Chapter 844 Whoever uses a plan, there must be a number to count
The attack formation of a series of heavy cavalry attacking the Xia army's soldiers and horses by the river was basically a fish-scale formation where small groups gathered together. However, when encountering an enemy attack and the formation collapsed, the Xia army, whose morale was loose, naturally had no time to put up a last-ditch stance to resist.
The opponent's heavy cavalry impact.
As the rolling torrent rolled away from the oblique side, the sharp blades with huge inertia suddenly passed through the Xia army's chaotic formation. Amidst the continuous miserable howls, Xia soldiers fell down instantly.
There was a large area. In the rear formation, there were a large number of cavalry and infantry soldiers who were rubbing shoulders with each other and crowded into a ball. Groups of soldiers were forced into the river. They were bumping heads in the narrow space and were so crowded that they could not perform basic movements.
If so, how can we organize an effective counterattack?
A series of heavy cavalry charges only once, causing heavy casualties to the Xia Army. However, the unstoppable heavy armored cavalry rushed towards the Xia Army's formation from the diagonal side, and the formation then made a big circle, two or three times in front of the Xia Army's formation.
A hundred steps away, they turned their horses again, gathered in formation, and prepared to launch the second and third wave of charges...
The wind howled angrily, kicking the snow, and the black hair made a long hiss, but seeing the seven-star nailed soap robe hunting and dancing, one of the soldiers, General Song, waved his water-polished eight-edged steel whip, and forcefully swung away the Xia army who was stubbornly resisting in front of him.
The long knife struck by the general and the steel whip held in his other hand suddenly swung, hitting the Xia Army cavalry commander's head hard, causing his eyes to bulge out and his brain to burst to death!
This fierce general of the Song Army who led a chain of iron cavalry to charge towards the Xia Army, and led the heavy cavalry to march flatly to suppress the enemy's formation, was naturally Hu Yanzhuo, the double-whip Hu Yanzhuo who had led his troops to the border of Suidezhou shortly after. It turned out that Hu Yanzhuo was also with
His close friends Han Tao and Peng Qi led their troops to the same place. On the way to the Bianting military camp to take office, the military officials sent by Xiao Tang quickly reported that the security guards were now in Suidezhou and Yan'an Prefecture.
All the Song army troops on standby at the state border must listen to his orders, and he also ordered Hu Yanzhuo to quickly lead his troops to change their route eastward and enter the Xia Kingdom to assist other Song army troops in intercepting the enemy troops rushing to aid Yinzhou City.
Since it was a military order sent by Xiao Tang, Hu Yanzhuo, Han Tao, Peng Qi and other generals naturally did not say anything and immediately followed the military order and galloped towards the Wuding River Basin in Xia territory. The Xia army soldiers and horses were attacked halfway across the river.
Unable to get out of the formation, they naturally fell into chaos under the alternating attacks of the Song Army's crossbowmen and chain horses.
"Commander Hu Yan, almost all the Xia thieves who crossed the river have been slaughtered. According to Commander Xiao Jie's instructions, we must evacuate here as soon as possible."
Hu Yanzhuo heard Peng Qi shouting to him not far behind him, and he glanced at the Xia army soldiers and horses on the other side of the river. Seeing that the Xia army troops were rescuing his own soldiers and horses, he was worried that there would be an ambush of the Song army around them.
At this time, they had to retreat slowly.
After seeing this, Hu Yanzhuo showed an energetic smile on his face. He immediately raised the steel whip in his hand and shouted loudly: "Retreat the troops!"
The horse and infantry soldiers of the Song Army who set up an ambush heard the order and began to evacuate to the southeast in an orderly manner. However, the red blood stains in the surging Wuding River had not yet dissipated. There were dead bodies on pillows and blood flowing in the Wuding River at a corner of the river.
The thick smell of blood from the battlefield being cleaned by humans filled the air. Under the setting sun, the scene of a mountain of corpses and a river of blood added endless desolation and desolation...
The poor bones by the river are like those in a spring boudoir dream.
In the battle of Wudinghe, the Song army won a complete victory and killed more than 5,000 enemies. In the following days, the Song army sent by Xiao Tang launched an ambush on two groups of Xia army troops rushing to Yinzhou to aid. Battle. From the time when Xiao Tang gathered troops and horses to attack Yinzhou City, to when he dispatched his troops to intercept the troops and horses sent from other key locations of the Xia army, the tactics adopted were very typical of siege and reinforcements.
However, besieging a city for reinforcements is not a rare strategy. In the classic battles of previous dynasties, Geng Yan, one of the twenty-eight generals of Yuntai and the hero of the Zhongxing Dynasty in the Eastern Han Dynasty, severely defeated the warlord Zhang Bu who had separatized the twelve counties of Qi. It was used; Li Shimin led the Tang army to encircle Luoyang City occupied by Wang Shichong, and also used it when he defeated Dou Jiande's 100,000 troops at Hulao Pass; and the Xia army also used this kind of weapon during several previous attacks against the Song Dynasty. The tactics are used with ease.
Therefore, not only the Xia troops stationed in other military states, but also the defenders in Yinzhou City saw the Song army being surrounded and refused to attack. Instead, they planted antlers to resist the horses, dug trenches and built camps. It didn't look like they came to attack the city. On the contrary, it seems that they came to Yinzhou City to repair the military stronghold and defend it. Especially when the generals of the Xia Army in the city noticed that the Song Army troops besieging the city were mobilized frequently. Every day, the Song Army in the stronghold did not see more troops, but only moved troops to other places. , they immediately realized that when the Song army set up camp under the city, they must use Yinzhou as bait to lure the Xia army troops to send reinforcements from other places, and then use pre-deployed troops to ambush and annihilate their own reinforcements.
Now that the enemy's strategic intentions were known, and the number of Song troops under the city was decreasing day by day, someone in the Xia army in Yinzhou City immediately suggested to the general guarding the city that they might as well wait until late at night to sneak attack the enemy camp. This would not only destroy the Song army's fortifications under the city The camp can even severely defeat the enemy's army. The morale of the troops in the city can be greatly boosted. Then the defenders and reinforcements should cooperate with each other inside and outside to attack the Song army at a disadvantage. Not only can the siege of Yinzhou be solved, but also the Song Dynasty on the eastern front can be defeated. After the army, Xiao Yuwei advanced eastward and conquered several military strongholds in Sui Dezhou, Song Dynasty, and stabbed the enemy in the rear.
The general in Yinzhou City also immediately decided to attack the Song Army at night. Since the Song Army's attention is not on attacking Yinzhou, and the number of soldiers and horses of the Song Army does not currently have much advantage, as long as the surprise attack goes straight into the central army and kills the Song Army General, all the troops The soldiers and horses must be in internal chaos and have no intention of fighting.
At midnight, in the dead of night and under the sky full of stars, the surprise attack army in Yinzhou City was all ready. Jun Jian, who had quietly sneaked out of the city first and covered the Song Army camp, also sent a signal in the direction of the city. , the general of the Xia Army in Yinzhou City immediately ordered people to quietly open the city gate, and personally led five thousand soldiers with grass in their hands and horses in their rings to sneak into the night, like a group of evil wolves foraging for food in the middle of the night, sweeping towards the Song Army camp. And go...
"Anyone who uses a plan cannot just make one plan alone, but must have several plans to support it. Therefore, those who are good at using troops must be skillful and prevent losses. If the plan is changed, the mastermind needs to predict the changes in the battle situation and prepare them in advance. Develop a strategy to deal with it, so that the enemy will be unable to defend against it and will eventually fall into the trap."
At this time, in a camp about three miles away from the east gate of Yinzhou City, Xiao Tang had heard that military officials had come to report that there was something unusual at the gate of Yinzhou City. He said it leisurely, and then sent an order to the camp. The generals who had prepared their troops in advance immediately prepared and led their troops to prepare for the ambush of the Xia troops who came to attack the camp according to the previously arranged plan.
At this time, Xiao Tang looked at Xu Guanzhong, Xiao Jiasui and other brothers walking into the camp. They nodded to each other as if they were in harmony. Then Xiao Tang said to Xu Guanzhong: "The purpose of night attacks is to surprise and attack unprepared people. Once the tactics are used,
Being discovered will lead to a collapse of the morale of our own troops. Now the Xia army is not defending according to danger, but will fall headlong into the ambush set by our army... This is also true of Guanzhong. You are full of tricks.
