Early summer of the second year of Kaiyuan.

Just after a thunderstorm, the air on the island of Liuqiu became fresher and fresher.

Mid-April.

The lord of Liuqiu Island, Zhang Jing, Duke of Zhao of the Tang Dynasty, led a coalition army to Jilong Mountain in the north of Liuqiu.

This is a huge army.

It has eight hundred territorial knights and a lord guard brigade of three thousand men. There are five thousand territorial infantry. There are eight thousand territorial militias and as many as ten thousand shanyi Xiehe Mountain Infantry.

With the logistics forces and ships outside Jilong Port, this is an army of more than 20,000 people.

The young Liuqiu Island Master was full of energy and was wearing shiny lord armor. The golden face armor with nine-headed bird tattooed was full of excited eyes.

Behind him, the flag bearer held the red nine-headed bird's flag high.

The red nine-headed bird flag represents the most powerful family in the Tang Dynasty, the Zhang family on the Bashang. It has the most territory, the most wealth, and the most soldiers.

The nine-headed bird in the sky and the Zhang family on the ground.

There is another saying on this flag, "The Nine-Headed Bird".

At this time, Liuqiu Shanyi gathered the resistance forces of the entire island in Jilong Mountain in the north of Liuqiu, and as many as 120,000 Shanyi tribe soldiers.

Jilong Mountain also became the last base camp for the Yiyi to resist the Zhang family on the island of Liuqiu.

If this base camp is lost, Shanyi will no longer be able to resist the Zhang family.

For more than ten years, the Zhang family's strategy of boiling frogs in warm water expanded little by little, swallowing little by little. It continued to win over and conquer the Shanyi tribes, separated from the weak and strong, merged and won over, and used everything.

Many Shanyi people eventually joined the Zhang family, but there were still many tribes who refused to be conquered. They continued to move northward or cross mountains to move eastward.

They took a step back and the Zhang family would go further.

At this time, Jilong Mountain gathered 120,000 Shanyi tribes coalition forces, and the mountains were everywhere.

However, although there are many people, these united tribes are not the same. They come from different tribes, or even different tribal alliances. Many tribes used to be feudal, but they are united together in order to protect themselves, but their relationship is not very close.

What Zhang Jing despised the most was the equipment of these rabble people.

They had no strong fortifications, no city fortresses, only some wooden villages, very simple.

They also have no effective organization, very loose alliances.

Every tribe is a warrior, but its equipment is amazingly simple.

Wearing deer leather, holding antler spear, holding simple bows and arrows and stone knives.

Just because they wanted to fight the Zhang family to the death, Zhang Jing just laughed.

He prepared for this battle for three months.

The vassals in the Zhang family in Liuqiu believed that they would not be in a hurry to fight to the decisive battle, and would slowly swallow and suppress the oppression, and could finally easily conquer Shanyi. However, Zhang Jing believed that this battle was necessary, and showing his force in a timely manner would be helpful to Liuqiu's stability.

Moreover, he also hoped to conquer the hundreds of thousands of Shanyi that had not yet surrendered to the various territories of the Zhang family, where manpower was urgently needed.

Of course, he also hopes that this battle will make him famous for Zhang Jing.

He came to Liuqiu and was Duke Zhao, not a master Zhang who came to study.

It took him three months to prepare, and he kept his father's words in mind and never looked down on any enemy.

A lion fights a rabbit, and also uses all his strength.

Jilong Mountain, where the Shanyi retreated, is actually not a good attack place.

It is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on one side.

There are islands, harbors, and mountains and mausoleums. Although there is Jilong Port that allows Zhang Jing's army to come from the sea easily. However, there are only a small amount of flat land in the coastal area, and the rest are slopes and mountains.

Not far from Jilong Port is Jilong Mountain, which was originally the territory of the local Jilong Society tribe. Now a large number of mountain barbarians are guarding Jilong Mountain.

After Zhang Jing's army landed in Jilong Port, they began to establish docks and camps near the port.

Although there were many Shanyi, they did not dare to fight the Tang army on the ground, so they retreated to the mountain.

"Shan Yi occupied the mountain, it is easy to defend but difficult to attack." An experienced Zhang family knight reported to the young master.

Zhang Jing was unmoved.

"Jilong Mountain is not high, and the slope is steep, don't forget the equipment gap between us and the training gap."

Cavalry is basically useless when fighting on such a terrain. But under his command, there are also mountain infantrymen who join the army of Shanyi. These are also from Shanyi. They can chase wild boars and deer at the foot of the mountain with barefoot. After serving the Zhang family, they received all-round training from the Zhang family and equipped with better military equipment, and now they are more powerful.

Not to mention, he also had elite infantry under his command, all of whom were elite infantry with iron armor and large shields. Not to mention that one army would have more than one army to reach the Ten Barbarians, but one army would have to reach the Five Barbarians.

In addition, he also has a large number of militias under his command.

These militias were equipped with relatively simple equipment, but they had a very powerful equipment, muskets. Muskets, which have been invented, have not become mainstream equipment due to many restrictions, such as short range and slow firing speed, high manufacturing costs, and large impacts of the weather.

But Zhang Chao used firearms to equip militias in the territory.

Because the training time of militia is short, it is not as well-trained as regular soldiers, and can be proficient in bows, crossbows, swords, shields, spears, and fighting skills cannot be compared with combat soldiers. Militia training time is limited every year, and their physical fitness is definitely inferior.

They can equip muskets with intensive muskets, and can play a lot of roles at critical moments. After all, militias were originally in the army, but they were only responsible for second-line missions.

But no matter how short the range of the musket is, he is still a long-range soldier.

Especially against Shanyi, a native who lacks ranged soldiers and armor, can play a great role.

"Let the Association attack from the 12th Brigade from both wings and advance from the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Territory Guard Brigade."

As the son of the God of War, Zhang Jing is young, but his knowledge of using soldiers is absolutely not bad.

It is very simple to deal with these sages, keep the formation close, and then use the strength of armor and shield to defend the formation, and use bows, arrows, and muskets to attack and harvest the opponent.

If necessary, if you are hard on those forts, you can directly destroy them with cannons and crossbows.

The first Hydra Infantry Regiment is all equipped with iron armor. Although it is not heavy infantry, it is definitely not something that can be defeated by Shanyi.

The first row was carrying a large square shield, and two rows of spearmen behind. Then there were another row of shield soldiers and two rows of spearmen.

After this third level, there is a crossbowman.

This is an elite infantryman who can block and attack. Unless they encounter light-armed bows and cavalry, they will be invincible here.

No army is absolutely invincible, and the army is mutually restrained. The army is the strongest. Zhang Jing kept in mind his father's teachings. At present, cavalry that cost more is obviously not as useful as infantry.

The drums of war are beating and the horns are ringing.

The Zhang family infantry whose faces were even wrapped in helmets and masks only showed their eyes.

Their eyes were firm and their pace was steady.

Under the rhythm of the drum beats, we advance step by step, keeping the formation neat.

Every time you move forward a few dozen steps, you have to stop and sort it out.

On the mountain.

A group of Shanyi painted mud on his face and dartskin, and some wore cow horn helmets on his head. They held various weapons in their hands, looked at the Han army pressing up, and opened their mouths and shouted.

The roar was shaking, but no soldier in the Zhang family stepped on it.

There were more than a hundred steps away, and Shanyi could no longer help it. They shouted wildly, knocking on their chests hard, and then rushed down with stone axes, stone knives, deer antler spears and even bamboo spears.

The atmosphere made Zhang Jing, who was watching the formation at the foot of the mountain, admire their courage, but he didn't know where their confidence came from.

"stop!"

The first Infantry Regiment of the Nine-Headed Birds roared.

The advance of the formation paused, and the soldiers had already stopped.

"shield!"

Another roar.

An officer passed down the order.

The non-commissioned officers lead the team to command.

The shield soldiers in front set up a large shield, and the shield formed a shield wall.

"gun!"

The spearman behind immediately stabbed the spear out of the shield, and the shield wall immediately seemed to grow a thorn of thorns.

The nine-headed bird flag is flying.

The gun and shield formation has been completed, and the infantry stood there quietly.

The rushing down the mountain barbarians rushed halfway and found that a huge steel thorny shield wall had grown in front of the thousands of Han people in front of them.

How to rush over the lush spear and faint shield wall?

I originally thought that there were very few Han people, and even thousands of people dared to come over. If they charge forward, they would not trample them to death.

Many people were hesitating, but there were also many stingy Shanyi who continued to yell and charge regardless of the situation.

The people behind also continued to rush forward.

"Are these people blind?"
To be continued...