Chapter 512: Tian Ji Horse Racing
"The following is against the upper one!?" Sima Geng was stunned, and then remembered Zhao Wuxian's arrangements before the war, he also felt confused at that time, and now he has only now understood.
"Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated in a hundred battles. Ziniu, tell me, which of us is the upper horse, which is the middle horse, and which is the lower horse? ”
Sima Geng was straight and said: "Zitai has brought a thousand soldiers and a thousand soldiers, and he is considered to be the strongest in our army, so he should be the top soldier." ”
He glanced at Le Wei and Chen Dingguo, who were busy and sweating profusely in dispatching the army: "Most of the soldiers of the Le clan are trained by military retirees as military officers, although they have not obtained their essence, but they have a faint form...... Naturally, it was the 3,000 people in Cao State. ”
"That's right, so I let the most unreliable Cao army be in the middle army to show the enemy weak!"
From here, Zhao Wuxian's Chinese army was not a straight line, but a bow formation protruding from the center, and Cao's army had a clear banner to lure the enemy to attack it.
"Doesn't Zheng Ren always like to strike the weak first? You Su saw that Cao's army was weak, and he would inevitably send the Chinese army Yuli array to attack, which was the following plan for the upper horse. But Cao's army is easy to collapse, and I'm afraid it won't last long, so I need you to reject Xiang's soldiers and supervise the army in the rear, but what? ”
Sima Geng is upright and upright, and he is the most trustworthy among the people present, Zhao Wuxian said the plan, and Sima Geng hesitated for a while, and then agreed.
Anyway, there are Cao Guoren in front of him, what are you afraid of?
Poor Cao Guo, who was apprehensive about the corporal punishment of the Gongzi Dynasty, and wanted to come to the Song State with 3,000 soldiers to pick up the cheap, but he was used as a lure for the enemy to confuse the enemy by the central government.
"As for Le's 3,000 men placed on the right flank near the hills, they have to deal with the 3,000 guards and 1,000 Song soldiers. This is the middle donkey to the lower donkey. And I will approach the left flank of Caoze and attack 4,000 Song Xiaoyi soldiers with 2,000 people! ”
Sima Geng's face suddenly turned solemn. From this point of view, the task undertaken by Zhao Wuxian's soldiers. is not easier than him at all, Song Guo Xiaoyi Bing is not a fish belly.
But he didn't say much, just went as promised, as the little Sima of the Song Kingdom, he is also the temperament of a person in the army, since everyone trusts Zhao Wuxian and makes him the boss, then just give the order to carry it out, why do you need to ask this and that!
Before leaving. Sima Geng pretended to be heroic and said: "I don't know what the names of the two scholars who beat Zitai in the Taoqiu horse race, and where they are from, if this battle is won by virtue of this method, I will have to thank them." ”
Zhao Wuxian smiled playfully: "They claim to be from Qi State, one is called Tian Ji, the other is called Sun Bin, they come without a trace, they go without a trace, but they are afraid that it is not easy to find ......."
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"Cao Jun is placed in the center?" You Su squinted and recognized the smoke and dust raised by the army in the distance. Because they were located in the lower south, and the Zhao clan's light cavalry roamed around, they were like people who had been blinded in the eyes and ears, and they could not find out the enemy's formation as clearly as Zhao Wuxian.
Look at the past. Thousands of people opened a front, boundless. But in reality, there are more people on their side!
"Zhao Wuxian, this is trying to lure me into attacking the Chinese army." He pondered a countermeasure. Now the enemy army has sounded the drums of war and sounded the horn. Chariots and apprentices moved slowly in this direction, forcing them to fight. It's a bit too late to change formations.
Orienting on the move? No, that is absolutely impossible, You Su believes that his You clan veterans can do this, but the Song people can't eat it. In Zheng Guoren's opinion, the Song people are stupid and abnormal, these elm heads are famous for letting them go straight and they won't go rampant, and let them go rampant. As for the defenders who have lost their manager? Hey, once the order to adjust the direction of movement and change the front is given, it may cause a commotion and panic, and it is possible to be defeated before the war starts.
What's more, this battlefield is ten miles long, but the width between the grass and the hills is just enough to place 10,000 troops, and once the formation starts, it is not easy to stretch freely, which may be the reason why Zhao Wuxian chose this place as the decisive battle location......
But you think you have a plan, but you are in the wrong place!
There are few enemies, and this formation is easy to get rid of, as long as you rely on the solid Yuli array to defeat the Cao division of the Chinese army, and then cooperate with the Song people to attack its two wings again, victory is also easy to achieve......
But one thing must be noted, where is the cavalry, where is the cavalry that Zhao Wuxian relied on to become famous?
As a veteran of the battlefield, since the Battle of the Snow Field last year, You Su has noticed the new army that has repeatedly performed miraculous feats for the Zhao clan, and he does not know the detailed battle examples, but the swiftness and surprise of the cavalry have become a consensus.
Is it there? If you didn't identify the wrong banner, close to Caoze, the soldiers of Xiao Yi, who were marshal of Gongzidi, approached two thousand Zhao soldiers, accompanied by a light cavalry, to protect the gap between them and Cao's army.
"Do you want to cooperate with the apprentices and defeat Xiao Yi's soldiers first?" You Su sneered, he couldn't see the whole picture of the enemy army, he just thought that this was all the cavalry. It's a pity that the surface of that area is damp and soft, and chariots and single horses are not suitable for traffic and combat, so Zhao Wuxian is wrong.
But with such an obvious flaw, how can it be seen more and more like a ploy?
After hesitation, the enemy is a little closer, and he will miss the dry terrain that is most advantageous for his side! You can't think too much about the speed, you can only beat the drum to move forward.
The rest of the departments received his orders one after another: "The Cao army is not in order, and the Chinese army will attack it first with the Yuli array, and the Cao people will definitely run first." Subsequently, the Chinese army and the left army flanked Le's soldiers, and Le's was in chaos. Only the Zhao clan's troops are left behind, and they will be defeated! ”
Because of the confidence in Zheng Ren's combat effectiveness, because of the advantage of troops, and the expectation of that partial division, You Su decided to take on the opponent's formation!
Now that the winner has been thrown, it is necessary to engage the battle, at least so that the enemy army is stuck in a stalemate, unable to take care of the flanks and rear......
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Mucha had been promoted to brigade commander, and he was a tall man, the best target for almost the entire battlefield, though his equipment was anything but flashy: the armor was a black-brown crust, with only signs of long-term and vigorous use, without any coats of arms or ornamentation. His new weapon was a heavy iron sword, forged from those inferior peach hills, and while it was not yet possible to forge a sword, it was perfectly fine to make some rough blunt weapons. The iron is not smooth and beautiful at all. But as long as it is smashed hard, it will burst out of the brain. Broken leg.
However, Mucha lifted the iron with one hand, and it was as easy as an ordinary person to sharpen copper. Now. He was poking his fingers and drinking them to get them into place.
"Qi Wan, as a guard, you can't leave half a step!" He turned his head and saw Qi Wan taking the place of his personal guard, roaring loudly, as if he was handing over a mission.
"Tian Ben! You guard the left, don't guard the grass! ”
The rainy season has passed, and Meng Zhu is no longer a pure lake, but a swampy shoal mixed with silt and reeds. Tian Ben has violated military discipline many times. He was promoted several times and demoted several times, and now he is only a pawn commander, under the command of Musha. He guarded the far left flank of the army with his brave and fierce men, and as long as he held it, the superior Xiao Yi soldiers on the opposite side could not outflank them - unless they could wade through the black quagmire.
The various arms on the side of the warriors coordinated well: the Yansun Xuanniao Banner was erected high, the crossbowmen were lined up in three columns, divided into two sides of the square formation, calmly adjusting the bowstring, and the arrows swaying around the waist. Spearmen in a phalanx formation stood in the middle. In the rear were rows of infantry armed with spears, swords, and iron guns. A small number of cavalry surrounded the commander, informing the news and confusing the opponent, and the cavalry brigade commander Yu Xi was not here, he had another task.
Although the silt is somewhat slippery. But who hasn't waded through the quagmire when they're in basic training? Mucha's biggest concern is not on this side, but about those Cao people in the Chinese army......
In the position of the Chinese army, there are a large number of undisciplined light men and rangers who act as archers. Farmer with stone sickle and rusty weapons left behind by his grandparents, young man who has never been trained in the streets and alleys of Taoqiu...... The only reliable one. It's the Xiang clan soldier with a steady face.
"Why do you want them to be in the Chinese army?" Mucha heard a soldier muttering in a low voice in the crowd, speaking out the crowd's questions.
Some couldn't help but nod in agreement. Cao's army is full of poorly equipped and unprotected people, in the last battle of Punan, they couldn't even defeat the guards, such a ridiculous army, the commander actually expected them to be the Chinese army?
Because the enemy's Chinese army looked extremely powerful, with the chariot as a cover, they lined up in a tight formation and continued to advance, the chariot with skin and vertical shield could cover a lot of arrows, allowing the apprentices to attack the enemy formation smoothly, and Zheng Guo's apprentices were said to be very capable of fighting.
"Silence!"
But Mucha did not think about it carefully, and did not say that Si Ko had told them that "it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders", but that what he learned after being promoted to brigade commander is that "a soldier can make it impossible to know it"
, this sentence made him understand that he only had to do it and didn't have to think too much.
"Raise your shield, draw your sword, and lay your spear flat!"
The drums of the enemy were getting closer, and the chill crept under everyone's skin, causing the recruits' hands to twitch.
In an instant, the enemy had appeared in front of them, and out of the faint white mist shrouded in the grass was the Xiao Yi soldiers of the Song Kingdom, who hid behind the barrier formed by rattan shields and spears, and advanced with uneven steps.
Now Mu Xia is a little relieved, there are only two percent of the people in armor, and there are not many archers, and the opponent is stronger than Cao Ren and Wei Ren, but compared to almost all the soldiers in armor, and even the weaker Xiluyi soldiers in the back, they are much inferior!
However, it is also difficult to defeat twice the enemy army of your own in a short period of time.
Without much thought, when the drums died down, the hiss of breaking the air quickly filled the vacancy. The crossbowmen on either side of the warrior began to pull down their frames, and the crossbows shot out, and the opposing archers also spilled a sparse rain of arrows.
The first task the soldiers got was to guard, and what made them stunned for a moment was that the slogan of the Song people on the opposite side before charging was very similar to them.
"Destiny Bird! Descend to the business! ”
The enemy began to run as fast as they ran, roaring as they ran, but the arrows of the crossbowmen kept beckoning at them, ten, hundred, and in an instant, innumerable. Many of them fell to the ground with arrows, and their shouts turned to wailing, and by this time the second column had arrived, and the third row of crossbowmen stepped forward......
On this day, the people of the Song Kingdom tasted the taste of the three-stage shooting of the Zhao clan's crossbow......
Musha, on the other hand, raised his iron sand and struck down an enemy who had been lucky enough to squeeze into the formation.
There was already a series of battles around him, and the bones and brains left on the weapons were thrown away, and Mucha was still waiting to fight again, but then he remembered his duty and could only take a few steps back......
Looking at the six roads, while commanding and dispatching, he couldn't help but sigh that the days when he took the lead had passed, but fortunately, Xiao Yi's soldiers were neither weak nor strong, and they could easily hold on to this side. At a glance, because the Chinese army engaged in battle before them, it was a mess, and no details could be seen through the surging heads of countless people...... I wonder what's going on on the right side?
Si Kou's order is to hold on for a moment, and he must carry it out, but he doesn't know what kind of turn will take place on the battlefield after a moment? (To be continued.) )
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