The Han army's attack was fragmented.
Because the coach Lu Zhi had not arrived at the front line at this time, the Han army was leaderless.
And because Sun Meng, a lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry School, took the initiative to launch the attack.
Although tactically, it cannot be said that using elk as a weapon to rush into the battle is not a good idea, but in terms of the overall battle formation, there is no doubt that they are acting without authorization.
When Shi Sunmeng launched an attack with 800 cavalry, the infantry captain Wei Duan behind his formation had to cooperate in the attack.
On the one hand, it was to cover Sun Meng's cavalry, and on the other hand, the gap opened by Sun Meng was indeed a rare opportunity to break the formation.
Wei Duan was from Duling, Jingzhao. Duling Wei's reputation would be even greater in the future than it is now, and he was another famous family in the Middle Ages.
But even now, the Wei family is one of the top wealthy families in Jingzhao.
His family ancestor was King Fu of Chu in the early Han Dynasty, his sixth generation ancestor was the prime minister during the reign of Emperor Xuan, and his fifth generation ancestor was the prime minister during the reign of Emperor Yuan. In this dynasty, Wei Shi wore hairpins for many generations. He had served as a military lord, a great Sima, and a great Situ.
To put it bluntly, even though Lu Zhi is the head coach of the Hebei Army, in terms of family background alone, he is far inferior to Wei Duan.
It was precisely because of this support and the awareness that he was seizing the opportunity that Wei Duan led two thousand northwest officers to attack Xu He's eight thousand formation without any scruples.
At this time, the sun shines on the frozen soil, making people feel warm and weak all over.
Two thousand armored soldiers from the northwest, echoing the flags at the head of each row, began to move slowly towards Xu He's Ministry.
Under the guidance of the red flag, the crimson military uniforms pressed against the Yellow Turban Army like a red tide.
At this time, Xu He, who was in the formation in the right corner, stared at this armored soldier with burning eyes. But he didn't even look at the Han army's cavalry that crashed into a corner of his formation.
Just because Xu He understood that the enemy's 800 cavalry were more powerful than the damage.
His 8,000-man formation, equipped with spears and halberds, armor, formations, and bows, cannot be broken up by the 800 cavalry.
On the contrary, the two thousand Han soldiers on the opposite side were truly powerful.
Once the line is up, the front row of the Le'an Yellow Turban formation cannot stop them, and they will lose ground.
So, Xu He kept staring at the armored soldier shining whitely in the sun, motionless.
Suddenly, Xu He discovered something.
Just when the opponent was moving, they actually started to lose touch with the Han army on their right.
In other words, only the armored soldier on the opposite side was moving forward, and its flanks were actually motionless.
Xu He was overjoyed and immediately realized that the fighter plane had appeared.
So, he immediately waved the flag and started to arrange the formation.
Under Xu He's control, the Le'an Yellow Turban formation, which had been enduring the harassment of the troops like an old turtle, began to tremble.
Encouraged by their respective Taoist envoys, they also moved away from their horses, put away their horses, and began to line up towards the Han Army Infantry School Lieutenant Headquarters opposite.
With intensive drumbeats and chaotic steps, the two military uniforms moved forward intensively, shoulder to shoulder.
Getting closer.
Fifty steps.
Twenty steps.
At this distance, the leader of the Le'an Yellow Turbans' front army decisively ordered:
"Let it go!"
"Put"
Rows of rifles were placed directly on the shoulders of Pao Ze in front, stabbing diagonally at the Han infantry soldiers.
However, there were not many screams in the Han formation. Some of the Han soldiers who were knocked unconscious fell to the ground, and the soldiers behind them trampled over them.
Then the Han soldiers on the opposite side began to attack.
They were wearing iron armor, but they still ran like the wind, hitting the Yellow Turban formation like an anvil.
As a result, the brutal hand-to-hand combat began directly.
The northwest has produced elite soldiers since ancient times, and Qingzhou has produced heroes since ancient times.
One is the cornerstone of the Han Dynasty, and the other is the mainstay of Taiping Road.
Two groups of complete strangers vented their hatred on the frozen soil of Hebei.
Swords and axes were chopped, arms and limbs were broken, flags fell, and the intensity of the war reached its maximum.
The second platoon of the Han army's soldiers is a group of fifty soldiers. The leader of the team is named Bao Chu, who is also from Jingzhao. He is young but tall and tall. He is a heroic hero from Xinfeng, his hometown.
Later, he was promoted to the Northern Army Infantry School Lieutenant with the help of powerful men in his hometown. He soared into the sky and became a captain.
At this time, the first platoon of Han soldiers were almost dead. They could not be said to be ungrateful, but the first platoon on the opposite side was too powerful. Instead of stabbing them, they chose to smash them.
Many soldiers of the Han army were hit on the head by Bu Shu and fell down without a sound.
And this is not over yet, the first team on the opposite side has been eliminated, and another team of swordsmen and axe-wielders appear from below.
They didn't have any armor on them at all. They just wore a yellow scarf on their foreheads and a big ax in their hands, and then they attacked the Han soldiers wildly.
Obviously, this was specially arranged by the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to deal with the Han army's armored soldiers.
Therefore, the first platoon of Han soldiers was quickly exhausted, and Bao's platoon became the front line.
In this critical situation, Bao shouted:
"楯!"
After this order was issued, the fifty-armed soldiers directly turned over a card from behind, and then followed Bao into action, starting to directly push against the front row of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
Obviously, Bao Chu planned to rely on their iron armor to directly face the opponent, and then squeeze directly through.
As soon as Bao came out and squeezed forward, his comrades behind him also held up their shields and leaned forward.
But their shields were raised above their heads to guard against the rain of arrows coming from the opposite side of Qingzhou Yellow Turban.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turban archers were arranged behind six columns of infantrymen, and then relied on the command of the Xinbing soldiers to attack the Han army.
The Han army also fired arrows continuously, and people on both sides were constantly hit by arrows and fell to the ground.
Bao Chu was so crowded here that he gritted his teeth and pushed forward with all his strength, while the Huanshou knife on his right hand kept stabbing at the opposite side.
Although the armor coverage rate of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans is good, it is still not as good as the Han army. Therefore, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans couldn't handle this head-on, one-for-one approach, so they retreated steadily.
The more Bao came out of here, the more he fought, the more courageous he became. He seemed to have a feeling that if he continued to kill like this, he would be able to defeat the Yellow Turban formation.
But it's a pity that when Bao came out here to immerse himself in killing, he couldn't actually see it, and there was no way to see it. That is, when the Northern Army Infantry School Lieutenant was desperately digging into the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, its two wings were already surrounded by the Qingzhou Yellow Turban.
It turns out that because the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans had more people, their formation was wider. The number of Han troops in the first column was fifty, but the number of Qingzhou Yellow Turbans in each column was two hundred.
Therefore, as soon as the two armies came into contact, the two ends of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Formation began to rush to both sides of the Han army. As the Han army penetrated deeper and deeper, the two wings became more and more flanked.
At this time, due to the position and perspective, the front and middle parts of the Han army could not feel anything.
Only the two troops on the left and right felt that something was wrong. They stopped unconsciously and formed formations on both sides to block the Yellow Turban Army's pincer attack.
Following the warnings from both wings, Wei Duan in the Chinese Army also discovered a problem.
But he knew that this was the time to go all out. Once they stop, the Han army will be even more dangerous.
Because their number is much smaller than that of the Yellow Turbans, once they are trapped, it will be difficult to escape. But now, as long as he continues to attack, the Qingzhou Yellow Turban can be cut off at the waist. At that time, if the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were no longer in formation, how could they withstand the impact of the Tunqi who had been cruising nearby.
So, Wei Duan gritted his teeth and ordered:
"The whole army continues to move forward and kill the bandits!"
Therefore, from the guards of the Central Army, the general's order was passed from person to person, all the way to the front line.
Bao Chu, who had been gritting his teeth and stabbing, heard this order from behind. He cursed and turned to look at his subordinates.
At this time, the fifty old subordinates had been replaced several times, and at a glance, no one recognized them. So, Bao Chu felt sorrow in his heart and roared:
"We men from Jingzhao, five hundred years ago, it was we who went out to sweep Liuhe, and it was we who helped the King of Han rebuild the mountains and rivers. These Guandong people who were killed did not dare to stand facing the west. But today, these dogs from Qingzhou The slave actually raised a knife towards us, what should we do?”
Almost all the infantry battalion captains were big men from Kansai. When they heard Bao Chu's roar, they also roared loudly:
"Kill!"
Bao took out a knife and stabbed it in, shouting:
"Then kill!"
As a result, the two groups of good men in Kanto and Kansai once again continued the hatred of their ancestors and boiled over.
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The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans surrounded the Han army's infantry camp.
All this was seen by its friendly forces, the national soldiers of the three counties of Hebei.
But they did not choose to go up to support, because the coach's military order had already been issued, and they stayed put.
Of course, these are all superficial reasons.
It's okay to not obey military orders when you are out in the field.
The reason why the national soldiers of the three counties of Hebei did not move was because they saw that the national soldiers of Zhongshan, which was closest to the infantry school, did not move. If it doesn't move, why should the soldiers of Wei and Zhao move?
Then why didn’t the Zhongshan soldiers move?
Because the Hebei Han Army is not without flaws.
Now Lu Zhi's command is indeed the elite of the Han army. Whether it is the fifth school of the Northern Army or the Youzhou Tuqi, they are all honorary divisions passed down in history.
But one soldier became the weakness of the Han division. It was the two thousand Zhongshan soldiers of Liu Hui, the captain of the Zhongshan army.
After Liu Huinai became King of Zhongshan, his family has always been a prominent family in the country.
This time Liu Hui led his troops south to help the Han army in Hebei, and it was under the entrustment of Zang Min, the Prime Minister of Zhongshan.
It is said that this Zang Min is also a good general who has repeatedly made military exploits for the country. It was he who led the people to break up the demon rebellion in Xusheng in Kuaiji.
It was also during this battle that he promoted the young Jiangdong warrior Sun Jian, who can be said to be Sun Jian's junior.
But today's Zang Min no longer has the charm of the past.
Six years ago, he, together with Tian Yan, the general who broke Xianbei, and Xia Yu, the captain who protected Wuhuan, went out to attack Xianbei.
However, in that battle, the entire 30,000-strong Northland border army was completely wiped out. It can be said that if the Han Dynasty had not lost 30,000 northern elites due to the great defeat six years ago, the battlefield in Hebei would not be so anxious at this time.
After that battle, Zang Min was naturally imprisoned, but after the general amnesty, he returned to his official career and became the current Prime Minister of Zhongshan.
Suffering from this fate in life, coupled with old age and frailty. Zang Min inevitably became short of breath and began to seek stability.
In order to achieve stability, Zang Min only allocated a thousand national soldiers to Liu Hui, and the remaining thousand were all new soldiers, all recruited.
The recruitment here is not the kind of recruiting soldiers with autumn defense experience in the past, but completely Guizhou soldiers who can only cultivate the land.
There are approximately 97,000 households in Zhongshan Kingdom, with a population of less than 600,000. Excluding some of the people who joined the Yellow Turban Army, the possible population of Zhongshan Kingdom was less than 60,000.
When the first wave of Hebei Yellow Turban rebellion was suppressed, the Zhongshan Kingdom had already recruited 10,000 conscripts with experience in autumn defense for unified training. The rest either went to hide with powerful people, or ran into Montenegro and became bandits.
Therefore, the Zhongshan Kingdom at that time had actually reached the limit of its military strength.
So where did Liu Hui's thousands of new recruits come from?
To put it simply, it is tied with rope.
The military officers of the Zhongshan Kingdom were like kidnappers every day. Whenever they saw young men in markets, factories, or countryside, they would bundle them up with ropes and send them to the military camp.
Regardless of whether you are from Zhongshan or not, or whether you are the only son in the family, we will arrest you all now.
From this we can also see the madness of the Han army and their determination to kill the Yellow Turban Army.
But when the Han army did this, the people did not have no way to deal with it.
One of them just ran away. If he couldn't escape, he had his feet cut off and his fingers chopped off. In short, there is a strategy from above and a right solution from below.
Therefore, even if he was a new soldier, Zang Min only added two thousand to Liu Hui.
Well, that's right.
Originally, when Liu Hui set out from Lunu in the Zhongshan Kingdom, he had a thousand old soldiers from the county and recruited two thousand new soldiers. But just on the way from Zhongshan Kingdom to Handan, 800 people ran away.
Where did the remaining two hundred people go? They were all trained to death in Handan.
At that time, the main force of the Han army suffered serious casualties due to several battles with the Hebei Yellow Turbans and Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, so they were eager to replenish their troops.
However, in order not to drag down the overall combat effectiveness, it is necessary to provide basic battle formation training to the new recruits.
It is necessary to quickly replenish troops and train qualified soldiers. You can imagine the intensity of training.
At that time, the common view among the Hebei military officials in Handan was:
"These Zhongshan soldiers are not so much soldiers as they are citizens. We must be fierce and ruthless towards these people. Only in this way can we kill the undisciplined spirit of the common people and develop the habit of obedience and discipline."
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Moreover, there is another reason not to put it on the table.
Even these training officials knew that these people were captured by the Zhongshan Army officials, and they felt resentful in their hearts.
If we don't scare these people here and establish our authority. These people went to the battlefield and took armor, and they might dare to rebel.
But sometimes, once there is a mutiny in front of the battle, the consequences will be disastrous.
This is the underlying logic behind their kindness but not their military strength.
Since there is no kindness to win over and no justice to inspire, then we can only rely on iron and blood to fight to the bottom.
If in the end you don't even dare to kill, this authority will really be gone.
Therefore, in the Handan camp, almost every day, conscripts from the Zhongshan Kingdom were killed and their heads hung.
At first, the Zhongshan soldiers were still emotional, but after being tortured like this, no matter how fierce their temper was, they would become numb.
And don't mention it, troops have always been trained like this in the past.
Moreover, many elites came from this training method. They may have been sons-in-law, slaves, or prisoners, but they devoted their lives and blood to the great men in foreign lands on the frontier.
Of course, they can't be said to be very loyal to their country, but people are just so strange.
Even if he is forced at first, as long as he gets used to something, he will transcend his original hatred and develop some kind of identity and mission for it.
Therefore, Handan used this past method to train Zhongshan soldiers.
"It's just a pity, can such soldiers really be used?"
At this time, Liu Hui, the Zhongshan State Lieutenant who connected the county soldiers and the Northern Army, asked himself this.
And the answer is obviously easy to see.