Chapter 573 Scare Them!
The soldiers lay together in groups of three or five. They took off the saddle and spread it on the ground, sitting or lying.
The bonfire was burning, and the broth was boiled in an iron pot.
There is no shortage of firewood here, and it is enough for them to cut down some trees. There is no shortage of water here, and there is an unknown small river not far away.
They also have a lot of horse meat and a lot of wild beast meat, and there are still many wild beasts in the snow field.
Such as tigers, bears, wolves, wild boars, etc.
However, their number of people and so many horses has ruined the area around them for a lot of money.
By the time the sky was bright, the jungle more than ten miles around had turned into a mess. Fortunately, there was no environmental protection law in this world, and no environmentalists would condemn them.
As soon as the sky was dawn, Yang Zhengshan led the army to slowly move towards the clan found yesterday.
The clan that Yang Minghao discovered yesterday was not large, with only more than a thousand people in total.
Such small tribes are probably not the tribes of the Wulianghu tribe, they should be tribes of the Wulianghu tribe and the snow field.
How can a small tribe resist the army's frontiers of tens of thousands of troops?
The army was approaching and the battle was resolved in less than half an hour.
All men, women, young and old died under the butcher's knife. Perhaps some babies who only know how to cry were spared, but Yang Zhengshan didn't care about those babies.
Those babies won't live long in such an environment.
As long as they leave, groups of wild beasts will be summoned here soon, and they will have a delicious meal here.
This small family provided not much supplies, mainly jerky meat and wild vegetables. There were more than 2,000 cattle, sheep and livestock, more than 300 horses, and only a dozen kilograms of salt were collected.
It can be seen that this is an extremely poor tribe.
Yang Minghao also found some wild mushrooms and stewed the dried wild vegetables and mushrooms into a pot of soup.
"Dad, try this, it's better than meat!"
Yang Zhengshan took the pottery bowl and drank slowly.
Well, it's really better than jerky.
They are all ordinary wild vegetables and mushrooms, and there are no other seasonings except salt. How good can this taste be?
But in the eyes of today's soldiers, this is a rare delicacy.
A bowl of Qingtan's soup is better than the mutton pot.
Yang Zhengshan looked at the gradually disappearing set sun and said, "We should still be in the north of the Chisaka tribe now. Next, we have to continue walking west for nearly two thousand miles before we can enter the territory of the Ura tribe!"
The Uri tribe is the king's tribe of the Uri royal court. Simply put, it is the tribe directly under the Uri royal court. Among them are the tribes belonging to the Uri clan and the small and medium-sized tribes relying on the Uri clan.
"These two thousand miles should be easier to walk, and they are all flat grasslands!" Yang Minghao said.
Yang Chengxu said: "But we also need to replenish the supplies. The supplies we got today are too small, and there is no food, only some jerky!"
Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "Before we arrive at the Urimatsu, we cannot expose our whereabouts. Every time we attack the tribe, we must ensure that there is no living mouth!"
The reason why they wanted to bypass Menghe Mountain from the north was not just to cross Menghe Mountain. If they were just to cross Menghe Mountain, they would just walk the dangerous path in the mountains with Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze. Why do they have to be so far away? Run into the snow field.
Yang Zhengshan wanted to attack Ye Micheng unexpectedly.
Only when Ye Micheng is unprepared can he capture Ye Micheng in one fell swoop. Otherwise, even if he is at Ye Micheng, it will be difficult to capture Ye Micheng in a short time.
After all, Yemi City is the royal city of Wuliang's royal court, and the height of the city walls there is no lower than that of Chongshanguan.
After resting for another night, the army began to march along the edge of the snowy land towards Yemi City.
And at this moment, Uto outside Linyuan City finally received news that an enemy army had entered the heart of the royal court.
At this time, Hu Shanhe outside Linyuan City had been filled, and Uto had ordered the army to attack the city for five days. After only five days, they had never climbed the walls of Linyuan City once.
The siege of the city made Uto feel very upset, and suddenly he was caught in the heart of the royal court and was even more angry.
"How did those enemy troops enter the heartland of the royal court?"
In the camp, Uto asked with a gloomy face.
The dozen or so officials and generals in the tent all looked confused, and they didn't know about this.
At this time, Uto's confidant general Aguche spoke, "King, the enemy may have passed by Mount Menghe!"
"Isn't Tang Wuxi guarding Mount Menghe?" Uto asked coldly.
"Tang Wuxi just guarded the Menghe Mountain Que. There may be other paths on Menghe Mountain, or you can go around from the north and south!" Aguche said.
Uto's face was gloomy, "The north of Mount Menghe is a snowy land. Even if they want to go around there, it will not be so fast. As for the south, it is the territory of the Tatar tribe. If they go around from the south, Tatar It's impossible for the ministry to not know! "
Aguche said, "Then you can only walk the small path!"
Uto said, "Little Road, even Tang Wuxi, the idiot, said that there is only one road in Menghe Mountain that can be passed by Shanque. Now the army of Chongshan Town has actually passed through the small road!"
Tang Wuxi suspected that Yang Mingzhen and the others had passed by Beiyuan Town, but Uto knew very well that there was absolutely no army in Beiyuan Town that could pass.
Because at this time, the soldiers of Beiyuan Town were retreating step by step, and the Wuliang Huqi attacked the city and captured the village. Although the battle was very hard, they had indeed broken through many trunks and garrisons.
Duan Qirui still underestimated the Wuliang Royal Court. He thought that Beiyuan Town could withstand the full-scale attack of the Wuliang Royal Court, but he overlooked one thing, that is, Beiyuan Town was seriously short of soldiers.
At this time, Wutuo had already recruited 300,000 troops. He drew young and strong men from many tribes, a few hundred from small tribes, one or two thousand from medium-sized tribes, five or six thousand from large tribes, and 20,000 or 30,000 from some vassal tribes.
Such a withdrawal of young and strong men would not even affect the farming and grazing of these tribes.
In comparison, Beiyuan Town only had 120,000 battalion soldiers, namely the town standard battalion and the reinforcement battalion. In addition to the battalion soldiers, Beiyuan Town should have more than 300,000 military households, that is, more than 300,000 soldiers could be drawn.
But in fact, of the 120,000 battalion soldiers in Beiyuan Town, only 60,000 town standard battalions were considered elite, and the remaining 60,000 reinforcement battalions had less than 60% of the actual number of soldiers.
As for the military households' conscription, that's even more nonsense. The military households in Beiyuan Town have been seriously deserting, and there are less than 40% of the soldiers in the garrison. Don't think that the Iron Wing Guard where Wang Bin is located is very poor. In fact, all the garrisons in Beiyuan Town are similar to Iron Wing Guard, and most of them are even worse than Iron Wing Guard.
At least during the years when Wang Bin was in Iron Wing Guard, he did not occupy the military households' garrison farms, nor did he forcibly levy military households' food, and he would not treat soldiers as slaves.
So for the military households in Iron Wing Guard, Wang Bin is actually a good official.
In fact, the former Chongshan Town is similar to the current Beiyuan Town. When Yang Zhengshan first entered Chongshan Town, the military households in Chongshan Town were also seriously short of numbers, and the combat effectiveness of the town's standard camp and the reinforcement camp was also very poor. Therefore, when Zhang Shouwang led the army to attack Fushan City, he was defeated.
But later, Lu Chongde and Liang Chu took charge of Chongshan Town. They won a lot of money, food, armor and war horses for Chongshan Town, and worked diligently for several years. Only then did they improve the combat effectiveness of the town's standard camp and the reinforcement camp, thus destroying the Donghai Hu tribe in one fell swoop.
Later, Ji Feiyu became the general of Chongshan Town. Ji Feiyu wanted to rebel, so he naturally had to do everything possible to improve the strength of Chongshan Town. In addition, there was Lu Chongde at that time, so Chongshan Town did not decline at that time, but was slowly improving its strength.
After that, Ji Feiyu rebelled, and Chongshan Town suffered serious losses, but Yang Zhengshan took over Chongshan Town again.
It has been eight years since Yang Zhengshan took over Chongshan Town, and Chongshan Town has such a strong strength.
Although Duan Qifeng has been running Beiyuan Town for more than 20 years, he actually did not curb the decline of Beiyuan Town, but only slightly delayed the decline of Beiyuan Town.
Now that the Wuliang army is coming, the various reinforcement camps are fighting back and forth at first, but as the servants under the command of the various lieutenants have been wiped out, what's left is a mob.
The longer the war lasts, the more obvious the defeat of Beiyuan Town becomes.
Until now, although Duan Qifeng can still defend Linyuan City, the lieutenants have already been defeated, and he seems to be somewhat isolated and helpless in Linyuan City.
Under such a war situation, Beiyuan Town can't even withstand the Wuliang army, so how can it have troops to penetrate into the hinterland of the Wuliang royal court?
"Send a message to Tang Wuxi, let him immediately dispatch troops to encircle and suppress the enemy forces that crossed the Menghe Mountain!" Wutuo ordered in a cold voice.
Agu Che hesitated for a moment, but still said: "My king, I'm afraid that Tang Wuxi dare not dispatch troops at will, after all, he still has to guard the Menghe Mountain Gate!"
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Hearing this, Wutuo's anxious mood immediately calmed down a lot.
Indeed, compared to the Menghe Mountain Gate, the enemy troops that penetrated deep into the heart of the royal court were not the most important.
It was just a small road, and it was impossible for tens of thousands of troops to penetrate deep into it. At most, there would be tens of millions of enemy troops.
But if the Menghe Mountain Gate was lost, the army of Chongshan Town would continue to enter the heart of the royal court.
"Then send a message to the Wanggu and Tatar tribes, and let them recruit another 30,000 young and strong to encircle and suppress the enemy troops from Chongshan Town!" Wutuo ordered again.
"Yes!"
Aguche responded.
Although the Wanggu and Tatar tribes were the main forces in the southward attack on Beiyuan Town, they still had the spare capacity to recruit another 30,000 young and strong to fight.
Wutuo's idea was not wrong. Let the Chici tribe continue to guard the Menghe Mountain Gate, and then let the Wanggu and Tatar tribes recruit young and strong to encircle and suppress Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze's troops.
But he overlooked one thing, that is, Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze would not stay there and wait for their encirclement.
The news he received was five days ago, and now Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze have entered the territory of Wanggu tribe, and they have even massacred four tribes in Wanggu tribe, and are now heading towards the Kerey tribe in the west.
Yang Zhengshan ordered Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze to kill wantonly and attack the tribes of Wuliang Wangting continuously, but the only requirement was not to get close to Yemi City.
The reason for such an order is to prevent Yemi City from entering a defensive state in advance, closing the city gates, and preventing Yang Zhengshan from launching a surprise attack.
In the northeast of the Kerey territory, in a tribe called Zhierjin.
Yang Mingzhen and Yang Chengze are leading the soldiers to clean up the battlefield.
This tribe called Zhierjin is a large tribe with a population of 30,000. Although 5,000 to 6,000 young and strong men have been withdrawn, there are still thousands of young and strong men in the tribe.
However, these thousands of young and strong men were almost like paper in front of the soldiers of the left and right camps. In just two hours, most of the tribe was slaughtered by the soldiers of the left and right camps.
"Where are we going next?"
Yang Mingzhen sat in front of a felt tent door. There were three corpses behind him, and corpses were everywhere in front of him.
Yang Chengze grabbed the water bag and took a sip of water, saying: "Now we have to race against time. The Marquis only gave us two months, and we have to go to the north of Menghe Mountain within these two months."
"We have spent more than 20 days!"
Yang Mingzhen asked: "So?"
Yang Chengze took out the map, pointed to a place on it and said: "It doesn't make sense for us to just attack these small tribes!"
Yang Mingzhen looked at the map, his eyes lit up, "You want to attack the banner of the Kerait tribe?"
Yang Chengze shook his head, "No, the banner of the Kerait tribe is a city, we only have cavalry, we can't attack the city!"
"Our goal is not to attack the banner of the Kerait tribe, but to scare them!"
He grinned, his eyes full of evil fun.
Yang Mingzhen stroked the sheep's horns and thought about it, "Maybe we can give it a try. If we are fast enough, we can reach the flag of the Kerait tribe before those fleeing young men!"
They just arrived at the territory of the Kerait tribe yesterday, and today they just attacked the Zhierjin clan. Although they have tried their best to surround and kill them, many young men of the Zhierjin clan still escaped.
If they are fast enough, there is a chance to reach the Kerait tribe before the Kerait tribe receives the news.
Yang Chengze shook his head, "No, don't forget, the Kerait tribe may have innate warriors. Even if there are no innate warriors, a half-step innate warrior is not something we can deal with."
"Once there are warriors that we can't deal with, the soldiers will suffer a lot of casualties. At that time, our losses will be great!"
In fact, their losses were very small during the massacre along the way. The number of soldiers killed was less than 300, and the number of seriously injured was less than 500.
Now every time they attack the camp, they need to leave 1,000 soldiers to take care of the wounded and horses.
"We will go around the banner of the Kerait tribe, and then kill all the way to the Alaman tribe in the west."
"Maybe the Marquis has already killed his way to Yemi City at this time, and we may be able to meet up with the Marquis at that time!"
Yang Chengze said his plan.
Yang Mingzhen thought about it and agreed: "Well, then implement it according to your plan, just go around the banner of the Kerait tribe and leave!"
After the two agreed, they began to order the soldiers to cook, and after lunch, they headed towards the banner of the Kerait tribe.
Although they were not in a hurry, they still galloped.
At this time, their war horses had been replaced. The war horses brought from Chongshan Town were either dead or exhausted.
They also slaughtered all the exhausted war horses, and they would never leave them to the Wulianghu tribe.
Now the war horses they ride are all robbed from those tribes.
It's just that the physique of these war horses is not very good, not as good as their previous war horses.