[Chapter 22: Kui Niu Drum, Han Army Offensive]
Look at them, although they are not fully armored, but they are fearless and steady forward against the arrows of the Yue people, any person who is hit by the arrow, as long as they are still conscious and breathing, they will firmly follow the side of the robe, step by step. Absolutely no one dodged his position in order to dodge the arrows.
Yueshi watched this group that seemed to be impenetrable with a bow and arrow, pressing towards them like a moving mountain, and was only thirty steps away from the camp gate, and the Yueshi rebels guarding the camp gate collapsed automatically, and they shouted and threw away their bows and arrows, waist knives, and armor, and ran back frantically, screaming syllables that they didn't understand. There are also some rebels, who actually rushed out of the camp with a hideous and twisted face with a knife, and killed this rock-solid, mountain-like team, and the ending of these people was naturally not good - the trap guards had not officially started attacking, and the Yue's rebels' will to fight had completely collapsed! Their only fighting nerve was ripped out!
Yao Zhongxiao bit his lip and looked at the trap guards who had already walked into the camp, and suddenly had an impulse - I also want to join the trap guards! That's where real soldiers should go!
Next, Yao Zhongxiao was more convinced of his own opinion.
I saw that the trap guards who had entered the Yue Clan's camp shouted: "Xuanwu soars to the sky, kill!" All the trap guards actually exploded like peacock nirvana, and after enduring the almost suffocating attack, countless trap guards suddenly burst out, shouting their slogans in unison, killing all around.
"Onward! Forward!! Forward!!! ”
"Those who are trapped in battle, there is death and no life! Kill! Kill!! Kill!!! ”
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"Knock knock", the war drums of the trap guards rumbled at this time, and every drum beat will be accompanied by the majestic roar of the trapped, they are the trapped. But they didn't really fall into madness, they were still very organized, five people in a row, ten people in a row, and any Yue Clan soldiers who dared to resist were completely crushed.
"The Great Han is mighty!" I don't know who shouted first, and all the big Han soldiers of the Yao Ping Brigade who followed the attack also shouted.
"The Great Han is mighty! Mighty! ”
Yao Ping, who had been worrying about his heart, was also overjoyed at this moment, pulled out the war knife at his waist, and shouted loudly: "Break the camp!" ”
"Break the camp!" All the Han soldiers followed this domineering slogan and rushed to the Yue's camp.
The Han army has been flying like a dragon for nine days. Like a dragon entering the sea, the entire front is rushing.
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Yigong, who was standing at the head of Luntai City and watching the battle, didn't speak for a long time, but Wu Chuan was dumbfounded for a long time before he sighed: "The person who fell into battle is worthy of his name!" ”
Du Wei didn't comment, but turned around and walked under the castle wall. As he walked, he said loudly: "Quick, inform Situ Dianshuai." Immediately transfer the middle division. No, transfer the middle division and the rear division together and launch a general attack! ”
"Total Attack!" A long command was heard along the walls of the fort.
Subsequently, the war drum made of hundreds of cowhides on the side of Luntai City also rumbled under the beating of ten strong drummers.
The general attack of the Han army was launched at this moment!
The war drum made of 100 pieces of Kui cowhide was given to the marshal by the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Its sound can be heard for ten miles, its color is like spring thunder, and the rumbling war drum is like a stone falling on the surface of the lake, which instantly stirs up the battle situation for dozens of miles around Luntai City.
The Han soldiers in other directions did not understand why the war drums of Kui Niu were beaten. But the signal is undoubtedly clear. This time, without the orders of officers at all levels, all the Han soldiers and soldiers stood up from the fortifications, lined up in their own attack formations, shouted the slogan of "Great Han Might", and rushed madly towards the Yueshi people!
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The Han army did not expect that the general attack would start at this time, and the Yueshi people did not expect it either.
In the big tent of the donation legion, a large number of people gathered in front of the sand table, chattering. This is the staff officer of the Donor Legion.
The Yueshi people followed the Han military system to set up an army, and even the general staff was the same. However, the level of their staff officers is obviously not comparable to that of the regular army of the Han Dynasty. These people in front of the sand table say that they are like staff officers, but they are more like vegetable vendors arguing with people on the side of the road over a copper coin.
A loud voice has become the only weapon to fight for the right to speak. And sitting behind the handsome case in the tent is the commander of the donation army, the third prince of the Yue clan, Qin Xi. Abbas.
Hearing the quarrel on the edge of the sand table, a look of impatience gradually appeared on Qin Xi's face. Unlike the thin and pale Yu Mo, Qin Si's body is very strong, and he sits there like a cheetah that can pounce and hurt people at any time.
"That's enough," Qin Si, who was only twenty years old, suddenly jumped up from his seat, reached out and grabbed the armor on the weapon rack, put it on his body, and yelled in his mouth: "I don't have time to listen to your nonsense here, I really don't understand why the eldest brother wants to gather you waste, staff officer, when your staff officer comes out, I'm done with the shit......"
All the staff officers lowered their heads in unison, their faces full of shame, and they did not dare to refute.
Indeed, the level of these staff officers is insufficient, and the combat plans that can be given are all the same and have no characteristics. You can't blame them, many of these people are low-level officers, some are simply veterans who have been discharged from the army, and they have commanded small battles with a maximum of several thousand people before, like this kind of big war with tens of thousands of people at every turn, they really haven't been in contact with it, and they are in a hurry to calculate logistics supplies every day, arrange the wounded and weapons, and other issues, and it is too difficult to find out the talents who are with the regular staff of the Han Dynasty.
Even the battle plan this time was actually sent by the eldest prince after it was ready, and they just followed it.
And the third prince Qin Xi is obedient to his eldest brother - no way, who let them be born to the same mother. Generally, Qin Si does not interfere in the management of the Donation Legion, what he likes is to put on his armor and charge into battle. Qin Xi's personal guard division is the most combative team in the Donor Legion.
Someone will ask, doesn't the General Staff have a veto? The Yue's General Staff, which copied the Han military system, should also have this provision, right?
Haha, yes, the staff of the Yueshi Legion does have this rule. Does it make sense? The one-vote veto is a veto that can only be made against the commander-in-chief when the staff has strong back-up support. The Han Empire has not yet collapsed, the emperor is the biggest backstage of the General Staff, and when the General Staff exercises a veto, none of those generals dares to turn a blind eye.
And what about the Moon Clan? Their most powerful backstage is the King of the Moon Clan. and the various princes of the Yue clan. Who would dare to veto their decisions with a veto in front of these backstagers?
The emperor of the Han Dynasty still has a cabinet and a civil official system to restrain them, but what about the princes and royal highnesses of the Yue clan, who will restrain them? No one! Except for the Yue Clan King who was still busy cleaning up the palace in Dihua City, there was no one!
Therefore, the current Yueshi Staff Department should be renamed "Logistics Management Department" to be precise!
The Yueshi Legion is actually a centralized and dictatorial power model. There are good and bad things about this model, and the disadvantage is that it tests the leader's ability too much, and once mediocre people appear. The whole collective is prone to a quick collapse, like the Ili Legion. And when it comes to the good thing, if the leader is competent, he can quickly concentrate all his forces and achieve amazing collective results. For example, Qin Xi's current move.
Qin Xi's rudeness and bravery were obviously used at the right time. And he didn't wait for the staff to come up with a so-called defensive plan. Instead, he took his personal guard with him. According to the direction of the Han army's attack, they rushed over.
He was lucky, the front was the middle division of the first army of the Han army in Ganzhou, and this division originally received an order to feint, so it only sent a group of men and horses to test the attack, and did not send cavalry to deal with the two flanks. When the Han army launched a general attack, the Han army, which had already begun to feint, fell into confusion. I don't know whether to continue to rush or wait until the follow-up troops arrive. With such a hesitation, the Yueshi people had already pounced. At this time, the Han army that took the lead in launching a feint. It was too far away from the subsequent Han army to join the friendly army.
It should be said that there are excellent and mediocre people in any collective, and the education of the Han army is to train the mediocre into a qualified executor of orders. In the doctrine of the Han army, there is a special response plan for this situation.
The commander of the middle division of the Han army was obviously not an excellent person, but he was able to faithfully carry out the order, and according to the content of the dogma, he immediately integrated a Han army and held it on the spot, and at the same time sent out two battalions of soldiers to stretch the wings to form a space for movement.
You must know that there are three or four thousand people in a horse, which occupies a wide range on the battlefield plane. With this stretch, the Yueshi people had to break through, rather than detour back to their rear, thus ensuring that they could attack and retreat and defend positions. And in this area, there are also a few small hills, although it is not enough to defend it, but it is still possible to resist it with the help of the terrain.
As a result, the collision between the Yue's Donation Legion and the Han Army's Ganzhou First Army Division began to be staged here. The Yue's offensive was fierce because they had a commander who took the lead, and the Han army was also stubborn in its defense, because they had a set of well-established defensive dogmas. They know what to do every step of the way. The two collided together, and the shouts of killing were deafening.
After fighting for half an hour, the main force of the middle division finally arrived, but at this time there were only more than 1,000 people left in this Han army.
Next, the lieutenant division and the donating army launched a large-scale charge. This time, neither side had the so-called spare hand, the bows and crossbows of the Han army, and even the trebuchet continued to carry out long-range strikes, and the only cavalry brigade of the middle division also continued to raid on the flanks, trying to find an opportunity to go straight to the middle.
And the Donor Legion also used their full strength, they also had cavalry and long-range strike weapons. The soldiers on both sides come and go, the contact surface of the front is several miles wide, looking down from the sky, like two waves of hedge, you come and go, the battle is tragic! Every retreat of the waves represents the disappearance of at least 100 people's lives! When the battle comes to this, it is no longer a battle for wisdom and strategy, but a fight for morale and the number of troops!
This should be a situation that the Han army should try to avoid.
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Yigong sat in Luntai City, this time he did not hesitate again, although he regretted it now, but he knew what he should do now. This sudden general attack made Yigong very sudden, but as a marshal, he had experienced no matter how sudden it was, and it was not bad.
"Marshal, the two divisions of the middle division and the donation corps are in a stalemate."
"Marshal Qiyu, the trap guard broke into the Ili Legion for five miles, and the Ili Legion has been dispersed."
"Marshal, the rear division has joined the front division, and it is now close to the shallows of the Tarim River, and can cross the river at any time to attack the Donor Army."
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The flow of military reports was transmitted to Yigong through staff officers and heralds. At this time, he didn't hold up the "clairvoyance" to observe the battlefield, he didn't have time to look, in fact, he couldn't see anything - more than 40,000 people of the First Army of Ganzhou had all been dispatched, attacking the two legions of the Yue clan at the same time, and the total number of participants on both sides had reached an astonishing 100,000! More than 10,000 people are already overwhelming, and the scale of the battlefield is 100,000. How can you see it all with a telescope? Even if he holds a modern telescope, he probably can't see the end of the battlefield. And on the battlefield of so many people, he can't see it alone.
The correct way of command is to scatter the staff officers, and each staff officer pays attention to one point, because the Han army will pass the news to the rear through the flag, and the staff officers will summarize the information through the flag and flag, and then tell Yigong. At this time, it is the busiest time for staff officers. It is also the time when the ability of staff officers is tested the most. They had to get the information as quickly as possible, and then convey the marshal's instructions in the quickest and most concise terms, and it would be even better if they could give advice in such a busy situation.
In a word. Staff is not a dispensable role, but a link in a big war - a direct link between the battlefield commander and the marshal. It is also the link between every soldier who participates in the war and the marshal. Every voice they come out of here. Every word may be related to the fate of hundreds of people! They can't afford to be negligent, and if they do, they may lose not only the lives of hundreds of people, but also the victory or defeat of the entire battle! And even their own lives!
"The herald ordered Situ Gong to personally lead the rear division across the river, and be sure to launch an offensive on the flank of the Donating Legion after half an hour."
"Herald Lieutenant Master. At all costs, entangle the rebels of the two divisions in front of you. ”
"Order the trap guards to continue to break through, using the northeast corner as the breakthrough point, and strive to return to the flank of the Donor Legion."
"Summoned Du Shan, the second army of Ganzhou. He was ordered to send no less than two brigades of troops to the west side of Luntai City. ”
"Order Yingqi of the First Army of Suzhou to send no less than one division of troops to attack the right flank of the Donating Legion and participate in the general attack."
"Order the front division of the First Army Corps of Ganzhou, send scouts, expand the search area, and be sure to prevent the Yueshi Wangdu Army from participating in the battle."
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At this moment, Yigong is calm and calm. He understood that since the decisive battle had begun with the rout of the Ili army, he could no longer hesitate and the previous plan had to be revised. But faintly, he felt as if some danger was approaching. He carefully looked at the sand table in front of him, and finally added an order: "The herald has not yet withdrawn the trap guards in Moshan, stop retreating, and assemble in Yanqi." ”
This order obviously made the herald staff a little puzzled, and he couldn't help but say: "Marshal, the trap guards began to evacuate three days ago, and they should have all been gone by this time, right?" ”
Yigong frowned, and said: "It shouldn't be yet, Cheng Zhijie, that old madman, wants to fight so much, and he brought a group of men and horses to Luntai, Ben Shuai estimates that he must be slow and unwilling to withdraw his troops, Shanshan City must still have people and horses in the battle, go and pass the order." ”
"Whoa." The staff officer did not ask any more questions and carried out immediately.
Not long after, Du Wei rushed over, and immediately said after saluting: "Marshal, I heard that you ordered the First Army of Suzhou to send troops to support?" ”
Yi Cheng looked at the sand table and thought, and after listening to it, he said "um" and did not speak again.
"Marshal, I object."
Only then did Yigong raise his head, Du Wei raised his head with his chest straight, looked directly at Yigong, and repeated again in a deep voice: "Marshal, I am against the transfer of troops from Yingqi's side." ”
Yigong didn't say anything and reprimanded slowly: "Tell me your reasons." ”
Du Wei walked quickly to the sand table, pointed to Yanqi, the garrison of the First Army of Suzhou, and said: "Marshal, the reason is what I told the marshal before, Yanqi's position is just on the southbound passage from Beihai Prefecture to Dayue Prefecture, and the Yue's army in Beihai Prefecture suffered a big loss in Feiyun Castle, this was already two months ago, and these Yue's troops who retreated south are nowhere to be seen, and we must leave enough manpower to deal with it." ”
At this time, Wu Chuan also came over and retorted to Du Wei: "The marshal has already sent the trapping guards to assist in the defense." ”
"But General Cheng, who is trapped in the guard, is not in Yanqi." Du Wei pushed back unceremoniously, "Marshal, the general offensive has started suddenly, no one would have imagined that this would happen." If we had known that the Yueshi Ili Legion was so vulnerable, we should have directly transferred the trap guard to fight the position of the front division of the First Army of Ganzhou, so that we might be able to eat it together with the Donating Legion......
But now we only have one trap guard, and another hour of breaking through is the limit of the physical strength of the trap guards, and they are unable to continue to break through. It is not advisable to expand the offensive at this time. What's more important is that General Cheng is the courage of the trap guards, he is not there, will Yanqi's trap guards obey Yingqi's dispatch and say that in case something happens to Yanqi, only the two divisions of the First Army in Suzhou will not be able to stop it.
That's why I objected to the transfer of one of Yanqi's divisions to join the battle. ”
Yigong frowned and listened, and had to admit that Du Wei's statement was very reasonable.
But at this moment, another staff officer came in: "Marshal, the scout of the former division has returned, the Yueshi Wangdu Legion has moved, and it is coming straight to the Ili Legion, and its forward part has already met with the Yao Ping Brigade and is fighting fiercely." ”
Du Wei was stunned when he heard this.
Wu Chuan hurriedly said: "Marshal, the Yue Clan's royal capital army has moved, this is the final decisive battle, we must expand the attack force, please increase the number of military horses." ”
Wu Chuan's words were not wrong. Once the Yue Clan's royal capital army joins in, this is a battle of 150,000 people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a decisive battle. But the royal army is participating in the war at this moment, are they ready to show their hole cards?
Yigong hesitated. He couldn't decide. (To be continued......)