Author: Writer hcaGwv

The Turkic Tatar army hidden in the woods more than ten miles north of Linchuan was having breakfast. Aguna invited Ashina Ranqian and Huodu to taste the robes he had beaten in the woods yesterday. The three of them sat in front of the bonfire.

My mouth is full of oil after eating.

In front of the gate of the camp not far away, a shaman's drum was beating loudly, just like in his hometown outside the Mobei Great Wall. Here, the priests of the tribe are always allowed to lead the warriors before the war begins.

To receive blessings from the gods, these priests danced and danced while singing notes that normal people could not understand.

The soldiers had serious expressions. They all spread out their hands, knelt on the ground with their hands clasped together, and closed their eyes tightly. They were also muttering something in their mouths. Their bodies were swaying back and forth regularly to the sound of drums, like waves of wheat preparing to be harvested in the autumn wind.

After a long time, the sacrificial singing finally stopped, and then the shaman, who was said to be possessed by the gods, slowly opened his eyes and shouted majestically in a tone and accent that no human could have: "Go, son of Mother Earth.

You guys, go and take the lives of your enemies, they will surely become the dead souls under your scimitars!"

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At this time, the flag of the Changsheng Army's main camp made a hunting sound in a sudden dark wind. Qin Qiong below was so frightened that he couldn't help but look sideways: "I'll go, this is such a strong wind, it's blowing the handsome flag's flag."

The mast will be blown off."

Blowing down the mast is an ominous sign in the army. The other people stepped on Qin Qiong one after another, blaming him for speaking so freely.

Qin Qiong also knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she couldn't help sticking out her tongue and quickly shut up.

Changsheng said nothing. He looked at the army of more than 10,000 people in front of him, and his heart was filled with emotion. He accidentally recited the poem of Emperor Taizu of Han Dynasty: "The wind is blowing, the clouds are flying, and the sea has not yet reached the sea, so I return to my hometown..."

However, before she could finish speaking, her eyes were squinted by the wind and sand got into her mouth. She was so disgusted that she quickly vomited.

Gao Ziran quickly finished reciting for him: "A strong warrior will guard the four sides." After reciting, he still brushed a few strands of long beard on his chest, squinted his eyes and said with a smile: "General Li is indeed a genius.

A child prodigy, not only invincible in martial arts

, and he is knowledgeable in both ancient and modern times. He is really both civilized and military. The poems of Emperor Gao, Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty, are extremely appropriate to use at this moment. He is the true dragon emperor who created the 400-year-old foundation of our Han people. Today, let us also create this unparalleled foundation.

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Changsheng looked at this excited man who didn't know what he was going to say anymore. He really wanted to go up and cover his mouth: "What do you mean we have to create an immortal foundation? Are we afraid that Yang Guang doesn't know our ambitions?"

Changsheng looked down with a guilty conscience, and found that no one seemed to realize the language error in Gao Ziran's words. He quickly winked at Qin Qiong and asked him to come out and say something to change the topic.

When Qin Qiong saw Chang Sheng's expression because he was asking him to express his position first, he immediately rushed out happily, clasped his fists and said: "Sir, for today's attack, I will let you climb the city and capture the flag for you first!"

Changsheng didn't expect him to come out like this, so he subconsciously rejected him: "No, I don't agree."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Qin Qiong's face change from excitement to grievance. She could only quickly persuade him: "You are my general's favorite general, and you still want to kill generals and capture the flag for me like last time."

, Field combat on the plains is the space for you to display your martial arts."

After several days of active preparations by engineers, three pontoon bridges have been erected on the Linchuan River. Early in the morning, soldiers from the Changsheng Camp and the Qiusheng Camp formed a long and dense queue to cross the river one after another.

The internal guards in charge of order stood in front of the neatly arranged phalanx waiting to cross the river, exchanging information with their officers. After confirming that the number of people and numbers were all correct, they waved the colorful flags in their hands.

When the platoon leader commanding the square formation saw the signal, he whistled and led the soldiers behind him to start crossing the pontoon bridge.

The soldiers all carried their own steel helmets, carried their spears or muskets on their shoulders, and walked across the bridge.

Chang Sheng rode his horse and stood on a high slope on the south bank, watching the flow of people in front of him like ants, walking across several pontoons in an orderly manner and then quickly forming square formations on the north bank. He couldn't help but regret the decision he made at that time.

Secretly gave a thumbs up.

Not only the close relatives of Guan and Zhang, but also the Xianfeng battalion who followed Liu Houer through life and death were deeply attracted and shocked by the orderly and calm temperament of the Changsheng Army.

The performance of their own people really made them feel ashamed in front of Changsheng. Although everyone crossed the river in batches under the command and arrangement of the inner guard, every time it was their turn, the officers of the inner guard had to shout.

They had to shout so that they could all hear the instructions clearly, and the officers and guardsmen were working hard to maintain order in their camp and prevent them from getting separated.

Liu Hou'er had already asked his soldiers to go down to help, but the task became more and more chaotic. Some of the officers who went down saw the soldiers making a mess and not obeying the command, and they were so anxious that they wanted to beat them.

The area of ​​Pioneer Camp instantly became filled with angry roars and noisy noises.

Under Liu Houer's repeated urging, the officers even drew out their whips and prepared to beat people in order to speed up the crossing of the river. This also made the already crowded pontoon bridge even more chaotic. From time to time, people fell off the bridge, causing

There were waves of scratching, but fortunately the river was not particularly deep, and the soldiers who fell into the water were quickly rescued, without causing any casualties.

But even so, after all the soldiers from the Changsheng Battalion had crossed the river, the soldiers from the other battalions had not yet crossed half.

Guan and Zhang were not fast either, but they did not rush their soldiers as hard as Liu Houer, so their speed was even slower than Liu Houer's Pioneer Battalion. When the Changsheng Camp was finished, Liu Houer left.

By the time they reached the halfway point, one-third of their number had not yet finished crossing the river.

This also made them secretly wipe their hands in cold sweat.

But speed is sometimes not necessarily a good thing.

Many of the people who crossed the river first were internal guards of the Changsheng Battalion. They took the drawings distributed to them by the staff in advance, and while surveying the terrain here, they guided the troops crossing the river to their predetermined positions.

Guan and Zhang's team is moving slowly now, so there are relatively few people. They can be arranged in an orderly manner, and they won't be in a hurry when a bunch of people pile up at once.

But the Pioneer Battalion was not good enough. They originally lacked experienced officers.

When the soldiers were rolled across the pontoon bridge like ducks, they immediately huddled into a large pile on the north bank because there was no one to direct them.

The soldiers were in a mess, pushing each other, and being pushed forward by the new ones, just like a circle of ducks.

Changsheng looked at it and shook his head. The so-called "attack halfway across the river" in the art of war meant that she was attacking an army like this that had no organization after crossing the river and could not form an effective combat force in half a day. The formation could not be set up well. Why?

Facing the enemy?

Changsheng couldn't help but sigh secretly. It had been almost half a year since the last battle. The elite of the Northwest Frontier Army, Xianfeng Battalion, had completely lost its combat effectiveness after Ye Qiu's death, and it has not yet recovered.

However, she did not intend to overstep her authority. Liu Hou'er himself was not very old, and he inherited the position as Ye Qiu's direct descendant, so she would let him grow up slowly, while cultivating his own prestige and training his ability to lead troops.

This is also a learning process.

After all, being a battalion officer has many more things to consider than being a detective. You also have to face various situations and different people.

After the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion passed the wooden bridge, they became the baggage troops. This is also the auxiliary army that Changsheng has been trying to build since the last time, but they are developing in the direction of special-function troops.

The first thing to be shown this time was the bridge-building and paving team. The team of nearly 200 people built three pontoon bridges across the two banks in three days. Now they use wheelbarrows to help other baggage troops transport supplies and weapons.

Their day after day training finally bore fruit. Even though the pontoon was not stable, they were still able to walk smoothly while pushing the trolley on it.

Although after crossing the river, Fang Xuanling's scout horses and sentries had already dispersed, forming a large warning circle to isolate the other party's scout sentries as much as possible, but after all, the number of people was limited, and there were still some with good eyesight.

The spies looked far away from the high ground and observed the situation of Changsheng crossing the river.

When he described the process in detail to his superior, the man sighed repeatedly: "It's so fast." He ordered him to report it to the leader of Ashina Rangan immediately.

A quarter of an hour later, Chang Sheng's Qiu Sheng camp had also passed through most of the people. Chang Sheng suddenly saw the scouts on the north bank waving the colorful flags for communication, and then there was a spy from the other side of the river waving the colorful flags in his hands to communicate with them.

stand up.

The inner guard behind Changsheng waited for them to finish their exchange, then came over and whispered: "My lord, the Turkic Tatars abandoned the city and ran away."

Next to Changsheng, there was a conch that had been boasting and flattering since just now. When Guan and Zhang heard the information reported by the inner guard, they shouted excitedly at the same time: "What? The Tatars have escaped? Are you serious about this?"

The Changsheng team's sudden escape from the city was somewhat unclear, so she decided not to jump to conclusions yet. She ordered in a low voice: "Go and investigate again. Pay careful attention to the enemy's movements and strength."

"Yes, obey!" After receiving the order, the inner guard immediately took out his whistle and blew it at the sentry on the shore. The people on the shore recorded it and notified the communication troops on the opposite side through the semaphore of the colorful flag, and then the order was passed through this

This method is continuously transmitted to the signal soldiers on the front line.

Later, Qi Jiguang's Qi Jiajun specially used the flag language of Tanma to transmit signals. Qi Jiguang's military book also has a description of this aspect.

Changsheng learned from his method and improved it, adding whistles. In this way, he used a whistle when he was close and a flag when he was far away. He could basically deliver the message accurately. Not only that, the speed of delivering the message was also greatly improved.

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After a while, the news came back: "There are more than 1,500 armored Turks, more than 2,000 unarmored Turks, and nearly 10,000 Han people. They also carry a large amount of baggage and cattle and sheep.

Fleeing north together?" Changsheng analyzed the information conveyed by the flag language.

The two people Guan and Zhang beside him were almost stunned when they heard her words. They couldn't imagine that they could get so much information just by waving this small colorful flag a few times.

What they don't know is that the level of information conveyed by Changsheng's men using flags can be far greater than this situation, because they not only rely on numbers, but also the Pinyin system that Changsheng has been promoting.

"Let Qiu Shengying, who has not yet crossed the river, wait." Changsheng rushed down the hillside on horseback, and she gave the order before the people arrived.

The inner guard soldiers who received the signal quickly stopped the advancing team. Changsheng and his personal guards stepped onto the pontoon from the soldiers of Qiusheng camp first, followed by brothers Liu Houer and Guan Zhang.

Changsheng learned from the spies' semaphore language that there was no trace of the enemy within several miles.

So Changsheng rode his horse and rode Juechen straight to Linchuan City. When she ran behind Linchuan City, the soldiers guarding the gate told her that all the Turkic Tatars guarding the city had already escaped.

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Thick smoke billowed from the city, and some houses were set on fire by the retreating Turkic Tatars.

While Chang Sheng ordered the troops to organize firefighting, he also asked them to thoroughly search the city to see if there were any Turkic troops hiding in the city, or any tunnels, dark rooms, etc. At the same time, Chang Sheng asked Fang Xuanling to expand the scope of the warning and search, striving to reach ten miles away.

Chase after the enemy's butt and spread out.

Several fire points in Linchuan were quickly brought under control and the fires were extinguished. After Fang Xuanling led people to conduct an on-site inspection, he found that many ignition points arranged in advance were not ignited. From this, he inferred that the enemy was very dangerous when retreating.

In a hurry, I basically just ran for my life, and didn't even have time to set fire, so I reported to Chang Sheng that the enemy's strength should be very weak.

"The troops are very weak? Are you sure?" Changsheng asked after hearing the report and pondering for a moment.

"The humble position is very certain." Fang Xuanling said confidently. In addition to the arson site, she also found other discoveries, namely warehouses and barracks, as well as confessions from the Han population in the city.

The conclusion drawn from the comprehensive analysis of these points is that there are at most four to five thousand Turkic Tatar guards in Lin'an City. This number is basically consistent with the number reported by Tan Ma just now.

"Besides, I feel that the Turks' escape was not planned from the beginning, but a temporary act." Fang Xuanling said loudly,

Changsheng stood at the top of the city, looking at the direction in which the enemy was escaping, and said, "You are talking about those official issues."

Changsheng discovered the problem with the official road when she came, and she specially ordered people to check it. The result of the inspection was that the official road in the north of the city was full of potholes. This should be the reason why the enemy lit torches on the official road all night last night.
Chapter completed!