When Ma Wu led the Tiande army slowly northward, Zhou Zhong, the Yue cavalry captain of the Han army who was on the north slope, also saw this roundabout enemy cavalry.
Initially, he did not take this group of cavalry seriously, because the dense forest they were going to attack was where Ma Teng, the tough general of the army, was stationed.
Zhou Zhong didn't like this general from Xizhou very much, thinking that he was vulgar and un-Chinese, but despite his prejudices, he still had to admit that Ma Teng was a capable fighter.
So Zhou Zhong turned his attention back to the east wall, where the situation of the Han army was quite bad.
Even though he had underestimated the Taishan Army, he did not expect that his side would be unable to withstand the first wave of offensive. The two peripheral infantry battalions soon had to huddle in the warehouse outside the east wall to resist. Taishan
The army has surrounded the east wall from three sides.
Just when Zhou Zhong was hesitating whether to send troops to support the east wall now, he saw a scene of people vomiting blood.
Ma Teng, who was originally supposed to engage in a confrontation with the enemy's cavalry, ran out of the dense forest for some unknown reason. After some exchanges with the enemy, he took the initiative to hand over the flag to the Taishan Army's cavalry general on the opposite side, and also handed over all the weapons.
Lost it on the ground.
After doing this, Ma Teng's troops were led off the battlefield by a small group of enemy cavalry.
Seeing this, how could Zhou Zhong still not understand that Ma Teng, who was like a qiang dog, had betrayed him on the battlefield? At this time, Zhou Zhong hated to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin, but now he couldn't care about this, he wanted to take the initiative
Fill the defense loopholes caused by Ma Teng's betrayal.
Therefore, he ordered his general Zhao Wei to lead the three armored soldiers south to support the infantry in the dense forest.
The appearance of Zhao Wei's troops really stabilized the thousands of Han soldiers in the dense forest. They were confused because of Ma Teng's sudden surrender, but now that reinforcements have arrived, it means that the higher-ups are aware of the situation here.
Outside the forest, Ma Wu was also confused.
Just now, a Han cavalry force of similar size to his own suddenly rushed out of the forest. Ma Wu, who was still driving slowly, was caught off guard. But just when he was about to give the order to increase his horse speed, the cavalry force on the opposite side suddenly rushed out.
A knight ran out directly.
This horseman has disheveled hair and looks like a Qiang man. He is holding a flag in his hand and shouting:
"A certain Ma Teng, who admires the noble army and high righteousness, came here to seek refuge."
Ma Wu thought it was a scam at first, but when he saw these knights starting to discard their weapons one after another, he stepped forward with hesitation.
Afterwards, Ma Wu and Ma Teng had a conversation. When Ma Teng learned that Ma Wu was the former Ma Cheng, he immediately said that they were Tianding brothers. Because Ma Teng was also a descendant of Ma Yuan, and his ancestor was Pao Ze.
brother.
Ma Teng's enthusiasm for the Qiang and Hu winds was too much for Ma Wu. But Ma Wu also knew that if Ma Teng really surrendered sincerely, it would definitely be an excellent weapon to undermine the morale of the Han army, so Ma Wu also responded.
With.
Then let a group of generals withdraw from the battlefield with Ma Teng who had discarded their weapons, and assemble behind the Taishan military formation.
This is the standard procedure for the Taishan Army to deal with Han soldiers who surrender before the battle. Although they will not be taken as prisoners, they will still not be allowed to participate in the next war.
Ma Teng and Pang De didn't say much and were happy to leave.
So the two of them withdrew from the east with five hundred Qin and Hu Yi.
After Ma Teng left, Ma Wu still felt a little unreal. He shook his head, remembered Ma Teng as his "brother", and once again focused on the dense forest in front of him.
There, you can still see countless flags mixed in the jungle, rising one after another.
Ma Wu then ordered:
"All the troops followed me on foot into the forest to fight."
The Tiande army sang loudly, dismounted their horses, prepared their armor, and began to form a small circular formation to prepare to enter the forest.
At this time, Zhao Wei of the Han Army made a mistake. When he saw the cavalry of the Taishan Army approaching and the infantry of the Taishan Army on the flanks, he decided to abandon the dense forest.
Zhao Wei was from Wen, Hanoi, and his family had a close relationship with the Sima family in the same county. He was originally a county official in Hanoi, and joined the army when Lu Zhi went north to Hanoi, and has been fighting in Hebei ever since.
At this time, Zhao Wei judged that with the current strength and morale of the Han army in the forest, it would be difficult to continue to hold on to the dense forest. In order to prevent the thousand-man battalion in the forest from being defeated and captured, he decided to retreat to the east wall outside the forest to the west.
The friendly forces attacked the Taishan Army.
However, due to problems with his vision and level, Zhao Wei failed to understand the importance of this dense forest at all, and simply used it as a defensive method to hinder the enemy's cavalry from making detours.
In fact, this dense forest stretches across the south and north slopes of the slope. In other words, once the Taishan army occupied this place, they could use the cover of the dense forest to directly harass the Han army behind the slope, preventing them from resting.
But Zhao Wei didn't understand what he meant, and simply made the decision to abandon the dense forest based on the strength of his troops.
In this way, Ma Wu entered the forest in confusion once again and successfully occupied this key transportation location.
Ma Wu also wondered if he had some great luck. First, a Ma Teng surrendered before the battle, and then a Han soldier retreated without fighting, allowing him to complete the initial mission on the right wing without spending a single soldier.
However, Ma Wu's operation went smoothly, but Han Hao suffered a lot.
The two battalions of Han soldiers attacked by Han Hao and Wei Zhong were both core old battalions with the Northern Army as the backbone and Youzhou County as the supplement.
The generals of these two battalions, one named Zhao Wei and the other Yang Huai, were both officials of the Northern Army. One of them came from a wealthy family in Brazil, and the other came from Lingling, Jingzhou. They were both brave generals.
This Yang Huai was just an ordinary man with ordinary bravery. But Zhao Wei was quite extraordinary. His father was a powerful commander of the Brazilian people. During the Emperor Huan period, he accompanied the Han army to quell the Qiang rebellion. Later, he used his military exploits to make Zhao Wei his leader.
Tong Zilang, Zhao Wei was only six years old at that time.
After his father died in the Brazilian Banzhen Barbarian Rebellion, Zhao Wei was raised by the state and became Chen Fan's teacher. Later, in his first year, Zhao Wei joined the Northern Army as a boy, and later joined Liu Hong
Almost all wars of the period.
After Zhao Wei joined the army, he made many meritorious deeds, and even during the Northern Expedition to Xianbei in the sixth year of Xiping, he was stabbed in the stomach, and he was finally crawled out of the dead.
But such a Zhongliang Yulin orphan from the Han family was hated by the eunuchs because his teacher was Chen Fan. After serving in the army for more than ten years, he finally became a general. After he went on an expedition with Lu Zhi, he was killed in the battle of Jize
, the Northern Army officials collapsed, and he had the opportunity to be promoted to battalion general and lead a battalion alone.
Although Zhao Wei's official career was in vain, he still had a very high prestige among the lower-level officials. Whether it was his resume or the tradition of valuing heroes in the army, the officials loved him very much.
At this time, Zhao Wei was sitting on his horse and continuously commanding the two battalions of Han soldiers. Yang Huai of the other battalion also handed over the command to Zhao Wei and asked him to provide unified command.
Zhao Wei had a wound on his head, which was injured in the previous battle at Dingting, but this still did not prevent him from displaying his excellent commanding skills.
Originally, the two battalions of Han troops had been defeated steadily by Han Hao and Wei Zhong, but after Zhao Wei took over the command, he blocked the Taishan Army's continuous offensive.
You know, the combined strength of Han Hao and Wei Zhong on the opposite side is almost 4,000, which is twice that of Zhao Wei's.
Both Han Hao and Wei Zhong lacked sufficient planning skills. They often led their leading troops to charge forward for a while, and then found themselves surrounded by Han soldiers, and then they had no choice but to break out.
They were obviously a powerful force here, but they were forced to become a minority. You can imagine the frustration in Han Hao's heart.
But Han Hao was the seed of a famous general, and he quickly grew up in frustration. After discovering that the opponent's flexible tactics relied on the slow cooperation between him and Wei Zhong, he took the initiative to contact Wei Zhou and decided that the two armies would fight together.
Kill the enemy together.
This method worked quickly. In the increasingly narrow battlefield space, the Taishan Army's strength advantage was quickly brought into play. They continued to alternate turns of fighting, which exhausted the Han Army.
Finally, the Han army began to collapse. They originally wanted to retreat to the east wall, but the Taishan army pursued them too hastily. In the end, these defeated troops could only flee towards the north with Zhao Wei in their arms.
Another battalion general, Yang Xiuui, was not so lucky, and ran into Wei Zhong in a panic.
Wei Zhong beheaded the Han general with only three swords, and then showed off his head to Han Hao who was not far away.
But the Taishan Army's pursuit came to an abrupt end here.
The Han army from the east wall fired arrows crazily at the approaching towns of Hanoi and Zhaojun.
Previously, in order to cover the Han soldiers outside the wall, the Eastern General Zhou Zhong sent all his archers to his son Zhou Hui and asked him to defend the east wall.
Zhou Hui is a twenty-year-old young military officer. Compared with his younger brother Zhou Yu from his hometown, his appearance is much more mediocre. But his mediocre appearance has created his calm character.
He carried out his father's military orders meticulously, and led more than a thousand crossbowmen to guard the east wall.
The soldiers in Hanoi did not know before that the Han army's arrows were so fierce. In addition, the pursuit was so urgent that the cards in their hands had long been lost. Therefore, under the cover of the Han army's arrows, people fell to the ground like Yimai.
At a crenel on the east wall, Li Hu, the young commander of the Di people, was excitedly shooting the Taishan soldiers below with an ox-horn bow. He thought to himself:
"The Han people don't have any respect. If you shoot an arrow, you will still die."
The Di people, Zhao Wei, and the other Banzhen barbarians were all recruited by the Han Dynasty to send troops all year round to obtain tax exemptions. They called it blood tax.
Li Hu and his tribe were recruited when Lu Zhi led the Northern Army northward, and they remained in the army because the roads were cut off.
During this battle, Zhou Zhong gathered all the archers and crossbowmen in the army to garrison the east wall. Di people like Li Hu who grew up in the mountain roads were naturally among them.
Li Hu's shooting was very fast. Except for one majestic target that escaped because of his quick dodge, he had already shot to death eight Taishan soldiers.
But Li Hu's happiness quickly disappeared, because the Taishan Army below quickly rushed to the bottom of the wall with the support of the card players behind, and started climbing directly.
Hanoi is very mountainous, so many of the garrison soldiers in the inner town are from mountain huts. They can climb dangerous mountains with only a rope, let alone this dock wall that was converted from a manor.
Soon the Hanoi soldiers climbed up the east wall with their daggers in their teeth and their swords in their hands, and then fought with these crossbowmen.
Although Li Hu was a lowly slave among the Han people, he had a noble status among the Di people. So three Di people warriors immediately ran to Li Hu to protect him from going down the wall.
But the four of them had just taken a few steps when they were stopped by an armored man covered in blood. It was Han Hao who was very angry.
Li Hu also recognized that this person was the Taishan Army warrior who had just dodged his arrow.
He opened his mouth to ask the other person's name, but he spoke in quaint Qiang, so Han Hao couldn't understand him. So Han Hao directly threw an ax at the other person, hitting the door in front of him.
The huge force of the ax directly smashed Li Hu's facial bones, blood spurted out, and Li Hu died just like that.
Before this was over, Han Hao drew out his iron sword again and knocked the three stupid Di warriors to death.
Looking at the mangled head, Han Hao had no desire to cut it. He just spit and cursed:
"I'll let you shoot Nai Gong. I'll let you shoot Nai Gong. If I don't kill you, who will I kill?"
Afterwards, Han Hao left and headed deeper into the east wall.
But Han Hao had no idea who he was killing. With just a casual throw, the flame of a nation's rise was extinguished by Han Hao.
On the ridge behind, Lu Zhi saw everything happening here.
Ma Teng's tribe surrendered before the battle, Zhao Wei abandoned it and fled, Zhao Wei was wrapped in broken troops and fled north for his life, and a corner of the east wall also fell.
He didn't expect to engage in the battle, and Zhou Zhong, the eastern general on the front slope, gave him such an explanation.
He was disgusted and ordered Li En, the gentleman's camp official next to him:
"Go to Zhou Zhong and ask if the face of the Zhou family in Luzhou will be lost in his hands alone? I will give him two more battalions of soldiers to seize the dense forest and defend the east wall. If you can't do it, just do it.
Draw your sword and kill yourself."
Lu Zhi said with such murderous intent that Li En didn't even dare to raise his head. Following this military order, he rode his horse and rode towards the front slope where Zhou Zhong's banner was.
After Lu Zhi explained this, he indeed transferred 2,000 men from Gongsun Zan's troops behind Zhou Zhong to support Zhou Zhong.
After arranging these, Lu Zhi asked his subordinate Yu Shi to lead the iron soldiers to cut down the fleeing Zhao Wei.
Of course, Lu Zhi had heard of Zhao Wei and knew that he was a talent. But what about talent? Is there a shortage of talent in the world? Not to mention that he is a swindler who has neither a foothold nor value, and has violated our military law.
Kill is kill.
Yu Shi had also heard of Zhao Wei and knew he was a good man. He wanted to plead for Zhao Wei, but when he saw Lu Zhi's rosy cheeks, he swallowed it again.
Yu Shi accepted the order, put down his iron face, and took Lu Zhi's iron troops to enforce the law.
In the distance, Zhao Wei, who was being held hostage, suddenly felt cold all over his body. He saw Lu Zhi's ghost-faced general running towards him. No need to guess what its purpose was?
So Zhao Wei shouted:
"Brothers, fight back, let's fight back. The Iron Mask is coming to arrest us. Zhao Wei thinks he is a good man, how can a good man die at the hands of his own people? Brothers, if you still recognize me,
, just follow us and fight back. You have to show the Taishan bandits on the opposite side that our Han army is also capable."
After saying that, Zhao Wei once again led the Han soldiers to fight towards the east wall again.
Over there, Yu Shi gradually slowed down when he saw that Zhao Wei knew what was going on. He looked at their backs:
"I can only help you so far."
At this time, the bloody battle around the east wall was still continuing.