Shao Song

Vol 2 Chapter 42: Before and after

War is the highest form of contradiction and the most violent means. Due to the limitations of the times, the victory or defeat of a war in the Middle Ages often depends on the success or failure of a key city, the life and death of a key person... But, no matter when, a decisive The battle is always the most open, direct, and speechless means of winning.

   However, unlike most battles that require scheduling, deployment, and testing, the main battle that took place in the hilly area between Zishui and Longshui was a bit caught off guard for both sides.

Yue Fei judged Li Cheng’s main attack direction from Zhang Jun’s arrangement, but never expected Li Cheng to bring almost the entire Puppet Qi’s existing military power, otherwise he would try his best to bring as many soldiers as possible. The horses were all brought, where would Hu Cheng sit in the back?

   The same is true for Li Cheng. The development of the current situation forces him to do his best, but for a warlord, who wants to smash all his wealth for no reason?

   Neither side is sure of victory, and it is completely arranged, both sides can only fight to death.

Li Cheng's two-winged cavalry clamped the infantry brigade, neatly aligned, and rushed forward; Yue Fei adapted to local conditions, set up cavalry, and highlighted the most elite heavy infantry, lined up to meet the enemy...This is already the two sides can be in just ten. The ultimate can be done within a few miles.

   "Jiandu!"

The battle lasted less than a quarter of an hour. When the fierce battle ahead was raging, a rider was covered in blood, and suddenly galloped from a distance. Because the flag broke on his back, he could only dismount in front of the handsome flag and present his waist card. Then Yue Fei finished the school by himself. Jindai is transferred to military intelligence. "There is a definite military report ahead. Zhang Zi'an, the fifth general of the Yuying Right Army, came up and was injured by Liu Shi and died just now!"

   Yue Fei Lema stood on a small hill in the hilly area beside the road, looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, his complexion remained unchanged, and he didn't even turn his head, he coldly scolded: "Such a fierce battle, do not report the death of the commander!"

   As Yue Fei’s pro-school, Bi Jin naturally knew that the coach had a temper, but he bent his head on Yue Fei’s side to shake his armor... As for the words that Zhang Zian is Zhang Jun’s nephew, he was not prepared to report it at the beginning.

   However, on the battlefield, Yue Fei could ignore the death of Zhang Jun's nephew, but he could not ignore the sudden battle in the middle of Tianshi. Even on the contrary, the battle situation of that unit is exactly where the decision is made.

   "Do you see it?" Li Cheng also raised the flag and stood on a small **** beside the avenue, then looked east to observe the battle, and suddenly spoke. "The victory or defeat in this battle is to see that the long axe heavy infantry protruding from the south side of the Song Army is defeated first, or whether our Chinese Army is in chaos first..."

   Guo Dadao wanted to say something but stopped. He wanted to ask his father-in-law if he was talking to himself, or was he talking to himself? But when these words came to my lips, they changed:

   "This is what the lord said, this is the truth!"

After a short pause, Guo Dadaofu said seriously: "The infantry in the middle should be facing the Beiwei army under the eyes of the big and small, that is, the cavalry led by Zhang Xian; and the cavalry in the south that stopped the Jurchen cavalry. The long axe soldier should be the army that is led by Zhang Laocai's son-in-law."

   "Not bad." Li Cheng nodded again and again. "They are all famous teachers and generals."

   "Then should we go to support the south and help the Jinren defeat Tian Shizhong, or should we go to the middle to support and stabilize the Chinese army?" Guo Dadao continued to ask.

On the hustle and bustle of the battlefield, Li Cheng fell into a certain silence for a while...It was not just the kind of silence in his personal language, and it was not just his own unilateral silence, but that this Hebei army middleman mixed up. Xiao Xiong suddenly felt the silence after the abruptness on the entire battlefield was smoothed out.

   There is noise everywhere, then there is no noise; there is blood everywhere, then there is no blood; there are battles and deaths everywhere, and battle and death seem to be insignificant.

   The key is the question raised by Guo Dadao. This simple question is where the decision is made... Yue Fei made the final diagonal array arrangement. It is true that Yue Fei can be more calm, but then?

Then there is the feeling that both sides throw the dice together... Now this battlefield, the middle road, is slightly rugged on both sides, and there is a river that is not wide and narrow for more than ten miles to block their retreat, so crowded. And in a narrow battlefield, once the troops in hand are smashed out, it will be difficult to dispatch, so what else?

  As a master, the only thing he can do at this time is to decide when and where to throw the last commandable elite force in his hand again!

   "Master! Master?!"

   Guo Dadao saw that Li Cheng was silent, and could not help but remind him.

   "Wait a minute." After regaining his senses, Li Cheng couldn't help but took a few deep breaths before he responded. "Wait a minute... These hundreds of long-sword cavalry and three thousand heavy steps are our final trump cards. This time, we must post-control, and we can't let Yue Fei face the plane again... You must know that the big and small eyes are where the army will come up. If you smash it out, there must be the last soldier and horse!"

   Guo Dadao nodded again and again, as if convinced.

   "Judgment."

   Seeing another wave of wounded being lifted down, Tang Huai, who had been standing by Yue Fei's side, made some estimates in his heart and suddenly spoke.

   "What's the matter?" Yue Fei still just stared at the front-line banner in a trance.

"Assuming that Wang Fudutong (Wang Gui) also started fighting, so far, the whole line has fought in less than a quarter of an hour, and the number of severely wounded people lifted down is no less than 300. I am afraid that the number of dead in frontline battles is also this number..." Tang Huai said in a deep voice. "Jedu, since the battle with the golden men, the armor of the two sides has been stronger than the other, and it is rare for so many people to die in a short time."

   "How rare is this casualty with this type of terrain and the number of battles?"

   "In fact, I always feel that something is not worth it..." Tang Wyatt had a pause and said frankly. "Not to mention that the imperial right army led by Tian Shizhong carried the Wei army, but our 20,000 soldiers were also carefully selected during the rest of Xuzhou, and there were no casualties at all during the first half of the Southern Expedition. In the future, I plan to keep crossing the river to fight against the Jinren, but I don’t want to spend time with the pseudo-qi thieves in the wild at this time... I know this is a wild decisive battle. I know that the dead are inevitable, but the death is too great. Faster!"

   This time, Yue Fei didn't say anything for a long time. He didn't know if he didn't want to speak, or he felt a certain kind of ‘silence’ that is unique to the battlefield like Li Cheng on the other side.

   "Send troops! Press up!"

   But unlike Li Cheng, Yue Fei ordered directly after only a moment of silence. "Push up in the middle!"

Tang Huai said nothing, but looked back at Bi Jin. Just as Bi Jin was about to deliver the military order, he found that the flag bearer had already drawn the flag, and all the sergeants around him had started... He turned his head again, but found his coach Yue Fei. After giving the order, he actually stepped forward in person, and the last four thousand Chinese Army who stayed around Shuaiqi naturally activated along with them and went straight ahead.

When the    Yue character handsome flag moved, the entire battlefield was shaken by it.

On the Central Avenue, Li Chengbu's **** formation, who had been killed by Zhang Xian's large group, had a direct tendency to waver, and the central part of Tianshi, who was alone in the front, suddenly loosened, and was able to get a respite, so that he was taken up by the pawns behind him. Keep up.

And seeing Yue Fei dispatching troops so early, Li Cheng on the opposite side was obviously stunned, and then fell into a bit of confusion under the attention of many generals including Guo Dadao... He was a little hard to understand, and he felt sorry for his family background. , Isn't the big and small eyes hurt?

   Why is the decisive battle so early? Do you think the battle is not intense enough?

But soon, Li Cheng realized that whether it was a momentary relentless error in the size of the eyes, or a quick victory, there were fewer casualties. Since the opponent moved, he would no longer be able to waste any elite power behind him. , Must not give up!

   "Send troops!" Li Cheng drew his knife and looked behind him. "Push it up with me! I slaughtered this big eye in person!"

Guo Dadao took the lead and immediately removed the brocade set on his long-handled broadsword. With a shout, he led the long-sword cavalry to clear the way. Li Cheng led the commander forward, and then 3,000 heavy steps followed the call of dozens of generals. Follow Li Cheng to the front to meet...It's like the previous two armies ignored the head-on collision. The start of the war was only two quarters of an hour. The coaches of both sides drew their flags and headed on to the front.

   This has brought the white-hot battlefield to a new level.

In an instant, almost everyone was rushing forward. The usual military salary, grace, honor, and loyalty, and the persecution, leadership, and supervision of the handsome flag behind him at this time, mixed with fear and anger, all came together. Everyone can I can tell why I am moving forward, but I can only move forward... and then wait until one of the parties first loses this forward breath.

Yue Fei first came to the front line. Apart from joining forces with thousands of new troops and Zhang Xianbu cavalry, he took advantage of the dislocation space pulled out by the front of Tianshi’s middle section, and caused a huge blow to the oncoming Li Chengbu pawns...Almost visible to the naked eye, although both sides They were all surging upwards, but as Yue Fei's handsome flag arrived at the front line, with the infantry as the base, the cavalry was divided into multiple teams and rushed forward, but they pushed the front step by step to the west.

   For a time, one goes down and the other goes up.

   At this time, Li Chengbu was still struggling to march on the road.

Let me add one more thing. The reason for the difference in time to reach the front line is not only because Yue Fei first activated the handsome flag, but the key lies in the arrangement of troops... The imperial front army was 23,000, diagonally forward, There are eight thousand soldiers on the left and right. Among them, Wang Gui will lead Zhang Yong, Li Kui, Sang Zhong, Liu Zhong, Li Hong, etc., for a total of eight thousand people in the north. The other five thousand will be headed by Ma Gao and Yizhangqing. The number of leaders will follow the middle of Tianshi, with Zhang Xian leading four thousand cavalry, and finally Yue Fei and Tang Huai leading the four thousand middle army to dispatch.

   In other words, after Yue flew to the front and pressed on, there were only four thousand cavalry in the road in front of him, so it could flow unimpeded.

At the same time, Li Chengbu nearly 40,000 people, five thousand horses on the left and right, accompanied by some pawns, and then part of the supervising troops mixed in the gap, even so, the middle **** formation is still dense and deep. There were 20,000 people in line, strong in the front and weak in the back. The front was the elite with armor, and the rear was the inferior soldier... At this time, Li Cheng led his troops forward, and it was completely dependent on Guo Dadao to clear the way in front to barely get in.

   The advancing speed of the two sides is not in the same line at all.

   When Li Chengbu came to the front-line position with great difficulty, the front-line infantry formation was already shaky...the so-called breath, there was only one mouthful left.

   I can only say, luckily I still caught up.

   "You must counterattack!" After the army formation, Li Cheng commanded some heavy infantry to form a formation to stabilize the formation, and pointed at Guo Zhongwei and shouted loudly. "Guo Dadao! The remaining long-sword cavalry will be with you. Go for a charge. It is best to charge the handsome flag with the big and small eyes! Remember, only cut the handsome flag. Don't compete with the big and small eyes. You must not His opponent!"

Guo Zhongwei didn't say a word, didn't raise the flag, or shout. He just moved forward with his big swords upside down, but the two hundred cavalrymen with long swords behind him each removed their sleeves, and for a while their long swords were like arrows, moving forward along the center. Not only that, Li Zhifang's footmen in front saw the iconic cavalry with long swords throwing their swords forward, and they only separated to the sides like a wheat wave after encountering a living thing in the distant field.

Under the squeeze of the Cangjia army’s additional forces, apart from a 200-plus cavalry of the Beiwei army on the marching route of Guo Dadao in front of him, the rest could not easily come forward to stop him. The leader of this cavalry of the Beiwei army is no one else. It is from Hu Cheng's subordinate, Li Zhang, who has followed Yue Fei for a long time.

   Li Zhang was originally a hero of Yizhou, and he was always called brave in the army. How could he retreat halfway, and he was not angry and rejoiced when he saw it, and he faced him directly.

The two cavalry smashed into each other's battles, with their swords and spears flying all over, and Li Zhang was able to kill. He even led seven or eight of his companion cavalry to kill several cavalry in a row and plunged directly into the opposing formation. His momentum was not more famous than Li Cheng. The longsword cavalry is slightly weaker.

But at this time, Guo Zhongwei saw Li Zhang and still didn't say a word. He just continued to lower his head and drag the knife forward in the army, but under the cover of the rest of the cavalry, he did not make a sound, accelerated suddenly, and suddenly stopped. Pounced straight to the opponent's side, and then strenuously waved.

   just swiped Li Zhang from the left side of the neck to the right side of the armpit, and cut it under the horse.

   Until this time, the long-sword cavalry shouted together, gathered Guo Dadao as the core, and easily dispersed the face-to-face army that had lost command, and then continued to march towards Yue Fei's handsome banner.

   Of course, the long-sword cavalry was too conspicuous. After crossing the cavalry melee zone, they were directly caught by Yue Fei and Tang Huai.

   "For such a group, one step in, one step in, one step in step, although it is consumed, but keep moving forward, there must be a general Yanqi sitting!" Tang Huai only watched for a moment to see the difference. "I'll meet him!"

   "Wait for him!" Yue Fei, who was sitting under the banner of the horse, looked at it coldly, and raised his hand to stop it. "Let's continue to press the armourer and follow the cavalry forward."

   How Tang Huai didn't know what his brother meant, but he immediately nodded, and then simply turned his head guard to the handsome banner, and then called and finished, and gave a hint.

   After a while, I don’t know if it was the Song Army’s deliberate indulgence. After this long-sword cavalry entered the Song Army’s infantry array, the resistance it encountered was not so serious. The soldiers and horses along the way were merely blocking and depleting.

However, when Guo Dadao rushed not far from Shuai Qi, he saw Yue Fei and dozens of horses with obvious armor in front of Shuai Qi's field of vision. When he looked back, he saw that there were only more than ten horses left behind. He also knew what was going on when he woke up... It was Song Jun who was deliberately indulging, peeling off the bamboo shoots layer by layer, and then tempting him to take the big and small eye itself when there were fewer soldiers and horses.

   Otherwise, under the handsome banner so tightly arranged, but the general is standing in front of it?

   This is a trap.

However, knowing this, the bold Guo Dadao of the art masters resented that he was underestimated, but he ignored him and urged the last ten rides forward. Instead, he threw Shuai Qi's established goal and took Yue Fei straight... Knowing that there are so many weapons in the world, why does Guo Zhongwei use a long-handled broadsword immediately? Isn't it because the sword was sharpened before the battle, and then you flicked it hard, letting you be a martial artist, well-armed, and a famous general, it was just a stab?

Since Guo Dadao took Yue Fei directly, Yue Fei’s guards were not fools, so naturally they swarmed to meet him. Dozens of people almost wanted to take all the last ten knights, but Guo Zhongwei had a lot of experience on the battlefield. Since he had expected it, he suddenly accelerated and rushed forward before the opponent closed the encirclement.

   And Yue Fei, who had turned his head and squinted his eyes a long time ago, was not afraid, and he simply turned around and hit his horse to meet him.

   After the two horses were crossed, Guo Dadao panicked...because he was struggling to slash with his horse just now, and was easily opened by the other party with a steel spear. It can be seen that the two sides are not the same at all. But when one of his tricks fell into the wind, remembering his coach’s instructions, when he wanted to turn to the direction of Shuaiqi, unexpectedly Yue Fei turned very fast behind him, and soon followed him, and shot him back. Stabbed, Guo Zhongwei was embarrassed and could only turn around and move his hand sideways. However, such movements inevitably deformed and exerted improper force, and then his mouth was stunned, and he was directly crushed by the opponent's steel gun with the long knife in his hand.

   Since Guo had no big sword, he became more and more apprehensive, so he reined his horse again, ready to turn to flee.

What is expected, it was this reining horse, the horse speed was a little slow, and Yue Fei was deceived by the horse. Then I saw that the dignified imperial army directly threw his spear, backhand from the other side of the horse. Take off a sharp simple knife, and then hold the knife in both hands, but immediately struggling to cut towards the back of the opponent’s neck, he actually cut all the way from the neck of the Guo Dadao, directly to the opponent’s crotch, and continued to cut again. The saddle was cracked and the horse's back was injured before it stopped.

   And Guo's big knife was also split into two by the whole person, and the internal organs were scattered on the ground.

   Yue Fei was half-blooded, and he stopped the horse without saying a word. Then he went down to the ground and picked up his spear, and then mounted the horse calmly. When he returned to the front of Shuai Qi, he continued to command and urge the battlefield.

   Not far away, the long-sword cavalry who was still stubbornly resisting and the Li Chengbu pawns who were close by, saw this scene, as if they had seen ghosts and gods, each was ashamed. The raid by Guo Dadao inevitably dissipated directly.

Li Cheng was far away. Although he didn’t know that a big knife of his house was cut in half and his intestines might not be connected, he saw that Guo Zhongwei was trapped in the Song Army and never returned. Then Song Jun seemed to be in front of him for a while. No matter how morale is, it is natural to guess that Guo Dadao lost.

However, Li Cheng is not an incompetent person. When a general is dead, he does not hesitate to send a messenger, but he also orders Xu Dadao, who is at the junction of the northern and central areas, and his two hundred longsword knights, plus one thousand Jinan. The cavalry was called together and continued to suppress the center line.

Xu Dadao is also a character of loyalty. In addition, he has seen the predicament of the Chinese army caused by Yue Fei's first arrival and the bloated formation of his own army. So after receiving the order, he didn't hesitate at all. He also hurried to rescue him. It was an attempt to use the formed cavalry to divide the cavalry and infantry units of the imperial front army on the road.

   This is a very correct decision. In fact, it is impossible for Yue Fei, nor dare to put such a cavalry into the battlefield of the Chinese Army.

   "The two thousand soldiers are with you, I have to block it anyway!" Yue Fei turned his head to Tang Huai, speaking concisely.

Tang Huai understood and led the soldiers away, while Yue Fei, half of his body covered in blood, ordered the flag to be moved again after some thought...not the same step forward as before, but just like the first start. , Directly raised the flag and strode forward to oppress.

Moreover, the war has progressed for about half an hour at this time, and the front lines of both sides have been dead and wounded, and some are shaky. Going forward at this time, the casualty rate will undoubtedly rise by a big step, but Yue Fei hesitated for a while. , Or take the initiative to step forward.

And what made Li Cheng on the other side even more panicked was that since Yue Fei stepped forward again, the entire Song Army formation still showed no signs of wavering... You must know that the number of casualties on both sides is naturally higher than that of Li Cheng, but two to one. The force ratio is there, and in terms of the casualty ratio, the two sides are almost the same.

   However, in such a situation, Li Cheng's army has already begun to be somewhat sluggish, chaotic, and out of formation, but the imperial army still maintains a morale and aggressive posture.

   Just like that, before halfway through the afternoon, Yue Fei himself and his banner appeared in the melee area. At this time, thanks to the central cavalry's tactics against the infantry and the coach's personal oppression, the melee front in the central part was almost level with the middle of the Tianshi.

   This is actually very dangerous for Song Jun, so Li Cheng hesitated for the second time.

If he retreats a little bit at this time, then it is very likely that he will be able to pull the weak central soldiers of the Song army into the situation surrounded on three sides. This is also the best situation pursued by the two cavalry forces in opposing the formation, and it was previously used by the Song army in a diagonal formation. The final tactical pursuit for the collapse... However, once he retreats at this time, there is also the danger of being crushed by Yue Fei and the whole collapse.

   On the contrary, he can also choose to lead his team forward, without giving up, and directly facing Yue Fei at the front line.

But if this is the case, it is very likely to face the most immediate danger to life... The world is so big, Han Shizhong, who is known as the number one, he has never seen him, but when it comes to the big and small eyes in front of him, he knows that once the two sides Right, it's really going to be 50-50.

   or worse?

   After all, his general Li Chengli’s double swords were originally not good at horse warfare, and the double swords are now lost.

   For a warrior, losing a knife is a terrible thing.

   Right now.

In the hesitation, he didn’t have a big knife to interrogate his soul, and no one to interrogate him, so he hesitated... As everyone knows, the hesitation is the third choice besides advancing and retreating. Is the worst choice.

   Because he was hesitating, Yue Fei made another move.

Specifically, it was Yue Fei, who had already reached the limit of the frontline, moved his handsome flag forward again to put pressure on it-but interestingly, this time Yue Fei did not go directly to the west, but instead urged the remaining two. Thousand-step soldiers went to the front left, which was the most direct support and forward pressure to the front right of the middle part of Tianshi on the south side of the battlefield.

"broken!"

   Li Cheng watched the Yue-character banner heading to the southwest, and almost instantly saw through the minds of the big and small eyes on the opposite side, and also instantly noticed one of the stupidest arrangements in his pre-war arrangement.

   "Go forward! Go forward! I will fight the big and small eyes face to face!"

   After waking up, Li Cheng never dared to hesitate anymore, but immediately raised his commander flag forward.

However, when the handsome banner was pulled, Song Jun suddenly screamed and screamed to kill, almost fighting the whole force to attack the west. At the same time, what made Li Cheng completely helpless was the huge flaw he had just thought of. It also happened on the spot...The forefront on the south side of the battlefield ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ The Meng'an, who was supported by Lulu's supplement, encountered a tenacious blockade from the Tianshizhong minister's axe heavy armour and suffered a lot of casualties. I chose to retreat under the flanking attack I initiated.

   Poor Li Cheng before the war was worried that the Hebei brothers would not work hard, and also worried that the local tyrants of Jingdong had two hearts. As a result, none of the old brothers betrayed him, but the strongest Jinjun reinforcements betrayed him.

   Of course, there is something wrong with saying betrayal, unexpectedly, it is reasonable... The Jin Jun is no matter how strong the fighting is, no matter how hard he fights, but why should he give him Li Cheng's life? Is it possible that a marching Meng'an still has the strategic awareness of the integration of Beijing and East?

   From the beginning, Li Cheng shouldn't let this unit take on tactical tasks.

Back in front of him, such a well-established unit with tactical missions suddenly retreated, but it pulled out a huge gap on the south side of the exhibition, and this gap, following Yue Fei’s timely command of the general attack, was killed and injured in an instant. The middle of the tired Tianshi was squeezed out.

   For a time, the pseudo-complete military formations also tended to be shaken by shocks.

  At this moment, Li Cheng's flag that had just been raised not only could not move forward, but was squeezed backwards by the slightly shaken army in the front, squeezing dozens of steps backwards abruptly.

   is not stable again, and backward again, then unable to stand for three degrees, and backward for three degrees.

   was finally defeated.

  

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