"Dang Shuang General Tu is a fool." Li Chuyun rode along the river bank for a while and suddenly said.

Looking to the other side, he saw Zhang Lingduo stretching his ape's arms on the horse's back. With his posture, a knight in front of him fell down from the horse's back. A large group of Southern Tang army teams turned around and ran eastward. From a distance, it looked like a frightened ants ran around in scattered, densely populated by the crowd.

The sun just rose from the east horizon, and the autumn wilderness in the south was still green, there was no smoke on the battlefield of cold weapons, and no one set fire. Li Chuyun watched the battle on the south bank, far away, could not smell the smell of blood, could not see the scene of fighting, and even the shouts of people were faintly heard, and he could only hear the noise around him.

"Come, go and send an order to Zhang Lingduo." Li Chuyun shouted.

After hearing this, a civil servant next to him called a young general over and brought two messengers soon.

Li Chuyun then said, "Two things. First, ask Zhang Lingduo's horse team to stop chasing, retreat to the east, and gather more horse troops..." Li Chuyun looked at him and could see a large group of Southern Tang army infantry lined up to reinforce here. "Second, let Zhang Lingduo designate a general as the platoon envoy to organize the infantry that crossed the river to resist the enemy's counterattack."

The civil servant asked the two messengers to repeat the military orders, without writing them, and asked them to cross the river.

... After Guo Shao made a simplified version of the "Messenger System", he received strong praise from Wang Pu, and it was quickly promoted from the Privy Council to almost the entire Imperial Guard. This method was also relatively strict in the war mode at this time, with little loopholes. The most important thing was that it was simple and convenient, and it was quickly recognized and accepted by the generals.

The messenger soldiers are personal soldiers sent by military generals at all levels. They know each other and are not easy to be deliberately misinformed by the enemy. Moreover, the personnel of the messenger system have to be replaced from time to time; it eliminates unstable intermediate links, and the methods are simple and efficient.

Conventional orders are directly dictated, and important military orders need to be printed and prepared in writing. Civilian officials sent by the Privy Council will manage the preparation of written military orders and make files into independent numbers to facilitate the future of real evidence to hold military generals accountable.

Then this system was designed to be hierarchical. In the strategic central army headquarters, there were personal soldiers sent by generals from the main town such as Li Chuyun, Han Tong, Luo Yanhuan, Gao Yanqi, etc. Guo Shao only needed to send orders to these generals to control the entire battle; and there were deputy generals, army, and command-level commanders around the generals of Li Chuyun, so as to control the battlefield tactically; the commander of the military capital also had a system at the top level, which further refined the use of tactics.

In the current Zhou army's command system, even if there are hundreds of thousands of people, Guo Shao can indirectly control the unit trends at the first level.

...The civil servant around Li Chuyun is a person from the "Jiangnan Qianying Military Palace". He mainly came to assist Li Chuyun in confirming the military orders of the Central Army and managing written files. Of course, he also secretly monitored the degree of execution of the general. The civil servant turned out to be a small official from the Privy Council, and he had only recently joined the temporary military palace.

When Li Chuyun saw the civil servant turn over, he asked, "What is the name of the guard of Dangtu City?"

The civil servant blurted out: "The chief general is Yang Shou, and the supervisor is Sun Zhen."

"These two are all idiots." Li Chuyun said without hesitation, "If I were Yang Shou, I would hide my troops in advance where I could cross the river. When the enemy had just crossed the river, I would be prepared to attack but not, and attack instead of defending.

It would be fine if Yang Shou could not think of this method. He actually squeezed his men and horses together like this. He waited until we crossed the river and then he was temporarily hastily repairing the leaks... Did he foresee that our army would definitely cross the river from many places?"

The civil servant said, "If the Southern Tang army used wise men, how could Mr. Li dare to drive straight into this place?"

After hearing this, Li Chuyun stroked his black and thick bearded man and couldn't help laughing: "I looked at the fortifications of Dangtu City and didn't want to attack this city. Now it seems that since the enemy general is so idiot, I can really give it a try."

At this time, the infantry of the Southern Tang army came from the other side and began to rectify their queues far away, forming square formations, and approaching here. Li Chuyun ignored it and rushed to the west of Linjiang River and crossed the Guxi River by boat. The navy on the Yangtze River transferred ships to build a floating bridge on the Guxi River. There were some places in this river that the river surface was narrow, so it would not take too long to use the boat to build a simple floating bridge.

Zhang Lingduo on the eastern battlefield received the military order from Li Chuyun. Generally, generals dared not resist this clear-minded order and had already withdrawn their troops and came to Li Chuyun's side.

"Have the infantry combat deployed on the river bank?" Li Chuyun asked.

Zhang Lingduo said: "The commander of the First Army was originally the commander of the vanguard. The last general, in accordance with the military order of Mr. Li, asked him to be the platoon commander of the river bank infantry to fight in a formation."

"Very good." Li Chuyun said, "Nantang Town soldiers are in a hurry to fight, and they are no match for the elite soldiers of my guards in the frontal battle formation; when the infantry defeats their reinforcements, the defeated soldiers will flee to the camp of the central central of the Southern Tang Army. Ask the vanguard generals to follow him and take the opportunity to attack the main force of the Southern Tang Army, tell him not to be afraid of insufficient troops, just do what I say, I have my own concerns..."

After saying that, Li Chuyun turned around and looked at the civil servants from the military mansion. The civil servant was still in charge and immediately helped Li Chuyun find someone to convey the military order.

Li Chuyun looked at Zhang Lingduo again: "You are the main general of the North Bank horse soldiers. When the vanguard approaches the Southern Tang army camp, he will lead the main force of the horse soldiers to attack his side and strive to break through his formation with thunder."

Zhang Lingduo clasped his fists and said, "Get the order."

Li Chuyun looked back and pointed at a military general and said, "Chen Mu, after your troops cross the river, you will withdraw 200 horse soldiers and prepare to stand by. After the main force of the Southern Tang army was defeated and retreated to the west gate of Dangtu City, you will approach the city gate from the north, take the opportunity to rush over and seize the city gate, and guard the enemy to wait for assistance."

Chen Mu clasped his fists and said, "I will get the order."

Li Chuyun asked the people around him again if they knew what they were going to do, and several of them responded one after another.

After giving the orders, Li Chuyun ordered a commander of the army to rectify the troops at the ferry and drove himself to the east. The personal soldiers beside him followed with a very high red flag so that the generals could easily see it when they sent people to find the main general.

At this time, the sound of drums and whistles came from afar, all of which were the movements of the Southern Tang Army. Li Chuyun's troops were still on the south bank of Guxi River, and they were busy mobilizing their troops and horses, but the miscellaneous items had not been delivered to the front line. The Zhou army was silenced, and it seemed that the people were running around everywhere, but in fact they were busy executing their respective military orders.

Li Chuyun and others rode for a while and saw the scene on the battle formation. There were vague black spots in the air, which were flying arrows. The closer Li Chuyun got, the louder the noise. The sound of metal hitting and the neighing of the horses buzzed in his ears. The two armies had already joined forces, and there might be two or three thousand people in total. Some square formations were scattered like neatly piled sand and were kicked. They rushed to fight in various places, and the emptiness between the square formations had become blurred.

As Li Chuyun expected, the combat effectiveness of the Southern Tang Army's troops was obviously not as good as that of the Zhou army's imperial guards. The hasty mobilized insufficient troops and was no match for them at all. After a while, the Southern Tang Army collapsed after a little more casualties, and then led all the formations to turn around and run away... Li Chuyun fought many battles, and this scene was too familiar.

Once too many people were running away, people would follow him. The Southern Tang army was defeated, and most of them followed him to their camps eastward. A few people on the edge ran around and ran around, throwing their armor along the way, throwing their weapons all the way, and deserters ran wildly. The infantry of the Zhou army covered their backs and chased them, shooting and killing the defeated soldiers who ran slowly, but still couldn't catch up with most of the defeated soldiers... The group of people lost all their burdens, and only focused on running for their lives, running very fast.

However, Li Chuyun did not order the large number of cavalry that came to expand their results, and only allowed the infantry to slowly follow the defeated soldiers and pursue the main force of the Southern Tang Army. On this side, Li Chuyun, Zhang Lingduo and others also followed each other with their troops.

People were tossing and urging on both sides of the Guxi River, and the sun had risen to mid-air. The corpses lying in the wilderness under the sun were sun-emitting a very strong smell of blood. The smell of human blood was completely different from the smell of fish, making it even worse.

A large number of defeated soldiers ran towards the camp displayed by the Southern Tang Army, and the front was full of defeated soldiers. The phalanx of the Southern Tang Army could not rush to shoot their own people. There was a relatively large gap between the square formations. Fortunately, the defeated soldiers retreated from the gaps to the camp. But they could no longer control them. The defeated soldiers coming from behind were being chased and rushed into the camp in panic... Because the infantry phalanx was in a rectangular horizontal line in a static defense state to increase the long-range attack surface, and the large formation was very wide. The defeated soldiers rushed over and were still shot by the enemy, so how could they care about circling the gaps in the square formation? They squeezed straight into the square formation. At this time, no one of the soldiers of the Southern Tang Army ordered an attack to stop the defeated soldiers and reacted slowly.

The Zhou army's pursuit was also in a state of chaos, but at this time it was easy to take the opportunity to rush to the Southern Tang army. The two armies were mixed together and soon they fought in close combat.

Seeing this, Li Chuyun turned around and shouted, "Zhang Lingduo, what are you waiting for?"

Zhang Lingduo had been impatient for a long time because Li Chuyun was waiting for him to speak here. As soon as he finished speaking, he was the first to rush out of the queue and shouted: "Brothers, follow me, it's time for us to go into battle!"

The sound of horse hooves suddenly burst out, and a large group of cavalry began to move out and gradually entered a jogging state. The large group of black rushes to the north side of the Southern Tang army like a tide, and soon approaches the enemy camp; the bows and arrows on the flanks of the Southern Tang army were shooting randomly, and the neighing of the horses echoed in the air, and from time to time, knights fell down from the horses. However, this little damage could not stop the charge of the Zhou army's horse soldiers. The horse soldiers in the front rushed very quickly, and the uninhabited area between the two armies was quickly swallowed at a visible speed.
Chapter completed!