I am a nobleman in Spring and Autumn

Chapter 153 Feng Shui takes turns

The troops returning to the enemy's army were discovered at about [-]:[-] in the morning, and the scouts estimated that they were about [-].

Zhiyao decided to take two "brigades" to intercept, then use [-] troops to fight [-] enemy troops.

"The Zhi clan has a new army, so it must be something like this?" Jian Bo said, looking at the troops that were marching.

Wei Ju glanced at Jian Bo, a retainer, and said, "Yao never does anything uncertain."

New Army, right?Wei Shi also has them!
The Wei family began to train the new army in Wei Shu's generation, and the scale was kept below a thousand.

It's just that Wei's new army is not the type of standing army, but only puts strict requirements on equipment, physique, endurance and other aspects of recipients.

For example, those who accept Fu must be able to afford to prepare heavy armor in advance. Generally, they wear at least one layer of armor inside, and then put on a pair of heavy armor, which means that the defense must be sufficient, and then how many miles they run, there is The physical strength to engage in combat at any time.

Later, the Wei family also put forward a claim on the weapons of the recipients, and borrowed from the Chu State's "left and right wide" halberds to make a spear and match it with a large shield.

At this stage, Wei's did not require his own heavy infantry to carry a strong bow and the necessary number of arrows.

Then, Wei's new army is a heavy infantry with a number of less than a thousand people, and it is not yet a "Wei military pawn" level army.

Jian Bo said: "The new army of Guanzhi has many kinds!"

Yes, the Wei family only has heavy infantry.

The arms exhibited by the Zhi family include spearmen, shield halberd (spear) soldiers, sword shield soldiers and spear-axe soldiers. Among the various arms, the spear-axe soldiers also carry a weapon that has never been seen before. It can be recognized as a long-range weapon.

Wei Ju came to a conclusion from the marching posture of Zhi's new army. Let alone the actual combat effectiveness, the military looks relatively prosperous, obviously with a strong degree of organization and discipline.

"Master Zhi is going to give up the weapon Ge?" Wei Ju thought a little dazedly.

Seeing that Zhiyao led the army away, many people wanted to see the fighting power of Zhi's new army with their own eyes, but due to the arrangement they got, they could only stay in the distance and do their own work.

Zhiyao and Zhixuwu are in the same car for the time being, explaining some matters.

It is not yet known whether the enemy army has found that they have been blocked from the rear. Generally, it can be judged from the marching posture.

Zhiyao needs to judge whether the enemy has discovered it according to the follow-up report of the scouts, and then choose how to fight.

"The enemy army will pass here in about half an hour." Zhi Yao stood at the edge of a forest.

The army has stopped advancing, and some of them are stepping up to make simple obstacles such as repelling horses, and more soldiers are heading to the hideout under the leadership of officers.

Zhiyao looked at the end of the distance, temporarily unable to see the enemy.

The place where they stayed was located at a pass that had to be passed from north to south.Both sides of the middle road are covered with various plants, leaving a relatively flat passage with a width of about 80 meters.

Speaking of which, Zhiyao has told herself more than once to stop doing ambushes in the forest with cats. What is more realistic is that the current environment is like that. There are forests everywhere, and the difference is nothing more than the size of the land.

So, if you want to ambush, it's really easy to find a forest for hiding, or a wilderness full of weeds and bushes.

"I led the army to hide in the forest on the right, and the son led the army to hide in the forest on the left, leaving spears, axes, swords and shields to form a thousand people to block the rear of the pass?" Zhi Xuwu made the final confirmation.

Zhiyao said, "Exactly."

This style of play really doesn't have too much technical content. The difficulty is that the ambush should not be discovered in advance.

If it were five or sixty years ago, the warring countries would not send scouts to scout the surrounding area at all. At that time, the emphasis was on the warring parties to arrange a place to fight.

It's different now, the location of the battle is rarely agreed, and the agreement is not necessarily credible, there are too many related examples of being ambushed, and the commanding generals attach great importance to sending scouts to investigate in advance.

"If found out, go over the mountain and retreat behind the pass?" Zhi Xuwu confirmed again.

Without collecting dry firewood and pouring kerosene in advance, it is quite difficult to quickly ignite a raging fire in a forest in the wet spring.

Zhiyao knows the truth that if you walk too much at night, you will encounter ghosts sooner or later, and you know what it means to be not afraid of ten thousand but only in case, so you must have a second battle plan.

About two quarters of an hour later, a small team came from the north.

The team split into three groups when they reached the pass, two of them began to explore the forests on both sides of the pass, and one team went directly through the pass.

Zhiyao, who was standing on a short hill, could see clearly, and when he looked further north, he could already see the enemy army appearing on the horizon.

The enemy team exploring the forest on both sides, after they went about 50 meters deep, heard a series of whistling sounds, and retreated to the bottom of the forest.

That's when the team that passed through the pass discovered the situation, that is, Zhiyao let a group of people play tricks and make a gesture of rushing towards the pass.

When the number of troops is large, the march will be full of dust and smoke. Riders riding horses and dragging branches behind the horses can also cause dust and smoke in the sky.

Therefore, the troops that Zhiyao arranged behind the pass also hid, and some riders made the illusion that they were approaching further from the pass.

The enemy team that detected the situation went back to report, and it was mentioned that the Jin army would arrive at the pass in about half an hour.

At that time, the vanguard commander of the coalition forces will have two choices, speed up and pass through the pass, or turn around and go back to join the army.

"Our side keeps intercepting and killing the teams reporting from 'Wen' to the coalition forces. It should be impossible to kill them all. It depends on the courage of the opposing commander." Zhiyao thought.

There is a military term called "fog of war". Simply put, it means knowing where the enemy is, but not knowing how many troops the opponent has in a certain place and what will happen.

The unknown situation is a great test for the commander, and any choice he makes will affect the outcome of the battle.

The follow-up development is that Zhiyao saw the enemy vanguard paused slightly, and then resumed and continued to march.

When the vanguard of the coalition army approached the pass for about five miles, they were divided into two parts. The vanguard was about [-] people, and the rear troops stayed in place.

"Who is the vanguard officer of the enemy army, who is very cautious?" Zhiyao, facing all the staring eyes, signaled to be safe and not to be impatient.

Places like the pass have always been the most risky places on the march. The vanguard officers of the coalition forces advance with a thousand front troops, which is nothing more than probing, which can also be called armed reconnaissance.

"If the enemy army explores the mountains and forests on both sides again, I will be passive." Although Zigong saw that the enemy army was still far away, he deliberately lowered his voice.

Because Zhiyao didn't issue an attack signal, the Zhi's soldiers ambushing on both sides of the forest certainly didn't launch an attack, and even the Zhi's troops ambushing behind the pass would just watch the thousand enemy troops pass by.

I don't know if it was because of Zigong's crow's mouth, a thousand enemy troops arrived at the pass and sent a small team to explore the mountains and forests on both sides again.

Zhiyao decided to wait a while, seeing that the remaining [-] enemy troops chose to continue advancing, sending a signal to prepare for battle.

What signal?Anyway, it’s not a sound category, but it’s just using the difference in viewable field of view. The flag bearer stands in a position that his side can see but the enemy can’t, and uses the pre-agreed semaphore.

It's not too complicated semaphore, it's just an agreement on what color to raise and what it means.

After the [-] enemy troops approached within one mile, Zhiyao finally signaled to the troops on both sides of the forest that they could go down the mountain, and at the same time, the troops hiding behind the pass should be ready to intercept.

The coalition soldiers who were investigating the mountains and forests on both sides found traces of some large groups of people after they went 50 meters deep. Empty sound, all of a sudden there is no more.

If a person is shot at the vital point, there will be no screams at all, at most it will be a muffled groan, or there will be no sound at all.

Zhiyao heard the noise of drums in her ears, and the source of the sound was behind the pass, and it was clear that a battle had already taken place there.

The movement behind the pass caused an uproar among the [-] enemy troops, and confusion among the ranks. Afterwards, many officers demanded to speed up at the same time.

Zhiyao didn't go down the mountain. He is the commander, so he should take charge of the situation from the place with the best view.

Of course, if you need to motivate your own troops, when it's time to take the lead in the charge, Zhiyao will definitely be there.

The [-] enemy soldiers who were speeding up the march, they were running, someone suddenly saw figures in the mountains on both sides, and at the same time as issuing a warning, waves of arrows were shot from the mountains on both sides.

The vanguard officer of the coalition army came from the Qu family, and his name was You.

Qu You saw the rain of arrows shooting out from the mountains on both sides, and when he knew that he was in the middle of the ambush, the first thought in his heart was: "It's really a turn of wind and water!"

Before, they also took advantage of the terrain to ambush the Jin army led by Zhao Yang. It was just an attempt, but they didn't expect to be able to defeat the Jin army in one wave. It is not a surprise to see most of the Jin army in chaos. The chaotic Jin army quickly The retreat was frightened, fearing that the Jin army would have some conspiracy, the coalition forces did not directly expand, and it became anticlimactic behind.

The mid-volt will cause panic, and Qu You kept shouting loudly to calm down the soldiers.

"The number of enemy troops does not seem to be large?" Qu You originally wanted to order a retreat, but he came to the conclusion that he wanted to seize control of the pass.

Slowly..., no, it should be after the official hand-to-hand combat between the two armies, Qu You was surprised to find that something was wrong with his own side, so he didn't know what tofu was, otherwise he would have thought of the scene of "cutting tofu with a knife".

When Qu found out that the situation was critical, Zhi's troops had already appeared in front, and the back road was also cut off.

Zhiyao, who was standing on a low mountain, led his army here this time, mainly to test the combat effectiveness of the new army. Annihilating the enemy's vanguard was only part of the test of the new army's combat effectiveness.

Seeing her own troops advancing rapidly and entering the battlefield with an overwhelming advantage against the enemy, Zhiyao can only say that the path she chose is not wrong, and she still needs to continue to develop her advantages.

Waiting for Zhiyao to go down and kill Qu You with one arrow, in fact, the outcome of the battle is already doomed.

He watched the development of the battle situation with a scrutinizing gaze. He saw the scene of his own soldiers fighting for the enemy's head when the battle did not reach the final result, and he saw the soldiers with the enemy's head pinned to their waists chasing and killing. The flying enemy army suddenly became a little numb...

(End of this chapter)