Governor please stay

Chapter 483

Gao Aocao had received Gao Huan's order to retreat, but he didn't leave immediately.It's not that he didn't want to leave, but he was worried that he would be pursued, and he didn't want to withdraw to Yecheng too early.

The terrain on Xuzhou's side, the factor that determines the geographical advantages of the north and south sides is only water.

From spring to late autumn, there is water in the river, and it is the world in the south.The water army can transport troops through Huze and cut off the retreat of the northern army by surprise. It can even imitate Liu Yu's back-to-back formation and use the bed crossbow on the boat to support the ground battle.The cavalry in the north can't go into the water, and they will be living targets on the shore.

And when the river freezes in winter, it is the world in the north.Gao Aocao had a lot of cavalry in his hands, and the north of Pengcheng was full of swamps and lakes.In winter, it will freeze, like walking on flat ground.At that time, the cavalry can be fully deployed, and it is no problem to attack in a roundabout way.

At this time, ships from the south could not pass on the ice.

If you retreat from Xuzhou, where the water network is densely covered, with a large number of cavalry, it will undoubtedly be a logistical nightmare.Gao Aocao saw this, so he stood still.

Of course, he was also on guard against Gao Huan.Gao Huan's military order is right after listening to half of it.If he obeyed his words, he would die without knowing how he died.

Gao Aocao sent someone to discuss with Yaoxiong, who was guarding the north of Xiapi, and the other party also thought that there would be no worries about retreating after winter.If you leave the field early now, you will lose the built camp and defense line.

The navy in the south is very strong, and their team of mixed infantry and cavalry wants to retreat to the front line of Rencheng. It's really hard to explain without losing a piece of meat.Most of the northern expeditions in the Southern Dynasties were played in this way.

That night, Gao Jishi, who went out to investigate with some cavalry, hurried back from the west and reported an important military situation to Gao Aocao!
"Fourth brother, can you see clearly?"

Gao Aocao asked in a deep voice.

Xiao County to the west of Pengcheng is the extreme edge of the Liang army's defense line. Now Wu Mingche is leading troops to guard, while Yu Wentai is guarding Pengcheng.Gao Jishi saw that Liang Jun had a support force, numbering no more than 6000 to [-], but they entered Xiao County with a large amount of baggage.

If it weren't for the lack of mobile troops in hand, Gao Jishi would have planned to chug this army that was unloading at the ferry, because the opponent looked like an auxiliary soldier transporting food.

"Reinforce Xiao County... I don't understand."

Gao Aocao had a strange look on his face, and he didn't understand the purpose of Liang Jun's reinforcement of Xiao County at this time.At this time, shouldn't we attack Suiyang first, and then attack Rencheng and other places in the east by water, and make dumplings for the Wei army in Xuzhou?

Xiao County itself is confronting the front line, and adding troops here is just to reinforce the defense line, what can be of great use?

"You go and tell the second brother (Gao Shen) that it is good to be cautious and defend, there is no need to worry."

Gao Aocao waved his hand and said indifferently.Gao Shen was stationed at the camp on the other side of the Xiaoxian River, there was no movement there all the time, but Pengcheng and Xiapi fought fierce battles several times.

Now many redundant county soldiers have retreated to Rencheng, and the Wei army is unable to launch an attack. It is the top priority to dodge after the river freezes in winter.

"Brother, does Liang Jun have any conspiracy?"

Gao Ji asked cautiously.The third brother Gao Aocao has a bad temper, but he often scolded Gao Jishi.

"What can they do to us? The current situation is that they can do nothing to us, and we can do nothing to them. The large-scale dispatch of Liang Jun's fleet will not be done quietly.

As long as Suiyang in the northeast is still in our hands, there will be no worries about retreat. "

Gao Aocao said confidently.

Why Chen Qingzhi's first battle in the Northern Expedition was Suiyang? In fact, there is no need to explain too much. The geography of Lianghuai, Qingxu and other places are all open-book exams, which are clearly placed there.

The same problems that Chen Qingzhi faced at the beginning were also faced by Liu Yishou.The reason why the north faced the south's Northern Expedition was confident, because it was a bet on whether the opponent could hit Luoyang and hit the south bank of the Yellow River in one go.

If you can fight it, you will change the world, if you can't fight it, it will be a child's play, and the army in the south will return to Lianghuai sooner or later.

In the past few years, Gao Aocao has grown a lot, at least he knows to use his brain to fight.Many generals, as long as he is allowed to lead an army alone, he will grow up quickly, and Gao Aocao is such a person.

"Okay brother, I'll go to the second brother's side now."

Gao Jishi bid farewell and left the tent without stopping.

If the enemy attacked violently, then according to the established retreat strategy, Gao Aocao would lead his troops to retreat along Heshui to Guting City, and then decide how to act according to the Liang army's offensive, and then decide whether to continue to retreat to Rencheng.

Yaoxiong, who is opposite Xiapi City, will lead his troops to retreat along Yishui to the vicinity of Jiqiu (Linyi, Shandong).Of course, people will definitely be chased and beaten along the way, and loss of troops will be inevitable.

But these are affordable costs.

However, after Gao Jishi left, Gao Aocao was fidgeting in the camp, always feeling as if he had overlooked some key issue.After thinking hard for an hour, it was already midnight, but he still didn't understand why.

After all, Chen Qingzhi's style of play is not the mainstream, and Liu Yishou is not Chen Qingzhi, right?

Gao Aocao comforted himself in his heart and said.

……

"His Royal Highness, why did you come to Xiao County?"

Seeing Liu Yishou entering Xiao County with a large amount of luggage, Wu Mingche asked flatteredly.

To be honest, there is no possibility of "roundabout assault" Wei Jun here.Detours are not such a detour, Wu Mingche did not mention this, because he knew that Liu Yishou must be a man who knows how to fight, and he even played it very smoothly.

"Wei Jun will retreat in winter. Before they leave, I need to get some interest back."

Liu Yishou waved his hands indifferently, and said calmly.

Wu Mingche immediately felt relieved, he was really worried that Liu Yishou had always won battles before, and now he was so complacent that he insisted on sending troops by force.

"How many soldiers are available?"

Just when Wu Mingche was about to speak politely, Liu Yishou asked abruptly.

"There are less than a thousand elite soldiers, and the rest are county soldiers. It's okay to defend the city, but it must not be transferred out of the city."

Wu Mingche said very seriously.

Why can't the county soldiers be used as elite soldiers and try not to participate in field battles?Because they were recruited temporarily, the military training time is very short, and the technical and tactical level is impossible to talk about.

Among other things, the queue may not be clear when fighting.When defending the city, these shortcomings will be covered up, and they will be fully exposed in the wild.

The reason why Yuwentai couldn't play tricks on Qingxu's side was because there were too few elite soldiers in his hands.If it weren't for a smooth battle, the county soldiers couldn't get out of the city at all.

"The elite soldiers guard the city, and the rest of the county soldiers follow me to attack and carry the luggage."

Liu Yishou said thoughtfully.

"Wu Wang can't!"

Wu Mingche was so frightened that his ghosts froze. What Liu Yishou wanted to play now was any different from committing suicide?
"Don't worry, it's just killing chickens, just let those county soldiers help move things. After all, the elite soldiers under my command still have to save their strength to kill the enemy."

Liu Yishou spoke very easily. Seeing Wu Mingche's unbelievable appearance, he lowered his voice and continued, "There is a secret weapon. You follow me on the expedition and just watch from the sidelines."

After talking about this, Wu Mingche obviously has nothing to say.

"The time with me is not too short, can I harm you?"

Liu Yishou patted Wu Mingche's shoulder vigorously and said.

"Then the general will go out with the King of Wu."

Wu Mingche nodded slightly and said.

"Open the warehouse today, let all the soldiers open their mouths to eat, and start at dawn tomorrow."

Liu Yishou inquired about the details of Qingxu's previous battle, and learned that the Wei army had already shrunk the line of defense, removed the county soldiers who were in the way, and made it clear that they planned to run away once the river channel entered winter.

To put it bluntly, most of the front lines where Liang Jun and Wei Jun are confronting each other here in Xuzhou are deserters, and no one wants to fight anymore.

And Liu Yishou came here to give Wei Jun a wave of "surprises".

……

In the Wei army camp north of Xiao County, Gao Shen didn't care about the information sent by Gao Jishi, but it was just a team of Liang Jun transporting luggage, so what's the point?
Ships coming from the west unloaded at Xiaoxian Ferry, and then carried the supplies into the city, whatever it was!

Gao's hometown is Xindu, Hebei, and he has sent troops for more than half a year, and now the soldiers under his command are all homesick.Gao Shen drank in the camp every day, and there was no movement from Liang Jun for a long time, which also made him and his soldiers lose their vigilance.

In addition, Gao Huan's transfer order had already been issued, everyone in the camp from Gao Shen down was thinking about what to do after returning to Hebei, and did not consider the current situation of the battle at all.

In the early morning of this day, the scouts reported to Gao Shen that the Liang army in Xiao County had already left the city and was forming an array outside the city, as if posing for a decisive battle.

Hearing this, Gao Shen couldn't help but sneer three times.

Gao Aocao's order was to let him guard the camp and not to fight.No matter how Liang Jun yelled and scolded, it would be over if he didn't send troops out of the camp.Judging from the current strength of the Liang army, it is very difficult to break the battalion.

At the time of the confrontation, trenches were dug outside the camp and horse refusal posts were prepared.Gao Aocao's reinforcements will rush to Xiao County for reinforcements in less than a day.

The number of reinforcements from the Liang Army who came to Xiao County this time was not many, so Gao Shen was not panicked at all.

"Array in the camp to prevent the enemy from storming the camp!"

Gao Shen ordered in a deep voice.

The big camp is made of wooden walls, not very strong.But there is a trench inside and outside, and there is a half of the earth wall around the wooden wall, so there is nothing good to be done by storming the camp.If the Wei army camp was so easy to fight, Yu Wentai would have fought it long ago!
Gao Shen led the soldiers of the Wei army to line up in the camp. Standing on the high platform, he saw Liang Jun lined up within a mile of the camp, as if they were operating some kind of equipment.

Of course, Gao Shen didn't care at all, the opponent's position was beyond the range of the crossbow.Even if the bed crossbow is shot, it will only be blocked by the wooden wall outside the camp gate.

Gao Shen didn't understand the principle of a parabola, but he understood very well that at the end of a strong crossbow, you can't pierce Lu Jin, and the ends of the bed crossbow's ballistic trajectory are very straight, so they can't shoot into the camp.

Just as the Wei army was preparing to defend the Liang army from breaking the camp, Liu Yishou outside the camp was not idle, and was commanding the elite soldiers under his command to operate the Shenhuo Flying Crow.

"Test shot first."

Liu Yishou said to the messenger who was holding a small red flag beside him.

"call out!"

An arrow flew into the sky with flames, and landed directly on the wooden boards on the outer wall of Gaoshen's camp and burned, causing many Wei soldiers to be stunned.I don't know what the other side is doing.

It's windy today, so the data measured before are a bit small!Liu Yishou sighed inwardly, there was no way to measure the wind speed, and playing artillery was indeed a bit unsatisfactory.

"Turn up the angle by one scale and try again."

Liu Yishou continued to give orders steadily, not in a hurry.

The power of the single-shot Shenhuo Crow is really unsatisfactory, and the fierce fire oil it carries is also very limited.Throwing it in the past was almost like throwing away, and it didn't arouse Gao Shen's vigilance.

Of course, Liu Yishou's soldiers didn't take it seriously.Only a very small number of generals in the army know the terrifying power that this thing uses in large quantities.

"call out!"

Another shot of the divine fire flying crow shot out with flames, this time the effect was not bad, it directly hit a tent in Gao Shen's camp, and set the tent on fire.

Considering the different shooting ranges caused by the subtle differences of the arrows, Liu Yishou felt that the correction to this degree could already be used in clusters.

"Send the order, and the odd-numbered Vulcan cabinet will start to launch."

Fifty Shenhuo crows are placed in a box, which can be launched individually or all in sequence. This firepower unit is called the Vulcan cabinet.Each Vulcan cabinet is numbered on the box and used as standard equipment in the army, just like a war horse.

When ordering to launch, just look at the orderer's flag and you can operate directly.After the shooting is completed, just recycle the wooden box and wait for filling.

"Shh!" "Shhh!" "Shhh!" "Shhhh!"

One after another, the sacred fire crows shot out of the wooden box with flames, and flew towards Gao Shen's camp.Like locusts shining brightly, it makes people frightened!

Gao Shen finally sensed something was wrong intuitively, but he hadn't fully come to his senses yet.After all, Zhuge Liang had played with this thing back then, and he still relied on the bed crossbow to shoot. The range and effect were limited, and it was not passed down as a trump card for future generations to use.

"what!"

A scream pulled Gao Shen back from his stupor.

An unlucky guy in the army was shot by the opponent's rocket, and his body was stained with fire oil, and now he is rolling on the ground in pain.His voice directly exploded the Wei soldiers in the camp!
"Run!"

Who knows who yelled, and the army formation under Gao Shen's high platform immediately began to fall apart, and flames were shot and ignited everywhere.

If the opponent is human, you can still resist.But now the opponent is a flying flame, who can stop it, what's the point of resisting?
Wherever the Divine Fire Flying Crow went, there was a sea of ​​flames.Almost all the tents in the Gaoshen camp were set on fire, and there were soldiers rolling and howling on the ground everywhere.

This time Liu Yishou directly shot [-] Shenhuo Flying Crows. Seriously, he thought highly of Gao Shen, almost treating Gao Shen like Chen Qingzhi and the White Robe Army were fighting!

Outside the camp, Liu Yishou's soldiers stared dumbfounded at the Wei army who had already bombed the camp, looked at the camp that was already in flames, and heard the wailing sound from afar, they were too frightened to make a sound.

The team of 5000 people fell into an eerie silence like one person.

"Pass down the order and prepare to break the camp."

Liu Yishou ordered softly.

A few seconds passed, and the orderly remained motionless.

"No orders yet?"

Liu Yishou stared at the orderly in doubt and asked, the tragic situation in the Wei army camp has frightened the orderly.

"Oh, good governor, this subordinate will pass the order."

Soon, the big drum sounded.She Dichang led the broken infantry of the Liang army, approaching the burning camp carefully step by step, not daring to enter rashly.

The fire was too great, and the Gaoshen camp had become a mess.

"What are you doing, this is a war, let's beat the drum again! Hurry up and break the camp before the enemy's fire is extinguished!"

Thinking that She Dichang was moving too slowly, Liu Yishou urged impatiently.

He squinted his eyes and looked at the already messy Wei army camp, wondering if he had acted too harshly.

(End of this chapter)