Chapter 208 Liangzhou Ouitiao
On the same day that Shao Xun's pioneer troops arrived at Shenyuan Pass, Wang Mi's main force set out in batches from Yanshi County.
Pioneer Liu Ling’s 20,000 men left one day early.
Wang Mibu set out on the second day of May.
Traveling for large armies, especially for troops of Wang Miyi’s caliber, is even more complicated.
The first group of people set off before dawn, the second group of people left the camp at dawn, and the third group of people...
It was not until the afternoon that the noisy volunteers left. The victory was almost clean - Wang Sang led more than 10,000 people to stay behind to deter possible pursuers.
However, although the volunteers were in chaos, they were much more organized than when they first captured Xuchang in April.
Those who disobeyed orders and ran around were beaten head-on by Shao Xun.
With ulterior motives, he just escaped halfway with the thieves who were looking for benefits.
Giving up death also gave up a large part of the cannon fodder.
All this has successfully made the volunteer lose weight and become more refined overall.
Actually, this is what rogue bandits are like.
If you beat him and win consecutively, as long as you don’t cause serious damage to his main elite and only lose a few loose pieces of fat from his body, it won’t hurt, because they have already lost their ability during the long march. It will continue to "drop meat" regardless of whether it has experienced combat or not.
The march into Luoyang was exciting for Wang Mi.
No matter how calm and capable he was before, how cunning and cruel he was, he was a native of Jin after all, so he naturally had a sense of awe for the emperor and his ministers in Luoyang. But after this kind of awe is alienated in the heart, it becomes cruel and violent, with a special urge to destroy it.
At this time, he was riding on the back of a horse, and beside him was the "Kite Camp" cavalry consisting of more than a thousand elite old thieves.
The sources of the Yaozi camp are very mixed. More than half of them are from Qingzhou. In addition, there are also the remnants of Jisang who fled, the Xuzhou officers and soldiers who deserted, some of Yanzhou's powerful and elite tribes of small gentry, etc. .
The peripheral cannon fodder of the rogue bandits is replaced all the year round, and even many people are replaced after a battle. However, the personnel replacement rate of this elite backbone battalion is not that high unless it suffers a devastating blow.
Before and after the Yaozi Camp, there were also Taishan, Zhongjian, Shenzhen, Wuqian and other camps, each with three to four thousand people.
Of course there weren't so many people before, but the expansion has been a bit fast in the past two or three months, which makes Wang Mi feel a little worried - many people bring weapons to throw, and their origins are suspicious at first glance. They are either rout soldiers or bandits, without permission. Test, loyalty is average.
But now they need to fight, so they have to be polite, and they will reorganize after Luoyang is captured.
Sometimes overeating is not a bad thing, as long as you have time to digest it.
The scale of 60,000 to 70,000 infantry and cavalry is huge. The entire march stretched to dozens of miles, vast and boundless.
There are many ordinary people in the counties and villages we pass through.
Some scattered hundreds of households gathered together and built an earthen fence. There was not even a fence, but a wooden fence was used to surround it, calling itself the "Dock Wall". At this time, someone led the troops to rush over and snatched everything that could be captured with one drum. Ding Zhuang was recruited into the army and became the perimeter. Poor soldiers.
Some local fences are thicker and the people are more brave. If they can't take it down with one drum, they are forced to pay some money and food.
As for those Wubao that look larger, let’s not bother with that. It’s not that it can’t be defeated, it’s that it’s not worth taking action. I'll deal with them later when they become a weakling. I don't believe they won't surrender.
On the fourth day of May, pioneer Liu Ling's troops have arrived in the eastern suburbs of Luoyang.
At this time, Shao Xun, Mi Huang, and Chen Yan combined more than 10,000 troops and also left Sheyuan Pass and advanced towards Yanshi.
At this time, Luoyang was undergoing the final mobilization before the war.
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On the sixth day of May in the second year of Yongjia (308), people from Wang Mi’s tribe arrived at Luoyang City one after another. Because there are so many people, the entire army has nearly 80,000 people, so it is distributed in two large areas in the south and east of the city.
Among them, Wang Mi's camp was set up outside Jianchun Gate. There were about 50,000 thieves in the east of the city.
There are seven or eight thousand partial troops in the north of the city, which are only used for harassment.
On that day, Liu Ling led more than 20,000 people to move to the south of the city. He personally led 500 cavalry and 3,000 infantry to call for formation outside Jinyang Gate.
At this time, Shao Xun had already led his troops to Yanshi.
Wang Sang was a little anxious because he really didn't have any troops on hand to fight. After going out to fight in the city, he was defeated, so he retreated into the city and did not dare to fight.
Shao Xun left thousands of people from Chen Yan's department to monitor the rebel army. He took his own silver spear, long sword, Yamen and other troops and 3,000 soldiers from the Sili Xiaowei Department and headed west to Luoyang.
After Liu Ling called for a formation outside the city, the Jinyang Gate suddenly opened. General He Lun of the left guard, General Wang Hu of the heroic cavalry, and General Beigong Jun, the governor of Liangzhou, led more than 3,000 people out of the city.
Liu Ling climbed onto a roof and overlooked the officers and soldiers.
He encountered the same predicament as those who had invaded Luoyang before. There were too many private houses outside the city, most of which were of good quality, and it was very difficult to demolish them. Therefore, he could not deploy too many troops, so he could only carry out This kind of battle is based on "thousands". The official army dispatched three thousand infantry, three to four hundred cavalry, plus—Hey, these infantry who came out first were so strange!
Liu Ling looked intently and saw that more than a hundred soldiers were extremely tall and powerful. Even though they were wearing two layers of armor and holding large shields and halberds, their pace was still slow.
Looking at their formation, it is even more bizarre.
The non-traditional Central Plains infantry formation - in fact, more than a hundred people can't form any formation - there are a few people in a group, and the one holding the big shield is the strongest. The shield is almost as tall as one person. This will be very rare. The shield hand is not holding a ring-shou sword, but a sword.
Behind the shield bearer, there was a man holding a halberd. He looked powerful and heavy.
One person is holding a long spear, and there seems to be a short spear that can be thrown on his back.
What kind of play is this? Liu Ling couldn't understand.
Well, if he didn’t understand, he didn’t think much about it, and directly issued an order: five hundred cavalry to charge.
After the order was given, the five hundred horsemen came out of the formation, running quickly at first, then slowly increasing their speed, and then, taking advantage of the fact that there were more people on their side than the other side, they charged directly forward.
It was a replica of the Battle of Jieqiao where Gongsun Zan used more than 10,000 cavalry to bully Yuan Shao's 800 infantry, and directly attacked him - coincidentally, Yuan Shao's 800 infantry was also inseparable from Liangzhou. , "(Qu) Yi has been in Liangzhou for a long time, and he has learned Qiang fighting at dawn, and his soldiers are all sharp."
Five hundred cavalry surged in, directly breaking up the formation of more than a hundred infantry.
Liu Ling breathed a sigh of relief, but he was not happy for a long time when he found that the more than a hundred people were scattered and not in disorder, and they started fighting with the cavalry without forming a formation.
They formed a group of three, and one of them stuck his shield on the ground, with legs behind the shield, to face the cavalry charge.
One person was not afraid, waving a heavy halberd to hit the cavalry on the horse, or simply hooking the horse's legs. Looking at the ferocious roars on their faces, they seemed determined to trade their lives for their lives. The idea is extremely fierce and murderous.
The other person directly took the throwing spear and threw it with a "swish", accurately and hard. The one who hit it died immediately, screaming and fell off the horse.
Sometimes they would stand firm on the ground, point their spears at the cavalry, and stab them with angry eyes - you stab me, I will stab you, whoever blinks first is a coward, do you dare? Risk your life?
As expected, the five hundred horsemen only rushed in for a short distance before they were overturned, and countless of them fell to the ground.
The following cavalrymen were attacked by spears one after another, and fell off their horses one by one, which was a spectacular sight.
"Kill the thieves!" Halberdiers charged forward, hitting the cavalry who had lost speed and were turning their horses' heads.
Stab, chop or smash, extremely brave.
Led by them, shield bearers, spearmen, and spear throwers also rushed forward and charged against the cavalry.
Some enemy cavalry went around to the side and took out their horn bows to shoot arrows.
But the Liangzhou infantry reacted quickly. The sword and shield infantry blocked it with a big shield. The spear thrower came up again and threw them one by one, as if they had practiced for many years. Which, extremely accurate.
After shooting the opponent, the sword-and-shield infantry stepped forward, used their shields to hit the enemy knight who was staggering after falling off the horse, and then quickly thrust out a sword to kill the thief on the spot.
A mere hundred people, faced with the siege of five hundred cavalry, showed no signs of panic and fought in an orderly manner, as if they had faced such scenes countless times in their past military careers. .
The enemy cavalry quickly retreated and even fled in all directions.
More than a hundred Liangzhou heavy infantry became more aggressive and charged after the cavalry.
They chased and roared, casually killing more than a dozen thief cavalry who fell at the back, and then crashed directly into the formation of thief infantry.
"Kill!" The Liangzhou warriors rushed forward and knocked the thieves in the front row to pieces.
"Dong, dong, dong..." The drums beat, and the left guard general He Lun seized the opportunity to press forward the Forbidden Army infantry.
“Kill!” The three thousand infantrymen had been watching for a long time. Their morale had already been boosted and their blood was boiling. Now they lined up neatly, following the footsteps of more than a hundred Liangzhou warriors, and charged towards the panicked thieves. The infantry rushed over.
Even if Liu Ling carefully trained the elite infantry, even if many of them are fugitive soldiers with combat experience, even if they have three thousand people, they will not face the unreasonable attack of more than a hundred Liangzhou heavy armored infantry. When fighting, they were still in a hurry and gradually collapsed.
When the infantry of the Forbidden Army's left guard caught up, there was no longer any suspense about the outcome.
In this battle, Beigong Jun selected more than a hundred warriors to break into the formation, first breaking the enemy's cavalry, and then attacking the infantry. Almost no one could stop him.
Wang Mi's bandits, who quickly crossed to Henan in more than a month, suffered a humiliating defeat at Jinyang Gate.
Chītiáo (chītiáo) in Liangzhou, the bandits are gone.
The owl flies gracefully and kills people with fear.
I wonder what Wang Mi will think when the results of the Battle of Jinyang Gate reach Jianchun Gate.
(End of this chapter)