Chapter 1147: The Battle of Wuliang Mountain
Zhang Fei wanted to listen for a while, but it was obvious that the conversation upstairs was over. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info was confused and annoyed, Li Yi's clear voice sounded again, but this time the object of his speech was not Zhuge Liang, but Zhang Fei hanging on the ladder.
"Winged? Come on, I have something to say to you. ”
"Uh...... Compliance. Zhang Fei was slightly stunned, then came to his senses, stretched his ape arm, climbed to the top of the building in three or two clicks, and asked in a panic, "Your Majesty, are you going to fight tomorrow?" ”
"How's the morale in the army?" Li Yi did not answer the rhetorical question, but the meaning between his words was undoubtedly acquiescing to Zhang Fei's statement.
"The brothers are holding their back!" Zhang Fei patted his chest and replied loudly, "As long as the emperor gives an order, there will be 200,000 fierce tigers and dragons that enter the sea, and they will be dizzy and can't find the north!" ”
"It's good to be motivated." Li Yi bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile, "You also heard what Kong Ming said just now, I will say a few words to you now, you hide it in your heart first, if there is no accident tomorrow, cooperate with me, preach these words to the soldiers of the whole army, and pour a spoonful of hot oil on the fire." ”
"Don't worry, I'll leave this errand to me, I'm sure it's right!" Zhang Fei was overjoyed, no matter what the emperor's eldest brother was waiting for, he should not run away from the war tomorrow.
In the past, Li Yi rarely preached before the war. If this kind of thing is done well, it can make the whole army enthusiastic and have a high fighting spirit, but it is very troublesome to do, and there is a suspicion of a face-saving project. In Li Yi's previous style, as long as the flag is walked in front of the formation, it can play the same role. Therefore, Li Yi is disdainful and impatient to do it.
But the significance of this battle is indeed extraordinary, because it involves the success or failure of the southern expedition, and it is reasonable that Li Yi will have some special arrangements.
After listening to Li Yi's explanation, Zhang Fei's obsession finally had a basis, and he had a rare good night's sleep.
The next day, as soon as the sky was shining, he ran to Zhuge Liang's camp and blocked Zhuge Liang who came back from outside.
Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Kong Ming, how is it?" No surprises, right? ”
"Accident?" Zhuge Liang replied proudly, "Heh, how is it possible? ”
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Just after the end of the day, the vulture began its routine challenge to go out of the camp again. I thought that today would be no different, but as a result, he just led the team to a place far away from the Tang Army camp, and the change rose sharply.
The sound of the horn "Woo Woo ......" suddenly sounded like a dragon roaring and a tiger roaring.
"Boom ......" Immediately, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves exploded behind the camp wall.
"Bang bang ......" The next moment, every other section of the camp wall, a piece collapsed outward, and the black and oppressive Tang cavalry poured out like a flood that broke the dam.
After the cavalry, a reflection of steel and the morning sun shine!
"Stop!" The vulture bones tightened in his heart, and with the force of his hand, he strangled the war elephant to rise up.
Relying on his excellent riding skills, he turned around on the spot, and while urging the war elephant to retreat into the camp, he shouted in a loud voice: "Quick! Go and report back to the king, the Tang army is in battle! ”
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The birds in the grass in the forest were startled and flew into the air like a thick black cloud.
Under the clouds, countless flags waved, converging into turbulent waves, and the generals shouted and issued the order to advance......
On the second day of the seventh month of the fourth year of the Tang Dynasty, at the foot of Wuliang Mountain, twenty miles east of Lancangshui, two armies from the Central Plains and Nanban fought a decisive battle here!
"On the right flank, there are more than a thousand Southern Barbarian cavalry trying to charge the battle!"
"General Yan Yan has already led his men and horses to meet him!"
"The enemy on the right flank is spreading formation, trying to outflank our troops from the flank! General Huang Zhong asked for instructions, can you mobilize crossbowmen to attack him head-on! ”
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With a scale of more than 600,000 people, entering the battlefield is quite a complicated process. On the battlefield that is beneficial to one side, the other side may not necessarily cooperate, and the battlefield that maintains tacit understanding will often be some distance away from the camps of both sides. And going from the camp to the preset battlefield is also impossible for the wife to be peaceful all the time.
The Southern Barbarian army was originally more active, and was rewarded by the forwards, and the speed of reaction was also very fast. Troops drove out of the company camp like flowing water and successively met the sudden Tang army.
Now that the army is marching, it is a perfect opportunity to easily break up as a result of common sense.
Of course, for a strong army like the Tang Army, in such a situation, as long as he does not make mistakes, these harassments are not a big trouble.
The light cavalry of the Tang army led by Zhao Yun had already been in place, scattered around the army, while reconnoitring the enemy's situation and reporting at any time, it was also to shield the battlefield and prevent the enemy's reconnaissance cavalry from having the opportunity to get close to the battle.
Although the terrain around Nanban is steep, there is also a lot of flat land in the central area. Especially in the junction area between Lancangshui and Wuliang Mountain, not only is the terrain flat and easy to deploy troops, but the field of vision is also very broad, not to mention the ambush of the army, even if it is a single scout, it is not so easy to find a hiding place.
The heralds carrying colorful order flags ran back and forth in the Chinese army like a marquee, and military information and battle reports converged like flowing water.
Although there is a lot of military intelligence, Li Yi is not in a hurry, because many military situations do not require him to give orders. With a super think tank composed of Xu Maogong, Liu Bowen, Guo Jia, Xun You, Sima Yi and Zhuge Liang, there is really nothing to say about the efficiency of handling military intelligence.
Moreover, when there are many troops to a certain extent, the time for sending orders back and forth will become quite delayed, and situations such as enemy cavalry harassment and our army's attack can be completely determined by the generals themselves.
The process of this kind of small-scale contact war is very simple. Cavalry on both sides, hedging against each other, the cavalry of the Tang Army had the upper hand, preemptively sprinkling several waves of arrows before contact, disrupting the enemy's array, and then crushing the enemy's brigade and completely strangling.
Because it was harassment, the Southern Barbarian army sent out was not an elite force, and it was not distressing to be defeated. The rout was collected by the leader of the tribe himself, and the rest of the men and horses only divided two thousand horses to come from afar, not so much to respond to the rescue, but to use this defeated army as a bait, trying to outflank the pursuing Tang cavalry.
Zhao Yun was already a veteran of the battlefield, of course he would not be so simply calculated, and after observing the movements of the two enemy cavalry a little, he immediately stopped his horse and gave the order to retreat.
When Li Yi climbed the high ground to watch the enemy's formation, what he saw was the scene of the two barbarian cavalry returning in vain and retreating.
It is said to be a high ground, but in fact it is just a mound by the river. Fortunately, the surrounding terrain is flat enough, and the view here is quite open.
Li Yi and the military advisors, generals, and guards around him are all experienced in a hundred battles, and they have participated in countless large-scale wars, but without exception, it is the first time that more than 600,000 hedgehogs have gathered on one battlefield to fight.
When they reached a high place and looked in the direction of the enemy formation, everyone fell silent.
The rhetoric of the literati is more exaggerated, and the words "million army" can often be seen in history books, but the battle in which 100,000 troops are really gathered in less than a thousand years is already a great battle that shook the past and the present.
At present, the scene of more than 500,000 soldiers and horses gathering in the Southern Barbarian army is unprecedented.
"Haohao soup soup, boundless, it is good to describe the Hanhai Lake, and it is quite appropriate to describe the scenery in front of you!" Li Yi sighed slightly, and then asked Zhang Fei, "Yide, what do you think after seeing this black and boundless blockbuster?" ”
"Of course it's ......" Zhang Fei pointed at the enemy formation with a snake spear, and said arrogantly, "Now you can have a good time!" ”
"General Yide said it well!" Xu Huang grinned widely, and also echoed, "The gathering of more than 500,000 people is indeed shocking, but it is just a local chicken and a dog, not the opponent of our army." ”
Seeing such a momentum of the enemy army, it was difficult to keep the recruits with less seniority and wavered. Li Yi deliberately ordered Zhang Fei, who is known for his bravery, to come out and answer, the purpose is to boost morale.
Seeing that the atmosphere was no longer as solemn as before, Li Yi also retracted his mind and began to observe the situation on the battlefield.
The nearby terrain has long been made into a sand table, and the whole army is aware of it, and now what we need to understand is the deployment of the Southern Barbarian army, which can only be known on the battlefield.
Although there is still a distance, because the scale of the Southern Barbarian army is too large, we can already know here that the army of more than 500,000 is vaguely a crane wing array. The left and right flanks of the entire array are unusually thick, but the Chinese army is relatively weak.
Of course, when the army reaches a scale of more than 100,000, the formation can no longer put on any tricks, let alone Meng Shu, even if Sun Wu is resurrected and Wu Qi is reincarnated, don't think about using so many troops to put on a powerful formation.
"It's decent, not out of the two wings of oppression, the central breakthrough routine, even if you can't break through, you can form a melee and give full play to the advantage of troops."
After a rough look, Li Yi didn't stop much, shook the reins, and rode his horse back to his own position.
This is also the Yunnan region of later generations, and it is also a place rich in horses, plus there are elephants, tigers, leopards and other fierce beasts, the art of beast control is not the patent of the king of Mulu, and other tribes also know it. Therefore, there was no shortage of cavalry in the Southern Barbarian army. According to the previous information, Li Yi knew that the cavalry in this Southern Barbarian army was no less than 100,000.
The thick wings of the Southern Barbarian army were half-mounted and half-cavalry, while the relatively thin Chinese army was an all-cavalry force.
Obviously, this tactic is likely to be to outflank and oppress with thick flanks first, and then the Chinese army will use assault tactics to storm their own Chinese army, whether they can attack it or not, they can create enough pressure. If you break through, you won, and if you can't break through, you will drown with crowd tactics.
This kind of modest tactic may not seem very clever, but in this situation, it is a very effective tactic with the fewest flaws.
The fact that the tiger made such an arrangement shows that he was not complacent because he had ascended to the throne of the barbarian king, and his mind was very clear-headed.