Chapter 530: Leading the Way (1)
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There was silence in the tent, and the generals of the grass army in the tent all looked at Zhu Wen with shocked faces. Even Huang Chao's eyes widened, a little incredulous.
has just experienced a big rout, and at this time, even Huang Chao, who was the main force in the previous battle, has no heart to fight again at all. And Huang Chao's subordinates, such as Lin Yan and others, even began to wonder if Zhu Wen and the others were defeated, and deliberately lured them to counterattack and let them die.
Zhu Wen didn't care about the mocking gazes of everyone, looked directly at Huang Chao, and said solemnly: "Even the marshal and the generals couldn't imagine that we would counterattack at this time, and the Tang army couldn't even more so than the Tang army." ”
Huang Chao's heart moved, this sentence is very good, even he couldn't think of counterattacking at this time, and of course Tang Jun would not believe that they would counterattack at this time. If you send troops tonight, you can really take it by surprise and attack it unprepared.
However, the most important thing is that they can still counterattack now, and do they still have the strength to counterattack?
After this defeat, there are now only nearly 80,000 horses in the battalion, and more than half of them are auxiliary troops. Although the officers and soldiers fought with them for a day today, the casualties were only a few thousand. In the past, 160,000 attacked 100,000 and failed to win, but now they have to fight 80,000 against 100,000, which is even more impossible to win. Besides, now they've just been defeated.
Huang Chao hesitated, in fact, he had already vetoed this proposal in his heart.
"Is there a better way to do it now? If the situation in front of us cannot be reversed, then tomorrow the Tang army will come to pursue after resting, and there will be pursuers later. There was an interception before. Then we will be defeated again and again. If it is defeated again, it will be completely crushed between Yan and Yun by the official army. When it comes to the extraordinary, the only way to do the extraordinary is to do the extraordinary. Put them to death and live later, and fight with them, maybe there will be a chance to survive. Zhu Wen said loudly, "Moreover, even if you attack, it is not without a chance of winning." We just came out of the Don Army camp. Knowing the detailed layout of the Tang camp at the moment. We smashed the commander camp of the Tang Army, and there was at least a forty percent chance of winning this battle! ”
Strategists Zhao Zhang, Gai Hong, and Zhang Juyan stepped forward one after another to second Zhu Wen's strategy. The three of them are all strategists of the Yellow Nest, and they can't charge into battle, but they have a good grasp of the battle situation. As Zhu Wen spoke, they had quickly thought about the different outcomes of the two plans, retreat and counteroffensive.
If you retreat overnight now, under the situation of the great defeat just now, the grass army is short of horses and food, and as soon as the cavalry of the official army pursues in the morning, the retreat may turn into a big rout. There were 100,000 chasing soldiers in the back, and there was an interception network composed of the Zhenguo Army, the Tianping Army, and the Taining Army in front. It's hard for them to break out. Even if it rushes through this first interception net, it is further east. There is also a second encirclement composed of the Qingzhou Pinglu Army, the Xuzhou Reform Army, and the Yangzhou Huainan Army. The biggest advantage of the rebel army is the tactics of crowds, and the biggest weakness is that Xu Wei is not allowed to lose. Once defeated, especially a big defeat, the ill-trained rebel army will immediately collapse into a plate of scattered sand.
If you take advantage of the defeated troops that have been gathered up now, the troops are in danger and counterattack the Tang camp at night, but there are some chances of victory. At this time, the counteroffensive did not dare to say that it defeated the Tang army, but if it could go well, it would be possible to kill the Tang army, and then whether it was to break through to the west or retreat to the east again, the situation would be much better.
The analysis of Zhao Zhang and the three made Huang Chao finally make a desperate decision. Originally, he was unwilling to fail, but now that someone has proposed a counteroffensive and has received the support of many generals, Huang Chao is naturally happy.
Huang Chao immediately sent someone to invite Wang Xianzhi over, although he couldn't get used to seeing this coward. But at the moment, the five thousand cavalry in Wang Xianzhi's hands and his auxiliaries are very important for Huangchao's counteroffensive, especially Wang Xianzhi's grass army is in the position of the commander, if there is no counterattack with him, then the grass army will be split at this time, and many soldiers will not follow the counterattack. No matter which way it is said, Huang Chao had to endure it for the time being, and first tied Wang Xianzhi to his own warship.
To Huang Chao's surprise, Gao Xianzhi led the generals to discuss the matter, and after listening to Huang Chao's counteroffensive plan, he was not afraid to retreat, but after asking a few questions, he immediately agreed to Huang Chao's counteroffensive plan, and once again handed over the command to Huang Chao, and his own department was willing to be commanded by Huang Chao.
After the upper echelons of the grass army unified their concepts, Huang Chao immediately asked the generals to go forward to gather and organize the defeated soldiers and horses. Most of the original structure was disrupted, but fortunately, the grass army had already been accustomed to this kind of dismantling, reorganization, and expansion, and so on, and this reorganization work, which was originally extremely difficult in the official army, was completed in only half a night here in the grass army.
After the reorganization, 80,000 soldiers and horses were only divided into three armies, Huang Chao himself personally led the Chinese army of 40,000 horses, and Meng Kai led the left army of 20,000 horses, Wang Xianzhi's men and horses were still organized into the right army, after the reorganization of the department, 4,000 cavalry, 16,000 auxiliary soldiers.
After the temporary reorganization was completed, the camp had already prepared a meal, and after the whole army had eaten a full meal, Huang Chao ordered all the baggage to be left in the camp, and then 80,000 horses and horses marched forward again at night, this time they moved quickly. Before Huang Chao sent out his troops, he had already informed the whole army that to the east of them were tens of thousands of troops of the Zhenguo Army, the Tianping Army and the Taining Army. Therefore, the retreat has been cut off, and only by taking advantage of the night counterattack can there be a glimmer of life.
The army was left to die, and after the back road was cut off, Huang Chao killed hundreds of soldiers who tried to escape in a row, and the whole army had to follow to kill the Tang army again.
The straw soldier is ranked, the horse is wrapped in hooves, and the movement is very fast and secretive.
The Tang Army, which had just achieved a great victory, did not expect that the defeated grass army would make a comeback so quickly. A small number of miserable sentry spies were also swept all the way by the first light cavalry led by Lin Yan, and they didn't have time to return to report.
The Tang Army's six town battalions were set up at the foot of the west of Juye Mountain, and Huang Chao led the army to successfully cross the not high Juye Mountain, and the soldiers and horses of the Ten Battalions of the Left Wing of the Front Army led by the three Zhu Wen brothers were the forerunners, and launched a surprise attack directly on the Tang Army camp.
Zhu Wen and the three of them led their troops to the front of the camp, and the camp of the six towns did not receive the slightest rumor at all.
Before dawn, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves had broken the silence at the foot of Juye Mountain.
The Tang camp of the six towns was still immersed in the joy of yesterday's victory, and they never imagined that the grass thieves would be able to regroup so quickly, and their morale was still high. When the shouts of killing rang out, the officers and soldiers hurriedly responded to the battle in astonishment, and under the dark night, many officers and soldiers fought yesterday day and night, and at this time they were still immersed in sleep. Even because of the defeat of the thief army yesterday, many officers and soldiers were relieved to disarm and sleep, at this time the grass army suddenly killed, the officers and soldiers did not even have time to wear armor and clothes, and rushed to meet the battle with swords and soldiers naked.
In the dark night, I saw firelight everywhere, and the sound of killing everywhere.
The officers and men in the large battalion did not even know who was coming from the road or how many people came.
After discussing with the generals, Huang Chao's tactic was to concentrate the elite on the left flank, and use the middle army and the left army to attack the right flank of the officers and soldiers under the Juye Mountain, while the 20,000 horses of Wang Xianzhi's department on the right flank were led by Wang Xianzhi and more than a dozen generals under his command to contain the other forces of the official army. This time, Wang Xianzhi was also very hardworking and did not fear the battle.
This tactic had an immediate effect, and due to the combined attack of the two armies, the impact of the grass army was extremely strong.
Huang Chao handed over the forward task of the left army of the Chinese army to Zhu Wen and the three who had just defected, and in order to strengthen the momentum of the forward, Huang Chao even directly pulled out a battalion of 500 light cavalry to Zhu Wen. Iron hooves crisscrossed, war horses galloping, was caught off guard by a surprise of the right flank of the army could not hold the line of defense at all, their camp fence was broken through by Zhu Wen led his troops from many places, and many officers and infantry behind had just hurriedly drilled out of the tent, and before they even had time to put on their armor, they had been captured by the grass army.
As soon as the surprise attack began, the grass army had successfully entered the right flank of the official army.
After successfully entering the right flank, Zhu Wen immediately pointed out to Huang Chao the tents of the two eunuchs, the capital eunuch Ximen Sigong and the army envoy Yang Fugong.
Huang Chao was overjoyed, and sent Zhu Wen and Lin Yan as well as Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guiba, Huo Cun, and Wang Chongba, five fierce generals, each to lead a battalion of cavalry to go straight to the Chinese army. Eight generals led six battalions of light cavalry, a total of 3,000 cavalry, and killed the Chinese army.
Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, and Zhang Guiba were all three generals who followed Huang Chao at the beginning of the grass army's uprising, and in terms of martial arts, they were the bravest three generals among Huang Chao's subordinates. And Lin Yan is not only Huang Chao's nephew, but also has always been the most elite cavalry under Huang Chao. As for Wang Chongba, he has always served as the commander of the guard cavalry of the Yellow Nest. In the Huangchao Army, these five generals have the title of Five Tiger Generals, and Huangchao sent five Tiger generals and elite cavalry under his subordinates at once, which is inevitable.
Under the guidance of Zhu Wen, the three thousand elite rode straight to the middle camp, and the road was in the direction of the cloth, although the officers and troops were strong, but they were caught off guard at this time, and they could not be stopped at all.
Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong had just reported the attack of the thief army, and they were also surprised, quickly put on their armor, and were in charge of the arrangement of the Chinese army in person, when they saw that in the firelight, a cavalry killed fiercely.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the guards of the two hurriedly let the two go first.
Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong were covered by their subordinates and galloped wildly, and were pursued by Zhu Wen and his cavalry all the way, and in the chaos, they were scattered with many of their subordinates, and there were only sixty or seventy relatives around them.
Seeing that he was about to be surrounded, Cui Anqian, the commander of the Zhongwu Army stationed next to the Chinese army, led his troops to arrive, and Zhang Zimian, the general of the Zhongwu Army and the general of Zuo Weiwei, took the initiative to ask for the break and asked the section commander Cui Anqian to escort Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong to go first. Zhang Zimian is also the general of the Praetorian Guard in Beijing, because he is the old department of Ximen Sigong, so he was sent by Tian Lingzi to supplement the Zhongwu Army with a rather magical army.
Wang Jian and Jin Hui, who were loyal to the eight generals, were also willing to stay in the palace, and when they were loyal, Ximen Sigong was very grateful to Zhang Zimian and Wang Jian and Jin Hui. (To be continued......)