On the seventh day of the seventh day of the third year of Dashun, outside Tuhao Village, soldiers from Shaanxi and Guo began to line up.

The vassal states have been in power for more than a hundred years, and the tactics of each town have generally converged, but there have been minor changes.

The Baoyi army set up a square formation, but their cavalry was placed in the center, not behind the formation like the northwest vassal states, which was interesting.

There are tens of thousands of people in the big square formation, but in fact they are composed of several small square formations. No one is foolish and tens of thousands of people leaning together to form a formation.

The small square formation on the corners of both sides suddenly emerged, and grain trucks, antlers, spearmen, and crossbowmen were arranged among them, and there were a few cavalrymen. Are they afraid of failure in siege and being attacked by the enemy's doors?

There are scattered teams cruising on both sides of the formation, and most of them are crossbowmen.

At the front of the formation, there are four scattered teams protruding, all focusing on armor, holding large shields and machetes.

After the four-scattered teams, there were the second wave of eight-scattered teams, wearing armor, holding blades, and throwing guns on their backs.

Further down, there is the main force of the front army. The sword, shield, spear, and cavalry are all arranged.

I didn't say that the formation was well trained and the equipment was not bad, but I just didn't know what the real combat power was.

Li Fan got on the assembled Wanglou car and felt bored.

The location of Tuhao Village is actually good. There is a mountain in the east and a mountain in the north, with only the west and the south. One of the Yi army has already formed an array in the south, but they are feinting attacks.

The capital of the Baoyi Army was really not rich among the northern towns.

There are more than 10,000 infantrymen, which is considered a small number, and there are more than 2,000 cavalrymen, which is also a small number.

Xuanyi Town also only led two states (Shua, Town), but there were 20,000 infantrymen. A few decades ago, they went to Liangzhou to recruit soldiers and formed a cavalry unit of more than 4,000 people. He Delun and his son came from Hexi at that time. After Huang Chao, Qin Zongquan made a fuss and his strength was somewhat damaged, but they still stood firmly above Shaanxi Guo.

Perhaps the strength of the Youguo Army (leader of Henan Prefecture, Ruzhou), Heyang Town (Meng, Huai), and Fengguo Army (Caizhou) is worse than theirs.

The drum sounded, and then the horns were blowing continuously.

The female wall of the Jishi soldiers stationed in the high platform was raining like arrows and shot towards the village.

When dealing with such low-rise castles, don’t be polite, just build a dirt platform and shoot hard on the high platform.

The Yi army in the south also began to move.

The old trick is to fill the trench with the earth on his back. After filling it out, he will go to the backyard to receive a reward. Then he will get a certificate and go home directly. This year's service period is considered to be over.

The Bian army behind the sheep and horse wall cooperated with the enemy's crossbows on the village wall to fire up, and the Master with a soil bag was like a cut wheat, falling down in pieces.

A group of people fell down, continued to rise, and kept rushing forward. Anyone who dared to escape back was shot and killed by arrows.

"Fuck, it's either a new Dangxiang person or a master from Shanzhou, so cruel!" Li Fan could see clearly on the platform and cursed Lian Sheng.

But it's useless.

This sacrifice always requires someone to make contributions, either you or him. Li Tangbin chose Dangxiang people and Shanzhou people.

After filling in the City God, more than twenty wooden cars left the formation and slowly moved forward under the escort of the soldiers.

The wooden car brought a lot of smoke and dust. It was not that the car was heavy, but that there were cigarettes on the car, which burned while walking, and drifted towards the enemy camp along the south wind.

Pushing it all the way to the place close to the wall of sheep and horses, the whole car would burn with fire, thick smoke rolled, and the wind drifted over.

This object is called a "dust truck" in the national dynasty. To be honest, it is not very effective. It can only deal with low cities and villages, and can only cause slight chaos to the enemy, and sometimes even a little chaos cannot be caused.

There are actually many such miscellaneous things in the national army, but no one wants to use them when siegeing the city.

This is true for dust trucks, and so is the rod (capping machine). It is difficult to find stones, and the troubles in making stone bullets are one major reason, inaccurate hits are the second biggest reason, and low power is the third biggest reason.

Taizong attacked Goguryeo, sprinted the stone machine and rushed onto the car together, but in the end he paid a huge price to break through the city wall.

Subsequently, the State Administration of China has been improving the trencher for more than 200 years, but there has been no progress. So far, it can only be used when defending the city. It is a lucky day to see if it can hit people. Li Tangbin prepared some in Gu County, but the reserve of stone bullets is insufficient, so it is probably enough to take a few days.

After the dust truck started to burn, thick smoke rolled and floated towards the enemy troops on the village behind the sheep and horse wall. The soldiers pushing the cart held a large shield and slowly retreated, but people still fell down from time to time and screamed.

Behind them, the brigade of cavalry and barons were already on horseback and ready to respond at any time, but the enemy troops in the village did not dispatch.

"Dongdongdongdong..." The drum sounded again.

A whole thousand soldiers were departed.

The first row of soldiers carried large shields in their hands, and nearly a thousand people behind them were wearing heavy armor, holding long swords, modao, and long axes.

The heavy footsteps sounded, and the rhythm was bright, and it was like a knock on the heart of a person.

These are the thousands of heroes who joined the army of Yokoyama.

They are tall and fierce in appearance, and people keep boosting morale as they move.

Every time I was inspired, I was in exchange for a roar of roar, "Kill!"

The shouts of thousands of men shook the world.

The Bian army behind the sheep and horse wall also made a ruthless move. A general shouted and everyone responded, as if they were facing each other in a tit-for-tat way.

The neat footsteps kept approaching.

"Shoot!" Big arrows flew up from the village wall.

The big shield blocked part of it, and there were continuous muffled groans behind it. Someone fell down and was soon filled with the position. The formation was as tough as ever.

"Dongdongdongdong..." The drummer looked at the queue of Yokoyama's soldiers, his chest was full of blood and his subordinates became stronger and stronger.

"Shoot!" The arrows behind the sheep and horse wall are like storms.

The big shield was already full of arrows, and more people fell down this time, but they were also filled with people, and the formation was as tough as before.

Less than twenty steps left, the drum sound suddenly became fierce. The soldiers of Hengshandu accelerated their pace, lifted their strength slightly with their hands, and the heavy sword, the Modao, and the long Ke axe were slightly raised.

The last few steps.

"Kill!" shouted in unison that almost pierced the eardrums, and a surging wave of iron armor rushed up.

"Puff!" The long Ke axe whistled down, slashing the neck of a Bian army so that only a layer of skin was stuck.

The heavy swordsman leaped over with a spear that was stabbing like a hedgehog, and climbed down, slashing horizontally and vertically.

More than a thousand people on both sides almost fought in a regiment.

Without formation and little cooperation, it depends on a life-deserving fighting spirit.

Li Fan closed his mouth tightly.

Once upon a time, he was so brave and almost desperate, so he was admired by Shangguan and climbed up step by step.

Years have passed, but he is no longer the person he used to be.

"Isn't it a feint attack? Why is it so fierce?" Li Fan saw it clearly on the platform. The Bian army in the village had been mobilized to the south, and they were not sure which side of the Xia army's main attack or which side of the feint attack, so they could only block it first before talking.

"Occurrence!" He asked someone to raise the flag, the drummer began to beat the drum, and the west side moved.

Li Tangbin watched the battle from the Wanglou in the camp, but flew elsewhere regardless of his thoughts.

There were more than 8,000 cavalry in total, Bai Gui took away more than 3,000 cavalry, and there were still five thousand cavalry in the camp.

The main force of the Tianzhu Army, Yi's army joined the Qingtang Capital, and the Heyuan Army was waiting for reinforcements to come.

But the question is, will they come? Hu Zhen doesn’t seem to have many soldiers. Ge and Yang from Nanlu were still blocked from Wushan. Will anyone come?

Tuhao Village is located east of Wuzhai and west of Mianchi, and is located between these two important strongholds.

Will the Bian Army give up this stronghold and only make it a flesh-and-blood grinder that consumes our army's strength?

He was not sure, but he really hoped that reinforcements from the Bian Army would come.

If you don't come, there is nothing you can do. You can only suffer some losses and capture the village.

No matter what method is used, siege cities and villages will suffer losses. Even if there is no city gate, attack will suffer losses than defense in the field, and there will be greater casualties. Of course, this is when both sides have the same strength.

This is the only use of the Shaanxi-Guo Army.

...

In Xin'an County, Wei Zhao arrived hurriedly.

As soon as he saw Hu Zhen, he only said one thing: "The Prince of Dongping asked me to ask you, can you resist?"

"Yes." Hu Zhen replied directly, then smiled bitterly: "It's just that the scene is a bit ugly."

In fact, the number of Bian troops in Henan Prefecture is greater than that of Xia thieves, but they were divided into two battlefields by Wushan. Xia thieves have many cavalry and are fierce, and they are rushing to help and want to send small groups of people to cross the mountains, but they are afraid they are not delivering vegetables to others.

As for the big player going north, he could only leave Shazha Valley and return to Xiban Road, but both faced the threat of Xia Zheigu Village.

Liu Kangyi is a waste!

That failure was not just about ruining thousands of people.

The losses in terms of military strength are all trivial matters, and they can even be said to be insignificant, but it is too fatal to lose Huguo Village, an important stronghold that communicates between the north and the south.

"It's good to be able to keep it." Wei Zhao nodded and said, "Huguo Village is lost, Shazha City, and you can't have any more accidents when you go back to Xiban. Last year, the thieves' silver spears all out of Shazha Valley and entered Luoshui Valley. The counties were trembling, so they can't succeed anymore."

Hu Zhen felt uncomfortable after hearing this.

What is Wei Zhao? When General Tianbu Elementary General (Wang Xianzhi) was still there, I joined the group. Is your turn to teach me how to do things?

However, he still said: "Although Ge Congzhou is still experienced and has not yet led a large army alone, he still has the ability and will never let the Xia thieves break into Ruzhou. Besides, the Xia thieves don't have many troops."

"That's good." Wei Zhao then found Zhang's chair and sat down, sighed: "The battle in the east was not very smooth. Zhu Xuan, Zhu Jin, didn't know how to change his temperament and stopped fighting. The army was progressing slowly. He only surrounded Puzhou half a month ago, and I don't know when it will be spent."

Puzhou is a prefecture city, with a city of twenty miles around. If the guard is well prepared and the soldiers are determined to fight, it will not be so easy to conquer.
To be continued...