Chapter 265 Red Face
The collapse of Wu Zibu's Zuotun was tragic, but for such a huge battlefield, it was inconspicuous. Neither Dian Wei nor Guan Yu paid much attention to this, let alone Zhang Chong who was far behind the formation on the chariot.
In Zhang Chong's field of vision, a black dot as small as an ant rushed into his own formation. After contact, the edge of the formation sank for a moment, and then quickly returned to its original state.
This is war, because everyone stands in different positions. What is a tragic battle in the eyes of the soldiers seems to be calm in the eyes of those in high positions.
After Wu Zi gathered the remaining officials from Zuo Tun, he sent them to the back of the formation for treatment by doctors. Then the full-scale infantrymen from Right Tun took over the front after Zuo Tun evacuated.
Wu Zi blamed himself a little, feeling that he was so panicked in such a battle that he killed and injured dozens of soldiers.
But there is one thing to say, in the battle of Xingyang, no matter how funny the Han army or the Taishan army acted, even the incomprehensible actions were understandable.
Why?
Because none of the generals on both sides had commanded or participated in a battle involving tens of thousands of people. The Taishan Army claimed to have swept Heshuo and moved to the Central Plains, but what was it actually like? In each battle, the size of both sides did not exceed ten thousand people. Even in the Battle of Yingyang, the Taishan Army participated in the battle at the critical time of the battle, rather than the main battle.
But it is foreseeable that as long as the Taishan Army can survive such a large-scale battle, both the officers and soldiers will be completely improved.
But now, in Xingyang, not only Wu Zi is facing tens of thousands of people marching and retreating, but also the powerful Han troops on both sides are trembling with fear.
For example, when Guanqiu Xing took the lead in opening up the situation, rationally, the Han army's formation, which was only 250 steps behind, should take the opportunity to charge, and take advantage of the situation to overwhelm Wu Zi's phalanx in one fell swoop. Instead of waiting for Wu Zi to recover, he decisively ordered him to stab the Han cavalry with a platoon, so that the situation opened by Guan Qiu's Xing Jia Yong was ruined.
But reason is reason. In fact, the Han army generals behind were as panicked as Wu Zi, so much so that they watched blankly from beginning to end, as if the previous battle had never happened.
After Guanqiu Xing returned to the formation, he got his wish and won the cheers of all the Han soldiers, but his feat was meaningless on this battlefield.
The Taishan Army's formation was still as strict as before. Except for dozens of casualties on both sides, everything was the same as a moment ago.
After all, Wu Zi had the qualifications to be a general. After suffering the loss, he quickly stabilized his mind. Not only did he step forward to stand in front of the entire formation, he also moved closer to Guo Mo's troops on the side and reorganized the formation.
Soon the flag soldiers next to Wu Zi saw the flag in the direction of Sima behind him. The flag language:
"Bend forward and engage the enemy."
After receiving the order, Wu Zi took the lead and lowered the five-meter-long step with a long breath. Then he took the remaining one hundred stepmen and continued forward.
The same order was also sent to Guo Mo, who was in the left front song, so the two songs blew the horn at the same time. The dull horn drowned out the sound of the battlefield. The two front songs marched first, followed by two left and right songs, Eight hundred people followed closely behind, and then came the Zhongqu and back areas on both sides, followed by another eight hundred people.
In other words, Guan Yu left no reserve troops at all and sent all the troops he had on hand.
On the opposite side of the battlefield, the front row soldiers of the Han army saw such a scene. A huge human wall about a hundred meters long slowly walked over in the sunshine. They marched in neat military columns, the huge rifles in their hands reflected the metallic light in the sun, and countless apricot-yellow flags fluttered in the wind.
Every step they took was accompanied by the majestic beating of drums from the opposite side.
The march of the Taishan Army Guan Yu's troops all fell into the eyes of Huang Wan who was behind Hanzhong. He happily patted the carriage and said excitedly:
"Okay, that little thief is entering my cave."
It turned out that Huang Wan still chose to attack the well-prepared Guan Yu's troops when he clearly discovered the weakness of Taishan's army, just to attract Guan Yu's troops to come forward and engage his own troops. When the battle was inextricable, Huang Wan ordered his two wings to encircle him. Annihilate Guan Yu's tribe in one fell swoop.
At that time, he would take advantage of the situation to attack the weak left rear formation of the thieves, defeating the thieves in one fell swoop. Now that Guan Yu's actions all fell into his calculations, how could Huang Wan not be excited?
But Huang Wan was obviously too excited. He had no idea what was going to happen to his frontline soldiers.
Everything has its ups and downs. The shortcomings of this new type of giant formation compiled by Zhang Chong have just been seen, that is, if someone suddenly attacks with a face-to-face attack, there will be nowhere to use it. But his advantage is that when charging on the line, his longer strides and denser formation will kill all enemies facing him.
The two hundred and fifty steps were quickly completed. When he was only a spear away from the enemy, Wu Zi, who was taking a right step forward, began to shout loudly:
"Hold on, hold on."
After saying that, he accelerated again and began to rush towards the Han soldiers on the opposite side. The soldiers in the front row of the Han soldiers tried to fight back with their spears, but the length gap was too big, and they were already skewered on the enemy's rifle before they could reach the opposite side.
After the Taishan Army's rifle stabbed someone, they did not pull it out. Instead, they listened to the military order and continued to move forward. They wanted to squeeze the other side. The infantrymen in the second row, under the order of the leader, began to launch a second round of stabbings, causing a wave of damage to the enemy. Then came the third and fourth rounds.
These rifles were strung together with the corpses of Han soldiers, and with the help of the robes behind them, they continued to advance.
Wu Zi's side was seeking revenge, and the left-wing Qianqu Guo Mo's troops who were traveling together were also assassinating the enemy, and they were doing so more smoothly than Wu Zi's troops.
Unlike Wu Zibu, Guo Mobu did not put down his steps when marching, but continued to move forward with broken steps. Therefore, when they were only a spear away from the enemy, Guo Mo's military officials issued the following order:
"Smash!"
The rifles held high in the front row suddenly hit the opponent's head under gravity. The numerous explosions directly frightened the Yanzhou soldiers who were engaging with them. After that, it was the same steps, stabbing, pushing, followed by a second round of stabbing, and then pushing again, repeated for four rounds.
This was a real massacre. Whether it was the Yanzhou soldiers or the Hedong soldiers in the front of Hanzhong, they were all the bravest soldiers. But unfortunately, they were all fancy soldiers, either with big axes, spears, or spears. Using bows and arrows, these warriors were directly picked to death in the first round when faced with an attack from the Taishan Army.
The Han soldiers behind were howling in fear, but they were all ruthlessly put to death by the Taishan Army's infantry on the opposite side.
More and more Han soldiers could not resist, so they dropped their weapons and retreated. Those who couldn't make it in time chose to lie in the pile of corpses and pretend to be dead. Others were stunned, their faces turned pale, their eyes were bloodshot, their whole bodies were trembling, and then they were pushed to the ground. Some even knelt on the ground and begged for mercy from the Taishan army on the opposite side, begging to be let go. There were also those who were driven crazy and started laughing loudly and running around, and then their head was smashed by their own singer Guan Qiu Xing with an iron bone flower, and the farce ended.
After killing the crazy soldiers, Guan Qiu Xing looked at the Taishan Army advancing step by step with an ugly expression. He did not expect that the bandits that he had massacred before were now slaughtering his troops at will. But Guanqiu Xing had no intention of rushing. He knew that such a large formation could no longer be broken by a warrior with one or two martial arts.
Guan Qiu Xing glanced at the friendly troops on the right, and when he saw the Lu Ziqi on the right slowly retreating, Guan Qiu Xing felt no burden anymore and immediately withdrew his troops to the rear formation, where Xue Hong's main formation was. After retreating from one side, he entered Xue Hong's formation.
As Lu Qian and Guanqiu Xing both withdrew, the remaining Yanzhou soldiers and Hedong soldiers could no longer resist and collapsed one after another. As a result, at the first contact between the two sides, the two formations of the Han army were defeated.
However, the Taishan Army also chose to stop and reorganize its formation because its line became loose during the march. But everyone knows that the Han army behind them still cannot resist the attack of these Taishan troops.
Huang Wan had a panoramic view of the Hanzhong Army, which was about six hundred meters away from the front line. At this time, he no longer had the complacency he had before, and could only keep slapping his mouth.
Seeing that the coach was confused, his staff Kuai Yue immediately reminded:
"Lord, hurry up and surround the two wings. It'll be no problem."
Huang Wan woke up from a dream and quickly ordered two wings to attack both sides of the enemy army, working together to strangle the rebels.
The purpose of Huang Wanbu's crab formation was to encircle two wings. Although the bravery of the bandits' army exceeded his expectations, no matter how strong the army was, they were still human beings. As long as they were surrounded on three sides, they would all die. Who can make people's eyes only grow in front? Woolen cloth!
But again, if nothing else happens, accidents will definitely happen.
When the two wings of the Han army's crab formation were encircling, something went wrong.
In the front row of the Han army's right wing are the tribes of the Hongnong Huayin Yang family and the Huayin Liu family, with a total of thousands of troops. On the left wing of the Han army are the local powerful forces of Henan County, one is the Yang family of Xingyang, and the other is Yanshi. Zhang family.
Needless to say, the Yang family in Huayin is a public family that is parallel to the Yuan family in Runan. The leader of the army is Yang Gan, Yang Biao's nephew, who was Jian Rui at the time. As for the Huayin Liu family, they are no worse than the Yang family.
His family is both a Han clan and a public family. This family is the descendant of Liu Xi, the second brother of Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty. In the past two dynasties, Liu Qi was the disciple of Emperor Shun, and his son Liu Kuan was the old Taiwei of this dynasty and was granted the title of Marquis of Luxiang. , eats for six hundred households, and is called an elder in the country. It was Liu Song, the son of the old Taiwei Liu Kuan, who led the Liu tribe into the war.
And whose family is the Yang family of Xingyang on the right? The leader's name was Yang Ke, whose courtesy name was Zhongyi. At this time, he was just a local tycoon, but in the future he would become Cao Wei's cavalry general. As for the companion Zhang family of Yanshi, they are naturally descendants of Zhang Cang, and our old friend Zhang Chong, the governor of Yingyin County, comes from his family. The leader was also Zhang Chong's nephew, Zhang Yue.
Originally, as the military order from the Chinese Army Huang Wan came, the two wings were ordered to encircle. The top four companies in these two wings should comply with the order.
But something went wrong on the right wing. To be precise, it was the son of the old Taiwei Liu Kuan, and something happened to Liu Song. At the last moment, he persuaded Yang Gan and told the two troops not to move. The reason was to let the left wing outflank them first, and when the situation opened up over there, they would overwhelm them at the right time.
Liu Song was an elder of the same generation as Yang Gan's uncle Yang Biao. Yang Gan refused after hearing this, but he did not dare to violate it. Moreover, he asked the local tycoons in Henan to test it for them first. Yang Gan felt that it was not a bad idea in his heart. Liu Song's behavior is undoubtedly very serious, but the behavior pattern of this kind of public servant has long been used to others sacrificing for him, and he doesn't think it's anything.
The two young men over there, Yang Ke and Zhang Yue, had no idea that the old man had changed his mind before the battle, so they foolishly followed the original military strategy and rushed towards the right wing of Guan Yu's formation.
But since Guan Yu decided to lead his army forward, how could he not know the Han army's move? He had already made a plan. So Guan Yu, who was in the formation, waved two flags here, accompanied by the fierce sound of war drums and conch shells.
This is the semaphore of the new formation, which means that the left and right parts of the two formations change to the left and come out before the formation. After receiving military orders in the formation, Zhang Nan, the left-wing general, Li Jing, the left-right bending general, Gao Ya, the right-winging general, and Chen Guangdu, the right-winging general, led their troops to either turn left on the same spot, or turn left. Turn right, then go forward to the left and right.
This was not over yet. The same flag and golden drum sounded again. This time, Tao Yong, the middle commander on the left, and Zhu Ying, the right commander on the right, were ordered to lead their troops forward and join the front song to thicken their defense line.
In this way, with one change of formation, the original square formation turned into a large hollow square formation. In front are the middle and front songs of the four songs, and on the left and right are the left and right songs of the four songs. Guan Yu's guards, Li Damu, and Dian Wei's guards stayed behind the formation together with the two rear songs. Then at the four corners, people arranged horses to cover both sides of the protrusions on each side.
On the right wing of the formation, Yang Ke, who was leading the charge, was shocked. He did not expect that the opposite side would suddenly change formation, and the change speed would be so fast! Looking at the right wing of the rebel army that had been formed, Yang Ke gritted his teeth and rushed over with his troops.
As the saying goes, when encountering each other on a narrow road, the brave will win. He, Yang Ke, has never been weaker than anyone else in his life.
Wearing three layers of armor, Yang Ke was still walking as fast as he could. Although he had not yet reached the peak of his martial arts at this time, his physical strength was at its peak, but he was just less experienced than he would be in the future.
He put down his visor and charged forward like a war horse. When they were a hundred steps away from the enemy's right wing, they were the first to encounter the attack of the archers in the opposite formation.
A downpour of arrows covered these powerful tribesmen, but hitting their armor had little effect. They continued to rush through the arrows, and only a few unlucky ones were hit by the arrows through the small cracks and fell to the ground.
Looking at the orderly formation of the Taishan Army, Yang Ke, who was behind the mask, finally let out a thunderous roar. When he was still ten steps away from the opposite side, he suddenly felt nervous and subconsciously slowed down.
Only then did he realize that something was wrong. It turned out that the giant spear on the opposite side had not yet been lowered, but he realized it too late. At this time, with an order from the opposite side, countless steps like a forest of trees were smashed down. Many of Yang Ke's soldiers who rushed too fast were knocked to the ground. They twitched and foamed at the mouth, and then stopped moving.
Yang Ke's body felt cold, which was the coldness of escaping from death, and then his whole body became hot, which was the heat of blood rushing to his body. He wanted to avenge his companions.
So he yelled, jumped on the spear, and overwhelmed everyone. After that, he jumped up like a civet, and slashed hard at the Taishan soldiers who had lost their footwork with the ring-shou knife in his hand, killing several of them directly. After that, dozens of armored soldiers, like Yang Ke, smashed themselves into the spear formation, using their armor to clear the way for the robes behind them.
Yang Ke's troops are indeed capable and not afraid of death. No wonder they can secure the title of marquis and general for their husband.
The song Yang Ke attacked was led by Chen Guang, the right-wing general of the Taishan Army. Most of the disciples in this group are from mountain lairds in Mount Lu. They endure hardships, endure hardships, and are not afraid of death. At this moment, Yang Ke's troops were so unafraid of death, which made them even less afraid of death.
When they saw those soldiers entering the formation, they immediately came up to fight with iron rods and big sticks. They were also wearing armor, and they were also fearless if you cut me with a knife, I would beat you with a stick. And compared to the damage to the soldiers, the iron rods and big sticks in their hands were much more effective than the Han army's Huanshou sword.
A small group of 20 people in the Han army was trapped too deep, so they were surrounded by Lushan brave men who had thrown away their weapons and picked up iron bars and big clubs. After a few blows, the twenty Han soldiers were killed one by one.
But Yang Ke's troops are not easy to mess with, and there are enough of them. There are two songs on the right wing of the Taishan Army. From front to back, the right song is Chen Guangbu's right song, and the right song left song Gao Yabu is owned by them. In other words, only four hundred people own it. The Henan County troops on the opposite side numbered about a thousand people, which was twice as many as the opposite side.
Moreover, this is still the left wing of the Han Army's Crab Formation, and there are four more formations behind it, all with about a thousand people, and these have not yet been mounted.
Therefore, one side relied on strong formations to hold on, and the other side relied on large numbers of people to gain strength, and the sound of fighting resounded across the plain for a while.
If Yang Ke's troops dared to fight and charge, his ally Zhang Yue would have more trouble.
After starting the attack, Zhang Yue led his troops to charge towards the Gao Ya Division. At first, like Yang Ke's tribe, they encountered a rain of arrows from the Taishan Army. However, unlike Yang Ke's tribe who chose to wear armor and carry it hard, Zhang Yue and his tribe stopped early outside the range of the Taishan Army's arrows.
Then Zhang Yue ordered himself to shoot back. He was confident that the range of his own bow and arrow would be farther than that of the opponent. He has already seen that the crossbows of the Taishan Army opposite are the standard models of the Han Army, and the crossbows under his command are all fine bows and crossbows. Who told them that ancient Korea has produced fine bows and crossbows since ancient times?
This is how you bully your short range.
After a shooting exchange, it turned out that Zhang Yue expected that the bows and arrows under his command had a longer range and could not reach them at all. Many of his songs saw the opponent's predicament and danced directly in front of the formation to laugh at the opponent's thieves and undermine the opponent's morale.
But soon, they stopped jumping, because they found that the other side was wearing armor, and these arrow rains were useless. Zhang Yue expected that he would not be able to hang the Taishan bandits with range, so he could only order his troops to continue setting off.
Zhang Yue is a good drinker, and he can drink for any reason. Just before he went into battle, he had already finished a water bag of strong liquor. Now that he was about to charge, he felt that he needed another bag.
He took a water bag of wine from his companion and started drinking it until the water bag was clean. Then he burped, pointed in one direction and lowered the military flag. Then the military drums played loudly and the flag was waved. , Zhang Yue, who was drunk like crazy, went down the mountain like a tiger, rushing forward like crazy.
Zhang Yue's companion was left alone and dumbfounded, because the direction his husband pointed was not at all to the rebel army on the opposite side, but to the left, behind the enemy's formation.
Realizing that his husband was drunk and causing trouble, the companion rushed forward to stop Zhang Yue's charge. But suddenly a stray arrow shot from nowhere and pierced directly into Bandang's neck, killing him instantly.
Now, no one could stop Zhang Yue from charging in the wrong direction.
The five hundred men under Zhang Yue were not without military officials who suspected that they were going in the wrong direction, but they all felt that this was a strategy of their own husband and planned to attack the enemy from the rear, so no one stopped them.
In this way, Zhang Yue and his subordinates ran in front of the Gaoya Department, facing the arrows of the Gaoya Department, and ran over, leaving behind the stunned Gaoya Department.
However, he was stunned again, but the bow and arrow in his hand kept shooting towards Zhang Yue's tribe on the opposite side. Unfortunately, Zhang Yue didn't wear much armor because his family was based on Jingfa Xingxue and didn't pay much attention to martial arts. Except for a small number of these tribesmen, they are elite family members who are fully armed. The rest are mostly Zhang's servants and servants, so there is no armor for them to use.
Therefore, the shooters of the Gao Ya Department inflicted huge casualties on Zhang Yue Department. There is no specific number of casualties, but the amount can be known by looking at the pile of corpses left in front of the formation.
But Zhang Yue's tribe finally broke through the shooting range of Gao Ya's tribe, and because there was no one to stop them, they really broke in through the gap in the upper right corner of the Taishan Army Formation and rushed directly behind Guan Yu's tribe. Zhang Dan's tribe and The position between Yingru Huangjin.
After rushing here, Zhang Yue woke up from the wine. He was looking around in a daze, wondering how he got here. Then he realized that he had made a mistake by drinking, but it was a mistake. Looking at Guan Yu's thin rear line, Zhang Yue showed a evil smile.
So, he decided to take advantage of the situation and attack the enemy's back, directly stabbing them in the back.
But at this moment, Zhang Yue suddenly saw the opposite side, the enemy's rear formation, suddenly separated from the middle, and then revealed fifty cavalry, headed by a big man in green robes, staring at him eagerly.
Zhang Yue didn't know that from the moment they accidentally ran in the wrong direction, Guan Yu in the formation had been staring at them closely. Guan Yu was very worried about this wave of bandits attacking his rear, because his main forces were at the front. There were four formations with a total of seven hundred people, and then there were four hundred people on the left and right wings. Only the rear of the formation had the least number, with only four. Hundreds of people. Therefore, in order to prevent this wave of Han troops from forming a pincer attack on their own, Guan Yu decided to behead the thieves.
From a distance, he saw the enemy general whose face was red and whose complexion was comparable to his own. Judging from his appearance and the soldiers surrounding him, he knew he was a strong thief general.
Therefore, Guan Yu immediately led his fifty cavalry guards around to the rear formation, and then separated the two sides to leave a channel for the cavalry to charge.
Just like that, when Zhang Yue saw these fifty cavalry, Guan Yu had already charged over with his cavalry. There are about 200 steps from Zhang Yue Buqu to Guan Yu's position. Even with the divine horse on Guan Yu's crotch, it can't be reached in the blink of an eye.
Therefore, Zhang Yue's troops were panicked when they saw dozens of tall horses rushing towards them, but a dozen spearmen gathered in front of Zhang Yue. Under the command of an army officer, they fell in ambush He stood up and prepared to pull the horse's hoof with the Gogo in his hand.
But unfortunately they met the god general Guan Yu. Guan Yu took the lead. When the dozen or so people were trying to hook Guan Yu's horse, Guan Yu waved his horse, and the three or four Chang Ge in the lead were knocked away.
Then, when the dozen or so people didn't respond, Guan Yu had already rushed past them and came to Zhang Yue.
Then there was a slash, and Zhang Yue's head flew up.
But Guan Yu's face was full of confusion and no joy. He is wondering:
Why can't he withstand my blow even though he has the same red face?
(End of chapter)