Chapter 303 Full-scale war
Zhao Kuangyin stood at the top of Yizhou and looked out. Outside the moat, there were five trenches two meters wide and one meter deep. This was built by him, who led the engineers.
Ye Hua once said that when building a trench, you should mow the soil on one side and not on both sides. This is a very strange requirement, but Zhao Kuangyin faithfully fulfilled it.
After the practice was completed, Zhao Da discovered the mystery.
When the enemy rushed over, there was no floating soil on one side of the trench. They had to fill it with their own sand, gravel and mud, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty.
The clever infantry wanted to climb up from the bottom of the ditch, if it was flat, it would be easy, but the problem was that it was to pile sand and soil inside and formed a six or seven-foot-high earth wall, which was equivalent to double the depth of the ditch!
It was such a simple change that had amazing consequences.
During the siege of the Khitan and Northern Han, seven thousand people died in order to fill the trenches alone!
They are filling the pit with corpses!
Zhao Kuangyin silently calculated that four of the five trenches had been filled, and the last one was left. The war would burn to the top of the city and the real battle would come!
"Tell me my order to pour turbulent oil into the trenches, and when they attack the city, they will set fire to death these grandchildren!"
"Abide by the order!"
The engineers immediately went to prepare, and Zhao Da showed a hideous smile. He wanted to bury all the Khitan and Northern Han under the city of Yizhou!
"Mr. Marquis, I'm so lively here, don't be embarrassed. You must fight a beautiful battle!"
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Ye Hua led the army quickly towards Gu'an. News kept coming along the way. Zhang Yongde led the cavalry to repel the men besieged Gu'an. He had joined the defenders in the city and defended with all his might!
The prince-in-law took the initiative for the Great Zhou Dynasty. The whole army was full of enthusiasm and enthusiasm... In the era of cold weapons, strict training, and excellent weapons were important, but the morale of the military was always an issue that could not be ignored.
It’s like a fight. Some people see the other person staring at him and their legs become weak, and some people see the bleeding, and their hearts are panicked... Life and death fight, and a matter of thought, they may lose their lives.
When the two armies confront each other, they lost dozens of them while losing only a few... The gap came out, it was difficult not to be afraid... This is also the reason why the veterans in the hundred battles were so important. They were the backbone and the Dinghai Sword. With veterans, they could stabilize the overall situation.
The farming people who are hasty armed and lack training, and fight against the nomadic tribes that are robbed and killed all day long, are born to suffer losses... Nomadic tribes have no weak people, because the weak have long died!
They fought all year round, and bloody killings were engraved in their bones. When they arrived on the battlefield, they would only be even more excited and crazy, and they would be the first to win the lead. The consequence of being defeated on the whole line.
However, this situation will never appear among the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
First of all, the soldiers and horses of the Great Zhou were strictly selected and trained. They had a hundred times stricter military discipline than the past army. The monotonous and boring training had already incorporated many things into their core. Even if they were afraid and panic, they would not make fatal mistakes, and it was even more impossible to defeat and escape on a large scale.
A soldier died in battle on the battlefield and his family could receive subsidies. If he escaped, the whole family's fields would be taken back... Although he was reluctant to leave, when each family sent his son to join the army, he repeatedly reminded him to obey military orders and never escape for the sake of the whole family's livelihood. This is also the mystery of Ye Hua's repeated emphasis on recruiting good children!
Only with the bond of family can one be willing to protect with one's life! This is something that those rogues who are stinging criminals can never do.
And don’t forget, who is the commander of the Great Zhou army?
It's the champion!
It was the champion Hou who killed the Khitan Emperor with his own hands!
In the Battle of Linzhou, the weak defeated the strong and killed the Khitan Emperor Yelu Ruan. It has been adapted into a play and is very popular on the stage. The scene is grand and the momentum is magnificent, which is better than the Qin King breaking the formation.
Even the Khitan emperor can kill him, so why are you afraid of the Khitan people?
In addition, since Ye Hua went north, he has been working steadily and step by step. In the battle of Gaoliang River, he severely damaged the Khitan soldiers. In private, everyone said that Ye Hua was the nemesis of the Khitan Emperor, and some people started a gambling game, speculating whether Ye Hua would kill another Khitan Emperor...
The accumulated victory is the courage of the soldiers and the morale of the army!
Before we knew it, the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty had such a hint of prosperous Tang Dynasty. Although it was still a bit illusory, it was indeed true!
The strong Han and the prosperous Tang dynasty are coming back again!
Zhang Yongde chose to take the initiative to attack. Facing the Khitan cavalry, the soldiers were only nervous and excited, and they wanted to kill the enemy and make contributions and prove themselves.
The soldiers' aggressiveness infects the generals, and the generals infect His Majesty the Emperor!
"Ye Hua, I will take the initiative to attack this time, and the Khitans will teach you an unforgettable lesson!"
"Your Majesty is wise, and the Great Zhou will win!"
Ye Hua's answer was very standard, but there was no perfunctory intention. This is what he said in his heart. Will the strong army of the Han and the prosperous Tang dynasties be passively beaten when facing the enemy?
No, you have to attack, attack, and knock the Khitans out of Yanyun and the Great Wall. From then on, the Wanli Grassland will be the back garden of the Han family!
Ye Hua set a small goal.
More than one hundred thousand troops approach Gu'an quickly.
At dusk, Guo Wei rushed to a small village thirty miles outside the city. Here, His Majesty the Emperor got off the chariot in person regardless of the wind and snow, accompanied by Ye Hua, and visited the soldiers.
The place where Guo Wei got off the bus, later called Xia Nian Village, became a famous scenic spot, no less than that of the imperial palace. Historians say that this is the place where the Han family regained their courage and blood, and it was also the beginning of sweeping the world. As an old soldier, Guo Wei reached his peak!
His Majesty the Emperor pressed the Emperor's Sword, and the champion Hou Yehua followed closely.
Guo Wei walked past the soldiers. Every time he passed by, the soldiers knelt down on one knee and shouted long live. The loud voices came one after another, just like the Yellow River and the sky!
Guo Wei walked for nearly an hour, read 50,000 soldiers, got on the chariot again, and headed straight for the battlefield. The place where Guo Wei got on the chariot was also called Shangnian Village.
The soldiers guarded their emperor, and rushed towards the north with a rainbow of momentum.
At noon the next day, the Zhou soldiers heading north and the Khitan soldiers heading south collided.
The fierce battle began immediately... Da Zhou abandoned the advantageous crossbow, and did not form a formation to wait, but directly killed him!
The shouts and killings were like tides, the sound of horse hooves rolled around, the roars and fighting sounds filled the world, and the black and gray smoke drifted in the air, and the air was filled with a boiling breath.
Yang Ye led the iron cavalry and rushed suddenly. They didn't care about the Khitans' bows and arrows, and raised their spears and rushed towards the enemy.
boom!
The two armies collided, and the spear stabbed the armor, making a scammer of metal friction. The flat spear head pierced into the bodies of the knights and war horses, bringing out a lot of blood.
The Khitans' war horses roared and turned, and threw the knight on their backs to the ground. The war horses could not bear it. They fell down together. The heavy war horses broke their legs and collapsed their chests. The Khitans' mouths and noses were bleeding, and they were wailing and screaming under their war horses, making people frightened.
What makes people even more frightened are the shrill horns and rumbling war drums.
rush!
kill!
Don't let a Khitan person go!
More cavalry rushed up, and they used javelins to throw them at the Khitans, which was the usual method of the Fu family cavalry. On the other side, Gao Huaide held the spear tightly and rushed into the Khitan army.
The three generals rushed and attacked fiercely, treating the Khitan soldiers as if nothing had happened.
They were killing and laughing wildly, as if they were not powerful enemies in front of them, but a group of native chickens and tiles, vulnerable!
A great shame and humiliation!
It's definitely a great humiliation!
The Khitans were irritated.
Yelu Jing's exaggerated chariot was lost and captured by Ye Hua. He could only ride a war horse. Around him were as many as hundreds of generals, as well as leaders of various Khitan tribes. They were wearing armor, wrapped in animal skins, and holding scimitars covered with gems in their hands. They were all fierce and evil.
Yelu Wuzhi saw it and sneered secretly.
The combat power of the Southern Dynasty exceeded his estimate and was even stronger than he had imagined, especially the enthusiasm of fearlessness that made him even more frightened.
The same is true for the Khitan!
Unified the tribes, destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, went south many times, and jumped into the Central Plains. How powerful was the Khitan at that time!
Let this battle wake up the Khitan!
"You guys lead the troops up!"
Yelu Wuzhi pointed to the leaders of the Xi tribe, and these people immediately activated the war horses, called their subordinates, and rushed up with a roar.
"A bunch of savages!"
Fu Zhaoxin spat fiercely. Since killing Xiao Dagan, Master Fu found a trace of the awareness of a famous general. He held the precious sword in his hand and rushed forward decisively towards the Xi cavalry.
"Be careful, carry the gun!"
The soldier quickly followed the order and raised his rifle, and the palm of his hand holding the gun was empty. He ran quickly and pressed his speed, and kept up with the slow speed.
Gradually it became a neat row, with spears like forests and cavalry like walls!
"kill!"
The collision between the two sides instantly fell down a group of Xi's cavalry. Their short weapons could not hurt the Great Zhou cavalry at all. However, this collision also made many cavalry rifles unable to withstand the rebound force.
In fact, riding a rifle has been specially processed, and it is just a disposable consumable. It is not a pity at all. It is enough to exchange for so many enemies' lives.
The soldier who lost his spear quickly drew out his sabre to fight the next Khitan soldiers.
Fu Zhaoxin kept wielding his sword, and he took a huge advantage. This sword made with no effort was really powerful. The spear was cut off, the mace was cut off, the axe was cut off, and even the scimitar of the head of Xi Bu was no problem!
Fu Zhaoxin cut the head of Xi in half with a knife. The other barbarians were so scared that they fled... The dark red blood soaked the dry land and the corpses everywhere, making people frightened.
Ye Hua and Guo Wei rushed to the battlefield, and this is the scene they saw.
"Your Majesty, the Khitans sent iron cavalry to separate the two armies. They formed a formation in the rear and were ready to defend!" Ye Hua's tone could not hide his joy.
Guo Wei's beard raised high!
Chapter completed!