Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 123 Immovable as a Mountain History Congyun ([-]) A [-]-word chapter, please subscribe
In March, the spring breeze is warm. There is a large peach grove in the south of Zhengyang. The peach blossoms are blooming beautifully. The green fields are vast and endless. On the field paths, various weeds are mixed and grow luxuriantly. When the wind blows, the air is full of dirt and vegetation fishy smell.

This kind of scenery has a strong sense of separation from the chill in the distance. One piece of the world is like two worlds.

Empress Fu quietly observed the reactions of the people around her. The official's face was expressionless, but the subtle movements behind him revealed his nervousness.

Wang Pu's nervousness was written on his face, perhaps because of his young relationship.

In the distance, the two armies were not in a hurry to approach, but were gathering, but everyone's hearts were raised in their throats.
"Official, do you want someone to go over and stop him?" Wang Pu was probably too nervous, so he said something out of nowhere.

Fu Shi also felt reasonable in her heart, she probably won't win this way, there are so many people on the opposite side, but she didn't make a sound.

She understands the reason why she can't stand out at will, especially as a woman, she doesn't understand many important things.

The official didn't answer Wang Pu's question at all, but Wang Shenqi next to him explained in a low voice, "President Wang, at this point there is absolutely no reason to retreat, retreat means defeat."

Wang Pu nodded in embarrassment, and said no more. It seems that he is good at political affairs, but not so understanding about the battlefield.

Empress Fu thought it was a good thing she didn't talk too much, as expected, Wang Pu was a very knowledgeable person when discussing things with officials on weekdays, and he was also very skilled in dealing with major political affairs, but he was not as good as Li Gu when it came to war able
Then he looked worriedly at the battlefield to the south.

Wang Shenqi frowned, "Officials, give a certain five hundred cavalry, and I will go to support Lord Shi Xiang to defeat the enemy."

"I see Marshal Li's Hu Jie army to the east, maybe there is still rescue;
Besides, it is better for the government to withdraw to the north bank of the river now. If the front is defeated, this side will also be affected. These dilapidated houses and a few trees will definitely not be able to defend. " Li Jixun said.

The official finally spoke, "Let's wait a while longer, and send someone to tell Li Chongjin not to slacken the fight."

The soldiers around him listened to the order and hurried to ride a horse to convey it.

For a moment, the atmosphere on the top of the mountain became dignified.

Standing on the hillside, Shi Congyun looked down at the formation ahead. On the Huaibei plain, it was the first time that he saw the whole battle situation so clearly. Every soldier and every detail fell into his eyes.

A huge formation of more than [-] people from the Crane Control Army lay in front of them.

The two sides began to line up, and it has been more than half an hour.

In the morning, Shi Congyun asked people to cook food, and after eating and drinking enough, they began to line up and prepare for the battle.

Shi Congyun understood the importance of this battle, and he also knew in his heart that the only one he could rely on was the Long Jie army led by his father in the southwest. He had never thought about Li Chongjin's Tiger Jie army, and he had already prepared for the worst.

It was the first time to command such a tens of thousands of battles. Shi Congyun sweated in the palm of his hand and held the handle of the knife tightly. He was afraid that he would shake if he let go. It would be too shameful. Thousands of troops are watching with him.

People are the most difficult to see themselves clearly, and Shi Congyun is no exception. He can't estimate how much ability and level he has, and he doesn't know enough in his heart to understand where he is.

Maybe others will say what he is, what kind of person he is, but different people have different opinions, and those who prefer him think he is the most powerful in the world.

Those who hate him say that he is inferior to shit, but what level is he?Shi Congyun didn't know, and was even apprehensive.

When the sun rose in the east and the rays of light fell on the green fields, I saw a large swath of flags covering the sky and covering the sky, far exceeding their number, slowly moving away and forming a queue.

Shi Congyun's nervousness reached the extreme, and he didn't have any perfect strategy to defeat the enemy in his mind.

Last night, he also discussed for a long time with Shi Yanchao, Luqiu Zhongqing, Wang Zhong, Shao Ji, Dong Zunhui, Luo Yanhuan, Yu Cheng, Shen Zhiyi and others. After a long discussion, he came to a conclusion. Just fight!
Strategies are often easy to use without experience, and everyone still thinks that it is safest to use the Yanyue formation that Zhou Jun is best at.

Everyone felt that this was the right way to fight, and Shi Congyun also nodded and thought it was feasible.

At the beginning in Chencang Dao Wuwei City, he relied on such tactics when he defeated Li Yangui, the general of Houshu.

To put it bluntly, this style of play relies on elite soldiers on both wings that the enemy can't resist. Many of Shi Congyun's Crane Control Army are veterans of hundreds of battles, such as the two armies led by Wang Zhong and Dong Zunhui. They all came back from fighting in the Guanzhong battlefield, and they can be arranged on the two wings. The specific arrangement was discussed last night in the tile-roofed house in the north of Zhengyang.

But now, when he climbed to the high ground behind the army formation, he could see the huge army of people on the opposite side, far surpassing them in number.

From east to west, a large number of Tang troops are constantly lining up in queues.

The distance between the two armies was more than one mile. From a distance, Shi Congyun could see the opponent's movements very clearly.

The infantry at the front is laying out the horses horizontally. They use iron chains to put swords and swords horizontally between the horses. There are also many wooden carvings of beasts grabbing crossbows. They are painted with red and green paint and stand in front of the formation. I know that I want to scare them or to embolden them.

Soldiers were also sent to wrap barbed wire in leather bags and arrange them dozens of steps in front of the formation.

Obviously Tang Jun is very afraid of their cavalry
Dong Zunhui scolded with a smile in front of the battle: "The other side is asking the gods or giving them away, don't you think grandpas are gods!" Immediately, the soldiers behind him laughed and booed, and their momentum rose by three points.

Shi Congyun thought it was a good joke. But he couldn't laugh because there were more and more Southern Tang troops on the opposite side. Slowly, the slightly protruding hill behind was full of people, almost beyond his field of vision. .

The army lined up from east to west was divided into more than a dozen phalanxes, mixed with infantry and cavalry, and the moving figures were like a huge dragon wriggling slowly across the plains and wilderness, with a sense of oppression coming over them.

Lu Qiu Zhongqing, who had been following Shi Congyun on the high ground behind the army, also gradually changed his face.

Worryingly said, "Xiangzhu, there are too many of them, I'm afraid it's not easy to fight."

If it was Wang Zhong, Shi Congyun would have scolded him early, wouldn't I not be able to see the crowd?His heart was beating wildly.

He pretended to be calm on the surface. After so many battles, he also understood that the words and deeds of the general can affect the entire army. No matter how nervous or frightened he is, he must first not be chaotic, and he must pretend to be immobile.

Staring fixedly at the Tang army formation in the distance, Shi Congyun's expression became more and more strange as he watched them continue to gather.

He found a strange thing. There were indeed many Tang troops, and there were a sea of ​​people. The fields to the south were full of their people, but
They don't seem to have a reserve team?

Twelve huge phalanxes have been assembled in front, mixed with infantry and cavalry, and the soldiers at the rear are still replenishing.

"What's the situation?" Shi Congyun murmured in his heart, continuing to stare at the dispatch of the Southern Tang army in the distance.

Why does an army of tens of thousands of people need a reserve team?Except for a few local advantages that cannot determine the outcome, the most important thing is that it is difficult to support each phalanx!
Just like the Tang army on the opposite side, the east-west front at this time is at least two miles away. If the left wing collapses, the soldiers on the right wing want to support them, and they need to run more than 1000 meters in armor!That's a fart to support, even the cavalry can't provide support in time.

At this time, only the reserve team in the rear can replenish in time the areas where the battle is tight.

This is why Li Gu arranged the army in such a way. Zhou Jun's arrangement was that he led the Crane Army to take the lead. Li Chongjin's Tiger Jie Army was behind the left flank and could support the left wing at any time; On the side, it can support the right wing of the Crane Army at any time, and it can also wait for an opportunity to attack from behind.

It can be seen from the meaning of Tang Jun on the opposite side that it seems that all the soldiers should be brought to the front.
Shi Congyun thought to himself, what a fucking breath!
Did the general on the other side want to eat them all in one bite?

Or do you think you have an absolute superiority in military strength and are sure to win at any point on the front line, so you don't bother to keep the reserve team?
Shi Congyun was nervous and scared at first, but suddenly he became angry. Does this mean that he doesn't take him seriously?
When the sun was fully up and shining on the large fields south of Zhengyang, the seedlings of the crops had already been trampled into mud by the army.

Shi Congyun saw that the moving figures in the Tang army on the opposite side gradually settled down, and the formation of the army was basically completed.

Their large formation is divided into twelve phalanxes, stretching from east to west for several miles. The phalanxes are a mixture of infantry and cavalry. The cavalry is in front and the infantry is in the rear.

Because the dominant hand of a person is the right hand, the soldiers who can best fight are the soldiers on the right wing of the army, so most of the time when the formation is deployed, the most elite soldiers are placed on the right wing to give full play to their combat effectiveness.

However, Shi Congyun had been trying his best to look at the rear of the Southern Tang army formation, and they really didn't leave a reserve team!All troops are on the front line!

Enemies are many, many!

History couldn't count the number of people, only knew that it was much more than them.

He was a little unclear for a while, whether the general on the opposite side was too confident or didn't know how to fight at all.

But no matter what, it is a fact that the Southern Tang army did not leave a reserve team and put all the main force into the battlefield at once!
Shi Congyun's breathing became heavy, his heart was beating non-stop, and he was holding his horsewhip tightly. Seeing Tang Jun's formation, he suddenly had a bold idea!
"Soldiers are coming!"

"Yes!" The orderlies who had been closely following him agreed.

Shi Congyun clicked one, "Take my talisman and go to Taoshulin in the south to find Deputy Marshal Shi, and tell his Long Jiejun not to wait any longer. I have a new way of fighting."

As he spoke, he explained to the messenger that in his capacity, it is absolutely impossible to command Shi Yanchao. He is only the owner of the chamber, and Shi Yanchao is the deputy palace commander.

But Shi Congyun believed that his father would definitely send troops for him.

Then he turned back and said: "Go and call some commanders to me, I have something to explain!"

Soon, the messengers galloped away, and the commanders of each army came from their respective formations.

Seeing them, Shi Congyun hurriedly said: "The situation is urgent. Let me make a long story short. The second army and the third army all moved to the left wing to form an array, and followed the first army. Shao Ji was the formation envoy and personally supervised; The Fourth Army and the Fifth Army only lined up in eight rows, stretching the battle line by more than one mile."

When Shi Congyun finished explaining, everyone looked at him in surprise, but they nodded and carried out without any doubt.

Shi Congyun saw that the army of the Crane Control Army in front of him began to mobilize, and he took a long breath and thought, what the hell, things can only be fought now!

On the high ground outside the village in Zhengyang Town, Empress Fu was nervously thinking about whether to persuade the officials to return to the north bank of Huaihe River.

She was also very disturbed. There were too many Tang soldiers, and they were completely lined up. From a distance, it looked like a large black area, which felt very oppressive.

The Zhou army in the rear is scattered, roughly arranged in three pieces, like the shape of "Pin", which are Shi Congyun's department in the front, Li Chongjin's department and Shi Yanchao's department in the back. It seems that they are not as organized as the Tang army. Neat and imposing.

If the front is defeated, this place is only two or three miles away from the front line, and it is absolutely dangerous for the army from the opposite side to chase and kill them.

She is not a person who is not afraid of death, and she cherishes her own life very much. If not, she would have been buried in the sea of ​​fire with her husband's family as early as in Hezhong Mansion.

She raised her eyes slightly, and found that the official was still staring at the battlefield in the distance.

In the distance, both sides had completed formation, and seeing that the fight was about to start, everyone's hearts were in their throats. At this time, Shi Congyun, who was at the forefront, unexpectedly began to change his formation.

Everyone looked over at once. The soldiers in the first six or seven rows did not move, and the movement in the back row was very large, but from the perspective of the Nantang Army, they should not be able to see the changes behind.

Want to cover up?Empress Fu thought to herself, at that young age, I heard that the general who was only sixteen or seventeen was still standing on the high ground behind the army on horseback, like a stone sculpture, without moving.

Was he frightened and stupid, or did he really have no fear in his heart, such a young child's concentration is really amazing.
Empress Fu doesn't understand military affairs, so she can only watch the changes ahead, and observe the reactions of the officials and the civil and military around her.

The official's frown became deeper and deeper, and Wang Pu also gave a "hey" in surprise, and muttered to himself in a low voice: "What kind of formation is this? Is it because I am ignorant?"

This time even Wang Shenqi shook his head: "A certain soldier has been in the army for many years, and he has never seen or heard of such an formation. Perhaps Brother Yun has his own ideas."

"Thoughts? Don't be so frightened that you get dizzy and fight." Li Jixun said the worst, "What is he going to do? Could it be that he wants to release the right wing and let Shi Yanchao fight?

It would be better to be like Tang Jun on the opposite side. Long Jie, Hu Jie, and Crane Control Army are all lined up, and they will fight together to decide life and death. Does it take such time and effort? "

The official didn't speak, and didn't answer anyone's words, but his face became more and more ugly. He didn't blink for a long time, and finally ordered people: "Transfer the East and West Bans to guard the bridge."

Fu Hou's heart skipped a beat, and he understood what the officials meant. The officials probably also felt that Shi Congyun was fighting indiscriminately, and the probability of losing was high, so his face was ugly, and he asked people to guard the bridgehead in case the war was unfavorable, and they could withdraw northward at any time.

The officials were probably very angry. Shi Congyun was transferred back from Guanzhong by himself under the imperial edict, so that he could come to the south to fight. As a result, the first battle in Huainan was like this. It is inevitable to say that the anger.

Hearing that the east and west squadrons were guarding the bridge, Empress Fu felt relieved, and looked to the south with relief. Shi Congyun's advance was turning into an extremely weird formation, even a woman like her who didn't know anything about military affairs thought it was strange. It's not weird.

A large number of soldiers are moving from the rear, slowly forming an incomprehensible formation
Wang Pu sighed, "Perhaps he is still too young, lacks experience, and is prone to whimsical ideas."

The official finally said with a gloomy face: "Go and inform Li Gu, if something happens, tell Li Chongjin and Shi Yanchao not to fight, and go back first, and make a long-term plan for everything."

(End of this chapter)