Chapter 1,731 Master

"Grand Master, you want to retreat?" Master Qu looked at Jida coldly, his face smeared with thick mutton oil, but his ears also had shocking-looking cracks.

Jida was in an extremely irritable mood and paced back and forth in the tent: "It's not that I don't want to fight. The Emperor of Liao came with 150,000 elite troops. Even if 50,000 are stationed, there are still 100,000."

"I only have 3,000 elite men and 60,000 light cavalry under my command. How can I defeat them?"

Master Qu stood up and said, "That's fine. I'll pack my bags and go back to Song Dynasty."

Jida grabbed Master Qu and said, "How can the military advisor say such things? You are leaving. How can I explain to my brother when he comes back?"

Master Qu sneered and said: "There is no need to explain, because by then, Magusu, Menggentulak, including you, Grand Master, and even the Tatars on the entire grassland will have died without a burial place."

Jida was a little afraid of Master Qu, who knew everything like a god: "How can the military advisor say such depressing words? Our troops will retreat temporarily, and when the army is strong, why not start over again?"

Master Qu laughed dryly: "Have the Tatars ever had such an opportunity and situation in the past hundred years? They don't dare to fight now, let alone the future?"

"Now Magusu and Menggentulak are struggling in the south. As soon as the Grand Master retreats, the Liao Emperor will definitely send his troops south and make two dumplings."

"How much do the Grand Master think the Thirteen Divisions of Wugu Enemies can bring to the north? Which one is more cost-effective: you, who were defeated, or the Emperor of Liao, who was victorious?"

"When the Emperor of Liao rebuilt the Northwest Road Recruitment Division and once again unified the grassland forces, do you think that with your 3,000 heavy cavalry and tens of thousands of troops from your own headquarters, you can make a comeback?"

"Or do you think that the Emperor of Liao will let you go and not conquer you or win over your subordinates?"

"Let's not talk about that time, let's talk about now. In addition to the three thousand heavy cavalry, how many of the Grand Master's headquarters troops are absolutely reliable?"

"Therefore, there is no need to fight this war again. After today, the grassland will turn into a pile of scattered sand again, and the fate of you Tatars will remain the same as it was a hundred years ago."

Jida's expression changed several times, and finally she said, "What if... what if I fight?"

Master Qu said: "It is very difficult to win this battle, very difficult, but even if we are defeated, the Grand Master will become a hero in the hearts of the Tatars, a hero of all the divination, white Tatars, and quasi-bu."

"They will remember that at the most critical moment for the Tatars, a hero stepped forward and made the Liao people pay a heavy price, telling them that the blood of wolves is still flowing in the bodies of the Tatars!"

"Even if you lose, even if you die here, you will die for the Tatars' greatest alliance in the past century, for the greatest courage of the Tatars in the past century, and for the greatest chance of survival of the Tatars in the past century! You too

Leave the blood of Canglang to your own children and grandchildren, and your own tribe."

"Thousands of years ago, the land of the Central Plains was like the Tatars today, a piece of scattered sand, conquered by heroes."

"There was a big country called Chu. Its king was deceived by another big country, Qin, into an alliance, and then imprisoned. He died as a guest in Qin. After that, Qin annexed the six countries and unified the world."

"But the people of Chu hated Qin from then on. Nangong, a nobleman of Chu, once asserted that even if there are only three families left in Chu, the people who will eventually destroy the powerful Qin will be the descendants of the Chu people!"

"Decades later, Chen Sheng from Chu raised his arms and the world rebelled against Qin again. Xiang Yu from Chu led his disciples from Chu across the river, invaded Chang'an, and finally destroyed the powerful Qin."

"This is the blood, the blood that was once completely destroyed by force, but was awakened precisely because of this!"

"With the preservation of this blood, as long as the tribe is not destroyed, one day he will become the alpha wolf!"

"What's more, the military strength currently in the hands of the Grand Master is actually not inferior to that of the Liao Emperor. What is lacking is just this blood."

"If the Grand Master wants to be a white deer, then your subordinates will become white deer ready to be slaughtered."

"If the grand master wants to be a wolf, then your subordinates, even the now wavering Thirteenth Division of Wugu Dilie, will also turn into wolves."

"The only turning point in this battle, the only turning point in the grassland in a hundred years, is in the heart of the Grand Master."

"Fight or retreat, the Grand Master can choose for himself."

Jida thought for a moment and then grinned: "Master is a Han Chinese. I don't know that every grassland person who can live to my age has experienced life and death more than once."

"This choice is actually not difficult at all for the prairie people."

Looking at the gorgeous furnishings in the tent, Jida sighed: "After all, I have lived a comfortable life for too long. If the military advisor hadn't reminded me, I would have almost forgotten what kind of person I am..."

He took off the Black Khan scimitar from the shelf: "I have made up my mind. All the gold beads, silks, cattle and sheep in my department will be used as rewards for this battle!"

"Anyone who dares to fight, who dares to fight, or who dares to fight, will be deported after the war!"

"Those who have meritorious deeds can be made captains of ten, hundreds, or thousands!"

"In this battle, take the initiative and make progress without retreating!"

Master Qu laughed loudly: "If that's the case, then I don't have to leave. It's great to be able to accompany Grand Master through life and death and fight on the battlefield!"

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The military system of the Liao Dynasty was that before battle, the cavalry were organized into teams, with each team having five to seven hundred people. Ten teams formed a team, and each team had a commander. The first team made a lot of noise, and clashed with the enemy.

Advance together. If there is no success, retreat and the second team will follow.

In addition, the Liao army also attached great importance to the use of archers. The Khitan cavalry was mainly composed of archers and supplemented by heavy cavalry. In field battles, they were often better at riding and shooting rather than hand-to-hand combat.

Therefore, some generals in the Five Dynasties commented that the Khitan cavalry was "easy to use with bows and arrows, clumsy with swords and halberds, better than bandits, but weak in defense, good at riding and fighting, but frustrated at foot fighting."

The tactics of warfare are also quite simple. "Every bow and cavalry gather together violently, and attack the large formation from a single angle."

Moreover, in the early stage, because the foundation was too weak, there was not even military rations. "The men and horses were not provided with food and grass, and the horsemen were sent out to clear grass and grain every day to copy strategies to provide it."

They all looted everywhere, or used mobility to lure the enemy into areas where supplies were difficult, and then plundered the food roads and lost the food to the enemy.

This kind of combat method is quite sharp when it is advantageous, but it has extremely poor fault tolerance.

Once the robbery fails, they will fall into a desperate situation without food. Even a hero like Yelu Abaoji once suffered a major defeat due to wind and snow, the enemy burned the grasslands, fortified the walls and cleared the fields.

Endless".

After the mid-term, the Liao Kingdom began to have serious logistics, but the combat method still did not change much. It was still mainly to attack in turns. If the enemy's position was strong and they would not attack easily, they would take turns to attack for two or three days until the enemy was tired, and then send auxiliaries.

The combat troops "Dacaoguqi" confuse the enemy's formation, and the main force takes advantage of the situation to annihilate the enemy.

It's November, Yin Mao, and it's windy and snowy.

The Yubu Allied Forces and the Liao Emperor's army, which was said to be one million, but actually numbered one hundred thousand, met at Qiaoba Mountain on the Luqu River, and a fierce battle ensued.

After some conversation, Jida completely trusted Master Qu and handed over the newly liberated slave army and the motley crew of logistical equipment to his command.

Master Qu is from the Song Dynasty, and even if the Tatar slave army and baggage are not good enough, they are much more powerful than the righteous and courageous force he once served as Yanyan's economic strategy and pacification department. Not only did he not dislike them, he also formed a crossbow according to the Song Dynasty military system.

The army used vans and carts to determine the terrain on Qiuba Mountain and linked up the vehicle formation.

As for the thirteen troops of Wugu Dilie, they all dispersed as light cavalry, and most of them gathered together with bows and arrows to fight guerrillas on the periphery.

If you are a mob, you must have a reasonable way of fighting for the mob.

The Song people's carriages were much faster than the Liao people's Xi chariots. This favorable location was seized by Master Qu in time, and there was a large number of people and sufficient food.

The only problem was the water source, but Master Qu's army had many large iron pots and coals. He ordered his sergeants to collect snow and took advantage of the weather to stock up on drinking water.

The Liao people had serious logistical problems. Master Qu estimated that if supplies were not available, Yelu Hongji would not be able to hold on for a month at most.

A month later, the weather will be more favorable to the defenders.

In winter, the bow strings were fragile and difficult to stretch, which gave the defensive master Qu a great advantage. He set up an oven behind each carriage so that the corners of the bow strings would not be affected.

There are thousands of crane-shank crossbows in the army. For the Tatars who are accustomed to using horn bows, they can get used to it without much training. The powerful crossbow ignores the lethality of armor, causing Yelu Hongji's army to suffer heavy losses in the first round of attack.

deficit.

Yelu Hongji never imagined that the Tatars would lay out a turtle shell here, give up their advantage of riding and shooting, and engage in a city defense battle with him, and they would not be able to capture it for a while.
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