Chapter 22: Soldiers in Troubled Times
Garrisoned in Gaocheng, Yun Feiyu has to go up to the city every day to watch the grassland elite cavalry under the city, just when Zhu Lian concluded that the grassland coalition army will go south to Kyoto, Yun Feiyu found that the grassland cavalry under Gaocheng did not gather people to attack the city in the south, but the number of rangers is decreasing day by day, and there is nothing to do, Yun Feiyu and Che Qi guessed the movement of the grassland army, Che Qi believes that the grassland is entangled with 250,000 elite soldiers, it really wants to go straight to Kyoto, and the west wind will destroy the country, but Yun Feiyu does not think so, Yun Feiyu analyzes that there are still four major clans in the grassland, the military and government have not been unified, and the three armies have not a commander, which is definitely not conducive to the war with the west wind, and the grassland army does not have a big siege equipmentIf you rely on cavalry all the way south to capture Kyoto, it will be a joke! There are four dangerous passes from Gaocheng to Kyoto, and the southern army of the west wind has already been stationed in various cities, what price will the grassland cavalry have to pay to get to the city of Kyoto?
Che Qi asked Yun Feiyu rhetorically: "Since the grassland barbarians have no intention or ability to capture Kyoto, then what are they besieging the front line of Gaocheng all day long?"
Yun Feiyu looked into the distance and sighed: "In the past few days, the lower reaches of Gaocheng City have been riding less and less, but the Gaocheng guards will be frightened, and they will not dare to go out of the city to test the enemy, if the grassland army loots the population and property as in previous years, I am afraid that their army has already gone east!"
"To the east, you said that the grassland barbarians would invade Youjun and Dongjun? There are thousands of miles of plains, and there are countless villages and towns! Aren't the people of those two counties going to suffer?" Che Qi exclaimed.
Thinking of what happened in Fenjun at the beginning, Yun Feiyu sighed with emotion: "The troubled times are the most serious, we can only guess when we are stationed in Gaocheng, and even so, there is nothing we can do!"
Beginning on April 6, 570, the grassland cavalry of more than 200,000 elite cavalry swept through Xifengyou County and Dongjun, and wherever the grassland elite cavalry went, the villages were destroyed and the towns were destroyed, and most of the civilians in the villages and towns were looted and killed! Only a small number of young and strong men and women survived, and most of them were tied together with ropes by the grassland cavalry like livestock, and led behind the horses, these young men and women will be the slaves of the nobles on the grassland, and perhaps some young women with good looks will become the playthings of the grassland nobles! Unlike the other three clans who only wanted to plunder gold, silver and jewels, the Kuer clan secretly plundered all the carpenters, blacksmiths and other skilled craftsmen found in the two counties back to their horse team!
200,000 elite soldiers slaughtered and plundered, turning the two counties into a hell on earth, full of miserable deaths of ordinary people, everywhere burned houses, often the army passed everywhere, leaving only the thick smoke of the road, and the cries of babies! Youjun and Dongjun are the granaries of the west wind, and the residents of the two counties account for one-third of the population of the west wind.
When he got the news that the grassland army was moving eastward, Zhu Lian opened his bloodshot eyes and was stunned for a long time, only then did he realize that he had been tricked, Zhu Lian urgently ordered the cities of Beijun to attack, kill the remaining enemy troops everywhere, and sent his own soldiers with his own handwritten orders to the major cities of Youjun and Dongjun, ordering them to incorporate the surrounding people into the city as much as possible, and to ask the cities to guard the city and not to fight with the grassland army, Zhu Lian only hoped that the prosperous cities of the two counties were not attacked, as for the villages and towns, it could only be left to fate!
The forward battalion was ordered to attack the grassland cavalry that remained in the northern county, Yun Feiyu was very unimpressed with this, just joking! Who can catch up with the grassland cavalry when they go out of the city, if they had gone out of the city earlier to test the enemy army, they would not have allowed the grassland army to enter the two eastern counties all the way, and now they will chase the remaining suspicious soldiers, what is the use? But the order from above, the forward battalion had to carry it out, and the grassland hundred horsemen ran all the way, Yun Feiyu and Che Qi all had martial arts, which was better, and the soldiers of the other forward battalion were all tired like dogs under the poisonous sun in summer, sticking out their tongues! Seeing that the pursuers behind were exhausted, the 100 cavalry turned around and attacked the military formation of the forward battalion, and all the soldiers in the forward battalion died! Yun Feiyu and Che Qi led the 500 forward battalion sergeants to nearly 100 casualties, and only killed 40 grassland cavalry, which was not a big victory!
Looking at the retreating cavalry, Yun Feiyu sighed, and sighed in his heart, the grassland is so elite, how can the Central Plains countries be the enemy? Che Qi was exhausted, leaned on Changge, and hissed: "Brother Yun, why didn't you say that the marshal didn't send us into Youjun to kill the enemy, chasing these few scattered barbarian horsemen here, it's really tiring!"
After many days of being very familiar with Che Qi, Yun Feiyu said politely: "The marshal is not a fool! On the plain, are we the opponents of the grassland spirit horse?"
Che Qi didn't care, laughed, lifted his spirits, and shouted: "Brothers, there are still dogs' brute riders ahead, let's work hard!" The two chased down with the remaining tired soldiers!
Changwang Zhu Lian misjudged the movement of the grassland army, and asked Emperor Shengwu to ask for guilt, but he knew that Emperor Shengwu Zhu Gan not only did not mean to blame, but also issued an edict to be diligent Zhu Lian, and there was a secret edict in the will.
Zunmi Zhao Chang Wang Zhu Lian Chuan Marshal ordered the front army of the southern army to no longer care about the grassland scattered cavalry in the northern county, and to assemble some of the southern troops stationed in the cities of the northern county, form an army of 50,000, and go straight to Gale City! This was not expected by Yun Feiyu, after many days of strong attack, in the beginning of May 570 in Tianyuan Yuan captured Gale City, after capturing the city, Zhu Lian immediately summoned the soldiers and people to repair the defense of Gale City, and put on the posture of cutting off the grassland elite cavalry with 50,000 troops!
At the head of Gale City, the soldiers of Yun Feiyu's forward battalion acted as coolies again, carrying boulders and rolling logs under the scorching sun, and Che Qi and Yun Feiyu carried a huge rolling log, and kept complaining: "It's enough to be a dead soldier, but I can't imagine that I have to be a coolie! Brother Yun, what do you think above? Do you want to block the grassland barbarians in the country?"
In the past few days, Yun Feiyu has also been thinking about the tactics of dealing with the grassland invasion like the wind, and after listening to what Che Qi said, Yun Feiyu's heart was shocked, and he secretly thought that he really let Che Qi say it? Occupy Gale City, and the more than 200,000 grassland elite horsemen will have no way back, but isn't that a disaster for them to be in the territory of the west wind? This new emperor has such great courage? He actually set up a siege with the entire west wind, but if this is the case, the people living in the dangerous pass of the big city will be unharmed, and at most they will defend the city, but what about the millions of rural villagers and townspeople in the open areas of the plains? Is it really so easy to do this?
Seeing Yun Feiyu's rare silence, Che Qi couldn't help but wonder, these days, the two of them talked about the war between the west wind and the grassland together, Yun Feiyu has unique insights, and often tells what Che Qi can't figure out, just like a teacher instructing students, now the "teacher" is silent, as a "student" Che Qi carries forward the spirit of breaking the sand pot and asking to the end, and asks continuously: "Brother Yun, tell me, do you think so?"
Lifting the rolling logs to the city, Yun Feiyu wiped his sweat and said loudly: "If the marshal really wants to block the grassland army in the country, then the people of the counties will suffer, the land of thousands of miles is trapped with 200,000 elite horsemen, the whole territory must be fortified and cleared, the people must be moved into the city as much as possible, and all the grain and grass in the villages and towns must be collected in the dangerous fortress, and now it has entered May, and the crops that are about to mature will be all destroyed in the fields!
Che Qi listened to what Yun Feiyu said, and was silent, it seems that the imperial court has done everything in order to defeat the grassland army! It is really so strong and clear, I don't know how many remote villages and towns will be trampled by the iron hooves of the grassland, and human life in the troubled times is like grass mustard! These little pawns can't help themselves, even if they know the intentions of the imperial court, what can they do?
Although Zhu Gan was quite generous in his desire to set up an enclosure for the entire west wind, to regard the more than 200,000 elite horsemen of the grassland as a pack of wolves, and to trap this group of "hungry wolves" in the clear wilderness, the "wolf pack" was not necessarily satisfactory; when the four tribes of the grassland heard that Gale City had been captured, they knew that the west wind intended to cut off their way back, and Hu Erlie couldn't help but look at the new emperor of the west wind, and secretly sighed at his ambition, and actually wanted to eat more than 200,000 elite horsemen in the grassland! I am afraid that there is no such extravagant dream of that lord in the Central Plains!
In the middle of May 570, after the grassland army killed and plundered many places in the two counties of Xifeng and Dongfeng, they returned to attack Gale City, and Hu Erlie deliberately damaged the strength of the other three tribes, and led 150,000 cavalry of the Kuer tribe as the rear team, under the pretext of defending against the West Wind army and the defenders of Gale City, and let the 100,000 elite cavalry of the three clans attack Gale City as the front team.
The three major clans plundered countless people's property this time, and plundered nearly 100,000 young and strong civilians of the west wind, and they were satisfied, but they didn't see the intention of the fierce one, and rushed to open the way as the front team.
Gale City, which has a history of 100 years, is actually a pass between two mountain ranges, also known as Gale Pass, built according to the mountain situation in the east and west, leaving only two gates in the north and south, it is the most dangerous pass of the west wind, it is the only passage between the Huer grassland and the inner border of the west wind, and the two sides are the continuous high and steep peaks. At this time, there were 50,000 troops and 20,000 people stationed in Gale City, and their task was to occupy the danger and firmly block the return of the grassland army!
Under this Guancheng, there have been countless Zephyr men who have spilled their blood, and countless grassland athletes have fallen to sleep, but this time, the battle for Gale Wind City will be the focus of the whole continent, because the two sides of the battle are the two strongest military groups on the continent! Although Zephyr lost 100,000 elite soldiers on the shore of Luoyun Lake, as the most powerful empire in the Central Plains, the south quickly gathered an army of 150,000 to go north, in addition to 50,000 in Gale City, there are also 100,000 Gaocheng stationed in Beijun, Yongcheng and other places not only prevent the grassland army from invading the westerly capital south, but also threaten the rear of the grassland army attacking Gale City, and it is also because of this that Kuerlie has a reason to lead the 150,000 army of the Kuer tribe as a rear defense!
The 100,000 elite soldiers of the three tribes of the grassland lined up under Gale City, and the fierce generals of the three clans rode on their horses and pointed at Gale City with a smile, because when Gale City was broken by the grassland army, the entire city defense of Gale City was wreaked out, even after a few days of emergency repairs, in the eyes of the Prairie generals, Gale City is now just a dilapidated and dangerous city!
On the first day, the three tribes invested 3,000 troops to attack the city, and the civilians were swept forward as shields to prevent the rain of arrows on the city. Yun Feiyu's face was cold, and he carried out the secret of heavenly anger, remembering that his father Yunluo was unyielding and died in battle, watching the westerly civilians under the city being driven as meat shields by the grassland army, and dying in vain one by one, Yun Feiyu's heart was churning with anger, and the desire to kill suddenly rose, implying the cultivation of the secret of heavenly anger, desire and will, love and qi, killing desire to drive, anger and anger, Changge flashed a faint blue light, lightly on a cloud ladder, the cloud ladder was cracked inch by inch from top to bottom, and the grassland athletes on the cloud ladder screamed and fell down the city, and were suddenly smashed into flesh and blood powder by the boulder falling from the city!