Horse on the World

Chapter 700 Bloody Battle at Yaque Ridge ([-])
The ideal is plentiful, but the reality is very skinny. The proud son of heaven from the capital's camp wanted to make meritorious deeds and revenge.
Ouyang Gangqiang is able to sit in this position today, although there are family reasons, but I have to say that although the aristocratic family has the suffocation of the aristocratic family, it is still very strict in cultivating children, at least in terms of military use, Ouyang Gangqiang can be regarded as middle Gui Zhongji, although his eyes were over the top, he didn't rush forward, even under the stimulation of Zhou Zuhao's yin and yang, he still kept quite calm.At the beginning of the attack, he chose the leftmost fortress and launched a tentative attack.
Compared with the other fortresses that echoed left and right, this fortress seemed a bit lonely. Although it could only attack hundreds of people at a time, it could test out the opponent's military deployment, combat strength, and the threat of the opponent's long-range weapons. Yes, even if it fails, the loss will not be too great.Withdrawal is also relatively simple.
But what Ouyang Gangqiang never expected was that the opponent did not defend the fort, but brazenly went out of the fort to fight.When thousands of people swarmed out of the fortress, the two armies had just engaged in battle. The one-sided battle scene immediately changed Ouyang Gangqiang's color. , Seeing the other party chopping melons and vegetables and knocking down his soldiers in front of the formation, Ouyang Gangqiang hastily ordered the follow-up troops to come forward to respond.

If the attacking soldiers can hold back their opponents, it is not impossible to take advantage of the situation and seize the fortress.
Ouyang Gangqiang, who was frightened and hopeful, turned into despair in the next instant. The overwhelming range of long-range weapons from the main village of Yaqueling made the follow-up troops suffer a heavy blow as soon as they set off. Inch.He could only watch helplessly as the hundreds of vanguard soldiers who launched a tentative attack were killed by the opponent within the time of a cup of tea, and then Shi Shiran carried the wounded or dead comrades back to the fortress.
The faces of the officers and soldiers of the capital camp changed terribly, and the morale that was originally high was frustrated.
In the Yaqueling military stronghold, Sun Zewu clasped his fists to Li Qing and replied, "My lord, Feiying of the Overwatch Council has successfully completed the mission, beheading 470 and five enemy soldiers, Feiying killed 85 and wounded 120 and seven."

"Very good!" Li Qing said with a smile: "The old soldiers of the capital camp have always been good at fighting with the wind, let's kill his prestige first, he will not be so difficult, hahaha, I'm afraid that Ouyang Gang is very strong Never thought that the first battle would start with a complete defeat."

This battle was specially arranged. The entire Yaqueling fortress is connected by underground passages, and soldiers and horses can be mobilized at any time. When it was discovered that the opponent's target was the leftmost military fortress, Li Qing immediately ordered Sun Zewu's special brigade to go out. Fort to meet the enemy, the purpose is to kill the opponent's spirit.The Flying Eagle Brigade itself was selected from the Dingzhou Army's one-in-a-thousand, one-in-ten-thousand, and after special training, its combat effectiveness is so strong that no one can compare to it except for the special brigade of the original statistics department. It also has a huge advantage. If this kind of preparation is used to fight against the unprepared, if it is not wiped out, Li Qingzhen will be furious.

The result of this battle made Ouyang Gangqiang pale. Similarly, Zhou Zuhao, who was originally in the mood of watching the excitement, was also shocked. Previously in Shikan, the opponent did not show such a strong combat power. If he was in Shikan, the opponent would have such combat power If so, then it is impossible for Tang Wansong's first battalion to capture Shikan.

Although he can't understand the opponent's eyes being too high, Zhou Zuhao also understands that everyone is a grasshopper on the same rope. Ouyang Gangqiang's troops are all deployed here, and it may not be possible to capture Yaqueling.
He took the initiative to go to Ouyang Gangqiang's command post, ready to have a good discussion with him.
After experiencing the first failure, Ouyang Gang's courteous treatment of Zhou Zuhao was also a 180-degree turn. Anyway, the opponent still won the Shikan position in a bloody battle. Although the casualties were heavy, it was rewarding. On his side, But he didn't even take a chance, and he was completely defeated by his opponent, which made him have to re-examine the combat effectiveness of Qinzhou soldiers.
The two main generals temporarily put aside the past unhappiness between the two parties, and sat down to discuss countermeasures.
"According to the information obtained by the staff of the Dingzhou bastion." Zhou Zuhao said: "These bastions are different from any kind of city defense we have seen before. They are extremely difficult to attack. We have some bastions." However, its internal structure cannot be obtained in detail. Originally in Fuyuan, the opponent had bastions, but after the barbarians surrendered to Dingzhou, these bastions were dismantled. We did not have the opportunity to investigate, but based on previous combat experience As well as the deployment of the opponent's troops, I suspect that all the fortresses are connected by secret passages, so that the opponent can easily mobilize troops and horses to connect seemingly unrelated fortresses together. In my eyes, where the opponent's defense is weak, after we launch an attack, there may become the strongest place for the opponent."

Ouyang Gang stared at the schematic diagram of the Yaqueling military stronghold, and gasped, "That is to say, we have no choice at all. We must attack in an all-round way as soon as we start the fight. Relying on the superiority in numbers, we will press up across the board, and then attack in an all-out way." discover the other party's weak points."

"Not bad!" Zhou Zuhao raised his head and said, "All-round attack, all-out attack."

"How to suppress and resist the opponent's long-range attack?" Ouyang Gang asked calmly. The first round of attack had already shown him the sharpness of the opponent's weapons.
"Dingzhou's long-range weapons have a longer range than ours, but even so, we have to launch a confrontation with them, which is better than nothing. We are outside, and the opponent is inside. We can continuously manufacture all kinds of ordnance, while the opponent We are trapped in an isolated city, but if one is broken, there will be one less." Zhou Zuhao said.
"Siege vehicles, Mengchong vehicles, and city-striking vehicles, we need to manufacture more. In addition, we can also manufacture some equipment to cover the infantry and reduce casualties." Ouyang Gang said forcefully, "Unfortunately, we can't take a lot of soil here, otherwise , even if we build up soil to attack the city, with our huge advantage in numbers, even if we fill it in, we will completely fill it up."

Zhou Zuhao smiled, "General Ouyang, it seems that we have to stabilize our mentality, and we will slowly grind against our opponents. We still have General Ben's third team. Once he arrives, we will have an absolute advantage in military strength."

Ouyang Gang said with a strong smile: "Then let's hold off for two days and build a large number of these equipment first. The damage rate of these equipment must be extremely high in the event of war. We can't lose the chain when we need it most. ."

"That's natural!" Zhou Zuhao laughed.

Xingzhou Zhou Tong's third counterattack against Xiaoaihe's Ben Kuan's troops, shortly after setting off, they learned that Zhou Zuhao and Ouyang Gangqiang's troops had arrived at Yaque Ridge, and took the lead in launching the attack, taking the forward position , After the troops reached the main village, Ben Kuan's troops changed their marching route, and the whole army stabbed diagonally towards the Xiaoai River, preparing to cut off the connection and return of the Dingzhou Army on the other side of the Yaqueling and Xiaoai River.

Li Feng was riding on the horse, and looked at the direction of Yaque Ridge with some concern. The opponent's main army attacking Yaque Ridge had as many as [-] people. Unstoppable is still an unknown number.Especially since Li Qing was still there, he was even more worried.
"General Li!" Li Tie rode up to Li Feng at a trot. "More than [-] men from the enemy's Ben Kuan's troops are going straight into the Xiaoai River, and it seems that they are planning to cut off the Hengdao Master's retreat."

Li Feng sneered, "He wanted to take advantage of it, so we let him touch his nose. How far is he from us now?"

"Less than fifty miles, the vanguard scout is less than thirty miles away from us."

"Li Tie, bring a sentry and go and eat their scout team for me first." Li Feng gritted his teeth and said, "The other party must think that this section of terrain is not suitable for cavalry to fight on a large scale, but let's give it to them." He was a surprise."

Xingzhou Ben Kuan's troops are based on the original Taizhou soldiers, and then reorganized town troops from other states. The combat effectiveness is more than one level worse than Zhou Zuhao and Ouyang Gangqiang's troops. These town troops passed through some time ago. In order to stabilize the morale of the army, before departure, these soldiers paid a year's salary in advance, heads, money, and various means, and finally stabilized these troops. When the Ministry set off, it was already far behind.
Ben Kuan is also a veteran. He comes from the Luoyang Capital Camp. His family knows his family affairs. He has no confidence at all when he pulls his soldiers up to carry out brutal siege battles, especially when the opponent is the well-known Dingzhou soldiers. , It is said that Dingzhou soldiers are invincible in field battles, but most people forget that when Dingzhou soldiers started, they defended Fuyuan. Tens of thousands of barbarians besieged Fuyuan, where less than 1 people held on. They took a back route, burned food and grass, and even lost Shanglinli, an important military town, and had to leave sadly. It can be said that that battle was the most important strategic turning point for Dingzhou to conquer the barbarians. Turning from defense to offense, he began to attack the barbarians on a large scale. Finally, three years later, he conquered the barbarians who had been rampant on the grassland for thousands of years, and brought the vast grassland under his command.
Since you can't confront Duihe head-on, then you can only play the side drums and knock on the nails.If the Hengdao Master of the Dingzhou Army felt that he could not hold on, then he would naturally choose to break out, cut off the opponent's back, and wait for work here. If he was lucky enough, he might be able to intercept the opponent's remnant army.

When Ben Kuan's small abacus was clanging, his scout team ran into Li Tie's Yizhou cavalry, and they were completely eaten up, and only a few people fled out in embarrassment.
When Li Feng's brigade was preparing to attack, Guo Shanfeng's messenger arrived.

"General Li, there is an urgent message from the general." The messenger was out of breath.
Why did Guoshanfeng suddenly send an urgent order at this time? Li Feng opened the sealed letter in doubt.
"What, General Guo won't allow me to defeat my Ben Kuan's troops?" Li Feng's face changed abruptly, "What does he mean? If Ben Kuan's troops are allowed to cut off the rear, Yaque Ridge will be surrounded by enemies. What does Guoshanfeng mean? Does he want to trap the commander-in-chief to death? What does he want to do? Rebel?" Li Feng became anxious and couldn't choose what to say.

The messenger's face turned pale. Although Li Feng's status is much lower than Guo Shanfeng's, he has a special status. He is Li Qing's half brother, and Li Qing has always loved him very much. , In his rage, he cursed casually, but the messenger didn't dare to say anything more.
"General Guo said, General Li, you can only keep harassing the opponent to keep him from sending more troops to Yaqueling." The messenger stammered.
"This is a disorderly order, I won't listen!" Li Feng shouted violently, stretched out his hand and pulled out his horse, and waited to give the order to the whole army.
The messenger was in a hurry. If he couldn't complete the task, the general would have to chop off his head when he went back. In a hurry, he took a step forward and hugged Li Feng's thigh, "General Li, think twice! Cut!"

"Let go, I don't know if the wind blows through the mountains will kill you or not, if you don't let go, I will kill you right now!" Li Feng said angrily.

"Report!" Not far away was the sound of horses' hooves again, and a messenger galloped up, both the man and the horse were sweating profusely, "General Guo urgently ordered, and General Li Feng accepted the order."

Li Feng looked at the messenger, and his body couldn't help shaking. He clearly saw that the horse inlaid with gems in his hands was exactly Li Qing's daily saber.

The messenger stood high on the horse, held Li Qing's saber in his hand, and said loudly: "The Grand General has orders, if Li Feng does not obey the orders, he can take the Grand Marshal's sword and kill him on the spot."

The eyes of all Li Feng's subordinates swung, and they all looked at Li Feng.Li Feng stayed for a while, looked at Li Qing's saber, gritted his teeth for a while, finally jumped off the horse, strode forward, raised his hands high, bent down and said: "Li Feng obeyed the general's order!" They all let out a long breath.

Guo Shanfeng military camp, Xiong Dehai, Jiang Heiniu, Buyangu and other generals looked at Guo Shanfeng worriedly.Today the generals were ordered to go back to the camp and accept military arrangements. Only then did they know that three days ago, Guo Shanfeng issued several military orders to Li Feng, forcing Li Feng not to attack the Ben Kuan's troops who cut off the Yaque Ridge's return route on a large scale. In the eyes of all the generals, it is unbelievable. Isn't this the death of the commander in chief? If anything happens to the commander in chief, Guoshanfeng will definitely die.
Guo Shanfeng looked as usual, after reviewing some official duties, he raised his head and signaled the generals to sit down, while he stretched himself long and yawned.
"Over the Great General!" Jiang Heiniu couldn't bear it anymore, and asked.

Guo Shanfeng raised a finger and shook it, "I know what you're going to say!"

"Generals, do you think that the orders I gave to Li Feng are a little unbelievable, and I'm trying to kill the general?" Guo Shanfeng asked.

All the generals were silent.
Guo Shanfeng smiled and said, "Do you still suspect in your heart whether I, Guo Shanfeng, have different ambitions and schemes against others?"

The faces of all the generals turned pale, "Don't dare! General Guo is loyal to the lord, I dare not have any thoughts!"

Guo Shanfeng laughed out loud, he was a major general under his command, Jiang Heiniu was originally from Wang Qinian's department, Xiong Dehai was from Hailing camp, and Buyangu was picked by Li Qing himself, although he has a heavy army in his hands, he only needs a little The idea of ​​not being a minister will immediately become a lonely family. How can the lord let him hold the largest group army in Dingzhou without checks and balances?

"This is an order personally issued by the lord after repeated discussions with Guo before leaving. Now it is just issued through my mouth. I have only one master in my past life, and that is the lord. The lord orders, Guo Go through fire and water, do whatever you want, if you have this thought in your mind, and you don’t trust Guo so much, then I will be very disappointed!" I sneered at Guo Shan.
Everyone was shocked, and they all stood up, "I don't know the master's and the general's clever strategy, and I asked the general to show me."

Guo Shanfeng smiled, "Forget it, the battle is imminent, and there is no need to hide it from you. My lord will completely penetrate the Qinling defense line this time and open the door for us to attack Xingzhou. But you all know that the opponents of the Qinling defense line have deployed heavy troops. Fight, even if we win, we will not be able to attack Xingzhou. What's more, beside our couch, there is King Ning, a fierce tiger, on one side. Therefore, my lord is planning this plan, using myself as bait to lure the enemy army ."

"Take body as bait?"

"That's right, let Ben Kuan's troops cut off the Hengdao Master's return route, and at the same time let them unexpectedly discover that the lord is also in the Hengdao Master, creating the illusion that the lord will cut off the return route before he can withdraw from the Hengdao Master. Discovering that the lord is in Yaqueling, Zhou Tong of Xingzhou will definitely storm Yaqueling at all costs. When he finds that the existing troops cannot be taken, he will definitely mobilize heavy troops to support it. The Xingzhou army closest to Yaqueling is Which one?" Guo Shanfeng looked at the generals.

"Huting!" Several people said in unison.
"Yes, Huting, the focus of our attack this time is on Huting, but the premise is that the main force of Huting's defenders is transferred away!"

"Will Song Kaige, the chief general of Huting, let you be?" Jiang Heiniu asked worriedly.
"He won't be fooled, so we will do everything possible to make him fall for it." Guo Shanfeng said, "Ben Kuan's troops cut off the return route from Yaque Ridge. After a few days, the lord will be found there by accident by the opponent. At this time, our Heavy troops will also gather at Xiao Aihe to make a false appearance of rescue and mobilize the Huting garrison. I believe that Song Kaige must have received Zhou Tong's military order at that time. Once Huting moves, our chance will come."

"In the process of our movement, we are building plank roads, crossing Chencang secretly, moving towards the Xiaoai River, and attacking the Huting. Xiong Dehai, you have been moving towards the Xiaoai River, while Buyangu and Jiang Heiniu are moving toward the Xiaoai River. During Aihe's movement, he suddenly turned around and attacked the Huting. The deception in this is to confuse the enemy, so you don't need me to teach you, right?"

"General Guo, if Buyangu and I leave, it will be difficult to hide the sudden departure of so many troops from Song Kaige!"

Guo Shanfeng sneered, "At that time, Song Kaige and his army no longer existed! Xiong Dehai, after you reach Xiaoaihe, join forces with Li Feng, attack Ben Kuan together, and take him down in one fell swoop!"

"General Wang Qinian's Qi Nian Division will launch an attack on the defenders of Anfu Temple fifty miles away from Huting at the same time, so they will not be able to reinforce Huting, Jiang Heiniu, and Buyangu. You must attack Huting with lightning speed. , and then sent troops to flank Anfu Temple to help General Wang remove the enemy troops there, so that the Qinling defense line collapsed, and the enemy troops at other points would have to abandon their defense lines and retreat back to Xingzhou, opening the door for us to attack Xingzhou."

"Follow the order!"

(End of this chapter)