The second thing was to prepare for the next battle against Bai Bo, Yan Xing learned from Xu Rong about the simple military orders of the Xiliang Army, and then started writing with Xi Zhicai, selecting the best and eliminating the inferior, and solicited the suggestions of other martial arts officials to jointly revise a set of simple and easy "Infantry Battle Orders".

What is a foot battle order, this immediately involves the military order rules of many operations.

After Yan Xing finished revising the "Infantry Battle Order", he personally sent people to read it out in the military camps, from the military commander, to the commander and the army commander, all need to understand these military orders, so as to ensure that in wartime, this army, which is composed of soldiers and horses from all sides, is a division that commands Senming.

The content involves "strict drum pass, foot riding full load, re-pass, riding on horse, step knot; The three links, with the second out, refer to the flag. The front of the banner is the front, the rear is the back, the left is the left, and the right is the right; Those who do not listen to the order and are good at cutting them off before and after. ”

"If there is one in the army who does not enter, the captain of the army will kill him; If there is a person who does not enter, even the chief will kill him; If there is a person who does not enter, the team will kill him. Supervise the war department, draw the blade behind, and cut off those who do not enter the order. One part is attacked by the enemy, and the rest are cut off if they do not enter the rescue. ”

"Before the battle, there was no noise, and the drums were heard. The crossbow cannot be separated from Chen. If the commander of the army leaves the battle and does not raise his head, he is guilty of the same crime. Without the general's order, those who act in vain will be beheaded. The officials slashed those who rode horses to Chen, and the officials who shouted loudly were beheaded; The pursuer shall not be alone in front of or behind, and the offender shall be fined four taels; Soldiers and generals are not allowed to take cattle and horses and clothing, and those who violate the order are beheaded. ”

"When you go into battle, the soldiers follow their names; Those who do not follow the number will not be rewarded for their merits. When entering the war, the rear soldiers go out in the front, and the front soldiers are in the back, although the merit is not rewarded. ”

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The military order has been announced, and the big war is coming.

In the first year of the first peace, the time entered October, and as the weather gradually cooled, Hedong, which had been silent for more than a month, once again ushered in the sound of the Jin Ge Iron Horse.

After Yan Xing trained the soldiers and horses, strengthened the city defense, calmed the people's hearts, and appeased the displaced people, he began to prepare for the attack on Linfen.

However, Li Le, the Linfen defender of the Baibo Army on the west bank of Fenshui, was not a mediocre talent, and after Xiangling Baibo was ambushed and defeated by Yan Xing, Linfen City bore the brunt of the attack in the face of the troops of the Xiliang Army.

And now Guo Taizheng is leading the main force of the Baibo Army to besiege the Pi family, because the soldiers of the Pi City stick to the enemy, and the follow-up Niu Fu also sent soldiers and horses to support, so the Pi City has been unable to attack for a long time, and the main force of the Bai Bo Army has been dragged there.

Therefore, Li Le, one of the commanders of Baibo Qu, could only defend Linfen City with 20,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, and there were only more than 4,000 veterans among them, so Li Le had a lesson from the Baibo army in Xiangling, and not only withdrew the soldiers and horses that feintmed, but also began to reverse and began to defend the Fenshui coast strictly, in an attempt to prevent the Xiliang soldiers from crossing the river.

Xu Huang led his troops to try to force the Fenshui many times, but the Baibo army on the other side was numerous, and the guard on the river bank was also meticulous, so Xu Huang was unable to force the crossing, so he could only cross the Fenshui across the barracks, and looked at the Baibo army on the other bank across the water.

This kind of confrontation is the most test of the military logistics of both the enemy and us, Yan Xing has now mastered the power of Jiangyi, so the supply of military supplies is endless along the way, and in order to assist Xu Huang's attack, Yan Xing also sent Cao Yuan, Zhai Hao's other two other Sima troops out, ready to attack Fencheng.

Forced by the pressure of increasing troops in Xiliang on the other bank, Li Le, who was facing each other across the river, as the defensive side, had to increase his troops again and again in order to ensure the stability of the front, and finally stationed 15,000 soldiers and horses along the Fenshui River, leaving only 5,000 soldiers and horses in Linfen City.

And Li Le himself personally led 4,000 old soldiers to garrison on the west bank of Fenshui to personally resist the Xiliang army on the opposite bank.

However, since this period of time, the Xiliang Army, which had been trying to force the Fenshui River, has been quiet, although every day it will send soldiers and horses, pretending to be a strong attack, disturbing the rest of the soldiers of the Baibo Army, but in the field, it is used to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Xiliang Army, further survey the hydrology, and spy on the flaws in the Baibo Army garrison on the opposite bank.

Although Li Le did not fully see the plans of the Xiliang army on the other side, for the sake of prudence, he still sent a lot of soldiers and horses to patrol day and night, in order to prevent the Xiliang army from smuggling across Fenshui and attacking his Linfen City behind him.

The soldiers and horses of the two sides confronted each other across the Fenshui in this way, just like two yaks putting their horns against each other's heads, cautiously trying to attack, ready to take advantage of a favorable opportunity to arch each other to the ground and disembowel.

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"Quick, keep up!"

Meng Tu was organizing the cavalry around him at this time and wading across the river. He and Zhai Hao took the Xiliang cavalry of their department to the downstream section of Fenshui and prepared to swim across the river. Because the flood season of Fenshui has passed, their excellent cavalry, holding the neck of the horse, can drive the horse through the shallow water.

And tonight, the moon is dark and the wind is high, which is destined to be a good opportunity to fight.

The hydrology of this section of Fenshui is not complicated, and there is the cover of the night, so the movements of the Xiliang cavalry are not slow, and the Xiliang cavalry led by several horses has swam to the middle of the river, Meng Tu followed behind, looking at the smooth crossing of half of the Fenshui, secretly glad in his heart, thinking that after a while, he would lead the cavalry to the opposite bank, and the first merit of breaking Linfen City would be his own.

Unexpectedly, this idea in Meng Tu's heart had just arisen, and suddenly a gong sounded on the opposite bank, and many pine torches were suddenly lit on the opposite bank, and then it was the sound of a large group of people and horses.

"It's not good, the white wave thieves on the other side have been on guard!"

Meng Tu secretly screamed in his heart, as if to verify what he thought in his heart, and the next moment, the sound of "whooshing" arrows breaking through the air sounded one after another, and countless arrows turned into black shadows, hidden in the dim night sky, and shot down at the shallow water of this section of Fenshui.

"Ahh

A few Xiliang soldiers who led the way in front were already in the middle of the river, and at this time they encountered a dense rain of arrows on the opposite bank, and suddenly fell two cavalry with arrows, followed by the Xiliang cavalry who swam across the river suddenly became a little chaotic, and they raised their shields high on the horses to defend, but in the dark night, just like the opponent's arrows were dense and chaotic, the Xiliang cavalry raised the shield to defend the effect was not good, and the people who were shot by the stray arrows in the dark night gradually increased as they got closer to the middle of the river.

What's even worse is that when the horses arrived in the middle of the river, although it was a shallow water area, the speed of wading through the water was greatly reduced, and there were many feather arrows on their heads, and the Xiliang cavalry who swam across was shot dead and wounded many people for a while.

Listening to the constant wails and falling water around him in the dark night, Meng Tu was anxious, but the arrows on the opposite bank did not decrease, and they continued to shoot towards this side, and then the light of the torches on the opposite bank, Meng Tu could see the outline of the other party's array along the river, and he didn't think that the other party's white wave thieves must have laid a spear array, just waiting for the cavalry on his side to swim over, exhausted, and then plunged into it.

Forced by the situation, although Meng Tu was reluctant in his heart, but in order to reduce the casualties of his own soldiers, he had to loudly order a retreat, so the Xiliang cavalry who tried to wade and swim in the shallow waters of the lower reaches of Fenshui was threatened by the bow and arrow of the Baibo army on the opposite bank, and retreated back in some embarrassment.

Because they retreated too quickly, when some of the Xiliang cavalry were still turning around, their mounts and horses' hooves slipped, and even the men and horses fell to the east of the river, and the men and horses became drenched, and they almost couldn't come back alive.

"Damn, the white wave thieves on the other side are really well defended, I waited here to swim crossing, they were all discovered, and when I was waiting for half of the crossing, there was a sudden attack, and we lost some elite soldiers, and tonight we just hit bad luck!"

As soon as Meng Tu came ashore, he panted and complained to Zhai Hao, who was leading the follow-up Xiliang cavalry and had not yet officially launched the water.

He is also drenched now, he was originally half-soaked in water, and he was eager to make meritorious contributions, thinking about taking the hands of Linfen City, and he didn't have much feeling about the cold river water at night, but now he has failed, and he has broken some soldiers in vain, which makes Meng Tu not only irritable in his heart, but also wet and drenched, and he also feels extremely uncomfortable.

Zhai Hao listened to Meng Tu's complaints, and didn't say anything, they were not the vanguard troops who recovered Linfen City this way, and they were brought here by Yan Xing, and they also came here to assist Xu Huang's troops to cross the Fenshui.

Tonight, Xu Huang's department was about to smuggle across the Fenshui, and there was no room for mistakes, so Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao, who came to assist, attacked one after another in order to cooperate with Xu Huang's soldiers and horses, so as to attract the attention of more white wave thieves for Xu Huang's department, so as to ensure that they could cross the Fenshui smoothly.

"Don't stop the trumpets and drums, let the white wave thieves on the other side think that there are not a few soldiers and horses on our side, and there are still strong attacks at night, so they can only continue to stay here to guard against our soldiers and horses, so they have been here to consume us, I want to see, who can consume whom?"

After Meng Tu and the others landed safely, Zhai Hao began to act according to the original plan, and for a while, the sound of drums and horns on his side was continuous, and Zhai Hao and Meng Tu also saw and heard the movement from the upstream section in the distance.

Over there was another feint attack led by Cao Yuan and Tiger Head, and the purpose was the same as that of Zhai Hao and Meng Tu, all to cover the whereabouts of Xu Huang's subordinates who didn't even know the specifics.

Judging from the movements in the upper reaches now, I am afraid that the feint attack soldiers and horses on Cao Yuan's side have also been discovered by the white wave thieves stationed along the river, and the plan to ferry the Fenshui upstream with boats has also failed, so Cao Yuan, Hutou and others will simply tree more torches, beat drums and blow trumpets, and make it look like they want to take advantage of the night to forcibly cross the river to attack, in order to focus the attention of the white wave thieves on the other bank to their upstream as much as possible.

But the soldiers and horses of the two lines of feints were discovered by the white wave thieves stationed on the opposite bank, and they arrived in time to block the crossing of the river by the Xiliang army, and successfully held the defense line along the river. Therefore, Cao Yuan, Zhai Hao and others, who retreated to the east bank, while lamenting the bad luck of their side, were also secretly worried about whether Xu Huang's soldiers and horses who crossed the river all the way, with the help of their feints, would be able to cross the Fenshui as soon as possible and complete the set goal tonight.

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"Haqiu"

When people went to the river, Xu Huang, who was wading across the river on foot with the soldiers, sneezed, he didn't know that at this moment, Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao, who had been white wave thieves on the other side, were just thinking about the situation on his side, but he also heard the movements of the upstream and downstream, and knew that the soldiers and horses of Cao Yuan and Zhai Hao had already exposed their whereabouts, and they were still trying to attract the vigilance and attention of the white wave army on the other side as much as possible.

"Quick, speed up, we have to get ashore as soon as possible!"

Xu Huang knew that time was pressing, but he finally began to export, encouraging and urging the soldiers who crossed the river in his department, wanting them to speed up their pace and wade through the water.

The location where Xu Huang swam across the Fenshui River is neither upstream nor downstream, but the middle reaches of the hydrologically complex one, thanks to the tentative attacks of these days, although it has not been able to let a single soldier successfully occupy the position of the Fenshui West Case, but at least it is also a general situation of the Fenshui in this large section of Linfen.

Therefore, Xu Huang decided to go the opposite, not according to common sense, neither using the boat to cross the river upstream, nor did he plan to use horsepower to swim downstream like the Xiliang cavalry, but chose to swim in the middle of the river.

In this middle section, the hydrology is complex, although there is also a shallow water area with a low water level, but the location is not fixedly connected, and it is necessary to constantly change direction while swimming, avoiding the deep water area in front of you, entering another shallow water area, and slowly approaching the opposite bank.

And in order to conceal his whereabouts, Xu Huang also ordered that he did not reach the middle of the river, and that torches should not be lit on the riverbank, although in doing so, crossing the river by the dim moonlight in the dark night was a little more dangerous, but it has to be said that in this way, to a large extent, he avoided the defense of the other party's very well-guarded White Polish army.

When Xu Huang was swimming across the river, the movement of troops and horses of the Baibo army on the other side was all in the direction of Cao Yuan upstream and Zhai Hao downstream.

However, after the soldiers leading the way in front arrived in the middle of the river, in order to speed up, the subsequent wading movements were also much larger, and these ordinary sounds, which seemed not strange in the past, easily attracted the attention of the White Wave army tonight.

That's right, the movement that happened in this section of the midstream was discovered by Li Le.

Li Le originally arrived at the Xiliang cavalry who were guarding and ambushing Bandu downstream, and in his opinion, the shallow water area downstream was the easiest place to cross the river, and more precautions were needed, so he also sent more soldiers and horses there to ambush the Xiliang cavalry.

But then, after the Xiliang cavalry was ambushed, although it retreated to the other side, but did not withdraw because of the broken plan, but also tried to take advantage of the night to force the crossing, although the movement was not small, but the real action was not good, after several rounds of arrow rain fell, the downstream forced crossing was interrupted again.

Li Le also noticed something was wrong from it.