Liu San led his troops to Juye Zedong, stopped ten miles away, and ordered the soldiers to rest a little.

He knew how important this battle was.

When the river was opened before, there were only more than 100 people in the station, so why use 500 horsemen to attack it? Why didn't Zhao Guo listen to the opinions of the generals and insisted on killing chickens with a knife?

The intention is obvious, that is, to "win".

More than 10,000 men and horses went deep behind enemy lines, which is not trivial. The slightest carelessness will lead to the annihilation of the entire army. Especially at the beginning of the war, the word "victory and defeat" was particularly crucial. If the battle is defeated, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army; And if the battle is won, it will naturally boost morale and make the three armies emboldened.

Therefore, although Kaihe only had more than 100 Yuan troops, Zhao Guo still decided to transfer 500 cavalry to fight. The first battle was won, and the morale of the three armies was really greatly boosted. It's just that the capture of Kaihe is a small battle after all, and it can't be compared with the upcoming battle of Junozawa. Liu San knew that he had a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, so he summoned all the hundreds of household officials under his subordinates, pulled out his saber, stabbed it on the ground, and stood in the morning light, speaking generously and fiercely.

He said: "The enemy is strong today, with Daze as the obstacle in front and a strong city in the rear, and reinforcements from the southeast and northwest will also come at any time. Our army had only a thousand horsemen, and they were outnumbered, and they came for a long march, and they were alone behind the enemy. After a while, we will engage the enemy, and if you and your soldiers see that you can advance, and retreat in the face of difficulties, you will not be able to win if you have no plan to die.

"And if we are defeated, there is a precedent for our troops to slaughter the river a few days ago, and the Tartars will definitely not bypass us. Although it is said that being a general in the army should be shrouded in horse leather, and it is not a pity to die, but if you are insulted by the Tartars because of this, what is the shame? Even if he is dead, he has no shame to face Haidong's father, and he is ashamed of his kindness to the lord under Jiuquan.

"For this war plan, but also for the honor of the kings, I hope to wait for you, and strict military discipline.

"Be sure to tell the soldiers that the situation is very critical, and that if they are defeated, they will definitely be insulted and ridiculed by the Tartars. A dignified seven-foot man, the husband of the Han family, how can he be ashamed of this? This is called the 'Shameful Religious War' to boost morale.

"And tell the soldiers. After the start of the war, Ben will personally supervise the battle and supervise the battle, and if any of the soldiers retreats, they will be killed. After the battle, no matter whether our army wins or loses, the general will check the wounded soldiers one by one, and those who have been wounded in the back will also be killed. In this way, the soldiers will die, there are no two hearts, and they all have the anger of anger, with the urgency of saving the defeat and going to the death, in order to decide the fate, it will definitely win. ”

"Those who are in the back will also be killed." The middle wound is in the back, which means that it was hit by retreating and turning in front of the enemy.

All the hundreds of households received the order and said, "Yes! ”

"The general has heard that the Dongping army is rich, and there are many goods in his camp. If you win such a battle, you will get a lot of money, and Lord Zuo Cheng has promised to reward the soldiers. There are those who died in battle, and their brothers and nephews attacked their posts; If there is a wife or concubine in the family, the wife and concubine shall be buried; If there are old and young people in the family and no brothers, the state will support them; Those who are poor will be given double pensions. ”

First use military law to restrain it, then use heavy profits to lure it, and then ensure what happens after death. All the hundreds of households were brave and responded in unison: "The general is strict and lenient, and the rank dares not to fight to the death!" ”

The proclamation has been clarified, the arrangement has been decided, and the soldiers have enough rest, so Liu San marched into the army. He took the lead, ran at the front of the array, and did not look back, raising the flag and ordering: "The one who comes out of the pawn will be killed!" ”

Thousands of cavalry swept up, traveled five miles of road, and met the outpost of the Dongping army.

At this time, although the Dongping army had received the report for a long time, it came because it was morning; Second, Juye is in the mainland, so the response is hasty. Hurriedly gathered three or four hundred people as the vanguard, intending to occupy a small hill east of Junozawa first, descend from a high place, and snipe at Yanagi Sanbu. The two armies are meeting at the foot of the mountain.

The Dongping army was all foot soldiers, and the three Liu troops were all cavalry. In two field battles, the Dongping army failed to occupy the small hill in advance, how could the infantry be a cavalry opponent?

Qianhu led by the Yuan army hurriedly set up a wild goose marching formation, and moved the archers and firecrackers on both wings, trying to stop the charge of the Yidu cavalry with a rain of arrows. The so-called "geese marching array" is shaped like a wild goose, like a "V" shape, and the two wings are very close to each other, so the effect of bow and arrow shooting is excellent.

In the rain of arrows like clouds, Liu San did not avoid it, watched the battle on the horse, watched it for a moment, and smiled left and right: "The thief will not know the soldiers!" ”

"Tartars rain down on arrows. The thief will put up this formation, which shows that he still knows that if he wants to stop the cavalry in the case of not having time to set up camp, he can only meet it with arrows and stones. Why did the general say that he didn't know soldiers? ”

"This wild goose parade is also. Of course, it is advantageous to shoot with bows and guns. However, the spread surface is too large, and it is very difficult to move. Our troops are all light horses, advancing and retreating like the wind. enter, you can go straight to its roots; Retreat, you can also exit out of the range of the arrow. It's always him raining down, so what? ......, and see that Ben will break the formation and kill the enemy. ”

The flag was raised and swept in the wind.

Two hundred men were sent back to the hill to prevent the Dongping army from taking the mountain again. Leaving 200 people, thinking that the Chinese army was in the rear, and at the same time shouldering the responsibility of supervising the formation.

With 600 men as the main attack, the formation was formed in a conical formation. The "cone formation", as the name suggests, means that the whole army is shaped like an arrow, and the brave generals are in front of it. This formation is most suitable for assault and breaking. Especially when using cavalry to form this formation, the effect is even better.

As Liu San expected, 600 light horsemen met the arrows, like iron streams, and in a moment, they had penetrated the enemy formation. The 600 people were divided into three teams, and the 400 people were the backbone. A hundred people were divided into the left and right to disturb the two wings of the Dongping army. The horses trampled, swords and guns were raised. For a while, the smoke and dust were loud, shouting to kill and shake the sky.

The cavalry passed everywhere, and the trampling was carried into the ground; When the spear is raised, the assassination accumulates blood into dust. The noise and the sound will shake the ground, and the sand will be swallowed with anger. In less than a quarter of an hour, the Dongping army's wild goose marching array had been broken.

Hundreds of remnants of the army lost their armor, dragged their flags upside down, and fled westward in disarray. The Yuan army that led the team was defeated by thousands of households, and repeatedly restrained, but the defeat was like a mountain, everyone only hated that he had two legs, and he fled for his life first, and no one listened to him at all. In desperation, he had no choice but to turn the horse's head and follow the crowd to defeat.

In the formation of Liu Sanzhong's army, the war drums were beating and the trumpet flag was waving.

The 200 cavalry, who made a detour to the side of the small hill, moved when they heard the sound, watched the flag and fought. Covering up from the side and rear, and cooperating with the six hundred main forces, it was like chopping melons and vegetables, and the defeated army of Dongping was killed. After the first battle, only the blood flowed like a river, and the corpses were all over the field. captured thousands of Yuan troops and captured more than 100 prisoners.

Checking the army, the casualties were less than fifty.

Hundreds of families came to report the victory, asking for instructions on what to do with the captives.

"Our army is deep behind enemy lines and has no spare strength to guard prisoners of war. And if they are released and allowed to retreat to the giant field, it will be for our army to ask for trouble. Order, except for the thousand, cut them all. ”

Liu San first slaughtered the river, and then beheaded the prisoners of war. Every time we engage in battle, we are cutting the grass and eradicating the roots. There were people who were familiar with his character, and they couldn't help but wonder, and said in a low voice: "General, in the past, you often tolerated prisoners. Why did you kill all the enemies this time? I'm afraid it's not all because I don't have the spare power to watch it? ”

Liu San bowed slightly, and replied in a low voice, saying: "Lord Zuo Cheng has already secretly ordered the general to take prisoners whenever he encounters an enemy, regardless of victory or defeat. Otherwise, it is not enough to strengthen the heart of the soldier to fight to the death. "Kill all the prisoners, form a blood feud with the Yuan army, and refuse to fight to the death without fear that the soldiers will still have luck.

"I see. Then why don't you just kill a thousand Tartars? ”

"First, in order to ask the Dongping Army about the truth and reality. Second, to demoralize the enemy's army. ”

"Ask about the truth, the villain understands. But how to use this thousand households to reduce the morale of the Tartars? ”

Liu San smiled and didn't answer yet. Ordered to bring the thousand households to the horse, and carefully inquire about the reality of Junozawa. The generals of the defeated army of thousands of households, in order to survive, know everything and say everything.

As with the earlier information, there are currently 2,000 Dongping troops in Juye Zezhong, and in addition to the more than 300 people who have just been killed, there are more than 1,600. Before the Yuan army left the camp, because of the rush of time, the main force of the Dongping army had not yet been able to assemble. However, Wang Baobao had already issued an order to them not to worry, saying that they had mobilized the Caozhou Army and the Shanzhou Army to help, and said that he would personally bring the main force of Henan to the rendezvous.

After asking clearly, the thousand households kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Liu San said: "Although you are defeated, you are also an official of a thousand households, and you can't be compared with ordinary pawns." I don't bother you. But the two armies fought, and the stronger one won. Since you have been defeated and become a prisoner of our army, you cannot leave something behind to make a prize. Come, cut off his nose, cut off his ears, and let him go back to the camp. ”

The man who was talking to Liu San just now suddenly woke up at this time and praised: "It turns out that the general said 'frustrating the enemy's morale', and this is where he comes from. ”

Not only does it demoralize the enemy, but it can also anger the enemy. It can also be used to pass on the fact that the Yidu cavalry killed all the prisoners to the enemy, and strengthen the fighting spirit of the headquarters. It's a triple win.

His own soldiers stepped forward, put the thousand households down on their backs, held down their hands and feet, raised their knives and fell, cut their noses, and cut off their ears. still felt that he was insufficient, so he made a few more horizontal and vertical strokes on his face, which ruined his face and ruined his appearance. Then he let go of his hand, pulled it up, kicked it a few times with a grin, and let it run away in embarrassment.

"You can be angry, but you can't vent it. All the soldiers, follow the generals and fight again! ”

But it was said that the thousand households fled back to the camp, and the chief general of the Dongping army had just gathered the troops, and was meeting with the generals in the tent. What about your ears, nose and face? ”

The thousand households were extremely ashamed, and said, "I was ordered to go to war, but I encountered a red thief outside the hill, and I couldn't win the battle. The thief cruelly beheaded Liu San, beheaded all the prisoners, and cut off my nose and ears, and insulted me. I originally wanted to die, but I thought that if I died, no one would warn the general, so I endured humiliation and stole my life. ”

"Where are the thieves now?"

"It's almost outside the camp."

The troops should be camped with particular attention to not being too far away from the water, nor too close to the water. If it is too far from the water, it is not easy to get water; If you are too close to the water, it will be damp. Therefore, the Dongping army was nominally stationed in Junoze, but in fact, the camp was not at the water's edge, and it was still more than ten miles away.

When the lord heard that Liu San was coming, he got up in horror and said, "The thieves are all light horses, and our troops have not yet been assembled. And the camp is surrounded by plains, there is no danger to be trusted, once engaged, it is easy to be rushed into the camp, which is not conducive to our army. You have to send someone to lead the team out immediately, and outside the train camp, you have the right to block the red thief for a while. After a moment's silence, he added, "It's not enough to block in formation. It was necessary to send another army, go around the camp, and ambush the flank. If the thief army is sharp and the array is difficult to stop, they will kill from the side, thinking that it is a 'strange soldier'. The plan was decided, and the order said: "Each division shall go out of camp separately, either in formation or as 'surprise soldiers'. Ben will bring his own Chinese army, and after you and others disturb the formation of the thief army, they will make a noise to kill the enemy! ”

This chief general of the Dongping Army, although he is only the commander of the local army, can be regarded as a general.

If it were other mediocre generals, in the situation where the enemy cavalry was attacking and the backup had not arrived, they might choose to retreat into the camp and refuse to fight. However, because the camp of the Dongping army was empty on all sides, and the walls he had planted were not strong, he made a quick decision and decided to take the initiative to attack. Deploy a train formation to intercept the incoming enemy; Mess with "surprise soldiers"; Then lead the main force to kill, and want to hit Liu Saburo as a headache.

"Where there is no wonder, there will be a guard; Strange and uncorrect, then the fight will also. Qi Zheng is used, and the country is also assisted. The arrangement of the commander of the Dongping Army, although it was a hasty dispatch, was full of "Zhengqi". The end can be seen. If you win, it's a big deal. Even if you lose, it doesn't matter, you can retreat into the camp again and wait for reinforcements.

After the military order was issued, the Dongping army moved from top to bottom.

In battle with cavalry on the plains, the inferiority of the infantry was obvious. There is only one way to use infantry to ride the enemy: to use foreign objects to strengthen the ability to defend and counteract the cavalry's charge. The "rook formation" is one of the better countermeasures. The soldiers of Dongping pushed out all the baggage carts in the camp to form a ring, and outside the camp, they placed horses in front of the baggage carts, and sprinkled a lot of thistles.

There are many people to do things, and before Liu San arrived, the formation had been laid out.

The total number of men who went out of the camp was four hundred, one hundred shieldmen, one hundred pikemen, and two hundred archers. The shield bearer is at the front, next to the inside of the heavy cart; The second is the pikeman, who puts his foot against the tail of the spear and releases the spear from the muzzle of the shield like a hedgehog; Then there are the archers, and at the innermost point there are two hundred archers in four columns, and when the enemy arrives, they take turns shooting arrows.

There were also a few trebuchets in the battalion, all of which were taken out and placed at the back of the cart formation as support.

And the Lord will make the camp stand still, and forbid the noise of men and horses. Suddenly, a huge camp was silent.

Liu Saburo urged the troops to arrive and came to the front of the camp, but saw the car formation in front of him, followed by the silent camp, and the surrounding plains. On the left side of the array, more than ten miles away, there is a piece of water, with a little ripple in the sun; On the right side of the array, five or six miles away, there was a forest, not too big, probably stimulated by the murderous aura of the forest, and a flock of birds flew in fright.

In the car formation, the deputy Qianhu of the Yuan army who led the team shouted: "Come and get your name!" ”

"Yidu Liusan."

"You are a thief, you don't want to surrender, but you come to my realm for no reason, but what is it? I am the king's teacher, and I have won tens of thousands of soldiers, so are you not afraid of dying here? ”

"Haha. The winner is king, and the loser is the loser. What is Anti-Thief? What is Wang Shi? You Meng Yuan perversely, driving the tiger and devouring the sheep, all the benevolent people in the sea look sideways, and the righteous people in the world all hate it. As the saying goes: Qin lost his deer, and the world chased him. As long as I can defeat you, who is a thief, I'm afraid or maybe! ”

The deputy Qianhu in that array wanted to say something more, so as to delay the hour.

Liu Saburo ignored him anymore, and after watching the enemy formation for a long time, he already knew in his heart, looked forward to the generals, and said: "'Soldiers compete for opportunities, and businesses compete for profits. 'Our army came from afar, although the momentum was like a bamboo, first breaking the river, and then annihilating the geese, but compared with this battalion, those are just small fish and shrimp, no teeth to worry about, and it is difficult to show military might. Destroy the enemy at the moment, raise the prestige of the country in the enemy's land, at this time! Who dares to rush through the enemy and show the courage of our army? ”

"Sweeping the battle to show bravery" should be used when the enemy is in crisis, or when it is to seize the morale of the enemy army and increase the sharpness of our army.