Chapter 325: Wolf Smoke Everywhere and Many Tricks (7)
Ling Yi led all the ruffians and watched the two warring sides in front of the mountain from a distance, and the battle lasted for more than an hour.
Ling Yi They are also soldiers who have experienced several battles, but looking at the fighting of the soldiers in Youzhou, they are full of blood, and this kind of fight has shocked the recruits of the riffraff.
Lingyi brought them to the top of the hill so that they could witness the cruelty of war.
This time watching the battle has caused waves in the hearts of these teenagers, originally thought that going to the battlefield was to fight with knives, but they really saw the bloodiness of the battle, and they finally understood what Zhang Cheng said before, the reason why the ruffian soldiers have little chance of winning!
Ling Yi didn't expect that a battle of only 20,000 cavalry could be so tragic, if 200,000 troops confronted the enemy, what kind of shocking scene would it be!
After an hour of fighting, the Youzhou cavalry has controlled the rhythm of the battle, their strength is already strong, the loss is naturally not large, the enemy can be sad, 10,000 cavalry, now there are less than 5,000 left, half of the cavalry has died under the spear of the Youzhou cavalry!
Just when Ling Yi thought that the Northern Wilderness would be completely surrounded and annihilated, a loud military horn sounded on the side of the Northern Wilderness.
This is the charge of the Northern Wilderness, Ling Yi turned his head, and saw no less than 20,000 cavalry rushing out from the mountain range, they were preparing to annihilate the Youzhou cavalry.
The same horn sounded from Youzhou's side, but the horn was still a horn to retreat to the position!
10,000 resisted the impact of 20,000 cavalry, and the Youzhou cavalry did not have the confidence to resist, only to see that they took advantage of the weakness of the Northern Wilderness army that was fighting with them, turned their horses' heads and retreated at full speed.
The Northern Wilderness cavalry pursued out with all their might in the direction of the retreat of the Youzhou cavalry, this is the rhythm of revenge!
Ling Yi looked at the galloping cavalry and asked Hao Jun, "Second brother, where is Han Ce now?"
Hao Jun replied: "Han Ce has already set up camp here sixty miles away, even if it is only seventy miles away from the city of the extreme east!"
"He's here so quickly, this march is really fast, what is the situation of their infantry, do they have the strength to fight?"
"According to the scout's report, the Youzhou infantry is tired, but the momentum is in full swing, and they are already arranging their troops there, just waiting for the Northern Wilderness cavalry to attack!" Hao Jun replied.
"How can this be? Even if we don't have horses, we should be very tired from arriving in three days by footsteps, more than two hundred miles?" Ling Yi asked strangely.
"This is unknown, maybe this Han Ce has his own way!" Hao Jun replied.
Ling Yi pondered for a while, and said to Hao Jun: "Second brother will send scouts again to see what their situation is, doesn't he know that the soldiers and horses in Youzhou are tired?"
"Got it!" Hao Jun nodded, indicating that he understood.
From Ling Yi to the time when they expected to fight, nothing has developed in the direction they expected, originally thought that the Youzhou cavalry would be trapped in the mountains and ambushed, but only 10,000 cavalry broke the predicament in the mountains and mountains.
Han Ce's large army was not idle, according to the scout report, even if the Northern Wilderness cavalry attacked now, it might not be able to break through Han Ce's infantry phalanx, as long as the infantry was in formation, it would be difficult for the cavalry to break through.
In this battle, Han Ce taught Ling Yi a lesson, this tactical arrangement is really important, otherwise, it will be a different ending. According to Ling Yi's deduction, in this battle, Youzhou will definitely be defeated in the first battle, and it is possible that the Youzhou War will be lost, who would have thought that Han Ce would successfully save the situation and hold the first victory on the battlefield in his own hands!
"You say, what will Han Ce do next?" Ling Yi looked at the cavalry in the distance and asked the brothers behind him!
"This ......" No one spoke, things on the battlefield are changing rapidly, let them see it with their own eyes today, and no one dares to speak for a while.
"Hou Aoxuan, can you tell me?" Ling Yi found that no one answered, looked back at everyone's embarrassed faces, and asked Hou Aoxuan.
Hou Aoxuan's face turned red, and he waved his hand again and again: "I'm just a half-ass, don't ask me, it's a big shame!"
"What's the matter, no more confidence?" Ling Yi asked with a smile.
"This has been slapped in the face, who still has self-confidence? Just like Han Ce said, I am the heart of the cholera army!"
Ling Yi looked at Hou Aoxuan's depressed appearance and said with relief: "Don't be depressed, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, don't worry too much about gains and losses, your analysis is actually reasonable, but it's not comprehensive enough, at least you are better than us, we can't even keep up with your thinking!"
"Don't comfort me, I'll remember the lesson, the first time I made a fool of myself, I know my shortcomings, I will work harder!" Hou Aoxuan was originally depressed, but he instantly became excited.
"Yes, you are still young, don't you look at what age this Han Ce is, at his age, he has lived a human life! When you reach his age, you are definitely more refined than him!" Sun Ze also interjected to comfort Hou Aoxuan!
"Instructor, are you so encouraging? You are the human spirit!" Hou Aoxuan did not sink into the blow, and had already regained his smile!
"Okay, it should be like this today, send scouts to investigate more, let's find a place to set up camp!" Ling Yi said as he looked at the Northern Wilderness cavalry that had withdrawn.
"That's all it can be!" Hao Jun nodded, and they turned on their horses and retreated down the hill!
Until the evening, the Youzhou cavalry was no longer provoking the city of the extreme east, and the city of the extreme east did not go out of the city to pursue!
Ling Yi and the others rested for the night, but the Youzhou army took advantage of the night to advance another thirty miles, and successfully set up camp forty miles away from the city in the extreme east.
Han Ce's goal is halfway accomplished. Originally, he was going to kill all the way to the city of the extreme east, who would have thought that without much effort, he would kill here, although there were conspiracies and tricks in the Northern Wilderness, but he was resolved one by one!
Looking at the flames of the Far Eastern City that could be faintly seen in the distance, Han Ce smiled confidently: "This time thanks to those boys, if it weren't for their intelligence, I really wouldn't have gone so smoothly!"
The captain of the pro-guard beside him said to Han Ce: "It's still the general who has vision, if I kill them all according to my ideas, it won't be so easy now!"
"They are Wei Zhi's lackeys, killing must be killed, but they have to be reused, why not use them if they have free labor?"
"The general is wise!"
"Don't be a sycophant, go and invite the other legion commanders over!" Han Ce commanded to the guards.
The captain of the pro-guard hurriedly went to give the order!
After a while, all the heroic generals and lieutenants arrived in the camp!
Their faces were filled with excited smiles, although this battle was only a small victory, but it boosted morale!
"Don't be happy too early, this time it was someone who passed on the information to us, so that we had a turnaround, if we hadn't known the deployment of the Northern Wilderness in advance, do you think today's battle would be so easy?" Han Ce reined in the arrogance of the generals!
"Yes!"
"Alright, let's talk about today!"
The overnight meeting was held until dawn, and the generals dispersed, so Han Ce lay down to rest for a while, and said to the captain of the guard, "Wake me up if there is something", and lay down comfortably on the bed!
In the early morning, the sun was outcropping, and the cavalry, infantry, and crossbow soldiers of Youzhou were dispatched one after another, although not the whole army attacked, but there were also 50,000 horses to attack the city in the extreme east, just like yesterday, they just lured the enemy, and did not attack the city at all!
Another 50,000 troops attacked the mountains, mostly crossbowmen and infantry, and very few cavalry!
Lingyi and they were still watching the battle on the hillside yesterday, and today's steady advance of 50,000 troops surrounded the mountain range, only to see the crossbowmen behind the infantry, and every time they advanced a distance, they carried out an arrow attack on the mountain range in front.
Steadily advancing step by step, until this mountainous area was turned upside down by the Youzhou army, it was determined that there were no ambushes in the Northern Wilderness!
This result was also guessed by Ling Yi, the ambush of the Northern Wilderness army in the mountains was nothing more than to take it by surprise, but now that the conspiracy has been discovered by Youzhou, it is natural that it will not stay here to blow the cold wind!
A day passed like this, Youzhou was only provoking the defenders in the city this day, and did not attack the city at all, and neither side took other means of attack except for arrow attacks.
Ling Yi and they watched the battle for a day, and they didn't know what Han Ce's plans were, and they didn't see a heroic general commanding this day, they were all deputy generals there!
This situation lasted for five days, Youzhou did not attack the city, the city of the extreme east did not fight, and the two sides seemed to have discussed it, and there was no excesses!
That night, Ling Yi and they gathered together as usual to analyze the battle situation, but there was nothing to discuss, in the first two days, they fantasized every day that Youzhou would launch an attack on the city the next day, and then the Northern Wilderness counterattacked, and the two sides launched an offensive and defensive battle in the city of the Far East, but everything was not the plot that Ling Yi imagined, nothing happened.
The soldiers of Youzhou generally shouted in front of the city of the Far East after completing the task, but they did not attack.
The soldiers of the Northern Wilderness also dealt with the general random shooting of a few arrows, and there was no intention of counterattacking at all, let alone opening the city to meet the battle.
"You say, what does Han Ce want to do? When the morale was high when he won the first battle before, why didn't he forcibly attack the city in one go?" Ling Yi asked, this is not the first time he has asked this question!
Naturally, no one in the crowd knew, and they were also asking this question.
"We can only wait and see, today I have information here to talk to everyone!" Ling Yi saw that everyone didn't have anything to say, and went straight to the next topic!
"What information?" the others asked!
Ling Yi replied: "Today, the herald came back and said that there were traces of the cavalry of the Northern Wilderness outside the North Coast Pass, and it seemed that they were about to attack the North Coast Pass in the near future. ”
"Beiweiguan?" Everyone was puzzled, not knowing why Beihuang didn't understand the siege of the city in the extreme east, but turned to attack Beiweiguan.
"How many troops are there?" Hao Jun asked.
"Judging from the tents and the fires in the morning and evening, it should be three to forty thousand troops!" replied Ling Yi!
Hou Aoxuan frowned, thinking by himself, and then slowly spoke: "Could it be that they are afraid that Beiwei Pass will also send troops, so they are stationed there?"
Now there is only this explanation!