The last military reform of the Tang Dynasty was carried out under the auspices of Zhao Ziliang ten years ago.
The entire military system was divided into three parts, namely the forbidden army system, the garrison system and the local army system.
Among them, the forbidden army and the garrison were equivalent to the standing army, and The local army is equivalent to the armed police force.
These three major systems are different in terms of weapons and armor equipment, and have different markings, making them easy to identify.
No matter what kind of situation, you cannot leave the station without the order of the Regent Palace.
This time, the mastermind behind the scenes used nearly 5,000 cavalry at once, which shows that this man's energy is very important.
He must be prepared to assassinate and ambush Lieutenant General Zhao Ziliang here.
He is so determined that he can be said to be desperate.
Zhao Ziliang's face was as dark as water.
After listening to Er Zhu Xianzhong's analysis, he asked: "Are you sure the enemy is the Tang army and not the Western Qin army or the horse bandits?"
Erzhu Xianzhong said: "Your Majesty, trained army soldiers and horse bandits are completely different in many physical surface characteristics.
This is something Wei Chen dares to guarantee with human heads.
These enemies are definitely not horse bandits but soldiers.
The reason why Wei Chen determined The enemy is the Tang army because any of our Western Qin armies The equipment of any soldier in the army, including clothes, shoes and socks, is all uniformly supplied by logistics, but the Tang Army is different.
The Ministry of War of the Tang Army only supplies weapons, armor, military uniforms, and military shoes to the soldiers, but personal items such as underwear and socks are not provided.
It's up to the soldiers themselves to drag them back from us Judging from the enemy corpses that arrived, we can see that the underwear, socks, and bellybands of these people are of various styles, materials, and colors, and are not uniform.
In addition, Your Majesty, please take a look.
These are what the soldiers took from the enemy corpses.
If they were horse bandits, it would be impossible for them to wear identity inscriptions on a large scale As real soldiers, they will carry out whatever orders they receive, except that they will not take off their identity plate.
A soldier without an identity plate is automatically giving up his status as a soldier and all honors, even if the King of Heaven orders him to do so. they cast away and they will reject” Zhao Ziliang saw several dark square copper pieces in Erzhu Xianzhong's hand, and his pupils shrank.
If he remembered correctly, these square copper pieces were the identity plates of Tang Army soldiers.
At that time, he presided over the military reform of the Tang Army, among which One reform project is to issue a metal identity plate to every Tang army general.
The soldier's name and serial number are recorded on it.
This kind of nameplate is made of brass and several other metals mixed and smelted using stamping technology.
The words on it cannot be changed, just like the words on coins, and This kind of nameplate is not easy to rust.
Even if it is wiped once every more than a month, it will always be as bright as new.
Zhao Ziliang said in a deep voice: "So there are people in the Tang Dynasty who want Gu to die and don't want Gu to go to Chang'an."
Erzhu Xianzhong didn't say anything, just clasped his fists and stepped aside.
Judging from the relevant clues obtained so far, it is more likely that the mastermind behind this incident is someone from the Tang Dynasty than someone from the Western Qin Kingdom.
However, Zhao Ziliang cannot relax at all.
The deaths of the two princesses Xinping and Wang Zhiyun made him Devastated, his whole life There are only five women with official names in total.
Chen Qingying and Mrs.
Meng passed away a few years ago.
Now that Xinping and Wang Zhiyun both died in this assassination, only Nie Sanniang is left by his side.
This The feeling of losing a loved one is like having your heart ripped out.
Everyone looked at Zhao Ziliang in fear.
Although he looked very restrained and calm on the surface, no one really thought that he was fine, even if an ordinary civilian had two wives killed at once.
Going crazy, let alone a king Although all the clues now point to the Tang Dynasty court, Zhao Ziliang does not believe that the mastermind must be someone from the Tang Dynasty court.
Even though things have become somewhat clear, is it not possible that someone from the Western Qin Dynasty is engaging in an affair with someone from the Tang Dynasty?
Collusion is not impossible Thinking of this, Zhao Ziliang sneered: "It seems that some people saw Gu abdicate and thought that Gu was already a toothless tiger that was too old to hunt prey, so they couldn't wait to attack Gu."
At this time, a small school ran in and reported: "Your Majesty, General, some brothers heard the sound of a large number of footsteps approaching us by listening to the ground.
We suspect that the enemy saw that the cavalry charge failed and used infantry.
According to our judgment and preliminary It is estimated that there are at least 12,000 infantrymen coming this time."
The expressions of all the officials and generals changed.
Not counting the more than 1,000 people in the supply camp, the accompanying troops this time only had 3,000 guards and 500 Dragon Guards.
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The Dragon Guards needed to protect the emperor, royal family members and entourage.
Officials, eunuchs, and maids, so there are only 3,000 escorts that can really be used to fight the enemy.
If the enemy's current strength includes cavalry, the total number of troops is more than five times that of the escorts.
This is definitely a frightening number.
Zhao Ziliang was not panicked.
He had experienced too much in the past many years, and had experienced nine deaths more than once.
He asked calmly: "How far is the enemy army from here?"
The principal said: "It won't go more than six or seven miles."
Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Erzhu Xianzhong: "It seems that it is still necessary to send out sentries to explore the surrounding enemy situation.
It would be best if we can find out the enemy's deployment.
If we cannot find out the enemy's specific deployment, we must also determine the enemy's situation."
The location of the military commander, otherwise we have no chance of winning."
Erzhu Xianzhong agreed: "Yes, I will immediately send the elite of the scout battalion to attack."
"Also, why did the enemy use so many infantry after the cavalry charge failed?
If the cavalry can't do it, can the infantry be used?
The enemy general is not worried about our cavalry taking the initiative to break up their infantry formation.
Can the general's military order be ignored?
It’s hard to tell how it will be implemented.
We may even kill our own people.
You must know that we are all cavalry.
Since the enemy general chooses to take action, it is impossible not to know our true and false situation and surround the cavalry with infantry.
Who can do this unless all of the more than 10,000 infantry are heavy armored infantry?
, but which army has so many heavy armored infantry?"
Zhao Ziliang asked a series of questions that made all the officials and generals present look at each other.
This is indeed a question that is somewhat difficult to explain.
I don’t know what the enemy general’s plan is.
Zhao Ziliang was a little disappointed when he saw that no one in the crowd answered.
He no longer held back and directly gave the order to Er Zhu Xianzhong: "Pass the order, all the units of the escort army should gather together to control and protect the war horses; everyone should deploy in the No. 3 defensive formation.
All carry bucklers; the whole camp extinguishes all lights, military orders are conveyed by torches, and the fires outside the camp are kept open."
Er Zhu Xianzhong immediately understood Zhao Ziliang's intention for this deployment, which was to defend against the enemy's large-scale long-range strikes with bows and arrows.
You must know that there are basically no bunkers for evasion in the camp of the escort army.
The only armor is the small buckler, which is cavalry equipment.
Using the No. 3 defensive formation can exert its maximum defensive effect.
When used intensively, it can defend against large-scale bow and arrow strikes.
It is absolutely impossible to use infantry to encircle and attack cavalry on the battlefield, and it is even more impossible at night.
Therefore, Zhao Ziliang guessed that the enemy's main purpose of using infantry was to use bows and arrows for large-scale long-range strikes.
For cavalry, the defensive ability to withstand infantry bow and arrow strikes is much weaker than that of infantry.
It only takes a few rounds of volleys for more than 10,000 people to fill the entire camp with arrows.
Without sufficient preparation, who will be spared?
So Zhao Ziliang ordered All escort soldiers are required to carry round shields and set up a defensive formation in the No. 3 defensive formation.
This formation can transform the city shield formation in a very short time and resist long-range bow and arrow strikes to the greatest extent.
There is another reason.
The No. 3 defensive formation is an infantry formation.
It can be arranged into a maze formation based on tents.
Once the formation starts to operate, it can begin to strangle the enemy troops entering the formation.
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It is the best way for infantry to defend against surprise attacks.
Best defensive formation.
Once the No. 3 formation is disbanded, the soldiers can find their horses as quickly as possible and begin to counterattack in cavalry formation.
The purpose of extinguishing the lights in the entire camp is to make the enemy in the darkness unclear about the true situation in the camp.
If the enemy sends a small group of troops to explore or conduct a tentative attack, they will be illuminated by the fire outside the camp.
If you are exposed, you will be attacked accurately by the elite archers and marksmen in the camp.
Even if you try to extinguish the fire, you will not be able to do it because the fire is within the range of the bow and arrow in the camp.
Shortly after Erzhu Xianzhong returned to the camp and took command, the enemy infantry had arrived nearby.
The sentinels sent out to inquire about the enemy's situation suffered considerable losses, but some information was still sent back.
"The enemies are mainly concentrated in the northeast.
None of the sentinels sent out in other directions have returned.
The possibility of their return is extremely slim."
Erzhu Xianzhong frowned when he heard the report from the captain of the scout camp.
None of the scouts in other directions returned, which means there is no news from these directions.
It is possible that there are heavy troops ambushed in these directions, but It is also possible that there were only small groups of troops deployed by the enemy in these directions, specifically to intercept and kill sentinels, preventing him from getting information and making it impossible for him to find out the reality of the deployment of troops in this direction.
"The enemy general is indeed smart," Er Zhu Xianzhong sneered, "but so what, we never thought about breaking out overnight.
No matter how his troops were deployed, I remained motionless.
We didn't have much time to wait for him to attack. , once daybreak, when the soldiers discover our flag and discover that they are besieging the Holy King's escort, then there will be excitement."
After the reform of the military system, whether it is the Tang Army or the Western Qin Army, the possibility of the commander-in-chief wanting to rebel has been reduced to an extremely low level.
Not only has the military power of the commander-in-chief been dispersed, but also because there are dedicated officials in the army to carry out military operations on the soldiers.
Ideological education, the enemy general can only use the fact that he cannot see the opponent's flag at night to let the soldiers attack.
Once the two sides face off with clear flags, the generals and soldiers will doubt the legitimacy of the military order.
They must know that attacking friendly forces can Not in every case
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