Carefree Prince In Tang Dynasty

After finishing breakfast, Li Xin's men were ready to go.

Li Xin took Wang Gui and ten personal guards to the camp. Niu Jianhu and Yuchi Baolin led the main attack with 800 people head-on, while Cheng Chumo and Qin Huaiyu led the other 200 people to mix in the main attack team. Halfway through the march, they waited for an opportunity to outflank Chen Xiao's camp from the side road.

This trail was not mentioned at all in the so-called official map provided by Li Shimin, but was pointed out by Wang Gui when Li Xin was redrawing the map, and it was marked on the brand new military map. When discussing the strategy last night, everyone decided to make full use of this hidden path and catch Chen Xiao by surprise.

"Fight well. Prove yourself, today is the day." Li Xin clenched his fists.

Thousands of strong men in front of him shouted in unison, and the voice made people feel at ease for no reason.

"Set off!"

When the words fell, the whole army attacked.

Li Xin's camp is located at the foot of Calf Mountain, while Chen Xiao's camp is located behind Wuyun Mountain. Of course, if it is on a real battlefield, it is not so easy to find the enemy's base camp, otherwise the battle would be too easy to fight. However, this is just a simulated military exercise after all. Within the designated battlefield, there are not many places suitable for camping. Therefore, as early as the first night, the two sides had already found out where the other side's camp was.

Unlike Li Xin, Chen Xiao didn't intend to take the initiative to attack from the very beginning. In his opinion, this is just a two-party military exercise after all, either he attacks or Li Xin attacks, in this case, it is better to wait for the other party to come to the camp and wait for the other party to come.

Sure enough, when he was looking at the map and guessing how Li Xin would attack, suddenly a sergeant walked in from outside the tent and said loudly: "Report sir, the enemy is attacking ahead."

"How many people?" Chen Xiao asked calmly.

"About a thousand people," replied the sergeant.

Out in force?

Chen Xiao frowned slightly.

In fact, such a decision is not wrong. To put it bluntly, this is just a military exercise after all, and there are many restrictions. Apart from the limitations of the battlefield, there are also restrictions on weapons and equipment. For example, neither side is equipped with long-range weapons such as bows and arrows.

We must know that the form of war largely depends on the diversity of weapons and equipment, as well as the complexity of various battlefield conditions. The reason why wars in later generations can become so complicated is precisely because a series of new weapons such as planes, ships, and submarines are enough to include sea, land, and air into the scope of the battlefield. This expands the possibility of war by several orders of magnitude.

Imagine one of the most extreme situations: If both sides in the war can only use fists, what will happen? Quite simply, the so-called war is immediately reduced to a brawl between street gangsters. According to this logic, the military exercise in front of Chen Xiao and Li Xin is actually nothing more than a large-scale fight between the two sides.

Chen Xiao felt that in such a battle that was destined to be limited in complexity, it was indeed an option to fight head-to-head.

However, will Li Xin be so simple?

Li Xin's face appeared before Chen Xiao's eyes.

It really doesn't look like a kind person.

"Come on, show me." Chen Xiao got up and motioned for the sergeant to lead the way. After the two climbed up to a high place, he really saw people moving around a few miles ahead. It seemed that they would arrive in front of their own camp in a quarter of an hour.

However, carefully distinguishing the sounds in his ears, Chen Xiao always felt that the number of enemies coming seemed to be less than one thousand.

Several years of military career gave him a basic idea of ​​how to judge the number of people. The movement of thousands of people acting together should be stronger than the current situation.

This subtle difference gave Chen Xiao a warning sign.

"Pass me the order and prepare for the battle." Chen Xiao gave this order first, then quickly returned to the camp, and called one of his adjutants named Han Yong to his side.

Han Yong hastily entered the account, cupped his hands and asked, "What's your order, sir?"

Chen Xiao pointed to the map and said, "I'll assign two hundred people to you. You take them as the rear army. If the opponent keeps attacking and won't retreat, then you will press on. But if the opponent retreats beyond this line." Said Then, he drew an invisible straight line on the map. Han Yong's eyes widened, and he carefully remembered this line in his heart.

"Once you cross this line, you will bring these two hundred people back to the camp to guard." Chen Xiao said slowly.

"Sir, are you worried that the other party will transfer the tiger away from the mountain?" Han Yong asked.

"Be prepared." Chen Xiao replied.

"Yes. This subordinate obeys orders." Han Yong turned around and left the camp without saying a word.

Chen Xiao sat in the distance and looked at the map for a while. After confirming that he hadn't missed anything, he got up and walked out of the tent, returning to the high place where he observed the enemy's situation just now. The field of vision here is wide, just to be able to have a panoramic view of the fighting situation on both sides.

Frankly speaking, he was also very curious about what Li Xin could lead these soldiers into. You know, these poorly trained imperial troops really gave him a headache for a long time, and it took half a month of practice to get a little bit of a look. So, what will happen to Li Xin's situation?