Chapter 566 Yang Shenxing’s old horse broke its hooves, and Ji Nan’s cavalry was wiped out
After all, Ji Nan’s old soldiers were soldiers brought out by him Yang Shenxing. Instead of crying and robbing the earth, they were silently camping in an area with dense rivers and abundant water sources, digging out three trenches, and behind the trenches there were more than two meters high berths. Cut a large number of tough trunk branches between the wide trenches of no more than two people as high as possible. After sharpening, the bottom is nailed to death. The tops of the trees smoked with fire are arranged upwards, interspersed and connected layer by layer, and the soil near the inside and outside of the trench is compacted. Strong arrow towers rose from the ground and camp tents stood up. The Ji Nan army had sufficient food and grass, and did not rely heavily on the supply line behind them. Moreover, the cavalry of the Yang Dynasty, especially in the late Spring and Autumn Period, with the support of the unobstructed post road, first-class soldiers, wearing armor and carrying heavy loads for half a day, could travel a hundred miles, while the light-hailing propulsion of pure light cavalry can achieve an astonishing speed of advancement. Lu Shengxiang’s elite cavalry galloped continuously at that time, claiming to travel 300 miles a day, even surpassing Chu Lushan’s thousand cavalry to open Shu. However, after all, the latter was on the Shu road, and the Yi cavalry that could be replaced by people and horses all the way was not listed here.
No matter how the post stations in Liyang are reduced and abolished over the years, the post roads in the southern part of the capital are still open, which is exactly what Yang Shenxing is confident. Waiting for reinforcements is that he will never be besieged to death before this, and he will not even need to go to the south of the Ji Nan army to jump over the wall.
But Yang Shenxing was still exhausted and was even more exhausted than fighting on the battlefield. In order to appease the wealthy and noble children in the capital who hid in tears and cried, the old general who had lost a battle and suffered a great loss, he did not even dare to speak harshly. Because the old man knew why Lu Shengxiang, the Minister of War, had a frivolous military power, was the secret obstruction of the slick wrists of the civil servants in the capital. The army went on a war, not only a general or even a military force could handle it. If a ministry of residence was deliberately delayed, it could find more than a dozen sufficient excuses to slow down the marching schedule, but it could also make no one find a reason to refute. The fathers of a thousand families from aristocratic families in the capital joined forces to weave a mud in the Liyang Temple, which made Lu Shengxiang unable to quickly control the entire army. However, after being attacked by the Qingqingyang Basin, after learning that his descendants were trapped, they could help the six divisions operate extremely smoothly overnight.
The reason why Yang Shenxing brought the cavalry that was defeated by the golden jade was because the old general knew better than anyone else that needles were hidden in the temple in Liyang. But Yang Shenxing didn’t expect the enemy’s chief general to be so vicious and cruel.
As Yang Shenxing expected, although countless people in the Tai’an City court criticized him for his dereliction of duty, Lu Baijie, the Minister of War who said nothing during this period, suddenly felt like a word of the word. Those officials who thought that Yang Shenxing had 40,000 Yan Zhenchun had 30,000 or 70,000 were already very slight, and were quite a slap in the face. They changed their faces overnight and told the remnants of Western Chu in unison.We are preparing to fight the imperial army on the front line north of Junxiao, and we need to send another veteran of war to the battlefield. As the commander-in-chief of dispatching troops, Lu Shengxiang let Yang Shenxing and his troops besieged. He was extremely inscrutable and did not punish him. It was just because it was not appropriate to change the commander-in-chief at the last battle!
Lu Baijie’s proposal was submerged in the fierce court discussion. Lu Shengxiang needed to make meritorious contributions. Apart from the title of a commander, there was actually not much force to make meritorious contributions. The real leader was Wu Jun, a veteran of Spring and Autumn Period who was steady in using troops. This time, he dispatched 30,000 elite military soldiers from the garrison in the capital.
And under a secret order from the Ministry of War, Yan Zhenchun drove straight from the Eastern Henan Plain, and finally stopped in the Sancang area, then turned east and made a condescending force to push forward the army to support Wu Jun’s 30,000 troops. At that time, whether the cavalry led by Yan Zhenchun attacks or defends, it still has to be ordered by the Ministry of War!
Outside Youlu Pass, Lu Shengxiang was still blind to the movement of troops on Guangling Road in the south, but criticism from the capital in the north continued to spread to the big tent, and there was a bleak atmosphere of storm. The lieutenants of Youluguan who were originally very diligent and diligent every day have lost their shadows these days.
Lu Shengxiang sat on the grass outside the camp, beside Guo Dongfeng, who was still feeding horses recently. The latter said angrily: “This Tangxi Sword Immortal is not good at eating shit. She has become a minister of the Ministry of War. She is not as good as farts!”
Lu Shengxiang said calmly: “Lu Baijie is considered a conscience, and he knows to say a few fair words for me, and suggests that I lead the troops south.”
Guo Dongfeng sneered: “With conscience, why don’t he say good things for Yang Shenxing, the old fool, and the six thousand cavalry that he has accumulated over ten years, because those playboys were ruined in less than ten days, and in the end there is no good word.”
Lu Shengxiang smiled indifferently and said, “Lu Baijie is not stupid, and the guy who cursed in the temple is not really stupid. Many words, he knows that it is one thing in his stomach, but it is another thing to say it. As long as Lu Baijie still wants to stabilize his position, he has to work hard and tear down the east wall and repair the west wall. If Gu Jiantang was in the Ministry of War, it would not be like this. Of course, if General Gu was still in Tai’an City, there would be no day for me, Lu Shengxiang.”
Guo Dongfeng snorted coldly, “The chief general of Xi Chu also had a brain and regarded the front line of the Hanxiao Army as a battlefield for comparing troops and national strength. I really thought that eating Yang Shenxing’s 40,000 Ji Nan infantry would be fine.”
Lu Shengxiang glanced at Guo Dongfeng, “The civil servants in the court are stupid, you are stupid too.”
Guo Dongfeng was stunned for a moment, and said with a shocked look: “Did Xi Chu really plan to eat Yan Zhenchun’s 30,000 cavalry from the beginning? Yan Zhenchun is not Yang Shenxing, aren’t you afraid of choking to death? Is it Cao Changqing going to take action himself?”
Lu Shengxiang looked into the distance and said with a sneer: “You kid stared at me with your eyes and looked at me well. I have a premonition that Xi Chu will appear in this war in the future.Your mortal enemy young man. “
Guo Dongfeng laughed and said, “It’s good. ”
Thirty miles north of Sancang, Yan Zhenchun, who was traveling slowly in a 30,000 cavalry, was sent to the south. He scouted to report military information. There were enemy troops five miles away, all of which were light cavalry, no less than 20,000 cavalry!
The vast plain, a wide battlefield.
The autumn wind whistled, and the flags flew.
Old General Yan, who had always been serious, looked up at the bright red word “Yan” on the flag, and looked back at the Yan family’erlang who was not afraid of fighting.
The old man said in a deep voice: “Pick up the flag! “
The old general Yan Zhenchun, who was supposed to be in the rear, was going to lead the way. Immediately, several confidant generals came forward to stop him. Yan Zhenchun held the spear “Reedye” that had accompanied him for many years and shook his head and said, “Winning is probably the last battle in his life. You can’t stand here and watch; losing is even the last battle, how can you die on the way to escape?”
As soon as Yan Zhenchun said this, the generals were speechless.
The army pressed forward and the flag moved forward.
The same was true for the enemy’s 20,000 light cavalry.
Yan Zhenchun led 30,000 troops against the wind; the Western Chu cavalry was 20,000, and the wind was with the wind.
There was no advantageous slope under the horse hooves of both sides, and there was no infantry formation.
This place is vast, and you can spread a front line of a sufficient width or throw it into the cavalry in batches. Therefore, it can be said that the command talents of the cavalry chiefs of the hostile sides can be fully demonstrated, and the cavalry’s combat power is more likely to be perfectly reflected.
This is an excellent battlefield where whoever is weak loses, whoever retreats and dies.
No luck at all.
Almost at the same time, the two horns suddenly whimpered like a distance from each other, majestic and sad.
As the same, the first horizontal cavalry of both sides launched a charge, and after rushing out of the distance of most of the horses, the second row immediately launched a fierce charge.
The physical and stance of each row of war horses are almost the same, so that the speed of the cavalry in the rear row does not affect the speed of the cavalry in the back row.