"It's a fool to be Tu Shou." Li Chuyun rode along the riverbank for a while, and suddenly said.

Looking at the opposite bank, he saw Zhang Lingduo stretching his ape arms on horseback, and with the posture, a knight in front of him who was on his back fell off the horse. Soon after a large group of southern ** horse teams came, they turned around and fled eastward in a panic, looking like a group of frightened ant colonies running around from a distance, and the crowd was dense and sparse around.

The sun had just risen over the eastern horizon, and the autumn wilderness in the south was still green, and there was no smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield of cold weapons, and no one set fires. Li Chuyun watched the battle on the south bank, far away, he couldn't smell the smell of blood, he couldn't see the scene of fighting, and even the shouts of people were faint, and he could only hear the noise around him.

"Someone, go and give Zhang Lingduo an order." Li Chuyun shouted.

When a civilian staff member next to him heard this, he beckoned a junior general to come over, and after a while, he brought two heralds.

Only then did Li Chuyun say: "Two things. First, ask Zhang Lingduo's horse team to stop the pursuit, withdraw to the east, and gather more horse troops......" Li Chuyun looked over, and could already see a large force of southern ** infantry in the distance being lined up to reinforce this side, "Second, let Zhang Lingduo designate a general to line up the formation to organize the infantry army that crossed the river to resist the enemy's counterattack. ”

The civil servant told the two heralds to repeat the orders to each of them, and without writing them, he told them to cross the river.

…… After Guo Shao tinkered with a simplified version of the "Herald System", it was greatly praised by Wang Pu, and it was quickly promoted from the Privy Council to almost the entire forbidden army; This method is also relatively strict and has few loopholes in the war mode at this time, and the most important thing is that it is simple and convenient, and it was quickly recognized and accepted by the generals.

The heralds are all personal soldiers sent by military generals at all levels, who know each other, and are not easy to be deliberately misinterpreted by the enemy, and the personnel of the herald system must be changed from time to time; Eliminate unstable intermediate links, and the method is simple and efficient.

Regular orders are dictated directly, and important military orders need to be printed and documented in writing. Civilian officials dispatched by the Privy Council were to manage the preparation of written military orders, and to make files with independent numbers, so that the generals could be held accountable with real evidence in the future.

Then this system was designed by Guo Shao to be hierarchical. Guo Shao's strategic-level Chinese army has personal soldiers sent by the generals of the main town such as Li Chuyun, Han Tong, Luo Yanhuan, and Gao Yanyu, and Guo Shao only needs to pass orders to these generals to control the entire campaign; And a general of Li Chuyun's level is surrounded by heralds at the level of deputy generals, corps, and commands, so as to control the battlefield tactically; The military capital also has a first-level system in command to refine the use of tactics.

Now in the command system of the Zhou army, even if there are hundreds of thousands of people, Guo Shao can indirectly control the movements of units at the capital level.

…… The civilian official next to Li Chuyun is a person from the "Jiangnan Qianying Military Government", who mainly came to assist Li Chuyun in confirming the military orders of the Chinese army and managing the written preparation; Of course, secretly it also monitors the degree of execution of the general. The civil servant was originally a minor officer of the Privy Council, and had only recently joined the improvised military government.

When Li Chuyun saw the civil official coming back, he asked, "What is the name of the guard of Tucheng?" ”

The civil official blurted out: "The main will be Yang Shui, and the superintendent is Sun Zhen." ”

"Both of them are straw bales." Li Chuyun said unceremoniously, "If I were Yang Shui, I would hide my troops in the places where the river might be crossed in advance, and wait for the enemy army to just cross the river, so as to be prepared to attack and defend."

Yang Shui couldn't think of this method, he actually squeezed the people and horses together like this, and waited until we crossed the river to temporarily rush around to fill the leaks...... Could it be difficult to foresee that our army would definitely cross the river from many places? ”

The civil official bowed and said: "If the south ** uses sages, how can Li Gong dare to drive straight to this place?" ”

Li Chuyun stroked his black and thick beard when he heard this, and couldn't help but smile: "I didn't want to attack this city when I looked at the fortifications of Tucheng, but now it seems that since the enemy general is so straw, I can really give it a try." ”

At this time, reinforcements from the other side came over, and the south** foot soldiers began to reorganize the queue far away, forming a phalanx and approaching this side. Li Chuyun ignored it, hurried to the west of Linjiang, and crossed the Guxi River by boat. The sailors on the Yangtze River have brought in boats to build pontoon bridges over the Guxi River, which is narrow in some places, and it will not take too long to build a simple pontoon bridge with boats.

Zhang Lingduo on the battlefield in the east received a military order from Li Chuyun, and the general generals did not dare to resist this kind of order with a clear consciousness, and they had already collected their troops and came to Li Chuyun's side.

"Is the infantry combat on the riverbank deployed?" Li Chuyun asked.

Zhang Lingduo said: "The commander of the First Army was originally the commander of the forward, and the last general made him the platoon envoy according to Li Gong's military order, leading the riverbank infantry to fight in formation. ”

"Very good." Li Chuyun said, "The soldiers of Nantang Town rushed to meet the battle, and they were not the opponents of the elite soldiers of my guard division in the frontal battle array; Wait for the infantry to crush their reinforcements, and the defeated army will flee to the large camp in the center of the south. Tell the forward generals to follow behind, take the opportunity to attack the front of the main force of Nan**, and tell him not to be afraid of insufficient troops, just do as I say, I have my own plans......"

Li Chuyun said, turned his head and glanced at the civilian officials from the military government. The civil official was also the governor, and immediately helped Li Chuyun find someone to convey the military order.

Li Chuyun looked at Zhang Lingduo again: "You are the chief general of the cavalry on the north bank, and when the forward approaches the southern ** battalion, you will lead the main force of the cavalry to attack its flank and back, and strive to break through its large array with lightning speed." ”

Zhang Lingduo hugged his fists and said, "Get the order." ”

Li Chuyun looked back left and right, pointed to a military general and said: "Chen Mu, after your headquarters crosses the river, you will collect 200 horsemen and prepare to standby." As soon as the main force of the south ** was defeated and retreated to the west gate of Dangtu City, you approached the city gate from the north, took the opportunity to rush over and seize the city gate, and waited for reinforcements. ”

Chen Mu hugged his fists and said: "The last general will be ordered." ”

Li Chuyun asked the people around him if they understood what they were going to do, and several people responded.

After the order was in place, Li Chuyun ordered a military commander to reorganize the troops and horses at the ferry, and he rode to the east. The soldiers beside him carried a very high red handsome flag and followed, so that it would be easy to see when the generals sent people to find the main general.

At this time, there was a drum and trumpet sound in the distance, all of which were the movements of Nan**. The things of Li Chuyun's department are still on the south bank of the Guxi River, and they are now busy mobilizing troops and horses, and those sundries have not yet been delivered to the front line. The soldiers and horses of the Zhou Dynasty looked like they were running around, but they were actually busy carrying out their respective military orders.

Li Chuyun and the others rode horses for a while, and they had already seen the scene on the battle array, and there were faint dense black spots in the air, which were arrows flying. The closer Li got to it, the louder the noise became. The clanging of metal and the neighing of men and horses buzzed in his ears, and the two armies were already close to each other, probably two or three thousand men combined, and some of the phalanxes were scattered as if they had been kicked in neatly stacked sand, and the emptiness between the phalanxes had become blurred.

Sure enough, as Li Chuyun expected, the combat effectiveness of the Nan** Zhen soldiers was obviously not as good as the Zhou army's forbidden army, and the hastily mobilized troops were also insufficient, so they were not opponents at all. After a while, the casualties in front of Nan ** collapsed with a little more, and then led the various phalanxes to turn around and run...... Li Chuyun fought a lot of battles, and this kind of scene is all too familiar.

As soon as too many people are running, people will follow. The south ** was defeated, most of the people followed the crowd and ran to their own camp in the east, and a few people on the edge ran for their lives, throwing away their armor and weapons along the way, and the deserters only cared about running wildly. The Zhou army's foot soldiers pursued and killed the defeated soldiers who were running slowly, but they still couldn't catch up with most of the defeated soldiers...... The gang threw away all their burdens, ran for their lives, and ran very fast.

However, Li Chuyun did not order the large force of cavalry to expand the results of the battle, and only let the infantry slowly follow the defeated army to pursue in the direction of the main force in the south. Here, Li Chuyun, Zhang Lingduo and others also followed up with soldiers and horses.

People tossed on both sides of the Guxi River, and the sun had already risen in mid-air at this time. The corpses lying in the sunlit wilderness were sunburned to give off a very strong smell of blood, and the smell of human blood was completely different from the smell of fish, and it was even more unpleasant.

A large number of routs in the distance rushed towards the camp displayed by the south, and the front was full of defeated soldiers, and it was impossible for the phalanx of the south to shoot their own people in a hurry. There was a relatively large gap between the phalanxes, and it was okay at first, and the rout retreated from the gap to the camp. But soon it was uncontrollable, and the defeated soldiers who came from behind were being chased and killed, and they panicked towards the camp...... Because the infantry phalanx is a rectangular horizontal formation in a stationary defensive state to increase the long-range attack surface, the large array has a wide horizontal surface; The defeated army rushed over, and the enemy army released arrows in the back, where can I take care of the gap around the phalanx? They squeezed straight into the phalanx. At this time, no one in the southern ** army ordered an attack to stop the rout, and the reaction was slow.

The chasing soldiers of the Zhou army were also not in a camp and were in chaos, but at this time, it was easy to take the opportunity to rush to the south **, and the two armies were mixed together, and soon they fought in a melee with short soldiers.

Seeing this, Li Chuyun turned his head and shouted, "Zhang Lingduo, what are you waiting for?" ”

Zhang Lingduo was already impatient, because Li Chuyun was waiting for him to speak here, and as soon as the words fell, he had already taken the lead in riding his horse and rushing out of the queue, shouting: "Brothers, come with me, it's time for us to go into battle!" ”

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly roared, and a large group of cavalry began to move, gradually entering a state of jogging. The large crowd of black pressure rushed like a tide to the north and south of the country, and soon approached the enemy camp; The bows and arrows on the flanks of the south ** were shot indiscriminately, the neighing of the horses echoed in the air, and from time to time a knight fell off the horse's back. But this bit of damage could not stop the charge of the Zhou cavalry, and the cavalry at the front rushed very fast, and the no-man's land between the two armies was rapidly swallowed up at a visible speed.

There was a "crackling" string sound in the air, and the shouts of "kill, kill, kill, kill ......", and the sky and earth were even more noisy.