Chapter 86 85, cut through the mess with a quick knife
King Huai kept walking around in the tent, and after a few hours, King Huai was still at a loss.
Li Yan has an army of 150,000 there, facing the enemy head-on, and there may be no problem in resisting for the time being, but it is still difficult to repel the army of flower thorns.
Wuwei's side is the same, and he can't retreat from the enemy, and it's already very good to be able to keep the pass from losing.
Seeing that the sky was bright, King Huai, who was staring at the map, made up his mind.
King Huai, who hadn't slept all night, issued several military orders one after another.
Yang Peimin, the general of Wuwei, led 20 battalions to enter Haizigou through Wendu east, and all the Wuwei troops withdrew into Wuwei City, and the surrounding people also withdrew into the city.
Then order the Longzhou Guards to go west out of Longxi, and stick to Longxi with the soldiers along the line.
The whole army of Li Yan of the Yulin Army went forward and arrived near the Kuhe River through Xidagou to set up an ambush, and could not let the Huathorn army enter Xidagou for half a step.
King Huai personally led the Wumeng army of 100,000 to attack 300 miles and go straight to Sun Mountain.
In this way, it formed a three-sided encirclement, and in one fell swoop, the thorn army was encircled and annihilated in the Hedong area.
King Huai had a plan in his heart, he gathered 300,000 troops, and if he could defeat the 200,000 cavalry first, it would be acceptable for Wuwei to lose a little.
I just want to take the thorn by surprise, and the current deployment of the thorn is aimed at the border army defending in Ding'an and Yanshui. They still wanted to rely on their huge forces to directly break through the small city of Bianxi and then attack in the direction of Longzhou.
On May 7, the Huai prince led the Wumeng army to cross the Erdaoliang and arrived at the edge of the Sun Mountain.
Take the map and look at it and ask the advisors around you where you are now.
Qin Donglin, a famous scholar in Pengcheng, who has been with King Huai for more than ten years, said on the side, this place is called Qilipo.
Pointing to the map and introducing the situation to King Huai, General Li blocked the West Ditch in the east, and General Yang held the Kuhe River in the west.
Now the Umeng army has set up the last ring here in the south, forming a large circle of 100 miles from east to west and 70 miles from north to south.
"This encirclement is too big, there are too many loopholes, and the space has to be compressed, so it must be close."
After reading the map, King Huai couldn't help but sigh, the area is too big, and his hundreds of thousands of people are scattered inside, or too scattered.
"Donglin, if it's okay to let General Yang go to the front line of the Qingshui River, their troops are indeed insufficient, and I'm worried that they are under too much pressure."
King Huai actually has no bottom in his heart, General Yang only has twenty battalions, once he is broken through by the thorns, it will be in vain.
"Lord Wang, there are not too many troops at present, can you put those three hundred chariots directly in the Qingshui River, such a defense is enough to make up for the lack of troops."
Originally, King Huai wanted to allocate the chariot to Tang Tianfang, but the situation on the battlefield changed too quickly and he didn't have time yet.
Now that I think about it, it is indeed just right, once General Yang has these three hundred new combat vehicles, the Qingshui River defense line can be guaranteed at least for a short time.
It can be said that this time King Huai has made sufficient preparations, equipped with chariots to coordinate, and the deployment of troops is tight.
In order to keep it secret during the march, he almost killed the opponent's horse, saying that the other party didn't know that it was impossible, but this military strategy was really unexpected.
King Huai has been arranging troops, and all the probe horses are arranged in the east, west, and south directions, and he really didn't expect the thorns to adjust their forces at this time, and it was very covert.
It can be said that neither party expected that the thorns did not guard against the west-oriented Great Xia soldiers and horses, and they did not expect that King Huai would have such a great determination this time and transfer all the Wuwei troops over.
King Huai didn't expect that most of the elite soldiers of the thorn had already changed the direction of attack and rushed to the side pass.
On May 13, King Huai issued an order, first of all, Li Yan's army went west from the east bank of the Kuhe River, and the vanguard was 30,000 people in ten battalions of the left army led by Tang Tianfang, which was a tiger and wolf army with the might of victory.
They met the Sanuki people who were wandering around, it was really an enemy meeting, the Sanuki people looked at Tang Tianfang who rushed up, and directly issued the general order for the whole army to charge.
The Sanouchi cavalry was sullen in their hearts, and they had been looking for Tang Tianfang's left army desperately.
They also know a lot about the Yulin border army, and they know that in the entire Hedong side, there are only 200,000 troops in Great Xia, and they have to guard against so many cities, and it is estimated that even half of them can really fight.
But in order not to be surprised, Shada Khan still asked thousands of cavalry of the Sanuki tribe to scout around in case the Xia army raided.
They did keep patrolling, but they lacked the caution and caution of the spies, for fear that others would not know.
So he was discovered by Xia Jun from a long distance, and in order to keep it secret, he could only hide strictly, and after so many days, he didn't let them find any abnormality.
Tang Tianfang, who was behind the military formation, looked at the Sanuki people who rushed up, and said a word to a general beside him.
"It seems that the last fight was really too light, and I don't have a long memory, if you let one go this time, you don't want it."
One of the generals on the side was none other than his fierce general, the nephew of the British duke, the Zhenwu general Zhang Jin. I only heard Zhang Jin laugh a few times.
"Run one, I'll wash your horse and wipe your gun." As he spoke, he beat his horse and galloped away.
The cavalry on both sides was getting closer and closer, and seeing that it was almost a mile away, the Great Xia army quickly divided into three charging arrows at this time.
10,000 people on the left and right quickly bypassed from both sides, forming an arc linear charge pattern, and the soldiers and horses in the middle rushed more and more narrow, and finally formed a shape with only three horses riding side by side.
In this light, Sanouchi's fan-shaped straggler charge line was chiseled through. The Sanouchi cavalry, which numbered less than 10,000 men, was directly split in two and formed two circles.
Tang Tianfang still used the original improved transport vehicle, but it was enough to deal with the Sanuki.
When the Sanuki people turned their horses' heads in a charge, they found that they were already surrounded by fences, and the cavalry of Great Xia on the side were staring at them fiercely.
Sanuki paid the price for their arrogance, their tribe had been removed from the steppe, such a medium-sized tribe had lost its youth and prime of life, and the best fate for the women and children of the tribe was to be merged with other tribes.
It's really hard to tell whether the people are running or not, but Shada has already received the news that 10,000 people in Sanuki, who are the vanguard of the army, have been surrounded and annihilated on the west bank of the Ku River, and at least 100,000 troops of the Great Xia Army have attacked from Xidagou.
He was also taken aback, when, and where did the Great Xia Army come from!!
At present, many tribal leaders do not know that the elite soldiers of the Ebony tribe have stolen away, and now it is estimated that they have reached the side level. But now is not the time to make the truth known, otherwise the most important thing for the leaders of these small tribes to do is to run away.
When Shada was thinking about how to deal with it in the camp, the leaders of more than a dozen large and small tribes all ran over in a hurry, why was Shanuki all wiped out! How many people came in Great Xia, and 10,000 people were gone in less than a day.
"Great Khan, Great Khan, what the hell is going on."
"Great Khan ......"
"Leaders, what's wrong with you, what's the matter, so anxious?" Shada Khan quickly calmed down, and a smiling face appeared in everyone's eyes.
"Great Khan, Great Khan, there is news that the Sanouchi cavalry has been wiped out, Great Khan, what is going on?"
"Is there such a thing? Sanuki is the pioneer I sent out to explore the way, it should be fine, the people of Daxia are here, I know, don't worry, there are already arrangements, you just wait for the good news. ”
"Rest assured, I've sent Balmu and the Great Leader of Lei Zhen south from another road! As long as they successfully conquer the pass and enter the Central Plains, these armies will naturally go back. ”
These tribal leaders looked at Shada Khan with a half-believing look on their faces, but Shada Khan's non-lying look made them feel that since Shada Khan could sit here safely, they should be sure.
"Now, the most important thing is that everyone must work together to defeat the current hundreds of thousands of Great Xia troops, even if they can't be defeated, they must be dragged here."
"Leaders, think about it, is it difficult for you to fight this little bit of Great Xia? Which time, we didn't fight thousands of them with thousands of people, we were afraid of it. Shada Khan still has a bit of a brain, "It may be difficult for our warriors to storm the city, but in the grassland, this is our advantage, who can compare with us in riding and shooting, killing the enemy." ”
Not to mention, after a few words, the tribal leaders really gradually relaxed their hearts, indeed, now there are more than 100,000 cavalry troops here, and they are not fighting in the Central Plains or grasslands, and their warriors are really not afraid of the Great Xia people.
Two days later, the battle situation really entered a state of anxiety, these warriors on the grassland really didn't say anything about their individual ability, there was no way, they began to roll on horseback at a few years, and when it was really time to fight head-on, the soldiers of Great Xia suffered a lot of losses.
King Huai and General Li Yan have convened many generals to discuss many times, and there is really no special good way for a while.
"Lord Wang, our biggest problem now is that the current area is still too big, if we hold on, the other party will be outside our protection, and use a squad of cavalry to shoot and harass. As soon as we have a large army, we form a battle with each other, whether it is long-range or close combat, we are not opponents. These few times, the thorn people have also learned to be obedient, as soon as they found out that we had plans to encircle and annihilate, they went out directly from the empty gear quickly, dozens of miles in a radius, and it was too late. ”
"Another thing, the current Thorns are a bit strange, a little different from the past, they are not as rampage as before, they either fight us head-on, or they attack and harass, and they don't give us a chance at all."
After listening to the views and thoughts of several generals, King Huai was also quite touched, in the past, when Hua Thorn saw the battle in Daxia, he couldn't wait for a decisive battle to win or lose, this time they gathered 200,000 troops, and they were all tens of thousands of troops.
"If General Yang meets up, will there be a turnaround?" King Huai asked Li Yan.
"Lord Wang, it doesn't mean much, it's not that we don't have enough troops now, it's the thorn operation that has changed its strategy, in previous years, it was the thorn that forced us to fight a decisive battle, and this time we forced him to fight a decisive battle, and they actually retreated."
Li Yan shook his head, "It's right that General Yang is stuck there, once the thorns retreat, they can be blocked in time." ”
"Lord Wang, my subordinates have an idea, we don't want to take a step back!"
At this time, Tang Tianfang, who had been looking at the map on the side, interjected.