Chapter 623: Li Mu's Big Surprise

After Liu Ji prepared to take away the ten cavalry brigades of the Grassland Legion and more than 780,000 elite soldiers produced by the system from Xinquan County, Xinquan County was left with only ten cavalry brigades of the Grassland Legion, twenty cavalry brigades of the Beiting Legion, ten infantry brigades of the Guards Legion, and twenty infantry brigades of the Native Legion.

Liu Ji temporarily handed over these troops to Li Mu to command, and also left Li Mu Zhang Shaohua, Zhang Baofeng, Chen Jichang and many other fierce generals, in addition to Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhu, the six top ministers, were also left by Liu Ji in Xinquan County, and there were twenty puppet bodyguards with peerless military strength and thirty puppet bodyguards with top military general strength, which were also left by Liu Ji to Li Mu.

In order to lead the troops to Fuxin County, Chongyi County, Hangzhou as soon as possible, Liu Ji even gave Mo Daobing, Wei Wushu and the 750,000 elite infantry trapped in the camp, each equipped with three war horses, like Zhang Liang and Guo Jia, who were weak scholars, and it was likely that they could not stand the pain of long-distance attacks, so Liu Ji only brought Wang Meng and Wang Dun, two top civil servants, by his side.

Wang Meng's force value is as high as 102 points, and Wang Dun's force value is also 82 points, and the two of them cannot be classified as weak scholars.

Liu Ji instructed Li Mu: "The Governor of Ben took away more than one million troops at once, and it is impossible for the people of Lu to not notice such a big movement, so you must be careful that the Lu army takes the opportunity to attack." ”

Li Mu smiled slightly and said: "Don't worry, the people of the Lu country will not take the opportunity to attack, once the people of the Lu country really dare to attack after the lord leaves with the troops, the last general may have the opportunity to give the lord a big surprise!" ”

Liu Ji was still very relieved of Li Mu's ability, not to mention that there were six top Wenchen, Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhu who stayed in Xinquan County, and early in the morning of February 7, Liu Ji was relieved to lead an army of more than one million to leave.

"What? Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cavalry from the Broken Army left Xinquan County? Jiang Ke, the general of the Lu Hussars, said with a shocked face.

Both the Broken Army and the Lu Army sent a lot of scouts to monitor each other's movements, and Liu Ji led more than a million troops to leave Xinquan County, and the Lu Army immediately discovered it.

Strategist Zhen Hongwen said with a worried face: "Lord, my subordinates are worried that these troops who have left Xinquan County will rush to Fuxin County in Chongyi County, Hangzhou, and in this way, the pressure on General Sun Gu will surge!" ”

The hussar general Jiang Ke pondered for a moment and said: "Immediately use the flying pigeon to pass the book, tell Sun Gu the news that there are hundreds of thousands, or even millions of cavalry troops in the broken army, are rushing to Fuxin County, let Sun Gu be careful, and then order the 37th Army in Suzhou to go to Fuxin County as soon as possible to join the five legions led by Sun Gu." ”

Strategist Zhen Hongwen nodded and said, "At present, we can only do so much. ”

At this time, Jiang Ke sneered and said: "The Broken Army is inevitably too arrogant, our Lu Army is only a small defeat here in Xinquan County, and the Broken Army dares to transfer hundreds of thousands, or even millions of cavalry, and leave Xinquan County, it seems that this commander does not give the Broken Army a little bit of a good taste, and the Broken Army really doesn't know how high the sky is and how thick the ground is!" ”

Strategist Zhen Hongwen hesitated for a moment and said, "My lord, it will take more than a month for the two main army corps and the five ordinary legions in the country to arrive here in Xinquan County, and before that, we had better avoid a decisive battle with the Broken Army." ”

Jiang Ke waved his hand and said indifferently: "Mr. Zhen, don't worry, this handsome man knows it in his heart and will not act recklessly!" ”

Strategist Zhen Hongwen saw Jiang Ke's attitude, and knew that Jiang Ke's mind had been decided, and no matter how much he persuaded him, it would have no effect, not to mention that the Lu army had gathered four main army corps and five ordinary army corps in Xinquan County, and there were more than 1.5 million strong men who were responsible for escorting grain and grass, and a main army that was originally in Qiongzhou was also rushing to Xinquan County, and hundreds of thousands, or even millions of cavalry from the broken army left, and the Lu army had already occupied a greater advantage in terms of strength. Therefore, the strategist Zhen Hongwen did not open his mouth to persuade him again.

Early in the morning of 8 February, the hussar general Jiang Ke had confirmed that the more than 1 million cavalry of the Broken Army had indeed left Xinquan County, so Jiang Ke no longer hesitated, immediately ordered his troops and horses, and pressed towards the county seat of Xinquan County, leaving only more than 1.5 million strong men in the camp.

After Li Mu got the news that the Lu army was almost pouring out, not only did he not have a trace of panic on his face, but also showed excitement, and then Li Mu took the ten cavalry brigades of the grassland legion, the twenty cavalry brigades of the Beiting legion, the five infantry brigades of the Guards Legion and the twenty infantry brigades of the local legion, and greeted them without showing weakness.

In the plain south of the county seat of Xinquan County, the Broken Army and the Lu Army faced each other, forming two unusually large military formations. Lu Guo'er, but someone dares to come up and send him to death! ”

Jiang Ke, the general of the Lu Hussars, turned his head and glanced at the thousands of Lu generals behind him, and asked loudly: "Which general is willing to break the army for a while, this general named Zhang Shaohua?" ”

After Jiang Ke finished saying this, he suddenly became cold, the last time the two armies fought, the fierce general named Zhang Shaohua of the Broken Army, even Qin Junmao was not his opponent, you must know that Qin Junmao's martial arts can be ranked among the top three among the many generals in the entire Lu army.

At this time, Qin Junmao, the commander of the Fourth Army of the Lu State, spoke: "Dashuai, this general of the Broken Army named Zhang Shaohua is very powerful in martial arts, almost not weaker than Galle, the first fierce general of our Lu State, even if I go up, I am not his opponent, it is not as good as ...... It is better to directly send a large army to attack, so as to avoid the defeat of the fighting generals and reduce the morale of our army. ”

The hussar general Jiang Ke shook his head helplessly and said: "There are indeed enough fierce generals of the Broken Army, so don't fight with the Broken Army, let the Twentieth Army attack first as planned!" ”

Because of the fear of Zhang Shaohua's bravery, the Lu army gave up fighting with the Broken Army in front of the two armies, and directly sent two infantry guards to form a battle formation, and rushed towards the large formation of the Broken Army.

Zhang Shaohua shouted in front of the two armies for a long time, but found that the infantry battle formation of the Lu people was pressing, and immediately turned his horse back to the front of the broken army, "General Li Mu, the people of the Lu country are really cowardly, and they don't dare to send people to fight with me in front of the two armies!" ”

Li Mu smiled slightly: "General Zhang, you still need to rely on your martial arts for a while, I will hand over the fifty masters around the lord to General Zhang, whether we can win this battle depends on General Zhang's performance!" ”

Zhang Shaohua immediately patted his chest and said: "When do you let me rush up with someone, General Li Mu just greets me, I must bring back the head of that Luguo hussar general!" ”

Li Mu then directly dispatched five infantry brigades of the Guards Legion, lined up in a dense infantry battle formation, and faced the 150,000 people of the two infantry guards of the Lu State.

The five infantry brigades of the Guards Corps and the two infantry guards of the Lu army fought very fiercely, and the two sides did not give in to each other, and the killing was difficult to solve, but the advantage was on the side of the broken army, and soon the Lu army sent two infantry guards to join the battlefield, which was considered to stabilize the situation.

At this time, on the southern city wall of the county seat of Xinquan County, Zhang Liang, Guo Jia, Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhu, the six top scholars, all gathered here, Fang Xuanling hesitated for a moment and asked the other five: "Can the tactics formulated by Li Mu and a few of us succeed?" ”

Zhang Liang smiled slightly: "It is in the sky to make things happen, we have already thought about what we should think, as for whether we can succeed or not, it depends on the will of God!" ”

As time passed, more and more troops from both sides joined the battlefield, and by noon on 8 February, the Broken Army had put five infantry brigades of the Guards Regiment and twenty infantry brigades of the Home Legion, about one million infantry, into the battlefield, while the Lu army had already put 26 infantry guards on the battlefield, and the total strength of these 26 guards was close to 2 million.

Because the strength of the Lu army was almost twice that of the broken army, the Lu army had some advantages in the whole scene, but according to the battle loss ratio of the two sides, the loss of the broken army was much less.

In addition, the commander of the Lu army, the hussar general Jiang Ke, has not discovered that the width of the battle line of the infantry formation on the side of the Broken Army is very large, and the middle part of the infantry formation of the Broken Army is not a straight line, but a bow formation protruding from the center, while the ten cavalry brigades of the Grassland Legion of the Broken Army and the twenty cavalry brigades of the Beiting Legion are placed on the two wings.

After the duel between the infantry of the two sides began, the middle part of the infantry formation of the Broken Army seemed to be inferior to the infantry battle formation of the Lu State and kept retreating, while the infantry of the Lu State continued to press, and now the twenty-six infantry guards of the Lu State had fallen into a huge concave center.

Li Mu, who had been observing the battle situation, saw that the infantry of the Lu army had gone deep into the battle formation arranged by the broken army and could not get out, so he lost no time in ordering the ten cavalry brigades of the grassland army on both wings to outflank them, seal the exit of the concave characters, surround the Lu infantry who went out to fight, and cooperate with the five infantry brigades of the Guards Corps and the twenty infantry brigades of the native army to eliminate the Lu infantry in the encirclement.

At this time, Li Mu personally led the twenty cavalry brigades of the Beiting Army and directly launched a charge against the Lu army that did not participate in the battle.

When Jiang Ke, the commander of the Lu army, discovered the true intentions of the Lu army, it was too late to make any reaction, and the twenty-six infantry guards of the Lu army were surrounded by the Lu army.

The infantry of the Lu State was equipped with a large number of shields, which should have been able to prevent the rain of arrows of the Broken Army to a large extent, but the infantry of the Broken Army also used a weapon, that is, a javelin with a special bamboo in Xinquan County and an iron axe, these javelins were made by Li Mu in a hurry day and night, because the production was simple, and more than one million were made at once.

The shield of the Lu infantry, in order to reduce the weight, the main material is wood, and the outer layer of iron is wrapped, this kind of shield can defend against arrows from a distance, and there is no problem with slashing and slashing in close combat, but it can't stop the javelin of the broken army, and the javelin of the broken army can easily break the shield or armor.

This kind of javelin of the broken army caused extremely heavy losses to the Lu infantry in the encirclement, and because this kind of javelin broke the shield of the Lu infantry, the Lu infantry was exposed to the rain of arrows of the broken army.

"Quick! Let all the eight cavalry guards attack, and be sure to break the encirclement of the Broken Army and rescue the twenty-six infantry guards inside! Jiang Ke, the general of the Lu Hussars, shouted angrily.

The four main legions and five ordinary legions in Jiang Ke's hands have a total of thirty-six infantry guards, and now there are twenty-six infantry guards surrounded by the Broken Army right under his nose, Jiang Ke is almost mad, and the remaining ten infantry guards have suffered from the onslaught of the cavalry units of the Broken Army, and they can't support it at all for the time being.

However, the tactics formulated by Li Mu and the six top Wenchen could be cracked by Jiang Ke so easily, and the eight cavalry guards attacked by the Lu army were immediately entangled by Li Mu and the cavalry troops of the Beiting Legion.

With the passage of time, the situation on the battlefield has become more and more unfavorable to the Lu army, the Lu infantry units in the encirclement of the broken army, many times desperately broke through, but were blocked by the broken army, and the infantry of the broken army with the cooperation of the cavalry of the broken army, has been divided and surrounded by the Lu infantry in the encirclement, and then annihilated.

The eight cavalry guards of the Lu army suffered very heavy losses under the attack of the cavalry troops of the Beiting Legion, and the cavalry of the Lu State was far inferior in terms of combat effectiveness compared to the cavalry of the Broken Army.

What made matters worse for the Lu army was that in the fierce battle, a small group of cavalry of the broken army actually broke through to the Chinese army where the commander of the Lu army was located, and this small group of cavalry was led by Zhang Shaohua, except for Zhang Shaohua, the remaining fifty cavalry were all puppet bodyguards under Liu Ji.

In the face of Zhang Shaohua and fifty puppet bodyguards, Jiang Ke, the hussar general of Lu State, had to flee in embarrassment under the protection of many Lu State soldiers, in order to prevent Zhang Shaohua and the puppet bodyguards from pursuing Jiang Ke, many Lu State soldiers can be said to have sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, many Lu State generals died at the hands of Zhang Shaohua and the puppet bodyguards, and even Qin Junmao, the commander of the Fourth Army of Lu State, was also captured by Zhang Shaohua and two puppet bodyguards with peerless generals.

After Jiang Ke fled, the Lu army outside the encirclement of the Lu army began to retreat to the camp in batches, and the Lu infantry in the encirclement of the Lu army began to lay down their weapons in batches.