Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 226 A Bold Idea
Against heavy armored soldiers, the best weapons are long lances, big iron rods, iron pestles and other heavy weapons. You don't need to pierce the armor, just smash it hard.

In fact, purchasing such heavy weapons is quite costly. Even if they are purchased well, it is difficult to find many strong and brave soldiers.

The most economical way is to use heavy spears, but heavy spears are not cheap, and mass production is not realistic. The product of the final compromise is to use heavy wood as the body, iron sheet to wrap the tip, and the spear tip is simply processed and quenched, so it can penetrate heavy armor .

Zhu Zhen narrowed her eyes slightly. This method is very common in the Chao army. It is not surprising that Ge Congzhou uses the spear thrower now, but the disadvantage is also obvious, that is, the shooting range is too short, far less than the hundred-step shooting range of the archer.

The infantry of both sides fought in the middle, while the archers and throwers waited for opportunities behind them.

The two armies are intertwined, thirty or forty steps are far from enough, at most one or two rounds will be over.

In fact, the spear-throwers were quite restrained against the cavalry. Seeing that Ge Congzhou put the spear-throwers in front of the formation, Zhu Zhen said:

"Where is Ge Hong?"

"The end is here!"

"Lead our troops to the rear of the Bian Army to have a look!"

"promise!"

Ge Hong led the cavalry to attack, tested everywhere, and quickly tested Ge Congzhou's deployment.

There are throwers on both wings of the rear formation, and Ge Congzhou's three thousand cavalry are on standby in the central army.

And Ge Hong's cavalry turned around and were also on standby on the left wing, staring at the Bian Army cavalry.

When the army fights, there is nothing fancy about it, it's just a knife and a knife piercing the flesh, and it's a fight.

Zhu Zhen waved the red flag of the Chinese army.

The two wings of the army directly pressed forward and formed a V-shaped goose formation.

When taking a hundred steps into the formation, bows and arrows were fired together, shooting and killing a large number of Bianjun troops. Ge Congzhou also commanded Bianjun to raise shields and hold spears, and threw spears in front of them. The battlefield on both sides was like a millstone, devouring the flesh and blood of soldiers on both sides. It's to see who can last till the end.

As time went by, Ge Congzhou's brows gradually frowned. The Bian army's attack on the Tang army was able to kill the throwers, and the melee and archers were crushed all year round.

This is the crushing of equipment. Heavy armor is almost immune to bows and swordsmen. If you fight close to each other, you will be so desperate if you can't break the opponent's defense.

The front line is now dented by a heavy hammer, and the two wings are gradually weakened, and are slowly squeezed into the center army. The infantry on the two wings are already fighting hand-to-hand, and the battlefield is full of metal sounds of swords and swords colliding.

"kill!"

Wang Yanshou took the lead, strenuously moving forward, followed by the left and right guards, and slashed down with a single knife. The Tang soldier in front of him staggered backwards, but was not injured at all.

Wang Yanshou shook his head and smiled wryly. He didn't expect that ordinary pawns would wear mountain armor. He stabbed the pawn's face with a knife, entered from the mouth, and came out from the back of the neck. This ended the life of this Tang soldier.

But then three or four knives slashed at him, and Wang Yanshou's personal guards tried their best to save him, and it took three lives to save him.

"How do you fight this?"

Wang Yanshou felt that the Tang army was difficult to deal with, and often killing a Tang army would cost several times the number of lives.

It is completely meaningless to continue fighting, Ge moved back from Zhou Shuai's flag, Ming Jin withdrew his troops.

The rear army of the Bian army changed to the front army, and the front army changed to the rear army. They retreated slowly and disengaged from the Tang army.

In Zhu Zhen's formation, deputy general Wen Zefeng said: "General, the Bian army has retreated, order to pursue it!"

Zhu Zhen shook her head and said: "The pursuit is futile, the Bian army is already prepared."

In today's battle, he could see that Ge Congzhou had grown up. He commanded an army of more than 3 troops. If the Tang army pursues the infantry, it can kill and injure the Tang army in large numbers.

You must know that in fighting with cold weapons, it takes courage for the general to order a retreat, which requires absolute self-confidence and control over the army.

Otherwise, the retreat will often turn into a rout, and the army will collapse in an instant.

In the high-pressure state where Zhu Zhen's army was pressing for battle, Ge Congzhou was able to retreat in an orderly manner, disengaged, and arranged for a second-hander.

From this point of view, Pang Shigu and Shi Shucong are not worthy of Ge Congzhou's support.

"If Your Majesty can subdue this person, why should the world worry about injustice!" Zhu Zhen said with emotion.

With a third-line force, it is comparable to Zhu Zhen's Zuohuwei elite army, and Ge Congzhou is the only one.

Marching Sima Jiang Jingchen also sighed in his heart. The ancients said that it is easy to get a thousand troops, but hard to find a general.

Zhao Kuo talked about soldiers on paper, not because he was incapable, but because although his ideas were good, in fact, the hundreds of thousands of troops had their own ideas, and they couldn't move as he wanted.

There are many things to consider for the general, such as terrain, weather, morale, supplies, marching, fighting against the enemy, etc...

Often the ability of a general is closely related to how many soldiers he can lead.

Some people's upper limit is to command ten thousand people, which is already very good.

Those who can command [-] people are even rarer, and there are not many of them throughout the ages, and those who leave their names are all famous generals in the world.

And who can command millions of troops, except for the soldier Han Xin, who else in history.

Ge Congzhou's unrestrained retreat made all the senior leaders of Zuo Huwei's army sigh with emotion for a long time...

And Zhu Zhen was about to set up camp to besiege the city, when she heard the guards outside the tent shouting for an angel to come, Zhu Zhen rushed out of the tent to greet her.

The angel said: "Commander Zhu, Your Majesty hastened to summon the general to Luyi to join forces with Your Majesty!"

Zhu Zhen asked: "I made an agreement with Your Majesty to stand firm here. When His Majesty's army comes, encircle Ge Congzhou, capture Bozhou, join forces with the Shandong army, and now send troops to Luyi. What happened?"

The angel shook his head and said: "The bandit Zhu Wen led his troops westward to Luoyang, and Mi County has fallen. Your Majesty urgently ordered General Zhu to discuss a strategy to retreat from the enemy. The army can be led by Wen Zefeng, the deputy commander. Commander Zhu can go first with our family."

"Zhu Wen sent troops west to Luoyang?"

"Hey, Commander Zhu, go see Your Majesty first, and I'll explain it to you on the way."

"Thank you Angel."

Luyi and Bozhou are only seventy or eighty miles away, and Qingqi can get there in half a day.

On the way, the angel talked all the way, and Zhu Zhen listened all the way. Although the angel didn't know much and talked in bits and pieces, Zhu Zhen keenly felt that this time Zhu Wen might come out in full force, and there would not be too many troops staying in Bianliang.

Zhu Zhen suddenly had a bold idea in her mind, what would happen if the whole army attacked and took down Bianliang regardless of Luoyang?
At that time, even if Zhu Wen does not surrender, will his soldiers have the will to fight?

The more Zhu Zhen thought about it, the more reasonable she became.

The family members of the top and bottom generals of the Bian Army are all in Bianliang, and even Zhu Wen's own family is in Bianliang!
Arrived at the Emperor's Dragon Tent.

Li Ye suppressed his composure, and panicked in his heart, there are too many altars and pots in Luoyang, Caizhou's seizures are all in Luoyang, he has 500 million guan, [-] to [-] armor, and hundreds of thousands of stones transported from Chang'an food.

If Luoyang is broken, what should we do!
(End of this chapter)