Thanks to the desperate battles of Gaole and others, the Northern Qi army of Duan Shao’s troops were blocked between the Luoshui River Valley, laying an excellent foundation for the next stage of the battle.
The tens of thousands of troops of Duan Shao were the main force of the Northern Qi army in this east-west battle, and the proportion of cavalry was quite high. Once such an army structure reaches an open area, the tactical choices that can be adopted will be more diverse, and because the cavalry’s high mobility facilitates advance, retreat and reunion, it will also double the difficulty of fighting with it.
Now this army is limited to the narrow and long Luoshui River Valley, and it is difficult to fully utilize both the advantages of military strength and the advantages of military branches.
As for the fatigued enemy tactics adopted by Duan Shao in taking turns to attack, they did not apply to Li Tai. Because Jinyong City has been conquered, and Li Tai’s combat goal is no longer to limit the enemy to the Luoshui Valley, but to eliminate as much of the enemy’s vitality as possible.
If the enemy forces distribute small teams to fight, they can even ignore them and intercept them after they are out of touch with the main force, and directly siege them. When facing a strong enough opponent, such tactics cannot achieve the effect of exhausting the enemy, but instead serve the dishes in batches.
With Duan Shao’s wisdom, of course he also understood this, so after Li Tai led his troops to retreat to the camp, and did not launch another attack for the next two days, and turned a blind eye to the Wei army’s provocation and invitation to fight outside the camp.
Of course, Duan Shao has not been idle in the past two days. He has been busy pacifying the hearts of the soldiers and preparing for the next battle. The fall of Jinyong City, Hulu Jin committed suicide, Gao Rui and others surrendered to the enemy. Each of these things can greatly shake the morale of the army. Now, it is really difficult to digest that the soldiers suddenly accept all this.
Duan Shao has discussed plans with the generals over the past few days to make them realize the reality that his army’s retreat is blocked and his army is isolated. Faced with such a situation, no matter how much complaining and worrying is, it will be useless. Only by putting aside these mixed thoughts in his heart, fighting hard to break through the enemy’s blockade, and returning to the vast Heluo Plain, can we try to restore contact with the north and try to launch a counterattack and siege against the enemy.
The soldiers and soldiers of Jinyang were also old generals who had been on the battlefield for a long time. Although they were indeed psychologically impacted at the beginning, when they gradually realized the reality, they could not help but feel decisive in their hearts of fighting with all their might.
In order to break through the enemy’s interception in one battle, Duan Shaoxian used his scout to investigate and confirm the current military configuration of the enemy’s troops, and then he even raised all his troops, including Dugu Yongye’s former troops stationed in Jiuqu City, Yiyang, who were also stationed in the combat team.
Although Jiuqu City finally took advantage of the great defeat of the Wei army, Heluo is about to be lost, and it is not very meaningful to station such an isolated city.
Only in the nextIn this battle, all the power that can be used is the right plan to break through the enemy’s blockade in one fell swoop. Otherwise, if a difficult opponent like Li Boshan confronts and fights, it is very likely that the teacher will be exhausted and his morale will fade and he will be unable to break out.
It was soon the morning of the third day. The soldiers of the army finished their food and the horses. Accompanied by the intense sound of drums and horns, all the troops in the entire Qi army camp were launched.
Tens of thousands of people joined each other, filling the entire Luoshui River Valley, and many soldiers walked directly on the Luoshui River. The flags are like mountains and forests, and the armor is like fine grass. The dense formation makes people’s scalp numb, and they are already timid before the war begins.
When Li Tai saw the enemy’s attacking formation, he couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. Faced with such a strict battle formation, if it was a tit-for-tat way to fill the river valley, the Wei army’s military strength was inferior here, and the battle formation was far less solid than the enemy’s army, and it would be difficult to completely defend the entire front.
But if the battle formation is biased to one side and the valley cannot be completely blocked, once the front of the enemy’s formation is surrounded by the enemy, the successors can go straight out of the valley and move forward and retreat freely.
After Li Tai pondered about this, he ordered his troops to use the Baijia Shou, which is currently stationed as the center of the position, and arranged outwards to form a triangular battle formation. With the remaining sand embankments, he formed a fairly complete line of defense to guard the river valley, and led three thousand elite cavalry to retreat to the direction of Baiting City to stand by. If the enemy’s established troops rushed out of the valley,
Galle could give a head-on blow.
At the same time, Li Tai asked someone to raise firewood and charcoal and other items to attract fire, and store them on the position for the time being. In the battle later, the situation and wind direction will be used to decide whether to use fire attack.