Tang Taizong is my elder brother

Chapter 62 Dunhuang Great Victory!

"Today you lead hundreds of brothers, and you are still the first to charge. If one day you are my general, commanding thousands of troops, will you still be the first? You have to know that you have killed countless Small soldiers are useless, as long as the enemy shoots you dead with one arrow, our chief general, they will win. Of course, if you are willing to hide behind and command like Liao Zhong..."

"Impossible!" Qin Qiong said angrily: "My Qin family has been loyal and good for generations. I have been defending the people for more than a hundred years. For generations, my ancestors have been heroes who killed the enemy in front of the battle. They have never been cowards who command in the rear!"

He was right, his grandfather Qin Yong was shot to death by random arrows just to cover the lord's retreat.

But Changsheng didn't want him to have such a fate.

Seeing that he couldn't listen to it for the time being, he simply changed the subject: "I saw your demonstration just now, it seems to have the shadow of your family's ancestral mace technique?"

"My lord has good eyesight, indeed."

"I want you to change this set of mace techniques into marksmanship and pass it on to the soldiers of the army. It's best to record it in a book and then teach them..." Changsheng thinks that good things must be shared in order to have the greatest effect.

However, Qin Qiong did reject his proposal: "My lord, please make amends, I really can't do it."

Chang Sheng vaguely guessed the reason, and said, "But what's the inconvenience?"

"This is my Qin family's unique knowledge, and it is also the foundation of my life. My mother once strictly ordered me to pass it on..." Qin Qiong's tone became more and more dignified, as if thinking of the martyrs of the family: "My family's glory depends on these hands. A mace, and a seven-foot spear!"

This kind of feudal thought of immortality is naturally clear and despised. Among the people he met, Sun Simiao is naturally writing "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions" with all his heart to promote Chinese medicine;
Master Lu cherished his broom at the beginning, but he was soon overwhelmed by Chang Sheng's whimsical ideas. Compared with his tattered gadgets, he naturally didn't take them to heart.

Good guy, everyone's things are so advanced, can you take a fancy to my things?
So Changsheng subconsciously forgot the deep-rooted influence of feudal barriers during this period.

Look at Qin Qiong clasping his fists and cupping his hands in front of him, bent over and motionless.

I can only shake my head helplessly: "If that's the case, I won't force you."

It's okay to talk about other things. These family children are not very good at giving in to the principle of family glory.

On the training ground the next day, Changsheng gathered all the martial arts in the team to see if he could find a way from them.

Everyone discussed for a long time, and some said that it is best to use arrows to kill and injure the enemy from a long distance. This is the best way to avoid personal losses.

Some say to use a knife, and the three arrows don't need to be hurt by a knife.Especially against fully armed Turkic cavalry, bows and arrows are often unable to kill effectively.

But when it comes to long guns, everyone is silent.

At this time, Qin Qiong couldn't help standing up again: "Kill!"

As he shouted, he stood firm on his horse, and quickly made a thrusting motion with both hands.

Then he took a deep breath, put away his movements, the expression on his face seemed to have just killed an enemy, and said, "It's time to cut off the head..."

Pretend to be forceful or you can pretend, Changsheng thought to himself, just about to speak.

It was interrupted by Qin Qiong: "But when you meet shield soldiers, it's not easy to use, so you have to do this and then..."

Changsheng observed his movements with great interest, and then asked: "Then what if you encounter an enemy cavalry punching the needle?"

Qin Qiong: "Then we can also form a spear formation. Don't look at their cavalry, and the guns in our hands are not vegetarians. It depends on who has the best martial arts. Well, that's it..."

"Okay, then you can demonstrate the action just now twice, yes, slow down..." Chang Sheng rubbed his chin and began to frantically memorize his actions.

After looking at both sides, Chang Sheng slapped his hands: "After this battle is over, Zi Qiao, go and inform all the commanders of the battalion that we don't need knives and shields. We will replace them with long spears. Seven-foot long spears!"

Seeing everyone's puzzled faces, Changsheng didn't want to explain right away, after all, the environment was limited.She made up her mind to let the soldiers master Qin Qiong's simple and effective killing technique.

Although Qin Qiong vowed that he would not reveal the secrets of the family, but there is no way out, he must have learned two tricks just now.Still better than the brain itself.

In the past two days, she and her subordinates have been studying the combat issues after going back, and it seems that they don't care about the Turkic people dozens of miles away from the city.

The same is true for Chen Ping, the entire army is filled with an atmosphere of optimism.

On the third day, a spy came to report: "My lord, the Turks are installing wooden wheels for siege equipment twenty miles away..."

Chen Ping and Changsheng listened attentively to the report. In the past two days, the Turks have collected a lot of wood and built a new batch of siege vehicles. It is obvious that they are preparing to launch a new attack.

So the two immediately began to study countermeasures.

"The towers and ladders they built are twice the size of last time, but in this way, horses and a large number of people will be responsible for transporting the carts." Chen Ping analyzed. To take the initiative to attack is to let the opponent attack, forcing the opponent to build a large number of siege equipment.

"Hmph, they are attacking in such a hurry, they don't spare the physical strength of people and horses, even when they get to the city, they have no strength... stupid" Chang Sheng concluded.

"Well, not bad. I estimate that the Turks can use up to 1000 manpower to pull carts." Chen Ping came to this conclusion after many calculations. After all, the opponent is not infantry, but depending on cavalry, 1000 men is already very conservative. estimated.

"The [-] troops of the Turks have to be scattered around to protect the siege vehicles in the middle. The strongest forward troops will not be too strong. Today is another long journey, and they must be physically and mentally exhausted." Changsheng said excitedly.

"That's right, as long as we defeat the Turkic forward main force and give them a head-on blow, the rest of the troops will inevitably collapse."

Without the cover of mobile troops, the huge and heavy siege troops in the middle are like meat on a plate, ready to be slaughtered, so the first battle is the key.

"Here, the south slope, there is an undulating highland, with tall grass on both sides. We lie in ambush on it, and when they pass by, we will attack from the top down!" Chen Ping said, pointing to the map.

Changsheng studied the map for a while. It was a high slope 500 meters away from the enemy's attack route. If the enemy army thought about it in the open area around it, it was our advantage.

Changsheng nodded and agreed to the attack plan.

Chen Ping divided the troops into two parts, one part was ambushed on the high ground on the south slope, they were used to block the enemy's vanguard, and the other part was generally used to go around behind the Turks' buttocks.

Originally, his troops were barely enough to defend the city, but with Changsheng's support troops, it was much more than enough.

Have a good strategy.Chen Ping said vigorously: "This time, they must go and never return. Not only must they kill more thieves, but they must also grab more horses and bring them back. We will share them equally!"

The sky has not yet revealed light, but Dunhuang City has already woken up.There are smoke curling up and busy figures going back and forth everywhere.

When Changsheng saw Qin Qiong, he was repeatedly cleaning his steel gun.

"I've seen you wiping it since last night. How many times have you done this? You're really serious."

"I can't help but want to do this," Qin Qiong blushed, put away the spear, and wiped the two maces: "Since I came to the camp, my lord, I have dreamed every night that I killed the enemy and made meritorious service in the frontier. The lintel, today is finally coming true."

His voice was so excited that all the soldiers around him looked at him. Qin Qiong lowered his head in embarrassment and continued to wipe his weapon.

Yeah, we desperately need a win.

The veterans who had participated in two battles all gasped for air nervously, not to mention the recruits who had never fought once, and some even let out nervous growls.

He got better after being scolded and whipped twice by the monitor.

Changsheng cleared his throat when he saw him, and wanted to say a few words of encouragement to everyone.

She found a box and climbed up, stood on it and looked at everyone, and the soldiers below also stood up and looked this way.

Changsheng took a few breaths, adjusted his breathing, and then said loudly: "Since Pangu created the world, my Chinese descendants have been born on this land."

However, after the Three Emperors and Five Emperors and successive generations of virtuous emperors, our civilization in the Central Plains began to decline, and we were repeatedly spied on and invaded by foreigners and barbarians.

The Wei and Jin Dynasties couldn't defend themselves, so that the barbarians made chaos in China, and the achievements of thousands of years were almost destroyed.Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty held high the banner and drove out the riots, which made the northern peoples restrain themselves.

However, the barbarian's heart to kill me is not dead, how can my Chinese children be bullied by others.

Let's start the day of counterattack from me!

We will bleed, and so will the Turks, and we will die, and so will the Turks!

Changsheng paused, took a deep breath and said loudly: "But we have offerings from relatives and grandchildren to enjoy, and ancestral halls to rest in. Even if we meet our ancestors under the Nine Springs, we can still hold our heads high and say : We sacrificed for glory!"

Changsheng pulled up the flagpole in front of him, raised it above his head vigorously, and shouted: "Masters, you must win!!"

Every soldier around raised his hands excitedly, shouting: "Our army will win!"

"Huaxia must win!"

After shouting, the soldiers quickly set off in a whole group, walking like ants into the morning light, every soldier was moving towards the ambush, waiting for the arrival of their prey.

……

In April of the third year of Daye, thousands of Turkic cavalry marched eastward to attack Dunhuang. More than [-] frontier troops in Dunhuang fought bravely.

The Turkic siege did not break through for two days, and they retreated fifty miles.

When he attacked again three days later, he was ambushed by the Sui army on the way.

More than [-] frontier troops and militias fought against the Turkic army and fought against Dunhuang Outer Nanshan...

Yes, the Sui Army won a great victory!
……

"Won!"

Looking at the battlefield in the distance, Changsheng breathed a sigh of relief.

The battlefield was carried out completely according to the script rehearsed by Chang Sheng and Chen Ping. After the Turkic front army was defeated, the supply troops in the middle watched a large number of Sui troops rushing in stunned.

Their weapons and armor were all on the car, and some of them were still naked, so they had no ability to resist.Facing the attack of the wolves and tigers of the Sui army, some reacted quickly and turned to get weapons, and more shouted that the Sui army was coming, and ran away in all directions!
When he shouted, the entire Turkic formation was in chaos. Some people were preparing to organize a resistance, some people thought that the Chinese army had been breached and began to flee for their lives, and some people wanted to understand the situation and waited.

The result is that in the chaos, the Turkic army blossomed and fell apart.

The brave and fearless frontier soldiers chased and hacked them. Those who fled scattered all the troops who wanted to support them, and the enemy army was routed thousands of miles away.

If it weren't for the small number of cavalry, many enemies would have been unable to catch up, otherwise the auspicious tribe of Xiwangting, which could have been fought in this battle, would be seriously injured.

Including the last Dunhuang defensive battle, these two victories captured a total of [-] enemy heads, thousands of horses, and countless bows and arrows.

Recently, the Inner Western Turks have launched a decent offensive by force.

Chen Ping very politely asked Chang Sheng to choose the weapon first. Chang Sheng had already thought about the future development direction, but he had no desire for weapons.

He fell in love with horses, so he asked for [-] good horses. Anyway, the food in the camp is sufficient at present. If it doesn't work, he will cultivate some land to grow alfalfa, so he doesn't have to worry about feed for the horses.

There were 1000 soldiers in the Longevity Army, with more than [-] casualties.

At the end of April, Changsheng built a coffin to contain the dead bodies, and then carried them on a horse-drawn cart and slowly pulled them back to the camp.

The imperial court has received good news from Dunhuang. It is said that the incorporation of the Changsheng Army into the country has already begun to be discussed in the imperial court. The most controversial thing at present is the rank of the Changsheng Army and the establishment of food and pay for the troops.

After returning to the camp, Changsheng covered each coffin with a military flag, the lion flag of the Changsheng Army, and solemnly buried more than 200 soldiers one by one.

After the Battle of Dunhuang, the Changsheng Camp was nationalized. The imperial court ordered the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households to send people to the Dunhuang camp to check the number of soldiers and weapons and equipment on the spot.

Soon Changsheng announced the result of the imperial appointment to all the generals in the camp.

"Chen Ping was awarded the title of General of the Martial Guard, and heir to thousands of households in Dunhuang Town, leading the defense of Dunhuang..."

Chen Ping jumped from the original fifth rank to the third rank of martial arts, and the generals under Chang Sheng waited quietly for the next step.

"Li Changsheng confers the Farewell to Longxi, inherits hundreds of households in Dunhuang Town, and leads the Dunhuang school lieutenant..."

"Congratulations, my lord!" The crowd cheered in unison.

Chang Sheng also had a smile on his face, "It's not over yet, this time I rewarded you a few..."

"Zhang Hu, Xiao Feng, and Qin Qiong were awarded the title of Dunhuang Standing Counselor and hereditary Dunhuang Town Banner Officer."

"Thank you, Lord, for your promotion!" These people were converted from peasant households to military households in one fell swoop, and their families could also get the land and population allocated by the imperial court.

"One more thing, because of our regularization, the imperial court will arrange a supervisory army for us... The ancestral system is like this, the Sui Dynasty has always used literature to control military forces, and every military town will have civilian officials to supervise the army."

"I don't agree with it from the bottom of my heart," Chang Sheng said straight to the point, "I told Chen Ping about this, and they jointly signed a letter of objection."

"What's the result?" Unsurprisingly, Qin Qiong was the first to ask again.

"The ancestral system, the ancestral system cannot be changed! Chen Ping asked to send local civil servants to supervise the army."

After all, Chen Ping is Changsheng's comrade-in-arms, and he would want to speak for his own people.

"Will civil servants agree to this request?" Zhang Baozang asked.

"Of course, not only rejected it, but also sent someone directly from the imperial court..."

(End of this chapter)