April 16, the sixteenth day of the Battle of the Central Plains.

The sky was snowing the strangest snow of the year, the land was muddy, and the winter that had just passed for a short time seemed to be back.

"Woooooo

The bleak battle horn sounded, and the Jianghuai army went out to battle. The entire camp was wedge-shaped, and in the middle was a huge wedge-shaped infantry formation composed of a hundred Jianghuai platoon infantry. One hundred large infantry formations composed of 256 small infantry formations, dispatched all the platoon infantry of the Jianghuai Army, a full 25,600 people, all of which were the last elite infantry units of the Jianghuai Army. The most courageous of the Jianghuai infantry generals are Wang Wei, Yang Wei, Huo Shiju, Liu Changgong, Liang Dezhong, Dong Zhitong, and Fei Qingnu. These platoon soldiers and the middle and low-level generals who commanded the army were all the core men and horses of Wang Shichong when he first raised troops to suppress bandits, and they were the most elite troops in Wang Xuanying's hands.

On the left flank was a mixed army of light infantry and a small number of light cavalry, numbering 100,000 men in 100 detachments. The performance of the light infantry team for so many days is obvious to all, and it is the weakest unit in strategy in the entire Jianghuai Army. Wang Xuanshu, who commanded this army, defended, "We are not afraid of war! Simply because light infantry has always been the poorly equipped unit. ”

The troops of the left flank army were relatively rudimentary, and even in the regular army, most of them used rudimentary spears, and some were even armed with wooden guns with iron heads, and few of them had regular standard horizontal knives and infantry longbows. The generals were worried that if the Wei army were to open a gap, the left flank would be their best point of breakthrough, and they could only hope that the soldiers of the heavy cavalry battalion, which made up part of the left camp, would perform a miracle.

On the right flank was a simple light cavalry unit, a light cavalry of 15,000 people, which was the most mobile unit of the Jianghuai Army. In the battle with the Wei army, the Jianghuai army had long been discovered. Once the situation was unfavorable, the Wei army could easily break and flee. At this time, if there is a sufficient number of mobile cavalry, the battlefield advantage can be fully expanded. This is also the new arrangement that Wang Xuanying made after facing Chen Kefu's ultimatum and forcing him to fight Li Mi in a decisive battle.

In this decisive battle, Wang Xuanying had already shifted his hope of victory from the Jianghuai heavy infantry and heavy cavalry to this pure mobile cavalry arranged on the right flank. It was hoped that on the battlefield, this light cavalry would be able to take advantage of their rapid maneuver and give the Wei army, which was twice as numerous as them, a chance to break through.

Except for these light horsemen on the right flank. On the right flank of the Chinese army, Wang Xuanying also arranged the heavy cavalry battalion, the most powerful shock force of the Jianghuai army. In this decisive battle, Wang Xuan should be prepared to let the heavy cavalry battalion be the most advanced shock force and let them take the lead. For Wang Xuanying, if this battle falls into a melee again, then this powerful heavy cavalry force will be difficult to come in handy. The Jianghuai Army, which was significantly smaller than the Wei army, was not sloppy in this battle.

At the same moment, the Wei army also sounded a terrible horn, and then, the gongs and drums were noisy. One after another, the Wei infantry and cavalry battalions drove out of the big battalion. Spread out the queue in the open space between the two armies. The auxiliary legions in the Wei army, that is, the young and strong people who were coerced by Li Mi when he retreated from Yanshi City, did not move. So many days. The Wei army has always only dispatched elite regular troops, and those auxiliary people have been forcibly recruited in the rear. Wang Xuanying has not yet figured out Li Mi's idea, the tactics of crowds have always been the magic weapon of the peasant army, but Li Mi has not used these people this time, he wants to keep this group of new troops as a reserve to decide the outcome of the victory? Or are you worried about the loyalty of those people, afraid that they will rebel before the battle? …,

The ranks of the Wei army were all regular soldiers, which was the last elite force of the Wei state. Although he was not born in the regular army of the Sui Dynasty. But these Wei troops, who were born in the peasant army, have experienced countless wars in the Central Plains battlefield, and have already trained from the war to become a formidable force.

About 150,000 Wei soldiers unfurled neatly under the golden and red twin tiger banners. There are many people but there is no chaos, everything is in order. The Wei army ordered the soldiers to run around, quietly and solemnly. The accurate, well-trained, and crisp vigor with which the soldiers displayed was nothing short of pleasing to the eye. The big waves sweep the sand, from the millions of troops, the remaining more than 100,000 Wei troops are Li Mi's real core strength.

The battle lasted sixteen days, and the armies on both sides were exhausted. Because the Jianghuai army has sufficient logistics, and the Hebei army escorts them into battle, they can also take turns to go into battle and rest, but the Wei army, which has an advantage in terms of troops, does not have this blessing, and the Wei army, which does not have a strong city position, can only mobilize the whole division at a time, and does not dare to disperse the troops, and their energy consumption is even more serious. After 16 days of fierce fighting, they could still maintain such a prosperous military appearance and morale, and did not appear to be tired in the slightest, and the generals of the Jianghuai Army could not help but change color for the tenacity of the Wei army.

Wang Xuanshu first began to waver: "The more the Wei army fights, the more tenacious it becomes, and we had better expect to rely on long-term battles to consume the physical strength and morale of the Wei army." But now Chen Pojun is forcing us to fight a decisive battle with a group of mad dogs, and the dogs will jump over the wall when they are in a hurry, and the Wei army is now on the top of a dead end, lacking food and weapons, and there are no reinforcements. ”

He looked worriedly at Wang Xuanying, who was surrounded by the generals. Today's Wang Xuanying, wearing a pair of silver armor, the horizontal knife hanging on his waist jingled on the armor, he looked up to the west, stood up and sat down, waited and stood up again, over and over again, not like the peace and calm in the past, today's Wang Xuanying seems a little impetuous and restless.

Wang Shiyun on the side was also deeply disturbed, the commander of the whole army was so imposing before the battle, this was a bad omen.

A loud shout broke the dark clouds over the battlefield, "Kill!" "The Wei army began to attack, as usual the Chinese army breakthrough tactics, as many as 50,000 Wei infantry battalions advanced in the central formation, under the neat steps of the Wei soldiers, the earth seemed to be sinking.

Immediately afterwards, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded, and the Wei cavalry arranged on both flanks also began to advance, accelerating a little from the beginning of the trot, and finally turned into a gallop, the cavalry quickly overtook the front line of the infantry, the overwhelming horse hooves were deafening, and the large swords flashed brightly in the sun, and they rushed straight to the left flank of the Jianghuai army.

Li Mi is on the offensive! For a while, everyone's eyes on the battlefield were attracted by this grand scene, and Wang Xuanshu and Wang Shiyun also withdrew their gaze from Wang Xuanying and threw themselves into the battlefield. They didn't notice that at some point, Wang Shiwei, who had been sent to Luoyang a few days ago, came in from outside, approached Wang Xuanying and whispered a few words. Suddenly, Wang Xuanying's hesitant expression was swept away, he talked to Wang Shiwei in a low voice for about half an hour, Wang Shiwei nodded, walked outside again, and disappeared into the crowded Jianghuai Army infantry team.

Seeing Wang Shiwei's figure disappear, Wang Xuanying opened his fist lightly. Just when the Wei cavalry began to approach the front line of the platoon infantry formation, he called Wang Xuanshu, Wang Shiyun, Wang Bian, Yang Wei, Fei Qingnu and other commanders.

"Attack with all your troops!" Wang Xuanying said as calmly as possible: "This is the last day, we will fight to the death and never retreat!" ”

The generals were stunned for a moment, and then responded loudly: "Obey!" They immediately returned to their units and conveyed the order with hesitation. Whispers rang out in the ranks, and the soldiers exchanged their heads and ears, all of them passing on the phrase: "Fight to the death, never retreat!" "All the generals of the Jianghuai Army understood the meaning of this order, which also meant that King Zheng had given up his intention to preserve his strength. …,

The 50,000 Jianghuai army against the 150,000 Wei army will never retreat and fight to the death, this is a suicidal attack.

As the generals had predicted, the order had just been delivered, and the phalanx of light infantry on the left flank of their front army had been flattened by the hooves of the Wei cavalry, and the defeated left flank soldiers scattered and fled in panic. The Wei cavalry took advantage of the victory to pursue, and then charged with the platoon infantry phalanx of the Chinese army, and the battle was quite fierce.

The Wei army unexpectedly found that today the Jianghuai army was abnormal, the resistance was quite stubborn, and the Jianghuai army troops did not retreat as quickly as in the past, and then adopted the harassment tactics of advancing and retreating. This made Wei Jun feel inexplicable ecstasy from top to bottom!

These damn bunnies are finally willing to fight! Thinking that after winning the battle, they would be able to have food and clothing supplies, and that they would no longer have to starve and suffer from cold, the Wei army burst out with tremendous combat effectiveness.

"Rush!" "Rush!"

The roars continued one after another, and the Wei army was on a rampage, with such momentum as if entering a no-man's land, they marched forward in great strides, although the Jianghuai army was already trying their best to resist, they had made their best efforts, but the situation on the battlefield was showing a one-sided state.

The 50,000 Jianghuai army was gradually overwhelmed by the frenzy of the Wei army's 150,000 army, Wang Xuanying straddled the horse and looked at everything on the battlefield, and every moment, countless Jianghuai soldiers fell. His heart was cut like a knife, bleeding silently. Every time a soldier fell, his dreams and ambitions were a little further away from him. It's so helpless, and it's so pale and powerless.

The Wei cavalry laughed fiercely, brandished their swords and slashed wildly, and their shock waves hit the infantry formation of the platoon army in waves. Although the platoon army resisted desperately, the array was constantly retreating, and even the formation was in danger, and it was possible to collapse at any time. Under the back and forth of the Wei cavalry, the soldiers and horses of the Jianghuai army fell down one after another, just like the wheat waves in autumn were harvested by farmers.