Qian Song

Chapter 196 Empress of Xiliao (Ask for a monthly ticket!)
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The Dagan Dynasty dispatched [-] cavalry in a mighty manner, almost twice the number of Tata'er troops.

Seeing this, the members of Tata'er Department were not afraid, but they did not dare to act rashly.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the women and children of the Liao Kingdom rushed to the front of the Gan army.

If so many women and children are allowed to attack the army's formation, and the Tata'er Department takes this opportunity to attack, the consequences will be disastrous.

Therefore, Li Cun made preparations early on, and only waited for these Liao women and children to rush over, and then led them to the side of the army formation.

Unexpectedly, it was useless for Li Cun to send someone to pick them up. These Liao women and children bypassed the army formation under the command of the tall Khitan girl, and then hid behind the Qianjun army formation.

Seeing this scene, Li Cun smiled and said, "What a smart girl."

Li Cun said that he had no intention, but the people next to Li Cun listened to him.

In an instant, many people remembered this Khitan girl.

And Xiao Yixin even said directly to Li Cun: "Your Majesty, she comes from my Khitan descendant family, a branch of Taizu Chunqin Empress, and her name is Xiao Ta Buyan. She is naturally intelligent and brave, and she is a first-class beauty of my Khitan family." .”

Li Cun suddenly realized, and secretly said: "It turns out that she is the future wife of Yelu Dashi, the Queen of Gantian in Xiliao. monarch."

Li Cun made no secret of his sexual interest in Xiao Ta.

As a result, more people immediately noticed Xiao Ta Buyan...

Soon after, Khan Tereti of the Tataer tribe sent Wudong to negotiate.

After being brought in front of Li Cun, Wu Dong respectfully saluted Li Cun, and then said, "My Khan sent me over to ask why His Majesty hindered my family from getting the spoils, but I don't want the two to form an alliance?"

Li Cun said indifferently: "Your Khan dares to come to question me, he dares to rob me in front of my house, but does he still want the two to form an alliance?"

Wu Dong reasoned and said: "This is not in Dagan's country anymore, why should my family come here to hunt, and the target of my family's hunting is His Majesty's traitors, this is equivalent to my family cleaning up the house for His Majesty, how can His Majesty avenge you?"

Li Cun's face darkened immediately: "If I want to kill him, I still need you to do it. I don't have a butcher knife?"

Wu Dong was immediately speechless by Li Cun.

Li Cun said impatiently: "This place is the place where I plan to communicate with all ethnic groups in the grassland. No one can use force here. Otherwise, the family will be killed without pardon, or the family will be exterminated. I think your family will return." If you don't know about this, I will forgive your family for not being guilty this time, let's go back."

Wu Dong rolled his eyes: "My family can evacuate, but can your majesty ask my family to take the spoils away and treat it as a reward from your majesty to my family, how about it?"

This is the law of survival of the grassland people, and interests come first.

The Central Plains Dynasty has always been more concerned with face, and would rather smash their teeth and swallow it in their stomachs, but also maintain their so-called dignity. The most typical example is the old coin policy used by the emperor of the Song Dynasty.

Wudong obviously understood the code of conduct of the Central Plains Dynasty very well, so he wanted to use words to let the Tatar Department obtain the ownership of these spoils.

But Li Cun is a black and thick master who puts interests first, how can he be fooled by Wu Dong's few good words so that he doesn't even want a third of Yandi's wealth?
And, don't forget, a lot of the gold and silver in it belonged to Li Cun, and Li Cun had to rely on the money to expand his army and fight wars to grow. Then become your own troubles?
Therefore, seeing that Wu Dong was still moaning there, Li Cun said bluntly: "Don't talk too much, if you don't defeat me, don't even think about taking away any plants or trees from your family. When you go back, you will fight with your family like a khan!" Say it."

Is Li Cun being too domineering and unreasonable in doing so?
Yes.

If Temujin didn't produce a knife, a gun, or a horse, how could he become Genghis Khan?

It's not stolen yet.

Temujin's wife was snatched away by the enemy, and Jamuka sent troops to help him snatch her back.

As a result, Temujin backhanded away half of Jamuka's troops.

Compared with Temujin, Li Cun at least did not repay his kindness, nor did he attack his friends, which is really much better.

Some people may say that this is the law of the grassland, and we Han people don't do it.

This can only be huh...

Qin Shihuang, Liu Bang, Li Shimin, Zhao Kuangyin, Zhu Yuanzhang, which one is not overbearing, and which one honestly reasoned with the enemy?
As soon as Wu Dong heard it, he knew that the Daqian Emperor was not the old-fashioned Han emperors in the rumors, but a ruthless man who knew the way of the weak and the strong in the grassland.

Wu Dong didn't talk nonsense, but went directly to report to Tie Lieti.

Taking advantage of this time, Li Cun ordered Han Shizhong and Wu Jie to personally inspect the left wing of the Gan army and the right wing of the Qian army. Li Cun specially assigned Yue Fei to help him check the preparations of the Chinese army.

The chariots were lined up, the bed crossbows on them were opened, and the jackdaw arrows were placed.

The unconscionable cannon and the tiger crouching cannon are set up.

A swarm of bazookas set up.

The mandarin duck formation coordinated with chariots, swarming rockets, heartless guns and tiger squat guns is ready.

Heavy infantry in place.

The formation of spearmen is complete.

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At the same time, Han Bie and Yao Xing also confirmed the battle formation again according to the method taught by Li Cun.

As for the cavalry, Li Cun completely built it in the way of Mongolian iron cavalry.

That is 60.00% light cavalry, with 40.00% heavy cavalry.

The task of the light cavalry is to scout, cover, and provide fire support for the heavy cavalry.

Under Li Cun's design, that is, the tactics of Mongolian iron cavalry, light cavalry has always been the backbone of the battlefield, and their main weapon is bows and arrows.

The specific layout method is:

The battle queue is generally divided into five horizontal teams.

Two columns of heavy cavalry were in front.

Three ranks of light cavalry followed.

When approaching the enemy, the three ranks of light cavalry advanced over the heavy cavalry, and then began to attack the enemy with long-range weapons.

Under normal circumstances, the enemy's front will be shaken or even collapsed under this intensive arrow rain attack.

When the time to attack comes, the heavy cavalry will charge and deal a fatal blow to the enemy.

The purpose of this set of tactics designed by Li Cun for the Ma Jun of Qianjun is not to fight tough battles easily, but to fight non-contact warfare as much as possible, that is, try to control the distance of the war within eight feet (20 meters), eighteen feet (50 meters) meters), use the method of cavalry and shooting to gradually consume the opponent on the horse, until the opponent is defeated, the heavy cavalry will be thrown in for contact warfare.

In other words, until the opponent is defeated, there will be no direct impact of cold weapons.

This is the method of warfare of the Mongolian iron cavalry sweeping the world.

In fact, this set of things is not difficult.

The difficulty is that there must be superb cavalry and good horses.

In the past, Li Cun didn't have such conditions. He got some cavalry and had to use the magic arm bow as his main weapon, so he couldn't bring out the maximum power of this strategy at all.

Now that Li Cun occupies Yandi, there are already such conditions.

Therefore, after recruiting 1 cavalry from Yandi, Li Cun used the former Tabai Army and Beiwei Army as the backbone, filled in the excellent Yandi Fanhan cavalry, and created a new Tabai Army and Beiwei Army. And expanded the two armies into an elite horse army of [-] horses each.

Later, Li Cun established a third elite horse army - the Shengjie Army.

The backbone of the Shengjie Army was also drawn from the original Tabai Army and Beiwei Army.

At the same time, Zhao Bingyuan's original more than 1000 horsemen were also trained by Li Cun, promoted and used, and then scattered into the three cavalry.

And Zhao Bingyuan also logically became the deputy commander of the Shengjie Army.

When Han Bie and Yao Xing were almost sure, over there, Tie Lieti, who had never suffered a loss, said loudly: "Warriors of the Tata'er tribe, there are bandits who want to take the prey that you killed and injured many of your fellow clansmen. Can you give the robber what he wants?"

The people in Tata'er's department suddenly became filled with righteous indignation, shouting: "Kill, kill, kill..."

Seeing this, Tie Lieti directly ordered: "Go and defeat our enemies, warriors of my Tata'er department!"

Following Tie Liti's order, the people of Tatar's tribe began to attack the Gan army.

However, the power gathered by the Tataer tribe had not been fully released, so Han Bie and Yao Xing followed Li Cun's order and began to adopt devious tactics to avoid the sharp edge of the Tataer tribe, and kept going. Using bows and arrows to consume the vitality of Tatar's warriors.

During this process, whether it was the light cavalry of the Tabai Army or the light cavalry of the Beiwei Army, they strictly followed the tactics taught by Li Cun, kept a distance from the people of Tata'er, and gave full play to the strength of the light cavalry. biggest threat.

However, the Tata'er Department made a common-sense mistake at the beginning of the attack, that is, they took the infantry regiment that Li Cun deliberately exposed as their main target of attack, and chose to resist the attack of the two-winged cavalry.

As far as the facts are concerned, the attack strategy of Tata's Ministry cannot be miscalculated.

After all, cavalry has a crushing advantage over infantry.

If the cavalry of the Tatar Department can withstand the attack of the Gan Army's horse army and then rush into the Gan Army's infantry, then the Tata'er Department can easily defeat the Gan Army's infantry and attack the Gan Army's infantry. Split, the two sides will appear stalemate.

At that time, the horse army of the dry army will be timid and afraid to use bows and arrows, weapons that may cause indiscriminate attacks.

In this way, the two sides will enter a melee, and the Tatar Department, which has an advantage in the number of cavalry, is very likely to win this battle.

however--

The first thing Tata'er's troops didn't expect was that the cavalry of the Gan army wove a rain of arrows that was precise enough to threaten their lives, and started long-range strikes on the Tata'er's warriors from 200 meters away.

The rain of arrows all over the sky was unimaginably precise.

This became a lingering nightmare for the Tatar warriors, causing them heavy casualties.

In addition, from the time when the Huben Army established the first cavalry team, Li Cun asked it to train the Anxi people's archery tactics.

In other words, you can shoot at the enemies behind you while running away.

This tactic can make the cavalry in front of the charge hard to defend.

And when this tactic was passed on to the Yandi cavalry, who were extremely skilled in riding and archery, it finally showed its powerful side.

in short.

Seeing the warriors of Tata'er's department fall one after another on the way to charge, Tie Lieti regretted ignoring the attack power of the dry army and horse army.

But there is no turning back when you open the bow.

Tie Lieti could only continue to lead the cavalry of Tatar's department to attack the infantry of the Gan army, preparing to use the final victory to make up for the huge loss of Tatar's department.

But at this time, the horse troops on both wings began to attack Tatar's headquarters, and the lives of Tie Lieti in the headquarters were seriously threatened.

But as the most notorious bandit on the grassland, how could Tie Lieti lose his fighting spirit so easily? Seeing that the infantry of the Gan army was about to reach the shooting range of the Tatar warriors, he immediately commanded the warriors of the Tatar tribe Ready to shoot.

But at this moment,
"Boom boom boom boom..."

The overwhelming shells were fired at the warriors of the Tatar Department.

"Shhhhhhhhhhh..."

What's more frightening is that the bed crossbow on the chariot also started to show its power.

The tiger squatting cannon has a range of 500 meters, far exceeding that of bows and arrows. At the same time, it can also fire shotguns, blasting out with one cannon, one large bullet and one hundred small bullets.

Moreover, the Hu Zun Cannon is still a mortar, which can be projected!

The distance of the bow and arrow is not enough to see in front of the tiger squatting cannon.

The range of the bed crossbow is more than 350 steps, or about 570 meters, which is much farther than that of the tiger squatting cannon. There are dozens of jackdaw arrows in a bag, and they are shot at the same time.

These two weapons can completely suppress the bows and arrows of the nomads.

In addition, it needs to be emphasized that one of Li Cun's tactical purposes is that if you are poor, you can intersperse tactics, and if you are rich, you can cover firepower.

And this battle was planned by Li Cun for a long time, and Li Cun's Dagan Dynasty can be said to be the most prosperous country in the world.

It is conceivable that under such circumstances, the vanguard of the Tatar Department was hit hard.

It is no exaggeration to say that in just an instant, Tie Lieti and his Tatar warriors were stunned by the army.

It was as if the vanguard of Tata'er's troops were all killed by the dry army in one fell swoop.

As a result, Tereti forgot to give the order to shoot at the first time, and many Tatar warriors also forgot to shoot at the first time.

As for the arrows shot by the Tatar warriors who can still remember shooting, most of them were blocked by the chariots, and most of the arrows that passed through the chariots were blocked by the heavy armored infantry and their weapons. The large shield blocked it.

Finally, some arrows passed through layers of protection and were thrown into the crowd.

There is no way to do this, I can only ask for more blessings, how can war not kill people?
The warriors of the Tatar Department did not know how many casualties they had suffered before they came within 100 meters of the Qian army.

At this time, the bed crossbow is definitely useless.

——In such a fast-paced war, there is no time to slowly pull the winch of the bed crossbow to let the bed crossbow shoot the second arrow.

But it doesn't matter, because the swarm of rockets that replaced the bed crossbow has already begun to show off at this time.

The ferocious cluster rockets, in a long hexagonal tube, fixed 32 rockets with partitions. After the fuses were ignited, the 32 rockets were fired together, which dealt a heavy blow to the Tatar warriors.

——The horizontal spread width of a swarm of rockets is about 40 meters, and the lethality is huge. Hundreds of barrels fired in salvo, and immediately let the people of Tata'er, including the original Liao people, know what is called the power of thunder.

In addition, the second wave of tiger crouching guns and unscrupulous guns fired.

For the warriors of the Tatar Department, this was a nightmare that frightened their guts out.

Of course, the premise is that they can still survive by chance.

Well, even if some warriors from the Tata'er Department rushed here alive by chance, thinking that they would see the dawn soon, that is, when they were about to meet the infantry of the Qianjun Army, tens of thousands of Thunderbolts came again. A wave of harvesting was carried out on it.

After experiencing so many waves of attacks, the warriors of the Tatar Division who were able to rush to the front of the Gan army are definitely real warriors and absolute lucky ones.

But the problem is that the number of such lucky warriors is really too small, and it is simply not enough for the heavy armored infantry who have been holding back for a long time.

The heavy armored infantry didn't even get much meat, and the pikemen behind the heavy armored infantry must have to clean up the battlefield again this time.

It has to be said that the luck of Tata's department is still good.

Because when the battle reached this level, it was completely dark.

This caused thousands of truly lucky people to scatter under the cover of darkness.

Wudong was lucky, because under such an attack, Khan Tereti died in battle, and Wudong did not die either.

But Wudong was unlucky again, because he and hundreds of other Tatar tribesmen were captured alive.

Xiao Yixin and other people from the original Liao Dynasty suggested to Li Cun to kill these notorious grassland robbers.

Wu Dong saw that Li Cun was a little tempted, so he hurriedly saved himself: "Your Majesty, the Tata'er tribe has almost mobilized this time, and now there are only less than five thousand young and strong left in his family, and the rest are old and weak women and children. There are hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep and more than 3 good horses from the Northland, I would like to take the heavenly army to fetch those cattle, sheep and horses, and only ask His Majesty to spare my life."

Li Cun was very interested in Wu Dong's proposal.

Therefore, Li Cun ordered those who spoke Chinese or Khitan to stay, and all the rest were executed.

——Li Cun and the Liangzi of the Tata'er Department must have formed an alliance. What's more, Li Cun is planning to send people to the headquarters of the Tata'er Department to loot a wave, and the hatred cannot be resolved. In this case, Li Cun If you don't kill these notorious prairie robbers, do you still allow them to find a chance to take revenge on yourself?
In view of the high speed of soldiers, Li Cun did not let the Tabai army take too much rest, but asked each army to allocate ten days' rations and fresh water for them, and distributed [-] of the captured war horses to them as draft horses. Afterwards, Li Cun ordered Han Bie as the main general to lead the Tabai Army and Shengjie Army, led by Wudong and other captives, to go to the "base camp" of Tatar's Department to take the spoils of the Gan army.

After Han Bie took the order, he immediately led the army to set off.

After Han Bie left, because it was too dark, Li Cun left Yue Fei and Yao Xing to lead [-] infantry and [-] cavalry to guard the spoils, while he himself led the rest of the army to triumph overnight...

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Today is my birthday, can I ask everyone to support me.

In addition, my dad seems to have been recruited. He has a fever all the time, and we live together.

I use my birthday wish to promise that I will never be recruited. I don't want to code with a disease.

(End of this chapter)