Chapter 524 Demonstration
Zhao Yingqi admired Liang Xiao's personality very much and admitted that the cavalry in Nanyue was not as powerful as the Central Plains. The strength of the cavalry was determined by an important factor: war horses. Dian horses could carry heavy loads and climb mountains, but as war horses, it was obviously incomparable to the Central Plains dynasty that had just conquered the grasslands.
However, Liang Xiao said that the Han Dynasty's navy was also stronger than Nanyue, and Zhao Yingqi was very dissatisfied. On the one hand, it was out of face that Nanyue could bow to the Central Plains, but it had to retain a little dignity; on the other hand, it was out of facts. In his opinion, although the Central Plains dynasty had tower ships, the tower ships were not suitable for combat ships in addition to the large load capacity. In terms of navigators, of course, Nanyue had advantages.
Out of respect for Liang Xiao himself, Zhao Yingqi did not refute in person and left it to prove it.
However, the Han army had not made any further moves, and after half a month of training and did not launch an attack. Zhao Yingqi was anxious and was so angry that he scolded Yu Shan for being incompetent. He had the advantageous force and watched his opponent show his power, but he was reluctant to attack. He was indeed a coward.
Liang Xiao looked at Zhao Yingqi jumping up and down, and found it funny. He could roughly guess Zhao Yingqi’s thoughts, but he also knew that Zhao Yingqi’s hope was just a bubble after all. Forty years ago, Zhao Tuo had the opportunity to compete with the Central Dynasty. Now, the strength of the Han Dynasty is no longer as good as before and is no longer something that Nanyue can compete with. The point of the military front will become the territory of the Han Dynasty. This is an inevitable trend and cannot be saved by anyone.
So what about me? Where can I retreat to be considered safe? Liang Xiao couldn't help but ask himself. He raised his head and looked into the distance. On the other side of the strait, there is a treasure island, but is it considered safe to retreat overseas?
Liang Xiao expressed doubts.
Zhao Yingqi was anxious when he waited, and Yu Shan was also anxious. The longer he waited, the greater the pressure. In the end, he failed to withstand the pressure and took the initiative to attack Wei Qing, and Wu was attacked. He left 10,000 troops to guard the camp and personally led 15,000 infantry out of the camp. Xiang Wei Qing, Wu was challenged.
The two sides fought a decisive battle in a piece of Han area in Greater Henan.
Upon receiving the news, Liang Xiao led Zhao Yingqi and rushed to the mountains near the battlefield to watch the battle under the protection of more than a hundred knights. He believed that Wei Qing could understand his meaning and fight this battle beautifully, which would serve as a warning to Zhao Yingqi. If such a scene is not watched from close range, the shocking power will be greatly reduced.
The war horses were abandoned under Nanban. Liang Xiao and Zhao Yingqi walked up the ridge and climbed a huge rock. There was a dense shade of trees beside the huge rock, just blocking the dazzling sunshine. Looking from a high place, you can overlook the entire battlefield, but you will not be suspected of being injured by accident. It is really an excellent location only for a VIP.
Liang Xiao and Zhao Yingqi looked at each other, grinned, raised their eyes and observed the battlefield.
Yu Shan stood up in the east and divided the army into four parts. He led the central army, with about 5,000 people, and the front army also had 5,000 people in a row, with five square formations in front, two and three behind. He faced the three thousand infantrymen led by the army, and two and two of the right armies in the back, and the left wing was a river that was a hundred steps wide, and there was no cover.
Liang Xiao pointed Qianli's eyes at Yu Shan's camp again. The camp gate was closed, and the flags could be vaguely fluttered, revealing indescribable tension.
"Your Highness, how many people do you think are there in the camp?"
Zhao Yingqi thought for a while. "There should be no less than 10,000 people."
"Why did Yu Shan keep so many people in the camp?"
Zhao Yingqi let out a sigh and pondered for a moment: "He should be afraid that we will attack the camp. Hehe, it's really prudent to leave so many people to guard the camp."
"He is not cautious. He is afraid." Liang Xiao pointed Qianliyan at Yu Shan's battle formation again. "The arrangement of troops is generally real, external and internal. The number of the central army cannot be too large. There must be enough space for mobility. He concentrated nearly one-third of his troops in the central army, which means that he has no confidence to block the attack of the Han army and has to arrange heavy troops by his side. In other words, although he has superior troops, he has set himself on the defensive psychologically."
Zhao Yingqi nodded repeatedly. Although he had read some military books and participated in some reviews, his experience in visiting the battlefield was limited, and he could get Liang Xiao’s on-site commentary and analysis, which of course he benefited a lot.
"It will be the courage of a military army. Yu Shan is guilty and tends to be conservative in tactics. This will inevitably affect the rhythm of the battle and be in a passive situation."
"Yu Shan has the advantageous force, and gave up the attack and defended according to the formation. Can the Han army break through his formation?"
Liang Xiao raised the corner of his mouth slightly. "Did you notice the cavalry?"
Zhao Yingqi shook his head. He looked for a long time but didn't see where the cavalry was. The Han army had a thousand elite cavalry, but there were almost no established cavalry except for scouts running back and forth on the battlefield. He was very curious, where did those cavalry go?
"Where have the cavalry gone?"
"I don't know either, but I believe that the cavalry will appear in a way you can't imagine, and when it appears, it will inevitably be a thunder blow."
Zhao Yingqi wanted to speak but stopped. He never denied the power of the cavalry. He also wanted to take this opportunity to see if the cavalry of the Central Plains dynasty was as powerful as Liang Xiao said, and was enough to crush the cavalry of the South Vietnamese.
The sound of war drums sounded and the battle began. The situation was as Liang Xiao said. Although Yu Shan had five times the superior force, he did not take the initiative to attack. He just firmly held his position and seemed to be waiting for the beating. Instead, only three thousand people were attacked. Two teams with 200 each rose to their own formation and formed a horn to tentatively attack the two wings of the front military formation of the Minyue Army.
The Minyue Army guarded its positions closely and remained unmoved.
Wu Que was not in a hurry, and kept adjusting the direction of the attack and teasing the Fujian and Yue army. Seeing that the two 200-man teams failed to attack, they simply sat down in front of the formation, untied their armor, chatted while cursing the formation. Liang Xiao and others were too far away to hear what they were scolding, but they could imagine what those people would say.
Zhao Yingqi shook his head when he saw it. Yu Shanzhen was extremely cowardly. He was so insulted that he was still indifferent.
The progress of the war became a little boring. Both sides were ready to fight, but they did not launch a real attack for a long time. The Han soldiers who were scolding the formation were even lying on the ground. I don’t know if they were asleep. The Fujian and Yue army still did not move. There were only low sounds of war drums ringing one after another, which seemed a little bored.
Zhao Yingqi's freshness had passed. He yawned, turned over and leaned on the huge rock, and took a nap.
Liang Xiao was still sitting, but he also let down his clairvoyance. The battlefield seemed to have been frozen, and there was no change. He thought about Wei Qing in his heart and the possible deployment of Wu, but he could not think of any plan for them to win. After all, the gap between the forces between the two sides was huge, and even if the Han army was good at fighting, it would be difficult to win easily.
Should they use the strategy of the exhausted army to drag Yu Shan to exhaustion and then attack?
Liang Xiao raised his eyes again, aimed at Wu Que's position, and looked carefully. After looking at it for a while, he laughed silently, and couldn't help but slap the table for Wu Que's boldness. Wu Que's position seemed to have 3,000 people, but in fact there were only half at most, with people in front and flags behind. In fact, it was a false formation. If Yu Shan had been bolder and took the initiative to attack, Wu Que's empty city plan would have been broken long ago.
It seems that Wu Que also expected Yu Shan to feel guilty, so he played this trick.
Since it is an empty formation, where is the real killer move? Liang Xiao's eyes extended behind Wu Que, between the mountains.
The two sides confronted each other for a day until the sunset hung on the west mountain. As the day of unbearable stalemate was about to end, the lifeless Minyue Army finally became a little more angry. Zhao Yingqi, who had been sleeping for most of the day, also opened his eyes and looked around. He yawned and said, "Is this going to end?"
Liang Xiao shook his head and didn't say anything. He felt that it shouldn't be over, but he couldn't see what arrangements would be for Wu Que.
At this moment, Beta suddenly pointed to the distance and said, "Master, look, the tower ship."
Liang Xiao immediately stood up, raised his eyes and looked into the distance.
A tower ship walked around the mountains and along the river, and at an extremely fast speed. Then another tower ship appeared in sight, followed by another. Liang Xiao raised his eyebrows, understood the intention of the quilt, and couldn't help but smile.
He used the empty array to hold Yu Shan here for a day, and was very nervous. When it was about to end and people returned, they launched another attack, and launched an attack from the river. Yu Shan must have never imagined it.
The river is a hundred steps wide, although it is not very deep, but it is difficult for the people to wade through the water. It was precisely because of this that Yu Shan took this into consideration that it reduced the cover of the left wing. At this moment, Wu was transported directly to Yu Shan by a building boat, which was indeed a strange trick.
However, it is easy to transport troops with a tower ship, but it is not that easy to launch an attack on the tower ship. What else can be done about the marquis?
Liang Xiao was very interested and wanted to see what tricks the Wu, who was known as the "Two Quilts in Huainan" and the Wu was used by Wu, who defeated the more with less. Zhao Yingqi also saw the boat, guessed the intention of the Wu Quilt, and even saw the panic of the Minyue Army, and couldn't help but swear.
At this moment, all thirteen tower ships appeared in the sight of Liang Xiao and others, and went upstream and rushed straight towards Yu Shan's left wing of the central army. Yu Shan also discovered the tower ship and realized Wu Que's intention and was extremely nervous. He immediately commanded the central army to move south, and at the same time ordered the front and rear left wings and rear wings to move north, forming an intercepting formation to prevent the Han army on the tower ship from disembarking.
At the same time, Wu was launched an attack, and more than a thousand infantry rushed out of the battle formation and bravely rushed towards the front army of the Fujian Yue Army.
For a moment, the war drums thundered and the flags were flying. The battlefield that had been silent for a day seemed to suddenly come alive. The drums shook the sky, and the shouts of killing came one after another.
The Minyue Army changed its formation, and the scene was a bit chaotic.
Liang Xiao looked at the Minyue Army who was changing formations, tilted his mouth and laughed. At this time, he finally guessed the plan of Wu Se and others, and couldn't help but applaud the plan.
"Where are the cavalrymen on the building boat?"
Liang Xiao shook his head. "There should be few people on the building boat, at most some archers, otherwise the draft will be too deep and it will be easy to get stranded. Judging from the draft of these building boats, the cavalry should not be on the building boat."
"Where is that?"
Liang Xiao kept it a secret. "Wait patiently, the cavalry will appear soon. Of course, you can also guess. The answer has actually been revealed, it depends on whether you can see through it."
Zhao Yingqi curled his lips, raised his eyes and observed the battle formation carefully.
At this time, the camp of the Minyue Army was in chaos. The central army was moving south, the rear army and the front army were running northward, setting up formations along the river to prevent the tower ship from docking. The tower ship was moving up, parallel to the central army of the Minyue Army. Thirteen tower ships lined up in a row and kept approaching the river bank. The two sides were only forty or fifty steps apart, and all the archers pulled out their crossbows, shooting with all their might, and the arrows crossed, covering the sky and the sun.
The first thousand-man phalanx of the front army was fought with the army, and more than two thousand people were killed together, and the shouts of killing were earth-shaking.
The battle was fierce, and no one noticed that as the rear army arrived at the river to set up a formation, the rear of the Minyue Army had lost its protection and became the weakest link.
Following the prominent corner of the central army, Liang Xiao looked into the distance.
Sure enough, there were crowds of figures on the distant mountains. Horses rushed out of the valley and accelerated along the gentle slope of the river bank. The ones rushing in front were Han Shuo and the hundreds of Langguans who were commanded by him, followed by Wei Qing's battle flag. The sound of horse hooves became more and more rapid, and gradually formed a rushing craze and rushed towards Yu Shan's central army.
"Okay!" Liang Xiao slapped his thigh and shouted loudly.
"It's so cruel." Zhao Yingqi was stunned at the fast-running cavalry. At this time, he understood the combat intentions of the Han army. The previous infantry confrontation and later tower ships were actually all pretexts, with only one purpose: to create opportunities for assault for cavalry.
At this moment, Yu Shan's entire attention was on the front army and the battlefield by the river. The formation of the Minyue Army had not been adjusted yet. Even if Yu Shan saw the cavalry, he had no time to react. The only thing he could do was to let two thousand people on the right wing come forward to intercept them. However, the cavalry came so quickly that the Minyue Army on the right wing had no time to act. If he could not line up, even if he arrived at the position, he could not stop the impact of the cavalry and lost these people in vain.
Liang Xiao was right, the cavalry would appear in ways he could not imagine, and it would be a thunder strike once it appeared.
Under Zhao Yingqi's gaze, Han Shuo and others took the lead, rushed down the hillside, ran wildly along the river, shooting a rain of arrows, and then rushed towards the central army of the Minyue Army. Behind them, the cavalry rushed over like a tide breaking the dam, washing away the formation of the Minyue Army.
The Fujian-Yue Army changed its formation when it was about to fight, and it was already a little chaotic. When the cavalry suddenly appeared behind him, it was even more frightened. The attacked rear army collapsed first, and then the central army also experienced irreversible chaos. As more and more cavalry rushed over, more and more arrows shot into the formation, the Fujian-Yue Central Army quickly lost control, and many people began to retreat eastward.
Although there were not many cavalrymen, the Fujian Yue Army was already afraid of being beaten by the cavalry, and they had a psychological shadow. When they saw the cavalry appear, they were afraid of it three points first. They stood on the flat ground and could not see how many cavalrymen the Han army had. They only knew that the dense things in front of them were all, and the fear in their hearts was invisibly magnified several times.
If Yu Shan was calm enough at this time, he might have a chance to control the situation. Unfortunately, he had too little experience in commanding the front line, and all of them were failed. When he saw the cavalry suddenly behind him, he was already in trouble, so he could not consider getting anything else.
In a moment, the Fujian and Yue army fell into full chaos.
The cavalry was like a flood peak, hitting the central army of the Fujian Yue army again and again, and fear continued to spread.
In just three rounds, the central army of the Minyue Army collapsed. Wherever the cavalry went, the Minyue Army fled in scattered, calling the sky and the earth, and the pigs rushed to the wolf. ——
(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!