Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1839 The trend of the battle, attack!
When the Ming army mobilized continuously, the Wei army also moved quickly, and hundreds of thousands of troops came straight to the eldest son city.

"Pass down the order, all battalions will return to defend, and crucify Huaishui Town!"

Faced with the aggressive main force of the Wei army, Sha Moke directly issued a military order.

"promise!"

The main battalions of the Second Sun and Moon Army quickly returned to Huaishui Town, and formed a battle of horns in the north, southeast and three directions, including a radius of [-] li into the battlefield.

"They dare to come, we dare to fight!"

Shamoke gave encouragement before the battle: "In this battle, the task of our Sun and Moon Second Army is to defend Huaishui Town to the death. Only Huaishui Town can be held. No matter how many enemies they come, they will survive and never retreat!"

He looked at the generals with vivid eyes: "Soldiers, you all know that the establishment of the Ming Dynasty is our foundation for generations to come. There are Han Chinese and Wuxi barbarians among you, but if you lose this battle, Whether it is a Han or a barbarian, our future will be very sad, for our future and for our family to live a happy life, even if the entire army is wiped out in this battle, we are worth it!"

Shamoko is not a selfless person.

But he has been in the Ming army for many years, and he has more and more trust in the Ming court, not only because the Ming court can bring them peace, but also over the years, the Ming court has never treated them differently because of their barbarians.

This used to be the thing that worried him the most.

Now it is the reason why he is most loyal to the Ming army.

Regardless of life or death in this battle, Zhang Liao put him in the most important strategic position. He must defend this place. Only by defending can the Ming army win, and their Wuxi barbarians can win.

"Fight to the death!"

The fighting spirit flickered in the eyes of the generals.

At this point.

It's time to go all out.

"Send the order, open the arsenal, and take out all the ballistas and trebuchets. If we can't hold this battle, we will fight against this town with them!"

Shamoke said coldly.

Every military department has its own arsenal, which is still their bottom-of-the-box weapon. It will not be used for non-essential battles. Naturally, it will not be hidden between life and death.

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Less than [-] miles away from Huaishui Town, there are already nearly [-] soldiers and horses stationed here.

"General Lu Bu!"

In the main camp of the Chinese army, when Lu Bulong approached with tiger pace, all the generals stood up one after another and bowed in salute.

As the number one fierce general in the world, Lu Bu still has a lot of prestige.

"I've seen Guo Jijiu!"

For Lu Bu, among the people present, the person he valued the most was naturally Guo Jia.

"coming!"

Guo Jia smiled and said softly: "Your elite subordinates have recovered some strength!"

"The flying cavalry in Bingzhou suffered too much damage, but the main force of infantry in each battalion has recovered a lot, and it can also be used in other camps!" Lu Bu said softly.

Everyone in the world said that Lu Bu had a rebellious back.

indeed so.

Given the choice, Lu Bu naturally wanted to fight for himself, not for others, but in the current situation, he couldn't help himself to choose.

He took refuge in Wei Jun at the beginning, and at this moment he could only go to Hei with Wei Jun.

If you win the Ming army, there is still a future.

If he can't beat the Ming army, let alone the future, he won't be able to get out of Shangdang County.

"Very good!"

Guo Jia nodded.

Although there are many main forces of the Wei army, there are not many actual combat soldiers, and the morale of the soldiers is not high. Once a defeat is fought, it may easily lead to the collapse of the army.

At present, the most elite soldiers and horses are those under Lu Bu's command.

Although there are some new recruits added to the elite under Lu Bu's command, the main team is composed of the Bingzhou army on the side of the road in the past, especially the Bingzhou flying cavalry and trapping camp.

These are Lu Bu's two sharp knives.

"Yan Xing!" Guo Jia didn't want to wait any longer, so he nodded.

"The end is here!"

"Now I order your department to continue to attack Huaishui Town. If you get through this point, you will go straight to the eldest son city!" Guo Jia said coldly.

"Yes!"

Yan Xing also wanted to avenge his shame.

"Feng Xiao!"

"exist!"

"You hold the line!" Guo Jia said in a low voice: "Seize the opportunity and go, don't think too much, I just need to get through Huaishui Town and eat these Ming soldiers!"

"Yes!"

Lu Bu took the order.

The two main generals quickly mobilized their troops, and within half a day, they had already arrived in front of Huaishui Town.

This time it was an aboveboard offensive and defensive battle.

Wei Jun also made full preparations, bed crossbows, trebuchets, ramming carts, ladders, and well rails were all launched one after another, looking menacing and wanting to attack the city at any cost.

"Boom boom boom boom!!!!!!"

In less than half an hour, the drums sounded.

"attack!"

This time, with Lu Bu in charge, the unscrupulous Yan Xing began to attack with all his heart.

"kill!"

"kill!"

Under normal conditions, it is natural to attack from a distance first. First, a wave of trebuchets attacked. The stone bullets hit the target, and the accuracy was not bad, smashing the small town to pieces.

The adobe city wall was also shaken off under this attack.

"Archer!"

"put!"

The second wave of long-distance attack began.

The Wei army was fully prepared, and a lot of long-range attack weapons were also prepared, and they moved quickly.

"How cruel!"

Inside the defensive circle of the town, Sha Moke looked at the arrows all over the sky and sneered.

"General Zhonglang, our army suffered over a hundred casualties in the attack just now!"

"Didn't you let him dodge?"

"Their accuracy was too poor. They didn't aim at the city wall, but fell down. It was a mistake, but it hit our defense. The impact of the stone bullet was so strong that the defense was broken, and the iron shield was crushed. A lot of people died in the battle, and the captains of the various departments were very angry and wanted to fight back in advance."

"Damn!"

Shamoke gritted his teeth and said: "Let them continue to carry it. It's not time to counterattack. Wait until they come in. Our weapons must maintain the maximum lethality. Our reserves are not very sufficient. It is a waste of money." , so we can only fill it with the lives of the soldiers!"

"Yes!"

The lieutenant quickly went to deliver the order.

"They don't seem to fight back?"

Yan Xing looked outside the city, but finally couldn't hold back his thoughts, and directly ordered the attack: "Go up the well, enter the ladder, and attack!"

"kill!"

"kill!"

Wei Jun came up in darkness.

"One hundred steps!"

"Eighty steps!"

"Fifty steps!"

The soldiers at the Ming army's observation post are predicting the distance of the enemy's entry into the attack range.

"Pass my military order, each battalion will fight back!"

Sha Moke heard the distance of fifty steps, and quickly gave the order.

"Zhong Lang will have an order, counterattack!"

The banner was raised, and the battalions quickly understood.

"verb: move!"

"Counterattack!"

"Archer ready!"

The counterattack of the Ming army is also the same routine. Catapults, bed crossbows, and archers are almost exactly the same way of long-range attack.

As soon as the Ming army counterattacked, the Wei army stopped immediately.

"Dodge!"

"defense!"

The Wei army changed.

"Pause advance, defend on the spot!"

It is not difficult to avoid long-range and small-scale attacks such as trebuchets, but for the arrow rain of archers, they have suffered a lot.

Yan Xing gritted his teeth, and he ordered: "Continue to attack, go up the well and ladder as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

Wei Jun moved again.

After the long-range weapons of the two sides clashed, they were about to enter into day-to-day hand-to-hand combat. This was bound to be a tragic battle. In hand-to-hand combat, one thousand enemies would be killed and eight hundred would be harmed.

"kill!"

"kill!"

Wei Jun charged into battle, but his morale was very high.

"Shoot them down!"

"Come up and chop one by one!"

The Ming army also used all the strength to feed.

The two sides were in a stalemate, and this place suddenly became a meat grinder.

After two hours of the battle, after nightfall, the Wei army had no choice but to retreat, because if they continued to fight, the Ming army had the upper hand, and they would instead fall into the attack range of the Ming army.

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On the first day of the war, Yan Xing was counting the casualties. Lu Bu brought his personal guards and returned to the main camp of the Chinese army in Thirty Li.

"Yan Xingbai was not wronged!"

When Lu Bu met Guo Jia for the first time, he said calmly.

"Hard to beat!"

"Ok!"

Lu Bu said in a low voice: "I watched the battle from the beginning to the end. There is nothing wrong with Yan Xing's performance. His offensive momentum is indeed very strong, but he does not have enough control over the situation of the battle. He rushed too hard and didn't know how to reserve power , as the saying goes, the momentum is like a tiger at one stroke, and it declines again and again, and is exhausted three times. If you can't rush through in one breath, you will basically be weak."

"Then you didn't find any chance to fill the seat?" Guo Jia frowned.

He believed that Lu Bu's control of the battle situation was better than anyone else. He was participating in the battle head-on. If he couldn't find any chance to make up for the attack, then the enemy's general was a little too powerful.

"It's not that I can't find it, it's that I don't have it!"

Lu Bu smiled wryly: "This is not a problem with the enemy's general, but a problem with the battlefield. I understand why the Ming army insisted on defending Huaishui Town. Huaishui Town doesn't seem to have a strong defense, but the terrain seems narrow, isn't it? Aiming at their formation, it is the formation of our hundreds of thousands of troops. Yan Xing invested troops and has already occupied the main battlefield. The positions on the left and right sides have no chance to enter the battlefield at all, so once the strength of both sides exceeds [-], This is a position that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is difficult to break through!"

He thought for a while, and said: "However, the Ming army has only such a main force, and it can't stop us. It takes them ten days and half a month, and they can kill them!"

"Can't wait so long!"

Guo Jia shook his head: "If they are blocked here, our main force along the way will be abolished. When the Ming army attacks and defeats them one by one, we will suffer a big loss!"

The Wei army was in an encircling formation and marched towards the eldest son city. From the east, south, and southeast, the troops were divided into five or six routes. But once their main force was blocked here, the rest of the routes would be attacked. To the enemy's gathering and annihilating.

"Then we can only divide our forces, leaving the main force to continue the attack, and then we will pass from the flank!"

Lu Bu analyzed the topographical map of the march, and said: "If you can get by from the left wing, take a longer detour, and you will have an extra day's journey!"

"We go first, go around from the left wing, attack the eldest son city first, and then let Yan Xing's main force stay here, tell him that no matter what method he uses, he must take down Huaishui town!" Guo Jia thought for a while, but Agree with Lu Bu's words.

Under such circumstances, it was impossible for them to ignore Huaishui Town, otherwise Huaishui Town would cause chaos on their rear flanks, and their formation would be messed up.

Therefore, the main force of the road must be left to press here. Let alone whether it can be captured or not, at least the Ming army in Huaishui Town can be suppressed.

"Yes!"

The personal guard took the order and immediately went to deliver the order.

"Follow first!"

"exist!"

"I feel a little uneasy in my heart!" Guo Jia said solemnly: "You have to be more vigilant along the road, I always feel that they are counting our troops!"

"How to calculate?"

"Tomorrow Zi Mujing is a treacherous person, so it's hard to guess, and my brother from the same school is even more famous for his wisdom. I can't guess what he thinks for a while!"

Guo Jia said: "But now we have the upper hand. When Xia Houyuan, Zhang Yun...their main force is overwhelmed, we don't have to worry about not being able to win this battle!"

The absolute military superiority gave him absolute confidence.

He thought for a while and said, "When you attacked Huguan, you could see the weapons that the Ming army exploded. What you need to be careful about is whether the Ming army will suddenly appear with such weapons!"

Hearing this, Lu Bu gasped, "No way, the weapons they had at Huguan back then were either blown up or captured by us!"

"We can't underestimate the Ming army. One thing we have to admit is that the Ming army's national strength is stronger than ours, and their productivity far exceeds ours!"

Guo Jia said gloomyly: "We have a lot of internal turmoil. On the contrary, the Ming court is united. They hold half the power of the country. It's hard to say how many of these weapons there are!"

"I will be careful!"

Lu Bu has suffered a lot, so he naturally knows that this kind of weapon is terrible, so he must be vigilant at all times and be on guard all the time.

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Naturally, Wei Jun's movements cannot be concealed from the Ming army's spies.

The scouts and spies of the Ming army quickly sent all the news to Zhang Liao, the chief general of the Ming army.

There are not many troops left in the eldest son city.

The entire deployment of troops has basically been completed. The battlefield is divided into three by Zhang Liao, and there is no eldest son city in these battlefields.

They are proactive.

Not defensive.

"really!"

Seeing the news in hand, Zhang Liao smiled calmly: "Guo Jia chose to abandon Huaishui Town and crossed over from the left wing. With an extra day's journey, we can also have an extra day's time to plan more calmly!"

"It's normal for Guo Fengxiao to choose this way. I'd be surprised if he dies in Huaishui Town!"

Xi Zhicai said with a sneer.

"You can't say that!"

Zhang Liao shook his head: "Don't underestimate him. Guo Fengxiao is called a genius. His ideas are wild and unconstrained, and gods and ghosts are unpredictable. You can't take him for granted!"

"Of course I dare not underestimate him!"

Xi Zhicai responded calmly: "It's just that the general trend is with us now. I don't believe that he can do anything else. When I make a full-scale attack, he can only be carried away by our rhythm!"

"Have to wait!"

Zhang Liao said: "Let's wait a little longer for the battle to break out, so His Majesty will have more time to prepare. The artillery army under his command is all heavy and bulky guys. Marching is difficult!"

"Humph!"

Xi Zhicai snorted coldly: "He deserves what he deserves. A son of a thousand pieces of gold can't sit still, but he has a body of a thousand pieces of gold, but he wants to go to the front line. I don't know what he thinks!"

"Actually, I agree with it!" Zhang Liao said, "The Artillery Army and the New First Army under his command are beyond our command. With new weapons and new tactics, His Majesty is the one who is most familiar with it!"

"That can't be done indiscriminately!"

Xi Zhicai was still brooding: "The victory or defeat of this battle is very important to King Wei and the others, but for our Ming army, there is actually no need to be so anxious. We recapture Guanzhong, even if we retreat to the southwest, it will be fine. But he seemed in a hurry!"

"Someone can understand this matter!"

Zhang Liao sighed: "The world has been in turmoil for too long. Your majesty's urgency is not his own urgency, but the world's urgency. If you fight for another ten or 20 years, do you think the world at that time will still be what your majesty wants?" world?"

Xi Zhi was silent.

"It's useless to think too much now. What we have to do now is to fight this battle well. The better we fight, the less pressure you will have on Your Majesty!"

Zhang Liao said: "If you can defeat them in one fell swoop, then your Majesty may not have to take any risks!"

"You're right, it's useless to talk now, there is only one battle!" Xi Zhicai approached the sand table, pondered for a while, and his thoughts became clearer: "If I were Guo Fengxiao, I would go here!"

"Good Anju!"

Zhang Liao narrowed his eyes, and a flash of light flashed across his pupils.

After a while, he shook his head: "If it were me, I wouldn't. I would take this road and enter the eldest son Dongjiao within the same time. It's just that the road is not easy to walk!"

He drew a line from the sand table and circled around to reach the eldest son city.

"Xihe Mountain, the mountain road, if they transport the food and grass, they can't move an inch, why is that?"

The drama is unknown.

"stable!"

"Is he a safe man?"

"The closer you are to the battle, the more you seek stability. This is a characteristic that people who come from counselors have. On the contrary, it is the general who leads the army, and the attack is more violent and has no scruples!"

Zhang Liao said: "I think he is a person who seeks stability!"

"What about Lu Bu?"

"Lu Bu listen to him!"

"No way!"

"Because Lu Bu is not smart enough, people who are not smart enough will often choose to follow the choices of smart people, because they have subconscious dependence!"

Zhang Liao said: "This is what I discovered from our chief general!"

"It is!"

Xi Zhicai nodded: "Even though my generals of the Ming Dynasty often take some courses in Jingping Wubeitang, in fact they still have some respect for scholars. The chiefs of various departments recruit scholars as generals, because they think that scholars are smart and smart people. It can always be longer and more careful than they think!"

"That's right!"

Zhang Liao walked around the sand table and said, "So I plan to put the main battlefield here!"

"Here is, twenty miles in the eastern suburbs, with a long river flowing!"

Only then did Xi Zhi understand Zhang Liao's plan: "At this time they have left Xihe Mountain, and they haven't entered the Chidao yet. They don't know what to do. You want to attack halfway through!"

"Almost the same meaning!"

Zhang Liao nodded.

(End of this chapter)