In the historical Battle of Baixiang, there were many reasons for the defeat of the Liang army, the most important point was of course the lack of cavalry, but in addition to the lack of cavalry, the confusion of the Liang army in command was also an important reason for the defeat.

Wang Jingren (Wang Maozhang) is a general, even if Zhu Wen is extremely optimistic about him, but he has no qualifications and prestige in the Liang army, which is not enough to convince Li Si'an and Han Qing.

If you deal with those weaker enemies, this hidden danger is not enough to kill, for example, when Yang Shihou and Liu Zhijun commanded the Liang army as newcomers, they faced the army of Wang Shifan or Li Maozhen, which was not a strong army.

Therefore, both of them can get through this "rookie" period well, so as to gradually establish their prestige.

However, Wang Jingren needed to fight with the elite of the Jin army commanded by Li Cunqiao and Zhou Dewei at the beginning, and his lack of prestige was a bit fatal.

And now that Wang Jingren is still in the state of Wu, Zhu Wen appointed Wang Yanzhang to command the Liang army.

Compared with Wang Jingren, Wang Yanzhang's reputation in the world is even smaller, after all, Wang Jingren has already proved his ability in the Battle of Qingzhou, and later he is the official envoy of Ningguo.

And Wang Yanzhang was only an upper-middle general before, and he never had the opportunity to lead the troops alone, so naturally he would not be famous.

However, Wang Yanzhang's advantage is that he is a general trained by Liang Guo, from the beginning of the low-level officer, step by step, gradually valued by Zhu Wen, this time he has the opportunity to lead the troops.

And Wang Jingren is just a general who came to surrender in difficulty, and he has no foundation in the Liang army.

"The Liang army should be a little confused in terms of command, so in this exercise, a few of you who are responsible for leading the Liang army can speak freely and decide for yourself how to act."

"And the Jin army is in charge of General Li Chengsi, General Shi Yan, the three of you can only obey General Li's military orders!"

"In terms of troop allocation, the Liang army has 70,000 infantry and 1,000 cavalry, of which 40,000 are the elite of the Longxiang army and the Shenjie army, and the other 30,000 are the garrisons of Xing, Wei and other states and part of the Wei Bo army, and the combat power is relatively low."

"On the side of the Jin army, there were a total of 50,000 troops, including about 20,000 infantry and 8,000 cavalry, 5,000 of Wang Chuzhi's Yiwu army, and the other 17,000 were Wang Rong's Zhao army. The combat power of the Zhao army and the Yiwu army is comparable to that of Wei Bojun and others, ......" Yang Wu carefully announced the setting and rules of engagement.

After all, it was just a "talk on paper", and Yang Wu naturally did not set the rules too strictly, and he did not strictly follow the actual situation in the setting.

After all, the actual configuration of the two armies is all confidential, and the secret agents of the Long Sword Capital can find out the total strength of the two armies and the relevant generals and other information, which is good, and the specific news is naturally impossible to find.

Fortunately, for everyone, everyone is a veteran of the battlefield, not those senior cadets in the military academy, all of them are experienced, even if they just give these basic setting information, they can also have a rough judgment of the strength of the two sides.

If everyone looked relaxed at the beginning and didn't pay too much attention to this deduction, but when the deduction really started, the generals gradually became serious after thinking deeply about the strength of the two parties.

Yang Wu, as a referee, first determined the battlefield for the generals of the two sides: "In terms of distance, if the Liang army leaves Xingzhou and marches north, then the Jin army will also send troops from Zhaozhou after learning the news, and the final place of the battle between the two sides should be here." ”

"Kashiwa!" Yang Wu pointed to a small county road on the sand table.

For the Liang army, they were the one who took the initiative to attack, and for the Jin army, although they were on the defensive side, it was obviously impossible for them to sit in the city and hand over the initiative to the Liang army, which was only a choice made by those who did not understand the art of war.

Therefore, when the Liang army marched north, the choice of the Jin army must be to go south from Zhaozhou and take the initiative to start a big battle in the field, so as to facilitate the cavalry to play.

The distance between Baixiang and Xingzhou and Zhaozhou is not too far, if the two families march from Xingzhou and Zhaozhou respectively, when they meet, they should probably be near Baixiang.

In addition, there is a river in Baixiang called Yehe, which is a tributary of the Zhanghe River, and the river is not deep, but it is enough as a basis for the confrontation between the two sides across the river.

Coupled with the historical situation, Yang Wu judged that the battlefield where the two armies fought should still be in Baixiang.

The generals nodded one after another, obviously agreeing with Yang Wu's judgment very much.

"Generals, after the confrontation across the river in Baixiang, it is completely up to you to decide what you will do next, and you can make your own decisions!" Yang Wu finally announced that he would hand over the sand table to the generals of both sides.

Li Chengsi, as the Hedong general of the year, was especially good at commanding cavalry battles.

At that time, he was the commander of 3,000 elite Shatuo cavalry as the vanguard, and went to rescue Zhu Jin through Wei Bo.

What I didn't expect was that Li Keyong and Wei Bojiedu made Luo Shaowei fall out, and he couldn't continue to borrow the road, so Li Chenghe's road back to Hedong was cut off, and after Zhu Jin was defeated, he could only go south to Huainan, so that Yang Xingmi picked up a big bargain.

Therefore, in terms of commanding cavalry operations, Li Chengsi is definitely a big expert, coupled with the cooperation of Shi Yan, Hou Zhan, and Guo Chongtao, the power of the cavalry is brought into full play.

“…… Ben General would not have chosen to quickly start a decisive battle with the Liang army, and the advantage of our army lies in the cavalry, so the advantage of the cavalry should be brought into play. ”

"Before the start of the battle, Ben would have arranged the camp north of the Yehe, about twenty miles away from the Liang army, so as to facilitate the galloping of the cavalry."

"After camping, Ben will send cavalry to cross the river to Baixiang to challenge the Liang army!"

At this distance, even if the Liang army wanted to cross the river, the Jin army could react quickly.

You must know that the Liang army has an army of 70,000, and it is definitely not possible to cross the river in a short time; And with the speed of the Jin cavalry, as long as they knew that the Liang army was crossing the river, they could quickly attack and launch an attack when the Liang army was halfway across the river.

So even if the camp chosen by Li Chengsi is a certain distance away from Yehe, it is enough to confront the Liang army.

After Li Chengsi made the first choice, Yang Wu looked at Zhou Ben, Qin Pei, and Zhu Jin, waiting for their decision.

Among the three, Zhu Jin was the most familiar with cavalry combat, so he knew the power of cavalry, and forcibly launched a river crossing in front of the enemy's cavalry, which was a risky move no matter how you look at it.

Although Zhou Ben and Qin Pei knew relatively little about cavalry, they were not easy to take risks, so after a cursory discussion, Zhou Ben, as the temporarily elected "commander" of the three people, stood up and said: "Our army is temporarily stationed in Baixiang, and at the same time hoards grain and grass in Baixiang, and tries to build a pontoon bridge to facilitate the decisive battle of crossing the river in the future." ”

"As for the challenge of the Jin cavalry, our army should drive it away with a large group of infantry, and it will not be easy to engage it."

Yang Wu nodded, this choice is also decent, there is nothing outstanding, but there will be no adventures.

He turned his gaze to Li Chengji and showed him an inquiring look.

This time, Li Chengsi thought for a long time before he replied: "Since the Liang army avoided fighting, then Ben would have chosen to move the camp to Gaoyi and set up a pontoon bridge there to facilitate the army to cross the river at any time." ”

"Then stick to the camp with infantry, attack everywhere with cavalry, attack the Liang army's supplies and food, and attack and disturb the actions of the Liang army.

In fact, this hand was used by Yang Wu when he led the army to pacify the Tianjian rebels, and used less than 1,000 cavalry to deal with the 5,000 infantry army of Guo's division, and finally annihilated all of them.

In the absence of cavalry, it was indeed difficult to deal with this hand.

Therefore, after hearing this, Zhou Ben and the three of them suddenly showed embarrassment, obviously knowing that if they didn't deal with it well, Liang Jun would definitely be defeated because of this.

Seeing that they showed thoughtful expressions, Yang Wu laughed secretly in his heart.

Li Chengsi is worthy of being proficient in the use of cavalry, and Zhou Dewei in history suggested to Li Cunqiao in this way, it can be said that the most important point in defeating the Liang army is this tired enemy's plan.

Zhou Ben and the three of them discussed for a long time, but in the end, they couldn't come up with a unified decision.

Qin Pei advocated taking advantage of the fact that his side's morale was still sufficient, and immediately went out of the camp to try to fight a decisive battle with the enemy.

Zhou Ben thought that it should be prudent, ignore the actions of the Jin army, build the pontoon bridge first, and cross the wild river.

As for Zhu Jin, his views are more conservative.

He believed that if he could not limit the performance of the enemy's cavalry, then the next battle would be lost.

Therefore, in order to defeat the enemy army, the first thing you should do is to limit the enemy's movements.

Since the nearby terrain is all plains, the Liang army can build more camps to divide the entire battlefield.

In this way, the enemy cavalry can no longer gallop across the country as in the past, arbitrarily attacking the logistics of the Liang army.

Zhu Jin's method sounds good, but it's a pity that it's too time-consuming; Moreover, building camps one by one to divide troops into garrisons will only make the Liang army more scattered and easy to be broken by the enemy army.

Therefore, both Zhou Ben and Qin Pei resolutely opposed his claims.

Seeing the three of them arguing with each other, Yang Wu looked at Chai Zaiyong, Lu Shizhou and the others with a smile, and asked them in a low voice: "You will also face this choice in the future, so you have to start thinking now, and what will you do when it is your turn to make a choice!" ”

"Yes!" Chai Zaiyong hurriedly replied with three people.

In fact, there is no need for Yang Wu to say, the people present, including Li Chengsi, Shi Yan, etc., are all thinking about how they will choose if they are the coach of Liang Jun.

Yang Wu is no exception.

However, what Yang Wu was thinking about was not how to fight this battle, but more about whether the cavalry formed by Wu State in the future could compete with the cavalry of the Jin army in the front.

The number of cavalry of the Wu army obviously cannot be compared with that of the Jin army; In terms of quality, the cavalry of the Jin army mainly came from the northern border people, and the people were fierce and many of them were good at horseback riding.

In contrast, the cavalry of the Wu army not only lacked horses, but also made it even more difficult to train the cavalry.

If the quantity is not as good as the Jin army, and even the quality cannot compete with it, and can only carry out some harassment operations, then the Wu army will have some trouble fighting with the Jin army in the future.

"Cavalry, cavalry!" Yang Wu sighed in his heart.