On August 23, the fifth day of the loss of Xiongxian, the army of Zhu Di, the king of Yan, launched its first attack on Geng Bingwen's camp.
The offensive was not violent, taking advantage of the fog in the morning, Zhu Di launched a sneak attack, the two sides only made a short exchange, and the exchange of troops took less than an hour, because of a sudden heavy rain, the two sides withdrew their troops.
Geng Bingwen is a veteran of the battlefield, with rich combat experience, and knows that this battle is just foreplay, Yan Wang Zhu Di is trying to attack this time, and next time it will not be so sparse, Yan Wang does not have much grain and grass, and there are not enough guards to transport grain and grass from Beiping here, and his supplies mainly rely on going south all the way to rob the treasury of the government in various places, so he will not confront the imperial army here for a long time, and the next battle is likely to be earth-shattering.
Therefore, General Geng braved the torrential rain to inspect the whole battalion, mobilized all his troops, and was ready to fight at any time.
The torrential rain did not stop until evening, and the river swelled like a cow roaring eastward.
In Geng Bingwen's barracks, all the soldiers waited for the night and never slept at all, even the ordinary soldiers knew that this rainstorm washed away many fortifications and the roads were muddy, although the road conditions were unfavorable to both sides, but the Yan King had fewer soldiers and more court soldiers, and this unfavorable factor obviously had a greater impact on the court side.
However, after a night of waiting, he did not wait for King Yan's soldiers, and it was not until dawn in the east that Geng Bingwen lifted his guard.
When the sun was in the sky, the smoke of cooking in the camp of King Yan was a moment earlier than Geng Bingwen's barracks, Geng Bingwen climbed the watchtower and observed it carefully for a long time, and then he slowly went down, since King Yan was not in a hurry to attack, he would not be in a hurry, the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it was to King Yan, compared to those young generals who were in a hurry, this veteran was very calm.
However, at noon, three cannons rang out in the Yanwang camp, and the army broke through the camp, shouting and roaring, like the raging Hutuo River, and launched an all-out attack on Geng Bingwen's military camp.
Geng Bingwen climbed the watchtower, looked high and far away, and commanded like a certainty.
Under his orders, the banners changed, and the generals were transmitted to the armies in an accurate and timely manner, and the soldiers and horses from all walks of life attacked and defended in an orderly manner under the command and dispatch of Geng Bingwen, and his military camp was always a rock, allowing the Yan army to come like a flood, and it was always immovable.
Suddenly, an arrow-like team attracted Geng Bingwen's attention, there were two big flags in that team, one flag was called "Yan", and the other flag was called "Di", Geng Bingwen hurriedly took two steps forward, held the board of the watchtower tightly with both hands, and muttered to himself: "It's King Yan, King Yan Zhu Di personally went out" I have long heard that Zhu Di, the king of Yan, must take the lead in every battle, and I thought that it was the general of the border army who invited the king of Yan to take credit, and deliberately greeted the horse in the battle report, and then saw the banner of the word "Di" on behalf of the king of Yan himself, Geng Bingwen believed that the rumors were true.
Geng Bingwen's heart jumped involuntarily, he stared intently at the team led by Zhu Di, the king of Yan, from a visual inspection, the strength of this force should be about 4,000 people, all cavalry, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, personally led the elite cavalry to pounce on the Fengzi battalion in the southeast corner, Geng Bingwen immediately raised his hand and ordered: "Fengzi battalion, arrows meet the enemy, behind the sword and shield palace, and then deploy a gun array, three-line interception, don't let Yan reverse step into half a step, violators, behead" "Hulala" The banner fluttered on the watchtower, and the Fengzi battalion hurriedly mobilized the troops and horses in accordance with the commander's order, but the Yan King came violently, but it was like a dragonfly dotting the water, and the arrow rain in the southeast military camp just flew into the air like a dark cloud, and the Yan King rushed forward as if he suddenly hit a wall invisible to the naked eye, and turned the horse's head with a brush, almost without a moment's pause, and then drew a scimitar-like arc, sharply cutting to the glyph in the southwest corner.
"Good riding skills, so neat and uniform, really well-trained, this must be the elite of the Northern Army, maybe it is the iron cavalry among the famous Yanshan Three Guards" Geng Bingwen stood on the watchtower and looked at the score, and couldn't help but secretly praise, but he didn't think so about King Yan's feint to attack the Fengzi camp, and then use the rapid characteristics of the cavalry to raid the location camp, his defensive front was impenetrable, how could it be broken by such a simple trick.
In particular, King Yan actually chose the Dizi Battalion, the Dizi Camp is in the southwest direction, and it is the southwest wind blowing today, which is not conducive to the power of the defenders' arrows Old General Geng threw his long beard, and a slight smile appeared on his cold face: "Herald the word battalion" In the ground word camp, the prefect of Wei and the order of Xu County copied their hands, stood on the high place of the back camp, crossed their feet and watched from afar, seeing the iron horse of King Yan coming at a gallop, although it was still far away, I don't know how many layers of soldiers stood in the middle of the swords and guns, reflecting the cold, the prefect of Wei still had some palpitations.
Xu Zhixian looked at his immediate boss and comforted: "Your Excellency has to worry in a hurry, this is neither Zhuozhou nor Xiongxian, General Geng has fought all his life, how can it be good to get along, besides, there are 100,000 troops here, a whole 100,000 army, how can King Yan be able to fight?"
Wei Zhifu coughed and said: "Cough, this official is naturally not afraid, but the enemy army is fierce, and this official is worried about the soldiers in front." ” Wei Zhifu put on a compassionate face, and sighed: "Whoever has no parents, who has no wife and children, is not a captive, they are all my Ming people, but they are all fighting and killing each other, and the official is sad for it."
As soon as he said this, he saw a bearded man leading a dozen soldiers walking towards this side, and when Wei Zhifu saw him, he waved and smiled: "Xiao Xia, where are you going?"
This person came to be Xia Xu, who fled to Geng Bingwen's camp with him, Xia Xu stood still, arched his hand to him and smiled: "Aha, it turned out to be Lord Wei and Lord Xu, seeing the Yan army surging down, I had the heart to step forward to help the battle, but Lord Hong was afraid that our brother would mess up his own formation, so he didn't agree, and only asked us to watch the battle."
As Xia Xu spoke, the dozen or so people he brought had already divided into several tents nearby, which were the back camp of the Dizi Battalion, where the grain and grass were stored, and the surrounding tents were either for storing military grain and oil, or for the soldiers of the battalion to cook food and vegetables.
Xu Xianling said with a smile: "Captain Xia has the heart to kill the enemy and serve the country, and his loyalty is commendable." ” Xia Xun looked up at the two officials standing on the stage, crossed his waist and smiled: "Yes, since Commander Hong is not allowed, he has to help him by himself." ” Wei Zhifu said strangely: "How does Captain Xia plan to help General Yuhong?"
Xia Xu smiled: "That's it" Wei Zhifu looked in the direction he was pointing, and couldn't help jumping up: "Oh no, it's on fire."
I saw that on a tent next to me, there was already a sudden flame, and a soldier brought by Xia Xu ran out of the tent with two barrels of oil, walked to the side, and threw it on the pile of horses and grass.
At the same time, several tents were burning and smoke was rising, and Governor Wei looked at Xia Xu with straight eyes, and said in horror: "You, you, you, you're crazy, why are you setting fire to the tents?"
On the side, Xu Zhixian had already reacted, he pulled the sleeve of the Wei prefect, stepped back in fear, and said in a trembling voice as he retreated: "You are the people of King Yan."
At this time, the southwest wind is blowing, in fact, it has been a southwest wind for the past few days, and today's wind is particularly strong, although the firewood and grass are covered with rain cloths, but yesterday there was a heavy rain, so that the firewood and grass became very damp, poured oil and ignited a fire, thick smoke rolled, and quickly drifted forward, and the ground word camp was instantly filled like a fog that pulled the sky and the earth, and it was almost impossible to see people five steps away.
The commander of the Dizi Yinghong was concentrating on commanding the whole army to fight with the Yan army's iron cavalry, and suddenly saw the billowing smoke coming, and he was not surprised, he looked back and wondered: "What happened?"
Zhang Bao, who had been following Commander Hong and pretending to watch the enemy's formation, couldn't help but draw his saber, his hand raised and fell, and then flashed into the smoke, and shouted: "Hong Yu is back, Hong Yu is back, Hong Yu is back, Hong Yu is going to King Yan."
The Ming army of the Dizi Battalion was shocked when they heard the news, but they couldn't see anything, and they couldn't hear General Hong's rebuttal, and the army was in turmoil, and Zhang Bao's personal soldiers, who had already spread like ghosts, were like ghosts, and they picked out the generals at all levels through the chaos and smoke.
The changes here were also seen by Geng Bingwen, who was standing on the watchtower, and he immediately realized that Zhang Bao had already taken refuge in King Yan, and he simply cheated into his own military camp and gave himself a trick to dig out the heart of a black tiger.
Geng Bingwen hurriedly ordered all battalions to go to aid and be on guard, but all battalions were originally unanimous to the outside world, where was there time to adjust in a hurry, and besides, the generals of the Yan army outside, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng, Tan Yuan, Ma Yun, Gu Cheng and others each led the crowd to attack, how can you allow you to draw troops back to help, and no matter how strict Geng Bingwen's deployment is, it is also external, how can there be many obstacles between the battalions Therefore, Geng Bingwen could only watch as King Yan's iron cavalry broke through the defense line of the Dizi Battalion, slaughtered into the dense fog, and after a while, he kicked the camp and pounced into the Muzi Camp from the flank, and the two camps were broken in an instant, chaos and fear were like dominoes, quickly causing a chain reaction in Geng Bingwen's originally impregnable camp, and the offensive and defensive battles had developed towards inevitable hand-to-hand combat.
Geng Bingwen gritted his teeth, turned around and walked downstairs Zhu Di is still the first horse this time, breaking through the ground word camp, after breaking through the wooden word camp, he did not stop for a moment, led the iron cavalry across the entire enemy formation, and made Geng Bingwen's camp turn over a mess on his back, Geng Bingwen, who was over sixty years old, was furious, personally got on the horse, raised a gun to meet the enemy, at this moment because of internal erosion, Zhang Yu, Zhu Neng and others have successively broken into Geng Bingwen's camp, Zhang Yu crossed the horse and carried a gun to break into the enemy camp, just to meet the veteran Geng Bingwen.
Old man doesn't use his muscles and bones as his ability, even if Geng Bingwen is a hero, how can he fight with manpower at this moment, not to mention Zhang Yu's kung fu, under the command of King Yan, he is also one of the best brave generals.
Since ancient times, there are famous generals in their seventies and eighties who are still in command of the battle, but if you want him to charge into the battlefield to kill the enemy, then you can only have a look in the commentary.
"Defeated the old man's reputation and ruined it in one fell swoop" Changxing Hou was heartbroken, and retreated and refused, seeing the southward direction of the Shuai Banner, the entire Ming army was shaken, but behind them was the Hutuo River, the Hutuo River was surging, many wooden bridges and pontoons were washed away by the flood, where could they retreat To be continued: