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The Baibo Army, or the Hedong Army, took half a day to walk twenty miles from Xiangling, and was repeatedly bitten by the Youzhou cavalry along the way. Although the infantry brigade had no actual damage, it was exhausted. But even so, the leaders of the Baibo Army made a quick decision and immediately organized an attack.

This is not stupidity, on the contrary, this is a manifestation of the outstanding military qualities of the leaders of the Hedong Army. Like the Youzhou Army opposite, they knew very well where the life gates of the enemy and us were and where their strengths were, and then they made this decision.

Think about it, Hedong is located north of the Yellow River, connecting the Xiongnu in the north and the Qiang people in the west. It has always been an important military source for the Han Empire. One of the famous Three River Knights is the Hedong Knights... It is not without reason that Guan Yu and Xu Huang all started here. Jia Kui's family was so poor that he still had family-born military skills and learned it.

In fact, the display of Hedong Army's outstanding tactical literacy has not ended here:

The two armies faced each other north and south. Just when Li Kan led his headquarters out and arrived at the south of Gaoliangting Camp, two Baibo troops began to assemble at the same time. One was holding the Korean banner and about three or four thousand troops went to the west side of the Li Kan army formation, as if he wanted to attack Li Kan from the west side of the camp; the other was holding the Yang banner and had five or six thousand troops, but he came to the east side of the Li Kan army formation with a spear, shield and crossbow... It was obvious that this was a support to attack the two parts of the camp to prevent the assembly of Youzhou cavalry on the east side of the camp to suddenly enter, and play the classic and most practical hammer and anvil tactics in front of the camp.

Even as these three units set up their formations, other Baibo military subordinates had already begun to prepare... Obviously, they wanted to replace the front military formation at any time, either attacking or defending.

That's not all. Gongsun saw clearly on the high platform in the middle of the camp that a unit without any banner began to disperse from the rear of the Baibo Army, and then headed towards the Fen River. He didn't know whether he was trying to deploy defenses, looking for something, or simply exploring the retreat path.

The troops of various units are arranged in an orderly manner, with annexation of offensive and defensive, and are also prepared... The basic military qualities of the opponent's senior officers are indeed very good.

"The Han-character flag should be the headquarters of Han Xian, a great hero in Jicheng." Wei Ji saw the military formation shaking in front of him, and quickly said again. "The Yang-character flag should be Yang Feng, the great hero in Xiangling. These are all people with courage and wisdom... Especially Yang Feng, who is second only to the leader of the Baibo army, and is very knowledgeable in daily life. He is considered a temporary figure in the county."

When Gongsun heard the word Yang Feng, he nodded, but still said the same thing: "Let's watch it!"

Wei Ji was speechless immediately, and stood on the stage with many military officers of the central army, watching the battle from afar.

In the spring sunshine at noon, Yang Feng personally led his troops and horses to separate the cavalry in Youzhou to the east, and almost no time wasted. Li Kanbu took the lead in attacking the camp, and Han Siang's troops had just gone west at this time.

"The enemy's army is cunning!" Lou Gui looked from a distance and saw the clues first. "Although the Han and Li troops attacked each other, there were first and later, both front and side... If our army ignored Han Xian's actions and devoted itself to the front, the Li Kan troops would be weak, and the Baibo army would inevitably send reinforcements to assist Han Xian on the flank and break the village from the side! And if it was attracted by Han Xian's troops and sent troops to the flank to deal with it, maybe there would be support coming from the front immediately."

"There is another statement." Tian Feng said with his hands close to him and said. "It's good to see endlessly above the plain, but the other party came in a hurry, and even a high platform had not been built. His vision was blocked by the camp, and he could only see the frontal army. I'm afraid there was an ambush in the flank camp on the west side, so he let the Han Siang team slowly leave and do reconnaissance."

"No," Lou Gui immediately twisted his beard and nodded. "Brother Yuan Hao said very much, but no matter what, he is afraid that he will underestimate Gao Su..."

Just as the two were talking, suddenly, a huge sound came from the position in front of the camp ahead, and then the entire Baibo army formation actually clamored together!

The shouting of 70,000 to 80,000 people was simply earth-shaking and magnificent, which was in sharp contrast to the quiet Han army camp guards.

Of course, except for Wei Ji and a few civil servants who joined from Taiyuan, they were really unscathed, so they were a little scared, and the rest were all watching coldly.

Since this noise started, it was difficult to suppress it anymore. The warriors selected by Li Kanbu promoted morale in such a noisy state of the entire army... and carried their strength and bravely moved forward. And, countless soldiers shouted and cheered, following closely behind, rushing towards the Youzhou military camp, which was only three or four hundred steps away.

It seems that this army lacking gold drums really wanted to replace drums with sound, and then it went down in one go.

But immediately, accompanied by the noise behind him, Li Kanbu's offensive fell into an awkward and fatal stagnation.

Specifically, it was two hundred steps away from the Daying Camp and more than a hundred steps away from the dense antlers in front of the camp. The elite vanguards of this army fell into several scattered trenches one after another.

These trenches, about the width of a person, cannot be jumped over, and they cannot be covered by just a large shield... In fact, these trenches can be seen, and the Baibo army was mentally prepared to pay the price for these trenches and the antler array behind them.

However, they never expected that these trenches that they thought they had to jump down and then climbed over were too deep!

How deep is it?

More than ten feet deep! And the inner wall is compact and smooth, so it would be too difficult to climb out with bare hands!

Li Kanbe's selection warrior will definitely not fall to death when he falls in, nor will he get injured when he falls in, but if he wants to climb out again, he will have to stack the arhats!

In fact, the auxiliary soldiers of Youzhou Army who were digging the pit at that time simply climbed up with ladders... But what's even more terrifying is that there are more than one such trenches, which are arranged in a staggered manner, with different lengths and denseness, and continue to the front of the deer antler formation a hundred steps away in front of the camp gate.

The soldiers of the Baibo army who were in Li Kanbu finally climbed out of the trench or found a winding road in the trench and worked hard to move forward. Then they came to the dense array of deer antlers, but they had to remove the deer antlers with bare hands. At this time, they had reached the range of the Youzhou army's long-range strike because they approached the camp.

After the camp, the auxiliary soldiers of the Han army were intensively shot out arrows and fell into the formation of Li Kan, who was inconvenient to move... The latter's soldiers needed to remove the antlers and were wary of the arrows above their heads. Some were nailed to death in their original place, and some tried to escape, but were blocked by the trench behind and could not retreat easily!

In just a moment, in front of the formation, the wailing sound replaced the previous shouts of killing, while the Youzhou army was still calm.

The Han and Siam troops in the west also began to attack, but like the front, they came up and fell into the consumption of such complex fortifications.

In fact, to put it bluntly, this kind of small trick is not worth a joke in the big game, but in this situation, it is a powerful tool to delay time!

Li Kan and Han Xian, who were facing command of the battle to the south and west of the camp, and Mrs. Guo, who had just climbed a temporary high platform, had just climbed up to form a high platform. Although there were first and later, they all woke up.

Together they realized that the problem was not actually these strange and effective trenches, but the entire war was under Gongsun's control... This famous general of Guard made a complete plan and preparation for the weaknesses of the Bai Bo army from the beginning.

What are the advantages of the Bai Bo Army?

Of course, it is the number advantage and outstanding individual soldiers' qualities, as well as the military qualities of senior commanders... So, correspondingly, their weaknesses, or what is the life gate?

The answer is very simple, it is establishment!

This army lacks an effective military system! Their troops are structured by clans and villages, and are formed by large-scale battle groups formed by local tyrants in Hedong. Then the leaders directly obey Guo Tai's command, and then these battle groups can complete the corresponding military tasks... This is not a very bad thing in small-scale battles, and even becomes an advantage because of the characteristics of mutual support within the battle groups and not easy to disintegrate, but in large-scale battles, it becomes particularly bulky!

When the cavalry suffered heavy losses before, Yang Feng told Xu Huang that in that case, both Mr. Guo and the great men actually noticed the dangers of the cavalry's large-scale losses, but instead he could only bite the bullet and let the troops continue to march to the Gaoliang Pavilion to fight to the decisive battle... Why?

It was not because of the loss of cavalry that the command system of the Baibo Army, which had already lacked gold and drums, became increasingly scattered.

In other words, Gongsun had this meaning when he first attacked the opponent's cavalry. Moreover, the reason why he was able to destroy the opponent's cavalry was that he had the current advantage was precisely because the opponent lacked an effective command system and military system.

Both sides are trying to expand their strengths and then tear open the opponent's life gate, but there is no doubt that since the start of sending troops in the morning, the attack has been frustrated now... The Youzhou Army has always been very successful, and the Baibo Army has not made any progress.

"Send someone to see Li Kan and Han Xian two generals!" Guo Tai, who was wrapped in yellow turbans, stood on the platform that was piled up in a hurry, and his expression was very interesting. He had obviously a little more worry on his face, but his tone was still calm, but his words seemed to be very angry. "Ask me, there are no cavalry and cannot capture the camp. There are so many of us, and there is not even a foothold on the plain... When it gets dark, the opponent's cavalry gathers together to rush towards the central army. How can we survive? At that time, 100,000 riots are ashamed of cavalry and sheep, and tens of thousands of Youzhou cavalry trampled on them. Can their lives be preserved? Why do we still hesitate? Why don't the entire army be suppressed?"

The two riders hurriedly left, but at this time, another rider came to report from the direction of the Fen River.

"How?" Guo Taiyuan recognized this person and quickly asked in a serious manner.

"Report to Shuai Guo, there are no trees!" The cavalry was so angry that he answered helplessly. "The woods were cut down by the Youzhou soldiers. I'm afraid they have turned into the camp fence and watchtower of the Youzhou soldiers!"

"As expected." Guo Tai maintained a little attitude. "Where is the reed marsh beside the Fen River five miles away?"

"It was also cut down." The cavalry continued to report helplessly. "I went to see it myself... The reeds along the river were also cut by the Youzhou army in advance, and they could not even make a temporary fire, but the torch would be fine! Guo Shuai, on the way back, Wang Xiaoshuai asked me to tell you that if we could not seize the Youzhou army's camp before dark and as a foothold, we would probably be defeated today."

Mrs. Guo finally became a little serious again, but she was still helpless: "It was expected that he was a famous general after all... So if he said that, he still had to try his best to take down the camp in front of him."

"That……"

"You stay!" Guo Tai shook his head for a moment, but he sent more orders again. "Go again, go to meet Yang Feng, Cheng Yin, Li Le, Hu Cai, the candidate, tell them the matter of being unable to establish a village or even preparing torches... and then ask them for me, generals, Xiaoshuai, isn't this battle they want to fight? Why are you still lucky at this time? Why don't you fight to the death?!"

Apart from the cavalry that had just returned, the only cavalrymen in the Central Military Office rushed to send orders everywhere. Mrs. Guo still had the serious and strange posture of fatigue and relaxation. Whether it was calm or arrogant, he stood on this messy platform and stopped talking.

Li Kan in front was far from disregarding the overall situation as described by Guo Tai. In fact, long before Guo Tai's messenger arrived, he took a series of measures to strengthen the offensive.

The entire army was pressing forward and the supervision team stepped forward. More importantly, Li Kan, as a general of the army, actually crossed the complex trench on the road with his waist knife, came to the front, and personally braved the rain of arrows to remove the antlers!

Several personal guards held large shields to cover the rain of arrows for him, and a flag marked with the word "Li" was also inserted aside... This behavior seemed to inspire morale and was quite effective.

After all, the army of these Hedong heroes was originally privately owned, and Li Kan's troops were formed around Li Kan himself. Therefore, since he ignored life and death, no one dared to retreat or leave, and the speed of removing deer antlers was greatly improved without regard to casualties.

Finally, after half an hour passed, when the sun was obviously slanting westward, after throwing down countless corpses, Li Kan finally tried hard to send the soldiers to the camp. At this time, Han Xian to the west had just begun to pull out his antlers, or had just begun to be killed by arrows.

"The man in Hedong is really a bit daring to fight." Gongsun 'looked at it' for half a day and finally laughed out loud. "But the country was unfortunate, it forced such outstanding soldiers to the position of robbery, and the Huns and Wuhuans became my minions in the time of chaos... It was also time and fate!"

"That's why we have to help the danger and resolve the chaos!" someone said something from the side.

But it was just this sentence, because as soon as he finished speaking, waves suddenly appeared in front of the camp... Just as Li Kan's troops had just moved the dense antlers that were more than fifty steps wide, they came to the camp, but the gates that seemed to be more numerous on the walls of the camp suddenly opened. Then, the infantry commander of the Youzhou Army, Gao Shun and Gao Suqing, who was a captain of two thousand stones, actually led more than a thousand soldiers to come out!

The war drums rumbled, the flags were distinct, the iron armor was dazzling, and the swords and guns were flashing. The Gaoshun troops' camp, which had been waiting behind the archers for a long time, was almost like a tiger coming out of the siege, and it killed countless people in just a moment.

Li Kan and his troops were so tired that they were already exhausted and caught off guard. They naturally retreated in an instant!

However, when they turned around and fled, they were blocked by the trench behind them. Some fell into the trench in panic, while others stopped in panic, but they could not stop at all. They could only be pushed into the trench by later people and trampled to death.

Behind him, the Chengyin tribe in Hedong and some of the Li Kan tribes who had no ditches went forward one after another, trying to respond, but were also blocked by these few ridiculous ditches.

At the critical moment, Li Kan yelled hard in a scream. Although he couldn't hear his specific words clearly, it was obvious that he was ordering his troops to retaliate with him and not to sell his back to Youzhou army in vain.

Gao Shun personally went out to fight back, and he could see clearly how he didn't understand that this man was the leader of this army? Then the man did not speak or fight in person. Just with a distance, more than a hundred soldiers rushed out from behind him with shields and spears.

Li Kan was not afraid of this, but instead directly took out his troops and rushed forward, trying to fight hand in hand.

However, the more than a hundred soldiers came to Li Kan's group of soldiers, but did not fight directly with them. Instead, they suddenly turned over and set up a large shield, formed a shield formation, and pushed forward with all their might. Only when the formation was affected would they plunge into the top of the shield with a short spear.

Li Kan was stunned. Like his subordinates, he had martial arts and courage, but was backed back by Gao Shun's troops, who had better discipline, using this method of forming a formation, and finally pushed into the ditch. Then he was immediately pierced by the weapon of a soldier under him and was smashed by his own guards in the head!

Only a great hero from Hedong who has thousands of troops is pitiful. In another time and space, the man even seized some counties and towns in Guanzhong after the disbandment of the Baibo army and occupied the dock... Now he is suffocated to death in this pile of corpses, and he cannot even make a sound again.

He was thirty-three years old at the time.

More than a hundred steps away, through several ditches, Cheng Yin looked at his fellow countrymen, who were so cowardly and were cold all over.

After Li Kan died, the shortcomings of the Baibo army's military establishment appeared again. His troops almost instantly lost their ability to resist. More than a thousand soldiers from Gaoshun's headquarters rushed forward bravely, almost like a massacre, killing these people in the open space between the ditches and the camp.

Cheng Yin instinctively wanted to shoot archers to cover one or two through the ditch, but at this time he discovered that the antlers in front of the Youzhou military camp, the width of the horse, the width of the ditch, and the width of the ditch area were all carefully calculated... Several ditches, together with about a hundred steps widening, were exactly the effective killing distance when ordinary bow arrows were ejected, and his bow and arrow were useless.

Realizing this, Cheng Yin became more and more depressed.

But what is even more frustrating is still behind. Just in front of Li Kanbu, he died or fled. After leaving the area in front of the camp, Gao Shun was not interested in fighting. He waved his hand and then called out to withdraw his troops and moved into the fence of the camp. Then a large number of auxiliary soldiers carried the horse-resisted and deer antlers and deer-annaps, and quickly piled up the open space in front of the camp.

There were wailings and calls for help everywhere in the ditch area, and then many living people escaped and stepped on their companions' bodies or crawled back... In this situation, it was impossible to advance. After seeing the Youzhou army re-stacked the antlers, Cheng Yin almost felt despair and collapse.

Even though I know that such a great sacrifice was required before, would I have to repeat the previous incident?

Even though I know there is a ditch ahead, I still have to jump!

Even though I knew that the horse-rejected horse was in front of me, the antlers needed to be exchanged for their lives, and then I had to exchange them!

Even though you know that the other party is ambushing an elite soldier in the camp, you will fight back in the narrow battlefield when you are most tired. Do you still want to die?

It’s not that you can’t sacrifice or die, but at least you have to see progress?!

There is still progress!

The Han and Siam tribe made outstanding progress in the west. When they encountered the Youzhou army counterattack, they forcibly held on... The combat power of the Youzhou army soldiers who were ambushing here was not as terrifying as the front. Jiao Chu and Gao Shun were not a little bit different, so both sides actually killed each other.

However, that's all. After Gao Shun easily defeated Li Kanbu in front of him, he immediately followed the flag slogan on the platform and turned from the camp to the west, then broke through in one battle, and once again staged a bloody game of shield formation pushing people... The only difference is that Han Xian, who received the message from Cheng Yin, immediately fled back with his personal guards with his shield, and was not pushed into the pit and became a desperate ghost!

His troops continued to maintain their combat effectiveness because of his survival.
To be continued...