Chapter 316 Shooting Sound
While the Zhongshan soldiers were still hesitating, a huge cavalry regiment had already moved to the battlefield from the rear of the Han army.
The gorgeous scroll, canopy, and scepter all herald the arrival of a high-ranking commander.
The person who came was none other than Cui Jun, the acting commander of the Youzhou Assault Cavalry. He rushed to the battlefield with the assembled 1,400 Youzhou Assault Cavalry.
Among them, Cui Jun's front part is at the front, Gongsun Zan's white horse part is on the left, Gai Tong's cavalry part is on the right, and Lu Jun's Yuyang cavalry is at the back.
On the galloping horses, more than 1,400 Youzhou knights held up their swords and horseshoes, which flashed a dazzling light under the sunlight.
The soldiers from the three counties of Hebei on their left were sitting or lying down chatting. They looked at this mighty warrior curiously.
At this moment, the follow-up troops of the Han army also continued to join the battlefield.
Among them, there were about a thousand Yue cavalry. Wei Jie, the captain of Changshui, led 800 Hu cavalry, and the fifth commander of Shesheng led 1,000 crossbowmen. There are also densely fluttered Han army flags, swaying in the wind.
Obviously, the Han army commander Lu Zhi rushed to the front line.
As soon as he arrived at the front line, Lu Zhi discovered the predicament of the 2,000-foot-military army. However, he did not immediately order other troops to rescue him. Instead, he put aside all emotions and carefully observed the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans on the opposite side.
At this time, there were more than 4,000 cavalry troops in the Han army's frontline positions. It was really like thousands of horses roaring together. But strangely, there was silence in Lu Zhi's ears, and everything held its breath at this moment.
So he just looked at the Qingzhou Yellow Turban opposite.
About a mile away, Qingzhou Yellow Turban discharged two long yellow strips. Looking over, the entire horizon is covered in yellow.
Alongside these two streams of people, Lu Zhi also saw some simple fences and trenches, which extended to the horizon along both sides of the Qingzhou Yellow Turban. At this moment, Lu Zhi also saw that the moth thieves wrapped in yellow scarves were still digging trenches there.
Obviously, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans knew very well that the Han army's advantage was the cavalry. These fences and trenches were used to counter his cavalry troops.
But Lu Zhi didn't take it seriously and continued to watch the formation.
He also saw smoke rising from behind the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. It seemed that these Qingzhou Yellow Turbans were very courageous. Knowing that they had a numerical advantage, they used their excess manpower to arrange supplies in the rear.
Lu Zhi nodded, secretly thinking that this time the Qingzhou Yellow Turban was much better than before. They are also secretly wary of the fact that the other party can also grow from the war.
But just doing this is not enough. I, Lu Zhi, will let them understand why the only armed forces in the world are the Northern and Southern armies.
Finally, Lu Zhi glanced at the battlefield in the distance.
I saw groups of humans scattered on the frozen soil under the dark sky. In the northwest wind, yellow had already surrounded a part of the crimson. But the crimson color still stood there proudly, and remained motionless despite being hit by the yellow tide.
And outside the yellow and red, there are countless corpses lying, some in yellow clothes, some in red clothes, some of humans, some of horses, and some of elk.
Lu Zhi took another look at the apricot-yellow flag of the Chinese army on the opposite side, as well as the scepter that was disappearing and appearing in the crowd, and finally let out a cold snort.
These two are probably the spiritual pillars of this gang of moth thieves.
After keeping this scene firmly in his mind, Lu Zhi ordered:
"Order, the Zhongshan National Soldiers move forward and flank the enemy on the right who is besieging the Infantry School Lieutenant Headquarters."
"Order, Wei Jun soldiers move forward to meet the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Zhang Rao Formation."
"Order, Zhao Guobing does not move. Wait for the follow-up order."
"Order, shoot the captain's troops forward and throw the thieves Zhang Rao's troops."
"Order, ride on thousands of men and attack the rear of the thieves Xu He's tribe."
Lu Zhi issued five military orders in an instant, and sent these five military orders to the commanders of each department along with the soldiers. The entire Han army front line was boiling.
Afterwards, the military flags and clan flags were all raised high, and then first the soldiers of Zhongshan Kingdom and Wei County stood up, and then a thousand archers with big yellow crossbows and hard bows moved in neat steps to Zhangrao Opposite the department.
Zhang Rao, who was in the match, reacted immediately when he saw the opponent's dispatch.
After that, the robes behind the Bu Shishi all held up their big robes, so that the robes in front could block the arrows of the Han army that followed.
The wind picked up.
That was not the natural wind, but the arrows fired by the thousands of Han army archers. They penetrated the air and scattered directly on Zhang Rao's formation.
The dense and powerful arrows bloomed blood flowers directly on Zhang Rao's formation.
With just one blow, hundreds of people in the Yellow Turbans of Pingyuan screamed.
It's too scary. What these Han army archers fired were not ordinary crossbows at all, most of them were big yellow crossbows. This kind of military weapon can be distributed on a large scale to ordinary soldiers of the Han army. It can be said that it is the elite shooting battalion of the Northern Army.
With that blow just now, the Yellow Turban formation in Pingyuan collapsed. Because many grassroots military officials died directly from this round of arrows, no one stopped the chaos in the formation.
The Qingzhou Yellow Turbans are heroes, but they are also human beings. Just now, many robes were chatting and laughing with them, but the enemy died tragically in front of them under a round of arrows.
Who is not panicking? Who wouldn’t want to retreat out of range?
But just when most of the Yellow Turbans were still hesitating, the second round of arrows from the opposite side had already been fired.
The archers on the opposite side are all young warriors of the Han army, and they are all wealthy.
Because the average family cannot support a Huangnushi. Only when there is no shortage of millet, vegetables and meat can one have the strength to pull the rhubarb crossbow.
It is precisely because the voice shooters all come from the family of little samurai, many of them have their own bad tastes. For example, some people like to engrave their names on arrows, and some like to hang bone flutes on arrows.
Especially the latter, after being shot out, when it penetrates the air, it will emit bursts of ghost-like howling sounds, which can greatly damage the morale of the enemy.
At this time, these arrows with bone flutes on them emitted a ghost-like scream. They hit the head of the plain yellow turban with declining morale like an iron-colored rainstorm. In an instant, another burst of blood bloomed.
Covered in the rain of arrows, most of the plain yellow scarves had already huddled on the ground by instinct. But there were still many Yellow Turban soldiers standing on the battlefield dumbfounded, looking at the continuous rain of arrows. That was the last scene they saw in their lives.
On the Han army's side, three thousand Weijun soldiers stood on their feet and looked up at the legendary Northern Army archers who were killing the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans. They raised their weapons and cheered loudly.
They hated these Yellow Turbans.
It is precisely because of them that these Weijun soldiers have homes and cannot return. Of course, the culprits are still those Taishan thieves, but as the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans from the same party, are they not guilty?
It's no wonder that these three thousand Weijun soldiers are hateful. They were informed by Handan authorities early that all their fields, houses and houses in their hometown had been confiscated by Taishan bandits.
Some Wei Jun soldiers said that they had neither land nor houses, so the Taishan bandits could not take them.
Handan laughed at them, "Aren't the wives of your clan members property?" Now it has been confiscated by the Taishan bandits. In short, the purpose is to make these Wei Jun soldiers understand that the Taishan bandits are the enemies of all property owners.
With this kind of indoctrination, how can the soldiers of Wei County not hate the Taishan bandits and the Yellow Turban bandits to the core?
Now, with the support of friendly arrows, three thousand Wei Jun soldiers put on iron armor, lined up in a neat formation amidst the loud drums and horns in front of the formation, and pressed towards the broken Yellow Turban front formation of the plain.
The shooting by the Han army's archers lasted for about ten rounds. More than ten thousand arrows were scattered on the yellow turban array in the plain, and there was a cry of mourning.
In fact, these sound shooters of the Han army can still shoot. These martial arts disciples have been practicing bow-drawing since childhood, practicing countless days and nights just for this moment on the battlefield.
On average, they can fire a hundred times. The big yellow crossbow is laborious, but it can also fire fifty times. As for some of the more powerful top archers, they can fire thousands of arrows in a war. Of course, the bow used is also much weaker. Although they could fire fifty rounds and the Han army had enough arrow vectors in reserve, the archers still stopped after ten rounds.
Because these thousand archers are the decisive force in this war. But they can only fight for fifty rounds, and then their arms will bleed and they will lose their fighting ability.
Therefore, how to use these fifty rounds of shooting is what Lu Zhi wants to arrange.
After ten rounds of covering shots, Zhang Rao's front line collapsed.
Zhang Rao's 8,000-man formation included 3,000 people in the front formation alone. Most of these three thousand people were unarmored and suffered heavy casualties from more than ten thousand arrows. The rest were also discouraged, abandoned their positions and weapons, and ran towards the rear.
But fortunately, they still had sense and did not collide with the Jinan Yellow Turban formation behind them.
Seeing the tragic death of his hometown brothers in front of him, Zhang Rao was in pain, but he did not dare to move because the Han army's swordsmen and soldiers on the opposite side were pressing forward.
Those who came up were naturally three thousand soldiers from Wei County.
Under the banner with the word "Wei", they fiercely rushed towards Zhang Rao's troops whose formation collapsed.
These three thousand soldiers of Wei County are very powerful in combat. They are elites trained by Zhang Ze, the former prefect of Wei County.
Zhang Ze selected the sons of good families in the county and trained them into an army based on his tactics in Liangzhou. It was precisely with these three thousand tiger warriors that Yecheng was able to withstand the fierce attack of more than 100,000 Hebei Yellow Turbans that day.
If Lu Zhi hadn't misjudged the situation that day and transferred these three thousand elite soldiers to Handan, leaving Yecheng empty. It's not that easy for our Soaring General to capture Yecheng.
At this time, three thousand tigers and swords, with swords on the left and right, directly ran into the chaotic Zhang Rao tribe.
Zhang Rao's formation was no longer in formation, and the two sides immediately fell into a melee.
Generally speaking, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans have always been good at single-player martial arts. Logically speaking, the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans would not be afraid of such a melee.
But unfortunately, they were fighting alone, but Wei Jun's soldiers were in chaos.
They often formed a group of five people, either in a circular formation or in two formations, surrounding the Qingzhou Yellow Turban, using more to fight against the less.
Soon, the more Zhang Rao's troops killed, the more chilled they became. The more chilled they were, the more they ran back.
Zhang Rao, who was in the Chinese army, gritted his teeth and ordered the thousands of yellow turban warriors and armored soldiers of the Chinese army to be sent up.
The yellow scarf warriors who had been resting since the beginning of the battlefield got up from Commander Qu's order and got up one after another.
These Qingzhou heroes, who are generally about seven feet tall, wear yellow scarves, have crotch armor on their front and back, and have firm eyes. They are Zhang Rao's most elite ace.
More than a thousand yellow turban warriors lived up to their expectations, going against the figure of Pao Ze who was hurriedly retreating, and pushed forward like a huge boulder in front of Wei Jun's soldiers.
The soldiers of Wei Jun who were good at killing were caught off guard when they encountered the Yellow Turban warriors and were also stunned. Because these Yellow Turban warriors were also wearing armor, the Han army did not cut smoothly.
Soon, Wei Jun's soldiers changed their tactics, and they began to move forward with the yellow scarf warriors on their backs, apparently wanting to push these enemy soldiers into the trench.
At this time, Wei Jun's soldiers had an absolute advantage, and they pushed the Yellow Turban warriors forward.
At the back, under the military orders from behind, the more than a thousand archers fired two more rounds at Zhang Rao's formation fighting in front.
Because Zhang Rao's formation had been broken, the thousand-man archers stepped forward 200 steps this time and directly covered Zhang Rao's central army with this round of arrows.
Zhang Rao in the middle army was caught off guard and was shot with an arrow, but fortunately his armor was strong enough and there was no damage. But the war horse under his command was not so lucky. Four or five arrows were inserted into its body, killing it directly.
After losing his mount, Zhang Rao did not leave, but continued to guard under the banner.
He looked at the yellow scarf soldiers in front of him who were retreating steadily, and then at the front army's defeat like a mountain, and then at the despair and desolation of the soldiers around him, and he smiled sadly:
"A real man is subject to death but not life. Even if I die here today, this big banner will not move."
After speaking, he pointed at the thousands of people still in the army and shouted:
"Stand up to the formation!"
This is the role of the commander-in-chief. When the troops were in panic, it was Zhang Rao's words that calmed everyone down.
Yes, there is death but no life today, so what is there to be afraid of?
As a result, the thousands of people who remained in the Chinese army began to form a square formation under the control of the military officials and Taoist envoys. There are five columns on all sides, with twenty-five people in each column, and then there are horses and chariots in the four corners, tightly surrounding the plain yellow turban in the middle.
In the front, the yellow scarf warriors who had been pushed and squeezed all the way back began to regroup to the side of the Chinese army's formation after they stabilized in the rear, and they became horns with each other.
When Wei Jun soldiers arrived here, no matter what tactics they used, they could not break through the two formations of Pingyuan Yellow Turbans.
Lu Zhi, who had been watching the formation from the rear, saw that Wei Jun's soldiers had stopped moving forward and knew that their soldiers were blunt. However, Wei Jun's soldiers also completed their task and defeated the Zhang Rao tribe of thieves.
Lu Zhi looked to the left side of the battlefield, where Xu He's formation surrounded the two thousand infantry commander's headquarters.
The tide has turned there, too.
After the Zhongshan National Soldiers and thousands of Yueqi joined the battlefield, Xu He's troops quickly became exhausted.
It's okay to say that the Zhongshan National Soldiers are fighting a bad war there because there are many people who work hard but don't work hard. Although they have engaged Xu He's left wing, they have been unable to open up the situation.
But the other support army, that is, the Yueqi of thousands of people, was different. His school captain Zhou Zhong came from the Zhou family in Lujiang, and was the son of Zhou Jing, the old captain during the reign of Emperor Huan.
Although he is known as the elder in the army, he is as fast as fire when using troops. As soon as he received Lu Zhi's military order, he led his predecessors to cross the cavalry and penetrated into Xu He's rear formation.
Because the attack was too sudden, Xu and the rear formation could not stop the charging cavalry regiment, so they collapsed instantly.
As soon as the rear formation collapsed, the infantry captains in the formation immediately seized the opportunity and rushed out.
So what Lu Zhi saw at this time was that the Han army had thrown Xu He's troops into chaos, and the formation could no longer be seen.
Based on this battlefield situation, Lu Zhi judged that the time for a decisive battle had come.
So, in the sixth year of Guanghe, it was Shenshi on September 12th.
Less than an hour before the sun went down, Lu Zhi blew the horn for a full-scale attack.
Each front of the Han army also blew the trumpet in response.
The powerful horns drowned out the sounds of fighting on the battlefield. Except for Lu Zhi and the staff of the Chinese army, all senior military officers of the Han army jumped off their horses, walked to the front of their troops, and began to give the final encouragement before charging.
On the battlefield, the Han army has invested 2,000 infantry captains, 2,000 Zhongshan soldiers, 3,000 Weijun soldiers, and 1,000 Yue cavalry.
Therefore, when the horn of the decisive charge sounded, the last 7,000 or so preparations of the Han army immediately launched an attack on the last three formations of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
The final blow begins.
(End of chapter)