The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 942 Small Unit Operations ([-])

Under the cover of the Shenlong Gunners, the grenade launchers and the cannon-throwing drivers carried the grenade launchers and pushed the cannon-throwing carts to hide in the woods not far behind the beach.

It's just that the woods are not dense, so their traces can still be clearly seen.

The Yuan army disembarked one after another, with shield hands carrying shields in front of them.

The soldiers who disembarked behind hurriedly formed their troops.

No one dared to lead the army to pursue without the command of the general.

A general ran to the commander of the army, A Shu, and asked for instructions: "Marshal, there is a small group of Song troops ahead, should we pursue it?"

Although Ashu is no longer young, he still looks energetic and looks like a typical Mongolian, with a bloated figure like Kublai Khan.

He sat upright on the bow, and a soldier held an umbrella for him.

He had noticed the short artillery battle just now.

It is true that the Song army did not have many people rushing out of the dense forest. Although there were quite a few artillery carts and grenade launchers, the total number of soldiers was about a thousand.

A Shu put his hand on the handle of the sandalwood chair under him, shook his head and said, "There's no need to pursue. This Song army must be just luring the enemy. Let's get off the boat first and fight steadily!"

"Yes!"

The general took the order and ran towards the middle of the ship.

The handsome flag waved.

The Yuan army landed one after another, but they just let the Song army hide.

By the time they moved all the luggage and supplies from the general to the ship, it was already close to dusk.

Song Jun did not attack again.

The sea battleship swayed gently with the waves on the sea.

Under the order of A Shu, the two armies of the Yuan Army advanced several miles to the west.In the end, it was only a few miles away from the Great Song Yanxiang Village.

The Yuan army camped in the wilderness about two miles from the coast.

The tent stretches, with no end in sight.Large tracts of wild grass were mowed down by the soldiers.

Then the Yuan army started cooking on the spot.

In Yanxiang Village, it can be seen that the flag of the Song Army is high.And there is a faint fragrance of rice in the village.

The scouts of the Yuan army wandered outside the stronghold, not daring to go deep.

Song Jun even guarded Dazhai tightly.

There are wells dug in the village, so there is no need to worry about water sources.From the outside, it was impossible to see how many soldiers and horses the Song Army had stationed in Yanxiang Village.

When night fell, some soldiers came to A Shu to report.

Ashu was lying in the handsome tent, with a tiger skin couch under him.There are several other generals in the tent.

These generals used to be his subordinates, that is, people from the Ashu faction.There is a smell of wine in the tent.

After entering the tent, the soldiers fell to their knees and said: "Marshal, only Yanxiang Village has Song troops stationed within a radius of ten miles."

A Shu pushed the maid in his arms away and asked, "How many people?"

The soldier said: "The number of people is unknown. The Song army never sent scouts out of the stronghold to investigate, and our army failed to capture any prisoners."

A Shu frowned slightly, and said to the generals: "The Song army is sticking to the stockade, is it possible that they are planning to stop my commander's tens of thousands of troops with a mere Yanxiang stockade?"

A burly general stood up and cupped his hands and said: "Marshal, please order to lead the army to attack at night! Take this Yanxiang village tonight!"

The Song army stationed in Fuzhou had no more than [-] troops, and it was impossible for all of them to gather in this Yanxiang village.Even though there may be thousands of soldiers and horses, they may not be taken seriously by these generals.

No matter how good the Song army was at fighting, it still couldn't stop the huge gap in troop strength.

"Ok!"

Ashu nodded lightly, "Tumur, then the commander-in-chief will allow you to lead the cavalry from the headquarters to attack the camp tonight."

Then he looked at a general on the left, "Ba Gen, you lead the soldiers of your headquarters to go out with Tomur to prevent the Song army from cutting off Tomur's back."

"The last general takes orders!"

The two generals agreed loudly at the same time.

The soldiers withdrew.

In the tent, there was laughter and interlacing sound of raising light again.

A Shu said: "I haven't been to the Song Dynasty for several years, let's see how these Song soldiers can stand up to my commander's [-] troops."

He was the most prestigious general in the Yuan Dynasty, even better than the previous Boyan by a few points.

"The commander-in-chief's personal conquest will surely lead to victory!"

"I will follow in the footsteps of the handsome man!"

The chief general in the tent just kept complimenting him.

The night is dark in such laughter and laughter.

On the west side of the Yuan army's camp, there were continuous torches coming out of the camp. Tomur led his headquarters and ten thousand riders to gallop out of the camp and headed straight for Yanxiang village.

Immediately afterwards, Yuan general Ba Gen also led his soldiers out of the camp, keeping a distance of only two miles from Tomur's army.

However, there were movements in Yanxiang Village.

Although the bonfire was still burning, the Song army in the village retreated slowly from the west side of the village.

There are only a thousand of them in total.

Fuzhou Garrison Third Corps.

There are half cavalry and half infantry in the regiment.There are only about half of the Shenlong Gunners.

After all, the productivity of this era is far lower than that of later generations. It is not something that Zhao Dongting can mention when he says it.Even now, it is impossible to match the entire army with Shenlong guns.

After quietly leaving Dazhai, the soldiers of the regiment stopped on a hillside only a few hundred meters away from Yanxiang Village.

The soldiers began to dig trenches and bury minefields.

The head of the regiment, Gao Tian, ​​sat on the hillside, surrounded by more than ten generals.

These generals are the deputy head of the Third Army, Du Yuhou, and the battalion commanders.

A general said: "Commander, will the Yuan army attack the village at night?"

Gao Tianzong, who was not very old, and even looked quite immature, said: "I don't know. But when I was in the academy, our tactics teacher once said that if you want to win every battle, you must be leak-proof. If The Yuan army didn't come to attack the camp, so we just took it as if we were here in the wild to enjoy the shade, but if the Yuan army attacked the camp and our army was inside the camp, wouldn't we have nowhere to go?"

"hey-hey!"

Some generals laughed, "We are all vulgar people and don't understand these things. But what you say, commander, is what you say."

"Do not worry!"

Gao Tian, ​​who graduated from Changsha Yuelu Academy and successfully became a Chinese Confucian general Jinshi, smiled and said: "I have received news that after this battle is over, the emperor has plans to select generals in the army to start military training. At that time, I recommend you to go, you guys They are all veterans, rich in experience, what they lack is only written knowledge."

"But I don't know any words..."

Gao Tianzong smiled angrily, "Learn slowly if you can't read!"

About an hour passed.

A soldier with a Shenlong blunderbuss hurriedly ran to Gao Tianzong and the others, and said, "Commander, the Yuan thief is already approaching Dazhai."

Gao Tianzong's eyes were slightly cold, and he said in a deep voice: "All battalions are ready for battle!"

All the generals took orders and each went away.

Only Chang Hongxin, the deputy head of the team, was left by Gao Tianzong's side.

Chang Hongxin was the veteran who said he couldn't even read.

As soon as the generals left, he said, "Commander, all our soldiers have withdrawn from the village, and now the village is empty. Will the Yuan army enter the village?"

Gao Tian laughed and said, "I didn't even intend to lure them into the village! The village didn't even bury a Thunderbolt, did it?"

Chang Hongxin was even more puzzled: "But this place has no danger to rely on. Is it better than guarding Dazhai?"

Gao Tianzong said: "The army commander didn't order us to defend Yanxiang Village. Our task is to destroy enough Yuan thieves."

His expression was very cunning, "It doesn't matter if this Yanxiang village is given to the Yuan army."

Chang Hongxin muttered, "The minds of you scholars are so hard for rough people like us to understand. In the past, there were so many twists and turns in wars."

Gao Tian said happily: "These are all tactics invented by the emperor. Hey, why don't you tell the emperor about this?"

Chang Hongxin snorted angrily, "Dare I say that the emperor is mean-spirited?"

After a short while, another scout came to report, "Commander, the Yuan army has stopped in front of Dazhai."

Gao Tianzong said: "Can you find out how many of them there are?"

The scout replied: "We dare not get too close. It looks like there are about ten thousand people."

Even though Gao Tian nodded, he only said: "Continue to investigate!"

The scout went.

Gao Tianzong, who had a dark complexion, rubbed his hands excitedly beside him, "With so many troops, this time it's a tough one."

Gao Tianzong smiled lightly, but did not speak.

To the east of Yanxiang Village.

Yuan general Tomur rode a tall horse and stood in front of the army with a mace in his hand.

Behind him are densely packed Yuan army cavalry.

These Yuan troops are all soldiers of the Mongolian headquarters, and each of them can be said to have grown up on horseback, with a wildness that the Song people did not possess.

The scimitar reflected the cold light under the light of the torch.

Most of the soldiers in the army wore Mongolian robes, and only a few wore armor.

A scout galloped up to Tomur and reported, "General! The Song army has withdrawn from Dazhai. Although there are torches in the village, there is no Song army."

(End of this chapter)