Chapter eighty-seventh first battle against aliens
The cold wind is still blowing like that, and the weather at this time is really unfavorable for Liu Ming's troops!
These nomadic people have lived here all year round and have long adapted to the climate here. The front of their clothes is made of a whole piece of leather, and the placket is open on the side, which is very good at preventing wind and cold.
As for Liu Ming's subordinates, those soldiers and horses transferred from various places in Youzhou are basically all wearing coarse cloth uniforms and leather armor, and they are all colonels with some status. Although these things are not good for defense,
It doesn't help much, but it's okay to keep out the cold.
But! Liu Ming's best soldiers, the heavy infantry trained by Tiger Roaring Villa, were at a disadvantage this time. Their armor was made of steel. Although their defense power was outstanding, their cold protection was far inferior.
. Among these heavy infantry, the spearmen, swordsmen, and crossbowmen are all okay. The armor is not heavy and they are always worn on the body. Due to the weather, everyone has added equipment to keep out the cold. The changes at this time are not big.
But the sword-and-shield soldiers suffered a big blow. Their armor was the heaviest. When they usually marched, they always put their armor on the cart and marched lightly. Just now Liu Ming sent an order to prepare for war, so these sword-and-shield soldiers just got busy and took off their armor.
They put on warm clothes and armor. Fortunately, these sword and shield soldiers were well-trained at ordinary times. At this time, they all changed their clothes very neatly, got into formation, and dealt with the charge of the defeated army. But now there is some time, these
The armor made of steel has frozen the linings of these sword and shield soldiers through. The severe cold is a major threat to Liu Ming's soldiers.
Therefore, the weather is not on Liu Ming's side!
Besides the geographical advantage, the dirt road Liu Ming traveled along was just a road made by pedestrians who walked all year round. The surrounding fields were empty, with only some weeds, so there was no danger to defend!
In such a wilderness, on one side are the undefeated infantry, and on the other side are the nomadic cavalry who are accustomed to crossing the grasslands! It is conceivable that the geographical advantage is not on Liu Ming's side!
As for this person and Liu Ming, they do not have an advantage.
The nomadic cavalry on the opposite side had just won a battle and were the first victorious troops to chase the defeated army. Their morale was high. However, under Liu Ming, only those soldiers who had been trained by Tiger Roaring Villa were loyal to Liu Ming.
He has blind trust in Liu Ming! But the other 20,000 Youzhou soldiers have just been recruited from various places. They arrived not long ago. They have just gone through a short period of running in these days. They can only walk, line up, and fight with each other.
It’s just mutual cooperation! There is absolutely no tacit understanding or die-hard loyalty to Liu Ming!
Finally, in terms of military strength, it is common sense that in a field battle, 10,000 cavalry can annihilate five times the number of infantry. At this time, Liu Ming had less than 30,000 troops.
In terms of military strength, Liu Ming does not have the advantage!
From this point of view, in this outdoor encounter between Liu Ming and the foreign cavalry, Liu Ming was at a disadvantage due to the favorable location, people, and military strength, so Liu Ming was bound to lose!
However, this is not absolute! On the battlefield, the situation is ever-changing, nothing remains unchanged, and who can guess who the goddess of victory will smile at today? This is the most charming and most charming thing in war.
Cruel! The one who counts more temples wins, the one who counts fewer temples loses! That is just a decision for the overall battle, but there are too many changes in local battles, who can calculate them all?
The battle at this time is a concrete manifestation of this!
Scattering out in all directions and attacking quickly is a tactic developed by nomadic peoples over a long period of time against archers.
Usually, when the archers shoot one or two arrows, these cavalrymen will quickly rush to the archers and start slaughtering them.
However, the one who led the Youzhou archers this time was Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong was really good at shooting with a bow. He calculated the wind force and ordered the archers to shoot into the air when the nomadic cavalry were two hundred steps away.
.Usually, the archers would open their bows and shoot straight in front of the formation. After shooting a few arrows, they would hide behind the infantry. But now, these archers were directly behind the infantry, opening their bows and releasing arrows in turn under Huang Zhong's command.
It was so fun to shoot! And because Liu Ming preferred long-range attack troops, five thousand of the twenty thousand Youzhou soldiers were archers. These archers formed five thousand-man teams as discussed before.
, all directed by Huang Zhong.
At this time, a dense rain of arrows struck in five consecutive blows, following Huang Zhong's order, and poured on the heads of the nomadic cavalry in front. Although these nomadic cavalry were scattered and their impact speed was very fast,
Their crude equipment and thin clothes could not provide them with effective protection. Under such uniform coverage and shooting, large swathes of cavalry fell.
Even so, most of the nomadic cavalry rushed within a hundred steps, but the crossbowmen who had been waiting for a long time got the chance to take action. Under the order, the crossbowmen fired the crossbows, with thirty-six guns in each box.
The crossbow arrows were shot out overwhelmingly, like locusts all over the sky, blocking the sun. However, these crossbow arrows were not harvesting food, but human lives! A hundred steps away, two rounds of crossbows,
It formed a line of life and death! Most of the nomadic cavalry fell here!
However, under such circumstances, these nomadic cavalry with superb riding skills and proficient archery still shot arrows before dying, and many cavalry rushed to Liu Ming's formation!
The foreign leader, who was leading more than a thousand cavalry in the distance to supervise the battle, was relieved when he saw this. Although the cost of the cavalry charge was beyond his expectation, after all, these cavalry still rushed to the enemy's formation.
Okay, now just wait for the cavalry to unilaterally massacre the infantry!
But! Unexpectedly, the arrows shot by the nomadic cavalry at the risk of death could not bring any damage to the sword and shield soldiers! Moreover, because these nomadic cavalry rushed over in all directions, although they
This avoided greater casualties! However, their formation was already scattered, and many people fell down on the way over! So much so that the nomadic cavalry who rushed over at this time had a huge impact on Liu Ming's sword and shield soldiers.
The formed shield array could not form an effective impact at all! Even if those brave and respectable nomadic cavalry were desperate to commit suicide, even knocking down the shield wall with men and horses, they could not destroy the shield wall behind it.
A shield array with vertical wooden pillars! And those nomadic cavalry wielding machetes and slashing at the sword and shield soldiers were in vain. With their machetes, which were mostly made of copper and some iron, how could they destroy the swords?
The steel armor of the shield soldiers? At this time, the spearmen behind the sword and shield soldiers will take the opportunity to stab the nomadic cavalry to death one by one!
The fierce battle was going on. But at this time, Zhang Fei and Tuoba Ying came around to the side, and their sudden attack became the last straw that broke the camel's back! As Zhang Fei and Tuoba Ying led the strong cavalry
With the appearance of the cavalry and the cavalry, the war march can be regarded as coming to an end! The rest is just another pursuit battle of you chasing me! However, this time it is Liu Ming's strong cavalry and the cavalry chasing the aliens.
Just nomadic cavalry!
Those nomadic cavalry came with tens of thousands of men and horses, but when they escaped, they only had one or two thousand horsemen, so they suffered heavy losses.
It must be said that Liu Ming would never trust Zhang Fei and his cavalry to go deep alone, and he would never lead a large group of men and horses to follow them! Liu Ming often listened to this saying that poor bandits should not be pursued! However,
Zhang Fei and the others were already chasing after them. If Liu Ming didn't lead a large group of people to respond, wouldn't Liu Ming be even more worried?
It's easy for the cavalry to chase the infantry, but it's harder for the infantry to chase the cavalry than to reach the sky. Liu Ming led the large group of people and horses, but they couldn't get away. Sound the gong? That's nonsense! It was a melee between the two armies just now, Zhang Fei and the others rushed
He went among the nomadic cavalry and used his superior equipment to massacre the nomadic cavalry. At this time, Zhang Fei and the others had already disappeared after the nomadic cavalry, and someone had to hear the gong.
Liu Ming had no choice but to ask the messengers to rush quickly to deliver the order, telling Zhang Fei to withdraw his troops and not pursue the poor enemy! He led Guan Yu and others and led the army to advance quickly to meet Zhang Fei!
An hour later, Liu Ming finally led his army and caught up with Zhang Fei and the others. At this time, Zhang Fei and the others were collecting trophies in a large camp outside Feiru City. It turned out that the strong cavalry led by Zhang Fei was carrying heavy weight.
It is relatively large and cannot catch up with the fleeing foreign nomadic cavalry. Only the assault cavalry led by Tuoba Ying can catch up with these nomadic cavalry.
And these more than 10,000 nomadic cavalry were not all the foreigners who came to help Zhang Ju. These foreigners dispatched about 20,000 troops this time. After defeating the Youzhou army, they
Some of them went to pursue the defeated army, but there were still 10,000 nomadic cavalry left behind.
Fortunately, the nomadic cavalry left behind were busy collecting food and supplies from the Youzhou military camp they had just conquered. Meanwhile, the tribal leaders of the foreign tribes were discussing how to divide the accounts!
And just at this time, the nomadic cavalry chasing the enemy escaped back, and the assault cavalry led by Tuoba Ying, who followed closely behind, also bit the tail of the defeated nomadic cavalry, chased them in, and drove these defeated cavalry away.
The fleeing nomadic cavalry rushed through the Youzhou soldiers camp, and at the same time launched a merciless massacre of the foreign cavalry who remained in the camp without any preparation.
After a while, Zhang Fei's strong cavalry arrived. They launched a charge against the nomadic cavalry who had just recovered. In a head-on confrontation, the two armies faced each other head-on. The nomadic cavalry could not be compared to the nomadic cavalry led by Zhang Fei no matter what.
And they are well-equipped strong cavalry!
What's more, at this time, these nomadic cavalry left behind had just been baptized by the shock cavalry and had not yet understood what it was like. In this way, the nomadic cavalry left behind, led by their own people who had been defeated, with only one or two thousand riders left, were defeated.
The five battalions of strong cavalry and assault cavalry each led by Zhang Fei and Tuoba Ying were defeated.
The panicked nomadic cavalry ran away in panic!
At this time, Zhang Fei also received the order from his elder brother Liu Ming, and he knew that the strong cavalry he led could not catch up with the nomadic cavalry who fled in panic!
Therefore, Zhang Fei gathered his troops, sent out sentries, and began to clean up the battlefield and take inventory of the fruits of victory. These were all things Liu Ming had repeatedly emphasized, and now they had become a habit and implemented them naturally.
Liu Ming caught up and saw that Zhang Fei and the others were not only fine, but also defeated more than 10,000 enemy troops, and seized grain and grass, as well as countless baggage! There were also three to four thousand horses. He was overjoyed. He told Zhang Fei a little and warned him.
Zhang Fei wanted to be cautious, so he began to praise the generals for their bravery and tenacity. Zhang Fei knew that his elder brother was concerned about his own safety, and he was used to being talked about by Liu Ming, so he didn't take it to heart at all. His ears automatically filtered Liu Ming's words,
They happily asked Liu Ming to serve wine to celebrate.
There was no reason for Liu Ming to refuse. He immediately ordered his soldiers to set up camp and prepare wine to celebrate the victory! However, Liu Ming also knew that this was the time when the two armies were confronting each other, and he must not drink to cause trouble! At the same time, the order was issued, and each soldier only had
You can drink a bowl, and after the enemy is calmed down, let everyone get drunk to their heart's content.
During the march and fighting, it would be great to have a bowl of wine. The soldiers were all cheering with contentment. Only Zhang Fei called Liu Ming aside and kept asking Liu Ming for a drink. This was just a bowl.
There is not enough wine for the third master, but it will hook the third master's drinking bug. After listening to Zhang Fei's complaint, Liu Ming thought to himself, this is the same reason! With Zhang Fei's drinking capacity, how can this bowl be enough? But it is not enough.
You can't treat one with favoritism! So Liu Ming asked Zhang Fei to take one of the men who was guarding Liu Ming, and another heavy drinker Dian Wei. Each of them took a jar of wine, hid in another tent, and drank secretly!
Zhang Fei knew the rules in the army and thought he would not ask for it. Unexpectedly, his elder brother agreed. He was so happy that he took Dian Wei and hid aside to drink.
However, unexpectedly Dian Wei disagreed, and Dian Wei said: "My family is responsible for protecting the lord, how can I be greedy for wine and cause trouble? If the three generals want to drink, they can go on their own. I will also be with you.
The Lord is on your left and right to ensure the Lord's safety."
When Zhang Fei saw that Dian Wei was not going, he was afraid that he would not be able to drink anymore, so he said to Dian Wei: "Is this what you said? Now that we have just won the battle, and my elder brother is under the protection of the army, where is the danger?"
? Besides, my eldest brother is more skilled than me, so how can I need protection from others? My eldest brother orders everyone else to drink only one bowl of wine, but only allows you and me to drink from one jar each. Isn’t it unfair to you and me?
Extra care? How can you live up to my brother's kindness? You should just let me drink. Brother will not be in danger here! Brother, don't you think so?" Zhang Fei was afraid that Dian Wei could not be moved, so he withdrew again.
Liu Ming.
Liu Ming had no choice but to help Zhang Fei persuade Dian Wei.
After Liu Ming and Zhang Fei's strong persuasion, Dian Wei followed Zhang Fei to drink.
Liu Ming sent Zhang Fei away and returned to the main tent. At this time, someone reported that Liaodong Cavalry Governor Gongsun Zan had paid a visit to Lord Mu of Youzhou.