Chapter two hundred and seventy seventh plain victory
Zhengcang City, the weather is fine.
The clouds of war seem to have completely dissipated.
Because since the Guangjun army stationed outside the city a few days ago and launched a strong siege but failed, Zhengcang City has not encountered a decent attack in the following days. The Guangjun army only made sporadic sneak attacks at night. The intensity of such activities is also very different from the first day.
At this point, how could Shen Cheng still not know that his Zhengcang City was facing only a feint attack from Guang County in this battle?
While delivering the news as quickly as possible to the Licheng Military Affairs Office, Roucheng and other places, he began to adjust his strategy. In turn, he made a surprise attack on the Guangjun army's camp at night, and then found that the large camp outside the city was already empty. Kezi, what appears to be a huge camp with a size of 40,000 to 50,000 people is actually only garrisoned by 20,000 people at most. The so-called attacker's strength is only equal to that of the defenders. This does not mean that they are really planning to attack the city.
Even if Shen Cheng has only 10,000 elite soldiers in his original squad, and the other nearly 10,000 soldiers are new soldiers recruited from the refugees and common people near Zhengcang City in recent days, they are definitely not something that Guang County can capture with only 20,000 soldiers now. !
But when Shen Cheng learned the true situation of the enemy at dawn the next day, he planned to send out the main force to attack the Guangjun camp and try to tentatively plan a battle outside the city. However, the opponent took the camp first and retreated fifty miles in one breath, almost We retreated to the old border between Sancang Land and Guangjun, and found a location that was easy to defend but difficult to attack to set up camp!
That camp was not far from the Ganshui River. Ganshui merged into the Yahe River from west to east. No one knew whether Guangjun's powerful navy had followed the Yahe River upstream to the upper reaches of Ganshui River to provide support at any time. Shen Cheng did not dare to risk the pursuit and had to seek stability and retreated back to the city for defense. However, he also sent out more than ten scout teams within one day to re-cover most of the northern area of Zhengcang City, and fully grasped the situation in the area north of Zhengcang City. .
Several of these scout teams received very clear orders and walked westward along the Ganshui River, directly approaching the Ganshui river crossing point closest to Sichuan City. One of the scout teams also fought with Sichuan City on the opposite side. The scout team met each other across the river!
Almost at the same time that the scout team met the scouts from Sichuan City, Tongcang City Lord General Chen Shaoxiong and Zhengcang City Lord General Shen Cheng received an urgent military order from Zhao Wuji, the Lieutenant of the Licheng Military Affairs Department, ordering the transfer of Tongcang City. Five thousand defenders of Cang went north to help defend Zhengcang City, while Zhengcang City simultaneously sent 10,000 troops to the direction of Sichuan City and stationed themselves on the bank of the Ganshui River closest to Sichuan City in preparation for crossing the river!
This was the first strategic counterattack after the entire northern campaign went from passive attack to passive defense!
Chen and Shen were Zhao Wuji's former direct subordinates. They began to implement the military orders as soon as they received them. The military mobilization in Sancang, especially the dispatch of troops from Tongcang City, immediately affected the nerves of Yongchang County. Yicheng The Xingcheng side immediately began to strengthen their vigilance. However, after learning that Lijun's military movements were clearly heading north towards Guangjun, they did not make any further adjustments such as increasing troops at the border, for fear that an accidental move would arouse Lijun's suspicion. , casting a haze over the newly concluded Southern Xinjiang Alliance.
In fact, Zhao Wuji's mobilization of this paper military order is somewhat risky in Shen Cheng's view, because the current layout of Guangjun is not clear enough, especially when there is a Guangjun army eyeing the Ganshui River north of Zhengcang City. Under the situation, sending nearly half of his troops to attack Sichuan City might cause Zhengcang City to fall into siege again, but he still sent Jiuge to lead the army to kill Sichuan City in the northwest without hesitation.
But the result did not happen at all as Shen Cheng feared, but was unexpectedly weird!
Not only did the Jiuge army advancing towards Sichuan City reach the bank of Ganshui River as directed by the military affairs department's military order without any hindrance, but the Guangjun army originally stationed north of Zhengcang City and also backed by Ganshui once again retreated. Withdrew, and this time they simply withdrew to a frontier military town in the Xiucheng area of Guang County, completely in a defensive posture based on the city!!
So Shen Cheng in Zhengcang City was a little confused and could only lament Zhao Wuji's ability to use troops. But what he didn't know was that just when he was standing on the city wall holding a knife and looking at the clear sky in the north with a relaxed mind, Sichuan City and On the plain land between Roucheng, under the gloomy sky, a fierce fighting was going on!!
Among them, the side that seems to have a slight advantage in terms of military strength is wearing Guangjun armor and is based on a hundred-man formation. More than a hundred hundred-man formations are surrounded layer by layer to form a huge circle, and then slowly roll eastward, towards a place not far from the battlefield. Advance on a gentle slope and assume a defensive position.
The side that did not have the upper hand in terms of military strength put on Lijun armor and formed a large formation of ten thousand men. They pursued each other one after another, launching rounds of strong attacks one after another like a pack of wolves hunting a giant bear, constantly tearing pieces from the giant bear. Some flesh and blood.
So the two armies fought and marched all the way, leaving only broken armor and flags and flesh and blood corpses everywhere on the plains, seemingly endless.
It wasn't until the giant bear-like Guangjun Army was about to reach the strategically located gentle slope that was relatively easy to defend and difficult to attack, that the sound of horse hooves suddenly came from behind the gentle slope!
The sound of horses' hooves came from far and near. I could only hear the sound but not see the person, but it was densely packed and seemed to be endless!
The giant bear-like circular formation army immediately became a little unstable!
Immediately afterwards, high-pitched cheers were heard from the ten wolf-like military formations of Lijun's thousand-man army. They shouted "Lijun Qingqi has arrived" while launching the strongest offensive with high morale. They were gathered together. A corner of the biting circular formation immediately collapsed and sunk, and more than ten hundred-man formations were immediately broken. The soldiers scattered and retreated and poured into other military formations deep in the circular formation!
The giant bear-like circular formation army was beginning to show signs of defeat. No matter how loudly the general and officers at all levels shouted, they could not reverse the signs of collapse in one corner of the circular formation!
Then, the cavalry team behind the gentle slope appeared at the right time!
I saw that there were nearly 3,000 cavalrymen. Among them, the horses were tall and well-armored. Everyone on the horsemen was holding a crossbow and a bow. The whole team was in a long snake formation. After rushing up the gentle slope, there was no pause and no direct movement. It rushed towards the giant bear-like circular formation army, but it was like a giant python speeding across the earth, passing by the giant bear circular formation and leaving without touching it, and then there were waves of waves that seemed to have no trace. The arrows at the end were thrown out, scattered like a rainstorm among the hundred-man military formations on the edge of the giant bear formation!
Blood splashed, and the sound of howling suddenly became louder, even the thunderous sound of horse hooves outside could not cover it up!
Thus, the collapse of the larger hundred-man army formation began.
The soldiers pushed, crowded, and rushed towards the depths of the circular formation.
The soldiers who had no way to attack their comrades were knocked out of position by the impact, so they had no choice but to join them and roll into the circle...
When a defeat was inevitable, the leader of this giant bear-like Guangjun army finally made a decision. Under the military order, most of the circular array quickly changed into a rectangular array that was easy to march quickly and could take into account defense. Escape to the east.
And the dozens of chaotic formations of a hundred people that were abandoned on the spot were surrounded by the Lijun army behind them...