Chapter 270 Great Victory
The setting sun passed through the clouds and shone on the plain, and the front of the Youzhou Cavalry began to make a tentative attack.
In the huge Youzhou Cavalry Army Formation, all kinds of flags were waving, including those of individuals, families, and those representing positions in the Han Dynasty. The whole thing was a sea of flags.
Amidst the roaring horns from the opposite side, the front troops slowly formed a large formation under the banner of "Xin Yue Fox". They did not charge, but just pressed forward unhurriedly.
But the slower it goes, the more powerful it becomes, as if their horses' hooves are stepping on the hearts of the Yellow Turban Army with every step, which makes people feel uncomfortable and depressed.
This tall flag is also very interesting. Not only is the entire flag green, it also has the face of a fox on it, and there is a cloud platform on one side. It makes people confused, not knowing what to express.
This Youzhou Cavalry has the largest number of people, all lined up, like a red tide pouring out from the horizon, which always reminds people of blood and death.
In the Ru Ying Yellow Turban opposite, depression and fear filled the air at an accelerated pace.
The Yellow Turban Army in the last three formations stood tallest and could naturally see it most clearly. Seeing the surging thousands of cavalry pressing down on the hillock, one of them could not help but pray:
"Huang Tian, please protect us from driving away the enemies in front of us, because we are fighting for you!"
After saying that, he looked to the sky in fear and trembling, hoping to see Huang Tian's revelation. Then he actually saw it.
It was a huge face made of clouds. The clouds were dimmed in the dusk like a golden general, glaring at the world.
When the Taoist envoy saw this revelation, he couldn't help but exclaimed:
"Look, Huang Tian is watching us!"
As he said this, he couldn't help but cry with excitement.
More and more people saw it too. They looked up at the clouds over there, as if they were paying homage to a holy relic, and everyone had tears in their eyes.
More and more people couldn't help but kneel down towards the clouds. They passionately kissed the land under their feet, and some even held the soil and chewed it into their mouths.
The Taoist envoys in the third formation of the Yellow Turban Army took the opportunity to encourage:
"The sky is dead, the yellow sky must stand!"
The fear between life and death inspired strong piety. The believers either raised their arms and shouted in Runan dialect or Yingchuan dialect:
"The sky is dead, the yellow sky must stand!"
And these exciting and solemn scenes all fell in the eyes of the Han army general on the opposite side.
The Sima who led the front of Youzhou's sudden cavalry was Kou Huai, who came from the Shanggu Kou family. The weird green-faced ghost fox flag from before was their clan flag.
The Kou family was one of the twenty-eight Yuntai heroes who helped Guang Wu rule the world, so there was a tall Yuntai building on the flag, and their Kou family was Xinyue Fox, one of the twenty-eight constellations. Therefore, this green-faced ghost fox flag represents the glory of their Kou clan.
It's a pity that this glory has long since faded away. Because the Kou family belonged to the Hebei clan, they had been suppressed since the beginning of the dynasty, and they were already declining. During the reign of Emperor Huan, they were framed by the eunuchs, and the entire clan was expelled from the capital. They lost their status as a clan of public ministers and were reduced to a local wealthy family.
Fortunately, through Kou Huai's efforts, the green-faced ghost fox flag finally flew again.
In order to restore the glory of his family, Kou Huai enlisted in the army on the eleventh day of that year and began his military career. For the next six years, he stayed on guard duty at the border beacons. At the age of eighteen, he killed a small Xianbei chief who came to trade, and finally joined the ranks of Youzhou's sudden cavalry and became a guard of Xia Yu. For the next fourteen years, he has been fighting in northern Xinjiang. He has been to the grasslands and fought victorious battles. He also survived the rout of tens of thousands of people in the sixth year of Xiping. He has been in the army for twenty years and fought countless battles. He is also the most experienced among the current generals of the clan.
The members of the sect chose him for testing, just to use his experience and let him discover the opportunity for fighting.
As expected, the fighter plane arrived. Ru Ying Huangjin, who was originally in the last three formations, became more courageous under the attention of "Huang Tian". The outermost circle of Yellow Turban troops roared down directly. They had long forgotten the military orders of the commanders in front of the formation. Even some Taoist officials got up and rushed down following Wuyang Wuyang.
No one could tell how many people left their position and launched a countercharge towards the front of the Youzhou Cavalry. In fact, Zhang Chong probably has no idea how many troops Ru Ying Huangjin has in total.
Generally speaking, it is very difficult to accurately estimate the strength of your troops. It doesn't mean that you can simply add up the numbers of your military officers, because you are not sure whether these numbers are reliable. Only a large number of clerks and documents can be counted, and statistics must be collected frequently. Because there are always people in the army being injured, fleeing, and dying in battle. If these numbers are not updated, the military books in your hands will be useless.
After so many years of accumulation and institutionalization, Zhang Chong can only say that he has a relatively accurate grasp of the manpower of his main camp, but he has no idea about the Ru Ying Huangjin on the periphery. Of course, those Ru Ying commanders also didn’t want Zhang Chong to figure out, how could he let others know the actual strength of his troops?
How did Zhang Chong grasp the approximate battle losses and manpower of Ru Ying Yellow Turban?
Zhang Chong had used a method before. When attacking Guan County, he asked each Yellow Turban Army to walk in front of the Chinese army's formation with a stone, and then put the stone in their hands into the baskets in front of the formation. Once all were put away, the baskets were sealed. Later, after the Battle of Guancheng, the Ruying Yellow Turbans who came down from the battlefield walked past the Chinese army. When they left, each person took a stone from the basket. What was left in the basket was the number of casualties in the battle.
There may be many who were injured and did not come back, but they could not even walk, which means they have lost their combat effectiveness, so they were actually damaged in battle. Although this method is primitive and crude, it is the most cost-effective method.
After that, the Taishan Army continued to move north and fought a decisive battle with the Han Army at Yuegang Camp in Xingyang. At that time, Zhang Chong's grasp of the military strength of Ruying Huangjin was based on the data after the Battle of Guancheng, with a strength of nine thousand. But Zhang Chong was not sure whether there were nine thousand on the battlefield at this time.
So when the Ru Ying Yellow Turbans from the last three formations rushed down, Yu Jin was confused for a moment. Due to the problem of vision, he saw a mass of Ru Ying Yellow Turbans rushing down from the last three formations, so he thought it was all the Ru Ying Yellow Turbans from the last three formations rushing down. .
So Yu Jin's heart dropped straight down at that time. Because there were at least 6,000 troops there, relying on strong formations and fortifications, Yu Jin was still confident that he could withstand the charge of the Han cavalry, but who knew!
"Shuzi is not enough and there is no plan!"
Yu Jin said something bitterly, and then began to stabilize the shaken military morale, shouting loudly to let the troops stabilize their positions.
Over there, Sima Kouhuai, the former military commander of Youzhou Tuqi, was overjoyed when he saw the sea of people charging in front of him. He couldn't help but said to the young general Yan Ju:
"The opportunity to fight has arrived!"
Yan Rou frowned and asked:
"There are too many moth thieves coming down this time. Should we wait until they are scattered before rushing in?"
Kou Huai said boldly:
"You don't understand, the thicker the grass, the easier it is to cut!"
After saying that, Kou Huai blew the horn, and the four hundred knights under his command put down their horses. The slow speed of the horses increased again, and they reached full sprint in a short time.
Yu Jin, who was in the front line, just watched the friendly troops being smashed into pieces in the collision of these cavalry. They had no idea that facing the charging cavalry, it would be meaningless to have courage if they did not form a formation.
But Yu Jin could no longer care about his pity, because Ru Ying Huangjin, who was severely defeated by the Han army's cavalry, rolled back directly and began to attack his own army.
Yu Jin loudly ordered:
"Those who dare to rush into the formation will be killed without mercy!"
Then the music generals from each faction responded loudly.
Five rows of thousands of armored soldiers began to stab the random soldiers in front of the formation. When one row got tired of stabbing, it was the next row. This is the role of the military formation. It can be rotated forward and backward to maintain the resistance capability of the entire military formation.
The continuous stabbings defeated the last madness of Ru Ying's defeated troops, and reason finally returned to them. After realizing that they could not attack their own friendly forces, they began to retreat from both sides of the front line and ran all the way to the rear line. There, more than half of Ru Ying's Yellow Turbans still maintained their formation under the maintenance of experienced military officials.
Also maintaining their formation are Yingchuan Kui He Dali and Runan Kui Cao Dayong in the middle. They personally suppressed the military formation and kept each team on the line.
Within the two formations, looking at more and more defeated troops crossing their own formation and returning to the rear formation, Cao Da said worriedly:
"Now we're in trouble!"
Yes, in the chaos just now, at least one or two thousand Ruying Yellow Turbans were defeated. Not many people died, but the entire formation was disrupted. Originally, the rear formation was the general preparation, but now it is the first to lose combat effectiveness. of. Morale has hit rock bottom.
Xiao Chen gritted his teeth and suggested to Cao Dayong:
"Second brother, in this situation, it is impossible for Captain Yu in the front line to withstand the attack from the opposite side. We have to let the two square formations of the Chinese army come forward to cover the two wings of the front line."
Cao Dayong's face was uncertain, but he finally gritted his teeth and nodded in agreement, so he was about to lead his men down.
But at this moment, two cavalrymen came from the front and delivered Yu Jin's military order.
"The ministries still maintain their lines according to their original positions. Without any military orders, they are not allowed to move without permission."
Fortunately, Jin's military order came in time, otherwise Xiao Chen's suggestion just now would have directly ended the battle in failure. It's not that Xiao Chen's strategy is bad, but that he can't execute it.
Just kidding, it’s good to be able to hold on to the current situation. If there are horses and trenches, everyone will be safe. But once you move the formation, won't the formation be scattered? When the time comes, the Han army seizes the opportunity and rushes in, and everything will come to an end.
As for Yu Jin, what should we do if there are no friendly troops to cover the two wings? Yu Jin said, thank you, there is really no need to worry about him.
Previously, after Youzhou's sudden cavalry simply defeated Ru Ying Huangjin, they drove them back to the forbidden front, but they were all stabbed back by Yu Jin's troops. They even built a parapet in front of the formation with the corpses of friendly troops such as Ru Ying Huangjin. Maybe these corpse walls could save their lives when they were hit by a collision.
The impact soon came. The front 400 impact knights of Youzhou Cavalry and the 300 Wuhuan Cavalry began to attack while taking advantage of the victory.
They didn't plan to charge from the front, but cut over from an oblique angle. Youzhou's sudden cavalry are used to fighting. How many of them would be stupid enough to charge into the front of the fortified formation? Didn’t you see the porcupine-like front of the tree?
The Youzhou athletes of Youzhou's sudden cavalry were all equipped with horse stilettos, ring-shou swords, and most of them also had iron armor. Under the leadership of their respective generals, they collided with Yu Jin's formation at once. Then pour it directly from the collapsed corner.
All this happened so fast that Yu Jin didn't even have time to order a change of formation before he was already driven in by Youzhou's sudden cavalry. But at this time, it also showed how well the heavy-armed Changge halberd could withstand the impact of the cavalry when forming a formation. When the Han cavalry rushed to the second row, Chang Ge cut off the hoofs of these war horses one after another, and then stabbed the fallen Han cavalry to death with a ring-headed knife.
The Han cavalry who were lagging behind saw the people in front of them falling off their horses one after another. They did not dare to charge anymore. They turned their horses' heads to the left and took advantage of the situation to bypass the front formation, trying to get into the two yellow scarf phalanxes in the middle formation.
Over there, the second wave of attacks by the Han army also launched.
Sima Gaitong, who was on the left side of the Youzhou Assault Cavalry, also blew the charge horn after charging from the front. This formation also has the highest flag, which is Gai's black-faced rat-eye flag. There is also a tall tower on the flag.
Gai Tong is a descendant of the Yuyang Gai family. Like the Shanggu Kou family, their family is the home of the twenty-eight Yuntai meritorious people, so they have the Yuntai high building logo, and then their family is Xuanwu sitting on the virtual sun rat, so there is A black-faced rat-eye flag.
The Gai family and the Kou family have different literary styles. The Yuyang Gai family has been said to have established their family with martial arts. When it comes to Gai Tong's generation, he is even more brave and champion in the three armies.
But because he is conceited and brave, he also prefers aggressive tactics in battles. No matter what formation is in front of you, he will charge hard and fight hard. Therefore, every battle is either a big victory or a big defeat, but no matter what the result is, every battle will be counted on him. The highest battle losses.
Gai Tong's left department, as the leader of the entire army, has very high combat effectiveness. Not only are the army members generally composed of Yuyang children, some of the officials' war horses are equipped with vests, which can be said to be full-fledged armored cavalry. It's a pity that the Han army has not yet gathered armored cavalry for use, and it is purely used as a means of protection for the brave soldiers.
Under the iron face, Gai Tong waved his iron halberd and took the lead. The people on both sides of him were his family members, and these people firmly protected the two wings of their husband. Then the Yuyang Cavalry, led by Gai Tong's family regiment, sprinted quickly.
After Yu Jinbu experienced the chaos just now, he made some small gains. When he saw another cavalry coming from the opposite side, he immediately formed a line. The halberd warriors in the front row are complete iron soldiers. They are wrapped in iron armor from head to toe, and they are covered in sweat every step of the way.
Now they have formed a solid iron wall, and the halberds in their hands have been put down. The robes behind them are pressing against their backs, giving them infinite strength and stability.
But unfortunately, they encountered Yuyang's sudden cavalry, and even the armored cavalry officers who were not afraid of death took the lead in charging into the battle. Those horses wrapped in iron armor ran into the front line of the Yu Jin Department like a rushing car, and then more knights followed and poured in.
Gai Tong, who was the first to rush into the formation, swung the iron halberd in his hand wantonly on his horse like an iron beast. Soon the iron halberd was bent. Gai Tong pulled out another weighted iron halberd and continued to smash it. Every blow made the sound of gold and iron.
In this way, the soldiers of Yu Jin Department were struggling hard. They had never encountered such an enemy before. Those horses were covered in armor and were invulnerable. They could only be hacked.
But when the Taishan Army was struggling here, why weren't the officials of Yuyang Tuqi like this? They have never fought against infantrymen who are all covered in iron armor. In the past, when they rushed to this level, the enemy would have collapsed long ago. How could they be so fierce? Also, the halberds in the hands of these armored soldiers would often catch on their armor, and they would be dragged into the formation if they were not careful and chopped to death with random swords.
There were shouts of killing and wailing everywhere, and the most brutal blade battle in this battle was probably here.
This is a true battle between elite soldiers and elite soldiers. No one lacks courage, no one lacks belief, and no one lacks armor. It means you hit me and I will stab you. There is no trick and a bit dull, but it is all The ultimate showdown.
The turning point of the fight soon appeared.
When Kou Huai led the front of the Youzhou Cavalry to bypass the forbidden area and take advantage of the situation to pour into Ru Ying Huangjin in the middle formation, a big change occurred.
The Taishan Army's thousand crossbowmen, who had been deployed here for a long time, took up positions from behind Huangjin Paoze. Since the beginning of the war, these crossbow warriors have been sitting on the ground, protected by the Yellow Turban Army. Of course, after sitting down, the smell of shit coming from under the friendly army's empty clothes became even stronger.
At this moment, the Han cavalry finally arrived. They immediately stood up under the command of the military officials and fired their unbearable anger at the stunned Han cavalry.
A thousand crossbowmen fired a continuous barrage of arrows under the orders of Sima Zhangda of the left branch of the Taishan Army's left school. The arrow rain was so dense and violent that the sky became dark. The arrows covered the setting sun like dark clouds, passed through the air, and hit the 400 Tuqi and less than 100 Wuhuan Youshe at the front of the Han army.
Time seemed to pause for a moment, and then one after another wailing sounded from the Han army's formation. The arrows penetrated the armor and pierced the flesh. The seated war horse was also struggling painfully in the heavy rain. It either retreated and threw away the knight, or it even fell over and smashed to the ground with the knight.
Among the cavalry, the commander of the army, Ma Kou Huai, was hiding from the arrows in a panic under the protection of the guard's small shield. He was confused. Who would place a shooter here? They are all hard bows and powerful crossbows.
Kou Huai, who has fought in battles for so many years, has never encountered anything like this, but there is an advantage to fighting too many bad battles, that is, he will not get carried away or get angry. If you can't win, just withdraw. Don't argue about the length of time.
Therefore, Kou Huai was about to blow the horn and tell his men to retreat. But when he picked it up, he discovered that the horn at his waist had been damaged by an arrow.
Kou Huai was so angry that he smashed the horn on the ground. Just as he was about to speak, he found that the knights behind him started to charge at the crossbowmen of the Taishan Army.
It turned out that the Han cavalry behind them took the general's behavior just as an attack signal. Misjudgment was only one aspect, but more importantly, how could their majestic Youzhou Cavalry be defeated by those mud-legged men?
The Ru Ying Yellow Turbans in the center have real mud legs. There are no straw sandals on their feet and no big hakama. They are just two pairs of big bare legs. By the way, they haven't put on calf-nose pants yet, so their crotch brothers don't have any protection.
But another charge could not save the defeat of Shanggu Tuqi. When they rushed forward and backward, they found that these crossbowmen were standing behind wooden stakes pierced at an angle, and the weapons in their hands could not reach them at all.
On the contrary, more and more Han cavalry were directly skewered on the wooden stakes because they rushed too fast. Those who were alert enough to avoid turning around also slipped to the front of the Taishan Army's crossbowmen's formation due to inertia, and were then killed by those soldiers. The owl bowed his head.
There was chaos everywhere. The frightened horses abandoned their masters and ran away from the battlefield. Only a few knights successfully retreated.
This incident was discovered by Yu Jin, who was in the front line. He stood directly on the back of the guard and shouted to the brothers who were struggling:
"The front of the enemy army has been defeated! Victory is in our hands! Commander Qu is watching us! Kill! Kill him until his head rolls over! Kill! Fight to create a peaceful age! Charge!"
The armored soldiers in the formation were fighting hard against the enemy in front of them, unable to see what was happening behind them. At this moment, when they heard the captain say that they had won from behind, they suddenly gained infinite strength and roared:
"Rush!"
"Rush!"
These bursts of roaring to the sky seemed to be shouted to Zhang Chong, the general of Taipingdao.
At this time, Zhang Chong happened to cut off the head of Huang Wan, the commander of the Han army. The sculpted face with his eyes closed seemed to tell that he had done his best for the Han Dynasty.
At this time, Zhang Chong heard roars from the northwest. It was the brothers calling him and asking:
"Did we win?"
So, Zhang Chong chopped off the Han army's banner with his sword, and then responded to the roar with all his strength:
"Big victory!"
Thunder exploded across the whole place, and the people who were fighting paused, followed by cheers all over the place:
"A great victory! I, Tian Jun, seek to kill the thief general!"
"A great victory! I, Guan Yu, seek to kill the traitorous general!"
"A great victory! I, Li Damu, seek to kill the traitor general!"
"A great victory! I, Dian Wei, will kill the thief general!"
……
The sounds of begging for death spread throughout the battlefield, and even Ding Sheng, who was several miles away behind him, heard it.
When Ding Sheng heard the sound of victory, he suddenly knelt down in the direction of the battlefield and roared:
"Big victory!"
But after crying, he couldn't help but think that it was a pity that I, Ding Daqi, did not participate in this eternal feat!
……
Gai Tong, who was still fighting in the Yu Jin formation, looked at the rising Yu Jin with shame and annoyance. It was this person who created this momentum and fooled them Yu Yang Tuqi and Yu Yang Gai.
Gai Tong pointed his hand at the few guards beside him, and four arrows were shot at Yu Jin who was raised high. Three of the four arrows were deflected by the armor, but one was stuck in Yu Jin's forehead.
Then Yu Jin screamed and fell down.
Hearing the screams of the captain, the fighting officers of the Central Guards panicked, but at this moment, a forbidden voice came out of the formation again:
"Nai Gong is fine! Brothers, continue to kill the thieves! Kill the thieves! Kill the thieves!"
The low morale was high again and reached its peak. They shouted "Kill the thieves" and did not avoid the sword, exchanging lives with the Youzhou cavalry in front.
Now Yuyang Tuqi couldn't stand it anymore. They all gave way and wanted to retreat, but every step resulted in casualties. It was as if they were trapped in a sea of death. No matter how hard they struggled, they would die.
Seeing his elite cavalry falling down one after another, Gai Tong was annoyed. What happened to this sect member? Why didn't the reinforcements come?
Just when he was about to raise a flag to call for reinforcements, Gai Tong was dumbfounded because he suddenly heard the unique golden sound of Youzhou Tuqi. Looking back again, the canopy of the donkeyri clan members was slowly retreating.
Under the colorful canopy over there, the clan members closed their eyes in despair.
Why did you lose this battle? I still have three useless assault cavalry, yes, yes, yes, let the white horse general lead his white horse Yi Cong to charge again. So, he turned around and looked back in the direction of Sima Gongsun Zan, but there was no one there! Looking in the direction of Sima Cuijun on the right, they are also retreating.
Looking further away, the band of thieves and cavalry, filled with dust and blood, were running towards me under the leadership of several cavalry generals. Although they looked tired, they gave the clan members an invincible aura.
At this time, the clan members were really desperate.
He murmured to the west in the direction of Kyoto:
"I am not a defeated general because those Hebei people mistook me. Country! Everyone in Hebei can be killed! You can kill!"
After saying that, he spat out a mouthful of blood and retreated.
At this time, the setting sun is replaced by the setting sun, heralding the end of an era!
The losers were already fleeing, leaving only the audience shouting:
"Big victory!"
When I was writing this article, when I got to the point where Yu Jin’s subordinates shouted “Chong” and Zhang Chong responded, I already felt like crying. I was really moved. I feel ashamed that I was moved by the people I wrote about. I really hope you enjoy this story as much as I do, thank you.
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