Yuanyu didn't hesitate for too long.

After all, he was a hero of a generation. He made up his mind and immediately acted decisively. He did not adopt Cui Boyu's plan. Instead, he asked Taichang Temple to issue a letter to Nan Chu. His words were extremely harsh, saying that if he did not retreat, the serious consequences caused by this would be borne by the State of Chu.

Then, the prefectures and counties along the Huanghuai line enter a wartime state, and all enemies who violate the territory will be attacked head-on, and they must not be afraid of the enemy and avoid war. Violators will be dealt with by military law.

At the same time, 30,000 central army personnel were drawn as vanguards, and Hulu Deva was the general of the left guard. He abandoned the baggage and allowed to eat along the road, traveling day and night, and rushed to rescue Luoyang. In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that due to the early strategic deception of Chu State, the hiddenness and suddenness of the operation were guaranteed. In addition, the time spent asking for instructions was spent on Hulu Deva to lead his troops to arrive, Yuzhou would definitely not be able to keep it. He could only hope that Luoyang was strong and had sufficient food and equipment, so he should be able to withstand a period of time. Once the central army arrived, attacks from front to back, and the situation could be reversed.

However, the 30,000 people were too small. When Hulu Deva left Pingcheng, Yuanyu began to issue an edict to recruit elite troops from the six towns to gather in Pingcheng. However, the six towns were too injured during the invasion of Rouran and have not recovered their vitality so far. According to estimates from the Du Branch and the Seventh War Department, at most, 50,000 people could be recruited. If this number exceeds this, the logistics supply cannot keep up, which may lead to a terrible military disaster.

Originally, the head coach of this army was Yuan Guang, but if something like the prophecy happened, how could Yuan Yu dare to use him with confidence? He was afraid that he would not be able to suppress the lawless and powerful generals in the six towns. In the face of difficulties, Gao Teng seized the opportunity to make a statement and recommended Gao Yuan, the general of Wuchuan Town, as the head coach.

The internal officials ordered the wise to not avoid relatives, but Yuan Yu was not completely foolish and immediately refuted this proposal and summoned the great monk Lingzhi into the palace to calculate the good and bad luck. Who would have sent people to report that Lingzhi was still in seclusion in Yongning Temple and could not enter the palace to face the holy.

Previously, General Yuan Guang sent Lingzhi a letter. According to Huangbiu's investigation, the letter only wrote the word "Buddha". Unexpectedly, Lingzhi vomited blood after reading the letter, and then announced that he had been in seclusion. He was not neglecting the emperor, but he really couldn't get out of the pass. Although Yuanyu was very unhappy, he did not care too much, so he summoned Kangjing to ask.

Kang Jing entered the Tai Chi Hall, sitting upright like a pine, and her figure was like a crane. Her beautiful beard moved slightly without the wind. She was so fairy-like and the sarcasm when she was in Cui Boyu's mansion were completely different. He replied calmly: "Last night, when I was watching the astrological signs, Taibai violated the Southern Dipper. The king had a national war and a great rebellion, which was unlucky. Your Majesty should carefully select the leader, and the situation of the battle will still turn around!"

Yuan Yu sighed: "What the real person said is very good! The country is in trouble to think of good generals, and all the civil and military officials in the court have no talent to use..."

Kang Jing smiled but said nothing.

Yuan Yu asked again: "With the view of a true person, who can share my worries?"

Kang Jing said: "The military affairs are not something that can be said by those who practice Taoism. However, I also saw a star shaking over the north of the capital last night. Your Majesty can send someone to search to solve the dangers on the southern line. The destiny of heaven is right here!"

"north?"

Yuan Yu pondered for a long time, suddenly realized, and said, "Isn't Princess Xiurong's Mansion in the northern suburbs?"

The battle between Chu and Wei started first at the easternmost line of the shaved cloth. The shaved cloth was located on the south bank of the Jishui River. It was the prefecture of Jizhou in the Northern Wei Dynasty. It led five counties and fifteen counties and has always been a place that military strategists must fight for.

There were 12,000 troops in the town and garrisons in Jeju, and 6,000 troops stationed in the scrubs. The leader of the town of Jeju, Yuchi Feng, was brave and unscheming. He believed that he had 6,000 soldiers who controlled the strings. He did not take Cuiyu Army and Chi Feng Army, which had just formed a short army, seriously. Fortunately, the consultant Qu Yuan tried to dissuade him from his desperate attempt to fight. On the grounds that Pingcheng had not yet decided whether to go to war with Chu, he gave up his idea of ​​sending troops to fight immediately. However, Yuchi Feng Song did not give up. He first sent five scouts to investigate, observe his military appearance, and then judged how to deal with it.

Two hours later, the scouts reported that the Chifeng army was stationed on the warships and did not land. The Cuiyu army was not in a state of disarray and the team was scattered. After getting ashore, they camped on Changxingpo, twenty miles south of the city. The camps were not organized and the defense was even loose. The soldiers were tired and were still logged and quarried in the surrounding forests and made siege equipment. They had complaints in private.

Yuchi Song was overjoyed and said, "The enemy army came from afar, and the boats were exhausted and the effort was not known to spare their efforts, which led to the resentment of the army and the morale of the army was not gathered. Tonight is a good opportunity to defeat the enemy!"

Qu Yan still dissuaded him, asking him to act cautiously. It is better to defend the city than to go to war, and wait for the emperor's edict. Yuchi Feng thought it was noisy, so he pulled out his knife and slashed it on the table, and said angrily: "Idiot! The Lord will not blame the general who won the battle. Those lowly island barbarians are just pigs and sheep raised by us Xianbei people. Even if they are killed, it will be fine!" So Qu Yan left him to lead a thousand people to defend the city. When night fell, he personally led five thousand elite cavalry to attack the camp.

When he rushed to the camp gate, Yuchi Sang opened his bow and shot an arrow, and shot an arrow at the gate. More than a thousand rockets behind him shot in a row. In the blink of an eye, the fire was everywhere, and the crackling firewood and tents were burning, mixed with the sound of killing and horse hooves, rushed straight in.

"Not good! Being trapped!"

There was no one in the camp, and Yuchi Sang hurriedly pulled his horse. At this moment, the roar of war drums suddenly sounded in the vast night, and endless ambush appeared from all directions. He was so nervous that he was yelling to retreat. The front team turned their horses in a panic, but the back team was still moving forward without knowing why. They collided with each other, and the formation was suddenly in chaos.

The three thousand Cuiyu troops lying in the forest behind the slope shot upwards to the sky for the first time. This new recurve bow was used in actual combat for the first time. Combined with the armor-breaking arrows made by steelmaking technology far beyond this era, the effect was immediate. The Jeju army, which was only wearing leather armor and crotch armor, had no room for resistance, and they were all caught in arrows and fell off their horses. In just a few breaths, three consecutive waves of arrow rains took away nearly 1500 lives. Yuchi Feng did not dare to fight, reorganized his formation, and led his troops to flee in a hurry.

Racing for five miles, looking back at the lack of pursuers behind, Yuchi Sang felt a little relieved. He was thinking that he would go back to the city and fight again on the day to go back to Changxing Slope to find the main force of the enemy. Suddenly, countless torches were lit in front of him, spreading more than a thousand steps, like a fire snake rushing and circling in the darkness where he could not see his fingers. He was just unable to steal the camp, but was suffering from a loss. He was holding his anger. Seeing that the weak southerner dared to fight in the field, his blood immediately surged and roared: "Kill with me!"

Although he had just experienced an ambush, the Wei people were good at horse fighting after all. The remaining four thousand elite cavalry quickly adjusted their horse stance, set off a charge formation, shouted the slogans of the Xianbei people, rode their guns behind them with rope rings, and inserted the guns into stirrups to keep their whole body stable, then took the bow and arrow, ready to enter the range and then thrust the guns and thrust the guns and thrust the formation.

Three hundred steps!

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

It seemed as if the fangs of the fire snake were poking out from the darkness, and the crossbow arrows as dense as locusts shot towards the charging cavalry with the whistling sound of the wind. Looking down from the night sky, the formation of the Wei army suddenly collapsed into a huge fan.

Yuchi Feng was completely confused. According to his previous experience in fighting the Chu army, this distance could not be hit by a crossbow. Even if there were occasional arrows shot over, it was still at the end of the crossbow. Shooting on his body was like it was tickling, so he did not hold up the cards in advance, resulting in heavy casualties.

"Rise the shield, raise the shield!"

Cavalry shields are also called pills. They have been the standard equipment of cavalry since the Western Han Dynasty. It is recorded in "Taibai Yin Jing" and "Wu Jing Zongyao" that the pills of the Wei army were 60 cm thick log shields, wrapped in cooked cowhide on the front, and have excellent defense capabilities, which can effectively reduce the casualty rate of cavalry from the distance from the charge to the blade.

Two hundred steps!

Another wave of crossbow arrows was even more dense than before. The Wei army blew the rice fields like the wind, falling down in rows, and many people were pierced by the same crossbow arrow. Such an unparalleled crossbow machine was simply unheard of. The light armor and cards equipped were useless at all. Yuchi Sang gritted his teeth and silently thought to hold on in his heart. As long as he rushed to within thirty steps, with the power of the cavalry, this would be a unilateral massacre.

However, as the first appearance of the Wanjun crossbow, it is destined not to give Yuchi Sang this opportunity. At one hundred and fifty steps, you can hear the sound of the crossbow pulling the hanging knife. Tens of millions of arrows covered the night sky and harvested the lives of fresh people calmly and coldly. Yuchi Sang was lucky enough to avoid the favor of the god of death. He was caught in an arrow on his shoulder, penetrated the armor, took him up in the air, and flew heavily on the ground. Fortunately, he was rushed by his personal guards and changed his horse. He finally woke up from his anger and continued to rush down. He was afraid that the entire army would be defeated due to the terrible battle loss rate before he saw the enemy.

Someone advised: "The Lord of the Town, the Chu army is surrounded by strong crossbows, and it is impossible to break through the front. It is better to go around the left and right wings and lure them into a formation. If they change, they will be in chaos. You can take advantage of the gap to break it!"

This is a classic tactic for cavalry to deal with infantry. They are attacked and turned to assault. If the enemy changes formation, they will be in chaos. If they remain unchanged, they will be targets of human flesh. However, Yuchi Son, who has recovered his calmness, decisively refused and ordered everyone to turn left and go west to urge the horse to escape from the battle. As long as they have the vitality, they will wait until dawn to find these island barbarians who have killed thousands of swords to take revenge.

His choice was correct to some extent, because the left wing of the Chu army was a large depression, and he rushed over in the dark to ensure that he could never get out again. The dense torches lit up on the left wing were only dozens of death-death men who lit multiple torches every ten steps, creating the illusion of being in line.

Of course, the Wei army also knew that there was a depression nearby, but they hurriedly retreated from Changxing Slope and launched a charge before they took a breath. In addition, they were confused by the torches, it was difficult to accurately estimate how far away from the depression. The subconscious mind would think that the place where the enemy could line up was definitely not a depression. But Yuchi Son was a veteran of many years of military service. He avoided this dead land with his keen sense of touch and cut off his tail to survive, which was decisive and wise.

Qi Xiao, who was standing on the high platform, saw Yuchi Sang evacuate and said with a smile: "I really want him to rush over and try..."

Cavalry has huge advantages over infantry. First, it is mobility, which can calmly advance and retreat, attack, harass, cut off supplies, create chaos, and choose the battlefield that is most beneficial to oneself; second, it has a huge impact and oppression when rushing. Although the power and range of the insurgent bow are greater than that of the cavalry, the lethality of the mixed flower array cannot be underestimated, but why they often lose more and win less when facing cavalry is because the quality of the soldiers and military training of this era are far from enough. People's hearts are prone to fear, and fear will be contagious in geometric multiples. When the horses you can see in your vision step on the flying dust and rush over, you can hold the gun and be a first-class soldier. More of the two wars, they will collapse at one touch, and it is impossible to make perfect resistance in the estimate.

From the day the Cuiyu Army was established, it received strict scientific military training derived from later generations, which was different from the so-called strong army in this era. For example, queue transformation, it is only the basic training subject of Cuiyu Army, which can ensure that there will be no chaos and disorder that will lead to defeat when facing the changing direction of the cavalry. The existence of the Military Supervision Office has added a layer of double insurance, so Qi Xiao was eager for Yuchi Sang to rush over without reason, so that the Cuiyu Army would fight with the Wei cavalry under the prerequisite of occupying favorable terrain, providing some valuable experience and lessons for possible decisive battles in the future.

Unfortunately, Yuchi Spoon was not deceived!

However, the reason why Qi Xiao chose Changxingpo camp was because it was high up there, and there were large forests behind it to hide ambushers. There were depressions and river troughs in front to limit the range of movement of the cavalry. He only needed to block the way home next to the depression, so that the other party could flee west according to our intentions.

It's naturally not a good place to go in the west!

"Beat the drum, pretend to pursue, and send General Yuchi for a journey!"

Ye Min's Chifeng Army had already been transported along the waterway through warships and landed twenty miles ahead after nightfall, and then marched back and ambushed in a place called Gaojiagou. This is an inverted V-shaped river impact ditch, which has become a must-pass road for cars and horses. From here, you can cross the shallowest part of the Majia River to withdraw to the Wushu City, which is also the most likely way for Yuchi Sang to choose.

Five hundred side vans are the periphery, five hundred armored soldiers holding mountain swords are in the second, three thousand maple spears are in the third, five thousand bows and crossbows are behind, and the innermost are fifty three-bow bed crossbows. This is a common formation of infantry defensive cavalry, not surprising, but the mountain swords are in the cracks, the sharpness of maple spears, the Yuanxiang bow, the strong strength of Wanjun crossbows, and the invincible three-bow bed crossbows. With the best infantry equipped with the most advanced weapons, they face the escaped army that was exhausted even when they fought. The victory and defeat were self-evident.

As the first light overflowed from the sky, Gaojiagou was filled with the bodies of the Wei army and the horses that lost their master. After cleaning the battlefield, the casualties were counted. From the leader of the Jizhou Town, Yuchi Sang, more than 3,000 people were killed or injured in the Wei army. In addition to the number of people killed in the previous battle, the entire army was almost wiped out.

Ye Min immediately rushed his troops to meet Qi Xiao and sent troops to clean the city. Qu Yun, the army left behind the clean the city, received the news that Yuchi Feng was defeated and died. He immediately abandoned the city and crossed the Ji River and fled far away.

The Chu army occupied the cleanse and won the first battle!

This battle seems to be easy to win, but in fact it involves extremely complex planning and preparations. This is not the personal wisdom of a general, but the qualitative change caused by quantitative changes after the reform of the military system.

The cleaned wall is located in the plains in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. Over the past thousands of years, the Yellow River has diverted its routes and washed away many times, forming a unique landform of hills, slopes and depressions. The Military Office has formulated a detailed combat plan in advance based on the intelligence collected by the secret office, and listed all factors such as the time, geography, hydrology, and the character of the Wei army commander as necessary calculation conditions, how to lure the enemy, how to block the enemy, how to trap the enemy, and how to break the enemy, as if merchants are doing business, they are very particular, and they are calculated clearly and clearly.

The students of Huqin Hall understood this very early. War is a digital game. The troops, equipment, supplies, morale and other things from both sides can be accurately estimated and sand table deduced to calculate the outcome.

Just like this cleansing battle, Yuchi's underwear that was counted as all the underwear was exposed, how could it be invincible?
Chapter completed!