Chapter 434

When the number of people reaches 10000, they will appear vast and mighty. The Yulin army, with nearly 30000 soldiers and auxiliary riders, walks on the wilderness and occupies a large field of vision from a distance. There, the roaring hoofs and flags flutter in the wind.

The Yulin army is a sudden cavalry. One person is equipped with two horses. The knight's luggage is carried by his entourage when marching. During the March, most of them did not wear armor and rode horses. Only when the external scouts sent back the enemy, they would wear armor and change the main battle horse with the help of their entourage.

As the Chinese army, there are tens of thousands of Yulin troops. At an interval of about five miles in front of them, there are two groups of forbidden guards, each of which is a mixture of 10000 infantry and cavalry.

The guards have no auxiliary personnel. After they are dispatched, they are fully armed and can enter the combat posture anytime, anywhere. This is directly related to the physical strength of people and horses. After all, they are clearly a "special case".

Apart from the badminton army and the forbidden guards, a field corps of tens of thousands is at the back. Sixty percent of the soldiers in this field corps have just changed from auxiliary soldiers to combat soldiers, that is, only forty percent of the veterans in the real sense.

The chief General in charge of the battle against Jijin is Li Tan, who is also the direct commander of the Yulin army.

This time, as the main force of attacking Jijin, Li Tan can be said to have a dual mood of excitement and tension. He knew the importance of Jijin and knew better that it would not be easy to fight.

It was because he knew it was difficult to play that Li Tan was excited. His understanding was that the king entrusted himself with the difficult task, which was his trust in himself. In fact, the Yulin army is also the first time to participate in the war. Isn't there such a stage that shows the king's expectation for the Yulin army?

"The enemy is retreating wantonly recently. It is reported that Shi Xuan has joined the Chaoge battlefield with a large number of elite, and Huanwen's headquarters is facing a situation of being surrounded." Pengda is from Beihai county. It was relatively late to join the Han army. It is not luck that he can become the Deputy General of Li tan. He joined late and his current achievements are enough to show his ability. He said slightly in a low voice: "there are also rumors that the war of Li Kuang's headquarters in Suoyang city was not smooth."

The Han army tried to form a large-area encirclement of the Shijie Zhao army in Puyang County. The two troops crossing the North Bank of the Yellow River were relatively smooth in the early stage. At present, the situation is unfavorable to the two troops.

"No matter Huan Wen or Li Kuang, they all know that there is a possibility of being surrounded when they go deep into the enemy's territory." Li Tan is only 26 years old. He has too much experience and appears calm in character. He said solemnly, "for us, taking Jijin is the only one."

"Intelligence shows that the enemy in Jijin is no less than 70000, and the Zhao army in wenshijin can quickly reinforce at any time." Peng Da had to say, "our goal is Jijin. In fact, we have to face Jijin, wenshijin, Yanjin, and even all the enemy troops in Fangtou."

Wang Jian was appointed as the chief historian of Li Tan's March. He was originally the Shangshu order of the ran state of Qin. Originally, he had been quietly listening to the conversation between the main general and the deputy general. Only when he was not in the socket did he say: "yes, we have to face a large number of enemy troops, and we also have to play the important role of supporting and even relieving Huanwen's headquarters."

Huan Wen's message to the rear is getting less and less day by day. He and less than 50000 people under his command are on the Chaoge battlefield. They can still fight vividly only in the face of Cao Fu's headquarters. Until the follow-up reinforcements of Shijie Zhao army arrived, especially after Shi Xuan led the army to join, their situation began to deteriorate sharply.

In the face of being surrounded, Huan Wen is thankful that there is no shortage of food and military equipment on his side. Having enough food and equipment can ensure that morale does not collapse. Moreover, having enough military equipment can also try its best to hold the camp. In the short term, it just seems that the situation is bad, but there is no crisis of collapse.

The Han Army's attack on Jijin was to seize it, and to some extent, it was also to reduce the pressure on Huanwen's department. The high level of the Han Army thought that attacking Jijin needed to break through layer by layer, but things were somewhat unexpected. The Zhao army in Shijie was shrinking in an all-round way. The North Bank of the Yellow River only kept Baima and wenshijin, and the rest took the initiative to give up.

As the chief of the history of fighting against the state of Zhao in Shijie, Ji Chang has informed the civil and military forces who need to know that Shi Hu is most likely to want to use Jijin as the venue for the decisive battle. The venue for the battle between the two sides is around Jijin, covering the North and south sides of the Yellow River.

"Nature." Li Tan had seen a man riding retrograde ahead. He said, "the stone tiger is right. We won't easily destroy those bridges."

Hundreds of years have passed since the bridges built during Emperor Xuandi of Han Dynasty. They are the main bridges connecting the two sides of the Yellow River. The Han Army does not want to take only the land on the South Bank of the Yellow River. They can keep those bridges for military use in the future.

In fact, the three bridges in Jijin are not the oldest. They were built by the prince of the state of Qin in the ancient pre-Qin period in May 4th BC, A bridge was built on the dalidong Yellow River in the land of Jin (east of Shaanxi). Behind the bridge, it became the main traffic line of Zhao, one third of Jin, attacking Zhongshan. It was used until the reign of emperor Xiaohe (Liu Zhao) of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Then it took more than 600 years from construction to destruction.

Everyone thinks that the end of the war in Puyang County is the time to enter Yecheng and Xiang. In that way, everyone will be fully motivated to do more and make enough contributions.

The quick rider who passed the military information came to Li Tan and didn't dismount. The knight saluted on his horse and said, "tell general Lang that the enemy was found thirty miles ahead. It is preliminarily visually estimated that there should be 50000 steps."

This army is walking along the South Bank of the Yellow River. It must pass through the white horse. Then it can be guessed that the Shijie Zhao Jun who came out of the white horse stopped the way?

Li Tan nodded to show that he knew and waited to ride away. He looked at Wang Jian and said, "long history, the enemy really came to intercept."

"Not only 50000." Wang Jian said firmly: "looking at the recent actions of Shi Hu, there is a great tendency to withdraw directly to the North Bank of the river, then the enemy of Baima will certainly take the initiative to leave the city. There are 80000 Zhao troops in Baima and 70000 in wenshijin. In addition, the Zhao troops urgently transferred by Shi Hu from various places recently, they will be the first batch of enemy troops to fight with us."

Recently, both the Han Army and the Shijie Zhao army have been mobilized very frequently. It is extremely difficult for both sides to fully grasp each other's dynamics, so that the Han Army does not know how many Shijie Zhao troops there are on the South Bank of the Yellow River and what kind of goods those Shijie Zhao troops belong to.

For example, there are not so many Zhao troops on the South Bank of the Yellow River. Most of the Jie people's own troops in Puyang County have withdrawn to the North Bank of the Yellow River, and the miscellaneous Zhao Jun who was originally in the periphery has changed his defense.

Of course, Li Tan didn't know what kind of enemy he was going to face. For the first time, as a leader, he would be cautious. For example, at the first moment after he found the enemy, he ordered to send the necessary light cavalry to test first, and the main force still kept its original speed.

Peng Da looked up at the sky and said, "it's about quarter past six (close to ten o'clock). The formal contact ahead will take place after Shenshi (from one o'clock at noon to three o'clock in the afternoon)."

Their combined total strength along the way is 100000, excluding 55000 non combat troops. They are not afraid to face 50000 enemy troops. What needs to be considered is that the enemy will have reinforcements at any time, but their own side will not.

According to Ji Chang's arrangement, although seizing Jijin is the key, it is impossible to seize it by surprise. The reason is that Shijie Zhao army attaches importance to Jijin. There were a large number of Shijie Zhao army stationed there early, followed by Longteng guard and Donggong Gaoli. If you want to capture Jijin, it is not something you can do by surprise. You can only rely on the cooperation of positive promotion and navy.

Li Tan was asking where his fleet was.

"The latest news hasn't come yet." After a silent calculation, Wang Jian said, "we are still 70 miles away from Jijin. The fleet should be further behind."

In fact, the marching speed of the fleet by water is faster than that on land, but only when the fleet arrives at Jijin does not play a great role. It should be both arrival before it can be regarded as amphibious joint operation.

The Han Army did not consider using water to transport soldiers to fight, but long-distance water transportation would cause soldiers' physical discomfort, and similar plans were not carried out.

Li Tan got new news behind him. The 50000 enemy troops who seemed to be blocking the way withdrew after a false shot.

"They..." Li Tan said to Wang Jian with great doubt, "should we observe the white horse?"

Wang Jian nodded immediately: "the enemy's action is strange. The white horse may have been abandoned. It's time to send someone to observe."

The next test really confirmed that the enemy of white horse had disappeared. Stone Tiger abandoned white horse after destroying the fortifications that could be destroyed. Not only the white horse, but also some garrisons to the west of the white horse. There was no Shijie Zhao army along the way.

"They don't set fire because they don't want us to notice in advance!" Wang Jian was not happy because of the smooth progress, but with extreme Prudence: "there is no news from wenshijin, but looking at Shi Hu's actions... They want to concentrate their troops..." his thinking is a little chaotic now, but he thinks in silence.

Li Tan sent the news back to the rear and continued to advance with his troops.

In the evening, a puzzling news came back from the scouts, that is, Shi Hu even Wen Shijin gave up on his own initiative.

Li Tan's Han Army camped in the east of wenshijin, about 20 miles away. He called all the generals and schools for a meeting. The first sentence said: "according to the collected news, the enemy in Jijin is no less than 200000."

"Shi Hu's courage is really great!" Wang Jian first saluted Li Tan and then said, "with Jijin as the center, the camp on the south bank has become a large camp within ten miles, and the camp on the north bank has a wider range."

The people who heard the news were basically looking for someone to look at each other. Their task was to capture the thorns, and they themselves took the enemy to clear the obstacles. Now they have never fought a decent battle with Zhao Jun in Shijie. They have smoothly approached wenshijin, but the situation they are facing is grim.

Naturally, the news ahead should be transmitted to the rear urgently. Almost the next day, Liu Yan received a report from Li tan. The leading force of Li Tan's journey had arrived within 15 li of Jijin and saw a huge camp that was too big to be expanded.

The intelligence gathered by Liu Yan has several key places. Shi Hu voluntarily gave up a large number of land in Puyang County, and the situation of the two Han armies on the North Bank of the Yellow River is getting worse and worse.

"Li Kuang had a good trip, Huanwen side..." Ji Chang just finished reading some information and said with a wry smile: "more than 40000 people in Huanwen are surrounded by nearly 150000 enemy troops, who are making a strong attack. There will be more enemy troops joining the attack later, aren't we... It's too big before the minister?"

The position of Chaoge is very key. It can cut off the back road of Jijin and keep cutting. As long as Huanwen's department is not destroyed, it can also be used as a nail. In this way, Shi Hu Mao tried his best to destroy Huanwen's headquarters, which became inevitable.

Whether it is Huanwen's headquarters or Li Kuang's headquarters, they crossed the North Bank of the Yellow River with the task of forming a siege and the main purpose of attracting the enemy. It means that they should have the consciousness of being surrounded at the beginning. The difference is how determined Shi Hu is to destroy them and how many Shijie Zhao troops are used.

"Isn't it expected?" Liu Yan looked very relaxed. He looked at Ji Chang, who was a little worried, and said, "it seems that Shi Hu is most targeted at Huan Wen's department. Can he explain the importance of the dynasty song from the side? There is no evaluation error?"

Ji Chang nodded at first, then continued to face bitterly and said, "Shi Hu resolutely gave up the south bank and concentrated his troops on Jijin. Originally, he wanted Xie an to enter the battlefield from the flank after the decisive battle. Now... Is it right for Xie an's headquarters to meet Huanwen's headquarters?"

Xie'an's headquarters attacked Hanoi county from Xingyang county. At present, they are located to the east of Shanyang (Jiaozuo). They can reach Chaoge as soon as possible in two days.

"Tai'an." Liu Yan knew that Ji Chang was really worried that Huan Wen's headquarters would be eaten, so he became the Han Army annihilated by the whole system for the first time. He stood up, walked to the mountain map, clicked the Yellow River, and said, "the water is on our side. The original intention of seizing Jijin was to cut off the back of the stone tiger. Now the stone tiger has run to the North Bank of the Yellow River, and our encirclement strategy has actually gone bankrupt..."

Liu Yan's words didn't finish. Ji Chang over there was already full of shame.

There is no mistake. The battle plan of the Han country has always been around trapping the stone tiger. The stone tiger didn't respond in front. As a result, the stone tiger made an abnormal decision after responding, which is equivalent to the bankruptcy of the siege plan, but it doesn't mean that all the plans are bankrupt. At least the stone tiger didn't escape after withdrawing. Isn't it still on the North Bank of Jijin?

"Jijin is not our only way across the river." Liu Yan didn't worry too much about gain and loss, but still maintained enough self-confidence: "as long as the waterway is firmly in his hands, where can't he cross the river north?"

"My Lord." Ji Chang estimated that he had adjusted his mood and looked a little cruel on his face: "Shi Hu obviously wants to focus on echinojin. He will still give up after sticking to it for a period of time. If he wants to learn the battle example of half crossing, why don't we take the plan?"