After Lu Qian calmed people's hearts, he ordered the whole army to kill pigs and sheep, sacrifice flags and go out for the expedition. Fifteen hundred people from the Rencheng Kingdom went straight to Shanyang Camp in the midst of fighting on the north bank of Pu River.
The two villages are fifteen miles apart. Lu Qian, He Xu, Jing Zhou, and Fan Yanzhen are connected by car, ready to be ambushed by the Taishan Army at any time. They walked cautiously for four miles, and then saw a tragedy, only to see the shore of Pu River In the wilderness, there were broken weapons and flags, and corpses of Han soldiers in crimson uniforms were everywhere.
Lu Qian, who had been walking in front of the army, only glanced at it and immediately asked the guards to blow the trumpets and ordered his troops to form a car formation immediately.
Rencheng's soldiers were also well-trained. When the drums and horns sounded, the military officials urged the soldiers to pull out the spears from the carriages, and then the carriages were connected with the spears facing outward, forming a simple chariot formation.
Sure enough, the Han soldiers had just formed their formation, and in the dust in front of them, the Taishan Army's flying cavalry crossed from the shallow Pu River. Their horses did not rest, and they chased them tail to tail.
When Lu Qian saw that the uniforms on the corpses of the Han soldiers were still there, he guessed that the Taishan bandits were nearby. Because in any military war, the enemy's uniforms were important seizures. If the Taishan bandits had been defeated, these uniforms would not be lost. Taken away.
Facing the roaring hordes of cavalry, the soldiers of Rencheng, who rarely resisted the cavalry hordes, could not help but panic and their flags were tilted. But Lu Qian stood in front of the entire army and shouted at the loudest voice in his life:
"Brothers and soldiers, today will be the most important day in our lives. We will destroy this group of moth thieves on the banks of the Pu River, and eliminate this group of locusts that are destroying our wives, children and fields. And I, Lu Qian, will be with you all. , fight side by side, with me as the leader. If I retreat, you behead my head. If you retreat, then we will die here together."
After saying that, he sang loudly:
"How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you. When the king raised an army, he repaired my sword and spear, and I share the same enemy with you!"
Hou Lu Qian raised his iron spear and sang:
"ha!"
All officers and men should respond:
"ha!"
For a time, thousands of people were in the same breath, their shouts were like thunder, and their breath was like fog. The long soldiers clenched their spears and waited for the impact, and the crossbowmen stabilized their shooting tools and prepared for a thunderous shot.
However, the charging cavalry of the Taishan Army did not charge, but split into two directly in front of the Rencheng National Army formation and went around.
Lu Qian, who was standing in front of the formation, felt nervous and thought something was wrong. He quickly turned around and saw that this group of cavalry did not care about them at all and just drove forward.
That's where the Renchengguo camp is located.
The soldiers of Rencheng Kingdom thought they would experience a bloody battle, but who knew that the thieves would walk away without a fight. The joy of surviving and the glory of winning without a fight made them roar loudly, as if they had experienced a great victory. .
Lu Qian also shouted. But he knew in his heart the seriousness of the problem at this moment. These cavalry were trying to cut off his retreat. The Renchengguo camp was the supply location for the entire army. If they were occupied by the Taishan bandits, they would be alone. Is there any way to survive outside?
Who is this thief general? How can he be so sophisticated in using troops?
The person leading this cavalry is Zhang Chong’s general Tian Jun!
He followed the retreat of the Shanyang soldiers and pursued them all the way until they met the Han army's chariot formation on the south bank of the Pu River. Tian Jun looked at the flag and knew that it was reinforcements from the Rencheng State. Seeing that the chariot formation was very strong, Tian Jun Instead of attacking, they used cavalry to directly attack the Han soldiers' camp, making them unable to advance or retreat.
At the same time, Dian Wei, Yu Jin, Li Bi, and Gao Ya also emerged from the hidden bushes and began to surround the Rencheng soldiers. It turned out that these four soldiers were the culprits who had just ambushed the Shanyang soldiers.
Previously, the four troops of Dian and Wei were strangling the defeated troops fleeing south along the communication line, and were about to clean up the battlefield. Suddenly, smoke and dust rose from the south. It was obvious that the troops from Rencheng State in the south were dispatched.
Dian Wei and Yu Jin discussed it and decided to hide on the spot and ambush the Han soldiers who were going north.
But who knew that this group of Han soldiers were so cautious, and it happened that Tian Jun and his cavalry also waded across the river. Dian Wei and others knew that it would be more difficult to ambush this Han army again.
But it doesn't matter. Since an ambush doesn't work, it's a direct siege.
Dian Wei and Yu Jin had already calculated that there were only 1,500 soldiers from Rencheng who went north to rescue this time, and the two of them and Li Bi, together with Gao Ya, had a total of 2,000 elite soldiers in four groups, and they could definitely eat them all in one bite.
Therefore, Dian Wei stood up from the grass, waved the flag behind him, and all the soldiers immediately got up from their ambush, so they organized the army in a grand manner, and then continued to surround the Rencheng soldiers in the car.
The mood of the Rencheng soldiers in the car array was like a roller coaster. Just now they were cheering for their "defeat" of the bandit cavalry. At this moment, bandit soldiers suddenly emerged from the grass and from behind the rocks, and they were all scolding.
What kind of thief is he? So cunning?
But that's it. The morale of Rencheng's soldiers is high at the moment, and they are all eager to have a bright future in today's battle.
Therefore, one side is a veteran of hundreds of battles, and the other side is a country's economic system. Both are determined to kill thieves and have high fighting spirit. It's simple, just fight to the death on the shore of Pu River!
In this battle, Dian Wei, as the commander-in-chief, discussed with Yu Jin, Li Bi and Gao Ya, and divided the entire army of 2,000 soldiers into three sides. Dian Wei's troops mainly attacked the south of the enemy's formation, and Yu Jin's troops squeezed the west of the enemy's formation. Li Bi, Gao Ya's troops
The main force squeezed the east side of the enemy's position, and the only one left the north side, planning to drive the enemy towards Pu River.
Then the trumpets sounded, and all the ministries began to arrange the military order according to the military meeting. The four troops advanced in unison from three sides, and began to squeeze the Renchengguo troop formation step by step.
Finally, when they were still about 500 steps away from the enemy's position, they raised the Weidun flag and the whole army stopped. At this distance, the soldiers in the front row of the Taishan Army could already see the enemy soldiers in the car camp on the opposite side. These enemy soldiers
They may look immature, but none of these Taishan soldiers look down upon them.
The veterans who have fought with Taishan's army until now have already understood a truth. New recruits can still shoot arrows that can kill them. The battlefield is the fairest and most unpredictable. Stories of warriors being attacked and killed by weaklings are not uncommon.
At this moment, the rangers from both sides began to come into contact. Just in front of the formation, their respective riders began to fight in twos and threes, showing off their superb fighting skills.
Unlike most people who think that the chariot formation will only defend. The Han army's chariot formation will be covered by cavalry on the outer wings, which is called both offensive and defensive. This tactic originated from the need for fighting in the fortress during the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han army went deep into the grassland.
All exploration and attack operations relied on cavalry, but the Han army pioneered the addition of chariot troops to the cavalry, which were specially used as shore islands for baggage and cavalry. Whenever the Han army's cavalry went out to explore, break up attacks, and mount battles,
, they will all return to the carriage formation to rest or obtain supplies. This is very similar to the relationship between an aircraft carrier and a battle group.
So at this moment, when the two sides stood still, the first to break out in fierce conflict was the rangers of both sides, trying to test each other's combat prowess.
Here, the knights were fighting, and over there, there were all kinds of conch horns in the Han soldiers' chariot formation. I don't know what military order they were conveying. In short, I saw that the car formation, which originally had only one circle, shrank in the conch horns one after another, forming a double-layered circle.
Obviously, when the Han soldiers did not have an advantage in strength, they chose to shrink the defense line and reduce the outer circle contact surface of the vehicle array.
Here, the battle of the Rangers has ended. Taishan's four soldiers have dispatched a total of fifty elite cavalry to participate in the battle. However, the Han soldiers on the opposite side only have thirty Rangers, so they are overwhelmingly outnumbered. The victory naturally belongs to Taishan.
military.
In legion wars, the smaller the number, the more likely it is to win. But the smaller the scale of the battle, the greater the number of people is the key to success or failure.
The cavalryman leading this team of rangers was Zhang Lie, the leader of Dian Wei's guard. He was specially recruited by Dian Wei from the banners of Meng Ju's flying army. Although he was not very old, he had already participated in many battles.
Especially good at this kind of small-scale mounted combat.
Zhang Lie's right arm was rubbed by an enemy general, resulting in a large wound, but fortunately it was not deep. Several companions around him persuaded Zhang Lie to return to the battle and let the medical general bandage it, but he remained unmoved and remained excited.
He led the cavalry to drive away the remaining cavalry of the Han army.
This is also an old tactic of the Taishan Army. Once the enemy soldiers are defeated, they will subconsciously drive the remaining soldiers to rush into the enemy formation to see if they can break through.
But it was obvious that this group of Han cavalry were also veterans. Although eight of their twenty cavalry were immediately dismounted as soon as they came into contact and could no longer fight, they retreated in an orderly manner. They bypassed their own troops.
The military vehicle formation went directly to the north. There were no Taishan bandits there, so they could calmly return to the vehicle formation to reorganize.
Zhang Lie saw that driving the disabled cavalry into the formation didn't work, so he had no choice but to give up and just wander around the camp, keeping an eye on possible fighting opportunities.
The following is a real fight with swords and guns!
Dian Wei immediately ordered:
"Order all ministries to continue to advance, marching and drumming without stopping, and commanding the left and right sides respectively."
Then Tan Ma, who had been waiting for a long time, galloped in both directions and told Yu Jin, Li Bi and Gao Ya.
Amidst the sound of steps and drums, the Taishan Army marched on three sides, like Lin Changge walking slowly, with majesty and solemnity.
Holding the awning with his hands, Dian Wei thought about the previous battles when he followed Qu Kui Zhang Chong, and asked himself, if Qu Kui was here, how would he choose to break the formation?
In the field of vision, although this Han soldier set up a car formation, its soldiers were obviously not as good as the soldiers they met in Bo County in the first half of the year. The one named Liu Yanzha was the real iron wall, and the one in front of them was not as good as the one they met in Bo County in the first half of the year.
He made some sense, and the formation was relatively orderly at first, but as he led his troops to press forward further, the situation on the opposite side became obviously chaotic.
As far as Dian Wei could see, from time to time he could see Han officials waving sticks in the enemy formation, beating those subordinates who were confused.
Seeing this, Dian Wei felt determined. He shouted:
"The archer raised his bow."
The archers who had been prepared raised their bows one after another, waiting for the next military order.
The phalanx of the Taishan Army continued to move, and soon reached a place only two hundred steps away from the Han army's chariot formation. Dian Wei waved the red flag. Zhao Chong, the general who had already lined up his horse to reach the archers, immediately responded to the flag and immediately faced the two hundred steps.
The archer shouted:
"Two hundred steps ahead."
After hearing this, the Taoist priests began to string and bend their bows.
After that, the phalanx continued to move, and Zhao Chong shouted again:
"One hundred and fifty steps forward, shoot three arrows quickly."
Then, arrows flew like feathered locusts, flying in front of anyone.
At the same time, the warriors at the front of the Dianwei tribe also began to suffer from the rain of arrows from the Han soldiers. The huge impact made these warriors kneel down to resist the pillars, struggling to provide a certain amount of support for their comrades behind them.
Protection.
But the armor-bearing warriors in front stopped, but the Taishan Army's phalanx continued to advance. The armor-bearing warriors in the back row continued to hold high the large pillars, took ten steps forward, then set up the pillars, and then the third row came closer.
, set up their posts again, and finally the original first row of soldiers charged again, so the distance between the two sides became closer and closer.
At this time, Zhao Chong had ordered the archers to start shooting freely, especially in areas where there were many enemy soldiers.
Screams came one after another from both camps, but in general, the Taishan Army suffered fewer casualties due to its astonishing armor ratio. Moreover, there were mature medical teams at the rear who were constantly dragging down the injured soldiers for treatment.
When there were only ten steps ahead, the enemy's erected swords and spears shone with an icy cold light, revealing a cold murderous intent. But at this moment, the wall of the front row of the Taishan army suddenly opened wide, directly revealing the forty hidden behind the pillars.
Big Yellow Crossbow. This is the killing move Dian Wei prepared for this Han soldier.
These large yellow crossbows were captured from the Northern Army during the Battle of Puyangjin. In fact, only twenty of them were assigned to Dianwei. The remaining twenty were borrowed by him, Yu Jin, Li Bi, and Gao Ya.
Sure enough, the Han soldiers in the outermost row of the camp, who were preparing to stab with spears, suddenly saw the rows of big yellow crossbows in front of them, their minds went blank, and then everything went dark.
In just one round, the infinitely powerful big yellow crossbow directly cleared away the spear-wielding Han soldiers in front of them. Then, while the other Han soldiers were still in a daze, Zhao Chong, who was wearing two layers of armor, directly pulled out the iron bones from his waist, put down his lower armor, and suddenly accelerated and ran wildly
, and then jumped into the car formation.
But because the visor blocked his vision, Zhao Chong did not see the Han soldiers at his feet.
After the Han soldier was pierced through the chest by the big yellow crossbow, he did not die immediately. Instead, he vomited blood. But the only breath he had left was because when Zhao Chong jumped into the car formation, he stepped on it even with his armor.
It hit his chest and knocked him out of breath.
But because of this trip, Zhao Chong stumbled to the ground. Then several weapons slashed on his body. Zhao Chong couldn't see it, but he only knew that his whole body was making a clanging sound, and he subconsciously curled up his whole body.
Together, we reduce the impact area.
Soon, the armored soldiers who followed Zhao Chong into the chariot formation killed the Han soldiers who were chopping up Zhao Chong, and pulled him up. Zhao Chong was dizzy at this time, and after being helped up, he didn't know whether he was alive or not.
Injuried.
What was more worried than him were Zhao Chong's guards. As soon as they helped Zhao Chong up, they looked at his injuries, and then found that the few blows that the Han soldiers had made before were all on the armor, but Zhao Chong was completely fine.
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Then, in Zhao Chong's shaking eyes, a soldier patted Zhao Chong and shook his head to indicate that it was okay. At this time, Zhao Chong felt relieved and began to shake his head to wake up his consciousness quickly.
As soon as Zhao Chong stopped here, the twenty soldiers who jumped into the chariot formation could only barely form a circle around him, struggling to support him in the chariot formation. Although they were protected by armor, they were surrounded by spears and halberds.
The enemy soldiers will suffer too much. If you are not careful, one of them will be hooked on the armor and dragged away by the enemy soldiers.
Just when Zhao Chong and others who had entered the chariot formation were in danger, another song general, Xu Xi, also jumped into the formation with a group of soldiers, and connected with Zhao Chong and others, directly pushing back the Han soldiers' line.
.Some Han soldiers could no longer bear it any longer and walked towards the second row of vehicles in the circle in a panic.
The defeat was like a plague, quickly spreading to the surrounding areas. In a moment, the southern side of the Rencheng National Vehicle Formation fell.
Zhao Chong was now awake. Seeing that the Han soldiers on the opposite side were panicking, he continued his efforts, hoping to break through the second circle of vehicles in one go.
Suddenly at this moment, a loud roar came from behind the crowded enemy soldiers in front:
"Invincible!"
"Invincible!"
"Invincible!"
Zhao Chong was still wondering what was going on, when he suddenly saw the retreating Han soldiers parting ways as if they were encountering a rock, and then a strong white warrior holding an iron spear ran towards him. The man leapt forward and pierced Zhao Chong's armor with one spear.
, and then used both arms to lift Zhao Chong directly.
Zhao Chong was not dead at this time. When he was provoked by Lu Qian, he glanced at the sky and was then smashed to the ground.