Because the coach Lu Zhi had not yet arrived at the front line, the Han army was leaderless.
And because Sun Meng, a lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry School, took the initiative to launch the attack.
Although in terms of tactics, it cannot be said that it is not good to use the elk as a weapon to rush into the battle, but in terms of the overall battle formation, there is no doubt that they are acting without authorization.
When Shi Sunmeng launched an attack with 800 cavalry, the infantry captain Wei Duan behind his formation had to cooperate in the attack.
On the one hand, it is to cover Sun Meng's cavalry; on the other hand, the gap opened by Sun Meng is indeed a rare opportunity to break the formation.
Wei Duan was from Duling, Jingzhao. Duling Wei's reputation would be even greater in the future than it is now, and he was another famous family in the Middle Ages.
But even now, the Wei family is one of the top wealthy families in Jingzhao.
His family ancestor was King Fu of Chu in the early years of the Han Dynasty, his sixth ancestor was the prime minister during the reign of Emperor Xuan, and his fifth ancestor was the prime minister during the Yuan Emperor. In this dynasty, Wei Shi has been wearing hairpins for many generations, and has made military achievements and great achievements.
Sima, Da Situ.
To put it bluntly, even though Lu Zhi is the head coach of the Hebei Army, in terms of family background alone, he is far inferior to Wei Duan.
It was precisely because of this support and the awareness that he was seizing the opportunity that Wei Duan led two thousand northwest officers to attack Xu He's eight thousand formation without any scruples.
At this time, the sun shines on the frozen soil, making people feel warm and tired all over.
Two thousand armored soldiers from the northwest, echoing the flags at the head of each row, began to move slowly towards Xu He's Ministry.
The crimson military uniforms, led by the red flag, pressed against the Yellow Turban Army like a red tide.
At this time, Xu He, who was standing in the formation on the right corner, was staring at the Jia army with burning eyes. However, he didn't even look at the Han army's garrison that crashed into the corner of his formation.
Just because Xu He understood that the enemy's 800 cavalry were more powerful than the damage.
His 8,000-man formation, equipped with spears and halberds, armor, formations, and bows, cannot be broken up by the 800 cavalry.
On the contrary, the two thousand Han soldiers on the opposite side were truly formidable.
Once the line is up, the front row of the Le'an Yellow Turban formation cannot stop them, and they will lose ground.
So, Xu He kept staring at the armored soldier shining whitely in the sun, motionless.
Suddenly, Xu He discovered something.
Just when the opponent was moving, they actually started to lose touch with the Han army on their right.
In other words, only the armored soldier on the opposite side was moving forward, and its flanks were actually motionless.
Xu He was overjoyed and immediately realized that the fighter plane had appeared.
So, he immediately waved the flag and started to coordinate the formation.
Under Xu He's control, the Le'an Yellow Turban Formation, which had been enduring the harassment of the cavalry like an old tortoise, began to tremble.
Encouraged by their respective envoys, they also moved away from their horses, put away their horses, and began to line up towards the Han Army Infantry School Lieutenant Headquarters opposite.
With intensive drumbeats and chaotic steps, the two military uniforms moved forward intensively, shoulder to shoulder.
Getting closer.
Fifty steps.
Twenty steps.
At this distance, the leader of the Le'an Yellow Turbans' former army decisively ordered:
"Let it go!"
"put"
Rows of rifles were placed directly on the shoulders of Pao Ze in front, stabbing diagonally at the Han infantry soldiers.
However, there were not many screams in the Han formation. Some of the Han soldiers who were knocked unconscious fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind them trampled over them.
Then the Han soldiers on the opposite side began to attack.
They were wearing iron armor, but they still ran like the wind, hitting the Yellow Turban formation like an anvil.
Then, the brutal hand-to-hand combat began directly.
The northwest has produced elite soldiers since ancient times, and Qingzhou has produced good men since ancient times.
One is the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty, and the other is the mainstay of Taiping Road.
Two groups of complete strangers vented their overwhelming hatred on the frozen soil of Hebei.
Swords and axes were chopped, arms and limbs were broken, flags fell, and the intensity of the war reached its maximum.
The second platoon of Han soldiers is a fifty-man armored group. The leader of the group is named Bao Chu, who is also from Jingzhao. He is young, but tall and tall, and is a heroic knight-errant from Xinfeng, his hometown.
Later, he was promoted to the Northern Army Infantry School Lieutenant with the help of powerful men in his hometown. He soared into the sky and became a captain.
At this time, the first row of Han soldiers were almost dead. They could not be said to be brave, but the first row on the opposite side was too powerful. Instead of stabbing them, they chose to smash them.
Many soldiers of the Han army were hit on the head by Bu Shu and fell down without a sound.
And this is not over yet, the first opponent on the opposite side has eliminated Bu Shu, and another team of swordsmen and axe-wielders emerged from below.
They had no armor at all, so they just put a yellow scarf on their foreheads, a big ax in their hands, and then they screamed wildly at the Han soldiers.
Obviously, this was specially arranged by the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to deal with the Han army's armored soldiers.
Therefore, the first platoon of Han soldiers was quickly exhausted, and Bao's platoon became the front line.
In this critical situation, Bao shouted loudly:
"楥!"
After this order was issued, the fifty armored soldiers directly turned over a card from behind, and then followed Bao into action, starting to directly push against the front row of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
Obviously, Bao Chu planned to rely on their iron armor to directly face the opponent, and then directly squeeze through.
As soon as Bao came out and squeezed forward, his comrades behind him also held up their shields and leaned forward.
But their shields were raised above their heads to guard against the rain of arrows coming from the opposite side of Qingzhou Yellow Turban.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turban archers were arranged behind six columns of infantrymen, and then relied on the command of the Xinbing soldiers to attack the Han army.
The Han army also continued to lose arrows, and people on both sides continued to be hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
Bao Chu was crowded with people here, so he gritted his teeth and pushed forward with all his strength, while the Huanshou knife on his right hand kept stabbing at the opposite side.
Although the armor rate of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans was good, it was still not as good as that of the Han army. Therefore, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans could not withstand this head-on, one-for-one style of fighting, so they retreated steadily.
When Bao came out of here, he became more and more courageous in killing. He seemed to have a feeling that if he continued to kill like this, he would be able to defeat the Yellow Turban formation.
But it's a pity that when Bao came out here to immerse himself in the killing, he couldn't actually see it, and there was no way to see it. That is, when the Northern Army Infantry School Lieutenant was desperately digging into the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, its two wings were already surrounded by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban.
It turns out that because the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had more people, their formation was wider. The Han army had fifty people in the first line, but the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had two hundred people in each line.
Therefore, as soon as the two armies came into contact, the two ends of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Formation began to rush to both sides of the Han army. As the Han army went deeper and deeper, these two wings became more and more flanked.
At this time, due to the position and perspective, the front and middle parts of the Han army could not feel anything.
Only the two troops on the left and right felt that something was wrong. They stopped unconsciously and formed formations on both sides to block the Yellow Turban Army's pincer attack.
Following the warnings from both wings, Wei Duan in the Chinese Army also discovered a problem.
But he knew that this was the time to go all out. Once they stopped, the Han army would be in even more danger.
Because their number is much smaller than that of the Yellow Turbans, once they are trapped, it will be difficult to escape.
But now, as long as the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans continue to attack, they can cut off the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. At that time, if the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were not in formation, how could they withstand the impact of the Tunqi who had been cruising nearby.
So, Wei Duan gritted his teeth and ordered:
"The whole army continues to move forward and kill the bandit formation!"
Therefore, from the guards of the Central Army, the general's order was passed from person to person, all the way to the front line.
Bao Chu, who had been gritting his teeth and stabbing, heard this order from behind. He cursed and turned to look at his subordinates.
At this time, the fifty old subordinates had been replaced several times, and at a glance, no one recognized them. So, Bao Chu felt sad in his heart and roared:
"We men from Jingzhao, five hundred years ago, we were the ones who went out to sweep Liuhe, and it was we who helped the King of Han rebuild the mountains and rivers. These Guandong people who were killed did not dare to stand facing the west. But today, these dogs from Qingzhou
The slave actually raised a knife towards us, what should we do?"
Almost all the infantry battalion captains were big men from Kansai. When they heard Bao Chu's roar, they also roared loudly:
"Kill!"
Bao took out a knife and stabbed it in, shouting:
"Then kill him!"
As a result, the two groups of good men in Kanto and Kansai once again continued the hatred of their ancestors and boiled over.
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The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans surrounded the Han army's infantry camp.
All this was seen by its friendly forces, the national soldiers of the three counties of Hebei.
But they did not choose to go up to support, because the coach's military order had already been issued, and they stayed put.
Of course, these are all superficial reasons.
It's okay to ignore military orders when you are out in the field.
The reason why the soldiers of the three counties of Hebei did not move was because they saw that the soldiers of Zhongshan, which was closest to the infantry school, did not move. If they were not moved, why did the soldiers of the two counties of Wei and Zhao move?
Then why didn’t the Zhongshan soldiers move?
Because the Han army in Hebei is not without flaws.
Now Lu Zhi's command is indeed the elite of the Han army. Whether it is the fifth school of the Northern Army or the Youzhou Cavalry, they are all honorary divisions passed down in history.
However, there was one soldier who became the weakness of the Han division. It was the two thousand Zhongshan soldiers of Liu Hui, the captain of the Zhongshan army.
After Liu Huinai became King of Zhongshan, his family has always been a prominent family in the country.
This time Liu Hui led his troops south to help the Han army in Hebei, and it was under the entrustment of Zang Min, the Prime Minister of Zhongshan.
It is said that this Zang Min was also a good general and had repeatedly made military exploits for the country. It was he who led the people to break up the demonic chaos in Xusheng in Kuaiji.
It was also during this battle that he promoted the young Jiangdong warrior Sun Jian, who could be said to be Sun Jian's subordinate.
But today's Zang Min no longer has the charm of the past.
Six years ago, he, together with Tian Yan, the general who defeated Xianbei, and Xia Yu, the captain who protected Wuhuan, went out to attack Xianbei.
But that battle directly wiped out the 30,000 northern border troops. It can be said that if the Han Dynasty had not lost 30,000 northern elites due to the great defeat six years ago, the Hebei battlefield at this time would not be the same.
So anxious.
After that war, Zang Min was naturally imprisoned, but after the general amnesty, he returned to his official career and became the current Prime Minister of Zhongshan.
Faced with this fate in life, coupled with old age and frailty, Zang Min inevitably became short-tempered and began to seek stability.
In order to achieve stability, Zang Min only allocated a thousand national soldiers to Liu Hui, and the remaining thousand were all new soldiers recruited.
The recruitment here is not the kind of recruiting soldiers with autumn defense experience in the past, but completely Guizhou soldiers who only know how to cultivate the land.
There are about 97,000 households in the Zhongshan Kingdom, with a population of less than 600,000. Excluding some of the people who joined the Yellow Turban Army, the possible population of the Zhongshan Kingdom is less than 60,000.
When the first wave of Hebei Yellow Turban rebellion was suppressed, the Zhongshan Kingdom had already recruited 10,000 conscripts with experience in autumn defense for unified training. The rest either went to hide in powerful places, or ran into Montenegro to become bandits.
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Therefore, the Zhongshan Kingdom at that time had actually reached the limit of its military strength.
So where did Liu Hui's thousands of new recruits come from?
To put it simply, it is tied with rope.
The military officials of the Zhongshan Kingdom were like kidnappers every day. Whenever they saw young men in the market, in the countryside, or in the countryside, they would bundle them up with ropes and send them to the military camp.
Regardless of whether you are from Zhongshan or not, or whether you are the only son in the family, we will all arrest you now.
From this we can also see the madness of the Han army and their determination to kill the Yellow Turban Army.
But when the Han army did this, the common people had ways to deal with it.
One just wants to run away. If he can't escape, he will break off his own feet and chop off his fingers. In short, there is a plan from above and a plan from below.
Therefore, even if he was a new soldier, Zang Min only added two thousand to Liu Hui.
Well, that's right.
Originally, when Liu Hui set out from Lunu in the Zhongshan Kingdom, he had a thousand old soldiers from the county and recruited two thousand new soldiers. But just on the way from Zhongshan Kingdom to Handan, 800 people ran away.
So where did the remaining 200 people go? They were all trained to death in Handan.
At that time, the main force of the Han army suffered serious casualties due to several battles with the Yellow Turbans of Hebei and the Yellow Turbans of Qingzhou, so they were eager to replenish their troops.
However, in order not to drag down the overall combat effectiveness, it is necessary to provide basic battle formation training to the new soldiers.
It is necessary to quickly replenish troops and train qualified soldiers. The intensity of training can be imagined.
At that time, the common view among Hebei military officials in Handan was:
"These Zhongshan soldiers are not so much soldiers as they are citizens. We must be fierce and ruthless towards these people, so as to kill the undisciplined spirit of the common people and develop the habit of obedience and discipline."
Moreover, there is another reason not to put it on the table.
Even these training officials knew that these people were captured by the Zhongshan Army officials, and they felt resentful in their hearts.
If we don't make these people afraid here and don't establish our power, these people might dare to rebel if they go to the battlefield and get armor.
But sometimes, once there is a mutiny in front of the battlefield, the consequences will be disastrous.
This is the underlying logic behind their kindness but not their military strength.
Since there is no kindness to win over and no justice to inspire, then we can only rely on iron and blood to kill those at the bottom.
If in the end you don't even dare to kill, this authority will really be gone.
Therefore, in the Handan camp, almost every day, conscripts from the Zhongshan Kingdom were killed and their heads hung.
At first, the Zhongshan soldiers were still emotional, but after being tortured like this, no matter how fierce their temper was, they would become numb.
And don't mention it, troops have always been trained like this in the past.
Moreover, many elites came from this training method. They may have been sons-in-law, slaves, or prisoners, but they devoted their lives and blood to the great men in foreign lands on the frontier.
Of course they cannot be said to be very loyal to their country, but people are just so strange.
Even if he is forced at first, as long as he gets used to something, he will transcend his original hatred and develop some kind of identity and mission for it.
Therefore, Handan used this past method to train Zhongshan soldiers.
"It's just a pity. Can such soldiers really be used?"
At this time, Liu Hui, the captain of the Zhongshan Kingdom who was connecting the county soldiers and the Northern Army, asked himself this.