After listening to Luo Ren's words, Lu Yuan knew that his previous idea was wrong. ?Net? ? He changed his mind after realizing his mistake, and immediately said: "Then speed up the gathering of troops. Or tell them that the pursuers are coming."
Luo Ren immediately said: "No! Although morale has recovered slightly now, it is still not high. If we tell them now that the pursuers have caught up, then it is estimated that the morale of the army will be in chaos, and the army will probably be completely confused and run away, and we will have no chance at all.
Opportunity."
The reason why Luo Ren devoted himself to planning for this army was not that he still had any hope for rebellion, but that he still wanted to return to Qingzhou City to see his son, and maybe there was still hope for his son to escape.
If you die here, there will be no hope at all.
Lu Yuan also knew Luo Ren's purpose, but since Luo Ren's statement seemed reasonable to him, he immediately adopted it, and specifically asked the people guarding the city gate to strictly guard the information and not disclose it.
The cavalry sent by Xie Cheng did not spread out and patrol around, because the three guards of King Qi also had cavalry, and the total number was more than 6,000. Although more than 2,000 people did not come, there are still 4,000 cavalry here.
It was more than their total strength. Therefore, the generals who commanded the cavalry of various guards in Shandong did not dare to be careless. The entire army patrolled around Zhangqiu County but did not dare to get too close.
In this way, the rebels in the city completed their gathering and immediately left the city after breakfast. They also deliberately chose the north gate that was farthest from Shandong Dusi's cavalry at this time, instead of the most convenient east gate.
Naturally, the soldiers in the city would not be silent when leaving the city, especially now that their military discipline was somewhat loose, so Shandong Dusi's cavalry, which was still swaying at the south gate, immediately rushed to the north gate.
However, they were always on guard against the cavalry attacks of King Qi's three guards, so they still maintained their formation. Since they maintained their formation, their speed was not particularly fast. Luo Ren and Chief Su drove all the troops out of Zhangzhou at the fastest speed.
Even though the infantry in Qiucheng was completely out of position except for the cavalry, the entire army left Zhangqiu County before Shandong Dusi's cavalry arrived.
Seeing Shandong Dusi's cavalry, the remaining soldiers of King Qi's three guards immediately burst into an uproar. However, they had already left the city and it was impossible to enter the city again. Although the morale of these soldiers is not high now, they are always under the control of generals.
Even hundreds of households and thousands of households had experience in fighting. They knew that if the formation was messed up at this time, it would be completely ruined, so they finally maintained the formation.
In fact, if Shandong Dusi's cavalry made a decisive attack at this time, the four thousand cavalry of King Qi's three guards would probably not be able to defeat their three thousand men due to their low morale; but the commander of the army did not know, so even though he kept guarding them,
No attack was launched.
However, the rebels did not dare to let the cavalry drive away the opponent's cavalry. After all, the march was slowed down, and finally they were overtaken by the army led by Xie Cheng on the east bank of the Fu River in Zichuan County.
That night, Luo Ren and Chief Su were sitting in Lu Yuan's tent. Chief Su said to Lu Yuan: "Lu Yuan, now we can only take advantage of the darkness to break out. Tonight is the best time."
"Xie Cheng is also a hero and a veteran. It is impossible not to be prepared for us to break out at night, but he caught up with us late. He had to consider both the situation of our breaking out and the situation of us holding on by the river, so he must first
Set up camp, otherwise if we don't set up camp, we can probably disrupt them by sneak attacking them at night even though their morale is low."
"And the soldiers always use up their physical strength to set up camp. At night, they will not be able to prepare the entire army for our breakout."
"So tonight, at the second watch, call all the soldiers and break out at the third watch!"
Lu Yuan then asked: "But breaking out of the encirclement is not that easy, right? How to break out of the encirclement?"
Chief Su said: "Of course there is a plan to deceive the soldiers." But just when he was about to tell his plan to deceive the soldiers, suddenly something seemed to come from outside the tent, and then the soldiers guarding the tent left.
He came in and said something. Just these words completely changed their deployment.
On the second day of September, the seventh day of the lunar month, Xie Cheng commanded the army to leave the camp to attack. However, the rebels did not break out during the night. At this moment, the entire army left the camp and faced off against the army led by Xie Cheng two or three miles away.
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Not only Chief Su and Luo Ren were thinking about the best way to break out last night, but also the generals on Xie Cheng's side, whether it was Xie himself or the guards commanders Xia Zi, Zheng Ben and Xie Sanqi below, felt that
Last night was the best opportunity to break out. They only observed for a while last night and saw that their morale was low.
But they were not very surprised that the rebels did not choose to break out. After all, breaking out is also very dangerous. The soldiers of Shandong Dusi have night blindness, and the soldiers of Qi Wangsanwei also have night blindness. If their trick of suspecting soldiers does not work, the possibility of being killed in the middle of the night is high.
small; and during the day, the possibility of using the infantry to engage them head-on to hold them back, and then using the cavalry to escape was actually not low, so they were not surprised.
At this time, the two sides faced each other, and Xie Cheng began to mobilize his troops to fight the enemy. Xie Cheng left one guard to protect the cannon, and then the rest of the army pressed forward. The cavalry roamed on both sides of the infantry formation and swept the formation.
Prevent the cavalry of King Qi's three guards from attacking the formation from the flanks.
Of course, the cavalry of King Qi's three guards also mobilized. This was their only advantage. The four thousand cavalry faced the more than three thousand cavalry of Shandong Dusi.
Chief Su led the cavalry in battle. He gathered all the cavalry together. Now because Shandong Dusi's cavalry wanted to raid for their own side, they were divided into two sides. The cavalry that was originally less than them was even less.
But it is not feasible to rashly rely on the superiority of cavalry to attack the cavalry of Shandong Dusi. Although the cavalry is raiding the formation for the infantry, the infantry on both wings can also help the cavalry in the battle. At least the archers can shoot arrows. And all the cavalry attack in a certain direction.
, the Shandong Dusi cavalry deployed on the other wing is also freed and can come over to help or harass the camp of the three guards of King Qi. Generally speaking, they will not take advantage.
All the generals of Shandong Dusi were speculating on how Chief Su would use this cavalry. But in the end, Chief Su's way of using the cavalry surprised them, because Chief Su actually led the cavalry directly to attack the Chinese army's formation under the command of Xie Cheng!
The Chinese army's formation is the place with the largest number of troops. Although the cavalry has an advantage over the infantry, Shandong Dusi's formation is still very strict. It is absolutely impossible for the cavalry to break away with a single charge. Then the cavalry is likely to fall into a charge and encirclement and finally be captured.
wipe out.
But something even more surprising happened to them. The Chinese army formation led by Xie Cheng retreated as if they could not withstand the impact of the cavalry led by Chief Su.