Chapter 415: Anticlimactic
(During the Spring Festival, one chapter a day, brothers, bear with me!)
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The genius was bright, and the camp on the west bank of Silverpebble Beach, which had been silent all night, moved, and the 20,000 elites of the Mengwu tribe quickly and slightly chaotically assembled, stepping on the dew-stained grass, crossing Silverpebble Beach, and heading for the battlefield of killing.
Tie Kun led two thousand wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Division, as the vanguard, and was the first to cross the Silver Pebble Beach before dawn, approaching the enemy camp.
At this time, it was still far from the enemy camp, Tie Kun rode the snow wolf, located on the east side of the wolf cavalry queue and slowly moved forward, his eyes were deep and solemn as he watched the two thousand most elite soldiers of the Iron Cliff Department when the team opened three or four miles long during the march, not to mention that Meng Zhan would hesitate, before the battle of Silver Pebble Beach, he was also full of hesitation to put the two thousand elites of the Iron Cliff Department into a tough battle.
These two thousand elites carry too many things from the tribe, and if they suffer any irreparable losses, it means that the Iron Cliff Department will only be reduced to the last small clan in the next few decades, and will be endlessly oppressed by other tribes.
Tie Kun thought to himself about everything Chen Hai said last night, could he really arm all the slaves and supplement the lack of combat power of the Iron Cliff Force?
He had to admit that Chen Hai's suggestion was very tempting, for now, even if the Iron Cliff Department armed all the men in their prime, Dingtian would only be able to gather 112,000 soldiers, and it would seriously affect the production of the Iron Cliff Department, but he suggested to Meng Zhan and Mu Tu - assuming that Meng Zhan and Mu Tu accepted his suggestion - he could immediately arm 2 to 30,000 servant foot soldiers, and the Mengwu Department could also arm more servant foot soldiers at the western foot of Yaoshan Mountain.
If Zuo Shengwang Mu Ke really had a bad heart, the reinforcements from Black Rock City would not arrive for a long time, and the hundreds of thousands of human slaves who were recruited to Yaoshan would be their greatest reliance.
Chen Hai didn't care if Tie Kun would take his suggestion, sometimes the situation reached that point, and Tie Kun couldn't help but make such a decision, but if Tie Kun could think through it earlier, they would be able to buy more time, at least before the reinforcements from the Kereh Department and the Tuoba Department came over on a large scale, they could directly transfer a large number of bitter slaves and a part of the herd to the southern foothills, and even now they could build a simple mountain road between the western and southern foothills of Yaoshan.
Once a large-scale enemy reinforcement swarms from behind and blocks the passages around Yaoshan, many things will become difficult.
Soon, the enemy's ranger scouts appeared in everyone's field of vision, Chen Hai and Yao Wenjin rode with Tie Kun to a grassy slope, and they could also see the situation of the enemy village thirty or forty miles away.
In just three or four days, the enemy village with a low ridge on its back had already been built on a considerable scale, a nearby forest was cut down, and the trees were inserted into the soil side by side to form a simple parapet wall, and the four corners of the enemy camp were all watchtowers built of wood and thirty or forty meters high, which might take in all the grass and trees within a radius of tens of miles......
Although the demon barbarians are not good at building a walled city, nor are they good at the attack and defense of the walled city, the enemy camp in front of him can be said to be decent, and there are many obstacles such as rejecting horses placed outside the camp.
However, the enemy army did not expect such a simple camp to really play any role, and 20,000 soldiers and horses also went out of the camp at this time, waiting for the Mongol soldiers to come over and fight a decisive battle.
The war on the prairie is really boring, Chen Hai thought boredly, but in the prairie where there is no danger to defend and no city to rely on, everyone is used to wolf pack tactics, it is him, except for hoping that the generals can receive more well-trained and rigorous training, better equipped armor and combat weapons, and the generals can have a stronger fighting spirit when they enter the battlefield, there is no more way to do it.
At this time, the Mongol Zhan also led the soldiers of the Mongol tribe into the battlefield, and each could see each other's fluttering flags, the black horns sounded, and all the tribes also quickly unfolded according to the battle sequence;
"Tie Ye, have you seen the strangeness of the enemy's formation?" Chen Hai asked in a low voice as he rode a mastiff and followed behind Tie Kun's side.
The two armies of the Kereb and Tuoba divisions were still divided into two formations, forming two roads, each of which was divided into the middle army and the left and right wings, everything was so regular, but it was not obvious that the enemy's formation occupied the top of a gentle slope, and they wanted to attack the enemy, so they could only attack the enemy from the bottom up.
The slope is not very obvious, but as a veteran on the battlefield, I also know which is the smallest slope, when hedging and attacking, it can increase the impact of the opponent, and in addition to the speed of your own side will be suppressed, the physical strength will also be consumed a lot.
The combat strength of the soldiers and horses on both sides is equal, and this small difference may lead to a completely different battle situation.
It's just that this time they led the army over, and they wanted to drive out the soldiers and horses of the Kereh and Tuoba departments as quickly as possible, and did not give them a chance to wait for the reinforcements to come, in fact, they gave up the choice of the battlefield.
"Tuoba Yan, dog thief!" Tie Kun scolded hatefully.
At this time, in the direction of the Chinese army where Meng Zhan was located, the horn sounded, and the sentinel who passed the military order was quickly taught between the arrays, waving the military order battle flag, and soon saw a thousand-person phalanx in the front of the Chinese army, and at this time slowly pressed forward.
The Mongol War was not in a hurry to use the elite cavalry on both flanks, but ordered more soldiers to gather into a denser and more stable infantry phalanx and advance to the enemy's position; at this time, the enemy army did not rush to bring all the soldiers and horses up for a decisive battle, and also sent a thousand-man phalanx into the battlefield between the two armies.
Because the Iron Cliff tribe has been fighting for several days, even if the left wing is arranged as a cavalry, it is still the second echelon of the left wing, and there is no chance to enter the battlefield to participate in the battle in a short time.
The two thousand-person phalanx came into contact and soon fought together, the earthquake trembled, and the brilliance crisscrossed one after another, the battle axes and iron spears were waved, the arrows flew overhead like a swarm of locusts, and fresh blood flowed out of the strong body, gathering in the grass under his feet, and trampling the grass beyond recognition.
Soon, the thousand-man phalanx of the Tuoba Department could not support it, and there were signs of collapse, but because the enemy army had two teams of cavalry galloping out quickly from both wings at this time, the soldiers of the Mughul Department had no way to continue to advance and expand the results of the battle.
The first contact battle ended like this, and both sides lost one or two hundred corpses on the battlefield between the two armies, and neither of them was able to take advantage of more.
The next few contact battles in the afternoon all began and ended in this way, whether it was the Mongolian battle or the enemy barbarian Tuobaya, they had no intention of staking all the soldiers and horses in their hands at one time to end it at one time, and the whole battle was extremely dull, except for the loss of seven or eight hundred corpses each, there was no winner or loser.
Obviously, if such a competition continues, there will be no winner before the two sides lose more than half.
Chen Hai stood beside Tie Kun and could clearly see that the face of Meng Zhan two or three miles away was sinking like water.
Chen Hai can guess Meng Zhan's thoughts, after Meng Zhan led his troops into the battlefield, he started the game like this, hoping that the enemy barbarians could not hold their breath first, and raise troops to attack their battle formation with all their might, this time they could assemble a denser formation in the Chinese army to consume and exhaust the enemy army, but use the elite cavalry on both wings to fight back and win the final victory, but what Meng Zhan didn't expect, the enemy was more patient than he expected.
If the confrontation continues, the sky will soon get dark, and the camps of the Tuoba and Kereh tribes will be on the side, and the Mengwu war will have to retreat dozens of miles away and set up camp again.
Meng Zhan obviously did not dare to press all his forces up, and took advantage of the twilight to have a decisive battle.
What a boring battle!
Chen Hai couldn't help but blow up, and said to Tie Kun in a suppressed voice: "Tie Ye, the left general wants to withdraw at this time, and he is afraid that when he withdraws the army, the enemy will take advantage of the situation to kill; and the left general will not withdraw at this time, and when it gets dark, it is even more impossible to withdraw, and when the two armies fall into chaos, presumably the left general does not want to see it - Tie Ye, the wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Department should attack the enemy village at this time, give both sides a chance to withdraw from the battlefield, and end today's war as soon as possible......."
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The Mongolian war is also afraid of dragging on until dark, the two armies have not yet distanced themselves, once the chaos is caused, who wins and who loses can only depend on the will of God, but it is a pity that the Mengwu Department is not qualified to bet on this providence at this time.
At this time, the left flank rode all the way, but did not act as planned, but directly bypassed the battlefield in front and rushed to the enemy camp in front of the left.
Meng Zhan stood on a high place, and at a glance he could see that it was the soldiers and horses of the Iron Cliff Department who acted without authorization, and roared angrily: "Tie Kun, what do you want to do with this kid?" Meng Zhan was just about to send a barbarian general around him to intercept the soldiers and horses of the Iron Cliff Department, and ask them to act according to the plan, when he saw two wolf riders from the side of Tie Kun in the distance, galloping towards this side.
Meng Zhan's face was gloomy, staring at the two Terran slaves that Tie Kun had taken as guards, and asked, "What does Tie Kun want to do?"
"My general, I think that the only advantage of the enemy army at this time is to form a formation next to the camp, and we can shake their morale as long as we destroy their camp. If they dare not fight us, they will inevitably choose to retreat at the same time. In this way, both sides will retreat from the battlefield at the same time, and there is no need to worry that when our army retreats, the enemy will take advantage of the scattered position of our army and attack strongly," Chen Hai hunched his back and explained to Meng Zhan, "and even if the enemy army is forced to divide his troops to rescue the camp, it will weaken the enemy forces in front of him and ensure that they are not capable of threatening the retreat of our army......"
"Tie Kun has this plan, why don't you tell me and act on your own?" Meng Zhan said angrily, he admitted that Tie Kun's strategy was better at this time, but his generals actually acted on their own under their eyes and noses, which no one coach would easily tolerate.
"My general also suddenly thought of this strategy, but the military order of the left general has been issued, and the cavalry on both wings has moved, if he rushes over to explain, and then goes back to lead the wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Department to raid the enemy village, as soon as the time is delayed, it will inevitably be unexpectedly chaotic......
Meng Zhan also noticed at this time that the enemy army suddenly divided half of its troops and horses to intercept the wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Department, but the wolf cavalry of the Iron Cliff Department advanced faster, and the first hundred or so horsemen had already shot the war spears and arrows lit by oilcloth in their hands into the enemy camp, creating more chaos there.
Although Meng Zhan was annoyed that Tie Kun acted without permission, he also knew that he should seize the opportunity to withdraw his troops first......
Although Yao Wenjin was straightforward, he was always by Chen Hai and Tie Kun's side today, knowing that Chen Hai deliberately delayed until the last moment before suggesting that Tie Kun take unauthorized action to attack the enemy camp, guessing that Chen Hai's intention was to create discord between Meng Zhan and Tie Kun and force Tie Kun to fight for more autonomy!
Chen Hai's target for going north this time is Tiekun!