The Battle of Shangtiao Mountain in the Seventy-eighth Summer
Thirty miles east of Fenyi, Bingzhou, a large army was connected by more than ten miles from beginning to end. There were flags and banners and written with military names: Shandong Daoxingying Capital Headquarters, and the Central Worm wrote with a letter: Zhang, the governor of the Central Army.
Under the banner, a general wore a black pocket mirror, a chest-protecting and flawless bright light mirror, a group of armor, a waist with a sling of a god-swallowing gold belt, a yellow robe, an arrow bag on his side, a divine bow on his back, a body of eight feet two, a face like a silver moon, and a handsome and elegant person. This person is Zhang Jia, Chentangguan.
Zhang Jia rode a white maned black hoof horse, and his men and horses were all in the armor, and walked slowly in the formation. Suddenly, he heard a sentry to report to the governor, General Yan of the front army was defeated, and there were only more than 300 cavalry and soldiers left in the front army, and he was now repaired on the hillside inside and outside the front."
Zhang Jia raised the horse whip and responded calmly, "Send the entire army to stop and rest, and call Yan Canzhi over to ask questions."
After a while, a general with a black face and beard rushed from the front, and when he approached Zhang Jia, he knelt off the horse with a panic look on his face, and knelt down on the horse, clasped his fists and said, "The sinner Yan Canzhi, pay homage to the governor..."
Zhang Jia leaned against the horse's back, turned his head and turned his head high and left Yan Canzhi for a while. The atmosphere was silent for a while. Yan Canzhi was feeling uneasy. Zhang Jia danced the whip and pointed at him, "You still have the face to come back... Why don't you die with the front army? After all, what's going on? It's good that you'll be punished by fifty slaughter. Maybe... just commit suicide."
Yan Canzhi's face was pale. It was miserable if it was better than bad. Can he walk in the rest of his life after his fifty military sticks? Seeing Zhang Jia showing impatience, Yan Canzhi gritted his teeth and said:
"The Ministry of Justice led the front army to open the road. When they reached Qingling Valley twenty miles away, the front army had 5,000 huge rocks on their backs smashed into two sections. Arrows and flying stones were shot out from the mountains, and they were unstoppable. The rear formation was dispersed by the Xia cavalry. The last general... The last general had to order the withdrawal, and was chased by the Xia cavalry from the rear. The withdrawal turned into defeat. When they retreated to the hillside in front, they only collected hundreds of cavalrymen... Others... the other infantry should have run away and are returning to the camp one after another."
Yan Canzhi hesitated and sucked, and finally he dared to say that he had run away, but he didn't dare to say that the entire army had disappeared. After that, Yan Canzhi looked at Zhang Jia with a pleading face.
Zhang Jia approached and gave Yan Canzhi a whip. His face was covered with blood. He slowly said, "There are many mountains on the Qingling Road in Linfen. Why don't you release scouts and whistle cavalry? He was defeated at this point. He lost thousands of elite troops. He was sentenced to death. I will get another thirty whip and fast for one day."
After saying that, Zhang Jia paused and said, "Tomorrow, you will be in the backyard to escort the grain. If my food route is lost, you can come and see me."
"I thank the governor for not killing me. The last general must keep the food route carefully. If there is any mistake, come and see you."
Yan Canzhi was very surprised and quickly retreated like an amnesty, but he was a little confused. Although this armor was pale and had no need to look kind and handsome, his military management was always known for its harsh and cruelty. The army cut the prisoners with fifty-four bans in the army, which made the generals very scared, but they didn't know why they were slighted today.
Yan Canzhi had just stepped down, and another visit came to report to the Mass. "Report to the Governor, there are a large number of Xia troops in Baiqiaojian twenty miles away, about tens of thousands of them were Hu cavalry, but the flag was not erected, so I don't know who is the general."
Zhang Jia thought for a moment, waved his hand and said, "I ordered the entire army to find the land and camp, and there is no need to worry about the Xia army. He came to challenge him when he was looking for an opportunity to challenge him. Our army joined the camp and entered the camp to attack the Hu cavalry and leave tomorrow."
It has been several days since Cheng Tang's position. Sure enough, ghosts and gods have set up nets in a few days, sweeping away the locusts. The locust plague disappeared within a few days. The incense in the Tiandi Palace of each town was very popular, and the people were grateful. Emperor Cheng Tang also went out to the suburbs to worship the saints and thanked the grace of expelling the locusts.
Cheng Tang issued an order to introduce Yi Yin to the policy of simplifying the military and simplifying the policies. Each of them eliminated the scattered soldiers and assisted soldiers, and hundreds of thousands of towns. Only 200,000 troops and horses were left in the country. The rest returned to their hometowns to farm and rest for the people's efforts.
Zhang Jia was promoted to the north road camp and was given Huang?? and Bai Yue. The remaining troops of Xia were attacked and the guided Bingzhou was guided.
By early October, Zhang Jia had already conquered Yun, Dai, Lan, Huan, Xi, Su, and other northern Bingzhou areas, and had been stationed in Jinyang, waiting for the decisive battle.
After receiving the order of Emperor Shang, Zhang Jia made a plan to garrison the Yellow River with water scattered along the Yellow River, and led his own 50,000 troops to fight against the Xia.
Since sending troops in mid-October, he marched hundreds of miles for several days, and walked to several cities near Linfen Road, the center of the Xia Dynasty, Zhang Jia gathered together with his army, with his general Yan Canzhi as the vanguard, leading 5,000 troops as the front drive, and leading more than 40,000 infantry and cavalry afterwards.
Unexpectedly, the vanguard was buried in Yushanling Canyon today, and the front army was gone. Thinking that it was difficult to find a general, Yan Canzhi was also a fighter. Zhang Jia pressed his anger and took it lightly, preparing to deal with him after another big battle.
The Shang army has always strictly guarded the camp, set up dozens of arch towers, and have strong bows. The Xia cavalry wandered outside the camp and tried to rush, but the cavalry was a weapon of the plain. On the one hand, there were many mountains in Bingzhou, and on the other hand, there were camps built on the mountainside to guard them.
When the Xia cavalry rushed up the mountain, his horse was exhausted and he lost the power of a thousand pounds of rushing into the formation. The Xia army attacked several times and left hundreds of corpses and retreated without success.
Seeing tens of thousands of Xia cavalry retreating, Zhang Jia waved his hand to pull out the camp and headed towards Fenyang, and said to the generals, "Hu cavalry crossed the plains and deserts, and my infantry could not resist the attack and defend the city. Our army was marching for days and attacking the city, spreading horse-striking posts and cavalry for dozens of miles. Once a large cavalry came, each army immediately set up camps or set up a formation to defend."
After Zhang Jia said that, he smiled and said, "The road of Linfen is small, and the evil of Xia is occupied by the remnants of Xia. Except for Linyi and Fenyang, all of them are small countries with ten horoscopes. We are not afraid of it. We erode step by step, gradually narrow the territory of the Xia Dynasty, and finally surround Linfen and destroy Xia in one fell swoop."
Zhang Jia had previously gathered troops to attack the city, gathered most of the troops and horses to prepare for the Xia cavalry, and took several days to eat up the Linfen Road, leaving only the two cities of Linyi and Fenyang. Recently, he led a large army to Fenyang, only a few dozen miles away from the Xia army Fenyang, and it was time to arrive overnight, and it was already the decisive battle.
Tens of thousands of Shang troops were winding along the path, and ten miles away from Fenyang. Shang troops visited the horse and reported to the governor, "Reported to the commander-in-chief, the Xia cavalry lined up three miles ahead, and the Xia cavalry was dense and there was no boundary. There were no explorations, but there were at least 100,000 cavalry."
Zhang Jia narrowed his eyes and looked at Fenyang, smiled confidently and said, "The whole army set up camp to defend, rest and make meals, eat and drink enough, fight against the Xia Qi, and prepare for the decisive battle."
Yan Canzhi ran over from the back camp and said with a hesitation, "Governor thinks twice... That's tens of thousands of Xia army Hu cavalry. Ten miles around Fenyang are plains, which are most suitable for cavalry and barbarians to rush. I think we should wait for the emperor to condemn the reinforcements before fighting."
Zhang Jia firmly said, "Our army's autumn grain was damaged by locust plague, and there was very little grain collected. We had to support so many large army to fight, and the food was squandered and weed was slack. We could not tell the truth. Only by fighting quickly and deciding quickly would we have a chance of winning.
If you have this idea, the Xia army also thinks so. Our army stationed troops and waited for assistance again and was surrounded by Xia cavalry. In the future, the court will launch another 100,000 troops, so there is no need to fight. People eat horses and eat chew sucking, and our army will be out of food in a few days."
Seeing that Yan Canzhi and the generals were still trying to persuade him again, Zhang Jia waved his hand and interrupted him with a sneer:
"Don't be afraid, Xia Qi is known as 200,000. It is better for him to unite the nine barbarians, and the elderly, young, women and children to add up to hundreds of thousands.
It is said to be 200,000, but in fact, as long as the seven or eight-year-old, as long as the old man and even the barbarians and savages, as long as they can ride horses, how can they compare with the tens of thousands of elite soldiers under my command?”
"And the Hu cavalry has always had few armor and weapons. The spears are made of stone, and the arrows are made of bones. They cannot wear out the armor of our army. Even if the Xia Hou had hollowed out the treasury to equip the Xia army, they were only more than ten thousand elite cavalry among them while wearing armor. The rest of the Hu cavalry were not even a mob. Our army also had more elites as elite as the cavalry, but in fact they were equal, and our army had even greater chances of victory." Zhang Jia thought for a moment, then sneered and comforted the generals, and he would understand the differences between the two sides.
The generals had no choice but to take the order to build a meal and prepare for the decisive battle of Yu Xia's army when they left the camp at noon.
At noon the next day, the two armies formed a formation and launched a decisive battle with the west of Fenyang City and the Tiaoshan Mountains.
The Xia cavalry was attacking fiercely, and the Shang army formed a formation. Zhang Jia was proficient in military strategies, arranged troops and arranged formations, and the flags of the two armies intersected, murderous aura covered the sky and shouted and killed the sky.
The Great Immortal of the Secretariat of the Gods
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