Chapter 262: The Battle of the Boundary Bridge

"Woo...... Woowoowoo......"

Before Wang Yu could figure out how to take revenge on Tai Shici's big mouth, the continuous sound of painting horns had already resounded through the world.

This is not a clarion call for war, but more like a prelude to this great war, which sounds poignant and sad. The sound of the horn followed the morning breeze, blowing away the thin morning mist, allowing the light of the morning sun to shine on the earth unhindered, and the vision became clearer and clearer, completely showing the military appearance of both sides in the eyes of the other party.

The military appearance of both sides is very neat, thousands of battle flags are blown by the morning wind, and there is a sound of hunting, together with the sound of horns and wind, it has gathered into a decisive battle, full of murderous atmosphere!

The arrangement of the Youzhou army, as finalized at the military meeting in the past few days, met the enemy with a large array of geese, and the Chinese army was Gongsun Zhan's personal guard, three thousand white horses, and the rest, including eight thousand cavalry including Taishan light cavalry, were evenly distributed to the two wings.

The cavalry is in the first place, the foot soldiers are dragging behind, and it is the idea of breaking through in the middle and fully blossoming.

Gongsun Zhan's strategy is understandable, Youzhou is strong, but the infantry and cavalry are completely different things, and the armor, food, and training cannot be the same. There are more than 30,000 foot soldiers, and even 3,000 heavy armor can't be made, plus Wang Yu's defeat of Chun Yuqiong's capture, it is only to ensure that the officers above the tun commander have armor.

The military system of the Han Dynasty was calculated in multiples of two and five.

The most basic unit is the army, that is, there is a team commander for every five people; Two Wu Wei, one for every ten people;

Five tithes for teams, one team rate for every fifty people; Two teams are one tun, and every 100 people have a tun chief;

Two tuns are a song, and there is a military marquis for every two hundred people; Two songs into one, one for every four hundred people.

Usually every five divisions are a battalion, that is, 2,000 men are a combat unit, usually the commander of the army is a general or a captain.

Tun Chang, that is, the centurion, after getting the trophies captured by Wang Yu, can he reach the centurion with armor, which shows how simple the infantry equipment of the Youzhou Army is, and it is not much better than the Yellow Turban Army.

For this reason, Wang Yu once inquired about Tian Kai in private and found that the actual situation was worse than it seemed on the surface.

Before Gongsun Zhan officially plotted against Jizhou, there was no infantry in the Youzhou army at all. The target of Gongsun Zhan's battle is Hulu outside the Saiwai, and his combat style is to attack, and then attack, what is the use of foot soldiers?

These foot soldiers are all county soldiers and even people from various counties after he went south and issued a message, and they are still effective in carrying grain and grass and baggage, and they are fighting wars? Compared with the battle-hardened cavalry of the Youzhou Army, the foot soldiers are at most bluffing.

Therefore, using cavalry to open the situation, and the foot soldiers then covering and killing, and expanding the results of the battle, is the best strategy for this battle.

The other strategies can only be implemented without the premise of the main battle. Gongsun Zan and the generals of Youzhou are all complacent at the moment, thinking that the world is so big that there is nothing to do, and Wang Yu is not easy to persuade too deeply and too often, so as not to be thankless and hurt the harmony of the two families.

In fact, Gongsun Zhan's thoughts, he has already seen a little.

General Baima is still far away from Xiaoxiong, and like Lu Bu, his pride and unbending temper are the Achilles' heel of competing for the world. In addition, he is also very bad at hiding his thoughts.

After only talking twice, Wang Yu realized that if he repeatedly persuaded and seemed too eager, he would easily be regarded as a villain by Gongsun Chan and the generals of Youzhou, suspecting him of trying to annex the Youzhou army.

Wang Yu did have such thoughts, yes. A long, long time ago, he began to peep at Youzhou and Bingzhou, these two strong armies. However, he also knows that he can't eat hot tofu in a hurry, and before the friendship is not deep enough and the situation is not mature, any move that crosses the line will provoke a strong backlash from the other party, so that he will turn against him.

Therefore, Wang Yu simply did not persuade him, completely put himself in the position of reinforcements, and let Gongsun Zan arrange it while concentrating on Zhao Yun. A long trip has to be a bit rewarding, right?

In this regard, Gongsun Chan and the generals of Youzhou were very satisfied.

Gongsun Zhan is still the mentality of a big brother, thinking that he should take care of Wang Yu by himself, and when he wins this battle and takes Jizhou, he can take advantage of the situation to launch the Qinwang strategy. With the combat power of Youzhou Iron Cavalry and the wealth of Jizhou, who in the world can stop it?

Since Wang Yu no longer tried to control his own strategy, he should not have the intention of getting involved in his own troops. When the great task is completed, although he is in power in the court, he will also leave a position for Wang Yu's brother.

As for why Wang Yu dragged a young man who joined the army, Gongsun Chan didn't care at all, the talent concept he advocated was like this, even if he was very capable, he had to start from the grassroots first. As long as it is a talent, it will eventually stand out, if you don't have this patience, even if you have the ability, he can't look down on it.

And Shan Jing, Yan Gang and others don't like people to compete for positions with them, so they are happy to sit and watch it; Tian Kai was aware of it, but as long as Wang Yu didn't conflict with Gongsun Zhan, he would be satisfied, where would he care about the ownership of a small soldier?

Therefore, Wang Yu's blatant poaching action did not cause any trouble, and no one even continued to pay attention to this matter except Liu Bei.

It's a pity that Liu Bei didn't have the ability to pinch his fingers, and he fell behind from the beginning.

Zhao Yun came because he admired the prestige of the white horse general, and brought a white horse himself, even if he couldn't be a horseman, he was more willing to be one

cavalry; And Liu Bei's troops are pure infantry troops, in addition to the horses for generals to ride, there are only a few old and weak pack horses, which is naturally very limited for people like Zhao Yun who are bent on being cavalry generals.

Of course, the key is Wang Yu's existence, from the moment they met, he showed considerable attention and grabbed the lead.

And his reputation is much louder than Liu Bei, his loyalty and righteousness are unparalleled, the minister of the humerus of the Son of Heaven, the champion of the Han Dynasty, this pile of halos, Zhao Yun, who has always been loyal and has the ambition to serve the country, is dazzled, where can he pay attention to others? Relatively speaking, Liu Bei's name as a so-called Han clan relative is simply weak.

Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan, was born at an inopportune time, just in time for the time when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had just ascended the throne and the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion had just ended, and the power of the vassal kings had been weakened to the extreme.

Liu Sheng was a smart man, knew the truth of Taoguang's obscurity, and put all his energy on wine, and was praised by the imperial court for this, and was known as the 'Ying Domain of the Han Dynasty'. This person's biggest and most famous ability is to spread out the branches, and more than 120 sons have been born alone!

Children and grandchildren give birth to children, and when he dies, gather his children and grandchildren together to form two troops and horses, and there is no pressure at all. From the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to the present, more than 300 years have passed, and in the territory of Zhongshan Kingdom, at least five of the ten surnamed Liu are after King Jing of Zhongshan.

If there is no competitor, Liu Bei will take some time, and he will not be able to impress Zhao Yun with his water grinding efforts, but in the face of such a super competitor as Wang Yu, Liu Bei will fall behind in an all-round way.

The most important thing is that he has never figured out what is so special about the young man who is highly valued by Wang Yu, except for being handsome! It was only based on Wang Yu's behavior that he judged that this young man might be unusual, and then tried to insert a pole sideways in line with the principle of killing mistakes and not letting go, and that's it.

Because of this, the defeat in this battle for talent did not bring Liu Bei much frustration, at least not as strong as the two failures of wooing Jia Xu in Luoyang and subduing Tai Shici in the plains that day.

In fact, not only him, but even Wang Yu himself, still hasn't figured out where the Zhao Zilong in front of him is.

The first is martial arts, in the description of Zhao Yun, the general emphasis is on his martial arts, which is almost recognized, second only to Lu Bu's master. However, Wang Yu had a few discussions with the other party, and found that although the other party's martial arts were strong, they were far from reaching Lu Bu's level, but they were almost the same as himself before cultivating the Mo family's mental method.

Whether it was the relationship of age, or the other party's concern about his identity, Wang Yu didn't know for a while, but whether it was his place of origin or experience, it showed that he didn't find the wrong person.

As for the art of war, Zhao Yun's background is not bad, and it can be judged from his conversation that he has read a lot of military books. In the five years of chaos in Zhongping, he participated in the defense of Zhending, and made a lot of contributions, and had a small prestige in the local area.

However, he has little experience in military affairs, and he doesn't know much about military affairs, and in general, he can only listen to Wang Yu, and then be surprised and admired, and he can't come up with any unique opinions.

Wang Yu could only think that the one in front of him was Zhao Zilong, who had not yet grown up, and it might take a long time to reproduce the unparalleled hero he knew in his previous life, who was full of courage and made the enemy invincible.

There was already a juvenile version of Xu Shu before, and now there is an incomplete version of Zhao Yun, we are really miserable! However, it's strange to say, shouldn't the battle of the boundary bridge be a battle for Zhao Yun's up-and-coming career? With his current ability, what can he do to make a difference?

Even if he hides a hand in martial arts, among the ten thousand armies, the role that individual martial arts can play can be said to be minimal. Besides, no matter how much he hides it, he can't hide such things as strength and reaction speed, at least he can't hide it from himself, unless his exercises have something else special.

Because his attention was on Zhao Yun, Wang Yu's attention to the battle situation was inevitably a little less. When he noticed that his surroundings had suddenly darkened, he was shocked to realize that the two sides had approached a considerable distance and began to launch a tentative attack with feather arrows!

When he raised his eyes, he saw thousands of feathered arrows flying up from the formations of the two armies, cutting through the clear and cloudless sky, casting two heavy shadows on the earth, like two dark clouds.

The dark clouds quickly approached each other, then passed through each other, dissipating into nothingness, and countless flowers bloomed in the morning sun, some red, some with a faint green mist, as if the war elves were dancing.

The sound of the wind, shouts of killing, the sound of trumpets, and the screams of misery were intertwined, and a tragic ode was played.

Wang Yu looked back at the formation and found that the cavalry had already dismounted and given up the frontmost position, and thousands of foot archers stood at the forefront, and under the orders of the generals, they repeated the same tactical movements, taking arrows, opening bows, drawing strings, and loosening strings......

Then, either give death to the opponent, or accept the fate of death, without regret, without sorrow or fear.

The casualties were not too great, and after three tentative shots at each other, the enemy and us were separated by two hundred and fifty paces from each other. This is almost the limit distance that an ordinary foot bow can reach, and the feather arrow is already at the end of the crossbow.

The sound of war drums and scolding resounded in the military formations of both sides, which was deafening.

This is the rhythm of the official opening of the war, which makes people's blood boil, Wang Yu throws away the distractions in his heart and focuses on the battlefield. Gongsun Chan rejected the strategic proposal, so what he could do was to find a fighter tactically and try to turn the tide.