The front line of the Zhenbei Army stretched along the Zhongren Pavilion to the slopes on both sides for about three miles.
So Lu Zhi rode his red dragon pony on the front line. In front of his subordinates, Lu Zhi no longer had the confusion and uneasiness he had before, but was replaced by eternal confidence and majesty.
Like a young man, he led his students through the roar of the officials. Lu Zhi was still wearing the basin collar armor, fiery red cloak, crimson uniform, and maroon horse. He was just like a boy.
The fierce fire will burn out his own vitality and awaken the fighting spirit of his subordinates.
Lu Zhi's students are also dressed like his teachers. Almost all of them are children of powerful people in Youzhou. In this battle, they will shoulder the important task of conveying military information and protecting Lu Zhi.
They looked at their teacher's majestic appearance, which was completely different from the image of a scholar who waved his feather fan in the past. But this was the teacher they expected, a commander who could lead them to victory.
Infected by Lu Zhi's enthusiasm, they all showed their most wanton demeanor and followed their teacher to give him the last encouragement before the war.
Lu Zhi ran happily in front of the formation, holding the riding whip high in his hand. Every time he arrived at a camp, he cheered from the whole camp.
When Lu Zhi led the Junzi Battalion to the head of Li Min's camp, Taishi Ci was at the forefront, so from the beginning to the end he watched how Lu Zhi won the hearts of the military officials.
Thousands of people roared from the mountains and roared with tsunamis. It was so touching. Taishi Ci was trembling with excitement when he was in this scene.
He excitedly said to Lao Zheng beside him:
"This is what a real man should do, this is what a real man should do."
Taishi Ci repeated this sentence as if he was hysterical, completely unaware of the paleness and desolation of Lao Zheng's face.
Old Zheng murmured:
"Whoever wants to be a man can go. We, Lao Zheng, just want to live."
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This battle of the Han Army involved almost fifty battalion heads. If they all reported to Lu Zhi on the same level, our commander-in-chief would not be able to dispatch them no matter how many staff and officers he had.
Therefore, Lu Zhi appointed a deputy coach and six assistant coaches to share the decision-making pressure in the future.
In addition to Wei Duan, who was appointed deputy commander and commanded the 20th battalion on the front slope, he also directly led the 8th battalion. Then on the east side of the front slope, Yue Cavalry Colonel Zhou Zhong, as the commander of the east side, led the 1st battalion.
, marching the fifth battalion. To the west, Changshui Colonel Wei Jie was in charge of the west, and he also led the first battalion and marched the fifth battalion.
On the back slope, there are also three generals, namely Gongsun Zan, the eastern general, who leads two battalions of cavalry and four battalions of infantry. Li Min, the general of the western front, leads one battalion of cavalry and five battalions of infantry.
Then the remaining ones, such as Wu Jun's Shesheng Battalion, Zhang Chun's sudden cavalry, Gong Qichou's Wuhuan soldiers, and Gao Fan's Bohai Euphorbia soldiers, were all under the command of the Chinese army and were directly dispatched by Lu Zhi.
With these two commanders, positive and negative, and six generals to control the armies in the future, the entire decision-making system of the Han army was divided into three levels, each with its own responsibility and well-organized.
After Lu Zhi ran around in a circle, he withdrew from Li Min's side under the big banner on the front slope.
When he calmly sat down, Zheng Yi, who was holding a staff beside him, clearly saw Lu Zhi's hands shaking. He just thought that the horse riding just consumed Lu Zhi's physical energy, and he never thought that Lu Zhi was at this moment.
Zhi was very panicked.
After just running for a round, Lu Zhi had an intuitive understanding of the situation of his troops.
The first three rows of each battalion are good, and they are all composed of brave and brave armored soldiers. But if you pay attention to the back, you can see many soldiers lying on the ground nervously and vomiting.
Lu Zhi knew his own situation very well before the war. Although he had more than 50,000 people, in fact the battalions were very uneven.
What reassured him was the core of the frontier army and the Northern Army, which numbered about 20,000. The rest were the troops from various counties and counties he recruited after withdrawing to Youzhou, which numbered about 30,000. Some of these people were brave.
They are good at fighting, but most of the soldiers are inexperienced peasants.
Although the people of Youzhou are good at martial arts, even children, women and children can go into battle. But there is a difference between recruits and veterans. Without experience in battle, 10% of their skills cannot be used to their best advantage.
Then there is the cavalry. This is what Lu Zhi regrets the most. He regrets why he had to withdraw Gongsun Zan before. Now Gaitong doesn't know where he took the Youzhou cavalry. The cavalry in his hand now is
There are still some Hu soldiers who do not understand Chinese law and Liangjiazi who lack training in cavalry warfare.
Fortunately, Gongsun Zan brought the white horse Yi Cong with him when he withdrew, otherwise he would not have the decisive cavalry force in his hands this time.
Lu Zhi was still thinking about many things. For example, in order to prevent the enemy from encircling his west side, he ordered the supply battalion to build fortifications on the west side. It is not known what happened to these fortifications now.
All he could see was that the ramparts on the east side had been built, which could completely block the enemy's outflanking from the east. Before the war, he gave a death order to Zhou Zhong, the general on the east side of the front slope, asking him to defend at all costs.
Barriers to living here.
But it was useless for Lu Zhi to think any more. While he was worrying about gains and losses, the war had already started.
The first person to come into contact with it was Zhou Zhong’s east wall.
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On August 11th, at the beginning of Yin hour, Zhongren Pavilion.
Yang Mao, the commander-in-chief of the right wing of the Taishan Army, led eight thousand garrison troops on the right wing, and 4,000 reinforcements from the Chinese army in reserve, and began to take the initiative to launch an attack on the eastern front of the Han army.
Before the war, Zhang Chong knew that there was a forest to the east of the Han army according to the map, and occupying it could directly threaten the Han army's left flank on the rear slope.
Therefore, Zhang Chong's first task for Yang Mao was to occupy the forest and hold it there to put continuous pressure on the Han army's flanks.
But when Yang Maozong looked at the battlefield several miles ahead, in addition to the conspicuous forest, he also saw a dock wall rooted there.
At this moment, Yang Mao knew that he would have to fight a hard battle to occupy the forest on the left flank of the Han army.
Yang Mao's judgment was correct.
The leader of the Han army opposite him, Zhou Zhong, was not an ordinary Han general. He came from the Lujiang Zhou family and was the son of Sikong Zhoujing during the Huan Emperor period. He had participated in the Pingqiang Rebellion and the Southern Civil Rebellion, and was the most outstanding general among the Zhou family.
talent.
And this time there will be a very interesting thing about Lu Zhi's point, that is, everyone has actually fought against the Taishan Army. Lu Zhi believes that only by actually fighting against each other, these Han generals will not despise the opponent.
This is the case for Zhou Zhong. He had fought against the Taishan Army in Jize and knew that the opponent's fighting spirit, armor and military quality were not weaker than those of the Northern Army.
Therefore, after receiving Lu Zhi's death order to guard the east wall, Zhou Zhong did not dare to slack off at all and made a series of arrangements for this military goal.
He has one cavalry battalion and five infantry battalions under his command. The total number of soldiers is about 6,000, and his military strength is not rich.
So he ordered his son Zhou Hui to lead a battalion of infantry to garrison the east wall. He also ordered Ma Teng to lead 500 cavalry and an infantry battalion to defend and occupy this traffic point in the forest. Then he arranged the other two infantry battalions on the east wall.
Below, it is best to cover each other with the friendly forces inside the wall.
Finally, he took the remaining 500 cavalry and one battalion of infantry to garrison on the high ground to the north of the east wall as a reserve for the whole army, ready to support the battle below.
Yang Mao didn't know much about this.
But no matter how many Han troops were in front of him, he, Yang Mao, still had to complete the mission assigned by Zhang Chong, because he could not afford to lose.
In the previous battle at Dingting, he felt that he had used all his strength, but in the end he failed in one thing, that is, he failed to retain Lu Zhi's main force.
Although he was rescuing the brothers, his mission was not completed.
But in fact, Yang Mao was wrong. In Zhang Chong's view, it was Yang Mao's nostalgia for the officials that made him think that Yang Mao was still a good general.
If you can care about your soldiers and care about your soldiers, you are a qualified general.
In Zhang Chong's case, what Yang Mao lacks is not generals but handsome talents. He has no own judgment on the development of the situation and does not know how to communicate with Zhang Chong in the rear in a timely manner. Therefore, Yang Mao is lacking here.
But at this moment, on the Zhongrenting battlefield, Yang Mao's personal charm became his greatest help. The officers and soldiers of the garrison under his command were grateful for Yang Mao's help to the soldiers, and they all called for death.
This time, they want to take over the enemy's position and prove themselves. Our garrison troops can also fight hard and win the battle.
The vanguard was Han Hao, the most brave general among the garrison troops. At this time, his legs were almost healed. Of course, this was what he said himself.
How could his leg heal so quickly after being injured for a hundred days? But Han Hao couldn't bear to miss this decisive battle no matter what.
If Han Hao wants to be a general, he must seize every opportunity.
Therefore, Han Hao took the initiative to volunteer and took the remaining three battalions of his troops, less than 2,000 soldiers, to take the lead in charging up the undulating hillside in front of the east wall.
At the same time, on the ridge to the north, the two battalions of the Han army deployed in front of the east wall began to fire arrows at Han Hao's troops.
This time, because of the support of the Chinese army's baggage, the number of armored soldiers in Hanoi's defense doubled. And because most of these people survived the bloody battle at Dingting, their entire combat qualities were honed in the war.
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Therefore, even though arrows rained down from above, the leading soldiers led by Han Hao did not slow down at all, and soon swarmed up the slope. At the same time, Wei Zhong, the general of Weijun on the other side, also rushed to Han Hao's troops with his soldiers.
nearby.
Soon, the two towns were fighting against the two battalions outside the east wall.
Only when he arrived here did Han Hao have the opportunity to take a closer look at the wall of the dock not far away.
This does not look like a typical military dock. It was probably rebuilt by the Han army on the basis of the original manor.
At the south entrance of the dock wall are rows of warehouses, protected by walls on the sides. The Han army could rely on the walls to release arrows against the attacking Taishan army.
Go through this corridor to reach the gate of the dock wall. There is another wooden tower on the right side that can provide an attack perspective.
Then there is another low farmhouse on the east side of the dock wall, which has been occupied by the Han army and used as a storage area for baggage.
Then behind the shed of this farmhouse is a continuous vegetable field, which should have been cultivated by the servants of the previous owner of this dock wall. Now the vegetables in the field have naturally been harvested by the Han army. An infantryman of the Han army there
The battalion was standing on the vegetable field, fighting with the Weijun soldiers who were catching up from the east.
Then Han Hao looked to the west, where the Dongjun soldiers were attacking the west side of the east wall. And because he and Wei Zhong restrained the Han soldiers on the outside, the Dongjun soldiers had already reached the bottom of the east wall.
Seeing this, Han Hao shouted:
"Brothers, follow me and don't let the first victory be robbed by Dongjun Town."
After saying that, Han Hao stabbed a Han soldier to death and rushed forward. Behind him, two to three hundred armored soldiers armed with various weapons swarmed to follow him, driving the Han army back step by step.
Suddenly, there was a commotion in Dongjun Town.
The camp flag that originally held the flag with the word "divination" fell down, and a flag with the word "thank you" was raised instead.
Han Hao didn't know why, but when he saw that the Dongjun soldiers were still attacking the east wall, he didn't think about it again.
In fact, just now, the general Di Shu of Dongjun Town was shot through the throat by an arrow from the Han army archer on the east wall because he was too forward, and he died on the spot.
Speaking of which, Dongjun Town has had its fair share of ups and downs.
Most of the main force of his troops were adapted from the Yellow Turbans in Dongjun. Last year, Zhang Chong moved from Zhongnan to Dongjun to join forces with Bu Ji. However, Bu Ji was worried that Zhang Chong would annex him, so he gave up his plan to go west with Zhang Chong and chose to go north.
Cross the river to the main road.
But after that, the Dongjun Yellow Turbans had a bumpy road. First, they abandoned their troops and armor at the foot of Julu City. Even Qu Shuai Bu Ji had his head cut off by the general Zhang Bo and presented it to the Han army. That Zhang Bo was the one whom Zhang Chong had previously claimed
A disciple who betrays the Lord.
After that, the Dongjun Yellow Turbans fell into pieces, with only a few still uniting around their fellow divination masters. The rest were divided by Wang Du and Liang Zhongning.
Soon, Guangzong underwent great changes, and Wang Du and Liang Zhongning also died in the chaos. In this way, the Dongjun Yellow Turbans waited until Zhang Chong took over Guangzong before they recovered.
After that, the elite soldiers of the Yellow Turbans from Dongjun were assigned to local areas as garrison troops, and they still used divination as their generals, along with the two generals Xie Hui and Wu Rong from Dongping land.
In the Battle of Dingting, Bu Shu led the Dongjun soldiers to fight very tenaciously, but also suffered huge losses. In this decisive battle, his three battalions had a total of only 1,800 actual troops.
What's even more terrible is that before the war started, the general Divination was sacrificed.
At this time of panic and chaos, Dongpinglu general Xie Hui immediately changed his flag, took over the command of the Dongjun soldiers, and stabilized the situation.
Therefore, the Dongzhen soldiers, under the command of Xie Hui, continued to attack the east wall.
When Han Hao, Wei Zhong, and Xie Hui launched a siege on the east wall, Ma Wu, the Tiande army, also led his 600 assault cavalry to slowly make a detour toward the forest to the north.
His mission is to annihilate the Han soldiers entrenched in the forest. Behind Tiande's army is Xu Huang's Feilong army. As Ma Wu's backup, he can provide support at any time.
In the distance, in the dense forest.
Ma Teng looked at the Taishan Army cavalry coming from the southeast, grabbed his beard, and said to Pang De next to him with a headache:
"Ling Ming, shall we fight this battle with all our might?"
Pang De didn't know either, so he suddenly asked:
"My lord, tell me what will happen if we win this battle and what will happen if we lose."
Ma Teng thought about it carefully and said:
"If Lu Zhi wins, he can hold Youzhou, but it will be difficult to swallow up the Taishan army. Calculate how many people there are in Youzhou and how many people there are in Jizhou. The Taishan army has almost captured the entire Jizhou. I heard that they
The Qin system was adopted, and the country was established through farming and war. Therefore, the war potential is not comparable to that of Youzhou."
"And I have something to say. I think Lu Zhi's condition is obviously not right. I'm afraid it will be difficult to win this battle. And once the Taishan Army wins this battle, it will not be a matter of Youzhou, but the world.
I'm afraid my surname will be Zhang."
So Pound asked innocently:
"so?"
Then I heard Ma Teng say with an ambiguous attitude: