Chapter 103 The Army Collapse
Zang Ba, who was stationed and watching, suddenly saw the smoke rising from the opposite slope and felt something was wrong. Sure enough, Taishan's powerful soldiers who were approaching Zang Bafang suddenly accelerated.
Zang Ba secretly complained that it was not good, and immediately ordered the commander to beat the drum.
When the front line heard the sound of drums, they immediately fired arrows at the powerful Taishan soldiers approaching, but the sparse arrow rain could not stop the powerful soldiers from rushing forward.
Under the charge of several leading warriors, the opponent directly collided with the two formations of swordsmen in the first row.
Zang Ba was furious when he saw this on his horse, and immediately ordered his guards to fetch Wang Dang who had just left. He wanted to ask him carefully, hadn't Feng Gao's powerful soldiers made an appointment with him to attack the Taishan bandits together? Why did he turn around and attack him now?
After a while, the guards reported that Wang Dang ran away and ran towards the Yilu bandit formation behind the formation.
Zang Ba took out a command arrow from his robe and asked the guard to take the command arrow and rush towards the Yilu bandits in the rear formation, killing them regardless of their orders.
The guard takes the command arrow and responds.
After that, Zang Ba stopped caring about this matter and focused all his attention on the fighting in the front line.
As the leaders of their own sharp arrow formation, the two swordsmen were originally the daredevils of Langya Mountain. Although they were being beaten back by the opponent, they still maintained the formation, but it was also very dangerous.
But when I turned to Zhang Chong, I saw another face.
Zhang Chong saw that Dong Fang and other seven generals had already charged into the formation on the opposite side. But after all, it was a new attachment. Even though Dong Fang and others fought hard to die, the subordinates were still timid, and many people were fighting bad battles and fooling around.
Zhang Chong shook his head. He had no intention of expecting these new auxiliary troops to break the formation. He turned to look at Dian Wei, who was as strong as a bear, and said with a smile:
"Dianjun, do you dare to lead my collision team into the battle?"
Dian Wei didn't squint his eyes and only replied:
"I dare to die if I don't obey."
Then Dian Wei wore three layers of armor and carried two halberds. He held the Huanshou Dao in his right hand and a large spear in his left hand, and led fifty of the axemen to rush to the front of the formation.
At this moment, two generals, Dong Fang and Guo Mo, were taking the lead, charging and killing in front of the formation.
Dong Fang held a ring-headed sword in each hand and stabbed the Langya thief casually. He used the knife in his left hand to block the knife in front of him, and stabbed the opponent to death with the knife in his right hand.
There was someone coming to help from the opposite side. He blocked it with his iron armor, then crossed his swords with each other. When the two swords crossed, a huge head flew out.
Guo Mo didn't give in too much. He used an iron spear and danced left and right. Every time the iron spear hit, the muscles and bones of the opponent would collapse.
However, no matter how brave Dong Fan and Guo Mo were, it was of no avail, because the troops behind him had no fighting spirit. Even if a gap was opened in front, those troops were still stuck in place, waving their weapons randomly with the Langya thieves, with no intention of advancing.
Not only that, the bravery of Dong Fang and Guo Mo attracted the attention of the Langya generals behind the formation, and several green-headed generals had begun to surround and kill the two. At this moment, Generals Dong and Guo had been slashed several times on their armor.
At this moment, Dian Wei came to kill him.
How brave Dian Wei is, people who have never fought with him can't feel it at all, and those who feel it are already dead.
At this moment, he has a shield on his left and a sword on his right. Anyone who blocks him will be crushed by the blade. The two generals behind Dian Wei are Cai Que and Guo Zu. One is an iron beast and the other is a fierce wolf. They use flying axes to smash, and there is no enemy at all.
At that moment, the three generals were at the forefront, and the entire collision team went in. Dong Fang and Guo Mo on the side immediately drove Bu Qu to rush in through this gap.
Suddenly, Zang Ba's front line collapsed.
The five formations of Langya soldiers on the second level immediately became commotion when they saw the front formation collapsing so quickly. However, Jia Yong stepped forward and held back the formation again.
On Zhang Chong's side, just when the first wave of soldiers he sent was exhausted, the second wave of soldiers from Li Damu and Ding Sheng came over and ran into the second line of Langya soldiers.
This is Zhang Chong's new tactic, three fierce continuous battles.
It means fighting, charging, and chasing, and the combat group is divided into four sequences. There are four groups: trap, charge, assault, and reserve. The first three groups must alternately attack and charge at the enemy's formation. As long as the trapping group breaks the formation, the charging group must charge from within the formation. Once they encounter the enemy's formation to fill the gap, the assaulting group must attack them to counterattack.
In short, it is necessary to attack the enemy's positions alternately like a storm. As for the last column, which is the reserve, it is to provide support for the first three soldiers when they want to retreat.
It can be said that Zhang Chong's alternating battles maximized his advantage in elite troops. Often the enemy soldiers in the front row have to endure at least three rounds of high-intensity fighting on our side without rest.
The enemy's rear guard had plenty of physical strength, but they were unable to move forward because the front line was blocking them. This is a huge gap in tactics, which allows Zhang Chong's troops to form an absolute advantage in local attacks.
Sure enough, after a long battle, the Langya bandits' second wave of troops retreated steadily, and the selected forwards in the back row could only be forced to retreat continuously by those in front.
Under the banner, Zang Ba was extremely anxious. He really didn't expect that this Taishan soldier could fight to this point.
His central guard troops on the side saw that the formation was retreating steadily. They were so anxious that they asked Zang Ba to fight.
Zang Ba said sadly:
"You and Cao have been trained by my father and son, and they are all trained as equal to a hundred, so that they can be prepared for each other and share the same fate. I would rather not capture the Taishan thieves, how can I bear to drive Ru Cao into a dangerous place where he will die?"
When his guard heard this, he cried:
"A scholar dies for a confidant. It is precisely because we have been nurtured by his father and son. Now that our army is in danger and the army is about to collapse, this is the time for us to use our lives. Give the order, he."
After saying that, the central guard kowtows and weeps. Zang Bahu had tears in his eyes. He watched the five formations in the second row retreating steadily, but he did not make up his mind to push his most elite guards forward.
To him, it doesn't matter if two thousand old thieves are wiped out. As long as he has these two hundred guards, he can still raise another Langya soldier.
He looked at the military formations on the left and right. At this time, Wu Dun had already marched to the left of the Taishan bandit formation, but he did not know whether he had not received the order or was timid and was holding back on patrol.
The skirmishers of the two Sun brothers standing on the slope on the left were only waving their flags and shouting, without any intention of flanking the Taishan bandits.
Zang Ba couldn't stand it any longer and began to wave the flag and mobilize his troops on both sides.
The Sun brothers answered the flag, and then they gathered together and began to rush down the slope. However, a rain of arrows came from the Taishan bandits, and the Sun brothers' Shanliao fell like wheat. Then they lost all their courage and collapsed back to the north of the slope at a faster speed.
But over there, Wu Dun didn't respond to the flag at all, and remained stationary. Zang Ba was so angry that he cursed:
"Wu Dun, Wu Dun, wouldn't it be appropriate for you to just call Wu Dan."
It was also at this time that a third wave of sharp soldiers rushed towards the opposite formation. Their morale was high and their fighting equipment was excellent. After only a moment of fighting, Zang Ba saw that among the five formations he had lined up, the middle one was directly overwhelmed and the entire battle line was divided.
Zang Ba waved the military flag and mobilized the final preparations, that is, the Yilu Mountain soldiers who had not participated in the battle from beginning to end. But he waved more than ten times, but there was no reaction at all.
It's terrible now. There are two thousand soldiers in Yilu Shanliao, and they are full of physical strength. If they stop fighting, Zang Ba will wipe out all his family wealth in one battle.
He was worried that these people were timid and he wanted to pull them over, so without any further hesitation, Pomma rushed to the Yilu Mountain House in front of everyone.
Zang Ba promised them in front of the battle that the Yilu Shanliao people would get half of what they captured in this battle, and that the prisoners would be inspected first after the war.
The opponent was still silent. Just as Zang Ba was getting nervous, suddenly more than a dozen human heads were thrown out with their hair tied in a bun.
Also coming out at the same time were the guards he had just sent to deliver orders to the rear. At this moment, both of his ears were cut off, and he ran back to Zang Ba’s horse with a bloody face, crying:
"Qu, those Yilu Shanliao people have rebelled. They are not a group of thieves at all, but the Taiping Road of Qi State. The other side asked me to deliver a message, telling him to kneel down and surrender. He said that you are being pinched from both sides now. If you don't surrender, you will die without a burial. place.”
Zang Ba was completely dizzy. How could this Taiping Dao from Qi State be disguised as a member of the Yilu Mountains? Why would the Taiping Taoists of Qi help the Taishan bandits? Too many questions flooded into Zang Ba's mind.
He calmed down, turned his horse's head, ignored the kneeling and crying guards, and galloped into the formation. He wanted to withdraw the army and make it impossible to fight.
That's right, all of this was Zhang Chong's plan.
Although the last internal instruction had stirred up the troops, it had inadvertently expanded his connections and influence in Qingzhou Dao. He stood unequivocally on the side of the elites and directly won the friendship of Qu Shuai, the elite faction on Qingzhou Road.
For example, Sima Ju of Qi State changed his view on Zhang Chong, and finally made the two families get closer. Maybe this was Sima Ju's polite words, but Zhang Chong took it seriously.
This time when the Langya bandits came, he immediately thought of it, but he didn't know where Sima Ju was, so he asked Xu He from Le'an County to be the intermediary and sent a letter to Sima Ju.
In the letter, Zhang Chong not only expressed the ideal of Qingzhou's Taiping Road to clean up the world, but also said that the two families should work together as one heart. Later, when the Langya bandits invaded, they asked Sima Ju to command the Qi followers to cross Mount Lu and pretend to be bandits to join Zang Ba's army. When the time comes, we will use three rays of smoke as a signal to attack unexpectedly and unexpectedly. Of course, at the end, Zhang Chong said something more practical. If Qi State participated in the battle at Taiping Road, Zang Ba's army would get half of the captured troops, and the prisoners would be replenished first.
Coincidentally, the conditions were the same as Zang Bagan’s promise before the battle.
At this moment, Sima Ju, the commander of Taiping Road in Qi State, was in the formation. He and Wang Dang, who fled into the formation beside him, sighed:
"Are all your Qu Kui generals so good at fighting?"
Wang Dang himself surrendered before the battle, and he had not even been a soldier of Zhang Chong for a day, but could Zhang Chong's Taishan soldiers be able to fight? Then he has a lot of say. After all, he has been defeated twice.
Wang Dang respectfully said to Sima Ju:
"Back to Commander Sima Qu, our Taishan soldiers are brave enough to die, and there are many warriors working hard. What's more important is that our Qu Kuai's troops are unparalleled. He can hit everything he counts, and defeat everything he attacks. So he can fight."
Sima Ju stopped brooding and stopped talking.
He looked at the flying banner with the word "Chong" in the north and murmured:
"It seems that my teaching Huang Tian is really promising."
Over there under the banner with the character "Chong", He Kui, the counselor and counselor accompanying the army, looked at the banner with the character "Zang" on the opposite side slowly moving to the left, and quickly leaned over and said:
"Qu, that Zang Ba is probably going to run away."
Zhang Chong laughed:
"He Jun, we will definitely rescue the wife and children of the tribe. Don't worry, this Zang Ba can't escape."
At this moment, the battlefield began to remember the sounds coming and going:
"The enemy general will be killed by Dian Wei."
"The enemy general will be killed by me, Guo Song."
……
Suddenly, more than a dozen generals were killed, more than a dozen flags fell, and Zang Ba's entire army collapsed.
(End of chapter)