Chapter 62: Zhao Kuangyin is here (asking for a ticket to Sanjiang)
More than half an hour after the scouts were dispatched, the signals of peace were transmitted one after another.
Guo Huai immediately ordered that one of the commanders of the front army immediately enter and leave the mountain, and the fifth commander who was originally behind the pad was arranged by him to be in front of the Chinese army, and the township army under the fourth command was behind the pad, responsible for monitoring the porter who changed into a flat shoulder and the coachman who pushed the wheelbarrow.
"All of them, bow wound, crossbow wind, open the arrow box, out!" Guo Huai rode on his horse and shouted orders at the township soldiers who had finished the formation.
Li Zhongyi nodded secretly on the side, Guo Huai became more and more mature. Guo Huai, who was originally unknown in history, if he continues to temper according to this trend, he is likely to become a generation of famous generals in the future.
The township army drove into the mountainous area, and Li Zhongyi was worried that the target was too big on the horse, so he simply dismounted and walked with the soldiers.
After entering the mountains for more than ten miles, the large army of the township army is getting closer and closer to Gaoliang Village.
At this time, a man was lying behind a large rock on the top of the mountain, carefully observing the every move of the village army.
"Zhao Shuai, the brothers are all in ambush, and when these villagers enter the encirclement, we will set fire to shoot arrows and kill his mother." An officer with a long beard muttered quietly in Zhao Kuangyin's ear.
"How to kill?" Zhao Kuangyin retracted his gaze, sighed and said, "The commander of this group of township soldiers is very cautious. Their scouts are scattered far away, and if they kill one, they will alarm the others. ”
"The village soldiers in tattered clothes, how can they be the opponents of my elite forbidden army in the Great Zhou, let's say less can be a top ten." The bearded officer looked unusually arrogant.
"How do you say hello? Don't you see that the dozens of scouts at the front are surprisingly difficult? Zhao Kuangyin pursed his lips dissatisfiedly, "On this road, about every stone's throw away, there will be two cavalrymen behind you. If it was just these cavalry, the problem was that the surrounding mountains and forests were scattered with village scouts in groups of three. ”
"Even if our Tiger Jie army with a lot of sharpshooters is here, we can't guarantee that we will kill all of them?" Zhao Kuangyin narrowed his eyes and looked up at the clear blue sky, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Damn, Zhang Yongde is jealous of your great achievements and growing prestige, he wants to rectify us." The bearded officer grumbled indignantly.
"Be generous, be cautious." Zhao Kuangyin looked around vigilantly, and saw that there were no outsiders except for a few credible tooth soldiers, so he was a little relieved.
Although, the righteous brother Wang Zhengzhong, Wang Dafang, is a big mouth, but what he said is the truth.
When the troops were dispatched from Kaifeng, Zhang Yongde and Zhao Kuangyin each led an army and made an appointment to attack Qinzhou and Fengzhou.
However, after Zhao Kuangyin took Qinzhou within a day, the situation in the rear suddenly changed, and Zhang Yongde urgently assigned his brother-in-law Li Yuan to take over Qinzhou City.
According to Zhang Yongde's military order, Li Yuan intercepted Zhao Kuangyin's descendant troops, and the elite army of more than 10,000 tigers.
Zhao Kuangyin had to take four generals and more than 8,000 forbidden troops that had been put together temporarily to go out of the city and attack Chengzhou.
The goal of Zhao Kuangyin's battle this time was always locked in Hechi City, which was in the rear of the Shu army. Only by making immortal achievements can he have a better chance of gaining the favor of His Majesty and climbing to a higher position of power.
So, Zhao Kuangyin simply bypassed Chengzhou City, which had become a frightened bird, and traveled day and night to attack Hechi City.
When he led his troops to the vicinity of Gaoliang Village, there were about 800 Shu troops stationed in the village.
Although the number of Shu troops in Gaoliang Village is not large, the terrain where the village is located is too dangerous, and the path in front of the village only allows five soldiers to pass Guò side by side.
If he attacks Gaoliang Village with ten times the number of troops, Zhao Kuangyin is sure that he can take it. However, in this way, his plan to sneak attack Hechi, the logistics camp of the Shu army, will definitely go bankrupt.
Zhao Kuangyin will never allow it, his hard work and careful planning have fallen short.
Therefore, after careful calculation, Zhao Kuangyin took a thousand soldiers and horses, and spent three days bypassing Gaoliang Village without alarming the Shu army.
Zhao Kuangyin personally led people to climb the dangerous peak, touched the mountain from the back village, and successfully attacked the Shu army of Gaoliang Zhai without the slightest vigilance.
Due to the treacherous terrain, the Shu army was caught off guard and did not organize an effective counterattack at all.
After interrogating a large number of prisoners, Zhao Kuangyin ordered people to count the prisoners of the Shu army and the number of people killed in battle according to the roster.
Zhao Kuangyin said very clearly, you have to see people in life, and you have to see corpses in death.
In the end, the Shu army, which had an unusually low combat effectiveness, only killed more than 30 people, and all the living ones were captured, and none of them ran away.
After Zhao Kuangyin learned the news, he was very excited, and he attacked Hechi County, there is great hope!
At this time, the vigilant sentry suddenly came to report, saying that about 3,000 or so soldiers from Shu came from the direction of Hechi, and they had entered the mountains for more than ten miles.
"God won't help me!" Zhao Kuangyin sighed again and again, he knew in his heart that it must be the Shu army guard of Hechi, after learning the news that Qinzhou was lost, he raised his vigilance and sent troops to reinforce Gaoliang Village.
Without further ado, Zhao Kuangyin left only 1,000 soldiers and horses to guard Gaoliang Village, and then personally took about 7,000 soldiers and horses to choose a gourd-shaped location in the mountains, and set a deadly trap to annihilate the reinforcements of Shu.
"Hmph, such a little local chicken, tile and dog-like villager is not enough for us to stuff our teeth." Wang Zhengzhong had a horsetail grass in his mouth, vaguely expressing his lofty arguments.
"You, let's take a closer look at the enemy's situation, right?" Zhao Kuangyin has no good way to take Wang Zhengzhong, a righteous brother.
Wang Zhengzhong is a brave general with obvious advantages and disadvantages. This guy charges forward and goes forward, he is indeed very brave, but unfortunately, he is a general who doesn't like to use his brain to play conspiracy.
"You take a closer look over here, yes, that's it, what's there?" Zhao Kuangyin raised his hand and pointed in the direction of the top of the mountain, beckoning Wang Zhengzhong to look over.
Wang Zhengzhong looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see anything famous, so he muttered: "Aren't they just a few villagers with bows and crossbows?" ”
"Oh, you. Let's put it this way, in my combat experience, most of the front scouts of the general army are on guard along the sides of the mountain road. However, the scouts of these village soldiers moved along the line of search on the top of the mountain. As long as they get closer, the ambushes we have arranged on both sides of the mountain road will definitely be seen by them. "Zhao Kuangyin also hates iron and steel, and he is really helpless.
"Well, what then?" After all, Wang Zhengzhong is a veteran general who fights old battles, and Zhao Kuangyin made his words clear, and he also realized the strictness of it.
When assigning tasks before the war, Zhao Kuangyin repeatedly emphasized that the ambush soldiers should not attack lightly, but should stay on both sides of the mountain road, release arrows, throw stones, and throw firewood, grass and dead branches.
After the chief general of the township soldiers has a mental breakdown, he will surrender again, and it is necessary to completely annihilate this irregular group of Shu country soldiers.
After the arrangement was properly arranged, Zhao Kuangyin was still very confident, although the elite of the Hujie Army he led was not trained by himself, but he was also a veteran soldier who had been in battle for a long time.
With twice as many veteran soldiers, as long as they firmly surround these hometown soldiers of Shu and do not attack blindly, the possibility of total annihilation is still quite large.
In addition, Zhao Kuangyin has sent a large number of scouts to the nearby mountainous areas to carry out the work of clearing the mountains. Anyone who appears on the scout must be caught or killed, and no one must be let go.
No way, this is a brutal war. Zhao Kuangyin is not yet the Song Taizu who needs to pretend to be benevolent and righteous, and he is still in the stage where he needs to climb up desperately, and it is also a rational choice to exchange the blood of the grass people of Shu for a miracle.
In the canyon between the mountains of "Dripping ......", a sharp and piercing sound suddenly echoed, very similar to a flute, but similar to the sound of a flute, in short, very strange.
Zhao Kuangyin raised his body and stared at the mountain road with blazing eyes, he vaguely realized that this strange sound should have something to do with the village soldiers of Shu State.
Before the war, he had already issued a strict order, and those who dared to make a noise would be killed.
On the mountain road, a cavalryman of the Shu army, who heard the sound of the police whistle, turned the horse's head without hesitation and whipped the horse's buttocks fiercely.
The Dali horse, which originally didn't have much sprint power, was right under Zhao Kuangyin's nose, as if he was crazy, and ran out of the smoke all the way.
Because it was a mountain road winding up the mountain, the condescending Zhao Kuangyin saw it clearly this time, and dared to be affectionate, the scout of the Shu army on horseback lay low on the horse. He had a strange thing in his mouth, and he ran wildly and blew on it, stirring up an astonishing sound throughout the valley.
In the blink of an eye, between the mountains, there was a sharp bamboo whistle everywhere.
Standing tall, that is, to see far, Zhao Kuangyin was surprised to see that the Shu army forward, who was originally marching on the mountain road, did not immediately turn around and run after hearing the bamboo whistle.
These vanguard soldiers of the Shu army, under the orders of the officers, quickly lined up and put on a defensive posture.
Zhao Kuangyin saw very clearly that the queue of the Shu army was abnormally strict, and the formation was also very orderly.
The sword and shield soldiers of the Shu army were placed at the forefront of the ranks, and beside each sword and shield soldier, there was a soldier holding a spear tightly.
These Shu troops, one by one, the knives are unsheathed, the shield is in front, and the tip of the spear is pointed obliquely, passing through the shield. The archers behind them were already on the strings, and they did not draw their bows for the time being.
The crossbowmen at the end of the queue had also raised their crossbow machines with arrows on them, and they were looking diagonally at the mountain path ahead.
Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but squint his eyes, Shu Jun's appearance was simply outstanding, so much so that he felt extremely shocked in his heart.
Just now, Zhao Kuangyin looked very carefully, and within just a few breaths, the forward battalion of the Shu army had actually made the necessary defensive preparations.
You must know that even if it is the Hujie army led by Zhao Kuangyin, it will take at least a quarter of an hour to list the same combat formation!
The formation listed by the Shu army is like a group of thorns hugging each other, and with the help of the cover of special terrain, it is almost invulnerable.
If it is on the plain, Zhao Kuangyin can command the army and surround these Shu legions, and some have the means to rectify these guys.
However, Zhao Kuangyin really has no good way to break through the defense line of the Shu army now, so he can only stare dryly.
If it is the iron cavalry of the Khitans, how will they deal with such an army?
After Zhao Kuangyin's calculations, he felt that even if the cavalry of the Khitan people met these Shu troops in the plain, it was very likely that they would not dare to break into such a tight infantry array.
Zhao Kuangyin fought with the Khitans, and he believed that most of the Khitans would still take the method of dealing with the elite forbidden army of the Zhou army, first using wolf pack tactics to attack and harass first, not letting you eat and drink, and being in a state of tension at any time.
The usual method of the Khitans is to cut off the grain route first, wait for the opponent to be dragged down and dragged down, and then move the wave group charge to devour the prey that falls to the mouth.
Now, even if Zhao Kuangyin has thousands of cavalry, because the mountain road is too narrow, the huge impact of the cavalry group's charge cannot be wielded at all.
That is to say, in the face of the forward of the Shu army, how many cavalry rushed up, how many had to die.
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