Chapter 116: Despicable and shameless
It should be said that Yan Zhi came to "inform" in advance, which still has some value and significance, at least Li Yan analyzed from this news that Kebi can choose the place and time to start.
Last time, Kebi could choose to volley the grain team thirty miles away from Macheng, and his plan was very big at that time, not only to eat the grain team, but also to lure Liu Yu out of the city to rescue, and launch an ambush on the main force of the Han army.
This time, Kebineng's appetite was not so big, and he just had the mentality of picking up a handful and leaving before leaving, so Li Yan analyzed that he would not let the grain team get close to Macheng again, because in that case, the possibility of the Han army's grain team getting support from the defenders of Macheng would be greatly increased.
Therefore, Li Yan's analysis of the location where Kebineng is most likely to choose to start should be on the edge of the 30-mile river near Guangning to Ning County, and it is very likely to be in the early morning.
It turns out that the Xianbei people are not good at night raids, and large battles with more than 10,000 people are even more self-defeating at night, because for the defending side, the impact of day and night is not great, and the soldiers only need to stay in place and desperately release arrows, which can cause great casualties to the attacking side. However, for the highly mobile cavalry, the speed of the attack and the accuracy of the attack will be affected by the sharp drop in visual power at night, and once the rhythm of the attack is disrupted, it will face the danger of command failure.
If Kebineng chose to attack in the early morning, he could not only use the cover of the night before to adjust his troops to the best attack position, but also take advantage of the favorable opportunity when the Han army was prone to chaos when the camp was easily confused, and gain the advantage of time and place.
Li Yan analyzed Kebineng's actions after coming to Youzhou, and thought that Kebineng was not stupid, so he judged that if Kebineng was coming, he would choose tomorrow morning. Zhao Yun also agreed with Li Yan's analysis, and at the same time proposed to divide the troops to lurk all the way to the rear of the grain team, and when the Xianbei people attacked, they launched an attack from the flank.
Although the Xianbei people were more ferocious this time, since Zhao Yun saw some of the secret weapons brought by Liu He last night, he was no longer worried about the safety of Liu He and the grain team. As long as Gongzi can defend the first attack of the Xianbei people, this time, even if Kebineng is not dead, Zhao Yun will let him shed his skin!
The early morning mist slowly lifted, and a noisy sound resounded in the Han army camp on the south bank. The men were busy making food, the horsemen were busy feeding the horses and drinking water, the men were getting up and packing up the tents, and everything looked like they were about to leave the camp.
Liu He hid in the middle of several large carts and craned his neck to look around, but unfortunately he couldn't see where Zhao Yun was hiding with two thousand cavalry, let alone whether Kebineng's main force had taken advantage of the cover of night to come to the south bank.
"Grandma, a bear! If you can get a batch of high-quality colorless crystals, you may be able to build a telescope to play with. Liu He rubbed his somewhat astringent eyes vigorously and whispered to himself.
Li Yan was not in the mood to listen to Gongzi's chatter at this time, he was paying close attention to the movements upstream, according to his speculation, Kebineng must have brought the main force from the upper reaches of the river to the south bank last night, and now he is waiting for the Han army food team to pull out the camp!
Not far away, Sun Li held a hood in his hand, playing with it repeatedly, as if he was a little curious why Gongzi wanted people to add a mask to the hood, and it was engraved with a devilish pattern like a fierce god. According to the requirements of the son, after Sun Li went into battle, he not only had to put down his mask, but also wear silver-white armor and hold a bright silver spear, and after receiving the enemy, he had to shout: "Changshan Zhao Zilong is here, who dares to fight!" "Could it be that I want to be Zhao Yun's stand-in in the future?
Although he hadn't figured out the intention of Gongzi's arrangement, Sun Li knew that this battle was related to his future destiny, so he attached great importance to it. He secretly tried the Takahashi saddle and the stirrup a few times in Jicheng, and felt that with these two inconspicuous pieces of equipment, his movements on the horse were more relaxed and relaxed, and he no longer had to pay attention to maintaining his body balance and preventing him from accidentally falling off the horse.
There are also several sets of steel armor that Gongzi asked craftsmen to secretly create, I heard that it cost a huge amount of money, and thousands of catties of high-quality iron alone were used to refine the iron essence with high hardness, and made this kind of Mingguang armor with a protective ability far beyond leather armor and iron armor.
Sun Li once personally experienced that once he wore this kind of bright light armor, the vital parts of the body would be tightly protected, whether it was arrows or spears, it was difficult to pierce into the chest and back of several solid round armor pieces, it was simply the "artifact" that any general with troops dreamed of.
It is said that so far, all the blacksmiths in Jicheng have worked together to create six pairs of such super armor, and he has just defected to Gongzi's command, and he can get a set, which is really flattering.
"Childe, it's almost time, are we starting to make the soldiers feint?" Li Yan asked Liu He.
"Okay, let's get started. Let the soldiers push the vehicles loaded with grease and poison powder in front of them first, and be sure to pay attention to the route and the distance between each other, neither too close nor too much gap! ”
"My subordinates understand! I will give this gift to Kobi firmly by all means! ”
"Have all the thistles been scattered into the soil according to the region?"
"Last night, taking advantage of the darkness, the soldiers were already scattered on the left side of the camp according to the requirements, and more than a dozen vehicles were used to form a separation zone up to 100 steps wide!"
"Good! This time, I want to see how the Xianbei people who come and go fly in front of me! Liu He gritted his teeth and said fiercely.
Somewhere in the woods seven or eight miles from the Han camp lay an ambush of a Xianbei army, which was on the flank of the Han army, not upstream. In order to be able to completely annihilate the Han army's grain team this time, Kebineng used a lot of brains, not only brought some collisions that could break up the Han army's vehicle array, but also divided the troops into two routes, personally led the main force to cross the river and continued to maneuver southward, detouring back to the flank of the Han army's grain team.
Once the Han army had withdrawn from the camp, Kebineng asked the troops remaining upstream to launch a feint, and when the Han army had transferred most of the carts and troops to the front, he gave orders to the troops ambushed on the flanks to attack the flank position of the Han army, which could not only spread his own forces in a large area at the same time, but also reduce unnecessary losses.
Finally, Kebi could see the Han army in the distance moving, they still divided a cavalry to open the way in front, and then the infantry followed behind the cavalry, pulling some smaller carriages, followed by ox carts that had not yet had time to move and many people, the whole scene looked messy.
"Pass my orders and let the feint troops be dispatched!" Kebineng said in a deep voice.
In the expectation of many people, the Xianbei people suddenly galloped from the upper reaches of the bitter water!
As Li Yan expected, Kebineng crossed the shallow river with his army at night, and did not launch a night attack until it was determined that the Han army had begun to pull out the camp, and then ordered the troops to attack.
Kebineng, who had had enough of the hardships of the Han army's vehicle formation, let the feint troops push hundreds of crashing cars, wanting to use these simple crashing cars to tear apart the Han army's vehicle formation. Last time, the Xianbei people's improvised crash made the Han army suffer a lot, if it weren't for Xiahoulan's ruthless order to burn the car, I was afraid that the consequences would be unimaginable.
Seeing the Xianbei people pushing the ugly horned crash cars and approaching them, followed by the dense cavalry like a tide behind these crashes, Liu He swallowed with some difficulty, and was a little uncertain about whether he could withstand the first wave of attacks of the Xianbei people.
"Li Yan and Sun Li, it's up to you two now!" Liu He prayed silently in his heart.
Seeing the Xianbei people pushing the crashing car towards them, Sun Li, who was wearing a face covering his face, led the cavalry that opened the way in front of him to hurriedly turn to the left, clinging to a faint white line, and retreated to the rear by relying on the camp of the Han army. Without the cover of the cavalry in front, the infantry was completely exposed, and they took up their swords and cut the ropes of the carriage, and fled to the rear of the line with their pack horses.
The hundreds of soldiers who fled behind the most Lu had some strange movements, they were actually facing the enemy, and they also made a "waving" movement, as if they were provoking and demonstrating against the Xianbei people.
The Xianbei people in charge of the feint attack pushed the crash car and quickly approached the stack cart abandoned by the Han army in front, and Li Yan immediately gave the order to the crossbowmen who were ready in the rear: "Launch the rocket!" ”
The rocket here refers to the arrow that burns with fire, but it is not the super giant that can fly to the moon in later generations.
After Li Yan gave the order, a batch of arrows with incendiary materials on the shafts of the arrows shot at the pallet cart abandoned by the soldiers in front. These cars are loaded with flammable fuel grease mixed with toxic powder, and the linen cloth covered with grease is also soaked in grease, and once exposed to an open flame, it will quickly burn.
Soon, the burning vehicle mixed with the Xianbei people's collision, which not only blocked the Xianbei people's vision, but also ignited some crashes. The Xianbei people in the back pushed the remaining crashed cars and continued to move forward, breaking away the trestle cars abandoned by the Han army, but they didn't go far, but they were punctured by the iron thistles scattered on the ground, and they no longer had the strength to approach the Han army.
Li Yan gave orders to more than a dozen bed crossbows, asking them to shoot fiercely at the Xianbei people's crash cars, and in a terrifying sound of "woo-woo", the huge bed crossbow arrows went straight to the Xianbei people's crash cars, smashing these crash cars that finally rushed through the line of fire.
Kebi can look at the front team of the Han army that suddenly burst into flames, and scolded: "The Han people are really despicable and shameless!" Thankfully, I still have a backhand! Sons and daughters, charge towards the flank of the Han army! ”
The next moment, the Xianbei cavalry of the brigade rushed out and went straight to the flank position of the Han army's formation.
"All the vans are connected end to end, guarding the left side of the camp, crossbowmen, ready to shoot!"
"All the cavalry dismounted, armed with spears, to guard the gap between the front and rear of the square carriage, covering the crossbowmen to shoot!"
At the critical moment, Sun Li's order sounded loudly in the camp.