Late Tang

(Thanks to the lazy people over the river, the quiet people, and a few people for their strong support, thank you!)

There was silence in the tent, and all the generals of the grass army in the tent looked at Zhu Wen in shock.Even Huang Chao's eyes widened in disbelief.

Having just experienced a big defeat, at this time, even Huang Chao, who had fought all the way before, had no intention of fighting again.And Huang Chao's generals, such as Lin Yan, even began to suspect that Zhu Wen and the other three were fraudulent, and they came here to lure them to counterattack and let them die.

Facing the mocking eyes of the crowd, Zhu Wen didn't take it seriously. He looked directly at Huang Chao and said solemnly: "Even the commander and the generals didn't expect that we would counterattack at this time, and Tang Jun couldn't even imagine it."

Huang Chao's heart moved, this sentence was very good, even he himself did not expect to counterattack at this time, and Tang Jun certainly would not believe that they would counterattack at this time.If troops are sent out tonight, they will indeed be able to catch them by surprise and catch them off guard.

However, the most critical thing is that they can still counterattack now, do they still have the power to counterattack?

After this defeat, there are now only nearly 8 troops in the camp, and more than half of them are auxiliary troops.Although the officers and soldiers fought with them for a day today, the casualties were only a few thousand.Previously, 16 against [-] failed to win, but now it is even more impossible to win with [-] against [-].Besides, they just lost a big defeat now.

Huang Chao hesitated, but in fact he had already rejected the proposal in his heart.

"Does the commander have a better way now? If the current situation cannot be reversed, then tomorrow when the Tang army rests and comes to pursue, there will be pursuers behind, and interceptions in front. If you are completely defeated, you will be completely crushed between Yan and Yun by the officers and soldiers. When it comes to extraordinary times, you can only do extraordinary things. Put them to death and survive. If you fight with them, you may still have a chance to survive." Zhu Wen said loudly, "Besides, even if we attack, there is no chance of winning. We just came out of the Tang army's camp and know the detailed layout of the Tang army's current layout. We will go straight to the Tang army's middle army camp. There is at least a [-]% chance of winning this battle!"

Counselors Zhao Zhang, Gai Hong, and Zhang Juyan stepped forward to second Zhu Wen's strategy.The three of them were all Huang Chao's counselors, and they couldn't charge forward, but they had a good grasp of the battle situation.According to Zhu Wen's words, they have quickly thought about the different results of the two plans of retreat and counterattack.

If they were to retreat overnight, the grass army would be short of horses and food in the event of a major defeat just now, and the retreat might turn into a major rout if the cavalry of Tianming officers and soldiers pursued them.There are [-] chasing troops behind, and there are Zhen [***], Tianping Army, and Taining Army in front of them to intercept them. It is difficult for them to rush out.Even if they passed the first line of interception, further to the east, there was a second encirclement formed by the Qingzhou Pinglu Army, the Xuzhou Probation Army, and the Yangzhou Huainan Army.The biggest advantage of the rebel army is the crowd tactics, and the biggest weakness is that they can win but not lose.Once defeated, especially if it is defeated, the insufficiently trained rebel army will immediately collapse into a mess.

If taking advantage of the defeated soldiers gathered now, the soldiers are in danger, and they counterattack the Tang camp by night, but there is some chance of winning.At this time, the counterattack does not dare to defeat the Tang army, but if it goes well, it is possible to kill the Tang army, and then whether it is to break through to the west or retreat to the east again, the situation will be much better.

The analysis of the three of Zhao Zhang made Huang Chao finally make a desperate decision.Originally, he was not reconciled to failure, but now that someone proposes a counterattack and has the support of many generals, Huang Chao is naturally happy.

Huang Chao immediately sent someone to invite Wang Xianzhi, although he could not understand this coward.But the five thousand cavalry in Wang Xianzhi's hands and his auxiliary soldiers are very important to Huang Chao's counterattack, especially Wang Xianzhi's position as the commander of the grass army. If there is no counterattack with him, the grass army will split at this time , Many soldiers will not follow the counterattack.No matter from which point of view, Huang Chao had to be patient for the time being, and let Wang Xianzhi continue to be tied to his warship first.

To Huang Chao's surprise, Gao Xianzhi led the generals to come to discuss matters. After listening to Huang Chao's counterattack plan, he did not shrink back in fear. Handed it over to Huang Chao, and his department is willing to be commanded by Huang Chao.

After the upper level of the Cao army unified their ideas, Huang Chao immediately asked the generals to gather and organize the defeated soldiers and horses.Most of the original organizational system was disrupted. Fortunately, the Cao Army has long been used to this kind of dismantling, reorganization and expansion. The reorganization was completed overnight.

After the reorganization, the 4 soldiers and horses were only divided into three armies. Huang Chao himself led the central army with 2 horses, while Meng Kai led the left army with [-] horses. Wang Xianzhi's troops were still organized into the right army. , [-] auxiliary soldiers.

After the temporary reorganization was completed, meals were prepared in the camp, and after the whole army had a full meal, Huang Chao ordered all the luggage to be left in the camp, and then the 8 horses marched again at night, this time they moved quickly.Before Huang Chao dispatched his troops, he had already informed the whole army that to the east of them were tens of thousands of troops from Zhen [***], Tianping Army and Taining Army.Therefore, the retreat has been cut off, and the only way to survive is to counterattack at night.

The army was put to death and survived. After the retreat was cut off and Huang Chao killed hundreds of soldiers trying to escape in succession, the whole army had to follow and attack the Tang army again.

The grass soldier has a rank and a horse with hooves bound. His movements are very quick and secretive.

Tang Jun, who had just achieved a great victory, never thought that the defeated Cao Jun would make a comeback so quickly.A small number of wandering sentries were also mopped up by the light cavalry led by Lin Yan, and there was no time to return to report.

The camp of the Six Towns of the Tang Army was set up at the foot of the west mountain of Juye Mountain. Huang Chao led the army and successfully climbed over the not-so-high Juye Mountain. The Tang army camp launched a surprise attack.

The three of Zhu and Wen led their troops straight to the front of the camp, and the camp of the six towns did not receive any news at all.

Before dawn, the sound of rumbling horseshoes broke the silence at the foot of Juye Mountain.

The Tang camp in Six Towns was still immersed in the joy of yesterday's victory, and they never thought that the grass bandits would be able to regroup so quickly and their morale was high.When the shouts of killing sounded, the officers and soldiers rushed to fight in shock. Under the dark night, many officers and soldiers fought all day and night yesterday, and they were still immersed in sleep at this time.Even because of the defeat of the bandit army yesterday, many officers and soldiers disarmed and went to sleep with peace of mind. At this time, the grass army suddenly came, and the officers and soldiers didn't even have time to put on their armor and clothes.

In the dark night, there are only fires everywhere, and the sound of killing is everywhere.

The officers and soldiers in the camp didn't even know who came, nor how many people came.

This time, the Cao army did not set up a formation and blindly attack. After discussing with the generals, Huang Chao's tactic was to concentrate the elite on the left wing, and use the central army and the left army to attack the right wing of the officers and soldiers at the foot of Juye Mountain. Wang Xianzhi on the right wing The 2 troops under the command were led by Wang Xianzhi and more than a dozen generals under his command to contain the rest of the army.This time, Wang Xianzhi worked very hard and was not afraid of fighting.

This tactic had an immediate effect. Due to the joint attack of the two armies, the impact of the Cao army was extremely strong.

Huang Chao handed over the forward task of the Left Army of the Central Army to Zhu Wen, who had just defected. In order to strengthen the momentum of the forward, Huang Chao even directly assigned the first battalion of five hundred Qingqi to Zhu Wen.With iron hooves and galloping horses, the right wing of the officer army who was caught off guard couldn't hold the line of defense at all. Zhu Wen led his troops to break through their barracks from many places, and many army infantrymen behind them had just rushed out of their tents. , Before even putting on the armor, he was captured by the grass army.

As soon as the surprise attack started, the Cao army had already successfully entered the right wing of the official army.

After successfully entering the right wing, Zhu Wen immediately pointed out to Huang Chao the camps of the two eunuchs, Ximen Sigong, the capital supervisor, and Yang Fugong, the military envoy.

Overjoyed, Huang Chao sent Zhu Wen, Lin Yan, Ge Congzhou, Zhang Guiba, Huo Cun, and Wang Chongba to lead a battalion of cavalry directly into the central army.The eight generals led six battalions of light cavalry, a total of [-] cavalry, and went straight to the Chinese army.

The three generals Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, and Zhang Guiba all followed Huang Chao at the beginning of the Cao Army's uprising. In terms of martial arts, they are the most brave three generals among Huang Chao's subordinates.And Lin Yan was not only Huang Chao's nephew, but also the most elite cavalry in command of Huang Chao's subordinates.As for Wang Chongba, he has been serving as the commander of Huang Chao's bodyguard cavalry.In Huang Chao's army, these five generals also had the title of Five Tiger Generals. Huang Chao sent the Five Tiger Generals and his elite cavalry at once, which was bound to win.

Under the guidance of Zhu Wen, the three thousand fine riders headed straight for the Zhongying camp. They were in every direction along the way. Although the officers and soldiers were strong, they were caught off guard at this time and could not stop them at all.

Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong were shocked when they reported the bandit army's attack, they put on their armor quickly, and when the Chinese army came to command and set them up, they saw a cavalry rush towards them in the flames.

The officers and soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and the guards of the two hurriedly let the two go first.

Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong were covered by their subordinates and galloped on horseback. Zhu Wen led the cavalry and chased them all the way. In the chaos, they were separated from many subordinates, and there were only sixty or seventy relatives around them.

Seeing that they were about to be surrounded, Cui Anqian, the commander of the Zhongwu Army who was stationed next to the Chinese army, arrived with his troops. Zhang Zimian, the general of the Zhongwu Army and the general of Zuo Weiwei, asked to be cut off, and Cui Anqian, the commander of the Zhongwu Army, escorted Ximen Sigong and Yang Fugong. go first.Zhang Zimian was also a general of the imperial guards in Beijing, because he was the former subordinate of Ximen Sigong, so he was finally sent by Tian Lingzi to join the Zhongwu Army with a supplementary army with a good strategy.

Wang Jian and Jin Hui, the eight generals of Zhongwu, are also willing to stay in the rear. Guan Jian will show his loyalty. Ximen Sigong is very grateful to Zhang Zimian, Wang Jian, and Jin Hui. After the pawns were cut off, they fled! (To be continued.)