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"Burn the pontoon!"

This order made the herald of the Qi army stunned for a while, thinking that he had heard it wrong, but Guoxia's eyes were firm, unquestionable, and he didn't want to joke at all.

When Guoxia arrived in Wenshui, half of the pontoon bridge had been built, and the other half would take two hours to be built, and nearly 35,000 troops of Qi people were waiting on the shore, but behind them, the main force of the Zhao clan would arrive in less than an hour.

After looking at it with a gloomy face for a long time, he finally gritted his teeth and made the decision to destroy the overseas Chinese.

"Guozi, what does this mean!" As expected, this order caused an uproar among the division commanders, and it didn't take long for Yang Sheng, the prince of Qi State, who was in charge of the heel army, to be the first to protest, he held his crests to his chest, sweating profusely, and angry.

Guo Xia frowned at Yang Sheng's actions and explained: "The Zhao army is about to arrive, our army has no time to cross the river, and a big battle on the south bank of Wenshui is inevitable. ”

Yang Sheng's eyes flashed with a strong desire to survive, and he said earnestly: "The Zhao army also arrived after a long march, and it must be extremely tired, let the rear army block Zhao Wuxian, I will go to the front to let people speed up the construction, and the army can completely get away with it......"

"Who's going to cut it off? Gaozi, or Childe? Guo Xia glanced at the generals who came to probe his tone, and sneered: "After the previous 10,000 troops were broken, they had been harassed by the Zhao clan's partial division, and any partial division would inevitably collapse if it fought with the main force of the Zhao clan." When the time comes, our army will be exposed to the Zhao army, and it will be a situation of half-crossing attack, and it will definitely be defeated, and it will be a fiasco! ”

"But, there's no need to burn the pontoon, this is the only way for everyone to survive!"

"The only way to survive is to block everyone's life!" Guoxia said softly in his heart, but when he spoke, he changed his words.

"Have you forgotten the lessons of the Battle of Jin Chu Yi? After the small defeat of the Jin army, in order to snatch the boat that crossed the big river, the Jin people killed each other before the arrival of the Chu army, and the people on the boat pushed the people on the shore into the water. ”

Guo Xia knew very well that even if he, Yang Sheng and the others could escape back to Qi State, if the army fell here, Qi Country would be finished! Out of a sense of responsibility as the commander-in-chief, for the future of the second family of the national high school, and for the longevity of the office surnamed Jiang, he will never steal his life.

"In this case, it is better to burn the pontoon bridge, so that everyone feels that they have fallen into death, and I will show that I will not live, so that I can trap the beast and fight, repel the Zhao army, and calmly cross the river!"

Guoxia's authority in the army is no one dares to disobey, the division commander Nene said yes, Guoxia let Gongzi Yangsheng return to his post, and sent a chariot to hold his order, after seeing the pontoon bridge fire, it caused a small panic in the Qi army shouted: "The Zhao army spies and burns the pontoon bridge, if the Qi people want to return to their hometown, turn back and line up, after defeating the Zhao army, the army will take you and others home!" A person's head was hung high with the shouting, this so-called "Zhao army spies" is actually a military official who keeps giving orders and wants to cross the river without permission......

"Homecoming! Go home! "One person died and three armies shook, the sound rang out after a slight stagnation, these days you are chasing me, the soldiers are more or less aware of the danger in the rear, they have discarded most of the loot looted in the Lu country, only one life must be brought back to their hometown. Now hope was suddenly cut off, some people were afraid, some people were hesitant, but most people were aroused by Guoxia's blood and anger.

Since he was forced to this one, he had to fight! What's so great about Zhao Jun, their Qi people are not comparable to cowardly and incompetent patriots!

Guo Xia looked at the Qi pawns who turned around one after another under the command of the division commanders, and nodded with satisfaction. Twenty years have passed, although Sima Sui Tho's method has been abandoned a lot, but the pride and courage left by the soldier to the Qi people still exist, which is the source of the courage of the Qi Hou to seek hegemony, and it is also the capital of Guoxia to dare to fight with Zhao Wuxian!

Whether the result of this battle is good or bad, Guoxia is already desperate! He only hoped that his counterattack would allow Zhao Wuxian to retreat in the face of difficulties, and let the army drag the reinforcements from the Qi State to meet him......

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"Have you ever found out how many people are the main force of the Zhao army?" A moment later, Guoxia asked, pointing to the only remaining scout.

"Yu Guozi, about 20,000 yuan, eight miles away from here."

"Twenty thousand? Whose banner is there, can you see clearly? ”

"The villain can really see it, there are Zhao's Yanri Xuanniao Banner, the Song State's white-background Xuanniao Banner, and the flags of the rest of the divisions, what galloping horse knights, swords and shields, fighting horses and chickens, and so on."

Guo Xia stood on the chariot and frowned slightly, after the Qi army turned back to the water formation, the Zhao army was also approaching, but the number of people was not quite the same as he expected.

According to earlier information, the Zhao army had about 20,000 when they besieged Diqiu, and it was almost the same number when they set off to the east. At the same time, at the time of the change of Cao State, there was information that a large Song army was heading north through Taoqiu, and it was delayed in Cao State for a while. If this Song army merged with Zhao Wuxian's army, Guoxia would face at least 30,000 people, plus those cavalry, light soldiers and Qufu Lu soldiers, the number should be no less than that of the Qi army.

After most of the Zhao army entered Guoxia's field of vision, he roughly estimated the enemy's strength on the surface, and it was indeed only about 20,000, so where did the 10,000 who disappeared out of thin air go?

"Could it be that you are disconnected from the army along the way?" Gao Wupi proposed this possibility, as far as they knew, the reason why Zhao Bing caught up with him so quickly must be that he marched day and night, and it was common for thousands of people to fall behind along the way.

So far, Guoxia can only think like this, so that at least before the lagging Zhao soldiers catch up, the Qi army has a numerical advantage over the Zhao army.

Although it was decided to fight, how to fight is still a problem. As a clear-minded Qi general, Guo Xia knew very well in his heart that in terms of the strength of the military formation and the treachery of the soldiers, he was far inferior to Zhao Wuxian, who had a spear phalanx and light cavalry, so he could only attack the enemy with the strength of Qi people.

What are the strengths of the Qi army? In Guoxia, one is a chariot, the other is a bow and arrow, especially a chariot, he has at least eight or nine hundred times on hand, all of which are good chariots!

"The charioteer is also the wings of the army, so he is trapped in Jianchen, breaks the strong enemy, covers the north, and rides in defeat, so he should use the chariot!"

There are also Gongzi Yangsheng, who was miserably harmed by the Zhao cavalry, who raised objections, and there are a large number of light cavalry in the Zhao army, and the chariot may not be able to defeat the cavalry.

Guoxia is a little unconvinced, in the past few years, although the Zhao cavalry has a good reputation and is almost invincible, but as far as Guoxia knows, they have not had the experience of defeating chariots head-on in a big battle. In the battle of Meng Zhu in the Song Rebellion, Zheng Jun's Yuli array was beaten all over the ground by the Zhao family, but it mainly relied on infantry phalanxes and crossbow arrows.

Therefore, Guo Xia very much hoped that his chariot would charge out in one go when the Zhao army had just arrived and had not yet gained a firm foothold, so as to frustrate Zhao Wuxian's spirit and then repel them.

The method of placing the chariot of Qi State, with five cars having a commander, ten cars having a car officer, fifty cars having a car rate, and one hundred cars having a car general, Guoxia ordered nine doctors or grandsons to serve as car generals. For a time, the Chinese army in Guoxia ordered the flag to be displayed, and after each division received the order, it began to concentrate the chariots under its command.

However, perhaps the intention of Guoxia's move was too obvious, and perhaps Zhao Wuxian, who was on the other side, also knew the advantages of his own side and the Qi army, and the Zhao army had countermeasures before the Qi people made a move......

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It is true that nearly 10,000 people have evaporated in Zhao's army, but what are the uses of those people, Zhao Wuxian and the main generals know very well, and for the sake of the final victory, he is fully willing to take the risk of attacking 35,000 people with 20,000 troops.

Zhao Wuxian had many scouts, and Guoxia also sent scouts out, although most of them were killed by light cavalry, but there were still a few fish that escaped the net and ran back. So Guoxia knew that Zhao Wuxian had caught up, and he was originally preparing to cross the river, but at this time he hurriedly burned down the pontoon bridge and changed it to prepare for battle by the river.

Wuxian passed the order to go, and ordered Mucha and Tian Benzhu generals to display their headquarters and prepare for the attack. He rode a horse high on the riverbank and watched from afar, watching the military formation of the Qi people.

"What do you think, how about the formation?" Zhao Wuxian asked Shi Qi, who was resourceful and brilliant in the process of delaying Qi people.

Shi Qi didn't say much, he watched for a moment and then raised his whip and pointed, and said to Zhao Wuxian: "The villain used to be just a small official of the Chu army, and he didn't know much about battle formations, but he could also see that the Qi army was concentrating the chariot, and the chariot was probably the thing that the Qi generals relied on the most. ”

Zhao Wuxian nodded in agreement and said, "Yes, the enemy's army formation, the chariot is the strongest. ”

Such a number of chariots can still pose a threat to their own side, the number of his assault cavalry is not much, most of them are cavalry archers for archery and harassment, tens of thousands of troops are engaged, the battle line can be stretched for several miles, if the thousand chariots of the Qi people are concentrated in one place after the battle, it is also possible to be broken several military formations, and it is necessary to guard against it. So Zhao Wuxian turned his head and asked, "What's the son?" ”

"The servant is here." Ran Qiu came out from behind, and like Shi Qi, he was also praised by Zhao Wuxian for decisively leading the Qufu Lu people to attack, and Tian Ben and Shi Qi were tied for the first merit, and Yu Xi and Fan Chi were the second merit, and the five people who pursued hundreds of miles were also nicknamed Zhao's "five dogs", which means that Zhao Wuxian is a hunter, and the five people are hunting dogs that help hunters find enemies and stay enemies.

"Zi has a town guarding Lupin, what do you think?"

Ran Qiu, who had fought with the Qi people many times, approached and suggested: "The general explained to me before leaving the Lu country, the Qi people are the great enemies of Lu, and they know that the other side can survive a hundred battles. I think that Guoxia's tactics should be to spread the strong bow on both sides, shoot me left and right, and then the chariot soldiers will attack me left and right, and the technical attack will also take the opportunity to attack, causing chaos on my two wings. “

"In any case, the core of Qi people's tactics is chariots......" Zhao Wuxian smiled, and he had an idea in his heart.

"In that case, isn't it okay to let Qi people have this advantage?"

He immediately ordered: "Wave the flag, let Yu Xi continue to attack, and our army begins to move closer, from a marching army column to a combat queue, do not stop after entering the front of the enemy for two miles, keep advancing, advance, until you enter half a mile away!" ”

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"Guozi, Zhao Jun didn't stop!"

Guo Xia, who was directing the army to concentrate the chariots and preparing to engage the enemy, was shocked when he heard this, and when he looked back at the movements of the Zhao army, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart. He immediately laughed self-deprecatingly: "Also, Zhao Wuxian doesn't plan to fight with me in a dignified formation, he wants to learn from the Chu army in the Battle of Yanling, and when our army turns back in a hurry, he suddenly approaches our army's camp and arranges the formation, so that there is a big river behind and an enemy army in front, and the chariot will not be able to be used......"

The Qi army's chariot warfare method is its own system, different from Zheng Guoren's chariot coordination "Yuli array", Qi people like to use chariots in a centralized manner, which takes five chariots as a column, 40 steps apart, 10 steps from left and right, and 60 steps between teams, which is the tactics when encountering weaker enemies, and the chariot array is looser. As for the method of dangerous warfare in the face of a strong enemy, the chariots were gathered with ten chariots and twenty chariots as the cantonment, with a distance of twenty paces from each other, six steps from the left and right, and thirty-six steps between the teams.

Even if it is calculated by the method of dangerous battles, a thousand chariots, you have to line up a range of two miles in length, Guoxia originally thought that the Zhao army had come from a long journey, if Zhao Wuxian was cautious, he would definitely take a break a few miles away, who expected that the other party seemed to see through his own tactics at a glance, and he was pressing step by step!

"Despicable!" I don't know which Qi Shi Shuai scolded, which caused a lot of approval, this is not what the two ministers should do when they fight, this Zhao Wuxian is really a cheap concubine, and he is not generous at all.

"Enough, there is no right or wrong on the battlefield, as long as you can win...... Loser, there is no reason to say how the winner is. Guoxia sighed, and at the same time became more cautious.

"During the Battle of Yanling, the Jin army was forced by the Chu people and was in a disadvantageous position. In the end, the Jin army adopted Fan Xuanzi's strategy, filled in the barracks, expanded the space, and lined up on the spot, not only to get rid of the dilemma of not being able to go out of the camp to set up the formation, but also to conceal their own deployment and adjustment ......"

Guo Xia looked at the Zhao army that occupied the commanding heights on the riverbank and shook his head, they were destined to not be able to copy the correct approach of the Jin army, since the Zhao army blocked the possibility of them taking the initiative to attack, they could only choose to defend......

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"I heard that the princes of the Central Plains were fighting, and they always liked to put up a battle, wait for the other party to beat the drum, and then advance together, but since I came to the Zhao camp, I have never seen the general use of troops like this."

Shi Qi watched Zhao Wuxian's transfer and command, and saw that Zhao Jun had won a hand before the fight, so he suddenly asked such a sentence.

Zhao Wuxian was slightly stunned, a little difficult to answer, but it was Xiang Lu next to him who hurriedly replied: "It was an ancient military salute hundreds of years ago, except for Song Xianggong, who still abides by it?" As early as the Battle of the Long Spoon that year, in the face of the strong Qi army, Cao Di also used a strategy. He didn't care what kind of dignified battle, only let the Lu army remain motionless, wait for the Qi people to beat the drum three times, the chariot also rushed three times, the momentum has been leaked before attacking, the Lu people defeated the Qi country with one enemy ten, only praise Cao Di for his quick wisdom afterwards, who will say that he is unruly? Instead, he was enshrined as a hero. ”

Zhao Wuxian also nodded and said: "Yes, soldiers, the major affairs of the country must not be overlooked." This is a contest involving the lives of tens of thousands of people, and I will not let the living soldiers suffer more casualties in vain because of the system of ritual and pleasure of death......"

He looked at Zhao Jun, who was slowly advancing after being ordered like an ant, and said: "Winning the war at the lowest cost is the goal pursued for the generals!" ”

At this moment, Ran Qiu, who had been observing the movements of Qi people, said loudly: "General! Qi people have changed formations! ”

Wuxian and the others hurriedly looked at it, and he couldn't help but be amazed: "He is worthy of being a famous marshal of the Qi country, Guoxia reacted quickly, and he saw that he couldn't let the chariot assault, so he set up ......a base with the chariot in the same place instead" (to be continued.) )