Start Being a Vassal King Today - Chapter 858

[Chapter 858]

Cotton City.

Ashur, Olski, Tiemuta, Dou Wei, and Fan Xinglun are surrounding a set of blueprints.

A Beidi cavalry general pointed at the drawing and described what they had observed about King Yan’s army.

Compared with Zhao Xu’s detailed map, their map is very rough, it is just the outlines of rivers, mountains and cities drawn with a few ink lines.

But even so, this is the most detailed map they can come up with.

“The king of Yan went deep into Yizhou, and he didn’t carry much food and grass. It is impossible to confront us for a long time, and he will definitely seek a quick victory. In this way, they can only attack our trench positions.” Olsky analyzed the current battle situation based on the actual situation. .

After pondering for a while, he continued, “So, as long as we persist for more than a month, they will definitely run out of food and grass. At that time, with the help of cavalry to block their retreat, we can defeat King Yan’s army.”

Ashur and others They all nodded.

Olsky’s expression darkened suddenly, and he said again: “Of course, this is the most ideal situation. We can think of it, and the King of Yan may have thought of it too, but they still decided to go deep into Yizhou, so they must rely on something. It is he who firmly believes that he can defeat us.”

“Chariots.” Tie Muta said at this time, “It must be the chariots that gave King Yan confidence. Back then, it was the chariots that King Yan’s army faced for the first time outside Yanshan Mountain. Defeating our Beidi cavalry is just an old trick this time.”

Olsky learned from the information collected by the cavalry that this time the army carried a large number of chariots.

These chariots are indeed a sharp weapon to restrain cavalry.

“So what I said just now is the most ideal situation. In fact, I’m afraid there will be no tricks in this battle. It depends on who can persist for more than a month and still have spare strength.” Olsky looked serious.

Looking at the Iron Wood Pagoda, he said: “Now, your cavalry can flank King Yan’s soldiers and horses, bypass their rear, and completely cut off their connection with Jiameng Pass.”

Turning to Ashur, he said: “Your infantry, together with the Nanliang and Nanping troops, blocked the King Yan’s army on the frontal battlefield, and your cavalry cruised around the side of the battlefield, looking for opportunities for a surprise attack. Our Ross army will cooperate with your surprise attack.”

” …”

Pointing to the map, Olsky issued a series of orders.

Ashur, Dou Wei and the others had no objection to Olsky’s decision, so they went back to prepare.

The life-and-death battle of the powerful clan is about to start at last.

Whether it is life or death, this is the battle!

Not long after, the sound of “rumbling” horseshoes sounded.

Tiemuta commanded the three royal tents under his command, 150,000 cavalry and 150,000 infantry marched northward.

The horse’s hooves raised, rolling up dust all over the sky, with great momentum.

They avoided the official road where King Yan was, and detoured from the side, cutting off the grain road of King Yan.

Beidi, Nanliang and Nanping infantry entered the trenches in front of Miancheng.

Field artillery was placed on the fortifications and aimed at the front.

In order to resist King Yan, Olsky set up a trench position fifteen miles deep.

Looking from the city of cotton, the moat stretches far away.

Even if King Yan’s army can fight, it is not easy to penetrate such a deep trench fortification cluster.

These are just the fortifications on the Miancheng battlefield. There are many other fortifications all the way from Miancheng to Yiyang.

The purpose is to hold back King Yan’s army until they run out of ammunition and food.

At this moment, the royal family’s pro-army scouts are already wandering around Miancheng.

The movement of the Iron Wood Tower was detected immediately.

The detective horse with a telescope hanging around his waist immediately turned his horse’s head and sent the information back.

“Your Highness, this Beidi army is going to circle behind us.” On the

official road, King Yan’s army was still marching.

After analyzing the information, Chang Wei frowned.

It is very dangerous to be cut off on the battlefield.

If it is an army of equal strength, I am afraid that the generals in charge of the army will be scared to death.

“It’s enough to put the rear army on alert to prevent being attacked by the cavalry, and move on.” Zhao Xu ignored the Beidi army at all.

According to the information provided by the cavalry, the configuration of half cavalry and half infantry is basically the soldiers and horses brought by the iron wooden tower.

In the Yizhou Plain, the mobility of the cavalry is unmatched by them.

If you transfer your troops to chase after them, you will only be kited.

Therefore, we must not be affected by the actions of the Iron Wooden Tower. We must firmly attack the fixed target of Yizhou and eliminate its vital forces.

“Yes, Your Highness.” Chang Wei replied yes.

Each army of the royal family is equipped with only 3,000 cavalry.

This time the four armies participated in the battle of Yizhou, with no more than 12,000 cavalry.

Even counting the Qin army, there are less than 20,000 cavalry.

The 20,000 cavalry should be chasing and suppressing the rout.

If they confront the Beidi cavalry, they will be at an absolute disadvantage.

Therefore, even if the Beidi cavalry cut off their retreat, they had nothing to do.

King Yan’s decision was correct.

The army continued to advance, and it took another day for them to reach the outskirts of Miancheng.

At this time, Zhao Xu ordered the army to camp five miles away from Miancheng, relying on chariots.

Each army is stationed in one place, leaving a distance of 200 meters between the camps.

After receiving his order, General Zhenwu of each army ordered the chariots to form a circle.

They took out their tents from their chariots and set up camp.

before evening.

The chariots surrounded the city in six great circles on the earth.

In the big circle, there are many white tents.

The soldiers placed the rifled guns and howitzers between the chains connecting the chariots, and aimed the muzzles forward.

While setting up camp, Zhao Xu and Chang Wei observed the enemy’s trench fortifications.

“Except that it is deep, wide and long, there is nothing new. Let the soldiers rest for one night and launch an attack tomorrow morning.” Zhao Xu observed for a while and said.

For him, not only the tactics of the power clans are outdated, but even the tactics of the western army in this era are also outdated.

After all, under the normal trajectory, they are only in the era of queuing up to be shot.

Although he knows how to use trench fortifications, he does not have a deep understanding of trench fortifications.

If they can pull several barbed wire fences within a hundred meters in front of the trench, it will definitely cause a lot of trouble for their attack.

But they obviously don’t have barbed wire.

Chang Wei nodded and looked to both sides of the camp.

There are many Beidi cavalry wandering there.

He said: “I’m afraid they want to use the cavalry to attack the cavalry from the flank when our soldiers are charging. This is still very dangerous.”

Zhao Xu smiled lightly, “Are the mines just for display? Soldiers lay mines on both sides of the battlefield at night, as long as our soldiers fight into the other side’s trenches, they will have nothing to do.”

The main part of tomorrow’s offensive will be the artillery battle.

While the howitzers cleared the powerful soldiers in the trenches, the rifled guns destroyed the field artillery on the opponent’s trench positions, so as not to cause heavy casualties to the charging soldiers.

Chang Wei laughed twice, “That’s exactly what the general said, as long as their cavalry dare to come over, they will be blown to pieces.”

(End of this chapter)