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Volume 2 Hu Qixi Liuzhe Chapter 106 Decisive Battle with the Shangdang (21)

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    ps: Thanks for the reward, brother, who is here to read. Zhao Zaili and Zhou Kan finally reunited, and the Yan army's infantry and cavalry began to break out together to the south.  Zhou Kan commanded the infantry to use the spearmen as arrows to tear apart the newly formed interceptions on the road ahead. When encountering more fierce resistance, he would use the large arrows of the bow and arrow battalion to attack.  For the enemy troops following behind, they use sword and shield soldiers to defend repeatedly to ensure that the entire advancing attack formation remains unchanged.  Zhao Zaili commanded the cavalry to closely accompany both sides of Zhoukan, not only to widen the formation space of the army, but also to step forward to help at any time. Sometimes he would drive away the enemy cavalry that was too close, and sometimes he would simply jump on his horse and charge towards those who had exposed their weaknesses.  Interception array.  Zhou Dewei had already come down from the high ground, and personally led the Ya army and the military leaders outside the encirclement. He ordered the soldiers and flags to fly, and mobilized all the troops that could be mobilized within and outside Zhou Dewei's visual range.  A series of interceptions were laid on the front of the Yan army, and attacks were organized on the left and right wings of the Yan army and at the rear of the formation.  What surprised Zhou Dewei was that in such a bad situation, the enemy army never collapsed. Although it was obvious that the opponent was struggling to hold on, every time it seemed to be on the verge of collapse, it always managed to hold on with great reluctance.  If he went down, he would inflict many casualties on his subordinates.  The strength of the Yan army made Zhou Dewei more careful. He decided to continue to prolong the siege and make the Yan army's return to Xiangyuan a road of death, draining every drop of Yan army's blood on this road.  At the same time, Zhou Dewei also prepared the Yan army to create a miracle of breaking through the encirclement for more than ten miles.  He once again sent envoys to Li Sizhao and Li Siyuan, asking them to lead their troops to follow him immediately.  Zhou Dewei¡¯s plan is.  If Yan Jun can really hold on to Xiangyuan, it will not be a bad thing for himself.  If the Xiangyuan defenders dare to open the city to accept the attack, they will take advantage of the situation to attack the city; if the Xiangyuan defenders dare not open the city, then they will sit back and watch the friendly forces being gathered and annihilated under the city. This incident will also greatly damage the morale of the defenders.  Watching the Yan army in the encirclement trying their best to break through to the south, Zhou Dewei had already begun to consider the next battle strategy.  There is no doubt that, according to what Li Siyuan said, An Zhongjiao's plan to surprise Licheng and Luzhou should have achieved greater results.  Even if they failed to capture Licheng or Luzhou, at least they had completely disrupted the Yan army's deployment on the Luzhou battlefield, otherwise the Yan army would never have been surrounded here.  What Zhou Dewei considered was that after taking the entire Luzhou, it would be equivalent to trapping King Yan Li Chengzhong in the Changping Passage. So what should be done next?  It continues from the north to the south until it penetrates the Changping Passage.  Hit Gaoping?  Or sit back and watch the Yan army and the allied forces of the princes confront each other in Gaoping?  Or simply lead the army through Fukouxing and attack Hebei?  Zhou Dewei was thinking about the next battle strategy with a relaxed expression, while Zhou Kan and Zhao Zaili commanded the Yan army to break through to the south step by step.  Yan's soldiers fought bloody battles. Every time they advanced, they fought hard and endured heavy casualties.  Zhou Kan and Zhao Zaili did not even dare to order the army to stop and rest.  Up to this point in the battle, the soldiers were relying on their bloody courage and inertia to fight. Once they stopped, the entire army would probably collapse.  In addition to encouraging and maintaining morale, what Zhou Kan and Zhao Zaili were most worried about finally happened.  They had just fought their way out of Nangou River.  It was discovered that military supplies were seriously insufficient.  More than half of the arrows were consumed, and each archer in the archer battalion was equipped with less than five arrows; shields, wooden guns, and horizontal knives were also seriously damaged.  There were empty-handed soldiers in many teams; in addition, there was no way to carry the wounded soldiers, so all the injured soldiers were abandoned on the spot. The results of waiting for them are unbearable to think about After leaving the Nangou River, they entered the open field.  In the Xiangyuan Basin, the army was still ten miles away from Xiangyuan. These ten miles seemed extremely long to the Yan army.  Zhou Kan was already a little violent and anxious. He kept rushing to Zhao Zaili's side and asked loudly, "How long will it take?"  Zhao Zaili licked his dry lips every time and looked around.  After three miles of killing, Zhou Kan changed his question. He no longer asked "how long do we have to go?" He asked, "Can we not die together?"  Zhou Kan asked Zhao Zaili to lead the cavalry to rush out immediately, and he would lead the infantry to cover behind him. Regardless of whether there were reinforcements or not, it was now a life-or-death situation and he could not delay any longer. The consequence of any further delay would be that both the infantry and the cavalry would die together!  The momentum of the forward attack is getting weaker and weaker, and more and more soldiers are falling behind in the rear. Formed troops have been captured by the three kings' coalition. At least three groups of troops have abandoned their swords and guns in the short time just now.  Zhou Kan didn't blame them. They had been fighting hard for most of the day, with no water or rice coming in, and many of them couldn't even hold the guy. How could they continue to fight?  Zhou Dewei squinted his eyes and watched everything on the battlefield. He knew that the surrounded Yan army was almost finished. When the enemy troops who abandoned their weapons appeared in groups, it would not be long before the scale of surrender would expand to the entire team,  In all cities, when hundreds of prisoners appear, the enemy army will inevitably collapse.? Zhou Dewei felt relaxed again. He knew that victory was inevitable, but there was still a pity in his heart. Unfortunately, this place is still six or seven miles away from Xiangyuan, and he could not let the defenders on the city see this scene Gao Ping, Military  The command office of the General Staff Administration.  This is the former Gaoping County Government and Gaoping guard general Hou Yan's military camp, and now it is the temporary residence of Yan King Li Chengzhong.  The courtyard was filled with sergeants from the guard battalion in full armor. They were uniformly deployed and mobilized by Beihuomai to protect the entire garrison tightly.  The two side courtyards were constantly in and out of the Yan Army's Yuhou staff at all levels, summarizing the battle situation and military situation analysis, and then submitted it to the central hall.  The wings on both sides of the central hall were filled with officers and soldiers. On the left were commanding officers at all levels waiting for military orders and summons, and on the right were messengers who were ready to go.  The three large rooms in the main hall have all been opened. More than ten senior generals of the Yan Army, including King Li Chengzhong of Yan, Zhang Xingzhong, the general manager of the Yuhou Division, and Jiang Miao, the general manager of the Education Department, are discussing in a low voice around a huge sand table.  On the left and right corners are two smaller-scale sand tables. The marked range and area are much smaller, but more detailed. Each has several mid-level and low-level staff officers who are carefully moving and marking the various departments according to the summarized military reports.  Location.  In addition, there is a huge map of mountains and rivers hanging on the north wall, which includes the entire southeastern Hedong, western Hebei, northern Duji, and northwestern Henan. The map is filled with various arrows in a mess, making people dizzy at a glance.  Brain swelling.  If you are not an officer who has undergone training at the Yan Army's senior military academy, you will not understand what it means at all.  Starting from July, the allied forces of the princes, with the Liang Army as the main force, began to attack the Yan Army. The main battle site between the two armies was Jiepailing.  Jiepailing is located between Gaoping and Zezhou. Headed by Jiepailing, the Yan army built densely packed large-scale defensive camps. Together with the three highlands behind Jiepailing, Xuanhu, Niushan and Shizuitou, they formed a solid defense line that shielded Gaoping.  .  After ten consecutive days of attacking Jiepailing to no avail, the allied forces of the princes began to tentatively flank Xuanhu from the west, trying to bypass Jiepailing and remove the defensive support behind it first, so the two armies started a fierce battle in Xuanhu again.  After paying nearly 2,000 casualties, the coalition forces of the princes took over the two forward support points of Dongjushan and Xijushan in front of Xuanhu, and began to officially enter the battle to attack the main defense line of Xuanhu.  Unfortunately, Dongjushan and Xijushan were exposed to the Yan army's two-sided attack. While attacking Xuanhu to the north, they had to endure the attack from Jiepailing on the east side. This situation made it very difficult for the coalition forces of the princes to attack Xuanhu.  Since late August, the coalition forces of the princes realized that it was impossible to break the Yan army's defense line without taking Jiepailing first, so under the personal order of King Liang, they changed the target of attack and put the focus back on Jiepailing.  Because they occupied the eastern and western excavation mountains, the coalition forces of the princes could attack Jiepailing from the west. This situation caused the defense of Jiepailing to become difficult and the casualties of the Yan army increased greatly.  After entering September, the defenders of Jiepailing have changed three batches. On this small mountain ridge, thousands of Yan troops were killed and countless others were injured.  Under the strong attack of the allied forces of the princes regardless of casualties, the Yan army lost many positions such as Shuangnanzhuang, Laoaogou, and Tanlingtou on the outskirts of Jiepailing.  Starting three days ago, the allied forces of the princes, supported by Laoaogou, launched from Shuangnanzhuang in the west and Tanlingtou in the east, and attacked the main camp of Jiepailing along the mountain ridge.  The war has become increasingly fierce, with hundreds of corpses falling on this small mountain every day.  Of course, the Yan army had large defensive equipment and a logistics battalion to help them, so the battle loss ratio was far lower than that of the coalition forces of the princes.  However, the reinforcements of the Yan Army to the defenders of Jiepailing were greatly restrained by the coalition forces of the princes. In order to reduce the reinforcement of the Yan Army to Jiepailing, the coalition forces of the princes did not hesitate to expend manpower and material resources and spent many days in the northwest and northeast of Jiepailing.  The huge military formation composed of tens of thousands of infantry greatly weakened the battlefield activity space of the Yan army's cavalry, making it very difficult to reinforce Jiepailing.  Once Jiepailing is lost, it means that the coalition of princes will have a support point between Zezhou and Gaoping where they can store baggage and troops, which will greatly improve the situation of the coalition of princes attacking Gaoping.  Now it depends on how long the Jiepailing defenders can hold on, or how long the coalition of princes can endure the huge logistical consumption - maintaining a huge military formation in the wild is not an easy task.  Various tactics to support Jiepailing, such as flanking harassment, sending troops from the rear, and cavalry patrols, were issued from the main hall, either quickly passed to the front by the ordering troops, or directly ordered out by the waiting reinforcement officers.  The entire General Administration of Military Staff has been busy, with senior generals such as Zhang Xingzhong and Jiang Miao constantly issuing various military orders.  These are not the focus of Li Chengzhong's attention. Whether he wants it or not, the fall of Jiepailing is inevitable. Li Chengzhong looked at the sand table in silence, looking back at the huge map on the wall behind him from time to time. He was waiting for the news from Luzhou in the north.  Battle report.
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