The two armies were gradually approaching.
Yang An'er's headquarters was under Fanyang City, and at this time he gradually moved to the open land to the east. The army of Heshi Liezhi was originally more than ten miles north of the city, but now it moved in, slowly shortening the distance between the two sides.
The plain between the two armies, about four or five miles away from the west gate of Fanyang City, was generally open and flat. The plains are dotted with sparse woodland and some shrubs no higher than knee high. Spring had just begun at this time, and there was very little green on the undulating ground, and more of it was iron-grey.
"This area between the two armies was Dukang in ancient times. During the Warring States Period, it was known as the sacred land of Yan State. In the Tang Dynasty, a farm was set up here, with an annual harvest of 400,000 shi of rice and millet. It's a pity..."
Xu Wei pointed at the situation in front of him and explained: "Liu Lang, look, south of the plains, there are several east-west small rivers, which are the remnants of Fanshui and Taoshui in ancient times. The water has migrated for hundreds of years and has long since ceased to be the same. . The river has been in disrepair for a long time, and in the area where it merges with the Zhuo River, it is even more tortuous and congested. It overflows in summer and dries up in autumn and winter. Over the years, people have moved to other places one after another, leaving their fields abandoned."
He turned back, looked behind him, and sighed: "The entire area behind the continuous depressions, dry lakes, woodlands, and pastures has become a good place for river bandits to hang out. Liu Lang's troops are hiding in This is the most appropriate. Even if a hundred spies come who are not familiar with the terrain, they still can’t find any trace!"
Speaking of this, he felt a little proud: "Liu Lang, this place is very nice!"
Guo Ning wore precious green velvet armor and led his war horse. He stood behind a tall reed and stared at the plain ahead.
After a while, he smiled and said: "How can there be any bad time in your arrangements, Brother Xu?"
The black war horse behind him stood for a long time, its hooves got stuck in the mud, and was soaked by the moisture of the wetland. The horse's mane was wet and stuck in strands. The war horse quickly stamped its front hooves and shook its neck anxiously, wanting to neigh several times.
Guo Ning reached out his hand and gently stroked the war horse's forehead twice to calm it down.
He looked at the sky and saw that there were some clouds in the sky, and said to Xu Jin: "It hasn't rained since the beginning of spring. I think it looks depressing today, and there is a possibility of a heavy rain."
Having said this, he asked Liu Cheng, the new military officer on the other side: "Rainproof supplies..."
"The arrangements are all ready when we set off, don't worry Liulang. We also have enough spare bow strings, so even if it rains, there will be no hindrance to the fight." Liu Cheng said respectfully.
"good."
Guo Ning turned his head again and looked southwest of Fanyang City.
A little further in that direction, there is the famous Qigou. In the early years, the Song army raised an army of 100,000 to attack Zhuozhou. The famous Khitan general Yelvxiu Ge led the army and defeated it. The Song army fled at night, and Yelvxiu Ge chased it with iron cavalry and killed countless people. To this day, the bones or armor of Song people are still occasionally washed out by the current in that ravine.
According to Xu Jin, the people of Jing'an led the crowd to ambush there. But Guo Ning watched for a long time and couldn't find any traces of people lurking, which showed that Jing'an Min was a veteran and acted properly.
He nodded slightly to Xu Jin: "I have everything in order here. Brother, you can go back and tell Brother Anmin and others, and then just wait and see what happens."
Xu Jin responded, turned around and left, took two steps, and then came back: "Liu Lang, He Shi Lie came to us in a strange way. If you have made a decision, whether you advance or retreat, you must tell us immediately."
"That's natural."
At this time, the two formations under Fan Yang City gradually became circular.
The size of the two armies is not very large. Heshi Liezhizhong's troops have fewer troops, about three thousand. However, the closer they get to the front enemy, the more orderly the formation becomes. They seem to be rushing out of the formation with a murderous aura, but also seem to be squatting in the formation. There are terrifying monsters, leaping and swooping at any time.
Yang An'er's subordinates are about six thousand, which is larger in number. After all, the people of Zhuozhou are fond of martial arts, and in recent years there have been even more people who are dissatisfied with the imperial court. Yang An'er traveled south and north, picking up people along the way, and his troops expanded greatly. Because of the loose formation, at first glance, the area of the military formation is more than three times that of the enemy, and the momentum is even greater.
In Guo Ning's eyes, those rabble are only worthy of waving flags and shouting, and should not be counted. Only the headquarters of more than a thousand people near the high ground behind the entire army was extraordinary... That was the headquarters of the Tiewa Ganjun Army, plus the brave men from Northern Xinjiang who had been selected after being gathered together in the past few days.
Once they formed a strong formation, they suddenly became orderly. Their posture was different from what Guo Ning had seen before when he set up an ambush in the night battle. Everyone wears armor and is proud, with a strong and resolute spirit that is not afraid of death. They are worthy of being rebels who have endured many turmoils but are still hard-boned since the rebellion in the Taihe period!
The two armies gathered together, everyone was in awe.
The wilderness was desolate, and the wind howled by. At first it brought the noise of the defenders on Fanyang City, but then for some reason, the defenders fell silent and stopped talking.
Li Ting narrowed his eyes and looked at the formation: "This piece of shit Hu Shahu plans to attack first! He will first push forward with infantry to suppress the loose front formation of Yang An'er's men, and then use the left and right horsemen to outflank and defeat it. Once Yang An'er's headquarters enters the battlefield, he will use The kidnapping horse restrains the enemy, while the heavy horse waits for an opportunity to break out."
"That's right."
"As for Yang An'er's side...his formation is to divide the loose front team into three groups, left, center and right, to protect the central army. That is to rely on the superiority of troops to hold firmly, and then...then, use his central army The troops... no, he also has a cavalry, you see, they are at the back."
At this point, Li Ting was speechless for a moment. He frowned and thought for a while: "I can't understand. In this way, what can this cavalry do? Isn't that very passive? Isn't that giving the opportunity to this piece of shit like Hu Shahu? Is it cheaper?"
Hearing what Na said, all the military officers looked unhappy, and someone muttered: "That can't be done!"
Li Ting looked at Guo Ning again.
Guo Ning tugged on the newly grown mustache on his chin: "Yang An'er is still very alert. He knows that we are nearby. Look at the position of the cavalry. It is very suitable for cutting off the road from south to north... It is for defense. Ours. Unless we boldly withdraw our troops now, the cavalry will not be able to move."
"This is a bit embarrassing. It seems like we are conspiring with that piece of shit Hu Shahu." Li Ting nodded and cursed in a low voice.
Yang An'er's troops had previously raided the camp of the defeated troops, and had become enemies with Guo Ning and other leaders of the defeated troops. Although they later made a temporary peace, both of them knew that they had their own agendas and had to settle.
When Yang An'er was about to raise his troops, Jing'an people, representing the local armed forces of Zhuo, Yi, and Ding, reached a tacit agreement with Guo Ning, and each of the two families raised troops to go north.
These two soldiers had never faced Yang An'er's men head-on, but their intention to intimidate them was very clear. They were telling Yang An'er openly and openly that rebellion was okay and you were welcome to feel free to do so, but if it infringed upon the two families' sphere of influence from northern Zhuozhou to Xiongzhou, then it was strictly prohibited.
Therefore, Yang An'er only used a partial force to attack Xiongzhou, forcing Bo De and Zhang Nu to leave with a few poems. That's not because Bode and Zhang Nu are good at fighting, but because Guo Ning's troops are approaching and they clearly regard Xiongzhou as a forbidden area.
This situation was naturally beyond Yang An'er's expectations, but there was nothing he could do. Back then, he was based in Zhuozhou and was able to communicate with local forces in a tacit understanding. Now that he wants to rebel and fight in various places, he can just leave and the local armed forces in Hebei can reorganize themselves, and there is no blame.
Therefore, even when Yang An'er was attacking Fan Yang, he kept a small group of extremely elite cavalry behind the formation just in case.
Even though He Shilie's private soldiers were killed on the way, Yang An'er's elite cavalry still did not relax their guard against Guo Ning and Jing Anmin's troops in the rear.
This is also consistent with common sense.
The problem is that He Shi Liezhi's sudden arrival was completely unexpected by Guo Ning and others, and Guo Ning and others had absolutely no intention of defending He Shi Liezhi against the enemy side by side.
He Shilie, who was confronting Yang An'er, was the Hu Shahu in Li Ting's mouth. Hu Shahu is his female real name.
In recent years, the Jin Dynasty has attached great importance to Confucian scholars and prided itself on being a great country with the right to rule the world. Although the old Jurchen customs were promoted from time to time in Sanwu, the degree of sinicization was actually getting deeper and deeper, and they often boasted of "the sun and moon of the Tang Dynasty, the mountains and rivers of Shun, the rites and music of the Zhou Dynasty, and the clothes and crowns of the Han Dynasty". So much so that after Jurchen nobles entered the officialdom, they had to deliberately change their Chinese names. When outsiders casually mention the Jurchen name of a certain general or minister, it seems to be contemptuous.
Li Ting was someone who had great contempt for Hu Shahu, or in other words, hatred. Therefore, calling the Jurchens by their names is not enough. You also have to bring a "dog thing" to relieve your anger.
This has to be taken into account that Li Ting is a very particular person. If it were other soldiers, there would be even worse words to come out.
This Hu Shahu had participated in the battle at Yehuling as a left-behind man in Xijing.
Wang Shixian and Monk Luo both came from Datong Mansion in Xijing.
When Hu Shahu was left behind in Xijing, he was greedy, arbitrary and wanton, and did not take the lives of ordinary subordinates seriously. When Wang Shixian's tribe was transferred to Xijing from Gongchang Prefecture, there were more than 300 people in his tribe. Everyone had a horse, and they were all good equestrians. As a result, after being driven by Hu Shahu for several years, the number of people in the tribe became smaller and smaller. By the time they retreated to Hebei, only two or three kittens and puppies were left.
And Monk Luo hated Hu Shahu deeply. The Jurchen nobleman Wanyan Age and the Bohai native Gao Youchang, who caused the death of Monk Luo's family, were both Hu Shahu's cronies. Their corruption and perversion of the law were ultimately to collect money for Hu Shahu.
As for Guo Ning, Li Ting and others, they simply don’t want to mention the name Hu Shahu.
During the Battle of Yehuling in the third year of Da'an, although the three prefectures of Chang, Huan, and Fu were lost, the imperial court still had 450,000 troops, and its strength was still there.
At that time, it was Hu Shahu who was responsible for leading the army to fight the enemy. At that time, the Mongolian army had broken through several states and was conducting a large-scale plunder. Their horses were herding in the wild. Many senior generals suggested that they should use light cavalry to attack them unprepared. Hu Shahu rejected these suggestions and determined to fight the Mongolian army head-on, advancing on foot and on horseback.
On the day of the fight, all the tribes were still fighting fiercely, but Hu Shahu was timid for some reason and ran away without any warning! Is there such a general in the world?
His escape not only took away the 7,000 elite members of his headquarters, but also created huge loopholes in the Jin army's front line that supported each other. It was through this loophole that the Mongolian Wanhu Muhuali broke in. As a result, all the armies collapsed, leading to an unprecedented defeat and collapse, which led to a series of tragedies and tragedies, and led to the corpses covering the back of Monan Mountain. The blood that flows into the East China Sea will not dry up!
Who could forget that scene? Who would not hate the instigator?
Now Guo Ning and Jing Anmin threatened Yang An'er, but Hu Shahu, who intervened halfway, took advantage... Why? Yang An'er is a rebel after all. No matter how much they hate each other, everyone respects his courage and knows that he is a good man.
And what is Hu Shahu? Is he worthy of picking up bargains here?
