Guo Shao did not stop in Jiangzhou, and walked more than twenty miles that day; the next day, he was only more than seventy miles away from Jinzhou.
The total strength of the Tiger Ben Army's left wing was more than 16,000, including more than 7,000 cavalry and 9,000 infantry.
On the last day of march, the infantry ran faster, and the horse soldiers lagged behind... The army that set out to fight temporarily called thousands of horses from the imperial guards. The horse-riding infantry did not have to care about horsepower at the last moment, and only saved people's physical strength, so they marched on horsepower; and the horsepower of the cavalry's war horses was very important at critical moments, and the soldiers would rather walk.
By the afternoon, ten miles away from Jinzhou.He received reports from Shi Yanchao that he defeated the rebel vanguard horse team.Guo Shao sent Zuo You to commend him and ordered him to rest on the spot, waiting for a decisive battle with the main force tomorrow.
Shi Yanchao is a professional soldier and will not resist the fate of the main general on the battlefield.When Fu Yanqing asked him to go after the Liao army in Xinzhou.
Tomorrow the enemy.Guo Shao put away all kinds of information and maps recorded in the tent and said to the generals who came.
After running nearly a thousand miles, the owner will usually find a way to rest and regain his energy first; but Guo Shao can't wait. On the one hand, he is worried that giving Li Jixun time and letting him pull the army opposite the Fen River will not be easy to attack, and on the other hand, he is confident in the combat effectiveness of the Hu Ben Army.
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In the south of Jinzhou, after the deployment of the two armies was completed, the sun had just risen from winter.The dust fog in the sky made the red sun not very clear, and there seemed to be a layer of light fog shrouded around.
The north wind blew on his face cold and biting, and Guo Shao's troops were in a state of headwind, and the weather was not good.
Moreover, the rebels were waiting for their hard work. He had just arrived at the battlefield... His only advantage was his speed. After two days of exposure to Jiangzhou, the army approached Li Jixun's troops.
War is always difficult to take advantage of all kinds.
Guo Shaoqi stepped forward and looked into the distance. He saw a large half-circular array on the bank of Fen River, with a diameter of approximately two miles.
The square and circular formation is a defensive formation, and infantry from various types of troops form large circular formations outside; horse soldiers are inside.
Because Li Jixun's troops formed a formation with the back of the water, only half of the square formation concentrated its troops even more.
This type of formation has extremely poor power but strong defense.
Guo Shao has not systematically studied military formations, but he has become familiar with these conventional camps in actual combat.
The Tang army in the Battle of Huainan often used square and circular formations in the field battles of the Southern Tang army; but the most common camp of the Zhou army was the Yanyue Formation, and this time was no exception.
The middle infantry, the two wings of cavalry, and the troops were deployed in an arc shape.
Guo Shao's central army was in charge on the inside of the arc.
The generals rode their horses to the central army, and looked back at the enemy soldiers in the distance, and were talking.
Everyone... Guo Shao spoke.
Everyone turned around.
Guo Shao glanced at Shi Yanchao and was very satisfied with him. Although this guy was not very respectful, he still understood the rules in his work.
Guo Shao said: I saw it at a glance. The enemy's defense in a circular formation means that I am afraid of us first.We ran so far, wasn’t it to win, but to give away the heads of thousands of miles?
Haha... Everyone burst into laughter.
Guo Shao said: After a while, Ma Quanyi first covered the middle with a bow and arrow; after three rounds of arrows passed, Shi Yanchao first tested the attack from the center right wing to see the situation.The rest are from each unit, and I send a commander to send commanders to move.
Get order.Shi Yanchao and Ma Quanyi clasped their fists.
Guo Shao waved his hand and said: There is nothing to say. Whoever wins the two sides is brave.Each returned to his battalions and prepared for battle.
On the high flagpole of the central army, the yellow flags were blown in the wind and crackled.
Guo Shao took a deep breath, put his fingers on the waist decoration around his waist, groped the hilt of the sword, pulled it out, and shouted: The whole army is moving forward!
Suddenly, the horn of the central army was whimpering... The ground sounded, and the troops began to slowly move forward one after another.The surroundings were dark, and the tides spread slowly forward like tides, making it even more lively.
A distance from the arc camp was apart, and suddenly a string sounded from afar.When Guo Shao looked up, a swarm of arrows flew over in the air.The generals stopped shouting.
Dongdongdongdongdong... A drum sounded, and four rectangular infantrymen in front and behind the front army, raised countless bows and arrows. With a clang, Ma Quanyi shouted loudly: Shoot the arrow!
Papa... The black dots, like locusts, suddenly flew into the air, as if it was a heavy rain.
The two armies shot at each other, screaming and shouting were noisy.
...Shi Yanchao lifted up the iron spear that was all over his body, lifted the horse's belly, moved forward first, and followed the horse's heavy horses' hooves; more horse's hooves 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!Raise your horse immediately and sprint forward.The large number of horse soldiers rushed toward the opposite middle road like a torrent.
The archers in front had retreated, and the dense spear array protruded out, and the rear spears extended out from the human world. The square array was densely packed like a hedgehog, but there was a gap between the two square arrays.
Without saying a word, Shi Yanchao penetrated the empty space in the middle, and the iron horse in front of him penetrated diagonally and rushed straight to the front flank of the square formation.
With a shout, Shi Yanchao's iron spear was removed from his hand, and a soldier holding a spear in front screamed.
The heavy iron spear borrowed the speed of the war horse and suddenly penetrated into the soldier's chest. The man was knocked back by the impact and knocked two people over.
In the flash, Shi Yanchao had already rushed into the formation, and one of the three sabers on his back was unsheathed; the sword was not opened on the back, Shi Yanchao skillfully supported the blade with his left hand, and went horizontally to one side. With a click, a head tilted, and blood splashed out like a spring water.
The heavy cavalry rushed to the left and right, and in an instant, they slashed and trampled wildly.The spear formation immediately shook, Shao Qing collapsed, and countless infantrymen rushed backwards.
... Shi Yanchao broke through the middle lane and entered the formation!A personal soldier reported.
Guo Shao could see the scene in the middle immediately when he was tall and big. There was chaos there and a large number of rebel infantry camps had fallen apart.
Guo Shao was a little stunned for a moment. It took less than a cup of tea to start the war. Shi Yanchao was too fierce... a bit unexpected. Originally, Guo Shao asked Shi Yanchao to test the attack.
Moreover, the guy kept stopping. The heavy cavalry in front rushed around the formation, and a large number of horse soldiers were rushed in and fought on the periphery.
Order the left-wing Deng Fei's cavalry to attack and attack Shi Yanchao from left to right!Guo Shao ordered.
Get order!A messenger picked up the flag and ran away.
...Shi Yanchao led the direct heavy cavalry of the Crane and Cavalry directly penetrated the two layers of infantry phalanx formation, but there were mobile horse soldiers in the middle of the square formation of Li Jixun's troops, and immediately the horse army came up.
The rebel infantry phalanx also reinforced the gap in an attempt to block the opening.
Suddenly, a fierce man on the opposite side shouted: Shi asks for advice!He carried a spear and came up to fight.
The mantis arm is in a car!Shi Yanchao cursed and rode his horses to go straight. As the war horses sprinted, he waved his weapon and slashed his head. With a loud bang, the wooden pole of the opponent's spear was cut off by force. Shi Yanchao's knife also jumped directly. He picked up the broken knife and threw it forward, stretched out his hand and drew the knife from his back.
Shi Shouxin, opposite, tilted his body to the side, clamped his legs to the horse's back and avoided the violent throwing, and the horse ran to the side.
The cavalry beside Shi Shouxin came up to stop him after a moment. Shi Yanchao rushed over to fight, and the horse was rushing to the ground!I saw sparks splashing, knocking a cavalry and carrying people to get off the horse, running forward a few steps and waved it, and then slashing another person to get off the horse.
Shi Yanchao saw the blade breaking two big holes and threw them away.
He handed the horse lances from left to right, and a heavy cavalry followed him and rushed forward. Wherever the iron cavalry passed, no one could stop him.
But more mobile troops in the middle of the square formation were surrounded by the left and right wings.
Shi Yanchao's troops saw that there were a lot of people in front of him, and he had just stopped the horse and stopped sprinting, and prepared to turn and rush again.
At this moment of no speed, a black man on the left wing rushed over with two sticks and shouted: "I'm here!"
A good brother who plays with his brother and sister-in-law?Shi Yanchao laughed.Zhao Kuangyin was furious, and the horse rushed over at that time, and swept up from top to bottom.The stick wind covered, and the approaching trajectory covered Shi Yanchao's whole body.
Zhao Kuangyin was also a familiar general in the front office of the Palace not long ago. Shi Yanchao knew the beauty of those two sticks. In addition, he had been rushing for a long time and the weapon had just been thrown away. The saber in his hand was not as long as the stick, so he could only defend.
When he was talking, Shi Yanchao suddenly stretched out his hand and with a bang, he actually grabbed the short stick in front of the stick.
He immediately pulled backwards violently, and his strength was empty. Zhao Kuangyin reacted very quickly, and when he saw that something was wrong, he let go and threw the stick.
Shi Yanchao was anxious to take advantage of the victory, but was blocked by several cavalry that rushed up and had to fight.There are too many rebels.
...Deng Fei's horse army was unable to break through the left-wing infantry front, and Guo Shao immediately shouted: The command Dong Zunhui!Rescue the left wing!
Get order!The messenger responded immediately.
I saw dust and mist in the circumference formation, and a series of cavalry rushed around. It was Shi Yanchao's men.
Guo Shao looked at it just now. Shi Yanchao seemed to want to attack Deng Fei's troops from the left, but he couldn't go through many roundabouts.
The cavalry's charge slows down after rushing to the enemy camp, and the ability to break the formation will become weaker and weaker as the horsepower is consumed; if they are not kept mobility and are surrounded by dense infantry, they have to wait to die.
It was said that Yang Biao broke through the enemy camp from the right wing and supported Shi Yanchao's rear.Guo Shao immediately ordered again.
Soon a loud drum sounded rapidly, and the tiger flags on several large formations of the Second Army in the left wing of the Hu Ben were laid flat forward, and the infantry in a row slowly moved forward.
The seven square formations formed a large Pin-character formation advanced through the arrows, and the sound of drums and shouts were loud, which was earth-shaking.
In front was a newly-tuned long spear formation; Yang Biao's vanguard also had long spears, slings, long weapons, but the two wings were headed by swords, shields and soldiers.
The first square formation contacted the rebels, and both sides stabbed them with spears. For a moment, two broken lotus roots seemed to be broken in the crowd, and the spears in the middle were densely packed with spears.
kill!Suddenly, Yang Biao, who was holding a long iron knife, suddenly pounced on him, and his upper body suddenly rotated, and the heavy weapon swept across the enemy's front.
Yang Biao's fierce horse face was full of murderous aura, and it was like the evil evil of the underworld was coming.
The total strength of the Tiger Ben Army's left wing was more than 16,000, including more than 7,000 cavalry and 9,000 infantry.
On the last day of march, the infantry ran faster, and the horse soldiers lagged behind... The army that set out to fight temporarily called thousands of horses from the imperial guards. The horse-riding infantry did not have to care about horsepower at the last moment, and only saved people's physical strength, so they marched on horsepower; and the horsepower of the cavalry's war horses was very important at critical moments, and the soldiers would rather walk.
By the afternoon, ten miles away from Jinzhou.He received reports from Shi Yanchao that he defeated the rebel vanguard horse team.Guo Shao sent Zuo You to commend him and ordered him to rest on the spot, waiting for a decisive battle with the main force tomorrow.
Shi Yanchao is a professional soldier and will not resist the fate of the main general on the battlefield.When Fu Yanqing asked him to go after the Liao army in Xinzhou.
Tomorrow the enemy.Guo Shao put away all kinds of information and maps recorded in the tent and said to the generals who came.
After running nearly a thousand miles, the owner will usually find a way to rest and regain his energy first; but Guo Shao can't wait. On the one hand, he is worried that giving Li Jixun time and letting him pull the army opposite the Fen River will not be easy to attack, and on the other hand, he is confident in the combat effectiveness of the Hu Ben Army.
……
In the south of Jinzhou, after the deployment of the two armies was completed, the sun had just risen from winter.The dust fog in the sky made the red sun not very clear, and there seemed to be a layer of light fog shrouded around.
The north wind blew on his face cold and biting, and Guo Shao's troops were in a state of headwind, and the weather was not good.
Moreover, the rebels were waiting for their hard work. He had just arrived at the battlefield... His only advantage was his speed. After two days of exposure to Jiangzhou, the army approached Li Jixun's troops.
War is always difficult to take advantage of all kinds.
Guo Shaoqi stepped forward and looked into the distance. He saw a large half-circular array on the bank of Fen River, with a diameter of approximately two miles.
The square and circular formation is a defensive formation, and infantry from various types of troops form large circular formations outside; horse soldiers are inside.
Because Li Jixun's troops formed a formation with the back of the water, only half of the square formation concentrated its troops even more.
This type of formation has extremely poor power but strong defense.
Guo Shao has not systematically studied military formations, but he has become familiar with these conventional camps in actual combat.
The Tang army in the Battle of Huainan often used square and circular formations in the field battles of the Southern Tang army; but the most common camp of the Zhou army was the Yanyue Formation, and this time was no exception.
The middle infantry, the two wings of cavalry, and the troops were deployed in an arc shape.
Guo Shao's central army was in charge on the inside of the arc.
The generals rode their horses to the central army, and looked back at the enemy soldiers in the distance, and were talking.
Everyone... Guo Shao spoke.
Everyone turned around.
Guo Shao glanced at Shi Yanchao and was very satisfied with him. Although this guy was not very respectful, he still understood the rules in his work.
Guo Shao said: I saw it at a glance. The enemy's defense in a circular formation means that I am afraid of us first.We ran so far, wasn’t it to win, but to give away the heads of thousands of miles?
Haha... Everyone burst into laughter.
Guo Shao said: After a while, Ma Quanyi first covered the middle with a bow and arrow; after three rounds of arrows passed, Shi Yanchao first tested the attack from the center right wing to see the situation.The rest are from each unit, and I send a commander to send commanders to move.
Get order.Shi Yanchao and Ma Quanyi clasped their fists.
Guo Shao waved his hand and said: There is nothing to say. Whoever wins the two sides is brave.Each returned to his battalions and prepared for battle.
On the high flagpole of the central army, the yellow flags were blown in the wind and crackled.
Guo Shao took a deep breath, put his fingers on the waist decoration around his waist, groped the hilt of the sword, pulled it out, and shouted: The whole army is moving forward!
Suddenly, the horn of the central army was whimpering... The ground sounded, and the troops began to slowly move forward one after another.The surroundings were dark, and the tides spread slowly forward like tides, making it even more lively.
A distance from the arc camp was apart, and suddenly a string sounded from afar.When Guo Shao looked up, a swarm of arrows flew over in the air.The generals stopped shouting.
Dongdongdongdongdong... A drum sounded, and four rectangular infantrymen in front and behind the front army, raised countless bows and arrows. With a clang, Ma Quanyi shouted loudly: Shoot the arrow!
Papa... The black dots, like locusts, suddenly flew into the air, as if it was a heavy rain.
The two armies shot at each other, screaming and shouting were noisy.
...Shi Yanchao lifted up the iron spear that was all over his body, lifted the horse's belly, moved forward first, and followed the horse's heavy horses' hooves; more horse's hooves 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!Raise your horse immediately and sprint forward.The large number of horse soldiers rushed toward the opposite middle road like a torrent.
The archers in front had retreated, and the dense spear array protruded out, and the rear spears extended out from the human world. The square array was densely packed like a hedgehog, but there was a gap between the two square arrays.
Without saying a word, Shi Yanchao penetrated the empty space in the middle, and the iron horse in front of him penetrated diagonally and rushed straight to the front flank of the square formation.
With a shout, Shi Yanchao's iron spear was removed from his hand, and a soldier holding a spear in front screamed.
The heavy iron spear borrowed the speed of the war horse and suddenly penetrated into the soldier's chest. The man was knocked back by the impact and knocked two people over.
In the flash, Shi Yanchao had already rushed into the formation, and one of the three sabers on his back was unsheathed; the sword was not opened on the back, Shi Yanchao skillfully supported the blade with his left hand, and went horizontally to one side. With a click, a head tilted, and blood splashed out like a spring water.
The heavy cavalry rushed to the left and right, and in an instant, they slashed and trampled wildly.The spear formation immediately shook, Shao Qing collapsed, and countless infantrymen rushed backwards.
... Shi Yanchao broke through the middle lane and entered the formation!A personal soldier reported.
Guo Shao could see the scene in the middle immediately when he was tall and big. There was chaos there and a large number of rebel infantry camps had fallen apart.
Guo Shao was a little stunned for a moment. It took less than a cup of tea to start the war. Shi Yanchao was too fierce... a bit unexpected. Originally, Guo Shao asked Shi Yanchao to test the attack.
Moreover, the guy kept stopping. The heavy cavalry in front rushed around the formation, and a large number of horse soldiers were rushed in and fought on the periphery.
Order the left-wing Deng Fei's cavalry to attack and attack Shi Yanchao from left to right!Guo Shao ordered.
Get order!A messenger picked up the flag and ran away.
...Shi Yanchao led the direct heavy cavalry of the Crane and Cavalry directly penetrated the two layers of infantry phalanx formation, but there were mobile horse soldiers in the middle of the square formation of Li Jixun's troops, and immediately the horse army came up.
The rebel infantry phalanx also reinforced the gap in an attempt to block the opening.
Suddenly, a fierce man on the opposite side shouted: Shi asks for advice!He carried a spear and came up to fight.
The mantis arm is in a car!Shi Yanchao cursed and rode his horses to go straight. As the war horses sprinted, he waved his weapon and slashed his head. With a loud bang, the wooden pole of the opponent's spear was cut off by force. Shi Yanchao's knife also jumped directly. He picked up the broken knife and threw it forward, stretched out his hand and drew the knife from his back.
Shi Shouxin, opposite, tilted his body to the side, clamped his legs to the horse's back and avoided the violent throwing, and the horse ran to the side.
The cavalry beside Shi Shouxin came up to stop him after a moment. Shi Yanchao rushed over to fight, and the horse was rushing to the ground!I saw sparks splashing, knocking a cavalry and carrying people to get off the horse, running forward a few steps and waved it, and then slashing another person to get off the horse.
Shi Yanchao saw the blade breaking two big holes and threw them away.
He handed the horse lances from left to right, and a heavy cavalry followed him and rushed forward. Wherever the iron cavalry passed, no one could stop him.
But more mobile troops in the middle of the square formation were surrounded by the left and right wings.
Shi Yanchao's troops saw that there were a lot of people in front of him, and he had just stopped the horse and stopped sprinting, and prepared to turn and rush again.
At this moment of no speed, a black man on the left wing rushed over with two sticks and shouted: "I'm here!"
A good brother who plays with his brother and sister-in-law?Shi Yanchao laughed.Zhao Kuangyin was furious, and the horse rushed over at that time, and swept up from top to bottom.The stick wind covered, and the approaching trajectory covered Shi Yanchao's whole body.
Zhao Kuangyin was also a familiar general in the front office of the Palace not long ago. Shi Yanchao knew the beauty of those two sticks. In addition, he had been rushing for a long time and the weapon had just been thrown away. The saber in his hand was not as long as the stick, so he could only defend.
When he was talking, Shi Yanchao suddenly stretched out his hand and with a bang, he actually grabbed the short stick in front of the stick.
He immediately pulled backwards violently, and his strength was empty. Zhao Kuangyin reacted very quickly, and when he saw that something was wrong, he let go and threw the stick.
Shi Yanchao was anxious to take advantage of the victory, but was blocked by several cavalry that rushed up and had to fight.There are too many rebels.
...Deng Fei's horse army was unable to break through the left-wing infantry front, and Guo Shao immediately shouted: The command Dong Zunhui!Rescue the left wing!
Get order!The messenger responded immediately.
I saw dust and mist in the circumference formation, and a series of cavalry rushed around. It was Shi Yanchao's men.
Guo Shao looked at it just now. Shi Yanchao seemed to want to attack Deng Fei's troops from the left, but he couldn't go through many roundabouts.
The cavalry's charge slows down after rushing to the enemy camp, and the ability to break the formation will become weaker and weaker as the horsepower is consumed; if they are not kept mobility and are surrounded by dense infantry, they have to wait to die.
It was said that Yang Biao broke through the enemy camp from the right wing and supported Shi Yanchao's rear.Guo Shao immediately ordered again.
Soon a loud drum sounded rapidly, and the tiger flags on several large formations of the Second Army in the left wing of the Hu Ben were laid flat forward, and the infantry in a row slowly moved forward.
The seven square formations formed a large Pin-character formation advanced through the arrows, and the sound of drums and shouts were loud, which was earth-shaking.
In front was a newly-tuned long spear formation; Yang Biao's vanguard also had long spears, slings, long weapons, but the two wings were headed by swords, shields and soldiers.
The first square formation contacted the rebels, and both sides stabbed them with spears. For a moment, two broken lotus roots seemed to be broken in the crowd, and the spears in the middle were densely packed with spears.
kill!Suddenly, Yang Biao, who was holding a long iron knife, suddenly pounced on him, and his upper body suddenly rotated, and the heavy weapon swept across the enemy's front.
Yang Biao's fierce horse face was full of murderous aura, and it was like the evil evil of the underworld was coming.