Chapter 432 The Quarry Battle (I)

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Dang Shoujiang was a fool.Li Chuyun rode along the river bank for a while and suddenly said.

Looking to the other side, he saw Zhang Lingduo stretching his ape's arms on the horse's back. With his posture, a knight in front of him, who was carrying a crazy back fell off the horse's back.

A large group of Southern Tang army and horses just arrived, turned around and ran eastward in a panic. From a distance, it looked like a frightened ants ran around in scattered areas, densely populated by the crowd, sparsely surrounding them.

The sun just rose from the horizon to the east, and the autumn wilderness in the south was still green, there was no smoke on the battlefield of cold weapons, and no one set fire.

Li Chuyun was watching the battle on the south bank, far away, unable to smell the smell of blood or the scene of fighting. Even the shouts of people were faintly heard, and he could only hear the noise around him.

Someone came, go and pass the order to Zhang Lingduo.Li Chuyun shouted.

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

Li Chuyun then said: Two things.First, Zhang Lingduo's horse team stopped pursuing, retreated to the east, and gathered more horse soldiers... Li Chuyun looked at him and could see a large group of Southern Tang army infantry lined up to reinforce here. Second, Zhang Lingduo appointed a general as the platoon envoy to organize the infantry crossing the river to resist the enemy's counterattack.

The civil servant asked the two messengers to repeat the military orders, without writing them, and asked them to cross the river.

... After Guo Shao made a simplified version of the Messenger System, he received strong praise from Wang Pu, and it was quickly promoted from the Privy Council to almost the entire Imperial Guard. This method was also relatively strict in the war mode at this time and there was little loophole. The most important thing was that it was simple and convenient, and it was quickly recognized and accepted by the generals.

The command soldiers are all personal soldiers sent by military generals at all levels. They know each other and are not easy to be deliberately misinformed by the enemy's army. Moreover, the personnel of the command soldiers system need to be replaced from time to time; the unstable intermediate links are eliminated, and the method is simple and efficient.

Regular orders are directly dictated, and important military orders need to be printed and archived in writing.

The civil servants sent by the Privy Council came to manage the preparation of written military orders and made files by independent numbering, so that the military generals could be held accountable based on real evidence in the future.

Then this system was designed to be hierarchical by Guo Shao.

In the headquarters of Guo Shao's strategic-level central army, there are personal soldiers sent by generals from the main town such as Li Chuyun, Han Tong, Luo Yanhuan, Gao Yanqi. Guo Shao only needs to pass the orders to these generals to control the entire battle; and there are deputy generals, military and command-level commanders around Li Chuyun, so as to control the battlefield tactically; the command of the military capital also has a system at the top level, which will further refine the application of tactics.

In the current Zhou army's command system, even if there are hundreds of thousands of people, Guo Shao can indirectly control the unit trends at the first level.

...The civil servant around Li Chuyun is a person from the Qianying Military Office in Jiangnan. He mainly came to assist Li Chuyun in confirming the military orders of the Central Army and preparing in writing; of course, he also secretly monitored the degree of execution of the general.

The civil servant turned out to be a small official from the Privy Council and had only recently joined the temporary military office.

When Li Chuyun saw the civil servant turn over, he asked: What is the name of the guard of Dangtu City?

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

These two are fools.Li Chuyun said bluntly, if I were Yang Shou, I would hide my troops in advance where I could cross the river. When the enemy had just crossed the river, I would be prepared to attack but not, and attack instead of defending.

It would be fine if Yang Shou could not think of this method. He actually squeezed his men and horses together like this. He waited until we crossed the river and made up for the leaks in a hurry... Did he foresee that our army would definitely cross the river from many places?

The civil servant said: If the Southern Tang army used wise men, how could Mr. Li dare to drive straight into this place?

After hearing this, Li Chuyun stroked his dark and thick bearded man and couldn't help laughing: I looked at the fortifications of Dangtu City, and I didn't want to attack this city. Now it seems that since the enemy general is so idiotic, I can really give it a try.

At this time, the infantry of the Southern Tang Army came from the other side and began to rectify their queues from a long distance, forming square formations, and approaching here.

Li Chuyun ignored it and rushed to the west of Linjiang and crossed the Guxi River by boat.

The navy on the Yangtze River transferred ships to build a floating bridge on the Guxi River. There were some places in this river that were narrow in the river. It would not take too long to use the ship to build a simple floating bridge.

Zhang Lingduo on the eastern battlefield received the military order from Li Chuyun. Generally, generals dared not resist this clear-minded order and had already withdrawn their troops and came to Li Chuyun's side.

Have the infantry combat deployed on the river bank?Li Chuyun asked.

Zhang Lingduo said: The commander of the First Army was originally the commander of the vanguard. The last general, in accordance with the military order of Mr. Li, asked him to be the platoon commander of the river bank infantry to fight in a formation.

Very good.Li Chuyun said, the soldiers in Nantang Town fought in a hurry, and were no match for the elite soldiers of our guards in the front battle formation; after the infantry defeated their reinforcements, the defeated soldiers would flee to the camp of the central central of the Southern Tang Army.Ask the vanguard general to follow him and take the opportunity to attack the main force of the Southern Tang Army, telling him not to be afraid of insufficient troops, just do what I said, I have my own concerns...

After saying that, Li Chuyun turned around and looked at the civil servants from the military mansion.The civil servant was still in charge and immediately helped Li Chuyun find someone to convey military orders.

Li Chuyun looked at Zhang Lingduo again: You are the main general of the North Bank horse soldiers. When the vanguard approaches the Southern Tang army camp, he will lead the main force of the horse soldiers to attack his side and strive to break through the formation with thunder.

Zhang Lingduo clasped his fists and said: I got the order.

Li Chuyun looked back and pointed at a military general and said: Chen Mu, after your troops cross the river, you will collect 200 soldiers and prepare to stand by.As soon as the main force of the Southern Tang army was defeated and retreated to the west gate of Dangtu City, you approached the city gate from the north and took the opportunity to rush over and seize the city gate, guarding the enemy to wait for assistance.

Chen Mu clasped his fists and said: The last general will get the order.

Li Chuyun asked the people around him again if they knew what they were going to do, and several of them responded.

After giving the orders, Li Chuyun ordered a commander of the army to rectify the troops at the ferry and drove himself to the east.

The personal soldiers beside him were carrying a very high red flag so that they could easily see it when the general sent people to find the main general.

At this time, the sound of drums and moustaches came from afar, all of which were the movements of the Southern Tang army.

Li Chuyun's things were still on the south bank of Guxi River. He was busy mobilizing troops and horses, but the miscellaneous items had not been sent to the front line.

The Zhou army was silenced, and it seemed that the people were running around everywhere, but in fact they were busy executing their respective military orders.

Li Chuyun and others rode for a while and saw the scene on the battle formation. There were vague dark spots in the air, which were arrows flying.

The closer Li Chuyun got, the louder the noise.

The sound of metal collisions and the neighing of the horses were buzzing in his ears. The two armies had already joined forces, and there were two or three thousand people in total. Some square formations were scattered like neatly piled up sand and were kicked. Various places fought in battle, and the emptiness between the square formations had become blurred.

As Li Chuyun expected, the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang army's troops was obviously not as good as that of the Zhou army's imperial guards, and the hasty mobilized insufficient troops and was not an opponent at all.

After a while, the Southern Tang Army collapsed after a little more casualties, and then led all the formations to turn around and run away... Li Chuyun fought many battles, and this scene was so familiar.

Once too many people are running away, people will follow.

The Southern Tang army was defeated, and most of them followed the crowd and ran to their own camps eastward. A few people on the edge ran around and ran around, throwing their helmets and armor along the way, throwing their weapons all the way, and deserters ran wildly.

The Zhou army infantry covered their backs and chased them, shooting the defeated soldiers who ran slowly, but still couldn't catch up with most of the defeated soldiers... The gang lost all the burden, and only focused on running for their lives, running very fast.

However, Li Chuyun did not order the large number of cavalry that came to expand their results, but only allowed the infantry to follow the defeated soldiers and pursue the main force of the Southern Tang Army.On this side, Li Chuyun, Zhang Lingduo and others also followed up with their troops.

People were tossing and chasing on both sides of the Guxi River, and the sun had risen to mid-air.

The corpses lying in the wilderness under the sun were sun-emitting a very strong smell of blood. The smell of human blood was completely different from the fishy smell, making it even worse.

A large number of defeated soldiers ran towards the camp displayed by the Southern Tang Army in the distance, and the defeated soldiers ahead were all the way. The phalanx of the Southern Tang Army could not rush to shoot and kill their own people.

There is a relatively large gap between the square formations. Fortunately, the defeated soldiers retreated from the gap to the camp.

But soon I couldn't control it. The defeated soldiers coming from behind were being chased and rushed into the camp in panic... Because the infantry phalanx was in a rectangular horizontal lineup when they were stationary defense to increase the long-range attack surface, and the cross-section of the large formation was very wide. The defeated soldiers rushed over and were even shot by the enemy behind, so how could they care about circling the gaps in the square?

They squeezed straight into the square.

At this time, no one of the soldiers of the Southern Tang army ordered an attack to stop the defeated soldiers and responded slowly.

The Zhou army's pursuit was also in a state of chaos, but at this time it was easy to take the opportunity to rush to the Southern Tang army. The two armies were mixed together and soon they fought in close combat.

Seeing this, Li Chuyun turned around and shouted: Zhang Lingduo, what are you waiting for?

Zhang Lingduo had been impatient for a long time because Li Chuyun was waiting for him to speak here. As soon as he finished speaking, he had already taken the lead in rushing out of the queue and shouted: Brothers, come with me, it's time for us to go into battle!

The sound of horse hooves suddenly burst out, and a large group of cavalry began to move out and gradually entered a jogging state.

The large group of black rushes to the north side of the Southern Tang army like a tide, and soon approaches the enemy camp; the bows and arrows on the flanks of the Southern Tang army are shooting randomly, and the neighing of the horses echoes in the air, and from time to time, knights fall down from the horse's back.

But this little killing could not stop the Zhou army's horse soldiers from charging. The horse soldiers in the front rushed very quickly, and the unmanned land between the two armies was quickly swallowed up at a visible speed.

The crackling sound of strings and the shouts of killing and killing... came from the sky, making the world even more noisy.