Prime Minister Xue Song stepped forward and crossed his hands and said: "Your Majesty, these 120,000 are not all of Li Siye's family fortune. He has garrisons in Yunzhou and Taiyuan, six armies are stationed in Longyou, Hexi Corridor also has Hengsai, Chishui and other armies.
There is also the Jiannan Army in Shu. There are even soldiers and horses guarding Anxi and Beiting."
Shi Siming frowned: "What exactly do you want to say?"
Xue Song stepped forward and said: "What I mean is that if Li Siye loses, he will still have a chance to recover his losses if he withdraws to Hedong. If your Majesty loses, he will really lose."
Shi Siming frowned and asked him: "What do you want?"
"Your Majesty should stick to Youzhou, strengthen the city defense, and set up a fire brigade in the city to deal with Li Siye's artillery fire. Please ask Shi Wei's army to stay behind Yuguan and wait until Li Siye has been unable to attack for a long time and the veterans are tired, and then attack in one fell swoop to complete the battle.
"
Shi Siming laughed, walked down the steps, patted Xue Song on the shoulder and said, "Mr.
In the hands of Li Siye? Now he is taking advantage of the power of firearms and is arrogant outside Youzhou City. I will use these 170,000 troops to destroy his 120,000 troops and make him lose his troops and his bones."
Xue Song retreated gloomily: "Since Your Majesty said this, I have nothing to say."
Shi Siming looked at everyone with a stern look: "Who has any objections?"
All the generals shook their heads and expressed no opinion.
"In this case, we have to fight to determine the outcome. Everyone must fight to the death for me. Don't have any scruples. If I lose, your life will not be easy."
That night, the entire Yan army in Youzhou City was mobilized, began to prepare horses and soldiers, and prepared dry food. By the time of the fifth watch, the torches on the field in front of the Weng City were as dense as stars, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered here. Shi Siming came from the city
Looking down, he felt a surge of pride in his chest and said to Xue Song, who was standing next to him: "More than a hundred thousand torches were thrown at Li Siye's camp. It was also a sea of fire. I asked him if he was afraid!"
After Shi Siming led his troops out of the city, he did not attack directly. He waited until another team with torches appeared on the horizon. Both sides rushed towards Li Siye's camp in tacit agreement.
In order to create the effect of a sudden attack, the Yan army wrapped the horse's hooves with cloth and slowly approached a hundred steps away from Li Siye's camp. The cavalry then began to get on their horses and suddenly released their horses' hooves and rushed towards Li Siye's camp.
The infantrymen who took the first step also slowly approached, and a sentry holding a long gun was vaguely visible. Although the camp was a little too quiet, no one raised any questions.
The soldiers quickly ran to the entrance of the camp, raised their horses, and the cavalry rushed in with shouts of killing, throwing the torches in their hands towards the enemy's tent, and a raging fire was ignited for a while.
The cavalrymen pointed their lances at the sentry soldiers and stabbed them in the chest. The enemy soldiers fell down without making a scream, and their coats and armors fell apart, revealing the hay inside.
"Where are the people?" The officers and soldiers of the Yan Army felt something strange.
In order to show that he was a pioneer, Shi Siming also rode a war horse into the enemy camp. A soldier came forward and reported to him: "Your Majesty, there is no one in the camp!"
He nodded calmly, smelled a strange smell in the air, and suddenly realized: "You've been fooled, quickly, get out. Quickly, quickly!"
The Yan army hurriedly retreated outside the military camp, but many soldiers had already penetrated deep into the camp. The burning tents collapsed, igniting the twisters on the ground and making a crackling sound. Then there was a series of violent explosions that were deafening. The dark night rolled with vigorous energy.
The flames dyed half of the sky red, mixed with the screams of the Yan army soldiers.
Shi Wei and Tongluo cavalry rushed into the north gate of the camp at the same time. They were less alert than Shi Siming and suffered heavier losses.
In the dark night, two soldiers and horses gathered together. General Shi Wei's face was choked black by the fireworks, and he loudly asked Shi Siming: "Emperor Dayan, what is going on? Aren't you and I going to attack the enemy camp at night?
How could he be plotted against?"
Shi Siming glanced at the general gloomily but did not answer. Prime Minister Xue Song rode in the middle and said: "This is not the place to talk. Let's lead the army back to Youzhou City first and then make plans."
The Yan army withdrew to Youzhou City. Shi Siming did not give up the idea of a showdown with Li Siye, but also strengthened his determination. The incident last night was only a small loss and would not affect his confidence in victory.
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Li Siye had already withdrawn to Yizhou. In addition to receiving the ammunition delivered from the rear, he also had to arrange the preset battlefield here because Shi Siming's army would arrive soon.
In the fifth year of Yuanshuo, the two sides met on a flat and open field thirty miles away from Yizhou City and quickly set up their formations. This terrain was obviously beneficial to both sides, and it was simply a standard tournament map. If there were any differences, Shi Siming was
When fighting at home, psychological factors dominate, and supplies are relatively easy.
The coaches of both sides faced each other face to face for the first time on the battlefield, but the two had no intention of quarreling and just looked at each other from afar.
Shi Siming placed the infantry formation in the center, with his Youzhou cavalry and Tongluo Shiwei cavalry on the two wings. Since his troops were stronger than Li Siye's, the formation was wider and deeper.
However, Li Siye placed the Flying Tiger Cavalry in the center, and the infantry formations were on the two wings and rear to cover the lined-up large-scale artillery battalion.
General Shi Wei chuckled next to Shi Siming and began to murmur: "The emperor said that Li Siye is proficient in battle formations and using soldiers like a god. I think it is nothing more than this. How can he put infantry on both sides of the cavalry? Your Majesty only needs to use your Youyan
The heavy armored infantry stabilized their formation to withstand the attack of the Flying Tiger Cavalry, and we will definitely defeat them by outflanking them from both sides."
Shi Siming unexpectedly nodded: "Okay, I'll do as you say."
"Warriors, attack!"
Suddenly many large Kongming lanterns floated up from behind the Flying Tiger Cavalry. Shi Siming said angrily: "You're going to do this to me in a place like this. Li Siye, you can't fucking afford it."
His general Zhang Zhizhong pointed at the fluttering flag and laughed: "Your Majesty, they miscalculated! We are upwind, and their Kongming Lantern cannot float over!"
He quickly shut his mouth obediently, because the shape of those sky lanterns had changed, from a circle to a long spindle shape, and there were bamboo dragonfly-like fans rotating at the tail and sides. Of course these were driven.
The fan uses primitive human power, and its forward speed is a bit slow, slightly faster than walking.
Shi Siming pulled out the horizontal sword from his waist, raised it high in his hand and shouted: "Kill towards the enemy camp, how can he explode?"
So the cavalry on both wings of the Yan army rushed towards the two wings of Li Siye's army, and the infantry also began to move forward.
This was what Li Siye wanted. His artillery array was difficult to move and required the enemy to actively rush into the firing range.
He personally waved the flag and ordered: "The entire army retreats to the rear of the artillery camp!"
The army retreated backwards in batches, revealing rows of black muzzles.
Yan Qi, who was charging, felt frightened when he saw these things. Zhang Zhizhong shouted loudly to encourage him: "Don't hesitate, charge me!"
White smoke erupted from the muzzle of the artillery for the first time, and the shells exploded among Tongluo Shiwei and the Yan army cavalry. One of the horses was frightened and deviated from the route, colliding with its companions. The cavalry on the horse was unlucky and fell down.
The horse's lower foot was still stuck in the stirrup and was dragged along. Some people were trampled to death by the horses' hooves directly in the horse formation.