Chapter 0139: Prologue to the General Offensive
The night wind pulls the wind chimes, and the light bells seem to be sprinkled with pearls on the bluestone, ringing bells, as if reminding themselves of a long time ago.
This wind chime may be the best trophy Tang Yuan has obtained since he joined the army, but it was hung in a man's house at an inopportune time.
In my impression, men and women are barbaric and rough, but in fact, men and women are the same, and on the premise of ensuring food and clothing, they like to collect some fresh gadgets to decorate the life of the family.
Only a woman can be considered a home, but no woman is a family.
The recent battles have been very hard, and the sweltering weather has made people in iron armor even want to take off their iron armor, perhaps this is the first time they envy those soldiers who do not have iron armor.
Tang Yuan had just captured a county seat.
When he first received the task, Tang Yuan even thought that Zhang Zhikui was crazy, and asked him to take 1,300 people to fight the county seat?
Moreover, there are more than 200 seriously injured in the team, and the local people have long run out, so don't even think about entrusting the wounded soldiers to the people.
Occasionally, when I meet some people, I know that they are men by looking at their clothes, and it is better to kill the wounded soldiers directly than to hand them over to them.
Fortunately, this county town is almost an empty city, the city is small, the walls are very broken, and the moat can almost be said to be non-existent.
After a while of bombardment with catapults, the city wall had not yet fallen, and the people in the city had already climbed to the top of the city, waving white flags, signaling them not to bomb again, and the men in the city had already run out.
After entering the city, Tang Yuan didn't feel stable, and now Tang Qi was leading three brigades to attack Changzhou, and I heard that the battle situation was urgent.
The enemy's 50,000 troops have completely shrunk to the sixteen states of Yanyun, and this place has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, whether it is in the hands of the Han people or in the hands of the male Jia.
Therefore, in all state-level cities, the city walls are exceptionally strong, and if you want to blast it open with equipment like catapults, you don't know how many days and nights it will take, and it may not be possible.
Zhang Zhikui heard a while ago that he was going to be transferred back to the headquarters, and because his troops were overstaffed, he was still considering whether to send his supernumerary troops to these four divisions.
But later, he received an order from Huo Zizhen, ordering him not to come back, and to continue to command four divisions to form an Eastern Front battle group.
In fact, the handsome order that Zhang Zhikui received was problematic.
Because under normal circumstances, the seal of Zhao Guangda, the chief of the army, should be seen on the document, and at least there should be the seal of Lu Wuxuan, the general of the General Staff, but on this military order, there is only Huo Zizhen's own seal.
If other gate generals saw this order, they could even disobey the order, but Zhang Zhikui would not.
First of all, they are all members of the Meng family's gate valve, and they have one more gate valve order between each other, and Zhang Zhikui is holding back a lot of energy in his heart, he even wants to prove to the Meng family patriarch with his own performance, my Zhang Zhikui's ability is by no means under Huo Zizhen.
Therefore, the troops on the Eastern Front commanded by Zhang Zhikui fought particularly fiercely, and they had already attracted the attention of Pucha Sujia, who was cowering in Vaud.
Listening to the grapevine, Pucha Sujia was suddenly recalled by the male Jia Wang, and he was very dissatisfied, he thought that the male Jia Wang delayed his fighter to eliminate Zhang Zhikui's troops, but later he learned that it was not the male Jia Wang who let him come back, but the fifth prince Wanyan Da Trout.
Wanyan Da Trout was worried that he would not be able to transfer back Pucha Sujia, so he ordered him in the name of the male Jia Wang, and for this he was even more angry and furious.
If it weren't for the fact that the two countries were at war now, he would have been eager to run to the king to finish a copy of Yan Da Trout and theorize in the public court.
"How many people do you have in your hands now, they all report the real numbers to me." Zhang Zhikui held an emergency meeting and said.
"I have five thousand three hundred men under my command." Xiao Fei, a lieutenant general of the Third Division of the Fourth Army of the Tiger Ben, said.
Ju Fan glanced at Han Dang and said, "Two thousand seven, including some injuries." ”
Tang Qi glanced at Cen Shen, and Cen gave her a look and motioned for you to speak first.
Tang Qi said: "The three brigades, plus the escort regiment and the prison regiment, have a total of 2,000 people. ”
Zhang Zhikui knew that Tang Qi also had a division directly under him, so he asked, "What about Tang Yuan?" How many people did he have? ”
"He just finished beating Huichang, and I don't know how many there are." Tang Qi guessed: "Before the fight, he had 1,300 people, including 200 seriously injured. ”
Zhang Zhikui frowned and moved his gaze to Cen Shen.
Cen Shen said: "Six thousand five." ”
Zhang Zhikui said: "With the addition of my 4,000 people, roughly calculated, we have almost 20,000 people. Now Pucha Sujia is only 15,000. I decided to fight him again. ”
Last time in Gonggao City, the battle between the two sides was too tragic, but the main generals of both sides also impressed each other deeply.
Although Pucha Sujia ran away last time, he was still not convinced, he came back with someone to kill, and Zhang Zhikui also ran away.
The two sides can be said to have leveled off once, and this time, Pucha Sujia has no way out, and at the same time, his will to fight will definitely be more resolute.
In fact, the fighting spirit of the male Jia people has always been very tenacious, and Tang Yuan has had a deep understanding from the battle of the Maji River.
Just when Tang Yuan was about to rest in Huichang for a day, he suddenly received an order from Deputy Marshal Zhang Zhikui, asking him to quickly assemble in Changzhou, and the letter said that their four divisions had taken Changzhou and were preparing for a decisive battle with Pucha Sujia, the enemy of Vaud.
Tang Yuan didn't dare to delay the military order, he was not afraid of Zhang Zhikui, but was worried that he would delay the fighter plane and eventually cause the Liang army to suffer losses.
Don't underestimate a thousand people, if you use it well, you may be able to overwhelm the enemy with a surprise force.
When the scales are flat, a small weight may be able to change direction.
Youzhou is a big state, and there are sixteen important cities under the jurisdiction of Youzhou, which everyone is used to calling Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures. Several of these cities are not in Youzhou, but in the territory of Youzhou.
With Fanyang as the center, there is also the important town of Danzhou in the north, which is the only strategic depth of the Nanjia people now, and if they want to escape, it is also the only way to go.
It is said that Marshal Huo Zizhen has asked Wang Caotian, who broke through Yanmen Pass, to quickly move closer to Danzhou and cut off the escape route of the male Jiaren.
Huo Shuai's move was ruthless enough, this was to besiege and kill all the male Jia people in the sixteen states of Yanyun.
However, this long-distance attack is very challenging for the veteran Wang Caotian, and I don't know if the veteran general can complete the task.
"Report to Captain Tangdu, the battle is in full swing in front, and I can't see the situation clearly, the formations of both sides have been used, and the melee has begun! There are no troops left. Scout Feng Pegasus, rushing quickly.
"Are you sure the enemy must be running out of reinforcements?" Tang Yuan asked.
"When I went over, I contacted the scout captain Shiraha, and he had already sent someone to crawl out for dozens of miles to investigate, and he would never make a mistake."
"Okay, let's go up the hill in front of us first and take a look at the situation on both sides." Tang Yuan raised his horsewhip: "Let's go!" ”