Chapter Twenty-Seven—The Final Battle of the North (Part II)
In the early morning of the second day, Li Fu, the main general of the Qi army, who had not rested for nearly a night, was in a particularly high mood, and at this time they had already discussed a method that was best or even possible to win with one blow. So, while Li Fu sent patrol spies around, he also sent a personal soldier who went to the war book to the Fengguo camp, and entered one of them to explore the truth by the way.
In the camp of the feudal state, Xu Zhan was pacing back and forth alone, although he was an intolerable character and temper, he still had two brushes to command the war. It's just that now because Princess Qingxuan Bu Luan is not in good health, Bu Luan did not come here with her, and many things were decided by Xu Zhan alone.
"Report!" A figure suddenly appeared outside the camp, Xu Zhan recognized this person as his personal guard, this figure rushed straight into the camp, and shouted loudly, "General, the country of Qi has come to issue a war letter!" The messenger has also arrived at the gate of the camp and is waiting for the general to summon him. With that, the guard handed over the letter he had received in his hand.
"Oh?" Xu Zhan was still thinking about how to defeat Qi State, he didn't expect Qi State to be so confident, he took the letter and opened it and read it, it turned out to be a handwritten letter from Li Fu, the general of Qi State, in the letter, Li Fu said that now that he has reached such a situation, it is not good to do some petty theft, so he simply poured his troops into a battle to see who killed.
Xu Zhan pondered silently for a while, and finally said to the guard in front of him: "In that case, you bring him in, and I will ask him about other things." ”
Half an hour later, the former troops of the feudal kingdom began to leave the camp one after another under the command of the general, and came to the very wide plain between their two camps. In the end, Xu Zhan weighed it again and again, and decided to send troops to fight with the Qi State, the reason was very simple, they could have fortified the wall and clear the field without a decisive battle, and they could easily drag down the Qi State's army just by relying on the armies on both sides to intersperse support each other. But now, the result of Li Fu's thunderous dispatch and Gongsun Yu's lax defense directly led to the fact that now not only did he lose the possibility of echoing on both sides, but also lost the help of an elite cavalry. Now, it would be unwise for them to delay any longer. In this case, they might as well take the initiative and perhaps find the most critical opportunity.
The 40,000 feudal troops were in full formation at this moment, and the blue lion banner that was unfurled not far from the front was the Qi army, which was almost equal to their military strength. Both sides are extremely elite soldiers, each of whom is a veteran of at least five years of service.
The tent door was opened, and among the Chinese army, under the strict protection of hundreds of personal guards, Li Fu, the general of Qi, and Xu Zhan, the general of France, looked at each other not far from each other. After being silent for a while, Li Fu took the lead and said: "The general looks very confident, but I don't know if the army of the feudal country is as confident as you at this moment?"
In the face of Li Fu's provocation, Xu Zhan, as a general who has been in the army for several years, did not care much about the situation in front of him, and he said bluntly: "Everything is difficult to say now, wait until the situation becomes clear, I don't know what the general thinks?"
Li Fu and Xu Zhan sneered at each other for a while, and they each turned back to their camps, and at the same time began to command their troops in the upcoming strategic battle. This battle is directly related to the overall situation and even life and death, and no one dares to neglect it in the slightest.
Li Fu dispatched 5,000 crossbowmen to suppress the rear formation, and at the same time ordered 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 elite infantry to temporarily suppress the formation in front of him, and at the same time, at the same time, he directly dispatched 5,000 rear troops to cover the central army. As a result, the only army that Li Fu could grasp was 20,000 troops that had not yet been put into battle, and this army included more than 10,000 cavalry troops. Li Fu was going to use the 20,000 troops as a force that could support everywhere at any time, and wait until the situation gradually became clear or the front line was short of manpower before considering participating in the battle, after all, at the beginning of this battle, there was no need to invest so many soldiers to fight in this place for a while. At the same time, Li Fu ordered his generals to challenge in front of the camp of the feudal state. At this moment, the army of the feudal country is still being nervously arranged.
Xu Zhan, as a general who has experienced a hundred battles, has already put a lot of effort into the current arrangement, and he also dispatched five thousand crossbowmen to suppress the cavalry troops that Qi may dispatch at any time, and the role of this crossbowmen is to temporarily suppress the charge of the cavalry, but it is not a very simple thing for every soldier who is now holding a shield in his hand. On the other hand, Xu Zhan also dispatched the most elite 10,000 infantry under his command to meet the infantry corps that was now in Qi from the front. In this instant, the battle can be the most intense at any time.
Less than a quarter of an hour later, the army of the feudal state had also begun to approach the direction of the Qi army in front, and at the same time, the army dispatched here had begun to launch attacks on all sides. For a while, the elite infantry on both sides launched the most ferocious attack at the first time, and the armies of the two sides came into contact with each other. The steel knife wielded in his hand and the shield with extremely strong defensive power in his hand next did not cause any damage for a while.
After fighting for an hour, the formations of the Qi State and the Feng State army still remained immovable, although the armies in all aspects were damaged at this time, but this did not affect the current battle situation and battle situation too much. Li Fu and Xu Zhan also began to mobilize the infantry army they now had in their hands half an hour after the battle began, but they still did not dispatch the most elite army in their hands, that is, the cavalry troops on both sides. Still quietly waiting for the opportunity.
After another period of time, the current situation seemed to become invisibly clear, and the Qi army immediately went to ask Li Fu to dispatch the last 3,000 cavalry he could muster to assist in the battle. Otherwise, now their army, although its morale is high, in fact does not have much advantage.
Li Fu is also under very strong pressure now, after all, everything at this time in front of him may cause great risks at any time, once an army comes to support them from an unknown place, I am afraid that their situation and even the battle situation will become confusing. As a result, many famous generals strongly persuaded Xu Zhan to immediately send out to assist the army under his command who was not easy to get out of the fierce battle. Regardless of what such a plan is, it is better to just let it go.
Li Fu pondered for a long time, and finally decided to send an army to support the battle situation ahead, and tried to launch an attack with an infantry corps no less than 5,000 men as a last resort. As a result, an elite infantry team quickly walked out of the tent of the Chinese army, and launched the most ferocious attack on the feudal army in front of it like a silver stream.
Since the starting direction of this army was directly interspersed from the oblique thorns, the soldiers who were originally steadily approaching each other did not notice that this incident had happened at the first time. By the time they saw the army of the spurs charging at them, they had no time to retreat and organize their defenses effectively. As a last resort, they had no choice but to abandon the forward pursuit, retreat back a position, and start forming a new formation to prepare for a counterattack.
Of course, less than a quarter of an hour after the last mobile infantry army of the Qi State was put into the battlefield, Xu Zhan, the general in the camp opposite, also heard the news. He hurriedly ordered his army to retreat back quickly, and prepared to throw his immovable cavalry into battle. After all, the thousands of troops left beside him were all the personal guard troops he brought with him, and once this army was hit, it would not be a very beneficial thing for him, so Xu Zhan was a little hesitant, and he finally planned to send the light cavalry army into battle.
At this time, Zhang Feng, the cavalry commander beside Xu Zhan, hurriedly advised him and said: "General, at this time, both sides are holding their breath, and anyone can collapse the situation anytime and anywhere because they are the first to invest in the cavalry, general, please look!" Zhang Feng stretched out his horsewhip and pointed far away into the camp of Qi in the distance. "The army that Qi State has put into the battlefield now is obviously the personal guard unit beside Li Fu. Li Fu's status in the country of Qi is the first person in the military, and he is the eldest son of Prime Minister Li Dan, and the soldiers guarding him are all one-in-a-million, but now he would rather send these guards around him into the battlefield than use cavalry. The results are already evident. Whoever uses the cavalry first will fall directly to the disadvantage, and may even lose the whole game...... Please think twice, the general. ”
Although Xu Zhan was a little hesitant in his heart, he was also a battle-hardened general after all, and he was also very clear in many cases. Now Zhang Feng's advice has also made him have a certain number in his heart. When he thought of this, he noticed that the place where the two armies were now fighting was in the middle of a low mountain pass, and if the cavalry could charge, it would be a condescending charge. But once the cavalry is caught in this mountain gap, it is not so easy to get out. Xu Zhan also knew very well in his heart that the strongest attack power of the cavalry was a condescending charge, which was enough to trample the elite soldiers holding cowhide shields in front of them.
Xu Zhan pondered for a while, and finally gave the order to go down and order the personal guard army beside him to enter this place to participate in the battle, and at this moment, Xu Zhan suddenly saw a burst of billowing black smoke in the distance in front of his eyes. For a moment, the black smoke seemed to rush towards the army like sweeping the surrounding dust, and on each side of this swept black smoke was two thousand light cavalry guards. This earth-shattering momentum couldn't help but make Xu Zhan freeze in place for a moment, "This, is this the legendary?"