Datang New Order

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There is a deep cave under the cliff, and hundreds of Yan army cavalry have already surrounded the cave.The leaders all reported to Zhao Zaili that the fleeing enemy had fled into the cave, and they wondered if it was Li Congke.He said that he organized several attacks on the cave, but it was too dark inside, and the opponent's archery skills were accurate, and seven people were injured but they still couldn't rush in.

While Zhao Zaili was still thinking about how to get in, Li Dutou offered his advice.

Li Dutou said that this hole was a dead hole, and if Li Congke escaped into it, he would be a turtle in a urn and could not escape.Li Dutou said that when he was hunting with Li Siyuan, he blocked a black bear in this cave. At that time, everyone had no choice but to use this cave, but then someone thought of a way to let the black bear come out obediently.

When he said this, there were a few curses in the cave, and the other party obviously heard Li Dutou's words.

Li Dutou smiled and asked Zhao Zaili: "General Zhao, do you know what the plan is?"

Zhao Zaili thought about it for a while, but couldn't think of it for a while, the officers around him were very curious, and urged Li Dutou one after another, telling him not to be a fool.

Li Dutou pointed at the black hole, and said: "It's simple, just set a fire at the entrance of the hole and burn some grass. Everyone cut some branches and fanned the smoke inside. After a while, the bear inside ran out by itself."

There was another burst of cursing in the cave, but the officers and soldiers of the Yan Army around, including Zhao Zaili himself, felt particularly relieved after hearing the cursing.

Without Zhao Zaili's instructions, some soldiers were already busy and gathered firewood around. Zhao Zaili patted Li Dutou's shoulder and said with a smile: "It really is a good plan. If Li Congke is really in the cave, I will record your military merit three ranks!"

Li Dutou had a strange expression on his face.Covering his mouth and laughing, he said, "General Zhao, do you know who came up with this plan at that time?"

"Oh? Who?"

"It's the 'Little Yazi' Young General Li. Manager Li has taken in many adoptive sons. To tell you the truth, General Zhao also invested in Mr. Li's account at that time. Among so many adopted sons, General Li was one of them, because After offering this strategy, Director Li said that Young General Li was full of strategies, and he has looked at him differently since then..."

Li Dutou was talking about this, when suddenly someone shouted in the cave: "Don't shoot the arrows! Don't burn them either. When someone comes out!"

When everyone took a closer look, they saw more than a dozen people coming out of the cave in a file, all of them in a state of distress, the leader was a young general staring fiercely at Li Du's head, as if he wanted to swallow him in one gulp.

Li Du bowed his head to the other party: "Young General, are you all right?"

Zhao Zaili and the hundreds of Yan troops around him couldn't help laughing wildly.

Returning victorious, they captured the enemy general. The Yan army was full of vigor, and the sound of horns blew the entire hills and valleys.Brigade Brigade Yan Jun gathered under Zhao Zaili's command.Head towards Xiangyuan.

The next day, when Zhao Zaili returned ten miles west of Xiangyuan City, the military order of Zhou Kan, the temporary commander of the Luzhou battlefield, was delivered to Zhao Zaili, and the military order required Zhao Zaili to lead his army northward immediately.Participated in the siege of Li Siyuan's camp.

After Zhou Kan received the good news of the victory of the cavalry army yesterday, after a brief celebration, he immediately focused on the battle in front of him.In Zhou Kan's view, Li Siyuan's "Han Army" who had lost its cavalry had actually shown signs of defeat. This was not based on a simple "cavalry determinism" to make a judgment.Cavalry is very important to combat.There is no doubt about this, but it cannot be simply made absolute. It does not mean that the defeat of the cavalry means the final failure of the war.The key is to analyze the specific situation.

The reason why Zhou Kan made such a judgment is that the importance of the cavalry in the Laodong Army far exceeds that of the Tianxia Fanzhen.The foundation of the Hedong Army's town is the Black Crow Army brought out by Li Ke, and the Black Crow Army is mainly based on cavalry.Back then, the Hedong Army repeatedly repelled the Xuanwu Army, which was far superior to itself, with outnumbered enemies. The most important reliance was the cavalry.It can be said that the closer to the Northland, the more important the cavalry is.

Therefore, the cavalry in the "Han Army" was annihilated by the establishment. Apart from making Li Siyuan lose the most elite combat power, it also dealt a serious blow to the morale of the entire Han Army, so Zhou Kan would never let go of this good opportunity to counterattack.

Zhao Zaili ordered Mao Zhang to escort Li Congke and other generals to Xiangyuan, and he personally led the team to Shiyu where the Korean army camped.

Xiangyuan is high in the north and low in the south, with hills and mountains in the northwest and plain farmland in the southeast. Shiyu is located at the junction of hills and plains, backed by highlands, overlooking Xiangyuan.Li Siyuan was originally the leader of Luzhou's army, and he was quite familiar with this terrain, so he set up his camp here, occupying several highlands around Shiyu, and protecting the road leading to Wuxiang behind.

When Zhao Zaili rushed to Shiyu, he took a look at the terrain and found it very tricky.Because of the terrain, the Yan army can only attack from the east and south sides, all of which are upward upward attacks, while the Han army's camps occupying several high grounds are all stuck in key positions, not to mention "one man guards ten thousand". Fu Mokai", at least if you want to attack with human power, it is impossible without paying huge sacrifices.

On the other hand, the Yan army had very few highlands to choose from where they set up their camps, and the only few places were backed by the Nangou River.In fact, Zhao Zaili realized after a brief tour that the Yan army could only set up camp with their backs to the river, otherwise they would suffer a lot in the face of the Han army's attack.If you don't set up a camp, you will have to walk more than ten miles for nothing every day just starting from Xiangyuan, which will be very exhausting for your physical strength.

Under the guidance of the liaison officer, the cavalry brigade settled in Xijiayan Village, which is three miles away from Shiyu, and the terrain has gradually opened up.

Zhao Zaili didn't rest, and immediately rushed to Pingqiu, which is less than a mile away from the Han army camp in Shiyu, where Zhou Kan's main camp is located.Inside the big tent of the Chinese Army, Zhou Kan, Gao Xingzhou, Li Xiaoxi and several senior Yuhou officers were discussing the military situation, and more than a dozen junior army officers were making a terrain sand table on the other side. Zhao Zaili glanced over and found that the sand table was nearly half completed. , the shape of Shiyu is roughly revealed.

Zhou Kan and Zhao Zaili were very familiar, they were both old men in the Jianju camp, but at that time Zhao Zaili was Zhou Zhiyu's personal guard, and his status was much higher than Zhou Kan's.As soon as he saw Zhao Zaili, he immediately pulled him to sit beside him, and said in his mouth, "Old Zhao is here? He has made great achievements in this battle, and the credit and rewards must be indispensable. Some people have already reported the victory to Gao Ping, but the final military report has to be made." You write."

Gao Xingzhou, Li Xiaoxi and others also congratulated Zhao Zaili one after another. Zhao Zaili was relieved, but his face was tense, and he responded with humble words.

After a few gossips, Zhou Kan brought the topic to the current war and asked Zhao Zaili to participate in the discussion.After listening for a while, Zhao Zaili heard the general meaning. It turned out that everyone was discussing how to do a good job of logistics support for the more than ten miles from Xiangyuan to Shiyu.

The pre-war military discussion atmosphere of the Yan Army system originated from the later generations that Li Chengzhong traveled through. He advocated equality in affairs. Anyone who is qualified to participate in military discussions can speak freely, and the chief officer must not use any excuses to criticize opinions that do not suit his wishes. With punishment, that is to say, it will not be like the outer town, where the officers in the military council are trembling, for fear of being dragged out to beat the board for saying something wrong, and they will not be dragged out to sacrifice the military flag because of disagreement with the chief general.Of course, once the chief officer makes a decision, it must be strictly followed and not violated.

Zhou Kan and the others discussed for a while, and saw that Zhao Zaili was silent for a long time, but the corners of his brows seemed to be twisted into a rope, so he asked, "Old Zhao, what did you think of? Tell me!"

After hearing Zhou Kan's question, Zhao Zaili immediately said: "I haven't thought about this problem before, but after coming to Shiyu this time, I suddenly felt that we are going to fight Shiyu. Xiangyuan, don’t you think this is troublesome? Didn’t he consider this issue when he set up camp here?”

Everyone in the tent was stunned and looked at each other for a while, Zhou Kan said: "Old Zhao, you mean..."

Zhao Zaili said: "Either, Li Siyuan has no intention of attacking Xiangyuan at all, and he put out his soldiers just to put on a show..."

Gao Xingzhou shook his head and said, "But this is inconsistent with his behavior of sending cavalry on his own initiative a few days ago."

Zhao Zaili nodded: "That's right, so this reason can be ruled out. Then, why did he do this? To lure us to take the initiative to attack? A certain person thinks this may be relatively large. In this way, the purpose of his previous cavalry attack can also be slightly explained. Makes sense."

Marquis Yu, surnamed Chen, interjected: "Temptation? Setting up an ambush? The possibility is not very high. From yesterday to today, many scouts have been sent out. If Li Siyuan set up an ambush, where would his soldiers hide? Around Shiyu There is no place to set up an ambush, if we want to set up an ambush, it can only be in the mountains in the northwest, but that is Li Siyuan's retreat, we have no way to go around before we pull out the Shiyu camp."

Zhou Kan thought for a while, and asked, "Is there any other path where surprise soldiers can be dispatched from Shiyu to Xiangyuan?"

Several Marquises of Yu are shaking their heads. Their main combat task is to find out the terrain of the battlefield, and they have put in a lot of effort in this area. If there is really a trail that can go around from Shiyu to the back of Xiangyuan, then they have already proposed a countermeasure up.

"Are you sure?" Zhou Kan asked.

Yu Hou, surnamed Liu, said: "We have been stationed in this place for almost two years. In the map handed down from the Shangdang Camp, there is no trail near Xiangyuan where surprise soldiers can be dispatched. The east is Xiantang Mountain and Huangyan Mountain, which belong to the remnants of Taihang. , there was no communication with Shiyu, the west is Shideng Mountain, and there is no border connection with Shiyu, and we have considered this problem when we built the camp. We surrounded Shiyu from the east and south. If Li Siyuan wanted to A sneak attack out of the stronghold will definitely be exposed under our noses."

Chen Yuhou added: "Someone also discussed with Li Dutou, the capital of Dongyang, and he also said no."

Zhou Kan immediately said: "It is said that Li Dutou is included in the military discussion!" (To be continued...)