The status of the Mo sword soldier in the Tang Dynasty army is undoubted, and it is definitely the trump card among the trump cards.

The selection of Mo Dao soldiers is strict, well-trained, elite, brave, and amazing, but this does not mean that Mo Dao soldiers are invincible.

On the contrary, the use of Mo Dao soldiers is quite limited, and if you want to maximize the power of Mo Dao soldiers, you need suitable terrain, landforms, and other arms on the battlefield to cooperate.

For example, in the vast grassland, if a single class of Mo Dao soldiers encounters cavalry, they will be kited alive to death.

However, if there are cavalry to protect the flanks, the Modao soldiers can be calmly arrayed and face the enemy head-on, and the advancing Modao Formation will become a real VIP on the battlefield.

A large part of the founding personnel of the Changying Army came from the former Anxi Army, and there are Li Rui and other generals with family roots in Mo Dao, which is unparalleled in the use of Mo Dao in the current Tang Army.

Rao is like this, although the establishment of the Mo sword soldiers is retained in the Changying army, in actual combat, the Mo sword soldiers are either formed with other heavy infantry in the battle formation, as the core existence of the heavy infantry battle array.

Otherwise, they will carry the Mo knife with them, use the bow and arrow as their main weapon, and participate in the battle as an archer.

In short, it is rare to meet the enemy in a battle formation with a simple sword soldier.

As for the so-called archers, Guo Rong once thought that archers were a group of guys who could only shoot arrows and had basically zero melee ability because of the misleading of later TV series.

However, when he came to this era, he saw real archers, participated in the tragic defense of the city in Qiuzi, and tried to open his bow and arrows to experience the power needed to pull away a strong bow with a stone, and only then did he realize that he had been deceived.

Far from being a group of weak chickens, the archers are a group of strong men with big shoulders and round waists.

You must know that the archers in the infantry army of the Tang Army used strong bows of more than one stone, and the minimum requirement was to be able to fire ten arrows in a row.

Ordinary people don't talk about ten arrows, even if they can pull the bow even if it's very good, think about it, how can they use a strong bow to shoot ten arrows in a row, how can a weak chicken do it.

In actual combat, the archers in the infantry formation followed the heavy infantry in the front row, and were responsible for long-range attacks within sixty paces.

When the heavy infantry in front of them met the enemy, these big-shouldered and round-waisted archers would throw down their bows and arrows, and take the horizontal knives, armor-piercing hammers, pickaxes, mountain axes, and sapper shovels on their shoulders and follow the heavy infantry to open the pieces.

Guo Rong once considered that if the scene of tearing devils by hand was placed in the hands of these archers now, it might not be a drama, but a documentary.

In a sense, the selection requirements of archers and Mo sword soldiers are very similar, if there is any difference, that is, Mo sword soldiers need to require height, except for height, the choice of Mo knife soldiers and the choice of archers is not much different,

Therefore, the strong and burly, big-shouldered and round-waisted Mo sword soldiers are actually the best candidates for elite archers, so there is a scene where Mo knife soldiers take bows and arrows and participate in the battle as archers.

Of course, as the trump card in the Tang Army, the Mo Dao Soldier is not always split and used.

On some battlefields that are in line with the role of the Mo Dao soldiers, the officers of the Changying Army will not let go of any opportunity to give full play to the combat power of the Mo Dao soldiers, such as Lu Xiaobing at this moment. ….

Under normal circumstances, the standard infantry company of the Changying Army had three heavy infantry squads, three light infantry squads, three archer squads, plus six crossbow squads.

It's just that the two companies with Lu Xiaobing and Lin Yu as company commanders are more special.

They were adapted from the first and second regiments of the Changying Army during the founding period, and participated in all the important battles of the Changying Army from the beginning of its creation.

Therefore, after this round of reform, these two companies are one of the few reinforced companies in the Changying Army, and in addition to the regular establishment, each of these two companies has an assault platoon that includes four squads of Mo Dao soldiers and one squad of archers.

This makes the two companies together have a full hundred and forty heavy infantry, including eighty Mosaman.

This proportion is quite rare even among the entire Changying Army.

Of course, this is also the reason why Guo Rong finally chose them as the troops that broke into the city.

The vicinity of the camp gate of the Huaixi Army can be regarded as a relatively narrow space, and this kind of empty and relatively closed space is the scene where the battle formation of the Mo Dao soldiers can play the most role.

After cleaning up the reinforcements led by Wu Shaoxiong, under the command of Lu Xiaobing, the Modao soldiers led by Lin Yu recovered their strength a little and then aimed at the Huaixi Army camp.

The archers and crossbowmen suppressed the Huaixi army in several rounds, and then ordered the heavy infantry at the front to retreat quickly, making an open space appear in the center of the battlefield outside the camp gate of the Huaixi army.

Seeing the heavy infantry of the Changying Army retreating, the Huaixi army rushed out of the camp gate in one go, but the first thing they encountered was the crazy shooting of archers and crossbow archers, and the dense arrow rain blocked the Huaixi army at the camp gate.

With the help of these dozens of breaths, under the command of Lin Yu, fifty Mo swordsmen have completed the formation, and the thirty Mo swordsmen who led the rest of the heavy infantry to the front have also skillfully filled the queue to complete the entire two horizontal columns.

These eighty Mo swordsmen became the sharpest blades of the entire Changying Army, slashing towards the Huaixi Army.

When Guo Rong, who was in a hurry, led a large group of men and horses to the Huaixi Army camp in the city, he saw the moment when the army formation composed of 80 Mo Dao soldiers marched forward.

Under the gaze of the cavalry of the entire three thousand Changying Army, with the blade chopping, the Mo Dao Formation moved forward step by step.

Every time he took a step, he swung a knife, and there was nothing left under the blade, and every knife would bring a piece of bloody rain, and the Huaixi army that did not flee at the first time

In this way, step by step, the Mo Dao Formation, which was less than a hundred people, forcibly pressed back all the Huaixi troops that had protruded from the camp gate, and then continued to advance.

The Mo sword soldiers were calm and measured, and those skillful and somewhat mechanical movements brought an unstoppable sense of fear to the Huaixi army.

One-step, two-step, three-step......

Step, swing, step, swing......

From more than a dozen steps outside the camp gate, killing inside the camp gate, no one was the enemy of the Mo knife, and in just a few dozen steps, at least three hundred people were beheaded under the Mo knife.

In the steady pace of the Mo Dao, the last will of the Huaixi Army in Caizhou City collapsed, and the Huaixi Army completely collapsed.

Following the pace of the Mo sword soldiers, light infantry, archers, and crossbow archers quickly followed, and in less than half an hour, the battle was completely over. ….

In a total of about an hour of fighting, under the command of Lu Xiaobing and Lin Yu, the Chenghuai Western Army, which had more than 1,000 people in front of and behind him, was directly wiped out, and the remaining more than 2,000 Huaixi troops surrendered.

The battle of Caizhou has reduced the pressure on Guo Rong's heart a lot, as long as he takes Guangzhou again, it will be equivalent to eradicating the foundation of Wu Shaoxiang of Huaixi Jiedu.

When the time comes, he will fight back and forth with Han Hong, even if Wu Shaoxiang, a hidden danger lurking in the heart of the Tang Dynasty, is completely removed, but in the case of insufficient troops, it is obviously difficult to completely block the news of Huaixi's recovery, and the mysterious opponent hidden in Hebei will definitely know.

However, after thinking about it for a while, Guo Rong smiled helplessly, everything can't be blamed, and more importantly, not long after the battle ended, Guo Rong received another unexpected surprise.

When cleaning up the battlefield after the war, among the wounded Huaixi Army, the engineers of the Changying Army found Wu Shaoxiang's younger brother, Wu Shaoxiong, the deputy envoy of Huaixi Jiedu who was sitting in Caizhou to replace Wu Shaoxiang.

Although Guo Rong did not deliberately understand the Huaixi Army, Guo Rong still knew that Wu Shaoxiong was the real number two person in the Huaixi Army.

The capture of the number two man in the Huaixi Army is obviously good news.

Guo Rong originally planned to meet the captured deputy envoy of Jiedu immediately, but as soon as this thought arose, Zhi Muyu began to gush endlessly.

From Zhi Muyu's mouth, Guo Rong knew that although Wu Shaoxiong was still alive when he was discovered, Wu Shaoxiong could not be described in a tragic word in the previous battle.

According to Zhi Muyu, there is some oil and vinegar.

After discovering that Changying's army broke into Caizhou City and began to attack the military camp in the city, Wu Shaoxiong was the first

He reorganized the mansion and all the people who could be summoned nearby, and sent reinforcements to the barracks, preparing to kill the thieves who broke into the city.

However, Wu Shaoxiong and his people had just arrived near the barracks, and before they could carefully observe the situation, they were attacked by a wave of dense arrow rain.

The people brought by Wu Shaoxiong were complicated, with less than half of the family, slaves, soldiers, soldiers, guards, and those wearing armor, and as a result, under this round of arrow rain, there were heavy casualties and wailing all over the field.

The enemy was not seen, hundreds of people were killed on the spot, more than 30% were lost, and the rest were either armored soldiers, or they were lucky enough not to hit the vital point, and almost everyone was hit by arrows.

However, before they could react from the rain of arrows, a large group of burly, strong, and capable soldiers rushed up with Mo knives, pickaxes, armor-piercing hammers, mountain axes, and sapper shovels.

After a moment of wind and clouds, Wu Shaoxiong's last hope was dashed.

As for Wu Shaoxiong himself, in a hurry, there was neither chain mail nor armor, and Wu Shaoxiong, who was only wearing a body of armor, had at least seven or eight crossbow arrows and bows on his body, and he passed out directly in the first wave, so he escaped the catastrophe.

When Zhi Muyu came, the military doctors and medical guards who accompanied the army had already fed Wu Shaoxiong hemp boiling powder with wine, and began to deal with Wu Shaoxiong urgently.

Wu Shaoxiong is being rescued, Guo Rong naturally will not add to the chaos, after all, a living Wu Shaoxiong is more valuable than dead, not to mention that after occupying Caizhou City, he has a lot of things, not only to handle all kinds of affairs in Caizhou, but also to arrange the personnel left behind after the army attacks. ….

However, when Guo Rong didn't expect it, he didn't look for Wu Shaoxiong, but after Wu Shaoxiong woke up after the operation, he asked the medical soldiers and learned that it was Changyingjun who entered the city and asked a few questions, and he wanted to see Guo Rong for the first time.

Wu Shaoxiong took the initiative to want to see him, which was more or less beyond Guo Rong's expectations, but the matter had been basically dealt with, and Guo Rong took Zhi Muyu and Han Xiang, who had just returned from Han Hong, to the temporary field hospital.

When Guo Rong saw Wu Shaoxiong himself, he was taken aback by Wu Shaoxiong's appearance.

At this time, the whole body that appeared in front of Guo Rong's eyes was bandaged with gauze in several places, his face was extremely pale due to excessive blood loss, and his body was extremely weak.

However, although his physical condition was extremely poor, Guo Rong could see that Wu Shaoxiong was in a good mood, and he could not see the lament of the defeated general and the dissatisfaction of almost dying on the battlefield, but a sense of relief and relief.

Seeing Guo Rong coming, Wu Shaoxiong subconsciously wanted to get up and salute, but as soon as he tried, he grinned in pain.

"Vice Envoy Wu has lost too much blood and is weak, it is not easy to be rescued, take care of your body, don't be so vain."

Before Guo Rong entered the door, he asked the military doctor who treated Wu Shaoxiong, and although Wu Shaoxiong was hit by a full eight arrows, none of them hit the vital point.

From the coma to being treated, at least half an hour, at least half a barrel of blood flowed, and he did not die of excessive blood loss.

In all fairness, in this state, it's actually quite good luck to be alive until now.

Hearing Guo Rong's unintentional words at this time, Wu Shaoxiong, who was very clear about his physical state, looked at Guo Rong gratefully, and then said respectfully and hoarsely.

"Thank you General Guo for saving your life, and thank you General Guo for protecting the people of Caizhou."

The first half of the sentence is easy to say, but the second half of the sentence hugged the people of Caizhou, which really made Guo Rong a little stunned, and it took him a few seconds before he realized what Wu Shaoxiong was referring to.

Starting from Gaozu and Taizong, the Tang Dynasty prevailed in the way of the inner saint and the outer king, and it was always relatively soft internally, but this trend was interrupted after the Anshi Rebellion.

When the Anshi Rebellion was the most anxious, when the court side and the Anshi rebels were red-eyed, it was not too surprising to slaughter a city.

Not to mention, whether it is the official army of the imperial court or the rebels of Anshi, they have all had a bad record of killing good people and risking meritorious deeds......

In a sense, Guo Rong chose to sneak attack at night, and maintained law and order after completing the sneak attack, so that Caizhou did not fall into chaos, let alone massacre the city, in this era, also

It is indeed a kind of protection for Caizhou.

"Guo Rong is the general of the Tang Dynasty, the Changying Army is the Tang Army, the safety of the garrison of the Tang Dynasty, and the safety of the people of the garrison is our duty, Deputy Envoy Wu praised it."

Guo Rong's words were very calm, but they were indeed Guo Rong's heart, but this calmness gave Wu Shaoxiong a very special feeling.

Unlike Wu Shaoxiang, Wu Shaoxiong himself is not an ambitious person, compared to competing for domination of the world, serving as an official, and benefiting one party is more in line with his personal philosophy, so Guo Rong has won Wu Shaoxiong's great favor from the beginning.

Originally, there was some hesitation, but now Wu Shaoxiong said directly.

"The general of the defeated army has received treatment and preferential treatment from the general, and he should not have made some excessive requests, but if I can't get an answer to my question now, I am uneasy, and I hope General Guo will not blame him."

"Deputy Envoy Wu doesn't have to be polite, just speak out, if there is anything Guo Rong can do, but it doesn't hurt to say it, as long as there is a slight possibility, Rong will definitely do his best."

He had just made up his mind, but before he could speak, Wu Shaoxiong hesitated, but after hesitation, he finally spoke.

"Today, Caizhou has fallen into the hands of the general, and after losing Caizhou's supplies, it is equivalent to cutting off the support of the elder brother, in Shaoxiong's opinion, the elder brother is probably more than lucky."

"I don't know after this war. Will General Guo be able to spare his brother's life?"

turned out to be a direct intercession for Wu Shaoxiang, which was more or less unexpected by Guo Rong.

The most critical issue is that Wu Shaoxiang, a war criminal like him, has no right to decide Wu Shaoxiong's life and death, so what is the use of asking for himself here.

Of course, on paper, Guo Rong is not without rights, but ......

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