stubborn thief

Chapter 73 Li Bei's Expedition
On the night of the second day of June, Liu Chengzong did a great job.

He called Song Shouzhen from Heilong Mountain, Li Wanqing and Guo Zashi from Tiger Waist, and six Shizongs who had never been soldiers.

Ten people ran to the barren hills on the south bank of the Yanhe River and dug a foxhole overlooking the Yanhe River.

The pit was not too big or too small, just enough to stuff all ten of them into it, and the outside was covered with dead branches and grass.

In the second half of the night, a group of people curled up in the pit to make up for their sleep.

Until the early morning of the third day of June, when the sky was just dawn, the continuous sound of trumpets from the west woke everyone up.

Liu Chengzong looked at the sky dimly, woke everyone up and said, "Don't talk now, I'll tell you what you see later."

The sky was getting brighter, the sun had not yet come out, and the sound of drums had already rumbled in the distance.

He didn't bring people here to watch the sunrise.

Rather, he wanted to give his subordinates, who have never experienced war or experience in the army, a lot of insight and watch the imperial court send troops.

It is also a good way to let them know what level their opponents will be in the future when they embark on this road.

Do a good job of psychological construction, so that you will not see the enemy despise the sudden advance of the pig, and you will not be beaten to the point of crying after a little fight.

The sky is about to dawn, and horses hooves are heard from the river below the mountain. There are faintly scattered horse teams. Some people continue to advance, and some people stop.

"The first pond riders, five riders and one pond, the standard is 24 ponds per road, covering a radius of [-] miles from the army."

Liu Chengzong, who was a tang cavalry captain, was very familiar with the business of tang caving: "They are all light cavalry, not easy to catch. Each has a five-color flag spear, a waist knife, and a bow and arrow.

His voice was soft, and the people in the pit were breathing heavily.

At the foot of the mountain not far away, there were already Tangbao cavalry stationed by the river, and they could even hear the snort of the horse.

Soon the sky was getting brighter, and the half-round red sun shed a red line in the rolling sea of ​​​​clouds with undulating mountains, separating the heaven and the earth.

Shanxiatangbao cavalry straightened their backs on horseback, holding flags and spears and looking into the distance.

Tang Bao cavalry is a dangerous profession, on the front line of war.

They find the enemy first, and the enemy finds them first.

But the benefits are also considerable. As long as the enemy's situation is discovered and communicated effectively, a first-level merit can be obtained after the war.

No one could have imagined that in the mountains five or six miles away from Yan'an Mansion, someone would dig a hole overnight and send troops to watch them carefully.

Liu Chengzong did not know the specific arrangements of the government for this battle, but he knew the time and purpose of sending troops.

The official mansion is to exterminate the thieves in the Yanqing area, from Qingyang mansion to Yan'an mansion will be their battlefield.

Right now there are fewer thieves in the west and more thieves in the east.

But Liu Chengzong was not sure whether the officers and soldiers would take this road.

The stone in his heart fell to the ground until he saw a pond riding a horse with a flag and a spear coming from the west.

He said to his subordinates: "The Tang cavalry covers twenty li, so that the enemy has no way of knowing the deployment of troops, but the marching movement can still be seen from the Tang cavalry.

Wherever the official army went, the Tang cavalry went forward one after another, and the Tang cavalry at the back came to him, and he went to the front, and the official army was advancing eastward. "

Liu Chengzong looked down at the crystal hourglass in his arms, and less than a moment had passed since the horn sounded from the Yan'an Wei Camp.

The crystal hourglass is the trophy of Wangzhuangbao. It originally had a self-sounding mechanism. When the quicksand fell to a certain level, the villain would play the drum.

But now the villain and the zheng drum have been dismantled by Liu Chengzong, and they are kept by him as timekeeping tools.

He wanted to get a watch, but the watch of this era hardly met his needs.

Since the missionaries and overseas trade in the mid-Ming Dynasty became more and more prosperous, Western bells first entered China as gifts.

In today's era, Western clocks have been made very well in China, and the cost is cheaper than that of Europeans. At the same price, craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty can make the smallest clocks.

But it's still big, and it's only small enough to fit on a table.

The state-of-the-art mechanism uses iron clockwork, is not portable and has sound.

Therefore, relatively speaking, this hourglass, which is not too big, is more in line with Liu Chengzong's needs.

"The first to leave the camp is the horse army, and then the infantry. I estimate that they leave the camp together and will arrive in a moment..."

Liu Chengzong's words came to his lips, and he leaned on the edge of the pit with both hands and looked westward, his brows furrowed.

One by one, Tang Qi ran to the east.

Then everyone heard voices in their ears, the rhythm of shoes on the ground, and the sound of people running by in armor.

"Ma Jun is here."

The first thing that caught my eye was the formation of a phalanx by more than [-] guards wearing Ming Zhajia. They held up flags of various colors and swaggered towards the rising sun.

The Qingdao flag, the golden drum flag, the five-color flying tiger and Yuanmen flag, the closed door leopard-tailed long flag, the five-party marshal's flag... The satin flags of various colors almost covered the infantry phalanx.

Only there is no official title.

Immediately after that, there was a symphony of stomping footsteps, weapon collisions and the sound of hoofs.

The plain-colored long flags on both sides are inconspicuous. On the left is an imperial edict to punish thieves, and on the right is the former Shanhaiguan guerrilla general Li.

Under the banner, four elite cavalry guards a general with armor.

Behind him, the [-]-horse army formed a four-way column, with horses on the side, following every step of the way.

The war horses are all fat and strong, with iron coverings and armored chests, all of which are half-armed.

In the two outer lanes, the horsemen wore armor with waist and crotch, and marched forward.

There are two roads on the inside, everyone is lightly dressed, and weapons and armor are all hung on the horse's back.

Behind the cavalry were [-] unarmored light soldiers, each leading four or five pack horses, carrying pots and bowls of rice grains on their backs, and five three-wheeled artillery carts.

The entire team ran forward silently, and quickly passed the sight of Liu Chengzong and others, and ran to the east.

broken.

Liu Chengzong said: "This is an official army that can eat enough."

At this time, he suddenly remembered that Gan Quanhu would be exterminated.

The battle took only two days, and the guerrilla general Li Bei fought three times in a row, chasing for 160 miles.

First of all, Li Bei was not a guerrilla general. He was a resident military general who had been dismissed from office and was eager to get back to office by fighting thieves.

Secondly, if counting the march to Ganquan, Li Bei may have traveled 260 miles in two days to obtain the head of the tiger general.

The marching speed was terrifying, enough to overshadow the three-day, three-hundred-mile journey that Zhang Tianlin was proud of.

The commanders who had not participated in the war could not see anything, but felt that this unit had good manners and discipline.

Guo Zashi looked at his ugly face and asked in a low voice, "Master?"

Only then did Liu Chengzong come back to his senses, suppressed his worries about Zhang Tianlin, and said to the crowd: "The four-way column walks with horses, leaning on the mountains and rivers to wear armor on both sides, to prevent attacks on the road, and it is too late to wear armor.

They have more than [-] soldiers and more than [-] horses. Although the horses are very fat, the way of fighting is about cavalry on foot.

This march did not follow the normal rules of waiting for infantry. Li Bei should have planned to attack with cavalry. This tactic will kill whoever uses it when the strength of the enemy and us is the same. "

After Liu Chengzong finished speaking, he paused for a while.

Just when several senior officials showed sarcasm, he interrupted: "But the strength of the rebel army and the official army is not the same. Li Bei's tactics will work, like us? Hehe."

"Ten thousand is not enough for him to kill 1 people."

　Good morning!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)