Chapter 51: Assault
"I have to say that this kind of pre-war etiquette is still very suitable for viewing."
The two sides of the North and the South sent four generals to gallop in the wilderness of ten miles north of the city, and the flying horses caught a single fight, and the two sides had their own victories and defeats.
Chen Mu estimated that he was the only one who could carefully appreciate this fight, and the coaches on both sides would definitely not be able to watch it carefully with the naked eye alone, but he could.
If he could, he would have liked to record this once-in-a-lifetime scene.
In fact, it is not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, in Japan, his son Chen Bazhi used a mandarin duck array to stab a warrior who wanted to ride with him, and Wang Rulong swept another with a bird gun.
But this is really new to him, after all, he has never seen it in the territory of Daming.
"They don't have artillery, sieges are not easy to fight, and it's not stupid to be able to win a battle with fewer lives."
Following Chen Mu in Nanyang, he was accustomed to seeing a huge heavy cannon weighing 20 catties in the artillery temple, and the military government also used a five-pound general Zhenshuo for field drills, and now he saw that the enemy army of 12,000 people only had 20 small cannons, and even the junior general Juniper felt that it was not a cannon, at most it was called a big gun.
As he spoke, Juniper changed color...... Well, the word discoloration can't describe juniper, this kid has dark and purple skin.
didn't change color, Juniper still had a swarthy look all over his body, but his expression changed, and he said to Chen Mu with a telescope: "Dashuai, look at the enemy formation, their warriors were beheaded under the horse but there was no morale impact, this is prepared!" ”
Coming prepared?
Chen Mu fixed his eyes and looked at the battlefield again, whenever there was a military general in the battle formation of the Southern Dynasties, the military formation was invincible, shouting and scolding; Whenever the enemy is killed, they cheer and drum.
On the other hand, with his back to Ruan Ti Chen's four formations, even if the fighting general wins, it is only a drum and three links, and as for being killed, it has no impact on the military formation.
In addition, Ruan Ti was like a god trusting a dream, and the soldiers took advantage of the morning mist to pull to the wilderness and set up a formation.
Just like Juniper said, the Northern Dynasty soldiers are not only prepared, but also deceitful!
Chen Mu immediately sent a flying horse to the bottom of the mountain to inform Zhang Shijue, and asked him to see if there was any movement outside the canyon behind him.
As for the sea, there is no need to worry, even if there are only 800 soldiers, there is a supervisor Chen Ju commanding the artillery, even if the Red Sea Fleet stops at sea and does not move, no one will be able to pass through the coast.
Not to mention that the ships that could be dispatched by the Northern Dynasties were either sunk by fishermen, or Bai Yuanjie blocked the navy in the harbor.
The problem is not on his side, Chen Mu walked around with a telescope, and finally fixed his eyes on the south of Qishan, where Pan Gongji's left-wing garrison was located, and the crossing was only three or five miles away from Yi'an Mansion City!
In that place, it may not be possible to directly threaten Yi'an, even if Ruan Ti also goes to the war elephant and hits the city wall of the mansion, he can't break it, but it is true that he can copy Pan Gongji's back road.
At this moment, Chen Mu was very suspicious that Ruan Ti's other 8,000 soldiers and horses were not staying in the valley, and they might be marching behind Pan Gongji on the other side of Qishan.
"Heizi, the herald Ding horse team will take out a hundred horses, find a cautious and careful team leader, and give me the north of the mountain to copy his lair!"
After being reminded by Juniper, one moment he was still immersed in the joy of watching the fighting generals, and the next moment Chen Mu outlined Ruan Ti's strategy in his heart, and said: "Tell Commander Zhang under the mountain, let him lead an army of eight hundred to the west from the side of Beishan, and the horse team will go first to find out the situation." ”
"If the valley is really empty, those who should be killed should be killed and robbed, and Ruan Ti plundered the baggage in the suburbs of Yi'an from Thanh Hoa, and I didn't see how many people he requisitioned. I can give as many rewards as I want to my subordinates, and I just need to win! ”
"If there is still a large army stationed in the valley, the horse team will quickly spread the news and let my commander return to serve as the palace army."
As soon as Chen Mu's words fell, Juniper already knew what he wanted to do, and ran down the mountain path with his fists in his hands, he knew what Chen Mu's order meant.
If the valley is empty, even if the combined forces of Chen Mu and Pan Gongji outside the mountain can't defeat Ruan Ti, just a fire in the valley can shock the 20,000-strong army to retreat; If there is no food to go back, the hearts of the 20,000 troops will be dispersed in an instant.
Chen Mu, Deng Zilong, Lin Manjue, the three elite armies are choked where their withdrawal must pass, even if he has more soldiers, what can he do without soldiers' rations?
The two armies held flags and drums in the air, and the eight cavalry fighting generals exchanged troops at the moment to divide the victory and defeat, the four generals of the Ruan Ti Department of the Northern Dynasty were all beheaded under the horses, and there were only two horses left under the command of Pan Gongji of the Southern Dynasty.
Subsequently, Pan Gongji took the lead and couldn't wait, the two wing detachments pressed forward, and the horse team took small steps left and right; The elephant formation of the Chinese army was in the center, the crossbowmen and firecrackers were in the front, and the large army formation began to move forward slowly.
Every hundred and ten paces, an archer draws his bow and shoots an arrow forward, then advances to the place where the arrow falls, shoots another arrow forward, and continues on his way.
In the face of the enemy's advance, Ruan Ti was not in a hurry, Chen Mu could see him galloping back and forth in front of the battle, shouting to the various departments to stabilize the position, and rows of big shields stood in front of the formation, because it was not the whole army wearing armor, it was easy to see that those were the elite soldiers, and those backbones were arranged in the battle formation, and they were tightly protected by the peripheral shieldmen.
Chen Mu's palms were sweating, and he knew that this was inevitable.
Although in the past, at the source of the Wengyuan River and along the Juma River, there were always large battles with more than 100,000 troops, but on the plain that could be seen at a glance, the two sides fought with 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and the battle was almost a decisive battle, and this was the first time he had experienced it.
"It's the first time you've seen such a big battle, right?"
Chen Mu looked at Juniper and patted Captain Jiading's shoulder with a look of a passer-by, and said, "It's okay, if you see Ruan Ti's left wing, only those 5,000 people, or even the 1,000 left wings of the left wing, can fight with us and others at the first time." ”
He was still emboldening himself, stretched out his arms and pointed into the distance and said: "If the soldiers on the right wing want to attack them, they must run three miles first, and they will eat guns when they come." ”
No matter how relaxed his words were, his gaze on the battlefield was still cautious, and he turned his head to look behind him.
At the foot of the mountain, thousands of households, hundreds of households, small flags, flag deputies and more than half of the old soldiers were telling each other the new soldiers to start the key to saving their lives after the war.
He took a deep breath and muttered, "They only have one officer for hundreds of people, and Lao Tzu has one officer for four people, so it's impossible to lose!" ”
"They're going to fight, go down the mountain and line up!"
The Southern Dynasty Pan Gongji's army did not move forward quickly, and the three sergeant formations were not strict enough, and they had to reorganize themselves every hundred steps and continue to advance, but there were enough people, the morale was strong enough, and there were huge war elephants advancing slowly, and the sense of oppression in the momentum was very strong.
Even if Ruan's troops were well organized enough to only look at them with telescopes at a distance of two miles before the battle began, they could still feel the fear of their soldiers in the imminent battle.
The three forward sergeants of Pan Gongji's division had already crossed the center of the battlefield, and they were only less than a thousand steps away from Nguyen's army, and the Ruan Ti army formation on the opposite side still seemed to be frightened and stupid, and did not move.
Just as the small gunners on the war elephant released their cannons in the shouts of the generals, ten orange-sized cannonballs bombarded the front of the Ruan Ti Division's formation, and the valley west of Yi'an suddenly erupted in the rear.
The Nguyen Ti Department attacked the elite of the belly and back, and under the leadership of the war elephant that made a war cry, entered the battlefield!