Chapter 37: The Art of War

People are in good spirits when they are happy, and Li Fusheng at this time gives people such a feeling.

Zheng Fan led his troops to fight, and more importantly, he still enjoyed the sense of dominance of riding horses and galloping thousands of troops and horses to charge and move according to his own will, in short, just to pretend to be forced.

Li Fusheng is not, Li Fusheng is the kind of person who likes to kill very purely.

The blind man once said that a person's eyes are the hardest to lie, and the crimson in Li Fusheng's eyes is already frantically interpreting his thirst for blood at this time.

"Zheng Shoubei, come with me."

This is actually a show of goodwill, one, it is to bring you a long insight, after all, although Zheng Fan said that the results were good in the past, he fought blitzkrieg and guerrilla warfare, plus he encountered the foolish wolf soldiers.

The second is to take you to mix qualifications, although it is also a credit to sit in the rear to regulate the affairs of the city, but in the traditional cognition and perspective of the Yan people, only the bloody military merit is the most down-to-earth promotion capital, and the rest of the credit will inevitably be inferior.

This is just like the truth that in the eyes of many older generations in later generations, all industries other than civil servants are part-time jobs.

To tell the truth, Zheng Fan really wanted to see what kind of scene the tens of thousands of level battles were, besides, there would be no chaos if there were blind people working in the city, so he immediately bowed his hand and said:

"Thank you, sir!"

"Haha."

Li Fusheng walked out of the door, and the lazy beast immediately stood up, walked in front of Li Fusheng and bent his front knees.

Li Fusheng turned over and sat up,

Ordered:

"Pass my military order, and the army will be marched!"

"Knock knock! Knock knock! Knock knock! ”

Outside the south gate, a cavalry of the northern army of the town is being drawn in an orderly manner, and if the 20,000 cavalry wants to carry out the combat mission, it is naturally impossible for them all to pile up together and then rush in one direction.

Li Fusheng personally led 3,000 cavalry as the Chinese army, and the six guerrilla generals under his command each led nearly 3,000 cavalry, and already marched there according to the direction of the sentry cavalry.

If there is an aerial camera from above at this time, you can see a total of seven fast-moving shadows in this area from Chuzhou City to the south.

Zheng Fan and Liang Cheng naturally followed Li Fusheng's Chinese army, in fact, the original 2,500 cavalry of Cuiliu Fort should have been Li Fusheng's temporary personal barracks, but first, the soldiers of Cuiliu Fort had been busy all night and had not been rested, and secondly, Li Fusheng also had to take care of the combat desire of the soldiers under his command.

A truly strong army, he must be a confident army, they are not afraid of war, they want war, and they are happy when they hear it.

Liang Cheng has been paying attention to the surroundings, and there are constantly herald cavalry shuttling back and forth in various teams to ensure the timeliness of the command.

The cavalry's combat methods are actually very rich, far more free than the infantry, and at the same time, their mobility can make them get more battlefield opportunities, but how to command the cavalry to fight well is a great knowledge.

Obviously, regardless of whether Li Fusheng is mentally ill as the blind man said, the quality of military command is very high.

This is not something that can be learned on paper, but learned from years of fighting in the desert with the barbarians of the previous generation of cavalry masters.

Previously, there were two reasons why I wanted to stay in Chuzhou City for two or three days, leaving aside the political elements:

One is to get supplies, because of the long-distance attack, in fact, the supplies carried by the troops are not very rich;

The second is to cultivate horsepower, war horses, one is expensive, the other is precious, after a long-distance run, you must raise it, otherwise the loss will be great.

However, after cultivating, he also fell asleep and came to the pillow, and a cadre soldier actually appeared in front of him.

Unlike Zheng Shoubei's small family and small households, Li Fusheng is obviously much more domineering.

The first reaction when you see the enemy is not to measure the strength of the opponent and the possible losses of your own side.

Rather, there is only one word:

Dry!

At this time, Li Fusheng had just finished listening to a herald's report, and immediately laughed and scolded:

"Straight lady thief, this group of cadres actually shrunk by themselves!"

Zheng Fan is next to Li Fusheng, at this time, it is naturally not the link where you ask me and answer.

But Li Fusheng's mood seemed to be because of the arrival of this military report, first, he was a little disdainful, and secondly, he relaxed, and took the initiative to turn his head and shout to Zheng Fan:

"I don't know where this cadre army came from, but it can't be from the north, I don't know the news that Chuzhou City has changed hands, and I stupidly drove here in the morning, but now I should have noticed that something is wrong, and is moving closer to Qingshan County in the southwest."

"Isn't this a special attack on the cadres who recovered Chuzhou City?"

Including Zheng Fan, most of the people and magnates in Chuzhou thought that this cadre army that suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Chuzhou City was a royal division who came to fight Yangou.

But it doesn't, it seems.

What is the composition of this army and where did it come from, it is still unclear for a while, but judging by the performance of the other party who took the initiative to march towards Chuzhou City stupidly before, and now he is starting to panic and start to move closer to a nearby county town,

This should just be a ...... Passing cadres.

It is no wonder that Chuzhou City fell too quickly, and it fell into the hands of the Zhenbei Army without making any decent resistance, and at the same time, the sentinels of the Zhenbei Army scattered out in a large area, almost isolating the city from the outside world.

The sentinels of the Zhenbei army, but they can catch and fight with the warriors of the barbarians on the desert and do not fall behind, how can the sentinels of the Qianguo army be their opponents?

Moreover, the Qianguo people did not expect that the Yan people actually jumped over the three sides and came here directly, and they also took Chuzhou City with lightning speed.

This kind of isolation, it is naturally impossible to block all messages, and there will definitely be some messages that will be delivered, but in this era, the delivery of messages itself has a lag.

At the same time, when the army is marching, the timeliness of its receiving messages will be greatly reduced.

in a word

Under the facilitation of various reasons, this 30,000-strong cadre army almost crashed into Chuzhou City like a savior.

Thinking about it, it should be the general of that army who found out that something was wrong, no matter how stupid the general was, he also knew that when marching, he had to divide the front army, the rear army, the middle army, and the middle army, and he had to send someone to Chuzhou City in advance to inform Chuzhou City to prepare for the reception of the army passing by tonight.

Then, the other party should have found that he sent people to Chuzhou City and the sentinels who were scattered, only to see that they did not come back, and after feeling that something had happened, out of the instinct of a general, he chose to move closer to a nearby county seat that could echo the previous one.

"Hehe, Lao Tzu is not a cat, how can he be teased by it and leave it behind?"

Li Fusheng continued:

"Pass the order, the whole army speed up!"

Zheng Fan knew that this was intended to intercept the other party before it approached Qingshan County.

Cavalry, only in the field, can give full play to the greatest combat effectiveness in order to obtain the greatest advantage, although Zheng Fan of Qingshan County has not been there, but in this era, the county must have a city wall, once the Qianguo army is stationed in the county, even if the city wall of the county town is not very tall, it will still make the Zhenbei army a headache.

The reason why the tactic of big jump was chosen was because he didn't want to gnaw at the important cities of the Qianguo people on three sides, and even if he really wanted to attack the city, it would have to attack the capital of the Qianguo.

When he hit the capital, no matter how many people died, no matter how many Yan Erlang's lives were consumed, he didn't feel that it was a loss.

Under Li Fusheng's order, the whole army began to speed up, and no longer cared about horsepower.

finally

The herald from the front came to report that the front army had discovered the opposing army's formation.

Li Fusheng immediately ordered the two guerrilla generals before the battle to lead the army to outflank the past in a roundabout way to block the possibility of the other side continuing to move closer to Qingshan County.

"Hehe, I caught up."

Li Fusheng was in a good mood, but he was actually a little worried that if he didn't catch up with the Qianjun army entering the city.

The Zhenbei Army has one of its biggest weaknesses, that is, they lack experience in siege, or even almost nothing.

After all, except for a city where the royal court is located, the rest of the barbarian tribes don't have any cities at all.

Finally, the Chinese army also arrived.

Zheng Fan saw that the opponent's military formation was actually very neat, although most of them were infantry, but when facing the cavalry pressure, there was still not too much panic.

The spearmen were in front and on the sides, in the middle were the shield men, and in the middle, there were supposed to be crossbowmen and archers, and the few cavalrymen of the opposing side were instead placed behind.

This is what Zheng Fan, a battlefield novice, has seen.

Although he has fought several battles, Zheng Fan has only commanded the uprooting of the fortress, or the storming of the city gate, and even the battle to defeat the wolf soldiers was personally commanded by Liang Cheng, Zheng Fan just acted as a cavalry who obeyed orders.

However, Rao is like this, Zheng Fan also felt the unusualness of the cadre army in front of him, this kind of formation, at first glance, it is very anti-cavalry.

"Lord, the other party should divide the army of 30,000 into three parts, in the shape of a zigzag." Liang Cheng opened his mouth and said to Zheng Fan, "This way of arranging the formation can facilitate mutual support, and if the number of arrows is sufficient, it can also suppress each other." ”

Zheng Fan only saw the row in front of him, but Liang Cheng had already understood the other party's formation.

It's like watching a football game in the middle of the pitch or in front of a TV with a very different perspective from the perspective of a player playing on the pitch.

An excellent general can achieve an effect similar to "opening the eyes of the sky" by observing the details.

Li Fusheng glanced at Liang Cheng with some surprise and said:

"Straight lady thief, who is this dry general, he is a master who can fight."

As he spoke, Li Fusheng pointed at Liang Cheng again and asked:

"Do you know what he means?"

"Hold on and wait for help." Liang Cheng replied.

"Yes, hold on for help."

Because the two cavalry in front of the battle caught up with each other in time, and at the same time cut the opponent's back road in a roundabout way, which made the generals of the Qianguo on the opposite side choose to wait on the spot.

The other party did not choose to attack the nearly 6,000 Yan cavalry to open the road to Qingshan County, even if Qingshan County was not far ahead.

Because the other party is cavalry, and most of the infantry on their side, it is a bit difficult to break the opponent's block in time, and the most important thing is that the generals of the Qianguo on the opposite side should have seen that these two Yan cavalry that cut the back road as soon as they appeared were only the front army, and there should be more Yan cavalry on the way to gallop.

Once you take the initiative to attack first, it is easy to cause the opposite side of the offensive to be counterattacked by the Yan cavalry who rushed in, and if the infantry-based army is overwhelmed in the face of the cavalry group army, it will be a real disaster!

"Pass the order, let Sun Guyi and Yue Yuchen each send a thousand horsemen to test it."

Li Fusheng's order was quickly passed on,

Followed by

In the originally relatively static battle,

Two thousand cavalry detachments broke away from their own army formation and began to approach the cadre army formation.

Zheng Fan couldn't help but glance at Li Fusheng more, this chief soldier may be mentally ill, but his brain for fighting is still extremely clear.

"Lord, this move has two purposes, one is to test the other party's quality and see if it is a showmanship, and the other is that since the other party has put out three military formations in the shape of a zigzag, we must also pick one to see which military formation is weaker, which is easier to eat."

"Zheng Shoubei." Li Fusheng opened his mouth and shouted.

"Your Excellency?" Zheng Fan was listening to the lecture, and when he heard this, he turned his head to look at Li Fusheng.

"This man is your slave?"

"Uh, yes."

Come to think of it, it should be because Li Fusheng heard Liang Cheng shouting "Lord".

The slave culture in the Yan country is very strong, oh no, to be exact, in this era, the domestic slaves and the generals are not only in the Yan country, but basically in any country.

To a certain extent, the seven general soldiers under the Zhenbei Hou Mansion are actually the generals of the Li family of the Hou of Zhenbei.

"Zheng Shoubei is really both civil and military, this slave is well trained."

"............" Zheng Fan.

Nima,

Obviously, he was listening to Liang Cheng's lecture like a primary school student,

As a result, from Li Fusheng's point of view, he was deliberately comparing his house slaves.

Liang Cheng arched his hand:

"It's my master who taught me well."

"Yes, yes, then I'll test you for your master, how to break this game? Since the other party has chosen to stick to the help, there is not much time left for us. ”

"My lord said that he laughed, the other party can stick to it and wait for help, is it possible for us to go deep alone?"

"What's the explanation?" Li Fusheng narrowed his eyes.

"During the previous march, the Lord should have sent a herald to contact the other soldiers and horses nearby."

"Yes, yes, yes."

Li Fusheng nodded with satisfaction.

The general of the Qianguo on the opposite side chose to hold on and wait for help, because the general should have thought that this was the territory of the Qianguo, and it should be easy for the soldiers and horses of the Qianguo to support.

When the time comes, whether it is to bite this Yan cavalry or cooperate with reinforcements to force this Yan cavalry back.

But this time, the Yan army had 250,000 iron horsemen to the south, although when they entered the territory of Chujun, the soldiers and horses dispersed, but in this vicinity, there must be other troops and horses.

The distance between the two sides and the location of the middle and lower sergeants may not be clear, but Li Fusheng, as the leader of the soldiers and horses all the way, is naturally Men'erqing.

After all, even if the southbound Yan army dispersed, it was not a group of mad dogs that had escaped from their cages, but a group of wolves from the north.

Wolves are the best at cooperating.

The general on the opposite side of Qianguo was thinking about waiting for reinforcements, but he didn't know that there might be more wolves than reinforcements nearby.

"Zheng Shoubei, what kind of military position is he?" Li Fusheng asked.

"Lieutenant of Castle Tree." Zheng Fan replied.

"Oh." Li Fusheng nodded.

While the two were talking,

The two thousand-man cavalry sent out had already approached the cadre army formation, and the cadre army formation immediately became nervous.

Li Fusheng's eyes narrowed slightly, and Liang Cheng was also looking intently,

Zheng Shoubei, who was sandwiched between the two, looked at the appearance of the two people around him, and immediately looked at it very seriously, his eyes were a little sour.

The two thousand-man cavalry naturally did not go to charge into battle, the previous charge rolled up a lot of dust, and also created a lot of momentum, but they reined in the reins in the safe area, and then turned the horse's head at the same time, opened the bow and arrows, and began to throw.

The accuracy of projectile is naturally much worse, but the ability of mounted archery, no matter how powerful you are, it is not for you to compete with the infantry with a good formation and a complete range of troops.

The rain of arrows soon fell, and there was a commotion in the Qianjun formation.

Actually, there isn't much damage to kill, unless some are particularly unlucky, but for ordinary people, someone throwing a snowball at you will subconsciously feel scared, let alone an arrow.

The two thousand-man cavalry rushed back and forth twice, still only keeping a safe distance and throwing fire, and there were archers and crossbowmen in the opposing army formation who began to return fire.

The casualties of each other are actually very sporadic, but you still have to fight back, otherwise the momentum on your side will decline, and you can't fight back just by being beaten, this kind of pressure is too great for the soldiers.

"Buzz! Airplanes! Airplanes! Airplanes! Airplanes! ”

Just as the two thousand cavalry teams were about to withdraw from the battle and return to their own formation, a piercing sound of breaking the sky suddenly came from the opponent's formation.

Bed crossbow!

There are bed crossbows in the opposing army's formation!

For a while, a string of crossbow arrows, which were longer than the height of ordinary people, shot at a thousand-man cavalry team.

A total of five crossbow arrows, three missed, one shot the horse of a knight of the Zhenbei Army, directly pierced the war horse under his crotch, the horse's body seemed to be torn apart, and the knight above fell to the ground, fortunately, the colleague next to him was quick, and reached out in time to grab the other party and carry it on his horse.

There was also a bed crossbow that shot through the three Yan Army knights in a row, and for a while, blood splattered.

Bursts of cheers immediately came from the ranks of the cadres and soldiers, and their morale soared!

however

For this scene, for the life and death of his subordinates, Li Fusheng didn't even blink his eyes, and even a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, he reached out and touched the hair of the beast under his crotch,

As if interested again, he asked:

"See what?"

Liang Cheng replied calmly:

"The military formation in front of us is the most stable, there is no turmoil in the formation, and the timing of the counterattack is also very good.

The two military formations at the back, the one on the west side were fine, and the soldiers were panicked but not chaotic.

Only the military formation on the east side was obviously compressed, and the crossbowmen in the center of the formation returned fire in a messy and irregular manner.

With three military formations and three levels, this cadre army is not an independent army, but more like a temporary group of several companies put together. ”

After listening to this, Li Fusheng said:

"Then our army will go down from the military formation on the east side first?"

Liang Cheng shook his head and said:

"The master taught me that the virtual is the real and the real is the virtual, and the situation on the battlefield is ever-changing and deceitful.

The commander-in-chief of the opposing cadre army did not choose to force a breakthrough at the beginning, but set up a position on the spot, which proved that he was a cautious general.

Even if it is an improvised patchwork army, it is impossible to leave such an obvious flaw and gap here while putting on such a position.

Inside the military array on the east side, there should be a rear hand. ”

Li Fusheng stretched out his hand and suddenly patted Zheng Fan's shoulder.

The strength was a bit big, and Zheng Fan, an eight-rank martial artist, was almost photographed off horseback.

"Zheng Shoubei, you really opened my eyes, both civil and military, really talented!"

"............" Zheng Shoubei.

"Hou Ye really didn't see the wrong person, no, I think Hou Ye is still blind, if Hou Ye knows that Zheng Shoubei has such a ability to allow Wen and Yunwu, according to Hou Ye's temper, even if he fights with that Nanhou, he will also rob Zheng Shoubei of you."

Hehe, hehe......

Zheng Fan blushed a little, last night's incident, he was actually playing soy sauce, and everything was done by the blind man and Siniang;

Just now, it was Liang Cheng who was saying that he was just learning.

People who cheat will always have a weak heart,

Zheng Fan spoke:

"My lord praised it falsely, and I was just talking on paper, on paper."

"What do you mean by talking on paper?" Li Fusheng asked.

"Forehead........." Zheng Fan.

Liang Cheng said at this time:

"My lord, that's a military book written by my master himself."

"........." Zheng Fan.

"Soldiers? Hey, then I'm really interested, our martial artist Qiu Ba can also write a book, it's not simple, it's not simple, what is this military book called? ”

Liang Cheng replied solemnly:

"Zheng Zi's Art of War."