Amidst the rhythmic beating of war drums, following the decisive battle of Hongnong, Chen Yingliang commanded the second large-scale battle. Unlike the last time, it was Chen Yingliang's turn to command the offensive and defensive Crane Wing Formation to launch an offensive. However, the thieves of the army set up a huge phalanx that was defensive but not offensive, and took a defensive position.
The phalanx of the thief army made Chen Yingliang see Lu Mingyue's tactical plan at a glance, and he immediately smiled and said: "I didn't expect that Lu Mingyue, a thief, has some skills. He knows how to use his strengths to avoid weaknesses, and his tactical mind is sober, which is rare."
"Deputy envoy, how did the traitor Lu Mingyue use his strengths to avoid his weaknesses?" Yuan Tiangang, the staff officer next to him, asked curiously.
"Lu Mingyue intends to win with more." On the other side, Yuan Lizhen, a veteran left by Dong Chun to Chen Yingliang, rushed to say: "Our army is small but elite, and its individual combat power is strong. The bandit army has many soldiers, but it is not as good as our elite. The combat power is low, and it is very disadvantageous to fight mobile warfare with us, so Lu Mingyue's rebels lined up this dense square formation, not giving us the opportunity to fight mobile warfare, and then used the superiority of troops to eat up our elite soldiers bit by bit. Deputy Shi, the last general did not make a mistake, did he?"
"That's right." Chen Yingliang nodded, and said with a smile: "You are indeed a veteran of Zuo Xiaowei. The veteran general is indeed rich in experience. Our soldiers lack experience in decisive battles. If the veteran general has time, he should teach them more battle experience. "
Yuan Lizhen agreed very proudly, and Yuan Tiangang asked again: "Deputy envoy, how should we deal with it?"
"It's simple, it's okay to let the thieves move first." Chen Yingliang replied with a smile, and then ordered: "Go and send an order to Ma Sanbao on the right wing to scold him. No matter what method or sentence you use, you must give me an order." Scold Lu Mingyue into moving first."
The messengers rushed to the right wing to deliver the orders, and Ma Sanbao, the most eloquent under Chen Yingliang's command, was also unambiguous. Grandma, with endless swear words and new tricks, scolded Lu Mingyue until she was full of smoke and became furious. Regardless of the opposition of her brother Lu Mingxing, she first sent 2,000 troops out to attack the right wing of the Sui army that Ma Sanbao was retreating.
The battle drums were loud, and the fierce battle on the right wing took the lead. Two thousand bandits stormed the right wing of the Sui army. The Ma Sanbao team, which had only one thousand light infantry, responded calmly. They immediately greeted the enemy with long-range weapons such as strong bows and crossbows. Suddenly, the soldiers of the bandit army were shot down one after another, and their formation was already messed up before they could get close. The warm hospitality of the spearmen, who were stabbed by spears and spears turned people upside down, and the corpses were all over the ground, which could not achieve the goal of breaking up the Ma Sanbao team and starting a scuffle.
Almost everyone's attention was focused on the right wing of the Sui army, but Chen Yingliang hardly even looked at the battlefield on the right wing—the gap in equipment, training, and individual combat power was there. If Ma Sanbao couldn't even kill two thousand bandits Retirement, in history is not worthy of being named General Zuo Xiaowei. Therefore, Chen Yingliang's attention was always on Lu Mingyue's main force on the opposite side, patiently waiting for Lu Mingyue's next move.
Sure enough, seeing that the 2,000-army charge was ineffective and the team was still damaged, Lu Mingyue sent another 2,000-army army to join the right-wing battlefield and continue to attack Ma Sanbao. Seeing this situation, all the generals of the Sui army asked for reinforcements to the right wing, but Chen Yingliang shook his head and ignored them. He just sent someone to pass an order to Ma Sanbao, asking Ma Sanbao to continue to carry it to death, and continue to act as a bait to lure the bandit army into mobile warfare.
After receiving Chen Yingliang's order, Ma Sanbao, who had already accumulated a lot of battlefield experience, decisively ordered the entire army to shrink, forming a circular formation to fight against an enemy four times his own size. Fighting with the enemy, the rebel army with sufficient strength completely surrounded Ma Sanbao's team. After being killed and retreated by the Sui army, a stalemate quickly formed again.
Seeing this scene, Lu Mingyue was of course even more furious. Relying on his sufficient strength, with a wave of his hand, another two thousand infantry attacked, shouting to kill the Sui army's right wing. At the same time, Chen Yingliang finally made a move and ordered: "Order the left wing, Cheng Yaojin, to rob and kill this bandit army halfway, give him a stick of incense time, and be sure to kill the third wave of the enemy's army for me, and then rescue Ma Sanbao."
When the order was conveyed, Cheng Yaojin, who had waited impatiently for a long time, was overjoyed, and immediately led the cavalry under his command who had just put on white robes to attack, shouting and charging, and charged towards the flank of the third wave of bandits. Their eyes widened, and they scrambled to witness how mighty the legendary white-robed soldiers were.
Cheng Yaojin and his white-robed cavalry did not disappoint Chen Yingliang. The 800 cavalry, with horseshoes like thunder and billowing yellow sand, plunged into the flank of the bandit army unstoppably. Knocking countless bandit soldiers into the air and flying away screaming, Cheng Yaojin, who is good at using lances, even pierced the bodies of two bandit soldiers with the first lance, and the rest of the white-robed cavalry were also Fighting to be the first, stabbing the enemy on the opposite side frantically with the horse spear in his hand, slashing and killing the bandit soldiers beside him desperately with the saber, shouting and killing one after another, the bandit army team composed of infantry was overwhelmed by the killing, and the whole line collapsed in less than half a stick of incense , One after another fled back to their home base.
After killing the third wave of reinforcements that dispersed the rebel army, Cheng Yaojin led the white-robed cavalry to reinforce the right wing non-stop, and attacked the rebel army besieging Ma Sanbao from behind. Soon the thieves who surrounded their own army were overwhelmed, and then broke up and fled. Cheng Yaojin and Ma Sanbao led the army to pursue them, slashing and killing to expand the results of the battle, and tried to directly attack the thieves' formation, but Chen Yingliang immediately ordered Ming Jin ordered Cheng Yaojin's and Ma Sanbao's troops to re-arrange on the left and right wings, and not to take the risk of attacking the enemy's formation.
After a battle, the Sui army's team won more with fewer troops, defeated the 6,000 bandit army with less than 2,000 troops, and killed many of them without any disorder. Therefore, Cheng Yaojin and Ma Sanbao's team retreated even if they voluntarily retreated. , the Sui army's main force was still full of cheers, while the morale of the bandit army was severely depressed. The Lu family brothers were also pale, and they quickly discussed in low voices how to defeat the enemy. The army advanced slowly, fighting a war of attrition with the large number of troops and the small but capable Sui army.
Lu Mingyue is indeed very good at organizing and leading. After the order for the whole army to advance slowly, the nearly 50,000 bandit troops slowly flowed like a forest, like a huge ocean, slowly flowing southward, and gradually approaching the center of the Sui army. Army phalanx. Seeing this scene, Chen Yingliang laughed out loud, and immediately ordered the whole army to maintain a strict formation and retreat back, not giving Lu Mingyue any chance to fight a war of attrition, competing with Lu Mingyue for patience.
The shameless retreat began. The Sui troops who had received strict military training tried to maintain their formation while retreating in large strides. The retreat speed was obviously faster than the main force of the bandit army. Not daring to speed up made the team confused, not only failed to close the distance with the main force of the Sui army, but also quickly shortened the distance.
In this way, you advanced and retreated for two or three miles, and Lu Mingyue also lost confidence. She gritted her teeth and ordered a general attack with beating drums. The two wings of Jin and Ma Sanbao retreated to the left and right respectively, leaving the battlefield temporarily, and then launched a counterattack after hearing the signal of the explosion of the gunpowder bottle.
The main force of the bandit army rushing forward was like a rushing tide, quickly flooding the open land next to the Sui Army's phalanx, encircling the Sui Army's phalanx like an isolated island, and slamming against the coast of the isolated island like a raging wave. It's not just relying on the number of troops, equipment and experience are far inferior to the Sui army's bandit army. Although there are many troops, their combat effectiveness is far inferior to that of the regular army. any gains.
It was the turn of Kan Ling's white-robed Mo Dao soldiers to show their skills. Standing at the forefront of defending the handsome flag of Chen Yingliang, Kan Ling's team certainly endured the greatest pressure, but this also just proved to Kan Ling's team that they are qualified to wear Now is the chance to wear the white robes. Five regiments of heavy infantry with thousands of mo knives flying up and down, slashing, smashing and stabbing with the sound of the wind. Together and falling, the enemy on the opposite side is either dead or injured. Kan Linggeng, who is standing in the front row It is Mo Dao who can kill several enemies with a single swing, and kills the enemy on the opposite side with fear and screams. Even if Lu Mingxing led the army to attack in person, he was killed by Kan Ling's Mo Dao team and fled in embarrassment. , Even Mo Daobing's first line of defense couldn't break through.
The sound of shouting and killing was deafening, and the battle entered a fierce stage. The soldiers of the Sui Army who were surrounded by heavy siege fought for their lives even more in order to win. There was a slight pause, and the bandit army, relying on the large number of soldiers, also kept waving simple weapons to repeatedly attack the Sui army formation, trying to break into the Sui army formation and destroy the phalanx. Knives came and went, blood spattered, soldiers from both sides fell down every second, and it was not uncommon for soldiers from both sides to wrestle and roll on the ground to perish together.
With a whoosh, a arrow flew past Chen Yingliang's helmet, scaring Yuan Tiangang and the soldiers beside him into screams. On the battlefield between the two armies, Yuan Tiangang suggested several times in a low voice to Chen Yingliang to quickly use gunpowder weapons to reverse the situation, but Chen Yingliang turned a deaf ear to it, and just calmly observed the battlefield between the two armies with an extremely calm demeanor.
In fact, although the area around Teng County is an open plain, it is not that Chen Yingliang can't think of any opportunistic ways to defeat the enemy if Chen Yingliang really wants to use tactics. In an era of greater turbulence, the time left for Chen Yingliang to prepare is pitifully small. It is impossible for Chen Yingliang to stand out in this turbulent era with an army that can only be opportunistic. It is Chen Yingliang's biggest capital to gain a foothold and start a career. However, Lu Mingyue's bandit army, whose combat strength is average but ten times stronger than his own, is Chen Yingliang's ideal target for direct combat training - so that even if the situation is not right, Chen Yingliang, who is actually very greedy for life and fear of death in his bones, still has the opportunity and confidence to escape, right
Fortunately, the performance of the lineage army in this head-on battle made Chen Yingliang very concerned. Whether it was the old lineage brought out from Qiao County or the new lineage left by Dong Chun to Chen Yingliang, they all performed very well in the battle. Every team can fight to the death without retreating. Even if they are surrounded by enemies with far more troops than their own army, the Qiaojun team and Pengcheng team can be in danger, cooperate skillfully with each other, and the rotation of combat forces is orderly. In any panic, the supervisory team guarding the rear hardly opened, and there was no sign of collapse.
The battle situation fell into a stalemate. Although the bandit army with sufficient strength surrounded the Sui army and launched several charges, it was still unable to disperse the Sui army and started a melee. Relying on the advantages of equipment and training, the Sui army team killed and wounded There are a large number of rebel soldiers, but it is difficult to counterattack due to the small number of troops. Seeing this situation, Chen Yingliang, who still had countless hole cards in his hand, was not in a hurry. Patience was just training soldiers, but Brother Lu Mingyue was extremely impatient. Apart from repeatedly forcing the army to charge and kill, both of them went into battle in person. , Come to the front line to boost morale.
After fighting like this for nearly an hour, he realized that his team's physical strength had declined. In order not to make the army useless, Chen Yingliang finally gave the order to counterattack. Under the leadership of Chen Yingliang's old neighbor Sangouzi, 20 soldiers, each Take out a gunpowder bottle wrapped in straw and stride forward, ignite the fuse in turn and throw it to the enemy crowd in front. , All smashed into the most densely populated position of the bandit soldiers.
Rumbling, rumbling, rumbling explosions began to reverberate on the battlefield, and then naturally, the bandit army, who had never even heard of this weapon, was in chaos, all of them were frightened by this weird weapon that could make a terrifying loud noise At a loss what to do, there was a great chaos, while the Sui army was beating drums, sending out a general attack signal. In this era, Chen Yingliang, who had never even killed a chicken, pulled out his sword in a decent manner, raised his sword and roared, "Kill! Follow me!"
The Sui army's big counterattack began. Cheng Yaojin and Ma Sanbao, who had already retreated to the distance of the two wings to rest, did not hesitate to fight together from left to right. The main force of the Sui army was the white-robed Mo Dao soldiers under Kan Ling's command as the vanguard. Pushing forward like a wall, Kan Leng, who was put on a white robe by Chen Yingliang himself, rushed to the front as usual, slapped his blade and slashed straight at the head. Terrified, he screamed and ran away. Mo Daobing took the opportunity to rush forward, killing the enemy on the opposite side and retreating steadily.
The situation of the battle suddenly reversed, and the Lu Mingyue brothers, who were still far superior to the Sui army, still refused to give up. They once again forced the troops under their command to continue charging, and even shouted a huge reward of one hundred taels of gold for taking Chen Yingliang's head. Unfortunately, the bandit army The worst thing to do is to fight against the wind. When you fight against the wind, you can go forward indomitably, but when you are in a downwind, your morale and fighting spirit immediately drop. Deserters begin to appear in the blink of an eye. Shaker Molecules.
How can the golden finger be missing at the critical moment? The Lu Mingyue brothers were desperately maintaining the situation here, but Chen Yingliang's personal troops threw 20 more grenades to disturb the bandit army, and the bandit soldiers who were shaken by the loud explosion made their eardrums buzzing, so panicked that they didn't even dare to fight. They ran backwards one after another, and directly overwhelmed the bandit supervising team. At the same time, the Sui Army cavalry in white robes had also returned to the battlefield, directly attacking the bandit army's flanks without hesitation, accelerating the collapse of the bandit army's main force. They all pointed their fingers at Lu Mingyue's handsome flag, and the roar of capturing Lu Mingyue alive was louder than the explosion of gunpowder.
The bandit army began to retreat like a tidal wave. When they realized that the situation was not good, the Lu family brothers also gave up their dying struggle and turned their horses to flee for their lives. The bandit army quickly collapsed completely. Countless bandit soldiers turned around and ran, scattered for their lives. They fled all over the mountains and plains, and the Sui army's morale was like a rainbow. Under the leadership of Chen Yingliang, they chased after and killed the defeated soldiers desperately. The white-robed cavalry led by Cheng Yaojin even galloped among the bandits. , Killing as much as they wanted, the bandit army was defeated like a mountain, they didn't dare to resist at all, they just ran for their lives towards the camp.
Brother Lu Mingyue's calmness saved their lives, and they lowered the commander's flag in time so that the Sui army could not find their whereabouts. They were also very clever not to escape back to the camp through the main entrance, but bypassed the main entrance of the camp and entered the camp from the side entrance. , and then immediately organized crossbowmen to cover the retreat of the defeated soldiers from the army. Arrows shot and killed his own defeated soldiers, which avoided the bad luck of the camp being swept away by his own defeated soldiers. Then when the Sui army chased them to the front, although Lu Fanxing and Su Chang were quickly defeated by the Sui army, the rebel army did not. Hastily organized a line of defense within the fence of the camp, and violently suppressed the Sui army's attacking team with feather arrows.
If Chen Yingliang was willing to spend his capital, it is not impossible for the Sui army to take advantage of the victory and kick down the camp of the bandit army. Unfortunately, Chen Yingliang, who has not much capital in his hand, was reluctant to use his direct lineage to fight a tough battle with heavy casualties, so he attacked the bandit camp twice. After the result, Chen Yingliang resolutely gave up the attack on the camp, and ordered to kill the defeated bandits who had not entered the camp with all their strength, so as to weaken the sustainable combat capability of Lu Mingyue's bandits.
Of course, some generals of the Sui army were not reconciled, and suggested that Chen Yingliang take advantage of the situation to attack the camp. Chen Yingliang replied: "Our main force will consume a lot of physical strength in this battle. If we continue to fight, it will definitely increase unnecessary casualties. We may not be sure that we can defeat the enemy." Instead of letting the soldiers sacrifice in vain, it is better to give up attacking the camp for the time being, and let the brethren recover enough strength to find a way to break the bandits."
"However, given the rebels a chance to breathe, what should Lu Mingyue do if he gathers the defeated soldiers and fights with us again?" Yuan Lizhen asked worriedly.
"What are you afraid of? Wouldn't it be enough to fight again?" Chen Yingliang replied with a smile: "The defeated army is not brave. Lu Mingyue dispatched 50,000 troops to fight our 8,000 troops this time, but we were still defeated by us." , the morale and fighting spirit will be greatly affected. In the next decisive battle, the bandit army must be timid before fighting, and the victory must still belong to us. In this case, it is better to let the soldiers linger for a while than to let the soldiers suffer heavy casualties and break their camp. Wait until the next decisive battle to defeat him, and let our army accumulate some decisive battle experience by the way."
Yuan Lizhen still felt a little pity, but Chen Yingliang was the main general who insisted on giving up attacking the camp. Qiu Sheng contacted and asked Qiu Sheng to send troops to attack the enemy's besieging army tonight, and told Qiu Sheng that I don't need much of his results, as long as he let Lu Mingyue know that Teng County still has the strength to go out of the city to fight."
"Deputy Envoy, isn't it a pity that Teng County's trump card has been exposed in advance?" Yuan Tiangang asked worriedly.
"It's okay, I only intend to use the Tengxian army as a diversionary force, to restrain the bandit army from behind, so that we can relax in the front." Chen Yingliang replied in a low voice: "In this way, I can let go of my hands and feet in the front. Train the army."