Chapter 664: The War in the Imperial Capital (8)
Ever since humans appeared on this continent, they have never stopped fighting. On one side of war is the embodiment of interests, and on the other hand, war is also synonymous with the war machine. Of course, when people think of war, they always think of many, many adjectives to describe a war, such as rivers of blood, piles of bones, and so on. No war is a war fought for no purpose, no war is a war without bloodshed and sacrifice. The severity of a war is largely determined by the war equipment used in a war, and the victory or defeat of a war is not so easy to decide, and even sometimes there is no way to decide the outcome of a war after both sides have been wiped out.
The first confrontation between the Shenwu Army and the Liangzhou Army was a direct collision of blood and fire, and the glory of the Shenwu Army came from themselves, they started from scratch, from small to large, and it can be said that there was no defeat. The Shenwu Army grew up in blood and fire, and the more they fought, the stronger they became, the more glory they had. A few decades ago, the empire's sweeping Shenwu army made everyone remember the name Shenwu Army, and now the whole empire remembers this Shenwu army that is trying its best to maintain the stability of the empire. Starting from Yangzhou, they gradually grew stronger under the suppression of the Praetorian Guard, and they broke their muscles and bones in the battle with the Sea Clan, but none of this could make the Shenwu Army lower his arrogant head, and the Shenwu Army grew stronger in blood and fire, and now they are going to transform in the battle of blood and fire again.
When it comes to Liangzhou, we must mention the composition of Liangzhou, the land in Liangzhou is barren and cannot survive a large number of crops, but Liangzhou is located in the north of the empire, and the natural conditions make Liangzhou the first place to raise horses outside the empire. Eight military horse ranches of the Empire. Four of them are in Liangzhou. Liangzhou is vast and sparsely populated. The environment is harsh. The forces of the Empire stationed here were mainly stationed in the border areas or some large cities, and some small cities had few garrisons or no garrisons at all. It is precisely because of this situation that this place has become a paradise for horse bandits and thieves, and countless thieves and horse bandits have bred and grown here. The natural harshness of the situation made the people here more martial and aggressive than the people of the interior of the empire.
The main body of the empire is composed of the Draconians, as well as those other ethnic minorities who are subject to the order of the empire. Of course, there are rebels in a great empire. For example, it is the remnants of the previous dynasty, the original owner of the land of Liangzhou. After the empire overthrew the former dynasty and pacified the world, he drove all the remnants of the former dynasty and aliens who did not obey the rule of the empire to the desolate land of Liangzhou, and stationed a large army to guard them. It's a pity that time has passed, although the empire has stood for thousands of years, but the empire has also changed several times, and the care of these sinners in Liangzhou is naturally not very strict. This gave the aliens and sinners who had come to live here an opportunity to finally develop secretly under the strictness of the Empire.
Aliens, in fact, to be precise, should not be called aliens, they are all enemies of the empire. They were, and still are, but they were a group of enemies defeated by the Empire. Unlike other peoples, these people were able to integrate into the empire with the understanding of the First Emperor. Their ambitions and the sins they committed made it difficult for them to integrate into this empire, such as the original masters of the land of Liangzhou, the Xiannu clan, the remnants of the previous dynasty, the Li clan, and the earlier Yang clan.
After the natural land of horse grazing in Liangzhou was taken by the empire, the empire moved all the enemies of the empire to Liangzhou in order to develop it, and with the passage of time, these people also settled in the land of Liangzhou. For thousands of years since the establishment of the empire, it has not stopped fighting foreign wars, annihilating many shili in the south and north, and capturing many prisoners of war, all of whom have been sent to Liangzhou to develop the desolate land of Liangzhou. And the one responsible for guarding them is the Liangzhou Corps, since the prince was in turmoil, the empire has collapsed, which has caused the Liangzhou Corps to shrink seriously, not to mention that the Lion Empire's several times Koubian has also caused heavy losses to the Liangzhou Corps. The supplies and military supplies of the Liangzhou Corps itself had to be transported from the imperial capital to here, and the thousand-mile transportation line far restricted the supply of the Liangzhou Army, making the Liangzhou Army even more tight in the face of the Lion Empire's army.
Although the empire strongly supported the Liangzhou Corps in the north, and tried to draw grain, grass, and baggage from the northern states to supply the Liangzhou army, it also opened up greater autonomy to the Liangzhou town guard generals, one of which was to recruit those aliens living in Liangzhou without asking for instructions, so that they could cooperate with the defense of the north in the form of coordinated soldiers. The previous Liangzhou town guard generals were all born into wealthy families and did not show any dissent, but since Dong Zhuo ascended to this position, he has found an opportunity from it. The thousand-year-old entrenchment has made those shili in Liangzhou intricate, far from being as simple as the alien races composed of those tribes on the surface of the empire.
After Dong Zhuo ascended to this position, he found that those sinners in Liangzhou had lost control since they lost the powerful guard of the Liangzhou Corps, and Dong Zhuo's first thought was not how to exterminate these people, but how to use these people. The shili of Liangzhou probably formed three shili, two of which were the remnants of the previous dynasty, and the other was the indigenous of Liangzhou, the former ruler of the land of Liangzhou, the Xiannu clan. These people are very smart, they are afraid that the empire will find out their purpose and intentions, so they divide it into parts, and divide the strength they can control into small tribes, and each small tribe happens to maintain the maximum strength that the empire can tolerate, so that their forces are more and more, and the empire does not have an approximate number of how many alien races live in the land of Liangzhou.
Dong Zhuo discovered the secret, but he didn't report it, and after exterminating several small tribes in several small-scale military sorties, he took the initiative to hand out an olive branch to these three shili. Although the three shili have a lot of hatred, they don't want to offend Dong Zhuo, who is now in charge of them. So after several consultations, these three shili reached a secret agreement with Dong Zhuo, that is, to fully support Dong Zhuo to dominate the world and spare no effort to support, which is also the reason why Weishenme Dong Zhuo was able to get so many weapons, armor and war horses.
Liangzhou can be said to be the most complex state capital of the empire at present, and both the Li family and the Yang family are remnants of the previous dynasty. The First Emperor was kind-hearted and did not kill these two families in a hurry. Let these two get a respite. And the Xiannu clan was the hegemon in the north back then. In the decade-long tug-of-war with the Empire, they were finally defeated at the hands of the First Emperor, and their proud iron cavalry was completely annihilated by the Empire's forces. Liangzhou was originally the territory of the Xiannu clan, the first emperor confined them in Liangzhou, although he sent a large number of troops to guard them, but he did not restrict the Xiannu clan's horse herding, and even collected a large number of high-grade war horses from the Xiannu clan every year. The three guilty peoples, immediately after the easing of the restrictions of the empire, reached an agreement and dispersed their development. Try not to attract the attention of the empire, under such a low-key policy, everyone only knows that the empire's Liangzhou is a chaotic state capital with many tribes, but they don't know that the hidden among these tribes are the elite of the elite.
Dong Zhuo went south this time, and the three families contributed a lot in the back, and the three families almost recruited a total of 150,000 elites to follow Dong Zhuo south, and the name they used was the empire's interracial alliance army. Dong Zhuo went south, and the headquarters of the Liangzhou Corps did not have a lot of troops, accounting for less than one-third of the main force of the southward movement this time, and the rest of the troops were elite cavalry provided by the three companies. Even the grain and grass, war horses, and weapons were provided by the three families in the rear. Of course, no one knows all this. Even Dong Zhuo is not very clear about the specific strength of the three families, and they are concerned about using each other first. Dong Zhuo wants to take over the world with the help of Liliang of the three families, and the three families completely regard Dong Zhuo as a pawn.
The Liangzhou army went south, and the biggest enemy in the struggle for hegemony in the world was the Shenwu army. Before that, they had no record of fighting the Shenwu Army, but this time they were officially fighting the Shenwu Army. The 400,000 troops of the Xiliang Army are all cavalry, and the liliang of the cavalry charge can be described as destroying the world. The Shenwu army lacked war horses, and the main force of the troops was still surrounded by infantry, heavy infantry and archers combined to resist the charge of cavalry troops, and a small number of cavalry was responsible for holding down the position to prevent the enemy from suddenly dispersing his forces and attacking the large formation from the flank.
"Wind, wind, wind!" The cavalry troops in the rear raised their bows and arrows high, and let go of the bowstrings in their hands with a bang, and the arrows of 50,000 piercing arrows tore through the autumn air and pounced on the 400,000 cavalry troops who rushed over. The arrows in the sky are the brilliance of the sun, the arrows are raining down, people's lives are so fragile at this moment, they don't even have a chance to dodge the rain of arrows in the sky, the three soldiers and horses are in the elite, the war horses are excellent, and finally there are not enough resources to build armor that can block the imperial armor through the arrows.
"Mountain, mountain, mountain!" The heavy infantry in front of him roared, and with a bang, one shield after another was stuck on the ground, and the soldiers in the rear were tightly huddled together, their spears on the shoulders of their comrades, and the cold spears pointed directly at the enemy troops rushing in front. Under the heavy armor, all the soldiers are tightly holding the weapons in their hands and mouthing for rough clothing, the equipment of the Shenwu Army is finally a little simpler, if there is an imperial defense artifact to move the city wall at this time, these soldiers will definitely not be so nervous, 100,000 heavy infantry in the face of the impact of 400,000 cavalry is completely looking for death.
"Knock knock!" When the war horse was less than a hundred paces, the war drums in the Shenwu army suddenly sounded, and the cramped war drums became heavier and heavier, and the cavalry that had been wandering around began to let go of their horses under the leadership of their respective generals, and quickly went around in a big circle and killed the enemy's rear. And the heavy infantry, who was responsible for resisting the cavalry charge, knelt on the ground one after another, and used all their strength to resist the heavy shield in front of them.
"Mountain!" With the roar of the front-line generals, the screams of the war horses after the bang, the clatter of broken bones, the screams of soldiers before they died, the sound of spears entering their bodies, all kinds of sounds were endless. The 400,000 cavalry charged completely in a straight line, and the frontal charge directly caused the heavy infantry of the Shenwu Army to suffer heavy casualties in a round of charge. The cavalrymen who passed by immediately removed the crossbow from the Victory Hook and shot the bow and arrow of revenge in their hands.
Immovable as a mountain, this is the power of the Shenwu Army's large array, even in the face of such a brutal impact, the heavy infantry of the Shenwu Army has always been at the forefront. The heavy infantry in the rear was dead layer after layer on the backs of his robed brothers. The archers are constantly winding and releasing arrows to reduce the pressure on the front. The Great War continues, and the bloodshed continues. Wang Jian stood coldly in the big array, constantly dispatching the army to fill the gaps one by one, and Guan Sheng, who was in the forefront, Hu Yanzhuo and Qin Ming and other generals were even more brave. Again and again, the enemy soldiers who rushed towards them were smashed to pieces.
Knock knock. The drums of war continued to sound in the great array. A cavalryman of the Xiliang Army slammed into the shield wall, and the soldiers of the Shenwu Army, who had already suffered too much impact, were knocked into the sky with a bang. And the soldier of the Xiliang Army was also thrown into the sky by the horse, and the pikeman standing behind shouted and put the Xiliang soldier on the spear with a roar. Before everyone could withdraw the spears in their hands, the Xiliang cavalry swarmed in from the breach, and the heads of the pikemen soldiers were thrown into the sky.
"Block the gap, block the gap!" a bloodied captain shouted at the soldiers under his command with a huge war saber in his hand, and the large array of the Shenwu Army was tightly together. Once there is a breakthrough in one place, it is likely to lead to the collapse of the whole line. As soon as the breakthrough here opened, the captain who was fighting bravely to kill the enemy was suddenly startled, and hurriedly commanded his soldiers to rush up and block the gap to the death. The captain was brave, and the sword in his hand cut off an enemy soldier and the horse into two sections with a side slash, and the backhand cut off the head of a war horse with a knife.
"Open!" the captain roared, and with a wave of the horse chopping knife in his hand, a powerful knife qi instantly slashed out, and all the people who passed along the way were either killed or injured. The powerful combat effectiveness of the Shenwu Army was fully displayed at this moment, the captain blocked the enemy's desperate impact, and several soldiers behind the captain hurriedly raised the shields in their hands and blocked the gap with a bang. The soldiers who rushed up desperately around continued to kill the nearby enemy soldiers, and finally blocked the gap after paying a heavy price. And the brave lieutenant was already in a different place.
"Kill!" Li Mu held the war in his hand and yelled at the cavalry behind him, and led the 25,000 cavalry under his command and Lian Po on the left flank to crash into the cavalry of the Xiliang Army. The sound of bang kept ringing on the battlefield. At every sound, two cavalrymen must have died on the battlefield. Li Mu rushed to the forefront, and the brave generals of the Xiliang Army also rushed to the forefront, and it was difficult to hide Li Mu's heavy murderous aura under the heavy helmet.
"Die!" Li Mu roared, the battle in his hand was like the sickle of death, and in an instant, the cavalry that came from close to him suffered heavy losses, and the two generals of the Xiliang Army who rushed to the front were directly taken away by Li Mu. The bell, and then the Sanming generals who followed blocked Li Mu's battle, the weapons of both sides slipped sideways, and their respective war horses passed by in an instant, and several people immediately brought a bloody storm in the opponent's camp.
On the vast plain, both sides are fighting to the death, and the earth no longer has any stomach to absorb the blood that spreads all over their feet. The battlefield was littered with stumps and severed arms, and corpses fell to the ground weakly. Wang Jian and Dong Zhuo both stood coldly in different places and observed the entire battlefield. Wang Jian looked at the brave Xiliang Army, his mind couldn't help but become heavy, he already knew the terrible combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army from the newspaper, but he didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the Xiliang Army was so terrifying. It is not only the combat style of the Shenwu Army that does not retreat and does not fight to the death, but also the brave Xiliang Army.
Dong Zhuo's mind was also very heavy, although he had already seen the horror of the Shenwu Army, but when the battle of hundreds of thousands of people was really in front of him, he finally knew the situation of Weishenme's absolutely inferior forces, and the Shenwu Army was getting stronger and stronger, and gradually grew stronger. The charge of 400,000 cavalry, Dong Zhuo, who was born as a cavalry general, was very clear, he didn't expect that the Shenwu Army would only rely on the cooperation of 100,000 heavy infantry, 50,000 archers and 50,000 cavalry to block the charge of his cavalry.
Infantry and cavalry are inherently inferior in combat, not to mention using infantry to block the cavalry that tells the charge, this is not only a matter of heavy armor and heavy shields, but also requires a great courage and spirit of sacrifice, there is no strong will to fight, there is not enough courage to face the cavalry charge in this scene, not to mention fighting with weapons, even if it is standing in place, it is very difficult, and the Shenwu Army has never had a soldier retreat, how terrifying has their will to fight be? This is the question that Dong Zhuo wants to know most now.
Quack, when the sun went down and the crows and vultures flew across the battlefield, the commanders of both sides finally retreated. There are no winners and no losers in this battle, but for the two main generals, they have already divided the winners and losers in their hearts. The Shenwu Army saw the horror of the Liangzhou Army, and also let the Liangzhou Army see what it means to have a strong will to fight.
There was silence on the bloody battlefield, not even a single wounded man's cry for help, only the horses that had lost their masters stood by their masters' side, snorting incessantly. The soldiers who cleaned up the battlefield were all looking at each other's soldiers with fierce eyes, but none of them did anything, and their robed brothers fell here, and they had to take them home.
Brothers, come home with me, this is the voice of every soldier. (To be continued......)