Chapter 228: The Alliance of the Two Countries, a Great Victory in the Cavalry War

The founding of the other two families in Dingzhou is really not small, and the yellow and red pillars that stand in the land of Dingzhou are extremely eye-catching even if they are placed in the entire northern border.

Zhou Bai stood in the clouds overlooking the northern border, his luck manifested, and the border was very straightforward, with dozens of countries lined up.

However, there are not many shaped pillars that can be seen directly, and most countries are still in a state of sorting out their internal affairs.

The three heavenly pillars of Dingzhou are already the most special state among the seven states, and once the Three Kingdoms War breaks out, it may be the first to be unified.

This is also why the Three Kingdoms of Dingzhou will attract the attention of other big state forces in the north, and when others use the state to attack the county, how can you stop it.

And aside from the "perversion" of Anbeiguo, which is a country, that is, there is a legal net, and a country in Dingxi still has a moral movement.

Dingguo, which was canonized by the imperial court, is forgotten, after all, people control the core area of Dingzhou and recognize Daxu as the suzerain, so it is natural that they can inherit the old fortune with Daxu.

Some countries don't want resources and take the initiative to rush to supply luck, is it possible that the Red Emperor will refuse?

This is also the reason why Zhou Bai has not refused Chiqing's overtures before, and after deciding not to accept virtue for the time being, he did not hesitate to provide a lot of luck with blood.

The former dynasty was Chide, and the Red Emperor was in charge of human affairs for more than 300 years, and the influence left behind was too great.

According to a more popular law of the rotation of virtue, fire gives birth to earth, and the red virtue is exhausted, so it should be Huangde.

It was an obscure hidden dragon like Lu Ding, who suddenly got in touch with the Yellow Emperor, which really shocked many people.

Not to mention the layout of the Yellow Emperor's lineage, Lu Ding is also a person with great ambitions and plans.

"When the red virtue is exhausted, it should be Huang De, and it is advisable to obey the will of heaven and follow the hearts of the people."

Huanglong was born, the mandate of heaven was added, and he shouted such a slogan at the right time, how could the hearts of the people in Dingxi not be cohesive.

Their people, like the people of Anbei, are convinced of the unification of Dingzhou by their own monarch.

The rotation of red and yellow virtues, there should be incompatibility between Dingguo and Dingxi, especially Dingguo, which must always be careful of the attack of the Dingxi army.

But unexpectedly, on October 10, the second day of the Dingguo sacrifice to Tianzhizong, the two countries announced the conclusion of an alliance and unanimously agreed with the outside world.

At the cost of 5,000 taels of gold and 1,000 lower grade spirit stones, Lu Ding ransomed the land and port along the river in Yongquan County, and the team withdrew from Yongquan County, and the sailors were no longer close to the border of Dingxi within a hundred miles.

On October 13 of the first year of Tongzhi, the Heavenly Court officially announced at the Tiangong Monument that it would start the recruitment of the countries of the Tianyuan Continent in the second year of Tongzhi.

The requirements for conscription are countries that worship the heavens and ascend the throne and are recognized by the heavenly court.

To put it bluntly, you sacrifice to Heaven to give Heavenly Court luck, and Heavenly Court gives you a qualification to fight in the extraterritorial plane.

At that time, the luck and part of the benefits obtained from the victory will belong to you, and the majority of the benefits such as the right to develop the plane will belong to the Heavenly Court.

What kind of form is the form of recruitment, the announcement did not make it clear, only that it is through the Heavenly Court Treasure, and it will not easily hurt people's lives.

The news of the conscription war shook the high-level leaders of the countries, and those who had the Fulong Sect were looking for the Fulong Sect, and those who had a relationship with the Heavenly Court were looking for the Heavenly Court, all of them tried to find out more detailed inside stories.

But Lu Ding and Lei Haomiao, like Zhou Bai, had already known the news, and their energy was not distracted at all.

On October 15, Dingxi sent 30,000 troops, and the soldiers were close to the gate.

The reason for sending troops is ridiculous, saying that they were invited by the people to take revenge and make decisions for the people.

This refers to the fact that Jiao Tu was subjected to too much resistance at the beginning, and slaughtered the local heroes of the door.

Then Dingxi now doesn't know where to find the bitter lord to complain, and the officials and people of Dingxi are "filled with righteous indignation" when they hear it, and they are angry and use the righteous teacher.

It is very simple to let them withdraw from the army, first of all, to apologize to the people of the border city who died tragically, and then to let go of the south gate of the border city and county, and let Dingxi Kingdom control the gate pass.

When the ministers of Anbei Kingdom saw the documents handed over by Dingxi Kingdom, they were simply laughed at angrily, in the troubled times, the king was defeated.

If their Anbei Army is considered to kill innocents indiscriminately, then there will be no righteous country among the countries under heaven.

And as far as they know

, In the process of your Lu Ding's unification of Dingxi, there are not a few civilians who died under the butcher's knife.

Especially Yongquan County, the damage was too large, and afterwards it was quite indulgent to the soldiers, so he almost shouted that he would not seal the knife for three days.

Dingxi sent troops this time, simply because he felt that the threat of Anbei was too great, and deliberately fabricated a name to start a border provocation and consume the national strength.

If the three counties are all made like Bei'an County, there will undoubtedly be no follow-up fights.

Many ministers advocated sending troops to fight a battle for the founding of the country, but Zhou Bai did not agree, and only sent some Taoist officials to support, and even the forbidden army did not move.

Zhou Bai, the defense of the border city county, was handed over to Jiaotu, and there were 30,000 garrisons under his command, including many old border army veterans.

The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, and in the case that Jiao Tu did not ask for help, he would definitely not easily dispatch the forbidden army.

The key is that since Dingxi has sent troops, how can Dinghou Lei Hao watch it.

The two sides have formed an alliance with the outside world, and who can be dealt with can only be against Anbeiguo.

On October 18, the Dingxi Army's follow-up siege equipment was in place and began to attack Menju Pass.

On October 19, the Dingguo Forbidden Army, that is, the 30,000 Yuanzhou Army, arrived at the junction of Longfeng County and Ruinan County, and a small force of the vanguard took the initiative to attack and harass.

At the same time, the war on two fronts doubled the pressure on Anbeiguo, and the support was increasing day by day.

From the beginning, it only sent armor, food and other materials to the front line, and gradually supported the militia and auxiliary troops in the back.

At the end of October, when the Dingguo Ningjiang Naval Division moved south in a big way, and captured the southernmost part of Ruinan County, after the Ningrui Ferry under the jurisdiction of Ningrui County, the front line shook.

Zhou Yuan, who is sitting on the front line, asks for help, the gap between the sailors is too big, please send the elite to counterattack on land.

If the counteroffensive achieves results, the Dingguo Navy Division must be distracted and take care of the back road along the river, and dare not go north easily.

Zhou Yuan is responsible for dealing with Dingguo, and since he has put forward an aid proposal, Zhou Bai will naturally not ignore it.

But at present, he wants to try his best to accumulate internal stability for a few months, reorganize and train all departments of the forbidden army, and stabilize the state system.

In this way, it can only be a quick victory, and it is necessary to defeat the fixed army and achieve the results of the battle, but it must not be delayed.

So Zhou Bai sent Chu Kai to lead Xuanjia to ride 5,000, and Hu Jiang to lead Long Jiaotie to ride 500 and quickly go south.

The military order is very simple, choose your own target, fight to the south, hit wherever you can, and destroy the enemy's northern expedition strategy under the condition that you can protect your own return.

Needless to say, the horses are horses that travel thousands of miles a day, the personnel are the elite of the elite, and the quality of the single body can even be compared to the demon army.

And the five thousand Xuanjia cavalry, only most of them are veterans, so Zhou Bai also has the heart to train this time.

The predecessor of Dingguo was the essence area of Dingzhou, with strong military strength, but in recent years, natural disasters have been repeated and food has decreased sharply.

In order to ensure the resource supply of 800 silver cavalry, the number of ordinary cavalry now supported has been greatly reduced, and only nearly 3,000 cavalry remain.

According to Zheng Hu Jiang, the former Yinjiao army, the generals in the army, including the state government officials, occupied too many resources for the Yinjiao army and could not play a big role, and repeatedly proposed to reduce it.

Because the resources of a hundred silver Jiao army are enough to form a new guard, and the strength of the army will be significantly enhanced.

Of course, Lei Haomiao has been a governor for many years after all, how can he be so short-sighted, or forcibly maintain the current scale of cavalry.

Zhou Bai was not sure whether the first battle between the two cavalry would be won or lost, but he always had some confidence.

You Lei Haomiao was limited by the name of the imperial court before, and you didn't want to be a warlord to expand your territory at will, and the cavalry has always been raised, and it was only used when attacking Qingxu.

The Anbei Army benefited from Zhou Bai's layout, and the cavalry seeds fought in the grassland all year round, and there were countless battles.

Even if it is half of the "recruits" in the 5,000 cavalry, they are also good hands on horseback, and they are not afraid of the former Daxu's warp cavalry.

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I didn't expect that the Anbei Army, which had been on the defensive, would take the initiative to attack, and the forbidden army assembled in Andu City in the intelligence did not move, so it was taken by surprise.

At the end of the day, hundreds of sentry cavalry were damaged, and several military villages echoing on the periphery were also forcibly uprooted.

In desperation, Lei Zhen, the commander of the Dingjun Army, applied to Lei Haomiao for a cavalry attack in the rear, at least to cover the vicinity of the main force, so as not to be unaware of the surprise attack.

In fact, the Dingguo cavalry went north with the army in this battle, just because it was originally a siege battle, and they were temporarily repaired in the grassland behind Longfeng County, waiting for orders.

On November 5, 2,000 Dingguo cavalry were ordered to gallop to support the front line, but they were attacked by the main cavalry led by Chu Kai halfway.

The Dingguo Highway Officer who responded along the way was also ruthlessly intercepted and killed by the Anbei National Highway Officer, and the other party did not have the three realms to carry out such a "small" task, and Li Yuan personally did not let one escape.

Without additional intelligence support, I did not expect the cavalry of the Anbei Army to make a detour and raid, and won more with less, and there was no chance of victory.

However, even so, the five hundred silver Jiao cavalry among them also showed amazing combat power, and they almost broke out of the encirclement with several counter-charges.

It's just that these silver Jiao riders didn't expect that there were still five hundred dragon Jiao iron riders waiting for them on the way back.

5,000 rides, 500 horses? Or is it pouring out of the nest?

In this battle, 2,000 cavalry of Dingguo were directly defeated, more than 300 cavalry were killed in battle, and 800 cavalry surrendered.

Less than 900 horsemen escaped, of which less than half were 500 silver horsemen.

In this battle, Huo Feiguang, an ordinary cavalry soldier of Longjiao Iron Cavalry, slashed the main general of the enemy cavalry, prompting the final collapse of the Dingguo cavalry.

Huo Feiguang was the guide of Zhou Bai when he went out of the fortress, showing extraordinary cavalry talent, and Chu Kai was promoted to be the head of the Xuanjia cavalry because of his military exploits, and he commanded a hundred cavalry.

Then Chu Kai seized the opportunity and led the army to chase and kill the fleeing cavalry, all the way to the hinterland of Longfeng County.

Along the way, there were those who dared to block and kill without mercy, and because of the embarrassed appearance of the Dingguo cavalry fleeing, Longfeng County once thought that the front was defeated.

The two counties of Linjiang County and Fengyong County were coerced and intimidated by Huo Feiguang, and took out all the spirit stones in the treasury to buy peace.

When Lei Haomiao and the army in front reacted and prepared to encircle and suppress the Anbei cavalry that was deep in the hinterland, Huo Feiguang's troops had almost penetrated Longfeng County.

On 12 November, Chu Kai led his army back triumphantly, forcing his way through the temporary defensive line of the front line.

When he returned to the rear of Ningrui County for repairs, coach Zhou Yuan was surprised to find that not only did not decrease, but the number of war horses increased by 500, including hundreds of intact horses.

What is a great victory, this is a great victory.

Needless to say, Zhou Bai was rewarded by general order, Chu Kai was promoted to the head of the Ma Army, and Huo Feiguang was directly promoted to the commander of the Dragon Jiao Iron Cavalry.

As for Hu Jiang, the commander of the former Longjiao Iron Cavalry, according to the battlefield performance, Zhou Bai felt that he had stayed in the original Yinjiao Army for too long, lost the sharpness that a cavalry general should have, and was not suitable for the cavalry of the Anbei Army on active duty.

However, Hu Jiang's contribution is very great, of course Zhou Bai will not unload the mill and kill the donkey, but promote him to the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, and Lao Huang first set up the frame of a country's horse politics.

Lao Huang is good at raising war horses, Hu Jiang is good at raising horses, and he is the highest institution of horse politics, Taifu Temple, which is very suitable.

Zhou Bai suddenly sent a cavalry raid that had just expanded his army, which directly disrupted the strategy of the Northern Expedition of Dingguo, not only did the cavalry suffer heavy losses, but even the grain carts on the grain road did not know how many were burned.

Any offensive can only be suspended, and it will have to wait for Lei Haomiao to reorganize.

In the face of cavalry in Longfeng County, the poor performance of officials and gentry in various places is really chilling.

Dingguo, whether it is a system or a bureaucracy, is not a new generation, but has inherited the legacy of the former Daxu Dynasty in its entirety.

The advantage of inheritance is that you don't have to bother, everything is ready-made, but the disadvantage of inheritance is also because everything is ready-made.

The old system and the old bureaucracy are still entrenched in the country, so that this new country does not have any pioneering spirit.

Just like the cavalry of the Anbei Army entered Longfeng County, they did not encounter decent resistance, and they were even jointly encircled

Slow and extremely inefficient.

The county orders of Linjiang County and Fengyong County were deceived of all the spirit stones in the treasury, which is even more shameful!

And even so, Lei Haomiao could not be punished too severely, just because these old bureaucrats were the basic plate of his former governor.

In just the first battle, Dingguo exposed a lot of weaknesses in front of Zhou Bai, but he still chose to be on the defensive.

The order Zhou Yuan received was only to hold the county seat of Ningrui, and not to allow the enemy army to have a foothold in the territory.

There are too many reasons, the country needs to be cultivated, the forbidden army needs to be prepared, Lu Ding on the Western Front is frantically exerting pressure, and the Dingguo Navy Division is eyeing the tiger......

So when the front line was still fighting non-stop, Zhou Bai had already ordered the preparation of the Spring Festival, which was the first imperial examination after the founding of Anbei.

In addition, he himself started the winter patrol, and the first stop was the Anbei National Water Division Base, Shuiyang Ferry.

The main force of the Anbei Naval Division did not go to the front line to confront the powerful Dingguo Naval Division, but gave up the right to control the river and retreated to the end of the Ningjiang River.

This is also Zhou Bai's order, in the case of too large a gap in the tonnage of the warship, to preserve the vitality of the sailors.

He started from Bei'an, there are no big rivers, and the sailor is naturally a shortcoming.

In order to overtake in the corners, while vigorously expanding the army and training sailors, a shipyard was set up to speed up the construction of the current main warships.

With the shipbuilding master who was well protected by Yan Luo of the former Ruinan Jiedu, the Cangshan Lingmu as the keel and ship materials, and the Tianya Pavilion and Wudingmen monks assisted in the whole process, it is really not difficult to build a ship.

Reiki is revived, and all kinds of changes must be able to keep up in time......