Chapter 208 Liangzhou Owl
On the same day that Shao Xun's pioneer Yi arrived at the foot of Zhuyuan Pass, Wang Mi's main force set out in batches from Yanshi County.
Twenty thousand people from the pioneer Liu Ling's troops left one day in advance.
Wang Mi’s tribe set out on the second day of the fifth lunar month.
Traveling in large troops, especially those with qualities like Wang Miyi's division, is even more complicated.
The first group of people set off before dawn, the second group of people left the camp at dawn, and the third group of people...
It was not until the afternoon that the chaotic charity army left almost cleanly - Wang Sang led more than 10,000 people to stay behind to stop the possible pursuit.
However, although the righteous master is in chaos, it is much more tidy than when he first conquered Xuchang in April.
Those who did not follow the orders were hit by Shao Xun.
The thieves who are unpredictable are just leaving behind halfway with the thieves who are gaining benefits.
A large part of the cannon fodder was also sent out when he died.
All of this successfully made the righteous master lose weight and the overall result was more refined.
In fact, this is how bandits look like.
If you beat him and win a lot, as long as you don’t cause serious damage to the main elite, and just drop a few loose fat pieces from your body, it will be harmless, because they will keep "losing meat" during the long-distance marching, regardless of whether they have experienced battles or not.
Wang Mi was excited to march into Luoyang.
No matter how quiet, capable, cunning and cruel he was, he was born and raised in Jin, and naturally had a sense of awe for the emperors and ministers in Luoyang. But after this awe became alienated in his heart, it was cruel and tyrannical, and there was an urge to destroy it.
At this time, he was riding on the back of a horse, surrounded by the "Kazi Camp" cavalry composed of more than a thousand elite old thieves.
The Yaozi camp has a wide range of sources, more than half of which are from Qingzhou. In addition, there are the collapsed Jisang remnants, the abandoned Xuzhou official army, the elite troops of some powerful men and the little gentry in Yanzhou, etc.
The peripheral cannon fodder of the bandits was replaced year by year, and even many people were replaced after a battle, but the personnel replacement rate of such elite backbone camps was not that high unless they were hit by a devastating blow.
There are also Mount Tai, Zhongjian, Zuiying, Wuqian, and Wuqian camps, each with three or four thousand people.
Of course there weren't so many people before, but the expansion has been a bit fast in the past two or three months, which made Wang Mi a little worried - many people brought weapons to the market, and they saw a suspicious origin, either defeated soldiers or bandits, untested and loyal.
But now they need to fight, so they have to be polite and rectify them after they are captured.
Sometimes eating too much is not a bad thing, as long as you have time to digest it.
The scale of 60,000 to 70,000 infantry and cavalry is huge, and the entire marching queue has been extended to dozens of miles, vast and boundless.
There are still many people in the counties and townships passing by.
Some of them were scattered and hundreds of households lived together and built a scattered circumference. There was not even a scattered circumference. They surrounded them with wooden fences and called themselves "dominium walls". At this time, someone led his troops to rush over and rush to capture them in one go, and they directly grabbed all the things that could be taken down. Ding Zhuang was brought into his army and became the weak soldiers on the periphery.
Some of the land surrounds are thicker and the people are braver. If they cannot get it in one go, they will force them to pay some money and food.
As for those docks that look larger, they don’t have to pay that. It’s not that they can’t be beaten, but it’s not worth it. I will come to clean up when I become a tiger one day, and they won’t surrender if they don’t believe it.
On the fourth day of the fifth month, the pioneer Liu Ling's troops arrived in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang.
At this time, Shao Xun, Mi Huang and Chen Yan combined more than 10,000 troops, and also left the Luyuan Pass and advanced towards Yanshi.
At this time, Luoyang was underway for the final mobilization before the war.
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On the sixth day of the fifth month of the second year of Yongjia (308), Wang Mi and his men arrived at Luoyang City one after another. Because there were too many people, the entire army had nearly 80,000 people, so they were distributed in two major areas in the south and east of the city.
Among them, Wang Mi's camp was set up outside Jianchun Gate, and there were about 50,000 thieves in the east of the city.
There are seven or eight thousand partial masters in the north of the city, only for harassment.
On that day, Liu Ling led more than 20,000 people to move to the south of the city. The man personally led 500 cavalry and 3,000 infantrymen to the outside of Jinyang Gate to challenge the battle.
At this time, Shao Xun had already led his troops to Yanshi.
Wang Sang was a little anxious because he had no troops at hand. After leaving the city to fight, he was defeated and then retreated to the city and did not dare to fight.
Shao Xun left thousands of people in Chen Yan's army to monitor the bandit army, and led his own silver spear, long sword, Yamen and other troops, and the 3,000 soldiers in the Sili School Commander's army to travel west and head for Luoyang.
After Liu Ling called out outside the city, the Jinyang Gate opened loudly. The left guard general He Lun, the cavalry general Wang Hu, and the Liangzhou Supervisor Beigong Chun led more than 3,000 people out of the city.
Liu Ling climbed up to a roof and overlooked the official army.
He encountered the same dilemma as all the people who had advanced to Luoyang in previous years. There were too many private houses outside the city, most of which were of good quality, and it was very difficult to demolish them, so he could not distribute too many troops and could only engage in such a battle in units of "thousands".
The official army dispatched three thousand infantry, three to four hundred cavalry, and—hey, the group of infantry that came out first was so strange!
Liu Ling looked closely and saw more than a hundred soldiers with extremely tall figures and amazing strength. Even though they were wearing two layers of armor, holding large shields and long halberds, their pace was still not slow.
Looking at their formation, it is even more weird.
The non-traditional Central Plains infantry formation - in fact, more than one hundred people can't make any formation - a group of several people are vaguely. The one holding the big shield is the best. The shield is simply taller, which is very rare here. The shield is not a ring-headed sword, but a sword.
Behind the shield hand, one person held a long halberd, and it seemed that he was powerful and powerful.
One man held a long spear, and there seemed to be a short spear for throwing on his back.
What kind of playing method is this? Liu Ling can't understand it.
Well, if he couldn't understand, he didn't think much about it, and issued an order directly: Five hundred cavalrymen rushed.
After the order was issued, the five hundred cavalry came out of the formation, first took a small step and then slowly accelerated, and then relied on the fact that there were too many people on the side and fewer people on the other side, they rushed up directly.
It was a replica of the battle of Jieqiao that year, Gongsun Zan used more than 10,000 cavalry to bully Yuan Shao's eight hundred sprinters, and directly argued - by chance, Yuan Shao's eight hundred sprinters were also inseparable from Liangzhou. "(Qu) Yi has been in Liangzhou for a long time, and has been practicing Qiang fights, and his soldiers are all fierce."
Five hundred cavalry rushed over and directly dispersed the formation of more than a hundred infantrymen.
Liu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, but not long after he was happy, he found that the more than a hundred people were dispersed but not confused, and they did not form formations to fight with the cavalry.
They were in groups of three, one of them inserted the shield to the ground, with feet behind the shield to face the cavalry's charge.
One person was not afraid, waving his heavy long halberd to smash the cavalry on the horse's back, or simply hooking his legs. Seeing their ferocious and roaring faces, he seemed to have decided to exchange his life for his life. He was extremely fierce and murderous intent.
The other man directly took the spear and threw one out "swoosh". It was accurate and cruel. The person who was hit immediately died, screamed and fell off his horse.
Sometimes they would stand firm on the ground, hold spears to face the cavalry and stab at them, their eyes wide open - you stab me, I will stab you too, whoever blinks first, who is the coward, dare to fight for his life?
As expected, five hundred cavalry rushed in for only a short period of time and fell to the ground.
The subsequent cavalry were attacked by spears and were successively dismissed, which was spectacular.
"Kill the thief!" A long-slinger soldier charged forward, and as the cavalry who had lost their speed and were turning their heads around the horses, they fought.
He stabs, slashes or smashes, and is extremely brave.
Under their leadership, the shield, spearman, and spearman also rushed forward and charged against the cavalry.
Some of the enemy cavalry went around to the side and took out their horn bows to shoot arrows.
But the Liangzhou infantry quickly reacted. The sword and shield infantry blocked the large shield, and the spearheaded spearheaded and threw it one by one, as if they had been practicing for many years. They hit the spearheaded wherever they pointed, with extremely accurate results.
After shooting the opponent's man overturned the horse, the sword and shield infantry stepped forward, and directly hit the enemy cavalry that was shaking up after falling off the horse. Then he quickly stabbed a sword and killed the thief on the spot.
A few hundred people, facing the siege of 500 cavalrymen, were in a panic and fought in an orderly manner, as if they had faced such a scene countless times in their past military careers.
The enemy cavalry quickly retreated, and it can even be said to have fled in scattered areas.
More than a hundred heavy infantry in Liangzhou became aggressive and rushed behind the cavalry.
While chasing, they roared and killed more than ten thieves who fell on the back, and then directly crashed into the bandit infantry formation.
"Kill!" The Liangzhou Warriors who were moving forward hit the thief in the front row.
"Dongdongdongdongdong..." The drum sounded, and the left guard general He Lun grabbed the fighter plane and pressed the imperial infantry up.
"Kill!" After watching for a long time, the three thousand infantrymen had already been in great spirits and their blood was boiling. They were lined up in an orderly queue, following the footsteps of more than a hundred Liangzhou warriors, and rushed towards the already panic-torn infantry of the bandit army.
Even though Liu Ling carefully cultivated elite infantry, even though many of them were fugitive soldiers and had combat experience, even if they had 3,000 people, they were still busy and gradually collapsed when facing more than a hundred Liangzhou heavy-armored infantry fighting styles.
When the infantry of the left guard of the imperial guards followed, there was no suspense about the outcome.
In this battle, Beigong Chun selected more than a hundred warriors to break through the formation, first defeating the enemy cavalry, and then rushing to the infantry, and almost no one could stop him.
Wang Mi, who had been through Henan quickly for more than a month, suffered a shameful defeat at Jinyangmen.
Liangzhou chī tiáo, bandits disappeared.
The pilo is graceful and kills people.
I wonder what Wang Mi would feel when the result of the Battle of Jinyang Gate reached Jianchun Gate.
Chapter completed!