Chapter 228: The decisive battle in Cangxian
Henghai, Cangxian, two armies, are preparing to make a final fight to the death.
Zhu Shou did not make any temptations, let alone do any futile division of troops to harass, attack, outflank and other actions. In the face of the opponent's absolute cavalry superiority with Chengde wolf cavalry as the main force, any such division of troops will be taken advantage of by the enemy and weaken his already weak force again.
Relying on Cangxian County, tens of thousands of troops are in front of the city, he wants to gather all his forces to fight to the death with Li Ze and Cao Xin, the winner wins everything, and the loser has nothing.
Zhu Shou put all his chips on the table. As a former Henghai hero, just like more than ten years ago, he threw himself alone, gathered his soldiers and tenant farmers, and fought against the rebellious peasant rebel army, but that time, he won the bet and won the territory of the four states of Henghai for the Zhu family.
Therefore, he never lacked the courage to gamble.
Although the enemy is much stronger now than at that time, the current self is not the Cangxian Haoqiang that he was at the beginning. Standing on top of the city, looking at the phalanx of tens of thousands of troops under the city, a sense of pride arose.
Zhu has been dominating the world for dozens of days, how could he call a yellow-mouthed son to bully him!
Li Ze was a little excited, but also a little afraid, the other party had gathered nearly 50,000 troops, and he, plus the government soldiers, also had almost 30,000 horses, nearly 100,000 horses, even in the Tang Dynasty, it was not a small-scale war.
Although the battle has not yet begun, Li Ze knows that today I don't know how many warriors' heroic souls will disappear here, and all of this is just because of one of his own orders.
In order to complete the strategy formulated by themselves, tens of thousands of soldiers went into battle and fought bravely.
Now he really fully understands why the so-called superiors must be trembling and trembling in their words and deeds, and sometimes even indecisive. After all, the lives of tens of thousands of people or even more people depend on you, and that kind of wordless pressure is enough to crush a person whose nerves are not strong enough.
Li Ze has enough psychological endurance, in the last life, he was also able to throw billions or even more funds on the battlefield without hesitation with a wave of his hand, also to defeat the enemy, but at that time, all he saw was the change of numbers displayed on the screen, as for whether he was mourning Xiaohong everywhere in reality, he couldn't see it at all and didn't want to see it. And today, what he wants to see is just a bloody reality.
It's normal to have some fear.
Today he is just a spectator.
He handed over command to Cao Xin. He was not confident that he would be able to control every aspect of such a vast battlefield.
The Yizhou Army was divided into three large parts. On the left wing, there are Wuyi soldiers led by Shi Zhuang, these people are Li Ze's hometown, and they were trained by Li Ze in Wuyi. On the right wing, there were Yizhou soldiers who originally belonged to Cao Xin, and now they were all handed over to Tu Lichun. In the middle, there is Li Ze's personal guard battalion, Cao Xin's personal guard battalion and the Modao team, and Chengde wolf cavalry. These troops are now all handed over to Min Rou.
A high platform built overnight is the current residence of Cao Xin and Li Ze, the two of them are high, and the place where they stand is not lower than the head of the city, looking down on the entire battlefield.
Cao Xin smiled and glanced back at Li Ze who was sitting on the side, although the little boy looked very calm, but the two hands on the armrests of the chair were full of green muscles, which still exposed the tension in his heart.
In fact, Li Ze's current performance has already impressed Cao Xin.
After all, being on the battlefield in person is a completely different thing from doing a map deduction in the house.
Map deduction, what you see is just a lifeless small flag, the increase and loss of troops, just the numbers that pop out of the mouths of the generals. But now, nearly 100,000 people on both sides are ready to fight to the death, and that kind of evil aura that only belongs to the battlefield is enough to scare people who have not been on the battlefield into two trembles, and it is also common for people to have no face.
Cao Xin has seen Li Ze's ability to grasp the overall situation, the kind of demeanor and accuracy that stands on a high place and condescendingly examines the situation in the whole world, which makes Cao Xin sigh to himself, and today, he sees another side of Li Ze.
After experiencing this time, I believe that with Li Ze's insight, even if he encounters a bigger battle scene in the future, it will be just a piece of cake for him.
In fact, the most difficult battle is this kind of battlefield that is not big or small, the two sides meet each other, testing the bravery and tenacity of the soldiers, but also testing the control of the front-line generals over the soldiers, and testing the commander's ability to grasp the changes on the battlefield. And if it is the kind of people who invest more troops on both sides and fight on a wider battlefield, then it is more necessary to have a natural sensitivity to the overall form like Li Ze. As for the battlefield as small as a few thousand people, it all depends on the ability of the combat general.
"Childe, let's get started!" Looking at the flags waving on the left and right wings, Cao Xin smiled and said to Li Ze.
"You are the main general, I am a spectator!" Li Ze smiled and said, "Let me see Cao Gong's demeanor today."
Cao Xin laughed, pulled out a black flag from the row of small flags in front of him, and waved it vigorously.
Before the high platform, a flag bearer holding a huge black flag immediately waved the flag in his hand vigorously, and at the same time, more than 100 war drums sounded.
The right flank did not move, the Chinese army did not move, and the first to move was Shi Zhuang's left flank.
The dress of the Wuyi soldiers was very different from the clothing of all the Tang troops of this era. The Tang army is still red, so no matter which festival envoy, their soldiers are all red, but Li Ze's Wuyi soldiers, from the very beginning, are black. So the black flag also represents the Wuyi soldiers.
If you put aside the Chengde wolf cavalry, the Modao team and Li Ze's pro-military camp do not speak, the Wuyi soldiers led by Shi Zhuang are much stronger in combat effectiveness than Cao Xin's own Yizhou soldiers, this point, even if Cao Xin is unwilling, he has to admit it. And this point, he has also seen in the deep state, the guy named Hu Twelve, just the set of the Wuyi soldiers, slightly modified and applied to the body of the deep state soldiers, and he can immediately stand out.
And Zhu Shou, obviously does not understand this. He placed his main force in the direction of the Chinese army and his left flank facing Tu Lichun. Dealing with Shi Zhuang's troops, it is obviously a notch off.
Li Ze's infiltration of Henghai over the years has been effective, under Henghai's command, even if it is Zhu Shou's headquarters, those troops are more capable of fighting, which generals are more talented, he can be said to be clear, today Cao Xin ascended the high platform, a little comparison, he immediately had a basic judgment on the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides.
Henghai's right-wing general is called Liu Chong, and he is brave and brave, but that's all.
Li De was the first to strike.
More than a thousand rangers rode forward, and their horses were hung with a lot of bits and pieces, including small iron hammers full of barbs, small iron axes of horses, and even stones carried in small nets.
More than 1,000 cavalry, charging violently, the momentum is amazing.
Behind them, a thousand armor soldiers led by Shen Congxing trotted to follow. Even if they are running, they still maintain a neat formation. And behind them, Shi Zhuang led another thousand armor soldiers. As for the five thousand soldiers under Shi Zhuang's command, they are under the control of Chen Changfu and Chen Changgui at this moment, and they are slowly following up.
Breaking the formation relies on armor soldiers and government soldiers, which is just used to add icing on the cake.
In the Henghai array, the drums and trumpets sounded in unison, and at the front, rows of big shields were suddenly erected, and behind the big shields, a spear with a handle poked out, forming a forest of spears, and further behind, countless big bows had opened their bowstrings, and the arrows of the feathered arrows flashed with ghostly light, looking up at the sky.
The first to attack was the ballista in the Henghai Array.
This small ballista, which can fire crossbow arrows and stone projectiles, is considered a heavy weapon among all weapons in this era.
With the roaring sound, one by one crossbow arrows, one by one stone bullets, and one by one feather arrows, the sky suddenly darkened. Li De's rangers turned into two columns at this moment, trying to make their formation into a line as much as possible to reduce the area of blows.
On the high platform, the muscles on Li Ze's face twitched a few times, because he saw that with this round of blows, his rangers, at least dozens of people fell off their horses.
The speed of the rangers was extremely fast, even if they lost dozens of men, they did not let them pause in the slightest, and when they came to the front of the formation, the two columns crossed a perfect arc, one left and one right, and at this moment, they threw their hammers, axes, and stones with all their strength.
These assault weapons crossed the shield and smashed into the spear forest behind the shield, and the screams rang out one after another. After throwing these fragments in their hands, the two cavalry did not stop, but continued to move forward, rounding the left and right sides of the enemy's phalanx, and this time, they launched a surprise attack on the phalanx without fear of death.
At the front of the phalanx is where the enemy is most heavily defended and where the fire is fiercest, while the flanks are much weaker. In addition to shieldmen, spearmen, even archers are rare.
The momentum of the cavalry, with men and horses, galloping wildly and crashing, is the dream of all defenders. They can't retreat, and they can't retreat.
With a loud bang, the horse fell, the shield shattered, and the man died.
The left and right wings were broken almost at the same time.
But Liu Chong's attention was still on the frontal battlefield, the left and right flanks, even if they were broken by the cavalry, it was difficult to cause a lot of damage, but on the contrary, the frontal, Wuyi infantry frontal charge, more threatening.
The shield against the shield, a horizontal knife through the gap in the shield, countless spears poked in the air, this is a contest of courage between the two sides.
Cao Xin only observed for a moment, then turned around and waved the small red flag in his hand.
Immediately, the drums and trumpets of Tu Lichun on the right wing sounded in unison and began to slowly press forward.
They are not like Shi Zhuang's troops, as soon as they attack, they are like lightning and thunder, beating drums and shouting trumpets, and they are advancing step by step.
And the Chinese armies on both sides are still stable at the moment.