"Come, give the order to pull up the Puts to attack the left flank of the enemy, and let the Jandero go to attack the enemy's right flank!" Zhao Ziliang observed for a while and then gave an order. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"Yes, King!" Wang Zhen clenched his fists and agreed, and immediately gave an order to the herald.

With 20,000 Pull-up Puts and 10,000 Chandairo in the Middle Route Army, Zhao Ziliang decided to use these two men to conduct a tentative attack to see how the coalition forces responded.

Zhao Ziliang only has the Third Army and the Ninth Army in his hands, a total of less than 30,000 people, of course, he can't dispatch the elite main force in the lead, on the one hand, after dispatching the elite main force, the servant army may not be able to control it without the suppression of the Western Qin Army, on the other hand, he wants to use these servant troops to fight the chaotic and unformed military formation of the coalition army, and test the combat effectiveness of the coalition army in the chaotic state.

From the left and right flanks of the Western Qin army, the cavalry was in front, the infantry was behind, the cavalry brandished their swords, and the soldiers spread their steps and followed the cavalry with their swords to rush towards the coalition army.

A large number of shouts suddenly filled the battlefield, and the war drums on the side of the Western Qin army began to sound, and more than a dozen huge war drums made a roaring vibration sound under the blow of the strong drummer, and they could be heard dozens of miles away.

The military formation of the coalition army has not yet been formed, so when the servant army of Western Qin killed them, the soldiers of the coalition army in front were a little afraid, and they were rushed by the servant army, and a large number of coalition troops were killed and retreated one after another, and the battle scene was chaotic in an instant, and the two sides staggered together to slash and kill each other, and the servant army with sufficient momentum temporarily gained the upper hand.

On the handsome platform, Li Sheng, who was standing on one side, said to Zhao Ziliang: "King, it seems that the attack of one or two thousand servant armies has an extremely limited effect on the situation of the entire battlefield. ”

This battle was fought until dark, no one could help anyone, Zhao Ziliang did not send additional troops to reinforce the attack of the two wings during this period, he needed to let the soldiers accumulate combat strength, and the coalition army could not effectively use tactics in the chaotic situation of the military formation, and could only rely on the advantage of numbers to block the attack of the Western Qin servant army.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, Zhao Ziliang gave the order to withdraw the troops back to the camp, and when the sound of the gong spread throughout the battlefield, the soldiers of the Western Qin servant army were relieved and withdrew back like a tide, and the coalition army quickly conveyed the order to withdraw the troops back to the camp.

The commander of the coalition army, Suo Pohe, knows very well that his ability is not enough to command the 400,000 army to fight against the Western Qin army, during the day he has already deeply realized that he can't even put 400,000 people out in a military formation, the battlefield is messy everywhere, the military order can't be conveyed, and the tactics can't be implemented, so after the Western Qin army retreated, he also immediately ordered the whole army to retreat back to the camp, he didn't dare to let the army pursue, who knows if this is a conspiracy of the Western Qin people? It's better to be careful!

After the whole army retreated back to the battalion, its own intermediate lieutenants were responsible for settling the soldiers and horses, and Zhao Ziliang and the generals came to the Chinese army's tent one after another to discuss the military situation.

Zhao Ziliang walked to the main seat and lifted his cloak and sat down, the generals were divided into two parts and stood on both sides, Zhao Ziliang looked at Xuan 18 and asked, "Have you figured out the situation of the allied forces?" ”

Xuan Eighteen said: "Yes, the king, I have figured it out, not counting the losses in today's battle, the coalition army consists of 350,000 infantry, 50,000 cavalry, and 12,000 elephant soldiers." Among the 350,000 infantry, there were 200,000 sword soldiers, 100,000 spearmen, 30,000 archers, and 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers. The 50,000 cavalry are also put together haphazardly, and the cavalry with iron armor is not a heavy cavalry, because the equipment is incomplete, how can the horse be considered an iron cavalry without a horse armor? Therefore, these 50,000 cavalry can only be regarded as light cavalry, and they are light cavalry that cannot be mounted and shot, because they have no riding bows, and can only charge and kill! The only thing worth paying special attention to in the coalition army is the 12,000 war elephants, this number is pieced together by the sixteen countries of Nantianzhu, much more than our war elephants, if we use war elephants against their war elephants, we will definitely lose, but we can't use cavalry to deal with war elephants, because the war horses are afraid when they see the war elephants, and they don't dare to move forward at all! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded after hearing this: "These twelve thousand war elephants are indeed a difficult class to deal with, we don't have any troops to restrain it, do you have any way?" ”

The generals on both sides couldn't think of any good way, so they shook their heads in unison.

At this time, Zhao Lei stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Father, my son has thought of a solution, but I don't know if it's feasible!" ”

Zhao Ziliang raised his hand and encouraged: "Say it and listen to it!" ”

"Yes!" Zhao Lei agreed, and said: "Erchen found that no matter what kind of livestock is afraid of fire, war elephants should be no exception, right?" If you want to take on the war elephants of the coalition forces, you can try it with fire! ”

Zhao Ziliang touched his short beard when he heard this, and said: "It sounds feasible, but it's really hard to say whether it will be useful on the battlefield, so let's do it, tomorrow you go and try it with our war elephants!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang asked Wang Zhen: "Where are the East Route Army and the West Route Army now?" ”

Wang Zhen said: "The Eastern Route Army has arrived in Qinman, and it is still five hundred miles away from our army; When the Western Route Army reached Radul, it was still more than four hundred miles away from our army, and since there were a large number of servant infantry among them, it might take five or six days to arrive! ”

Zhao Ziliang thought for a while and said to Wang Zhen: "Give orders to Brehan and Ma Lan, let them increase the speed of the march as soon as possible, our side can only try to delay the time with the coalition army, if the delay is too long, the other party's commander will react and send troops to attack us in turn, then we will be tired of coping!" ”

Wang Zhen hugged his fists and said: "Yes, Weichen immediately sent someone to send an order to urge them!" ”

"Is there any news from Zhao Ting?"

Wang Zhen shook his head and said: "Not yet, the road is too far, and the contact is not smooth, but there has been a letter from the Jisu Duhufu saying that the third prince has led the fleet to set off ten days ago!" ”

Zhao Ziliang got up and walked around the big tent with his hands behind his back, and stopped after a few minutes and said: "I don't know when Zhao Ting's troops will be able to go ashore to attack the rear of the coalition army, our side still has to find a way to reduce the pressure by ourselves!" Is the horse coming? ”

Ma Sui, who was in his thirties, stood up and hugged his fists and said: "The end will be!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Take your 3,000 archers with enough dry food and arrows to attack the coalition camp at night, they should be on guard, this king does not require you to achieve much success, as long as you keep attacking them, so that they can't rest, give full play to the strategy of hitting and running, so that they can't catch up even if they want to!" ”

"Weichen takes the order!" The horse clenched his fists in agreement, flicked his cloak and turned to go outside.

Zhao Ziliang looked at it among the generals, and finally fell on Xuan Eighteen's body, and ordered: "Send your Huya Army, find the grain and grass hoarding land of the coalition army, and burn it!" They have more than 400,000 horses, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is a huge amount, this grain and grass hoarding point will definitely not be small, as long as it is burned, the coalition army will collapse without a fight! ”

"Yes, King!"

3,000 archers under the command of Ma Sui kept attacking the camp of the Nantianzhu coalition army, the defense of the Nantianzhu coalition army was very strict, and it was easy to be confused if there were too many troops, and once there was chaos, it was easy to mess up the entire battalion, so Suo Pohe arranged the defense of the camp very well, although Ma Sui attacked five times at night with the archers all night, but the results were not great, but this also succeeded in making hundreds of thousands of people in the coalition army not rest well overnight.

The next day, everyone in the Southern Tianzhu Coalition Army was Yanbaba and had no spirit. Zhao Ziliang did not send all the soldiers and horses, he just sent 10,000 Solanki people to challenge, the coalition army did not rest all night, how can there be the spirit to fight, so Suo Pohe ordered to send people to hang a free battle card on the camp, no matter how the Solanki people provoked is not to fight, the Solanki people insulted the coalition army at the gate of the coalition camp for a day, but they failed to scold the coalition army, and at dusk as long as the troops were withdrawn back to the camp.

Zhao Ziliang listened to the report of the Solanki general and asked him to step aside without blaming. At this time, Zhao Lei walked in and hugged his fists and said to Zhao Ziliang: "Father, there is a result, the retainers have prepared dozens of board carts, which are full of straw, and after igniting the fire, people are pushed to rush to the war elephant herd that has been arrayed, and the war elephant army saw the fire rushing towards them, so frightened that they turned around and ran, and also overturned many soldiers sitting on their backs to the ground. After waiting to regain control of the herd, Erchen asked dozens of catapults to throw fire oil bombs at them at the same time, and the large number of fire oil bombs made them even more frightened, and they turned around and fled desperately! In other words, it is completely possible to use fire attacks against the war elephant herds of the coalition forces! ”

After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang praised: "Okay, you haven't done much in this matter!" In this way, I will leave the matter of attacking the coalition camp tonight to you, and give you 3,000 cavalry! ”

"Yes, Father!" Zhao Lei agreed, and turned around excitedly.

In the middle of the night, Zhao Lei came back covered in blood, Zhao Ziliang was woken up by the eunuch, saw him in the big tent, and asked, "What is the result of the attack?" ”

Zhao Lei hugged his fists and said: "Father, Erchen is fortunate not to be dishonored, first ordered someone to touch the vicinity of the enemy's wall, use a rope to dig out the fence of the wall, and then use dozens of meters of war horses to pull violently, in one fell swoop to break a section of the wall, Erchen then led the soldiers to kill in, killed countless enemies, and met the stable of the coalition army when retreating, after counting all the horses in the stable, Erchen immediately ordered someone to set fire to the stable, the coalition horses were frightened, galloped around in the camp, countless coalition soldiers were killed and trampled to death, Erchen took the opportunity to kill the soldiers with them, and the specific results could not be counted, but the losses of the coalition forces would definitely not be less! ”

"Oh?" Zhao Ziliang was very happy to hear Zhao Lei's report, and said: "Okay, I didn't expect you to be able to achieve such results in the first time with troops attacking the camp!" However, you have to remember that you must guard against impatience and fight on the march, and for generals, maintaining emotional stability is the most important thing! ”

"Yes, the boy remembers!"

"In view of your meritorious combat today, you will be promoted to major general and command the second division of the Third Army Corps!"

"Yes, the child must live up to his father's expectations!"