Tang Taizong is my elder brother

The army of Turks and Tartars hiding in the woods more than a dozen miles north of Linchuan was having breakfast. Aguna invited Ashina Rangan and Huo Dou to taste the robes he found in the woods yesterday. The three of them faced the bonfire My mouth is full of oil.

In front of the gate of the camp not far away, a shaman's drum was beating loudly, just like his hometown outside the Mobei Great Wall. Here, the priests of the tribe will always let the warriors bring a Come to God's blessing.These priests danced and danced, singing notes that normal people could not understand.

The soldiers had serious expressions, and all of them spread their hands open, knelt on the ground with their palms folded, and then closed their eyes tightly while chanting words, their bodies swaying back and forth regularly with the sound of drums, like wheat waves ready to be harvested in the autumn wind.

After a long time, the sacrificial singing finally stopped, and then the shaman, who is said to be possessed by a god, slowly opened his eyes, and shouted majesticly with a tone and tone that humans did not have: "Go, son of Mother Earth! Ladies, go and take the lives of your enemies, they will surely become the souls of your scimitars!"

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But at this moment, the flags of the Great Camp of the Longevity Army made a sound of hunting in a sudden wind, and Qin Qiong, who was frightened below, couldn't help but look sideways: "I'll go, it's such a strong wind, take the flag of the commander-in-chief!" The mast is blown off."

Blowing off a mast is an ominous omen in the army, and the rest of the people rushed towards Qin Qiong, blaming him for his lack of restraint.

Qin Qiong also knew that she had said something wrong, so she couldn't help sticking out her tongue, and quickly shut up.

Changsheng didn't speak, seeing the 1-strong army in front of him was stirring, and he read out the poems of Han Taizu without paying attention: "When the wind rises, the clouds fly, and I return to my hometown without joining the sea..."

However, before she finished speaking, her eyes were squinted by the wind and sand, and sand got into her mouth. She was so disgusted that she hurriedly vomited non-stop.

Gao Ziran hurriedly finished reading for him: "An De warrior guards the four directions." After reading, he stroked the long beard on his chest with unfulfilled desire, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "General Li is indeed a former genius. Child prodigy, not only is he invincible in martial arts, but he is also knowledgeable about the past and the present. He is both civil and military. The poems of Emperor Gao, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, are really appropriate to use at this moment. He is the real dragon emperor who created the 400-year foundation of our Han nationality. Let us also create this today. Immortal inheritance."

Chang Sheng saw this excited man who no longer knew what he was going to say, and really wanted to go up and cover his mouth: "What do you mean we have to create an unworldly foundation? Is it because Yang Guang doesn't know our ambition?"

Changsheng looked down with a guilty conscience, and found that no one seemed to be aware of Gao Ziran's grammatical flaws, so he quickly gave Qin Qiong a wink and asked him to come out and say something to change the topic.

Qin Qiong saw Changsheng's expression because he was asking himself to express his opinion first, and immediately rushed out happily, clasped his fists and said: "My lord, today's attack will let Xiaozhi go to the city first to capture the flag for you!"

Changsheng didn't expect him to come out like this, and subconsciously rejected him: "No, I don't agree."

As soon as I finished speaking, I saw Qin Qiong's face turned from excited to wronged in an instant, so I could only persuade him quickly: "You are the general's confidant and beloved general, and you still want to kill the general and capture the flag for the general like last time , Field battles on flat ground are the space for you to display your martial arts."

After several days of active preparation by the engineers and soldiers, three pontoon bridges have been erected on the Linchuan River. Early in the morning, soldiers from the Changsheng Camp and the Qiusheng Camp lined up to cross the river one by one.

The inner guards in charge of order stood in front of the neatly arranged phalanx waiting to cross the river, exchanged information with their officers, and waved the colored flags in their hands after confirming that the numbers were all right.

The platoon leader commanding the phalanx whistled at the signal and began to cross the pontoon with the soldiers behind him.

The soldiers all carried their steel helmets on their backs, carried their spears or firecrackers on their shoulders and walked across the bridge.

Standing on a high slope on the south bank, Changsheng rode his horse and watched the flow of people in front of him like ants, walking across several pontoon bridges in an orderly manner and then quickly forming a square formation on the north bank. He couldn't help thinking about the decision he made at that time Secretly nodded.

Not only the direct descendants of Guan and Zhang, but also the vanguard battalion who followed Liu Houer through life and death, were deeply attracted and shocked by the orderly and calm temperament of the Changsheng troops.

The performance of their own people really made them feel ashamed in front of Changsheng. Although everyone crossed the river in batches under the command and arrangement of the inner guard, every time it was their turn, the officers of the inner guard had to shout loudly. Only by yelling can they all hear the instructions clearly, and those officers and the chiefs of the pro-guards are working hard to maintain the order in their camp and keep them from getting separated.

Liu Hou'er had already asked his own soldiers to go down to help, but the help became more and more chaotic, and some of the officers who went down were so anxious to beat people when they saw the soldiers disobeying orders.

In an instant the area of ​​the Pioneer Camp was filled with angry howls and noisy uproar.

Under Liu Houer's repeated urging, the officers even pulled out their horsewhips to beat people in order to increase the speed of crossing the river. This also made the already crowded pontoon bridge even more chaotic. There was a burst of shaking, but fortunately the river was not particularly deep, and the soldiers who fell into the water were quickly rescued, and no casualties were caused.

But even so, when the soldiers of the Longevity Battalion had crossed the river, half of the other battalions had passed.

The speed of Guan and Zhang is also not fast, but they are not as desperate as Liu Houer to urge his soldiers, so the speed is slower than Liu Houer's pioneer battalion. When the longevity camp is over, Liu Houer will leave By the halfway point, a third of them hadn't made it across.

This also made them secretly wipe off the cold sweat.

But speed is sometimes not necessarily a good thing.

Many of those who crossed the river first were internal guards of the Changsheng Battalion. They took the blueprints distributed to them by the staff department in advance, surveyed the terrain here, and guided the troops crossing the river to their predetermined positions.

The team of Guan and Zhang is moving slowly now, so there are relatively fewer people, and they can be arranged in an orderly manner, and they will not pile up a bunch of people all at once and be in a hurry.

But the Pioneer Battalion couldn't do it. They already lacked experienced officers.

When the soldiers were driven across the pontoon bridge like ducks, they immediately crowded into a large pile on the north bank because there was no one to direct them.

The soldiers in a mess pushed each other and were pushed forward by the newcomers, just like a circle of ducks.

What Changsheng saw was shaking his head. The so-called "strike halfway across the river" in the art of war is what she saw in front of an army that was unorganized after crossing the river and could not form an effective combat force for half a day. Meet the enemy?

Changsheng couldn't help but sighed secretly. It's been almost half a year since the last battle ended, and the elite of the Northwest Frontier Army, the Pioneer Battalion, completely lost their fighting power after Ye Qiu's death, and they haven't recovered yet.

But she doesn't plan to step in and take over. Liu Hou'er is not very old, and he inherits the position as Ye Qiu's direct descendant. Let him grow up slowly, cultivate his prestige, and train his ability to lead troops at the same time. This is also a learning process.

After all, being a battalion officer has a lot more things to consider than being a detective, and you have to face various situations and people.

After passing the wooden bridge, the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion became the supply unit. This is also an auxiliary unit that Changsheng has been trying to build since the last time, but they are developing in the direction of special-purpose troops.

The first thing to show this time is the bridge-building and paving team. A team of nearly 200 people built three pontoon bridges across the two banks in three days. Now they use wheelbarrows to help other transport troops transport supplies and weapons.

Their day-to-day training finally paid off. Even though the pontoon bridge was not stable, they were still walking like flying while pushing the trolley on it.

Although Fang Xuanling's scouting horses and sentries had dispersed after crossing the river, forming a large warning circle, trying to isolate the opponent's scouting sentries, but after all, the number of people is limited, and there are still some with good eyesight. The spies looked far away from the high ground and observed the situation of Changsheng crossing the river.

When he described the process in detail to his superior, the man sighed repeatedly: "Quick, really fast." He ordered him to report to the leader of Ashina Rangan as soon as possible.

A quarter of an hour later, most of Changsheng's Qiusheng camp had passed through the crowd. Suddenly, Changsheng saw the scouts on the north bank waving the colorful flags for communication, and then a scout from the other side of the river also waved the colorful flags in his hand to communicate with them. stand up.

The inner guard behind Changsheng waited for them to finish talking, and then leaned over and said in a low voice, "My lord, the Turkic Tartars abandoned the city and ran away."

By Chang Sheng's side, Guan and Zhang, who had been bragging and sycophanting since just now, heard the news reported by the inner guard, and shouted excitedly at the same time: "What? The Tartars have escaped? Are you serious?"

On the other side of the Changsheng Squadron, the operation of suddenly fleeing from the city was somewhat incomprehensible, so she decided not to jump to conclusions. She ordered in a low voice: "Go and investigate again. Pay close attention to the movement and strength of the enemy army."

"Yes, obey!" After receiving the order, the inner guard immediately took out his whistle and blew it at the sentinel on the shore. The people on the shore recorded it and notified the communication soldier on the opposite side through the semaphore of the colored flag, and then the order passed through. In this way, it is continuously transmitted to the signal soldiers on the front line.

The Qi family army of Qi Jiguang in later generations specially used the semaphore of Tanma to transmit signals, which is also described in Qi Jiguang's military books.

Changsheng borrowed his method and improved it, and added the whistle into it. In this way, the whistle is used when it is close, and the flag is used when it is far away. .

After a while, the news came back, "There are more than 2000 armored Turkic people, more than [-] unarmored Turkic soldiers, and nearly [-] Han people. Fleeing north?" Chang Sheng analyzed the information sent by the semaphore.

The two Guan and Zhang beside him were almost dumbfounded when they heard her words. They couldn't imagine that they could get so much information just by looking at this small colorful flag and waving it a few times.

What they don't know is that Changsheng's subordinates can use the flag to convey far more information than this situation, because they not only rely on numbers, but also the pinyin system that Changsheng has been implementing.

"Let the Qiusheng camp who haven't crossed the river wait first." Changsheng rushed down the hillside on his horse, and he had already said her order before he got to her.

The inner guard soldiers who received the signal quickly stopped the advancing team. Chang Sheng and his personal guards walked up the pontoon bridge from the soldiers of the Qiu Sheng camp first, followed by the two brothers Liu Hou'er and Guan Zhang.

Changsheng learned from the spy's semaphore that no trace of the enemy was found within a few miles of the surrounding area.

So Changsheng rode a horse and rode Juechen straight to the city of Linchuan. When she ran behind the city of Linchuan, the soldiers guarding the gate told her that all the Turkic Tartars guarding the city had already run away. up.

Thick smoke was billowing in the city, and some houses were set on fire by the retreating Turks.

Changsheng ordered the troops to put out the fire, and at the same time asked them to search the city thoroughly to see if there were any Turkic troops hiding, or tunnels, darkrooms, etc. At the same time, he asked Fang Xuanling to expand the range of alert and search, trying to reach ten miles away, Chase after the enemy's ass and spread out.

Several fire points in Linchuan were quickly brought under control, and the fire was extinguished. After Fang Xuanling led an on-site inspection, he found that many fire points that had been arranged in advance had not been ignited. In a hurry, basically he was only concerned about running for his life, and there was no time to set fire, so he reported to Chang Sheng that the enemy's strength should be very weak.

"The troops are very weak? Are you sure?" Chang Sheng asked after hearing the report and pondering for a moment.

"The humble job is very sure." Fang Xuanling said with confidence. Apart from the arson, she also found other things, which were warehouses and barracks, as well as confessions from the Han population in the city.

Based on the comprehensive analysis of these points, it is concluded that there are at most four to five thousand Turkic Tartar guards in Lin'an City, which is basically consistent with the number reported just now.

"Besides, I feel that the escape of the Turkic people was not planned at the beginning, but a temporary idea." Fang Xuanling said loudly,

Chang Sheng stood at the top of the city and looked at the direction where the enemy was fleeing, and said, "Are you talking about those official problems?"

Changsheng discovered the problem with the official road when she was born, and she even ordered someone to check it. The result of the inspection was that the official road in the north of the city was full of potholes. This should be the reason why the enemy lit torches on the official road all night last night. The reason, they dug a hole overnight.