Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

"Dang Tu Shoujiang is an idiot. + top + point + small + talk +" Li Chuyun said suddenly after riding along the river bank for a while.

Looking to the opposite bank, Zhang Lingduo was stretching his ape arms on horseback. Following his posture, a knight in front of him who was madly back fell off his horseback. Not long after a large group of Southern Tang army cavalry arrived, they turned around and fled eastward in a panic. From a distance, it looked like a group of frightened ants running around, dense in the middle and sparse in the surrounding.

The sun had just risen from the eastern horizon, and the autumn wilderness in the south was still green. There was no gunpowder smoke and no one set fire on the battlefield of cold weapons. Li Chuyun watched the battle on the south bank, relatively far away, could not smell blood, could not see the scene of fighting, even people's shouts could be faintly heard, only the surrounding noise could be heard.

"Come here, pass orders to Zhang Lingduo." Li Chuyun called out.

After hearing this, a civil servant next to him called a young general to come over, and soon brought two messengers.

Li Chuyun then said: "Two things. First, ask Zhang Lingduo's cavalry to stop chasing, retreat to the east, and gather more cavalry..." Li Chuyun looked out and saw a large group of Southern Tang Army infantry in the distance. The second is to let Zhang Lingduo designate a department as a platoon envoy, and organize the infantry crossing the river to resist the enemy's counterattack."

The civil official asked the two messengers to repeat the military order again, and they didn't need to write them down, so they went straight to cross the river.

...After Guo Shao worked out a simplified version of the "Soldier System", it was highly praised by Wang Pu, and it was quickly extended from the Privy Council to almost the entire Forbidden Army; this method was relatively strict in the current war mode, with few loopholes, and the most important thing was that it was simple and convenient, and was quickly recognized and accepted by the generals.

The messengers are the personal soldiers sent by generals at all levels. They know each other, and it is not easy for the enemy to deliberately misinform military orders, and the personnel of the messenger system must be changed from time to time; the unstable intermediate links are eliminated, and the method is simple and efficient.

Regular orders are dictated directly, and important military orders need to be printed and archived in writing. Civil servants dispatched by the Privy Council manage the filing of written military orders, and make dossiers with independent numbering methods, so that there will be real evidence to hold generals accountable in the future.

Then this system was designed by Guo Shao to be layered. In Guo Shao's strategic-level central army, there are personal soldiers sent by the generals of the main town such as Li Chuyun, Han Tong, Luo Yanhuan, and Gao Yanchou. Guo Shao only needs to pass orders to these generals to control the entire battle;

Now in Zhou Jun's command system, even if there are hundreds of thousands of people, Guo Shao can indirectly control the movements of all first-level units.

... The civil servant next to Li Chuyun was a member of the "Jiangnan Qianying Military Mansion". He mainly came to assist Li Chuyun in confirming the military orders of the Chinese army and managing written documents; of course, he also secretly monitored the general's execution. The civil servant was originally a petty official of the Privy Council, and only recently joined the temporary military government.

When Li Chuyun saw the civil servant turn around, he asked, "What's the name of the guard of Dangtu City?"

The civil official blurted out: "The chief general is Yang Shou, and the supervisor is Sun Zhen."

"These two are idiots." Li Chuyun said unceremoniously, "If I were Yang Shou, I would hide my troops in places where they might cross the river, and wait for the enemy troops to cross the river.

Yang Shou didn't think of this method, so he just squeezed the troops together like this, and then rushed around to make up for the leaks when we crossed the river... Is it difficult to foresee that our army will definitely cross the river from many places? "

The civil servant said: "If the Southern Tang army used sages, how dare Mr. Li drive all the way here?"

After hearing this, Li Chuyun stroked his thick black beard, and couldn't help laughing: "I was looking at the fortifications of Dangtu City, and I didn't intend to attack this city, but now it seems that since the enemy general is so stupid, I really can give it a try."

At this time, reinforcements from the other side came over and the infantry of the Southern Tang Army began to straighten out their formations from a long distance away, forming square formations and approaching here. Li Chuyun didn't care about it, and rushed to the west of Linjiang, and crossed the Guxi River by boat. The navy on the Yangtze River has transferred ships and is building a pontoon bridge on the Guxi River. The river is narrow in some places, and it will not take long to use ships to build a simple pontoon bridge.

Zhang Lingduo on the eastern battlefield received Li Chuyun's military order. Generals did not dare to resist this kind of conscious order, so they had withdrawn their troops and came to Li Chuyun's side.

"Has the infantry on the river bank been deployed?" Li Chuyun asked.

Zhang Lingduo said: "The Commander of the First Army is originally the forward commander. According to Li Gong's military order, the final general asked him to be the platoon envoy to lead the river bank infantry to fight in formation."

"Very good." Li Chuyun said, "The soldiers of the Southern Tang Army hastily faced the battle. They are no match for the elite soldiers of our bodyguard division in the frontal battle. When the infantry defeats their reinforcements, the defeated soldiers will flee to the central battalion of the Southern Tang Army. Ask the forward generals to follow behind and take the opportunity to attack the main force of the Southern Tang Army. Tell him not to be afraid of insufficient troops, just do what I say, I will care about it..."

After Li Chuyun finished speaking, he turned his head and glanced at the civil servants from the military mansion. The civil official was still the governor, and immediately helped Li Chuyun find someone to deliver the military order.

Li Chuyun looked at Zhang Lingduo again: "You are the commander of the cavalry on the north bank. When the vanguard approaches the Southern Tang army camp, you will lead the main force of the cavalry to hit his back and try to break through the formation with lightning speed."

Zhang Lingduo cupped his fists and said, "Decree."

Li Chuyun looked around, pointed to a general and said, "Chen Mu, after your troops cross the river, you will collect 200 horsemen and prepare to stand by. Once the main force of the Southern Tang army is defeated and retreats to the west gate of Dangtu City, you approach the city gate from the north, take the opportunity to rush over and seize the city gate, and stand by for help."

Chen Mu clasped his fists and said, "The end will be ordered."

Li Chuyun asked the people around him if they understood what he was going to do, and several people responded one after another.

After the order was complete, Li Chuyun ordered an army commander to rectify the soldiers and horses at the ferry, and then rode to the east by himself. The soldiers beside him carried a very tall red commander's flag, so that they could be easily seen when the general sent someone to look for the general.

At this time, the sound of drums and trumpets came from a distance, all of which were the movements of the Southern Tang Army. The things of Li Chuyun's department are still on the south bank of the Guxi River, and they are busy mobilizing troops and horses, and those sundries have not yet been sent to the front line. The soldiers and horses of the Zhou Dynasty looked like they were running around, but they were actually busy carrying out their respective military orders.

Li Chuyun and others rode for a while and saw the scene on the battlefield. There were dense black spots in the sky, which were arrows flying. The closer Li Chuyun got, the louder the noise became. The sound of tinkling metal impacts and the neighing of men and horses buzzed in my ears. The two armies had already engaged in hand-to-hand combat. There might be two or three thousand people in total.

Sure enough, as Li Chuyun expected, the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang army's town troops was obviously not as good as that of the Zhou army's forbidden army, and the hastily mobilized troops were not enough, so they were not opponents at all. After a while, the Southern Tang army collapsed with a little more casualties in front, and then drove all the phalanxes to turn around and run away... Li Chuyun has fought many battles, and this scene is too familiar.

Once too many people are running, people will follow. The army of the Southern Tang Dynasty was defeated, and most of the people followed the crowd and ran to their own camp in the east, while a few marginalized people ran for their lives, throwing away their armor and weapons along the way, and the deserters just ran wildly. Zhou Jun's infantry covered their backs and chased them down, shooting and killing the slow-moving defeated soldiers, but they still couldn't catch up to most of the defeated soldiers... Those people lost all their burdens, and they ran very fast just focusing on running for their lives.

However, Li Chuyun did not order the large group of cavalry to expand the results of the battle, but only let the infantry slowly follow the defeated troops to pursue the main force of the Southern Tang army. Here Li Chuyun, Zhang Lingduo and others followed up one by one with soldiers and horses.

People were tossing on both sides of the Guxi River, and the sun had risen to mid-air at this time. The corpse lying on the wilderness under the sun was so tanned that it exuded a very strong smell of blood. The smell of human blood was completely different from the smell of fish, and it was even more unpleasant.

In the distance, a large number of rout soldiers rushed to the camps displayed by the Southern Tang Army. The front was full of defeated soldiers. It was impossible for the Southern Tang Army's phalanx to shoot and kill their own people in a hurry. There is a relatively large gap between the phalanxes. It was okay at first, and the rout soldiers retreated from the gap to the camp. But it soon became uncontrollable. The defeated soldiers coming from behind were being hunted down, panicked and scurrying into the camp... Because the infantry phalanx was in a rectangular horizontal formation in a static defensive state to increase the long-range attack surface, the large formation was very wide; They squeezed straight into the phalanx. At this time, none of the soldiers of the Southern Tang Army ordered an attack to stop the rout, and they were slow to respond.

The Zhou army's chasing troops were also out of alignment and chaotic, but at this time they easily took the opportunity to rush to the Southern Tang army.

Seeing this, Li Chuyun turned his head and shouted, "Zhang Lingduo, what are you waiting for?"

Zhang Lingduo was impatient for a long time, because Li Chuyun was here waiting for him to speak. As soon as the words fell, he was the first to rush out of the queue and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, it's time for us to go to battle!"

The sound of horseshoes suddenly boomed, and a large group of cavalry began to move out, gradually entering a jogging state. The black crowd rushed towards the north side of the Southern Tang Army like a tide, and soon approached the enemy camp; the Southern Tang Army fired bows and arrows from the flanks, and the neighing of horses echoed in the air, and knights fell from their horses from time to time. But this little damage could not stop the horsemen of the Zhou army from charging. The horsemen in the front rushed very fast, and the no man's land between the two armies was quickly swallowed up at a visible speed.

The sound of "cracking" strings and the shouts of "Kill, kill, kill..." came from the air, making the world even more noisy.