Yang Ke and Tang Bin unfolded the map, discussing the terrain, and the scout arrived quickly: "The Imperial Supervision Army, General Yu, General Ma's men and horses have already camped in Yangshuping thirty miles ahead, and are waiting to join our army." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Yang Ke nodded, looked at Tang Bin and said, "Brother Confucianism, we have been marching for half a day today, should we rush to join General Ma or camp on the spot?" ”

Tang Bin pondered for a moment and said: "The other side is cavalry, we can't camp on the plain, once we are attacked by the cavalry, we are in danger, we must rush to the forward camp tonight and join Ma Xiong." After that, he turned his head and instructed the herald: "You go and tell General Ma that we should now rush to join him and let him carry the forest to the village, so as to prevent the cavalry from launching a group charge, and let him hurry up to build the camp, bury the antlers and trap the horses, and make time for us." "The herald was given the order to go.

Yang Ke said: "Brother Confucianism, dozens of miles through Yangshuping, it is the north slope, I went to survey the terrain that day, there is the only way to go to Lishi, if the opponent's cavalry did not cross Yangshuping, we stuck on the north slope, it is equivalent to choking their throat, and there are two mountains sandwiched all the way, no more than a few zhang wide, it is a good place to deal with cavalry." ”

Tang Bin nodded: "If the enemy army can enter my urn, it is indeed a good place to ambush, but I am worried that the other party is not so easy to be fooled, they are much more familiar with the terrain of Lishi than us, it is impossible to fall for this." For now, let's join Ma Xiong first, and then put more scouts to search for enemy traces, and let's move the camera. ”

Yang Ke thought about it for a moment, Tang Bin's words were also reasonable, the enemy's situation was unknown, and he couldn't let himself easily expose his strategic intentions, let alone think that he could defeat the enemy in one fell swoop by staying and waiting for the rabbit.

So the group continued to march towards the poplar flat, the soldiers meandered, walking hungry and thirsty, far away have seen the horse male released by the ranger, behind the endless plain is the lush poplar forest, dense, stretching for more than ten miles, but also dotted with some scattered people's homes. Yang Ke's heart suddenly moved, and he remembered a historical example he had seen, that is, infantry defeated cavalry.

It was the period of five dynasties and ten kingdoms between the Tang Dynasty and the Song Xing, the Khitan Xing Division was known as a million to attack Youzhou, the Jin State was at war with the two countries at this time, the general Li Siyuan, Li Cunxian, Yan Bao led 70,000 infantry mixed troops to meet in Yizhou to go to the rescue, Li Cunzhen said: "The enemy is outnumbered, the Khitan people are mainly cavalry, our army is mainly infantry, if they suddenly meet on the plain, the Khitan people use cavalry to impact and trample our army, then our army will be defeated." ”

Li Siyuan said: "The Khitan people do not have baggage, our army must travel with food, if they meet on the plain, the enemy army robs our army's food baggage, then our army will be defeated without a fight, it is better to sneak to Youzhou through the mountain road, and join the city, if you encounter the Khitan army on the way, you will occupy a dangerous terrain to resist." ”

So the army crossed the Dafang Ridge, Li Siyuan took 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard, met a small group of Khitan troops in the place of sixty miles away from Youzhou, this Khitan army fled without a fight, when Li Siyuan led the vanguard cavalry to the mountain pass, but found that the Khitan army had tens of thousands of cavalry surrounded at the mouth of the valley, so that the Jin army soldiers were suddenly discolored, Li Siyuan led the cavalry to charge bravely, the Khitan army retreated slightly, the Jin infantry was able to rush out of the valley at this time, Li Cunxian ordered to cut down trees to make antlers, each infantry took one, As soon as the army stopped advancing, it automatically formed a deer antler camp, and the Khitan cavalry could only attack around the deer antler camp in this movement, so "the village sent 10,000 crossbows to shoot it, and the arrows covered the sun, and the Khitan men and horses were killed and wounded and blocked the road." ”

When they were about to arrive in Youzhou, the Khitan army was in a position to wait there, Li Cunxun ordered the infantry to line up behind the cavalry, let some thin soldiers drag the lit firewood and grass to advance, the smoke and dust covered the sky and the sun, the Khitan people could not figure out how many Jin troops there were, where the main force was, so they shouted a chaotic battle, Li Siyuan led the army from the rear of the Khitan army to attack fiercely, "The Khitan was defeated, swept away from the Beishan, entrusted to abandon the car tent armor and sheep and horses, the Jin soldiers chased after it, and captured and beheaded thousands of people." ”

Thinking of this, he already had a general idea in his heart. Unconsciously, he came to Ma Xiong's camp, and he had indeed repaired the defensive formation in advance, and was waiting for the soldiers and horses to meet the two.

The three of them entered the big tent of the Chinese army together, and Ma Xiong was about to salute, but was pulled by Yang Ke: "Major General, the military situation is urgent, we will be exempted from these vulgar courtesies, I have something to discuss with the two of you." ”

After speaking, Yang Ke pointed to the outside of the tent: "This lush poplar forest is the best antler material, we need to cut down more in case of emergency." ”

Ma Xiong said: "The last general has already ordered the battalion officer in charge of defense to lead people to cut down, and it is estimated that it will be ready soon." ”

Yang Ke shook his head: "I mean to have one in each person's hand, carry it with you, in case of a cavalry assault, let's put down the antlers, don't we immediately form a barricade, and then use the archers to release arrows, we will not be afraid of the enemy's cavalry attacking." ”

After hearing this, Tang Bin and Ma Xiong's eyes lit up, yes, if each person has a deer antler, as a standard weapon, they can lay a defensive position in an instant, and then with the cooperation of archers, not to mention the immediate effect, at least they can block the cavalry's group charge in the plains.

Tang Bin immediately drew inferences from one case and said to Ma Xiong: "Major General, gather all the crossbowmen and bows and arrows in your army together and organize them into a main battalion. ”

After everyone agreed, they didn't care about the hard work, and immediately went down separately to arrange the preparations. What they didn't know was that this arrangement saved their entire army at a critical moment.