Chapter 239: It seems to return to a hundred years ago
Bai Gongsheng was very surprised to be suddenly invited to hunt by Zhiyao, and his anger surged.
What is he here for? To avenge Prince Jian, his father who died tragically in Zheng!
Originally, the Jin army also invaded Zheng this year. Bai Gongsheng didn't care so much about what the rest of the Chu people thought. He himself had a good impression of Zhiyao who led his army to invade Zheng.
So, when the two met at the edge of the Yellow River, Bai Gongsheng had that kind of attitude towards Zhiyao. Otherwise, given that they had never met before, they would have been strangers when they met for the first time, and it would have been impossible to chat for several hours.
"The Jin army wants to fight, so fight!" Bai Gongsheng looked thoughtful.
Douyuan was immediately confused.
Aren't they here to take revenge on Zheng Guo? What's the matter with Jin Guo?
Another point is that the Jin State is not a weak country. Even if it has just experienced civil strife, it can defeat the Chu State in the Man clan territory, which has been prepared for a long time.
Ye Gong said: "The State of Zheng intervened in the civil strife of Jin, and the Jin people plundered Zheng, but they did not find peace. The Zheng people used tricks. If I fight with the Jin army, wouldn't it benefit the Zheng people?"
But Bai Gongsheng said: "Zhishi Yao only invites me to hunt, how can I show weakness?"
At this moment, the dignitaries of Chu State who were accompanying the army immediately fell silent.
That's right! Regardless of whether it was a trick by the rulers of Zheng or not, the Jin army invited a fight. Can the Chu army retreat?
Bai Gongsheng added: "Besides, all the new nobles of the Jin Kingdom are here, and it is the right time to test their importance."
There is nothing wrong with them coming to the city of "Xinzheng". Everyone knows that "Xinzheng" is difficult to conquer. They only brought 50,000 troops to intimidate and embarrass Zheng. If the Zheng army is willing to go out of the city to fight, they will fight. Otherwise, there is no way to attack.
"Xinzheng" is a strong city.
"If we can defeat the Jin army here and severely dampen the spirit of Jin's new nobles, the Zheng people will also be discouraged." Bai Gongsheng said.
The Jin State seemed to be in decline and fought a massive civil war. However, no princes could defeat the Jin army on the battlefield, especially since the Jin State only took about two years to destroy Zhongshan.
country.
At that moment, the dignitaries of Chu State accepted Bai Gongsheng's statement.
There are only about 30,000 Jin troops around "Xinzheng", and the troops are led by the new generation.
The dignitaries of the Chu State did not know whether some of the rumors were true, whether there was a military advantage, or whether Bai Gongsheng, who was good at fighting, would be the commander-in-chief, so they thought they should really give it a try.
After the consensus was reached, Bai Gongsheng sent someone to reply to Zhiyao and agreed to conduct a hunting meeting to the east of "Xinzheng".
The terrain there is flat, which is very suitable for large armies to deploy. It is indeed a good place for fighting.
God is beautiful.
The morning sun rises, and the entire sky looks cloudless.
The Jin and Chu troops, who had finished their meals before dawn, left camp when fish whites appeared in the east and went to the battlefield to arrange their troops.
Waiting for sunrise, the originally deserted wilderness was already filled with people, interspersed with the sounds of horses neighing, cows mooing and dogs barking.
Why are there barking dogs? In fact, the army will bring a certain number of dogs. They are usually from the nobility and have been specially trained. They are usually used as hunting assistants, and serve as sentries or leash patrols during the expedition.
The use of trained dogs to serve as sentries has been around for a long time. Their ears are very sensitive and they will bark when they hear strange noises. They can also see at night and will alert people who are dressed differently than themselves.
When did dogs disappear in military camps? It’s hard to say clearly. It was probably after the relevant training methods were lost?
The fighting in the battle formation originally had nothing to do with dogs. Anyway, the traditional Xia nobles did not use dogs to fight.
However, there is a family like the Hu family that has just returned to the Jin Kingdom for a few years. They still maintain some of the habits they had when they were with the foreign tribe.
Using dogs to charge into battle? It's not like strapping explosives to a death charge. No matter how many dogs there are in the cold weapon era, they may not scare the enemy soldiers out of fear, but they may cause some confusion and casualties to the enemy. The greater possibility is that
Send dog meat to the enemy troops who are waiting for battle.
War drums were beating on both sides, and the sound of the drums spread throughout the wilderness and drifted far into the city of "Xinzheng".
It was clearly on the territory of the Zheng State, but it was the Jin Army and the Chu Army that were fighting. The time seemed to have returned to more than a hundred years ago.
At that time, the State of Zheng was the battlefield between the State of Jin and the State of Chu. In order to compete for hegemony, the two powerful countries repeatedly fought on the land of the Zheng people.
Fortunately, the war at that time had nothing to do with ordinary people, and they would not maliciously destroy farmland again, otherwise Zheng Guo should have been buried long ago.
At this moment, the kings and ministers of the State of Zheng were on the east wall of the palace city, looking at the forest of flags over there from a distance, and then at the dust that was raised in the sky when the Jin and Chu armies moved.
With smiles on their faces, they were waiting for the Jin army to fight with the Chu army, but they felt mixed emotions in their hearts.
"Our ancestors have experienced this kind of thing more than once, right?" Many Zheng people are thinking.
The sun rises from the east. The Jin army is on the north side and the Chu army is on the south side. Neither side is bothered by the light, that is, they face the sunlight directly.
"The 'Zuo Jie' of the Jin Army is the Wei family, and the 'Right Jie' is... the Han family?" Ye Gong said with a novel look on his face.
Dou Yuan immediately said: "The Han family has always been a supporter, how dare you act alone this time? You really look down on me!"
It has to be said that not only Dou Yuan was angry, but most of the powerful people in Chu felt that they had been slighted. This also meant that they knew that the Han family really couldn't handle the situation head-on.
After getting angry, their minds became more active, thinking that there was a loophole in the Jin army's deployment that the Han family could take advantage of? Gu Lai
Of course, Bai Gongsheng could tell from the banners of the Jin army which families the troops came from. He attached great importance to the Wei family who was ranked as the "left rebel" of the Jin army, and wondered why Zhiyao appointed the Han family as the "right rebel".
"Trap?" This was the first thing Bai Gongsheng thought of.
After all, the Jin army was led by Zhiyao, who was able to defeat the coalition of princes at the age of thirteen and later won every battle!
On the side of the Chu army, Bai Gongsheng wanted to play tricks on the general formations. What is more realistic is that even if he mastered multiple military formations, his subordinates had not received special training. They could only use families as the basic unit, and one family after another called themselves
What a phalanx can do is to understand which families are more capable of fighting and arrange them in the desired position.
The State of Chu has always used family as a unit to organize troops, and it is rare to have any elaborate formations. Each noble is a tribe (square formation).
If there are "Left and Right Guang" going into battle, the Chu army general will definitely let "Left and Right Guang" put up a formation like "Jing Corpse Formation".
The reason why the people of the Central Plains think that the Chu people are romantic is actually mostly a conclusion they came to during the war. Not only did they have no military discipline, but they also appeared to be extremely undisciplined. It was not that the kings and ministers of the Chu State did not want to change it, but that they simply could not do it.
Bai Gongsheng, who had gone to Wu State for further study, felt that if Zhiyao set a trap, it would be too low-level, and his intentions would be noticed at a glance.
So, after careful consideration, Bai Gongsheng decided to test the reality with practical actions.
After receiving the order, Ye Gong returned to his troops and issued relevant orders to his vassals. When he was about to launch an attack, he was given instructions to suspend the attack.
The reason was that Zhiyao's bicycle came out of the formation of the Jin army and drove slowly towards the direction of the Chu army.
Bai Gongsheng didn't know what Zhiyao wanted to do, so he thought about it and decided to go forward and talk.
"Mr. Bai."
"Prince Zhi"
A title.
A name for family background.
Speaking of which, it's not that Zhiyao doesn't have a name, it's just that...it's really hard for people to say it.
If you call him a siege master or a king's killer, wouldn't he force Zhiyao to fight to the death? Even his sworn enemies would not dare to call him that to his face.
Zhiyao looked at Bai Gongsheng, who was about ten meters away, and said loudly: "Today's battle is just to show the joy of hunting. The competition between two and three sons is for everyone to watch, nothing else."
Bai Gongsheng nodded first, agreeing that there was no deep hatred, and then said: "The Master has finished, please return to our formation."
What?
It's a pity that we can't fight alone?
Believe it or not, Zhiyao can kill you with one arrow?
It's just that Bai Gongsheng, who went to the State of Wu for further study, would not play one-on-one with anyone when he was the commander-in-chief of an army. Instead, he would fight with generals.
The commanders-in-chief of the two armies returned to their respective formations.
When Zhiyao passed through the gap in the military formation, she frequently looked towards the Han family and found that Han Geng had completed the deployment of the general formation. She thought that it was not in vain that she had gone out just now to delay Bai Gongsheng's order to launch the attack.
In general, Bai Gongsheng really did not learn the style of Wu Guo, otherwise he would be happy that Zhiyao came to his door and seized the opportunity to clean up the whole family.
The moment Zhiyao returned to the formation, a horn sounded.
There were about a thousand riders from the Fox clan galloping out from between the left and right columns, followed by seemingly densely packed chariots and foot soldiers.
On the Chu army's side, when Zhiyao's chariot turned around and approached the formation, Ye Gong carried out Bai Gongsheng's order to attack.
When Zhiyao returned to his place, he actually got on the side of the Chao chariot. What he saw at a glance was that the Hu family's troops were already engaged in a contact battle with Ye Gong's troops.
Didn't Zhong Wu propose that the Zhong family should be the first attacking force? But he didn't get Zhi Yao's consent.
War is not a child's play. Who in Jin country doesn't know that the public family has long been defeated?
Zhiyao had a good talk with Zhong Wu in private and promised to give Zhong a chance to prove himself, but not this time.
Later, Zhiyao found Hu You and arranged the mission of the first battle. He also made it clearer how to fight and to what extent.
"Most of them are infantry on horseback, and a few can ride and shoot?" Zhiyao had never seen the fighting of the Hu family's private army. Those like Chi Di, Bai Di, and the Rong people were actually infantry.
What was a bit special about this battle was not only the presence of cavalry and archery units, but also the fact that the two armies were already engaged in close combat, with arrows flying constantly on the battlefield, and they became confused from the very beginning.
Bai Gongsheng saw the contact battle that took place. Although the scene was filled with dust and smoke and he could not see the flags clearly, he immediately recognized the Hu's troops from the Jin army's tactics.
"The wind of Di Rong? The Jin Kingdom has been in decline since then." Bai Gongsheng really couldn't understand how the Jin Kingdom allowed the Hu family to sit on the ministerial position, and he despised the Hu family from the bottom of his heart.
As for the foreign races, no matter whether they are from the south or the north, none of them can defeat them in the current era.
Bai Gongsheng was a little doubtful whether Zhiyao's reputation was just a boast, why did the Hu family end up in the first battle, and said to Douyuan: "Yuan led his troops to attack the Jin army's 'Youji'."