Chapter 90: Repeating the old tricks

After having horses, Xu Guoren asked the troops to prepare for battle at any time, and at the same time asked the soldiers who could ride horses to teach those who could not ride horses to practice riding. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

It is not necessary that all of them can ride skillfully in a short period of time, and become elite cavalry, as long as they can ride horses when they need to retreat.

Three days passed in a row, and the warriors were very happy to learn to ride horses.

Xu Guoren was having lunch, a cavalry scout rushed from outside the city, passing through the north gate, he controlled the war horse and did not slow down, did not wait for the soldiers defending the city to exit for interrogation, then pulled the throat that was almost smoking, and howled: "Emergency military situation, I want to report to the division commander!" Miscellaneous people, etc., shall not be stopped! ”

In this way, he rode his horse all the way, and everywhere he passed, he brought up billowing smoke and dust.

went straight to the outside of the division compound, turned over and dismounted, rushed into the compound and shouted to Xu Guoren, who was eating: "Division commander, urgent military situation!" ”

When Xu Guoren heard this, he hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, got up and walked out of the door, standing under the eaves and looking at the dusty cavalry scouts: "What is the military situation?" ”

The cavalryman was probably in a hurry, and even forgot to salute, and said heavily: "Division commander, we have just discovered an enemy cavalry eighty miles away in the northwest direction, with a strength of about 3,000, and our company commander is taking about a hundred brothers, trying his best to slow down the enemy's advance!" ”

Xu Guoren was shocked when he heard this, and sure enough, this Fu Zuoyi still wanted to repeat his old tricks and reproduce his plan to occupy Zhuozhou!

On the surface, his face did not change and said: "I know, you go to rest first, and I will send someone to inform your company commander to withdraw." ”

After the scouts retreated, Xu Guoren muttered in his heart, this Fu Zuoyi has at least nearly 10,000 cavalry, why is there only 3,000 cavalry in the direction of Zhangbei County? I'm afraid that the cavalry that came to attack was not only this way.

Now the comparison of the forces of the enemy and us is more than three to one. Fu Zuoyi is like a landlord and an old man, with an expansion in his hand, and some of them are hole cards.

This is an asymmetrical battle, Xu Guoren doesn't want to defend Zhangjiakou, on the one hand, he thinks that he doesn't have Fu Zuoyi's talent for defending the city, on the other hand, Xu Guoren understands as a traverser that when the enemy is outnumbered, blindly defending can only make his own side fall into passivity.

It is still necessary to be flexible and mobile in order to find fighters in the movement and achieve victory.

Therefore, when he couldn't figure out all of Fu Zuoyi's combat intentions, Xu Guoren decided to withdraw immediately.

At this moment, Chen Zhiyuan hurriedly walked out of the confidential room with a telegram and said to Xu Guoren: "Guoren, I have just received a definite news, according to our intelligence officers lurking in the 35th Army, a regiment of cavalry directly under Fu Zuoyi's department and 8,000 Mongolian cavalry have disappeared for several days.

Moreover, last night, the main force of the 35th Army also quietly left Tianzhen and marched towards Zhangjiakou. The most important thing is that our intelligence officer said that Fu Zuoyi has been sick for several days, and he has not seen Fu Zuoyi for three days, which is very unusual! ”

After listening to Chen Zhiyuan's words, Xu Guoren suddenly felt a cool breath rushing to his head from the soles of his feet.

Combined with the intelligence brought by the cavalry scouts, it can already be concluded that this Fu Zuoyi is simply pretending to be sick and has been secretly deploying a conspiracy plan against the independent division.

If Fu Zuoyi was really sick, then how could the 35th Army leave Tianzhen at this time? Resolutely going north?

Xu Guoren said with a heavy face: "It's broken!" We've been tricked. Xu Guoren told Chen Zhiyuan the news of the appearance of enemy cavalry in the direction of Zhangbei.

Chen Zhiyuan was also shocked when he heard this: "Then what should we do?" ”

After Xu Guoren was initially shocked, he also began to force himself to calm down, and reasoned to tell himself that the more he was at this time, the more he couldn't panic, otherwise he would make a wrong move and lose the whole game.

"If I'm not mistaken, the enemy forces in the direction of Zhangbei are only one of their roundabout troops. Because Fu Zuoyi had nearly 10,000 cavalry under him, and only 3,000 appeared in the direction of Zhangbei! Xu Guoren groaned and analyzed.

"And where are the other cavalry?" Chen Zhiyuan asked.

"Old Chen, follow me." Xu Guoren turned around and took the lead in walking into the war room, and at the same time, Xu Guoren asked Niu Dagen to send someone to inform Guo Hu and Guo Danian to come over.

Not long after, Guo Hu and Guo Danian hurried over.

Xu Guoren saw that the people had arrived, and immediately pointed to the map and said to them: "You see, our north is blocked by the Yinshan Mountains and the Great Wall outside the Great Wall, the south is Xuanhua and Zhuoxian counties, and the east is Chicheng County. Then the cavalry detoured to the Xuanhua generation to block our retreat to the inner Great Wall along the original road.

So from the perspective of the battle situation, we are surrounded by the 35th Army in this Zhangjiakou! Relying on the absolute superiority of the 35th Army, plus the Northwest Army, the Northeast Army, the Jinsui Army and even the Central Army that may rush to support at any time.

Even if we can resist the attack of the 35th Army in the early stage, the result will only be a dead end! I have to say that Fu Zuoyi really has a certain strategic vision, and this roundabout outflanking can be called a big deal! ”

Guo Hu and Chen Zhiyuan's faces changed greatly after hearing this, and Guo Hu asked, "Commander, do you have any way to get out of trouble?" ”

"Immediately send my order, all regiments of the division immediately assemble, rush to Chicheng County, before the enemy encirclement has not yet formed, quickly abandon Zhangjiakou, and only move to the northeast!" Xu Guoren made a decision immediately.

"Do you want to give up Zhangjiakou like this?" Chen Zhiyuan was still a little unwilling.

"Old Chen, the fighter plane is changing rapidly, and now the enemy's strategic intentions are fortunately known to us in advance, otherwise we will really become a turtle in an urn! Stubbornly defending Zhangjiakou lacks strategic depth, and we have no advantage in troops, once the enemy completes the encirclement, it will be all over! After Xu Guoren finished speaking, he directly waved his hand and motioned for Guo Hu and the others to carry out the order.

Chen Zhiyuan understood that what Xu Guoren said was reasonable, and the situation was like this, so he had to nod in agreement.

Almost at the same time that Xu Guoren had just assembled his troops and just left the city, a cavalry of more than 2,000 people of the Jin Sui Army, under the personal leadership of Fu Zuoyi, was speeding through Xuanhua and Zhuoxian, interspersed in the northeast direction.

"Brothers, I know that the big guys are already sleepy, but can they completely annihilate Xu Guoren's subordinates, and rely on this rebellion to make a move! Advance at full speed with me, rush to Chicheng before the enemy can react, completely cut off the enemy's retreat, and surround them in Zhangjiakou! Fu Zuoyi rode a white horse, galloping wildly, and at the same time loudly encouraging and urging his subordinates.

Because in terms of terrain and direction, Chicheng County is the farthest for Fu Zuoyi's roundabout troops.

In order to avoid being discovered by Xu Guoren's reconnaissance troops, they chose to go out day and night, and detour as far as possible, so it took them a full four days.

Xu Guoren withdrew from Zhangjiakou with his front foot, and Guo Xiaoliu also withdrew from Zhangbei with some cavalry scouts.

Some soldiers stayed behind to meet them, and after the rendezvous, they pursued the main force in a northeasterly direction without stopping.

It turned out that the roundabout force that appeared in Zhangbei County was the Mongolian cavalry, and they did not implement Fu Zuoyi's instructions well, and because there was no radio, they could not keep in touch with the 35th Army at any time.

Therefore, they couldn't wait to occupy Zhangbei County in advance, and rushed to the Great Wall Pass on the Zhangjiakou side, trying to grab a head, but they didn't know that it was precisely because of their startling and timely information from the underground party intelligence officers.

Only then did Xu Guoren and the independent division be alert in advance, otherwise, when Fu Zuoyi personally led the elite cavalry regiment directly under him to occupy Chicheng County, then everything would be over.