At night, in the Taishan Army camp, all the generals gathered in the middle tent and closed their eyes to rest.
Suddenly, Meng Ju, who was the commander-in-chief of the Fei Army's foreign forces at the time, walked in and nodded to Zhang Chong who was in charge.
After receiving the signal, Zhang Chong suddenly stood up and said to the generals without saying much:
"Action!"
Taishan generals who have been in the military for a long time have long been accustomed to this kind of vigorous and resolute behavior. They don't say much and just file out of their tents and return to their respective camps.
There, all the ministries were ready to go.
Among the crowd, Zhao Yun raised his head and glanced into the distance, where there were already flames and commotion. At this moment his admiration for the king reached its peak.
He glanced back at the king in the tent, and then turned back firmly, preparing to launch an attack as the first round of assault.
When many generals left, only Cai Que and other generals in the military tent were present.
At this time, Cai Que was very strange and asked Zhang Chong, who was sitting upright:
"My King, how do you know that the enemy army is going to be in chaos tonight?"
At this time, Zhang Chong was drinking water, and it was quite strange to hear Cai Que asking:
"Ah, indeed, this is rare. I have never asked you about military strategy in the past. Why are you asking this question today?"
Cai Que was quite embarrassed when he said this, his face turned red, and he replied honestly:
"We see that Big Eye can fight well, and Cai Chue doesn't want to be weaker than others!"
Zhang Chong chuckled, feeling inexplicably happy when he saw this fat and silly Cai Que saying something that was not inferior to others.
He shook his head and explained to him:
"This matter is not difficult to judge. In fact, I ordered the entire army to be on guard tonight to prepare for two things. One is to deal with the enemy's chaos, and the other is to deal with the enemy's possible night attack."
Cai does not understand:
"Night attack? Will the enemy attack again at night?"
Zhang Chong shook his head and said with a smile:
"Yes, but obviously the enemy failed to seize this opportunity."
He pointed to Tian Jun beside him and said:
"Arjun, tell Acque how you planned this battle."
Tian Jun was wearing armor. After hearing Zhang Chong’s words, he waved his hands:
"The general will not dare to be greedy for this merit. I just did a trivial thing, and the overall situation is determined by the king."
Then Tian Jun explained some of the whole story to Cai Que.
It turned out that Tianjun was stationed in Dusuoyuan, and he began to arrange some actions, among which he paid special attention to the local rich and rural elders.
These people do not have much armament, but there is one thing that both the Taishan Army and the Kansai Army are inferior to, and that is their understanding of the local geography.
Tian Jun always remembers what Zhang Chong once said:
"There is no road in the world, the roads are made by people."
Since these local villagers were backed by mountains and forests, they would definitely harvest forest trees illegally, so Tian Jun judged that these people must know these woodcutting roads.
At first, these village elders were hesitant and hesitant, and did not want to tell the road. After all, this is a crime, and the other is their way to make money. They will never tell outsiders about it.
But after Tian Jun was appointed an official and made a wish, these people did not hesitate to tell the location of these woodcutter roads.
Of course, these passages cannot be used for marching, but they are enough to deliver a small number of elites to the front line of Queshu Road to threaten the enemy's rear.
There is one thing that Tian Jun said is not wrong, that is, the overall plan was really arranged by Zhang Chong.
When Zhang Chong arrived at Tian Jun's camp with the Six Guards' assault cavalry, he immediately decided to change tactics after listening to Tian Jun's report in detail.
Originally, Zhang Chong was planning to lead all the assault cavalry to directly attack the Kansai Army, but now Zhang Chong realized that there was a better fighter.
Previously, he ordered Guo Tai to return to Baibo Valley and specifically explained one thing, which was to cooperate with the main force going south to harass possible enemy logistics.
So Zhang Chong immediately ordered Guo Zu to take his autographed letter and go through these woodcutter roads to find Guo Tai.
Guo Tai had been paying attention to this battle for a long time and had been cruising around the periphery, preparing to look for opportunities to strike. So when Guo Zu found him, Guo Tai immediately selected eight hundred elites to attack Yong'an, the logistics center of the Kansai Army.
The whole operation was very fast.
On the morning of November 7, Guo Taicai met Guo Zu. He had already summoned his old troops at noon, selected the best, and attacked Yong'an that night.
Then Guo Zu turned back again and brought back exact news for Zhang Chong.
Therefore, Zhang Chong learned about the burning of grain in Yongan earlier than the Guanxi Army on the opposite side.
Then, the Guanxi Army on the opposite side retreated before the battle. At this time, Zhang Chong still did not let the armies counterattack, because he knew that the real chaos was still behind.
And now, when Tian Jun finished telling the whole story, Zhang Chong took over and told Cai Que:
"Do you know why I know they are going to cause chaos? Because I know that this so-called elite Kansai Army is actually vulnerable."
"The enemy's 50,000 elite troops are actually like a three-layered central circle. The innermost core is Dong Zhuo's Liangzhou and Hedong armies, the middle one is the Xiyuan army where Yongliang is from, and the outer core is the army that fought with our army before. The Yizhou Department and the Bingzhou Department are located in Yingtou."
Zhang Chong asked Cai Que:
"Let me ask, if you were an officer in the Yizhou and Bingzhou armies, and you would be driven forward in every battle, but the battle achievements would not fall on you. The number of brothers in your hands would become less and less, would you be willing to do so?" < br>
Of course Cai Que would not, he even cursed:
"If anyone dares to do this to me, we must fight him first."
This sentence made Tian Jun and Yu Jin take another look at Cai Que, but they did not speak.
After all, who allowed the two of them to always be the commander-in-chief? Hearing this, I felt a little uncomfortable.
But Zhang Chong didn't take it seriously and nodded:
"Yes, we are full of blood. How can people in Yizhou and Bingzhou not be full of blood? And you don't even look at the Lu Bu opposite, and you can't stand this anger."
The people present did not speak, but they were wondering why the king wanted to mention Lu Bu.
Could it be that if Lu Bu is here, he will definitely rebel?
At this time, Zhang Chong continued:
"In normal times, the Liangzhou military department can still control the situation, but now once the armies know that they are out of food and fodder, they can't break through our army's barriers even in daylight attacks. In this case, who still has the will to fight."
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Yu Jin, who had been silent at this time, also sighed and said:
"And more importantly, none of the generals in Guanliang Prefecture are worthy of the overall situation. They are all a group of mediocre people who seek their own selfish ends. In this situation, it is already rare to say that everyone is united in facing the outside world. It is already rare for him not to run away first. ”
Tian Jun also added:
"And what's more terrible about this? That is that we all know the virtues of the Liangzhou Army generals. Don't those Yi and other generals know? Even if the Liangzhou Army really wants to go first for the sake of the overall situation this time, but As long as this suspicion exists, all armies will go first, and no one will be willing to be someone else's scapegoat. Moreover, you know that with the terrain of Queshu Valley, whoever can go in front will be safer. Understand why they collapsed tonight!”
Cai did understand. At this time, he asked Zhang Chong: "I understand, but why did you just say, Your Majesty, that you are preparing to deal with the enemy's night attack?"
Zhang Chong smiled, and he and all the generals present explained:
"Actually, the enemy army may not be able to fight. It is true that the opponent is not united, but it is also true that the fighting force is strong. Judging from the battalion leaders who participated in the battle during the day, the combat power of this enemy force is the highest that our army encountered when going south. The strongest one. So if the enemy army can attack us at night today, our army will be small in number, and I cannot guarantee the final result."
"But judging from the current situation, Hu Zhen on the opposite side must have chosen the worst outcome. He probably chose to fight tomorrow, which is why this disaster happened."
Cai Zhen was the only person present who didn't understand, and he was not shy, so he really asked:
"Your Majesty, I think it will be good to fight tomorrow. If we fight in the daytime, we can command the armies and we will be more confident."
Zhang Chong laughed and secretly thought that Cai Que was indeed a straightforward warrior. Fortunately, he was in the Taishan Army, otherwise he would have been sold long ago.
He wanted to teach Cai Que, so he explained it in detail:
"Fighting in the daytime is good in many ways, but just one thing is absolutely impossible. That is the long night and the dream."
"Ah indeed, you have just told you about the suspicions within the enemy army, then you should understand. As the commander-in-chief of the entire army, Hu Zhen must never let the generals return to their camps. Do you think, if there is a night's delay? , What will the armies think? Those who have been resentful will not participate in the bloody battle tomorrow, and they will definitely leave the camp. And those who were hesitant at first will be worried, why will Hu Zhen fight tomorrow instead of tonight? The Liangzhou Army has already planned to break out of the camp secretly in the middle of the night? So, Hu Zhen’s only chance is to launch a general attack immediately and put all the troops into the battlefield without any chance of regretting. "
At this time, Cai indeed finally understood and knew that there were so many ideas in the so-called military struggle.
While everyone was discussing, at the front, the Taishan Army who came out of camp to attack also began to engage in battle.
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The Taishan Army's assault cavalry in this attack consisted of approximately 4,000 people, all of whom were elite.
To fight a night battle, you don't rely on numbers, but on elites.
At this time, Ma Chao was running on the east side of the battlefield with his 500 assault cavalry, and was advancing rapidly toward the southwest at high speed.
After Ma Chao performed meritorious service in the Liaodong battlefield, he accumulated his merits and became the newly reorganized Flying Tiger Army right guard Zuoqu General, with a command of five hundred cavalry.
This position is considered a mid-level general in the Taishan Army, but Ma Chao is not satisfied. After all, he wants to be a hero in the Four Conquests.
At this moment, his old habit recurred. He was not content with the plan originally assigned to him to defeat the enemy's front camp, but planned to directly attack the enemy's central tent.
Therefore, he led five hundred sudden cavalry, passing through the enemy skirmishers running along the way, and almost inserted into Hu Zhen's position in a straight line.
At this time, along the road, there were scattered skirmishers everywhere. They ran towards the south without thinking about whether the narrow sparrow road gave them a way to survive.
This is the blind obedience of people in a group, and there is no reason at all.
But this is convenient for Ma Chao and the others. At this moment, he had already encountered two waves of enemy troops that had maintained their formation, but none of them wanted to stop Ma Chao. Even when Ma Chao and the others showed that they didn't care about them, they decisively let go of Xiang Xiangxi. channel.
When Ma Chao and the others continued to move forward along the passage, they looked back and saw that the two battalion heads chose to break out to the south almost at the same time.
Under this situation, Ma Chao had a clearer understanding of the enemy's chaos and idleness, and was more confident about capturing Hu Zhen.
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At this time, in the Chinese army camp, Hu Zhen was hurriedly dispatching the battalions of the Chinese army to deploy new lines of defense.
Originally, Hu Zhen's central army was deployed on the southwest side of the battlefield. On its periphery were 20,000 troops from the Yongzhou military department, and 15,000 troops from the Yizhou and Bingzhou military departments.
However, as the Yi and Yong armies took the lead to move south, the defenses on the north side of Hu Zhen's camp were completely opened, and they were directly exposed to the front of the Taishan army.
This was also the reason why Hu Zhen had urged Lu Bu to camp here before, because he needed Lu Bu to defend his north.
But what now? Lu Bu could not see Lu Bu, and even his own Fan Chou was carried southward.
So Hu Zhen, who was already determined to die, let go completely and decided to fight here.
As a Kansai warrior as famous as Dong Zhuo, his ability is by no means weak, but the development of the current situation and the tide of history pushed him into a situation that he could not handle, which ultimately affected the three armies.
Not long after he dispatched the battalions, the Taishan Army came over and killed them.
The first person to kill Hu Zhen was Xi Shen, the leader of the left guard of the Flying Leopard Army. His troops were just north of Hu Zhen, so he was the first to kill him.
When Zhang Chong reorganized and expanded the 10th Battalion of Assault Cavalry into the 24th Guards, it was inevitable that the original groups of the various armies would be broken up.
Among them, Xi Shen's former Lang party warriors were dismantled into various armies, and they were no longer useful.
At first Xi Shen thought Zhang Chong was jealous of him, and was inevitably panicked for a while, but after discovering that all armies were like this, he felt safe.
But he felt a little guilty in his heart, so in many wars since then, he often fought on the front line and made many military exploits. His characteristic garlic hair was admired and imitated by many people in the army and considered fashionable.
At this time, he and his thousands of men had already seen Hu Zhen's camp.
But it was very strange. Unlike the other camps he saw along the road that collapsed and scattered, the camp that Xi Shen saw at this moment was brightly lit, and the interior of the camp was lifeless.
Xi Shen was cautious and hurriedly slowed down his horses. Finally, the whole army stopped in front of the camp, not daring to attack rashly.
At this time, his general Zhao Gui ran over and asked about the situation.
Xi Shen rolled his eyes and ordered Zhao Gui:
"The enemy camp is silent. I am afraid there is something mysterious. You lead your troops to fight on foot and on horseback to clear the way for the whole army."
Zhao Gui is from the north and joined the army in the first year of Taiwu. He has been fighting under Xu Huang. Previously, he broke into Longcheng with Xu Huang and fought bloody battles at Longshan, where he made special achievements.
General Geng Jie heard the military order and immediately took it.
Soon, Zhao Gui, who was covered in three layers of armor, dismounted with his five hundred knights. They all used axes and halberds to cut down the enemy's Luzhai.
Xi Shen, on the other hand, took the remaining 500 knights and lined up outside the trench to prevent the enemy from suddenly leaving the camp.
Zhao Gui immediately jumped down the trench, and then started to chop the deer village at the bottom of the trench with a big axe. The officials behind them followed suit and quickly cleared the first layer of trenches.
When they crossed the ditch and jumped into the ditch under the camp, Zhao Gui suddenly slipped and fell to the ground. His hand wiped the ground and it was covered with oil.
The soul of Zhao Gui emerged, screaming and shouting:
"Retreat, retreat!"
At this moment, a row of archers appeared on the enemy's rampart. They lit the brazier, prepared fire arrows, then set their bows and arrows, and fired a burst of fire towards the trench below.
Then, in front of Xi Shen's eyes, a row of sea of fire suddenly appeared in front of him, and the sea was wailing like a hell on earth.