Chapter 22: Fight with the golden drum at dawn, hold the jade saddle at night (2)
Shao Shude and Zhuge Shuang climbed onto the high platform together.
According to the system, the commander must live in a place where he can climb high and have a long view. There are twelve drums on the left and right, twelve horns, and five-color flags on the left and right.
As the supreme commander of this battle, Zhuge Shuang naturally climbed onto this temporary high platform. Zhu Wen on the opposite side did the same, climbing up to see far and command the overall situation.
The Tang army formed a square formation. Twelve groups of frontmen were arranged at the front, with 600 people in each row, and three rows in total. The lines between the front lines were loosely spaced so that four groups of archers could pass through them at any time and shoot at the enemy.
Behind the battle front is a dense infantry and cavalry phalanx. There are seven infantry phalanxes and six small cavalry phalanxes dominated by rangers. The cavalry is sandwiched in the middle of the infantry formations. There are more than 2,000 infantry in this wave.
, six hundred cavalry.
The above can be considered as the former army.
The former army was from Yizhao, Hedong. He was naturally unconvinced, but to be honest, according to the rules of warriors, you can make trouble before the war, but once you have set up a formation to meet the enemy, if you continue to make trouble, your own people will look down on you, because of that
It will kill everyone.
Behind the front army is the Chinese army.
The main formation of the Chinese army has only 600 cavalry from the Tielin Army at the front, and a group of Shatuo cavalry from Daibei on the right, about 700 to 800 people, very scattered. In the middle and left are the thick infantry of the brigade.
They were all soldiers of the Tielin Army. They were divided into several small square formations, with fifty steps between them. Together with Zhuge Shuang's 300 personal soldiers, they served as the core of the entire army.
The left and right wings of the Chinese army were almost entirely composed of infantry formations. Except for the three to four hundred cavalry each roaming at any time, as far as the eye could see was an endless jungle of spears. These people were also from the Hedong Army, led by Zhu Mei, the governor of Daizhou.
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The three parts of the Chinese army, the left, middle and right, totaled more than 8,000 people, all of whom were combat soldiers. This already exceeded the total resources of all combat soldiers that Zhu Wen could mobilize at hand, and was extremely powerful.
The rear army consisted of baggage, mostly auxiliary troops, and thousands of cavalry, totaling 4,000 people.
In other words, Zhuge Shuang dispatched a total of about 17,000 men, which was exactly twice the number of Zhu Wen. It was a bit like overwhelming others with force. However, the art of war is like this. The way to win is to attack the few with more and use more force to win.
Attack the weak with the strong, and use the old to defeat the new. This will help you gain an invincible position.
The war drums sounded loudly.
The crossbowmen and crossbowmen of the Chao army were dispatched first, and hundreds of people formed a tight formation and slowly moved forward.
Behind them, Zhu Zhen, Hu Zhen, Xu Tang and others moved forward one after another. Looking from a high place, they looked like a large group of slowly squirming ants, although they were slow but moving forward inexorably.
Behind them, Zhu Wen's main formation was also moving. The war horses were neighing and the armor was clanking. It seemed that they had enough confidence to fight against the Tang army.
At three quarters, the selected forwards led by Ding Hui finally rushed forward and started fighting hand-to-hand after enduring three or four rounds of arrows from the front.
Swords and guns clashed, flesh and blood flew everywhere.
Shao Shude watched carefully from the high platform, and saw that a loose walking formation where the Hedong Army fought with him was directly dented. Behind him, there was a moment of confusion among the spearmen, swordsmen, and axemen on the left and right. Zhu Wen carefully picked
The carefully selected frontmen were indeed brave and well aware of the situation. When they saw this, they moved forward desperately, trying to widen the gap and create opportunities for the thousands of heavily armored spearmen from Zhu Zhen's tribe who were striding behind.
"Anyone who dares to retreat will be killed immediately!" A cavalry general led dozens of people and rushed from the gap between the formations. He grabbed two or three infantrymen who subconsciously retreated, raised the knife in his hand, and threw away the head of the great enemy.
On the ground.
The sergeants were frightened by this and could only bite the bullet and resist this fierce force. More than a thousand people on both sides fought desperately, one after another screaming and falling down. In the end, the remaining Hedong sergeants finally collapsed.
They fled from both sides along the gaps between the formations. However, the Chao army did not do well in selecting the front line. An overwhelming wave of arrows came from the rear line, sweeping the large group of bloody front lines to the ground.
More than a thousand men from Zhu Zhen's tribe quickly arrived and tried to rush in along the gap. The Hedong Army in the rear quickly made up for it. Spear against spear, knife against knife, it was another brutal fight.
"Sergeant Jinyang is still working hard." On the high platform, Zhuge Shuang finally showed a smile.
The first few waves of charging into the formation should all be the elite of the Chao army. As long as they can withstand the three axes at the beginning, the enemy's vigor will be almost exhausted. By then the whole army will be on the line, and Zhu Wen will be defeated even if he is not defeated. Only
However, the Jinyang soldiers led by Yi Zhao should have suffered heavy losses. In just a short while, almost hundreds of them were lying down, and the injured were uncounted, which should be enough for him to feel distressed.
Sending the thornhead to the front turned out to be Marshal Zhuge's secret.
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Zhu Wen looked solemnly at the former army frontmen who had only dozens of people fleeing back in embarrassment.
They had tried their best, and even he himself felt that there was nothing he could criticize too much. He was indeed brave enough to provide food, drink and fun in his daily life.
Zhu Zhen's armored spearmen once seized the opportunity to rush in and kill the Hedong sergeants on the opposite side. They were in chaos and blood flowed all over the ground. However, the enemy's formation was too thick. After a while, they collapsed, and then another one came up. Slowly
Wear away the blood of Zhu Zhen's soldiers.
Hu Zhen and Xu Tang once used cavalry to try to cooperate, but they were blocked by the Tang army's archers and their cavalry were also mobilized. In the end, they were forced to retreat.
Why can't it move? It seems that we still need to work harder!
At this time, Yi Zhao was gritting his teeth and looking at the command flag of the Chinese army behind him.
This is using me as a scapegoat!
The generals gathered around them, all with ugly expressions. The three axes of the Chao Army killed them so hard that they could hardly stand, and suffered heavy casualties. Two small formations had been defeated in a row, with more than a thousand casualties. If they continued like this, even if they could withstand it,
After the Chao Army's offensive, after repelling the enemy, it is estimated that not many of them will be left.
Zhuge Shuang, an old man, and Zhu Mei were both from Pang Xun's rebel army, so they were divided into the central army and the rear army. Shao Shude's Tielin army stood around Zhuge Shuang, almost as if they were watching a show.
What a fart in this fight!
Yi Zhao and Zuo Zuo looked at each other and saw the anxiety in each other's eyes. In troubled times, how could he spend his capital so casually?
The large formation in front of them finally exhausted its last bit of morale. Hundreds of people slipped back along the gap, and even the surrounding infantry formations that had not yet engaged in battle were also in an uproar.
Yi Zhao hesitated for a moment. If he led hundreds of soldiers to attack at this time, he would still have time to block the gap and even push Lien Zhan's exhausted Chao army back. But how many people would be killed or injured in this way? All of them were his relatives who had been with him for many years.
Soldiers, how can they be used up so casually?
"General, let's go! Zhuge Shuang, the old man, doesn't regard us as human beings. We have already lost 1,500 to 600 people. If we continue to fight, how many more people will die?" A general held Yi Zhao's hand and tried to rush forward.
War Horse, said loudly.
The surrounding soldiers were looking at Yi Zhao. If he wanted to come forward to fight, they would follow him. If he wanted to leave, they would walk along the corridor between the front army and the middle army and escape outside.
Yi Zhao was hesitant, and the general looked at each other, flicked the horse's head, and then hugged him and retreated. Yi Zhao subconsciously glanced at the high platform of the Chinese army, but saw Zhuge Shuang still standing there.
Shao Shude has disappeared.
The movement of the flag of the former army directly caused an uproar in the infantry formations of the front army on the left and right wings that had not yet engaged. Hu Zhen and Xu Tang's troops arrived at the same time. The right wing was not bad, and the warriors still had professional ethics and fought tooth and nail to resist.
The left wing collapsed immediately. The front formation only resisted for a moment before collapsing. The rear formation was pushed forward by infantry and flanked by cavalry, and fell into chaos.
Yi Zhao let out a long sigh, that was also his own army, and the result was like this, all because of that old man Zhuge Shuang!
There was a rumble of horse hoofbeats. Before Yi Zhao could recover, he heard the screams of the soldiers beside him. When he looked closely, it was the 600 cavalrymen of the Tielin Army who rushed up and directly killed them.
He was intercepted at the waist.
"Shao Shude, how dare you bully me, a running dog with several surnames!" Yi Zhao's eyes were about to split, and his soul was flying. Shao Shude had a murderous intention, so he's done with it today!
However, the Tielin Army cavalry did not stop to chase them, but continued to charge forward. Taking advantage of the uneven formation of hundreds of people under Zhu Zhen's command, they broke into the formation directly. The several-meter-long horse spear easily penetrated the formation.
The chests of dozens of people were then pulled out with horizontal knives and axes, and they were slashing and killing indiscriminately with the force of their horses charging forward.
The Shatuo cavalry brought by Zhu Mei also moved, bypassing the other side like a torrent, and went straight to Zhu Wen's Chinese cavalry who was charging towards them. The two sides launched a huge cavalry battle in the middle of the battlefield, and blood flowed for a while.
It was raining heavily, and broken limbs were flying everywhere.
The infantry of the Tielin Army began to move forward, with a total of 1,500 people in three small phalanxes, holding long spears in front of them, and moved forward slowly. Yi Zhao's soldiers were blocked everywhere they went, and they rode in a daze.
On the war horse, he was stabbed down one by one by Changsha, screaming in agony.
Yi Zhao was furious and panicked at the same time. He was about to run towards the infantry phalanx he had brought with him, but an arrow flew over and shot him off his horse.
"Fleeing without fighting is a capital crime!" Shao Shude put down his bow and shouted: "Behead him!"
Yi Zhao stood up staggeringly, and was instantly stabbed by seven or eight long spears, which penetrated his armor and penetrated into his heart. Shao Shude looked from a distance and saw that Yi Zhao's whole body was like a funnel, with blood constantly pouring out.
However, his body was held up by a long stick and he couldn't fall down for a while, as if he was being paraded there.
