Chapter 476 First Battle (1)

The military officer on the side took the gift list and handed it over. Wang Qinian glanced at some food, small livestock such as sheep, chicken, etc., but there were no urgently needed vehicles or camels. Then he looked up at the messengers with different appearances in front of him. He had a rough idea in his heart. He put the gift list into his arms and smiled faintly: "You are very grateful to you, the elders of Huizhou, who have sent food and fodder. However, when sending troops, Tao Zhaodao once said that this time was to punish the people for being punished. It should be a conquest and not fighting, and he should not take property from the people without war. However, Wang was just a vanguard general, and there was no much money in the army. You are asked to report your names and origins. When Tao Zhaodao's central army arrived, the price would be paid back one by one."

In theory, Wang Qinian's words were so high that the messengers should be happy to leave their names. But on the contrary, everyone was embarrassed, but they just stood in the middle and looked at them, but did not sign up for the military officers. As time passed, the scene became more and more awkward, but Wang Qinian seemed to have suddenly realized it and asked with a smile: "Why haven't you left your name yet? Could it be that you can't believe the words of a certain family? That's fine, you should have believed what Tao Zhaodan said!"

Hearing the threatening smell implicit in Wang Qinian's words, everyone couldn't help but panic. The man in the geese shirt who was speaking just now smiled and said, "Jiang Wang, these are all things we are willing to lose, and we don't need any price and silver. We don't have to have a name and origin!"

"Well, you are so ignorant. You are so ignorant. You are talking, but you still don't leave your name and origin. Is there something strange about the things you sent?" The military officer on the side saw Wang Qinian and immediately shouted loudly. The envoys were so scared that they fell to the ground, begging for mercy without any worries, saying that they were all good people and were willing to sign up for the picture. After this scare, those people had to obediently write down the name and origin. It turned out that these people were children of some of the Huizhou nobles. These nobles had great harm in the "Dutian and Resources" activity of the abbot of Lu Fang, so they naturally hoped to use the Huainan Army

Invade this opportunity to restore your traditional interests. However, these old foxes who have seen the frequent wars in the late Tang and Zhejiang and the cruel revenge of Lu Fang will not place bets until the last moment of the bet. Therefore, the real power figures in the clan only sent some irrelevant children of the side branches to the Huainan army to contact each other, explore the style, and truly sell themselves and rely on them. They will not make it until they truly see the style clearly, so as not to turn the situation around, these bans that fell into the hands of the Huainan army would become the impermanence of King Yama's life. Therefore, when Wang Qinian asked to leave his name and origin, those messengers would behave like that.

Wang Qinian looked at the silk paper in his hand, which was full of names and origins. He looked roughly. As expected, none of them were the leaders of several prominent families in Huizhou. Wang Qinian folded the silk paper and put it in his arms. He got up and walked to the man in his garry clothes and said in a deep voice: "I will accept this detail. After you go back, you will tell the head of the family that if you want to take effect, don't be as squeamish as a big girl. Wherever the king's army is going, we will trample Hangzhou and capture Lu Renzhi alive. The two governors of Zhejiang provinces are empty, so come and take it if you have the courage!"

When everyone heard this, they were filled with panic and sweating, and they kowtowed and walked out. After everyone left, Wang Qinian said in a deep voice, ordering the entire army to set off immediately and target the Jixi County District."

The Yu Hou on the side advised: "General, after conquering Congshan Pass, he should first seize the city of guarding the city and collect food and fodder. After the army arrives, he will make progress. Do this..."

"The two armies fight, and the situation changes rapidly. For generals and generals, they should change at the moment and advance with profit. How can they make rules in advance? Now the powerful Huizhou is at a time when they are unstable. Our army should directly seize the enemy's confidants. As long as they win in one battle, they will naturally respond like clouds and out of the way. If time is suddenly delayed here, the army will gather people's hearts and strengthen the walls and clear the fields. Then it will be too late to regret it!" Speaking of this, Wang Qinian suddenly raised his voice and said loudly: "Order the entire army to leave 300 people to guard the city, and the rest will turn on and attack. If there is any connection, Tao Zhao will blame him and Wang will bear it!"

On the official road, the brigade of the town soldiers were marching rapidly. The vicious sun shone on their bodies, and the sweat soaked their kudzu robes. Then they dried the sweat again. White sweat stains appeared on the black kudzu robes. The farmers on both sides of the road looked at the long spears and crossbows in their hands with fear. Because they were marching, these strong men were not wearing armor, and their armor was wrapped in a special wooden frame and carried on the back. There were some private property stored in close-fitting one to two days of food. In each group (12 people)

Behind the pawns were two to three mules or vehicles, with their tents, spare arrows, shovels, etc. on them. At the end of all the infantry, there were eight mule carts, covered with oil cloth, and they couldn't see what the object was. The soldiers accompanying them on both sides did not carry wooden frames carrying objects like the rest of the infantry. They had nothing but a horizontal knife on their waists, but just followed them easily on both sides of the mule cart, which made the farmers on the road look at them curiously, pointing at them from time to time, as if guessing something.

Lu Xiong gasped violently, his mount sniffed easily on the side. He was marching like ordinary soldiers. He has been like this since he joined the army with his hair at the age of fourteen, whether he was the most ordinary archer to the lord of the state today. There are two reasons for him to do this: First, walking marching can save valuable horsepower, and a single impact of dozens of cavalry can often determine the outcome of a battle. Second, as the head coach, it is very important to know that the physical strength of his soldiers under his command. If he rides on a horse, he cannot feel the feeling of the soldiers marching on the marching with heavy armor. At this point, he has always been very strict with himself.

"Get out of the way!" A scream came from the front of the team, and the marching ranks moved. The marching soldiers moved closer to the formation and made a way for the speeding riders. The rider was dragged straight by the wind by the flag behind the vanguard. This was the squadron sent by the vanguard. Before the horse tightened its pace, the agile rider had already rolled off the horse and shouted with a neighing voice: "Report to the general, the enemy army appeared at Zhaojia Bridge three miles ahead, and the more three hundred people there were, they should be the vanguard of the Huainan Army!"

"So fast!" Lu Xiong frowned. His current location was more than ten miles away from Jixi County. Judging from the activity radius of the cavalry sentry detectives at that time, I was afraid that the main force of the enemy's infantry was not far away. Thinking of this, Lu Xiong took a piece of silver cake from his personal soldiers and threw it to the sentry detective order and said: "Receive rewards, explore again, how far is the main force of the enemy from here."

The whistle probe took the silver cake, kowtowed, and jumped onto the war horse and rushed forward. Lu Xiong ran up the high ground next to the road to check the surrounding terrain. This place was the junction of the Tianmu Mountains and the small plains in the center of Huizhou. The shallow mountain hills rose and fell one after another. The official road was surrounded by mountains and valleys and was winding and twisted in front of it. A stream was almost parallel to the official road. Fighting under such terrain, seizing the bridge would seize the opportunity. Moreover, if this kind of encounter was won, the morale of the soldiers under his subordinates would often increase greatly. Lu Xiong quickly made up his mind.

When the bridge was about one mile away, Lu Xiong ordered his troops to line up in armor. The enemy troops on the high ground at the bridge head were obviously ready. They were busy placing the accompanying vehicles in a row and filling them with soil as a temporary barrier. Obviously, the appearance of the scout cavalry also told them that the enemy was about to arrive. Lu Xiong did not let his troops rest for a while, but immediately launched an attack, intending to take down the bridge head with a sharp spirit and eliminate this small group of enemies. After a long battle formation, he understood that sometimes decisive actions were better than complete strategies, especially when both sides did not understand the reality of the places, fast and bold actions often achieved unexpected results, especially in the current situation where the strengths of the two sides were very different, a clean and beautiful victory could also shock those Huizhou powerful people who were ill-behaved.

With the rumbling drums, the Sidu Zhenhai soldiers began to advance. Since the distance between the two sides was more than half a mile, the army was not moving forward quickly and the formation was very strict. The red tassels on the sergeant helmets were connected together, which looked like a red carpet from a distance, which looked very beautiful. The Zhenhai army's formation was very simple. The Sandu soldiers lined up in four rows of horizontal lines, and the remaining Yidu soldiers fell behind and lined up in columns, preparing to launch another attack when there was a gap in the enemy line and tear open the gap.

The defenders on the high ground next to the bridge also saw the Zhenhai Army. The soldiers who were digging the soil stopped working. Their figures disappeared behind the obstacles. Since Lu Xiong's main army was still hiding behind Gaogang where the flag was located, the Huainan Army could not determine the total number of enemy troops attacking them. However, they quickly calmed down from the chaos that they discovered at the beginning. Except for the big flags that were rushing above the army formation, there was no movement, as if there was no one behind the vehicle.

"I'm calm when I'm going to fight. Whose soldier is this? It seems difficult to deal with!" Lu Xiong murmured to himself. At this time, the attacking army was only half a mile away from the enemy. Lu Xiong waved his arm violently, and the personal soldiers on the side blew the horns. The desolate horn sounded over the battlefield. The army in front stopped, and the soldiers in the front row rumbled hard into the bottom of the shield. The soldiers in the back row placed their spears on the shield. At the same time, eight mule carts rushed forward from the position of Zhenhai Army and soon rushed to the back of the attacking army line. The soldiers next to the mule cart drove the vehicle across, then fixed the vehicle with pillars, and finally lifted the oil cloth on it. Under the oil cloth, there was a torsion spring crossbow.

The soldiers of the artillery battalion struggled to pull the wheels, twisted to the extreme, making a creaking sound, as if they were about to be torn apart at any time, and finally got stuck on the trigger. The soldiers breathed a sigh of relief, put the rock bullets on the guide rail, and began to wait for Dutou's orders. Some infantrymen from a distance looked back curiously. Most of the soldiers who turned back were recruits or captured Zhejiang soldiers. They had never seen the terrible power of these crossbows behind them. The veterans beside them whispered to them, until Dutou used scolding and scabbards to shut them up.
Chapter completed!