The collapse of Wu Zibu's Zuotun was tragic, but for such a huge battlefield, it was inconspicuous. Neither Dian Wei nor Guan Yu paid much attention to it, let alone the chariot far behind the formation. Zhang rushed.
In Zhang Chong's field of vision, a black dot as small as an ant rushed into his formation. After contact, the edge of the formation sank for a moment, and then quickly returned to its original state.
This is war. Because everyone stands in a different position, the fierce battle in the eyes of the soldiers seems to be calm in the eyes of those in high positions.
After Wu Zi gathered the remaining officers and soldiers from Zuo Tun, he sent them to the back of the formation for treatment by doctors. Then the full-scale infantrymen from Right Tun took over the front line after Zuo Tun evacuated.
Wu Zi blamed himself a little, feeling that he was so panicked in such a battle that he killed and injured dozens of soldiers.
But there is one thing to say: in the battle of Xingyang, no matter how funny the Han army or the Taishan army acted, even the incomprehensible actions were understandable.
Why?
Because none of the generals on both sides had commanded or participated in a battle involving tens of thousands of people. The Taishan Army claimed to have swept Heshuo and moved to the Central Plains, but in reality? The size of each battle did not exceed ten thousand people. Even in the Battle of Yingyang, the Taishan Army participated in the battle at critical moments in the battle, rather than the main battle.
But it is foreseeable that as long as the Taishan Army can survive such a large-scale battle, both the officers and soldiers will be completely improved.
But now, in Xingyang, not only Wu Zi is facing tens of thousands of people marching and retreating, but also the powerful Han troops on both sides are trembling with fear.
For example, when Guanqiu Xing took the lead in opening up the situation, rationally, the Han army's formation, which was only 250 steps behind, should take the opportunity to charge, and take advantage of the situation to overwhelm Wu Zi's square formation in one fell swoop. Instead of waiting for Wu Zi to slow down. The Queen of Gods was decisively ordered by her people to attack the Han cavalry with platoon spears, so that the situation opened by Guanqiu Xingjia Yong was ruined.
But reason is reason. In fact, the Han army generals behind him were as panicked as Wu Zi, so much so that they looked on blankly from beginning to end, as if the previous battle had never happened.
After Guanqiu Xing returned to the formation, he got his wish and won the cheers of all the Han soldiers, but his feat was meaningless on this battlefield.
The Taishan Army's formation was still as strict as before. Except for the dozens of casualties on both sides, everything was the same as a moment ago.
After all, Wu Zi had the qualifications to be a general. After suffering the loss, he quickly stabilized his mind. Not only did he step forward and stand in front of the entire formation, he also moved closer to Guo Mo's troops beside him and reorganized the formation.
Soon the flag soldiers next to Wu Zi saw the flag in the direction of Sima behind him. The flag said:
"Bend forward and engage the enemy."
After Wu Zi received the order, he took a long breath and took the lead in lowering the five-meter-long step guard. Then he continued to move forward with the remaining one hundred step lifters.
The same order was also sent to Guo Mo, who was in the left front song, so the two songs blew the horns at the same time. The dull horn drowned out the sound of the battlefield. The two front songs marched first, followed by the two left and right songs, Eight hundred people followed closely behind, and then came the Zhongqu and back areas on both sides, followed by another eight hundred people.
In other words, Guan Yu didn't leave any reserve troops at all, and sent all the troops he had at his disposal.
On the opposite side of the battlefield, the soldiers in the front row of the Han army saw a scene like this. A huge human wall about a hundred meters long slowly walked over in the sun. They marched in neat columns, holding huge
The steps reflected the metallic light in the sunlight, and countless apricot-yellow flags fluttered in the wind.
Every step they took was accompanied by the majestic drumbeats from the opposite side.
The march of Guan Yu's troops of the Taishan Army fell in the eyes of Huang Wan who was behind Hanzhong. He happily patted the carriage and said excitedly:
"Okay, that little thief is entering my cave."
It turned out that Huang Wan still chose to attack the well-prepared Guan Yu's troops when he clearly discovered the weakness of Taishan's army, just to attract Guan Yu's troops to come forward and fight with his own troops. When the battle was inextricable, Huang Wan ordered his two wings to encircle him.
Annihilate Guan Yu's tribe in one fell swoop.
At that time, he would take advantage of the situation and attack the weak left rear formation of the bandits, defeating the bandit army in one fell swoop. Now that Guan Yu's actions were all part of his plan, how could Huang Wan not be excited?
But Huang Wan was obviously too excited. He had no idea what was going to happen to his frontline soldiers.
Everything has its pros and cons. The shortcomings of this new giant formation compiled by Zhang Chong have just been seen, that is, if someone suddenly attacks the face, there will be nowhere to use it. But his strength is when charging on the line.
, longer rifles, and denser formations will kill all enemies facing them.
The two hundred and fifty steps were quickly completed, and Wu Zi, who was only one spear away from the enemy, stepped forward and started shouting loudly:
"Hold on, hold on."
After saying that, he accelerated again and started to rush towards the Han soldiers on the opposite side. The soldiers in the front row of the Han soldiers tried to fight back with their spears, but the length difference was too big, and they were already skewered to the enemy before they could reach the opposite side.
on the steps.
The riflemen in the hands of the Taishan Army did not pull out the rifle after stabbing someone. Instead, they continued to move forward according to the military order. They wanted to squeeze the other side. The riflemen in the second row began to move forward under the order of the leader of the platoon.
Launched the second round of stabbing, causing a wave of damage to the enemy. Then came the third and fourth rounds.
These rifles were strung with the corpses of Han soldiers, and with the help of the robes behind them, they continued to advance.
Wu Zi's side was seeking revenge, and the left-wing Qianqu Guo Mo's troops who were marching together were also assassinating the enemy, and they were doing so more smoothly than Wu Zi's troops.
Unlike Wu Zi's tribe, Guo Mo's tribe did not put down their rifles when marching, but continued to advance with broken steps. Therefore, when they were only a spear away from the enemy, the officers of Guo Mo's tribe issued the order
yes:
"Smash!"
The rifles held high in the front row hit the opponent's head under gravity. Countless explosions made the Yanzhou soldiers who were facing the enemy feel frightened. After that, they followed the same steps, stabbing, pushing, and the following steps.
Two rounds of stabbing, then pushing, and repeated four rounds.
This was a real massacre. Whether it was the Yanzhou soldiers or the Hedong soldiers in the front of Hanzhong, they were all the bravest soldiers. But unfortunately, they were all fancy soldiers, either with big axes, spears, or spears.
Using bows and arrows, these warriors were directly picked to death in the first round when faced with the Taishan Army's infantry attack.
The Han soldiers behind were howling in fear, but they were all ruthlessly put to death by the Taishan Army's infantry on the opposite side.
More and more Han soldiers couldn't resist, so they dropped their weapons and retreated. Those who couldn't make it in time chose to lie in the pile of corpses and pretend to be dead. Some were simply stunned, with pale faces, bloodshot eyes, and all over their bodies. They were trembling and then pushed to the ground. Some even knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the Taishan army on the opposite side, begging to be let go. Some were driven crazy and started laughing loudly and running around, and then were beaten by their own general Guanqiu. The farce ended only after smashing his head with an iron bone flower.
After killing the crazy soldiers, Guan Qiu Xing looked at the Taishan Army advancing step by step with an ugly expression. He did not expect that the bandits that he had massacred before were now slaughtering his troops at will. But Guan Qiu Xing did not He had no intention of charging, as he knew that such a large formation could no longer be broken by a warrior of one or two martial arts.
Guan Qiu Xing glanced at the friendly troops on the right, and when he saw the Lu banner on the right slowly retreating, Guan Qiu Xing felt no burden anymore and immediately withdrew his troops to the rear formation, where Xue Hong's formation was. He started from After retreating on one side, they entered Xue Hong's formation.
As Lu Qian and Guanqiu Xing both withdrew, the remaining Yanzhou soldiers and Hedong soldiers could no longer resist and collapsed one after another. As a result, the first contact between the two sides broke out in both formations of the Han army.
However, because the Taishan Army's line became loose during the march, they also chose to stop and reorganize their formation. But everyone knew that the Han army behind them still could not withstand the attack of these Taishan Army.
Huang Wan had a panoramic view of the Hanzhong Army, which was about six hundred meters away from the front line. At this time, he no longer had the complacency he had before, and could only keep smacking his mouth.
Seeing that the coach was confused, his staff Kuai Yue immediately reminded:
"Lord, hurry up and surround us with both wings. It'll be no problem."
Huang Wan woke up from a dream and quickly ordered two wings to attack both sides of the enemy army, working together to strangle the rebels.
The purpose of Huang Wanbu's crab formation was to encircle two wings. Although the bravery of the bandit army exceeded his expectations, no matter how strong the army was, they were still human beings. As long as they were surrounded on three sides, they would all die. Who can make people's eyes only grow in the front? Woolen cloth!
But again, if there are no accidents, accidents will definitely happen.
When the two wings of the Han army's crab formation were encircling, something went wrong.
In the front row of the Han army's right wing are the tribes of the Hongnong Huayin Yang family and the Huayin Liu family, with a total of a thousand soldiers. On the left wing of the Han army are the local powerful forces of Henan County, one is the Yang family of Xingyang, and the other is Yanshi. Zhang family.
Needless to say, the Yang family of Huayin is a clan family parallel to the Yuan family of Runan. The leader of the army is now Yang Biao's nephew Yang Gan, who is at the age of Jian Rui. As for the Liu family of Huayin , no worse than Yang’s.
His family is both a Han clan and a public clan. This clan is the descendant of Liu Xi, the second brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. In the past two dynasties, Liu Qi was the disciple of Emperor Shun, and his son Liu Kuan, It was the old Taiwei of this dynasty who was granted the title of Marquis of Luxiang. He lived in 600 households and was known as an elder in the country. The man who led the Liu tribe into the war was Liu Song, the son of the old Taiwei Liu Kuan.
And who is the Yang family of Xingyang on the right? The leader is named Yang Ke, whose courtesy name is Zhongyi. At this time, he was just a local tycoon, but in the future he was a heroic cavalry general of Cao Wei, and he also opened up a generation of martial arts, and several generations of him followed. It is Wu Xun. As for the companion Zhang family of Yanshi, they are naturally descendants of Zhang Cang. Our old friend Zhang Chong, the governor of Yingyin County, comes from his family. The leader of the army is also Zhang Chong's nephew, Zhang Yue.
Originally, as the military order from Huang Wan of the Chinese Army came, the two wings were ordered to encircle. The four leading families of the two wings should have followed the order.
But something went wrong on the right wing. To be precise, it was the son of the old Taiwei Liu Kuan, and something happened to Liu Song. At the last moment, he persuaded Yang Gan to stop the two troops. The reason was to let the left wing
Surround them first, wait for the situation to open up over there, and then they can overwhelm them at the right time.
Liu Song was an elder of the same generation as Yang Biao, Yang Gan's uncle. After hearing this, Yang Gan wanted to refuse, but he did not dare to violate it. Moreover, he asked the local tycoons in Henan to test it for them first. Yang Gan also felt that it was not a bad idea in his heart.
Liu Song's behavior is undoubtedly very serious, but the behavior pattern of this kind of public servant has long been used to others sacrificing for him, and he doesn't think it's anything.
The two young men over there, Yang Ke and Zhang Yue, had no idea that the old man had changed his mind before the battle, so they foolishly followed the original military strategy and rushed towards the right wing of Guan Yu's formation.
But since Guan Yu decided to lead his army forward, how could he not know the Han army's move? He had already made a plan. So Guan Yu in the formation waved two flags, accompanied by the fierce sound of war drums and conch shells.
This is the semaphore of the new formation, which means that the two units on the left and right will change to the left and come out. In the formation, the left wing general Zhang Nan, the left wing general Li Jing, and the right wing general Gao Ya received military orders.
, Chen Guangdu led his troops to make a right bend, and began to turn left or right on the same spot, and then moved forward to the left and right.
This was not over yet. The same flag and golden drum sounded again. This time, Tao Yong, the general on the left, and Zhu Ying, the general on the right, were ordered to lead their troops forward and join the front song to thicken their defense line.
In this way, after a change of formation, the original square array became a large hollow square array. In the front were the four curves of the middle and front curves, and on the left and right sides were the four curves of the left and right curves. Guan Yu's guards, Li Damu,
, Dian Wei's guards stayed behind the formation together with the two units of Houqu. Then, at the four corners, people deployed horseback troops to cover both sides of the protrusions on each side.
On the right wing of the formation, Yang Ke, who was leading the charge, was shocked. He did not expect that the opposite party would suddenly change the formation, and the change of formation was so fast! Looking at the right wing of the rebel army that had already formed, Yang Ke gritted his teeth and continued with his troops.
His subordinates rushed over.
As the saying goes, when we meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. He, Yang Ke, has never been weaker than anyone else in his life.
Wearing three layers of armor, Yang Ke was still walking as fast as he could. Although he had not yet reached the peak of his martial arts at this time, his physical strength was at its peak, but he was just less experienced than he would be in the future.
He put down his visor and charged forward like a war horse. When they were a hundred steps away from the enemy's right wing, they were the first to encounter an attack from the archers in the opposite formation.
A downpour of arrows covered these heroic troops, but hitting their armor had little effect. They continued to rush among the arrows, and only a lot of unlucky ones were caught by the arrows.
Injected and fell to the ground.
Looking at the orderly formation of the Taishan Army, Yang Ke, who was behind the mask, finally let out a thunderous roar. When he was still ten steps away from the opposite side, he suddenly felt nervous and subconsciously slowed down his body.
Only then did he realize that something was wrong. It turned out that the giant spear on the opposite side had not yet been put down, but he realized it too late. At this time, with an order from the opposite side, countless steps like trees were smashed down with a crash. Many of them were smashed down.
Yang Ke's soldiers who rushed too fast were knocked to the ground. They twitched and foamed at the mouth, and then stopped moving.
Yang Ke's body felt cold, which was the coldness of escaping from death, and then his whole body became hot, which was the heat of blood rushing to his body. He wanted to avenge his companions.
So he yelled, jumped on the spear, and was overwhelmed. Then he jumped up like a fox, and the ring-headed knife in his hand slashed hard at the Taishan soldiers who had no steps, directly slashing
Several people died. Afterwards, dozens of armored soldiers, like Yang Ke, threw themselves on the spear formation, using their armor to clear the way for the robes behind them.
As expected, Yang Ke's troops were powerful and not afraid of death. No wonder they were able to secure the title of marquis and general for their husband.
The song that Yang Ke is attacking belongs to Chen Guang, the right-wing general of the Taishan Army. Most of the disciples in this group are Shanliao people from Lushan. They endure hardships and fight, and they are not afraid of death. At this moment, Yang Ke's army is like this
Not being afraid of death makes them even less afraid of death.
When they saw those soldiers entering the formation, they immediately came up to fight with iron rods and big sticks. They were also wearing armor. They were also fearless if you cut me with a knife, I would beat you with a stick. And compared to the damage done to the soldiers,
, the iron rods and big clubs in their hands were much more effective than the Han army's Huanshou sword.
Because the Han army was trapped in too deep, a team of twenty people was surrounded by Lushan's brave men who had thrown away their weapons and picked up iron rods and big clubs. After a beating, the twenty-man Han army was surrounded.
They were killed one by one.
But Yang Ke's troops are not easy to mess with, and there are enough of them. There are two troops on the right wing of the Taishan Army. From front to back, they are the right troops, the right troops, Chen Guangbu, and the right troops, the left troops, the Gao Ya tribe. In other words
There are only 400 people. The Henan County troops on the opposite side have about a thousand soldiers, which is twice as many as the opposite side.
Moreover, this is still the left wing of the Han Army's Crab Formation, and there are four more formations behind it, all with thousands of people, and these have not yet been mounted.
Therefore, one side relied on strong formations to hold on, and the other side relied on large numbers of people to gain strength, and the sound of fighting resounded across the plains for a while.
If Yang Ke's troops dared to fight and charge, his ally Zhang Yue would have more trouble.
After starting the attack, Zhang Yue led his troops to charge towards the Gaoya Division. At first, like Yang Ke's tribe, they encountered a rain of arrows from the Taishan Army. However, unlike Yang Ke's tribe who chose to bear it in armor, Zhang Yue and his tribe stopped early.
Out of the range of Taishan's arrows.
Then Zhang Yue ordered his troops to fire back. He was confident that the range of his own bows and arrows would definitely be farther than that of the opposite side. He had already seen that the crossbows of the Taishan Army on the opposite side were the standard model of the Han Army, and the crossbows under his command were all of the same type.
Excellent bows and fine crossbows. Who allowed them in ancient Korea to produce fine bows and fine crossbows since ancient times?
This is how you bully your short range.
After a shootout, as expected by Zhang Yue, the bows and arrows under his command had a longer range and could not reach them at all. Many of his soldiers saw the dilemma of the opponent and jumped up directly in front of the formation.
Dance to laugh at the enemy bandits and lower the enemy's morale.
But soon, they stopped jumping because they found that the other side was wearing armor and the arrows were useless. Zhang Yue expected that he could not hang the Taishan bandit with range, so he could only order his troops to continue setting off.
Zhang Yue is a good drinker and can drink for any reason. Just before going into battle, he had already finished a water bag of strong liquor. Now that he was about to charge, he felt that he needed another bag.
He took a water bag of wine from his companion and started drinking it until the water bag was clean. Then he burped, pointed in one direction and lowered his military flag. Then the military drums played loudly and the flags were waved.
, Zhang Yue, who was drunk with all the music, went like a tiger down the mountain, rushing forward like crazy.
Zhang Yue's companion was left alone and dumbfounded, because the direction his husband pointed was not at all to the rebel army on the opposite side, but to the left, behind the enemy's formation.
Realizing that his husband was drunk and causing trouble, Bandang rushed forward to stop Zhang Yue's charge. But suddenly a stray arrow shot from nowhere directly pierced Bandang's neck, killing him immediately.
Now, no one could stop Zhang Yue from charging in the wrong direction.
The five hundred men under Zhang Yue were not without military officials who suspected that they were going in the wrong direction, but they all felt that this was the plot of their husband and planned to attack the enemy from the rear, so no one tried to stop them.
In this way, Zhang Yue and his subordinates ran in front of the Gao Ya tribe, facing the rain of arrows from the Gao Ya tribe, and ran over, leaving behind the stunned Gao Ya tribe.
However, I was stunned again, but the bow and arrow in my hand kept shooting at Zhang Yue's tribe on the opposite side. Unfortunately, Zhang Yue's tribe did not wear much armor, because after all, his family was based on Jingfa Xingxing and did not pay much attention to martial arts.
Except for a few members of the tribe who were elite members of the family and were fully armed, the rest were mostly Zhang's servants and servants, so there was no armor for them to use.
Therefore, the shooters of the Gao Ya Division inflicted huge casualties on Zhang Yue Division. There is no specific number of casualties, but the amount can be known by looking at the pile of corpses left in front of the formation.
But Zhang Yue's troops finally broke through the shooting range of Gao Ya's troops, and because there was no one to stop them, they really broke in through the gap in the upper right corner of the Taishan Army Formation and rushed directly behind Guan Yu's troops. Zhang Dan's troops and
The position between Yingru Huangjin.
After rushing here, Zhang Yue woke up from the wine. He was looking around in a daze, wondering how he got here. Then he realized that he had made a mistake by drinking, but it was a mistake. Looking at Guan Yu's thin rear line, Zhang
Yue showed a ferocious smile.
Therefore, he decided to take advantage of the situation and attack the enemy's formation, directly stabbing them in the back.
But at this moment, Zhang Yue suddenly saw the opposite side, which was the enemy's rear formation, suddenly separated from the middle, and then revealed fifty cavalry, headed by a big man in green robes, staring at him eagerly.
Zhang Yue didn't know that since they accidentally ran in the wrong direction, Guan Yu in the formation had been staring at them closely. Guan Yu was very worried that this wave of bandits would attack his rear, because most of his troops were in the front line, where there were four
There were a total of 700 people in the formation, and then 400 people on the left and right wings, and only the rear of the formation had the smallest number, only 400 people. Therefore, in order to prevent this wave of Han troops from forming a pincer attack, Guan Yu decided to behead the thieves.
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From a distance, he saw the enemy general with a red face and a complexion comparable to his own. Judging from his appearance and the soldiers surrounding him, he knew he was a strong thief general.
Therefore, Guan Yu immediately led his fifty cavalry guards around to the rear formation, and then separated the two sides to leave a channel for the cavalry to charge.
Just like that, when Zhang Yue saw these fifty cavalry, Guan Yu had already rushed over with his cavalry. From Zhang Yue's position to Guan Yu's position, there were about two hundred steps. Even though Guan Yu was riding a divine horse, it was not
You can get there in the blink of an eye.
Therefore, Zhang Yue's troops were panicked when they saw dozens of tall horses rushing over from the opposite side. However, a dozen spearmen gathered in front of Zhang Yue. Under the command of an army officer, they fell in ambush with their bows.
He stood up and prepared to pull the horse's hooves with the Gogo in his hand.
But unfortunately they met the divine general Guan Yu. Guan Yu was in the lead. When the dozen or so people were trying to hook Guan Yu's horse, Guan Yu waved his horse, and the three or four Chang Ge in the lead were knocked away.
Then, when the dozen or so people didn't respond, Guan Yu had already rushed past them and came to Zhang Yue.
Then there was a stabbing blow, and Zhang Yue's head flew up.
But there was no joy on Guan Yu's face, and he was full of confusion. He was wondering:
Why can't you withstand my blow even though you have the same red face?