Tang Taizong is my elder brother

Chapter 107 Encounter
The army of the Sui Dynasty mainly relied on harsh criminal laws to punish and deter soldiers, which was also a common method of feudal armies.

They use the most serious means to deal with small crimes to achieve the purpose of making them fear their superiors. For example, those who desert, complain, and run away are cut open, heart, and liver;
For more serious crimes, such as failing to roll the roll, making noise in the camp, and disrespectful or standard kowtowing postures when saluting, they will be dragged and killed.

Even for the smallest crimes, such as forgetting to bring things, disheveled clothes, answering irrelevant questions, etc., you will be given to cut off your ears, or cut your nose, shave your face, stab your bones, etc., and these criminal laws against the body will increase one by one according to the severity of your crime. Can be added from level one to level nine.

These days, I stayed with the battalion officers of several battalions in the northwest, so they all knew that the war was about to be serious, and all those who had the rules of leaving the battalion were executed by them, as a warning to others.Not only that, in order to show their determination, they also called Changsheng to visit the execution, and at the same time watched the soldiers of several of their battalions, in order to serve as a deterrent.

Every time Changsheng goes to watch it, I feel my heart is bleeding. The Chinese nation is really the most persevering and the most humiliating nation in the world.

Without exception, these people who were sentenced to corporal punishment chose to accept it silently, and then continued to work after being tortured and bandaged.

Even people whose ears and noses have been cut off their faces remain silent, and they can remain expressionless when they are visited by everyone.

This surprised Qin Qiong. He said that this was much more vicious than the bandits on the mountain. If he knew the punishment standard of the Northwest Frontier Army, he would definitely consider it carefully before coming.

Chang Sheng said silently in his heart, with just your mouth, you must not live for three days.

Even in the three friendly armies that Changsheng is now cooperating with, people like this can often be seen.They lost part of their facial features and became disabled for life. Some of them had two round holes in their faces. It is said that they were punished by piercing their cheeks with an arrow, and then they were stuck there and were not allowed to be removed.

Changsheng scoffed at this kind of criminal law. She believed that this kind of physical torture would seriously damage the soldiers' bodies and minds, and trample on their dignity and sense of honor.

She insisted that the scars on soldiers should be brought by the enemy, not a record of their mistakes, and should be a badge of pride, not a memory of shame.

In addition, she also eliminated all the punishments related to slapping in the military law. This was defined by her as an insult to the personality of others, and she was forced to cancel it.

Today, after her improvement and deletion, there are two types of corporal punishment, one is the whip and the other is the military stick.

Anyone who dares to use the death penalty or punish others will be regarded as the biggest enemy of the Changshengying Military Law Department.

Knowing that the transfer and handling of the Qiusheng camp's supplies had been completed, the Pioneer Battalion was not yet ready to move out, so Gao Ziran immediately issued an order, ordering the Qiusheng camp that was ready to go first, and he, as the supervisor, held the formation behind.

Chang Sheng and Qin Qiong walked side by side leading their horses on the left side of the official road. The scouting horses on both sides of the official road had already spread out, and they searched forward like a carpet. Good news kept coming from ahead:
They searched the hills and woods one by one, but no ambush was found so far, and Zhang Fei's forward seemed to be about to catch up to the enemy's ass.

"There is no ambush..." Chang Sheng kicked away the pebbles under his feet, his words revealed a sense of disappointment, and his expression became less interested.

Sure enough, Qin Qiong asked without losing the opportunity: "Does the lord hope that there will be an ambush? The lord is worried that our battle achievements this time will not be enough?"

"Of course it's not because of this reason. I hope to encounter an ambush because I think Fang Xuanling's analysis is reasonable. If there is no reconnaissance, there is no guarantee that there will be an enemy situation. This is what we must always be on guard against. According to my thinking, I will I will stick to Dunhuang and will not choose to attack. Part of the reason for my rash attack is for Master Yu Wenshu."

"For Lord Yuwen?" Qin Qiong couldn't help raising his voice a little.

"That's right, except for our unit and Chen Ping's unit, the frontier armies in the eastern theater near Longjin and Shanxi have never fought in the past few years, otherwise they would not have such weak combat effectiveness, and their Commander Han seems to be in a hurry. I am afraid that he will underestimate the enemy and be careless because of his eagerness to win."

Chang Sheng felt that the biggest problem with the army of the Sui Dynasty was that they did not understand the meaning of veterans. Did they become a strong army because they equipped an army that had never fought a war with luxurious equipment?

While lashing the dog's tail grass protruding from the side of the road with a whip, Chang Sheng said: "The frontier troops in the Longjin War Zone, or in other words, the entire Northern War Zone are farming troops. Let alone thousands of people who have fought It is estimated that there are not even five hundred, and the officials in the capital kept urging him to send troops, wanting to replicate our victory in the northwest, so General Yuwen was under a lot of pressure, and these pressures were passed on to the frontier soldiers. That's not fighting but letting them die."

"So your lord is determined to help them destroy part of the enemy army here?" Qin Qiong seemed to have some understanding and asked.

"Yes, that's what I planned."

Changsheng knew that among these people, he was the only one who knew Yu Wenshu's purpose, which was to destroy the Western Turks and fear the Eastern Turks. Once Ashina Rangan's troops are eliminated, they can support them without any worries.

Forming a joint force to defeat the East Turks, not only achieved the strategic goal of subduing the East Turks, but also cultivated the fighting will of the frontier army, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.He believed that as long as they were allowed to win one or two battles, the team's morale and psychological advantages could be established, and even if these armed frontier troops could not exert their full strength, they would never be defeated.

The premise is that they can't be defeated before themselves, as long as they support their side and win, then go to support them, forming a situation of being sandwiched between two sides.That's why Changsheng was eager to find the opponent's main force to fight, and even stepped into the opponent's trap.

"There is only one Huodu tribe within a few hundred miles of the Turkic Tartars. Even if I pull thousands of people from their tribe, am I afraid that they will die?" Changsheng said, waving his horsewhip.

This kind of arrogance is also in line with Qin Qiong's wishes, he said excitedly: "Of course, let alone we now have a full four battalions of soldiers, half of the Northwest Right Association, but only the Lord's Longevity Army, those subordinates If the defeated dare to come, we will defeat them head-on!"

Changsheng clapped his hands: "Exactly, we want to wipe out the enemy's vital forces as much as possible."

After Changsheng told Qin Qiong, he came to report that General Zhang Fei's troops had contacted the fleeing Linchuan defenders. They left more than 1 Han people and fled by themselves, obviously afraid of being bitten by the Sui army. Staying on the tail, Zhang Fei's army can only gather the people first, and at the same time order people to return longevity.

Just when Changsheng was about to inquire further about the situation, he suddenly saw the troops in the rear becoming chaotic, and then got angry, followed by countless whistles, one after another, indicating that the troops behind were in big trouble.

Chang Sheng and Qin Qiong looked at each other, then they both got on their horses and looked back. At this time, the signals from behind became more noisy, with semaphores, drums and whistles again.

"The whole army stands still." Changsheng's order was passed on to every soldier in Qiusheng camp.

"Stand."

"It's settled."

……

"The rear team becomes the front team!" Chang Sheng quickly issued a second order.

"The whole army has it, turn back!"

The army letter, which was still advancing in an orderly manner on the official road just now, made a 180-degree U-turn. At this time, the order to stop the pursuit of the former army General Zhang Fei had not yet been conveyed.

"Full speed ahead!" After Changsheng quickly gave the last order, he hit his horse and rode Juechen, and ran to the north first.

"The whole army starts... let's go!"

The soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion and the Qiusheng Battalion quickly started to move towards Linchuan, where they had just arrived not long ago. The whole army was like a big python with silver scales, spitting out a letter and cruising towards the north quickly. .

When the long body turned its gun and came back, the Turkic auxiliary soldiers were working crazily. From time to time, scouts came back to pass the military situation ahead to the commanders in the camp.

"Really, it's really fast." After hearing the spies' report, Huo Dou couldn't believe his ears for a while. His fortifications had just started to be laid out not long ago.

Ashina Rangan, on the other hand, looked calm and comforted with a smile: "It's okay, it's not a big problem, it's just that the trenches haven't been dug that deep, and his troops are mainly infantry, so the impact isn't that big. .”

"It's all because of that vanguard battalion, who walked too slowly." Aguna couldn't help cursing.

They estimated that by the time Changsheng caught up with the deserter bait in front, the Turks would have to launch an attack before Liu Hou'er had passed their predetermined position in the ambush circle. The former army might all be dead.

……

Looking at the long battle line formed by the densely packed people on the other side, Chang Sheng couldn't help being a little surprised while being excited.At a glance, it turned out that the flags of the three tribes were fluttering in the wind.

"My lord. The armor of the Longevity Camp is ready."

"My lord, the Qiusheng Camp armor is ready."

"Very good." Changsheng sat on the horse and looked around, and found that it was either a hill or a forest. If the enemy came out from nowhere and directly attacked his allies, they probably couldn't bear it and would be defeated, so he immediately ordered :

"The Qiusheng battalion retreated, and let the troops of General Guan and General Liu protect the luggage and the people in the middle of the formation."

After Changsheng arranged the defensive formation, he quickly issued an offensive order, ordering the three infantry phalanx to enter the enemy's formation first.

The order was issued quickly.

Since the end of the last battle, Changsheng ordered the factory to produce iron armor at full capacity, so all the [-] soldiers in the Changsheng Battalion are now wearing iron armor.And the ones that were worse, such as mail armor or leather armor, were handed over to the musketeers and artillery who did not need to charge so much.

After Changsheng's order was issued, the three infantry phalanxes of the Changsheng Battalion rang out their waist drums at the same time.

Zhang Jianjun, who was in the second platoon of the second company of the Changsheng Battalion, was walking towards the Turkic defense line with his companions holding his firecrackers.

They didn't stop until they were 70 meters away from the opposite side. The armored soldiers standing in the open space and being baptized by the rain of arrows didn't panic at all, just like admiring the rainbow after the rain.

The company commander had been silently counting the number of bow and arrow volleys in the area, and when he knew how many people on his side had been hit by arrows and fell down, he loudly ordered: "The gunners come out!"

Zhang Jianjun, the deputy platoon leader of the firecracker platoon, hurried forward with his brothers.

He skillfully took off the firecracker on his back, set it up in front of him, carefully aimed at the target in front of him, and then blew the whistle suddenly.

'boom! '

"boom!"

A round of rapid volley followed by another round of shooting. After three rounds of continuous shooting, Zhang Jianjun was the first to fill the ammunition in his hand. Guang glanced at the companions around him, and when everyone was almost ready, there was another hasty whistle.

The Longevity Army, which was designed from a distance of 70 meters, moved forward slowly while shooting, and then slowly approached to a distance of about 50 meters, forming a white smoke belt more than 100 meters wide.

Under the firepower of the Immortal Army, the Turkic archers became weaker and weaker in their return shots. At a distance of seven to eighty meters, they had to draw their bows to the full every time they fired, and they tried their best to cause damage. Physical strength is a great burden.

After the Changsheng Battalion paid dozens of casualties in exchange for more than 100 casualties from the enemy, the front of the Changsheng Army finally advanced to a distance of 50 meters from the enemy.

The Turkic archers had to retreat one after another, hiding behind the rattan planks erected by the infantry, avoiding the aim of the Longevity Army gunners.

But as long as the order to stop firing is not issued, as long as the gunners have ammunition in their pockets, they will continue to design tirelessly.

The Turkic rattan-armoured boards began to lose their support under the continuous fire attacks. Some boards were smashed to pieces, and the broken and flying wood chips scratched their faces, making many people unable to lift their heads.

Fortunately, they already knew the fierce firepower of the Immortal Army, so they prepared a lot of shields, and quickly replaced one with a new one if it was damaged.

On the other side, Liu Hou'er reported to Changsheng with an embarrassed and depressed face that his subordinates immediately lost their fighting spirit after seeing the Turkic and Tartar troops fighting out of the woods just now, and the soldiers ignored the chief's obstruction and abuse like the tide step back.

Fortunately, the Turkic people on the other side didn't seem to intend to pursue, but immediately stopped and started to build a defensive position, which allowed his team to escape by chance, and now they entered the large circular formation of longevity unscathed.

(End of this chapter)