Zhao Kuangyin immediately pursed his lips and looked at the Tang Army's camp from a distance, his brows knitting together involuntarily.
This historically invincible Taizu of the Song Dynasty gave full play to his bold, careful, courageous and unprepared character.
He roamed around Liuhe with 10,000 troops, marching along the front line, and even went deep into Yangzhou's mansion many times, causing chaos in the north of the Yangtze River.
It even forced Li Jingda, the king of Qi in the Southern Tang Dynasty, not to cross the river to organize his troops. He gathered 30,000 troops in Jinling before he had the courage to cross the river and enter the north of the Yangtze River.
Ever since Li Jingda's 30,000-strong army entered Jiangbei, they had been stared at by the hungry wolf-like Zhao Kuangyin.
Only this time things are a little different.
Chen Jue, who had no knowledge of military affairs, was frightened by the battle with Zhao Kuangyin and did not dare to go to the front line again. Instead, he hid in the back.
Li Jingda's military strategy was average, but compared to Chen Jue's ignorance of military matters and random command, he was more than a level stronger.
Especially as the situation in the Southern Tang Dynasty became worse and worse, the boastful people in the temple no longer dared to speak.
Therefore, some capable and daring generals who were not good at flattering others were reused. Li Jingda now had Bian Hao, Xu Wenzhen, Lin Renzhao, Chen Decheng and other outstanding generals around him. They were no longer just idiots like cats and dogs.
Facing this Southern Tang reinforcements, Zhao Kuangyin could not find any obvious flaw for a while.
Zhao Kuangyin is brave, not reckless.
Naturally, one would not boast that one is invincible and would be in a hurry just by looking at the enemy.
Unable to find an opportunity, Zhao Kuangyin decided to retreat to Liuhe, intending to use defense as offense, first establishing himself in an invincible position, and then looking for opportunities to defeat the enemy.
However, the movement of Li Jingda's army did not go as he expected, marching directly into Chuzhou to support Shouzhou. Instead, they chose to go north from Yangzhou, obviously to avoid Liuhe and Chuzhou.
Zhao Kuangyin saw Li Jingda's thoughts. He planned to bypass him and go directly north from Yangzhou to Chuzhou, and then go west to Haozhou to rescue Shouzhou.
Zhao Kuangyin was unwilling to let Li Jingda go, especially when Luo Youdu captured Hezhou and then went to attack Shuzhou.
He thought that his competitors might have captured the land of three states, and although he traveled across the Chu and Yang territories and repeatedly defeated the enemy, he still only had Chuzhou as the state capital, which was dwarfed by him.
In order to find the fighter plane, Zhao Kuangyin personally led more than ten people to Dayi Town, where Li Jingda's army was stationed, to investigate the situation.
"Guangyi, do you think we can fight them with the 10,000 soldiers in our hands here?"
Zhao Kuangyin looked at Li Jingda's department, somewhat undecided, and asked Yang Guangyi beside him.
Yang Guangyi was one of the ten brothers of Yishe and a member of the Dianqian Division. He was an official at Yuhou in Sizhengdu and commanded the cavalry under Zhao Kuangyin.
Yang Guangyi nodded and said: "I think it's okay. Their number is indeed greater than ours, but they don't have cavalry. Dayi Town is surrounded by plains and hills, which are most suitable for cavalry operations. We have three thousand cavalry, which can work wonders. And there are
There is no place to sail around here, so there is no need to worry about the opponent's navy. Even if we cannot win, we can retreat."
Zhao Kuangyin couldn't help but nodded, tightened his grip on the riding crop, waved his hand, made a crisp "pop" sound, and said decisively: "Then let's have a fight!"
He has engraved the surrounding topographic maps in his mind. The Huainan waters are crisscrossed by rivers, but there is no decent river near Dayi Town.
Once the opponent passes Tianchang, he will enter the land of Huaisi with dense water nets, and he will have no chance to fight him.
Zhao Kuangyin acted vigorously and immediately without hesitation, he quickly returned to Liuhe, ordered his troops as quickly as possible, and marched towards the junction of Dayi Town and Tianchang.
Half of the soldiers under Zhao Kuangyin were the front troops who he personally trained. They were all elite and marched very fast. They arrived at Hengshan at the junction of Tianchang and Dayi Town first.
Zhao Kuangyin arranged for the soldiers to rest on the spot and wait for the arrival of the Southern Tang Army.
Li Jingda led an army of 30,000 people to the north. At 6 o'clock that day, he faced Zhao Kuangyin's troops head-on.
The flags covering the sky and the sun looked at the soldiers with high morale.
Li Jingda couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart.
It’s not just Chen Jue who’s scared of this?
Thinking about the battle at Guabu Mountain, a chill ran down his spine.
"Your Majesty, let the vanguard come to the end!"
Lin Renzhao was the first to ask for orders. At this moment, he was wearing a mountain-text chainmail, and the three-pointed harpoon in his hand was also replaced by a pair made of pure steel. It could be said that a shotgun was exchanged for a cannon.
Li Jingda was overjoyed when he saw Lin Renzhao asking for orders: when he was reorganizing in Jinling, he saw Lin Renzhao show off his talents in the military camp. He really walked up the mountain and into the water as if he were on the ground. He bravely won the three armies with a harpoon in his hand, and even performed a show of blocking arrows with a harpoon.
magical skills.
He is recognized as a marksman in the army, and ten arrows cannot hurt him at all.
Thinking of Lin Renzhao's performance, most of the fear in my heart disappeared, and he praised: "With Lin Huzi taking the lead, the lonely king is relieved."
The rising sun shines on the earth.
Lin Renzhao led 5,000 front troops and approached Zhao Kuangyin.
The swordsman is in the front, the spearman is holding the formation on the left and right wings, and the crossbowman is in the center, approaching step by step.
Zhao Kuangyin squinted his eyes, put up the awning with his hands and looked forward. He looked at the opponent's five thousand army formation with a serious expression on his face.
The opponent's formation was not surprising, but it hit his own weakness.
The disadvantage of military strength.
The opponent has five thousand soldiers as the front, half of which are archers.
This is because he has calculated that he does not dare to charge into the formation with cavalry and has taken hold of the lifeline that he does not dare to fight with.
"Shou Zhong, you lead the sword players to attack. The opponent has more soldiers and more bows and crossbows. We will suffer a big loss if we shoot at each other. You must entangle the opponent as quickly as possible and make the opponent's archers useless."
"Zhengzhong, after Shouzhong entangles the opponent's front army, you lead the spearmen to quickly join the battle, arrange a gun formation behind Shouzhong, and exchange positions with Shouzhong at any time..."
"Guangyi, lead 1,500 cavalry to the enemy's right flank. Listen to my orders at any time. If there is an opportunity, you can attack on your own."
Orders were issued one by one from Zhao Kuangyin's mouth.
After receiving the order, Liu Shouzhong, Wang Zhengzhong and Yang Guangyi immediately returned to their troops and mobilized their troops to fight.
As the dull and dense war drums sounded rapidly, hundreds of flags in front of the Zhou army's formation began to move.
Under the command of Liu Shouzhong, the troops in front of the palace with red coats and red armor held their shields high at a 45-degree angle and began to run slowly.
When entering the opponent's target, instantly accelerate and charge forward.
Countless sharp arrows and flying stones were flying in like locusts!
The arrows hitting the shield were like heavy rain falling instantly.
Although the shield withstood most of the damage, many soldiers still fell on the charging road for various reasons.
The Zhou army was so well-trained that they didn't even care about the person who was hit by the arrow, and took advantage of the gap just after the first round of arrows to rush to within thirty steps of the opponent.
Then within a few breaths, the fronts of the two armies collided hard.