Ping An Biography

() The morning after the light rain is very fresh, half-dried water stains remain on the road, and the air is filled with the coolness of late spring.In the Zuixian Building, you can hear the chirping of birds among the treetops outside. Those birds flew away in fright after the last cannon shot, but the war flames only subsided for a few days, and they came back bravely.Like Zhu Yong's troops, there was news early in the morning that the officers and soldiers were leaving the camp and heading west.They are back again.

Peach Blossom Fairy came to Zhang Ning's side only after getting up in the morning, silently watching him dress up quickly but carefully.His fingers were long and strong, his movements were steady but very flexible and accurate, and the gold buckle on the belt was fastened in the exact position with a light "crack", the sound sounded very comfortable, like simple music.Peach Blossom Fairy was a little distracted. She thought that if someone like Zhang Ning trained as an assassin, he would definitely do well. Of course, being an assassin is not as good as studying to have a better future.

She wanted to apologize for what happened last night, but since she was willing to see him again, she didn't need to say anything more.

Peach Blossom Fairy is very contradictory in her heart, Zhang Ning has always given him a good impression, personable and gentle."The Peach Blossom Immortal planted peach trees and picked peach blossoms for wine money" is such a free and easy state, and "I only envy mandarin ducks but not immortals", his gentleness and affection make people addicted to it.Peach Blossom Fairy recalled that dark night in the Miao Army camp, when his hand grabbed her wrist, it was difficult to let go, what was it if it wasn't affection?

She has always imagined that there is an excellent man who treats her sincerely, even though such a good thing is rare in the world, but a little dream is always happy.

But last night, a person who was extremely elegant in her heart asked for such a nasty thing, which made her feel a little confused.I even wondered if I had a dream last night, and it wasn't real.Because the Zhang Ning in front of her had returned to her usual gentleness and composure, exuding a wonderful aura that made her feel weak all over.

"Has breakfast been delivered?" Zhang Ning glanced at Peach Blossom Fairy and said, he didn't seem to care about the unhappiness that happened last night, and his attitude towards her didn't change.Peach Blossom Fairy thought that a man would be very angry if he was rejected.

It is reported that the enemy army has marched towards Gaodu, is he still in the mood to have breakfast?

Zhang Ning was not only in the mood to eat breakfast, but also brushed his teeth with a toothbrush first.The camp of the officers and soldiers was five miles away, and it took a long time to march. It was impossible for them to set off just after they were detected, and they would soon be approaching the city.Zhang Ning's condition is very good. Last night, there was a light rain and the cool temperature allowed him to sleep well. Although he didn't taste the happiness of being warm|soft in his arms, he maintained a good state from the inside to the outside.He is already full of confidence and ready to face Zhu Yong's challenge.

At the head of the west city of Gaodu, Zhang Ning still sat on the chair arranged for him with his sword in hand. He smashed the sword to the ground, and sat there with his legs apart in a majestic posture.Teams of uniformed armed soldiers marched out of the city gate and lined up outside the city. This scene made him inexplicably excited.

Slowly, the troops of the officers and soldiers came into sight, their positions were farther than last time, and they were out of range of the artillery.After suffering a loss once, it is true that you will not make the same mistake again.

It seems that Zhu Yong's combat deployment today seems to have changed a bit. He arranged the cavalry in the front and did not hide it.The infantry column was moving north.

"With this posture, Zhu Yong has fewer soldiers today than last time, so he wants to besiege us?" Zhou Mengxiong murmured while watching from the side.

Old Xu said: "If the enemy soldiers don't attack the soldiers outside the city and attack the city directly, we only need to withdraw the soldiers behind the city to the city and stick to it, and their cavalry will be useless; the officers and soldiers will not be able to fight in the field , how can we talk about conquering the city?"

"Perhaps Zhu Yong didn't intend to storm the city, but just wanted to force us into the city." Zhou Mengxiong pointed to the cavalry in the distance ahead, "The cavalry may be placed there to threaten our infantry to flank the attacking soldiers."

After Zhang Ning listened to the discussion of the two, he said, "General Zhou's words are very reasonable."

Only the troops who really have no strength to fight back will hide in the city and defend to the death. Zhang Ning is not optimistic about such a battle.No matter how strong a city is, if it has no ability to attack, it will have little effect; just like the Yongding Guards who were defeated in the field before, although they could not be attacked in the guard city, they could not prevent Zhang Ning from mobilizing troops from the west. A large number of men and craftsmen.

What's more, what's the point of guarding the city of Gaodu City?Zhang Ning has only one goal: to defeat Zhu Yong's main force.

A set of ideas quickly formed in Zhang Ning's mind.He redeployed his troops and ordered the four gates to be closed tightly. The main force was still deployed under the city, but formed a four-circle formation; Siege troops attack.The so-called four-circle formation is actually that. The four circle formations are mainly pikemen and firearms soldiers, and each formation has more than 200 people. In contrast, the thin long square formation last time is easy to move Torn apart or even defeated by the cavalry, the four-circle formation is aimed at the fact that it cannot prevent the fast cavalry from approaching hand-to-hand combat. Even if one of the formations is broken, it will still not affect the formation of the entire army.Last time when Wei Bin was chasing, he suddenly found the cavalry attacking, and it was too late to change the formation, so this time Zhang Ning ordered to deploy against that cavalry from the beginning.

Infantry fighting cavalry, in the final analysis, you can only be beaten passively, waiting for others to attack. If the cavalry does not come, you have nothing to do.Zhang Ning guessed that once the main force of the Suzaku army started to move, the official cavalry would rush over, and then they could compete with the official cavalry under the city.

As for Zhu Yong's infantry, judging from their performance last time, their combat effectiveness was really low and they could easily collapse.Therefore, in addition to the more than 200 people who kept defending the city, Zhang Ning only dispatched a brigade of firearms soldiers to garrison. They can be pinned down with a small army of infantry.

The main force is still deployed in the west city first, because it doesn't make sense to change to other directions now. Zhu Yong has not yet launched an attack, so he can temporarily change the attack direction.

The two sides had been making intensive preparations for a while, the sun had already risen, and finally there was movement in the distant military barracks.The infantry was still the first to move out, and as expected, the large group of soldiers and horses did not come to the west city, but came straight to the city from the north.

The army infantry marched forward in a sparse and loose phalanx, and the dispersal of more than 2000 people was quite spectacular. Among the troops, they also carried siege equipment, mainly ladders and chariots.Obviously, Zhu Yongjun's heavy weapons were not prepared enough, and they couldn't get large equipment such as wells and return guns for the time being... It was obvious that they were here to attack the city.If such a sparse formation is used in a field battle, there is no doubt that it will be defeated. The two armies face to face and short-handed combat. It is easy to win, so the denser the formation can form a situation of more fights and fewer fights in detail.However, when besieging the city, Zhu Yong may have considered the impact of artillery and muskets, and sparsely going up can reduce casualties.

Zhang Ning ordered the artillery to adjust its position and deter the incoming siege army with a round of strikes.The artillery is deployed in the west city, and the distance on the side is still within the attack range, but there will be dead spots under the north city and east city.In the sound of the cannon, the shells whizzed over the heads of the soldiers on the north city wall, and then fell to a distance and exploded.The sound of gunfire and thick smoke once again opened the prelude to a big battle.

As Zhang Ning knew, the explosive bomb filled with black powder had very limited lethality, and the effect this time was even worse.Firstly, the officers and soldiers had already seen this thing before, so they wouldn't be surprised and caught off guard, and secondly, the effect of falling in their sparse formation was a little bit less.Even many shells didn't hit anything at all, and only exploded in the open space.They're a little bit more of a morale hit.

The army from the northern city came the fastest and quickly approached the city wall. The muskets on the city began to crackle and fire, but they failed to defeat the invading land in one round, let alone stop their momentum.The defenders had fewer firearms, and the density of the holes in the wall stacks was not high, so that the coverage of the firepower was not good, which affected the lethality, and the single lead bullet was not accurate at a long distance.The height of the city wall does not have a great effect on lead bullets approaching a straight trajectory, unlike bows and arrows that can be thrown from high places with heavy arrows.

The rhythm of the battle has begun irresistibly, and Zhang Ning hopes that the army defending the city can hold it.According to the previous idea, he ordered Wei Bin to start moving north and flank the attacking troops.

A few horns sounded, and the general's shout of "Let's go together" came from the noise of various voices.The people under the city began to slowly move north.Zhang Ning looked at the horse team in the distance, waiting for the next rhythm.

War is sometimes like a tune that has been listened to many times, and you can feel when the next drumbeat will strike after you concentrate on it, just like a performance.In fact, war was originally an art. Before the Warring States period, the two armies were very polite when they fought. The two armies used chariots as a unit to perform a bloody arena. It was also an aristocratic activity. ; but later the results of the war aroused people's desires, and the results began to be more important than the process, so the unscrupulous "soldiers, cunning" to win the victory began to enter the mainstream, and evolved into "the battle of life and death". Earth" is the final evolution of the subjugation of the country and the extinction of species.

But no matter how unscrupulous it is, there are still traces to follow, and there are always some rules to make the process more effective.

The horse team finally dispatched, without any surprises or surprises.The whole cavalry unit began to jog over the horizon, and the sound of horseshoes could be felt from the top of the city more than a mile away.As far as we know, Zhu Yong's cavalry has less than 1000 soldiers, but they still show great momentum at this moment.It is recorded in history that a battle involving [-] cavalry was dispatched, but it is not known what the scene was.

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