Two days later, Yun Zheng officially issued the order to attack.
The 10,000 cavalrymen led by Fu Tianyan served as the vanguard and began to cross the river at the shallows in front of the pseudo-city.
Yun Zheng also followed Jia Yao's advice and left Deng Bao's 5,000 elite cavalry to cooperate with Lingzhou's original 10,000 infantry to guard Lingzhou.
Watching them crossing the river, the enemy did not send out a large army to stop them, but only sent a cavalry unit of about fifty people to watch them on the other side of the Yudai River, closely monitoring their every move.
Moreover, even if they wanted to stop it, they couldn't.
There are so many places where you can cross the Yudai River.
Even if they sent out 10,000 or 20,000 people to block the attack, they would not be able to stop Yun Zheng's army from crossing the river.
Instead of doing this, it is better to retreat and defend, waiting for the enemy to tire themselves out.
At this moment, several shrill neighs of war horses were heard from the vanguard troops that were crossing the river.
The horses the cavalrymen were riding seemed to be injured. They ran around in pain and threw the cavalrymen off their backs.
...
...
Such an unexpected situation instantly caused the vanguard troops that were crossing the river in an orderly manner to fall into small-scale chaos.
"Ha ha……"
Seeing the troops crossing the river fall into chaos, the dozens of enemy cavalrymen burst into laughter.
Hearing their laughter, several cavalrymen who had crossed the river immediately drew their bows and shot arrows at them.
However, the arrows didn't even hit the enemy cavalry, but fell directly into the river.
"Ha ha……"
Seeing that they were getting angry and embarrassed, the dozens of cavalrymen laughed even more happily.
Yun Zheng frowned slightly and was about to send someone to inquire about the situation, but Fu Tianyan sent someone to report: "Your Highness, there are caltrops left by the enemy in the river. Our army is having difficulty crossing the river. General Fu wants to order people to check for caltrops at the bottom of the river. The progress of the army's crossing the river may be seriously delayed..."
As he spoke, the man also presented a caltrop.
The four protruding iron spikes were sharp and pointed, and there were blood stains on them.
The warhorse that screamed before was injured by this thing.
"Order Fu Tianyan to send people to clear the caltrops in the river first, and then lead the army across the river!"
Yun Zheng gave an order in a deep voice, and then ordered Shen Kuan: "Send someone to inform the other troops to be careful of the caltrops in the river. Before crossing the river, check the situation at the bottom of the river first!"
"yes!"
Shen Kuan and the person who came to summon him immediately trotted away.
"This Lou Yi is really cunning! He actually ordered someone to throw this thing into the river."
Miaoyin took the caltrops from Yun Zheng and said, "Now, our progress in crossing the river will be seriously slowed down."
"It won't take long." Yun Zheng smiled indifferently, "I guess there aren't too many caltrops at the bottom of the river. If we didn't want to cause unnecessary casualties, there would be no need to check it out."
"right!"
Jia Yao nodded in agreement, "It would be good if we could get a hundred or so of these caltrops from this area."
"What do you mean?"
Miaoyin was puzzled, "Why do you conclude that there are not many caltrops in this river?"
Yun Zheng smiled: "Lou Yi just wants to slow down our marching speed, not to rely on this thing to cause me much damage. If he throws a large number of caltrops into the river, it will become an aid to the enemy!"
The river is not deep, not even up to a person's knees.
Moreover, the river they were crossing was less than a hundred feet wide.
Even if there are so many of them, even if they check bit by bit, it will take at most half a day to check everything.
If a large number of caltrops fell into their hands, couldn't they use them to deal with the Dayue Kingdom?
"Besides, Dayue Kingdom doesn't have that much iron to make so many caltrops." Jia Yao added: "Instead of making a large number of caltrops and throwing them into the river, it would be more practical to use them to make more arrows."
In the battle at the Sole River last year, although the Dayue Kingdom made up for its personnel losses by forcibly incorporating the Qiuchi army, it suffered a lot of losses in weapons and armor.
The Dayue Kingdom must be seriously short of iron now. How could they possibly have so much iron to make caltrops?
Just the iron from this caltrop can be used to make several arrows.
If it were her, she would definitely prefer to make more arrows.
Miaoyin suddenly realized, "So, Lou Yi wants us to think that there are a lot of caltrops in the river, so that we waste time fishing them out and thus slow down our march?"
"That should be their purpose! But more importantly, it should be to disgust us."
Jia Yao said, his eyes fell on Yun Zheng again, "It's just like when you hung your mentor's golden sword there and buried animal traps on the ground!"
"Is that so?" Yun Zheng touched his nose.
"What do you think?"
Jia Yao curled her lips.
"This is all old news, do you still remember it?"
Yun Zheng shook his head and sighed, "So, you are such a vengeful woman!"
Holding a grudge?
Jia Yao curled her lips, "You make it sound like you don't bear grudges."
"Yeah, I hold grudges too."
Yun Zheng smiled and said, "I say, if you don't go and lead your 20,000 troops, why do you always stay by my side? Didn't you see Luo Yan stay with his own soldiers?"
"Our people can be led by Heasu." Jia Yao said calmly, "It's just a simple crossing of the river, do you still need me to lead them personally?"
Of course she had to stay with Yun Zheng.
As long as the war has not officially started, she wants to stay with Yun Zheng.
When it comes to marching and fighting, there is a lot she can learn from Yun Zheng.
Take the issue of whether to attack Gule or Yiwu. She considered this and that, and no matter how she thought about it, she felt that conquering Yiwu was the best option.
But Yun Zheng only used two words to make her feel that all her considerations became a joke.
Flood!
Just two simple words, yet no one can refute them.
Regardless of whether Beihuan will go to war with Dagan in the future, it is always good to learn more strategies from Yun Zheng.
"Whatever you say!"
Seeing that she insisted on staying by his side, Yun Zheng didn't bother to say anything more.
When the war officially begins, let's see if she will still stay by my side.
About half an hour later, Fu Tianyan's troops cleared a small safe area in the river.
Fu Tianyan quickly sent people to set up defenses through a small section of the river beach that had been cleared.
Seeing someone rushing across the river, the dozens of Dayue cavalrymen immediately ran away, running faster than rabbits.
At the same time, Yun Zheng took out his clairvoyance and began to observe the retreat route of this small group of cavalry.
After running for about a mile, the small group of cavalry began to retreat in the direction of the pseudo-city in a crooked manner. From a distance, it looked like a small truck passing an S-curve.
“Shen Kuan!”
Yun Zheng shouted in a low voice: "Immediately send someone to tell Fu Tianyan that there should be many traps set by the enemy on the land between us and the pseudo-city. After his troops cross the river, they can advance one mile to set up defenses!"
"yes!"
Shen Kuan ran away immediately.
"What's this?"
Jia Yao's gaze fell on the clairvoyance in Yun Zheng's hand.
"It's called clairvoyance."
Yun Zheng smiled.
"clairvoyance?"
Jia Yao was stunned. "So, with this little gadget, you can see thousands of miles away?"
How is this possible!
Thousands of miles away!
What can see so far?
"A thousand miles away is definitely an exaggeration."
Yun Zheng laughed and said seriously: "But it's still okay to see the face of a person fifty miles away!"
Fifty miles?
Jia Yao’s eyes suddenly widened.
Can you see people’s faces fifty miles away?
"Let me see!"
Jia Yao's eyes suddenly became hot.
"That won't do."
Yun Zheng shook his head, "This is my secret weapon, I can't show it to anyone easily!"
Looking at Yun Zheng's serious look, Miaoyin couldn't help but curse in her heart.
Does he dare to brag even louder?
Can you see clearly the face of a person fifty miles away?
I couldn't even see the faces of people two miles away!
"Can't you even lend it to me to take a look?" Jia Yao frowned.
"no."
Yun Zheng said firmly.
"All right!"
Seeing that Yun Zheng refused to give in, Jia Yao could not help but feel disappointed, but her eyes never left the Clairvoyance...
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
