Chapter 13 Lanling Reinforcements

As soon as the sky appeared, the vast world was covered with a blue light at this moment.

Shen Bing Curling was wearing a half-body chain armor, which reflected a pale cyan light in the morning light. I felt that the sky became clear layer by layer, and I could already distinguish the scattered figures of the enemy troops in the distance, and the piles of bonfires looked dim, Shen Bing took out two guns from behind, and shouted in a deep voice: "The archers in the front line and the enemy arrow array shoot at each other, and the assault battalions led by Gongyi and Yun Shan approach from both flanks in scattered formations. ”

Two hundred archers separated from the front of the two prismatic formations in front, approached the enemy formation, and at 200 paces, they stood on the ground with wooden shields, and the men squatted down to hide their shields and shot with their bows. Eight hundred assault foot soldiers spread out from both flanks and swarmed towards the enemy formation.

The terrain is easy, the gallop is in the middle, and the plains and sparse forests are on both sides, and the tactics that can be used are extremely limited, and it is impossible to set up ambushes and attacks; The sparse forest is hundreds of paces away from the gallop road, and the enemy can also react in time by attacking from the flank; The strong crossbow and bow shoot the enemy formation from the front, and the strength in his hand is far lower than the enemy, so he naturally cannot impact in multiple echelons, so he can only rely on the soldiers to shake the enemy formation, so as to facilitate the elite of the Qingfeng cavalry to attack the side.

It is not difficult to suddenly launch a surprise attack from the flank, and with the attack power of the Qingfeng Cavalry, it is not difficult to break through the enemy formation. It's just that Xu Ruyu wanted to cover up the existence of the Qingfeng cavalry, and ordered the Qingfeng cavalry to abandon the horse, and the speed of approaching from the flank was much slower, and the enemy formation could change the formation in time to deal with it, and the impact of the abandoned Qingfeng cavalry on the enemy formation would also be weaker.

Shen Bingling led two thousand foot soldiers to attract the attention of the enemy formation, shake the enemy formation as much as possible, and cover the Qingfeng cavalry Jianyong from suddenly attacking from the flank.

Eight hundred assault infantry approached the two flanks of the enemy line with arrows, then closed the formation and cut into the enemy formation from a narrow attack surface. The longbowmen abandoned their bows and drew their short weapons, raised their wooden shields, and approached the front flanks of the enemy line.

Before the morning sun came out, the sky was already bright, and the Lanling reinforcements had already seen the reality of the five school troops who were lying on the road ahead at night. Only when 2,000 Fifth School Army came to intercept the Lanling reinforcements, and the main force of the Fifth School Army was fighting a decisive battle with the Wuzhou Army near Linjiang Tubao at this time. Zhu Lianzhi was in Linjiang, and the commander of the Lanling reinforcements did not dare to slack off, and was about to wave his army to rush through the interception of the Fifth School Army, but he did not expect that the two thousand Fifth School Army took the initiative to launch an offensive.

The two thousand five school troops suddenly launched a charge, which puzzled the main general of the Lanling reinforcements; Seeing that more than 1,000 troops of the Five Colonies were wedged into their own array without any scruples, although they had doubts in their hearts, they did not want to lose the good opportunity to annihilate the enemy, so they ordered the flank array to rush forward and surround the five school troops wedged into their own formation.

Wedged into the enemy's formation, if you can't pierce the enemy's formation, you can only be annihilated. The Lanling reinforcements received news that the five school armies came to raid at night, and the array set up was extremely strong, which was to prevent the five school armies from penetrating the array at night and then breaking the array. The sky was bright, and all the uncertainties hidden in the night were gone, and it was even more impossible to pierce the enemy line now. Wedged into the enemy formation from a few points, although there is a danger of annihilation, but before it is annihilated, the enemy formation will become extremely sluggish, and the soldiers trapped in the enemy formation can attract several times the enemy army.

The small force that disturbed the night was regrouped into a formation of five hundred people, Shen Bingcurling showed a cold light, waved his hand and ordered it to split into two ways and wedged into the enemy formation from the right rear flank, looked up at the southwest direction, the Qingfeng cavalry over there still did not move, gritted his teeth, waved his gun and pointed straight ahead, and said: "Meritorious service is now." "Take the lead, leading the last five hundred prismatic formations towards the front of the enemy formation.

During the Battle of the East China Sea, Shen Curling succeeded Mei Liting as the head of Xu Ruyu's guards, and his cultivation was already extremely high, and he had to be mentioned by Xu Ruyu to go further. The Mei clan was determined to follow Xu Ruyu to dominate the world, so he broke the limit of the surname inside and outside the clan, and the disciples of the sect, Shen Bingling was able to cultivate the secret book of the Mei clan with a very high talent, and at this time he was already the first master of the five school army, and the gun was faintly green, and dozens of Jingwei around him were all brave in the five school army, and the more than 100 enemy troops in front of him were defeated with one blow, and they couldn't resist it, and they retreated backwards. Shen Curling changed the tactics of wedging in from the narrow attack surface, the five hundred people team was divided into five columns to attack the front of the enemy formation, Shen Bing Curling led dozens of elites to rampage between the hundred steps of the enemy's surface array, due to the suppression of the five hundred people, the rout of the surface array had to retreat, squeezing the tight array behind the impact.

By the three 500 people have long been wedged into the two ribs and flanks of the enemy formation, the enemy formation has become stagnant, and it is too late to divide the passage for the rout to pass, if Shen Bing is allowed to impact like this in the front, the formation is very likely to collapse before the annihilation of the five school army, and the enemy commander has no choice but to personally lead the elite from the flank to the front to resist the fierce offensive of the five school army on the front.

Shen Bing ordered the sergeant to maintain the formation, not to scatter the attack, the enemy was in the front, but he did not pause in his hand, the rotten silver twin spears stabbed, and a silver light flashed and an enemy soldier was killed. Suddenly, the silver spear in his hand sank, and the huge force surged straight to the wrist, Shen Bingling took a step back, but saw an enemy general raise a knife to slash, wearing a green dragon swallowing fire armor, his eyes were blazing like a torch, and he saw that the strength of more than a dozen people behind him was not weak, knowing that the main general of the Lanling reinforcements would be attracted to the front, pouting and smiling, flirting with his left pistol to block the enemy's knife momentum, the right hand gun was used as a knife to chop, and the two guns stuck to his knife, shrinking back, the enemy general was not guarded, and took a step forward, and the Jingwei Zhiji fencing on both sides of Shen Bingling stabbed its two ribs. The enemy general was startled, drew his sword and wanted to retreat, only to feel the Dan power surge, wanting to give him a fatal blow while his Dan breath was floating. The enemy general can't, the body is slightly sinking, let the two ribs hurt, the ape body is slightly advanced, the palm spits out the Dan force, the long knife in the hand is shaken off, and the oblique back is avoided, but the sword weapon is cut out of a bloody mark under the ribs.

The enemy general changed a long knife from the hand of Jingwei beside him, and looked at Shen Bing Curling, although he was unwilling, but he let this person take advantage of the situation to hit the blade, and was slightly injured, it seemed that he was not his opponent, and shouted: "But Yongyang Shen Bing Curling? ”

Shen Curling smiled indifferently, looked down at the blade abandoned by the enemy general at his feet, lightly hooked the blade with his toes, Dan Li spit lightly, stuck and kicked, the blade turned into a silver light, and went straight to the door of the enemy general, the enemy general was startled, and avoided it sideways, but he heard a miserable cry behind him, and was about to scold Shen Curling for the villain's trip, Shen Curling had already hidden in a ball of green mangs and pounced on him.

Although the soldiers of the fifth school were brave, they were at a disadvantage in numbers, and they could not continue to penetrate the enemy formation, and the 500-person formation led by Shen Bing was also blocked in the depth of the enemy's formation of 100 steps, and they could not take a single step. The commander of the Lanling reinforcements seemed to see the disadvantages of the overly thick formation, not only was the formation threatened to collapse due to the inward oppression of the Fifth School Army, but he was unable to give full play to the advantage of his troops. On the one hand, he organized elite soldiers to resist the frontal offensive of Shen Binglu, and the battle has been carried out so far, and the frontal offensive is the most fierce; One side and two wings are extended outwards to stretch your own formation a little more, so as to give full play to the advantage of troops; He also ordered the 1,000 elites of the rear army to leave the battlefield slightly backward to avoid accidents.

The main general of the Lanling reinforcements did not think that Shen Bingling did not have a little back-up move, not to mention that Qingfeng Xu Ruyu was in Linjiang, but Shen Binglu's abnormal tactics made him only draw out his troops after the current two thousand five school troops were completely annihilated.

Sure enough, at the moment when the morning sun jumped out of the horizon, an earth-shattering cry came from the left flank sparse forest, and the main general of the Lanling reinforcements was shocked, and hurriedly rode his horse to the side, only to see countless soldiers in Jiangning uniforms pouring out of the sparse forest and going straight to the gap between the rear army and the left flank.

The commander of the Lanling reinforcements secretly felt fortunate, if it were not for the transfer of 1,000 elites of the rear army from the battlefield as a backup, the left flank would be the first to collapse due to the impact of more than 1,000 troops of the five schools that suddenly poured out.

Shen Bing can attack his own side with 3,000 troops, probably because he wants to compete for the tactical merit of this flank assault, a sneer appeared on the corner of the mouth of the main general of the Lanling reinforcements, and he said secretly: Although the combat power of the Fifth School Army is strong, it is delusional to shake my Lanling army formation with 3,000 troops. Ordered the rear army to move to the left flank to guard the left flank and intercept the Fifth Colonel Army pouring out of the sparse forest.

Qingfeng uses a standard saber or halberd for horseback warfare, a thick-backed simple knife for infantry combat, a longbow on his back, and a round shield or a repeating crossbow on his left forearm. Jiehai led a thousand cavalry battalions to sneak behind the sparse forest, not into the sparse forest, and only sneaked into the sparse forest when the battle on the gallop road began. The sky was bright and the birds left the nest, and the Qingfeng rode in the sparse forest and did not alarm the Lanling reinforcements on the galloping road, even if there was some negligence, the main general of the Lanling reinforcements did not notice it after the fierce battle.

The bows and crossbows of the Lanling reinforcements were concentrated in the front formation, and at this time, the front formation was entangled with Shen Bing, and the rear army could not rely on the bow and crossbow to prevent the Qingfeng cavalry from approaching from the left flank.

Qingfeng rode out of the sparse forest, approaching the enemy formation but did not have the intention of slightly reorganizing the formation, three or five groups went straight into the enemy formation, and the soldiers behind did not follow the opening torn by their predecessors to squeeze into the enemy formation, and re-chose a new wedge point. The Lanling reinforcements moved the rear army to the left flank, and almost the entire flank of the array was subjected to a tyrannical attack at the same time. As soon as they made contact, the array guarding the left flank was overwhelmed by the overwhelming force of the blow, and retreated.

The commander of the Lanling reinforcements didn't know what had happened, and the array guarding the left flank had retreated to his side, and he was wrapped in a crowded sergeant and retreated backwards, unable to escape. The array guarding the left flank is huddled with the left flank array.

Shen Bing Curling saw the Qingfeng cavalry bravely pouring out of the sparse forest, so he ordered the soldiers around him to shrink to his side, and saw that the Qingfeng cavalry's stormy attack caused the left flank of Lanling to retreat, so he retreated. The left flank array of the Lanling Army is now crowded, but it is attacked from three sides by the Fifth School Army and the Qingfeng Cavalry from the front, the south flank, and the tail flank, and it is impossible to retreat, although it is somewhat difficult to resist the attack of the Qingfeng Cavalry, the formation is not in danger of collapsing.

Shen Binglu led a group to withdraw, leaving a gap for the Lanling army to retreat, and the Lanling army on the inside of the left wing array filled the gap like a tide, driving the entire left wing array to move to the right flank, out of control, and mixed with the right wing array. Shen Bing led three hundred remnants of the army to carry out a fierce attack on the left front flank of the Lanling army, and continued to suppress the entire army formation of the Lanling army to the right flank.

Less than a moment after the Qingfeng cavalry appeared, the Lanling army began to collapse, and the formation of nearly a thousand Wuxiao troops wedged into the right flank of the enemy formation also dispersed the rout.

If the enemy is routed in the enemy's territory and cannot be dealt a major blow, Zhu Lianzhi can completely reorganize and reorganize the defeated army, and there is no major loss in strength. In the morning battle, although the Lanling reinforcements were defeated, the actual enemy annihilation was estimated to be less than 1,000 people, and the casualties plus the scattered soldiers were nearly 500, which is really not a victory worth boasting about.

Only by chasing and destroying the defeated troops can the results of the battle be further expanded, but this is in the territory of the Zhu clan, and if the pursuit exceeds twenty miles, it will become dangerous.

The fundamental purpose of the military formation is to expand one's own attack surface and shrink the defensive surface, and the purpose is to give full play to the potential strength, which is consistent with the idea of combining one's own strength and dividing the enemy's strength at the tactical level. The scattered formation in the Qinghe Charging Formation Technique brought the Qingfeng Cavalry's personal strength into full play, and almost at the same time, the Qingfeng Cavalry's fierce offensive was completely applied to the left flank of the Lanling Army. The Snowflake Six Scattered Formation seems to be as loose as the stars, but it has a strange consistency in the rhythm of the attack.

Qingfeng cavalry had outstanding performances in the Battle of Southern Fujian and the Battle of Jinghai, but Shen Binglu did not expect to be so strong, no wonder Xu Ruyu was relieved that a thousand Qingfeng cavalry defeated the Zhu reinforcements who came over one by one.

The gallop road rose from the plains, and Jiehai stood on the gallop road with great ambition, looking at the back of the Lanling rout on the northwest plains. Shen Bing came up from behind and said, "General Jie, my lord ordered the cavalry battalion to rest for a while after the battle, but galloped back to Meixi Town, from the south of Linjiang Tubao, diagonally to the northwest, to capture the fighters. ”

Meixi Town is located in the southern boundary of Linjiang County, and the direction is just south of Linjiang Tubao, and it is interspersed with capture fighters diagonally to the northwest.

Jiehai said in a deep voice: "The sons are still fine, and it is not too late to take off Zhu Lianzhi's head and rest again." "Lead a thousand Qingfeng horsemen to ride around the back of the sparse forest, take out the war horse hidden there, and spur the horse to the southeast.

Shen Bing said secretly: If you can take off Zhu Lianzhi's head, the matter of Yue County will be much simpler. It's just that Zhu Lianzhi is cautious, even if all the 10,000 elites around him are annihilated, it will be even more difficult to take off Zhu Lianzhi's head. patted his head, as if he wanted to slap this ridiculous and tempting idea out of his head, and secretly thought: If he can defeat and kill it on a large scale, he can already make Zhu Lianzhi cry bitterly.

The soldiers who were scattered by the rout gradually returned to the team, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the five schools avoided the shade of the sparse forest.

Linjiang Tubao is only thirty miles away, and Shen Binglu is fifteen miles away with Xu Ruyu, Wei Yu and others, and there is no military information from there at this time. The messenger of Baojie did not look for the army led by Xu Ruyu, Wei Yu and others fifteen miles away, and divided a few people to continue to look for Kunmin, Wei Yan and others in the east, and the rest returned to their original places and showed the abnormality to Shen Bing.

According to the original plan, Xing Kunmin and Wei Yan should lead 6,000 soldiers to break away from the battlefield of Linjiang Tubao and feint to the west. If Zhu Lianzhi leads the army to pursue, the 4,000 and 5 school troops led by Xu Ruyu and Wei Yu will block the Wuzhou army from the flank, and Xing Kunmin and Wei Yan will calmly reorganize the formation and attack it from the other side. Their own side defeated the reinforcements in the direction of Lanling, and the reinforcements from Huzhou and Wuzhou and the reinforcements re-sent by Lanling will also arrive at the fastest until late at night.

In this way, it seems that adults change their attention temporarily. Shen Binglu couldn't help but be secretly anxious, and sent a herald to ask Yun Shan to immediately stop the pursuit of the rout, converge here, and send scouts in the direction of Linjiang to search for the whereabouts of the army led by Xu Ruyu.

Xu Ruyu's military order came first, and the military order read: "The original battle plan was changed, and the reinforcements of the Shen army in Lanling were reorganized, and at noon they deviated from the distance of ten to fifteen miles to the south, and marched in parallel to the east to capture the fighters."

Shen Gongyi is a disciple of the Yongyang Shen clan, and when he saw this military order, he frowned like Shen Bingcurling, and said in a low voice: "My lord temporarily changed his battle plan, but I am afraid that I will not be able to notify General Jiehai." ”

Shen Bing curled his brows and said, "The combat orders of the cavalry camp have not been changed. Unfolding the topographic map, he pointed to a point southwest of Linjiang and said, "Our army will set out at noon and will join the cavalry camp here at dusk." We will drive here at this time, and Yun Shan will come later. ”

Shen Gongyi said: "The military order requires that we leave again at noon. ”

Shen Bing said: "The military order said that it would set off at noon, but it only told us that the place to advance was the northwest of Huishan. With that, a wrinkle of worry appeared on his face.

The generals of Jiangning were full of confidence in the conquest of Yuejun, and there may have been some twists and turns, but the Zhu clan could not escape the fate of annihilation. Even if the elite of the Zhu clan cannot be severely damaged this time, it has nothing to do with the grand purpose. With Wei Yu and Tu Wenyong by the adult's side, how could the two agree to the adult's risky plan?

Although I don't know how Xu Ruyu will make arrangements, looking at the military order, there is no other explicit indication except for the location of the march, so it can be seen that this plan may involve Xu Ruyu's safety, and it cannot be expressed.

Xu Ruyu's position in Jiangning can be replaced, Xu Ruyu's adventures in the Northern Tang Dynasty have made the hearts of everyone in Jiangning tense for a while, if Xu Ruyu is injured this time, the loss can not be offset by the annihilation of many Zhu clan soldiers.

Shen curling led the army to rush nearly 40 miles under the vicious head, crossing the Liang River flowing north-south on the west side of Huishan, across Huishan, only to hear the sound of killing all over the sky on the other side of the mountain along the wind into the ears. Shen Bing was shocked, only when Xu Ruyu led the Fifth School Army and Zhu Lianzhi led the Fifth School Army to fight a decisive battle here in advance.

Shen Bing asked the soldiers to form a formation on the east bank of the Liang River, and he led dozens of Jingwei to climb the twenty-zhang high Huishan Mountain from the northwest foothills, and looked to the northeast from the top. On the gentle slope at the northeastern foot of Huishan, the Fifth School Army was entangled with the Wuzhou Army, and the Wuzhou Army obviously exceeded yesterday's estimate of 10,000 troops, nearly 15,000 people.

Shen Bing was horrified: The Zhu clan had reinforcements coming in advance to join the siege.

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