Chapter 13: Pioneer War Grievances (Part II)
Chengshi County is seventy or eighty miles northeast of Injustice County, and there is an official road connecting the two, and now, on the edge of a dense forest thirty miles northeast of Injustice, a group of about 8,000 elite horsemen is resting.
This cavalry team is extremely elite, and the first manifestation is one man and two horses. Secondly, every fully armored cavalryman wore a crossbow in addition to a horse lance, a spare horse lance, and a horizontal sword. Not only were they armed from head to toe, but everyone felt as if they were in a small arsenal.
Such a fine horseman, not to mention the combat power, just to feed them will cost unimaginable money.
Under normal circumstances, it takes the military expenses of five foot soldiers to feed one cavalryman. But as far as this cavalry is concerned, each person is afraid that it will cost the resources of ten ordinary foot soldiers to cultivate.
In other words, the military expenses for arming these 8,000 elite horsemen are enough to pull up an army with a minimum of 80,000 foot soldiers!
It is not easy to obtain elite soldiers, especially elite cavalry, which is not easy to cultivate, which can be seen.
However, the reality is that the cost of this elite cavalry is far greater than that of an army of 100,000 foot soldiers.
There is only one reason: the proportion of monks in this elite cavalry is too high—not only much higher than the ordinary infantry army, but also much higher than that of ordinary elite cavalry.
Even if it is only a monk who is only a level of Qi training, whether it is the cost of equipment or the amount of money to be fed, it is far more than an ordinary elite cavalry warrior. And in this elite cavalry, the proportion of Qi cultivators has reached a terrifying thirty percent!
In a cavalry of 8,000 people, there were more than 2,000 Qi cultivators!
You must know that before the chaos in the world, even a monk who practiced Qi at the first level had the qualifications to become an official of the seventh rank of the Imperial Dynasty. Although there are countless officials in the entire dynasty, there are more than 300 states and more than 1,000 counties in the Tang Dynasty, how many officials are above the seventh grade in total?
This is also the great controversy in troubled times, and the overall strength of the monks has been greatly improved, otherwise even if the monks of the rivers and lakes are added, no one will be able to make up such a fine horse.
Rao is so, and this elite horse is terrifying enough.
Looking at the whole world, there are 53 feudal towns, and more than 10 large and small princes, who can form such an army of elite cavalry? Even if Zhu Wen has already leveled the seven towns of the Central Plains, he will not be able to pull up such an elite cavalry in such a short period of time.
So there's only one answer.
This elite cavalry can only appear under the command of the king who has already understood the future situation in the world and is racing against time to prepare for it even before Huang Chao has even done anything.
The number of this elite rider is Wolf Tooth.
Their command is called Shangguan Allure.
Now, it is no longer appropriate to call this army wolf's fang. According to the military system at the end of the Tang Dynasty, 100 people were the "capital", 500 people were one commander, and 5,000 people became an army.
Therefore, this army should now be called the Wolf Tooth Army.
At this moment, Shangguan Chengcheng, who had a white face and red lips, was standing by the edge of the forest, holding a handful of beans in his hand, and was concentrating on feeding his war horse.
The big battle was imminent, and her expression was as usual, and her gaze was calmer than usual.
Even if she is wearing armor and a hood at the moment, she can't hide her country-like face. It's a pity that this beautiful face never blooms with brilliant brilliance, because she is a facial paralysis.
Facial paralysis has the benefits of facial paralysis, especially as a general in the army, which requires her to be silent at all times.
After the war horse finished eating the beans, Shangguan Chengcheng stretched out his hand and combed the mane of the war horse gently and forcefully, acting intimately as if he were his own siblings. After drinking the water, the war horse snorted comfortably, and his eyes narrowed slightly.
Behind her, more than 8,000 soldiers were silently doing the same thing.
War horses will not be overfed, because the big war is imminent.
From time to time, the front rushed back to a horse, rolled down in front of Shangguan Allure, and ran forward to salute: "Report! The five thousand cavalry of the vanguard army of the Xuanwu Army turned to the east, as the general expected, it has been."
Fight with the Caozhou Army!"
Shangguan Chengcheng nodded, and the action of combing the mane of the war horse was not affected for half a minute.
Let the Caozhou soldiers and horses go out first to attract the attention of the vanguard of the Xuanwu Army and disperse the opponent's forces, this is Shangguan Allure's idea. As for the order, it was given by Li Ye through the hand of Xue Wei.
Even if the Wolf Tooth Army is strong in battle, and Shangguan is thinking that it will not be a problem to rescue the wronged sentence and defeat Zhu Yin, she must be fully prepared as much as possible. When it comes to winning the battle on the battlefield, I am not afraid of hard work and pay more military expenses, but I am afraid that there will be complications and I will not be able to win.
The losses of defeat are not measurable by a small amount of military spending.
A moment later, Shangguan Chengcheng glanced up at the sky, and a touch of awe-inspiring color flashed across his eyes.
At this time, there was a horse galloping from the back of the queue, who was also reporting the military situation to the Shangguan Allure.
"General, our 20,000-foot cavalry army is already in place!"
Shangguan Chengcheng didn't nod this time, she patted the neck of the war horse and turned straight on the horse.
Holding the reins, Shangguan Chengcheng looked in the direction of the injustice, "The military order given to the injustice, how to respond to the injustice?"
The adjutant general stepped forward and said: "Our military envoy has issued three orders to let his troops and horses go out of the city to attack the left flank of the Xuanwu Army when we attack the Xuanwu Army. ”
Shangguan Chengcheng nodded.
She wanted to take advantage of Zhu Yin's troops to give him a head-on blow when he had not landed halfway ashore, but it was too late in time - they were able to arrive when the other party had just landed, and it was already day and night. And before the big battle, the elite cavalry who have been running long distances must rest for a while and breathe a sigh of relief.
Shangguan Chengcheng's eyebrows were like lightning, and he raised his hand and ordered: "All the generals listen to the order and rush to attack the vanguard army of the Xuanwu Army!"
"Order!"
The legs lightly clamped the horse's belly, and Shangguan Allure urged the war horse to set off slowly.
But at this moment, she suddenly frowned and looked northwest.
Even if she couldn't see anything abnormal in the forest field, with the realm of the Great Perfection of her military generals, she could clearly feel that there were strong cultivators there.
But she didn't do anything, she didn't even care.
The strong aura is only a few ways, and it has no ability to affect the actions of the Wolf Tooth Army. If the other party dares to appear in front of the Wolf Tooth Army, not to mention that it will be crushed into pulp by the battle formation of 8,000 soldiers, the demon clan monks accompanying them will not let them have a chance to get close.
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On the south bank of Baigou in Yiju County, on a hill with withered leaves, several men and women in robes and gentle and elegant bearings were looking at Zhu Yin's department assembled on the north bank of Baigou.
With an army of about 50,000 people, even if a sailor soldier was left on the ship, there were about 40,000 people ashore. Looking at the river bank from afar, the black pressure of a crowd is huge, but it does not seem crowded, and the various departments are clearly divided and form a whole, showing the outstanding ability to arrange troops for the generals.
The vanguard troops lined up in front of the crowd were neatly formed and murderous, and it was conceivable that once an enemy attacked, they would not become fish and meat, but would most likely play the role of a sword warrior. The entire army will organize a powerful counteroffensive in an instant.
A middle-aged man with calm eyebrows and eyes and a graceful demeanor shook the folding fan in his hand and said with emotion: "I heard that the Xuanwu Army had swept the Central Plains for several months, and when they were only helped by the Taoist soldiers, now that they have seen such military might, they know that the Xuanwu Army is indeed a strong army...... It can be seen from this that Zhu Wen's talent in governing the army should not be underestimated. ”
Beside this man, there was a young Confucian scholar with a square face, resolute eyes, and a bearing that was not quite the same as the ordinary elegant and introverted Confucian scholar, who was Cui Keli's classmate Zhang Zhongsheng.
He said: "Zhu Wenrong has been a horse for half his life, fighting in the north and south, and crawling out of blood and fire
's fierce general, it is indeed not to be taken lightly. The younger generation had the honor of being in the Xuanwu Army, and had seen the tigers and wolves of the other side, and on the strength of the army of the world's feudal towns, there were indeed few who could defeat the Xuanwu Army. ”
The middle-aged man turned his head to look at Zhang Zhongsheng and smiled: "In this way, Zhenzhi also thinks that the Xuanwu Army has a chance to win this battle?"
Zhenzhi is Zhang Zhongsheng's character.
Two months ago, he went to Yangzhou and participated in a grand meeting of Confucian scholars who could comment on the world's scholars. Although he was not ranked among the eight masters because he was still young and lacked qualifications, he was also rated as the first of the seventy-two handsome men of Confucianism by Wang Zaifeng, and he also gave a fourteen-character comment of "sitting on the great policy of the state and the country, and being able to call the gains and losses of the society".
As a result, Zhang Zhongsheng became famous for a while, and he had a great reputation among countless scholars in Huainan.
The meaning of the 14-character comment could not be more obvious, saying that Zhang Zhongsheng not only has the ability to govern the country and formulate and implement major national affairs, but also has the quality of supervising prefectures and counties, investigating and prosecuting unjudicial officials, and measuring the gains and losses of political affairs.
To put it simply, in Wang Zaifeng's words, Zhang Zhongsheng has the talent of a prime minister.
This time, the Central Plains War happened suddenly, whether it was Li Ye mobilizing a million troops or Zhu Wen rushing to attack the Tianping Army, the speed was far faster than the princes expected. As a result, Li Maozhen and Gao Biao in Huainan were unable to immediately mobilize the main army into the Central Plains in a hurry to interfere in the war situation.
The army can be mobilized slowly, but the spies cannot but be dispatched immediately. For princes like Gao Biao, in addition to sending ordinary scouts, they also had to let the talented people under their command go to the battlefield to observe, praise and judge the combat strength of the warring sides, and study their tactics.
The collection of this information is all in preparation for the Huainan Army to send troops to the Central Plains in the future.
The battlefield is dangerous, and those who can come are all great monks, Zhang Zhongsheng didn't say anything. The middle-aged man holding a folding fan in front of him is one of the eight masters of Confucianism, Guo Pu, who has already become famous in Confucianism.
Listening to Guo Pu's question, Zhang Zhongsheng shook his head unexpectedly.
Guo Pu was surprised: "Zhenzhi thinks that the Xuanwu Army can't capture the balance?"
If he didn't know that Zhang Zhongsheng had traveled to the Central Plains, been to Bianzhou and Qingzhou, and had seen the real war with his own eyes, with Guo Pu's status and qualifications, I was afraid that he would have to laugh at him unceremoniously.
Zhang Zhongsheng said seriously: "If the Xuanwu Army wants to defeat the Tianping Army, of course, it will be easy. However, if the Xuanwu army wanted to capture the three states of Tianping, it also had to face the Pinglu army under the command of King An. ”
Speaking of the three words of Pinglu Army, Zhang Zhongsheng's tone involuntarily increased, and his eyes could not help but bring a dignified and murderous look.
Because of these three words, he recalled that he had seen the battle scene of the Pinglu Army resisting the Xuanwu Army with his own eyes in Qingzhou City, together with Cui Keli.
When Guo Pu saw Zhang Zhongsheng's appearance, he said disappreciatively: "Could it be that the Pinglu Army is more elite than the Xuanwu Army?
When he was in Yangzhou, he had seen what the Huainan army was like, and he had fought with the army. In his objective evaluation, the brave and warlike Huainan Army was no match for the Xuanwu Army.
If the Pinglu Army is more capable of fighting than the Xuanwu Army, then in comparison, wouldn't the Huainan Army's combat strength only rank third among the princes of the world?
Zhang Zhongsheng shook his head again.
He looked at Guo Pu solemnly, and said word for word: "Other juniors don't dare to say it, but the wolf tooth capital led by the Shangguan General in the Pinglu Army, the juniors have seen it with their own eyes, and it is definitely not something that the Xuanwu army in front of you can contend with!"
Guo Pu was stunned, and then laughed: "The wolf teeth are so elite?"
"No, wolf fangs can't be said to be elite. ”
"What's that?"
Zhang Zhongsheng's eyes were full of jealousy, as if he had seen a ghost god, "Wolf tooth capital, there are only two words to describe." ”
"What two words?"
"Horror!"
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