16. Defend Baijingshu
On August 3rd, Jin Mingdao, more than ten peoples of six governments, had a total of 30,000 soldiers and horses, like a tide, emerged from various valleys of Tumen, and advanced to Baijing Shu, which posed a serious threat to it on the west side.
At this moment, Baijing garrison had prepared wooden slabs and earthen straits. There were only two hundred soldiers guarding the army, and the soldiers of the military were formally regulated. Most of the other 1,000 Qiang soldiers were several, including the White Horse tribes, and a small number were remnants of the Dangxiang Si family.
Looking down from the mountains where the barriers were located, there were soldiers of the six governments who were besieged in all aspects, with people all over the mountains and valleys, and the noise was as loud as the sea tide, shocking the nerves of the defenders.
Sibo Dayo was wearing rhinoceros armor, all the hair on his head were clean, and fresh scars of razors were left on his cheeks and ears. Several strands of hair were left in the center of the head, and they were twisted into small braids according to the Xianbei style. Seeing the battle formation below it, blood was surging, holding a bow, walking around with a knife and shouting loudly, encouraging the tribe members, saying that they wanted to kill Prince Nixiang to avenge his father.
Under the beacon towers erected by the central platform, Zhou Ziping, the third yamen of Dingwu Army, stood calmly in front of the pile of reeds and ordered his subordinates to light the beacon fire, and the flames and smoke rose and rolled up.
Siba Ono looked back at him, curious why this person was calm and composed.
He also knew that the reinforcements of the Tang army were on the way. However, between Baijing Shu and Baibao River, most of them were hilly and mountainous, and Prince Nixiang also had a team of reinforcements. What was even more unsettling was that there were only 1,200 defenders here, while the enemy was close to 30,000!
Whether or not they can stand until the arrival of the main force of the Tang army is what Siba Ono is most afraid of.
The sound of coaxing was shaking the sky and earth. The six governments and the parties were all in the world. There was no cooperation between them, and there was no tactics. Anyway, Prince Nixiang waved the green flag on the Tongshao Mountain opposite (that was the flag that Prince Nixiang had secretly bought from the merchants of Qingzhou before). Thousands of Qiang people abandoned their horses, carried arrow bags, and rushed up from all directions at the foot of Baijing Shushan!
Behind the cracks in the wooden fence of the Baijing Shutoudao, the righteous followers of the tree and white horse tribes coldly put strings on their horn bows, then pulled out arrows from the mud under them, and shot them one by one on the fire. Countless clusters of arrows made of deer antlers and animal bones carried the strong wind and kept hitting the six palaces that were going one after another.
The strong men of the six governments lacked armor, and most of them were just furs. The sharp arrows shot from Baijingshu easily penetrated their limbs, chests, and foreheads, and red blood jumped out. Those who lost their lives fell into the grass on the hillside, or rolled down, while those who were injured held the wound, hid behind the rocks and pulled out the dagger, screaming and trying to dig out the arrow clusters from there.
This kind of arrow cluster was inserted into the soil in advance. Once it was shot, even if it did not die at that time, the trauma would soon form severe and terrible decay. It would be much more painful to die from this torture than to fall to the ground.
Soon, the six palaces of Dangxiang, who were attacking the mountain, began to overlap, standing or kneeling, using the horn bow in his hand to face the wooden fence where Tang Jun and Yicong were located, and the earth pile was shooting arrows. The sound of the bow strings bounced like a sudden rain, "The arrow shot was like a flying flies, covering the sky."
Baijing Shu, who was intertwined with fireworks and flying arrows, was still resisting unyieldingly.
In a valley somewhere in the Great Wall Ridge, Gao Yue's other commander, Li Xian, led the seven cavalry Youyi. After seeing the beacon fire rising from Baijing Shu, he hurriedly got on his horse, whipped his whip and headed towards Fangchi.
He was originally hiding nearby and echoed Zhou Zipingyao. When he saw the beacon, he had to run to call the police.
The commander of these three yamen was drawn from the "cage official system" of Xifan after Gao Yue fought with Xifan many times and imitated it.
The cage officers in Xifan are actually post leaders. They are responsible for sending letters or public security at the site of the post station during peacetime, and are responsible for staff and even leading troops to fight during wartime. Because they are all managing post stations, they are very familiar with the customs and geography of their locations. Once there is a war, they can use the task of transmitting intelligence on the front line and surprise attacks and infiltration.
Gao Yue then established the commander of Li Xian and Zhou Ziping, where they were located, and asked them to perform their responsibilities of liaison, patrol, and guarding as the officials of the Western Fan Cage, wandered in the battlefield, and stumbled among the Fan Farm, trained their own Fan and Qiang words, and continuously learned to enhance military experience.
In Mapu Village, 30 miles southwest of Baibaochuan, Li Xian saw the eight battalions of the second general of the Dingwu Army rolling towards him, led by the military commander Cheng Junren. They held long scepters, regiment cards, palladium, and divine thunder rockets. They strictly followed the "breathless marching" stance stipulated in Li Weigong's military strategy, and lined up in double rows, winding out from the mountains.
After all the infantrymen came out, Li Xian immediately saw a battalion of cavalry suddenly appearing in the hillside next to him. It seemed that they had set up an ambush in advance to ensure the flanks of the infantry brigade.
The cavalry of this camp was Xu Si's mule camp, with more than 800 soldiers. They were still riding high-headed mules and carrying crossbows. All the front hands were imitated as regular cavalry and replaced with horse forks. This time Xu Si finally got what he wanted. Gao Yue asked him to accompany Cheng Junren to attack Baibaochuan without being a reserve team anymore.
"As a clever plan, I asked me to wait for Baibaochuan, one to occupy the territory and the other to help Baijingshu, which may be besieged by the rebel Qiang." The military envoys Cheng Junren and Xu Si, next to the team that continued to marching forward in a row of chariots, said to Li Xian who came to call the police.
Li Xian asked Cheng Junren what should he do right away?
"This general of the army and horse envoy advanced to the Great Wall Ridge in the south of Baijing Shusun to establish a fortress, and formed a stance with Zhou Zihei to support him. Then the main force of the Qihou's brigade is about to arrive and continue to capture the Baibaochuan." Cheng Junren replied loudly.
Li Xian led the four horses and then headed towards Qingzhou City to inform the subsequent troops; at the same time, he asked the other three horses to rush to Huaian, Fangchi, Luoyuan, Fangqu and other Qiang Treasures, and called on them to go out to more cities to join the battle.
About two hours later, the second general of the Dingwu Army, a total of eight battalions, collided with three or four thousand Dangxiang, who came here to block the six governments.
The dust was flying, and the Dangxiang cavalry were galloping around the grass, gathering and scattering, and many people's bald hair drifted in the wind, making various provocative calls.
Most of the nomadic people in the Dangxiang Qiang, who were tall and burly in the Baiyu Mountains, were quite good at riding and archery. Most of the soldiers of the Dingwu Army who were changing their formations were much shorter, but these Tang soldiers were carrying extremely long scepters on their shoulders, and skillfully changed from the column mode of the marching to the horizontal team to the battle, which shocked the Dangxiang people.
The Tang army's formation changed from vertical to horizontal, which seemed to be a moment, very magical.
Chapter completed!