"That's it, when are we going to wait, this can't be fought yet, if we don't fight, we will shoot and scatter to respond to the sky." Wu Gaoxu spread his hands

Shout.

Gongsun Jian saw that the two of them were so virtuous, and knew that they were in a hurry.

But now, it's really not time to attack. He walked to the door of the tent, and the overcast weather outside heralded a heavy rain.

This is not an ordinary rainstorm, but the rainy season, which will continue for the next month. Marching in such weather can only increase the fatigue of the soldiers, and the Shenji Battalion cannot carry out any action at all in such weather. It would not be wise to send troops at this time.

"It's going to rain, and when this rain is over, let's go." Gongsun Jian is the main general, what he says, if he doesn't stop, the holy decree is very clear, cut first and then play. I definitely wouldn't dare to ask for their heads because of the two eldest brothers.

The more than 200,000 troops of the Ming army were stationed at the border, but they did not send troops. This made Hu Jichen, who was the coach himself, a little confused in his heart, what did the Ming army mean by doing this.

Fighting and not fighting, retreating and not retreating, just dangling at the door of their own homes. He even wanted to die on his head sometimes, and the province suffered such torture.

Originally, this time Hu Jichen should have been in the capital Qinghua Town, and he didn't need to go to the front line, but his intuition told him that this was probably a life-and-death battle for the Hu Dynasty, so he personally took command and led his family to personally lead 180,000 soldiers and horses, claiming to be 300,000 to go north to deal with the Ming army.

However, after the mighty army came here to prepare, the Ming army did not make any movement at all.

"What do they want to do, what do they want to do?" Hu Jichen looked at Hu Yuancheng, who was currently the chief general of the Right Army.

As the prince of the imperial family, Hu Yuancheng clenched his waist knife and was about to say something, but the sound of the report outside made him close his mouth and watch a panicked officer run in.

"Newspaper. Our army's grain transport army was unable to reach it because the roads were destroyed by flash floods. ”

Finished.

As soon as he heard this report, Hu Jichen almost fainted on the ground, if it was just now and before, he still didn't understand what it meant for the Ming army to be unmoved, but now, he completely understood that the Ming army was not trying to stop, but waiting for the end of this rainy season, once it was over, their army would swarm into their territory like a flood.

When the time comes, the mountains and rivers will be broken. The sun and moon are gone, and the Dahu Dynasty established by itself is also over. And all of this is your own stupid grandson, who doesn't provoke it, you go to provoke the Great Zhou Dynasty. Look for death.

The rain stopped, and for a month and a half of rain, it washed over the border between the two sides.

Gongsun Jian, who had already brought the army to the border, led the generals around him to the hillside of the border to look south early in the morning of the second day when the rain stopped.

The fog was thick, and as soon as he jumped the official road and the path that the hunter stepped on, his eyes entered Annan and disappeared behind the thick fog.

"General, can we leave now?" Wu Gaoxu saw Gongsun Jian looking into the distance and was silent, and arched his hand forward, in the army, he was not a prince, just a general.

Gongsun Jian looked back at Wu Gaoxu slightly and shook his head slightly; "No, the heavy rain has just passed, and the rain in the forest has not shown signs of drying up, the road is dripping, and I am not marching, I am waiting for four or five days, we have waited for extra time, and we don't care about waiting for so many more days."

When the words fell, he pointed to Chen Xuan on the side; "After three days, send scouts to inspect the forest, and if the road is not dripping, immediately converge

Report. ”

Four days later. In the camp tent of the Chinese army, he was discussing with everyone that this swarthy woman had a special taste, and when Wu Gaoxu was screaming to go to Yingtian to try it after this battle.

Chen Xuan strode in from the outside, interrupting Wu Gaoxu, who was screaming there, and looked at Gongsun Jian; "General, our scouts are fifty miles deep into the forest, and they can pass through the carriages and horses."

Good.

Waiting for this news, Gongsun Jian shouted and immediately sat up straight, swept the generals who were already standing in two rows, pulled out the token, looked at the people below, and shouted; "Right Deputy General Zhang Fu, Left Staff General Li Bin."

"The end will be." The two got up and walked out and stood in the middle, and Gongsun Niu threw the token to the ground; "Order the two of you, command 20,000 infantry, 10,000 crossbowmen, and 10,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and lead the team into Hu."

"Order." Zhang Fu picked up the token and Li Bin left with his hand, and after Gongsun Jian took the token out of the ground three times again, the army of 100,000 was divided into the forward middle army and

The rear army entered the Hu Dynasty in a mighty way. At the same time, the Guangxi political envoy Zhang, as the grain and grass escort officer, is responsible for the transportation of grain and grass for the army and ensures all expenses on the front line of the army.

After only one day of difference between the eastern and western armies, they began to move south.

The Ming army that covered the sky and the sun, and the dust rolled up, seemed to block out the sun in the sky, and several counties and towns along the way, without much effort, let the Ming army take it.

The news of the cross-border battle of the Ming army has long been sent to the hands of the Emperor Hu Jichen.

I was a little afraid of the Ming army, but after adding that it covered the sky and the sun, the end of the sky was full of marching Ming troops, and the sun in the sky was blocked by no light. This made him tremble and look at the people in front of him; "What to do, what to do, what to do?"

He looked left and right, and then the more he thought about it, the more angry he slapped Hu Hancang in the face. If it weren't for this bastard who killed the Ming army, there would not be such a thing as today.

"It's all you, it's all you, you don't mess with anyone, you have to provoke the Ming army, you don't mess with the southern Zhancheng, what do you mess with them, what do you do with them."

Hu Hancang can't say what he is suffering, and he doesn't want to, but now, the crux of the matter is that now that he has been provoked, what can he do, the Ming army has come over. I can't just surrender to them.

And our army still has 20,000 elephant troops. ”

Weapons are dead, people are alive, and the generals of the Ming army can consider sending troops after the rainy season, so he doesn't know how to use other methods.

According to the scout's report, the Great Zhou Emperor also transferred the Shenji Battalion, and the elephants were most afraid of this, once they bombarded it with artillery, the elephants would not be controlled at all, how could this be fought.

The upset Hu Jichen expressed the worry in his heart, and Hu Hancang thought about it; "We could have fought them when it rained. In this way, their Divine Machine Battalion will be of no use. ”

It can only be like this, looking at the sky in the distance, Hu Jichen sighed in his heart and thought to himself.

It has been three days since they converged here, and the pontoon bridge has already been built on the Baihe River, and the 200,000 Ming troops have begun to advance across the river in an orderly manner.

And the scout's news about Hu Jun was also continuously sent to Gongsun Jian.

And the latest information is that Hu Yuancheng, the commander of the right army of the Hu army, led 40,000 soldiers and horses. has been stationed in Bondo, trying to block the way of the Ming army somewhere.

This is not a main battle, this kind of small scene, naturally Zhang Fu and Mu Sheng two veterans can handle it, Gongsun Jian didn't even have the heart to take a look, after getting Hu Jun to start retreating south, he just ordered the brigade to follow.

For five or six days, the Hu army always intended to defeat it. This made Zhang Fu feel that something was wrong and came to Gongsun Jian; "Aren't we too fast, they collapse at the first touch, and it seems that they have no combat effectiveness at all, which is different from the information we get. Is it to let the troops stop. ”

Stop, stop something.

Gongsun got up in vain and looked at the map of the marching army, opened his mouth and smiled; "Stop something, don't stop, doesn't he just want to lure me in, then I'll go in, I really don't know if it's that stupid idea, using this way, I want my Shenji battalion to not be able to keep up, and then send out the elephant army to attack our army. He's a pig's head for me. I can't even see this plan. ”

As soon as Gongsun Jian finished speaking, Wu Gaoxu, who was fighting the vanguard, ran in from outside; "Oh no, they dispatched the elephant army, good guy, it's the first time I've seen such a formation, the third old man has already deployed in front, let you hurry over and command the town."

Damn, I just said this, and here we are. Gongsun Jian shouted and looked at the few people in the tent: "Let's go, go out and have a look." I'm here to see what's so special about them.

The shield bearers and archers of the former army were ready, and the cavalry on both sides was ready for action.

Gongsun Jian, who arrived at the front army, came to a hillside and looked at the opposite side, about three elephants lined up, and behind both sides were Hu army infantry,

Slowly advancing this way, and on either side of the elephant soldier were the cavalry of Yougo.

Looking at the elephant army. There were four men on it, one in control, one in archers, one in shields, and one in pikemen, arrogantly coming this way. And Hu Jun, who was wearing black rattan armor, was even more arrogant and shouting, and he didn't know what to shout. Anyway, looking at that look, it's quite scary.

"Apprentice, I've been following me for so many years, and I've taught you a lot of the art of war over the years. How to fight? ”

Wu Zhanji may be young, of course, it is also possible that he has seen such an array for the first time, and he stammered and couldn't say why

Correct.

For this, Gongsun Jian did not get angry, but patted Wu Zhanji on the shoulder beside him on the horse; "For generals, arranging troops is secondary, and the most important thing is to figure out what the opposing general's is going to do. What kind of goal you want to achieve is the most important thing

Target. ”

"Master, I don't understand." Wu Zhanji still shook his head.

Gongsun Jian stretched out his finger; "In the past few days, you have all suggested to me, the Hu army is about to collapse at the first touch, whether to rest and recuperate, and wait for the artillery of the Shenji Battalion behind, why don't I stop, because they don't want the Shenji Battalion to come here, after all, the artillery can interfere with the elephants, cause chaos, and affect their troops. Therefore, I met their request, and today, their dispatch of the elephant army is actually just a test to see if such an approach will work. Obviously, their purpose now will soon be achieved. ”

Mu Sheng listened really on the side, and he already understood how this battle should be fought. It's just the Tao of indeterminacy; "In this way, we are going to lose this battle."

"Yes." Gongsun Jian responded affirmatively and turned his head to look at Wu Gaoxu; "Not only will they be defeated, but they will also be defeated very badly, let them think that without the Shenji Battalion, we are not their opponents, so that they can boldly fight with us, once they have this thought, it means that the hundreds of thousands of main forces of his Hu family will almost be reimbursed here."

Wu Gaoxu obviously didn't understand what it meant to be a failure, so Gongsun Jian could only look at his eldest brother Zhang Fu; "Have you ever lost a battle?"

This question is a little embarrassing, Zhang Fu really hasn't lost a battle. Still, he nodded; "It's not easy to win, it's not easy to defeat, just leave it to me here."

"Newspaper. Our army defeated the Ming army, the Ming army fled north for 50 miles, our army captured more than 500 horses, and killed more than 1,000 Ming troops. Hu Jichen, who had already set up his command camp in Duobang City, heard that the Ming army had been defeated and chased it north for fifty miles. Suddenly, he pointed to Hu Yuancheng on the side; "Your method really worked, they are vulnerable in front of our elephant army without the assistance of artillery."