Chapter 409: Bianzhou Decisive Battle: Climax!
With the orders of the commanders of both sides, the two armies were quickly mobilized.
After receiving the order from Guo Rong, Guo Rong took great pains to mount a reserve of 2,000 people from wounded soldiers, engineers, logistics, cooking and other auxiliary soldiers, and even from staff officers and logistics civilian officers, and then rushed to the direction of the prosperous battalion as fast as possible.
Almost at the same moment, after discovering that the forbidden army had attacked, the Hebei army, which had wandered back beyond the prosperous camp, quickly entered and passed through the camp that had almost been reduced to ruins, and their target was the 2,000 reserves sent by Guo Rong ruthlessly.
By this time, there was no force that could prevent two Tang armies of different subordinates from colliding together in the most tragic situation.
In short, under the combined effect of various factors, as the prosperous battalion changed hands, the fighting that should have been stopped not only did not stop, but became a climax of the entire battlefield.
However, it is precisely this completely unexpected battle that shows the real gap between the two armies vividly.
Strictly speaking, the Lu Long Army, with Yan and Zhao's hometown as the main soldiers, can definitely be regarded as a strong army even if it is not the leader in the entire Tang Dynasty.
However, in the decades after the Anshi Rebellion, most of the feudal army, including Lu Longjun, had been corrupted by the military discipline of most of the feudal army, and in a sense, it had completely become a mercenary army that took money to fight.
The factors that maintain combat effectiveness have changed from military appearance, military discipline, honor, and training to military salaries and personal prestige.
In normal times, when fighting smoothly, relying on the personal prestige and quality of their respective military schools, they can also assemble into a formation and display their good combat effectiveness in a calm and unhurried situation.
In the face of foreign races, in the face of the feudal army with worse military discipline and training, the Lu Long army can maintain a good overwhelming advantage, maintain a super high victory rate and an overwhelming advantage.
When facing the defensive state of the Changying Army, it is necessary to rely on high bounties and the butcher's knife of the overseer team, and it can also be maintained at a high casualty rate without collapsing.
However, in the purely accidental encounter in front of them, the way they maintained their combat effectiveness was insufficient.
The Changying Army they encountered directly was completely different from them.
All personnel in the Changying Army, whether they are soldiers, professional auxiliaries, military academies, staff officers, cooks, coachmen, or even civilian personnel in charge of calculations in the logistics battalion, must go through the complete process of the Changying Army, including the completion of the queue, combat skills, specialization, and combat training, in order to become a member of the Changying Army.
If it can't be passed, even Guo Rong, who is the commander, or Li Yu, who is the emperor, can't let Changying's army be planted at will.
Moreover, passing the preliminary examination, training, and assessment is only the first step, and all active personnel who join the Changying Army, regardless of whether they are about to fight or not, what position, what type of troops, what time, and what place, must maintain the military discipline, training, and internal affairs of the Changying Army (Forbidden Army).
Guo Rong himself is not from PLA background, but Guo Rong has too many rabbit rules, norms, training and discipline in his mind.
Many people think that rabbits continue to have strict requirements for folding quilts as formalism, and think that instead of spending time on folding quilts, it is better to use them for training.
Although he didn't understand why the rabbit did this, but in line with the far-sighted worship of the instructors and the rabbits fought one after another immortal battles that shocked the world, Guo Rong incorporated the rabbit's regulations and internal affairs into the rules and regulations of the Changying Army and even the forbidden army from the beginning.
At first, Guo Rong really didn't understand, but as Guo Rong's time in the army became longer, the time he spent leading troops increased, his experience in leading soldiers increased, and the number of times he participated in battles accumulated, Guo Rong gradually understood the essence of these internal affairs regulations, which seemed to have no effect on the surface except for wasting time.
In fact, if Guo Rong knew enough about the military, he would know that after entering modernization, it was not only rabbits that had strict internal affairs regulations.
John Bull had to spend two hours a day shining his shoes and an hour ironing his clothes, which seemed harsh, but it was the easiest of the Big Five.
In addition to John Bull, the rabbit's tofu block, the fourteen-folded shirt of the Gallic chicken, the leather shoes that Eagle Sauce can be used as a mirror, the floor that the woolly bear brushes out with his teeth, and the housekeeping regulations of the five hooligans are more perverted than the other.
One is endurance, willpower, patience, and carefulness, and the other is the habit of absolute obedience.
The biggest difference between the modern army and the ancient army is this, it is precisely because of these seemingly cumbersome and meaningless behaviors of laymen that the modern army is more organized and disciplined, and there are professional soldiers who are easier to mass-produce.
In peacetime, this kind of training and habits, in the event of such an unexpected situation in front of them, the two armies behaved very differently.
Seeing the Hebei army rushing out of the Xingsheng battalion, the two thousand reserves sent by Guo Rong were not afraid.
Pei Song, the officer leading the team, observed the battle situation, and when Guo Rong had no follow-up orders, he immediately made a judgment and then issued an order.
After receiving Pei Song's order, the commanders of each detachment under Pei Song quickly conveyed the decomposed order according to Pei Song's order, understood, summarized, and integrated.
Under the command of Pei Song, the commander of the Changying Military Academy, who was temporarily in charge, with more than 100 heavily armed cavalry at the front as the edge, he slowly accelerated and rushed directly into the battle formation of the rebels.
The remaining men in the reserve took advantage of the time gained by the heavy cavalry to dismount in advance and formed a formation under the command of their respective temporary military schools, with the soldiers in heavy armor and long soldiers in front of the formation, the long-range archers and crossbowmen in the rear, and the light infantry with shields following on both wings.
Although they come from different units, have different strengths, and have different types of troops, they have long been subject to military discipline and regulations, which make them habitually obey orders.
In this way, the entire reserve force of 2,000 people, layer by layer, level by level, has completed the process of determining strategic objectives, locking tactical targets, estimating the battlefield situation, and arranging the battlefield in the course of marching.
Compared with the efficient and orderly reserve sent by Guo Rong, the performance gap of the Hebei Army is more than one layer.
Pei Mingren's order was to attack first;
An explosion occurred during the immediate victory of the assault, and after the explosion everyone continued to attack according to the original order;
According to the order of the attack, he entered the camp that had become a ruin, and then came that Pei Mingren retreated from the order to avoid a second explosion;
Exit the main camp, send back outside the camp and immediately enter the main camp, and then attack and counterattack.
Under the tossing and turning, the original organization and discipline of the Hebei rebels were almost completely lost, and they all relied on Pei Mingren's orders and the butcher's knife of the supervising team to carry them out.
Although men poured into and out of the camp under command, this state of state that can only be described as a swarm of bees can obviously not be described in the word organized.
With just one face, with bravery, the hundreds of rebels who rushed to the front were overwhelmed by more than a hundred heavy cavalry under the direct command of Pei Song.
However, not all of them were waste, and there were also a significant part of the elite who took on the task of commanding the battlefield.
Pei Song formulated a strategy for the attack according to the current situation, and the direct commander of the battlefield in the rebel army will naturally make relative judgments.
And the idea of the commander of the rebel army was to rely on the superiority of numbers to let Pei Song lead the first part of the assault heavy cavalry into a heavy encirclement and carry out a siege.
The plan of the rebel commander was actually good, if the execution was strong enough and the reaction was fast enough, the more than 100 heavy cavalry who had already broken through into the rebels could easily fall into a siege.
However, the lack of organization made the rebels passive and sluggish.
On the opposite side of the rebels, after perceiving the conspiracy of the rebels, Pei Song did not hesitate to change his plan, and the heavy cavalry, which had already rushed into the rebels, no longer continued to advance forward, but fought separately, attacking and advancing towards the north and south.
Pei Song's change of giving up on cutting through the opponent and attacking to the north and south sides was obviously beyond the opponent's expectations, the opponent's pocket had obviously not been arranged, and the cavalry of more than a hundred people had already turned from outside the pocket, making the opponent's plan frustrated.
Not only that, while the rebels tried to encircle and suppress the heavy cavalry, the Changying army, which had dismounted in advance, had already formed a completed battle formation.
Taking advantage of the time gained by the cavalry, the infantry soldiers who had already formed a formation directly collided with the rebels who were scattered by the heavy cavalry.
One side is in a complete battle formation, the other side is chaotic and scattered, and the results of the battle speak for themselves.
A hedge, hundreds of rebels fell directly under the sword of the Changying Army's reserves, which were far less than them, under the blood and killing, and some of the rebel foot soldiers who were fighting against the Changying Army began to turn around and flee.
The performance of the rebels was seen in the eyes of the commander of the Changying Army on the battlefield, and without waiting for Pei Song to continue to order, the commander of the infantry battle formation immediately organized the infantry to change the formation, and under the condition of steady advancement, formed a salient unit with squads as a unit.
The fighting in the Bulge was unlimited, and their goal was to find every small rebel group that tried to launch a counterattack, and then take out those small groups.
Soon, these rebels, who had been organized in a difficult situation and had a relatively elite existence, were killed by the protrusions that had been improvised in the reserves of the Changying Army.
The counterattack that the other side finally tried to organize died in the womb, which directly led to the complete collapse of the rebel army after leaving the camp.
Immediately afterward, these small squad-based groups became the new offensive core of the Changying Army, and under their guidance, the reserve infantry of less than 2,000 men began to maintain formation and follow the pace of the rebels.
An encounter that should be evenly matched by anyone, in less than half an hour, in just two shots, it was already one-sided.
The situation on the battlefield looks good, and even Guo Rong has to praise Pei Zhi and his officers for their strain, but sometimes, it's not like you can win without making mistakes.
In more cases, I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain.
Originally, Guo Rong was worried that the reason for Mushroom Guyun would be grasped by the rebels, which would lead to a reversal of the entire battle situation, but after seeing the current situation on the battlefield, Guo Rong calmed down instead.
The other party's performance of collapse at the touch of a button is obviously not a conspiracy, and through this, Guo Rong has quieted down.
Guo Rong didn't know who was commanding the prosperous camp, but Guo Rong knew that the other party was definitely not a wine bag and rice bag.
The Changying Army is indeed elite, but this elite also has a limit, and the two thousand people sent by themselves may be able to defeat the first wave of enemy troops, but they are not omnipotent after all.
The defeat of the rebels in a frontal attack was a loss for the rebels, but it was not a loss for the size of the rebels.
The other side can launch an attack in the front, not necessarily so that more people can bypass both sides of the camp, once Pei Song's 2,000 people follow in, it is likely to be surrounded by the rebels in three ways.
At that time, there is a high probability that these two thousand people will die.
Once the 2,000 people are wiped out, it means that the last mobile team under Guo Rong's command that can be mobilized at will will disappear, and Guo Rong will only be left with passive space for time, and it also means that Guo Rong will completely lose the possibility of figuring out the explosion.
After a little brainstorm, Guo Rong knew that he couldn't afford this kind of loss.
Taking advantage of the fact that he is still in control of the initiative, Guo Rong decided without hesitation to continue to increase his troops and continue to grasp the initiative.
At this point in the battle, there was only one last force left in Guo Rong's hands that had not yet been used, that is, Guo Rongxue hid in Zhuzhai and never showed half of the cavalry regiment of the Changying Army.
It's just that half of the cavalry regiment is the last force that Guo Rong can use to counterattack, as long as he can't wait for his hope to arrive, Guo Rong will definitely not use it.
So Guo Rong's choice is only the last one.
Soon, the gate of the Daicun battalion, which had just been closed, was opened again, and the 3,000 foot soldiers who were responsible for guarding the Daicun battalion attacked under the leadership of Meng Gan.
These 3,000 people are the fundamental force for Guo Rong to maintain the initiative.
With the support of these 3,000 elite foot soldiers, even if they can't attack the Xingsheng battalion, they can at least guarantee that the reserve of less than 2,000 people will not be completely wiped out.
The places they left behind were filled by the medics, cooks, logistics, civilians, and staff officers in the camp.
At the same time, Guo Rong sent people to Zhu Zhai, his real base camp.
After Tan Zhong's first battle, Guo Rong gathered a total of more than 40,000 living civilians, and Guo Rong sent 3,000 people selected from the coerced civilians to conduct training and prepare to replenish the Changying army in the event of heavy losses.
At this moment, in the face of a crisis situation, Guo Rong couldn't care about their training being completed.
After Zhi Muyu returned to the camp, he first ordered 3,000 civilian troops to assemble, and then rushed into the field hospital in Zhuzhai to recruit every veteran who could still move with Guo Rong's orders.
In the face of Guo Rong's temporary call-up, all the wounded soldiers who could move responded quickly, and even Dong Jia, who was still half wrapped in gauze, struggled to get up from the hospital bed.
Then, 1,000 wounded soldiers of varying severity, 3,000 civilian recruits whose training had not yet been completed, were mixed together, and the wounded soldiers became the commanders of the team.
A team of 4,000 men quickly moved forward to support the Daicun battalion, which had become almost empty.
Just when Zhi Muyu was busy in the Zhuzhai camp in a hurry, Guo Rong was not idle, and transferred hundreds of people from the equipment soldiers and engineers who operated the equipment, and mixed the battlefield with the auxiliary soldiers who had been supplemented to the defense before.
Zhi Muyu sent the four thousand old and weak soldiers in the rear here, and Guo Rong would personally lead the people who had completed the mixed formation for the third time to move forward quickly.