Chapter Eighty-Seven: Dig It Out
Beguru heard the news that Yan Xian had also arrived in Texas City, and his head was a little short-circuited, they had been blocked here for seven or eight days, and they were all bubbling up, which allowed him to lead his troops to copy the back road of the Texas army, but although he had worked hard to get here, he would not get such a result, was it just a joke!
Beguru tried to calm himself down, and after asking in detail, he finally figured out what was going on. It turned out that on the night when he was deep in the mountains and struggling, most of the Texas soldiers who had suffered heavy casualties slipped silently. By the next morning, the commander discovered this situation and immediately launched a fierce attack, and the remnants of the Texas army were unable to support themselves, and they held out until noon and hurriedly withdrew.
Wan Yan Xian also held his breath, and immediately led 10,000 iron horsemen to shake off the pursuit of the brigade, and ordered the rear army to follow up, ready to take Dezhou City in one go, and count the new and old hatreds together, completely and cleanly eliminate the Dezhou army, and they broke through fifty miles to Liangcheng that day, as for the conjecture of the herald to Dezhou, it was calculated according to the speed of yesterday's march.
"It's broken, it's broken, we're all in danger!" Beguru was not happy when he heard this, but he slapped his thigh and shouted.
"Lord Mouke, our army has won a big victory, how can it be tricked, and besides, the Texas army has suffered heavy losses from our army repeatedly, how can it be dangerous!" Everyone looked at Begokuru in confusion, the adults must have been tossed crazy in the past two days, and they were suspicious of everything, and the deputy general asked carefully.
"Bastard, have you ever seen an army that had the leisure to bury the dead one by one when they fled, and put name tags on them, which was clearly premeditated. Dig a pit and wait for us to jump! Beguru was so angry that he yelled angrily in the face of his subordinates' doubts. Immediately reorganize the army and catch up with the capital! ”
Begokulu's judgment was not wrong. The Texas Army did feign a retreat, and Wan Yan Xian also 'dug out' from the army. In fact, this strategy has been used by many generals and laymen from ancient times to the present, but there are people who have been fooled, and those who are fooled are always those who are full of confidence and pretentious. But some people will say that if Begokuru is here, things may go in the other direction, but the problem is that even if he finds out the problem. It's one thing whether the leader can listen to it, but more importantly, there are not so many ifs in the world, and there is no regret medicine to take, no matter what, Wan Yan Xian has also caught up...
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After analyzing the current enemy situation, Zhao Ta believed that the Jin army was going to take the middle breakthrough method, directly attack Dezhou City, and fight a decisive battle with the Dezhou army, so as to quickly and completely pacify this area. Destroy the rebel forces, and then wave the army and Wanyan Zonghan to attack Xijing. Although the opponent is fierce, Zhao Ta also realizes that the fighter may be in front of him. Since the enemy dares to drive straight in. First, with the strength of the troops, and the other is the iron floating map, our side should try to find a way to 'dig out the heart of the tiger'. Pull out the Iron Float from the enemy battle formation, and eat him.
When the prince put forward his plan. You can imagine the level of surprise that the Krüd army lacked heavy weapons. Artillery, in particular, is obviously at a disadvantage in the competition, and Zhao Yong's fiasco is a lesson from the past. Moreover, Tiefutu is the pro-army of the commander of the Jin Army, and is in the middle of the enemy's attack formation. This assumption of the prince obviously violated the usual tactics of the loyal and brave army to attack the weak brigade first, and then concentrate the forces to destroy the strong army.
Zhao Ta is not a nonsense with red lips and white teeth when he thinks so, his basis is that although Tiefutu is powerful, his weakness is also fatal, that is, after the heavy cavalry enters the mountainous area, the mobility ability will be severely limited, and the advantage will become a burden. Then there is Wan Yan Xian is also a well-known general in the Jin army, who once attacked Taizhou with 10,000 soldiers, and went down to Jinshan County. After that, he was ordered to capture Zhongjing, he entrusted to abandon the baggage, attacked with light troops, first Kegao, En, Hui three cities, into Zhongjing, Liao soldiers without a fight, captured Zhongjing. A series of battles show that Wan Yan Xian is also bold and decisive in his use of soldiers, but it also shows that he has an arrogant personality and dares to advance lightly and risk his life.
Then, Zhao Ta and the generals decided to take the rank of general among the 10,000 horse army, set up an ambush in Shijiagou with the 4th and 3rd brigades as the main force, and at the same time send the guards to use guerrilla tactics to drag the enemy's infantry and divide them from the main army and widen the distance. The most important thing is how to dig out Wanyan Xianye and his pro-army Tiefutu from the army.
Zhao Ta handed over this task to the remnants of the 1st and 2nd Brigades, and their task was to lead the enemy forward, not only to make Wan Yan Xian also think that the Texas Army had no ability to resist and escape, and to pursue boldly and boldly, but also to let him chase quickly, widen the distance from the rest of the department, and make it stand out and isolate. But in the process of retreating, Wan Yan Xian could not be allowed to discover their intentions and give up the pursuit.
In everyone's opinion, this plan is thrilling, novel, and bold, because to separate a unit from the dense formation of thousands of horses and thousands of troops, and to carry out encirclement and annihilation, in fact, it is necessary to risk being counter-encircled by the enemy, and if there is a problem in one step, it will lead to the failure of the entire plan, and it will put itself in an even more dangerous situation, and it will have to abandon Texas to find fighters again, and fall into great passivity. But winning this battle can not only inflict heavy losses on the Jin army that attacked Xijing, but also buy time for reinforcements from all walks of life, relieve the pressure on Xijing, and create opportunities for their next move.
On the top of an inconspicuous hill on the Barbarian Mountain, here has a wide field of vision, you can overlook the entire battlefield, a few tall trees cover a small tent, if it is not for the surrounding three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, no one knows that this is the command post of the prince.
Zhao Tan looked at the entire valley with a telescope, and he didn't know why Yan Yan didn't choose to camp on the high ground where he could be condescending and easy to observe and defend, but chose to camp in the open valley between the mountains. Zhao Ta estimated that Wan Yan Xian also considered that his unit was a cavalry army, and it was convenient to graze and get water by relying on the water back mountain, and it was also convenient to line up for contingencies, but he felt that Wan Yan Xian also thought that the Texas army had lost the battle, and he had already fled from the wind, and he didn't dare to kill him...
By daybreak, the camp was already in disarray. A group of scouts sorted out the clothes and armor of the horses and prepared to set off to explore the way, and in the smoke of the cooking fire, the fire army was preparing breakfast, only a few ranger saddle armor were ready to cruise two miles away from the camp, and most of the soldiers were busy walking their horses, drinking water, and feeding, and the people were not equipped with armor and horses, and they did not find themselves in danger at all...
"Boss, it has now been found out that the rear army of the Jin Army set up camp thirty miles away from Shijiagou last night, and the Begokuru Division, which was carrying out a roundabout mission, arrived at the Hundred Wolf Valley in the early morning and was heading towards the battlefield!" Fourth Brigade Commander Zhuge Hong came in and reported.
"All ministries are already in place?" Zhao asked.
"Boss, more than 4,000 people under the command of ten dragoons and subordinate teams of the Krüd Army have abandoned their horses and climbed the mountain into the ambush position, hiding and waiting for orders; A total of eight hussars of each brigade commanded 3,000 men to wait in concealment in the back mountains; The scout team was divided into several detachments and all sent out. Zhao Yong and Zhang Ting were seriously injured and could not come in person, so Zhao Ta asked Li Lei, the commander of the third brigade, to concurrently serve as the commander of the former enemy to assist him.
"Isn't the hussars seriously attritional, why did you add the new army?" Zhao Ta was stunned for a moment and asked.
"Boss, we have added all the pro-soldier teams and direct pro-soldier battalions of each brigade to the hussar battalion with serious attrition!" Li Lei replied.
"Oh, this time you have incorporated your own soldiers and baggage into the combat unit, and you haven't even left a reserve, so you really don't plan to pass it!" Zhao Ta smiled and said, he knew that he had reached the limit of the Kryu Army to be able to mobilize so many troops this time, although compared with the Jin Army, the strength was still at a disadvantage, but it already had an advantage in the local battlefield.
"Boss, we know that this battle is a matter of survival for the Kryu army, and if we win, we can stay in the Liao State to continue to develop, if we lose, we will have no place to stand, and we will not have the face to go back!" Li Lei said.
"Hehe, the spirit is commendable, you have to live the days of defeat, your personal troops are all on the battlefield, then use my escort team as a reserve, they are all brave men in a hundred, and I will hand it over to you!" Zhao Ta shook his head and smiled, and said without waiting for them to refuse: "The enemy's rear army carries a large number of baggage, the Beguru army is an infantry army, the mountain road is rugged and the marching speed is slow, even if the two armies force the march here, it will take half a day, this half day is enough, prepare to attack!" ”...
Wan Yan Xian also woke up, and suddenly found that the mountains were full of the banners of the Texas Army, he couldn't help but gasp, and couldn't help but sigh that this army was too difficult! Yesterday, he led 10,000 iron cavalry to chase all the way from the Valley of the Hundred Wolves, although he constantly encountered the resistance of the Texas army on the way, but where were the opponents of these remnants of the defeated soldiers, they were chased and killed by themselves for fifty miles, and even the horses did not even get into the stone box ditch and hid in the mountains.
Seeing that it was getting late, the enemy had gone into the ravine, and they did not know the path and had no guide, so they camped on the spot and waited for the rear army to come and fight again in the morning. But the rear army has been left far behind by him, and the outflanked infantry army is still trekking in the mountains, not knowing that the main force of the Texas army can be in the bright moonlight, Ma Shukou quietly entered the attack position and completed the battle preparations.
Wan Yan Xian is also a strong and upright person, brave in battle, extremely strict in the management of the army, the whole army is affected by it, every battle is impassioned, morale is high, combat effectiveness is very strong, otherwise it will not be able to attack the city and plunder the land from Liaodong all the way to the northwest. When they found that the Texas army suddenly appeared and they were encircled, they did not appear panicked, but quickly returned to the camp to assemble, put on their helmets and armor, and prepared to meet the enemy. And as the head of the first army, Wan Yan Xian also has a little more worry and regret in his heart, the widest part of the stone box ditch is only 200 steps, shaped like a small altar at two ends and a big one in the middle. (To be continued.) )