"Oh no, Da Shuai is not good!"

Lin Shaodong stumbled into the temporary headquarters and said to Xu Rui: "Marshal, the scout on the hot air balloon has sent a battle report, and the army of the Southern Dynasties has appeared thirty miles northeast of the battlefield, and at least 10,000 people have lost, and their belonging is unknown!" ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was immediately shocked.

In order to win the battle of the Chishui River, the Northwest Army has already played all the cards in its hand, and even then it is only barely deployed, if hundreds of thousands of Southern Korean troops suddenly appear at this time, not only Xu Rui's strategic intentions will be completely crushed, but also the Northwest Army is in danger of being annihilated.

However, Xu Rui was not moved in the slightest when he heard this, but said lightly: "I know, it is the main force of King Wuling." ”

"What? Shouldn't the main force of King Wuling still be under Changxing City, how could he suddenly appear here? ”

Lin Shaodong asked in astonishment.

Xu Rui picked up a note from the table and said lightly: "King Wuling is good at creating illusions, true and false, false and real, he wants us to think that his army is still in Changxing, if we really think so, then we have fallen for his plan."

It's a pity that no matter how good the strategy is, there is a way to deal with it, you see, this is a telegram received by the Northwest Intelligence Bureau yesterday, and they have just found out that the army of King Wuling is indeed not in Changxing.

King Wuling's strategy is not precise, and under normal circumstances, even if the Northwest Intelligence Bureau finds out the information, it is impossible to hand over the information to Ben Shuai before the enemy army sneaks up on us.

But with the telegraph, it was a different story.

This commander can not only obtain the latest intelligence and battlefield dynamics at any time, but also command the front-line army in real time, and has a huge advantage over the Southern Dynasties in terms of flexibility, mobility and change, which is our killer weapon. ”

"So the hot air balloon that found the army of the Southern Dynasties was also sent out by the marshal?"

Lin Shaodong asked in astonishment.

Xu Rui nodded: "That's right, in addition to the hot air balloon, there are more surprises waiting for King Wuling and his army."

Originally, Ben Shuai guessed that since King Wuling was in such a hurry, he would never obediently give up the initiative to us, and he would definitely not let us go back while raiding Changxing City.

The so-called eating the army of the Western Road of the Southern Dynasty is actually a series of chess, if the King of Wuling really did not hide a hand from us, then Ben Shuai will eat the 300,000 army of the Western Road of the Southern Dynasty.

But if King Wuling has been calculating us for a long time, then we will use this 300,000 army as bait, and plan the layout of King Wuling to come out of the encirclement to help! ”

"So the main target we have to deal with now is the army of King Wuling, not the 300,000 Western Road men?"

Lin Shaodong asked.

"Definitely!"

Xu Rui smiled faintly: "War is full of accidents, and it is the king to adjust the strategy in a timely manner according to the actual situation, but no matter what, the 300,000 troops in the encirclement are all settled!" ”

"But in this way, our troops are very limited, how can we still eat these 300,000 troops."

Lin Shaodong asked worriedly.

Xu Rui nodded: "Ben Shuai mentioned before, the magic of King Wuling lies in his use of soldiers, which is unexpected, once he hits a plan, then the ensuing chain will make people overwhelmed, until he completely falls, and he is beaten to the point where he has no power to fight back."

On the other hand, if he hadn't been deceived by the illusions he had created from the start, his most powerful serial scheme would not have worked, and it would not have worked.

This time, we have a first insight into his strategy, and we have taken the initiative in strategy, but in any case, it will be a tough battle next, and how to turn the advantage into victory is the key, it depends on who is stronger. ”

On November 20, the twentieth year of Hongwei, the Southern Korean army, realizing that its strategic intentions had been discovered, quickly moved into action, Lu Dongqing led 120,000 Wuling pro-army, and Zhong Qingyuan led 70,000 vanguard troops to launch a fierce attack on the outer Northwest Army encirclement.

At this time, Xu Rui had already completed the layout of the battlefield and stretched the entire battle line to a width of 100 kilometers, which had already exceeded the limit of the decisive battle in the era of cold weapons.

Relying on the information superiority brought by telegrams and hot air balloon scouts, the Northwest Army deployed in advance when the number was at an absolute disadvantage, dug trenches, pulled up a large number of barbed wire, and established layers of defensive positions that could achieve firepower coverage on the road that the Wuling pro-army had to pass.

On the other hand, because Zhong Qingyuan was discovered in advance and forced into battle, his army failed to get out of the rugged geographical environment and realize the sneak attack on the Northwest Army before being discovered by the Northwest Army as planned.

The Northwest Army immediately seized this point and laid a 10-kilometer-long minefield in the mountain pass ahead of Zhong Qingyuan's troops, and in the absence of time and demining equipment, Zhong Qingyuan had to order the army to make a detour to the northwest, which was an extra two days' journey out of thin air.

In other words, Zhong Qingyuan was unable to cooperate with Lu Dongqing to launch a high-pressure offensive echoing the north and south against the Northwest Army for at least two days, and King Wuling's attempt to force Xu Rui to give up the remedial strategy of encircling and annihilating the army of the Western Route of the Southern Dynasty was once again crushed.

At the same time, the Northwest Army set up a strict monitoring network outside the encirclement, and in addition to a dense patrol team to strictly grasp the messengers who delivered information, it also sent a large number of secret sentries equipped with sniper rifles to intercept the flying pigeons and pass on the news, and strictly sealed the news.

This move was another great success, and the 300,000 troops of the Western Route of the Southern Dynasty who were surrounded never knew that the main army of King Wuling was close at hand, and the morale of the army fell to the bottom.

In the early morning of 20 November, the Northwest Army, which had surrounded the Southern Korean Army, began to launch a general offensive against the enemy in the encirclement, and Zhang Zuofeng's troops and Cao Siyuan's troops launched an offensive against the Southern Korean army on the left and right.

The Southern Korean army was defeated and retreated, and the encirclement became tighter and tighter, and in desperation, the Southern Korean army had to hold the communication arteries with artillery to delay the time of being attacked.

Although this move did delay the pace of the Northwest Army's attack, it seemed to leave a series of wounds that continued to bleed, making the already injured army of the Southern and Western Roads more and more vulnerable.

By the evening of the 20th, Zhang Zuofeng's troops had advanced 15 kilometers, the army stopped, and continued to suppress the enemy with artillery, while the main force secretly withdrew from the attack position, and the main attack direction of the army encircling and annihilating the south and west road became Cao Siyuan's department.

Thirty miles away, the newly formed Third Brigade of the Northwest Army, as well as more than 50,000 servant troops, were fighting fiercely with Lu Dongqing's 120,000 Wuling troops by virtue of positional defense.

Limited by the powerful firepower of the Northwest Army and the criss-crossing trenches, the advance of the Wuling pro-army was extremely slow.

However, there is a large gap in the combat power of the two sides, and the Wuling pro-army is considered to be the army with the highest proportion of thermal weapons in the Southern Dynasties, so it is not too inferior in terms of firepower.

In order to stop the footsteps of the Wuling pro-army, the Northwest Army paid the price of great casualties.

The battle lasted until the early morning of the 21st, and the Wuling army broke through the six defensive lines of the Northwest Army, and the Northwest Army lost more than 20,000 troops, especially the 20,000 servant army that had just been formed was on the verge of collapse.

At this moment, Zhang Zuofeng's troops, who had withdrawn from the main attack battlefield, arrived in time, bypassed the original defense line, and launched a surprise attack on the Wuling pro-army.

This surprise attack was very sudden, and Zhang Zuofeng had the main force of the Apocalypse Army in his hands, and his combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the newly formed Third Brigade and the 50,000 servant army that had not been around for a long time.

The Wuling pro-army had been fighting for a day and a night, and they were sleepy and tired, and they happened to be caught off guard by a surprise attack when they were at their most vulnerable, and the offensive that had been very smooth was slowed down and fell into the defense.

Zhang Zuofeng took advantage of the victory to pursue, giving full play to his firepower superiority and impacting the defense line of the Wuling pro-army.

At this point, the Battle of the Chishui River Valley was in full swing, and a quasi-thermal weapon battle with millions of people participating in the battle was staged in this world for the first time.