Chapter 845 Fast as the wind, steady as a dog
Marching and fighting is hard work, not ordinary hardship.
When Li Shimin fought in the South and the North, he had the experience of being unable to break through the iron armor for eight days. In the scorching July, the south was extremely hot and unbearable, and he was very tired from the long march.
Not only must maintain the army lineup, but also must always beware of enemy ambushes and so on.
Although Qin Lang would not make the mistake of Nong Tianshun, he marched all the way and arranged a large number of Tangqi scouts to scout out the enemy's situation in advance. Let go of every corner.
Every mountain, every river valley, and every forest must be sent to ride in and search carefully to confirm safety.
This kind of cautious and excessive caution, but Tang Jun did it strictly, and no one was willing to make fun of his life. Even if people were sent to reconnaissance in advance, when the army marched, another scout would be sent to reconnaissance.
Especially when encountering special dangerous terrain, you have to stop marching, and you can pass after a comprehensive reconnaissance.
In history, the extremely powerful Roman legions were all wiped out by the Germanic barbarians in the Teutonic Forest. That fiasco caused the Roman Emperor Augustus to scream more than once.
Wars are sometimes like this. No matter how sophisticated the equipment, no matter how well-trained, no matter how capable soldiers are, no matter how powerful the general is, sometimes a little negligence and mistakes may make the whole army fall into a situation beyond redemption.
The horn sounded.
This is an order to stop advancing and rest in place.
Qin Lang set out from Zuozhou and assembled an army of 12,000 people. They traveled slowly with chariots, horses, horses and luggage.
Only walk forty miles a day.
The speed is eight miles per hour, and the average walking time is only five hours a day.
Every half an hour of walking, the whole team has to rest, and every hour, there is a big rest, just stop and go, half of the day is spent resting the team.
Although the elite soldiers of the Tang government and infantry can march for hundreds of miles in one day and night, Qin Lang is very cautious in this barbaric land.
Not to mention that he has 12,000 troops, even if there are ten times more, if he encounters an ambush, sometimes he may be unable to recover.
I think that when Yang Guangdong conquered Goguryeo, he sent 300,000 elite soldiers to attack Pyongyang for hundreds of miles. As a result, the Goguryeo people deliberately lured the enemy to go deep with repeated defeats along the way. hit.
The Sui army was short of food and grass at this time, and the lone army went deep. Although there were 300,000 people, they were also beaten and fled in disarray. It is said that only 2,000 of the 300,000 people fled back to Liaodong City.
Take off the small charcoal stove from the car, open the fire cover, the fire stored inside will immediately burn, add charcoal, and set up the pot.
Qin Lang sat on a small horse and started to boil herbal tea under the shade of a tree.
Start another stove, put on a small pan, and start frying the meat.
On the rugged mountain road, more than 10,000 Tang troops drove for twenty miles, and all of them rested on the spot. The weather was hot, but most of the soldiers were still fully armed to prevent surprise attacks.
Although Nong Sanniang and Fu San and other barbarian kings led the rebels far away, the Xidong barbarian villages along the way are not really safe.
Those Xidong villages asked Datang to surrender one after another, and Qin Lang never refused, accepting their blood oaths, and then accepting their tribute, and at the same time asked them to send their children to accompany the army, nominally to be Qin Lang Attendants, or accompanying the army to assist in the suppression of chaos, are actually protons.
But with people's hearts separated, who would dare to believe that these savages are really reliable?
I think Fusan and others had already joined Datang, and now they still have children studying in Chang'an, Guangzhou, Yongzhou, Jiaozhou and other places or working as hostages, but when it was time to rebel, they did the same.
In order to ensure safety, Qin Lang marched cautiously, and even brought his own food and supplies, just to avoid the danger of food shortages.
This kind of ants move carefully like ants moving and marching. It's a little hard work, but it's also a little safer.
Qin Lang was not in a hurry to chase after Nong Sanniang and other rebels. He was armed and marched slowly along the way. Passing through various streams along the way, he had to go to the village to show off, call the barbarians to comfort him, and then collect some food and grass. Supplies money and food, and takes away some children.
He even sometimes punished some disobedient Dongzhu, he even replaced several Dongzhu, but every time Qin Lang replaced a disobedient Dongzhu, he would find another prestige force from the original Dongzhai Not a bad replacement, because the new master is still from Zhaizhong, so he didn't encounter too much resistance.
This method of controlling barbarism by barbarism even gained more loyalty.
came on a horse.
"Report!"
The knight delivered the sealed military information to Qin Lang, and then withdrew.
Qin Lang looked at the sealing wax on the letter, it was intact, which meant that no one had opened this military letter, and nodded in satisfaction.
Whether they are scouts, pond riders, or messengers, these people can enter and leave the barracks at will, and can directly meet the general. According to the military law, their military reports, etc., except for reporting to the general, no one else has the right to ask or intercept them.
Once violated, it is a capital offense.
This is very strict.
The pro-military people around did not dare to ask more questions.
"Call the officers above the battalion to come!"
When Qin Lang's steak was fried and the herbal tea was ready, Cheng Chumo waited for a group of officers to arrive on horseback covered in sweat. The generals led their troops while marching, and some of them ran several miles away from the central army. .
"What happened?"
Cheng Chu wiped the sweat off his neck silently, "It's almost August in this **** weather, why is it still so hot?"
Qin Lang nodded to the pro-army, so the pro-army immediately spread out twenty paces of guard, and no one was allowed to approach.
"Come on, let's have a cup of herbal tea first. Although there is no iced sour plum soup, this herbal tea is not bad. It can relieve the heat and dryness!"
Cheng Chumo looked at Qin Lang's half-eaten steak, and couldn't help swallowing, "Black pepper fried steak, wow, Saburo, you really know how to enjoy it. You called us here and didn't prepare a few pieces for us."
"There is an important military report." Qin Lang was not in the mood to joke, "Gaopingbao urgently reported that the tens of thousands of horses led by Nong Sanniang and Fusan actually shot a feint and went to the southwest instead of Xiyuan Prefecture. "
"Southwest?"
"Well, an urgent report just came from Gaoping. Nong Sanniang just captured Silang Prefecture and is heading towards Guangyuan Prefecture. It is obvious that the sword is pointing at Gaoping Fort."
"Sure?"
Cheng Chu unceremoniously pulled Qin Lang's half-eaten steak in front of him, without using a knife and fork, just grabbed it with his hands and swallowed it. Marching in this horrible weather makes people lose their appetite, but the black pepper steak that Qin Lang made is still delicious. not bad.
"Didn't they want to fight Wen Mendong, and then go to Hengshan to meet Judingman in Youxi? Why did they go to Gaoping again?"
Qin Lang smiled, and had already seen Manzi's intentions, "They knew that Wen Mendong was heavily guarded, so they wanted to fight Gaoping, so they fled back to their lair from here."
Silang prefecture was gained and then lost, Qin Lang didn't care much about it. Originally, it was a hopeless surrender, but now the main force of the barbarian army came, and the barbarians who killed Si Lang were caught off guard, and it was normal for them to fall.
"After Nong Sanniang captured Silang in a surprise attack, she slaughtered several barbarian villages that had surrendered anyway."
"This **** is quite ruthless."
"Let her kill, it's just a dog biting people in a hurry. In this way, those barbarians will be even more dissatisfied with the Juding bandits." At this time, the Juding barbarian's revenge will only make the barbarians stand on Datang's side even more .
"We are in a hurry, and we haven't caught up with anything?"
Qin Lang's 10,000-odd horsemen left Zuozhou and went up the Heishui River. They had just arrived in the original Bozhou territory, but not yet in Xiyuan Prefecture. Originally, they were rushing to Jingxi Prefecture for a decisive battle at Wenmendong Dalongtan. side.
Unexpectedly, these tens of thousands of barbarians suddenly went to Gaoping over the mountains, and even killed the Silang barbarians by surprise.
The barbarians in Silang are really miserable. They were the first to be attacked when the Juding barbarians invaded. Later, they went on a guerrilla campaign with the Judingman and insisted on sending troops to the Qin family in Wu'an Prefecture to help them regain Silang. As a result, the barbarian king of Silang followed Fu Sangui to join Judingman in Tanzhou City.
The people in Silang are also at a loss as to why they have turned enemies into friends. In the end, there was a lot of noise among Zhudong.
Fighting back and forth, Juding was defeated, Si Lang and those barbarians who followed Datang finally gained the upper hand, so they successfully captured Si Lang, and once again held high the banner of Datang.
It's only been a few days, and the new barbarian kings haven't been happy for a few days, but the Juding barbarians have killed again.
Outnumbered and defeated.
Nong Sanniang hated these people for being capricious. They came to a massacre, and a large number of barbarians were killed. Only a few people fled into the deep mountains and old forests to continue fighting guerrillas.
"Is Gao Pingshou able to live?"
Guangyuan Prefecture may not be able to defend it, but Gaoping Fort should be defended. The problem is that it is possible for tens of thousands of barbarians to forcibly rush under Gaoping Fort. After all, there are not many soldiers in Gaoping now.
It is no problem to defend the fort, but it is difficult to stop 50,000 to 60,000 barbarians.
The problem with Fort Gaoping is that it is just a castle in the valley, not a city built on the aperture of the canyon.
For a pass city like Tongguan, you have to pass through the pass. But the castle is different, you can go around the castle.
When attacking in general, this kind of castle must be taken down, because passing around the city means that there is always a nail behind it, which will threaten the back, the logistics, etc., and the retreat. But now that the barbarian is going to pass through here, who cares about that.
"Why don't we transfer Niu Jianhu and Qin Yong from Wen Mendong to reinforce Gaoping Fort?"
Wen Mendong now has Qin Lang's newly established Jingxi Prefecture. Qin Lang attaches great importance to this traffic throat, which is the key to blocking the north and south of Juding.
"In this way, let Qin Yong continue to guard Jingxi, and Niu Jianhu will lead three thousand soldiers to the south, join forces with us to take Xiyuan Prefecture first, and then follow Judingman to recover Silang and Guangyuan, and then we will fight with Gaoping The fort army will attack the rebels together!"
Qin Lang planned to fight steadily.
Anyway, there are not many barbarians guarding Xiyuan and Silang now, and it is easy to win the two cities.
(end of this chapter)