The Yulin army, which includes nearly 30,000 soldiers and auxiliary riders, walks on the wilderness, and occupies a large field of vision from a distance, where the sound of horses' hooves shook the sky and the flags were waved in the wind.
The Yulin Army is a cavalry of the nature of a commando, one person is equipped with two horses, and the knight's baggage is handed over to his own entourage when marching.
Most of them do not wear armor during the march, and they will also ride secondary horses, and only when the peripheral scouts report back to the enemy, will they wear armor and change the main war horse with the help of the retinue.
The 30,000 Yulin Army was the central army, and the front was divided into two groups of Janissaries about five miles apart, each of which was a mixture of 10,000 infantry and cavalry.
The Praetorian Guards do not have support personnel, and they are sent out to remain fully armed, ready to enter combat positions at any time.
This is directly related to the physical strength of humans and horses, after all, they are clearly a kind of "special case".
In addition to the Yulin Army and the Praetorian Guard, walking at the rear was a field corps of 50,000.
Sixty percent of the soldiers in this field corps have just been converted from auxiliaries to combat soldiers, which means that only forty percent are veterans in the true sense.
The chief commander who presided over the battle against Jianjin was Li Tan, who was also the direct commander of the Yulin Army.
This time, the Yulin Army was the main force attacking Jianjin, Li Tan could be said to be with a double mood of excitement and nervousness, he knew the importance of Jianjin, and he knew that it would not be easy to fight.
It is precisely because he knows that it is not easy to fight, Li Tan will be excited, and his understanding is that the king gives himself a difficult task, which is his trust in himself.
And the Yulin Army is actually participating in the war for the first time, doesn't having such a stage show the king's expectations for the Yulin Army "The enemy army has been retreating aggressively for a while, and there is news that Shi Xuan has joined the Chaoge battlefield with a large number of elites, and Huan Wen's troops are facing a situation of being surrounded."
Peng Da is a native of Beihai County, and he joined the Han army relatively late.
It is not luck that he can become Li Tan's lieutenant, and the fact that he joined late and can still have his current achievements is enough to show his ability.
He said in a slightly low voice: "There are also rumors that the battle of Li Kuang's troops in Suoyang City is not going well. ” The Han army tried to form a large encirclement of the Shijie Zhao army in Puyang County, and the two armies crossing the north bank of the Yellow River were relatively smooth in the early stage, but the current situation turned to the disadvantage of the two armies.
"Whether it's Huan Wen or Li Kuang, they all know that there is a possibility of being surrounded when they go deep into the enemy's territory to fight."
Li Tan is only twenty-six years old, and he has too many experiences to appear calm in character.
He said solemnly: "For us, taking the thorn is the only thing. ” "Intelligence shows that the enemy army in Jianjin is no less than 70,000, and the Zhao army in Wenshijin can be quickly reinforced at any time."
Peng Da had to say: "Our goal is Jianjin, and in fact, we have to face all the enemy forces in Jianjin, Wenshijin, Yanjin, and even Fangtou. ” The person who was assigned to be the chief of Li Tan's march was Wang Jian, who was originally the Shangshu order of the Qin state of the Ran clan.
Originally, he had been quietly listening to the conversation between the chief general and the deputy general, and only when he interjected: "Yes, we have to face a large number of enemy troops, and we have to play a major role in responding to and even breaking the siege for Huan Wen's troops." ” The news that Huan Wen is now transmitting to the rear is getting less and less day by day, and he has less than 50,000 people under his command on the Chaoge battlefield, and he can still fight well when facing Cao Fu's subordinates, until the follow-up reinforcements of Shijie Zhao's army arrive, especially after Shi Xuan led the army to join, their situation began to deteriorate sharply.
In the face of the situation of being actually surrounded, it is worth Huan Wen to be fortunate that there is no shortage of grain and military equipment on his side, and having enough food and straw can ensure that morale does not collapse, and no matter how sufficient military equipment is, he can do his best to hold the camp.
The Han army's attack on Jianjin was to seize it, and in a way, it was also to reduce the pressure on Huan Wen's department.
The high-level of the Han army originally thought that the attack on Jianjin needed to break through layer by layer, but things were somewhat unexpected, Shijie Zhao Army was in a comprehensive retreat, and the north bank of the Yellow River was only to keep Baima and Wenshijin, and the rest of the places were voluntarily abandoned.
As the chief historian of the battle against Shijie Zhao, Ji Chang had already informed the civil and military forces who needed to know, and believed that Shi Hu most likely wanted to use Jianjin as the decisive battle, and the venue of the battle between the two sides was around Jianjin, covering the north and south banks of the Yellow River.
"Nature."
Li Tan had already seen a fast rider coming in front of him, and he said, "Shi Hu is sure that we won't easily destroy those bridges." ” Hundreds of years have passed since the bridges built during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and they are the main bridges connecting the two banks of the Yellow River, and the Han army did not want to take only the land on the south bank of the Yellow River, and it is certain that those bridges will not be destroyed for future military purposes.
In fact, the three bridges on this side of Jianjin are not the oldest one, they are the ancient pre-Qin period Qin Gongzi Gong Gong in 541 BC, once built a bridge on the Yellow River in the east of Shaanxi Province.
Behind the bridge was the main communication line for the Zhao State, which became one of the three Jin Kingdoms, to attack the Zhongshan State, and it was used until the Eastern Han Dynasty Xiaohe Emperor Liu Zhao was destroyed, so it took more than 600 years from construction to destruction.
Everyone thinks that the end of the war on the side of Puyang County is the moment to march into Yecheng and Xiangguo, so everyone will be full of energy to do more and make enough meritorious deeds.
The fast horseman who passed on the military information came to the edge of Li Tan and did not dismount, and the knight saluted on horseback and said: "Tell General Lang that the enemy army has been found thirty miles ahead, and the preliminary visual inspection should be 50,000 horsemen. ” This army is walking along the south bank of the Yellow River, and must have passed through Baima, so it can be guessed that the Shijie Zhao army that blocked the way was from Baima Li Tan nodded to indicate that he knew, and waited for the fast ride to leave, he looked at Wang Jian and said, "Changshi, the enemy army really came to intercept it." ” "It won't be just fifty thousand."
Wang Jian said firmly: "Looking at Shi Hu's recent movements, there is a tendency to retreat directly to the north bank of the Great River, so the enemy army of Baima will definitely take the initiative to leave the city."
There are 80,000 Zhao troops in Baima, 70,000 in Wenshijin, and plus the Zhao army that Shi Hu has urgently transferred from all over the world recently, they will be the first enemy troops to engage us. ” Recently, both the Han army and the Shijie Zhao army have been mobilized very frequently, and it is extremely difficult for the two sides to fully grasp each other's dynamics, so that the Han army does not know how many Shijie Zhao troops there are on the south bank of the Yellow River, and what kind of goods those Shijie Zhao troops belong to.
There are discrepancies in the data that Wang Jian just said, for example, there are not so many Zhao troops on the south bank of the Yellow River for a long time, and most of the troops of the Qi people on the side of Puyang County have withdrawn to the north bank of the Yellow River, and it is the miscellaneous Zhao army that was originally on the periphery that has been replaced.
Li Tan naturally didn't know what kind of enemy army he was going to face, and the first time he was the leader of a side, he would be cautious, as if the first order he gave after discovering the enemy army was to send the necessary light cavalry to test first, and the main force still maintained the original speed to advance.
Peng Da looked up at the sky and said, "It should be around three o'clock now, close to ten o'clock, and the official contact ahead will take place after one o'clock in the afternoon to three o'clock in the afternoon." ” Their total strength along the way is 100,000, excluding non-combat soldiers is 55,000, just in the face of 50,000 enemy troops are not frightened, what needs to be considered is that the enemy army has reinforcements at any time, but their own side will not have them.
According to Ji Chang's arrangement, although the capture of Thornjin is the key, it is impossible to seize it by a surprise attack.
The reason is that the Shijie Zhao army attaches great importance to Jianjin, there are a large number of Shijie Zhao troops stationed there early, and there are Longteng guards and Donggong Gaoli to join, and it is not something that can be done by a surprise attack to capture Jianjin, so you can only rely on frontal advancement and the cooperation of the naval army.
Li Tan was asking where his fleet was.
"There's no latest news yet."
Wang Jian silently calculated and said, "We are still seventy miles away from Jianjin, and the fleet should be further behind. ” In fact, the speed of the fleet on the waterway is faster than that on land, but only the arrival of the fleet in Thamjin does not have much effect, and it should be regarded as a joint amphibious operation when both arrive.
It was not that the Han army did not consider using the waterway to transport troops to fight, but long-distance water transportation would cause the soldiers to be physically unwell, so a similar plan was not carried out.
Li Tan got new news later, and the original 50,000 enemy troops who seemed to be blocking the road withdrew after a false shot.
"They" Li Tan said to Wang Jian with great suspicion: "Shouldn't we observe the white horse?"
Wang Jian immediately nodded: "The enemy's actions are strange, and it is very likely that the white horse has been abandoned, so it is the right person to send someone to observe." ” The following temptation proved that the enemy forces of the white horse had disappeared, and Shi Hu abandoned the white horse after destroying all the fortifications he could.
Not only the White Horse, but also some of the garrisons west of the White Horse should have been destroyed, and there was no trace of Shijie Zhao Jun along the way.
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"They don't set fire because they don't want us to notice in advance" Wang Jian was not happy because the advance was smooth, but with extreme caution: "There is no news from Wen Shijin's side, but looking at Shi Hu's actions, they are going to concentrate their forces", his thinking is a little chaotic now, but he thought in silence halfway through.
Li Tan sent the news back to the rear and continued to advance with his troops.
In the evening, he went to the scout to send back a puzzling news, that is, Shi Hu even Wen Shijin had voluntarily given up.
Li Tan's Han army was encamped on the east side of Wenshijin, about 20 miles east, and he called a meeting of the generals and schools, and the first sentence said: "According to the collected information, the enemy army in Jianjin has no less than 200,000. ” "Shi Hu's courage is really great" Wang Jian saluted Li Tan first, and then said: "With Jianjin as the center, the south bank has become a large camp within ten miles, and the camp on the north bank is even wider. ” The people who heard the news were basically looking for people to look at each other, and they were given the task of capturing the enemy army that had cleared the obstacles to advance.
Now they have not fought a decent battle with Shijie Zhao Army, and they have smoothly approached Wen Shijin, but the situation they are facing is grim.
The news from the front should naturally be urgently transmitted to the rear, and it was almost the next day that Liu Yan received a report from Li Tan, and Li Tan's leading troops along the way had arrived within fifteen miles of Jianjin, and what they saw was a huge camp that was so big that it was boundless.
There are several key points in the information gathered by Liu Yan, Shi Hu took the initiative to give up a large amount of land in Puyang County, and the situation of the two Han armies on the north bank of the Yellow River is getting worse and worse.
"Li Kuang's road is fine, Huan Wen's side" Ji Chang had just finished reading some information, and said with a wry smile: "Huan Wen's more than 40,000 people are surrounded by nearly 150,000 enemy troops, and the enemy army is attacking.
The number of enemy troops who will join the attack will be even greater, isn't it that we are too big before the minister?"
Chaoge's position is quite critical, not only can it cut off the back road of Thorn Jin, but it can also be used as a nail as long as Huan Wen's department is not destroyed.
In this way, Shi Hu worked hard to eliminate Huan Wen's department, and it became inevitable.
Whether it was Huan Wen's department or Li Kuang's department, they crossed the north bank of the Yellow River with the task of forming an encirclement, and it was also the main intention of attracting the enemy army, which is equivalent to saying that they had to have the consciousness of being encircled from the beginning, the difference was how determined Shi Hu was to destroy them, and how many Shijie Zhao troops were used.
"Isn't it expected" Liu Yan looked very relaxed, he looked at Ji Chang, who was a little worried, and said: "It seems that Shi Hu is most targeted at Huan Wen's department, can it be explained that the importance of Chao Ge is not evaluated wrongly" Ji Chang bowed his head at first, and then couldn't help but continue to have a bitter face, and said: "Shi Hu decisively gave up the south bank and concentrated his forces on the Jianjin side.
Originally, it was intended to let Xie An enter the battlefield from the flank after the decisive battle was launched, but now is it not for Xie An's troops to go to meet with Huan Wen's troops?"
Xie An's troops were attacking Hanoi from Xingyang County, and their current position was east of Shanyang Jiaozuo, and they could reach Chaoge in two days at the earliest.
"Tai'an."
Liu Yan knew that Ji Chang was really worried that Huan Wen's troops would be eaten, and it would become the first Han army to be annihilated by the whole system.
He stood up and walked to the side of the mountains and rivers, nodded at the Yellow River, and said: "The waterway is on our side, and the original intention of seizing Jianjin is to cut off Shihu's back road.
Shi Hu has now run to the north bank of the Yellow River, and our encirclement strategy has actually gone bankrupt" Liu Yan's words were not finished, and Ji Chang over there was already full of shame.
That's right, the battle plan on the Han side's side has always revolved around trapping Shi Hu.
Shi Hu didn't react in front, but Shi Hu reacted very decisively, which is equivalent to the bankruptcy of the siege plan, but it doesn't mean that all the plans are bankrupt, at least Shi Hu didn't withdraw and fled far away, isn't it still on the north shore of Jianjin "It's not our only way to cross the river."
Liu Yan doesn't have too much psychology of gains and losses, and still maintains enough self-confidence: "As long as the waterway is firmly in your hands, you can't cross the river to the north."
"Your Majesty."
Ji Chang probably adjusted his mood, and the expression on his face was a little ruthless: "Shi Hu obviously wants to take Jianjin as the center, and he will still give up after holding on for a period of time.