Turkic warriors here, running to the front of the team, the soldiers seemed to be in a very good state of mind, although they sat down to rest, but there was no trace of fatigue, and there were even people laughing and talking together, very good, the military spirit is available, and it is very effective to train their endurance and march in full armed forces over long distances. And the captains of the cadet-level were only staying on the side of the avenue according to their duties. At this time, everyone understands that this is not child's play, if they dare to mess around at this time, it will be counted as I, the master of the courtyard, let them go, but Uncle Li Ji's level will not be able to pass at all, at least dozens of military sticks will have to suffer.
"Well, yes, my lord, the morale is not decreasing, I want Wang to go to the mountain ahead and have a look." Duan Yunsong said to me, and pulled out the telescope from his waist at the same time, looking very eager to try, although this thing is not usually issued to a small number of military generals in the past, but they don't have much time to get their hands on it, they have been busy on the road, who would nervously hold the telescope and look around.
----------------------------------------------------------- Zong rode up to the top of the mountain, and Duan Yunsong had already pulled out his telescope and carefully reconnoitred into the distance. I also picked up my binoculars, and the gray-yellow earth was rather desolate, with the occasional branch or two withering on the horizon of this almost wasteland.
Duan Yunsong seemed to have discovered something, removed the telescope to cover his eyebrows and glanced into the distance, and then picked up the telescope in front of him, as if he had determined something, before he shouted in a deep voice: "My lord, look at that, it seems that someone is coming towards us." ”
"Oh? Take a look. In the binoculars, the yellow sand was faintly rolling, and gradually, several figures appeared on the horizon, familiar armor, and I said with a smile in my heart: "It's okay, this is the cavalry of our academy, it should be here to report the news, let's go, let's go forward." ”
"Adults, no." Duan Yunsong on the side stopped me, so I had to hold on to the reins and look at Duan Yunsong, who was also my lieutenant and my adjutant, no matter what, this guy had also been in the army with his father for many years, and he had also participated in a lot of battles.
"My lord, it's far away, and look at it again, don't move anything lightly, for safety." Duan Yunsong's words really made me feel at ease and stopped my horse and guarded the top of the slope, what kind of people are we, we have been in the reserve for so many years and participated in training, but when it comes to going to the battlefield, it can only be enjoyed on TV and games, and the real combat is still necessary to listen to these veterans who have been on the battlefield and have experienced a hundred battles, at least Duan Yunsong will not harm me.
"Well, it's our men, it's our cavalry, my lord, and the last general will go to meet you." Duan Yunsong put away the binoculars and arched his hand towards me, galloped down the mountain, and headed straight away, and soon, they converged at the foot of the mountain, and after a short pause, they galloped together to the top of the hillside.
"My lord, the cavalry of our army has arrived five miles outside the city of Dingxiang, and the Tiele cavalry is deployed outside the city, and has not yet received the enemy. The energetic cavalry rushed to me and then reined in his horse.
"You mean that Tieler's soldiers and horses are all stationed outside the city?" I nodded, groaned slightly, and asked the cavalryman who had come back from Xijunmai's message.
"Exactly, you can see that there are many defects on the city wall, it should be after a hard battle, there are about thirty or forty thousand soldiers and horses stationed outside the city, and when they see our army, the Tiele people sent a large number of rangers, and a team of about 1,000 people, diagonally inserted into Dingxiang City and left, thinking that it should be to ask for reinforcements." The answer is very organized, well, it seems that Xi Junmai really knows how to choose people.
"Okay, in that case, tell General Xi that if the Tiele people come to invite battle, don't meet the enemy in vain, interfere with the moment, and don't continue to move forward, and wait for the foot soldiers to arrive before making plans."
"Subordinates obey!" The herald gave me a fist salute, turned his horse, led the guards, and turned to run the way he came.
"It seems that the Tiele people are ready." Duan Yunsong's face was filled with melancholy, and after returning to see the elite of the academy who was still resting at the foot of the mountain, his expression softened, and he smiled at me: "But it doesn't matter, the elite of my academy is the selected soldier among the Baisheng heroes, Hugh said 40,000, even if he has one more company, the last general will dare to lead troops to meet the enemy." ”
"That's just as well." After I answered, I turned my head and instructed the herald to deliver the news that the Tiele people had been prepared to Uncle Li Ji of the Chinese army, and after another moment, two quarters of an hour arrived, and with the fierce military drums, the whole army started again. It was the military band that started the way, and there were several flag guards, and on the left and right sides of the Datang Blood Dragon Flag, which was proudly waving in the wind, there was a banner erected on each side, and the Datang Military Academy written on it made everyone feel that there was a lot of brilliance in their cheeks.
"Forward, Dingxiang City is in front of us, and the Tiele people who killed our compatriots are also waiting there, waiting for us to cut sharp knives and swords on their necks, and move forward, students!"
"No!" Nearly 10,000 people shouted in unison, and the earth began to tremble. Accompanied by the sound of snare drums, the high-spirited troops continued to march forward.
----------------------------------------------------------- finally, after another quarter of an hour, before noon, the elite of the Military Academy gathered on a gentle slope three miles away from Tieler's army. Here, the most convenient place for cavalry to react and assault, and also convenient for our defense. The elite of the academy in the drum beat and bamboo whistle, skillfully set up the formation, the head is the general knife player, behind the jumping soldiers, standing in the forefront, is the king of the Tang Dynasty infantry, Mo swordsman, they are now sitting cross-legged on the ground, placed beside the heavy Mo knife and a long shield, in fact, this shield is not very useful, the main thing is that the armor worn by the Mo knife hand of these colleges is different from the past, all are strong men with two layers of armor, and the inside is full of chain armor corsetes, Then there is a piece of Mingguang armor made of large stamped steel sheets on the outside, and the defensive strength is extremely high, not to mention the bow and arrow, even if it is a scimitar in the hands of the cavalry, it is difficult to cause damage to them. Of course, only the Mo Dao Hand can be equipped with such extravagant equipment, and the other soldiers are all wearing chain mail, and a large piece of stamped steel is installed in the vital parts, although the defense is inferior to the Mo Dao Hand, but it is far more flexible than the previous Ming Guang Armor. This is also the reason why Uncle Li threw the cadets of the Military Academy to the border to come to the border for exercises, and the team that spent a lot of money had to test its results.
"General Xi, what's the situation on the other side?" I rode to Xi Junmai, who was standing at the front of the team, and asked, while picking up the binoculars and looking, sure enough, under the city of Dingxiang, which is made of loess, is densely covered with Tiele's cavalry, most of them are wearing leather armor, and a small number of officers are wearing some iron armor, and the people are also very strong. After a cursory look, there are really 30,000 or 40,000 people, not that we don't know how to count, but we don't have the time to count them.
Just when Xi Junmai reported the situation to me and the team was still in formation, with the dull and desolate sound of the horn, the formation of the Tiele people suddenly fluctuated, and a wave of about thousands of elite horsemen began to peel off from the army of the Tiele people, and slowly, stepping on the rhythm of agility and killing intent, surging towards this side......
(To be continued)