The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 73 Crowd
After seizing the military power of the [-] army, Yang Tong was not in a hurry to put down the rebellion, but pulled all the army to Xizhou Mountain at the junction of Loufan County and Taiyuan.

This is a strategic location for going south and north, he set up camp here, and digested the army while waiting for Liu Wuzhou's arrival.

In addition to appointing the second-rank and third-rank martial arts scholars of the Jingwu Army as officers, Gao Junya was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of this army!As for Luo Shixin, he took over the Nutao Camp, and the Xuanjia Army was led by Yang Tong himself.

On this day, a scout rushed to Wang Wei and reported: "His Royal Highness, Liu Wuzhou's army has assembled in Xiurong County, Loufan County, with a number of about [-]."

"How about the equipment?" Yang Tong's eyes flashed.

"The clothes are colorful, some wear two armors, some wear leather armor, and some only wear civilian clothes. The weapons are also messy, such as spears, short knives, and even a hoe."

"Are there cavalry?"

"Reporting to the general, there are five thousand cavalry, but it is very chaotic."

Yang Tong laughed, judging from his experience, this is a mixed group of rabble.But think about it, Liu Wuzhou is just an eagle general, how high a military standard can he have?
Fang Xuanling said: "The mouse Liu Wuzhou finally couldn't bear it and came out to die. Your Highness, I suggest you follow Liu Wuzhou and go directly through Loufan, Yanmen, and Mayi! The other counties should be taken back by General Gao Junya!"

Influenced by Yang Tong, literati such as Yang Gongren, Fang Xuanling, and Yang Shidao also fell in love with Yang Tong's domineering way of doing things, and they didn't want to be courteous to people with ulterior motives!

"Okay!" Yang Tong said with a smile, "The movement of the army will make Wang Wei follow the plan!"

Fang Xuanling excitedly said: "Here!"

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Liu Wuzhou was very depressed!

Since he started his army, he has been in a miserable situation of food shortage. At present, the cattle and sheep given to him by the Turks are basically exhausted. If there is no harvest, this winter will be very sad.

This winter, Shibi Khan and the others are in trouble and cannot help him, so the only way is to plunder south.

Liu Wuzhou also knew that his army was all forced conscripts. A few months ago, they were still farming and working as waiters in restaurants. They had never experienced real battlefield killings, and they had a deep fear of death.The reason why the four counties were captured in one breath was because of the help of the Turks, and the second was that the people had no way out, which led to the invincibility of the soldiers.Although this has expanded the territory, but it has not been tempered by the war. The recruits are recruits after all, and the only thing he can rely on is actually more than [-] people gathered by the family slaves and government soldiers.

Such an army is not an opponent of a regular army at all, he is very sensible.But he didn't expect Yang Tong to block his way to the south. If the big rock was not moved, his army would collapse on its own due to lack of food.Therefore, even if you can't fight, you have to fight a battle.

However, his number one general, Song Jingang, has a different opinion, thinking that this is no different from sending him to death.

"His Majesty!"

During the march, Song Jingang made his last effort: "Our soldiers have no experience in war, and they are not opponents of the regular army at all. All of Yang Tong's soldiers are good at fighting. We are really not his opponents. Let's retreat."

"retreat?"

Liu Wuzhou looked at Song Jingang in surprise: "You...what do you mean? We retreat, what do we eat?"

Song Jingang smiled wryly: "Your Majesty, we will definitely not be able to fight. Let's give up Lishi and Loufan, fix Xinkou City, and then cut down the army and support the army with the people! Relying on the dangerous pass, we will train an elite army."

This is also the ideological contradiction between Song Jingang and Liu Wuzhou.

Liu Wuzhou is from Mayi, and his thoughts are close to those of the grasslands. He very much advocates the idea of ​​maintaining the military regime by plundering; Song Jingang advocates supporting the army with the people, and fishing inexhaustibly. In the past few years, rebellions have surged, and almost all the rebels who make a living by plundering have disappeared. However, the forces that survive and grow are all supported by the people. For example, Du Fuwei and Wang Bo in the south were able to grow by using the people to support the army.Sun Xuanya, Gao Shida, and Zhang Jincheng, who were mainly robbers, all died one after another, and the Wagang Army during the period when Zhai Rang was the leader did not get the support of the local people.

Song Jingang persuaded Liu Wuzhou more than once, but both parties broke up unhappy.

"The army can only get rid of impurities after repeated eliminations, and those who survive in the end are the real elites! Let alone disarmament. Let's talk about the pass in front of us."

Liu Wuzhou is a good person, reluctantly willing to listen to suggestions, and generous to win over people, but he also has his own concerns: "Our army is inherently mixed, if we just leave like this, the morale of the army will be lost. Moreover, the opponent is cavalry, I can't escape."

Song Jingang sighed: "I'm worried about Mayi and Yanmen!"

Liu Wuzhou took a deep breath, "You mean, Yang Tong is very likely to go around behind us?"

Song Jingang said: "It didn't go around behind us, but the Jizhou army came out of Shanggu and flew to the fox. Our defenders may not be the opponent's opponent."

Liu Wuzhou was furious: "Then why didn't you say it earlier?"

Song Jingang smiled wryly: "I've said it several times!"

Liu Wuzhou said: "Then retreat!"

Song Jingang: "I hope there is time..."

The voice just fell.

A high-pitched trumpet sounded suddenly, and the horses roared and shouted to kill the sky, the earth shook, Liu Wuzhou and Song Jingang were startled, and saw the endless army rushing really fast.

Tens of thousands of troops swept forward in eight square formations, like mountains and forests, stretching for two or three miles. Terrible murderous aura filled the space between the sky and the earth. A huge battle flag danced vigorously in the strong wind, with the dazzling "Sui" on it. With an astonishing prestige.

Liu Wuzhou's complexion suddenly changed. He had never seen such a neat formation of cavalry before. He couldn't help but look at the soldiers behind him, and saw that the faces of these soldiers showed faint fear, even Song Jingang's face was the same. Reveal dignified color.

The sergeants swallowed nervously, their hands holding their weapons trembled slightly. They were not afraid of bandits, bandits, etc., but they had never seen such a large-scale battle before. Overwhelmed.

"Husband! How do you fight?" Shui Tianji called affectionately.

Yang Tong looked at the darkness in front of him, and said to Qin Qiong beside him, "Since my king's debut, I have never seen tens of thousands of troops lined up together like this. It's so powerful!"

Qin Qiong said: "It's just a group of mobs. If you go in, you will be able to disperse them."

"The cavalry charge can defeat them, but we will also lose." Yang Tong said to Shui Tianji: "My concubine Wu, first let them see how powerful the flying feather bow cavalry is. Throwing!"

"Yes!" Shui Tianji smiled sweetly, and quickly ordered Feiyu Bowrider to rush out, and countless sharp arrows shot towards the rebel army. The opposite side was full of darkness, without even aiming, and went straight to the opponent's army fell down.

What is surprising is that the target of the Feiyu Bowrider's launch is not the enemy army on the opposite side, but the sky!

At this time, the arrows that shot high into the sky unexpectedly flew a considerable distance, and after drawing a large parabola, they fell like raindrops on the opponent's team.Although there is no specific target to aim at, the range is quite wide, and there is one wave after another without stopping - the Flying Feather Bow Riders shoot in three rows in bursts, in a cycle, forming an uninterrupted rain of arrows, and immediately became an enemy. The army is a terrible nightmare.

"Raise your shield."

Liu Wu knew that something was wrong when he saw the opponent's bow and arrow on Monday, so he quickly ordered someone to raise a shield to block in front of him, but he heard screams coming from behind him. He looked back and saw that the enemy shot more than a hundred arrows. The bows and arrows fell dozens of steps behind him. Before the soldiers could defend themselves, they were shot one after another. Fortunately, they were shot by an arrow, but unfortunately they were shot out of the range of the hedgehog, who was already dead. Die again.

"Fire the arrows." There was another coquettish shout in the distance, another scream came from the sky, and the dark clouds covered the sun again, and there was another scream from behind, and hundreds of soldiers fell under the bows and arrows of the opponent, but he himself At this time, not even a single person was killed.

"Damn it!"

Song Jingang could see clearly, his heart was extremely angry, his eyes were red, he had always charged forward, he had never been so aggrieved today, he was shot and killed a large area by the enemy without even touching the enemy's clothes.

In the blink of an eye, [-] flying feather archers radiated wave after wave, reaping the lives and morale of the enemy army to their heart's content.

With screams, the enemy soldiers fell to the ground one after another, and most of the arrows hit the shoulders, heads and limbs.Caught off guard, many soldiers were crucified alive, which was horrible.Although they are also equipped with simple leather shields, they cannot completely resist the rain of arrows falling from the sky.This sudden change also stunned Liu Wuzhou, he didn't know what to do for a moment, seeing that thousands of people had been killed or injured in a blink of an eye, Rumeng woke up and shouted: "Protect the top of the head, change column and charge over!"

"Your Majesty, they have already stopped." Song Jingang suddenly pointed to the distance.

Liu Wuzhou looked over, and sure enough, he found that this cavalry was parked in the distance, about a hundred paces away, standing there quietly, looking at him from south to west with more than 3 unmoved cavalry. It’s not going to go, it’s not going to go.

"hateful."

Liu Wuzhou has achieved his career today because of mobile combat. One look at this posture and you can tell what Yang Tong is trying to do. It is clear that once he makes a move, the opponent will kill him. However, he has no way to deal with this method. If you want to hit, you can't hit the opponent, if you want to run, you can't run with two legs but with four legs.

"Your Majesty, what should we do now?" Song Jingang said angrily.

"After gathering the cavalry together, the rest of the army slowly advanced. I don't believe that Yang Tong will attack our team." Liu Wuzhou also had a trace of regret in his heart!
If he had known this earlier, he should have listened to Song Jingang and turned around and retreated.Immediately, his eyes rolled, and he said: "Yang Tong is trying to slow down our speed, in order to gradually eat us away. In this case, we will use the old and the weak to break the back, and the elite will go ahead, and abandon everything that can be discarded. Can be faster."

"Okay." Song Jingang agreed without hesitation.

"Let's go." Liu Wuzhou took a hard look at Yang Yu in the distance, and when he saw the army dispatched, the cavalry archers moved again, and the horses trotted, and the distance was getting closer and closer to him. Liu Wuzhou had already noticed the people around him. There was some fear on the soldiers' faces. Although the cavalry in the distance did not attack, the deterrent effect produced by the attack was far greater.

"attack."

Shui Tianji saw that the army on the opposite side was already marching, and she commanded the soldiers proudly. There was a roar, the landslides and the ground cracked, and when she rushed to fifty steps, she led the soldiers and flew to one side. The rain of arrows whistled and fell on the heads of the advancing soldiers, and thousands of people fell to the ground again.

When Liu Wuzhou reacted, Shui Tianji led the cavalry and galloped again. The distance between the two made it impossible for Liu Wuzhou to reach the opponent's horse even if he wanted to attack. On the contrary, the soldiers around him were already terrified. There was the sound of war horses behind them, and there was a burst of panic, and they galloped forward. Not only did they disrupt the team, but it also brought instability to the entire army.

At this moment, the sound of war drums rang out again, and Yang Tong finally dispatched. The army divided into seven formations, rushed out like a mountain roaring and a tsunami, shaking the earth, and the rebels who were about to retreat were immediately rushed by the terrifying cavalry. After flying, they were either trampled to death or picked and killed. Tens of thousands of fine cavalry were invincible, their heads were flying, their torsos were torn apart, and corpses were piled up on the ground. There was not a single complete corpse. People are horrible.

Tens of thousands of cavalry were unstoppable, and went directly to the Chinese army.

Song Jingang had already woken up from the chaos. At this moment, he was flustered, and he turned around and shouted, "Get out!"

He didn't care about Liu Wuzhou anymore, and shouted: "Retreat to the mountains."

He had just rushed out of the encirclement, but he saw a thousand cavalry standing dozens of paces away. The leading general was wearing gorgeous silver armor, with a saddle spanning the sky, holding a huge bow. Seeing Song Jingang rushing out of the encirclement, he sneered and drew the bow Like a full moon, an iron arrow shot out from the string, an arrow shot from Song Jingang's forehead, and the iron arrow pierced through the brain.

Song Jingang fell from his horse and died tragically under Yang Tong's arrow.

Yang Tong put down his bow and said: "Pass my order, those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will not be spared!"

Song Jingang was killed in battle, and the "emperor" Liu Wuzhou disappeared. The rebels who broke down their fighting spirit knelt down and surrendered one after another. The soldiers who broke out to the east were also surrounded by cavalry and were all killed. In addition to the successful breakthrough of more than a thousand riders, about [-] surrendered, and the entire army was wiped out.

"This battle was so bad... I don't even know what to say..." Luo Shixin was really powerless to complain.

Qin Qiong agreed: "It's much worse than the rebels I encountered before!"

"It's easy to understand!" Yang Tong said, "Whether it is Jizhou or Henan Province, it has been in chaos for seven or eight years. Those bandits who survived are the best of the best! Of course it is easy for us to deal with it.”

(End of this chapter)