.Chapter 77: The Battle of the Gentleman (Part 1)

Looking at the green mountains in the distance, Zhu Qiong said excitedly to He Changqi: "General He, there will be a decisive battle tomorrow."

"Well," He Changqi nodded lightly. He had fought many battles in Qinghai. In He Changqi's mind, the upcoming battle was just a routine, so what's wrong with it?

"General He, how many Tubo people have you killed in Qinghai in the past few years?" Zhu Qiong was very curious once he didn't go to the battlefield.

"You are not a lieutenant who can kill you, but you are already a 100-man captain. You have to consider how many enemies you have killed and how many departments cooperate with each other."

"Here."

But He Changqi still told Zhu Qiong some things to pay attention to.

Both of these two people are from Yanzhou, but their backgrounds are slightly different. He Changqi was a meritorious person and official position, but he was born into a commoner. Zhu Qiong's family is from a small official family. His mother came from the Dou family of Dai Beigui, so he joined the military affairs supervisor and became a disciple of the emperor.

No matter what, he is a fellow villager.

As I spoke, it was already late, and the wind blew from the west, blew the fishy smell of the sea. In front of me was a Gobi Desert, which was faintly covered with blood under the dusk sunlight.

Therefore, the Turks themselves said that this time in the Tang Dynasty was a battle for gentlemen.

Some old people still remember the tactics of various generals in the early Tang Dynasty. The most famous one was Li Jing. Jimi's calculations and superb strategies made him suppress his opponent from beginning to end in every battle. He was called the God of War by the Turks. There was another person, Li Ji, who was very ghost and monster. Every battle seemed to have the upper hand from beginning to end. However, when the cards were finally reshuffled, the situation changed immediately, and the opponent lost, and he didn't know how to lose. Some people were not convinced, and they were still like this once and twice. So he was a demon.

In general, the battle between the Tang Dynasty was not only due to the fierceness of the soldiers, but also the strategies of the generals. This was also the characteristic of the Central Plains. So Ashinachol was dissatisfied and wrote a letter saying that you, Tang Dynasty people, fought on the battlefield head-on by our snuffed people, and decided the outcome.

Unexpectedly, the people of the Tang Dynasty actually agreed.

After staying in Gongyue City for four days, I prepared some things, namely some weapons and vehicles. The weapons were still relatively primitive and backward weapons, advanced catapults and gunpowder. Due to the drought in Guanzhong, the distance was far away, and it was still not transported to the Western Regions.

Then the army set out and walked forward for three days, not very far. After three days, it stopped and set up a camp on the edge of the desert by the Aral Sea. This terrain is undoubtedly very beneficial to the pharyngeal face. And it clearly tells the pharyngeal face to prepare for you for ten days.

Ten days of preparation are enough to collect and mobilize all the heroes of the tribe.

Either a large number of scouts were sent to detect the movements of the face, and there were many scouts. Most of these scouts were mainly Hu people, who crossed the iron gate and sneaked into the Khurashan area. The latter was very hidden, but the former was open.

It is not considered a conspiracy. Even if the Turks fight themselves, they will also send scouts to investigate the enemy's situation.

The selected location is not only an open area, but also a Qihe area (referring to the Ili River, Karatar River, Aksu River, Lepsa River, Ayaguz River, Chu River, Taras River, generally referring to the surrounding areas centered on Lake Balkash, Isek Lake and Chu River, called Qihe area. In the Tang Dynasty, the water and grass are lush and it is one of the main settlements of the Western Turks). Whether it is in the right time, place or people, it is very beneficial to the pharyngeal face.

Li Wei's arrangement finally alarmed more Turks.

These leaders are not the young Ashina Chuol, who has never looked good at face-to-face. Although there are few Tang soldiers, they all survived through bloody battles. Moreover, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty is famous, how could this young man Chuol be able to match?

However, why did the people of the Tang Dynasty do this, giving up their strengths and using their own weaknesses? Or did the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty become careless?

Well, this battle is very interesting.

Originally, secretly supporting Chuoer was just weakening the Tang army and giving the Tang army a small obstacle. But I didn't expect that the Tang army would be like this. Not only the Turks, but also the nearby Dongcao and Kang countries, Cao sent envoys to visit and watch the real combat effectiveness of the Tang army. If they were as strong as they imagined, some would be saved in the Hezhong area. If they were defeated in a battle, they had to obediently submit to the cannibals.

The envoys of the Chuyue Division, Shatuo Division, and Moheda cadres were puzzled. They didn't know what medicine was sold in the gourd of the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. They thought it was not necessary to do so. It was easy to dismember the face. After a battle, the face was severely damaged and the army was directly dispatched, and they would dismember it. They didn't know the history of the Spring and Autumn Period, otherwise they would be able to ridicule Li Wei as the second Duke Xiang of Song.

Li Wei did not answer.

After arriving in this open area, he set up a camp and dug two trenches in one day. The trenches were also very strange, very deep, nearly one meter deep, and then very narrow, and even a person could not move his body inside. This made each messenger puzzled. Everyone knew the function of the trenches, which prevented the speed of the opponent's army from attacking. Then what role could this trenches play? Not to mention the horse, even a person could easily cross over.

A bunch of questions left behind, but Li Wei did not answer.

The sun gradually set, and the scouts brought the news continuously. The Tang army did this and made Ashinachol feel very puzzled. He couldn't see through it! He just felt it was very beneficial, so he recruited all the middle-aged men in his clan, even teenagers in his forties and fifties, to mobilize and speak very imposingly. The people of the Tang Dynasty were blindly arrogant and seeking death, and our vitality came. If we cannot win this battle, our entire tribe will perish.

He said many encouraging words, but mobilized all the horses in the tribe and gathered nearly 30,000 troops. Anyway, all the old foundation was taken out. If this battle failed, he would not have to be dismembered from the Tang Dynasty, and he would have truly perished himself.

Li Wei nodded and said, "I understand."

When he walked back to the tent, he received another message, a letter from Heige Changzhi. The refugees in Guanzhong made Black Ge Changzhi so hard that they didn't want to eat. However, they knew that the emperor loved the people and did not dare to disperse them. But these people thought that when they came to Qinghai, the court would build houses for them, allocate arable land and food, and even prepare clothes. But where is there so much arable land in Qinghai? There are, in Hexi, from Niuxindui to Xingsu Sea, Chihai, Wuhai, Baihai, and then to Dafeichuan and Fuluochuan, there are large areas of grassland suitable for making arable land. Isn't it in the hands of others' fake Tuyuhun?

Heichi Changzhi also felt very depressed. There were not so many people who mobilized for help in the past, but Qinghai was saturated, so many people came to the scene. This is not the reason. As military farming, the Song Dynasty was the most powerful, but few people went to military farming. Why? First, the Song Dynasty collected half of the harvest as taxation, and second, the Song Dynasty soldiers were weak, so they often let the people of Xixia and Liao fight over, and it was unsafe to stay on the border. Who was willing to go? After plowing the fields, no people went to farm.

Li Wei did a good job. He temporarily used soldiers instead of taxes. As long as the soldiers were released, the family would be exempted from all taxes. In fact, how much tax can the peasant income be levied? Of course, it will be levied sooner or later. This will take until Qinghai is safe and there is no need for so many soldiers to gradually collect them. Now, commercial tax is still the main focus.

One disadvantage is removed, but another disadvantage is there. After all, it is the common people. The Tubo people were so fierce in the past few years, so they were afraid of coming to Qinghai. In addition, there were also local officials to block it. This year, the situation changed, and Tubo and the Tang Dynasty formed a peace talk. This is another wrong view. How could peace exist? The Tang Dynasty was waiting for an opportunity, and Tubo was recovering its vitality. It would still be a war sooner or later. Unless Qinghai and the Western Regions belong to the settlement. But is there anyone so easy to settle?

The people don’t know, they just think that it is peaceful. In addition, officials from various prefectures and counties have no way to stop the people from escaping famine. Anyway, they are dead, so it’s better to go to Qinghai. Therefore, there are more people coming.

However, it was not what they imagined when they came to Qinghai. There was no land, and no one prepared houses, food and clothing for them. What should we do? The bad habits of human beings occurred and officials were good to them. Instead, they became more and more serious and quarreled. Moreover, Qinghai’s military farming was a side job, and its main business was to guard against Tubo and wait for opportunities to fight, and to cultivate plateau soldiers. Without effective civil servants, how many incidents happened in Qinghai in the past few months?

Hei Teeth Changzhi even had the intention to cry.

This letter is extremely resentful. I don’t know who wrote it on behalf of me, but it is so miserable and resentful that it is even more pitiful than Dou E.

After reading it, Li Wei was amused and laughed. He put down the letter and wrote a letter. He had the right to deal with military and political power, including mobilizing corresponding porcelain, silk and tea to Hezhong to exchange food with various countries in Hezhong, and they were all directly assigned to the death. He wrote a letter to Luoyang, just a report, not a request. He happened to be planning to transfer the people from Guanzhong to farm in the Suyeshui area, so he asked Heichi Changzhi to escort these people to Suyes City.

The letter was sent out. Another news came, about the Isa tribe. This was a nomadic people. Although the Tang Dynasty set up a throne state, their range of activities was very wide. They usually came to the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea in winter. They were not here at this time, and they almost ran to the upper reaches of the Ural River.

Li Wei had to give up and walked northward through the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea. The weather was cold and many areas were deserted. Even if there were, they were mainly primitive Caucasians and Urals. Without a guide, there was no way to identify the direction. Even if they encountered people, they could not communicate in words.

Then they called out the generals and began to give orders.

In Luoyang, Pei Xingjian and Liu Rengui have already made a lot of discussions. After coming to Gongyue City, he has made some discussions with Wang Fangyi and Li Jinxing. This time this is not a real gentleman battle, and Li Wei is not willing to give up on this face. It is to fight with the cannibals in the future and conduct an experiment and exercise.

I have read many historical books and learned from history. The most famous infantry or light cavalry against cavalry and heavy cavalry was the Battle of Kucha by Lu Guang. Lu Guang had a total of 70,000 soldiers, of which only 5,000 were cavalry. When attacking Kucha, the King of Kucha was not supported and asked for help from Luhu. King of Kucha sent his brother Na Long and Hou Daokui to lead 200,000 cavalry, and there were Wen Su and Wei Tou troops, with a total of nearly 700,000 troops to rescue Kucha. Not only that, Shi*** also had a unique name for Luhu, that is, armor, which is like a chain without gaps, and the bow and arrows could not be shot through at all, which means swords and guns.

Li Wei and Pei Xingjian both had objections to this.

It cannot be said that the Hu people have no technology. The Hu countries in the Western Regions of Kucha also have some industrial foundations, and smelting technology cannot be underestimated. For example, the Xia Kingdom of Helianbobo was loyal to Helianbobo. In order to strive for excellence, when making weapons, if the bow and arrow shoot through the arrows, the craftsmen who do bows and arrows will die. If they shoot through, the armor will die. When cultivating Wancheng, they will use a sharp iron cone to insert the city wall. If they are one inch deep, they will kill the mason and build it into the wall.

Therefore, the Xia Kingdom had first-class cities and first-class weapons. This is an exception and cannot be counted, but it proved that the Luhu people might have heavy armor similar to the Dashi and Byzantines.

Not only is this terrifying heavy armor, the Luhu people are also good at spears and archers, and also good at using lassoes. This lasso can still be seen in the hands of the Turks and Khitans. They are usually used to use disobedient horses and become weapons for people on the battlefield. They are used to snaking horses, and even more so, they are accurate in snaking people.

The weapons and armor are sharp, and the personal force is high, 700,000 vs. 70,000. This asymmetric war has begun.

However, Lu Guang thought of a way and built a hook and sickle spear. It can not only hook your horse, but also stretch out the hook and sickle spear to tear your armor, and then use a bow and arrow to serve it. The ones who escaped the net were solved by light cavalry. The two sides confronted each other and fought to the west of Quci, the capital of Kucha. Lu Guang won a great victory, the king of Kucha fled in a panic, and the number of kings who surrendered reached more than 30 countries.

This historical history is not credible, and the three people magnified the records in the history books infinitely. First of all, whether the Hu Hu had the ability to make invulnerable armor. Secondly, whether he had the ability to use this armor with 200,000 people. Even the Tang Dynasty probably did not have this ability. After all, it was just a Hu tribe. In addition, it was the death rate. It was not very credible to say that more than 10,000 enemies were killed in this battle. Although the 700,000 army was united by various troops and the morale of the army was uneven, this was similar to Fu Jian's battle in the south of the Yangtze River. However, if only more than 10,000 people were killed, the 700,000 army could be defeated? The weak Song soldiers and the late Ming Dynasty army would not be so greedy and afraid of death.

But following this battle example, countless deductions were made.

Li Wei attaches great importance to it because the Yue family army later also used it.

But the cavalry is still the most powerful. When the Yue family army fought, they used hooks, sickles and sabers, and sabers, but they were just auxiliary troops, and ultimately cavalry. This is to deal with the cannibals, and it provides more combat methods. The battle with the pharyngeal side was a military exercise.

The night passed quickly, and Asanchol did not harass him. As the battle between gentlemen in the Tang Dynasty, I also wanted to be a gentleman. Not only did I not harass him, I leaned on the mountains in the distance and slept all night, ensuring my physical strength. After dawn, I started cooking and had enough food, so I calmly led 30,000 troops to come slowly.

Tang Jun was also very calm, but this was not calm, but a kind of self-confidence.

When the Yebei Army was only ten miles away from the barracks, Li Wei waved his hand. Xin Chengsi and Jiang Sijin led 3,000 people into two teams and entered the trench. The difference was that they were holding some strange weapons in their hands, which looked like guns but not guns, and hooks but not hooks. They were more than seven feet long and had a spear head, but there was a barb under the spear head, and a sharp curved sickle on the other side, like a big scythe. I have never seen it before.

In addition to this weird gun, there are also some heavy knives, not ordinary horizontal knives, but the kind with thick backs added to the knife. Some big axes.
Chapter completed!