Volume 7 Picturesque Landscapes Chapter 4 Ci is not in charge of the army
A thud soared into the sky, and a sharp whistle sounded through the sky.
Soon, the sound of "woo woo ----" was loud, and a long horn sounded in the Bohai naval vehicle array, with the dust faintly rising in the sky in the distance, marking the arrival of the long-awaited Gongsun Zhan's vanguard troops.
Relying on the effective killing and deterrence of the enemy's scouts by the various units of the Bohai Navy, it is obvious that the enemy's vanguard has seriously lagged behind in intelligence gathering. They had no idea of the Bohai Navy's operational strategy of blocking the road and intercepting the troops, so they were forced to hastily stop their troops about 15 miles away from the Bohai Navy's vehicle formation.
The enemy's clumsy performance made some of the Bohai Navy Eagle generals who were gearing up sigh and cry out for pity. Because in their opinion, if they grasped the fleeting advantageous opportunity, attacked the whole army with 3,000 cavalry head-on, and then followed up with 800 chariots to expand the results, they could kill at least 3,000 enemies, and even crush the 10,000 infantry mixed cavalry of the enemy's vanguard in one fell swoop, which frustrated the morale of Gongsun Zhan's entire army.
In the face of the generals' almost complaining eyes, Nan Ying was not moved at all, under his expressionless appearance, but his heart was sighing deeply, many eagle generals in the Bohai Navy were brave and brave, but they were still short-sighted, unable to see the overall situation, and did not find the key to victory...... Fighting a strategic blockade with 7,000 enemies and 50,000 can rely on a small victory in close combat? Even if the vanguard of 10,000 enemy troops is completely annihilated, as long as there are more than 2,000 casualties on their side, the gains outweigh the losses. At the same time, that would only make Gongsun Zhan, who still had 40,000 troops, more vigilant, he only needed to firmly contain the soldiers and horses of the Southern Eagle headquarters, and then divide 5,000 soldiers and horses to make a detour to the rear of the Bohai Sea, then the whole battle would have been lost.
Nanying can almost imagine Gongsun Zhan's inner struggle, no matter who wins or loses in the decisive battle between Yuan Shao and Gao Shun, as long as he wins the victorious general of the Han Dynasty and the spiritual leader of the entire Bohai army here, then Gongsun Zhan's prestige and prestige will rise to an incredible height, and then Yuan Shao, who is greatly injured, and the Bohai Navy, who is greatly injured, will be able to control the entire Hebei with a great victory!
On the other hand, if Nanying can kill Gongsun Chan in this small Dukang Pavilion, then the internally unstable Gongsun Chan forces will be melted from now on, and Nanying can even make a detour back to the division and directly attack Yuan Shao's army, which is fighting a decisive battle with Gao Shun, and pacify the north in one fell swoop.
Nan Ying's mouth pulled out a hint of fierceness...... I put such a big incense bait here, just see if your grandson Zhan dares to go all out to get it!
The banner commanders of the Bohai Navy overlooking the Bohai Navy suddenly flown their flags and waved a string of flags, reporting the movement of the enemy's vanguard slowly retreating.
Nan Ying couldn't help but smile slightly, the general's Daxu is here, of course the enemy's vanguard general does not dare to act rashly, they can only defend on the spot, waiting for the arrival of Gongsun Zhan's main force before making a decision...... In this way, it bought a little time for Cai Yan's hastily mobilized reinforcements. He suddenly missed Titus and Pulcher, and if their Roman legions were here, with their thousands of elite infantry and powerful defensive formations, combined with the chariot formations set up by these eight hundred chariots, they would be impregnable. It's a pity, because the Bohai Navy did not deploy enough chariot troops in advance in the Chang'an area, the Roman legions led by Titus and Pulcher could only rely on their feet and march towards the Hebei battlefield day and night.
Armament warfare, fortifications...... Nanying gestured to his generals and turned to leave. He wants to meet Cai Yan for a while, how did she see her mind clearly?
"Of course, it's because of your teachings......" Cai Yan's eyes widened, with an unconcealable surprise in his eyes, and a little bit of admiration......
"Did Ben tell you anything?" Nan Ying resisted the urge to scratch his head, and tried his best to say in a flat tone: "Perhaps, it's your own speculation?" ”
"Can't you?" Cai Yan opened his mouth wide: "Do you remember the incident when you attacked Gongsun Zhan?" Our army supplemented the military rations with mulberries, and then advanced all the way to Jicheng. When the army marches, you stand by the horse road and improvise a poem in high spirits...... You should remember that, right? ”
"Uh...... Well, this one! Nanying finally completely lost the majesty of the main general, and he stroked his forehead with his hand: "Ben will be very busy, and...... I read a lot of poems! You get the idea, right? ”
"General Wen Taowu is admirable!" Cai Yan didn't care, but admired it even more: "Your subordinates can still recite your poems word for word...... Hold the bow as strong, and use the arrow as the long. Shoot the man first and shoot the horse, and capture the thief first and capture the king. There is a limit to killing, and the nations have their own borders. If you can control the invasion of the mausoleum, how can you kill more! ”
"Therefore, your subordinates dare to speculate that you have already set the best strategy to pacify Gongsun Zan back then!" She suddenly straightened up, and a moving awe-inspiring look flashed on her face, and she said categorically: "Now, Gongsun Chan has taken Liu Yu at the beginning and hurriedly gathered his people, and the morale of the army is shaking, and Liu Yu is deeply popular in the north, and his generals Yan Rou, Xian Yufu, Xian Yuyin and Qi Zhou are gathering the rest of the troops everywhere, and they may launch an offensive against Gongsun Chan at any time. At such a critical decisive moment, as long as our army concentrates all its strength on one point, captures it alive in one fell swoop, or beheads Gongsun Zhan in battle, its army will definitely collapse on all fronts, and the defenders of its territory will also surrender when they hear the wind...... Isn't this exactly what you said about capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and how can you kill more? ”
"Shhh Nan Ying couldn't help but take a breath, and he looked at Cai Yan with a confident face in disbelief...... Because of his strong intervention and unexpected guidance, from now on, in this world, I am afraid that there will be one less legendary talent who will leave a name in history, but one more famous heroine on the battlefield! And "Poems of Grief and Indignation" and "Eighteen Beats of Hu Ji" are afraid that they will not be born. Creation makes people, as far as Si!
He looked at Cai Yan in a daze, and said faintly after a while: "That's why you took the opportunity to be arbitrary, and transferred from Bohai that group of people who can only be mobilized by Ben Jiang and Mengyi!" ”
"Please punish the general!" Cai Yan suddenly leaned over and saluted, and couldn't help but let out a thin nervous gasp from his mouth...... Military law is strict, how can it be allowed to exceed the rules? The light is a fine and demotion, and the head falls to the ground!
Nan Ying didn't answer, of course he wouldn't stick to the rules, so he punished Cai Yan.
He was silent for a long time, and then said, "According to your calculations, when will that batch of people arrive?" ”
Cai Yan was stunned and hesitated: "If everything goes well, it should be tomorrow at noon!" ”
"At that time, the war should have begun!" Nan Ying's eyes lit up slightly: "It's the right time!" ”
"General, the responsibility of your subordinates ......" Cai Yan saw that Nanying didn't mention the punishment of the crime, and bit his lip and spoke again.
Nanying waved his hand, turned his head and left. After walking a few steps, he suddenly turned around again, and said with a strange eye: "When the war started, you were with the side of the general, just waiting for the reinforcements to arrive, and personally reported to the general!" ”
Cai Yan was stunned, and when he was speculating about the mind of the main general, he saw that Nanying had already gone far away. Of course, she couldn't have imagined that at this moment, in Nanying's heart, a bold adventure plan had already begun to be brewed!
The dull thunderous drum beat sounded one by one, and the boundless soldiers of the Youzhou Army of Gongsun Zhan stepped on the drum beat, revealing their figures from the light of the early sun. The arrival of Gongsun Chan's main force was faster than Nan Ying imagined, clearly revealing Gongsun Chan's inflated ambition that was already difficult to suppress.
Rows of Youzhou Army soldiers gradually widened the distance as they marched, and they were arranged in a loose field formation. At the same time, the cavalry of the Youzhou Army also appeared on both flanks of the infantry, walking slowly and slowly, posing as a frame to accelerate the charge at any time.
Suddenly, the war drums sounded, and the cavalry of the Youzhou Army stopped at the same time, but the infantry leaned over and raised their shields at the same time, and continued to slowly press towards the Bohai Navy's vehicle formation.
Nanying's heart sank slightly, of course it was impossible for the Youzhou army to directly press all the elites, and it was even more impossible for the cavalry to hit the hard impact vehicle formation. But their infantry was so slow, didn't they become a live target for the Bohai Navy? There must be a conspiracy in this!
"Three hundred steps for the enemy!" The herald beside him looked at the flag of the flag commander on the wooden tower behind him, and shouted loudly at the distance of the enemy...... This distance is already within the effective attack range of the Bohai Navy's catapults and bed crossbows.
He watched nervously at the general's reflection, and from time to time continued to aim at the wooden tower with his peripheral eyes, and soon shouted: "One hundred and fifty steps of the enemy!" "In this position, the Bohai Navy's strong bow can also exert its power.
Nanying's pupils suddenly contracted violently, and he saw the enemy soldiers cowering behind the shield leaning over from time to time...... They are picking up the thistles laid by the Bohai Navy!
"All the archers have ......" Nanying didn't even have time to use sign language, and directly shouted: "Arrow rain cover, non-stop strike!" ”
The reaction of the Bohai Navy soldiers was fast and efficient, the main general had just given the order, and the flag commander immediately waved the command flag, and in the next second, the thousand archers who had already been ready to start released the bowstring at the same time...... Their upward firing angle has been adjusted to the position of the enemy as the flag commander fires them, and they can deliver a covering blow even with their eyes closed.
It was as if thousands of birds were startled in the dense woods at the same time, and a terrible buzzing sound sounded on the flat ground, and a rain of arrows like swarms of locusts roared away.
In the formation of the enemy army, the sound of rain hitting lotus leaves sounded intensively, and at least 100 or so enemy soldiers fell to the ground and died without a sound, or they were hit by hands and feet, and their limbs were twisted and screamed.
The archers of the Bohai Navy continued to bend their bows and arrows expressionlessly, shooting a rain of arrows with the flag. After years of hard training, they could shoot between fifteen and twenty arrows in a row, and under such a continuous, intensive blow, no army could hold out to the end.
After nearly 1,000 enemy corpses, they retreated in a hurry, and some people stepped on the scattered thistles during the retreat, rolling all over the ground in pain, until the Bohai Navy stopped the rain of arrows, and then fled to the main formation.
After winning the first battle, the Bohai Navy soldiers cheered one after another, but Nan Ying's face was heavy because he underestimated Gongsun Zhan!
Gongsun Zhan obviously had made a lot of hard work on the defensive tactics of the Bohai Navy, and he was clear about the methods of digging trenches and traps of the Bohai Navy, and although he put on a mixed infantry and cavalry and all-out offensive posture, he only sent a group of infantry that was not elite to attack slowly, which seemed to be a test of the virtual and real and attracted firepower, but in fact he cleared most of the traps in front of the Bohai Navy's formation, and mastered the distribution and depth and width of the trenches, creating conditions for the next batch of attacks. Nanying can almost conclude that this batch of cannon fodder who came to Lei must be Liu Yu's old department that Gongsun Zhan hurriedly surrendered.
If Gongsun Zhan really used Liu Yu's old troops to lead the attack, it would inevitably cause dissatisfaction with the soldiers and even cause a mutiny. However, Gongsun Chan ordered these pawns to retreat behind their shields and slowly approach, only removing obstacles and traps, and not attacking seriously to the death, which was within the acceptable range of the generals...... Nan Ying suddenly had a shuddering feeling, the depth of Gongsun Zhan's city mansion exceeded his expectations!
Nanying suddenly smiled, and he said calmly: "Order, while the enemy army is defeated and retreating, send two hundred elites to clean up the battlefield and recover the available arrows!" Meantime...... Heal the wounded enemy soldiers on the spot! ”
"What!" Several voices around him shouted at the same time, and several male and female generals all showed incredible expressions. However, a military order is a military order, and the will of the commander in chief was immediately and resolutely implemented, and several groups of veterans quickly got out of the car formation and rushed to the battlefield using the wooden planks temporarily placed between the trenches.
"The general is benevolent!" Cai Yan's beautiful eyes widened, and he once again showed an undisguised look of admiration: "When the two armies are facing each other, it is almost unheard of to do such a benevolent and righteous act!" ”
Nanying smiled slightly, but did not answer.
"Holy! He is clearly vicious with his intentions, what kind of benevolence and righteousness is it? Zhang Mengyi, who came quietly, sneered: "He is using his grace to Liu Yu to surrender his soldiers, shake the morale of the enemy army, and divide the internal strength of Gongsun Zhan's army...... Imagine what would happen if the enemy attacked again? ”
"What will happen?" Cai Yan was stunned.
"When the enemy's formation is tight, in the face of hundreds of comrades who are wailing for help, if the troops are divided to rescue, the formation will be chaotic and the strength will be reduced!" Zhang Mengyi said with a smile: "If you ignore it, I'm afraid that those wounded soldiers will be trampled to death...... Hehe, in this way, Liu Yu's old department will inevitably be centrifuged, and the general's goal will be achieved! ”
"Is that really the case?" Cai Yan looked at Nan Ying in disbelief.
"Since Gu Ci is not in charge of the army, the general is helpless!" Nan Ying showed a wry smile, but soon turned to a fierce color: "Gongsun Zhan, this old boy wants to play tricks in front of the general, and he is still far behind!" ”
"Cai Yan, you give Ben a good memory!" He looked at Cai Yan's face and lowered his head with a sad face, obviously his heart was being strongly impacted, and he couldn't help but say lightly: "If I would have been kind to the enemy, I would have been cruel to you...... Because Ben wants you to survive as much as you can! ”
He slowly turned around, not looking at the subordinates with different faces, and silently said in his heart: This is just the beginning, and the real cruelty is still to come...... He ordered to clean up the battlefield for another purpose, when Gongsun Zhan saw the Bohai Navy's move to recover arrows, he must have thought that the Bohai Navy was short of arrows, so he would attack with all his might. That's when his chance came!