If you want the surprise attack from the flanks to be effective, you must attract the enemy cavalry in front of the Qijia set and withstand the swift and thunderous attack of the enemy cavalry. Zhao Hu stayed in Qijiaji to sit in the town, and arranged the four battalions of infantry into a hollow phalanx, with the Haidongxing Battalion and the Fuwei Battalion that he personally brought out as the main force, and laid them in the front, with the two infantry battalions borrowed by Dongzhou and Danluo on the flanks, and left one battalion of infantry armor as a reserve force to stay behind the formation.

The reserve tactical theory of "fighting one and defending two" originated in the Warring States period, but the troops in hand were limited, or the battlefield was open and the fighting forces on both sides were not enough to fill the battlefield, and the main general would have the urge to put all his troops into the battlefield.

The tactical principle that Lin Jian emphasized most in the combat training school was the principle of reserves, and unless the main general's battle flag was about to be cut down, the main general must have a quarter to one-third of the reserve force in his hands to deal with the crisis of the collapse of the battle line.

If this step cannot be achieved, in the face of a strong enemy, it is necessary to take the initiative to retreat, avoid field battles, and preserve strength.

Qijiaji is located between Buling and Gushan, the sand and gravel soil brought down by the ravine to the river are silted, forming the dam terrain of three or four miles wide, there are 100 households on the set, thatched huts and shacks, occasionally rich houses, but the scale is quite small.

Even if it is a defense, it can only be carried out in a formation at the west end of the village, in a relatively open area with relatively steep flanks.

Entering the battlefield an hour in advance enabled Zhao Hu to recruit more than 100 people from the village market, demolish houses and destroy houses, and use bricks, stones and miscellaneous trees in front of the array to form a simple obstacle belt that hinders the enemy's cavalry assault, and finally formed a tight defensive array about three or four hundred paces square, waiting for the enemy cavalry to fight.

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The outpost scouted that there were infantry battalion soldiers in front of him to block the attack, Gao Yi also looked solemn, released a vigilance, and ordered his troops to rest for a while twenty miles away from Qijiaji.

The main force of the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou Town has been transferred out, and the defense of Dengzhou and Daoyu Village is about 2,000 dispatched, and most of them are in the hands of Liu Yefei.

Gao Yi was not worried that Liu Yefei would have the courage to rebel, he and Chen Zhihu were only worried that Huaidong would send troops to interfere in the Shandong war, and the two or three thousand step armor that suddenly came out in front of him should be the reinforcements sent by Huaidong.

Gao Yi led the cavalry to go in a hurry, and the scouts didn't have time to send far, and they didn't know what happened to Dengzhou City at this time.

Chen Zhihu and he were worried that Huaidong would send troops into Dengzhou, so they sent out a targeted team to infiltrate the defense area controlled by Huaidong and monitor the movements of Huaidong's troops and horses.

Theoretically, the main force of Huaidong's soldiers and horses was trapped in the southern front, and the battle line was staggered and entangled with the extravagant family, and it was impossible to draw out the main force of the southern front.

The first is the Tianjin Navy gathered in Chongzhou, which is an elite infantry brigade rebuilt after the Jinhai defenders withdrew to Huaidong, with about more than 10,000 people; The first is the Fengli Army on the Huai defense line, which is the elite who grew up with the northern and southern campaigns of Lin Tie in the early years, and there are about more than 10,000 people.

Huaidong and Jiangning looked at each other, and they were on guard against each other, and Lin Jian did not dare to transfer all the soldiers and horses, so that Chongzhou Laowo lost its defense. And the meticulous work that infiltrated Huaidong did not find any signs of large-scale mobilization of troops and horses in the Huaidong defense areas

In addition to the adjustment of the defensive line, the mobilization of troops and horses also involves the supply of grain and straw and the deployment of ordnance, and it is difficult to make a hasty trip.

Gao Yi was defeated under Qingzhou City, Dengzhou Town had Liu Yefei as an internal response, and fought in a relatively safe internal movement, and the main force of soldiers and horses in Dengzhou Town was finally transferred out, and it took nearly half a month.

Huaidong wanted to send a partial division to support Shandong's flank, and it was impossible not to show any horses and feet in advance.

I think that in order to attack Zhedong, Huaidong could only ignore the crime of bullying the king, and gathered troops under the pretext of King Qin, who went north, to deceive the luxury family, and then suddenly turned around on the way north, and then caught the luxury family by surprise.

From the initial rise of Lin Tie, to the Huaisi War, to help Yue Lengqiu to kill Liu An'er during the Huaisi War, and the recent competition with the luxury family in Zhejiang County, all reflect Huaidong's extremely excellent ability to use troops in trickery.

When Huaidong's tactics of hiding from the world and crossing the sea were used on his head, Gao Yi deeply felt the huge psychological pressure.

Where did these two or three thousand armor soldiers come from? In addition to the two or three thousand soldiers in front of him, how many soldiers and horses have landed in Dengzhou in Huaidong, is Liu Yefei still alive, and who is in the hands of Dengzhou City and Daoyu Village at this time?

Gao Yi is completely unaware of all this.

The so-called knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is invincible, at this time, with general thinking, Gao Yi should lead his troops to retreat and find out the situation before fighting.

However, Huaidong's uncanny and bizarre ability to use troops was directly related to his powerful water camp forces controlling the territory of the East China Sea, which more and more reflected the farsightedness of the Emperor of Heaven's emphasis on seizing Dengzhou in the overall strategic situation.

Gao Yi retreated at this time, and when Chen Zhihu sent the main force to converge, and then go to capture Dengzhou, even if he could capture it, the most likely thing was to get a ruined city that had been emptied for Huaidong, and he would lose the meaning of the strategy of transferring the tiger away from the mountain by deception.

Even if Gao Yi retreated at this time and saved the 2,000 soldiers and horses behind him from loss, he would be held accountable afterwards - because of his retreat, Yan Hu lost an opportunity to form a sailor to compete with Huaidong.

The odds of tactical victory are far from making up for strategic losses, and sometimes why use risks is to hope to gain the strategic initiative at a relatively small price - in order to seek Dengzhou, Chen Zhihu even did not hesitate to lose troops under Qingzhou City, Gao Yi felt that he would not forgive himself for leading his troops back.

Gao Yi knew that he had no way to retreat, and he had to attack Dengzhou City, even if the two thousand soldiers and horses behind him were damaged, he could have an excuse to shirk responsibility.

It is also not possible to take a detour to Dengzhou.

Qijiaji is only forty miles away from Dengzhou City, and they have to walk an extra hundred miles on the detour, and in order to preserve the physical strength of the soldiers, they must slow down their speed, and they will not be able to reach Dengzhou City until tomorrow afternoon at the earliest.

Maybe Liu Yefei is leading the remnants to support in Dengzhou City at this time, the time of this day is very critical, enough for the Huaidong reinforcements to gain a firm foothold in Dengzhou City, can it still take 2,000 cavalry to attack the Huaidong reinforcements to gain a foothold and defend Dengzhou City?

The key is that when they come here, the generals are already quite tired, holding back a force to maintain a high fighting spirit, and if it drags on for a day, this strength may collapse, and it will be even more difficult to shake the elite Huaidong reinforcements.

Gao Yi constantly sent a small force of cavalry to harass the position of the Huaidong infantry soldiers, and the fact that the reconnaissance in front of him was that the Huaidong infantry brigade entered the Qijiaji in a very hasty manner, which showed that the Huaidong reinforcements had just landed in Dengzhou.

It is likely that Liu Yefei is still in control of the situation in Dengzhou, and the Huaidong reinforcements can only send foot soldiers to Qijiaji to block them if they want to gain time to capture Dengzhou City. It is also possible that Liu Yefei was just captured or killed, and the Huaidong reinforcements did not hold Dengzhou City for a long time, and the situation in Dengzhou was still very chaotic, so it was necessary to send troops to block it here to gain more time - even if Huaidong was good at the tactics of transferring troops from the sky and the sea, the reinforcements coming ashore from Dengzhou could not be many.

Either way, as long as the infantry brigade in front of you is destroyed, the situation in Dengzhou is not bad.

It was decided to storm Qijiaji, and Gao Yi convened his generals to discuss the tactics of war.

"It is a decent law-abiding, when the first five or six hundred pawns are stiff-bone, and a small group of cavalry cannot disturb their positions; However, the soldiers on both flanks are relatively weak, but the terrain on the two flanks, with stone ditches and stone slopes, is not conducive to our upward attack......," said General Pan Dechong.

There are many ways for cavalry to test the infantry formation, and the more common one is to use a small group of elite cavalry to tease the edge of an arrow's range. When an untrained foot soldier suddenly approaches an enemy horse, it is difficult to correctly judge the distance and contain the panic in his heart, and shooting arrows in advance is the most common mistake.

If the timing is not good, the opportunity to be covered by a round of arrow rain will be wasted, and it is easy for the cavalry to approach a direct impact and collapse.

There will not be too many tactical options that can be used in battle, and choosing to strike a relatively weak flank is always the most preferred tactical choice.

Gao Yi knew that there would be no reinforcements in a short period of time until the west bank of the Jiaolai River behind him, and in addition to crushing the Huaidong reinforcements that stood in the way, he also had to save enough troops to rush to Dengzhou City to deal with the complicated situation - to avoid too heavy casualties in a head-to-head confrontation, it was the only choice Gao Yi could make to defeat the Huaidong reinforcements from the flank.

Gao Yi personally rushed to the front to reconnoiter the terrain, frowned and said: "Although the terrain is steep, it is not impossible to pass; Old Domain, you lead your subordinates to fight, and you can copy it from the flank......"

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At the top of the treetops, Gao Yi led two thousand light cavalry to Qijia to gather pressure, first two cavalry approached the front of the Huaidong Army, moved in a relatively narrow space, and attacked the side corners of the front of the Huaidong Army, so as to avoid the coverage of the frontal arrow rain.

Suddenly, the arrows flew over, and the sound of breaking through the sky was like the wind drilling out of the cracks in the stones, shooting like rain.

Both sides are very cautious, they don't want to invest too many troops all at once, and they don't want to get entangled together all at once, fighting to the death. Gao Yi and other generals Fan Dechong led his subordinates to copy up from the left flank, and only then did they launch a fierce offensive in the front, driving the war horses directly through the simple obstacles laid by the Huaidong Army in front of the formation, and attacking the front of the Huaidong Army.

Zhao Hu had to admit that the enemy army was rushing to attack all of them.

Because it is a rushing light cavalry, the enemy generals are only covered by light armor, and under the shooting of the infantry bow, there are many soldiers who fall from the horse with arrows, but most of them are difficult to penetrate the key points at once. The wounded enemy soldiers did not retreat, and even if they lost their horses, they gritted their teeth and insisted on charging behind the other cavalry.

Zhao Hu also rushed to Qijiaji in a hurry, and the number of flying vehicles traveling with the army was limited, even if they were deployed in front of the formation, they also forcibly knocked away the enemy's war horses, but they could somewhat slow down the impact of the enemy's cavalry, and the generals of both sides were not entangled and confused in front of them. Soon the ground was full of blood, the earth was full of empty arrows, and the wounded had no time to withdraw, or gritted their teeth and continued to fight, or trampled to death.

The battle was fierce in front, and the enemy's dismounted soldiers attacked the left flank even more fiercely, and the weapons were mainly shorter cavalry spears, which rushed forward in the face of a rain of arrows......