Chapter 165: Encirclement and Suppression
In the western mountains of Heishuiyu, there is silence.
Chen Wang hid among the mountains, forests, grass and trees, and looked condescendingly at Heishuiyu who shouted and killed the sky through the gaps.
As early as the first day, when Gao Yingxiang led the camp to Xianyou Temple, when their banquet was over, their vigilance was the most lax.
Chen Wang took his soldiers and horses down the Fu Luo Road at night, and turned into the mountains on the west side to lurk.
Zhao Huailiang and Chen Gong stood behind him, and they also followed him to observe the situation in Yuneizhong.
Although they were far away, when the mountain breeze blew, Chen Wang could still smell an unpleasant smell of blood.
The top of the mountain is still like this, and you can imagine how fierce the battle will be at the bottom of the mountain.
Zhao Huailiang's expression was awe-inspiring, looking at the army that was attacking like a wave at the bottom of the mountain, his heart was heavy, and he said in a low voice.
"At the beginning, I heard Gao Yingxiang's name the most on the Tang newspaper, saying that he was the strongest in the 72nd Battalion."
"When I was in Xing'an City, I just felt that the bandits under my command looked cleaner and neater than other bandits."
"Now that I look at it, I know that what the Tang newspaper says is not bad......
The intrusive army under the mountain attacked from the early hours of the morning until now at noon.
In the intervening hours, the intrusive army launched an attack on the camps set up by the Ming army in Yukou and Yubei one after another without stopping.
The Ming army's several simple defensive lines set up outside the camp had already been broken through at this time, and the invading army even attacked the camp walls of the two battalions many times.
Zhao Huailiang's face was heavy, when the army attacked Xing'an, if the elite of the army were all mixed in and attacked the city with all their might, he felt that it was really difficult for them to defend Xing'an City.
Chen Gong frowned, and he could see the situation down the mountain clearly.
But his feeling was different from Zhao Huailiang, what Zhao Huailiang saw was how strong the army was and how orderly the command was.
Chen Gong was worried that the Ming army guarding the Yukou would not be able to stop Gao Yingxiang, so Gao Yingxiang broke through the defense line and escaped from Heishuiyu.
"Big brother, it looks like Yamashita can't hold on......"
Chen Gong was a little anxious, they marched all the way and followed, if the duck to the beak flew, wouldn't it be a failure.
"The more times like this, the more calm you have to be."
Chen Wang raised his palm and suppressed what Chen Gong was going to say next.
Chen Gong's personality is quite impatient, and he is somewhat similar to Cao Bianjiao.
"The last time he went out of the valley, although Gao Yingxiang was defeated, he still has more than 40,000 riders under his command."
"Emaciated camels are bigger than horses, and now we have a total of eighteen hundred horsemen, and there is not much trouble for these people to be thrown into this valley."
Chen Wang turned his head to glance at Chen Gong, and then turned his gaze back to the bottom of the mountain.
Hu Zhiyi has a calm personality, so Chen Wang is now focusing on cultivating Hu Zhiyi, not only letting him take the position of the first infantry department, but also handing over the grain, grass and ordnance in the army to Hu Zhiyi to manage.
This time, Chen Wang personally led the troops to follow Gao Yingxiang into the Meridian Road, and most of the troops left in Xing'an were also handed over to Hu Zhiyi to command.
Hu Zhili was quite withdrawn and unapproachable, so Chen Wang appointed him as a supervisor, in charge of military justice and handling
Now the supervision offices have been sent down to the bureaus, and each bureau has a military judge, and there are special soldiers to assist in the management of the bureau's military law, and also serve as propaganda.
"Soldiers are dangerous, and we must be cautious about life and death fights."
Chen Wang pondered for a while and said to Chen Gong.
"It turns out that we are just a family member who only needs to fight hard, but now it's different, you are already a thousand presidents."
"As a thousand presidents, many times you can't blindly rush, you need to look at the overall situation."
"Otherwise, you led the cavalry under your command to rush to the depths of the enemy formation, and we are still fighting with the enemy outside the formation, what should we do when the time comes, and ......"
"Big brother, I was wrong!"
Chen Gong raised his hand and directly admitted defeat without hesitation.
To tell the truth, Chen Gong has been the demon king of the mixed world since he was a child, it can be said that he is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he is afraid of two people in this world.
The first person is naturally Cao Wenzhao, after all, he is the former general, although Cao Wenzhao usually looks harmonious, but when he is angry, even Cao Bianjiao and Cao Dingjiao dare not say much.
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This second person is Chen Wang, after all, he is his brother.
Since he was a child, he has been educated by Chen Wang to grow up, and the education here is not only reasonable, but also fistful.
If you can't fight, you can't win, so you're desperate.
Compared with his fists, he was more afraid of Chen Wang's verbosity and broken thoughts.
Originally, it was okay, but I don't know why, since the end of last year, Chen Wang's mouth has more and more big truths, and his speech is even more difficult to understand than before.
"Big brother, I will listen to whatever you say, and I will rush wherever you ask me to go."
"How do you say that......
Chen Gong nodded yes again and again.
"The head of the horse is the foresight, and everything is the foresight of the eldest brother and the head of the horse."
"You ......"
Chen Wang smiled dumbly, and couldn't help but shake his head, he naturally knew why Chen Gong directly admitted his mistake.
"Then we'll talk about it later."
Chen Gong breathed a sigh of relief, but he had watched it all morning, and he had no interest in continuing to watch.
Out of sight and out of mind, as long as he doesn't look at the situation below, he doesn't need to think about what he has or not, so he just left the high ground.
Looking at Chen Gong who was far away, Chen Wang was a little helpless, and said that it would be wise to eat a trench, but once the army was defeated on the battlefield, the price would undoubtedly be heavy.
Many civilian officials felt that the position of military general was easy to obtain, and they could rise to a high position at a young age by virtue of their military exploits.
But in fact, everyone can only look at those generals who have ascended to high positions, but they cannot see other soldiers and generals who have fallen on the battlefield, and they will never be promoted again, and they will never be rewarded again.
For civil servants, mistakes only need to be made up, or they are punished and judged to be inferior, and the most serious thing is to go to prison.
But for military generals, there is a high probability that they will die in the battle formation after defeat, and even if they escape, the lightest punishment is demotion and accountability, and punishment will be imposed on the basis of guilt.
Cao Wenzhao was originally the chief soldier of Datong Town, but because he was defeated in the battle with Jiannu for a while, he was directly demoted to a guard officer to guard the border city.
Chen Wang retracted his divergent thoughts, for hundreds of years, because of the civil and military forts, the civil and military forces were unbalanced, and since then there have been more and more ills within the Ming Dynasty.
If Chen Gong's character is not changed, he will inevitably suffer a big loss on the battlefield in the future.
Chen Wang already had a consideration in his heart, before Chen Gong changed his personality, he would not let him lead the camp alone.
"Peng!" "Peng!" "Peng!"
The shouts of killing under the mountain continued, and the long-silent cannon sound sounded again.
Chen Wang also turned his head to look down the mountain.
The artillery placed on the hill cooled down and roared again,
The elite cavalry of the intruding army once again attacked the camp at Yukou, where the camp defense line of the Ming army was crumbling, and it was only a line away from collapse.
Chen Wang couldn't help frowning, although he knew history and knew that Sun Chuanting and Gao Yingxiang fought in Heishuiyu for four days, and in the end Sun Chuanting won.
Although Gao Yingxiang still entered the Heishui Valley, many things have changed now, and he is not sure......
Chen Wangtong's hole shrank, and he saw that the wave of the army that was moving forward in Yukou suddenly stagnated, and then began to retreat backwards at some time.
Before Chen Wang could figure out the reason, an extremely high horn suddenly came from a distance.
"Woo——————"
Immediately after that, there was a rumbling sound from the direction of the pass, as if some monster was churning underground.
But soon Chen Wang knew what the source of the voice was.
Just a moment after most of the intrusive army withdrew, Chen Wang saw the cavalry of the brigade turning from the position of Heishui Yukou.
The red clothes, red armor and red flags are dazzling vermilion colors everywhere you look.
As soon as this cavalry army entered the Heishui Valley, it instantly reversed the unfavorable situation on the battlefield for the Ming army.
The intruder retreated sharply like the ebb tide of the sea, but was still bitten by the tail.
Chen Wang saw clearly, the cavalry of this Ming army was obviously only more than 2,000 people, but it was so crushing that the head of the army could not be raised.
What was even more surprising was that there was not much resistance from the various units of the intruding army, and they all withdrew backwards in one go.
Wrong......
Chen Wang's eyes condensed slightly, he felt that the army didn't seem to be retreating now, but more like a rout?!
Looking at those flags that were waving in the valley, I don't know why Chen Wang suddenly felt very familiar.
I don't know if it's an afterthought, but at this time, I finally divided several teams of cavalry, and together they killed the newly entered Ming cavalry, blocking the Ming cavalry from continuing to attack.
But then, there was a scene that made Chen Wangdu a little dumbfounded.
There were three teams of nearly 4,000 elite cavalry to surround and kill, but the final result was that after less than a moment of confrontation, the final result ended with the elite cavalry of the Chuang army dropping a large number of corpses and fleeing in a hurry.
However, their sacrifice was not in vain, they bought time for the withdrawal of their large forces, and did not allow the retreat to turn into a rout.
And the cavalry of the Ming army saw that most of the army had returned to Xianyou Temple, and they also slowly retreated in the direction of Yukou, and after losing the opportunity, they did not continue to pursue while they were victorious.
Chen Wangyao looked at the Ming army with the vermilion banner in Yunei, although he couldn't see the words on the banner because of the distance.
But I don't know why, he has already roughly come out who is leading the cavalry of this Ming army.
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"The lowly Cao Bianjiao, meet the military gate."
"On the orders of Governor Hong, as a pioneer, rush to the aid first."
Sun Chuanting's eyebrows, which had been tightly locked, finally stretched, and he looked at Cao Bianjiao, who was standing under the stage with his fists in salute, and the more he looked at it, the more he appreciated it.
"Xu Dingchen, the governor of Shanxi, once said, 'Changing Jiao is brave and unbeatable, and there are thousands of athletes under his command, and only then is Wen Zhaoya'."
Sun Chuanting walked off the wooden platform, helped Cao Bianjiao with both hands, and exclaimed.
"I was a little skeptical when I first heard it, but when I saw it today, I knew that he was not half-lying."
Sun Chuanting turned his head to look at the messy Yukou camp at the bottom of the mountain and said.
"If it weren't for your timely assistance this time, I'm afraid that the Yukou camp would have been attacked by thieves."
Cao Bianjiao straightened his back and replied with Sun Chuanting's support.
"There are rules and regulations for the military gate to set up camps and formations, and the soldiers under their command are brave and tenacious, and from the humble point of view, even if the humble duty is not reached, the thieves will never be able to break through the camp."
Sun Chuanting touched his beard with a smile, looked at Cao Bianjiao, and said with a smile.
"In any case, you also have a share of the credit for winning this battle."
As the governor of Shaanxi, Sun Chuanting naturally knew Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.
He originally heard that Cao Bianjiao was young and vigorous, and he was worried that he was arrogant, arrogant, and difficult to control.
But at the moment, it seems that Cao Bianjiao is not as sharp as the rumors, but rather humble, introverted and deep, and does not show his corners.
However, it can be seen from the time when he used his troops to charge into battle.
Standing on the high platform, Sun Chuanting took in everything under the mountain.
From Cao Bianjiao all the way to the battlefield, and then to the follow-up pursuit of victory, breaking the enemy cavalry, it can be described as exquisite.
"You just said that you came first as a vanguard, presumably Governor Hong should be in the rear, how many soldiers and horses will there be in the follow-up, and how long will it take to arrive."
Sun Chuanting did not continue to praise, but asked more important things.
Although it can barely withstand the offensive of the invading army, the pressure is also huge.
The enemy is the elite cavalry of the brigade under the command of Gao Yingxiang, which gathered most of the elite of the 72nd battalion.
And what he can rely on is not only the 3,000 superintendent battalions that have just been formed, but also the 3,000 unworthy guards and the 2,000 battalions under Li Yuchun.
Needless to say, the battalion under Li Yuchun is not strong, otherwise he would not be left alone in Qingyang Mansion to guard.
The elite soldiers and strong generals in Shaanxi Province were all taken by Hong Chengchou to the north and east to encircle and suppress Li Zicheng and other troops.
So Sun Chuanting is actually a little urgent, after all, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and Gao Yingxiang can't escape from it.
Once this opportunity is lost, I am afraid there will be no next time.
At such a time, Sun Chuanting naturally would not show his emotions on his face.
"The Li thief forces in Yan'an Mansion are still there, and the mobilization of troops and horses is limited."
Cao Bianjiao lowered his head slightly and reported.
"There are a total of 6,000 cavalry for this reinforcement, I will lead 2,000 cavalry as the vanguard, and Governor Hongfu should be able to reach Yuwai in half an hour."
"However, the ancestral army has arrived in Xi'an, and Governor Hong has sent a report to order him to quickly lead his troops to aid Heishuiyu, and there are more than 4,000 Liao cavalry under his command."
Sun Chuanting was very sure in his heart, the news that Hong Chengchou brought 6,000 cavalry, as well as more than 4,000 Liao cavalry under Zu Kuan, undoubtedly gave him a reassurance.
However, Sun Chuanting was not carried away by joy at this time, and after a short period of excitement, he regained his composure and composure.
Sun Chuanting's face was slightly condensed, and he suddenly thought of something, his eyes suddenly sharpened, and he spoke.
"The intrusive army should launch a second attack soon, you lead the troops and horses to the Yukou camp first."
Cao Bianjiao was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know why Sun Chuanting suddenly reacted so much, but he still responded.
At this moment, a low horn sound was heard from the camp of the intruding army again.
Cao Bianjiao followed the sound and looked down the mountain, only to see that in Heishuiyu, the army that had just returned to Xianyou Temple attacked again.
This time, the momentum of the attacking army was even greater than before, and Gao Yingxiang's Daxu was even lined up in the front position!
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History of the Ming Dynasty, Volume 272 (no charge for this paragraph)
"Cao Bianjiao, Wen Zhao from Ziye, young from Wen Zhao to accumulate military merits to guerrilla."
"Chongzhen four years from Fuhequ. Next year, even the thief Red Army friend is equal to Zhang Ma Village...... He also broke Liu Daojiang and was equal to the Tongchuan Bridge, and bravely crowned the armies. ”
"Recommended by Wu Sheng, a general. Wen Zhao moved to Shanxi, and changed Jiao from the battle to victory. ”
"And the edict changed the town of Datong, and the governor of Shanxi, Xu Dingchen, said: 'Although the Jin thief Zijin Liang is dead, the old man will return...... The canals have not been extinguished. ’”
"He is brave and brave, and he has thousands of athletes under his command, and he is Wen Zhaoya, and he is begging to stay in Jinzhong."