Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

The scorching sun above the head, the loess, gravel and dry grass shrubs are everywhere. Shi Yanchao picked up the cowhide water bag and took a sip, then turned to a guide in sackcloth beside him: "Is there a river going north?"

The man said: "We are taking the Changyuan River, but in the dry season, this section of the river valley is dry, and there will be water if you go tens of miles to the north."

At this moment, suddenly a rush of yellow dust was seen rising in the distance, and a horse galloped towards it. When he got closer, the knight turned over from his horse and knelt down in front of Shi Yanchao's horse: "My lord! We found a large army of Northern Han enemies!"

Shi Yanchao regained his spirit immediately and asked, "How many troops? Where are they?"

"At least tens of thousands!" the knight said, "very...very close..."

"How close?" Shi Yanchao's voice had just finished when he suddenly felt that the voice was wrong, as if there was a muffled thunder in the sky. When he looked up, he was startled, and saw a black line coming from afar on the horizon of the yellow sand! He recognized it, that black line was a mass of soldiers and horses! He didn't have auditory hallucinations, and the muffled sound he heard in his ears was the sound of countless horseshoes in the distance.

Shi Yanchao was furious immediately, and without saying a word, he swung the whip and whipped it down. "Ah!" The knight covered his face and screamed. Shi Yanchao scolded: "I only found out so recently, what did you do as scouts! What use are you for, I..."

"My lord, spare me!" The knight obviously knew Shi Yanchao's temper, and kowtowed on the ground, "We have limited manpower, and we all pay attention to the place blocked by the hillside... I didn't pay attention to that kind of place. It looks flat, but in fact it is stacked high and low. The enemy troops are hidden in batches. From a distance, we can't see anything..."

The general persuaded: "The enemy army is approaching, my lord should take the strategy of fighting and defending first, and there is no need to haggle with a villain."

Shi Yanchao was full of anger, looked around, and heard scouts say that the Northern Han army numbered tens of thousands; he was a forward, and he only had two thousand cavalry from the Hema Army. At that moment, he thought of the military order that Guo Shao sent someone to issue last night, telling him to stand by in case of the enemy and not to fight in waves when he is tired.

Although Shi Yanchao is brave and warlike, he is a veteran who has been on the battlefield for many years. He is here alone. Of course, he does not want to attack ten times as many enemy troops...

"Order all the ministries to turn around and return immediately!" Shi Yanchao immediately said, "Come closer to Dong Zunhui and the other two!"

He also did not follow Guo Shao's military order to "stand by for orders", because the Chinese army usually has a sentence for the official military orders issued by the generals: All the leaders and generals can act according to the actual situation on the ground. Guo Shao's military order told him to stand by when he found the enemy. The premise of this military order was that generally a large number of enemy troops would be found far away.

... The situation of the forward arrived at the central army on a fast horse. At this time, Guo Shao was still in the valley near the lake. Only the forward Shi Yanchao, and the three armies of Dong Zunjiao and Zhang Guanghan who were going ahead to meet Shi Yanchao left the mountain.

After Guo Shao read the complicated terrain and situation description in the letter, he only understood the key point: Shi Yanchao and others were ambushed, but the battle had not yet started.

After discussing with the ministers and generals in the military mansion, he gradually felt the seriousness of the situation intuitively. This feeling is like a life experience of "delayed pain", that is, when a person encounters pain, he cannot feel it immediately, and it takes a while to react slowly; it is like being cut by a knife, and sometimes he cannot feel the pain immediately.

The news that the forwards came back one after another roughly confirmed the number of the Northern Han army, and it is estimated that there may be more than 30,000 people!

Wang Pu said solemnly: "The Northern Han army's ambush came very suddenly, and our situation is very bad. Qianfeng, Dong Zunhui's army, and Zhang Guanghan's three armies add up to more than 12,000 soldiers, less than half of the enemy's army. Our army is completely at a disadvantage. The most disadvantageous thing is that we marched for half a month and traveled nearly a thousand miles to get here.

Guo Shao nodded, but remained silent.

Wang Pudao: "We found out too late. We seem to be unable to avoid this battle. We were forced to fight. The forward, Dong Zun and Zhang Guanghan on the left and right flanks could not retreat, and the valley behind was full of people, so they couldn't get through. The main force of the army is still on the road in the valley, and they can't gather into an army in a short time. If there is one day, even half a day, there is still time to deploy; but according to Shi Yanchao, they are less than five miles away, and they have to get closer and form an army immediately."

A general said: "How about our thousand troops retreating to the mountains?"

Wang Pu shook his head and said: "Most of the thousands of soldiers are cavalry, and there is no road on the mountain, so climbing the mountain is very difficult. What's more, it is too late for this military order. According to the reports ahead, Shi Yanchao and others have no signs of deciding to retreat to the mountain on the fly."

Li Chuyun also said: "This is the first encounter since I entered the Northern Han Dynasty. I ran away as soon as I met him, and I lost my spirit."

At this moment, Guo Shao's voice was suddenly heard, "Everyone..."

Everyone stopped talking and looked sideways.

Guo Shaodao: "Immediately ordered Shi Yanchao and the other three to fight head-on on the spot! The front army and the left side of the army temporarily listened to Long Jiejun's left wing commander Zhang Guanghan, and Shi Yanchao moved alone. I will immediately lead the guards to the front line and personally command the battle!"

Among the three members of the former army, Shi Yanchao has the highest military rank, who holds the high position of the commander of the Dianqian Division (the position of Zhao Kuangyin back then); but Guo Shao has no confidence in this person's overall command ability. Why is Shi Yanchao's military rank so high? Because this guy is so useful as a striker, he has made too many contributions, and he cannot be convinced if he is not promoted to the military!

In contrast, although Zhang Guanghan's military position is only the commander of Xiangdu, he has controlled the marching formation of 20,000 people for a long time, so it is safer to use him. But Shi Yanchao may not accept Zhang Guanghan's command, and it will be more troublesome to argue.

So Guo Shao arranged this temporarily when the matter came to an end, so as to avoid chaos in the military power. Because of Shi Yanchao's existence, he had to go there in person, or send Li Chuyun there to control the scene of more than 10,000 people in front of him!

Guo Shao led more than 300 fast horses to the north.

When he hurried to the front line, he found that the battle was about to start. A large area of ​​enemy troops in sight has approached within a mile, and the situation of war is about to start!

He didn't even have the chance to call the generals to say a few words before the battle. Guo Shaoxian observed with his own eyes that the Northern Han Army had a large number of cavalry on the left and right flanks, and infantry in the middle. Because according to the intelligence and estimates of the Privy Council, there are only more than 30,000 elites left in the Northern Han Dynasty, and it is impossible for Yang Ye to bring them all out for a one-shot deal. But the most unfavorable situation on Zhou Jun's side is that it has not been trimmed and the troops are relatively tired.

Guo Shao looked at it, and did not summon generals, but decided to let the soldiers know that the emperor was here, first to boost morale, and second, to let everyone know that there is a person who unifies the military order.

He immediately asked his soldiers to hold up the yellow dragon flag, and galloped between the formations. When the soldiers saw Guo Shao riding the tallest horse, they quickly shouted, and the sound of long live was endless.

...

Zhou Jun's large formation is not a formation, but a long square formation with three groups of people close together to form a line. Yang Ye heard the earth-shaking shouts on the opposite side, and he felt a little weird. Zhou Jun and his group came after a long journey, and they still shouted energetically? But he soon noticed a faint yellow flag in the camp, and immediately guessed that the emperor of the Zhou Dynasty might have arrived in the camp.

"Hmph." Yang Ye looked at the situation in front of him disapprovingly, and uttered a voice confidently and coldly.

As a general, he doesn't like convoluted plots, but he is very familiar with the art of war and has experience in actual combat. He understands the skills of battle formations, that is to create conditions and opportunities that are beneficial to him!

For this duel, the preliminary preparations were very successful! Yang Ye took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain of the Northern Han Dynasty, and seized the time to appear suddenly; he didn't come up with tactics out of thin air, he thought of "strike it halfway", but there are no rivers here, he just used the art of war... No matter what method he uses, the Zhou army can fight with only one-third to half of his own troops now; Everything is perfect!

Yang Ye saw that because of the large number of people on his side, the horizontal expansion was wider, and he completely controlled the offensive and defensive initiative of the battlefield; there was another detail that was accidental... the Northern Han army was on a higher terrain than the Zhou army. The terrain of this area is not mountainous, but it is indeed a plateau with erroneous levels; the Northern Han army chased here, just at a high place, and the Zhou army was below a faulted hillside.

"This battle is bound to be won!" Yang Ye looked back to the left and right and said, "It doesn't matter if the emperor is coming, or the king of heaven is coming, I will also defeat this group of enemy soldiers! Order, when the drums sound, the central army will move slowly, and the left and right wings will be the main attack!"

With a large number of people, the two wings are relatively wide, and the advantage lies in the two wings.

After the Chinese army's drummers got ready, they saw a row of soldiers puffing up their cheeks and blowing the thick and dull horns, and the rumbling drums also sounded. On the battlefield, the westerly wind blew obliquely, flying sand and rocks, and on the wild grass and shrubs, there was only smoke and a wave of people and horses.

The cavalry camps on both sides slowly began to move, and a group of horses rushed out slowly, gradually speeding up, and had already outflanked the Zhou army. The sound of rumbling horseshoes was like thunder on a sunny day. Everyone's eyes widened and their spirits became tense.

The two armies fought very quickly, and there was no exchange of troops to shout at all. There is nothing to say now, only force has the final say in meeting!

"Kill! Kill! Kill..." Soon there were crazy shouts between the two armies, and all kinds of noises mixed together on the battlefield.

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