Chapter 150: Escape
Yang Wu made up his mind to attack directly, and the next step was to arrange the troops. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Although An Renyi put on an unprepared look, everyone with a famous eye could see that what he had laid was a trap, the unloaded armor could be put on again, the weapons thrown aside could be picked up again, the fallen banner could be raised again, the chaotic formation could be restored, and the ambushed soldiers could also be killed suddenly, but it would take time.
So the key to this battle is to be fast. That is to say, the time from being discovered by the enemy to rushing into the enemy position to engage the rebels should be as short as possible, and after entering the enemy position, it is necessary to inflict as many casualties as possible on the enemy before the enemy reacts, so that they can change from "fake defenseless" to "really defenseless", and from a trap to lure the enemy into a deadly move.
On a hillside, Yang Wu took Li Yu and others to observe the layout of An Renyi's camp.
"Ladies and gentlemen, you see, An Renyi's army is distributed there according to the battalion unit, and the enemy closest to us should be Zhang Hao's people, and then it is estimated that there are some old and weak, his real elite is arranged at the rear, plus a thousand soldiers who are five hundred steps forward to guard and one or two thousand people who may be ambushed behind the mountain, this should be the distribution of the enemy's troops. Let's talk about how to fight you. ”
"Although the enemy army that went out to guard only has a thousand troops, and the defense is also a little lax, but the size is also a trouble, and we can't entangle with these people too much, so the last general feels that after the attack begins, use five hundred people to entangle this thousand enemy troops, and the rest of the people will go straight to the enemy's main force." Hou Zan was the first to speak.
"It is about two hundred steps from the enemy's camp to the top of the mountain, which means that the enemy ambush will soon be able to condescendingly attack our surprise troops, so it is necessary to send a part of the people to block the enemy's ambush, and for the sake of insurance, the number should be about fifteen hundred."
"So that the number of troops on the assault mission is only a thousand cavalry and three thousand infantry?"
"It's already a lot, at least according to An Renyi's estimation, our assault force only has a thousand cavalry, and his plan should be to use the unguarded 6,000 infantry in the camp to deal with our cavalry, and he gambles that our cavalry will integrate the main force before completely defeating the opponent's camp, and in turn encircle and suppress our cavalry."
"However, he didn't expect that we would have General Chen's 3,000 reinforcements!" Hou Zan nodded.
"That's right, so General Chen's 3,000 infantry should be put in at the end, so that the enemy won't find out in advance."
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After some discussion, Yang Wu finally made arrangements and the attack began.
Considering that the speed of the cavalry was much faster than that of the infantry, in order to allow the assault troops of all divisions to arrive at the same time, the first to dispatch was the 2,000 infantry led by Li Yu, and when they approached the enemy camp at a thousand paces, the cavalry led by Hou Zan and Chen You's 3,000 infantry began to move.
Among them, the reason why Chen You's 3,000 infantry went out with the cavalry was to maintain the suddenness of the action, and when An Renyi discovered them, Hou Zhan's cavalry and Li Yu's infantry should have already begun to engage the enemy army, and at that time, An Renyi had no time to make adjustments even if he found that Yang Wu's side had more troops than he expected.
After arranging the order of sending troops, Yang Wu rode his horse but stayed on the hillside to watch the battle, after all, Hou Zan and Li Yu would not allow Yang Wu to go into battle in person, so he was left outside the battlefield, and he was left behind with dozens of his guards and a hundred cavalry.
The first to engage were the 1,000 men on An Renyi's side who were on guard and the 2,000 infantry under Li Yu's command, and when they began to fight, Hou Zhan's cavalry also caught up, and they did not participate in the siege, but went directly around and went straight to the enemy camp.
And Yang Wu also noticed that there was a commotion in An Renyi's camp at this time, obviously they had begun to sort out the formation, which was also to be expected, after all, fighting is not a child's play, not a playhouse, when Yang Wu's side began to assault, this battle had already begun, An Renyi began to organize the formation at this time, and he didn't have to worry about the other party suddenly retracting and not fighting.
Like last time, the cavalry led by Hou Zan did not advance at full speed at first, but waited until it was only a thousand steps away from the opponent's camp before starting to accelerate, bypassing the opponent's vigilant soldiers to launch an assault.
Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps......
On the hillside, Yang Wu looked at the soldiers in An Renyi's camp from a distance and began to form a team under the orders of their respective officers, and couldn't help but take a deep breath and muttered: "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”
Fortunately, although the nearby terrain was not very flat, which had a certain impact on the speed of the cavalry charge, when Hou Zan and them approached the enemy formation, An Renyi's preparations were obviously not ready.
At the front, although Zhang Hao's subordinates had already put on their armor and weapons at this time, they began to organize the formation under the shouts of the officers.
However, they were already too late, Hou Zhan's cavalry was less than thirty paces away from them at this time, and at this distance they didn't even have time to draw their bows and shoot arrows, so they could only watch the other party rush up.
"Assault at full speed, don't care what formation! Full speed assault! On horseback, Hou Chan roared as hard as he could.
At this time, speed is the most important, and the enemy formation has not yet been formed, so it is possible to break through the enemy's resistance without forming a formation charge.
"Boom!"
With a loud bang, the rebel soldiers standing at the front were hit by the galloping cavalry, and some were immediately knocked to the ground, and then died under the hooves of their horses; Some soldiers were directly knocked into the air, and some were cut down by the sabers in the hands of the cavalry at the moment of contact......
"I can't stop it, run away!"
The two sides had just made contact, and at this time, I didn't know who shouted, and then the officers under Zhang Hao's command turned their heads and ran away, and under their leadership, those soldiers who had not yet made contact with the cavalry turned and fled without the slightest resistance.
"This ......"
Hou Zan was a little dumbfounded, although the enemy army was not very prepared, it would never collapse so quickly, right? Without even the slightest resistance, he fled.
And the fleeing soldiers knew at a glance that they weren't really in the run, and at least their officers were able to give orders effectively, which meant that the enemy was fleeing in an organized manner.
"Is it tempting the enemy again? Lure our troops deep into enemy lines? Hou Zan was a little puzzled.
But at this time, the situation on both sides is clear at a glance, now is the time to compare speed and strength, the use of conspiracy is no longer great, and the direction where Zhang Hao fled is flat, and there is no way to hide the ambush.
If Zhang Hao's troops stayed to resist, although they would definitely be defeated by the cavalry due to lack of preparation, they could always buy a little time for An Renyi's army behind, right? Wouldn't it leave the unprepared enemy troops behind them exposed to the blows of the cavalry?
Hou Zan was puzzled, but he would not let go of the appearance of the fighter, he asked some people to continue to pursue Zhang Hao's department, and the other part continued to attack forward under his personal leadership.
And in front of them were the old and weak soldiers of An Renyi's department, and they were also unprepared at this time!
Under the banner of the camp, like Hou Zhan's reaction, An Renyi and the others were also dumbfounded at this time.
"General Zhang, what are you doing? Why did you get out of the way without resistance? His henchman asked with a slight stammer.
"Is he crazy? What good is it for our soldiers to be exposed to enemy strikes before they are ready? The rest of the generals were also shocked.
However, others didn't understand why, but An Renyi understood at this time, he knew that he had made a big mistake, his purpose in putting Zhang Hao at the forefront was to weaken Zhang Hao by the hands of the enemy, but he didn't expect Zhang Hao to escape!