The scorching sun above my head, and the loess, gravel and dead grass shrubs are all over my eyes.Shi Yanchao picked up the cowhide water bag and took a sip, then turned around and looked at a guide wearing linen clothes next to him: Is there a river water going north?
The man said: We are walking on the Changyuan River, but during the dry season, this section of the river has dried up, and there will be water after walking dozens of miles north.
At this moment, a sudden yellow dust rose up in the distance, and a cavalry rushed towards him.
As he approached, the knight turned over from the horse's back and knelt in front of Shi Yanchao's horse: Report to lord!We discovered a large number of enemy troops in the Northern Han Dynasty!
Shi Yanchao immediately became energetic and asked: How many people?Where is it?
At least tens of thousands!Knight Road, very... very close...
How close?As soon as Shi Yanchao finished speaking, he suddenly felt that the sound was wrong, as if a muffled thunder sounded in the sky.
When he looked up, he was shocked and saw a black line spreading from a distance on the long yellow sand horizon!
He recognized that the black line was a lot of soldiers!
He did not have auditory hallucinations, and the faint muffled sound he heard in his ears was the sound of countless horse hooves coming from afar.
Shi Yanchao was furious and waved the whip without saying a word.
Ah!The knight covered his face and screamed.Shi Yanchao scolded: I only realized how you did the scouts so close!What's the point of using you? I...
Lord, please spare your life!The knight obviously knew Shi Yanchao's temper and kept kowtowing on the ground. We had limited manpower, so we all paid attention to places blocking the hillside... We didn't pay attention to that kind of place. It looked flat, but in fact it was stacked in height, so the enemy hid it under in batches.From a distance, you can't see anything...
The general advised: The enemy is approaching, the lord first takes the strategy of fighting and defense, and there is no need to argue with a villain.
Shi Yanchao was full of anger and looked at him. He heard the scouts say that there were tens of thousands of Northern Han troops; he was the vanguard, and only had two thousand cavalrymen in the cavalry and cavalry.
Now I remembered the military order Guo Shao sent to issue last night, asking him to stand by where he met the enemy and not to fight when he was tired.
Although Shi Yanchao was brave and warlike, he was a veteran who had been in the battle for many years. He was alone here. Of course, he didn't want to attack more than ten times the enemy...
He ordered all the ministries to turn around and return immediately!Shi Yanchao immediately said, moving closer to Dong Zunhui and the others!
He also did not follow Guo Shao's military orders and stood on time, because the official military orders issued by the Central Army to the generals generally have a sentence: All the generals can act according to the actual situation and appropriately.
Guo Shao's military order asked him to stand on the spot after discovering the enemy. The premise of this military order is that it is usually found that large groups of enemies will be far away. After all, there are too many people and horses to make a lot of noise. It is rare to suddenly appear in front of you, otherwise it would be too easy to attack... But now, if you still obey the military orders rigidly, you will quickly confront the enemy. What is the difference between it and actively attacking?
...The vanguard's situation reached the central army with a fast horse. At this time, Guo Shao was still in the valley near the lake. Only the vanguard Shi Yanchao, as well as the three armies of Dong Zunhui and Zhang Guanghan who were planning to meet Shi Yanchao, who were leaving the mountainous area.
After reading the complex terrain and situation description in the letter, Guo Shao only understood the key point: Shi Yanchao and others were ambushed, but the battle had not begun.
He discussed with the ministers and generals in the military office, and gradually felt the seriousness of the situation intuitively.
This feeling is like a life experience that delays pain. It means that people cannot feel it immediately when they encounter pain, and it will take a while to slowly react; it is like a big hole cut by a knife, and sometimes they cannot feel the pain immediately.
The forwards reported the news that they had returned one after another, roughly determined the number of the Northern Han army, and it was estimated that there might be more than 30,000!
Wang Pu said seriously: The ambush of the Northern Han Army was very sudden, and our situation was very bad.The vanguard, Dong Zunhui, and Zhang Guanghan had three armies, totaling more than 12,000 people, less than half of the enemy's army. Our army's military strength was completely at a disadvantage; the most unfavorable thing was that we marched for half a month and walked nearly a thousand miles to get here, and the troops were exhausted, but the Northern Han army was waiting for it to work.This battle is a disadvantage.
Guo Shao nodded while saying nothing.
Wang Pu said: It was too late to find out. We seemed to be unable to avoid this battle. We were forced to fight. The forward and Dong Zunhui and Zhang Guanghan on the left and right wings could not retreat. The valley behind was full of people and could not be reached.The main force of the army is still on the valley road and cannot gather in a short period of time.If one day, even half a day, there would be time to deploy; but according to Shi Yanchao's report, it would be less than five miles apart, and they would have to immediately move closer to set up a formation to fight.
A general said: How can our thousand troops retreat to the mountains?
Wang Pu shook his head and said: Most of the thousands of troops are cavalry, and there is no road on the mountain, so it is difficult to climb the mountain.Moreover, it was too late to go back and forth; according to the report ahead, Shi Yanchao and others showed no sign of deciding to retreat to the mountains at the moment.
Li Chuyun also said: This is the first time I have encountered since entering the Northern Han Kingdom. I ran away when I met and slashed my spirit.
At this moment, I suddenly heard Guo Shao's voice saying, everyone...
Everyone stopped talking and looked at each other.
Guo Shao said: Immediately ordered Shi Yanchao and the other three to set up a formation on the spot to fight head-on!On the left and right sides of the front army, Zhang Guanghan, commander of the left and right commander of the Long Jie Army, was temporarily controlled by Zhang Guanghan, and Shi Yanchao moved alone with a camera.I immediately led the guards to the front line and personally came to the war to command the battle!
Among the three people in the front army, the highest military position was Shi Yanchao, who was in the high position of commander of the front office of the Palace (Zhao Kuangyin's position back then); but Guo Shao could not believe in this person's overall command ability.
Why is Shi Yanchao so high in military position?
Because this guy is so useful as a vanguard, he has made too many contributions and cannot convince people if he is not promoted to military position!
In contrast, although Zhang Guanghan is only the commander of the wing, he has long controlled the marching and formation of 20,000 people, so he is more secure.
But Shi Yanchao may not obey Zhang Guanghan's command, and it will be even more troublesome to argue at that time.
So Guo Shao made this arrangement for the time being when things were about to come, so as to save military power from chaos.
Just because of Shi Yanchao's existence, he had to go there in person or send Li Chuyun to control the scene of more than 10,000 people in front of him!
Guo Shao took more than 300 fast horses to the north.
When he hurried to the front line, he found that the war was about to begin.The enemy in sight was nearly one mile and the situation of war was about to begin!
There was no chance to summon generals to say a few words before the war.
Guo Shao first observed with his own eyes that the Northern Han Army had large cavalry on the left and right wings, with infantry in the middle, and the entire army was about half a month formation; he guessed that so many people in the Northern Han Army were not all elite, and there might be some local vassal states.
Because according to the information and estimates of the Privy Council, there are only more than 30,000 elite troops left in the Northern Han Kingdom, and it is impossible for all to be brought out to Yang Ye for a one-time business.
But the most unfavorable situation for the Zhou army was that it had not been trimmed and the troops were relatively tired.
Guo Shao looked at it and stopped summoning military generals, but decided to let the soldiers know that the emperor was here, to boost morale, and to let everyone understand that there is a person who unified military order.
He immediately asked his personal soldiers to raise the yellow dragon flag and rode his horse to run between the various formations.When the soldiers saw Guo Shao riding the tallest horse, they quickly shouted, and the sound of long live was endless.
……
The Zhou army's large formation was either a formation, or three groups of people approached each other and formed a rectangular formation on the front line.
Yang Ye heard the shouts of the earth shaking across the street. He felt a little strange. The group of Zhou Jun came over long distances and was still energetic to shout?
But he soon discovered the yellow flag in the camp and immediately guessed that the Zhou Dynasty emperor might have arrived in the military camp.
snort.Yang Ye looked at the situation ahead with disapproval and made a sound with a cold and confident look on his face.
As a military general, he doesn't like any conspiracy, but he is familiar with military tactics and has experience in actual combat. He knows the skills of battle formations, which is to create conditions and opportunities that are beneficial to him!
This duel was very successful in the early preparations!
Yang Ye took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain of Northern Han and seized the time and suddenly appeared; he did not think of a tactic out of thin air, but he was thinking of attacking him halfway, but there were no rivers here, he just used the military strategy... No matter what method he used, he was only between one-third and half of the people he could face; and he was waiting for his work to deal with him from afar.
Everything is perfect!
Yang Ye saw that because of the large number of people on his side, he expanded horizontally and completely controlled the offensive and defensive initiative on the battlefield; another detail was accidental... The terrain of the Northern Han Army was higher than that of the Zhou Army.
The terrain of this area is not a mountainous land, but there are indeed plateaus with errors in the levels; the Northern Han army pursued it here, just at a high place, while the Zhou army was under a faulty hillside.
This battle is bound to be won!Yang Ye looked back and said, no matter whether the emperor is coming or even if the Heavenly King is coming, I will defeat this enemy soldier!When the order was issued, the central army slowly moved, with the left and right wings as the main attack!
If you have many people, your wings are spread wider, and your advantage lies in your wings.
After the trumpeters of the central army were ready, they saw a row of soldiers puffing their cheeks and blew the heavy and dull horns, and the rumbling drum sounded.
On the battlefield, the west wind blew inclined, sand and stones flew. In the wild grass and shrubs, there was smoke everywhere and people were like a tide.
The horse soldiers on both sides slowly began to move, and a piece of war horses slowly rushed out, gradually accelerating, and had already surrounded the Zhou army.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves was like the muffled thunder in the sunny day, and everyone's eyes widened and their spirits became highly nervous.
The two armies started a war very quickly and there was no one to send people to shout.At the moment, there is nothing to say, and the only way to do it with force is to decide when we meet!
kill!kill!Kill... Soon, crazy shouts sounded between the two armies, and all kinds of noises were mixed together on the battlefield, and there was a hustle and bustle.
The man said: We are walking on the Changyuan River, but during the dry season, this section of the river has dried up, and there will be water after walking dozens of miles north.
At this moment, a sudden yellow dust rose up in the distance, and a cavalry rushed towards him.
As he approached, the knight turned over from the horse's back and knelt in front of Shi Yanchao's horse: Report to lord!We discovered a large number of enemy troops in the Northern Han Dynasty!
Shi Yanchao immediately became energetic and asked: How many people?Where is it?
At least tens of thousands!Knight Road, very... very close...
How close?As soon as Shi Yanchao finished speaking, he suddenly felt that the sound was wrong, as if a muffled thunder sounded in the sky.
When he looked up, he was shocked and saw a black line spreading from a distance on the long yellow sand horizon!
He recognized that the black line was a lot of soldiers!
He did not have auditory hallucinations, and the faint muffled sound he heard in his ears was the sound of countless horse hooves coming from afar.
Shi Yanchao was furious and waved the whip without saying a word.
Ah!The knight covered his face and screamed.Shi Yanchao scolded: I only realized how you did the scouts so close!What's the point of using you? I...
Lord, please spare your life!The knight obviously knew Shi Yanchao's temper and kept kowtowing on the ground. We had limited manpower, so we all paid attention to places blocking the hillside... We didn't pay attention to that kind of place. It looked flat, but in fact it was stacked in height, so the enemy hid it under in batches.From a distance, you can't see anything...
The general advised: The enemy is approaching, the lord first takes the strategy of fighting and defense, and there is no need to argue with a villain.
Shi Yanchao was full of anger and looked at him. He heard the scouts say that there were tens of thousands of Northern Han troops; he was the vanguard, and only had two thousand cavalrymen in the cavalry and cavalry.
Now I remembered the military order Guo Shao sent to issue last night, asking him to stand by where he met the enemy and not to fight when he was tired.
Although Shi Yanchao was brave and warlike, he was a veteran who had been in the battle for many years. He was alone here. Of course, he didn't want to attack more than ten times the enemy...
He ordered all the ministries to turn around and return immediately!Shi Yanchao immediately said, moving closer to Dong Zunhui and the others!
He also did not follow Guo Shao's military orders and stood on time, because the official military orders issued by the Central Army to the generals generally have a sentence: All the generals can act according to the actual situation and appropriately.
Guo Shao's military order asked him to stand on the spot after discovering the enemy. The premise of this military order is that it is usually found that large groups of enemies will be far away. After all, there are too many people and horses to make a lot of noise. It is rare to suddenly appear in front of you, otherwise it would be too easy to attack... But now, if you still obey the military orders rigidly, you will quickly confront the enemy. What is the difference between it and actively attacking?
...The vanguard's situation reached the central army with a fast horse. At this time, Guo Shao was still in the valley near the lake. Only the vanguard Shi Yanchao, as well as the three armies of Dong Zunhui and Zhang Guanghan who were planning to meet Shi Yanchao, who were leaving the mountainous area.
After reading the complex terrain and situation description in the letter, Guo Shao only understood the key point: Shi Yanchao and others were ambushed, but the battle had not begun.
He discussed with the ministers and generals in the military office, and gradually felt the seriousness of the situation intuitively.
This feeling is like a life experience that delays pain. It means that people cannot feel it immediately when they encounter pain, and it will take a while to slowly react; it is like a big hole cut by a knife, and sometimes they cannot feel the pain immediately.
The forwards reported the news that they had returned one after another, roughly determined the number of the Northern Han army, and it was estimated that there might be more than 30,000!
Wang Pu said seriously: The ambush of the Northern Han Army was very sudden, and our situation was very bad.The vanguard, Dong Zunhui, and Zhang Guanghan had three armies, totaling more than 12,000 people, less than half of the enemy's army. Our army's military strength was completely at a disadvantage; the most unfavorable thing was that we marched for half a month and walked nearly a thousand miles to get here, and the troops were exhausted, but the Northern Han army was waiting for it to work.This battle is a disadvantage.
Guo Shao nodded while saying nothing.
Wang Pu said: It was too late to find out. We seemed to be unable to avoid this battle. We were forced to fight. The forward and Dong Zunhui and Zhang Guanghan on the left and right wings could not retreat. The valley behind was full of people and could not be reached.The main force of the army is still on the valley road and cannot gather in a short period of time.If one day, even half a day, there would be time to deploy; but according to Shi Yanchao's report, it would be less than five miles apart, and they would have to immediately move closer to set up a formation to fight.
A general said: How can our thousand troops retreat to the mountains?
Wang Pu shook his head and said: Most of the thousands of troops are cavalry, and there is no road on the mountain, so it is difficult to climb the mountain.Moreover, it was too late to go back and forth; according to the report ahead, Shi Yanchao and others showed no sign of deciding to retreat to the mountains at the moment.
Li Chuyun also said: This is the first time I have encountered since entering the Northern Han Kingdom. I ran away when I met and slashed my spirit.
At this moment, I suddenly heard Guo Shao's voice saying, everyone...
Everyone stopped talking and looked at each other.
Guo Shao said: Immediately ordered Shi Yanchao and the other three to set up a formation on the spot to fight head-on!On the left and right sides of the front army, Zhang Guanghan, commander of the left and right commander of the Long Jie Army, was temporarily controlled by Zhang Guanghan, and Shi Yanchao moved alone with a camera.I immediately led the guards to the front line and personally came to the war to command the battle!
Among the three people in the front army, the highest military position was Shi Yanchao, who was in the high position of commander of the front office of the Palace (Zhao Kuangyin's position back then); but Guo Shao could not believe in this person's overall command ability.
Why is Shi Yanchao so high in military position?
Because this guy is so useful as a vanguard, he has made too many contributions and cannot convince people if he is not promoted to military position!
In contrast, although Zhang Guanghan is only the commander of the wing, he has long controlled the marching and formation of 20,000 people, so he is more secure.
But Shi Yanchao may not obey Zhang Guanghan's command, and it will be even more troublesome to argue at that time.
So Guo Shao made this arrangement for the time being when things were about to come, so as to save military power from chaos.
Just because of Shi Yanchao's existence, he had to go there in person or send Li Chuyun to control the scene of more than 10,000 people in front of him!
Guo Shao took more than 300 fast horses to the north.
When he hurried to the front line, he found that the war was about to begin.The enemy in sight was nearly one mile and the situation of war was about to begin!
There was no chance to summon generals to say a few words before the war.
Guo Shao first observed with his own eyes that the Northern Han Army had large cavalry on the left and right wings, with infantry in the middle, and the entire army was about half a month formation; he guessed that so many people in the Northern Han Army were not all elite, and there might be some local vassal states.
Because according to the information and estimates of the Privy Council, there are only more than 30,000 elite troops left in the Northern Han Kingdom, and it is impossible for all to be brought out to Yang Ye for a one-time business.
But the most unfavorable situation for the Zhou army was that it had not been trimmed and the troops were relatively tired.
Guo Shao looked at it and stopped summoning military generals, but decided to let the soldiers know that the emperor was here, to boost morale, and to let everyone understand that there is a person who unified military order.
He immediately asked his personal soldiers to raise the yellow dragon flag and rode his horse to run between the various formations.When the soldiers saw Guo Shao riding the tallest horse, they quickly shouted, and the sound of long live was endless.
……
The Zhou army's large formation was either a formation, or three groups of people approached each other and formed a rectangular formation on the front line.
Yang Ye heard the shouts of the earth shaking across the street. He felt a little strange. The group of Zhou Jun came over long distances and was still energetic to shout?
But he soon discovered the yellow flag in the camp and immediately guessed that the Zhou Dynasty emperor might have arrived in the military camp.
snort.Yang Ye looked at the situation ahead with disapproval and made a sound with a cold and confident look on his face.
As a military general, he doesn't like any conspiracy, but he is familiar with military tactics and has experience in actual combat. He knows the skills of battle formations, which is to create conditions and opportunities that are beneficial to him!
This duel was very successful in the early preparations!
Yang Ye took advantage of his familiarity with the terrain of Northern Han and seized the time and suddenly appeared; he did not think of a tactic out of thin air, but he was thinking of attacking him halfway, but there were no rivers here, he just used the military strategy... No matter what method he used, he was only between one-third and half of the people he could face; and he was waiting for his work to deal with him from afar.
Everything is perfect!
Yang Ye saw that because of the large number of people on his side, he expanded horizontally and completely controlled the offensive and defensive initiative on the battlefield; another detail was accidental... The terrain of the Northern Han Army was higher than that of the Zhou Army.
The terrain of this area is not a mountainous land, but there are indeed plateaus with errors in the levels; the Northern Han army pursued it here, just at a high place, while the Zhou army was under a faulty hillside.
This battle is bound to be won!Yang Ye looked back and said, no matter whether the emperor is coming or even if the Heavenly King is coming, I will defeat this enemy soldier!When the order was issued, the central army slowly moved, with the left and right wings as the main attack!
If you have many people, your wings are spread wider, and your advantage lies in your wings.
After the trumpeters of the central army were ready, they saw a row of soldiers puffing their cheeks and blew the heavy and dull horns, and the rumbling drum sounded.
On the battlefield, the west wind blew inclined, sand and stones flew. In the wild grass and shrubs, there was smoke everywhere and people were like a tide.
The horse soldiers on both sides slowly began to move, and a piece of war horses slowly rushed out, gradually accelerating, and had already surrounded the Zhou army.
The rumbling sound of horse hooves was like the muffled thunder in the sunny day, and everyone's eyes widened and their spirits became highly nervous.
The two armies started a war very quickly and there was no one to send people to shout.At the moment, there is nothing to say, and the only way to do it with force is to decide when we meet!
kill!kill!Kill... Soon, crazy shouts sounded between the two armies, and all kinds of noises were mixed together on the battlefield, and there was a hustle and bustle.