Chapter 33: The Battle of the Chicken Father (Part II)
The cover and the other generals have arrived, waiting for Ji Guang to arrive. This time, according to Ji Guang's strategy, the left and right armies of the Chu division were destroyed. Although the Chu division was not fooled, the results were quite good, and the king was also very happy.
Seeing that Ji Guang had arrived, the king got up to greet him. said: "Today, Brother Wang is fortunate and has made great achievements. Now that the main force of the Chu division is still in front of him, he has to ask Brother Wang to plan and discuss the strategy of breaking Chu. Then the royal servant sat down for Ji Guang.
Ji Guang sat down and said to the generals: "After my interrogation of the prisoners of the Chu army. Knowing that this Chu Shuai was far more cautious. It can be seen from today's battle that he did not rush to rescue his left and right armies, and he can see that this person is a general, and everyone should not underestimate the enemy. ”
The generals of the Wu division were originally ambushed behind the big camp, and waited for the Chu division to come to the rescue, and then sent troops to intercept and kill. But this Yuanyue was not fooled, so the generals saw that the left and right armies had made contributions, and they had no share, and they kept holding their breath in their hearts.
Ji Guang reassured the generals: "This time, our Chinese army did not move, mainly because there were no suitable fighters. Since the Chinese army of the Chu army was not fooled, of course, our Chinese army cannot act rashly. But this decisive battle with the Chu army will rely on the Chinese army to build a great achievement. ”
Wang said: "Since this is far more cautious in using troops, does Brother Wang have any plans in the decisive battle tomorrow?" ”
Ji Guangdao: "The minister thinks that Yuanyue has lost the flank protection of the left and right armies, and will inevitably take a defensive position and will not attack rashly." The minister learned from those Chu army generals that this was far better at using the Long Snake Array. This array is mainly echoed from beginning to end, and can be transformed into a square array or a circular array. ”
Cover Yu interjected: "This long snake formation, I heard my teacher say that there are many soldiers on the outer layer to increase combat effectiveness, and the few soldiers in the middle are to facilitate the change of formation. But there is also a weakness in this formation. ”
Some generals speculated that this weakness should be in the center of this formation.
Cover Yu continued: "Its weakness is that it is vulnerable to attack when it changes formations and spreads out queues. But I don't know exactly when it's appropriate to attack, and I have to ask the secretary to make it clear. ”
Ji Guang nodded and said with a smile: "What General Yu said is true. So tomorrow's plan: the king himself led the Chinese army and the Chu army to face each other head-on. The general still led the right army as a flank and outflanked the past. My left army is just a few soldiers waving their flags and shouting as suspicious soldiers. I will lead a 3,000 sinner death team, and when the Chu army unfolds that long snake, I will go up to block the waist and attack, and cut the Chu army into two sections. The king led the middle army to attack one section, and the covering general led the right army to attack the other section. If I go back to the division to help, I will definitely be able to break the Chu army! ”
The king was overjoyed to see that Ji Guang's plan was well versed in tactics and was very strict. ordered Ji Guang to preside over the deployment of troops for this operation and implement the "halved" tactics.
On the second day of the first month of August, that is, the time of the battle agreed by the armies of Wu and Chu. The two armies and the three watches made food, each fed the soldiers, and then lined up opposite the chicken father.
Ji Guang took his army of 3,000 sinners and ambushed him outside the formation. Seeing that the Chu army first became a phalanx, the commander of the Chinese army was in the middle. There were many soldiers on the outer edge of the phalanx, and the men and horses in the array were thin. When Ji Guang saw it, he knew that Yuanyue would transform into a circle formation in the phalanx. However, his own Wu army is still opposite to the traditional formation in the shape of a pinzig. The Chinese army is the king, the right army is covering, but the left army is basically an empty formation, just some soldiers waving their flags and shouting.
Three cannons rang out, the war drums had already sounded, and the Wu army shouted a lot, rushing towards the Chu army's formation.
The commander of the Wu army, Wang Feng, personally led the army as the monarch in this battle, and at this time he also stood in front of the war drums of the Chinese army, beating the drums with his bare arms and in person. When the generals saw the king's hard work, their morale was greatly increased.
At this time, the Chinese military order flag of the Chu army was changed, and I saw that the Chu army was already beginning to change its formation, wanting to turn into a circle formation and involve the Wu army in the formation. After all, there are 12,000 elite people in the Chu army, which is still comparable to the strength of the Wu army.
At this moment, I saw a puff of smoke and dust rising from outside the Wu army's formation. Those Wu Army sinners and death squads dressed in short jackets and long hair rushed over from one side.
The Chu army was about to complete the circular layout, but at this time, the death team led by Ji Guang stopped the waist with a knife, cut off the circular long snake array, and cut the Chu army into two.
The Chinese army led by Wang Feng fought with the main force of Yuanyue, and led the right army to kill the left part of the Chu army, which was interspersed by Ji Guang. After Ji Guang cut through the long snake formation of the Chu army, he immediately turned around and cooperated with the remaining right army to encircle and suppress the left part of Chu.
I saw a Chu general, on the two-horse chariot, rushing left and right, like no one's land. The halberd in his hand has killed many Wu generals, and this person is Yuanyue's subordinate general Dou Song.
On the battle robe, there was already bloodstains, and the person had become a bloody man, and only the blood-red eyes were left on the black face. The archer on the chariot of Dou Song (the left side of the chariot) had already died in battle, but the emperor was also very brave, he steaded the chariot for Dou Song, and wittily looked for a way to gallop the chariot, although there were many arrows on the chariot, but the chariot never overturned, but rushed all the way forward.
At this time, a young Wu general had already been angered, and he was the crown prince Qingji. At this time, he was in the army to protect the safety of the royal bureaucracy, and seeing that the Chu army was already at a disadvantage, Qingji arranged for his subordinates to protect the royal bureaucracy.
I saw that Qingji turned over and got on the horse, grabbed the horse's mane with one hand, held a copper Ge with the other, clamped the horse's belly, and only galloped towards Dou Song's chariot.
Those Chu troops who blocked were either attacked and killed by Changge, or they flashed out of a way.
After Qingji caught up with the chariot, he let out a loud shout and hooked his hand back, like harvesting crops with a sickle. When Qingji completed this harvesting action, the head of the emperor on the Dou Song car had already landed, and the blood gushing out from the neck of the pillar awakened the intoxication of Dou Song's immersion in slashing.
When Dou Song raised the halberd in his hand to block the young general's bronze ge, the chariot deviated from the runway and crashed into a scrap car and dead body on the side. The song was tossed high in the air, flipped over, and landed.
At this time, the long brother flickered by, and I saw a splash of blood......
Qingji killed Dou Song, but he didn't love war, turned the horse's head, and immediately returned to the position of the Chinese army, protecting the royal bureaucracy without mentioning it.
At this time, Ji Guang's group of sinners, like Mount Tai pressing on the top, crushed all the way. When encountering the Chu army, they cut off people's heads and horses' feet. Killing Chu Jun cried his father and called his mother, and the blood flowed into a canal.
Yuan Yue saw that Wu's army was powerful and broke his own long snake array. Many of the brave generals in his hands have been killed in battle, and they have to give the order to retreat.
Yuan Yue led the remnants of the soldiers to flee all the way, and ran for 50 miles in one go to get rid of the pursuit of Wu Bing. Far away from inspecting the remnants, only half of the Chu army led by himself remained. Needless to say, the subordinate five-nation coalition army died and fled, and I don't know how much it will survive.
Seeing that Wu's division was no longer pursuing, Yuanyue set up camp to prevent Wu's army from penetrating into the Chu realm. He sent a horse to find out the movements of the Wu army.
After the Wu army broke the Chu division and captured Jifu, Wang Fang ordered Ji Guang to take 1,000 soldiers and horses to drive directly to Yunyang of Cai Guo and pick up Cai Ji, the mother of Prince Jian. The general of Cai Guo didn't dare to ask, so he could only stare dryly at Wu Shi and leave. After Ji Guang and Wang Gong converged with Jifu, they left part of their troops to garrison Jifu, and then the class teacher played Kai and returned.
Yuan Yue learned that Wu Shi wanted to go to Yunyang in Cai Guo to take Cai Ji, so he led the remnants of the starry night to Yunyang, wanting to lead his troops to take possession. But after the Chu division arrived in Yunyang, Ji Guang had already picked up Cai Ji from Yunyang, and it had been two days since he retired from his country.
Yuan Yue led the remnants of the Chu division back to the border of Chu and set up camp. Far more than gathered all the generals and schools, in the big tent meeting.
Yuan Yue wept and said to the generals: "I was ordered by the king to guard Shaoguan and arrest the fugitive ministers, but I was escaped by the soldiers, although the king did not condemn the crime, this is also one of the crimes; This time, he led the troops to fight with Wu Shi in Jifu, lost the division of the Five Kingdoms, and half of my Chu division was also wiped out, and this is the second crime! Although Cai Ji was deposed, she was also the wife of my Chu State, and she was robbed by Wu State in my hands, so that the king's face among the princes was lost, and these three sins were also. Without any merit and bearing three sins, how can I return to the court and face the king? ”
All the generals wept silently, speechless to persuade them. Yuan Yue reorganized his troops, reappointed centurions and thousands, and handed over the remaining 6,000 soldiers and horses to his brother Yuanshen, so that he could lead the troops and wait for the dispatch of the king of Chu.
It was night, and Yuan Yue committed suicide by kissing the sword. Leaving only a wisp of lonely soul, looking back to the west.
Outside the big tent, the autumn wind is bleak, the moonlight is cold, and the strong man is gone, where does the soul go?