Chapter 117: Stalemate

Yuan Hao, who was at the head of the city, saw the battle under the city, and his face changed drastically. It is known not to let the cavalry hedge against the infantry in formation, but on the battlefield, most of the time the infantry is overwhelmed by the cavalry, not the other way around. Easier said than done, even if the generals knew how to face the cavalry charge, how many armies could send small forces to counterattack the cavalry?

What frightened Yuan Hao was not that the Song army under the city defeated their own personal guards and iron cavalry, but that they were calm, as if it was natural to fight like this. To make such an arrangement on the battlefield, it must have gone through a lot of arduous training in peacetime, and the cooperation on the battlefield is not something that can be done with a hot head. The Song army that came to attack Zhuoluo City was the real elite, and this was what scared Yuan Hao. He dared to go to Yuzhong City with twenty or thirty thousand people, precisely because Qin Fenglu did not have the elite of the forbidden army, and he was afraid of the Song army in the battle of Sanchuankou, and the elites were concentrated there, and Qin Fenglu and Jingyuan Road were empty.

Sighing, Yuan Hao said to Yeli Yuqi beside him: "From top to bottom of the country, they all say that Qin Feng and Jingyuan on the other side are empty, and there is no elite of the Song army, and most of them are stationed in the forbidden army. Looking at it today, the rumors are really not credible, and the one who came to attack Zhuoluo City was no less than the elite army of the Song Dynasty's forbidden army'. Uncle, this battle can't be fought anymore, there is a huge disparity in numbers, and the Song army that came is several times larger than ours, and it is an elite and strong army. Such a fierce enemy, if one is not good, the whole army will be wiped out, and if it drags on for a moment, it will be more dangerous-"

Seeing that Wulinu under the city was reorganizing his troops and preparing to re-attack the hill, Yuan Hao instructed his soldiers: "Go down and let the two armies stop attacking the mountain, and lead people to force the Song army under the mountain, so that they can't rush down the mountain." After they forced the Song army, they let the armies quickly assemble to the east of the city. As soon as it is past noon, we will break through in the direction of Lingzhou, and we can't wait for a moment! ”

The soldiers went as promised, and Yuan Hao begged Ye Liyu: "This battle is dangerous, uncle must be careful!" I led the troops to rush out of the pass, and you immediately followed us and rushed out, even if you left some soldiers for the Song people, you will not hesitate! ”

Ye Liyu begged Yuan Hao and smiled bitterly in his heart. Now in this situation, it is not possible to leave the prison army and soldiers, Yuan Hao rushed out with the elite guards, and if he didn't die, he had to take off a layer of skin, whether he could keep up or not, he had to resign himself to fate.

Jia Kui looked at the situation in the valley with a telescope, and saw that after the party and the army had rushed once, they reorganized their troops and prepared to rush again, and they were full of interest. The same situation, when Yuan Hao breaks through, he will repeat it here.

Breaking through from the valley to the direction of Lingzhou, the party army was climbing the mountain step by step, and it had to go through one rush and another before it could set foot on the road to the east. The 20,000 guards around Yuan Hao were carefully selected from the whole country by the party, and Xu Ping knew that the 50,000 soldiers and horses he brought would not be able to keep them no matter what, and it would outweigh the losses if he forcibly wanted to stay. According to the plan, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan had to fight each other in turn, breaking through the skin of the party army layer by layer. How many layers of skin are peeled off depends on how well the two armies fight.

In the valley ten miles south of Zhuoluo City, Xu Ping looked up at the arrows in the sky one after another, and said to Shi Quanbin: "The front has already started, and the new training of the Qinzhou army has been less than a year, so I don't know if I can suppress the elite soldiers of the party." ”

Shi Quanbin said: "Since the war has started, let's go quickly and go to the front to see how the sons and daughters are fighting!" ”

"Cabinet Chief, fighting a war is a life-and-death fight, but it's not a drama on stage, how can you watch it casually? The gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, and the commander arrives in front of the battle, and inexplicably a stray arrow is injured, what do you let the soldiers of the whole army do? We went five miles away, and it was good to listen to the reports from the various armies, and the swords and swords were exchanged, and the blood and bones were shed, so we didn't want to look at it. ”

Shi Quanbin felt that it was a pity, they were all in front of the battle, and it was foreseeable that it would be a big victory, and he was really unwilling to see it with his own eyes. When I went to the front of the battle, I took a look, and when I returned to the official family of the court, I said that I also had a glow on my face.

Seeing that Xu Ping insisted on refusing, Shi Quanbin had no choice but to say: "Jinglu, we have known each other for many years, and what convinces you the most is this calmness." Tens of thousands of soldiers are fighting in front, you are not panicking here, how to do things, everything is in order. It's really a chess game! ”

Xu Ping shook his head: "The battlefield is not a chess game. When the two armies fought, I was most tired and most frightened when there was no war before the war. It is not an exaggeration to say how soldiers should train, how they will learn, and how they will fight battles. When the war started, I didn't want to do that. Practice what should be practiced, learn what should be learned, and just follow the steps. ”

At this moment, Wang Kai came over from the front and crossed his hands to Xu Ping: "After a strategy, Zhuoluo City has started a war. The thieves slowly approached Zhuoluo City in the south of the city, and the formation was strict, so our army had to slowly force forward, and there was no big battle. In the north of the city, the thieves gathered to the east of the city, thinking that they wanted to break through in the direction of Lingzhou in the east. The various units of the Xuanwei Army occupied the favorable terrain and took turns to rush and kill, and they won a lot of losses, which also disrupted the arrangement of the thieves. However, the thieves sent troops from the city, forced the nearest two hills, and stabilized the situation. Now their strikers have occupied the banks of the Karo River and are wading across the river. ”

"Got it". Xu Ping thought for a while, "Half-crossing, this kind of opportunity should not be missed." instructed Sang Yi and Gao Daquan to send someone to rush when the thief crossed the river. Don't ask to drive the thieves into the river, so that they can't go so well. ”

Wang Kai promised, turned around to leave, and turned back and said: "Jingluo, the river channel of the Kaluo River is not wide, and now there is little water in the river, so people and horses can wade through the water." The party's bow and crossbow are powerful, and they should not be taken too lightlyβ€”"

"Not bad. Let Sang Yi and Gao Daquan rush diagonally, and don't attack head-on. It's good to disrupt the rhythm of thieves crossing the river, don't force thieves to cross the river. Now is the time when there is the least amount of water in the river, and it cannot stop the march of the army. ”

Wang Kai promised, hit the horse and flew forward.

Shi Quanbin sighed and said: "It's a pity that the heavens are not beautiful, if it rains heavily now, nine times out of ten, the thief will be left here." With such great achievements, it will be easy to do anything in the future. ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "When it can rain heavily, Hao thieves must stay in Xingqing Mansion honestly, where will they come here!" Cabinet Chief, the important thing is that we win this battle well, and it is useless to think too much. ”

Shi Quanbin also smiled, knowing that he wanted to catch Yuan Hao too much and make great contributions, and he was too unrealistic to think about it.

Jia Kui took the binoculars, looked at the battle in the valley, and suddenly said, "Hey, why don't those thieves attack the mountain?" I only rushed once, and if I folded less than a hundred horses, I didn't dare to attack, how could I be so unbearable! ”

Yang Wenguang took the telescope and looked at it for a while, then put it down and said: "The thief is not stupid, if you rush once, you will naturally know that you will not be able to attack the mountain for a while and a half." If you forcibly attack, you don't know how many lives you have to fill in, so it is better to force it down the mountain, and the soldiers and horses of this dynasty on the mountain are not easy to rush down the mountain. Why don't they do it if they die less and achieve their goals? ”

Jia Kui said hatefully: "It is said that thieves are not afraid of death, and they dare to fight and rush on the battlefield!" If this is the case, hundreds of people will be frightened by death, and how troublesome it will be for us to cook! How many people have died, and they are scared! ”

Yang Wenguang smiled: "If you are not afraid of death, you hit the tip of the gun, it's not that you're not afraid of death, it's stupid!" Yu Hou, don't think of the thieves as brainless, prepare well, and when the thieves cross the river and gather, it's time to attack us! ”