Chapter 470
Black smoke billowed from the city of Panyu. Duan Shao, Hu Luguang, Gao Jishi, and Wu Mingche came to the front to supervise the battle. They were each in charge of a city wall. .

Specific problems, specific analysis, the so-called encirclement of three ques and one is just to leave a way for the enemy to retreat, but now almost all parts of Lingnan have fallen, and there is only one city of Panyu left in Nanchen, where can Chen Baxian retreat.

Chen Ba first made up his mind to stick to the city, and handed over the retreat to Tianshi, that is, he was sure that the soldiers in the north could not stand the high temperature in Lingnan summer, and the disease would inevitably spread.

Gao Cheng simply let the four generals under his command compete with each other to see who can break through the city first.

Not to mention Wu Mingche, Duan Shao, Hu Luguang, and Gao Jishi have been secretly competing since Gao's founding.

Especially after Gao Cheng came to power, everyone knew that these three people were the initial five-literate and three-army team of King Xiao Gao. His No.1 in the Japanese army must be one of the three people. Even the older generals had to avoid it. their edge.

Under Gao Cheng's command, there was only one Murong Shaozong who had served as the commander in chief besides the three.

There has always been a competitive relationship between the three, but there has never been a chance for them to compete fairly like this siege of Panyu.

The so-called difference between closeness and closeness, the status of Duan Shao, Hu Luguang, and Gao Jishi is beyond Wu Mingche's reach.

As a newly attached person, he didn't want to get involved in this competition.

If he stole the limelight, he might also be hated by the three of them. Gao Cheng, Duan Shao and the others had known each other since they were young, so of course he knew that the three of them were not narrow-minded people, but Wu Mingche didn't know.

It was Gao Cheng who was worried about his going, and encouraged at the same time, no matter whose subordinate was the first to break through the city, it would be the first victory in this battle, and the king would be granted the title of food, and the unking would be given the title of king.

With Wang Jue's temptation, Wu Mingche didn't care about the relationship between his colleagues. Naturally, like the three of Duan Shao, he went to the front line to supervise the battle, day and night.

Fortunately, Panyu is said to be the capital of Nanchen, but it is not a strong city. After all, Nanchen has only been established for a short time. Panyu is the size of a state city, and it is still a state city in the south of Lingnan. The northern soldiers who are used to Jinyang, Luoyang and other powerful cities In the eyes, it is not an insurmountable existence.

While Gao Cheng besieged Panyu on all sides, he was also preparing to store water and flood the city.

In the past, he seldom considered attacking the city with water. It was intersected with digging tunnels and building earth mountains. Water attack is too destructive, and it is not only the people in the city who suffer.

But now there is no time to pile up earth hills, dig tunnels and deal with the Panyu defenders. As the date of summer approaches day by day, Gao Cheng can't care less.

Several days of continuous storming caused heavy casualties to Northern Qi soldiers, and there was an endless stream of vehicles transporting wounded soldiers and corpses back north every day. Seeing this, Gao Cheng had to order Duan Shao and the other four to suspend the siege and prepare for the water attack instead. .

At this time, it was the wet season of the Xijiang River, that is, the Pearl River. Seeing that Gao Cheng's intention of taking water attacks became more and more obvious, and the city wall of Panyu was not strong, Chen Baxian was very anxious.

He intended to send soldiers out of the city to destroy it, but the Qi army was heavily guarded and there were cavalry wandering outside the city, so there was no chance to get close to the dam.

Because Gao Cheng sent a large number of sentry cavalry to monitor the four gates of Panyu, working day and night shifts, Chen Baxian couldn't even find a chance to go out of the city to attack at night.

Watching the water level rise, knowing that if he continues to defend Panyu, he will only feed fish and turtles, Chen Baxian is determined to fight hard.

In the ninth year of Zhaode, on March 28, Chen Baxian led the army out of the city to form an array, intending to fight a decisive battle with the Qi army.

Gao Cheng couldn't wish for this even more, he had elite soldiers and strong generals around him, how could he be afraid of more than 10 cavalry, and Chen Baxian's less than [-].

However, it was the first time for Gao Cheng to command a decisive battle of more than 20 troops. At the beginning of the Xitongguan battle, Gao Huan was in charge, and Gao Cheng acted more as a military adviser.

Gao Cheng took the Gao Ji Shi Department as the vanguard, Wu Mingche Department as the backup, and Hu Luguang commanded [-] cavalry soldiers, living on the two wings.

For the sake of safety, Duan Shao assisted him and lived in the central army, which was composed of Duan Shao's troops and Hu Luguang's infantry.

In this battle, Gao Cheng did not include the Fan soldiers under Xian Ying's command in the battle order, but ordered them to stay in the camp and guard the supplies.

Of course, with Gao Cheng's suspicious personality, there must be secret sentries outside the camp to monitor the movements of the foreign soldiers under Xian Ying's command.

The reserve army of more than [-] soldiers under Wu Mingche's command was to prevent the foreign soldiers from changing. Gao Cheng did not think that the decisive battle with Chen Baxian required the use of reserve troops.

His confidence did not come out of thin air, but accumulated from battle after battle.

It's just that Duan Shao is said to be assisting Gao Cheng, but Little Gao Wang has actually handed over the command of this decisive battle to him.

Gao Cheng has self-knowledge, in terms of resourcefulness and quick-witted mind, Duan Shao may not be better than him, but when marching and setting up a battle formation, he is definitely not as good as Duan Shao.

At the beginning, Xiao Gaowang studied the art of war with Murong Shaozong for a period of time, which is not as good as Duan Shao's study of art of war.

Gao Cheng has never really commanded a decisive battle with a large corps, and Duan Shao is also a new daughter-in-law. It is the first time for Duan Shao to see her, and the tension in his heart is self-evident.

Duan Shao knew that after Gao Cheng's years of hard work, with the mass base of the Northern Qi regime, even if they were defeated in this battle, the foundation of the rule would not be shaken, and there would not even be too much trouble. Chen Baxian couldn't take so many prisoners.

But he also understands that if he really loses, he will never have a second chance to avenge his shame.

Trying to calm down his breath, after symbolically asking Gao Cheng for instructions, Duan Shao issued orders one after another.

Flags were fluttered on the high platform, and drums were beating thunderously.

Under the cover of cavalry on both wings, the Gao Ji style commanding front army marched towards Chen Ba's first army formation.

The first thing to decide the outcome was the cavalry contest between the two sides. In front of the [-] cavalrymen established in the Northern Qi Dynasty, a small number of cavalrymen from Nanchen were crushed to powder.

Of course Chen Baxian was aware of the impact of the Northern Qi cavalry pawns. He dared to go out for a decisive battle. He must be prepared, that is, follow the example of the ancients and defend with chariot formations.

Hu Luguang led the cavalry to gallop around Chen Baxian's army, but he still couldn't find a breakthrough, so he had to open the way for Gao Jishi, and killed the enemy with bows and arrows at a distance.

All the fear comes from the lack of firepower, and in Gao Cheng's view, long-range attack methods such as bows and arrows are the firepower in his eyes.

Gao Cheng's emphasis on long-range attacks needn't be repeated. When he was the crown prince, he had only [-] Gyeonggi soldiers under his command, and he had the idea of ​​firing ten thousand arrows at once.

Therefore, once the power was in the hands of the dynasty, in addition to the special archers, the Northern Qi cavalry were equipped with horse bows.

A volley doesn't need to be aimed at the head, the big guy just draws his bow in one direction.

Under Hu Luguang's order, [-] cavalry soldiers put away their sabers or abandoned their lances, and took off the horse bows on their shoulders. The arrows pointed directly at Chen Jun's army formation. The sky was covered by the rain of arrows, falling like raindrops on Chen Jun's formation. Even with the protection of a large shield, many Chen Jun soldiers fell to the ground after being shot by arrows.

(End of this chapter)

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