Bai Zhengren led his men to the expedition in July and August.
It is now almost December.
They have been blocked by the Guanluo River natural barrier for nearly two months, and they have been blocked by Wei Zeng's company for nearly a month.
The morale of the Iron-Blooded Army is already low. .
With the destruction of six thousand cavalry, Bai Zhengfa decided to make a desperate move.
Bai Zhengzheng pays attention to the "zhengzi" when using troops to fight.
No matter whether the soldiers are marching, forming formations, or attacking and defending, they all coincide with the art of war.
But winning by surprise is not what he is good at.
If he is given enough time to arrange his troops, the Yanbei Rebels are indeed no match for him.
But he ran out of time.
Xian Jinfei's constant urging letters made him unable to calm down; his jealousy towards Di Xianlan also made him eager to win.
Under the personal command of Bai Zhenggong, more than 60,000 troops formed a formation in front of Wei Zeng's company camp.
Among them, the Chinese army of 20,000 iron-blooded soldiers was the most powerful.
In order to cope with the Iron Blood Army's winter attack, Wei Zeng shrank the main force of the Yanbei Rebel Army here, with a total strength of 80,000.
Sajali was supplemented by fresh troops, and her strength reached 20,000.
Including Zhang Leng's more than 30,000 troops, the coalition's strength for this battle was 1,300,000 to 40,000.
Wei Zeng understood that today was the day of the decisive battle.
If they could withstand the strong attack of the Iron-Blooded Army, the Yanbei Rebels would win this war; if they could not withstand the Iron-Blooded Army's attack, there would be no more Yanbei Rebels.
"The enemy sent people to hold back Miss Sa and Zhang Leng's troops.
It seems that the enemy is planning to attack by force.
I'm afraid the delay these days has made them impatient.
Tell the soldiers that the Iron-Blooded Army will show us today.
The men of Yanbei are so powerful."
Wei Zeng shouted the last sentence, which received a roar of response from the soldiers.
When Bai Zhengheng heard the cheers in the Yanbei rebel camp before the battle started, he felt a little angry.
He immediately ordered the iron-blooded soldiers to fire a volley of heavy crossbows to destroy the morale of the Yanbei rebels.
Bai Zhengzheng waved his flag, and the troops on the left formed a formation of skirmishers, carrying long ladders and pushing rams, and attacked the company camp of the Yanbei Rebel Army.
In order to deal with the rebel company, Bai Zhengzheng mobilized a large number of ballistae and heavy catapults.
Before the infantry charge, there was a burst of projectiles.
Under the attack of ballistae and catapults, cracks appeared on the frozen soil wall of the rebel camp in front.
Under the continuous impact of the ramming vehicle, the wall of the first camp collapsed.
The morale of the Jagged Army was greatly boosted and they immediately rushed into the first camp.
When the enemy attacked, Wei Zeng ordered his crossbowmen to kill the enemy.
However, under the skirmishing formation, the damage caused by the crossbows was limited and failed to stop the enemy's offensive.
When Wei Zeng saw the wall of the first camp collapsed, he immediately ordered the soldiers inside to retreat.
After confirming that the soldiers had retreated, the catapults of the Yanbei rebels also began to show their power.
The soldiers of the Jagged Army captured the first camp without much effort.
Just as they were cheering for victory, rocks and kerosene jars were thrown into the camp.
Some of the stones were soaked in kerosene and ignited.
For a moment, the camp was in flames, and the Iron-Blooded Army was forced to retreat in panic.
Bai Zhengfa watched all this calmly.
He was waiting for Wei Zeng to use all his methods.
He was ready to attack by force, and a certain amount of casualties could be tolerated.
Bai Zhengfa ordered the men and horses on the right to participate in the battle, dividing his troops to attack several camps, so that the Yanbei rebels could not concentrate on throwing stones; the archers and crossbowmen followed the iron-blooded warriors forward, shooting arrows together to cover the infantry attack.
Several camps in front were attacked at the same time, and Wei Zeng did not use the same method again, because losing one camp was no problem, but losing multiple camps was not far from failure.
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The companies and battalions set up by Wei Zeng responded to each other and could support each other in the face of the Iron Blood Army's attack.
Therefore, although the Iron Blood Army's attack was fierce, their battle situation did not make much progress.
Wei Zeng gathered Guanshan Camp in one place to specifically support the camp under attack.
Guanshan Camp was strong in close combat and was even more skilled in defending the camp.
Bai Zhengheng had destroyed five camps of the Yanbei rebels, but he was still far from victory in the war.
The Yanbei rebels had a small camp of 2,000 people and a large camp of 5,000 people.
The 80,000-strong army set up more than 20 large and small camps.
Each of the camps was weak or weak, which caused great obstacles to the Iron Blood Army's attack.
Some camps were heavily defended and were filled with elite troops from the Yanbei Rebel Army.
The Iron-Blooded Army rushed in hastily and caused heavy losses in a burst of fighting.
There are not many people in some camps, but many traps have been set up.
Catapults are also targeting these villages.
If the Iron-Blooded Army attacks them, they will suffer a lot of casualties.
Through observation, Bai Zhengzheng has clearly investigated the deployment of the Yanbei Rebel Army.
He could roughly judge where the catapults were, where the crossbowmen were, and where the elite infantry were.
Of course, the price of all this is thousands of lives.
Bai Zheng adjusted his deployment, and the ballistas and catapults concentrated on attacking the catapults of the Yanbei Rebels.
Several catapult strongholds of the Yanbei Rebels were destroyed in this way.
The iron-blooded soldiers also began to dispatch, cooperating with the infantry to attack the camp where the elite infantry of the Yanbei Rebel Army was located.
The crossbowmen suppressed the crossbowmen of the Yanbei Rebel Army.
Wei Zeng realized that the enemy general was not simple.
Just by observing carefully, he judged the deployment of his troops accurately, and then launched an attack accordingly.
Victory on the battlefield seems to be increasingly favoring the side of the Iron-Blooded Army.
"Let Cha Yi's cavalry attack.
The Iron-Blooded Army is too strong.
We will suffer a lot from such a passive defense.
Only by causing confusion in the enemy's army can we have a chance to win."
Wei Zeng decided to dispatch Gu Cha Yi's cavalry in an attempt to reverse the situation of the war. .
As soon as Gucha received Wei Zeng's order, he led 10,000 cavalry to go around and attack the Iron-blooded Army, trying to cause chaos to the Iron-blooded Army.
Guchayi cooperated with Guanshan Camp a few days ago to eliminate the six thousand cavalry that invaded the hinterland of Yanbei, and now his morale is high.
Both the heavy cavalry and the tug-taking rangers in the cavalry roared and charged towards the rear of the Iron-Blooded Army.
"It's this cavalry again.
But my soldiers are not afraid of cavalry.
I will make you bloody on the battlefield today."
Bai Zhengzheng was well prepared and immediately ordered the 10,000 undispatched iron-blooded soldiers to form a formation to face Gu Chayi's cavalry. .
In order to show that he was stronger than Di Xianlan, Bai Zhengran deliberately did not form a cavalry unit.
Predator warriors are multi-functional infantry.
Whether in plains or mountains, in field battles or sieges, offensive or defensive, they can exert maximum power according to formation changes.
Of course, anti-cavalry is also part of the daily training of iron-blooded soldiers.
Facing the guerrilla attack of Gucha's cavalry, a dozen squads of hundreds of warriors formed a flying geese formation in front of them, and picked up heavy crossbows to attack the wandering cavalry.
Several hundred-man squads at the rear formed an infantry phalanx, picked up their spears and shields, and prepared to block the enemy with a dense infantry phalanx when the cavalry charged.
Gu Chayi learned a big lesson from the last time and asked 10,000 cavalry to disperse and continuously shoot arrows at the camp of iron-blooded warriors.
But against the heavy crossbows and horse bows, the Gucha cavalry did not take advantage at all.
When Gucha saw that he could not confront the iron-blooded soldiers head-on, he decided to bypass these soldiers and attack other iron-blooded armies.
When the iron-blooded warriors saw Gu Chayi's cavalry, they circled in other directions and immediately formed a long snake formation to open the battle line.
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The long snake trembled, and along with the attack direction of Gucha Yi's cavalry, it constantly adjusted its front, protecting the other infantry behind it, allowing Gucha Yi's cavalry to take advantage of it.
When Gucha saw that he could not attack other infantry and that the iron-blooded soldiers formed a long line, he tried to use cavalry to charge through the iron-blooded soldiers' defense line.
When Bai Zhengran saw Gu Chayi's cavalry charging, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and with a wave of his command flag, the soldiers forming a long snake formation in front fired their crossbows and retreated.
The infantry phalanx in the rear and the long snake formation in the front changed their positions, and the front of Guchayi's cavalry became a spear phalanx.
Gu Chayi's cavalry raised their spears flat and broke through the long snake formation in front of them, but he could not break through the spear phalanx in the rear.
At the cost of more than a thousand casualties, Gucha immediately gave the order to retreat.
When Gucha retreated, the original long snake formation was already behind the spear phalanx.
They regrouped and picked up the heavy crossbow to shoot the retreating Gucha cavalry.
"Teach them a lesson and let the Yanbei rebels know that cavalry is not omnipotent on the plains.
My iron-blooded soldiers are the nemesis of the cavalry.
Now without the harassment of these cavalry, let the soldiers attack with all their strength.
Even if they cannot defeat the enemy today, , and ten more companies must be eliminated," Bai Zhengzheng ordered.
When Wei Zeng saw that Guchayi's attack failed, he had no choice but to hold on.
He had no way out now, and retreating to Shifeng City meant failure.
At the end of the day, the fighting between the two sides continued.
The Yanbei rebels struggled to hold on, but they were still captured by the Iron-Blooded Army and captured more than a dozen villages.
Wei Zeng's company camp could no longer hold out for much longer.
It was getting dark, the last ray of sunlight in the dusk faded, and the Iron-Blooded Army finally retreated.
The Yanbei Rebels had a hard day, but neither did the Iron Blood Army.
The result of the strong attack was huge casualties, more than 10,000 casualties in just one day, and some generals could no longer bear it.
"There is no such thing as fighting.
Of the 30,000 people I brought with me, more than 10,000 have died.
It's only been one day.
If this continues, I will be beaten to death."
The commander of the South Road Iron Blood Army counted the casualties of the day.
Finally, he said with some sadness.
"There is no way.
Bai Shuai has given a death order.
If we don't fight, I'm afraid we will be punished by military law.
I heard that General Hu, who had followed Bai Shuai for many years, was killed because of a mistake.
There is nothing we can do.
"A general who was also the main attacker sighed.
"It's not his soldiers who died, so of course he doesn't feel bad.
He must be persuaded.
If the fight continues like this, the morale of the army will be disturbed.
So many people have died, and now everyone under my command is in danger.
General Wu is here With the friendship between General Wu and Bai Shuai, they should be able to persuade him," the commander of Nanlu said reluctantly.
"General Wu has been sent to stop the enemy forces in the north and is not here.
Bai Shuai said that he will defeat the enemy in front of him within three days.
It seems that tomorrow will be another hard battle.
I don't know how many people will die."
The main attack.
The general responded.
"It has been almost five months since we started the expedition.
We should have retreated long ago.
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Commander Xian is really crazy this time.
If we can't defeat the enemy, our military morale will be lost.
I don't know how much I will have left on this journey tomorrow.
People."
The commander-in-chief of South Road sighed helplessly and could only wait for fate.
Wei Zeng was also counting the casualties of the army.
Under the strong attack of the Iron Blood Army, the Yanbei Rebel Army was also having a hard time.
In one day, nearly half of the camp was lost, and there were more than 10,000 casualties.
I don’t know how many days I can last like this.
Just when Wei Zeng was thinking hard about how to resist the Iron Blood Army's attack tomorrow, a man walked into his tent.
"Jiang Luqing, aren't you at Miss Sa's place?
Why did you come to me?"
Wei Zeng said in surprise.
"I heard that the general is fighting hard, so I specially come up with a clever plan to defeat the enemy.
Miss Sa and Zhang Leng are already taking action separately.
I'm here to inform the general."
Jiang Luqing said with a smile.
"If you have any plans, please tell me immediately.
Now is not the time to show off."
Wei Zeng said urgently.
Jiang Luqing immediately told the plan.
Wei Zeng was overjoyed and made arrangements immediately
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