The hesitation in Xue Ne's heart was thrown away all of a sudden, and he said to Li Xingzhou immediately.

"I will choose a place for Yan Guogong with 40,000 horses to defend, you and I will lead the cavalry to attack south, and kill him by surprise!"

On the fifth watch of the next day, Xue Ne had gathered about 68,000 elite cavalry, prepared lightly with cavalry as the main force, and bid farewell to Heizhi Changzhi.

With the white oriental canopy as the background, a column of Han knights carrying long weapons walked through the sight.

The sky was just bright, and Li Xingzhou couldn't see their faces clearly, but the shape of the Tang Dynasty armor and the Chinese characters in the windward banner were so kind!

In the far northwest border, in the uninhabited wilderness, a large number of Han athletes gathered here, and the tall figure is like the backbone of the people.

Xue Neze rode away with his generals without looking back, shouting in the iron armor.

"Defeat the Tibetan Iron Cavalry in one fell swoop and fight for the rise and fall of the country!"

The army shouted long live, and Xue Ne shouted loudly again.

"Xue fought side by side with the soldiers and brothers...... Let's go! ”

In the faint morning light, the two rows of trumpeters in front of the camp held the huge horns of human height, puffed out their cheeks and played a desolate and vigorous trumpet.

The music is so monotonous that it doesn't change.

But one after another, the repetition seemed to rise into the sky, echoing across the vast land.

"Knock, knock......"

The sound of the trumpet was followed by the sound of the drums, from slow to fast, and a strong man howled in a torn voice, and Li Xingzhou did not hear the words in the song.

The army marched far and south in a mighty way, and all around was full of horses.

On the way, Liu Tao and other generals asked Li Xingzhou.

"How to set up this battle?"

Xue Ne said.

"How else can so many people be arranged? After catching up with the Tibetan soldiers, when the enemy meets the battle, a decisive battle will be held in front of it, divided into left, middle and right armies, attacking in turn, whoever is strong wins. ”

The generals thought so, and Xue Ne ordered strict military law to the generals of the ministry.

If the attacking troops do not receive the order to retreat, the entire defeated army will be beheaded by generals above the rank of lieutenant.

Those who retreat without authorization will be beheaded on the spot; The horses and property of the plundered Tubo army do not need to be handed over and divided according to merit.

More than 60,000 troops rode lightly, traveled more than 100 miles a day, and walked for two days.

The next day, the former army encountered the scattered scouts of Tubo, and they were all scattered by killing until they caught up with the main force of Tubo.

The Tibetan army had withdrawn from Baihai City and crossed a tributary of the Yellow River to the south.

They carried a large amount of baggage, and naturally they couldn't outrun the light soldiers of the Tang army.

He was forced to fight on the open plain on the south bank of the river.

The main force of the Tang army crossed Baihai City, divided its troops into the city to search and found that there was nothing to rob, only a part of the seriously wounded soldiers and the old and weak in Tibet, so the Tang army slaughtered them all.

Then he set fire to the city, burning down all the houses that could be burned in the city, and Baihai City turned into a ruined and dead city in a blink of an eye.

The tributary of the Yellow River to the south of the city was narrow and shallow, and it had become thick with icemen and horses to pass through without any obstacles.

Li Xingzhou ordered the river bank to be repaired for one night, and the next morning the whole army crossed the river and set up in front of the Tubo camp, and the two armies faced each other in the north and south.

Li Xingzhou led his troops to ride their horses to the high place to observe the enemy formation, and there was a sea of people in front of them, and the black oppressive men and horses seemed to grow a big land lake in the white vast earth, and there were mountains blocking part of it and could not see it all......

Li Xingzhou had never seen how many 500,000 people were put together, and he didn't know how many people there were in the opposite camp, anyway, there were a lot of people.

The Tang army's side is also very spectacular, and after the formation is opened, I see people all over the mountains.

......

……

To the south of Baihai City, hundreds of thousands of troops confronted each other in the continuous Gobi Desert.

The whole day was a tentative battle between the two sides.

Xue Ne did not order the onslaught, and he waited with some worry in his heart.

Li Xingzhou stood on top of it, and from here he was condescending, and he could see the situation on both sides of the battlefield at the same time.

Wang Xingyan, Wang Sili, Da Xiong, Persimmon, Park Jingtai, Wuyang, Li Baishi and others all accompanied her to climb the heights.

Wang Xingyan said.

"There are almost 100,000 troops who have arrived at the battlefield, and the first thing they do is to clean up the battlefield, and at the same time, the surrounding defense measures are not strict, if we suddenly kill them at this time, it is estimated that they can be killed alone."

"It can be seen that Rinchen Gang is a rigid person, sticking to the rules, and lacking the ability to be flexible."

"And from giving an order to carrying it out.....

Wang Xingyan turned his head and looked at the hourglass.

"It took about a quarter of time."

"That's what I'm most concerned about right now."

Li Xingzhou put down clairvoyance.

"100,000 people, three-level herald system, three times my number, four times my efficiency, the specific time difference is ......"

Li Xingzhou closed his eyes and calculated.

"Nearly ten minutes."

Li Xingzhou is still used to the original timekeeping method.

On the battlefield, details determine the big picture.

Although it was just an act of cleaning up the battlefield, Li Xingzhou and Wang Xingyan, who were old in the battlefield, still found the important information they needed for the first time.

Obviously, Rinchengang did not think that Xue Ne had any blatant intention to attack.

In fact, although Li Xingzhou Xue Ne is different, he does not have the moral constraints of this era in his heart.

This laid a good foundation for the surprise attack that followed.

Li Xingzhou is not good at marching and arranging, but he is good at observing.

He is good at observing the opponent's command efficiency, execution ability, and the ability level of commanders at all levels, as well as the ability of the soldiers of each unit to cooperate with each other, and find the weak points of the opponent through their organizational actions.

And now, through this series of military reactions, Li Xingzhou has found the one thing he needs most at the moment, the time difference in command efficiency.

In general, when the number of troops is controlled below a thousand, the command efficiency is the strongest, and there is almost no need for heralds.

The commander can complete his command by shouting himself.

The scale of 1,000 to 5,000 people requires three to five heralds to convey the operational command intention for them.

When the size rises to 10,000 people, the heralds begin to appear in formation, and the commander will give orders to the heralds in large numbers.

They will then convey specific combat orders.

At this time, the herald mechanism is still the same: commander-herald-combat unit.

However, at this point, the basic limit of this mechanism has been maximized, and if it climbs higher, it will be necessary to carry out multi-level summons.

That is, the order is distributed one level after another, and the effect of the command will be greatly reduced, and even the content will be hindered.

When the scale rises to about 30,000 people, this herald system evolves into the commander-in-chief -- herald -- operational commander -- herald -- combat unit.

When the scale rises to about 100,000 people, the herald system evolves into a central command, a herald, a hierarchical command, a herald, an operational command, a herald, and a combat unit.

When the scale rises to about 300,000 people, this herald system adds another layer, even multi-layer.

With the increase of the number of people, the expansion of the battlefield range, and the multi-level of distance and herald levels, the ability of the commander to carry out the command intention in the battle is greatly reduced.

The fun game of drumming and talking is to have dozens of people sit together, the first person says a word, then it reaches the second person's ear, and then it goes down in turn, and by the time it reaches the last person's ear, the content is often different.

The more hierarchical the herald system becomes, the less efficient it becomes, and the greater the chance of misinterpreting military orders.

It is shown that it is better on the march, and many things can be roughly guessed as the commander's intentions even if they are not understood.

Once the battlefield covers tens or hundreds of miles during the war, and the surrounding areas are full of blood, the probability of various tactical choices is greatly increased, and the possibility of guessing the commander's combat intent is greatly reduced.

On the other hand, it is not uncommon to mishear the order and misunderstand its meaning.

Considering that commanders, due to their limited field of vision, do not have enough information to collect, and need to be constantly reported to them, the reporting system, like the herald system, needs to be passed in layer by layer, so that the ability to process such comprehensive information will be reduced even more.

Although at this time, he was good at using a variety of command methods such as flag language, drumming, and singing gold to greatly improve the efficiency of command, but due to the limitations of its own conditions, it could only express limited meanings.

It is mainly used for the realization of pre-agreed battle plans, and can only express the simplest command intentions, and is not suitable for more specific information transmission in the case of sudden changes on the battlefield.

Therefore, the herald is still the main mode of information transmission in the era of cold weapons, especially the transmission of complex information.

Later generations of military scientists once made such a highly targeted numerical simulation calculation.

That is, in the era of cold weapons, large-scale battles were based on 50,000 people, and every time the number of people doubled, the scope of the battlefield doubled, and the command efficiency of the battle was tripled.

When the number of people rises to more than 150,000, the reception of information and the transmission of orders will form two separate time zones, and the interaction between them will further deepen this inefficiency in command.

It's not a simple add-on.

If, under such circumstances, one or two more commanders play a lively role in the back, the full implementation of the commander's operational intentions will become an empty talk.

At that time, he will really be a giant with slow nervous reactions, and he will be molested by a young and strong little man until he is knocked to the ground.

Therefore, many people believe that in the cold weapon combat in the feudal era, even if the commander was a genius, his truly effective command radius was only 50 meters around him, and the farther away from this, the more the commander's command ability declined, and the more obvious the command effect was.

In this case, it is not surprising that a smaller number of elite soldiers can defeat a larger number of miscellaneous soldiers.

As far as Li Xingzhou is concerned, what he is most concerned about now is how efficient the other side's herald system is, and when the commanders of the two armies give orders to their troops at the same time, whoever can take the lead in carrying out the commander's operational intentions will be closer to victory.

As far as Li Xingzhou is concerned, what he cares about is not whether his troops' execution efficiency is faster than that of the other party, but how much faster than the other party.

From the departure of Pegasus, the herald of the Chinese army's big tent, to the start of the actions of the various troops, it took almost a quarter of time.

There are twelve large scales on the hourglass, representing the twelve hours, and there are ten small scales on each large scale, so one small scale is equivalent to twelve minutes.

This is much worse than Zuo Yiwei's summoning efficiency of less than three minutes.

Ten minutes, a time difference of nearly ten minutes, that is, if both sides give combat orders at the same time on the battlefield, then Li Xingzhou's troops will respond ten minutes earlier than the other side.

Considering that the commander's information feedback system is the same, then this time difference will continue to increase, reaching twenty minutes, and this is still the efficiency of the other party's 100,000 people.

This is not only due to the number of soldiers, but also to the quality of the soldiers.

After getting this answer, Li Xingzhou immediately turned around and left, and said to Li Baishi.

"Write a military report to the battalion."

"Let's just say that Zhang Bi will lead the Eagle Yang Guard, and Murong Shun will lead the Flying Bear Guard, and the troops from the left and right wings will immediately extend to both sides, covering all the battlefields horizontally, and all the cavalry will move back to the rear, giving everyone time, and the decisive battle will be fought the day after tomorrow, and my Zuo Yiwei will take the lead."

Wang Xingyan was a little worried.

"Shall we take the lead?"

Li Xingzhou thought about it for a while and replied seriously: "Fight!" ”

......

Back at his camp, Li Xingzhou continued to observe his opponent's movements.

The king came in a hurry:

"Report! Marshal Xue's army has fully arrived, the battlefield cleanup is still continuing, the battlefield in front has been cleared, and it is currently encamped! ”

"See."

Li Xingzhou replied lazily.

"Concentrate on cleaning up the battlefield ahead, establish a defense system at the first time, although the command efficiency is not very good, the commander is not stupid...... But unfortunately, in terms of its performance, it is still a bit rigid and routine. ”

"A veteran's common problem."

Wang Xingyan was also observing with clairvoyance and smiled.

With the arrival of the Xue Ne army, the degree of clearing the battlefield accelerated, and the formation of the formation of the soldiers in front of the battle, the tense atmosphere on the battlefield gradually thickened.

The Tang Pingxi Army, the Twelfth Army of the Southern Ya of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Forbidden Army, the Eagle Yang Guard, the Flying Bear Guard and other military flags.

At the same time, it appeared on the vast land.

The flag was waved all the way, and the horse's hooves were trampled wildly, soaring out of the wind, fire and thunder.

Xue Ne brought a total of Tang elites such as Zuotunwei, Zhenwuwei, Xuanwuwei, Youtunwei, Yingyangwei, and Feixiongwei on this expedition.

Except for Zuo Tunwei, he was taken out by Xue Chuyu and disabled this time.

The right guard is left to the Black Tooth Changzhi.

There are still the remaining elites.

And Eagle Yangwei and Flying Bear Wei are the elite of the twelve guards in the Tang Dynasty.

Zhenwuwei and Xuanwuwei are also heroes in a hundred battles.

Some junior officers rode their horses and ran around in the middle of the military formation, calming everyone's emotions and restraining the soldiers' movements.

We must not act rashly, and do not attack without orders.

When the distant royal flag finally appeared at the far end of the horizon, the Tibetan army let out a warm cheer, it was Xue Ne who had finally arrived.

The 80,000 Tibetan army marched on the ground with a rumbling sound, and the huge carved dragon chariot was on the twenty oxen and horses.

Pushed forward slowly by forty Tibetan warriors, it was like a huge war rake, attracting everyone's attention.

Xue Ne squinted his eyes slightly, looking at the dragon king's drive, and the tall king flag fluttering in the wind, the blazing flames in his heart rose, and he raised his earth-shattering fighting spirit.

Behind him, Liu Tao, the general of the army, Lu Yulun, the marching commander, Shi Feng Changde, the general of the Chinese army, Xue Shenfu, the general of the right army, Zhang Bi, the eagle Yangwei, Murong Shun, the Zhenwu guard, Yin Wenshan, the Xuanwu guard, Ran Yangbo, and the left Yiwei Li Xingzhou also gathered together.

At that moment, Xue Ne said slowly.

"The day after tomorrow, the battle will determine the fate of our Pingxi Army, no matter success or failure, we will remain in the annals of history forever."

If you like the first anchor of Datang, please collect it: () The first anchor of Datang has the fastest update speed.