Liu Ling led his army to lure Fan Wuqi's men and annihilate them in one fell swoop. Fan Wuqi, who focused all his attention on the speed of Liu Ling's men and horses, did not realize that he had fallen into Liu Ling's trap. Fan Wuqi was also a member of the Yan army.
He was one of the few generals who had read military books, and he also remembered the battle example of half-crossing and attacking deeply in his heart. It was a pity that he could remember it, but he did not think of it at the critical moment.
Fan Wuqi, who was completely led by Liu Ling, had to send more rangers on both wings, and he would definitely find the Hualing cavalry coming back from crossing the river ten miles away. If he was not in a hurry to catch up with the Han army, he would have sent scouts across the river to investigate in depth.
After a while, he would not fall into an ambush by the Han army.
After a day and night of forced march, the Han army's combat effectiveness has been greatly reduced. Although these 10,000 Han troops are the elite troops of Taiyuan Prefecture and are veterans who have been withdrawn from the Yuzhou battlefield, the physical exhaustion cannot be fully compensated by experience.
. The Han army who turned back and fought back relied entirely on his energy. If Fan Wuqi had stabilized his position and withstood a round of Han army attacks, he would have been defeated so miserably.
The morale of the Han army comes from Liu Ling. As long as Liu Ling is there, the soldiers of the Han army will be determined to win no matter how tired they are. A famous general in a hundred battles complements the soldiers under his command. Famous generals give soldiers
They have courage, and the soldiers give the general victory.
When he saw his soldiers howling like wolves and rushing toward the Yan army crossing the river, Liu Ling knew he had won before the battle even started.
He ordered Hanasaburo to lead the troops to go behind the Yan army, and Liu Ling personally led the troops to attack the Xiaohu River. Although the weather was extremely cold, the water in the Xiaohu River was only covered with a layer of ice. Unlike the big rivers, which freeze in winter,
There is a thick layer of ice on the ice, and the cavalry can pass through it as long as they don't run away. The ice on the Oto River may be okay for one person to walk carefully, but as long as a large troop steps on it, the river surface will collapse immediately.
When Liu Ling led his army across the river, he did not destroy a large area of the ice. The Yan army who was chasing behind him did not know how the Han army crossed the river, so they had to collect boats to force the crossing. The soldiers standing in front of the boats used wooden sticks to cross the river.
Beating the ice, the soldiers rowing behind were so exhausted that they didn't go very far forward.
But when the Han army crossed the river, it was much easier. Liu Ling asked the soldiers to put the giant shields together, creating an infinite number of pulleys. One giant shield was the size of a door panel, and more than ten giant shields were put together at once.
It can slide fifty or sixty people. Even if a war horse stands on the pulley, it will not sink, and the speed of crossing the river on the pulley is much faster than that of a boat.
The Yan army did not think of this method. When they crossed the river, many small boats were stuck in the ice floes and could not move. When Liu Ling sent his troops to kill them, the soldiers in the river saw that their robes were shot to death by random arrows from the Han army but were helpless.
Before they could finish sympathizing with the Han army, the archers of the Han army were aiming at them. They were stuck in the river, neither in front nor behind, and watched helplessly as the Han army shot at them as if they were targets.
The Xiaohu River is only 1,780 paces wide. The Yan army stuck in the river became a target for the Han army, and the Yan army's archers on the other side of the river could not shoot that far. Even if they managed to reach the other side of the river, the arrows would have already been shot.
They were so light that they lost half of their strength. The four thousand Yan army crossed the river and were almost exhausted trying to catch up with the fast and slow Han army. When they finally reached the shore, most of them sat down and never wanted to stand up again.
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When the Han cavalry came over, many of them had not had time to pick up their weapons and were driven back by the Han army. Half of them were shot to death and the other half drowned in the Xiaohu River.
This time Liu Ling led the Shenzhan Battalion south, and deployed 500 cavalry from Shenfeng Battalion and Shenji Battalion, speeding up the Shenzhan Battalion's 1,000 cavalry for a total of 2,000 and 9,000 infantry, leaving 5,000 to rest in place.
He did not participate in the battle. Two thousand cavalry and four thousand infantry killed more than 10,000 Yan troops like thunder, leaving no trace of their armor.
This section of the Ohu River is almost blocked by corpses. The floating corpses are stuck in the ice floes and are motionless, allowing the river water to wash away the blood on their bodies. Ten miles downstream from this section, the blood is red. It gradually fades ten miles away.
The color changed, but even the cold river water couldn't freeze the heart-stopping smell of blood.
After completely wiping out Fan Wuqi's troops, Liu Ling ordered his soldiers to clean the battlefield and set up camp in Xiaohu, Hebei Province. After letting his soldiers sleep peacefully for a long time, and having a hearty meal with the captured supplies of the Yan army, the Han army was slow again.
I was on my way without any trace of urgency.
After crossing the Xiaohu River, walk one hundred and fifty miles northeast to reach the boundary of Zhuma County. It can be reached in two days of rapid march, but the Han army has not arrived yet after walking for four and a half days. Ouyang, who was ambushing on Mangniu Mountain,
Xube finally saw the shadow of the Han army. He was eager to wait but found that the Han army had actually set up camp ten miles away from Ganniu Mountain. It was only past noon. If the Han army continued to move, they would be there in two hours.
Arrive at a place three miles away from the Yan army camp and set up camp.
Who would have thought that the Han army would be so lazy that they would not go on the road that was less than twenty miles away. They camped in a place within sight of the Yan army on Ganniu Mountain, and the Yan army on the mountain were anxious one by one.
It was as if they were sitting on pins and needles. It was not that the Yan army was brave and desperate, but that they had been hiding on Ganniu Mountain for five or six days and they had run out of food.
The Yan army's front line was too long, and Du Yi's Han Fuyuan Army was stuck in the north of Qingzhou Prefecture, so it was impossible to transport food and grass from Qingzhou Prefecture. From 60,000 to 130,000, Ouyang
Zhuan had already scraped everything he went, not even a single flea was left. He took away everything he could eat, but it was far from enough to consume an army of 130,000. I originally thought that Liu Ling would come as soon as possible for a decisive battle. As long as he was defeated
Liu Ling then continued northward and continued to search along the way. There were many wealthy counties and large farms along the way to Taiyuan Prefecture. It should not be a big problem to collect a month's worth of food and grass. As long as Taiyuan Prefecture was conquered, the grain in the capital's warehouses would not be a big problem.
Enough to feed hundreds of thousands of troops for several months.
Unfortunately, fate is not as good as fate, and the Han army who robbed Fan Wuqi's troops was not in a hurry to fight decisively. With 10,000 people and 20,000 people carrying enough food and grass for ten days, they were far more practical than the Yan army.
On the sixth day when the army was stationed in Zhuma County, the Han army arrived belatedly. At this time, the supply of the Yan army soldiers had changed from one porridge to two meals of porridge a day. This was still the treatment in the camp, ambush
The Yan army on Ganniu Mountain has been on a break since the day before yesterday, and can barely drink a meal of porridge every day. It is freezing cold, and there are no wild animals to hunt on Ganniu Mountain. More than 10,000 Yan troops are on the mountain.
It can be described as being hungry and cold.
The four words "eager to see through" are perfectly suitable to describe the mood of the Yan army soldiers. They have never been so looking forward to the enemy's arrival. It's just that the Han army came at the right time, but they were not in a hurry! Looking at the Han army coming from ten miles away,
The smoke from the cooking pots was rising from the military camp, and the stomachs of the Yan army soldiers began to growl in dismay.
Ouyang Xu chewed a piece of hay and spat it out, then ordered his soldiers to go back to the camp to ask for instructions on the next move. According to his temperament, he would take advantage of the Han army's unsteady foothold to kill them, but it must be within twenty miles.
Watching from outside, he really didn't dare to give orders without authorization.
For twenty miles, it would take two hours for the cavalry to run back and forth. By then, the Han army had set up camp and stabilized their position. The price to pay would be too high if they tried to kill them again. The main force of these more than 10,000 people was Ouyang.
He really couldn't bear to bet all of Xu'an's life's capital on it like a gamble.
After finally being hungry, the soldiers returned, but the order they received was to stand by where they were. Ouyang Xu was so angry that he spat and cursed fiercely and went back to the cave to rest.
As he was sleeping soundly that night, His Majesty's decree came. Sun Shubao arrived at Gunniu Mountain in person and ordered Ouyang Xu to immediately gather his troops and kill them to attack the Han camp at night. Ouyang Xu angrily asked who came up with this bad idea. Sun Shubao was still very clever.
The rational explanation was that the reason why he was not notified in advance was because he was afraid that the news would be leaked. Ouyang Xu was so angry that he wanted to scold his mother. The Han army was ten miles away, and the news was leaked?
They hurriedly organized the men and horses to go down the mountain. They carried their horses with titles and chews. The ten thousand horses were divided into countless small streams and went down the mountain. The winter nights were always very dark. The Yan army did not dare to light torches, so they could only touch the darkness.
The mountain road is not easy to walk on foot, and there are many soldiers with injuries and sprains.
The troops stopped less than a mile away from the Han army camp. Looking at the brightly lit Han army camp and the shadowy Han army soldiers keeping watch outside the camp, Ouyang Xu murmured in his heart.
"Lord Chang Shi, it seems that the Han army is on guard, let's..."
Ouyang Xu turned around and asked Sun Shubao.
Sun Shubao stared at the Han army's camp in front and said: "There are no patrolling sentries, only fixed sentries around the camp. The Han army must be tired. It is already the ugly time, when people sleep the most deeply."
At that time, if we kill the Han army, there will definitely be chaos!"
Ouyang Xu muttered: "I only have more than 10,000 troops, just in case..."
Sun Shubao glared at this unworthy guy and said, "Don't worry, General Zhongwu. After defeating the Han army tonight, I will ask your Majesty to replace the number of people the Zhongwu camp has lost after tonight's victory over the Han army. And the Han army's
Let your people from the Zhongwu Camp pick up the equipment and equipment first, and the generals from the other battalions promise not to complain at all!"
Hearing what Sun Shubao said and thinking about the enviable equipment of the Han army, Ouyang Xu swallowed hard. If he could allocate all the equipment of the Han army to Zhongwu Camp, then the troops under his command would be the Yan army.
It is the most combat-effective unit in the army. Each person has a horizontal sword, or a Bu Dao, Pu Dao, or Mo Dao, and each person wears a thick cowhide armor. It is beautiful just thinking about it.
After staring carefully for a while, he saw that although the Han army's camp was brightly lit, there was really no defense. Ouyang Xu gritted his teeth and said: "Sir Chang Shi has a noble status, so he should encourage the generals in the rear. There is no eye for swords in the battle formation.
, If I were injured, Mr. Chang Shi would not be able to explain it to His Majesty."
Sun Shubao rolled his eyes at him and said: "General Zhongwu just charges and kills. If something happens, Sun will not blame the general. Your Majesty will personally lead 30,000 troops and follow behind. The general should think about how to kill the enemy and make meritorious service!"
Seeing that Sun Shubao understood what he meant, Ouyang Xu encouraged himself and jumped on the horse.
"Blow the trumpet! Blow the trumpet!"
He drew out his steel knife and shouted loudly: "The cavalry will attack the enemy camp, and the infantry will follow. Don't leave a single person alive. Your Majesty has promised me that whatever is taken will belong to him. Kill him!"
The horn sounded, and the hungry Yan army tightened their belts, shouted and waved all kinds of strange weapons in their hands, and rushed towards the Han army camp like crazy.
The Yan army rolled over like a tidal wave. What they saw in their eyes was not a large camp of the Han army, but a large pot of freshly steamed buns, white rice, and mushy minced meat. The whole building
The Han army camp is like a steaming and fragrant meat bun, which makes greedy people drool. (To be continued)
