Chapter 72 The tragic beginning
The person Wang Hua asked for was Gao Xianzhi.
In fact, if Wang Hua could remember more history, he would have found him long ago. His father Gao Sheji served as a guerrilla general very early, and made many contributions in Hexi, and served as ten generals in the four towns. Therefore, when he was young, Gao Xianzhi followed his father to Kucha. Because Gao Sheji had made contributions, he could not be sealed up any more. So like Wang Hua, he awarded Wang Hua's family. The court awarded Gao Xianzhi, who had just won the crown, as a guerrilla general.
But he was just a military post and had never really fought on the battlefield. This time Guo Yuanzhen went to Dafeichuan and did not bring this young man with him.
But because of this reward, Gao Xianzhi began to enter Wang Hua's vision.
I don’t know if Guo Yuanzhen, the old fox, is letting go, and Gao Xianzhi agrees? It makes Wang Hua feel a little uneasy. If he gets this young general, the blood camp will really become a concentration camp for famous generals. Think about it, among the Hu generals, there are Ge Shuhan and Gao Xianzhi, even the Lun father and son, and Li Kailuo and Wu Keli can only be overshadowed.
Among the Han generals, there were many famous generals, Guo Zhiyun, Wang Junchuo, and the famous Wang Guo. Feng Changqing was one of the top famous generals. As well as Zhang Shougui, Wang Jun and Guo Qianguan, they all had one of the top problems. They even relied on their own and sometimes they were not convinced by each other, but they were also famous generals. Xiao Song and Zhang Xiaosong officially grew up, and they were even one of the famous generals with both civil and military strength. Xue Song was also remarkable. And a large number of them were cultivated by themselves or offered, such as Kong Heizi, Gongsun Yun, Liu Tong and others, who also had high talent in military affairs.
In later generations, Real Madrid is even better than Real Madrid.
There were two people who didn't need to recommend him, and he always cared about it. Wang Zhongsi of the Wang family in Taiyuan was only four years old. He stopped fighting this. Later generations found Wang Zhongsi's talent incredible, thinking that Li Longji was so distressed after Wang Haibin's tragic death that he adopted Wang Zhongsi in the palace and taught Li Jing's military tactics hidden in the palace, which gave Wang Zhongsi such a high military talent. That was nonsense. Wang Zhongsi asked Li Longji to be in the palace for a while, but there was no Li Jing's military book at all. If there were, and so magical, Lao Wu would have passed it to Wang Xiaojie and other confidant generals. Why did they suffer a crushing defeat?
The military book is still dead, but people live. Li Jing has never seen the painting of King of War, but I believe it may not be better than "The Art of War". "The Art of War" has never been banned, and even the Hu people have obtained it, but how many people have appreciated the essence of it?
But teaching by example is very important, and Li Jing’s apprentice Su Dingfang may benefit in this way. Half of his apprentice Hou Junji also benefited in this way.
There is another man named Wang Hua, who was also worried. Later generations ranked Li Zhongsi, one of the top ten Hu generals of the Tang Dynasty. This Hu general only records in history that he was from Chang'an. This general with seven feet long and extremely powerful strength was joined in the army very early, and as soon as he arrived at the Anxi Army, he was valued later. However, it was said that he was joined in the army in the early years of Tianbao. In this way, he may not have been born or had just been born.
So Wang Hua can only search for so many people at present.
Of course, even if Lao Guo suspected that he could summon Gao Xianzhi to come, he could not let Guo Yuanzhen reuse him immediately.
Famous generals were cultivated step by step, just like Feng Changqing, the later top famous generals, although they were remarkable in the Yanzhou Guards and Xiazhou Guards, they had not been able to achieve more perfection. This was achieved by Zhang Shougui as his apprentice and carefully taught for several months.
I believe Gao Xianzhi is the same. However, Guo Yuanzhen is not someone else, and Gao Xianzhi agreed. Guo Yuanzhen agreed. Will Gao Sheji agree? Thinking of this, Wang Hua's heart is getting lost.
After thinking for a while, he asked the soldiers to bring a message: Attack the heart is the best, attack the city is the best, unite the people and attack the nobles.
The reason why the people encountered resistance but their own army was smooth sailing is mainly because of the people.
Their previous resettlement of the people even made the people of Dafeichuan hope to enter the eight states. Just like some tribes in the Six Hu Prefectures, they wanted to enter the Turks, otherwise Mochu would not have been able to capture the people in several states this time. It was the cooperation of these tribes who knew the roots and bottoms.
But the people were full of doubts about Guo Yuanzhen's army.
It was not the people who took action. It turned out that he entered Dafeichuan just to take away some people's supplies to fight against the Tubo people, not possessing them. Therefore, the Tuyuhun nobles were afraid and endured and dared not resist. This time, all the Tuyuhun people on the east side of Chiling were under their tent, and Guo Yuanzhen's troops were out of Daqichuan again, leaving only the large place on the southwest side of Qinghai, and it was isolated from Tubo and could be eaten by Guo Yuanzhen at any time. The Tuyuhun nobles must have sweared to resist to the death.
If the battle situation is in a state of conflict and the Tubo people send troops again, Guo Yuanzhen's army may be defeated. If Guo Yuanzhen retreats, Tubo will counterattack Jishishan from both Zishan and Dafeichuan again. But he will withdraw his main force and Jishishan will be empty in the military force, and Jishishan will quickly deteriorate. Once it is corrupt, Shanzhou and Hezhou will also be empty in the military force, which will be even more corrupt at that time. He has to divide his troops south. The battle situation in the north is again unfavorable. That is a disaster.
Therefore, Wang Hua did not want Guo Yuanzhen to fail.
However, distinguishing the people from the nobles and adopting some appropriate policies to be gentle with the people, so that the nobles will have no soldiers to use.
Moreover, these nobles were also lackeys of the Tubo people and had a low status in the minds of the Tuyuhun people. With Guo Yuanzhen's ability, this should be possible.
But Wang Hua did not explain in detail. With Guo Yuanzhen's cunning, he did not need to explain in detail after hearing these sixteen words.
But then I received a very bad news.
It turned out that Wang Hua's plan was to summon a large number of militia troops, then draw out some of the troops, and carry out guerrilla tactics with Moju in Beihetao. Although Moju and Yibili's army combined, more than 8,000 people were reached. Wang Hua was not sure about this now. But if a elite soldier was sent to fight Moju in the field and force them back to Dongju in Dongju, Wang Hua still had a chance of winning.
In this way, the Beihetao wilderness will become the world of the blood camp. However, after receiving the news from Pu Guqing, Wang Hua made another arrangement. This arrangement is correct, but Wang Hua was negligent, or even knew that he had to do so. That is to sacrifice the advantages of the wilderness and deliberately delay the establishment of the militia camp.
This arrangement led to the arrival of this sacrifice.
After Mochu learned about Xiazhou and Triangle City, he immediately summoned his troops to attack Shengzhou City.
It was not his own troops, but only a few played the role of supervision and supervision, which was very similar to the arrangement of the Blood Camp in Xiazhou City. The others were Hu soldiers recruited from Liuhu Prefecture, and they were put on armor and held weapons. Even the war horses were also war horses raised by the Tang Dynasty court.
The army originally laid out and the young and middle-aged men who were forced into it later formed 7,000 people, rushed to the city of Shengzhou, and began a fierce attack.
Zhang Shougui was not jealous either. He borrowed the city wall and launched a counterattack.
These scattered soldiers suffered heavy losses under the counterattack of the Blood Camp. After only one day of attack, the soldiers immediately fell down. Then at this time, the Turks shamelessly used a move to threaten them with their relatives. If they could not defeat Shengzhou City within seven days, the Turks would execute all their families.
In fact, let alone seven days, if it were just these people, they would have conquered the city of Wusheng even in the last month.
Mochuo did not expect them to conquer Shengzhou, mainly to polish the city's defense weapons. It would be better to cause some loss to the blood camp. This is again very similar to Wang Hua's arrangement.
But unexpectedly, because of concern for their family, these miscellaneous soldiers began to fight desperately. And after a day of offensive and defensive battle, they gradually became more and more perfect. The next day they actually got them to the top of the city several times, although they did not cause any major harm. However, on this day, they injured more than 300 soldiers in the Blood Camp.
So Wang Hua sent fifty ships to Shengzhou, not only weapons, but also 1,500 soldiers. Shengzhou is very important in its strategic position. He controlled the east side of the south bank of Hetao from the east. Then he used the Queyue formation to station an army on the west side of the south bank of Hetao. These two armies were like two ghosts slapped the door, firmly stuffed them into the hearts of the Turkic army.
These 1,500 soldiers were drawn from Gongsun Yun Qinglong's Journey and Kong Heizi's Yaoguang Army. The two leaders in the lead were Han people and a soldier transferred from Luzon. They were proficient in water warfare and were named Liang Sitai. The other was Hu general He Dongmo, who was also a brave general.
The fleet rushed towards Shengzhou, but after passing Zhongshoujiang City, it began to encounter a counterattack on the shore. If you shoot arrows from one side, you can also move the fleet to the other side. Even if you shoot arrows on both sides, you may not reach the center of the river. The river surface in this section is much wider than the river surface in Lanzhou, which is generally more than 300 meters, and the wider area is as high as 400 meters, which is between 200 and 250 steps. Let’s put it aside now that spring water is coming, the water is huge, the width of the river surface increases, and the wide area reaches nearly 300 steps.
But it is just for ordinary bows and arrows and stronger crossbows. If they are fired from both sides, they will still completely cover the entire river surface.
But Wang Hua gave up because he gave up. If the Turks built a floating bridge, it would not be a day or two. Wang Hua was fully capable of urging their plan to destroy it, and even brought out the tactics of burning the Yellow River in Lanzhou again, and the fire would be burned. Therefore, there would be no big problem to free up space in the wild.
As for the powerful crossbows, the Turks' bow and arrow skills were much more developed than those of Tubo. They also had powerful crossbows in their hands. Several cities were broken and a large number of weapons from the Tang Dynasty were obtained. Among these weapons, many of them were powerful crossbows used to defend the city. However, the problem was not big. There were baffles on both sides of the ship. Unless the Turks now have new trenchers in their hands and huge stones fell from the air, it would be a devastating blow to the fleet. The Turks must have one.
I saw a group of Turkic people divided into two rows, one holding shields, which was to guard against the longbow of the Blood Battalion. I couldn't hide this news now, but I wanted to hide it. There was also a row of powerful crossbows that began to fire at the fleet.
Liang Sitai and He Dongmo were not panicked and began to command calmly.
As Mochu thought, now the blood camp has won a lot of victories, and the soldiers are very motivated, and no matter how many difficulties they face, they are calm.
In fact, there was no difficulty. I picked up the shield to prevent a powerful crossbow from falling from the top of my head, sailed the ship in the middle of the river, and opened the distance. The soldiers just needed to protect themselves.
However, he started some counterattacks, using the range of the longbow, aimed at the opponent, and kept shooting the rain of arrows. However, Liang Sitai kept shouting: "Save bows and arrows, save bows and arrows."
The Turks on the shore had no choice but to protect them, but because of the shields, they were not very lethal against the Turks on the shore. There was no need to shoot all the arrows, and these had to be left in Shengzhou City for use.
The blood camp reduced the shooting of bows and arrows. The Turks on the shore saw that there was no effect, so they shouted at each other and began to retreat helplessly.
Liang Sitai did not bother them, and ordered the soldiers to row hard and continue to move forward.
It was evening and it was getting closer to Shengzhou City.
At this moment, many Turkic soldiers appeared on both sides again, which made Liang Sitai vigilant. He looked at the movements on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. But he still neglected, and everyone was neglected.
There were many Turkic soldiers on both sides of the strait, holding bows and arrows in their hands, Liang Sitai was a little puzzled. This time the Turks came in a fierce manner, which caused him a sense of pressure. But what method did they use to pose a threat to their own line? Then his eyes saw that the mud on the river bank began to loosen, and the ropes were stretched straight.
This is the ambush set up by Mochu for the Blood Camp, and the inspiration came to the formation of the car that Wang Hua attacked Jishi Mountain. On the river was the world of the Blood Camp. The Turks had ships and a group of small boats captured. However, the Turks did not dare to use them. There were very few people who could drive slave ships. Even if they asked local residents to drive the ship, soldiers would react in fear when they got on the ship.
War started directly on the water, Mochu would not do anything.
But the battle of the Blood Camp in Jishi Mountain inspired Mochu, not the chariot array, but the noose. The difficult noose, such as the winch on a large ship, cannot be made. But the simple noose without the skillful Han craftsmen, even the Turks themselves could make it.
Because the King of Wilds was given up, it became the world of the Turks. Although most of the Turks were landslides, a few Turkic tribal warriors living by the river were still water-like. Dozens of very long thick hemp ropes were woven in advance. Of course, steel ropes were the best, but due to technical problems, there was no way to achieve it.
Then he pulled to the other side, but he was afraid that the Blood Camp would find that the rope heads on both sides were buried in the soil and the ropes were sinking under the water.
When the fleet enters the rope range, twist the rope straight and blocks the fleet.
In fact, Mochu was originally planning to catch a big fish. On the two points of strong stakes on this mohua, Mochu occupied the East Shoujiang City on the north bank, and the Blood Camp occupied the Shengzhou City on the south bank, which made the situation extremely chaotic. Neither the Blood Camp nor the Turks gave up these two places. Under the fierce attack of the Turks, the Blood Camp will definitely support weapons and soldiers and guard Shengzhou City.
But unexpectedly, Wang Hua was a petty man and sent only 1,500 soldiers.
This is the first step, and the second step is inspired by Wang Hua. Lanzhou’s fire burned the Yellow River. This fire made Mochu dare not build a floating bridge easily, but this inspiration was used in this battle.
When the rope was gradually twisting straight, Liang Sitai realized that it was not good. He immediately ordered the soldiers who were good at water to go down the river to cut off the hemp rope.
But there are too many hemp ropes and they are very thick. They have been soaked in the water for so long, and they are not brittle and are not easy to cut. Finally, they cut one off, and there is another horizontal railing in front of them that keeps the ship sailing.
Some ships collided with each other because of the blocking of ropes. Fortunately, many of the soldiers were brought from Luzon. Seeing that the situation was not good, they put down the sails one by one, and used oars to reverse the speed of the ship to reduce the speed. Then they used a ball pad to prevent the ship from colliding with each other.
But the fatal blow has just begun.
The rope in front was gradually twisted straight, and the soldiers on the shore behind covered them with shields to push small bamboo rafts down the river. But not just the bamboo rafts, there were many wheat poles and branches piled up on them. When they reached the river surface, the Turks ignited all the flammable substances on them.
With the wind of the evening breeze, these bamboo rafts immediately turned into huge fireballs. As the river flowed, some rolled back to the shore and some floated towards the fleet.
When Liang Sitai saw this situation, he knew Huitian was powerless. He immediately gave another order: "Dump the explosives into the river immediately."
The ship was carrying a large amount of explosives. If the fire was allowed to burn and the explosives were ignited, the consequences would be unimaginable.
This was also the second time that the explosives of the Blood Camp were not useful. However, the properties were different. A large amount of explosives were sent to some villages in Xiazhou, but for various reasons, no amount of explosives was used. Then the prisoners were sharpened and the Turks withdrew them. The explosives were collected.
But now he is throwing it into the river cowardly.
Seeing that everyone had thrown the explosives, Liang Sitai ordered again: "All brothers, please listen, remove the baffle immediately, hold the baffle down the river, and swim towards Shengzhou to save energy. Also, take another baffle and place it on top of your head to prevent the Turkic people from shooting with bows and arrows on both sides."
This is a wise choice, otherwise if this continues, everyone will be burned to death.
After giving the order, he began to cry.
Since its establishment, the Blood Camp has gone through countless battles of all sizes, whether it is a big or a miserable victory, it is always a victory. However, this time he failed, and he failed very cowardly, and he had no chance to resist.
The soldiers of the Blood Camp also had their eyes rippled. However, knowing that Liang Sitai's order was the only choice, they all began to remove the baffle angrily.
When Moju saw this situation, he immediately ordered the soldiers to start shooting. Among the dense crossbows on both sides of the strait, many soldiers in the blood camp were shot to death by the crossbow without jumping out of the river. They just fled down the river. Under the continuous shooting of Turkic people on both sides of the strait, many soldiers were shot to death again. Some were drowned by the river because of their unbearable nature.
Although there were not many soldiers from the Blood Camp participating in this battle, they were completely defeated. Only one hundred people who were proficient in water were lucky enough to escape to Shengzhou City, including Liang Sitai. However, in front of the city gate, Liang Sitai almost had to use a knife to wipe his neck because of regret. It was Zhang Shougui who came out of the city to carry him into the city. But another regiment commander He Dongmo did not escape.
Although he persuaded Liang Sitai to stop, Zhang Shougui began to feel heavy. He didn't expect Mochu to use this move. This way, the river no longer became a blood camp, and the Shengzhou City had no weapons and no soldiers to supplement him, so he was under even greater pressure.
This battle finally made Mochu feel relieved. Finally, he got a good deal from the Blood Camp.
He ordered again: "Take it."
This is a fight against An Jiewu and his group of 1,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 tribe members. They should send the fake news back to the Blood Camp, and there is no need to let them stay.
But he didn't expect that he cheated Wang Hua, and Wang Hua immediately cheated him hard, and it cheated even more.
Chapter completed!