When the military order was issued and the generals withdrew, the officers of the guard division talked a lot and complained. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Zhao Chao, the commander of the left wing of the info control crane, is probably not proficient in military strategy, and may have other thoughts, in short, he is very blind, and before he came out of the big account, he privately said to Zheng Haoqian, who is a general worker: "Zheng Sheren! His Majesty led the forbidden army from afar, the soldiers were tired from the march, and they did not know the enemy situation on the front line, so the Chinese army should be serious and slow. ”

When Zheng Haoqian heard it, he felt that it seemed to make sense. He was a civil official, and he didn't understand the careful thoughts of the generals of the forbidden army, and thought that this was a loyal and good word, so he immediately went in to make a statement to Guo Rong.

Unexpectedly, Guo Rong's face changed greatly when he heard this, and he sneered meaningfully and asked: "The Chinese army is advancing with drums, facing difficulties, and thwarting the enemy's edge, how can we talk about being serious?" You are a civil official, why do you say that, and who taught you? If you tell the truth, don't say it! When chop! ”

Zheng Haoqian was so shocked that he almost peed his pants in fright, and immediately said tremblingly: "Back to Your Majesty!" Wechen don't dare! Just now, the military council was dispersed, and the generals of the guard division had many disrespectful words, and Zhao Chao, the commander of the control crane army, persuaded me like this, Weichen didn't know the soldiers, so he ......"

"I see! There you go! Guo Rong waved his hand with a cold face.

As soon as Zheng Haoqian walked out of the big tent, he heard Guo Rong inside order the guards: "Go!" Zhao Chao, the commander of the arrest and control of the left wing, was imprisoned in the state prison and could not be released without an order! ”

As soon as this incident came out, the generals of the forbidden army were shocked, and they no longer dared to visit privately and discuss the military situation in vain. In fact, most of the five generations were not killed by foreign enemies, and a large part of the reason was because of the arrogance of the generals of the forbidden army and the feudal towns, which Guo Rong knew very well.

Most of these warriors are from low backgrounds, and they act vulgarly in their daily lives, and when they go to war, they will cause trouble in the army, loot on a large scale, and covet money, and they also covet high positions, so they do not mind the rise and fall of the country, but will take advantage of the time when the king dies and the country is destroyed, forming a divisive fact.

Therefore, every time there is a big war, the generals are more concerned about the expansion of their own strength and the growth of their power. Instead of uniting against the enemy, they often collapse on their own as soon as they enter the battlefield, or even mutiny in battle formations.

This Zhao Chao naturally had this kind of thought, and he was not the only one, so Guo Rong could only kill chickens and monkeys to calm the hearts of the army.

Subsequently, Guo Rong led more than 30,000 troops to continue northward, and arrived at Jincheng, Zezhou Prefecture on the 18th, and set up a large camp in the northeast of the state city. Guo Rong immediately took a chariot to inspect the armies, boost morale, and mobilize before the battle. In the evening of the same day, the detective horse reported: Bagongyuan, which was thirty-five miles north of the state, met the sentry cavalry of the Northern Han Army.

Guo Rong immediately realized that the big war might be tomorrow, and that night he urgently called Li Gu, Wang Pu, Zhang Yongde, Li Chongjin, Xiang Xun and other military generals to discuss the deployment of the military situation. Li Gu first said: "According to the previous big words and strategic deployment, Fan Aineng, the guard of the horse army, and He Hui of the infantry army were the vanguards, but the two of them arrived in Zezhou but did not complete the task of blocking the enemy's southward movement;

And the Tianxiong Festival Marshal Fu Yanqing and Zhenning Guo Chong marched west from Cizhou to outflank the enemy's right flank; After Jinzhou Yao Yuanfu, Hezhong Wang Yanchao, Baoyi Hantong, Huizhou Zhangyue and others solved the enemy group Baigu south, they should march eastward to outflank Liu Chongzuo, and now they are still thirty miles south of Duanshi County, and they should be able to reach the battlefield tomorrow.

In other words, the strategic encirclement pattern of attacking from the left and right and advancing in the middle is still feasible, but the rear army Liu Ci's department has not yet arrived, and the troops are slightly smaller, and the Chinese army needs to make some adjustments. ”

"The battlefield is changing rapidly, the details will depend on the situation tomorrow, and tomorrow morning I will go north to Bagongyuan to face the battle, and I hope that the soldiers of the three armies will use their lives!" Guo Rong encouraged.

Bagong was originally a small rural town, surrounded by open and flat terrain, which was very suitable for large army battles. Early in the morning of the 19th, the two sides sent forward sentinels to Bagongyuan to reconnoiter the terrain, and met on a narrow road, and the forward of the Zhou army fought bravely to kill the enemy, and the Northern Han army was defeated and retreated.

Liu Chong also realized that the war was imminent, so he immediately led his troops to march south for several miles, lined up in Bagongyuan, and personally led the main force of the 30,000 forbidden army in the center, with Zhang Yuanwei in the east, and set up the platform in Dongling Village, Gaodu Town; With Liao's general Yang Gon leading 40,000 steps to ride in the west, the platform was set up in Gongzhuang Village, Bagong Town.

The Northern Han army was extremely large, the formation was tight, and with the momentum of a decisive battle, it intended to annihilate the Zhou army in one fell swoop and go south to Tokyo. At the same time, the Zhou army was also making preparations for pre-war deployment.

Because the forward advance was too fast, the rear army Liu Ci's unit had not yet arrived at the battlefield and approached, and the soldiers were a little afraid, but Guo Rong was more calm. In the past, the army deployed Bai Chongzan, the guard horse army, and Li Chongjin, the Marquis of Yu, to lead the left army in the west to deal with the Liao general Yang Gon's 40,000 cavalry;

With the guards and horses, Fan Aineng, and the infantry army made He Hui lead the right army in the east to deal with Zhang Yuanwei's 15,000 cavalry. Zhang Yuanwei has 2,000 heavy horsemen under his command, and his combat power is quite strong.

Xuanwei South Academy's envoys Xiang Xun and Shi Yanchao led the front of the palace to ride in the middle of the array. Zhang Yongde, the commander of the front of the palace, led the elite forbidden army to protect Guo Rong, and the front of the palace Si Sandu commanded Zhao Kuangyin to lead the troops to accompany him, as the second line of the raiding array.

He instructed Li Yanchao, the deputy commander of the right division, to lead two thousand cavalry to ambush the rear road of the Northern Han army, so as to wait for the Northern Han army to retreat, so as to cut off its way back and ambush it was completely annihilated. Li Yanchao once served as the assassin of Zezhou, and was more familiar with the terrain, so he directly chose the Jiang [Pig] Ridge north of Bagongyuan to set up an ambush.

Guo Rong himself was also fully armed, fighting horses to mobilize and supervise the battle between the various army arrays. A total of more than 100,000 troops on both sides went to the battlefield to get ready, and it took almost a morning.

Guo Rong hit his horse and returned to the Chinese army, and at this time Zhao Kuangyin stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty! As soon as he received the scout express, Jianxiong Festival Marshal Yao Yuanfu had already led his cavalry to approach the battlefield and asked for instructions on how to line up. ”

"It's just in time! ordered a part of the Ma army to be transferred to the south of Gaodu Town to cover the flank of the right army; 5,000 people from the Han Tong Department were transferred as backups, and Yao Yuanfu was the main force to monitor the movements of the Liao army. When Guo Rong heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately ordered.

"The last general will send a sentry to give an order!" Zhao Kuangyin said loudly.

The reason why Yao Yuanfu came so quickly was that he ordered more than 27,000 people to set off in the early morning, and he finally arrived at Bagongyuan, but he did not rush to the battlefield, but slowed down the march, and at the same time reported to the Chinese army.

After a while, the Chinese army replied quickly, Yao Yuanfu asked about the deployment of the troops on the battlefield, but he was a little difficult, thought about beating the horse and left the marching army, dismounted on a slope on the side of the road, and sent the tooth soldiers to find Wang Yanchao, Han Tong, and Zhang Yue, and showed the military order to wait for the three to read it, and then asked: "Which of you wants to go to the right army?" ”

Han Tong was named as a backup, and he had no choice. But Wang Yanchao also had six battalions of 3,000 horsemen under his command, but he turned his head to look away and said nothing.

"The 2,500 men of the infantry battalion under the command of the last general have not yet arrived, and I ask the commander to send someone to respond. The Ma army can go, but the troops are insufficient, and I am afraid it will not help. Zhang Yue expressed the concerns in his heart, and also turned his head to look at Wang Yanchao, the meaning was obvious.

"Desheng! What do you think? Why don't you and I each have a horse army commander? Yao Yuanfu expected that Wang Yanchao was unwilling, but there were only five battalions of the Ma Army under his command, so he had to secondment one battalion to Zhang Yue, so Wang Yanchao would not be able to shirk it.

"I only hope that General Zhang will lead the troops, and the horse army in my Hezhong Mansion is also extremely scarce."

Wang Yanchao complained very unceremoniously, which made Zhang Yue very unhappy, but he didn't want to worry about him, nodded and didn't say anything, took the military order to transfer the five battalions of cavalry, and hurried to the southeast of Gaodu Town. (To be continued.) )