Chapter 43: Digging a Pit
Lu Chang succeeded in taking advantage of the fire to rob Gray Chang this time, and collected a total of almost 4,000 cavalry, and the insufficient ones were Lu Chang's original cavalry, plus some selected from the infantry to make up 4,000 cavalry. The cavalry was a team of fifty men, and there were eighty teams in total.
Lu Chang's official position cannot be arbitrary, however, he has other ways to solve this problem.
In the reorganization, according to the establishment of 250 people in the five brigades and one brigade and 1,000 people in the four brigades and one regiment, four regiments were formed, and the number was just 4,000.
Lu Chang asked Zhang Yu to lead the cavalry, commanding a total of four cavalry regiments.
There were 6,000 infantry, including almost 2,000 archers, forming two regiments of eight brigades.
The other infantry men numbered 4,000 men, consisting of sixteen brigades and four regiments.
The infantry commanded the vast sea, commanding a total of six regiments.
With the courage of Zhang Yu and Xiong Kuohai, it was enough to shock the gang of ruffians, and Lu Chang was not afraid that the lower-level officers of the Xiaoguo Army would not be convinced.
Lu Chang's original team had 5,000 people and 10,000 people, totaling 15,000 people. These people were personally led by Lu Chang and would form the central army of the Southern Army in the future.
At the same time, Lu Chang dropped Xin Wen in the rear, and transferred 5,000 people to take on the task of logistics.
This guy has a great appetite and expands his army of more than 30,000 people at once. If Yang Guang, the Great Sui Emperor of Jiangdu City, knew about it, would he want to rebel?
Lu Chang is very cautious in leading the troops, even at night, the jumping soldiers have to be sent out to investigate. No, on the morning of the next day, the jumping soldiers passed the news back and forth and learned that Lin Shihong's army was about to make a move.
Lu Chang left the infantry of the newly incorporated Xiaoguo Army in the camp to practice, and the cavalry took turns to fight with Lu Chang.
The people who served as the infantry combat blockers were the people who had just joined the army, and although they had undergone a short period of training, they had not experienced the actual combat of war after all.
Lu Chang only arranged two regiments of troops to block the attack, four teams of sword, shield, pikemen, 200 people, and 1,800 archers.
Lu Chang and Xiong Kuohai personally led the cavalry into battle, and only brought a brigade of 250 cavalry in each battle as the main force of the charge.
Lin Shihong had returned to Yuzhang City last night, although the battle was won, but the casualties of the army were very large, and the original 60,000 troops were now only more than 40,000.
It is necessary to expand the army, at least to 50,000 soldiers and horses, this is Lin Shihong's plan. Therefore, Lin Shihong left 10,000 troops to continue to pursue the Xiaoguo army, and returned to Yuzhang City with the rest of the army.
Of course, this battle was also rewarding, at least a lot of equipment of the Sui army was captured, and there were a lot of armor, swords, guns, bows and arrows. With these equipment, it is possible to effectively improve the combat capability of the Yuzhang army.
Li Ba, the general who pursued the Xiaoguo Army, was also very fucked, okay, everyone is resting when it's dark, but you get up early and continue to chase. Well, this general who led the troops slept until three o'clock in the morning, and then slowly began to march.
On the march to fight, 10,000 troops, you will always send out some jumps to find out the information of the other party, right? This Li Ba probably never led troops, he didn't know the routines of fighting at all, and he didn't send a jumping to reconnoitre, and 10,000 troops marched forward.
Lu Chang was lucky to meet such an opponent, which made him unhurried and ready to face the battle.
Lu Chang set his army in the position where he intercepted the enemy yesterday, and 2,000 soldiers lined up and waited for the enemy to attack. Not for anything else, but because the terrain here is open, which is very advantageous for cavalry warfare.
The cavalry of two hundred and fifty men was scattered at the back of the formation, which was very inconspicuous.
Li Bao led his troops to come, and looked, hey, with such an army, can you stop my 10,000 army?
Well, let's not bully people too much, sending 5,000 troops is enough to destroy them.
Li Ba sent 5,000 troops to attack Lu Chang's 2,000 troops, and the troops were absolutely superior in battle. Even in terms of quality, I am afraid that these armies composed of people and strong people are not bad. At least they had fought, and many of Lu Chang's troops were on the battlefield for the first time.
Of course, the commanders are all veterans, otherwise they would not have been able to fight at all.
Seeing that the enemy army had entered the range of attacking the fortified position, the commander of the Southern Army, Jiao Zhen and Jiao Hengbo, gave an order, and nearly a thousand bows and arrows were shot out in unison. Accurate, hehe, a little bad, but most of them still shot into the enemy's camp.
This arrow array is shot in batches with bows and crossbows, and when the bows and arrows are fired, the crossbow arrows are shot again. And so on wave after wave, in turn.
Despite being a new recruit, the quality of the shooting was not very good, and many enemy soldiers were killed after three rounds of arrows per person. In total, at least 500 enemy troops were killed or wounded by bows and arrows, and lost their combat effectiveness.
The last round was delayed, and that was because the bow and crossbow were to be fired together, so it was delayed.
At this time, the enemy army was already within fifty paces, and with an order, 1,800 bows and arrows were fired together, which immediately made the enemy soldiers turn on their backs.
After shooting the arrow, Jiao Hengbo shouted: "All of them, turn back, retreat!" ”
Well, after shooting the arrow, retreat. What kind of battle is this, and you are not afraid of the pursuit of the enemy?
There was no need to worry about the pursuit of the enemy troops, at this time, the cavalry was already activated. Lu Chang took the lead, leading two hundred and fifty cavalry straight into the chaotic enemy army like arrows.
Lu Chang's overlord lance is eight feet long, and the position of the tip of the lance is at the height of a person's neck, and he swept the enemy army with a high-speed galloping war horse.
Lu Chang swept across the overlord lance, and the flesh and blood stumps were flying, so it was not terrifying. Lu Chang opened the way in front, and the two hundred and fifty cavalry behind him followed into the enemy's army, the war horses stepped on, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the enemy ghosts cried wolves, and the chaos was unbearable.
Lu Chang didn't like to fight either, he killed from the right side of the enemy army to the left, looked back and saw that his infantry had gone away, and the war horse drew an arc and chased after the back of the infantry.
The battle was as simple as that, and it took less than half an hour before and after. A round of impact by Lu Chang's cavalry will cause at least hundreds of enemy casualties. If you add the results of the bow and arrow shooting in front, there is almost a thousand less results.
Li Ba saw clearly from behind, seeing that his army's army was about to rush up, but he was calculated by the cavalry. Now that they have run away, we can't finish it like this after suffering a big loss, so we ordered the army to continue the pursuit.
Not far ahead, only two miles away, and a formation of 2,000 people, there are still so many cavalry.
What is this for? What can you do, Lu Chang is planning to train soldiers!
The 2,000 men here have just been replaced, and the cavalry has also been replaced. Is 10,000 recruits a lot? After five rounds, all the rounds are over. Everyone has to rotate to the battlefield to experience it, and you can't just rely on training, right?
Lu Chang's own family knows, but Li Ba doesn't know. He thought that these people could not defeat them, so he adopted this method of retreating while fighting.
Hehe, it's a good idea, Lao Tzu will not destroy you today and resolutely refuse to withdraw troops.
It was precisely because Li Ba thought like this that Li Ba pursued closely and continued to attack. But Li Ba didn't know that although there were 2,000 troops on the other side, this was completely an illusion, and Lu Chang really dug a pit for him to jump.