Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 956 Kill them all

The elder brother stood up holding the gourd, and squinted at Lin Zi.

"Buddha."

With an exclamation, the kettle slipped from his loosened fingers. My brother looked at the old forest. It was said to be a deep mountain forest with a width of sixty miles. The leaves were so dense that they could almost block the sun. For the old hunters, they will definitely feel dizzy after entering, unable to distinguish north from south.No one likes Wu Shengjun walking from the direction of Lanzhou through this mountain forest, let alone hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands.

The autumn sun shines into the forest through the gaps in the leaves, reflecting the steel armor on the officers and soldiers of the Azure Dragon Legion gleaming.After receiving the report from the spies and walking to the edge of the forest, Zhang Dawei ordered the soldiers to rest for the last time, and then put on steel armor and marched in a column.Although the opposite side seemed to be just a group of Tubo secondary soldiers transporting food and grass, Zhang Dawei ordered the army to form a battle formation, and all the pikemen came out with fast crossbows and spears.

Behind the infantry brigade of the Qinglong Legion is the engineer battalion.They cleared roads across the mountains, built bridges across rivers, and erected suspension bridges one after another in the mountain cuts. They also felled a lot of wood and used them to build a passage in the dense forest and dangerous mountains. The machine companies were able to come here with their respective equipment.

Following Zhang Dawei's order, the soldiers of the First Battalion of the Second Brigade of the Infantry put down the masks on their helmets, walked over firmly, and trampled the branches and weeds mercilessly into the soil.The group came noiselessly out of the woods onto the avenue.Although the soldiers of a battalion of the Azure Dragon Legion were ready to fight, the enemy army facing them didn't seem to have any decent weapons at all, and they seemed to have been frightened stupid.

Holding a binoculars in one hand and a sword in the other, Zhang Dawei walked onto the road. At this moment, more than 300 Tubo soldiers escorted by the small grain transportation team had already started to flee. The quick crossbow soldiers of the battalion fired once each, and the more than 300 Tubo soldiers were all dead.The ordinary Tubo people who escorted the grain and grass all huddled together on the ground.Zhang Dawei looked down at the two people lying at his feet. These two people seemed to be a pair of young brothers. There was an overturned gourd next to their legs, and water was still gushing out. They were a little older. The older one still hugged the younger one tightly in his arms, looking at him with four black eyes motionless.Eyes of grief and despair.

"League commander, they must die, otherwise our whereabouts will be leaked." Yang Yanqing, the deputy commander of the army, looked at these Tibetans with hatred on his face. When he remembered that his second brother was forced to death by the Tibetans, he wished to kill all the Tibetans. .

Zhang Dawei glanced at the more than 600 Tubo people who were surrounded and huddled together. He patted Yang Yanqing on the shoulder and said, "You take a battalion and kill them all, and then follow up."

After finishing speaking, Zhang Dawei did not wait for Yang Yanqing to say anything, and ordered everyone except the second infantry brigade and the first battalion to continue marching.Soon there was the sound of quick crossbow firing and screams from behind.It wasn't that the Qinglong Legion met this grain transportation team today because they wanted to rob and burn the grain and grass, but it was an accident.

During the small break, Shi Haiyang, the senior staff officer in charge of reconnaissance, and several staff officers, as well as a reconnaissance squad leader and intelligence staff officers sent by the special brigade gathered around a wooden pier, bent over the map and were discussing something. Zhang Dawei When they walked over, Shi Haiyang and the others stood at attention and saluted Zhang Dawei. Zhang Dawei glanced at the wooden pier. There was a piece of paper spread on it, and a helmet was pressing the paper feet.

"Shi Haiyang, according to the marching and combat regulations, you are not allowed to take off your helmet at this time."

"Yes. Legion Commander." Shi Haiyang agreed first, and then pointed to the back of his head.He had a pencil in his ear: "Legion Commander, the humble job is just for convenience."

"The pen can be held in the hand, but the helmet is not allowed to be taken off."

"Of order, Legion Commander." Shi Haiyang picked up his helmet from the wooden pier and put it on, then took off the compass box hanging on his chest from his neck, pressed it under the piece of paper, and casually He picked up the binoculars leaning against the root of the tree, and used it to hold down the left side of the paper.

After completing these tasks, Shi Haiyang pointed to the piece of paper with a pencil, which was the map that several of their staff officers had just drawn: "Legion Commander, we are located between Lanzhou City and Wusheng Army, about fifteen miles to the southwest. Wu Shengjun. According to the information provided by the captives and the special brigade, no matter whether the Tubo people raised from Hehuang or the Song people sent grain and grass from Qinzhou, they were sent to Lanzhou through Wu Shengjun. The escort of these grain and grass They are all in charge of the Anduo tribe, and the head of the Wusheng army's Anduo tribe is now Anduo Gaoshi,"

"Good job, you should be the first to take the lead in this march." Zhang Dawei nodded and said.Although there were people from the special brigade leading the way this time, it was still mainly relying on a few reconnaissance staff to maintain the direction, and the distance from the target by a few miles was already remarkable. After all, all maps in this era have large errors. What's more, the scouts of the special brigade walked away and drew it.

This time, the Qinglong Legion directly abandoned the supply of food and grass and sneaked into the enemy's rear.However, the food stored by the Tubo people in Wusheng Army and the food being transported from Wusheng Army to Lanzhou City are enough for tens of thousands of troops for three months. As long as the battle is won, there is no need to worry about food and grass.

5000 members of the First Brigade of the Qinglong Legion followed Yang Jiye to the Hexi Corridor and have not returned yet.Therefore, 5000 people from the Qinglong Legion came this time, including the second infantry brigade and two cavalry brigades.At this time, the second infantry brigade had all come out of the forest, but the two cavalry brigades were left behind this time because there were a lot of grass and branches in the forest.If they are not careful, it is easy to hurt Madi's eyes, so they can only move forward cautiously. It is estimated that they will not be able to get out of this deep mountain and old forest for a while.

Before nightfall, the trebuchet company came out of the woods dragging their trebuchet parts.Because the place where he walked out was different from the expected place, Zhang Dawei did not continue to wait.He asked Yang Yanqing and Lu Fengyun, the commander of the Second Infantry Brigade, to come over, and said to them, "Deputy Army Commander, Lu Fengyun, you two led the Second Infantry Brigade, the Trebuchet Company, the First Company of the Engineer Battalion, and the Second Company to set off overnight. , Take away the twenty or so truckloads of food from the Tubo people, and go to Dafengkou, where the battle was planned before. No matter how many Tubo troops come from Lanzhou, you must guard Dafengkou for me."

Yang Yanqing and Lu Fengyun stood at attention, saluted and said yes, then strode away.Soon Zhang Dawei's troops, under the leadership of Yang Yanqing, marched at night along the northeast direction of Lanzhou on this grain transportation road, holding some torches.

And Zhang Dawei led his personal guard battalion and the third and fourth companies of the engineering battalion stayed behind, waiting for the two cavalry brigades.Until noon on August [-], all the personnel of the two cavalry brigades walked out of the woods one after another.

The cavalry was suffocated when they passed through the mountains and forests.Now they were finally on the main road. After a little rectification, they jumped on their horses one after another and rushed to the southwest in the direction of Wu Shengjun.There, the special brigade was already waiting for them, and their targets were Wu Shengjun and the Anduo Department.

"Deputy Commander Yang and Brigadier Lu, there is a mountain ridge seven miles ahead, which is Dafengkou. There is a small stream flowing across the front and back, so the front and back of this ridge is an open land. Although it is not very big. But It's enough to hold our [-] troops." During a small break, a reconnaissance staff officer sent by Gao Wuyang from the special brigade said to Yang Yanqing and Lu Fengyun who had been on the road all night.

After the reconnaissance staff officer of the special brigade reported the terrain, Yang Yanqing took out the map. After looking at the map, he immediately ordered the infantry to speed up first: "Although the Tubo people who met during the day were all killed by us, they did not If they can arrive at their intended location, they may have already alerted the enemy, not afraid of accidents, but just in case, and this big peak must be in the hands of our army, otherwise it will be difficult for us to achieve our strategic goals."

The order was passed on, and all the infantry who had just rested for a quarter of an hour began to run and march in silence again.The engineer battalion and trebuchet company naturally had difficulty keeping up, but they also moved forward at the maximum speed.

Ma Lijun, commander of the engineering battalion, has been in charge of engineering for a long time, so he doesn't know much about fighting.Seeing that Liu Zhisheng, the company commander of the catapult company, was about to set off in a hurry, he ordered the two companies of the engineering battalion to push the twenty or so grain trucks seized from the Tibetans during the day to follow, and at the same time asked: "Liu Lianchang , is this location important?"

"It's very important." Liu Zhisheng participated in the first phase of training at the Xiangfu Military Academy and looked at the map: "There are relatively narrow roads on both sides of this ridge. Only here can deploy troops. This kind of road can be attacked and retreated. The place is repeatedly emphasized in the infantry regulations that it must be taken. This is also the "right place" in "the right time, the right place, and the people."

"Oh." Ma Lijun responded briefly, although he was still a little confused, but since there were regulations, there was nothing to consider, because their engineering regulations were also the basis for action.

Ye Chen has always wanted to build all the army of Xiangfu Kingdom into a professional army, so since the founding of the country, his requirements for each legion and each arm are to be as professional as possible. Achieved.

"The Tubo army is found ahead! It's just behind the mountain." At the same time, when the Second Infantry Brigade was less than two miles away from the target, the scouts reported that a Tubo army was also coming from Lanzhou to Dafengkou.

"How many bandit soldiers are there? How far away?" Yang Yanqing asked nervously.

(End of this chapter)