Volume 2 Li Guang is difficult to seal Chapter 18 The old man is not as brave as he was back then
Liu Heng was very satisfied with the reaction of the courtiers, if he closed his eyes and was slightly stunned, the Manchu Dynasty would not dare to move lightly, this is the prestige of the Son of Heaven, this is the duty of the ministers!
Since Xiao He built this Weiyang Palace, there should be only one voice in the Xuan Room, this is the emperor's domain, in this domain, only the emperor is the leader, and only the emperor's will can be transmitted from here to the thousands of miles of royal land, within the four seas.
"Guan Lao General, is the old man of my dynasty, although he is old, he can't bear to worry about the people, I today named the old general as the left minister, commanding hundreds of officials, sharing worries for me, looking at the civil and military officials, taking the old general's virtue as a table, and doing my best to expand the territory of the world and benefit the people. The old general is highly respected, I should rely on it, and Wangqing and others must not live up to my expectations. ”
"The ministers must obey the holy decree with all their hearts and souls, and do their best to assist Your Majesty."
Liu Heng's will is just to teach the ministers to know that the infantage is the left phase, which is the conclusion of the coffin, and there is no need to discuss.
Less than two months of infant worship, the flowers that bloom in early spring do not bring a wish for a good harvest of the year, but a message that the Xiongnu harass the border. The old Shangshan Yu, in his own house Shan Yuting's life is not good, the sheep in the early spring, can not be slaughtered, the tribe will starve, there is no previous autumn hunting, Ji Congee has no confidence to wait until this autumn, in waiting for a few months, when the sheep are fat, their own army will be skinny, then the big Han will not come to attack, they will be defeated first.
100,000 Hun cavalry has gathered in Zhangye, the border soldiers are struggling to resist, and the imperial court urgently needs to send troops to rescue.
"The war in Zhangye is urgent, who should be sent to the rescue?"
Liu Heng just asked lightly, the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, eyes are all on the baby, if you talk about the war, above the court, the baby can speak the most.
"Your Majesty, the minister is old, and he is not as brave as he was back then, but the border war is urgent, and the minister does not dare to resign, but he must ask His Majesty for a person, and the minister dares to speak out."
"Who does it need? Let's hear it. ”
"I have heard for a long time that Cao Li Guang, a soldier between the rivers, is brave and good at fighting, and can often win more with less, if this battle is carried out by Li Guang as the vanguard, the minister will lead the troops and break the Huns."
"Li Guang is my sharp arrow to defeat the enemy, and I can only do my best in the hands of the prime minister, and I will allow it."
Guan Ying took the heavy crossbow battalion, from Chang'an with 50,000 infantry and 10,000 light cavalry, all the way straight to Zhangye, and transferred 3,000 new troops in the capital, transferred Li Guang and Yanyun 18 cavalry, and arrived in Zhangye first.
When this news reached Li Guang's ears, Li Guang was rather disdainful of this method of warfare, because in general, the two armies would fight a decisive battle, and they would wait for the large armies to converge before launching a general attack. When the new army arrived in Zhangye, Li Guang and his cavalry guards had already arrived ten days earlier.
When Wang Heng saw Li Guang and the others, although the order was above Li Guang, he didn't dare to be a little lazy. Li Guang is the soul of the new army, with Li Guangzai, the new army is an undefeated division, with Li Guangzai, even in the face of 100,000 elite soldiers of the Huns, Wang Heng and others are not afraid.
"General, the last general and others are late, please forgive the general."
"General Wang, this county order is not the commander of the new army at the moment, there is no need for so much courtesy, at the moment we are still converging, in five days, the infant army will arrive, and all orders must be obeyed by the military order."
"Why didn't Your Majesty order the general to be the commander-in-chief, but I want the elderly general Guan Lao to personally command the troops, although the old general Guan is good at fighting, but after all, he is old and frail, and this battle arrangement makes me unconvinced."
"Your Majesty is so decisive, there must be Your Majesty's thoughts, and we must not speculate and ruin Your Majesty's plan."
mentioned Liu Heng, Wang Heng suppressed the resentment in his heart, but the dissatisfaction in his heart was still exposed. In the evening of five days later, the baby arrived as scheduled, and the most difficult thing to grasp was the marching time, and the baby was not too early or late, and rushed to Zhangye according to the scheduled time, which made Li Guang impressed. Although the old man is old, but the long-distance march is just right, come too early, the soldiers along the way are tired, it is difficult to accumulate energy in a short period of time, come too late, it will delay the fighters, the long journey, can not rest, will have to start a war with the Xiongnu.
It seems ordinary for the baby to arrive in Zhangye as scheduled, but the calculation of this process is to grasp the physical fitness of the soldiers properly, not in a hurry. Li Guang understood that only the mechanized troops of later generations could do it, don't look at Li Guang's war with the Xiongnu and never lost, but this full set of marches and battles, Li Guang still admired the infants, and the contempt for going first did not exist at all.
"The prime minister is tired along the way, and he goes to the tent to rest, and the last general has ordered someone to prepare a meal, and when the prime minister is in good spirits, he will talk about today's battle situation again."
It was not until dawn the next day that the infant got up and ordered the soldiers to gather in the tent to discuss the military situation. Will eventually stand on the left and right sides, the baby is sitting weakly on the top, and the soldiers are holding their shoulders to barely sit upright, but the eyes of the baby are full of essence.
"You are Li Guang? Li Shang's son is really extraordinary. But not as frivolous as I heard, I was worried that the appearance had not arrived, so you went all out to fight with the Huns, but you were willing to be patient, and when the reinforcements arrived, it really surprised the appearance, is there a rumor? The words of the baby were soft and weak, but when they fell in Li Guang's ears, they didn't dare to give rise to a trace of slackness.
"The prime minister uses troops to enter the gods, and the prime minister's arrangement, the last general should obey it, and dare not violate the prime minister's military orders."
"Your Majesty has appointed you to be the vanguard, and the Prime Minister must consider your thoughts and tell me what you think of this battle."
Li Guang thought to himself, the Huns have prepared enough rafts on the other side, the battle of crossing the river is imminent, it is best to snipe in the river with an arrow array, and when the remnants of the Huns cross the river, the new army charges, and the infantry is then strangled, they will be able to retreat from the enemy. Since the baby was asked, Li Guang told the truth.
"It is inevitable to retreat from the enemy in this way, but the Huns who can't be killed are frightened, why not let them all cross the river and annihilate them all, so that they will not dare to violate the border of our DPRK for several years, and it will be better for our DPRK to win a few more years of cultivation?"
"Prime Minister, the 100,000 cavalry of the Huns, if they successfully cross the river, it will be difficult to annihilate them all, the Prime Minister is afraid that it is too big, right?" Li Guang didn't dare to speak, but Wang Heng couldn't help it, 100,000 cavalry, how could it be good?
"You are Wang Heng, the commander of the new army in the middle capital, right? Ben has already heard of you, and he is indeed a good general, but he still lacks some research on the battle situation. ”
"The prime minister has a complete plan, please come, and let me wait to open my eyes." Wang Heng is still unrelenting. But the baby is not angry, but it does not explain. Signaling his own soldiers to get the order, Guan Ying began to assign the tasks of the generals.
Li Guang led 50,000 infantry, and only dug trenches and set up ambushes under Zhangye City, and he was determined to use trenches to dig out a ten-mile-long trench along the river in Zhangye City in one day, prepare rolling stones, and assist in defending the city in one day. Yanyun's eighteen horsemen, led by Guan Ying himself, waited for orders at the head of the city. Wang Heng led the new army, ambushed in the east of the river bank, led the city to smoke, and only charged back and forth. The heavy crossbow battalion and 10,000 light cavalry responded to each other, and the guerrilla Huns broke up the cavalry. Each received the military order, and the baby was told the information of this battle order one by one, and everyone firmly remembered it and did not dare to omit it.
Wang Heng saw that Li Guang honestly received the military order, naturally did not dare to disobey the infant military order, the army acted according to the order, Li Guang was outside the city, in one day, he completed the infant military order, led the crowd back to the city, assisted in defending the city, 50,000 infantry defended the city 10,000, 40,000 transported rolling stones and giant trees, each performing its own duties. Wang Heng and the heavy crossbow battalion and 10,000 light horsemen set up an ambush outside the city, and only waited for the infant irrigation order to start fighting.
At noon on the second day, the Xiongnu finally crossed the Yellow River with their whole army, but there were more than 20,000 people, still in turmoil, and were collecting rafts and arranging horses. In the meantime, the smoke rose straight from the head of Zhangye City, Wang Heng got the military order, and immediately led the new army to rush up, three thousand heavy cavalry, the mud and blood on the river bank flew straight on, and the river waves rose one after another. After a round of charge of the new army, the Huns formation had already learned from the past, and quickly gathered on guard, but seeing the direction of Zhangye City, a rocket shot into the air, and the commander of the heavy crossbow battalion saw it in his eyes, and with an order, the fine arrow array was under the cover of the Huns gathered together, and after a pot of arrows and crossbows were shot, the Huns were in chaos.
Wang Heng has reorganized the team on the west side, at this time the two rockets at the head of the city rushed into the sky, this is the order of the second charge, Wang Heng did not dare to slack off, another round of charge passed, and the heavy crossbow battalion was followed by another round of arrow array to cover the pressure. At this time, the Hun army lost as much as 20,000, Li Guang stood at the head of the city, saw the tragic situation of the Huns under the city, and secretly admired the tactics of infantile irrigation.
The remaining 70,000 Hun cavalry trampled on each other, and no less than 20,000 were wounded, and the chaos suddenly made the Huns lose their original sharpness. Ji Congee slashed a few Xiongnu who planned to seize the raft and flee back to the other side, and the leaders of the Xiongnu followed suit, killing nearly 100 people, and finally lined up in formation again. Ji Congee took advantage of the situation to swing the knife forward, ordered the whole army to attack the city, 70,000 Hun soldiers, finally exposed their fangs here, the sound of killing shook the wilderness, and went straight to Zhangye City.
Under the order of Guan Ying, Li Guang led the infantry defending the city, just smashed the rolling stones, and a tug-of-war siege battle was torn off. For three days in a row, the Xiongnu siege was unfavorable, and Gu was blocked by Li Guang, and Ji Congee looked at Li Guang on Zhangye City, his eyes opened with anger. Seeing that the remnants were less than 30,000, he secretly sighed that this time he was defeated in the hands of Li Guang again, with this person, he would not be able to get any benefits this time.
Just in the porridge secretly hurt himself, Yanyun eighteen horses, flying down from the city, but like a tiger into a wolf pack, fighting again and again, eighteen black arrows completely destroyed the morale of the Huns, although the slaughter of less than a thousand, but still killed the Huns frightened. Ji Congee shot an arrow into the sky, and the Huns retreated like a tide. There was not only Wang Heng's rush to kill, but also 10,000 cavalry followed to kill, so that the Huns could not be guarded, only looking forward to grabbing the bamboo raft, crossing the river quickly, and even the war horses were abandoned.
There are only a few less than three thousand on the raft, and the rest have to be strangled on the riverside, the Yellow River is very wide in the spring flood, and the blood is deep red along the river, reaching the center of the river. Surrounded by his own soldiers, Ji Congee had left the riverbank a stone's throw away, but the rest of the remnants were being shot by the arrows of the heavy crossbow battalion. Less than a cup of tea, the porridge spewed out a mouthful of blood, fell into the river, everyone hurriedly salvaged up, 100,000 elite soldiers, defeated and fled across the river less than 50 horsemen.