Aspirations for Nation and Beauty: Section 19 The Prologue of the Great War

Just after I made a decision after careful consideration to ambush the Luobei's eastward invasion troops near Jiantoupo on the East Tengger Prairie, Ling Tianfang's reply letter also arrived in my hands. The letter only contained a short sentence : "If we can do a good job of keeping the troops' marching secret, this plan is really the best way to deal with the Luobei people." In fact, regardless of whether there is Ling Tianfang's support or not, I have already made up my mind to implement my plan.

According to my order, the first part of the guard unit disguised itself as two horse thieves and used the excuse of changing defenses to sneak out of Qingyang and sneak into the East Tengger grassland. The two teams were composed of Yue Shan and Yuchi respectively. Led by Bin, they are responsible for cleaning up the Luobei herdsmen in the area from Qingyang to Jiantoupo. My order to them is that no matter what method they take, they can do it cheaply.

News soon came back that the cleanup operation was going very smoothly. Since the Luobei people had no regular garrisons in this area, the "horse thieves" led by Yue Shan and Yu Chibin frantically carried out burning, killing and looting in this area. And constantly sent people to create rumors, saying that the horse thieves will be here for a long time, will rob the herdsmen and their property, and the herdsmen, regardless of gender, will be sold to the Heathrow Empire as slaves. These news will soon spread in this area. Rumors spread among the herdsmen that many herdsmen simply moved their families northward, drove their livestock, dragged their children and children, and escaped from this area.

Yue Shan and Yu Chibin led the "horse thieves" to carry out a carpet-like inspection of this area. Fortunately, there were not many herdsmen in this area. After learning that there were a large number of horse thieves in this area, they also took a detour.

On September 14, 693 in the mainland calendar, I received an intelligence report that the Luobei people's expedition to the east had been mobilized. On September 8, the whole army set off to start the eastward invasion. It will reach the Jiantoupo area around September 27. I immediately made corresponding arrangements and ordered Qingyang Mansion and Jinzhou Mansion to be under martial law. In particular, since September 15th, Qingyang Mansion is only allowed to enter and not to leave the city. Without my warrant, no one is allowed to Act at will, and the security bureau and the police station are also going all out to implement my order and prevent the enemy's spies from spying.

Cui Wenxiu's Qingyang 2nd Guard Division also only kept one regiment of infantry stationed at the junction of Qingyang, Jinzhou and Bonan, and all of them withdrew to Qingyang. The Deputy Commander appeared to be competing with the Luobei people in Qingyang Fucheng, and also ordered the government officials of the grassroots villages and towns outside the Fucheng to organize the local people to move to remote areas away from the main road, so as to paralyze the spies arranged by the Luobei people in Qingyang .

At the same time, I frequently mobilized the troops day and night, and declared martial law in Qingyang. Any ordinary residents are not allowed to go out at will, otherwise they will face imprisonment. These measures are mainly used to prevent the Luobei spies from being able to effectively grasp the mobilization of my army. I also use these true and false mobilizations to continuously transfer the troops out of the city, gather secretly outside the city, and finally On September 20, he personally led the army to set off, and on September 23, he secretly sneaked into the sharp **** area on the East Tengger Prairie, and hid in the ambush site that had been prepared.

Before departure, I ordered the army to carry dry food, drinking water and fodder for ten days, and the small engineering troops that sneaked in earlier also secretly built some facilities in the ambush to facilitate the subsequent large troops to station.

Time passed day by day, and they had been in this damned place for five days, but there was still no news of Luo Bei's main army. In order to prevent the enemy's scouts from discovering the problem, I strictly restricted the entry and exit of my own scouts. Except for dispatching a very small number of elite guard scouts, I did not send other people out for scouting. According to the analysis and judgment, the Luobei people should have reached Jiantoupo yesterday, but the scouts brought back news that there was no sign of any army in the fifty miles nearby.

Is it difficult for the enemy to really find us? I immediately denied this idea. If we were found, we only needed to detour to attack behind us, and I am afraid that our entire army would have been wiped out. That means that the Luobei people were delayed on the road, but if it was really delayed for a long time, I am afraid that there is no need for the Luobei people to attack us. We all have to flee back to Qingyang with our tails between our legs. Food and forage can only support us at most. It's been two days.

I couldn't hold back in my heart, but on the surface I still had to put on a calm and composed look, as if everything was under my control, and I led other officers to inspect the barracks from time to time The living conditions of the soldiers cheered up the soldiers who were already a little restless.

"Report!"

"Come in!"

It was already evening, and when I was sitting in the big tent and having a headache about the whereabouts of the Luobei people, Kang Jianguo and the other people who went out to reconnaissance finally came back, bringing back the good news I had dreamed of.

"My lord, my brethren and I have been delayed for some time due to the larger scope of the reconnaissance and additional verification. Please forgive me." Kang Jianguo was also a little excited. Since this reconnaissance was of great importance, he personally took a few quick-witted brothers out for several days, and finally got a reward today.

I could see the joy in his eyes, knowing that there must be good news, I calmed down my emotions a little and asked: "What do you find?"

"My lord, my brothers and I found the enemy's scouts about 30 kilometers away from here this afternoon, and the enemy's vanguard was found 60 kilometers away from here. Later, we sneaked to the enemy on foot. Reconnaissance was carried out near the main force, and the enemy's situation has been basically found out." His chest was still heaving sharply, and it was unknown whether he was overly excited, exhausted, or both.

While deliberately controlling my excitement, I motioned for Kang Jianguo to sit down and speak slowly.

"When we left, the enemy's vanguard was already camping and preparing to rest. It was on the flat ground by the river about 30 kilometers away from us. The army is mainly infantry. The heavy infantry is deployed behind the vanguard armored cavalry, followed by light infantry and supply troops, and finally some light cavalry and heavy cavalry. The enemy's handsome flag can also be seen there, probably The enemy's camp is located. The entire army has been dragged for several miles, and the end cannot be seen at a glance."

After pondering for a while, I asked again: "In your opinion, is there anything unusual about the enemy? How alert is the enemy?"

Kang Jianguo thought about it for a while, and immediately answered with a very positive tone: "I can't see anything unusual, and the enemy's vigilance is also average. Their scouts are just routinely searching around a mile or two on both sides of the road. , I think it’s all perfunctory, after all, this place is still about 300 kilometers away from our border, and the march will take four or five days, and we have to pass one of their villages.”

I quickly calculated in my mind, if the enemy's vigilance is high and it is possible to detect the abnormality here, I am going to lead the cavalry to attack the camp tonight, but my cavalry is only 30,000, can I defeat the enemy's main force in one fell swoop? , I'm not sure either. Since the enemy was so careless and didn't notice our existence at all, I decided to go ahead with the original plan and ambush at the scheduled location tomorrow.

The order was quickly conveyed to all ministries, and it was another sleepless night. I looked at the moonlit night sky and prayed silently, hoping that tomorrow's battle would give me a satisfactory ending.

After dinner, General Zhengdong Wule sat contentedly lying on the big chair in Shuaiying, and the tea set on the desk was exuding a delicate fragrance. "Buda, are the scouts back?"

"I have come back, and there is no special abnormal situation. However, I heard from the scouts that horse thieves were quite rampant in this area a while ago, and many local herdsmen fled to the north. I always feel that something is wrong, but I also said It’s not right not to go anywhere.” It was Uller’s lieutenant Buda who answered, he was a very cautious general, and Uller was always very reassuring about his affairs.

"Maybe it's a horse thief among the Mote people or the Qiuer people, maybe they want to follow us, and when we defeat the Tanghe people, we can take advantage of the fire and take a piece of the pie." Wule didn't say anything else at all. In terms of the unfavorable situation, after all, this place is still far away from the boundaries of the Tanghe Empire. "Forgive them for not daring to think about us, I don't know where they are hiding right now."

Although Buda felt that something was wrong, he couldn't figure out what the problem was after repeated consideration, so he had to order all levels to strengthen the night watch to prevent any accidents from happening.

But the night passed quietly like this, nothing happened, and Buda, who didn't sleep well all night, felt a little suspicious. After the troops were assembled, they followed the normal marching route, like a winding snake, Slowly moved forward.

Before dawn, the entire army was like a waking giant, making various preparations before the battle in an orderly manner. The hissing beak cage is still attached to the mouth.

Soon the soldiers of all ministries were assembled under the leadership of the officers, and entered the designated ambush area as planned~IndoMTL.com~Everything was carried out quietly, and everyone knew the importance and importance of this battle. Seriousness, war mobilization has been carried out many times before departure.

According to the plan, Liang Chongxin, Cui Wenxiu and I led 30,000 light and heavy cavalry to ambush on the shallow hills about four miles away from the river bank where Luobei's army marched. The Luobei scouts, who were one or two miles away, couldn't find out that there were so many troops ambushing here. Kamapov led nearly 30,000 light infantry to follow behind the cavalry, and after the cavalry destroyed the enemy's line of defense, they followed closely to eliminate the remnants.

Mulig's task is also quite arduous. He led 15,000 heavy infantry, 10,000 spearmen and a small number of engineers to ambush in the woods at the corner of the sharp slope, shouldering 40,000 armored heavy cavalry to block the enemy's forward. It is also a battle of life and death. The heavy infantry led by him must firmly stick to the enemy's forward troops and cannot let the enemy get out. Because the enemy doesn't know whether there are cavalry ambushing behind Mulig's troops, they must break through Mulig's defense line and defeat them before they can free themselves to deal with our main cavalry, otherwise they will rush back to the army, in case of danger. There are cavalry ambushed behind the infantry, which will cause the entire line to collapse. But once the enemy breaks through our heavy infantry defense line in a short period of time, they can quickly return to the division and form a pincer attack on our main force, and the situation will be very passive.

And this battle will first be fought on Mulige's infantry defense line, and Mulige has also issued a military order for me to ensure that I can withstand the impact of the enemy's armored cavalry. Whether the shield of the heavy infantry composed of the Gaoyue tribe is stronger, or the armored cavalry of the Luobei tribe is the sharper spear, who will win this conflicting battle needs to be verified by the facts.