The front line of the Zhenbei Army stretched along the slopes of the Zhongren Pavilion to both sides, about three miles.

So Lu Zhi rode his red dragon horse to the front line. In front of his subordinates, Lu Zhi no longer had the confusion and anxiety he had before, but was replaced by eternal self-confidence and majesty.

Like a teenager, he led his students through the mountains and tsunamis of the officials. Lu Zhi is still wearing the basin collar armor, the fiery red cloak, the crimson military uniform, and the jujube red horse, he is like a fire, about to burn out his vitality and awaken the fighting spirit of his subordinates.

Lu Zhi's students are also dressed like his teachers, almost all of them are the children of the powerful people in Youzhou, and they will shoulder the heavy responsibility of transmitting military information and protecting Lu Zhi in this battle.

They looked at their teacher with a majestic appearance, which was completely different from the image of the great Confucian when he waved the feather fan lightly in the past. But that's the teacher they wanted, a commander who would lead them to victory.

They were infected by Lu Zhi's enthusiasm, and they all showed their most unrestrained demeanor and followed the teacher to do the last encouragement before the war.

Lu Zhi ran happily in front of the battle, holding a horse whip in his hand, and every time he arrived at a battalion, he spun the cheers of a battalion.

When Lu Zhi took the gentleman's camp to the head of Li Min's camp, Tai Shici's affairs were in the forefront, so from beginning to end, he saw how much Lu Zhi won the hearts of the officials of the three armies.

The tsunami was a tsunami, and it was so moving. Tai Shi Ci was in this field, and the whole person trembled with excitement.

He excitedly said to the old Zheng on the side:

"The big husband should be like this, the big husband should be like this."

Tai Shi Ci repeated this sentence as if hysterical, not seeing Lao Zheng's face pale and lonely at all.

Lao Zheng muttered:

"Whoever wants to be a big husband will go, and our Lao Zheng wants to live."

……

In this battle of the Han army, there are almost more than 50 battalion heads, and if Du Ping reports to Lu Zhi, our commander will not be able to dispatch no matter how many staff groups and officer corps there are.

Therefore, Lu Zhi appointed a total of one deputy marshal and six parties to share the pressure of decision-making in the future.

In addition to Wei Duan, who was appointed as the deputy marshal, and the twenty battalions of the front slope of Jiedu, he himself also directly led the eight battalions. Then on the east side of the front slope, Zhou Zhong, the captain of the Yue cavalry, served as the east side, leading the first battalion and the fifth battalion. In the west, it was Wei Jie, the captain of Changshui, who was the party in the west, and also led the first battalion and the fifth battalion.

On the back slope, there are also three generals, namely Gongsun Zhan, the general of the eastern side, leading two battalions of cavalry and four battalions of infantry. On the western side, Li Min led the first battalion and the fifth battalion.

Then the rest of the Shooting Battalion, Zhang Chun's Assault Cavalry, Gongqi's Wuhuan Soldiers, and Gaofan's Bohai Euphorbia Warriors were all under the command of the Chinese army and were directly dispatched by Lu Zhi.

With these plus and minus two commanders and six members of the army in the future, the entire decision-making system of the Han army will be graded into three levels, each with its own belonging, and it is well organized.

After Lu Zhi ran around, he withdrew from Li Min's side to the front slope.

When he sat down calmly, Zheng Yi, who was holding a scepter on the side, clearly saw Lu Zhi's hand shaking. He only thought that the horse just now consumed Lu Zhi's physical energy, and he didn't expect that Lu Zhi was very panicked at this time.

After just one round, Lu Zhi had an intuitive understanding of the situation of his troops.

The first three platoons of each battalion are good, and they are all selected brave armorers. But as long as you pay attention to the back, you can see many soldiers nervously lying on the ground and vomiting.

Lu Zhi knew his own situation very well before the war, don't look at his more than 50,000 people, but in fact, the battalions were very uneven.

What reassured him was the core of the border army and the northern army, which numbered about 20,000 people. The rest is the battalion soldiers from various counties and counties that he recruited after withdrawing to Youzhou, about 30,000 more. Some of these men were brave and good at fighting, but most of the soldiers were inexperienced farmers.

Although the people of Youzhou are still martial, even children, women and children can go into battle. But recruits and veterans are different in the end, without experience in battle formations, ten percent of their skills can't be exerted.

Then there is the cavalry, which Lu Zhi regrets the most. He regretted why he had withdrawn Gongsun Zhan before, and now Gai Tong didn't know where to take the Youzhou Turquoise cavalry, and the cavalry in his hands now was left with some Hu soldiers who didn't understand Chinese law and Liangjia who lacked cavalry training.

Fortunately, Gongsun Chan brought a white horse with him when he withdrew, otherwise he really didn't have a decisive cavalry force in his hands this time.

Lu Zhi was still thinking a lot, for example, in order to prevent the enemy from detouring to his west side, he ordered the baggage battalion to build fortifications on the west side. I don't know what happened to the fortifications now.

All he could see was that the barrier placed on the east side had been built, which could completely block the enemy's detour from the east. Before the battle, he gave Zhou Zhong, the general on the east side of Qianpo, a death order, to defend the barrier at all costs.

But no matter how much Lu Zhi thought about it, it was useless, and when he was suffering from gains and losses, the war had already started.

And the first contact was Zhou Zhong's east wall.

……

On August 11, at the beginning of Yinshi, Zhongren Pavilion.

Yang Mao, the commander of the right wing of the Taishan Army, led 8,000 garrisons on the right flank, and 4,000 reinforcements deployed by the Chinese army, and began to take the initiative to attack the eastern front of the Han army.

Before the battle, Zhang Chong knew that there was a forest to the east of the Han army, and occupying it could directly threaten the left flank of the Han army on the back slope.

Therefore, Zhang Chong's first task to Yang Mao was to occupy the forest and hold there, so as to put continuous pressure on the flanks of the Han army.

But when Yang Mao looked at the battlefield a few miles ahead, he saw not only the conspicuous forest, but also a dock wall rooted there.

At this moment, Yang Mao knew that if he wanted to occupy the forest on the left flank of the Han army, he had to fight a hard battle.

Yang Mao's judgment was right.

Zhou Zhong, the chief general of the Han army opposite him, was not an ordinary Han general. He was from the Lujiang Zhou clan and was the son of Sikong Zhou Jing during the Huan Emperor period. He has participated in the Pingqiang Rebellion and the Southern Civil Rebellion, and is the most outstanding general in the Zhou clan.

And this time there will be a very interesting place in Lu Zhidian, that is, everyone has actually fought with the Taishan army. Lu Zhi believes that only if they have really fought each other, these Han generals will not despise the other side.

Zhou Zhong is like this, he has fought with the Taishan Army in Jize, and knows that the opposite side is not weaker than the Northern Army in terms of fighting spirit, armor and military quality.

Therefore, after receiving Lu Zhi's death order to keep the east wall, Zhou Zhong did not dare to slack off at all, so he made a series of arrangements for this military goal.

He had a cavalry battalion and five infantry battalions under his command, with a total of about 6,000 soldiers, and the troops were not rich.

Therefore, he ordered his son Zhou Hui to lead a battalion of infantry to garrison the east wall, and ordered Ma Teng to lead 500 cavalry and an infantry battalion to defend and occupy this communication point in the forest. The other two infantry battalions were then placed underneath the east wall to cover each other with friendly forces inside the wall.

In the end, he himself took the remaining 500 cavalry and a battalion of infantry to garrison the high ground north of the east wall, as a reserve for the whole army, ready to support the battle below.

And for these, Yang Mao is not clear.

But no matter how many Han troops there were in front, he, Yang Mao, had to complete Zhang Chong's task, because he couldn't afford to lose.

In the previous battle of Dingting, he felt that he had used all his strength, but in the end he did one thing wrong, that is, he failed to keep Lu Zhi's main force.

Although he was rescuing the brethren, the mission was not completed.

But in fact, Yang Mao was wrong, in Zhang Chong's view, it was Yang Mao's attachment to the life and death of the officials that made him feel that Yang Mao was still a good general.

can care about the soldiers, can care about the soldiers, this is a qualified general.

In Zhang Chong's place, Yang Mao is not a general, but a handsome talent, he has no judgment on the development of the situation, and he does not know how to communicate with Zhang Chong in the rear in time. So, Yang Maocha is here.

But at this moment, on the battlefield of this Zhongren Pavilion, Yang Mao's personal charm has become his greatest help. The soldiers of the garrison under his command were grateful to Yang Mao for his kindness to the robes, and they all called for death.

This time, they are going to take the enemy's positions and prove themselves. Our garrisons can also fight tough battles and win battles.

As the vanguard, it is still Han Hao, the first brave general in the garrison. By this time his leg was almost healed, of course he said it himself.

The so-called 100 days of broken muscles and bones, how could his legs get better so quickly. But Han Hao couldn't tolerate that he missed this decisive battle no matter what.

If he wants Han Hao to be a general, he must seize every opportunity.

So, Han Hao took the initiative to ask for help, and with the remaining three battalions of less than 2,000 soldiers, he took the lead in rushing to the undulating hillside in front of the east wall.

At the same time, on the ridge to the north, the two battalions of the Han army arranged in front of the east wall began to vent their arrows at Han Hao's troops.

This time, because of the support of the Chinese army, the armor of the Hanoi town soldiers doubled. And because most of these people survived the bloody battle of Dingting, their entire combat quality was tempered in the war.

Therefore, even though the arrows were raining down from above, the spearheads led by Han Hao did not slow down at all, and soon swarmed uphill. At the same time, Wei Chong, the general of Wei County on the other side, also rushed to the vicinity of Han Haobu with his soldiers.

Soon, the two towns were slaughtered with the two battalions outside the east wall.

And when he got here, Han Hao had the opportunity to take a closer look at the dock wall not far away.

This is not a typical military dock wall, it should be rebuilt by the Han army on the basis of the original manor.

At the southern entrance to the dock wall are rows of warehouses protected by walls on the sides. The Han army could lean on the wall to vent their arrows at the attacking Taishan army.

Walk through this passage to the gate of the dock wall, and on the right there is a wooden tower that provides an attack perspective.

Then on the east side of the dock wall was a low farmhouse, which had been occupied by the Han army and used as a place for baggage storage.

Then behind the shack of this farmhouse is a continuous vegetable field, which must have been cultivated by the servants of the previous owner of the dock wall. Now the vegetables in the field have naturally been harvested by the Han army, where an infantry battalion of the Han army is stepping on the vegetable field and fighting with the Wei County town soldiers who have caught up from the east side.

Then Han Hao looked to the west again, where the Dongjun town soldiers were attacking the west side of the east wall. And because of him and Wei Chong to contain the Han soldiers on the periphery, the Dongjun soldiers have already killed under the east wall.

Seeing this, Han Hao shouted:

"Brothers, follow me, don't let the first merit be robbed by Dongjun Town."

After speaking, Han Hao killed a Han soldier and further rushed forward. Behind him, two or three hundred armor soldiers with various blades swarmed after him, beating the Han army back and forth.

Suddenly, there was a commotion in Dongjun Town.

The battalion flag that was originally hung with the word "divination" fell, and instead a flag of thanksgiving was raised.

Han Hao didn't know why, but when he saw that the soldiers of Dongjun Town were still attacking the east wall, he didn't think about it again.

In fact, just now, the Dongjun town general was killed on the spot by an arrow pierced through the throat by the Han army archers on the east wall because he suddenly moved too far forward.

Speaking of Dongjun Town, there are also a lot of ups and downs.

Most of its main forces are adapted from the Yellow Turban of Dongjun. Last year, Zhang Chong moved from central and southern Lu to Dongjun to join forces with Bu Ji. However, Bu Ji was worried that Zhang Chong would annex him, so he gave up his plan to go west with Zhang Chong, and chose to go north to cross the river to the main road.

But after that, the Dongjun Yellow Turban had a bumpy road, first losing his troops and abandoning his armor under Julu City, and even Qu Shuai Buji was cut off by Zhang Bo, the general of Hu, and dedicated to the Han army. That Zhang Bo was previously asserted by Zhang Chong as a betrayer.

After that, the Yellow Turbans of Dongjun were divided, and only a small number of them still united around Buji's fellow divination. The rest were divided by Wang Du and Liang Zhongning.

Soon, Guangzong changed dramatically, and Wang Du and Liang Zhongning also died in the chaos. In this way, the Dongjun Yellow Turban waited until Zhang Chong entered the main Guangzong to recover.

After that, the elite soldiers of the Yellow Turban of Dongjun were arranged to the local place as the town soldiers, and they still used divination as the town general, with the two generals Xie Hui and Wu Rong from Dongping.

In the Battle of Dingting, Bushu led the Dongjun town soldiers to fight quite stubbornly, but also suffered huge losses. In this decisive battle, the total number of actual soldiers of the three battalions of his division was only 1,800.

What's even worse is that before the war started, the town general was sacrificed.

When there was no owner in this panic, Dongping Lu immediately replaced Xie Hui with his own banner, took over the command of the Dongjun town soldiers, and stabilized the situation.

As a result, the Dongzhen soldiers continued to attack the east wall under the command of Xie Hui.

When Han Hao, Wei Chong, and Xie Hui launched a siege on the east wall. Ma Wu of the Tiande army also led his six hundred horsemen to slowly detour towards the forest to the north.

His mission was to annihilate the Han soldiers entrenched in the forest. Behind the Tiande army was Xu Huang's Flying Dragon Army, who was ready to support Ma Wu as a backup.

In the distance, in the middle of the forest.

Ma Teng looked at the cavalry of the Taishan Army who was roundabout in the southeast, grabbed his beard, and said to Pang De on the side with a headache:

"Ling Ming, are we going to fight this battle to the death?"

Pound didn't know either, he suddenly asked:

"Lord, what do you say we will do if we win this battle, and what will happen if we lose."

Ma Teng pondered carefully for a moment and said:

"If Lu Zhi wins, he can hold Youzhou, but it will be difficult to swallow the Taishan army. You count how many people are in Youzhou and how many people are in Jizhou. The Taishan army is about to occupy the entire Jizhou, and I heard that they use the Qin system to build a country by ploughing and fighting. Therefore, this war potential is not comparable to Youzhou. ”

"And I have one thing to say, I think that Lu Zhi's state is obviously wrong, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to win this battle. And once the Taishan army wins this battle, it is not a problem whether Youzhou has it, but the world is afraid that the surname will be Zhang. ”

So Pound innocently asked:

"So?"

Then I heard Ma Teng say ambiguously:

"So."

It's all in plain sight.

(End of chapter)