Chapter 25 Chongshan Pass, Chongshan Town

Seeing that the time was almost right, Yang Zhengshan shouted again passionately: "Facing the enemy who invaded us, we can only do one thing, that is, kill!"

"Use our long spears to kill a way out for our parents, wives and children!"

He kicked up the iron spear standing next to him, pointed at the young men below, and shouted: "Kill!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

The young men with bloodshot eyes raised their long spears and roared.

They were afraid and angry. They were afraid of the scene of their parents, wives and children being slaughtered, and they were angry about the invasion from the enemy.

The roar echoed in the cold wind for a long time.

The villagers around also clenched their fists and watched this scene with red eyes.

Yang Zhengxiang stood in the crowd, watching this scene silently, his eyes flashing with different emotions.

"Zhengshan has the talent of a general!"

Yang Zhengshan, who was standing above, listened to the passionate roar, and a smile appeared in the depths of his eyes.

What is the most important thing for an army?

Yang Zhengshan thought it should be faith.

The young men in front of him were all blank sheets of paper. The first thing he had to do was to draw a belief on them.

Guardian belief!

Belief is the reason and motivation for fighting, and the root of fearlessness.

Feeling almost done, Yang Zhengshan pressed the gun in his hand and said, "Stop!"

The voice stopped, he took a deep breath, and said, "You already understand why you are fighting, then you need to use blood and sweat to build a wall for your parents, wives and children!"

"The next training will be very boring and hard, are you ready?"

"Ready!"

"Very good! Then let's start with lining up!"

Yang Zhengshan began formal training.

Lining up is the foundation, and it is the beginning of shaping the discipline of the army.

With belief, the next step is to shape military discipline. When these young men can do what they are told, it is time to train them to fight on the battlefield.

In fact, for these young men, battlefield fighting ability is the easiest to train. Don't forget that they have all practiced Yang's spearmanship.

The Yang family spearmanship is the spearmanship honed on the battlefield. With the foundation of the Yang family spearmanship, the training of fighting on the battlefield will naturally be easy.

There is no need to say much about the specific training process. Yang Zhengshan referred to his own military training experience and combined it with his original experience in the army to summarize a fairly good method of training soldiers.

While the young and strong were receiving training, the entire Yangjia Village was also busy.

Yang Zhengxiang led the villagers to make chevaux de frise, dig traps, and reinforce the courtyard walls outside the village. At the same time, he also sent more than a dozen young and strong men into Changqing Mountain to find a suitable place for temporary residence.

It would be best if they could defend Yangjia Village. If they couldn't, they could at least hide in Changqing Mountain to avoid the massacre of the Hu people.

As time passed, more and more news came about the border war.

On the 18th day of the first month of the 23rd year of Chengping.

The Hu people in Donghai gathered 50,000 troops and marched to the city of Chongshanguan.

On the 22nd day of the first month.

The Hu army launched an attack and attacked the city three times a day, but they were all repelled by the defenders in the city.

Since then, the Hu army attacked the city every two or three days, but each time the attack was a bit anticlimactic.

February 3rd.

Zhang Shouwang, the first-class Dingyuan Marquis of Darong, the governor of the Central Army Governor's Office, and the general of Chongshan, stood on the wall of the city, overlooking the endless Hu camps outside the city.

At the same time, several deputy generals and lieutenant generals of Chongshan Town followed him, looking solemnly outside the city.

Zhang Shouwang was nearly sixty years old, and his long beard fluttered in the biting cold wind. His eyes were particularly deep, as if he contained an indelible sorrow.

"Their purpose is not to break through Chongshan Pass!"

He stroked his long beard and said affirmatively.

Deputy General Ji Feiyu was thoughtful, "If it wasn't for Chongshan Pass, why did they gather 50,000 troops?"

Although the Hu army often attacked Chongshan Pass during this period, each attack seemed to be a show, and they would retreat if there were any casualties.

Zhang Shouwang shook his head, he couldn't guess what the purpose of the Hu tribe was.

Today is different from the past.

Twenty years ago, the national power of the Darong Dynasty was prosperous, and the soldiers of Chongshan Town were strong and powerful, so they could defeat the main force of the Donghai Hu tribe in one fell swoop. But now, after years of disasters in the hinterland of Darong, the national power is declining, and the soldiers of the nine border towns have long been neglected in the battle.

Especially Chongshan Town, it has not experienced a large-scale war for twenty years, and the soldiers have long been slack, no longer as powerful as before.

More importantly, in the past twenty years, they have also relaxed their attention on the Donghai Hu tribe. Now they don't have an accurate number of how many troops and how much foundation the Donghai Hu tribe has.

In this case, they can't accurately grasp the movements and goals of the Donghai Hu tribe.

"We have been too slack in these years!"

Zhang Shouwang's eyes were full of sorrow and helplessness.

He was born into a noble family, but he served in the army for decades. It can be said that he witnessed Chongshan Town's decline from prosperity.

Think about Chongshan Town in the past, and then look at Chongshan Town today.

The mountains and rivers are still there, but they are no longer as glorious as they used to be.

Facing only 50,000 Hu people, he didn't dare to go out to fight. Thinking about it, he felt sad.

It's a pity that he can't change Chongshan Town, and he can't change Chongshan Town.

The reason why Chongshan Town has become what it is now is no longer Chongshan Town, but the court.

The battle of Heiyun Mountain created the glory of the north of Darong, but also led to many contradictions within Darong.

For this reason, the emperor and his ministers were suspicious of each other, and the rewards and punishments of the soldiers were unclear, resulting in many unjust, false and wrong cases, which led to the decline of the powerful Chongshan Town.

There were too many past events, and it was difficult to explain them at once.

Just when Zhang Shouwang felt helpless and powerless, a hurried report came suddenly.

"Report~~, there is a beacon rising in Zhanghebao!"

Zhang Shouwang and several generals suddenly changed their faces and looked towards the west.

Under the gray sky, a beam of beacon rose straight up, which was particularly eye-catching.

However, this was just the beginning. Zhang Shouwang's eyes suddenly narrowed, and his eyebrows twisted into a ball in an instant.

The beacon rose one after another, and in the blink of an eye it spread across the western sky.

Chongshan Town does not refer to Chongshan Pass, but Sanfeng Mountain, which starts from the coast of the East China Sea and ends at the Qianchong Mountains in the west, with a total length of more than 800 miles.

The border defense system is formed by a beacon every five miles, a tower every ten miles, a fort every thirty miles, and a city every hundred miles.

The beacon smoke in the west now means that a large number of enemies are invading.

"Sir, all beacons are one beacon!" Ji Feiyu's expression fluctuated, and his face became more gloomy.

For all the Hu bandits who entered the country, more than fifty people but less than five hundred people, one beacon was lit.

If the Hu bandits were more than five hundred but less than three thousand, two beacons were lit.

If there were three thousand to ten thousand, three beacons were lit, and more than ten thousand were lit four beacons.

Now the western garrisons are all lit with one beacon, which does not mean that there are less than five hundred people invading, but that a large number of small enemy troops have infiltrated.

If there was only one group, the beacon smoke would be connected into a line and spread towards the direction of Chongshan Pass, instead of blooming everywhere like now.

Zhang Shouwang looked at the enemy camp under the city again.

Fifty thousand enemy troops were still in the camp.

"Their purpose is small-scale looting!"

At this time, Zhang Shouwang finally figured out the purpose of the Donghai Hu tribe.

The 50,000 troops under the city were just to attract attention and contain the defenders in Chongshan Pass. Of course, if he dared to mobilize the defenders in the pass to encircle and suppress the small infiltrating enemy troops, the 50,000 troops outside the city would attack the city with all their strength.

"That's right, they don't dare to start a full-scale war with us now, they just want to plunder supplies!" Zhang Shouwang lowered his eyes slightly, and the gloomy air in his heart surged like a tide.

Although this situation can prevent Chongshan Town from being completely defeated, the people near the border are afraid that they will suffer.

A large number of small enemy troops infiltrated and plundered, even if they sent troops to encircle and suppress, they could not annihilate them all.

"Send an order, order the town's left camp and the right camp to attack separately and encircle and suppress the enemy!" Zhang Shouwang ordered.

The five camps of the town's flag are the last elite of Chongshan Town, with a total of only 15,000 soldiers and horses, of which the left camp and the right camp are all cavalry.

The enemy invaded separately, and they could only encircle and suppress separately.

The infantry could not catch up with the mounted enemy, so Zhang Shouwang could only mobilize the two most elite cavalry battalions under his command, hoping to kill more enemies.

"Yes!"

The two lieutenant generals beside him came out and clasped their fists to receive the order.