Chapter 145: The Great Armies Meet
On April 18 of the first year of Zhongxing, Yuan Shao reorganized his army and fought against King Li and stationed in a large plain north of Neihuang. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The three armies were arrayed, and King Li sat in the car, looking at Zhao Wushuang opposite each other.
Yuan Shao stood on the chariot, looking at the state army from afar, the sound of drums vibrated the universe, stretching for ten miles without stopping, the sergeants were excited, and the shouts echoed on the plain.
"Yuan Tan, my son, have you invited King Li to come and talk?"
Yuan Tan clasped his fists on his horse and said, "Father, the documents have been handed over to the enemy army, but I have not yet received a reply from King Li. ”
Yuan Shao nodded, and said secretly: "It seems that King Li was really fascinated by that folk girl, so it was cheaper for me Yuan Shao." Thinking about it, he turned to Guo Tu and said, "Gongzhi, how does Zhang Yan reply there?" ”
Guo Tuzuo said: "The dark line has contacted Zhang Yan many times, but he is dull-eyed, and he doesn't know what to do, there seems to be some change yesterday, his subordinates three thousand old Montenegrin conspired to rob Zhang Yan, the dark line was also a general of the Montenegrin Army before, and he was invited to be the commander, and he could disrupt the enemy army at any time." ”
Yuan Shao said firmly: "Then inform the dark line, light the camp tomorrow, take Zhang Yan away, and Shi Bao, under the command of Yuan Tan, personally lead the army to respond." ”
Fang La arched his hand and said: "Since you are going to attack the enemy's camp at night, why don't you march left and right at the same time, at that time, the enemy army will inevitably not be able to take care of each other in a panic, just take advantage of this opportunity to deter the enemy army." ”
Yuan Shao nodded and said: "That's fine, then I don't know who is in command of the other army, Fang Thirteen can have suggestions." ”
Fang La thought about it carefully and said: "I have the general Wang Yin under my command, and I have successfully set up an ambush to snipe Ma Chao and Zhao Yun's camp before, which can be described as brave and strategic. ”
At this time, Yuan Shao's Xu Yu was punished, Tian Feng was robbed, but it made the internal stability, and some of Yuan Shao's opinions also seemed to be much more decisive, at this time he made a decision: "General Wang Yin can be civil and martial, and he can take on this great responsibility, but my army is strong, and he needs to intervene in the management, I think the nephew of the thirteenth Fang Jie is also a tiger general, why not send him to the left wing army, cut off the enemy's grain storage place in Liyang, when the fire is in the sky, King Li will definitely send a fierce general to the rescue, our army can make a difference." ”
Although King Li has not tested Yuan Shao's intelligence, he is a great talent in the official history, which shows that his intelligence has reached a first-class level.
Fang La arched his hand and said with some hesitation: "Fang La was frustrated by Ma Teng's eldest son before, and now he is conquering again, I am afraid that he will lose the opportunity." ”
Yuan Shao said with a smile: "Thirteen more than worried, Fang Jie's fierceness, my generals Deng Yuanjue and Shi Bao are praised, Ma Chaohu'er naturally can't be talked about normally, a little setback among young people is a good thing, it should be tempered, as long as this battle burns King Li's grain storage place in Liyang, I will ask the Son of Heaven to crown Fang Jie as the general of the four expeditions, so as to defend the enemy for my new Han court." ”
Yuan Shao had already made up his mind, and besides, it was a good thing that Fang Jie could get ahead, so Fang La didn't say much and acquiesced in the matter.
Yuan Shao looked at the sky, the hour was almost up, waved his big hand, and shouted: "The whole army crushes the enemy and charges." ”
"Boom... Rumble... Rumble. "More than 100,000 troops marched towards King Li's army with neat steps, and every step that fell would cause the earth to tremble, and the rumbling sound was incessant, like an earthquake, difficult to prevent.
The thousands of war horses in front of King Li's army kept snorting, obviously shocked by the momentum of the enemy army, and walked around uneasily at this time.
"Lord, the enemy army uses spearmen as blades, shield armor soldiers as cover, and tens of thousands of archers behind them, if it is too late, there is no way to retreat, why not launch a charge."
Zhao Yun was relieved of his military position, and at this time, it was Shi Ci, the highest military rank, who commanded the army.
Li Wang lifted the curtain, stood at the front of the car and said: "The enemy army is large, but there is no reason to retreat without a fight, let Zhang He lead 5,000 cavalry to wander on the left flank, Zhao Yun's life-chasing army is the vanguard, you can go straight into the enemy army to kill the enemy, and send Hou Jun to lead an army of 30,000 to outflank from the right flank, putting pressure on Yuan Shao's army, but do not go deep and be surrounded by the enemy." ”
Tai Shici gave up his hand to receive the order, and signaled the herald to inform the generals of each town to perform their duties.
"Where is Ma Chao?"
"The end will be."
King Li nodded: "I ordered you to take over Zhang Yan's original army of 20,000 horses, and there is a mistake. ”
Ma Chao said apologetically: "I'm ready to go, there has been no mistake, just waiting for the lord's order." ”
King Li stared at the slowly moving enemy army and said: "Okay, you personally lead 10,000 spearmen as the vanguard to launch a battle charge against the enemy, and Erdi Ma Dai personally leads 10,000 archers to cover the Taishi Ci Chinese army to charge and kill, and set off." ”
"No."
The soldiers of all sides acted according to the order, and after only a quarter of an hour, the two armies had their first confrontation, and what was surprising was that the first team was engaged in Zhao Yun's life-chasing army.
"Thousands of miles after life, there is death but no life." Zhao Yun shouted angrily, as if he was venting his depression for several days, and drove the Danqing Leaf straight into the enemy army, causing a small panic.
King Li stood at the front of the car with a long sword, and Zhao Wushuang behind him looked at King Li's upright back through the curtain, his thoughts flew again, and he remembered the absurdity of the past few days, and his cheeks blushed for a while.
In the school of later generations, there were fifty people in a class, and there were thousands of people in a school, and the scene was shocking enough, but at this time, more than 200,000 troops were fighting in one place, which showed the chaos of the scene.
Among the generals present, there are more than a dozen first-class generals alone, and there are several who have broken 90 in intelligence, how spectacular, rare in the world, but at this time, after all, it is only a vanguard battle, and the eight thousand soldiers of Xiahou Yuan and Zhu Yuanzhang who came to support did not participate in the battle, but only watched from the rear.
After two hours of fighting, both sides had more than 10,000 casualties, and then Mingjin withdrew his troops and rectified himself.
After Tai Shici arranged to count the men and horses on the battlefield, he reported to King Li, "My lord, the number of dead in this battle is more than 5,000, the number of seriously injured has reached 2,000, and the number of minor injuries is even greater, which is difficult to count. ”
King Li nodded, this casualty is still under control, after all, such a large-scale fight, except for the confrontation between the two armies, only when there is no way out, a battle against the water can occur.
King Li rubbed his brows and said: "When the follow-up of this battle is over, Zhang He will lead the cavalry, Hou Junji will lead 30,000 horses, Ma Chao will lead the Jinyang army to kill the enemy, Tai Shi Ci will take charge of the Chinese army, retreat to Neihuang to defend, and cannot fight with the enemy army." ”
It's not that King Li is afraid of Yuan Shao, but in such a large-scale battle, there will not be much difference between the casualties of the two sides in the chaotic army, and the number of Yuan's army is three times that of his own army, he Yuan Shao is not afraid of death and injury, but he can't ignore it.
Zhu Yuanzhang arched his hand and said: "Why worry about the former general, the subordinate has a plan, which can control the general trend of the enemy army and divide the troops into two ways." ”