After the rain yesterday afternoon, the sky was sunny and the air was fresh. But after the temperature dropped at night, the humid land was covered with mist early in the morning.
As soon as it dawned, the soldiers got up and ate, and then started heading northeast one after another. Everyone went to bed early last night. The generals claimed that if the enemy army was also advancing, the battle would start today, and everyone was ready.
Dongfang Zhi, who previously lived in Dige, Qingyuan County, was a soldier of the left school of Zhongba Camp. He was a corps commander, not a general, just the leader of several shield soldiers. At this time, he also brought several of his own
Individuals joined the marching team.
That day in Qingyuan County, Dongfangzhi said that he was from Pingyuan County, but there was something he was embarrassed to say. He used to be a soldier under Sima Yi's command, and General Qin Liang of Wei was their enemy.
It's just that Sima Yi was defeated, and after Dongfang Zhi and others surrendered, they were actually reorganized into Qin Liang's army. However, they used to be Luoyang Central Army, and they are now.
Nearly half of the people in the same tribe are from Lujiang County. According to them, the original shield soldiers were equipped with crossbows. Later, General Qin thought that the shields were heavier, so he assigned the crossbows to the beryllium soldiers (the former halberd soldiers). Today
The tactics of the shield soldiers are relatively simple, and they are only responsible for melee combat and rush killing.
However, the Lujiang soldiers were quite good at surrendering to Dongfang Zhi and others, and they also respected them, because Dongfang Zhi and other people who had been in the Chinese and foreign armies for a long time were very skilled in fighting skills; while the Lujiang soldiers were from military camps, and at first they mainly farmed, and their training was rough.
, it’s only in the past two years that I have been training diligently with Qin Liang.
The light was dim and the fog was hazy, making it difficult to see clearly from a distance. I could only see shadows moving in the fog, and there were people everywhere on the road. Fortunately, people in the same village knew each other, so Dongfang Zhi only had to follow the people he knew in front of him.
can.
Walking through the hazy mist makes people feel as if they are in a dream. The difference is that in the dream there are the smiles of the wife and daughter, but here there is only an iron-blooded atmosphere.
Walking very slowly at first, a hundred generals rode on the road and said: "If the sun comes out soon, the fog will dissipate soon. If the sun doesn't come out, we will find a place to camp again."
The general's voice was not loud, but everyone heard clearly.
People seemed a bit silent. There were various noises around, the sound of footsteps, the collision of weapons and equipment, the occasional cough, the sound of horses braying, and some people talking, but it was not a hustle and bustle.
When the mist is inhaled into the nose, it is so cold that the complex smell in the humid air is not so obvious.
Everyone had walked hundreds of miles, hoping to fight as soon as possible. But when the battle was really ahead, everyone was inevitably a little nervous. Almost all of the team were veterans who had experienced the battlefield, and they all knew what happened on the battlefield.
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What's more, this is a fierce battle. Dongfang Zhi and others have long heard that Guanqiu Jian's rebels are more numerous than our own! The enemy is outnumbered and we are outnumbered, so this battle is not optimistic.
But Dongfangzhi didn't bother to think so much. Anyway, whatever the generals above told him to do, he did it.
I don’t know how much time passed, but the sky became brighter and brighter. In the vast east, the rising sun showed a bright red color, and the light was a little scattered in the mist. From a distance, it looked like paint was painted on the cloth, and the edges were not smooth.
clear.
As the sun rises, the fog in the sky gradually begins to dissipate, and the line of sight becomes wider and wider. Only the dew on the grass on the roadside still wets people's shoes and trouser legs.
At three o'clock in the morning, each battalion had already organized its troops, changed the marching columns into countless square formations, and continued to advance slowly.
Tens of thousands of people gathered in a small area on the south side of Fan County and on the north bank of the Zhang River. The area was extremely wide. The generals in the formation looked to the left and could not see the end.
On the contrary, the enemy formation on the opposite side has already appeared in sight. In the distance, there are flags like clouds and a large black mass of people, as if they completely occupy the entire horizon in the northeast!
A large number of scout rangers were compressed close to their respective military formations, and some light cavalry were roaming on the battlefield in the middle.
They came into contact with the enemy before noon. It was obvious that Guanqiu Jian's army was also taking the initiative to attack this morning. The two sides were facing each other, so they could meet at this time!
Qin Liang's army had already deployed the positions of each battalion last night, and was just adjusting the array slightly now. The army did not have complicated formations, it was just deployed in a line in front of the enemy.
Because the number of officers and soldiers was not dominant, they could not form an encirclement; but they also did not have a defensive formation that faced all four sides. They relied on the battle line in the front and the cavalry on the sides to attack each other! There was no hint of cowardice.
The terrain here is flat and uncomplicated. Except for Zhangshui in the south, it is surrounded by wilderness. Not far from Zhangshui, there is a manor that has been occupied by the army.
The wheat fields and vegetable fields around the manor have long been trampled and destroyed by a large number of people and horses. In the middle of the battlefield, you can see a small village, a small forest, and large areas of dry fields and grasslands.
After people stopped to gather, they became noisy. The sound of people and horses neighing in the wind could not be heard.
The formations of both sides were getting closer and closer. Although the distance was far beyond the range of arrows, they were still within range for attack.
Everyone can already clearly see the patterns and decorations on the big flag on the opposite side, and even the words on the flag that says "I am ordered to punish thieves" can be seen. However, many soldiers are illiterate and have no idea that the rebels have written What.
Perhaps because Guan Qiu Cheng was killed in Changshan County, Guan Qiu Jian did not send envoys to talk nonsense at this time. Qin Liang also felt that Guan Qiu Jian was so menacing that it would be completely unnecessary to send people forward to persuade him to surrender.
There was a lot of noise on the battlefield, but for a moment it gave people the illusion of a brief calm.
However, the two armies are already in battle formation. This confrontation will not last long. People are waiting for the fighting to begin! The officers and soldiers in the front are all staring at each other.
Especially Xiong Shou's nearly two thousand cavalry in front of the left wing. Previously, everyone was standing on the ground, holding the horse. At this time, under the loud shouts of the military general to "mount the horse", people were getting on their horses one after another. There was a cavalryman in the crowd with his feet in stirrups and sitting on his horse. After getting on the saddle, he puffed up his cheeks and exhaled a long breath.
As expected, last night Qin Liang and others judged that the rebels would use cavalry to find a breakthrough from the north. At this time, they saw a large cavalry of the rebels in the northwest, and they took the lead in dispatching!
Because the right wing of the official army is the wide Zhang River, there is no place for detours. There is only a plain on the left wing, which is most suitable for the enemy to outflank and attack.
There was a cry of "jiliwala" in the distance, and a large number of enemy cavalry spread out with shouts. Looking at the clothes and armor of those people, it was the Wuwan Xianbei people from Youzhou who were fighting in the front line.
But the outflanking of his Karasuma Army would not encounter the defending army. The army used cavalry to shield the left wing, and the cavalry escort method was to counterattack!
Surrounded by his own soldiers, Xiong Shou's mount also began to move forward. He tried the horse's shaft in his hand, and the horse's shaft seemed very light in his hand.
Xiong Shou is a big man with muscles all over his body. He wears armor, but the strands of flesh on his arms are not visible. The whole person looks like an iron lump, with a strange-looking basin collar. There is also armor on the mount.
, mainly concentrated in the front half. The armor hanging on the horse's chest makes a "clattering" sound when it steps.
Xiong Shou turned around and saw the bird feather flag with the word "Qin" written on it. He looked back again and found General Qin Liang riding on his horse. Xiong Shou then hugged the horse and faced Qin Liang.
Over there, cup your fists and bow.
Because there was a military flag next to Xiong Shou, Qin Liang should have also seen Xiong Shou, and the two greeted each other silently. Xiong Shou could no longer care about Qin Liang, and then raised his horse and shouted: "Kill the Hu soldiers, destroy the rebels, and the Wei army will win!"
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The troops suddenly started shouting! While everyone was shouting, almost everyone joined in, as if they were expressing complex emotions, and the shouts were deafening. The shouts of "Victory! Victory" resounded throughout the world.
A large black cloud of Xianbei cavalry filled the air, and the sound of roaring hoofbeats was like thunder.
Xiong Shou's cavalry formation is not that big, not only because his cavalry drawn from each battalion has much fewer people than the Karasuma people, but also because countless war horses are still walking and not running at this time.
After a while, Xiong Shou estimated the distance, and immediately shouted, and the generals also shouted. At this time, the cavalry in formation began to jog, and the sound of horse hooves quickly became louder.
The cavalry of the official army were lined up very closely. When the horses were jogging, they instinctively wanted to spread out, and they could even brush the stirrups of the horses on both sides. The Karasuma cavalry team on the opposite side was like that, running all over the place, and the horses were not people.
They don't like crowds.
"Bang, bang, bang!" The strings sounded like hail suddenly falling in the sky, and the thin mist was filled with black spots, like locusts. A galloping shot from the Xianbei cavalry was coming!
The officers and soldiers raised the round shields in their left hands. After a moment, the arrows struck their armors with a clanking sound, or landed on the wooden shields, making a heavy impact sound.
Seeing this, Xiong Shou raised his horse high and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Kill!"
The horses in formation began to speed up. On the wet grassland, countless horse hooves flew rapidly, and the sound of heavy trampling on the ground merged into one, and the whole earth seemed to be shaking.
In the final distance, the soldiers kicked their horses and sprinted hard. The horse's mane was fluttering in the wind, the horse's head was swaying forward, and its posture was moving forward with all its strength, forward!
Between the black crowds of horses, the area of green and brown open space quickly decreased. The horses formed a curved front line and surged forward like a flood, showing no signs of stopping.
People raised the weighted spears held in their right arms, and countless long soldiers pointed straight ahead, like a dense forest. And like a huge crossbow arrow, they flew away from the string!
The soldiers were roaring, almost speechless. At this moment, no matter whether they were passionate or fearful, they could not stop. There was no room to move to the left and right, and the cavalry behind them were still charging forward.
"Kill! Kill..." Countless people roared desperately. The cavalry's rapid maneuvers made the battlefield seem to boil in an instant.