Liu Wenxiu was too far away from the battlefield to see the banner of the 5,000 Chu Army clearly, and only after asking his subordinates did he know that the other party was waving the battle flag of the 75th Division of the Fifth Army of the Western Expedition, which should be Zhou Guodong's direct subordinate troops.

"Thousands of people dare to claim the title of a division, Wang Kefan is the most pretentious, hum, if you really have more than 70 divisions, who is still your opponent?" Liu Wenxiu secretly slandered and was very dissatisfied with the new establishment made by the Chu army, but he had to admit that these complicated establishment numbers did bring more trouble to the intelligence work of the Western Army, and since this 75th Division was the elite of Zhou Guodong's subordinates, it can be seen that the other party has exhausted its hole cards and is about to fight a decisive battle in this area.

Look around, this is indeed a good battlefield, the west side is the endless mountains, the east is the turbulent Nanming River, the terrain in the middle of the mountains and rivers is also very complicated, and it is wider than the mountain, there are many tactics that can be used, it is a place for soldiers, with the undulation of the terrain, the official road in this area is located in the low part of the mountain, itself is very unfavorable, Liu Wenxiu has a full 50,000 troops under his command, even if the two wings are stretched as far as possible, limited by the road terrain, the marching team is still inevitably longer and longer, the front army, There has been a disconnect between the middle and rear armies.

Liu Wenxiu stood on the high place of the mountain, and he still couldn't find the flags of the front army and the rear army in the distance, and could only see the tail of the front army disappearing between the mountains and mountains, and what he can directly command now is only the more than 10,000 people in the Chinese army, and if he wants to contact the front army and the rear army, in addition to sending people to pass orders, he can only use fireworks and rockets to transmit information.

"Fortunately, this king was cautious enough to find these five thousand thieves."

Liu Wenxiu secretly rejoiced that the 75th Division of the Chu Army was hidden in the ravine behind the two hills, and it was indeed difficult to find out, if the Western Army passed in a daze, but did not know that there was an enemy elite hidden nearby, and when the ambush troops were in all directions, tens of thousands of troops could not take care of each other on the mountain road, and they would inevitably fall into chaos, giving the enemy an opportunity...... Or maybe the Chu army held the Tuyun Pass, and the western army could not end the battle during the day, and would camp in the narrow mountains at night, and the 5,000 Chu army would sneak attack at night, which would also cause serious losses to the western army.

In addition to the Chinese army, the position of the former army is also unfavorable.

Looking up, it is also located in a low place, the slope from the river to the official road is very gentle, soldiers with weapons can run up directly, there is a long and narrow river beach by the river, if a Chu army comes from the Nanming River by boat, and goes ashore on that river beach, it can easily cut off the official road and divide the western army.

According to the report made by the scouts, after the Chu army occupied Guiyang, it forcibly expropriated all the civilian ships and merchant ships, and blocked the Nanming River, except for the boats of the Chu army, no more sails were allowed to be launched, Liu Wenxiu's army since crossing the Nanming River, the scouts of the Chu army often came by boat to reconnoitre, sometimes one or twenty a day, like a fly that could not be blown away, they bullied the Western army without a boat, often approached to a place very close to the shore, risking arrows to spy on the reality of the army, the Western army in order to keep secrets, always secretive when marching, Adds a lot of trouble.

However, since this morning, there have only been two reconnaissance boats on the Nanming River, which is one-tenth of the usual amount, and this abnormal phenomenon has attracted Liu Wenxiu's attention, and there is no doubt that the Chu army has greatly reduced the number of reconnaissance boats because these boats have a more important use, and if you look at the narrow beach by the river, you will know what they want to do.

Liu Wenxiu did not know how many ships the Chu army had now, and how many troops could be transported to land at one time, in line with the principle of anticipating the enemy's leniency and then leniency, this number might be able to reach 5,000 people, if there were really 5,000 soldiers ashore at one time, it would pose a great threat, enough to divide Liu Wenxiu's front army and the middle army, and it could withstand the attack of the western army on both sides in a short period of time, waiting for the reinforcements of the second batch of landing troops.

"Pass on the king's military order, let Wang Shangli divide 3,000 troops and hold the river beach."

In fact, Wang Shangli's front army has sent a force to advance along the river beach, but their strength is too thin, Liu Wenxiu found this loophole in time, and took the first step to block it, he thought about it for a while, and said: "If this king's expectation is good, the Chu thief should still have a well-nourished elite army in Tuyun Pass, which may kill the pass at any time, so that Wang Shangli can send more scouts and spouts, so as not to be exploited by the thieves." ”

Zhuge is only cautious in his life, Liu Wenxiu has the legacy of Zhuge Wuhou, leading the troops to fight and never leaving the slightest flaw, he ordered the troops to eradicate the vegetation and shrubs on both sides of the official road, in case the enemy attacked, and at the same time ordered the front army and the rear army to move closer to the Chinese army, just in case, the river beach by the Nanming River is too long, and it is difficult to send 3,000 additional soldiers to defend it thoroughly, if the Chu army really comes by boat, seeing that the front army has no chance to take advantage of it, and it will still cause great trouble if it lands in another place.

Of course, if the Western Army forcibly landed under the condition that the Western Army had already prepared, the chance of the Chu Army succeeding was not great, even if it caused some trouble to the Western Army, and it was more likely that it would be driven to the river to feed the fish in the end, but Liu Wenxiu felt that this was the battlefield of the decisive battle, and no matter how careful he was, he kept adjusting his deployment and preparing for the upcoming war.

With only the existing troops, Liu Wenxiu also had enough confidence to defeat the Chu army, but out of a cautious style, he sent people to send orders to the Yunnan soldiers west of Guiyang, and most of the troops were closer to him, and only 10,000 horses were kept west of Guiyang to prevent the Chu army from breaking through from there.

In the same way, the western army on the eastern road could not move, they wanted to prevent the Chu army from crossing the Nanming River by boat, breaking through to the eastern part of Guizhou, and then jumping back to Kaili and Duyun, or going to join Yuan Zongdi, even if they fled back to Guangxi along the original route, the face of the western army was gone, which was also an unacceptable result.

"The enemy situation is unknown, our army has to fortify everywhere, this is also a matter of no choice, when we kill Guiyang City, the thieves will not be able to play any tricks."

Liu Wenxiu suffered from lack of intelligence and could not judge the next move of the Western Army, so he put up such a pocket formation surrounded on all sides, resulting in the actual dispersion of troops, and it is strange to say that the Chu army had just captured Guiyang, and it was so tightly controlled that the intelligence from Guiyang was very valuable, so that Liu Wenxiu only knew a rough idea of the specific deployment of the Chu army, and it was all old information a few days ago, and he had to be careful everywhere when fighting a war, and he didn't know where the enemy would come from.

Liu Wenxiu instructed left and right, send more scouts to search around, and expand the early warning range to ten miles away, if in the plain area, the cavalry scouts are very easy to do early warning ten miles away, but the scouts in the mountains cannot ride horses, and the formation of the Western Army is too long, with only the existing number of scouts, it is almost an impossible task to complete, Liu Wenxiu transferred 500 lightly armored soldiers to form fifty scout squads, and barely met this requirement with the tactics of crowd warfare.

"The former army is still under the command of Wang Shangli, and Gu Yuan Hou (Wang Shangli is knighted Gu Yuan Hou) has been in battle for a long time, so there is no need to worry too much."

Liu Wenxiu, as the commander of the army, almost cares about everything, but rarely interferes in Wang Shangli's specific military affairs, first, Wang Shangli is a veteran of the Western Army on an equal footing with Feng Shuangli and Bai Wenxuan, and he has his own set of methods for governing the army, without Liu Wenxiu's interference, and second, Wang Shangli is Sun Kewang's descendant, Sun Kewang is narrow-minded, and too much interference will cause his suspicion and will also cause Wang Shangli's backlash.

After arranging everything, Liu Wenxiu turned around and continued to watch the battle.

As long as the 75th Division of the Chu Army is eliminated, all problems will not be a problem, but after such a long time, Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen are still fighting very hard, and there is not much progress, Liu Wenxiu watched the progress of the battle for a while, and ordered people to give them two orders, they can slow down and fight again, think of more ways, and don't blindly attack.

Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen led 10,000 horses to attack the 5,000 Chu army, thinking that it was a must-win situation, but they could just hit a hard nail as soon as they fought, and the 75th division of the Chu army attacked against each other, and the western army was facing head-on, and the morale was boosted at once, because of the terrain restrictions, although Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen had the advantage of troops, they could not all enter the battle at one time, and they attacked several times in a row, and they were never able to break through the formation of the 75th division.

The strength of the seventy-fifth division is at a disadvantage, at the beginning of the attack with the Western Army once, and then slowly turned to the defense, they fought in formation on the hillside, forcing the Western Army to attack on the back, invisibly taking a lot of advantage, there are many tall Northwest men in the Western Army, half a head higher than the average Chu army soldiers, but in this way it seems that the Chu soldiers are taller and bigger, in this kind of hand-to-hand combat with cold weapons, the condescending advantage is very large, the Western Army will suffer losses every time it attacks, and the casualties are obviously more than the Chu army, made Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen so angry that they screamed.

In addition to the terrain advantage, the formation of the Chu army is also very strict, Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen command the battle on the front line, and they feel the strongest about this, the two of them have many veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, and they are never afraid of any enemy in the battle formation, but compared with this 75th division, it seems that it is still a step behind.

Gao Wengui and Lu Mingchen have been in the southwest for a long time, and they don't know much about the history of the Chu army, and there were many people in the Chu army who used bird guns, and later changed to flintlock muskets, in order to give full play to the power of muskets, the requirements for strict formation are far more stringent than other armies, the horizontal and vertical phalanx is only the most basic training, hundreds of soldiers like a person like a unified action is basically qualified, always maintaining the formation has become an instinct, deep in the bones of each soldier, whenever a soldier falls, The soldiers in the back will immediately step forward to fill their positions, fearless in the face of the enemy's spears and steel swords, such a force also has strong combat effectiveness in cold weapon combat. ()

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