The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 888
Pengcheng is located in the south of the lower reaches of Surabaya, a tributary of Huai River, and is built along the water.

There are criss-cross streams and lakes and swamps in the jurisdiction.

Although the topography of Pengcheng is mainly composed of plains, which account for more than [-]% of the area, there are also many hills around it.

There are mountains in the north, southeast and south of Pengcheng as barriers, and there are more than [-] hills, large and small, such as Jiuli Mountain, Yunlong Mountain, and Han Mountain in the surrounding area. Pengcheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack militarily.

Among the more than [-] large and small hills, the most important one is undoubtedly Jiuli Mountain.

Most of the battles of attacking and defending Pengcheng in the past dynasties revolved around Jiuli Mountain.

Historically, Liu Bang united Han, Wei and other princes with [-] troops to conquer Chu in the east and occupy Pengcheng.

After Xiang Yu heard the news, he personally led [-] elite soldiers to fight back southward. It was in front of Jiuli Mountain that he defeated the Han army and took back Pengcheng in one fell swoop.

The beaten Liu Bang threw away his helmet and armor and fled, even his biological father was left on the way.

Juyang is the name of the place where the transfer battle in front of Jiuli Mountain is located. This place looks like a meandering horned dragon, with Jiuli Mountain as its back, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and has always been a battleground for military strategists.

It was the Yanzhou soldiers led by Ji Ling that Sun Jing sent to garrison here.

The Yanzhou soldiers under Ji Ling's command are rich in experience and not weak in combat power. At the same time, Sun Jing also sent some of the Yuzhou soldiers to garrison Jiuli Mountain as a response.

However, although there are mountains as barriers, Pengcheng's topography is actually dominated by plains, which account for more than [-]% of the area.

However, even the plains have ups and downs. It is not the endless grassland that ordinary people imagine. The terrain of the Pengcheng Plain gradually decreases from northwest to southeast.

The north of Pengcheng is considered to be a hilly area with high terrain, and the north-south traffic usually detours around the western edge of the hills.

Six miles southwest of Pengcheng, the mountains and plains are covered with camps of the Han army. This is the southwestern camp of the Han army.

Gathered here are the most elite trilogy of the Han army, mainly the Forbidden Army and the Jingzhou Army brought by Liu Xie.

The camp of the Southwest Han Army is not a huge camp, but a huge camp composed of a large number of scattered camps.

At a glance, the banners are like the sea, and the city is like clouds, rolling and undulating, endless.

The camps and villages are connected to each other, and they are not isolated from each other. The road winds and connects to Pengcheng and Jiuli Mountain.

High walls were built around the camps of the Han army everywhere, horses were erected, and obstacles were put down.

The camps of the Han army were one battalion after another, continuous and almost without gaps, like hedgehogs, making it difficult for ferocious beasts to bite.

Although the distribution of its camps seems to be chaotic, it is actually chaotic and orderly, and the design is extremely ingenious.

No matter where the enemy army attacks from, they will be attacked by soldiers from two or more camps at the same time.

On the top of the Han army camp, there were a lot of crossbow chariots standing on the top of the wall, and groups of Han army archers stood on it, all ready to fight.

Behind the barracks wall of the outermost Han army camp, there are huge throwing carts.

In the camp, there are many hills, winding and undulating, and the terrain is complicated. Even if you break into it, you will need to spend a lot of money and pay more to occupy the entire camp.

Wearing armor and carrying spears on their shoulders, the patrolling sergeants of the Han army walked neatly along the planned patrol route, maintaining the law and order of the camp and at the same time protecting the safety of the camp.

Ordinary soldiers are all moving around Benshi's military tent. Some are carefully polishing the weapons they hold, some are checking whether the armor is strong, and some are checking whether the crossbows and bows and arrows are usable, counting the arrows. The number of vectors.

Everyone was busy with their own affairs, but even so, there was no noise in the camp. The people who talked were talking in low voices, and there was no yelling or shouting.

With a dignified expression, Sun Jing led several personal guards and walked slowly towards the Qing Curtain Army tent directly in front.

The beacon tower east of Pengcheng was also lit, and he had also received news from Lu County.

Before the beginning of spring, the wind and snow only weakened slightly, and the Ming army had already left Xiapi and marched all the way towards Pengcheng.

Xu An personally led an army of [-] out of Xiapi, without any intention of hiding the flag.

The frontline scouts reported after finding out the flag.

Lu Bu, Xu Huang, He Man, Zhang Liao, Zhang Yang, Ma Teng, Qu Yi and other heavy-named generals all accompanied them, and Xu An left behind Gong Du to sit in Xuzhou.

Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Pang De, Ma Chao, Tai Shici, Zhao Yun and other famous generals of the Ming army also moved with the army, which can be described as the best.

The Ming army did not conceal this information at all, and even deliberately let the scouts of the Han army discover it.

Sun Jing understood the meaning of Xu An's move very well. Xu An just wanted to hit their morale, take the lead and gain an advantage over their momentum.

And Xu An's goal was indeed achieved. The Ming army was like a mountain pressing down on everyone's hearts, making it difficult for all the generals of the Han army to breathe.

Even if Sun Jing understood that the purpose of this battle was not to fight the Ming army, but to delay the Ming army and regain control of the Huai River with the navy.

But even so, facing the Ming army, Sun Jing still felt that the burden on her shoulders was extremely heavy.

Their opponent is the Ming army, the almost invincible Ming army...

The generals to face are Lu Bu, Xu Huang and other famous generals who have made great military exploits.

In addition, the pressure brought by Xu An personally leading the army is even greater than the previous two.

Xu An's method of using troops is not secret information, it is nothing more than using righteousness to win by surprise.

Originally, Xu An was only proficient in the yin and yang of soldiers, but later he adopted the strengths of a hundred schools of thought, and he was involved in the four schools of arms.

In the battle of Fanyang, Huangfusong and Sun Jian died in battle, and Xu An became the real number one military strategist in the world.

And this title became more consolidated after the Battle of Qingxu.

When Xu An's name was heard, morale had already dropped a bit before the war started, and many people were not even optimistic about the future.

Everyone knew that Xu An was cautious in using his troops, if he didn't move, he would move like thunder.

But no one can stop the Ming army's offensive.

Han Sui didn't block it, Dong Zhuo didn't block it, Liu Yan didn't block it, and even Huang Fusong and Sun Jian didn't count.

Sun Jing's expression was gloomy. He had no confidence at all in the upcoming battle of Pengcheng. Even if he just relied on the camp to hold on, he didn't think he could really stop the Ming army from attacking.

The army always likes to exaggerate the enemy's losses and minimize their own casualties when reporting their military exploits.

But Ming Ting has never exaggerated or shrunk.

Because every soldier who died in battle must be engraved on the monument and sent to the Taiping Temple, and every enemy killed is a military achievement, which must be recorded and carefully inspected.

In the Battle of Fanyang, the casualties of the Ming army were not large, and it can even be said to be extremely small.

The battle report described the scene of the battle in detail. The Ming army came from afar and defeated the remaining Han army led by Huangfusong head-on.

After Huangfu Song's army was defeated, the Han army that invaded Fanyang fought against the city under the leadership of Sun Jian, but was also defeated by the Ming army and fell apart.

The elite generals under Huangfusong and Sun Jian's command were almost wiped out, while the casualties of the Ming army were minimal, which is enough to show the horror of the Ming army's combat power.

In the Battle of Qingzhou, Cao Cao led an army of [-] people to encircle and suppress the [-] Ming cavalry who were transferred to the encirclement network intentionally and unintentionally, but thousands of people were killed and injured. Even when Xu An led the reinforcements to arrive, he was defeated .

Although the army gathered in Pengcheng seems to be large in number, Sun Jing is not Han Xin, and the more soldiers the better, he is not capable of commanding such a large army, so he can only use this method of building a stronghold and fighting tough battles.

Among the [-] troops that can be called elite, there are only about [-]. Sun Jing even feels that the quality of most of the [-] soldiers under his command is only comparable to that of the garrison troops in the Ming army. Quite, not even up to the level of a soldier in a military region.

However, their armor and weapons are a bonus item. Their combat power should be barely equal to that of the soldiers of the Ming military region, but there are very few soldiers who can reach the same level as the military soldiers and sharp soldiers of the Ming army.

Lu County is more than [-] miles away from Pengcheng. This distance is not far or close.

According to the marching speed of the Ming army, even if the march is a little slow in winter, it only takes two days to arrive, and the marching speed of the cavalry is faster.

The igniting of three beacons in the distance represented the news that the main force of the Ming army had appeared.

The vanguard cavalry of the Ming army had already appeared in the southeast of Pengcheng, and set up camp, occupying several hills and foothills in the east.

This battle was really a battle of the Han court. Liu Xie collected war horses from various places, pieced together, obtained a lot of horses from various families, and unexpectedly managed to gather more than four thousand horses. Above are the horses of war horses, used as cavalry, as scouts and pioneers.

However, the combat power of these cavalry is much lower than that of the Ming cavalry.

As soon as the cavalry of the Ming army appeared on the battlefield in Pengcheng, all the cavalry of the Han army were expelled and could only move around the camp.

The place occupied by the Ming army did not exceed Sun Jing's expectations. The Ming army attacked from east to west. The best place to camp was the hilly and mountainous areas in the east. Relying on the mountains and rivers, it not only had a good location for defense, but also facilitated water and water. firewood.

In the eastern hilly area and those hills, Sun Jing chose to give up voluntarily.

Although it can be regarded as easy to defend and difficult to attack, but this is easy to defend and difficult to attack compared to attacking the east from the west, and attacking from the east, the eastern part of Pengcheng is not a good place.

The southern part of this area is the fertile field, and the Ming army, which has the advantage of cavalry, can easily take the south, besiege it in the eastern hilly area, and wipe it out in one fell swoop.

So Sun Jing directly chose to give up guarding here, and instead guarded the mountains in the southwest, forming a line with Pengcheng and Jiuli Mountain in the north as a defense.

Since it is impossible to decide when and how the Ming army will attack, at least the right to set up the war is in your hands.

The battlefield that Sun Jing set up was the three points connected in a line, and the plains in the middle of the mountains in the east and west.

If the Ming army wanted to attack Pengcheng, they had to leave the camp first and pass through the wilderness between the two places.

The Han army occupying the top of the mountain can see clearly the actions of the Ming army based on their condescending heights, so as to grasp the opportunities of the battle situation and make timely responses.

When she came to her senses, Sun Jing had already walked less than thirty steps away from the Qingmu army tent.There are a few hills and mountains in the central and eastern part of Xuzhou.

The fiery red flag was erected in front of the Qingmai military tent, fluttering and hunting in the wind in the weakened snow.

Although the big flag is tall, it is still much inferior to the canopy next to it. Just beside it, there is a twelve-fold multicolored canopy that is ten feet high.
There are countless armored soldiers standing outside the tent. They are uniformly dressed, with helmets and feathers, heavy armor, burqa belts, standing with swords, martial law everywhere, and checkpoints on all roads.

All personnel entering and leaving the camp had to take off their sabers and weapons before being put into the military tent.

This green curtain army tent is the large tent of the Chinese army in the southwestern Han army camp, and the person who sits in charge of the Chinese army and controls the entire army is the current emperor!

Sun Jing took a deep breath, passed Luka, and walked towards the large tent of the Chinese army.

As soon as Sun Jing walked into the military tent, he attracted the attention of all the generals in the military tent, and all eyes fell on him.

Liu Xie was wearing a golden armor, a burqa with a belt, and his whole body was fiery red. He sat at the head of the big tent, calm, majestic, and heroic.

His eyes followed everyone else's, and fell on Sun Jing who walked into the big tent.

"The vanguard of the Ming army has arrived at Dongshan. The middle army and the rear army are stationed in Dongshan along the official road. From the watchtower of the military camp, you can see the overall situation."

Liu Xie's expression was slightly concentrated, he stood up with his sword, and stepped down from the first seat.

"Know the enemy and know yourself, and you will never be imperiled in a hundred battles. All generals will go to the watchtower with me. I haven't seen the strength of the Ming army yet, so I just happened to see it."

Liu Xie's voice is firm and powerful. Although he has not reached the crown yet, he has already passed the period of changing his voice. Because he has not slack off in training, his figure is quite strong and tall, even higher than many generals, and even more so. Added a bit of power to it.

"promise."

The generals agreed and followed Liu Xie out of the tent.

Wang Yue, who was wearing heavy armor, followed Liu Xie's near side, and a group of Habayashi guards with helmets and armor were loyal to their duties, accompanying them to the left and right.

The place where the watchtower is located is not far to the northeast of the big tent. Compared with the watchtower in Pyeongchang, it is wider and taller, and it can accommodate more people.

Liu Xie led a group of generals to the watchtower, but they didn't rush to the crowd at all.

There were many snowflakes, but they didn't too much affect the line of sight.

Liu Xie approached the railing of the watchtower and looked towards the east.

In the field of vision, more than a dozen cavalrymen of the Ming army with hundreds of soldiers galloped back and forth across the wilderness, recklessly.
Just between the hills and mountains in the east, two cavalry formations with a size of more than [-] soldiers stood on the snow on the left and the right.

Under the dark sky, the ochre-yellow banners and the white snow all over the ground complement each other, conveying a strong visual stimulation, and the air is filled with a sense of chill.

There are yellow dots flickering on the hills and mountains in the east. The vanguard of the Ming army has occupied these places, and they are checking whether there is any remaining danger.

Farther to the east, countless ochre-yellow banners were fluttering in the cold wind, and countless soldiers of the Ming army in ochre-yellow robes were braving the wind and snow, marching forward.

One team after another, one after another, as if endlessly, they kept coming.

The ochre-yellow ocean flooded Liu Xie's entire field of vision, and the mountains and plains were filled with ochre-yellow banners.

(End of this chapter)