Chapter 410: The Decisive Battle of Bianzhou: It's Finally Here!
On a real battlefield, when the commanders of both armies are not wastes, and the armies are not straw bales, it is almost impossible to play any tricks.
Once, Guo Rong thought that the battle of Xiangji Temple was unprecedented.
However, under the influence of various strange factors, in the area of Xingsheng and Daicun sixty or seventy miles east of Bianzhou, two armies that were larger than the battle of Xiangji Temple seemed to have started another Yuanhe version of the "Battle of Xiangji Temple". ”
At the earliest, Guo Rong set the policy of exchanging space for time, and then led the counterinsurgency army to set up camp groups in the areas of Xingsheng, Daicun, and Zhuzhai.
Then the main force of the Hebei rebels began to attack the camp group preset by Guo Rong.
Under Guo Rong's arrangement, the rebels will successfully take Xingsheng, and then continue to advance and further fall into the trap set by Guo Rong.
The rebels, under the command of Pei Mingren, the commander of Lu Longjun's army, set an offensive route of advancing in the middle, flying with both wings and advancing in three directions, preparing to annihilate the men and horses of the imperial court in one fell swoop.
However, an earth-shattering, ghost-frightening explosion made the plans of both sides completely scrapped.
Guo Rong sent the last mobile force in his hands, and Pei Mingren sent follow-up reinforcements.
As the last mobile force that Guo Rong could use at hand, the reserve of the Changying Army, which was two thousand mixed formations, lived up to expectations, and a wave of charges directly defeated more than twice as many Hebei rebels.
It's just that the person who directly confronts Guo Rong is neither a straw bag nor a mediocre talent, but a veteran who has commanded an army of more than 100,000 troops.
When Guo Rong was adjusting according to the battle situation, Pei Mingren also began to mobilize troops and horses in advance according to his estimate of the battle situation.
So, before the reserves sent by Guo Rong could continue to attack, thousands of people appeared on the north and south sides of the Xingsheng camp and began to outflank the reserves that had just won from both flanks.
What's even worse is that while the two wings are outflanking, Pei Mingren also sacrifices the oldest but most practical method, and under the effect of the butcher's knife and the bounty, the defeated rebel army is also reorganized.
The rebels, numbering more than twenty thousand, pressed from three directions to the reserves, numbering only two thousand.
Rao is combat effectiveness is good, discipline is strict, and Huang Hankai is not arrogant enough that he can rely on two thousand people to face countless rebels in three directions.
Fortunately, long before the attack, Guo Rong gave Huang Hankai the target of the battle, but did not stipulate the way to fight to the death, let alone require that he must attack to the end.
Seeing the approach of the enemy forces on three routes, in order to avoid being directly surrounded, Huang Hankai immediately ordered the attacking reserve to turn around, with the infantry in front and the cavalry behind, and quickly fought and retreated.
At this moment, the second support army sent by Guo Rong, and the thousands of foot soldiers who were originally responsible for guarding Dai Zun under the command of Meng Gan had already followed.
In this way, the front fought and retreated, and the rear quickly followed, and the two soldiers and horses quickly combined together.
After the two armies converged, the rear road was guarded by the Mengqian Division, so as not to be outflanked, but the whole team still kept retreating, but the speed of retreat had slowed down.
At the same time, the pursuing Hebei rebels also inadvertently slowed down the speed of the pursuit, but although the speed slowed down, they always maintained contact.
In the case that the hope of total annihilation was already slim, and he did not receive Pei Mingren's follow-up order from behind, no one was willing to go out and fight to the death with those Changying troops in front who looked inconspicuous, but fought more ruthlessly than the other.
In this way, when the main generals of the two sides did not order to follow up because of the mobilization of troops and horses, there was a strange tacit understanding in the open space between the two large camps of Xingsheng and Daicun, which were less than ten miles apart.
At first glance, the 6,000 Changying Army in front maintained a formation and fought and retreated, while the more than 20,000 Hebei Army in the back maintained a formation and pursued closely.
But in reality, the two sides have maintained a state of separation.
When the two armies were anxious, Pei Mingren had already entered the prosperous camp, and observed the real situation on the battlefield with the help of the slightly higher terrain of the camp.
In the other direction, Guo Rong walked down the watchtower of Daicun, waiting for the third batch of reinforcements in the rear on the one hand, and Xiao Junpeng on the other hand, waiting for Xiao Junpeng to arrive.
Then, when Guo Rong will briefly transfer to the battlefield.
At this time, the two coaches, Pei Mingren and Guo Rong, found this extremely abnormal state on the battlefield.
Looking at the tacit understanding between the soldiers on both sides on the battlefield, the two coaches were in a state of crying and laughing.
The 20,000 horses that were originally used as a backup force were sent out by Pei Mingren at the first time, however, only more than 20,000 people followed up, which obviously could not meet Pei Mingren's appetite.
The two parts together are only 50,000 people.
If the other party chooses to die, 50,000 people are enough to kill all the thousands of forbidden troops who attacked.
Then, Pei Mingren saw the tacit understanding on the battlefield, and it was obvious that although the forbidden army could eat, it was obviously not a rice bucket, so he chose to retreat slowly.
Although Pei Mingren was very annoyed by the tacit understanding on the battlefield, after thinking about it carefully, he neither got angry nor ordered some of the pursuing men to speed up the pursuit.
Because of this tacit understanding, Pei Mingren thought that he had found an opportunity to completely overthrow the forbidden army and reverse the occupation in the first war.
His next goal was to attack, and he was willing to tacit understanding on the battlefield, so he just drew heavy troops from the rear to pursue and suppress the thousands of forbidden troops.
As long as the contact is maintained, these thousands of people will definitely not be able to run, bad luck, take down thousands of people to try to attack, if the other party tries to return to the camp of the forbidden army, it will be even more perfect, which is equivalent to directly giving himself the possibility of taking down the opponent in one fell swoop and taking Guo Rong.
Guo Rong was the real core of the rebellion sent by the imperial court to Shandong.
As long as Guo Rong is killed, it means that the entire Shandong power belonging to the imperial court will collapse.
In order to achieve this goal, Pei Mingren's 30,000 Lulong from the rear camp were mobilized, and in addition, Pei Mingren also transferred troops to the troops and horses led by Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun on the north and south sides.
Although Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun were unwilling to put their men in Pei Mingren's hands and become cannon fodder.
However, both of them were also people who understood the situation, so they quickly cooperated with Pei Mingren's order and transferred 10,000 people from each wing to Pei Mingren's hands.
This made Pei Mingren's direct use of troops rapidly swelled to nearly 100,000.
Compared with Pei Mingren, Guo Rong's purpose is actually not small, because his purpose was to settle the Central Plains in a war from the beginning.
At this moment, Guo Rong is even more delaying time until his killer feature arrives.
Although Guo Rong could not see the 30,000 soldiers and horses who followed up from the rear and the 20,000 troops reinforced by Zhang Shaozhang and Zhong Xianjun to Pei Mingren.
However, Guo Rong could see that Pei Mingren's first batch of more than 20,000 people had gradually followed.
From the eagerness of these 20,000 people, Guo Rong can roughly deduce that Pei Mingren has the idea of working hard and finishing his work in one battle.
Since Pei Mingren wants to attack and wants to do everything, then just let him come like this, if it wasn't for his attack, why would he build three dozens of battalions in a row.
More importantly, although the number of rebels is large, under the continuous pursuit, the pursuing rebels no longer have any formation to speak of.
At that time, Guo Rong even thought of taking advantage of the opponent's time difference and the defensive facilities in the camp to give the other party a little bit first, knock down the morale and will of their vanguard, and then counterattack back.
After all, in addition to the primary purpose, Guo Rong did not forget the earth-shattering explosion, and he did not dare to let the technology that scared him fall into the hands of the rebels.
As a result, Guo Rong did not have any supplementary orders for the soldiers and horses who fought and retreated.
Considering their prediction of the battle situation and the subsequent arrangement, the two commanders also maintained an amazing tacit understanding and acquiesced to the two armies marching slowly towards Daicun.
In the process of wits and intrigue between the two coaches, the situation on the battlefield has changed further.
In the center of the battlefield, the two teams that maintained a tacit understanding were still slowly marching towards the camp of the Changying Army on behalf of the village, and behind the two teams of tacit understanding was a Hebei army of more than 20,000 people who steadily followed.
Further back, with the help of the clairvoyant mirror, Guo Rong had already seen the continuous appearance from the rear and the two wings, constantly coming towards the center of the battlefield.
At this point, Guo Rong has confirmed his guess, and the other party has indeed made a wave of ideas to kill him.
It's just that at this time, Guo Rong no longer dares to be too big, after all, the number of rebels visible to the naked eye alone exceeds seventy or eighty thousand.
And the back part is still slowly transporting siege equipment to the front, although it is not as professional and convenient as that of the Changying Army, but it is indeed a standard Tang Army supplies.
The previous two battalions changed hands because of these continuous siege equipment, so that all the defenses were destroyed, otherwise......
Otherwise, it will be more difficult to seduce the other party yourself......
Guo Rong would welcome it before, but now with the secret of the explosion, Guo Rong felt a little helpless.
According to this trend, and the strength of the other party, it may not be convenient to use a small opportunity to counterattack, of course, if there is an opportunity, Guo Rong still hopes to discuss the assault.
Of course, from another point of view, it is not all bad news for Guo Rong.
After taking the Xingsheng Battalion, the opponent did not pause and directly attacked his No. 3 Battalion with all his might, which shows that the opponent did not have time to study the cause of the violent explosion in the Xingsheng Battalion.
In other words, the other party's mind is not on the gunpowder he is worried about at all, which also gives himself some buffer time.
What's more, at this time, the reinforcements brought by Zhe Muyu have arrived.
This team of about 4,000 people is a mixture of wounded and civilian soldiers, and they go directly to participate in hard-fought battles that are meaningless to find death, but they are very suitable for defense.
With the support of these 4,000 men and horses, and the addition of more than 1,000 ordinary soldiers, it is enough to support the Daicun camp to hold out for at least one day.
This is equivalent to directly liberating the thousands of elites who need to shoulder the responsibility of defense, giving Guo Rong the possibility of launching a counterattack.
Soon, Guo Rong took up his old job, and while waiting for the follow-up people, he began to personally command the entire defense of Dai Village.
Half an hour later, the retreating Huang Hankai + Menggan headquarters were less than two miles away from the Daicun camp, and at the same time, the two Hebei rebels pursuing them were also merged into one.
As a result, the ratio between the two sides has once again reached nearly ten to one.
Under this ratio, if they choose to accelerate from both wings, it is theoretically possible to surround and then gather and annihilate.
It's just that the two rebels that have been combined into one have neither the intention of speeding up nor outflanking, but have been hanging behind Huang Hankai + Meng Qian's department, still maintaining that state of imminent departure.
From Pei Mingren's point of view, Guo Rong can actually make only two choices at this time.
First, in order to ensure the stability of the camp, even if the thousands of Changying troops outside were wiped out, the camp gate must not be opened.
Second, Guo Rong couldn't bear the pressure in front of humanity and interests, and finally opened the camp gate in order to rescue thousands of people outside.
As long as Guo Rong of Daicun dares to open the door of the Daicun camp, these guys will enter the camp at the first time, and when the time comes, Guo Rong will only be empty of people and money.
In fact, even Guo Rong had to admire such a proper conspiracy, but Pei Mingren's self-belief that he would put Guo Rong in a dilemma was just a conspiracy in Guo Rong's eyes, and it was not enough to make Guo Rong completely at a loss.
In terms of defense, Guo Rong's experience is too rich, Rao is a ratio of ten to one, Guo Rong is still confident to welcome his elites back.
What's more, Xiao Junpeng's plan to play with gunpowder has also arrived.
Before they arrived, Guo Rong had high expectations at first, but later on, as the goals and plans changed, Guo Rong already regretted letting them come over.
So, when Xiao Junpeng and the others arrived, they saw Guo Rong who was commanding the deployment.
After Guo Rong, who was busy, saw Xiao Junpeng and the others, he quickly called out the reason for them.
However, listening to Guo Rong's narration and listening to the violent explosion, it was fine at first, but later, when Guo Rong talked about his worries, the faces of Xiao Junpeng and the others were covered with an indescribable weirdness.
Seeing the performance of Xiao Junpeng and others, Guo Rong once felt that he was not insane.
However, Xiao Junpeng did not like the habit of procrastination, and said directly.
"General, if I'm not mistaken, the person you're looking for is in the camp!"
Guo Rong was stunned when he said this.
"What?"
"General, the genius you are looking for is in Zhuzhai!"
After some explanation, Guo Rong had an embarrassment of riding a donkey to find a donkey.
However, this embarrassment did not last long, and after determining that the secret would not be known by the opponent, Guo Rong, who was completely relieved, put all his energy into the defensive battle.
In order to give the opponent as much confidence and hope as possible, under the direct command of Guo Rong, the camp gate of Daicun was opened, and the thousands of elites who were followed all the way slowly withdrew.
Seeing the opening of the camp gate of Daicun Village, Pei Mingren and nearly 100,000 Hebei rebels went crazy in an instant.
The 50,000 people, who were the vanguard, immediately began to rush towards the camp gate, and the latter also began to accelerate towards Daicun.
Pei Mingren himself moved his handsome flag again.
On both sides of the main line of defense of Xingsheng-Daicun-Zhuzhai, the Xuanwu-Huaixi Army also slowly abandoned the second line of defense parallel to Xingsheng according to the previous agreement, so that the rebels on both flanks also marched highly.
However, just as they were marching forward, a group of routers, or messengers, from west to east, finally arrived.