The Richest Man in the Heavens Starts from Outlaws of the Marsh

Chapter 85
Du Yu personally led the army to confront the imperial army in Zhending Mansion.

The distance between the camps of the two sides is only ten miles, and on an open plain, you can even use a telescope to see the specific situation of the other side's camp.

After watching the transfer of the officers and troops from the watchtower, Du Yu beat the drums and gathered the generals to prepare for the battle.

However, he still handed over the command of the army to Xu Guanzhong. After all, compared with Bian Xiang, who became a monk halfway through, Xu Guanzhong's talent was much higher than that of Bian Xiang.

During the previous battles, Xu Guanzhong commanded the army to advance and retreat well, and fought with ease. No one in the army was dissatisfied, and Bian Xiang was the kind of careless person who had no intention of earning merit.

At least for now, the Great Wei Army is harmonious, and there are no factions or hilltops.

Xu Guanzhong observed through the telescope and clearly saw the intention of the imperial army to push forward. Considering the current situation of the Wei army, he decided to fight a head-to-head battle after discussing with Du Yu.

Conspiracies and tricks on the Great Plains are not easy to display, it is better to break them with strength, they have strong confidence in the weapons and equipment and the quality of the soldiers of the Great Wei Army.

"General Bian, you lead Fan Yuming, Yu Deyuan, Fu Xiang, Gu Kai, Kou Chen, Guan Yan, Feng Yi, Lu Zhen, Ji Wenbing, An Shilong, Nie Xin, Feng Pei, Lei Zhen, Ni Lin, Fei Zhen , Xue Can and others, with [-] soldiers as the central army." Xu Guanzhong said.

After receiving the order, Bian Xiang grinned and said, "The last general will definitely live up to his trust."

"General Luan, you lead Lu Hui, Shi Ding, Wu Cheng, Zhong Liang, Yun Zongwu, Wu Su, Zhu Jing, Dong Cheng, Shen Ji, Geng Gong, and ten thousand troops as the right wing," Xu Guanzhong said.

"Follow orders." Luan Tingyu received the military order.

"General Sun, you lead Wang Yuan, Mei Yu, Qin Ying, Jin Zhen, Lu Qing, Bi Sheng, Pan Xun, Yang Fang, Feng Sheng, Hu Mai, and Lu Fang, with [-] troops as the left wing."

"Shan Shiqi, Ma Ling, Wu Neng, Xu Jin, Tang Bin, Wen Zhongrong, Cui Ye, you and others will lead the rear army with [-] troops and support them at any time." Xu Guanzhong continued to arrange.

"Han Bolong, Chen Da, Yang Chun, you cavalry troops are under a lot of pressure. I wonder if you can keep an eye on the [-] horse troops of the official army?" Xu Guanzhong asked.

"Xu Shuai, although we are small, we are all elites. I have the advantage of three thousand against ten thousand." Han Bolong said confidently.

"Since that's the case, I'm relieved." Xu Guanzhong said.

After finishing speaking, he looked at Du Yu.

Upon seeing this, Du Yu came out and preached: "This battle is a battle for my great Wei to show off its power. Brothers, you must pay attention to it. Don't be proud of the achievements you have made before."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, we definitely don't dare to take it lightly." Everyone said in unison.

Du Yu didn't say much, it's good to do something to boost morale once, but it's not beautiful to talk too much.

Two days later, both sides unanimously opened the gates of the camp, laid out the troops, and slowly approached each other after forming an array.

On the contrary, Han Bolong, Chen Da, and Yang Chun, leading three thousand cavalry, used binoculars to find the movement of Jiao Anjie's ten thousand cavalry, and stepped forward to meet them.

The infantry of both sides are advancing in formation, so the speed is not considered fast.Instead, the cavalry took the lead in fighting on the right side of the battlefield ten miles away.

Because of the first-mover advantage of the telescope scouting, Han Bolong ordered the soldiers to urge the horses to slowly speed up when the cavalry on both sides were about five miles away.

When Jiao Anjie saw his opponent, he couldn't help but be surprised. He didn't expect the so-called 'rogue' to have a large-scale heavy cavalry.

He secretly cursed in his heart that this is the state government's crime and let Lao Tzu bear it.

But now the distance between the two sides is only three miles, and the speed of the cavalry is approaching in an instant. He dared to turn around, so he could only bite the bullet and wave the flag to meet him.

"Let go!" Han Bolong shouted loudly on the horse.

The cavalry of the Great Wei had already prepared their bows and arrows to shoot together. After a round of shooting, they didn't care about the result. They quickly drew their short spears according to their usual training.

"Throw it!" Han Bolong shouted again.

The cavalry immediately used the kinetic energy brought by the horses to throw the short spears in their hands to the opposite side as much as possible.

"Get up!" Han Bolong roared again.

In the meantime, the cavalrymen of the Wei Dynasty raised their four-meter-long lances, clamped them firmly under their armpits, and rushed towards each other.

The two rounds of long-range attacks actually did not effectively kill many people, but who could not dodge the flying arrows and short guns, so the officers and troops in front suddenly became chaotic, and the formation of the horse army was distorted.

Just as Jiao Anjie was about to command and adjust, he saw that the forwards of both sides had already joined the battle.

"Puff puff!"

"Ah! Ah! . . . Ah!"

There were screams and howls, the clash of weapons, and the roar of horses.

Han Bolong, Chen Da, and Yang Chun were all in heavy armor and wore iron masks. No one knew what kind of expression they were wearing under the masks.

However, the heavy cavalry led by the three of them took advantage of the light cavalry of the Zhending government army. The conical formation was like a hot knife cutting butter, and the cavalry of the opponent was dismounted one after another. gouged through.

After rushing for three miles, Han Bolong commanded the heavy cavalry to turn the horse's head, ready to do it again.

But when they rushed in front of the officers and soldiers again, they found that Jiao Anjie threw the command flag on the ground and shouted to surrender.

Han Bolong laughed loudly and waved his command flag to stop the whole army.

"The descendant will not die!" Chen Daweng shouted angrily.

With him at the beginning, the whole army shouted together, and most of the horse troops brought by Jiao Anjie put down their weapons and chose to surrender.

Of course, some people saw that the situation was not good, and desperately urged their horses to flee for their lives in the direction of Zhending Mansion.

Yang Chun dispatched 1000 people to collect the horses and weapons of the surrenderers and guard them.

Chen Da cleaned up the battlefield and counted the number of people, and finally found that about 150 people were killed and about 200 were injured.

The number of officers and soldiers killed was about 5000, the number of wounded was about [-], and there were not a few people on the other side who fled, and there were only more than [-] prisoners.

After World War I, heavy cavalry could fight again, but it was difficult for horses to support them to attack the infantry of the army.

Han Bolong knew very well how much Du Yu valued this cavalry army. He didn't want to take any risks after completing the mission, so he led the prisoners and took the spoils and slowly left the battlefield and rushed to the camp.

Put him aside, let's talk about the infantry.

In less than half an hour, the formations of the two sides advanced to a distance of about one mile, and with good eyesight, they could even see the faces of the soldiers on the opposite side.

Xu Guanzhong and Bian Xiang sat firmly in the central army and began to command the battle.

In a battle involving a total of more than 10 people on both sides, the plot of fighting generals in the novel "Water Margin" will not appear.

Xu Guanzhong waved the flag, and the sword and shield hand immediately raised the shield and moved forward slowly. After a while, the entire formation moved forward about 100 meters.

When they came to the range of the archers, the flags were changed, and the archers on both sides drew their bows and set up arrows for three rounds of throwing.

"Boo! Hah! Hah!"

"Ding! Ding! Ding!"

"……what!"

The sound of arrows hitting shields and armor, and the screams of people after being shot resounded all over the world.

The soldiers of the Great Wei quickly dragged the man hit by the arrow to the back of the army formation, and then filled his position, and the entire formation remained unchanged.

On the other hand, the officers and soldiers, because Taiping lacked training for a long time, and was usually embezzled by the superiors for the army's salary, the will to fight was not strong.

After several waves of arrows rained down, many of those hit by the arrows fell to the ground and howled continuously, shaking the army's morale. Coupled with the lack of coordination, the formation was somewhat chaotic.

Seeing this, Xu Guanzhong waved the command flag again.

Bian Xiang urged the horse to go forward and personally led the Chinese army to charge forward.

"Come on!"

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

The soldiers of the Great Wei roared loudly, then trotted forward and rushed forward.

Wang Ping felt his scalp tingling, but he knew very well that as the commander in chief, others could panic but he couldn't, so he pretended to be calm and waved the command flag, and also commanded the army to charge forward.

No matter how you say it, the official army is still a regular army, and they still have the quality to advance when they hear the drum, so they raised their weapons and stepped forward to meet them.

There are no bells and whistles in head-to-head combat, just two sides stabbing each other with spears.

The comparison is who has the sharpest weapon, whose armor is stronger, and even who eats better and is stronger.

It has to be said here that the Song Dynasty was indeed rich, and the armor rate of those frontier troops was not low.

Fortunately, Du Yu made several years of low-key preparations and produced tens of thousands of paper armor.Coupled with the armor obtained from the imperial treasury after breaking through the state capital, the armor rate of the Wei infantry was extremely high.

The cannon fodder battalions of other armies took the lead, and most of them just let them go with a weapon, anyway, it was only used as a consumable, but the Great Wei Army was different, those who were released from the state prison could also receive armor.

Those hungry wolves who have been reborn and given the opportunity to do meritorious service have a high desire to fight and are ruthless.

Soon, the front troops of the official army were defeated.

Du Yu observed with a telescope from a high place, and felt that this time there was a chance of a battle.

(End of this chapter)