Chapter 325: The First World War (Part II)
Guo Lun ordered, and the 30,000-strong army began to rest, and this rest was one night. On the other side, Adelan had already prepared for Zhundu, and was preparing to meet Guo Lun's 30,000 iron cavalry, but he waited for a night and didn't even wait for the shadow of the enemy, and when it was dawn, Adelan knew that he had been fooled, this was Guo Lun's delaying strategy, he wanted to block himself in Si County, and buy time for Su Jian's army!
Thinking of this, Adelan was furious, because the cavalry of Guo Lun's army, the distance of sixty miles is not far for the cavalry, so he waited for a night last night for this, and now he finds out that he was played by Guo Lun, how can he not be angry?
"Order, the army is ready to go to Jinju City!" Adelan angrily gave the order.
"General, the soldiers didn't rest all night last night in order to meet Dayan's cavalry, and now their physical strength is a little weak, do you want to rest for a few more hours?" Ed asked.
They marched in a hurry, and last night they should have rested for the night, and today they should have continued their march. But because of the appearance of Guo Lun's 30,000 cavalry, they waited for a night in full armor, and now everyone is sleepy, at this time the march, even if they can reach Jinzhou City before dark, it is estimated that the army will not have combat effectiveness by then!
But at this time, Adlan couldn't listen to Ide's advice, and looked at Ide angrily and scolded, "What? Do you want to rebel? Id, you have to know who is the commander of this army. β
Ide is Adelan's lieutenant and is also highly regarded by Mulberry Bear. Sang Xiong has great expectations for Adelan's vanguard army, and will send Adelan to his side as a deputy general to increase his strength.
But now that Adlan is the main general, and Ide is only a deputy general, he can only obediently accept the order and withdraw from the big tent.
A moment later, the 60,000 Lingnan army marched in the direction of Jinju City!
Sixty miles away, Guo Lun was facing a ray of sunshine, quietly looking at the sky in front of him and contemplating. In the past, he was only a lieutenant of the Yulin Cavalry, and the number of commanders was only 200 people, but when Emperor Yan expanded the Yulin Cavalry, he was promoted to the captain of the Yulin Cavalry, and he could command a battalion of Yulin Cavalry. When Ji Qian grasped the power of King's Landing and took the Yulin Cavalry under his command, the number of Yulin Cavalry increased to 100,000 at once, and his position remained unchanged, but the number of men and horses under his command increased a lot. Now that Ji Wen has ascended the throne and become the emperor, Ji Qingchen has been in power, and he has become a general all of a sudden, able to command an army of 30,000.
In fact, since Ji Qingchen appointed him as the chief general of the vanguard army, he himself was a little unbelievable at that time. Therefore, along the way, he was thinking, why would the king of Northern Liao appoint himself as the chief general of the 30,000 vanguard army? Until he arrived at Jinju City, he didn't come up with a reason.
But now, he seems to understand the meaning of Ji Qingchen, the king of Northern Liao.
"General, Adelan's army has set off! The march is being made in the direction of Jinju City! Just as Guo Lun was pondering, a scout ran to his side and replied in a low voice.
"Sixty miles away, how much time will it take for them to march in a hurry?" Guo Lun asked.
"About three hours." The scout replied.
"You go ahead and scout!" Guo Lun said. The scout took the order and strode away. Guo Lun, on the other hand, was silent for a while, and then said to the guards beside him, "Order the army to continue repairing, and start fighting in two hours!" β
"No!" The guards left to give orders to the army, and Guo Lun fell into deep thought again.
Only now did he understand the reason why Ji Qingchen, the king of Northern Liao, asked him to serve as the chief general of this vanguard army, because he was born in Yulin Cavalry, in addition to the high status of the dignitaries in the Dayan military, there is also a reason that he is not afraid of death, and he is not afraid of death, which is the obedience of Yulin Cavalry. And to deal with Adelan's 60,000 vanguard army, Dayan needs a victory, and needs a general who is not afraid of death and hesitates.
This is the reason why Ji Qingchen chose him!
Guo Lun, who figured this out, had a faint smile on his face.
He didn't know whether this arrangement was deliberately made by Ji Qingchen, the king of Northern Liao, or by accident, but he knew one thing very well, 30,000 cavalry against ordinary foot soldiers, that is, 100,000 people on the other side could be defeated, but now the person he was facing was the army of the Lingnan Yi clan, the Lingnan army with the title of the king of foot soldiers.
Therefore, if the 30,000 cavalry wanted to completely annihilate the 60,000 Lingnan vanguard army, they had to pay a heavy price.
But even if he knew this, he didn't regret it!
Because he is a soldier, he is the general of the Great Yan Yulin Cavalry, and the combat effectiveness of the Yulin Cavalry has been greatly inferior after two expansions.
In this battle, he wants to save the reputation of Yulin Cavalry, even if he can't do so much alone, he doesn't want to discredit Yulin Cavalry.
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In the early morning, Adelan's army began to march rapidly, and at noon, when he was about to order his army to rest for an hour to eat, he saw a rapid sound of horses' hooves ahead. When he looked closer, he saw that the scout on horseback looked nervous, and his face turned pale as if something major had happened.
The scout fell off his horse when he rode to a distance of only ten paces from Adelan, staggered a few steps forward, knelt on the ground and said loudly, "General, no, we have found Dayan's cavalry ten miles ahead, numbering about 30,000, and they are killing us. β
"What?" Adelan was taken aback when he heard the scout's words, "You say it again? β
His scout range was sixty miles away, and in the early morning, he obviously learned from the scout's mouth that Guo Lun's army had retreated, so he was so relieved and bold to march, but how could Guo Lun's army suddenly appear ten miles in front of him? Besides, Guo Lun didn't leave, and kept waiting for the opportunity to fight with him, but the strength he sent out was within sixty miles, how could the enemy be detected within ten miles?
"General, we found 30,000 Great Yan Iron Cavalry ten miles away from the army, my companions have been killed in battle, and I desperately escaped to break out of the siege of their scouts." The scout's tone was choked up at this point, and he clearly remembered that in order to pass on the news to General Adelan, his companions died one by one under the sword of the Great Swallow scout in order to buy him time.
"Useless waste, get out of here!" Seeing the scout's expression, Adelan was even more annoyed, and he kicked away the scout kneeling in front of him, and issued a military order to Ed, "Tell the army, prepare for battle!" β
"Yes." As soon as Yide's voice fell, before the person went to give the military order, he saw a black line appear in the sky in front of him, and the black line moved very fast, just in an instant, the Lingnan soldiers saw their identities clearly, the Great Yan Cavalry.
"There is an enemy attack, prepare for battle!" Ide commanded loudly.
"Woo-woo-woo-" The horn of the bull ready to fight sounded in the Lingnan army. The Lingnan army deserved to be the king of foot soldiers, and it only took a short time to prepare for battle. And this is Guo Lun's army, which has rushed to a distance of only seven hundred steps from the Lingnan army.
"Kill ββ!" Guo Lun saw that the enemy on the opposite side reacted quickly and was ready for battle, and his sneak attack plan failed, so he did not pause any longer, and with an order, he was the first to rush towards the Lingnan army.
"Kill ββ!" The 30,000 cavalry roared loudly, followed closely behind Guo Lun, and also rushed towards the Lingnan army. They are a personal guard cavalry trained by Ji Ping when he was in Xizhou, for which Ji Ping spent a lot of money and effort on it, and his combat power cannot be compared with Ji Qingchen's Northern Liao and Beirong armies, but it can be compared with Ji Wen's 100,000 iron cavalry. Therefore, when facing the Lingnan army that was waiting for them, they were not timid, but had a high fighting spirit.
"Archer!" Ed shouted, "Readyβ"
The Lingnan Yi dominate the world with foot soldiers, in addition to their brutal fighting methods, they are born with strong arms, and bows and arrows are their sharp weapons.
"Shoot-" Just when Guo Lun's army was only three hundred steps away from the Lingnan army, it reached the range of the bow and arrow, and Yide decisively issued a military order.
Among these 60,000 people, 10,000 were archers, and 10,000 feathered arrows shot out, piercing the air flow in the sky, and rushed towards the oncoming Guo Lun's 30,000 iron cavalry.
When the cavalry charged, in the face of the enemy's intensive fire with bows and arrows, there was no good defensive measure, so they could only rush to the enemy as soon as possible after the first round of arrow rain to prevent the enemy from firing the second round of arrow rain.
Therefore, when 10,000 feather arrows appeared above the heads of Guo Lun's army, some of them dodged the feather arrows, and some were set off their horses and trampled into pulp by the war horses of their companions.
Just a round of arrow rain, Guo Lun's side lost 800 cavalry.
And when the second round of arrow rain was fired, Guo Lun was already only a hundred steps away from the Lingnan army, and the bow and arrow could not threaten him at such a short distance.
In the same round of arrow rain, he also lost nearly a thousand cavalry.
Two rounds of arrow rain caused him to lose 2,000 cavalry, but he also successfully rushed in front of the Lingnan army.
"Killβ"
Guo Lun roared, and the spear had pierced out like a poisonous snake, piercing the chest of a Lingnan soldier, and the cavalry behind him followed closely, and the same spear pierced out, piercing the enemy in front of him.
"Killβ"
Two rounds of arrow rain annihilated the enemy's 2,000 cavalry, such a record is already remarkable, so when Guo Lun rushed up, Yide gave the order to attack, and saw that the 40,000 Lingnan army blocking the front met Guo Lun's cavalry. And Yide himself, who was also the leading cavalry, stepped forward and fiercely met a Dayan cavalryman.
Although ill-prepared for this encounter, Adelan still put 40,000 troops in front to deal with Guo Lun's 30,000 iron cavalry, and let 20,000 soldiers serve as reserves.
This is the method that Adlan came up with a moment before the war.
First, he didn't believe that Dayan's cavalry combat effectiveness was really that strong, and his 40,000 army couldn't deal with their 30,000 people. Second, he felt that even if the combat effectiveness of this cavalry was very strong, as long as he used 40,000 troops to consume their physical strength, and then put 20,000 troops into the battlefield at a critical moment, he would definitely annihilate this cavalry with a decisive blow.
This point Adlan is very confident in cashing in.
Because he knew that these 30,000 people were only the cavalry of the Governor's Mansion of Dayan Xizhou, not Ji Qingchen's Northern Liao Iron Cavalry and Beirong Iron Cavalry.