Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shao didn't stay in Jiangzhou, and walked more than 20 miles that day; the next day he was only 70 miles away from Jinzhou.

The total strength of the left wing of the Huben Army was more than 16,000, including more than 7,000 horsemen and 9,000 infantry. On the last day of the march, the infantry ran faster, but the cavalry lagged behind... The army temporarily mobilized thousands of horses from the imperial army, and the mounted infantry did not care about horsepower at the last moment.

In the afternoon, ten miles away from Jinzhou. After receiving a report from Shi Yanchao, he defeated the rebel forward cavalry. Guo Shao sent Zuo You to reward him, and ordered him to rest on the spot and wait for a decisive battle with the main force tomorrow.

Shi Yanchao is a professional soldier, he will not resist the command of the general on the battlefield. When he was chasing the Liao army in Xinzhou, it was Fu Yanqing who asked him to go.

"Attack the enemy army tomorrow." Guo Shao put away all kinds of news and maps scribbled in the tent, and said to the generals who came.

After running nearly a thousand miles, usually the master will find a way to rest and recuperate first; but Guo Shao can't wait. On the one hand, he is worried about giving Li Jixun time to pull the army to the opposite side of Fenshui, and on the other hand, he is also confident in the fighting power of the Huben Army.

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In the south of Jinzhou City, after the deployment of the two armies was completed, the sun had just risen from winter. The sky-high dust and fog made the red sun unclear, and the surroundings seemed to be shrouded in a layer of light and fog.

The north wind blowing on the face was icy cold, Guo Shaobu was in a state of headwind, and the weather was not very good. Moreover, the rebels waited for work at ease. He had just arrived on the battlefield...the only advantage was his speed. The army was exposed to Jiangzhou for two days and approached Li Jixun's troops across the board.

War is always difficult to take advantage of everything.

Guo Shaoce immediately stepped forward, looking into the distance first, he saw a large half-square formation on the bank of Fen River, estimated to be two miles in diameter. The square formation is a defensive formation. The infantry of various arms forms a large circle formation in a square formation outside; the cavalry is inside. Because Li Jixun's troops formed an array with their backs against water, there was only half of the Fangyuan array to concentrate more troops. This type of formation has extremely poor mobility, but strong defense.

Guo Shao has never systematically studied military formations, but he is familiar with these conventional formations in actual combat.

In the Battle of Huainan, the Southern Tang army often used square circle formations in field battles; however, the most common formation for the Zhou army was the Yanyue formation, and this time was no exception. The infantry in the middle and the cavalry on both wings are deployed in an arc shape. Guo Shao's central army sits on the inner side of the arc.

All the generals rode their horses to the central army, and while looking back at the enemy soldiers in the distance, they talked a lot.

"Everyone..." Guo Shao said.

Then everyone turned their heads. Guo Shao glanced at Shi Yanchao and was very satisfied with him. Although this guy's attitude is not very respectful, he still knows the rules. Guo Shao said: "I saw it at a glance. The enemy's square formation is defending, which means that we are afraid of us first. We ran such a long distance. Didn't we come to win, but we sent people thousands of miles away?"

"Haha..." Everyone burst into laughter.

Guo Shaodao: "In a while Ma Quanyi covered the center with bows and arrows first; once the three rounds of arrows passed, Shi Yanchao first tested the attack from the center and right flank to see the situation. For the rest of the ministries, I will send messengers to order the movement."

"Decree." Shi Yanchao and Ma Quanyi clasped their fists together.

Guo Shao waved his hand and said, "There's nothing to say, whoever is brave in the two battles will win. Go back to your battalion and prepare for battle."

On the high flagpole of the Chinese Army, the yellow flag was blown "crackling" in the wind. Guo Shao took a deep breath, put his finger on the girdle around his waist, groped for the hilt of the sword, pulled it out, and shouted: "The whole army advances!"

Immediately, the horn of the Chinese army sounded "Woooo...", and the various ministries began to move forward slowly one after another. The surrounding area was filled with darkness, and the formations slowly spread forward like the tide, and it became more lively.

A stone's throw away in the middle of the arc-shaped camp, suddenly there was a sound of strings in the distance. When Guo Shao looked up, a swarm of arrows flew over in mid-air. The generals yelled and stopped.

"Dong dong dong..." There was a sound of drums, and the four rectangular infantrymen in the front and back of the former army Ma Quanyi raised up countless bows and arrows. With a "bang" sound of the gong, Ma Quanyi shouted loudly: "Let the arrows go!"

"Papa..." Suddenly, black spots like locusts flew obliquely into the air, like a torrential rain.

The two armies fired at each other, and there was a lot of screams and shouts.

... Shi Yanchao raised the iron spear that was all over his body, and lifted the horse's belly, and moved forward first, and the heavy cavalry followed from the left and right; more horseshoes rumbled. The horse's hooves gradually accelerated, and Shi Yanchao led his troops to jog forward.

After one hundred and fifty steps, Shi Yanchao shouted: "Kill!" He immediately rode his horse forward. A large group of cavalry rushed obliquely towards the opposite middle like a torrent.

I saw that the archers in front had already withdrawn, the dense array of long spears protruded, and the rear row of spears protruded from the world. The front of the phalanx was densely packed like hedgehogs, but there was a gap between the two phalanxes. Without further ado, Shi Yanchao plunged into the void in the middle, and the iron horse with the harness in front pierced it diagonally and rushed straight to the front flank of the phalanx.

With a "huh", Shi Yanchao let go of the iron spear in his hand, and a soldier with a long spear in front screamed. Borrowing the speed of the horse, the heavy iron gun suddenly pierced into the soldier's chest, and the man was knocked backward by the impact, knocking down two people in a row. In the blink of an eye, Shi Yanchao had already rushed into the formation, and one of the three sabers on his back had been unsheathed; the back side of the saber was not open, Shi Yanchao deftly held the blade with his left hand, and turned it sideways, only to hear a "click", one head tilted, and blood spurted out like a spring.

The heavy cavalry rushed to the left and right, stabbing, hacking and trampling frantically in an instant. The long spear array was shaken immediately, Shaoqing collapsed, and countless infantry rushed back.

... "Shi Yanchao broke through the middle and entered the formation!" A personal soldier reported.

Guo Shao himself could see the scene in the middle when he was on a tall horse. There was a lot of chaos over there, and a large rebel battalion had fallen apart. Guo Shao was stunned for a while, the battle started in less than a cup of tea, and Shi Yanchao was too aggressive... It was a bit unexpected, Guo Shao originally asked Shi Yanchao to "explore the attack".

And the guy didn't stop at all, the heavy cavalry in front were rampaging in the formation, and a large number of horsemen were rushed in behind to fight in the periphery.

"Order the left-wing Deng Fei's horse army to attack, and flank Shi Yanchao!" Guo Shao ordered.

"Decree!" An orderly took up the command flag and rushed away.

... Shi Yanchao led the straight heavy cavalry of the Hema Army to penetrate the two-tiered infantry phalanx directly, but Li Jixun's troops hoarded mobile cavalry in the middle of the square formation, and immediately reinforcements from the cavalry came up. The rebel infantry phalanx also sent reinforcements to the gap in order to seal the gap.

Suddenly a fierce man on the opposite side yelled: "Ms. Shi, please teach me some tricks!"

"The mantis is like a chariot!" Shi Yanchao cursed, and rode forward. When the horses sprinted and crisscrossed, he swung his weapon and hit the head with a saber. On the opposite side, Shi Shouxin tilted his body to the side, clamped the horse's back with his legs to avoid the violent throw, and the horse galloped sideways.

The cavalry around Shi Shouxin came up to stop him after a while, Shi Yanchao's horse rushed up, "Boring!" Seeing sparks splashing, he knocked a cavalry company's weapons and people off the horse, ran forward a few steps, and beheaded another person from the horse with a wave.

Shi Yanchao saw two big cuts on the blade, and threw it away. Passing the horses from left to right came up, a heavy cavalry followed him and rushed up, and the iron cavalry passed by, and no one could stop them from turning their backs on their backs. However, more mobile forces in the middle of the square circle were divided into left and right wings to outflank them.

Shi Yanchao's troops saw the dense crowd ahead, so they reined in their horses for a while, slowed down their spur speed, and prepared to turn around and charge again. At this moment when there was no speed, I saw a big black man on the left wing rushing forward with a pair of sticks, and shouted: "Zhao is here!"

"A good brother who plays with his brother and sister-in-law?" Shi Yanchao laughed. Zhao Kuangyin was furious, when the horse had already charged up, he waved his double sticks and swept them diagonally from top to bottom. The wind of the stick covered Shi Yanchao's body.

Not long ago, Zhao Kuangyin was also a familiar general of the Dianqian Division. Shi Yanchao knew the beauty of the double sticks, and he had just thrown away his weapons when he was charging. The saber in his hand was not as long as a stick, so he could only defend. It was too late to say it, but Shi Yanchao suddenly stretched out his hand, and with a "bang", he actually grabbed the short stick at the front of the stick. He immediately yanked back, and his strength was in vain. Zhao Kuangyin also reacted quickly, and when he saw something was wrong, he let go of the stick and threw it away.

Shi Yanchao was impatient to take advantage of the victory to kill him, but he was blocked by several cavalry rushing forward, so he had to fight. He has too many motherfuckers.

... Deng Fei's horse army was unable to break through the left-wing infantry line, Guo Shao immediately shouted: "Order Dong Zunhui! Help the left wing!"

"Order!" The orderly replied immediately.

There was dust and mist filling the square circle, and a group of cavalry were rampaging inside. They were Shi Yanchao's men and horses. Guo Shao looked at it just now, and Shi Yanchao seemed to want to attack to the left and Deng Fei's troops back and forth, but he couldn't go through many detours. After the cavalry rushed to the enemy camp, the charge speed slowed down, and the ability to break through the formation would become weaker and weaker as the horsepower was consumed; if they did not maintain their mobility and were surrounded by dense infantry, they would have to wait to die.

"Tell Yang Biao to penetrate the enemy camp from the right wing and support Shi Yanchao's rear." Guo Shao immediately ordered again.

Soon there was a rush of drums, and the tiger flags on several large square formations of the Second Army in the left wing of the tiger were laid forward, and the infantry in the formation slowly moved forward. Seven phalanxes formed a large character formation and advanced in the arrows, and the sound of drums and shouts was loud and earth-shattering.

In front is the newly deployed spear formation; Yang Biao's forward is also armed with long spears and muskets, while the square formation on both wings is led by swords and shields. The first phalanx came into contact with the rebels, and both sides stabbed with long spears. For a moment, two lotus roots seemed to be broken in the crowd, and the densely packed long spears in the middle seemed to be broken.

"Kill!" Suddenly shouted, Yang Biao, who was carrying a long iron knife, suddenly rushed forward, his upper body turned suddenly, and the heavy weapon swept across the enemy's line. Yang Biao's ferocious horse face was full of murderous looks, and facing each other was like the evil spirits descending from the underworld.