As the city gate slowly closed, the heavy wooden stick propped it up from the inside, meaning that the east gate of the West Thunder Barrier was completely sealed.And Ren Hong "went into battle with injuries", jumped up again with tears in his eyes, and went out with Zhao Han'er, who had just arrived, as well as five hundred guards and recruited soldiers, and joined the more than 2,000 Xiaoyue clan righteous cavalry who had just crossed the Huangshui to support.Jin Shen took the 3,000 central army from Chang'an to defend the interior, while Ren Hong took the miscellaneous army and Yiconghu to form a foreign aid of 3,000 cavalry, cruising on the loess platform near Xitingsai, so as to contain the Qiang forces and prevent them from attacking the city barrier with all their might.After all, the city barrier has just been built, and it can't accommodate too many people, and it is a great waste to use the flexible Lingju recruiting cavalry as a city guard, as for the Xiaoyue clan, it is more reassuring to stay outside and let Ren Hong directly order.In addition, Ren Hong took the initiative to agree with Jin Xian to fight like this, and he also had his own selfishness, he didn't say anything, but Han Dangdang just came out, he couldn't hold back, and confided in Zhao Han'er, who just came and didn't know the truth."
When you just left the city, did you see the eyes of the Zhonglang general Shi Renxuan, and the officials of the Northern Army looking at us?"
Han Dangdang held back the fire: "It's like watching a group of deserters!"
”During the days of building the West Thunder Barrier, if it weren't for Ren Hong's restraint, the short-tempered Han Dangdang would have taken the same difficult to mess with the Lingju soldiers and fought shirtless with the northern army under Jin Xian.As for the reason, if the Northern Army is the Central Army of the Han Dynasty, and the Jincheng County soldiers are the Jin Sui Army, then the Lingju recruits under the command of Captain Huqiang are guerrillas?
In short, in the eyes of the Northern Army, Ling Ju is almost the same as the Xiaoyue clan.It was a miracle to put them together for two months to eat and live together, and there was no fire.Even if Ling Ju recruited cavalry and followed the famous Xi'an Hou to win a great victory in the Battle of Haomen Water, the northern army thought that it was because the Qiang people were too weak, plus the credit of the horseshoe, and they said this behind their backs: "There are good generals who are handsome, and they can win against the Qiang captives and bring a group of dogs into battle." ”What makes people laugh and cry is that the group of soldiers of the Northern Army, who are mainly from the six counties and the good family of Sanhe, even their chief officers, dignified lieges, and Fengche Duwei, who has never had experience in battle formations, look down on them, and often boast to themselves: "If you change a dog and take us, you can always win and be undefeated." ”The war history of the Northern Army is indeed rich, as early as more than a hundred years ago, Taiwei Zhou Bo led them to quell the Lu Rebellion, since then, the Southern Army sat on the cold bench, and the Northern Army became synonymous with the Central Army.Later, Taiwei Zhou Yafu led his troops to quell the "Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu", and the Northern Army participated in the battle with the main force and won a great victory.Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty repeatedly formed an army of expeditions against the Xiongnu with the eight schools of the Northern Army as the core, and in the Witch Gu Rebellion, if Ren An's episode is not counted, most of the Northern Army stood on the right team again.Today's Han Dynasty relies on this army very much, as the pro-army of the Son of Heaven, every soldier of the Northern Army is selected by a veteran who has been a soldier in Biansai for a year, so the quality of the soldiers is better.Strict training, well-equipped, extremely strong combat effectiveness, almost everyone wears armor, holds iron beryllium and spears, holds a fine iron ring head knife at the waist, and a strong crossbow is standard, causing Han Dangdang to scold Zhao Han'er for the arrogance of the Northern Army, but he can't help but envy their equipment.In peacetime, the Eighth School of the Northern Army defends Chang'an, and as long as there is a conquest, they will be among the expeditions.Often from the general to the expedition, or the northwest to attack Qianghu, or the south to settle the chaos, has become a famous ace field army, and then has the aura of the "king division" blessing, it is difficult not to be arrogant.This is probably the most difficult army in the world to bring, the gold reward does not have excellent merits and skills, coupled with the good temper that no one can offend, it seems that it is indeed "weak" in the army, but it is despised.This batch of non-commissioned officers of the Northern Army is actually Shi Renxuan, the captain of the shooting school, who is in charge, and I heard that he is very close to Huo Yu, the son of Huo Guang, and he is also a "Huo family".Although Ren Xuan was polite to Ren Hong on the surface, Ren Hong could feel that this officer with the same surname who was not from his own family was disapproving of his merits, and he turned a blind eye to the increasingly serious factional discrimination among his subordinates, and even added fuel to the fire."
Carrying stones, mixing yellow mud to build walls and other tiring work, the Northern Army always wants to call us to do, and when farming, I am lazy and don't want to work hard, what do they say about the Jincheng people of Jincheng, why don't they say that the rice of Jincheng can only be eaten by Jincheng people?"
Han Dangdang likes the temperament of Jincheng people very much, and he has long been in a relationship with them, and he has been ordered by Ren Hongsan not to make trouble, otherwise he will definitely be angry for them.Fortunately, Ren Hong was relatively famous and won the battle, the food officer did not dare to withhold the materials, and the golden reward also agreed to the equal treatment of the two armies in terms of food and housing, which saved a lot of conflicts.In addition, Zhao Chongguo is a Lingju person, so the Northern Army does not dare to bully the general's fellow villagers too much, but he is also arrogant in his heart, but he can't hide it."
Save your energy, don't complain."
Ren Hong heard Han Dangdang's complaints, thinking that he had laughed at the Qiang people before, in fact, the Han army was not much better, even in the front-line army, there were serious factional struggles, and regional discrimination was everywhere, and the old grievances in Kansai and Kanto, Kansai were also divided into three auxiliaries and Liangzhou, and each county in Liangzhou had a chain of contempt, which was really a headache, so he reprimanded Han Dangdang and said: "You are also an old soldier, don't you still understand that all the secret competitions in the army must be on the battlefield in the end to see the real chapter?"
Indeed, if you were in the obstacles, I was afraid that Ren Xuan would arrange for you to deliver crossbow arrows and stones, and you wouldn't even have a chance to go up the wall, but now, you have the opportunity to compete with them. ”They had climbed the Red Rock Cliff near the West Thunderbolt Barrier and occupied the commanding height, and they could see the mighty Qiang people rushing towards the West Thunderbolt Barrier, as if they could easily submerge this small fortress that was not yet completely completed."
There are about 20,000 Qiang people, as long as we can contain 10,000 so that they cannot concentrate on attacking the city, Xitingsai can easily defend it."
Ren Hong pinched the horsewhip and pointed downward, predicting the battle situation for his subordinates: "In the first battle, the strong bow and crossbow guarded the key point, that was the specialty of the Northern Army's shooting battalion in the city, and Xin Wuxian and Zhao Wei, who led the Northern Army's Yue Cavalry Battalion, received my urgent report, they had already crossed the Huangxia Gorge, and they could join the battlefield before dark. ”Although Ren Hong can't say whether the Long Ye Ganmang he sent to lobby Zhuqiang anyway has succeeded.After hearing this, everyone was eager to try, they had really had enough of the anger of the Northern Army in the past two months, and they had to be here to let them have a good experience, and the "Jincheng Tiger Rider" under the Tiger of Hehuang was not in vain.Ren Hong said: "I can't guarantee anything else, there will definitely be more beheadings afterwards than the soldiers of the shooting battalion, and then the other generation will ridicule you and others, so they will count the heads of the Qiang people they have cut off and scold back!"
The real merits are there, and it depends on what else the other generation has to say. ”"The prince has a point."
Zhao Han'er patted Han Dangdang: "Old Han, I haven't shot anyone with this new bow yet, you and I are comparative?"
”Having said that, it was impossible for the cavalry to be restrained on the side to directly rush into the 20,000 Qiang people, according to what was said in advance, wait for the flag to be raised in the city, and then launch an internal and external attack, Ren Hong only turned on the spectator mode first, and watched the offensive and defensive battle of the West Thunder Barrier from afar."
Knock knock, knock knock."
Wearing a monkeyskin hat, beating a one-sided sheepskin drum, dancing and singing while walking, this is the standard attire of the Qiang sorcerer "Shibi".The sheepskin is used as a drum because the sheep ate the white stone, which is probably a piece of salt, so because of the hatred of the sheep, cut its skin to beat it for the drum.The use of macaque skin as a hat is because when the Qiang people are in danger, the macaques sacrifice their bodies to let them eat to tide over the difficulties, so their skins are made into hats and always worn on the head to show respect and worship forever.As for why it is a one-sided drum, there is a legend that the former supreme god Mubita learned from the mouth of his daughter who returned from the mortal world that there are still many immoral customs and ghosts that endanger people and animals in the mortal world, so he sent the god Jipolle to rectify the nether.The overwork caused by the overwork of the two drums was damaged, and only one side was usable.Long Ye Ganmang had heard a long time ago that if you want to become a Shabi, you not only have to apprentice, but also have to go through a difficult test, the most difficult level is that you need to insert a knife from the right cheek into the mouth, and then insert a needle into the left cheek, and hang a small fir flag on the needle, until the end of the ceremony, if the candidate can ensure that the blood does not flow, it will be considered as a successful pass.The monkey fur hat and sheepskin drum can be faked, but the scar on the right cheek can't be faked, the Qiang people have unsuccessful rules, and in the war between the tribes for the river valley, they can't kill Shibi, because they are the wise men who inherit the epic and the witch doctors who interpret spells.Right now, Long Ye Ganmang followed behind the burning dang, staring at his enemy from the cracks of the people: Yang Yu, the great man of Xian Lingqiang, it was he who destroyed the Long Ye tribe and sold himself as a slave.At this moment, Yang Yu was kneeling in front of the most respected Shibi in the entire river, and Shibi had already made a big bonfire on the ground with pine and cypress wood, the wood crackled and the pine resin sizzled.Then Shibi took the Qiang sword offered by Yang Yu, burned it in the bonfire, and when he took it out, the original black sword had become red and shiny, and the old Shibi recited the spell, and actually raised the red-hot iron sword to his mouth, stretched out his tongue, and licked it quickly on the iron ploughshare!
The sound of "boom" came out of his mouth, and everyone was shocked, but Shibi was fearless and his demeanor was free.Then he poured a bowl of water from the tip of the scorching sword, and a white mist appeared, and there was more hot water in the bowl.Shi Bi drank the water and sprayed Yang Yu, Yu Fei and the others who needed to play the strikers and the Qiang warriors!
According to the saying, in this way, you can be protected by the gods, and you will be invulnerable.In the end, it is not difficult to falsify it, and you will know it by trying, but the Qiang people are like the Boxers of later generations, and they have no doubt about it, or rather, they can't believe it.In addition to superstition about their own gods and ancestors, and pinning their hopes on miracles, what else can the Qiang people take out to fight the Han people?
Armor is inferior to population, inferior to tactics.Isn't it a bad life that is not afraid of death?
The bonfire was blazing, and the sheepskin drums were clanging, like their frightened and fearless heartbeats, like the Qiang people who had migrated, struggled, and trapped for thousands of years.They will never be able to understand why they have to come to this small river to compete for the last piece of fertile land, isn't the Han land very big?
They kept running and fleeing, and finally there was nothing left but the snowy plateau ahead, and there was nowhere to go.The Qiang inside the river Huang eats the weak and the strong, this huge world, thousands of nations, how can it not be the strong and the weak."
Blood is sprinkled all over the Great Snow Mountain!""
Blood is sprinkled all over the Great Snow Mountain!"
With a burst of crazy roars, the Qiang warriors who were cast spells by Shibi and believed that they were invulnerable simply threw away their armor.Anyway, their parents had already tried it, and these things couldn't guard the Han people's crossbows at all, and it was better to believe in the fast legs than in the armor.They clenched their weapons, stepped on the soft fields that had just been sown with wheat seeds and barley by the Han Chinese, and walked step by step towards the West Thunder Barrier, and then, to the accompaniment of the turbulent water flowing to the east, they trotted and ran wildly, and in this way, without an inch of armor, they launched a charge towards the West Thunder Barrier!
Like a flock of yellow sheep, when they were cornered, they turned around, lowered their heads, hid their frightened eyes, and only aimed their horns, which were not sharp or even a little clumsy, at the people who were chasing after them, and pushed them over!
The golden reward at the head of Xiting City had never seen this kind of moth to the flame-like scene, and he was a little stunned, but Ren Xuan, the chief of the Northern Army's shooting battalion, commanded it very calmly."
Prepare the rhubarb crossbow!"
On the west wall, there are thirty weapons with the longest range in the Han army, the big yellow crossbow.This crossbow is a stone crossbow, 300 kilograms of pulling force must be operated by two people together, plus a little cumbersome, often used as a weapon for attack and defense at the head of the city, unless it is a single monster like Li Guang, it can be used on the horse to fire a crossbow alone.When the thousands of Xian Lingqiang forwards who were confident that they were "invulnerable" rushed out of the farmland and came to a distance of more than three hundred steps from Xiting City, the first thing to greet them was a thick crossbow bolt that broke out of the air.Although it looks very scary, fortunately, the hit rate is also very touching, but something even more terrifying is coming, because the giant crossbow at the head of the city is actually firing three arrows in a row!
The sound of shooting, hearing the sound in the dark, is in it, because of the name.As the most elite long-range shooting unit of the Han Dynasty, the big yellow crossbow brought by Ren Xuan, and a few mysterious weapons "big yellow ginseng crossbow" that only the captain of the shooting sound had.After each shot, the crossbow automatically hooks the chord rod to load the arrows in the box, and at the same time, the "teeth" and "hanging knife" return to their original positions, and three arrows can be fired in a row!
Last month, when Ren Hong saw this terrifying weapon being transported to the West Thunder Barrier, he was speechless for a while, and his thoughts of helping the defenders open up some hangings were suddenly gone.Compared with the simple bows and flying stones of the Qiang people, the equipment of the Han army has a generation difference, and there is no need to add such a thing as icing on the cake.The Qiang people were hit by this terrible blow, and although there were not many deaths, many young Qiang people, who had not experienced the war more than 30 years ago, were frightened in place.But the rest of the people, taking advantage of the great yellow crossbow to shoot out a round of the weakness of the extremely slow winding, rushed to within two hundred paces.The master of the big yellow crossbow is a unit called "Yi" in the shooting battalion, the so-called "Yi" is the meaning of the bow and crossbow to hold the full, as the so-called Yi Zhi teaches people to shoot, must be determined to Yi.The soldiers of the Yan Zhiqu are all tall and large, and they can fire a six-stone crossbow, which is a sharp weapon for harvesting lives within 200 steps.And when a Qiang Xiaohao kept cheering up his subordinates loudly, holding a shield, leading them to withstand the rain of arrows falling from a six-stone crossbow, and running to about a hundred steps with a pine ladder, he was hit by a silent arrow, and fell to the ground suddenly, with a feather arrow tied around his neck.Archery is another elite of the archery battalion, called "trace shooting", which can find traces and shoot them, and those who can enter the sound battalion are all excellent people in the autumn test firing exercises, and the captain of archery carefully selected this group of people, and selected the most good at shooting, or proficient in arrows, or proficient in crossbows.The opponent of the target of the shooter is the "Condor Shooter" of the Huns, all of whom can take the head of their Xiaoshuai chief among the hundreds, and they don't know which is stronger or weaker than Zhao Han'er.Under these sustained long-range strikes, most of the Qiang still rushed to the city wall unscathed, but what awaited them was not only the crossbow arrows that were fired in turn, but also the thrown stones, the pine ladder was pushed down as soon as it was put up, and the spears and halberds stretched out to smash it.Even if there are Qiang warriors who are lucky enough to climb to the top of the city, they will find that waiting for them above is a group of heavily armored warriors standing behind the screamers and the sound of shooting, wearing iron armor, but the arms are skin, which is convenient for aiming with crossbows.But at their feet there were shields and ring-headed knives, and when no one came up, they played as crossbowmen, and when someone came, they put their crossbows down, drew their swords and held their shields, and went up.This is "佽cì flying", taking the name of the warrior who entered the water to kill Jiao in the Spring and Autumn Period, as the so-called "those who do not abandon the sword with rotten flesh and bones, and the second is not the meaning", to put it bluntly, it is a heavy armor ring knife hand who pretends to be a bow and crossbow material officer.The Qiang people who could dodge the rhubarb crossbow through the chest, the six-stone crossbow took their lives, and rushed to the end, found that their blades could not hurt the heavy armor soldiers in front of them, and then they were stabbed to death by the Fei warriors, and fell on the not too high city wall, and the blood was not sprinkled all over the snowy mountain, but seeped into the cracks in the stone wall.In just half an hour, the Qiang people were killed and wounded in the hundreds, but only one or two unlucky people were injured in the northern army at the head of the city.This is simply a one-sided slaughter, no matter how brave the yellow sheep is, no matter how fierce it is, it can't match the real fangs and claws.But after all, there are many Qiang people, and the three thousand people in the city are not all elite shooters, and soon, under the command of Yang Yu, the Qiang people who have tried Xiting City began to rush up, trying to break the city from the east wall and the south wall, but did not take the north wall near the water.Qiang vulgar shame sickness and death, every time he is sick and sleepy, he stabs himself with a blade, and he takes death in battle as glory.If you are ruthless, you will stab yourself, let alone others?
They went forward one after another, and this scene, like a herd of migrating wildebeests, jumped down the deep stream without hesitation, stepping on one by one, and jumped up.Even Ren Hong, who was looking from afar, felt a sense of tragedy in the face of this group of enemies who were not strong.The bravery of the Qiang people is indeed far beyond imagination, at least the momentum is sufficient, if you add ingenious tactics, in the era of cold weapons, sometimes the high morale is really enough to catch up with the lack of equipment.Although Ren Xuanhe and the Northern Army had some arrogance of the Central Army, they were not blindly arrogant, and when they were besieged from three sides, he still asked Jin Feng to send someone to raise the red and yellow flag on the beacon in the city and shake it three times.This is a signal, the sharp-eyed Zhao Han'er immediately reported to Ren Hong, who had been watching for a while, and let Ren Huqiang, who sat down and eat beans, retract his gaze and let Han Dangdang also raise the flag in response.The flag in the city moved again, pointing to the south wall, which was to ask Ren Hong and them to attack the Qiang people who were surrounding the south wall to relieve the dilemma."
Let's go, it's our turn to go into battle."
Ren Hong put the heavy iron slug on his head, like a knight holding a ring knife to touch his forehead, and patted the radish, looked back at the cavalry who had watched the battle for a long time, and had long been unable to hold back.Ren Hong knew that in this decisive battle, there was no glacial trick, there was no convenience of a surprise attack, the enemy was nearly ten times his own, and he was afraid that he would not be able to come out of the white knife like last time, not only put on thick armor, equipped with the sharpest hundred refining ring knives, but also made a set of "dang chest" for the radish.Of course, it is not a bra, but a cooked leather armor and riding equipment, which protects the horse's neck and body respectively, and the color is painted into the black and yellow stripes of tiger skin, which is particularly eye-catching!
This thing has more equipment in the Yue cavalry battalion in the Northern Army, but it is expensive, and the children of non-rich families cannot afford it.The horses were already tall and could not be equipped with leather equipment, and when the riders jumped along, the black and yellow patterns dazzled the eyes.From a distance, it really looks like a group of fierce tigers, under the leadership of the "Hehuang Tiger", they went down the red stone cliff and rushed towards the Qiang people."
Tiger, go down the mountain!"
PS: There is only one big chapter today.