Chen Mu watched all Zhuge Liang's tactical arrangements with cold eyes.
Changing tactics on the spot, the reaction is indeed fast enough.
Although Zhang Xiujun set out in the early morning and traveled a long distance, he was probably almost at Yuyang now, which was less than fifty miles away.
But according to the original plan, they had almost two hours to defeat Liu Biao's troops.
However, due to the terrain, Liu Biao's troops were stagnant and would be delayed by the opponent. This made time even more urgent, and the enemy must be eliminated within an hour.
So Zhuge Liang immediately transferred back Feng Kai's troops who originally attacked the enemy from the right wing, and replaced them with Xu Chu's heavy cavalry to attack from the right wing.
This is because there is a protruding corner to the west of Xiaochang'anju. The Feishui River does not go in a straight line, but winds around. To the northwest of Xiaochang'anju, it just bends out an S-shaped curve.
So located beside the river, there is another village called Yangjiaju, which is just northwest of Xiaochang'anju in the valley. Wenpin's current location is about seven or eight miles to the west.
If you walk along the river, you will reach Yangjiaju. In later generations, this place was the forest farm area of Wadian Town, with a large number of vast forests and relatively flat terrain.
After coming out of the forest of Yangjiaju, you can see the open area outside the valley of Xiaochang'anju in the south. This is a large plain area, which is very suitable for cavalry to gallop. As long as Xu Chu attacks the Wenpin phalanx from the flank, it will immediately be a dimensionality reduction strike.
Time passed like this, and more than an hour later, it was almost the beginning of the afternoon, that is, around three o'clock. Liu Biao's army had traveled all day and had eaten in the morning. Now his stomach was growling.
Moreover, Nanyang in June is like a steamer. The imperial troops are hiding in the mountains and forests for shade. They are basking in the sun in the open space outside the valley. They are all listless, like eggplants beaten by frost. They sit or lie down in groups.
The few shady places with trees are basically occupied by military officers of all levels.
Wu Anguo calculated the time and felt that Xu Chu should have arrived at Yangjiaju, so he said to Zhuge Liang: "Supervisor, Commander Xu should have arrived by now. If we launch an attack immediately, he will be able to attack with us at almost the same time."
Zhuge Liang waved his hand and said, "Don't be impatient. This is not the right time to go to war. Just wait patiently. I estimate that in at least half an hour, the enemy will not be able to hold on anymore and will be ready to light a fire to make food."
Wu Anguo looked at the sky and said anxiously: "But we have been delayed by the enemy for an hour now. If we wait any longer, Zhang Xiu's reinforcements may be coming soon."
"Don't worry, I believe General Wen Su can hold off the enemy for at least half an hour!"
Zhuge Liang was calm and collected.
He was like a tiger in the forest, looking at the resting Wenpin army in the distance with stern eyes, as if looking at a prey waiting to be slaughtered, patiently waiting for the prey to relax its vigilance, and then give them a fatal blow.
At this moment, the army of civil servants is indeed very tired, mainly due to the weather. In recent years, due to the Little Ice Age, the summer has been hot and the temperature is getting hotter day by day.
At this time, the soldiers were often hungry and thirsty. A wise man like Cao Cao alleviated the hunger and thirst of the soldiers by looking at plum blossoms to quench their thirst on the way to attack Zhang Xiu.
Of course Wenpin was not as smart as Cao Cao, but he did notice the condition of the soldiers. After a slight hesitation, he said to Deng Ji: "The weather is hot right now. The soldiers have been marching for a day and may be hungry and thirsty. You can send people to attack the enemy."
Let everyone rest before we get water to make rice."
Deng Ji was also too hot. When he heard the order, he immediately said: "Okay, I'll go now."
After saying that, he immediately got up, led the troops and headed south.
Jishui was called Lihe in later generations. This river was the junction of Qin and Chu during the Warring States Period. Jiyang was on the east bank of Jishui, so the city was named Jiyang.
It is located to the east and south of Xiao Chang'an Ju. Because it flows east of Xiao Chang'an Ju all the way south, and after reaching the south of Xiao Chang'an Ju, it turns west and merges into the Feishui River. Therefore, the east side of Xiao Chang'an Ju is
and the south are surrounded by Thornwater.
However, there is a large mountain forest to the east of Xiaochang'anju. Although it is closer to Jishui, it has to go over mountains and ridges, so it is actually more convenient to go south, so Deng Ji has to go to get water on the way from here.
Soon, more than half an hour passed. Deng Ji sent thousands of people to fetch water. The soldiers had already set up pottery cauldrons and were preparing to cook.
In fact, when large armies send troops for short distances, they often don’t bring too much baggage. The soldiers carry some dry food with them, and then each team brings some of their own leeks, changben, jingjing, maojing, qinjing, shenpu and 箈菹
, bamboo shoots and other pickles are put into the cauldron and cooked.
Officers who have the conditions can just make some meat sauce such as glutinous rice, elk meat, pig meat, burdock, etc., mix it with some dry food and eat it.
When you are marching and fighting outside, you don't have to pay so much attention.
Basically, it's just ready-made noodles or some fried rice, sprinkled with some pickles, and you can eat a few meals in one go to keep yourself from going hungry.
Smoke was rising here, and Zhuge Liang took a look at the sky over there. It was already at the end of the fourth quarter of the afternoon, that is, around 4:20. Based on the previous horse exploration report outside Wancheng, Zhang Xiujun's departure time and distance calculation,
The arrival time should be between the first and third quarter of the day.
Since they have spent almost an hour and a half here and on the opposite side, this means that at least half an hour, and at most an hour, Zhang Xiujun will almost arrive at the battlefield, because Zhuge Liang is not sure whether Wen Su can delay the time.
But the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. Seeing that the time had come, Zhuge Liang decisively ordered: "Send the order, the whole army attacks!"
"Army attack!"
Wu Anguo had been impatient for a long time. They had eaten solid food at noon, but they were not hungry.
But the enemy is eating outside, and I am watching from the woods. It is a lie to not be greedy. However, it is not that we send troops just for this food, but that now is indeed a good opportunity to attack the enemy as Zhuge Liang said.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Even a fool knows that attacking when your opponent is eating or sleeping has a very high chance of winning.
In history, when Cao Cao attacked Zhang Xiu, the army pressed forward and almost crushed Zhang Xiu. Didn't Dian Wei die after falling asleep and being attacked by Zhang Xiu at night?
Therefore, at this critical moment, Wu Anguo did not hesitate and immediately beat the drum and ordered to send out troops.
As soon as he beat the drum, the Wenpin army in the distance immediately became alert. Almost instinctively, they dropped the food in their hands and stood up to watch.
Wenpin is actually not stupid. He naturally knows that his side is marching north with great fanfare. The enemy cannot be unaware of it. Maybe they have already laid an ambush in the valley. Now that he is starting to eat, the enemy will definitely send troops, so he has already arranged some soldiers to be ready.
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Therefore, he took his time and immediately began to organize a counterattack. First, he ordered the soldiers who had been prepared to quickly come to the front to block the enemy's offensive. Then he immediately sent messengers to inform officers at all levels and let them organize their formations immediately.
If you look down from a high altitude, you will see that in the mountains and forests in the valley around Xiaochang'anju, countless people are all over the mountains and plains, densely packed coming out of the forest, and then swarming towards the entrance of the valley.
Outside the valley, a large number of ant-like black spots began to gather. From the initial scattered state, they quickly took their positions and formed a defensive formation under the leadership of the officers.
Wenpin's troops were not at the mouth of the valley, but about a mile outside the valley, with a buffer distance, so that he could have time to organize a defense.
The drumming sound filled half of the sky.
After the imperial troops first gathered in large numbers outside the valley, they quickly arranged into an attack formation, also known as the triangular awl formation.
As a general who has been under Guan Yu's tent for a long time and has made many military exploits in several wars against Yuan Shao and the Black Mountain Army, Wu Anguo already has rich combat experience.
He was personally in front of the formation and led his guards to the forefront of the Awl formation, intending to lead the soldiers to formally launch a fierce attack on the enemy formation.
Almost as soon as the formation was set up, with a long horn sound, Wu Anguo pointed forward with the long-handled eight-edged pumpkin hammer weighing 11 kilograms in his hand, and shouted: "Kill!"
"kill!"
The imperial army roared loudly.
Wu Anguo's weapon is a long-handled hammer, which according to the precious historical material "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" weighs 50 kilograms.
But as we all know, one pound in the Han Dynasty was 222 grams, so in fact, based on the modern calculation of 500 grams, it should be 22 pounds, or 11 kilograms.
His hammer is not a super hammer like Li Yuanba's that is twice as big as a human head, but a solid round head with no iron spikes on it, which is about the same as the fists of two adults put together.
Although this hammer is not big, it has a long handle, and when charging on horseback, it can exert an impact of several tons with one hammer!
Wu Anguo took the lead. When approaching the enemy's formation, he picked up a hammer with both hands and smashed it at the enemy's sword and shield player in the front row. Due to the long handle, the enemy's sword could not hit him, and his hammer hit the enemy's shield first.
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boom!
There was a sound like an explosion of metal colliding, and the wooden shield was torn apart. The huge impact actually knocked the soldier away alive. His heart and lungs were shattered in mid-air, and he vomited blood and died. He fell to the crowd behind him.
There, it's just a corpse.
The sword-shielder at the front was knocked away, and a gap appeared in an instant. Wu Anguo's horse rushed directly into the gap without stopping. A steady stream of soldiers behind him followed him in, and immediately broke through a line of defense.
The troops in front of Wenpin's army suddenly fell into chaos, and because Wu Anguo adopted a triangular awl formation, as he opened a gap, the gap was instantly opened by the soldiers from behind.
The front line of the Jingzhou Army was soon in a rout. Wenpin quickly adjusted his formation. Fortunately, the ones who were broken through were only the soldiers who had been defending against the enemy's attack. His main force had already formed up in the rear and immediately separated to prevent the rout from being dispersed.
In the rear formation, two wings were simultaneously sent to outflank Wu Anguo's main force on the left and right.
Chen Mu, Zhuge Liang and others were watching on the mountain. They saw that the enemy generals responded calmly and did not panic because of the collapse of the front line. Instead, they showed strong military qualities, which made everyone admire them.
Zhuge Liang said: "Wenpin has always been relied upon by Liu Biao. As a general in the defense of Jiangbei, it seems that he does have his own unique abilities."
"It's a pity that the soldiers under my command are not very good, and their execution ability is far behind."
Chen Qun looked at it and shook his head.
Chen Mu said with a smile: "In recent years, there have been constant wars in the north, but Jingzhou has been very stable. It has attracted a large number of scholars and people to settle in Jingzhou, which has promoted the prosperity of Jingzhou, but it has also caused the decline of Jingzhou's martial ethics. "Sima Fa" said: "Warlike"
It will perish, and it will be in danger if it forgets to fight." A country or a nation must be strong in martial virtue but not resort to militarism in order to continue to prosper. If you have a sword in your hand and don't use it, and if you don't have a sword in your hand and you can't use it, they are two different concepts. Do you remember it?
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"remember."
Zhuge Liang, Chen Qun, Yao Bo, Huang Qi, Kong Jian and others heard new wise sayings, and quickly took out the small notebook they carried with them and wrote them down.
Since being evaluated by Chen Mu last time as not being as good as a first-class wise man, Yao Bo, Huang Qi, and Kong Jian, as outstanding graduates of Taishan Academy, deeply regretted it, so they vowed to follow their master closely and be good students, as long as every word his master said
, they will carefully note it down, write it in their notebooks, and often ponder it to increase their abilities.
Although Wenpin adjusted his formation in a timely manner, the front line was defeated so quickly that before the two wings had time to deploy, the Chinese army was scattered by the defeated troops in front, making it almost impossible for his troops to carry out his orders.
Under this situation, Wenpin had to make readjustments and let the soldiers who had spread out their wings attack both sides of the Wu'an Triangle, and then personally attack to meet the enemy.
Only in this way can he maintain his formation.
It has to be said that in history, Wenpin was able to guard Jiangxia for decades and repelled the attacks of Guan Yu and Sun Quan many times. He was as stable as Mount Tai and naturally had two brushes.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! However, the soldiers under his command are not elites. Jingzhou soldiers have been away from war for a long time, and they are still far behind compared with the elites of the imperial court who have been fighting for many years.
Fortunately, Wenpin personally took action, and the general's flag stabilized the morale of the army, and he blocked Wu Anguo's attack like a mainstay.
Feng Kaibu and Wu Anguo attacked together, and he attacked Wenpin's right wing from the left.
This is done to prevent the cavalry from outflanking them at the same time later.
And just when Wenpin's main force successfully stopped the overwhelming Wu Anguo, the rumble of horse hooves suddenly sounded in the distance, dust filled the sky, and the whole earth seemed to be shaking.
Zhuge Liang, who was standing on the mountain in the distance, suddenly laughed and said, "Wen Pinjun is finished."
"good."
Chen Mu nodded approvingly: "Let's prepare to go there too."
Everyone went down the mountain and approached the battlefield under the protection of hundreds of guards. At this time, the battlefield was already in ruins.
If we say that Wenpin relied on his excellent commanding ability, he could barely overcome the problem of the soldiers' combat effectiveness being weaker than the imperial army due to fatigue, fatigue, hunger and low quality.
So when the two thousand Xuanjia heavy cavalry came out, the battle situation had turned into a crushing defeat, and the left wing of the Jingzhou army was instantly smashed to pieces.
It was only the first round of charge. With the left wing defeated, the entire Chinese army completely lost its defensive power and began to collapse.
Seeing this situation, Wenpin knew that the situation was over, so he had to order the withdrawal of troops.
And just when Wenpin's army was completely defeated southward, in the direction of Jiyang in the south, an army with a banner with the word "Zhang" in it had already arrived on the battlefield.
at the same time.
In the direction of Xiaochang'anju, at the mouth of the valley, countless people and horses suddenly appeared and occupied the entire valley mouth.
Zhang Xiu's army unexpectedly appeared behind Liu Biao's army and the imperial army. The two armies from the north and the south surrounded the battlefield at the same time!