Shouchun, there is a forest under Bagong Mountain, this season is the time when the osmanthus is fragrant, the autumn wind is sassy, and the incense is several miles. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the bank of the river, there are more continuous lotus, lotus seeds are full. Three autumn laurels, ten miles of lotus, beautiful fresh and refined.

The day before yesterday, the army had suspended the siege of Shouchun City, so it was in a truce for the past two days. Although it was a truce, everyone knew that it was just a sigh of relief, and that there would be an even greater storm later. Because of this, inside and outside Shouchun City, the atmosphere of the past two days is still solemn.

Li Congjing played against Mo Li in the camp tent, and now he is more and more busy, and he no longer does everything himself, and usually arranges everything, and the staff and subordinates can also do a good job, he just receives reports regularly.

"Your Royal Highness's chess skills are becoming more and more exquisite, congratulations." Mo Li lightly dropped a word, killed the chess game, and then opened the folding fan with satisfaction, with a smile on his eyebrows.

Li Congjing threw the chess pieces in his hand into the chess box, and he was tasteless: "I recognize chess, chess doesn't recognize me, so what's the matter." ”

Sang Weihan said with a smile on the side: "Among all the people, the military division has the highest chess skills, if His Highness plays against us, I am afraid that no one will be able to parry." ”

Li Congjing took the elixir given by Dong Xiaowan and took a sip, "If you can't compete with the top people, you will win, but you are still an ordinary one among the peaks, what is the use." ”

Sang Weihan lost no time in patting his ass and said: "Your Highness, Top Gun, is naturally not something that ordinary people like me can understand. ”

"Whiskers and horses, hum!" The fifth girl just entered the account, and when she heard the words, she immediately reported with a sniffing face, she held a few bouquets of osmanthus in her hand, came to Li Congjing, and shook it twice in front of him with a smile, "Is it fragrant?" While asking, he slapped Li Congjing with the fragrance of osmanthus in the face.

Flowers and plants are incense, and Yashi is good. Although Li Congjing doesn't particularly like these, when he was studying hard in the cold window in the past, he did transplant a few laurel trees outside the window. Bow your head to read poetry and books, raise your head and smell the fragrance of cinnamon, there is nothing more than this in the old things of scholars.

Of course, in the past, there was also a little lady who liked a white dress, often looking at each other from a distance under the osmanthus tree, and the osmanthus fell on her hair and body, which was a real quiet virgin. Li Congjing occasionally raised his head and met his eyes, and the woman happily stepped on her feet and waved to him, not shying away from anything. Whenever Li Congjing smiled in return, the woman who was reluctant to disturb him left with a smile on her heart's content.

Ordinary things in the early years, looking back on it, if you are a lifetime.

The fifth girl saw that Li Congjing was in a trance, her little hand waved in front of his eyes, her face was full of doubts, and she lowered her head and sniffed the osmanthus vigorously, as if she wanted to see if there was something wrong with the osmanthus flowers.

Just in a moment, Li Congjing stood up, took the osmanthus and glanced at it, and said to the fifth with a smile: "It's very fragrant." Seeing a few small yellow flowers on the fifth little head, I helped her twist them with her hands, and the movements were gentle.

The fifth girl's eyes were like moon buds, she smiled happily, and when Li Congjing helped him pick flowers, her cheeks were red and she lowered her head slightly.

"The osmanthus flowers are blooming just right, and there are lotus flowers, which contrast with each other, do you want Your Highness to take a look?" The fifth girl finally didn't forget the "business" and asked Li Congjing busily.

"Okay, let's go check it out." Li Congjing handed over the osmanthus to Dong Xiaowan to place it, and the fifth girl pulled it out of the tent.

Mo Li stood up, smoothed his robe, and said leisurely: "Even so, we will also go and enjoy it." ”

Seeing Li Congjing and the fifth out of the tent, Sang Weihan came over and whispered to Mo Li: "Military Division, what this fifth commander did, isn't it a slap on the horse?" ”

Mo Li glanced at him, waved his fan out of the tent, and said like a master in the world: "How can the affairs between men and women be called a slap on the horse?" ”

Sang Weihan thought about it, nodded very seriously, and then followed.

The mountains and rivers flow, the trees are shaded by the clouds and the flowers are like rain, Li Congjing and others dismounted and walked by the river. The smiling face is silent. The fifth girl was like a fiery fox, and she folded an osmanthus flower in her hand and jumped in front of everyone.

"When I was young, my heart was higher than the sky, and I always thought that he was looking for the marquis every day, and there was nothing else in his heart, and he never saw the landscape, flowers and plants in his eyes. I didn't think about it in a blink of an eye, but it was time to drive the horse to find autumn. Who are the people who enjoy the landscape? It's not just the old man! Mo Li indulged in the scene, took off the wine bag from his waist, and poured it with his neck up, feeling very happy.

Li Congjing turned his head to avoid a branch, "The rivers and mountains are picturesque, and they should indeed float in a big white." ”

They stopped on the banks of the river, and the river flowed for a long time, and the smoke and waves were vast.

The fifth girl went to the river to pick up lotus seeds, Mo left more than half of the wine, and the poems were prosperous, and she recited poems and pointed out the country.

From time to time, fast horses galloped in, and the scouts reported: "Tushan fierce battle!" ”

The scouts who came to report were not the scouts who went to Tushan, but only the scouts who were released by the army as patrols, and the farthest group was fifty miles away from Shouchun, and heard the sound of fierce battles in Tushan.

"The sound of the fierce battle spread far away for fifty miles, this battle is not small, General Meng Tu Shan attacked Liu Xin, combined with the previous battle report, the Hundred Battles Army should be attacking the mountain camp, this Liu Xin is wise and brave, General Meng is afraid that this battle will not be easy." Hearing this, Sang Weihan whispered to Li Congjing.

Li Congjing took the lotus seed handed by the fifth girl, broke one and threw it into his mouth, and chewed it carefully, "Liu Xin is wise and brave, but he is old. ”

His gaze was distant and calm, "The old soldiers have lost their sharpness, and the old people have lost their edge, how can Liu Xin compete with Meng Ping?" When you are old, you should guard the glory and wealth, and spend your old age in peace, the battlefield is too dangerous, it belongs to young people. Lone King, believe in Meng Ping. ”

The army attacked Shouchun, and then intended to advance to Yangzhou, and first had to ensure the safety of the two wings.

Nowadays, the right flank of the army is in the area of Gwangju and Shengtang, and there is no heavy army of Wu here, and the army is divided into troops to attack it, and the possibility of taking it quickly is very high; On the other hand, on the left flank, there are four towns of Huaishui, Liu Xin came from Haozhou (Zhongli) this time, with 20,000 troops, which is to concentrate the forces that can be mobile in the four towns of Huaishui, if Meng Ping can defeat Liu Xin, the left wing of the army will no longer be a big threat.

Under the condition that there is no great worry on both wings, the army will go straight to the southeast and advance to Yangzhou, and the momentum will be like a bamboo, and Wu will no longer have the support to restrain the army.

In addition to the local defense forces, Wu Guoben could not only mobilize Liu Xin and Li Decheng, a total of 50,000 soldiers, but most of Wu's military strength went to Chu at this time, so the Jianghuai front, in addition to its own garrison and defense troops, Jinling can really not give much support.

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Tu Shan.

The fighters on the battlefield are changing rapidly, and until the last moment, all the strains cannot be said to be right.

After Liu Xin dispatched the ambush troops on both sides of Tu Mountain, Meng Ping still lived in the watchtower, his face was calm, even if the fierce battles were raging everywhere, and the sound of the battle had spread for dozens of miles, he didn't even frown.

The formation made him concentrate on the battlefield, although he was not nervous and cramped, but his whole body was full of blood, he turned back by chance, and when he saw Meng Ping's calm appearance, his heart was touched, and he said secretly: "The general is more and more handsome!" ”

Looking at the past from the watchtower, it can be seen that Tu Shan An Chongzhu, Zhao Hongyin's department, is fighting fiercely with the Wu army in front of the Wu army's mountain camp, under Tu Mountain, the hundred battle army is arrayed on both flanks in front of the mountain, and the Wu army is in ambush to fight - the watchtower is in the center of the big array.

The soldiers of the Hundred Battles Army who fought with the Wu army on the left and right flanks were still the main infantry army, while the Ma army was outside the formation, fighting with the Wu army and the horse army to fight for control of the two wings.

In the end, because of the large number of Wu troops, if the infantry army could not defeat the opponent's army, the elite cavalry could not kill the opponent's horse army, and An Chongzhu and Zhao Hongyin could not quickly capture the mountain camp, the war had been delayed, and in the end, the army of the hundred battles would definitely be physically exhausted - if there were few soldiers, the soldiers would take turns to fight too often.

However, this is only one possibility.

When it comes to armaments such as bows and crossbows, armor, etc., the Hundred Battles Army is the leader in the Tang Dynasty, and how can Liu Xin's subordinates compete with it?

Before the two armies fought in close combat with the infantry army, the former's strong crossbow made the Wu army suffer enough, and once the Wu army could not get close at all - this is quite like when the Tang army attacked Pu'an, the Liangchuan crossbow first caused Li Congke and Shi Jingjiao to suffer heavy damage, and they could not advance an inch.

After the Wu army paid a great price and finally formed a battle with the infantry army of the Hundred Battles Army, the latter's skillful battle array fighting skills and cold forging armor made it even more difficult for them to move forward.

On the other hand, as soon as the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army met with the Wu army, they pressed the other party and beat each other, although the Wu Army and the Horse Army were equal in number to the Hundred Battles Army, or even slightly superior, but they could not raise an advantage at all.

As the war progressed, not only the Wu army of Tushan was in danger, but even the soldiers of the Wu army under Tushan were also extremely difficult to fight. Fortunately, the Wu army had the advantage in numbers, shouting and encouraging each other, and the defeat was not immediately apparent.

The first to make a breakthrough was the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army.

Chen Qinglin, the commander of the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battle Army, was the first to kill the horse army on the left flank of the Wu army, and then the elite cavalry began to threaten and attack the large array of the Wu army's infantry army.

There are basically two ways to fight against infantry soldiers. First, relying on the momentum of the charge, he directly rushed to the large formation of the progressive army, and the general formation rushed to kill and disperse; Second, relying on their own mobility, they cruising around the infantry army, killing the enemy with bows and arrows, the enemy entering and walking, and the enemy stopping and attacking.

If you can play these two advantages, the cavalry will be able to win against the infantry, and if you can't play these two advantages, the cavalry will not be able to win against the infantry.

The large formation of the Wu army's infantry army was in a relatively static state at this time, and after losing the protection of the horse army, unless the power of its own bow and arrow could overwhelm the elite cavalry of the hundred battle army, it would become the object of slaughter.

It is clear that Wu Jun's bow and arrow do not possess such ability. The elite of the Hundred Battles rode on the flank of the Wu army, constantly running back and forth, shooting the Wu army's foot soldiers with bows and crossbows. The Wu army's foot soldiers protected themselves with shields and fought back with bows and arrows, but they still couldn't resist the attack of the elite cavalry of the Hundred Battles Army, and their positions gradually became unstable.

These ambush soldiers, who were pinned on by Liu Xin, broke through the army formation of the Hundred Battles, and when the battle continued, it was doubly difficult to even continue the battle. The main formation of the Hundred Battles Army that Liu Xin hoped for, and the lack of bows, crossbows, armor, and shields did not appear.

Whether it is armament or combat capability, the Hundred Battles Army is obviously more than one level higher than this batch of Wu troops.

Looking upstairs, Meng Ping took in the situation on the battlefield, and there was still no change in his expression. At this time, the platoon envoy was already overjoyed: "General, our army's victory is not far off!" ”

Meng Ping looked at Tu Shan with a calm gaze, "Taking advantage of our army's eagerness to fight, Liu Xin set up camp on the mountain, took a defensive position with 3,000 people, and induced our army to attack the mountain, and ambushed our army on both flanks of Tu Mountain, waiting for an opportunity to come out, hoping to drag our army into the quagmire, and then encircle and annihilate it." This abacus played well, but unfortunately, he made a big mistake. ”

The platoon envoy smiled quite proudly: "Of course Liu Xin underestimated the combat strength of our army!" ”

After speaking, seeing that Meng Ping was noncommittal, knowing that the other party had something in his heart, he asked, "Could it be that Liu Xin has made other big mistakes?" ”

Meng Ping said lightly: "Liu Xin's troops have 20,000 soldiers and horses, he thought I didn't know, so he ambushed first, but he didn't know the truth of the other department, and the military intelligence department had already found out." Secondly, his tactical arrangement was too clever and lost in a dignified formation. ”

The former sentence is lined up to make it understand, but the latter sentence does not understand its meaning.

Meng Ping continued: "If our army comes here, he will set up a formation by the mountain, and 20,000 Chen soldiers will set up a large formation in front of the mountain, and it will not be easy for our hundred battle troops to defeat their formation. But his current deployment seems to be taking advantage of the geographical advantage and forming a siege, but in fact, it is also dispersing his own forces, giving us and others the opportunity to break through and smash the Yellow Dragon. ”

"More importantly, from the very beginning, Liu Xin wanted to take advantage of the situation, and he did not dare to face it head-on with superior troops, which lost the sharpness of the generals. On the battlefield, the general trend is important, morale is the first, he has the strength and does not dare to compete head-on, how can this battle be fought? On the other hand, our army came from the south, and when it came to it, it set up a formation, and after the formation was completed, it attacked in order to make a drum of strength and the front of the army was sharp. Comparing the two, how can Wu Jun compete with me? ”

The formation made him realize something, and he was silent in thought.

At this moment, a violent sound erupted on Tu Mountain.