Chapter 41: The Mantis stalks the cicada (1)

The scout warning curtain of the Guangning Left Guard had a comprehensive contact with the scouts of the Yanshan Left Guard on the east bank of the Shahe River. The two sides were like playing hide-and-seek in the thick fog, greeting each other with bows, arrows, guns, sticks, and even flying knives.

The sound of trumpets, whistles, curses, laughter, screams, and screams calling on comrades, were one after another in the thick fog.

Until Chen hour, the thick fog gradually dissipated, and the scouts on both sides on the ten-mile field were complicated and chased and attacked each other in groups of three or three. A team of Liaodong scouts who returned to the camp actually followed two Yan army scouts at the end.

When the two Yan soldiers discovered them, they could only become prisoners obediently.

Yang Wen was very surprised why he encountered the Yan army here, and the number of Yan army detected by the scouts surprised him even more. The main forces of the Yan army were all here, with six guards and 30,000 troops. Although the number of people on both sides was equal, Yang Wen felt like he was falling into a trap.

Especially when he saw the bright red handsome flag fluttering in the middle, this feeling became even stronger. The word "Yan" written on it was undoubtedly Zhu Di was right in front of him.

The first thing Yang Wen thought of was retreat, who was Zhu Di, the famous general in the world. Lan Yu later counted the fourth princes to fight well. It was not until the seventeenth son in Guangning that he rose among the white mountains and black waters that the two princes formed a pattern of mutual convergence in military affairs.

Now I am facing famous generals in the world. Can I beat them? It is obvious that they are coming for you, but my own self-righteous plan hits the other party's trap, and the first voice has been taken away.

But when I think back, although Zhu Di can fight, he has the most elite Dingliao Central Guard in Liaodong, with a total of 10,000 "Guanning Iron Cavalry", which is a famous strong army outside the frontier, and Guangning Left Guard and Ningyuan Guard are all elite troops ranked in Liaodong.

Since these strong troops have been in charge, they may not be able to fight with Zhu Di. And once God favors him, he will defeat Zhu Di's main force and even capture him alive. Then the great achievements of being a marquis are certain that they cannot escape.

Whether to fight or not, the two ideas were fighting fiercely in Yang Wen's head. Even though the voices of his subordinates were not heard, Pang Jin asked anxiously: "General, General! Should we go to fight?"

Pang Jin was a confidant from Yang Wen's personal army. Because of his bravery in combat, he was promoted to the position of commander of the left guard of Guangning. Only he was straightforward dared to call him like this.

Yang Wen suddenly woke up from his thoughts and asked quickly: "What do you think?"

Several commanders looked at each other and wondered. At such an important moment, you, the general, did not speak, but asked the people below.

Pang Jin was anxious and immediately replied: "The two armies met, and the brave won. Although they encountered the enemy in a hurry, there was no reason to show weakness to the enemy. Please order the formation to fight."

Yang Wen listened to his words and was still thinking. He looked up and saw Ni Lei sitting in the bottom head without saying anything. So he asked, "What do General Ni have any opinions?"

Ni Lei bowed and said, "As soon as the governor ordered everything." The ball kicked back. Yang Wenzheng was upset and Ni Lei spoke again, "It's just that if you ask the last general, the last general's opinion is the same as General Pang, this battle must be fought.

The governor had no reason to show weakness to the enemy. The last general also had a suggestion. Since Yan Ni appeared here, Luanzhou had lost the value of suspicious soldiers. He ordered Fuzhou Guard to immediately move to Cangting to protect our army's retreat.

"Since Ni Lei said that, Yang Wen finally made up his mind.

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The sun shines on people in early winter, which is very comfortable. On this Yandong field, the Liaodong Army and the Yan army have had their first confrontation. The Liaodong Army has 18,000 combat soldiers, including 10,000 cavalrymen; they are facing the Yan army with 20,000 combat soldiers.

But these are all cavalry.

Yang Wen arranged 4,000 infantry each of the Ningyuan Guards and Guangning Guards on the front of the central army, divided into two square formations; Dingliaon Central Guards were divided into two parts, and each of the 4,000 cavalry was arranged on both sides of the central army; the five hundred personal guards brought from Sichuan were around the commando flag, and the two thousand cavalry of the Guangning left guards were prepared for battle as reserves in the large formation, and the guards and baggage battalions stood guard at the camp.

Ni Lei strongly opposed Yang Wen's order to split the Dingliao Central Guard. The Liao King commanded the battle. The cavalry, especially the "Guanning Iron Cavalry", were always used as the decisive attack force. But when he was about to fight, he did not want to contradict his superiors. He had to suppress his opinions.

Implement and implement.

Zhu Di led his army to form a formation with his back to the water, putting the right guard of Yanshan in front. The core force, Yanshan left guard, then Yanshan central guard and Taining lined up with two wings, and controlled the reserve teams of Duoyan and Fuyu guards in his hand.

At the silence of Si, the Mongolian cavalry of Taining Guard roared across the battlefield, opening the prelude to the Battle of Shahe.

The Mongolian light cavalry was good at riding and shooting, and the cavalry of Taining Guards ran through one hundred steps away from the Liaodong military formation.

This kind of area shooting is not precise but quantity. The moment you cross, the Mongolian light cavalry can actually shoot two shots, and thousands of feather arrows fall into the square formation.

Ningyuan Guard is one of the few guards in Liaodong equipped with new breastplate and scoop armor. Under the defense of the strong armor and shield, only a dozen people were shot and fell down. On the other side, Guangning Guards were only equipped with leather armor. After a round of arrow rain, nearly a hundred people withdrew from the battle.

The Mongolian cavalry turned back on the other side of the battlefield and crossed the battlefield. This time they had clearly felt the weakness of Guangning defender's defense. They shot all two shots on their heads, causing casualties to Guangning defender who were twice as good as the first round strike.

After the two rounds of hundreds of people fell, the situation of many of the new guards in Guangning was weak, and some of the teams were panicked. The new recruits were frightened by the roaring rain of arrows. They could only rely on the general flag, and the veterans tried their best to maintain the team.

On the other hand, the soldiers of Ningyuan Guard always straightened their waists and their formation was not messy at all.

Ni Lei watched the Mongolian cavalry cavalry cavalry back and forth, and looked back at the central army's flag from time to time, but Yang Wen did not give any signal to attack. Ni Lei could only watch the Mongolian cavalry turn back to the Yan army formation.

In the dictionary of the Liaodong Army, they always attack and attack again, but Ni Lei didn't understand why Yang Wen had no order to attack. He had no choice but to look back at the Central Army's Order Banner again and again.

Zhu Di looked at the battlefield situation and the Taining Guard's burst had already found the weakness of the opponent's formation. He immediately ordered the first wave of Yanshan Right Guard to attack and the target broke through the square formation of Guangning Left Guard.

One hundred people have a wave, one thousand households have ten waves, and the first five rows are all two-meter-long spear, which are used to impact the horse-spike formation.

The Yanshan Right Guard, who was heavily armored, listened to the drum beats slowly forward. The two armies were about 600 steps, and the first three hundred steps were jogging slowly. They started to accelerate from 300 to 200 steps. After 200 steps, the horse's speed was increased to the highest.

A thousand heavy armored cavalry were like ten layers of black waves rushing towards the Guangning defender's camp in the sky in smoke and dust. The Liaodong Army's archers began to shoot arrows at 200 steps, and the new ground steel crossbow could bring damage from this distance.

But for heavy cavalry, this lethality is still not enough. Only a few unlucky heavy cavalrymen were shot and fell off their horses.

There were only one or two veterans of the Gunners in Guangning's rear guard. The rumbling heavy cavalry made the earth tremble. The momentum alone scared some new recruits to throw their guns and run away.

The general flag and the small flags shouted loudly and whipped with whips, but still could not stop the panic of the new recruits.

After two shots, the heavy cavalry finally hit the squadron formation. This assault has been carried out countless times against the soldiers of the left guard of Yanshan. They used the power of the opponent to stab the opponent with a longer spear and jumped over the spear's spear, jumped into the enemy formation, and slashed left and right in the enemy formation. In the second wave, the third wave of heavy cavalry did the same thing, jumping into the squadron formation like an acrobat.

Of course, there were also cavalrymen who stabbed their opponents and were immediately killed by the cavalry rifle.

The new recruits holding a rifle in their hands would not cope with such a scene. The heavy cavalry, who had become infantry, pivoted the knife in their hands and fell to the ground.

After stirring up nearly 300 cavalrymen who jumped into the formation, the originally five-layered cavalry array was already in chaos.

At this time, the card-knife who was responsible for protecting the squadrons reacted, but they could not rush forward to cover, because some of the recruits had thrown the squadrons away and turned around and ran away.

Behind, more heavy cavalrymen took advantage of the chaos of the front row of the cavalry and rifle formation and found a gap to rush into the formation. They no longer leaped up with the help of the spear, but instead hit the opponent with one stone, immediately threw away the spear, drew out the battle knife, and slashed the cavalry and rifle soldiers around them.

After the Guangning defender's cavalry formation only endured five waves of heavy cavalry, a gap had been opened in the middle of their formation. More than half of the cavalry who jumped into the formation in front had suffered casualties, but they gathered in the middle and cut out a bloody alley.

The cavalry behind narrowed the attack surface and rushed to this gap. When all the cavalry in the front battalion of the Right Guard of Yanshan rushed into the square formation, the fifth-level cavalry had been completely penetrated, and the formation of the Guangning rear guard was on the verge of collapse.

Ni Lei only felt that the Guangning defender next to him was in chaos, but he did not see any order flags from the central army attack. He knew that as long as the Yan army's subsequent cavalry continued to kill, the Guangning defender would immediately collapse.

In the formation of the Yan army opposite, smoke and dust were rolled up again, and subsequent cavalrymen came up.

Ni Lei gritted his teeth, turned over and ordered his horse to attack. The personal soldiers next to him quickly persuaded him: "General, the governor has not yet ordered the attack." Ni Lei's eyes widened: "Wait for his order, the Guangning defender will be finished.

"After saying that, he ignored his personal soldiers, waved his sword and shouted: "Dingliao Zhongwei follows me."

The follow-up cavalry of the Yanshan Right Guard, led by commander Qiu Fu, prepared to sprinkle another handful of salt on the already opened gap, so as to break through the opponent's square formation in one fell swoop. But they were intercepted by the Dingliao Right Guard who had emerged from the slanting time halfway.
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