Before "Murong Zhan defeated Gucheng", it was written in more detail about the battle between He Hun and Murong Zhan.

Xin Er took a look at it again.

But half a month ago, He Hun evil and He Hun leopard met in Gucheng, and after the parade, within two days, Murong Zhan's department also arrived at the boundary of Gucheng. As Murong Zhan expected before the battle, He Hun Xie really set up an ambush in the middle of the road, trying to give Murong Zhan's troops an ambush battle, but because Murong Zhan had already been on guard, He Hun Xie's strategy failed to work, so the two armies lined up in a dignified formation, so they fought in the field.

The caravan who wrote the information was a meticulous work under Zhang Gui's hands, and it is needless to say that he was shrewd and capable, but his cultural attainment was not high, and the content of the information he wrote was basically in the vernacular, without much embellishment, and his words could be observed, and he imagined the scene at that time, but there was a feeling that the battlefield scene was vast and the fierce battle made people's blood boil, and he couldn't help but float to the reader's heart.

The place where Murong Zhan and He Hun were arrayed was located a few miles southwest of Gucheng County, on the south bank of Jishui.

This battlefield was chosen by He Hun Evil.

In the morning, He Hun was the first to set up on the shore.

After He Hun and He Hun Leopard joined forces, the total number of infantry cavalry and horses under the two accounts was nearly 50,000. He Hun left about 10,000 weak guard battalions, that is to say, a total of about 40,000 soldiers participated in this battle, all of whom were brave warriors. He formed the main formation of the Chinese army with 20,000 men and unified himself; The remaining 20,000 people, divided into the left and right sides of the main formation, formed two wings, of which the troops on the left wing were all Gaoli Janissaries, with He Hun Leopard as the main general of the formation, and the troops on the right wing were half riding and half stepping, and He Hun Evil's righteous son He Hun Kan was his main general.

He Hun Kan is a Tang people, but his family has been in the north for a long time, since his great ancestor, he has been with Xianbei and Xian people every day, so he is under the age of adulthood, his family is deeply impregnated by Hu Feng, and now to He Hunkan's generation, whether it is clothing and hair accessories, or the habitual language, or food, or the customs used, are no different from the Hu people. In other words, He Hun Kan is already a completely Hu Tang man. This person is less than 30 years old this year, his surname is Tian, he is fierce and incompetent, because he was adopted as an adopted son by He Hunxie, and he has to be reused.

On the right wing of He Hun Kan, half of the cavalry, mainly Xianbei, Xiongnu and other Hu, and half of the foot soldiers, most of them were Tang people.

Murong Zhan brought a total of 30,000 troops to Gucheng, and he had left a garrison of 10,000 people in Linyi on the north bank of Jishui earlier, and this army of 10,000 people, a few days ago, divided 5,000 people, crossed Jishui, and came to the south bank, and had joined forces with him.

In other words, the number of infantry cavalry that Murong Zhan put into this battle was 35,000.

The difference in the amount of soldiers and horses on the two sides is not very large.

Compared with Hehun's evil department, the infantry is the main one, supplemented by cavalry; The cavalry under Murong Zhan's subordinates was obviously large, accounting for one-third of the total number of troops, and in line with the normal ratio of cavalry and infantry in the same army, usually one to two, there were 12,000 cavalry.

In response to He Hun's evil formation, Murong Zhan arranged his formation accordingly.

Its array is also divided into three parts, the middle army in the middle, composed of 15,000 foot soldiers; The left flank consisted of five thousand foot men and five thousand light horsemen; Because the right wing is facing the high-strength guards of He Hun's evil department, it has to be an elite soldier who can't fight, because Murong Zhan has placed all the 6,000 armored cavalry he brought here, plus more than 1,000 light cavalry and 3,000 foot soldiers, there are also a total of 10,000 people.

By noon, the formations of the two sides were lined up one after another.

Looking down from the sky, you can see that the broad Jishui is rushing towards the northeast, and on the field on its south bank, two flags are like forests and armor and sun, both of which are several miles long and the enemy and our troops are facing each other.

Tang is the virtue of fire, and after the founding of the state, Wei did not recognize that the Qin state built by the Xiongnu Zhao clan before it was orthodox, and thought that it was adhering to the mandate of heaven and carrying the Tang dynasty, so it took water as its virtue. Among the five elements, the water is black, and the military clothes of the Wei State are therefore black. Although Fang Xia He Hun raised an army to rebel against Wei, he had just rebelled, and the soldiers in his army were still wearing the uniforms of the previous Wei State, so they were also black. The appearance of the Xianbei people is different from that of the Xianbei and Tang people, but it can be distinguished at a glance, but in He Hun's army, there are also many Xianbei, Tang, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups, which is not easy to distinguish from Murong Zhan's soldiers, in order to distinguish them, it is easy to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy when the soldiers in the headquarters are in a melee with the enemy. Murong Zhan chose the most vivid color of red, and his soldiers all wrapped red cloth around their arms.

He Hun's evil army formation, backed by Jishui, faced southeast; Murong Zhan's army array was opposite him, and the direction it was facing was northwest.

I saw that the two formations of the Chinese army were all light infantry in front, and heavy infantry in armor was behind; The right flank of the Hehun array and the left flank of the Murong array were all mixed with infantry and cavalry, and the infantry and cavalry on both sides were equal. In short, the central army of the two formations and the right and left flanks of the two formations are roughly similar in terms of arms and numbers, but they are the left flank of the Hehun array and the right flank of the Murong array, and the situation is very different from those two formations.

The left flank of the He Hun array is all heavily armored foot soldiers; On the right flank of the Murong Array, the main force is armored cavalry.

In terms of troops, the two opposing formations are very different, but what is the same is that the members of these two formations are the ace elites of both sides.

Even people who don't know much about military affairs, seeing this situation at this time, can also judge that the key to the battle between He Hun and Murong Zhan, who wins and who loses, must be on this battlefield. If the Gaoli Janissaries on He Hun's left flank were able to defeat the armored cavalry of Murong Zhan's troops, then the victory would obviously belong to He Hunxie; And if it is the other way around, it will undoubtedly be He Hun who will be defeated.

Although the things collected are quite detailed, they are still unknown to the thoughts of the commanders, generals, and soldiers on both sides of the battlefield, such as He Hun and Murong Zhan.

Although there was no such content in the intelligence, Xin Er could guess some of Murong Zhan's thoughts before the battle after seeing the situation of the two sides' formations.

"He Hun is fighting against the water because he has a lot of heavy infantry, and he is also born after death. On the other hand, Murong Zhan's department, the reason why its main general Murong Zhan led his troops to Gucheng and fought a decisive battle with He Hun was not his original intention, but because of the repeated persecution of Murong Yan, the lord of Wei, and had to do it as a last resort. I think that Murong Zhan may have seen the end of his imminent defeat before the war. At that moment, his mood must be as heroic and unwilling as a moth to a fire. ”

Xin Er guessed correctly.

Although it was only early summer, the sun was already quite strong, and after half a day, the armor was hot. Riding a red war horse, he went around the middle of the battle, boosted his morale, and returned to Murong Zhan, who was standing under the banner of the formation, raised his head to look at the enemy formation opposite, his expression was calm, and he sighed in his heart.