Shi Zhuang's guess is not wrong at all.

Zhu Youzhen wants to strive for victory with all his might.

The current situation is not advisable for him, because once the stalemate falls, more and more Tang soldiers will gather here.

Seeing that the Southern Alliance was about to be defeated, once Li Ze cleaned up Xiang Zhen and his gang, he would turn around and attack Yizhou with all his strength, which had not yet been taken. At that time, he would have no chance.

Only by winning is to use a big victory to win for Yizhou to survive.

Once the opponent's First Corps can be eliminated in an institutional way, it can be expected that in a short period of time, it will take time for Chang'an to gather such troops to launch a second attack. This big victory can also shock the precarious Yizhou, thereby enhancing its dominance and creating more possibilities for the future.

This battle is a desperate battle.

It can also be said to be the final struggle.

So after Zhu Youzhen arranged the funeral, he mobilized all the forces he could to mobilize and devoted himself to the battlefield in Hanzhong.

Putting aside the troops in Xiangyang, he invested a total of 100,000 troops in Hanzhong.

In recent years, under Sheng Zhonghuai's efforts to govern and under Hao Ren's cruel suppression, Yizhou has accumulated a lot of money.

Although they imitated the peasant policy of the Tang Dynasty and distributed land to all the people, the people did not get any benefits because their income was still plundered. However, the ones who plundered them in the past were those rich and gentry, but now the ones who plundered them are directly the government.

And Hao Ren's target is those wealthy gentry.

Zhu Youzhen needs money, a lot of money, and these people have money.

How could Zhu Youzhen not like it if he could search the house and destroy the clan by simply finding an excuse, so as to easily accumulate a large amount of money?

For Zhu Youzhen, what he wants is to overcome the current difficulties first. As for the future? If there is no present, where will the future come from?

The money Zhu Youzhen got was basically all invested in the army.

This makes the Yizhou army generally quite stable and has good cohesion.

In Yizhou, those who eat and wear warmly are basically the army.

This also led to the easy recruitment of soldiers in Yizhou. A large number of people who were not full or warm in food and clothing entered the army.

The rising sun had just jumped up from the horizon, and the dewdrops on the grass leaves were trembling and unable to fall off, the melodious sound of the horns had echoed between heaven and earth.

The sound of trumpets and drums rumbling, the earth shook slightly, and the dewdrops on the grass leaves rolled to the ground, and disappeared in an instant.

Immediately, the sound of horse hooves being obtained sounded, and it quickly concentrated from both directions toward the middle.

This is a vast plain, a rare grain production area in Xixiang. At this moment, two groups of cavalry rushed in without any scruples, and fought in this field that could be harvested in at most months.

These are the sentry scouts on both sides.

The war horses were coming and going, the swords and guns were hiding, and the sound of bows and crossbows was endless.

Large tracts of wheat fell to the ground.

When the two armies fight, the first one is always the scout of the front drive of the two armies.

As the elite of the army, they are also the troops with the most casualties.

Some people kept falling down, and new ones were constantly waiting to join in again from behind.

No one is stronger than anyone else, all they have is courage, will, toughness and luck.

On the battlefield, even the bravest and the unbeliever of the fate have to believe in the existence of luck. Just like some people, they always charge forward as the bravest guy and kill enemies, but after a battle, they can come back without any damage. Once, this is the case, and twice. What else can they say besides lamenting that this luck is out of heaven?

The scouts of the two armies were fighting to the death, but the large groups of troops of the two armies were separated by several miles and slowly unfolded their formation.

Zhu Youzhen had to fight for victory with all his might, so he abandoned the defense of the town and wanted to find the main force of the Tang Army's First Corps to fight to the death. Liu Chenglin, the commander of the First Corps, did not want to fight a tough battle. Even if he had artillery, it was not completely effective for the defender who was prepared.

The Battle of Xiangyang has proved this.

Therefore, he also wanted to have a major decisive battle for the main force.

The coaches of both sides hit it off.

Zhu Youzhen has the advantage of military strength, and he realizes that even though his army is not as well-trained and well-equipped as the Tang Bing, it is not much different. When the number of people increases, this disadvantage has been slapped.

Liu Chenglin, on the other hand, was based on his absolute trust in his army. Even though the number of the other party was more than twice that of his, he was still full of confidence.

After all, this is not a gang fight.

When fighting, if one person beats two people, it is possible to win, but if ten people beat twenty people, it is different. If one hundred people beat two hundred people, it is likely to lose.

But when the number of people reaches a certain amount and reaches a unit of tens of thousands, the more people may not necessarily gain the upper hand.

On the temporary wooden throne, Zhu Youzhen stood on it with his body covered with his body. The army had slowly unfolded, and at the front, behind and on the left and right. At the forefront were infantry in leather armor.

Each of these people only fired a horizontal knife and a crossbow, and there was only one crossbow arrow in the crossbow.

They are not the main force in the battle, they are cannon fodder.

It is used to attract Tang army artillery fire and try to open the gap to death. It is the first to arrive.

The only requirement for them is to be fast.

They cross the battlefield as fast as possible, rush to the opponent's defense line, and fight with the opponent at close range, so as to gain vital space and time for the main force behind the attack.

In the middle of their team, a group of You Ge's light cavalrymen were similar to their mission.

And behind them is the real main force of the Yizhou army.

Soldier.

There are five thousand cavalry arranged on the left and right wings, which is to fight against the cavalry on the left and right wings of the Tang army and prevent the opponent from coming out of the battlefield from the two wings when the light infantry and the light cavalry charge.

If the opponent's cavalry rushed into the main battlefield in the middle, these light infantry would inevitably become the targets of massacre.

The lineup set up by Zhu Youzhen shows that he will attack at all costs, while Liu Chenglin has set up a defensive lineup.

It’s very simple. If the opponent wants to attack, he should use the iron barrel array to consume the opponent’s vitality.

When the offense cannot tear apart effective defense, when the power of the offensive side is greatly consumed, it is the moment when the defensive side counterattacks.

A large shield was in front, a spear was in the middle, and a crossbowman was behind. Behind these people, a cannon was raised, and the black muzzle was coldly staring at the wide battlefield. Among the cannons was a tall trencher. This was a coordinated battle between the budding hot weapons and the most lethal weapons in the cold weapon era.

In the middle of the battlefield, there is a line of death.

The horn and drums sounded again.

However, after hearing the horns and drums of this time, the scouts on both sides evacuated the battlefield, turned around and ran towards their troops, leaving only corpses and blood everywhere in the middle of the battlefield.

The horn stops and the drum stops.

The battlefield fell into a brief silence.

It was just such a short period of time.

Zhu Youzhen, who was on the high platform, gently spit out two words from his mouth.

"attack!"

The raised flag pointed forward.

Below, one after another, the flag fell down and pointed to the Tang army battle formation opposite.

Cao Bin raised the big sword in his hand and shouted with all his strength: "Foreign Army, attack!"

The deafening shout sounded in an instant.

The light infantry in front carried swords and ran towards them. The light cavalry arrived first, easily crossed the light infantry, stepped on the crops that were lying on the ground, and rushed towards the opposite side.

They pressed themselves tightly against the horse's back and kept knocking on the horse's belly.

Charge is the most terrifying time.

The moment you hand over the enemy, life and death have been confirmed, and there is no need to be afraid anymore.

The enemy will not let you go avenge just because you are afraid.

You have no other choice than killing or being killed.

The cavalry team was very divided.

The formations of the light infantry were also very different, which was quite different from the charges in the past large corps battles.

And this change was because of the artillery of the Tang army.

The flowering bomb is too lethal for such cluster charges, and foxes can effectively reduce such casualties.

Move forward, cross the firing angle of the artillery, and then gather to charge forward quickly, entangling with the enemy. This is the experience that the Yizhou soldiers have explored after fighting against the Tang army many times, and it is the battlefield awareness exchanged for countless blood.

The artillery sounded one after another, and the shells rushed out of the shells and landed among the running crowd. The huge trencher raised his high throwing arms, and countless pieces of gravel tied up with net bags flew to the sky, breaking free from the constraints, and then made a splash of screams and circling. Some of them were thrown out, but pottery bullets filled with harsh oil. After landing, countless fire balls with fists flew around, igniting the wheat fields in the middle of the battlefield. The raging fire and rolling smoke completely submerged the entire battlefield.

The losses of the light soldiers, infantry and light cavalry in Yizhou exceeded their imagination.

This is because the artillery positions of the First Corps of the Tang Dynasty were no longer arranged in a straight line, but formed two positions on the left and right. Their shooting boundaries were inclined and complementary, which allowed them to cover almost most of the areas near the midline of the battlefield, and other places that they could not take care of were used to make up for.

The small tactical changes have cost the Yizhou soldiers a heavy price.

But at the beginning of the attack, all the sacrifices were no longer alive in the eyes of the commanders. In their eyes, only tactical goals could be achieved.

The drums kept ringing and the charge continued.
Chapter completed!