Chapter 902 Arrangement
The words of the two military advisors made everyone fall into deep thought. It was just as they said. If the troops were from the Huben Camp and the Longxiang Camp, they would not be afraid of Ji Ling's heavy infantry and the Imperial Guards. But the problem was that the combat battalions were newly formed not long ago, not only the Yuzhou Camp, but also Huang Wudie's Huben Camp.
Zhang He's Shenwu Camp was originally an old combat battalion, but later Zhang He was ordered to train the halberd soldiers. It happened that Kong Xin's Xuanwu Camp was formed, so most of the combat battalions were disbanded. Zhang He selected more than 2,000 people himself, and the rest were all handed over to Kong Xin, resulting in the absence of a whole school of elite veterans in the army except Huangfu Chaobo's Guard Battalion.
In fact, the Guard Battalion was not the elite before. The Xianzhen Camp suffered heavy losses in the dungeon, and the purpose was to reorganize and train. The Iron Wall Camp lost more than half of its troops and was supplemented by more than 40%. Only the Iron Eagle Sharp Soldiers, Yuanrong Crossbow Soldiers and Tuoqi Cavalry were basically intact. Although the Iron Eagle Sharp Soldiers also lost nearly 20%, they have been fully replenished. The loss of less than 20% of the soldiers and horses allowed him to recover quickly.
Originally, he came to Huainan for the purpose of training troops, but he didn't expect it to be a fierce battle. You know, there are 50,000 or 60,000 elite battle barracks and imperial guards in Ji Ling's army, so once they are entangled by Ji Ling's army during the retreat, the loss will be very large.
Since they are going to retreat, they must make detailed arrangements. According to the time calculation, Ji Ling's army should start attacking after about an hour. According to the previous two days, Ji Ling will first use catapults to launch a stone attack on the camp for a quarter to half an hour, and then send infantry to make a tentative attack.
If his army can swallow Ji Ling's tentative troops in one go, then in doubt, Ji Ling may suspend the attack, send troops to figure out the cause and effect of the matter, and then consider the follow-up arrangements. In this way, the army can buy half an hour to an hour.
However, when resisting Ji Ling's army, the troops in the south of the camp must quickly defeat the more than 20,000 troops coming from Yulou County, in order to open a passage for the army to evacuate, and also to shock the troops in Anfeng County, that is, the troops besieging the east of the Andong Army camp, so that they dare not pursue easily before joining Ji Ling's army.
In this way, whether in the south or the north, the combat power of the troops must be strong. Fortunately, there are only 5,000 heavy infantry in the Yulou troops in the south, and the rest of the troops are either newly formed city guards or defenders.
After much consideration, everyone decided to use the Iron Wall Camp and the Iron Eagle Sharp Warriors as the vanguard, and the Xianzhen Camp to use crossbows as support to quickly break through the enemy's heavy armor defense and break into the enemy's army. The rest of the troops followed closely, and the cavalry drove the defeated soldiers from west to east to attack the army of Yuan Shu in Anfeng County.
As for Ji Ling's headquarters in the north, the four thousand Yuanrong crossbowmen will quickly annihilate the vanguard of Ji Ling's army together with all the wells, catapults, etc., and then leave a small number of soldiers to wait for Ji Ling's army to attack and burn the camp, and the rest of the army will quickly break out to the south.
After the discussion, Huangfu Chaobo quickly arranged it, and the whole camp was busy. The auxiliary soldiers and civilians in the rear camp began to quickly load the supplies onto the baggage carts, of course, giving priority to food and weapons, and other less important things were put at the end. In the southern camp, Huang Zhong was personally responsible for arranging the defense.
First, the defenders began to retreat about a hundred steps and re-arrange the defense line. Only soldiers were left at the destroyed wall in the south to observe the movement of Ji Ling's army.
In the camp, in addition to setting up ambushes, a large number of ignition materials were placed in the camp to block the speed of Ji Ling's army during the retreat.
As soon as Chen Shi arrived, Ji Ling's army appeared on time one mile outside the camp, just like the previous few days. After a few days of fighting, Ji Ling's headquarters also lost nearly 10,000 troops. Now there are only more than 70,000 soldiers and horses. Because it was discovered yesterday that the remaining troops of the An Dong army in the Huainan cities had already appeared west of the water, so for safety reasons,
Ji Ling only led 50,000 troops to fight, plus 20,000 troops in the southeast, which was still more than the number of troops in the An Dong army camp.
In his camp, Ji Ling left 10,000 heavy armored soldiers and 10,000 city guards, as well as several thousand wounded soldiers and craftsmen. In his opinion, although he only had 90,000 soldiers and horses, it was enough to pose a great threat to the Anton Army camp, and there were more catapults today than yesterday.
As Guo Jia expected, after Ji Ling's army arrived, they began a nearly half-hour stone-throwing attack. The Anton Army, which had already prepared well, had retreated beyond the attack range of the catapults. Therefore, although the rain of stones fell like a blanket, raising a large amount of dust in the camp and knocking over countless tents and fortifications, the Anton Army suffered almost no losses.
Half an hour later, the catapults of Ji Ling's army finally stopped the attack. Then, at Ji Ling's order, 5,000 ordinary guards who had been prepared long ago, led by a lieutenant, carefully attacked the Anton Army camp.
What surprised them was that although they had penetrated within a hundred steps of the camp yesterday, the damage to the long-range attack equipment of the Anton Army was very limited. When the army was evacuating yesterday, it was also attacked by catapults and well fences, resulting in the loss of hundreds of people.
But today suddenly became different. When the five thousand soldiers entered the attack area within the village wall, the stone bullets that were supposed to fall from the sky did not fall. The captain, who felt strange in his heart, waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to continue moving forward. , but he himself slowed down calmly, and gradually entered and fell behind the army.
The abnormality in the camp made Ji Ling and others in the Chinese army wonder. Could it be that Anton's army had retreated? Ji Ling and Shu Zhao looked at each other and saw the confusion in each other's eyes. But both of them shook their heads. You must know that the sound of killings is still loud in the east and south of the camp, which shows that the Anton Army has not evacuated. Thinking of this, Ji Ling stretched out his hand and waved forward: "Beat the drum." , ordered the soldiers to speed up the attack, and sent an order to General Lei to send an additional school of soldiers to join the battle! "
As soon as he finished speaking, a thunderous drum sound suddenly sounded in the camp in front of him. Immediately afterwards, Ji Ling could see countless stone bullets and arrows flying out from about two to three hundred paces in the middle of the camp, hitting the sky and covering the sky. The ground fell towards the five thousand soldiers who had entered the camp.