Chapter 364: Break the boat
Zhang Zhongwu's heart was filled with joy.
Although the war has developed to this point, it has cost him a huge price, but it is all worth it. It can be imagined that his tens of thousands of infantry and more auxiliary soldiers and civilians in Zhuozhou will disappear after this battle, but what does it matter? Zhang Zhongwu, who was in charge of Lulongjie Town, relied on these people, but the 20,000 elite cavalry in his hands.
After fighting with the Khitan for many years, Zhang Zhongwu developed a huge and elite cavalry force. This innate advantage is incomparable to any other town, because he can get more and better war horses near the water tower.
It is his specialty to organize large-scale cavalry to intersperse and detour. As for other infantrymen, they will be able to make up for it soon after they lose it. As for strategic locations like Zhuozhou that he could not give up in the eyes of Li Ze, Cao Xin and others, it doesn't matter in Zhang Zhongwu's opinion.
After years of fighting outside the mouth, Zhang Zhongwu never cared about the gains and losses of a city and a place. Just like this battle in front of him, he only killed Li Ze. Wouldn't the things he threw back soon?
Shi Zhuang, Wang Sili's main force, is now attacking Zhuozhou on the north bank of the Jumahe River, right? If they knew that their main cavalry was heading straight to Yi County, I wonder how they would feel?
Should we continue to move forward, or withdraw troops on the spot and return to aid?
I hope they can return to help, so that their strength in Zhuozhou can be preserved.
"Report!"
In front, a whistle detective officer with a small flag on his back flew towards him, flowing upstream in the rushing cavalry formation, until Zhang Zhongwu.
"Jie Shuai, Li Ze's troops in Yi County, have left Yi County and have now arrived in Baima Township." The officer clasped his fists and said.
"Baima Township!" Zhang Zhongwu couldn't help but be a little surprised. When he was attacked suddenly, Li Ze would never retreat, because his retreat represented his failure in this battle, so Li Ze would definitely fight him to a decisive battle. Zhang Zhongwu firmly believed in this.
But he originally thought that he was about to fight a tough battle. Although the city walls of Yi County were not tall and steep, they were just rammed earth walls, but for the defenders, they always rely on them.
Li Ze actually abandoned the city and chose to fight with him, which made him stunned and couldn't help but be overjoyed.
"Li Ze, I really don't know the world is high! I'll order the entire army to turn to Baima Township." Zhang Zhongwu laughed loudly: "Just on Baima, destroy this court food!"
The sound of the ox horn resounded throughout the world, and the cavalry team deviated slightly and rushed towards Baima Township.
Ten miles away from Baima Township, the rushing cavalry slowed down and began to rectify their formation. After a long-distance raid, the cavalry was a little tired. Before the battle, they also needed to rest and restore their strength.
The entire team slowly advanced towards Baima Township, and only the whistle cavalry accelerated forward.
Zhang Zhongwu looked back at the direction of Matouzhai with some dissatisfaction. His left army, a cavalry of 5,000 people, had not caught up yet. Their opponent was something that Zhang Zhongwu had not seen at all, but a Shen Ce Army of 3,000 people.
"What did Pan Feng do?"
Zhang Xing, the guard of the Central Army, smiled and said, "Jings, Shen Ce Army is the personal army of the emperor after all, and its combat effectiveness is still a bit serious, but there is no need to worry. Perhaps General Pan is unwilling to have too many casualties in the soldiers, so he chose to do it slowly. After all, they are just a disease of mustard ringworm. The enemy opposite us is the strong enemy!"
"Although Li Ze's son doesn't know that the world is so strong, he dares to challenge me in the wild. This kind of heroism is much better than his brother." Zhang Zhongwu said with a smile.
"Since Wenda, this son has swept across the sea and occupied our Yingzhou in one fell swoop. He defeated Wang Feng, and he seemed invincible. His arrogance was probably cultivated in this way." Zhang Xing said with a smile.
"Those trash!" Speaking of Zhu Shou and Wang Feng, Zhang Zhongwu was so angry. If they were stronger, why would he have to work hard to detour like now? He would have been hard-working and rushing across the hard ground.
Even though the speed slowed down, the distance of ten miles was still a blink of an eye for the cavalry. When Zhang Zhongwu saw Li Ze's camp, he couldn't help but laugh.
"Is it a battle with my back and forth, and I'm so proud of my courage. This guy really makes me look at him with admiration." The horse whip pointed at the Wuwei army, which seemed a little dim in the distance, Zhang Zhongwudao.
Li Ze was indeed standing in front of the water, and behind him was Yishui River.
He chose a U-shaped area to arrange camps, and his stamina stood on the highest river embankment. Below the river embankment were three thousand personal guards Yicong and Min Rou's Chengde wolf cavalry.
Liang Han's three thousand armored soldiers set up camp on the left, Wanfu's three thousand armored soldiers set up camp on the right, but in the middle were the 1,000 Mo Daoshi led by Li Han and the 2,000 auxiliary soldiers under his jurisdiction.
Three infantrymen stood in the shape of a character font, Li Han suddenly stood in front, and the three armies just sealed the entrance to this U-shaped area.
Li Ze's tactical intention was very obvious, that was, to use the dense camp of armored soldiers to resist the impact of large-scale cavalry, consume their troops, and then use his cavalry to fight a decisive battle with Zhang Zhongwu.
In fact, at this time, any strategy and tactics are useless, because your intentions and opponents can see them clearly at a glance, and the final battle is still the fighting power and courage of both sides.
Choosing this place made Yishuihe a protective barrier for Li Zetian's left and right wings. He didn't have to worry about Zhang's troops attacking him from the left and right wings. If Zhang Zhongwu wanted to defeat himself, he could only charge from the front.
In this battle, Li Ze's soldiers were destined to be tested the most severely.
In front of the U-shaped seal, there were some temporarily cut down trees piled up horizontally and vertically, and some large and small tunnels dug in a mess. Of course, there were also some irregular tripping ropes under nails. After passing these, there were some caltrops densely covered in the weeds. Among the three infantry phalanxes, there were countless crossbow chariots and arms. This time, Li Ze brought tens of thousands of crossbows.
Li Ze wanted to fight with Zhang Zhongwu to Baima Township, not to act impulse for a moment. At this time, he had to stand up and attract Zhang Zhongwu and prompt Zhang Zhongwu to fight him to die. The reason was very simple. If he was trapped in Yi County and Zhang Zhongwu could not attack for a while, he would most likely drive most of the cavalry to bypass Yi County, enter Dingzhou, and even drive horses straight into Zhenzhou Zhaozhou, and play Duizi strategy with him, that would be miserable.
Even if I conquered Zhuo County and Jicheng, can the prosperity of these places be compared with Zhenzhou and Zhaozhou? The Duizi strategy must be the one who suffers from it.
Only by standing up and fighting with the other party and letting Zhang Zhongwu see the opportunity to defeat Wuwei in a battle, will he continue to tangle with him at all costs.
Do you really have no chance of winning?
Of course not.
His soldiers were far better than their opponents in terms of armor and equipment. The cheap and easy-to-use plate armor made by Wuyi's hydraulic rusher had been equipped with all the soldiers. Even the auxiliary soldiers under Li Han were now wearing armor. These were originally stored in Yixian as supplementary materials, but now they were very useful.
Needless to say, the big spoils that came back from Chang'an were brought back from nearly two thousand Modao from Chang'an treasury. Wuyi's craftsmen would not know how to create this thing. Of course, now that thousands of craftsmen have gotten back from Chang'an, they will naturally be able to do so in the future.
Long-range weapons have always been Li Ze’s focus. If you can eliminate enemies at a long distance, you will naturally shoot from afar. If archers are not easy to practice, we will use powerful crossbows and arm-opening crossbows to play coverage shooting. In Li Ze’s infantry team, the proportion of crossbow configuration is extremely high. This time, I came out of Yixian, and brought all the reserved crossbow machines, crossbow chariots and crossbow arrows in Yixian.
And now, they stayed in the three infantry camps.
The crossbow chariot shoots four hundred steps away.
The arm is opened and the crossbow is shot at a distance of 200 steps.
Then, he relied on the pedals to handle it.
More than 10,000 people stood quietly on the banks of the Yishui River. The flags were waving in the wind. The river water hit the river bank and made a loud noise. At this moment, the birds in the sky did not dare to fly over the land. They turned around and flew away from afar.
The invisible evil spirit and murderous spirit are slowly dispersing and slowly condensing.
Li Han was wearing heavy armor, his tall body was like a door panel, leaning on a Mo Dao weighing dozens of kilograms, and tilting his head to stare at the cavalry in the distance who could not see the edge.
For him, more or less does not make much sense. Just cut it and it will be done.
The neck was itchy, and he couldn't help but pull out his collar armor to scratch it. There was a red rope tied around his neck and a small bag under it. It was given to him by Yan Jiu before the war. According to Yan Jiu, this was the peace talisman he went to the temple to ask for him.
He laughed, when did he and Yan Jiu rely on the gods and Buddhas? They have always been leaning on their fists! But he carefully stuffed the small bag back and put it on the flesh. This was what Yan Jiu brought for him personally.
On the left, Liang Han was a little nervous and a little sad.
Most of the generals on the other side knew each other and fought side by side, but when time went by, they were already opponents who drew their swords to face each other. I don’t know that there would be those few friends who used to drink and eat their swords today, or they would die under their swords.
On the right wing, Wanfu's palm was covered with sweat. He had never fought against such a huge cavalry attack team. In his opinion, the armored soldiers in front were probably very few who could survive after this battle. Even if he was the one who could go back, the possibility of him being able to go back was extremely low.
But as long as he wins this battle, he will open a glorious door for his family. His eldest son is now one of the staff members of the Wuweijie Town Government, and he is in civil service. His second son is now in front of Li Ze, and is one of the personal Wei Yi. The probability of survival is much greater than that of himself.
You have to win even if you die!
Chapter completed!