The next day, Chai Rong personally led the whole army north and forced Suizhou.

When he was about thirty miles away from Suizhou, he encountered the Dingyan army on the right bank of the Wuding River.

Chai Rong rearranged the troops, ordered the guards Ma Bujun to wait for Li Chongjin, and Huazhou Jiedu made Bai Chongzan command the left army, located in the west of the battle array, and served Shi Yanchao, the defense envoy of Zhengzhou, and Fu Yanneng, the former Yaozhou regiment training envoy, to command the right army, and was in the east of the battle array; Xuanhui envoy to training, leading the elite cavalry in the center; In front of the palace, Zhang Yongde commanded Zhang Yongde to lead the forbidden soldiers to escort him.

At this time, the whole army of the Dingyan Army poured down, and the left, center, and road were all cavalry.

The Zhou army is all infantry except for the Chinese army, so it is relative, and the strength is not superior, and the result can be imagined.

The left and right sides struggled to support, and suffered heavy casualties under the iron hooves of the cavalry of the Dingyan Army.

If Chai Rong hadn't killed people ruthlessly before, the left and right roads would have collapsed long ago.

However, the cavalry in the middle of the Zhou army was evenly matched with the Dingyan army.

Chai Rong put on armor on the war horse and stepped forward to watch the battle, seeing that the situation was not good, he ordered Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En to lead 5,000 forbidden troops to reinforce the left and right roads.

Zhao Kuangyin reinforced the left side, and Zheng En reinforced the right side, both of whom were old fritters rolled out of the battlefield.

As long as you are in battle, you can judge where the enemy army is weak at a glance.

Zhao Kuangyin led 5,000 forbidden troops to quickly break into the left battlefield.

An iron rod is to sweep, smash, tease, and stab to attract blood.

The left side quickly stabilized, and then Zheng Eun on the right side charged forward like a tiger.

This Zhou army is not not brave, but it is just suppressed by the cavalry momentum of the Dingyan army, the era of cold weapons. When the army is opposed, the weak eight or nine collapse first, this is the law.

At this time, the left and right Zhou armies were reinforced by large armies. Two more brave generals took the lead, so the morale was boosted.

Coupled with the fact that the emperor personally supervised the battle in the back, which soldier would dare to escape?

This escape, that is, a knife killing, maybe even affect the family.

is also dead, it is better to rush forward, and if you die, you can leave some bereavement for your family.

So. The infantry on the left and right of the Zhou army was stunned and used their lives to withstand the cavalry of the Dingyan Army.

Chai Rong saw that the left and right lanes stabilized, and the middle lane was intractable, so. Ordered the palace to command Zhang Yongde to lead the whole army of the forbidden army to support the middle road, in order to make a breakthrough in the middle road.

Zhang Yongde led the remaining 20,000 forbidden troops to the middle road.

Originally, Chai Rong calculated a good strategy to break through from the middle lane, but because of his small mistake of joining the bandits before the war, he almost fell short.

The forbidden army led by Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En was his old subordinates in the past, but it had no effect.

Thirty percent of the remaining 20,000 forbidden troops were recruited by Chai Rong from the bandits before the war.

These people were rushing forward with Zhang Yongde. But also heroic. However, once they rushed to the front of the formation, they were killed by the cavalry of the Dingyan Army, and then they were in a mess, and they were stumbling on the left and right, not only could not lead the Zhou army to rush forward to kill, but instead disrupted the original stable middle formation of the Zhou army.

In an instant, the Dingyan army advanced two miles to the middle road, forcing towards Chai Rong's observation place.

The situation is critical. Chai Rong personally led the cavalry of his cronies and stepped forward to supervise the battle.

After a period of chaos. The middle of the Zhou army finally stabilized, and that was because the bandit soldiers in the middle were almost killed by the Dingyan army, and the rest were secretly beheaded by the cavalry in the middle of the Zhou army.

On the battlefield, this kind of killing is common, especially if someone interferes with the security of their own army, and a stab in the back is the easiest way to solve the problem.

But at this time, Chai Rong's strategy of wanting to break through in the middle was stillborn.

The two armies fought all day long by the Wuding River, and there was no victory.

The sky was about to darken, and the two armies joined forces to strike the war and retreat to camp and rest for the next battle.

In this battle, the remnants of the first echelon were 20,000, plus the 30,000 forbidden troops brought by Chai Rong, a total of 50,000, against the 30,000 cavalry of Li Yiyu, the Zhou army suffered more than 13,000 casualties, and Li Yiyu only lost 5,000 cavalry.

The battle loss ratio reached three to one, and this was still when the Zhou Emperor Chai Rong personally supervised the battle and participated in the war with the Zhou forbidden army.

It can be seen that the difference in combat power between cavalry and infantry is huge.

In addition, if the infantry and infantry are fighting, basically more than seventy percent of the wounded soldiers can return to the battlefield after recuperation, even if they are injured by arrows, but the infantry and cavalry fight, that is, they are either dead or disabled, and no more than thirty percent of the wounded can return to the battlefield.

That's the terrible thing about cavalry.

The rest and recuperation of the Dingyan army is really a rest, and the rear is Suizhou's own city, and the supply is endless.

But the rest of the Zhou army is miserable, has entered the land of Suizhou, there is no shortage of supplies, but thousands of wounded soldiers can not retreat in time, distributed in the barracks, the crying all night, creepy, this is a hard wound to the morale of the Zhou army, Chai Rong still lacks comprehensive supply measures, in fact, it should be said that Chai Rong is still estimated to be easier for the Zhou army to attack Suizhou, Chai Rong thought that such a bloody battle would only appear when attacking Xiazhou, but he didn't expect it to appear just at the beginning.

That night, Chai Rong and the generals worked all night to study countermeasures.

Li Chongjin and Bai Chongzan unanimously suggested that they should withdraw their troops, Youzhou had already been captured, and the plundering and retreating troops was that if they fought a decisive battle with the Dingyan army, it might make the elite of the Zhou army lose in Suizhou, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Shi Yanchao and Fu Yanneng were noncommittal.

But Xiang Xun and Zhang Yongde know Chai Rong's mind very well, this crusade against the difficult army is a move to establish authority, and now the loss of troops is about to return, how can it be a prestige? Isn't it ridiculous to laugh at the world?

So Xiang Xun suggested: "Holy Lord, the minister thinks that the difficult army is not terrible, today's battle, our army is not fully mentally prepared, tomorrow to fight again, should make the left and right armies arrange fences, erect more spears, so compared with today, there will be a difference." ”

Zhang Yongde suggested: "Holy Lord, the minister suggested that firewood be set up in front of the left and right armies overnight, and if it is against the Dingyan army tomorrow, it can be lit to block the enemy's cavalry." ”

Zhao Kuangyin interjected at this time: "Your Majesty, tomorrow the minister is willing to lead the forbidden army as the middle forward and break the enemy." ”

Not to be outdone, Zheng En said, "Second brother, count it as a certain one." ”

Chai Rong made a decision to continue the battle with the Dingyan army, and at the same time ordered Xiang Xun and Zhang Yongde to arrange defenses as they said.

Order Zhao Kuangyin and Zheng En to be the vanguard officers of the middle lane, each lead 5,000 forbidden troops to break the enemy's formation, and order Xiang Xun's middle lane cavalry army to be the rear of the two of them.

Everyone agreed, and each of them withdrew and prepared.

When Chai Rong dispatched troops before sending troops, he did not realize that the envoys of the Liao State in the north had already gone south from Shengzhou in the north to Xiazhou.

Because Sheng, Fu, and Linzhou belong to the sphere of influence of the Zhe family, although Zhe Congyuan made the Zhenwu Festival envoy of the Zhou State, but the Sheng, Fu, and Linzhou are still the Zhe family, nominally attached to the Zhou State, but because Zhe Congyuan's son Zhe Delan was promoted by Chai Rong from the Fuzhou Defense Envoy to the Yongan Jiedu Envoy, it caused the dissatisfaction of Li Yiyin of Xiazhou, the Dingyan Army. (To be continued......)