Chapter 853: to die

Chapter 853: to die

  Chapter 853 Going to die

  Autumn is the most comfortable period in northern Annan. Even if you walk in the wild and deep mountains, you can still feel the beautiful autumn.

  The pure dark blue sky can wash away troubles, and the clouds are as white as silk.

  It’s starting to get cold in the mountains, so it’s just right to wear a long robe or half-arms over your summer clothes.

  Passing by a mountain lake, it is like a paradise left on earth, as beautiful as a painting, the water flows between the trees, the trees grow in the water, the water is extraordinarily crystal clear, clear and flawless, so pleasing to the eye. In the undisturbed deep mountains, forests, valleys and lakes, there is a village where people live together.

  The buildings on stilts are built on the mountainside, row upon row, in a well-proportioned arrangement.

  The red and yellow leaves on the mountain, the emerald green streams, embellish all these like an oil painting, and it is a completely different artistic conception from the ink and wash Jiangnan.

  Looking at all this, Qin Lang stood still, even feeling that he was a sinner.

  I shouldn't come to break the elf kingdom in this mountain, to destroy everything here.

   Woohoo!

The sound of ox horns broke the tranquility and beauty of this piece. Suddenly, countless elves rushed out from the mountains and rivers. They were the Juding barbarians, and they were the residents of the stilted buildings on the hillside. The outsider who came picked up a hunting bow and hatchet, a harpoon and a hoe, and rushed out in all directions desperately.

  Qin Lang shook his head.

   Some sympathize with these people, they just want to defend their homeland, and there is nothing wrong with it. But this is a barbaric era, and the jungle is inevitable.

   Are you wrong?

  Qin Lang felt that it was not wrong. After experiencing this round of labor pains, Juding and Zuoxidongman were brought under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and there would be better long-term stability in the future. Both Juding and Datang are good things.

  He comforted himself that labor pains are inevitable, how can a new life come into the world without going through the labor pains?

   No need for him to open his mouth to order.

  At the foot of the mountain, Tang Jun has quickly set up his formation.

With Tang Qi's careful reconnaissance, the Juding barbarians have no chance to ambush the Tang army, and they don't have the strength now. The barbarians in front of them are just some women, children, old and young who stayed behind in the village. Most of the young and strong men in their village Following Nong Sanniang's expedition to the Tang Dynasty, they have not yet returned.

  The riflemen in iron armor squatted in the front row.

  The knife players wear leather armor and are guarded by two wings.

   Iron armored longbowmen stood in the middle, behind them were crossbowmen in leather armor.

  A small number of cavalry were at the back instead. Due to the mountainous terrain here, the cavalry didn't have much room to play, so Qin Lang simply put them at the end as a reserve team.

  A team of reconnaissance cavalry ran to the rear with the flag on their backs, and they ordered the battalions behind to step up and march over. As for the auxiliary soldiers and civilians further behind, they temporarily assembled on the spot for defense.

  The roads in the mountains were narrow and narrow. Although Qin Lang personally led the South Route Army with 12,000 soldiers and 12,000 soldiers, the 24,000 troops still traveled a distance of 50 miles.

In order to avoid being ambushed halfway, Qin Lang sent out twenty-four Tangqi troops alone to explore the road a hundred miles in advance, and strictly controlled the marching speed, kept the marching distance, stopped and stopped, and communicated with flags and orders. Come and go, be careful, don't give the enemy a chance.

  When camping at night, I choose to explore the favorable terrain in advance and spend a lot of time arranging defenses.

  The four thousand soldiers were divided into front and rear compartments, with two thousand horses in each compartment, two miles apart. Each compartment has jurisdiction over four battalions, front, back, left, and right, each battalion has 500 people, and there are two regiments on the left and right, and the battalion headquarters of the Central Army.

Although eight thousand township warriors and Liao Xidongman were recruited from each route as auxiliary soldiers, in fact Qin Lang did not let these people join forces. Firstly, these soldiers lacked armor and helmets, and their training and equipment were not considered strong. When marching in the mountains, the terrain is originally narrow, which is not conducive to large army operations. The more crowded people are, the more difficult it is to command. Distance, each command.

   The auxiliary soldiers followed from a distance, supporting and covering.

  At this time, the South Route Army was meeting the enemy with 2,000 troops in the left wing, and the right wing was suppressing the enemy in another valley not far away.

  Two thousand soldiers, including the fleet from the navy, the guards from Wu'an Prefecture, the frontier army from Jiaozhou, the regiments from Yongzhou and other places, and the soldiers from Fujian and Guangdong. They are all elite.

  The longbowmen are wearing black light armor and holding single-piece Zhemu longbows. They are sturdy and burly.

  The Zhang Babu spears held by the spearmen are an upgraded version of the spear.

  As the saying goes, eyebrows at the same level are sticks, spears at seven feet, spears at eight feet, spears at one foot and eight inches, and spears at one foot and eight feet.

This 1 zhang 8 chi is actually the standard of the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Spring and Autumn Period, it is customary to count the height of a warrior as 8 chi, and a warrior as 1 zhang. The zhangba spear is actually a spear with a handle and a spearhead that is three times the height, which is called Sanqishen. , so the Zhangba spear at that time was actually about four and a half meters long.

When it came to the Qin Dynasty, the Qin army not only had unparalleled crossbow arrays, but also had longer spears with a handle length of two feet and four meters. With a sword-like spear head, it could reach seven meters long. This super long bamboo and wood spear The formed Qin spear array became an iron wall and a copper wall, coupled with the Qin army's unparalleled crossbow array, it can be said to be invincible.

  In fact, it is not suitable to use rifles longer than one foot in the mountains. The strongest infantry in the world is Jianghuai soldiers. These Jianghuai soldiers are also the continuation of the Beifu army in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Jianghuai infantrymen were as famous as Jianghuai crossbowmen. They were strong soldiers who could fight against northern iron cavalry and even armored cavalry.

  The ultra-long rifle is less flexible than the spear, and its maneuverability is also greatly reduced, but its restraint against cavalry is super strong.

   At this time, the officers ordered again and again.

  Ordered the riflemen to put the four-meter-five-meter rifles that were raised vertically during the march directly to the ground, and then the armored riflemen sat on the ground.

  Guchoman rushed over bravely from all directions.

  Qin Lang stood under the banner of Sanchen, looking at this team.

  Green robes or black clothes, most of the clothes are made of kudzu and hemp, most of the clothes are bunts, basically there is no armor, weapons are of different lengths, extremely simple, there are men, women, old and young.

A sigh.

   This is death.

  The Tang army of two thousand people formed several infantry formations in the narrow mountains, and faced the enemy with regiments as units.

  Compared with the shouting and roaring Juding people, Tang Jun was a little too quiet.

  Before the battle, no one said a word.

  Longbowmen and crossbowmen opened their bows and crossbows, but no one looked left or right.

  The military order has not been issued, and no one has fired an arrow.

   This is the quality of the elite of Datang.

In Li Jing's Art of War, there is a section about the military law that specifically writes the military rules and regulations of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. Among them are many strict military laws when starting a war. say. It is also not allowed to attack in advance, and it is not allowed to jump forward. All advance and retreat must be based on military orders, otherwise they can be cut directly.

  The captain of the regiment stands under the regiment flag behind the crossbowmen, while the brigade commanders of each brigade stand in front of the crossbowmen and behind the crossbowmen.

  The team leaders of each team all stand at the front of their team.

  The lieutenants of each team stand in the last row of the team holding Mo Dao and cutting horses, supervising the battle and recording meritorious service.

"Prepare!"

  The team leaders shouted, and then took the iron whistle hanging around their necks into their mouths. Looking at the barbarian who had rushed into the best range, they blew the whistle vigorously.

This kind of whistle was created by Qin Lang, and it is specially used by the squadron leaders. Because the team leaders are at the forefront of the whole team, they are responsible for leading the battle. They can be called the frontline non-commissioned officers. Although their rank is low, they are the backbone of the entire army. .

  Traditional Tang army battle formation, each team has a team flag, the flag bearer follows the team leader, and there are two flag bearers guarding, where the team flag is, the captain is, and the whole team is also.

  Sometimes, the head coach of the first army can even pass orders directly to the team level, just through these flags.

However, in large-scale battles, the battlefield is chaotic, and the real frontline commanders are these grassroots officers. In order to allow the team leaders to better command and lead the team of fifty men and horses under him, Qin Lang specially put on the helmets of the leaders. There is a helmet tip like a lightning rod, and there is a small team flag on it, which is like a small team flag. This allows the whole team to see the position of the team leader more clearly and follow the team leader during the battle.

   On the other hand, Qin Lang added an iron whistle to the team leaders, usually hanging around his neck, and blowing it in his mouth during battle, through several predetermined long and short whistle sounds to represent some simple battle orders.

  The iron whistle is also loud and clear on the noisy battlefield, which is much more effective than letting the team leaders shout with their mouths in the past.

   Iron whistles sounded one after another in front of the formation.

  The longbowman took the lead in attacking.

   Not a lob shot, nor a triple shot.

   Facing this group of barbarians who could not be called warriors, the team leader ordered the archers to shoot accurately, aiming and shooting again.

The powerful longbow ejected the excellent long arrows, and the archers' superb archery skills shot a black and thin Juding Man sixty steps away, and the arrow penetrated into the chest. The old man couldn't stand up with the shot, he fell backwards, was killed by an arrow, and never got up again.

  The ax he held tightly in his hand also slipped to the ground.

  The roar of attack turned into howls all over the place in a blink of an eye.

  The battle lasted less than a quarter of an hour.

After throwing down about a hundred corpses, the barbarians retreated in despair. They retreated halfway up the hillside, staring at Tang Jun at the foot of the hill with **** eyes. In just one click, so many people died.

   Countless cries sounded on the hillside, calling for father and son.

  At the foot of the mountain, the victorious Tang army did not feel much joy. Such a victory is unavoidably heavy. They hoped to have a hearty fight with the elite barbarians instead of attacking a group of old and weak women and children like they are now.

  Qin Lang sighed.

   "Send guides to persuade them to surrender, saying that those who surrender will not die."

  Although Tang Jun could easily step forward to wipe out this group of defeated soldiers, no one opposed the surrender.

  The guide came out and came to the foot of the mountain to shout for persuasion!

   "Gu Ding is quite ignorant of good and bad, and rejected Wei Gong's kindness, they refused to surrender!" The guide came back ashamed and pleaded guilty.

  Qin Lang was helpless.

  (end of this chapter)