Chapter 168: Two Rivers
The reaction of these four roads was quickly detected by the flying army's back flag, and it was rushed to Zhang Chong, who was high in the rear line. Originally, Zhang Chong planned to divide his troops into another part of the army to go to Mu County to block the possible attack of Langya State.
But this was stopped by He Kui, who lived in Dongguan, Langya Country, and knew the situation in Langya Country very well. He told Zhang Chong that this Langya State Prime Minister Tan Mo is a situation of defending the territory, and he will not take the initiative to attack for the Han Court.
Because Tan Mo's uncle Tan Fu was beaten into the general of the Yu Dang, and was a member of the party "Eight Jun", as his nephew, Tan Mo has not been trusted, if he hadn't gone through the path of Jiangxia An Lu Huang, how could he have been released from Yilang to Langya as the minister of state.
In addition, because the Shanyang Fangqiu Tan clan from Langya Xiang Tan Mo was originally a small family in the micro door, and was known to be despised by the big surnames in the county, even the backward members of some forces were willing to be filial piety for him. As far as He Kui knows, a man named Zhao Yu in the same county, thirteen and has a filial name, and he was educated in "Ram Spring and Autumn", when Tan Mo wanted to recommend him to be filial piety, but Zhao Yu refused, just because he looked down on Tan Mo and didn't want to take him as the master. Therefore, with Tan Mo's prestige in Langya Country, he is reluctant to defend the territory, let alone enterprising.
Hearing these secrets, Zhang Chong suddenly realized. So, you see, this is the advantage of having an insider, and there are many things that outsiders don't know about at all, and they can't see through it. And the insiders know Mi Xin, and they can make it clear in a few words, and they can make a correct judgment for Zhang Chong. This is also why it is difficult to praise the talent of painting in the countryside, no matter how endowed it is, that is, it lacks this kind of insider vision of the upper class. Some things, seen from a layer apart, are often very different from the reality.
Since Langya doesn't need to think much about this road, it is mainly Jibei Road in the north, Luguo Road in the northwest, and Junnan Road in the west.
From the analysis of the letters of the chief officials of these three roads, Chen Qi of Jibei was born in a famous family, with the strongest honor, the strongest troops, and the most supportive surname. On the contrary, although Chen Yibu, the prime minister of Lu, seemed to have taken the initiative to cross Surabaya, he reported with his back to the flag, the flag was scattered, and the soldiers were scattered. The flag-bearers caught a few woodcutters, but they didn't find them for a long time. It can be seen that the coach is enterprising, but he is also powerless. As for the powerful coalition army in the south of Taishan County, to put it mildly, Zhang Chong did not regard it as a place all the way, he did not know how many times he had fought this so-called powerful coalition army since the establishment of the army, he had already discovered this kind of coalition nature of the troops, the problem is that the orders are different, each has a ghost, and under the mutual constraint, nothing can be accomplished.
Combined with the analysis of the front-line intelligence and the character of the enemy's main general, Zhang Chong boldly asserted that the direction of Snake Hill would probably take the initiative to attack the Ding Sheng and Wang Zhang divisions of the Taishan Army in Bo County. And Chen Yibu, who has been stationed on the east bank of Surabaya, will still choose to stay where he is.
They estimated that they would hold Qufu, that is, the Surabaya ferry outside Lu County, and hold the Surabaya waterway, so that they could hold the northern countries of Yuzhou, because Surabaya is an inland river originating from Mengshan, and its topography is high in the northeast and low in the southwest, so Surabaya passes through Mengshan, passes through Lu State, Rencheng State, Pei State, Pengcheng State, Xiapi Country and then connects to Huaishui and enters the sea together. It can be said that if the Surabaya waterway is lost, with the maneuver of the waterway, the offensive of the Taishan thieves will violently invade the entire Huaisi area. ….
Since Jibei will attack and Lu will defend, the scheduling of this battle will be simple. Zhang Chong just gave him a left attack and right defense, striking at the direction of Lu State, and holding on to Bo County on the right. Wait for him to break the enemy on the side of the Lu State, and then attack the enemy of the Jibei State under the city of Dunbing Bo County from the flank.
It was calculated that on the fourth day of the first month of March, Zhang Chong's expanded assault cavalry of 800 troops marched out of Fenggao, passed through the passes of Culai Mountain and Lianhua Mountain, and launched an attack on the Lu soldiers on the east bank of Surabaya, 200 miles away.
At the same time, the Dian Wei Department and Guo Liangbu led a thousand old soldiers from Fenggao to reinforce Boxian County in the north.
A war along the intercontinental land of Surabaya and Boon Shui is on the verge of breaking out, also known as the Battle of the Two Rivers.
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The sun overhead is gradually sinking in the west.
A cavalry had just crossed the rugged mountain road behind them and entered a plain. The wind rose, and the flags behind the knights made the sound of hunting.
Among the many flags, there is the tallest flag, which is plated with a layer of golden light in the afterglow of the sunset.
That's right, this is Zhang Chong who came out of Fenggao this afternoon. He took eight hundred horsemen and rode through the mouth of the valley without hurrying, and was not in a hurry to attack. The key to this battle is to be strange, not to be urgent. The Lu soldiers on the east bank of Surabaya have always planned to be stationed there, and with the reinforcements of Ding Sheng and others and Dian Wei, Bo County is not so easy to fight. So Zhang Chong doesn't have to race against time, but more importantly, he wants to be hidden.
For this reason, Zhang Chong has sent 26 teams of sentinel cavalry on the front road, with two people in each team, to reconnoiter 26 miles before and after, just to be able to kill the probe horses on the dock walls along the way in time.
At this time, Zhang Chongzheng and Tian Jun were talking:
"It's very useful, you have been a cavalry commander for so long, do you have any understanding of the way of cavalry?"
As soon as Tian Jun heard this, he immediately stood up and said to Qu Kui:
"Great use and dullness, although there is a military camp academy teaching, but it can be summed up in a 'strange,'"
Zhang Chong smiled and asked Tian Jun to explain:
"Sun Tzu Youyun: The advantage of cavalry is to cover its food, cut off its military routes, defeat its Jinguan, and send its bridges. My conclusion is to avoid the real and make up for the false, with the speed of the cavalry, by surprise, burning its accumulation, plundering its fields, and cutting off its grain routes. In addition, the cavalry is more advantageous when pursuing victory."
Listening to Tian Jun's words, Zhang Chong nodded from time to time, indicating that Tian Jun was already a qualified rider in this world. But it wasn't enough, he didn't know that the cavalry had its right.
Zhang Chong waved his horsewhip and pointed to Tian Jun:
"Dayong, you are good, you can say this, it can be seen that you have your heart. The cavalry is also called the clutch soldier, can be separated and combined, can disperse and gather, a hundred miles for a period of time, thousands of miles away, in and out of the seamless, hence the name of the clutch soldier. But that's only the second level of understanding the way of cavalry."
"The second floor?"
"That's right, I've divided the way of riding into three layers. This layer is to regard the cavalry as a regular soldier, and to attack and charge the soldiers of the army formation, not to use the swiftness of the cavalry, but to use the fierce impact of the cavalry. With such a horse, it will not take a few battles to finish the cavalry. And the cost of one ride, ten households raise. Such a brutal fight is that the gold and silver sea at home will also be wiped out. Moreover, once this kind of tactic encounters a strict military formation, it will be knocked out of the head and bleeding. In the beginning, because the army was looking for a longer attack width, the cavalry could break through this gap. Often you hear that whoever takes the lead and breaks several heavy formations, which is the kind of sparse formation that is broken. But you must know that the enemy will also change from time to time, and if you know that you use assault cavalry, then the enemy will choose to form a dense formation after the sparse formation, and the cavalry that breaks through will be dead at that time. ….
And the second level of the realm of cavalry is what you said, with cavalry as a surprise soldier. Rushing forward, galloping long distances, sparing the enemy's strong positions, interspersed with important strongholds behind the enemy, Jinguan, and cutting off its grain routes. Ordinary riders can have this understanding and are already qualified. But this was only a lame leg, and only the cavalry maneuver was used and the cavalry shock was lost.
So the third layer is the way of righteousness. Even the sharp attacks and furious attacks of the cavalry can be used at will. The specific tactic is to be able to attack and harass the infantry formation, surprise and rush straight into the formation, and at the same time can decisively intersperse and cut off its reinforcements according to the changes in the battlefield situation. And all of this needs to be pondered by the rider."
After speaking, Zhang Chong patted Tian Jun, which means that you study hard, and I have high expectations for you.
The sky was getting darker, just as Zhang Chong was about to give the order, everyone rode off their horses and prepared to camp on the spot. In the distance, the Malay newspaper with the flag on his back:
"The first one in front of me is riding an army with a banner of 'sheep' and the word 'sheep', and he is coming along this road, and there are five hundred people under the banner."
The cavalry who sent the letter was wearing two gears of armor, with a capable temperament, sharp and bloody, but he was high-spirited, Zhang Chong looked at this person, was he not Yan Gang, the brother of Yan Kongmu, who had just joined the army.
The advantages of this young general's cavalry battle are all counted in Zhang Chong's cavalry, and seeing it at this moment, it is obvious that he has fought the enemy. He asked Yan Gang how many enemies he had killed.
The fluff on Yan Gang's mouth is still there, and he can already be strong:
"Shoot two horses, pick one ride, it's not worth mentioning."
Hearing this, Zhang Chong laughed and praised it, it's not worth mentioning.
At this moment, the five hundred enemy horsemen in front had already raised the speed of their horses, and Zhang Chong immediately gave an order to let the officers listen to the sound of the horn, and the whole army presented a zigzag conical formation, began to raise the speed of the horses, and gradually accelerated.
It was also when Zhang Chong led the cavalry to adjust the horse's speed to the highest
On the square horizon, a cavalry army also jumped out. I saw that in the smoke and dust, they were spears and halberds, and the flags were flying, and they were rushing towards Zhang Chongjun in this gradually dimming world.
Obviously, when Zhang Chong's sentry horse discovered them, they also discovered the Taishan army, so they directly charged the whole army. But what is more obvious is that they do not know that at this moment they are not charging an infantry army, but a cavalry army that is the same as them, but more elite than them.
Zhang Chong had a good vision, and after only a glance at the front, he found that the other party was a light soldier, because half of the dozen or so horsemen who rushed to the front on the opposite side were not wearing armor. You must know that generally speaking, in order to improve the impact power, the front row is concentrated with the armor of the whole army, and now the platoon leader of this soldier can't even get together the pure armor, either for the sneak attack of the light soldiers and lost it, or it is too late to wear it.
And what about Zhang Chong's side? Eight hundred cavalry, eight hundred armor, all of them were in a big car, and immediately with bows and bags on their backs, they were fully armed.
When the two armies intersected and there were about five hundred paces, the cavalry on the opposite side could see clearly what kind of cavalry was rushing towards them, and they were frightened and lowered their horses.
This release, in such a charge, is over.
Zhang Chong played the bone flute, and the cavalry behind him drew the bow and shot, and then fired three arrows in the gap, and the opposite side was caught off guard and cut down like wheat.
Then the two armies collided together, Zhang Chong as the arrow, there was no enemy under his command, Ma Jin cut off six heads in a row, and he penetrated the enemy cavalry.
After that, the two armies turned around and rushed to the second one. At this moment, Zhang Chong naturally fell last, and the first was the young general Yan Gang.
Yan Gang was also aware of this situation, the first time he participated in this kind of large-scale cavalry battle, the previous impact was meant to slow down the horse's speed, and when the rush was finished, he fell last.
And now as soon as the horse's head is adjusted, Yan Gang has directly become the leader of this rush. As the head of the battle, the leader of the platoon shoulders what a heavy responsibility, and how Yan Gang, a recruit, has taken on such a heavy responsibility, and his mind is directly blank.
Looking at the suspicious gazes of the robes on both sides, Yan Gang's whole body couldn't stop trembling:
"What to do."
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