"How mighty!"
Looking from the south bank to the North Bank of the Yellow River, you can see a dense number of people marching about five miles along the line. They have played flags, but the flags look a little chaotic.
Xu Zheng and Yuan Qiao met again on the edge of Puyang. The Han Army and Shijie Zhao army led by Li Tu were still at war and did not stop because of the arrival of qihuo army.
From doua department where they crossed the river in Jibei County, they found only the leading force of the qihuo army, which is located on the other side of the Yellow River in Puyang County.
"The Qi Huo army marched along the Yellow River on purpose for us to find out." Yuan Qiao touched his chin's beard and said, "there can be many interpretations."
"Chang Shi means that Li Nong deliberately let us find them?" Xu Zheng has sent someone to report the situation to Liu Yan and is waiting for the next instructions. He asked yuan Qiao, "deliberately let us know they're coming, so they don't have to cross the river, do they?"
"We can only say that this is the most likely, but we can't be sure." Yuan Qiao said in a speculative tone: "the leader should know astronomy and geography. It makes no sense. Li Nong will not know that it is time to enter the rain and snow season that is not suitable for war."
The sunny weather is only about half a month, and one day is one day less.
The season of rain and snow will last for about a month, followed by complete snow. It's not that we can't fight, but fighting in this weather will cause serious non combat losses, which is actually very uneconomical for both sides.
"When the king is in the Valley City, he should be careful." Xu Zheng raised his binoculars again. He could clearly see the scattered formation of the begging army, and he could also find that the marching of the begging army was not fast. He looked at it and said, "I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case."
The main operational intention of the Han army this time is to capture Puyang. The secondary strategic goal is to eliminate more enemy troops in preparation for the warm flowers in spring next year.
Because the Han Army's intention is too obvious, Shijie Zhao Jun must know from there. In this way, the two sides will have a chance to have a positive battle while the weather permits.
Liu Yan still stays in Gucheng, which can be said that he is not very far from the battlefield. No matter whether the high-level officials of Shijie Zhao state think that Liu Yan still stays in the barracks of the army, if the living army really wants to cross the river, it can really form an effect. This is the trouble of the king on the battlefield, which makes the generals have great psychological pressure. At the same time, they need to allocate the necessary troops for arch defense.
The battle on the battlefield of Puyang City is not fierce, and the two sides can only say that they have entered the exploratory stage. The Han army is waiting for the siege equipment in the rear to follow up, while the Zhao army in Shijie also needs time to mobilize its troops.
Yuan Qiao could not blame the king's behavior. He could only say: "the control of the Yellow River lies with us, and Li Nong will suffer heavy losses even if he really forced the crossing. Qiao still felt that since Li Nong was deliberately discovered by us, he was thinking of preserving his strength."
The two talked here. The open space left between the Han Army camp and Puyang City and Shijie Zhao army camp was at war.
The ten mile field is not small enough for cavalry to cruise and fight.
Most of the Han troops on this side are Qingqi, and a few are the forbidden guards who sweep the array. It's not that Xu Zheng didn't dare to consume the forbidden guards too much. It's that the fighting intensity is not high, and the cavalry of the field corps need more fighting experience.
Shijie Zhao Jun was not sent any elite. The cavalry of Jie people did not move at all, and the light cavalry of zahu came on the stage. Li Tu did this to test the combat effectiveness of the Han Army and achieve a certain degree of quality in his heart.
For three consecutive days, the Han army was not in a hurry. Many generals and schools on the side of Zhao Jun in Shijie had to confuse whether the previous speculation was wrong.
"Isn't Puyang the main target of the Han army?" Holding the women's wall with both hands, Wang Hua subconsciously stood on tiptoe and stretched his neck to look out: "the number of enemy troops has not increased, and they have not shown too urgent offensive."
Li TU was also thoughtful. So far, he still thought that the goal of the Han army was to capture Puyang. Just like many people, he was confused that the Han Army didn't make big moves.
In the south of Puyang City, the sound of killing and horse hoofs actually hit the sky in the vast field. The two sides involved in the war together, that is, about 5000, continue to shoot at each other. Few will hedge against each other. There are really not many people who look very lively and can die.
"We're going to catch Liu Yan and spend it all the time..." Qi AI looked at Li Tu, who was still full of meditation, and asked, "will Liu Yan slip away?"
"No!" Li Tu shook his head silently: "we have carefully studied Liu Yan's past and tried our best to collect information about his character. We won't be a person who will avoid a little danger."
"Something is still wrong." Wang Hua finally stopped standing on tiptoe, turned to look at the crowd and said, "the Han Army has not increased troops."
This is precisely what puzzles many generals and schools of Shijie Zhao army. No matter how determined the Han army is to capture Puyang, or whether Liu Yan is on the front line or not, the Han Army has always been about 50000, which is unreasonable anyway.
"Marquis Weiwu should have entered dunqiu County, and our navy in Yangping county should also be spied by the Han army." According to common sense, Li Tu said, "the Han Army did not reinforce. It can be explained that it was on guard against the Marquis Wei Wu."
When it comes to Li Nong, these people, including Li Tu, are actually frowning and begging the living army to march along the Yellow River. Xu Zheng and Yuan Qiao speculate that Li Nong was deliberately discovered, while Li Tu and others are convinced that Li Nong was deliberately discovered.
Shi Xuan sent someone to ask Li Nong. Li Nong explained that the marching Avenue along the line was originally on the river bank. In addition, the Han Army fleet was sharp. The water army of Zhao state in Shijie was not an opponent at all. It was hard to say whether it could successfully cross the river. It might be better to make the Han Army senior management suspicious in this way, which might play an unexpected role.
The Han Army in the direction of Jibei county did not move to Puyang County. According to the exploration, it made a defensive posture. Shi Xuan believed Li Nong's explanation for the time being.
But! At the beginning, Shi Xuan held the idea that he could catch Liu Yan. In order to achieve his goal, he even ignored sun Fudu and his 60000 people. If he said anything, he would let Li Nong try to cross the river. It's best to cut off the back road of the Han army.
Sun Fudu's headquarters still resisted in juancheng and linqiu. His resistance was not worthless. At least the Han Army's siege equipment had been dragged in these two battlefields because they could not capture juancheng and linqiu. Otherwise, they should have been escorted to Puyang battleground.
Juancheng and linqiu not only dragged down the siege equipment of the Han Army, but also involved a total of 80000 troops of the Han Army, but the news here was cut off. In fact, neither Shi Xuan nor Li TU was clear.
In order to quickly eliminate sun Fudu's headquarters, Xu Zheng and Yuan Qiao reported and got Liu Yan's permission. Liu Yan has sent troops to Yuzhou, but Yuzhou has squeezed out 30000 people to go north at most. Yuzhou should take into account that Shi huzheng is leading the army to hoard Sanchuan. I don't know whether Dao Shihu will directly attack Guanzhong or Yuzhou.
It was another two-day battle. Li Tu finally got some new news from the reconnaissance horse.
"Has the Han army moved this way in the rear?" There was no specific number of intelligence received by Li Tu, or even no news of siege equipment: "continue to explore, be sure to find out the number, and know whether there are siege equipment!"
If the boss moves his mouth, his subordinates not only have to work hard, but also have to die. It's not easy to collect any intelligence after the war, especially when both sides deal with the suppression and killing of Scouts (reconnaissance riders).
The truth is that seeing sun Fudu break through the siege from linqiu, he retreated to juancheng with the remnant, which led to the liberation of some troops and siege equipment by the Han army. The Han Army Li Tu learned was first pulled out to Puyang City battlefield with some equipment, and the war on juancheng side was also at a relatively critical moment.
"Sun Fu is more resilient than we expected!" Xu Zheng's previous plan was to take juancheng and linqiu in five days at the same time, but the reality is not as expected. In the past five days, he just took linqiu. It's hard to say when juancheng will take it. He said to Yuan Qiao with a little worry: "if you can't capture juancheng quickly, can you encircle without fighting and transfer the siege equipment and the batch of equipped infantry?"
In fact, Yuan Qiao was also a little anxious. There was less and less time left for them to attack Puyang. If they wanted to attack Puyang, they had to defeat Shijie Zhao Jun led by Li Tu first. The time was really in a hurry.
"Our troops..." Yuan Qiao closed his eyes, his eyelids jumping all the time, and he was constantly thinking about the problem. After a short meeting, he opened his eyes, clenched his teeth and said, "form a step array, first try to cut off Puyang City and the enemy camp outside the city, and ask Yuzhou reinforcements to make a detour from Yangwu to advance wenshijin?"
Xu Zheng has a infantry army in his forbidden guard army, which is two thousand swordsmen and three thousand crossbow soldiers. He knew that with these infantry forbidden guards as the backbone troops, together with the 3000 Tower Shield soldiers, 2000 strong crossbow soldiers and 5000 long spearmen in the field corps, it was not impossible to form a infantry array with 15000 infantry and copy the wartime combat example of Xuzhou.
"As long as the arrows are enough, the step array is as stable as Mount Tai." Yuan Qiao also suggested: "the camp side is used as an auxiliary force to cooperate with the infantry......" he stopped. He had a big problem he had to talk about. He said cautiously: "how to form a head to tail relationship depends on the command of the general."
Xu Zheng hated defensive warfare. What he liked was to attack again. When he heard the speech, he immediately said, "we have few troops. We can use counter attack to disintegrate the enemy's counterattack."
Yuan Qiao also means that in the final analysis, the Han Army in Puyang City battlefield is only 50000. Although there are 30000 absolutely elite guards, it is really troublesome that the number does not have an advantage. Complete passive defense will only increase the trouble. When necessary, we should attack against each other. Of course, the premise is that the army is strong enough to fight.
The sixth day was also a new day and new action. The Han Army ate Chaoshi much earlier than the previous six days. Li TU was awakened in his sleep. The first sentence after learning the situation was: "it seems that the Han army can't wait."
Without even grooming, Li Tu directly summoned the generals to discuss the matter, briefly introduced the possible trends of the Han Army, and set aside some time for the generals to ask questions.
"Last night, the Han Army entered the camp. It was found that it had brought siege equipment." Wang Hua strangely made a relieved expression, smiled and said, "it seems that our worry is superfluous. The Han army is really going to attack Puyang."
Some unknown Shijie generals immediately asked questions, and too many people's questions would turn into a chaotic "buzzing" sound.
"Be quiet!" Li TU was still very prestigious. He immediately subdued the generals as soon as he shouted. He also smiled, nodded and said, "Puyang City was meant to be attacked by the Han Army, and it was going to be attacked. Otherwise, how can the Han Army become a turtle in a jar?"
Puyang City guard, who was used to turning pale, asked with trembling lips, "what do you mean?"
"Puyang City will be captured by the Han Army!" Li Tu had no superfluous explanation and stood up: "the bait is here, but it can't be eaten easily by the Han army."
Listen to Puyang City, we must lose it. The guard General of Puyang City, who is used to turning pale, immediately fainted. He had to faint. Shijie Zhao lost the city, but his whole family was going to be slaughtered.
Soldiers kept pouring out of the camps of the Han army.
The infantry didn't run too far after they left the stronghold. They lined up according to the organizational system. The Tower Shield soldiers were in the outermost part and formed a shield array at any time. The other arms were arranged in echelons according to the weapons they carried.
After the cavalry came out of the stronghold, they immediately rushed to the camp of Zhao Jun in Shijie and around Puyang City. They cruised quickly or slowly. When Zhao Jun in Shijie came out, they rushed to fight or interfere for a while to buy time for their infantry.
The movement of the Han army is definitely much more than any time before. Shijie and Zhao Jun naturally have to respond.
Since Puyang City is to be abandoned, Li Tu and other senior generals of Shijie Zhao army will certainly not stay. They leave the Puyang City guard who is used to turning white and fainting. Not only one is counted, but also the guard is transferred so that only 3000 people are left to pretend, and all the others that should go are withdrawn from the city.
The high-level Han army who always paid attention to the trend of Zhao Jun in Shijie naturally found a strange scene. Of course, they thought. Considering that Puyang City is a broken city, the city guarding must be in the field rather than the battle of the city wall. They didn't think in the direction that Zhao Jun in Shijie has to give up Puyang City.
"It is not surprising that Li Tu, a veteran general, will make such a choice." When Yuan Qiao was a member of the small ~ Dynasty ~ court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, he studied Li Tu, which is the type of "divine friendship for a long time". He said: "in view of the broken city, the ownership of Puyang City does not lie in the battle of guarding the city, but in a field battle."
Xu Zheng has no opinion. No matter whether it's a field battle or a siege, it's a war anyway. The only question he had to ask was: "it seems that there are not many enemy troops left in Puyang City. Do you want to..." he paused, hesitated and hesitated again: "take the opportunity to take it?"
There seemed to be some light in Yuan Qiao's mind. He seemed to grasp it and seemed to be in a trance. He stared at the handsome flag representing Li Tu entering the field camp of Zhao Jun in Shijie. He was always in a daze