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On May 22 of the second year of Qianfu, the first day of the Battle of Juye.

When dawn came, the morning sun did not appear, the gloomy sky was dark and the clouds were low, and the slanting wind blew the drizzle.

"Woo woo woo-" The long and poignant horn sounded, and the grass army rolled forward and marched into battle. The whole grass army came with the whole army, the front army was composed of 10,000 infantry and 30,000 auxiliaries led by the most brave three generals under Huang Chao, Shandong Yi Ge Ge led 10,000 soldiers from Zhou, and his sworn brothers Huo Cun and Zhang Guiba each led 15,000 auxiliary soldiers on the two wings of the front army.

Among the 10,000 soldiers of the former army, there are six elite soldiers of the old battalion of the grass army, most of which are soldiers and horses recruited in Caozhou at the beginning of Huangchao's army. It is composed of tough hunters, salt sellers, and Tutuan villagers. In addition to Ge Cong's Wednesday brothers, there are also Zhang Guiba's two brothers, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guimu, and Zhang Juyan.

The Chinese camp of the grass army was led by Huang Chao himself, Wang Chongba, Chang Hong, Liu Tang, Liu Shanfu, Zhao Zhang, Gai Hong and Huang Chao's brothers and nephews. The Chinese camp has a full forty battalions and 20,000 soldiers. The generals of the Chinese army were all the team at the beginning of the Huangchao Uprising, and they were the most elite troops in the hands of Huangchao. During this period of time, although the elite in hand has expanded from 2,000 people half a year ago to 20,000 now, the expansion is too fast, but the core layer of this army is all the old brothers at the beginning. Their combat effectiveness is still considerable.

The left flank is arranged with 5,000 soldiers and 10,000 auxiliary troops led by Wang Chongba, the general of Huangchao, and there are many troops on the left flank, but the combat effectiveness is not strong. The troops of the Left Wing Army were very poorly equipped. Since it was the five thousand soldiers. They also mostly use rudimentary spears. Basically. These soldiers had only one weapon, mostly spears, not even knives, let alone bows and arrows. The 10,000 auxiliaries who followed them were in even worse condition, many of them even carrying sharpened wooden guns, bamboo guns, or rudimentary shields made of a few wooden planks. Many times there were some worries if the officers and soldiers were going to open the gap. The left wing would be the best point of breakthrough. For this reason, Huang Chao had to take out the only 5,000 cavalry in his hand and take out 3,000 nephews Lin Yan to lead and arrange them on the outside of the left flank to protect the left flank.

The soldiers and horses arranged on the right wing are the 20,000 soldiers and horses of the capital king Xianzhi. When Wang Xianzhi fled from Songzhou to Caozhou, there were only 3,000 soldiers and horses left, and during this time it was greatly expanded to 20,000 horses. Although Huang Chao looks down on Wang Xianzhi more and more, but in this battle, the soldiers and horses in Wang Xianzhi's hands are still good combat power. In particular, most of the 3,000 soldiers and horses that Wang Xianzhi brought back from Songzhou were cavalry. Moreover, his subordinates Shang Junchang, Chai Cun, Bi Shiduo, Cao Shixiong, Liu Yanzhang, Li Chongba, Wang Chongyin, Shang Rang and others are also fierce generals. Therefore, Huang Chao was relieved to hand over the right wing to Wang Xianzhi. Anyway, Wang Xianzhi is no worse now. It's also better than the situation on the left.

Among the 20,000 horses on the right flank, Wang Xianzhi did not dismantle the elite like Huang Chao and arrange them into the new recruits below. Instead, he took some war horses from Huang Chao, picked a group of hunters after the most Lu, and formed 5,000 cavalry with his own elite and most rear. The remaining 15,000 were almost all new recruits, just like the auxiliaries, and there was not even a single skilled officer. However, the equipment of these fifteen thousand people is not bad, Huang Chao took out a batch of equipment and gave it to Wang Xianzhi, and asked him to arm all the fifteen thousand recruits, each with at least a spear and a wooden shield, or a knife and a shield.

In addition to the front, center, left, and right four armies, Huang Chao also arranged for the deputy general Meng Kai to lead the rear army. The rear army led by Meng Kai was an auxiliary army of up to 60,000 people. These people basically only owned a sharpened wooden gun, and nothing else.

Huang Chao's tactical arrangement is very simple and direct, with the elite front army infantry charging into battle, he led the Chinese army to a steady stream of reinforcements, and with two wings of infantry to protect his own Chinese army, and with cavalry to protect the two wings, and when it is critical, he can directly launch an attack on the official army. At the same moment, the head of the coalition army of the six towns under Juye Mountain also sounded the mournful horn, followed by the war drums like thunder. One by one, the infantry battalions drove out and formed a line on the flat ground under the giant wild mountain. The auxiliary battalion of the officers and soldiers, as many as 60,000 auxiliary soldiers, also followed. The auxiliaries of the officers and armies are much stronger than those of the drafting army. Although the auxiliaries are unarmoured. Each person may be armed with at least one spear, a wooden shield and a horizontal knife.

Compared with the poor equipment of the draft army, the equipment of the officers and soldiers is undoubtedly very luxurious, with a full 10,000 cavalry out of 40,000 soldiers, and among the 30,000 infantry, the armament rate of bows and arrows has reached 12 percent. In particular, there was a battalion of ten bows and crossbows of up to 5,000 men, and everyone was equipped with bows, but all of them were equipped with crossbows. At this time, these ten bow and crossbow battalions had already been concentrated, lined up in ten dense bow and crossbow phalanxes, located behind the odd soldiers holding large shields and spears and the jumping soldiers holding horizontal swords and round shields.

The two wings of the official army were composed of a large number of auxiliaries, and these crisp auxiliaries were protected by the two wings of 6,000 cavalry. There were also a thousand cavalry, who were in the rear, and they were the mobile reserve of the battlefield.

100,000 officers and troops spread out continuously at the foot of Juye Mountain, and the formation was ten miles long. Under the red battle flags, the officers and soldiers of the six towns were very neat, there were many people and horses, but they were not chaotic, and everything was in order. The officers and soldiers of the army galloped back and forth, quiet and solemn. The performance of the soldiers at this time shows the strength of their well-trained and professional army!

After ten days of continuous standoff, both sides are no longer strangers to each other. In the past ten days, the two armies have not fought each other, and they have been recuperating. Now, the two armies are directly engaged in a decisive battle, and the morale of both sides is high. But compared to it, it is obvious that the momentum of the Six Towns Coalition is even more high.

Wang Xianzhi on the right wing couldn't help but change his face slightly when he saw the military appearance and morale of the officers and soldiers. In the last battle of Songzhou, the Zhenguo army first lured them to besiege Yucheng, and when they were tired from the long battle, they suddenly killed them from all directions, which directly collapsed their morale. But the Zhenguo army only had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses that time. Now, 100,000 soldiers and horses stood face to face, the overwhelming, continuous phalanx, the flags like the sea, the spears like forests, the war drums like thunder, and the swords and swords beat the snow, so that he couldn't help but feel his throat dry.

Wang Xianzhi has been shaken before the battle: "Fight a decisive battle with the official army head-on, and if you want to win, I'm afraid it's impossible." The officers and soldiers were well-trained and well-equipped, especially fierce and good at fighting. The army of the six towns on the opposite side was not the Tianping army and the Taining army, four of the six towns had just returned from Daibei, and they even defeated the Shatuo Ya'er army. Moreover, the army of these six towns has newly replenished nearly half of the Divine Strategy Forbidden Army! With these newly recruited soldiers and horses in our hands, it will be very difficult to confront 100,000 officers and soldiers. ”

He looked at the yellow banner and the six handsome flags in the distance with worried and fearful eyes, and his heart became more and more worried.

"Attack!"

A loud shout broke the dark clouds over the battlefield, and Huang Chao was the first to give the order to attack. The 40,000 soldiers and horses of the front army of the grass army began to move forward, and the tactics of breaking through the center were implemented. 10,000 soldiers, under the cover of 30,000 auxiliaries, rushed directly towards the center of the opponent. Eighty phalanxes of infantry, the most rear, converged into a huge array of fish scales and rolled forward, and countless mud splashed in the slanting wind and drizzle.

In the face of the attack of the grass army, the officers and troops also immediately faced the battle, and countless heralds galloped forward in front of the battle formation, conveying the battle order of the commander Ximen Sigong. The Chinese army of the official army did not move, but as the order flag continued to be unfurled, dozens of phalanxes located on the two flanks of the Chinese army began to move. The two wings continued to advance, and gradually the entire large array stretched, forming a huge glaive formation.

The battle began, and the two wings were the first to engage the enemy, meeting the two wings of the grass army. At this time, the front army of the grass army also directly broke through, killing the front army of the official army that was stationary in the front, and for a time, on the front of more than ten miles, tens of thousands of people were fighting, shouting to kill the sky.

At this moment, Zhuge Shuang showed a smile on his face and shouted: "Rabbit cubs, it's time for us to play!" ”

The thunderous sound of the road sounded, and the three thousand elite cavalry of the three towns that had been hiding on the left flank also began to advance.

At first, it was a little bit of acceleration at a trot, and then it gradually became a gallop. The three thousand elite cavalry soon overtook the front line of the infantry, and the overwhelming road was deafening, and the long cavalry spears shone with white light, and they rushed straight to the right flank of the grass army.

The cavalry of the Tang Army was dispatched, and for a while, countless eyes on the battlefield looked to this side.

Wang Xianzhi watched a group of elite horsemen rushing towards him, and his face couldn't help but change drastically. Damn, has he been turned into a soft persimmon now?

A herald arrived on a horse and walked in front of Wang Xianzhi, "Dutong, deputy Dutong requires Dutong to hold the right flank, fight to the death, and never retreat!" ”

Wang Xianzhi nodded at the herald with an expressionless face, and waited for the herald to go away. Shang Junchang immediately said to Wang Xianzhi: "Big brother, Huang Chao is not well-intentioned. The eldest brother is the commander of the grass army, but he was arranged by Huang Chao to the right wing. He is a deputy commander, but he sits in command of the Chinese army in a grand manner. Now we have this little bit of troops and horses in our hands, the official army came to attack the right flank, not only did he not send people to reinforce him, but ordered us to fight to the death with the official army, and we must not retreat, what does he mean by this, he is going to borrow a knife to kill people. ”

Wang Xianzhi clenched his teeth and didn't speak, but his face became more and more pale, and it could be seen that he was already very dissatisfied with Huang Chao in his heart. In troubled times, there is no weight in speaking without soldiers. Since Song Zhou's defeat and surrender to Huangchao, Wang Xianzhi knows and understands this feeling very well. If he had lost even the thousands of elite brothers in his hands here now, then even if he won the battle, what could he do? The grass army was no longer his Wang Xianzhi's at that time, and at that time, Huang Chao might not even have the politeness on the surface.

The generals under Wang Xianzhi also spoke out one after another at this time, mostly scolding Huang Chao. Whispers rang out in the ranks, soldiers exchanged ears, and rumors spread rapidly among all. (To be continued......)