In the early summer of the second year of Kaiyuan.
Just after a thunderstorm, the air on the island of Ryuqiu is getting fresher and fresher.
Mid-April.
Zhang Jing and Zhang Boyu, the lords of Liuqiu Island, led a coalition army to reach Jilong Mountain in the north of Liuqiu.
It's a huge army.
It has 800 Knights of the Realm, and a brigade of 3,000 Lords' Guards.
There were also 5,000 territorial infantry.
In addition, there were 8,000 territorial militiamen, and up to 10,000 mountain infantry.
Together with the logistics troops, and the ships outside Joncoop Harbor, this is an army of more than 20,000 people.
The young Ryuqiu Island was full of ideas, dressed in shiny lord armor, and behind the golden armor tattooed with a nine-headed bird, there was a pair of excited eyes.
Behind him, the standard-bearer held the red nine-headed bird flag aloft.
The red nine-headed bird flag represents the most powerful family in the Tang Dynasty, the Bashang Zhang family.
The most territory, the most wealth, the most soldiers.
Nine-headed birds in the sky, Zhang family on the ground.
There is also a sentence in this flag, the immortal nine-headed bird.
At this time, the Liuqiu Shanyi gathered the resistance of the whole island in the Jilong Mountain in the north of Liuqiu, and there were as many as 120,000 Shanyi tribal warriors.
Jilong Mountain has also become the last base camp for the Shanyi to rebel against the Zhang family on Liuqiu Island.
If this base camp is lost, Shanyi will no longer be able to resist the Zhang family.
For more than ten years, the Zhang family's strategy of boiling frogs in warm water has expanded little by little, and swallowed little by little.
Constantly co-opting and conquering all the Shanyi departments, separating the weak and combining the strong, merging and co-opting, everything can be done.
Many Shanyi people eventually joined the Zhang family, but there were still many tribes who refused to be conquered, and they continued to move north, or across the mountains to the east.
They take a step back, and the Zhang family goes further.
At this time, Jilong Mountain gathered 120,000 Shanyi tribe alliances, and there were cottages everywhere.
However, although there are many people, these united tribes are not monolithic.
They come from different tribes and even different tribal confederations.
Many tribes used to have a feud, and now they are united for self-preservation, but the relationship is not very close.
What Zhang Jing despised the most was the equipment of these rabble.
They had no strong fortifications, no fortresses, only a few wooden stockades, which were very rudimentary.
They also have no effective organization, very loose alliances.
Every tribe is a warrior, but the equipment is amazingly rudimentary.
Dressed in deerskins, armed with antlers, and armed with rudimentary bows and arrows, and stone knives.
It's up to them, and they also want to fight to the death with the Zhang family, but Zhang Jing is just hehe.
For this battle, he prepared for three months.
The Zhang family's stewards and vassals in Liuqiu thought that they were not in a hurry to fight a decisive battle, and slowly devoured the oppression, and finally could easily conquer Shanyi.
However, Zhang Jing believed that this battle was necessary, and a timely show of force would help the stability of Liuqiu.
And he also hopes to conquer the hundreds of thousands of Shanyi that have not yet been annexed as soon as possible, so as to replenish the various territories of the Zhang family, where manpower is urgently needed.
Of course, he also hopes that this battle will make a name for him Zhang Jing.
He came to Liuqiu, it was Zhao Guogong, not a Zhang Dagongzi who came to study.
It took him three months to prepare, and he kept his father's words in mind and never took any enemy lightly.
The lion fights the rabbit, and also uses all his strength.
Jilong Mountain, where the Shanyi retreated, was actually not a good place to attack.
It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces the sea on one side.
There are islands, harbors, and mountains, although there is a chicken coop harbor that makes Zhang Jing's army easily come from the sea.
However, there is only a small amount of flat land along the coast, and the rest is sloping and mountainous.
Not far from Chicken Coop Harbor is Chicken Long Mountain, which was originally the territory of the local Chicken Coop Society.
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Now a large number of mountains are guarding on Jilong Mountain.
After Zhang Jing's army landed at Jilong Harbor, he began to set up docks and camps near the port.
Although the Shanyi were numerous, they did not dare to fight a decisive battle with the Tang army on the flat ground, and they retreated to the mountains.
"Shanyi occupies the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack."
An experienced knight of the Zhang family reported to the young master.
Zhang Jing was unmoved.
"Jilong Mountain is not high, although the slope is steep, don't forget the gap in equipment between us, and the gap in training."
Cavalry is basically useless in fighting on such terrain.
But under his command, there are also mountain infantry from the Shanyi Association, these are also from Shanyi, they can chase wild boars and deer under the mountain barefoot, after serving the Zhang family, they have been trained in all aspects of the Zhang family, and equipped with better ordnance, and now they are like a tiger.
Not to mention, there are elite infantry under his command, which are all elite infantry with iron armor and big shields, not to mention that one soldier is worth ten yi, and there must be more than five yi.
In addition, he has a large militia under his command.
These militiamen were poorly armed, but they had a very powerful piece of equipment, muskets.
Since its invention, the musket has not become a mainstream equipment due to many limitations, such as short range, slow rate of fire, high manufacturing costs, and great influence by the weather.
But Zhang Chao used firearms to equip the militia in the territory.
The Guy militia had a short training time, was not as well-trained as the regular soldiers, could be proficient in bows and crossbows, swords, shields, and spears, and could not compare with the fighting skills.
The militia has a limited amount of training time per year, and their physical fitness is certainly not as good as that.
Let them be equipped with muskets, and rely on dense musket strikes, which can also play a lot of role in critical times.
After all, the militia was originally in the army, and it only served as a second-line task.
But no matter how short the range of the musket is, he is still a long-range class.
Especially against the natives like Shanyi, who lack both long-range soldiers and armor, it can play a great role.
"Let the Association attack from both flanks from the 1st and 2nd Brigades, and advance from the 1st Corps of the Territorial Escort Brigade head-on."
As the son of the god of war, although Zhang Jing is young, his knowledge of soldiers is by no means bad.
To deal with these Shanyi, it is very simple, keep the formation, approach, and then use the sturdiness of armor and shields to hold the formation, and use bows, arrows, and muskets to strike and harvest the opponent.
When necessary, if you harden those forts, destroy them directly with cannons and crossbows.
The first regiment of Hydra is all equipped with iron armor, although it is not heavy infantry, but it is definitely not something that the mountains can break.
The first row all carried large square shields, and the back two rows of spearmen.
Then another platoon of shield men, and another two platoons of spearmen.
After these three layers, there are crossbowmen.
This is an elite infantry that can block and attack, and they are invincible here unless they are confronted by those lightly armed archers.
No class is absolutely invincible, and the arms are mutually resistant.
The strongest is when the classes work together.
Zhang Jing kept in mind his father's teachings, and at the moment, cavalry, which costs more, is obviously not as good as infantry.
War drums beat and trumpets sounded.
Those Zhang family infantrymen whose faces were wrapped in helmets and masks only showed a pair of eyes.
Their eyes are firm and their steps are steady.
Under the rhythm of the drums, it moved forward step by step, keeping the formation neat.
Every few dozen steps, you have to stop and tidy up.
Mountains.
A group of Shanyi painted their faces with mud paint, wore deerskins, and some wore horned helmets on their heads.
They held all kinds of weapons in their hands, looked at the Han army that pressed up, and opened their mouths one by one and let out a loud roar.
The roar shook the mountain, but not a single soldier of the Zhang family stepped on it.
There are still more than 100 steps away, and there are already Shanyi who can't help it.
They screamed wildly, beat their chests with all their might, and then rushed down with stone axes, stone knives, antler spears, and even bamboo spears and sticks.
That atmosphere made Zhang Jing, who was watching the battle at the foot of the mountain, admire their courage, but he didn't know where their confidence came from.
"Stop" The Hydra First Steps roared.
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The advance was in a big formation, and the soldiers had stopped.
"Shield" Another roar.
An officer passed the order down.
The non-commissioned officers led the command.
The shield soldiers in front of them erected large shields, and the shields formed a shield wall.
"Gun" The pikemen behind immediately pierced their spears from between their shields, and the shield wall immediately sprouted thorns of thorns.
The nine-headed bird flag fluttered.
The spear and shield array was completed, and the infantry stood quietly.
The rushing Shanyi rushed halfway and found that in front of the thousand Han people in front of them, a huge steel thorn shield pierced the wall.
The spear of the Sensen, and the dark shield wall, how to rush through Originally, I thought that there were very few Han people, and thousands of people dared to come over, and they charged and didn't trample them to death.
Many people were hesitating, but there were still many hot-headed Shanyi who continued to roar and charge regardless of it.
The people behind also continued to rush forward.
"These people are blind" Some soldiers couldn't help but think to themselves.
Sixty steps.
The Shanyi are still rushing, they have already rushed into range.
Rushing down from the mountain is indeed very easy, rushing so fast that you can't even restrain your steps.
By the time some of the Shanyi watched the shield thorn grow taller and taller, it seemed impassable, and they wanted to stop, it was too late.
The people behind were pushing them forward.
"Bow" The archers have raised their bows.
"Projectile" In the face of such a dense rush down Shanyi, there was no need to aim at all, and it was directly thrown into the sky.
The projectile can shoot farther and is more lethal.
"Put" The whistles rang out one after another, and rows of archers shot arrows in their hands.
Arrows roar into the air.
Dense as a flying locust.
The Shanyi infantry guarding the two wings looked up at the arrows that flew into the sky and marveled.
In Chinese, which is still not very proficient, he exclaimed, "so beautiful" Arrows fall.
Screams rang out among the charging Shanyi people.
Buckskin could not stop bows and arrows, especially such throwing arrows from the sky.
Zhang Jing put down the clairvoyant mirror and scolded, "What a bunch of fools, what a strong Shanyi, I have to use my body to test my Zhang family's blades are not sharp, arrows are not sharp, stupid."
What a good Shanyi, this rain of arrows goes down, and at least a hundred Shanyi are gone.
Transported back to the Central Plains, it is worth thousands of yuan."
The knights and men next to him were silent, how can our Da Langjun love money so much. t1706231537: