Chapter 1420 Backstab with bonus
Chunyuqiong became more and more excited all the way. He calculated the possible things back and forth several times, and even asked the guards to take the map. Looking at the map, gesticulating, he stayed up in the middle of the night at night, and fell asleep under the reminder of the guard when it was almost dawn.
It''s no wonder Chunyu Qiong is in such a state, because this is actually Chun Yuqiong''s first serious battle duel in so many years.
Although it is said that Chunyu Qiong served as a military officer as early as the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Chunyu Qiong only had some experience in fighting the Yellow Turbans, and actually had very little combat experience with regular soldiers. In addition, he has not participated in anything for so many years In fact, large-scale battles are inevitably a little rusty, and there is also some pressure. The greater the expectation, the greater the pressure.
However, no one would have thought that in the early morning of the next day, when Chunyu Qiong was still staring at the soldiers packing up the camp and preparing to set off, a messenger, covered in dew and exhaustion, reported the latest news in Dangyin. The soldiers who conquered the west near the left disappeared, disappeared...
Chunyu Qiong''s head suddenly grew bigger. This change, which was completely unexpected to him, immediately messed up his original planned plan into a mess. Not only did Chunyuqiong think about how to fight, how to deploy the formation when he met Zhengxi, what formation to adopt, and even how to cooperate with Gao Lan, but he never thought about the disappearance of Zhengxi''s soldiers.
"How could it be gone!" Chunyu Qiong scolded, "This is three thousand people! Even if they went to the sky, there should be some imprints! Could it be that they went to Yanjin again?"
Dangyin''s messenger naturally couldn''t say anything, after all, he was just a messenger, so Chunyu Qiong could only order the soldiers forward in doubt, while anxiously waiting for the latest news.
When it was approaching noon, Chunyu Qiong finally got the latest news. Not only did the Zhengxi cavalry not go to Yanjin, but they rushed towards Yecheng!
"Crazy!" Chunyu Qiong couldn''t help yelling, "This is a lunatic!"
Still going to Yecheng?
What is this for?
Could it be that they still want to stage the Battle of Ye City again?
But the supply camp was destroyed not long ago, and there are not many hairs under Yecheng, so what can they do when they go there?
Let the cavalry attack the city wall?
Crazy!
Completely crazy!
Chun Yuqiong had already confirmed that there was no follow-up large army for the Westward Expeditionary Army, so Chunyuqiong was very puzzled, and even a little unbelievable, until new scouts came to confirm the Western Expeditionary soldiers again Indeed, he went to the north of Wangdangyin, and found some horseshoe prints to prove it, which made Chunyu Qiong accept the situation with suspicion.
But Chun Yuqiong still can''t understand, unless the general who conquered the western side is a lunatic, and he wants these soldiers who conquered the west to accompany him crazy...
But now can you figure it out? It''s not the important question anymore. The important question is whether Chunyu Qiong will continue to go to Dangyin, or turn around and go north, and attack Gao Lan from north to south?
Hey, if only Zhang Junyi was here...
Zhang He and Zhang Junyi can actually be regarded as generals who are relatively proficient in cavalry tactics, not even much worse than Yan Liangwen, but the problem is that Zhang He is not very talkative, usually like a boring gourd, even Yuan Shao asked him something Sometimes, he often groaned for a long time before saying a word, which gradually made Yuan Shao happy, and even Yuan Shang didn''t like him very much. This time, Tian Feng''s original suggestion was to let Zhang He bring his soldiers to chase after the Zhengxi soldiers, but When it came to Yuan Shang''s side, the result was changed to let Gao Lan pay for his merits.
To be reasonable, Gao Lan really needs this opportunity, but Gao Lan has always been in command of infantry, and his understanding of cavalry is naturally not as deep and thorough as Zhang He.
The question now is, if the side army that conquers the west really goes to Yecheng again, will Chunyu Qiong abandon the original encirclement plan?
If you don’t give up, it’s like betting that Zhengxi will come back again, but if Zhengxi really leaves and never looks back, Gao Lan’s lone army can’t stop him, and then let Zhengxi’s soldiers rush to the city of Ye...
Chunyu Qiong suddenly saw Yuan Shao''s staring triangular eyes in front of his eyes, and immediately fought a cold war, and ordered: "The whole army turns! Go north! Return to Yecheng quickly!"
When Chunyuqiong turned to the north, Gao Lan also received news from the scouts, saying that he had discovered Zhengxi soldiers coming towards Anyang!
At that moment, Gao Lan really wanted to scold her.
In the past, I kept a good guard at the key points in Anyang, but now I just wanted to play Yin, and I ran into this kind of thing!
"Send the order! Set up camp immediately! Cut down more trees and set up more horses!" Engaging in an encounter with cavalry in the wild is undoubtedly looking for a dead end, and fighting in formation is the best policy.
Obtaining the military order, Yuan Jun''s soldiers did not dare to complain, and they all got busy.
"Send some more scouts! Send more! Find out where Zhengxi is going! Report it quickly!" Gao Lan still felt uneasy, although he didn''t quite understand that Zhengxi, a partial army, seemed crazy and wanted to go back again What is the purpose of attacking Yecheng, but it is also very important to know more about the battlefield.
But the problem is, in terms of scouts and sentries, Yuan Jun is still a lot worse. Many sentries sent out, after encountering the cavalry who conquered the west, it is very rare to be able to come back with all their tails. Therefore, the level of understanding of the battlefield , In fact, it is not much better.
However, Gao Lan doesn''t care about the loss of the scouts. He just needs to know that Zhengxi is still there, and he doesn''t care about letting Zhengxi know that he is here. Pianjun, when Chunyuqiong''s troops outflanked him from the side, it would naturally be the day when he was done.
Wait!
Gao Lan didn''t dare to act rashly because he had learned from the past. Of course, the scouts were still sending out. If you can''t come back, it''s tantamount to telling Gao Lan that Zhengxi''s troops are still here.
After all, intelligence on the battlefield is more important than the lives of scouts.
Not only Gao Lan, but also Chun Yuqiong''s scouts, all moved forward crazily, not hesitating to exchange their lives for Tai Shici''s specific location, the deployment of troops, and the scouts from three aspects in this area, intercepting and counterattacking. The fierce battle of interception even stretched for more than ten or twenty miles.
On the third day, Chunyu Qiong finally received a message saying that Zhengxi might not be able to go north because of Gao Lan''s camp in the middle of the road, so he turned south and came here. Chunyu Qiong was overjoyed, as if he had seen the dawn of victory, he thought he finally surrounded Zheng Xi, a wandering guy!
This is a big fish!
Chunyu Qiong immediately ordered the soldiers to set up camp, and stood guard like Gao Lan, staring wholeheartedly at Tai Shici, a big fish that crashed into the net pocket.
However, something unexpected happened to Chunyu Qiong again. Just as he was waiting for Tai Shici to come, Tai Shici suddenly returned the same way, left the contact, and went north. Although Chunyuqiong was very surprised, but with the previous experience, he did not act rashly, but waited patiently...
Chun Yuqiong believes that Tai Shici will definitely come again. After all, there are Gaolan in the north, mountains in the east, and Zhenze in the west. This army marching to the west is blocked here, where else can it go?
On the fifth day, Tai Shici still did not come, and there was no trace of him.
Chunyuqiong''s scouts cannot be sent too far, a hundred miles is the limit, unless Chunyuqiong wants the scouts to report only once every other day, and this will also greatly deplete the stamina of the horse, and it may not be able to run again after a few trips. Ran.
But there has been no news of soldiers conquering the west, which gradually made Chunyu Qiong feel uneasy, and her original mind could not help but be shaken.
There are mountains to the east and Zhenze to the west, but are the mountains and Zhenze really impassable?
Not necessarily, right?
If a dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, what can a person do in a hurry?
Although the mountains and marshes are not suitable for cavalry to march, but now that the north and the south are clearly blocked, what if the soldiers who conquer the west break into the mountains and marsh regardless of their care?
More and more thoughts were churning in Chunyu Qiong''s mind. On the morning of the sixth day, Chunyu Qiong couldn''t bear it any longer, and ordered to pull out the camp and head north. He wanted to see where Zhengxi''s army had gone and why it had disappeared.
The infantry marched, stretching like a long snake. That''s why many daydreamers will invent what long snake formation is, in fact, just a simple marching queue.
If the two sides meet in the wild and have to fight, then experienced generals will let the front pawns defend, and then deploy some to the left front and some to the right front. It was only then that the fight officially started.
Similarly, it is also necessary for the soldiers to have sufficient training, so that they will not read the wrong order or understand the order but execute it wrongly under the chaotic banner orders...
The entire army formation is quite a cumbersome thing, and it is not like clicking twice with the mouse on the screen. Therefore, Chun Yuqiong ordered his soldiers to abandon the well-defended camp and move forward, which was actually quite a risky thing. After all, if he encountered a sudden battle, no one would give him the time and opportunity to set up another camp.
Yuan Jun''s scouts and sentries were chaotic, and they gathered the information ahead, some or none, to Chun Yuqiong. Many of Chunyuqiong''s scouts were the children contributed by Jizhou Haoyou before. Although they were skilled in riding skills, they were still a little worried about their ability to survey the battlefield, and they often didn''t know what they should observe.
But anyway, it''s better than nothing.
Finally, Chun Yuqiong found traces of the Zhengxi cavalry, and the scouts reported that some wounded horses abandoned by the Zhengxi soldiers were found in the depressions in the eastern mountains...
Going to the mountains to the east?
Abandoning the horses and looking through the mountains, it is indeed possible to jump out of the circle and find a road to the east of the river, but in this way, wouldn''t it give up the biggest advantage of the cavalry and become the same speed as the infantry?
Even under the drag of the horse, it may not be as fast as the pure infantry?
After Chunyu Qiong saw those horses, he no longer had any doubts, and ordered his soldiers to search for traces of Zhengxi troops near the abandoned point of the horses, and launched a pursuit without stopping.
From noon to west oblique, Chunyu Qiong finally turned his troops around and scattered them into a gigantic formation of geese. The outstretched wings stretched long towards the mountains, but perhaps it was because the soldiers were not fully trained to stretch out. Its wings are not as light and nimble as a wild goose and a crane, but rather like two arms stretched out by a monkey, crooked and swaying...
Chunyu Qiong sighed as he looked at the array of soldiers entering the mountain to search.
Although it doesn''t look good, this is already the greatest ability of these soldiers. It is extremely difficult to command an infantry that has not been fully trained to form an effective formation in the Han Dynasty without communicators.
To enter the mountain to search, it is impossible to line up skirmishers into the mountain in the same way as pulling a net, but to form an echelon array along the mountain road and valley. Under such requirements, the wild goose formation is naturally the best. Suitable.
Goose-shaped formation, in fact, seems to be very tall, but in fact, the so-called goose-shaped formation is a kind of battle formation that spreads out horizontally, and the left and right wings are arranged forward or backward in steps. It is roughly like a "V" shape forward, Just like the two wings of a wild goose, most of the time it is used to outflank and roundabout, but this formation is relatively weak for the defense of the rear central formation.
If the two wings are arranged backwards, it will be in an inverted "V" shape. This is called reverse geese, and it is used to protect the two wings and the rear and prevent the enemy from turning around. Under such circumstances, generally, the more mobile cavalry should be placed on both wings. In this way, the pawns on the two wings can be protected and supported by the infantry in the center when they are stationary, and they can also exert the power of the attacking cavalry to increase suddenness. , and the speed of the cavalry can also guarantee that under certain circumstances, it will change from traveling against the geese to traveling along the geese, and then outflank and siege the enemy.
However, no matter whether it is traveling along the geese or against the geese, it requires a highly motivated cavalry unit, but Chunyu Qiong does not have one, so he can only use the infantry as the two wings. In addition, although Chunyu Qiong has a large number of soldiers, most of them are It was a miscellaneous army, and it was not easy for Chunyu Qiong to deploy such a generally decent formation outside the city.
Of course, Chunyu Qiong also sent a messenger to Gao Lan to pass on the news here. I believe that if Gao Lan cooperates together, he will definitely be able to catch the tail of Zhengxi''s partial army...
However, when the sun was setting, the scout who was cruising outside rushed to Chunyu Qiong as if his **** was burned by fire, his face was bloodless, "General... General! Zhengxi...Zhengxi..."
Although the scout sentry could not speak completely, the tremors from the ground and the smoke rising from the distance had already told Chunyuqiong all the answers!
The soldiers of Zhengxi did not enter the mountain, but hid in the direction of Zhenze, and now they are heading towards Chunyuqiong''s main formation!
(end of this chapter)