Chapter 80: The First Victory
"Come, pick a thousand crossbowmen, five hundred sword and shield men, and five hundred spearmen, and follow me. ”
He Buyu quickly picked out a good person, except for a team of personal guard cavalry, the other cavalry did not bring any cavalry, all of them brought crossbowmen suitable for shooting cavalry in narrow terrain, and a contradictory combination specially used to fight cavalry at close combat distance.
The soldiers and horses of these two thousand people were led by him all the way, and they were also taught by him when they were camping and training, and many of them were the government soldiers and township soldiers of the He family, which could be regarded as a little care given by He Liming to this nephew.
He knew that this nephew was not only knowledgeable, but also familiar with the art of war since he was a child, and had obtained a lot of true inheritance from the He family.
He didn't want to see if this nephew was just talking on paper or a real general.
It is the first battle of the Ulan Iron Cavalry, and the direct descendants of the He family can stand up and ask for battle without fear of death, which can greatly encourage the morale of the army.
He Weiming still recognized He Buyu quite a lot, and he would ask him about many marching matters, supply calculations, and military defense strategies along the way, as if he regarded this nephew as his staff and military advisor.
"Brothers, you all know the current situation, as soon as the war started, the Ulan people relied on conspiracy and trickery to seize my Hantian City, and surrounded me to the west to conquer 200,000 troops, and now they can enter the pass at any time to attack and harass my Dacheng hinterland, Dacheng can be described as dangerous.
Along the way, I heard some people say that if we hadn't made an expedition to Ulan, we wouldn't be where we are today. But they were wrong.
In the two hundred years since the founding of the country, it has been repeatedly invaded by the Ulan Iron Cavalry, and there are 53 invasions and plunders recorded in the annals, and there are no less than hundreds of battles in Hantian City.
Especially before the construction of the Great Wall in the west, Hantian City did not build a solid wall in today's city, and the Wulan Iron rode back and forth like the wind, and there was no power to fight back the ravages of the three states in my western border.
How many families have been ruined, how many people have been plundered to the grasslands thousands of miles away as slaves for their lives, there is no right or wrong in war, but it is unbearable to poison my Dacheng territory, rape our brothers and sisters, kidnap my Dacheng people as slaves, and sell them cheaply.
Let's ask the three states in the west, who has no blood feud with the Ulan people.
I once heard a master who was also a teacher and friend say that if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different, and if they can't turn their hostility into jade silk, they will fight to the end, and standing to death is better than living on their knees, and being a slave and a slave.
Dacheng's initiative to conquer Ulan may not be the best way, but what the Ulans have done since the war has said it all, they have long had wolf ambitions, and this ambition may be greater than the sky.
Today, Lao Tzu He Yuanshan is fed up.
Dacheng, enough is enough.
Lao Tzu is twenty-three this year, has no wife and no children, is not much different from you, and is also flesh and blood. It's just that after reading books for a few years and taking a test for Xie Yuan, the others are not very good.
Today, I, He Yuanshan, will take you to throw your head and spill your blood, abandon this skin, and follow the example of the sages, protect the family and defend the country, even if you die, Lao Tzu will be reincarnated, and you will still be a good man after eighteen years. ”
"Fight to the end, swear to follow the adults to the death. ”
These two thousand men and horses are all elite soldiers, and the leading soldiers and captains at all levels are mainly from the He family, so they are naturally excited, and they can't wait to kill the Ulan people immediately.
"Very good, let's go together, come back together, the living will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and the dead family members will benefit, as long as everyone follows what I teach on weekdays, they will not be afraid of the Ulan Iron Horse. ”
He Buyu waved the spear in his hand, and the two thousand elite soldiers quietly went down the mountain and hid in the dense forest.
Yun Su hid to the side, and also wanted to see how this academy master fought, whether it was similar to the great writer Xin Qiji, who was both civil and military.
Judging from his pre-war mobilization, he can be regarded as able to afford to let go, not as cowardly and pedantic as ordinary scholars, but has a bloody nature, and I don't know if it is because he knows books and etiquette, and because he has heard about the past and the present, or because he comes from the style of the He family.
And there is a bit of a benefit to being a reader, that is, he has an excellent memory, and some of the ideas he talked about with him when he had nothing to do in the past were also used by him.
No wonder when Emperor Yuan Ling decided to conquer Ulan in the west, he sent He Weiming to control the war in the four states, combined with many records in the annals, the He family in Yangzhou did have something extraordinary, every time the Ulan iron cavalry invaded, in the end He Jiaerlang led the army to repel it, and the losses were smaller than one time.
Twenty miles of official road is more than half an hour for cavalry.
After these Ulan iron cavalry arrived, they did not charge in one go, but reorganized themselves and advanced in formation, and it seemed that they would not charge until they were at close range, giving full play to the speed advantage of the cavalry.
In their opinion, the Dingbo army camp on the mountainside in the distance was as if it were undefended.
But what the Ulan people didn't expect was that He Liming made a lot of fake flags, planted them on the open mountainside, arranged many fake camp tents, and specially buried pots to make rice, making cooking smoke everywhere.
However, the main force of the real Dingbo army is above the mountainside, as well as in the back mountain.
At a distance of more than 300 zhang, the camouflaged Dingbo military camp tents on the mountainside could already be faintly seen, and the general of the Ulan Iron Cavalry waved his hand, and the cavalry began to charge one after another.
"Sure enough, it's a group of rabble, where it's open, it's camping, isn't it just cheaper for our army, what Yangzhou He family, the old old, the dead, the new generation is just like that, hahaha......"
Wan Hu, the leader of the Ulan Iron Cavalry, licked his lips, he couldn't stand it anymore in Hantian City these days, and every time he asked for battle, the marshal vetoed it under the pretext of solving the Western Expeditionary Army.
The Dingbo army went all the way west, and it had long been discovered by the Ulan spies, but it was just some soldiers guarding the city, farming farmers, miscellaneous vendors, and even stronger bandits could not necessarily beat it, as for those so-called masters of the rivers and lakes, in front of the iron cavalry army and locust arrows, there was no need to worry at all.
In a short time, thousands of horsemen rushed to the foot of the mountain, and were about to rush to the camps, but suddenly a group of men and horses rushed out of the oblique times.
"Kill!"
He Buyu was dressed in refined heavy armor, holding a long spear, bursting into a shout, taking the lead, rushing to the front, the spear stabbed, directly penetrating a Ulan Baihu, and then with the help of the horse, he threw it out with a force.
"Whoosh ......"
At the same time, locust-like crossbow arrows shot out of the dense forest, and the Ulan Iron Cavalry suddenly turned on their backs, and hundreds of horsemen directly turned their horses' heads and killed them.
The distance is too close, and there are many dense forests, it is easy for Dacheng crossbowmen to find gaps to shoot outside the dense forest, but the Ulan people's tendon and horn bows can't be used, and they are all dense forest leaves wherever they look, so they have to wave their sabers to kill.
"Kill!"
As a result, as soon as they got closer, they saw hundreds of spears suddenly pierced out of the dense forest, and those Dacheng spearmen put their spears on the ground and pointed diagonally ahead. The hapless cavalry was also picked off their horses a lot.
Then, hundreds of foot soldiers with shields in one hand and scimitars in the other rushed out to kill them, and instead of fighting the cavalry sitting on horseback, they rolled on the spot and cut off the legs of the horses.
For a time, the Ulan Iron Cavalry was cut down and turned over on his back.
"X your mother's!"
When an officer of the Thousand Households of Ulan saw this, he was accustomed to sitting on horseback and killing the enemy like a monkey, where had he ever encountered such a grievance, he was immediately furious, and with a wave of his hand, thousands of cavalry chased after him.
He Buyu picked a few Ulan cavalry in a row, but he rushed too far ahead, and he was slashed twice, but fortunately, the Ulan people's full moon saber could not cut through the refined heavy armor on his body, but he was extremely unlucky, and was drilled through the gap in the armor by an arrow and shot through the corner of the shoulder.
"Withdraw!"
Why don't you say anything and don't panic, you don't even feel pain at this time, you gritted your teeth and pulled out your saber, cut off the arrow with a click, turned the horse's head and ran, the two thousand soldiers lost less than 100 people, but killed more than 500 Ulan iron horsemen, and there were many wounded, most of whom were killed by crossbow arrows.
Why don't you ride Dacheng's mountain horse, the plains can't outrun the bloody BMW of the Ulan people, but they are very flexible in the mountains, and the Ulan iron cavalry watched this group of ragtag troops attacking in battle, and they were so angry that they jumped like thunder.
"The whole army charged, and the blood washed into a child. ”
The commander of the Ulan Iron Cavalry, who was originally full of ambition, was angered by this blow, and you didn't wait to be killed by the powerful Ulan Iron Cavalry, but you still dared to sneak attack, and immediately ordered a charge.
In his opinion, it should be an honor to be killed by the Ulan people's invincible iron cavalry that has been invincible for a hundred years.
Seeing the Wulan iron cavalry all over the mountains, they chased He Weiming's soldiers and horses, and came up the mountain, but the small defeat was not taken to their hearts, thinking that it was the dying struggle of adults, in order to delay time and protect their camp.
"There's a camp of adults in front of you, kill them. ”
"Hahahaha, Lao Tzu is going to catch a hundred slaves this time and go back to help Lao Tzu herd sheep. ”
"Hahaha, Dacheng's beauty, fragrant and tender, cleaned up this Laoshizi Dingbo Army, ransacked a few counties, arrested ten mothers-in-law and went back to the grassland, and gave birth to a bunch of cubs. ”
Yunsu stood in the distance, looking at these Ulan people on horseback, and couldn't help but guess, not knowing what kind of conditions must be met in order for these Ulan people to become good at singing and dancing and loving peace.
In all fairness, the Ulan people are much more primitive and backward than Dacheng, and they are more murderous, advocating captivity and killing, and the slavery system is only one aspect.
Ahead, the fake camp arranged by He Liming on the mountainside was already setting fire, and the Ulan people were even more excited when they saw it, and they all felt that the adults were frightened stupid by the iron horse, and they were in a mess, so they desperately urged the horses to charge.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the first few Ulan hot-blooded horses stepped into the air and fell into the trap, and were immediately pierced by countless sharpened huge wooden spears.
Then, hundreds of Ulan iron horsemen fell into dozens of horse traps.
However, Ulan's hot-blooded military horses are also well-trained, and the horses behind them actually know how to jump and dodge when they see the horse pit, and there are fewer people who fall behind.
"Adults, that's all there is to do. Kill!"
Dozens of zhang, thousands of soldiers of the Dingbo Army ran up the mountain like crazy, and the Ulan iron horsemen who watched laughed and continued to rush forward desperately.
Unconsciously, the speed of the war horse had decreased a lot, and the iron cavalry in front had already rushed into the camp, only more than twenty zhang away from the Dingbo army that had escaped.
"Hahahaha......"
He Liming saw it clearly on the mountain, and saw that the Ulan people had been tricked, and at least six or seven thousand iron horsemen rushed in the camp in a very short time, and he didn't wait for all the people behind to follow, so he waved his hand:
"Shoot the arrows!"
For a while, countless Dingbo army crossbowmen appeared in the trees on the mountain, behind the stones, and in the soil pits, and hundreds of bed crossbows and rows of giant bows were also launched behind the trees and grasses, and the arrows had already been prepared, and there was almost no need to aim, and the camp on the mountainside was full of Ulan iron horsemen, still rushing towards the mountain desperately.
"Whoosh Whoosh ......"
Many Ulan people have been on the battlefield for a long time, and when they hear the dense sound like thunder and rain, they are immediately shocked, but it is too late.
The bow equipped by the Dingbo army is mainly a longbow, which is not very suitable for fighting on horseback, but it is extremely suitable for fixed shooting, and the range of ordinary bows and crossbows can reach forty or fifty zhang, and the condescending advantage is greater.
As for those extremely powerful bed crossbow giant bows, they are even more terrifying.
"Ah......h
An Ulan cavalryman who rushed to the front, only felt a flower in front of him, and was pierced through the chest by a huge crossbow with a thick arm, which did not stop at all, and then shot three more people before piercing into the belly of a war horse.
Many Ulan people looked up at the mountains and felt that the arrows of adults were more terrible than when there was a locust plague on the grassland.
Many of the horsemen and horses were shot before they could recover at all.
Even many Ulan masters who were hidden in the cavalry and had martial arts skills were shot like hedgehogs as soon as they jumped into the air.
The Dingbo army personnel are messy, but there are a lot of ordnance arrows, and they don't feel distressed at all, this is the territory of Dacheng, and it can still be recovered after the war, and the supplies from the rear are also being sent in a steady stream.
Instead of being defeated and letting the Ulans wantonly plunder the four states, it is better to kill a few more Ulan iron horsemen.
The Dingbo army was in full swing, and many of the crossbowmen even shot empty of their quivers, only to be handed over by a foot soldier immediately.
More than 7,000 Ulan iron horsemen, at first there were many cavalry hiding under the belly of the horse, but when they got to the back, even the horse was shot to death, and the war horse was also frightened by the rainstorm of arrows and began to go crazy.
It's just half a pillar of incense, Yun Su took a look, and nearly 4,000 Ulan cavalry were shot, and this is still the cavalry behind who turned around and ran away when they saw the situation, otherwise it is estimated that they will all die in the fake camp arranged by He Liming.
"Kill!"
There was a burst of shouts on the mountain, and more than 5,000 cavalry of the Dingbo Army took the lead in rushing down, and it was difficult for the cavalry to go up the mountain, but it was much easier to walk down the mountain, and many crossbowmen also followed the charge, and many people had strained their arms, and they were still chasing the Ulan Iron Cavalry and shooting arrows.
At this moment, I saw three black lights from far and near, and I was about to go up the mountain in a moment.
Yun Su saw the people coming from a very distance, they were all monks from the Ghost Fang Temple, and some martial arts masters who were originally with the army were killed by the arrows of the Dacheng army and had no power to fight back, and finally used the monks.
He was not in a hurry to make a move, and someone had been waiting for a long time in secret.
"Whoosh~"
Many soldiers of the Dingbo Army were in shock, only to see three sword lights flying out of the mountain in an instant, and the first one was the Jindan sword cultivator who passed from the sky a few days ago.
"Ah......h
With three screams, the Ulan ghost cultivator barely had the strength to fight back, and two people were killed, one of whom was higher, cast a ghost spell, turned into a puff of black smoke, and ran away in the air.
"The thief is gone!"
The three sword lights did not stop at all, and hurriedly chased after them, but when Yun Su saw this, he hurriedly shouted:
"Poor Kou Mo Chase!"
However, the three sword cultivators couldn't listen to it at all, and when the words fell, they had already chased them out for several miles, and in the blink of an eye, they chased them to Hantian City.
Yun Su shook his head, the people in the Ghost Fang Temple were haunted, and he had already reminded him that the other party might just be an ordinary Jianghu master to warn, and it was not the same thing at all.
These people from the Yanshan Sword Sect have a good cultivation, and they also have unique swordsmanship, but they are too lonely, and even He Weiming of the Dingbo Army is not worthy of their recognition, let alone a swordsman who seems to be just a martial arts master, let alone in their eyes.
The situation in Hantian City is quite complicated, and Yun Su has to ensure that these soldiers of the Dingbo Army are not wantonly killed by the monks of the Ghost Fang Temple.
"Go!"
Yun Su recited the mantra, summoned the Langya sword, pointed out, and attached a trace of divine sense, the Langya sword seemed to come to life, instantly rose into the air, and chased after it several times faster than the three of them.
Twenty miles was too close, and he could only do his best.