Chapter 218 Dark Sky
After Lu Qian calmed people's hearts, he ordered the whole army to kill pigs and sheep, sacrifice flags and go out for the battle. Fifteen hundred people from Rencheng Kingdom were fighting on the north bank of Pu River and headed straight for Shanyang Camp.
The two villages are fifteen miles apart. Lu Qian, He Xu, Jingzhou, and Fan Yanzhen are connected by chariots, so they can prepare for an ambush by the Taishan Army at any time. They walked cautiously for four miles, and then they saw a tragedy. In the wilderness by the Pu River, there were broken weapons and broken flags, and the corpses of Han soldiers in crimson uniforms were everywhere.
Lu Qian, who had been walking in front of the army, only glanced at it and immediately asked the guards to blow the trumpets and ordered his troops to form a car formation immediately.
Rencheng's soldiers were also well-trained. When the drums and horns sounded, the military officials urged the soldiers to pull out the spears from the carriages, and then the carriages were connected with the spears facing outward, forming a simple chariot formation.
Sure enough, the Han soldiers had just formed their formation. In the dust in front of them, the Taishan Army's flying cavalry crossed from the shallow Pu River. Their horses did not rest and came after them to kill them.
Lu Qian guessed that the Taishan bandits were nearby when he saw that the uniforms of the Han soldiers' corpses were still there. Because in any military war, the enemy's uniforms are important to capture. If the Taishan bandits have finished fighting, it is impossible not to take these uniforms away.
Facing the roaring hordes of cavalry, the soldiers of Rencheng, who rarely resisted the cavalry group, could not help but panic and their flags were tilted. But Lu Qian stood in front of the whole army and shouted at the loudest voice in his life:
"Brothers and soldiers, today will be the most important day in our lives. We will destroy this group of moth thieves on the banks of the Pu River, and eliminate this group of locusts that are destroying our wives, children and fields. And I, Lu Qian, will be with you all. , fight side by side, with me as the leader. If you retreat, we will die here together."
After saying that, he sang loudly:
"How can I say that I have no clothes? I share the same robe with you. When the king raised an army, he repaired my sword and spear, and I share the same enemy with you!"
Hou Lu Qian raised his iron spear and sang:
"Ha!"
All the soldiers responded:
"Ha!"
For a time, thousands of people were in the same breath, their shouts were like thunder, and their breath was like fog. The long soldiers clenched their spears and waited for the impact, while the crossbowmen stabilized their shooting tools and prepared for a thunderous shot.
However, the charging Taishan Army's assault cavalry did not charge. Instead, they split into two directly in front of the Rencheng National Army formation and went around.
Lu Qian, who was standing in front of the formation, felt nervous and thought something was wrong. He quickly turned around and saw that this group of cavalry did not care about them at all and drove their horses forward directly.
That was the location of the Renchengguo camp.
The soldiers of Rencheng Kingdom thought they would experience a bloody battle, but who knew that the thieves would leave without a fight. The joy of surviving and the glory of winning without a fight made them roar loudly, as if they had experienced a great victory.
Lu Qian also shouted. But he knew in his heart the seriousness of the problem at this moment. These cavalry were trying to cut off his escape route. The Renchengguo camp is where the entire army supplies supplies. If it is occupied by the Taishan bandits, how can they survive alone?
Who is this thief general? How can he be so sophisticated in using troops?
The person leading this cavalry was Zhang Chong’s general Tian Jun!
They followed the retreat of Shanyang soldiers and chased them all the way until they encountered a Han army chariot formation on the south bank of Pu River. Tian Jun looked at the flag and knew that it was reinforcements from Rencheng State. He also saw that the chariot formation was very strong, so he did not attack. Instead, he used the magic of cavalry to directly attack the Han soldiers' camp, making it impossible to advance or retreat.
At the same time, Dian Wei, Yu Jin, Li Bi, and Gao Ya also emerged from the lurking bushes and began to surround Rencheng's soldiers. It turned out that these four soldiers were the culprits who had just ambushed the Shanyang soldiers.
Previously, the four troops of Dian and Wei were strangling the defeated troops fleeing south on the communication line, and were about to clean up the battlefield. Suddenly, smoke and dust rose from the south. It was obvious that the troops from Rencheng State were dispatched from the south.
Dian Wei and Yu Jin discussed it and decided to hide on the spot and ambush the Han soldiers who were going north.
But who knew that this group of Han soldiers were so cautious, and it happened that Tian Jun also waded across the river with his cavalry. Dian Wei and others knew that it would be more difficult to ambush this Han army again.
But it doesn't matter. Since an ambush doesn't work, it's a direct siege.
Dian Wei and Yu Jin had calculated that there were only 1,500 soldiers from Rencheng who went north to rescue this time, and the two of them, Li Bi and Gao Ya combined, the four troops totaled 2,000 elite soldiers, and they could eat them all in one bite.
Therefore, Dian Wei stood up from the grass, waved the flag behind him, and all the soldiers immediately disappeared from their ambush, so they organized the army in a grand manner, and then continued to surround the Rencheng soldiers in the car.
The mood of the Rencheng soldiers in the car formation was like a roller coaster. Just now, I was cheering for my "defeat" of the bandit knights. At this moment, suddenly bandit soldiers emerged from the grass and from behind the rocks, cursing my mother, what kind of thieves are these! So cunning?
But that's it. The morale of Rencheng's soldiers is high at the moment, and they are all eager to have a bright future in today's battle.
Therefore, one side is a veteran of hundreds of battles, and the other side is the country's economic system. Both are determined to kill thieves and have high morale. That's simple, let's fight to the death on the shore of Pu River!
In this battle, Dian Wei, as the commander-in-chief, discussed with Yu Jin, Li Bi, and Gao Ya, and divided the entire army of 2,000 soldiers into three sides. Dian Wei's troops mainly attacked the south of the enemy's formation, and Yu Jin's troops squeezed the west of the enemy's formation. Li Bi and Gao Ya's troops The main force squeezed the east side of the enemy's position, and the northern side was released alone, planning to drive the enemy towards Pu River.
Then the trumpets sounded, and each ministry began to arrange the military order according to the military meeting. The four troops advanced from three sides and began to squeeze the Renchengguo troop formation step by step.
Finally, when they were still about 500 steps away from the enemy's position, they raised the Weiton flag and the entire army stopped. At this distance, the soldiers in the front row of the Taishan Army could already see the enemy soldiers in the car camp opposite. These enemy soldiers looked immature, but none of these Taishan soldiers looked down upon them.
The veterans who have fought with the Taishan Army until now have already understood a truth. Recruits can still shoot arrows that can kill them. The battlefield is the fairest and most uncertain place, and stories of warriors being attacked and killed by the weak are not uncommon.
At this moment, the rangers from both sides began to come into contact. Just in front of the formation, their respective riders began to fight in twos and twos, showing off their superb fighting skills.
It is different from what most people think that the car formation will just stick to it. The Han soldiers' chariot formations would be protected by cavalry on the outer wings, which is called both offense and defense. This tactic originated from the need to fight in fortresses during the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han army went deep into the grasslands, and all exploration and attack operations relied on cavalry. However, the Han army pioneered the addition of chariot troops to the cavalry, which were specially used as shore islands for baggage and cavalry. Whenever the Han cavalry went out to explore, break up attacks, and ride after battles, they would return to the cavalry formation to rest or obtain supplies. This is very similar to the relationship between aircraft carriers and battle groups.
So at this moment, when the two sides stood still, the first to break out in fierce conflict was the rangers of both sides, who wanted to test each other's combat prowess.
Here the knights are fighting, and over there there are conch whistles in the Han troop formation. I don’t know what military order is being conveyed. In short, we saw that the car formation, which originally had only one circle, gradually shrank in the conch, forming a double-layered circle.
Obviously, when the Han soldiers did not have an advantage in strength, they chose to shrink the defense line and reduce the outer circle contact surface of the vehicle formation.
Here, the battle of the Rangers has ended. Taishan's four troops have dispatched a total of fifty elite cavalry from each to participate in the battle. However, the Han soldiers on the opposite side only have thirty Rangers, so they are outnumbered. The victory naturally belongs to Taishan. military.
In a legion war, the smaller the number, the larger the number. But the smaller the battle, the more the number of people is the key to success or failure.
The cavalry general leading this group of rangers was Zhang Lie, the leader of Dian Wei's guard. He was specially recruited by Dian Wei from Meng Ju's flying army. Although he was young, he had participated in many battles and was especially good at such small-scale mounted battles.
Zhang Lie's right arm was rubbed by an enemy general, resulting in a large wound, but fortunately it was not deep. Several companions around him persuaded Zhang Lie to return to the battle and let the medical general bandage him, but he remained unmoved and excitedly led the rangers to drive away the remaining Han army cavalry.
This is also an old tactic of the Taishan Army. Once the enemy soldiers are defeated, they will subconsciously drive the remaining soldiers to rush into the enemy formation to see if they can break through. But it was obvious that this group of Han cavalry were also veterans. Although eight of their twenty cavalry were immediately dismounted as soon as they came into contact and could no longer fight, they retreated in an orderly manner. They bypassed the army's vehicle formation and headed directly to the north. There were no Taishan bandits there, so they could calmly return to the vehicle formation to regroup.
Seeing that driving the disabled cavalry into the formation didn't work, Zhang Lie had no choice but to give up and just wander around the camp, watching for possible fighters at any time.
Now is the real fight with swords and guns!
Dian Wei immediately ordered:
"Order all ministries to continue to advance, marching and drumming without stopping, and commanding the left and right sides respectively."
Then Tan Ma, who had been waiting for a long time, galloped in both directions and told Yu Jin, Li Bi and Gao Ya.
In the sound of steps and drums, the Taishan Army marched on three sides, like Lin Changge walking slowly, with might and solemnity.
With his hands on the awning, Dian Wei thought about the previous battles when he followed Qu Kui Zhang Chong, and asked himself, if Qu Kui was here, how would he choose to break the formation?
In the field of vision, although this Han soldier set up a car formation, its soldiers were obviously not as good as the soldiers they met in Bo County in the first half of the year. The one named Liu Yanzha was the real iron wall, and the one in front of them was not as good as the one they met in Bo County in the first half of the year. He had some ideas, and the formation was relatively neat at first, but as he led his troops to press forward further, the situation on the opposite side became obviously chaotic.
As far as Dian Wei could see, from time to time he could see Han officials waving big sticks in the enemy formation, beating those subordinates who were confused.
Seeing this, Dian Wei felt calm. He shouted:
"The archer raised his bow."
The archers who had been prepared raised their bows one after another, waiting for the next military order.
The Taishan army's phalanx continued to move, and soon reached a place only two hundred steps away from the Han army's chariot formation. Dian Wei waved the red flag. Zhao Chong, the general who had already lined up his horse to reach the archers, immediately answered the flag and shouted to the two hundred archers:
"Two hundred steps ahead."
After hearing this, the Taoist priests began to string and bend their bows.
After that, the phalanx continued to move, and Zhao Chong shouted again:
"One hundred and fifty steps forward, shoot three arrows quickly."
Then, arrows flew like feathered locusts, flying towards anyone in front of the car formation.
At the same time, the warriors at the front of the Dianwei tribe also began to suffer from the rain of arrows from the Han soldiers. The huge impact forced these warriors to kneel down and resist the pillars, struggling to provide certain protection for their comrades behind them.
But the armor-bearing soldiers in front stopped, but the Taishan Army's phalanx continued to advance. The soldiers in the back row continued to hold the big pillar high, took ten steps forward, and then set up their pillars. Then the third row came closer and raised their pillars again. Finally, the soldiers in the first row charged again, and that's it. The distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.
At this time, Zhao Chong had ordered the archers to start shooting freely, especially to shoot where there were many enemy soldiers.
Screams came one after another from both camps, but overall, the Taishan Army suffered fewer casualties because of its astonishing armor coverage rate. Moreover, there are mature teams of medical craftsmen at the rear who are dragging down injured soldiers with arrows for treatment.
When there were only ten steps ahead, the spears erected by the enemy were shining with an icy cold light, revealing a cold murderous intent. But at this moment, the wall of the front row of the Taishan Army suddenly opened wide, directly revealing the forty large yellow crossbows hidden behind the pillars. This is the killing move Dian Wei prepared for this Han soldier.
These large yellow crossbows were captured from the Northern Army in the previous Battle of Puyangjin. In fact, only twenty were assigned to Dianwei, and the remaining twenty were borrowed by him, Yu Jin, Li Bi, and Gao Ya.
Sure enough, the Han soldiers in the outermost row of the camp, who were preparing to stab with spears, suddenly saw the rows of big yellow crossbows in front of them. Their minds went blank, and then everything went dark.
In just one round, the infinitely powerful big yellow crossbow directly cleared away the spear-wielding Han soldiers in front of them. Then, while the other Han soldiers were still in a daze, Zhao Chong, who was wearing two layers of armor, directly pulled out the iron bones from his waist, put down his visor, and suddenly accelerated and ran wildly , and then jumped into the car formation.
However, Zhao Chong did not see the Han soldiers at his feet because the visor blocked his field of vision.
After the Han soldier was pierced through the chest by the big yellow crossbow, he did not die immediately. Instead, he vomited blood. However, the only breath he had left was because when Zhao Chong jumped into the car formation, he stepped on it even with his armor. It hit his chest and knocked him out of breath.
But because of this trip, Zhao Chong stumbled and fell to the ground. Then several weapons struck him. Zhao Chong couldn't see it, but he only knew that his whole body was making a clanging sound. He subconsciously curled up his whole body to reduce the impact area.
Soon the armored soldiers who followed Zhao Chong into the chariot formation killed the Han soldiers who hacked Zhao Chong and pulled him up. Zhao Chong was dizzy at this time. After being helped up, he didn't know whether he was injured or not.
What was more worried than him were Zhao Chong's guards. As soon as they helped Zhao Chong up, they looked at his injuries, and then discovered that the few blows that the Han soldiers had made before were all on the armor, but Zhao Chong was actually fine. .
Then in Zhao Chong's shaking eyes, a soldier patted Zhao Chong and shook his head to indicate that it was okay. At this time, Zhao Chong felt relieved and began to shake his head to wake up quickly.
As soon as Zhao Chong stopped, the twenty soldiers who jumped into the car formation could only barely form a circle around him and try their best to support him in the car formation. Although they were protected by armor, they were at a huge disadvantage because they were surrounded by enemy soldiers with spears and halberds. If you are not careful, one person will be hooked on the armor and dragged away by the enemy soldiers.
Just when Zhao Chong and others who had entered the chariot formation were in danger, another song general, Xu Xi, also jumped into the formation with a group of soldiers, and connected with Zhao Chong and others, directly pushing back the Han soldiers' line. . Some Han soldiers couldn't stand it any longer and walked towards the second row of vehicles in the circle in a panic.
The rout is like a plague, quickly infecting the surrounding area. After a while, the south side of the Rencheng National Vehicle Formation fell.
Zhao Chong was now awake. Seeing that the Han soldiers on the opposite side were panicking, he continued his efforts, hoping to break through the second circle of vehicles in one go.
Suddenly at this moment, a loud roar came from behind the crowded enemy soldiers in front:
"Invincible!"
"Invincible!"
"Invincible!"
Zhao Chong was still wondering what was going on when he suddenly saw the retreating Han soldiers parting ways as if they were encountering a rock, and then a strong white armored soldier holding an iron spear ran towards him. The man made a leap, pierced Zhao Chong's armor with a spear, and then used his arms to lift Zhao Chong directly.
Zhao Chong was not dead at this time. When he was provoked by Lu Qian, he glanced at the sky and was then smashed to the ground.
Why is it getting dark!
(End of chapter)