Chapter 477: Battle of Honor
The captains immediately executed the military order, if they won this battle, it would not be for Mingfu, but for the Divine Cavalry, but for themselves!
The glory and scenery of the Divine Cavalry have disappeared for too long, so long that they dare not think about it anymore, in the mountains and wilderness of Nanjian Prefecture, they just want to quickly forget the appearance of the past and can no longer go back, so that they will not be too disappointed in reality.
The three-way intersection is a valley, and piles of bonfires rise in the valley, and soon the valley is red.
General Li and General Shao of the judging group suffered a lot today, they were one step behind everywhere, and they ran a lot of unjust roads, and after sending people to inquire about it, the entire judging group and the escort team disappeared into the mountains and forests, because they got the news from the mouth of the chief general of the divine cavalry that after dark, they would return to the three-way intersection.
The mountain was slightly cool, and the two generals, Li and Shao, were roasting the bonfire, chatting without a word.
"Do you think they can stump each other with this move?"
"Judging from the behavior of the generals before the selection of troops, they will definitely take the bait, as for whether it will stump them, it is difficult to say, after all, you and I don't know the terrain route in this mountain. This kid has a lot of ideas, let's see how they fight. ”
"I don't know what happened to Master Zhang at this time? If the troops are chosen to take the bait, I am afraid that Lord Zhang will also be implicated. ”
"Then there is no way, I wish him good luck, don't wear himself out."
After saying that, the two chuckled.
Between the piles of fires, the smell of rice wafted out of the valley, and the god cavalry finally ate a hot meal after a day of marching.
I don't know how long it took, but the bonfires in the valley were quickly extinguished, and soon fell into darkness and silence, and if they didn't know, they would have thought that they were too tired from marching, and were already asleep.
The entire force of the Divine Cavalry crossed the junction at night and quickly walked north, although the speed of the march was not fast, their figures quickly disappeared into the night.
It was dawn, and the bonfire on the east side of the ridge was quite extinguished.
After a night's rest, although the soldiers recovered a lot of physical strength, it was not easy to sleep on the top of the mountain, and they could not sleep at all in the gust of cold wind, so they had to go to the campfire to warm up.
Soon after dawn, the spies in front brought in military information again.
"The enemy had a short rest at the three-way intersection last night, and after burying the pot and cooking, they suddenly pulled out their camp and marched north, and we pursued them for the next two miles, and we did not find their whereabouts until midnight!"
"Didn't find out? You didn't catch up? Or are you lost? ”
Yao Chang was shocked, and a very bad premonition came to his heart.
"They are a large army, and the marching speed is not fast, but there are many forks in the north, and we have limited manpower, so we can't send people to chase them at every fork, and it is too dark to miss half an hour, and it will be difficult to catch them again. The villain is not doing well, please punish the general! ”
Sure enough, Yao Chang's face was a little ugly, the opponent had been wandering at the intersection yesterday, waiting for it to take advantage of the fork in the north after dark to get rid of the spying and surveillance of their spies.
"Forget it, leave two people at the three-way intersection to continue monitoring, and the rest of the people will withdraw and go to the north to investigate the enemy!"
"Yes, General!"
After receiving the order, the spies quickly left and went to the front to reassign the mission.
There are many forks in the north, and with their command, they can't divide their troops to intercept them halfway, and I'm afraid that the only thing they can do is to retreat. Of course, if you quietly find out the opponent's marching route, you can still set up an ambush along the road and teach them a lesson.
But it was almost impossible to find out with a limited number of men, unless another team from the camp was pulled out to help.
After thinking about it all night, Yao Chang still thought of a few methods, but he was not absolutely sure of the implementation, and a certain amount of luck was required, and blocking luck was not what he was good at.
Just when the whole army was making fires and cooking, Yao Chang made the final decision.
Soon after sunrise in the east, the whole army set camp.
Yao Chang issued the marching order: return to the camp!
The selection of generals and troops to take the initiative to retreat, everyone was surprised, the soldiers and captains of the whole army, including Yang Congyi and Master Zhang, who were watching the battle.
Retreating means showing weakness, they are the selection of generals, the mountains are their territory, out to fight, how can they run back to the camp without seeing the enemy?
Facing the captain's puzzled eyes, Yao Chang told them: Execute the military order.
The troops retreated, and within a day they had returned to a makeshift camp in the mountains.
But when he returned to the camp only half a mile away, Yao Chang issued another military order: camp on the spot, no one is allowed to return to the camp!
The ordinary soldiers were a little confused, since they were all back, why didn't they just go back to the camp? Can't you wait for your opponent in the camp?
The doubts of the soldiers are also the doubts of the lieutenants.
Yao Chang told them that if they returned to the camp, then the battle would become a siege war, and they could face off head-on and lose, but they could not hide in the camp to win, which was not the original intention of the challenge.
Although the lieutenants did not understand, they did not ask any more.
Less than half a mile from the makeshift camp, a new camp soon appeared.
Facing Luo Cong, who came to visit the camp, Yao Chang bluntly said that he didn't want to lose, but he didn't want to rely on the camp to resist, what he wanted to do was to fight, not to defend.
Yang Congyi and Master Zhang are not so particular, they are spectators, and they are the same wherever they stay, since there are camps with better conditions, why should they sleep in the wilderness. So, they went straight back to the camp.
In fact, seeing that the selected generals were camped outside the camp, Yang Congyi already understood what Yao Chang thought.
According to the rules, there are only two ways for the challenger to win, one is to defeat the selected general in the field encounter, and the other is to take the temporary camp where the selected general is stationed.
There are two general selection troops, one goes to battle and the other stays behind, and when the camp is really attacked by the challenge troops, the remaining troops cannot help, otherwise they will be judged.
Therefore, once the challenge begins, there is only one general who really faces the challenge troops, and he has only one choice, either take the initiative to attack, find the opponent, and defeat the opponent, or honestly stay in the camp and wait for the opponent to come to challenge.
After the rules were formulated, no matter whether it was Yao Chang or Luo Cong, no one would honestly stay in the camp and wait for the opponent, in fact, they had only one choice, that is, to take the initiative to attack, defeat the opponent, and train in the mountains for a few months, they had never practiced how to defend the camp at all, because it was not their option.
Now the situation is forced, Yao Chang has to retreat to the camp, the night of the provocation he thought about the problem of retreat, go to the north to find the other party, and then intercept, it is too difficult, a little less lucky, once you miss the other party, you will give the camp to the other party, if you want to win decently, you must fight with the other party in front of the camp, it is not his choice to retreat to the camp to organize defense, what he wants is still to fight.
In this selection, what we want to choose is those who dare to take the initiative and dare to fight, and the defense is not unimportant, but it is not so urgent.
Two days later, the Divine Cavalry came all the way to a place only three miles away from the camp of the Elective General.
The spies in front had already returned to report it, and the opponents were waiting in formation not far away.
After a few days of forced marching, the Divine Cavalry was exhausted from top to bottom, and the other side waited for their work and battle, and they had almost no chance of winning.
Ming Fu is very clear about this, but since he finally came here, this battle must be fought, no matter whether he wins or loses, he has to give an explanation to the Divine Cavalry!
"Brothers, I know you're tired, but the opponent is right in front of you, from north to south, from south to north, we have come so far to be in this place! In this battle, we are not for anyone, only for ourselves! Brothers, to fight or not to fight? ”
Ming Fu stood in front of the tired whole army, standing on top of half a tree stump, raising his gun and shouting.
"Fight! War! War! ”
The tired soldiers raised their troops and roared, and at this moment they seemed to go back to ten years ago, how young they were then, it was the year of war!
Looking at some of the slightly old faces in the team, shouting hard, Mingfu's eyes moistened.
"Good! Brothers, fight with me! ”
"Brothers, rush!"
The captains, who were already young, responded hoarsely and shouted, raising their blades to guide the direction of the team.
Ming Fu crossed the stake, carried a spear without a spear head, and ran towards the opponent's preset battlefield two miles away, and the soldiers shouted and followed.
At this moment, there is no formation, no queue, only the instinct to rush forward, just like all the battlefields they have encountered, there is no preparation, and there is no need to prepare, just remember to rush and kill.
Selecting the position of the troops, the spies rushed in.
"General, they're coming, about a mile!"
"Pass the order, the whole army is ready to attack!"
Yao Chang stood on a high platform improvised with a few pieces of wood and gave orders in a loud voice.
The whole commander of the soldiers was all arranged on the relatively gentle mountain in front of the camp, in groups of five, with two spears and three short knives, each group about two feet apart.
This formation was taught by Yang Congyi to train them, and it is suitable for positional warfare for small-scale defense, so I didn't think I would use it, but I didn't want to use it here.
Yao Chang was already very clear about this victory and defeat, because the spies did not come to report once, and the other party was very tired from marching for days, and he had just rested for less than half an hour, so he rashly set out and came directly to attack the camp.
But when he stood on the high platform and really saw the other party's feet rushing straight towards him like the wind and the mountains and seas, he was still shocked, especially when the soldiers on both sides met head-on, the soldiers of the other side waved and roared, and suddenly for a moment, he suddenly felt that the other party was so powerful, so powerful that it was invincible.
The two armies met on a gentle mountain terrain!
The God Cavalry, who had no formation to speak of, relied on their blood and completely ignored the sticks, and rushed head-on into the formation that had already been set up by the selection troops.
There were not many drills, and the formation that was temporarily taken out was quickly dispersed by the veterans who were not afraid of death, and in an instant, the formation was completely gone, and the battle was a mess.
The two troops, thousands of men on the low slopes, caught each other and killed, although the weapons were treated so that they did not injure people's lives, but they did not hurt when hit on the body.
However, a tired veteran with a lot of enthusiasm, one-on-one frontal resistance, where will be the opponent of the young and strong generals and soldiers of the army.