Chapter 317 Cheng Ren
The Han army's final preparations included 2,000 Youzhou assault cavalry, 800 Changshui captain Hu cavalry, and 3,000 Zhao Guo infantry, slowly descending along the desolate frozen soil slope.
Among them, Youzhou Tuqi is in the middle, with Changshui Colonel Hu Qibu on the left and Zhao Guo's infantry on the right.
They pressed forward in their respective square formations, their armor shining brightly, their breath forming clouds, and their flags standing erect in the wind, looking arrogant.
At this time, those who stayed behind the formation and those who walked with the formation, the drummers and drummers all worked hard to play exciting vocal music.
On the opposite side, Zhang Rao's tribe of Qingzhou Yellow Turban, except for the last two thousand-man phalanx, was still holding on, and the rest had been defeated.
As for Xu He's tribe, they were completely out of line, and each tribe could only fight independently in the Han army's attack. Even Xu He himself was coerced and retreated to the Jinan Yellow Turban behind him.
Therefore, on the battlefield now, the only three 8,000-man formations formed by Sun Ji are the mainstays.
Facing the Han soldiers on the opposite side, chasing the defeated Yellow Turban troops in front, Jinan Yellow Turbans were still motionless when they were about two hundred paces away.
Suddenly, groups of archers appeared from behind the fence in front of the formation. They were all Shanliao archers accumulated by the Yellow Turbans in Jinan. They were also holding Han Army standard hard bows in Jinan's arsenal.
Therefore, when the Han army on the opposite side rushed between 150 and 100 steps, the Jinan Yellow Turban archers waved their flags and ordered each team to fire.
For a time, the Jinan Yellow Turbans' broad front was filled with arrows like locusts, venting their anger towards the Han army's charging queue.
It is indeed a turn of events. Just before, the Han army defeated Zhang Rao's formation with a dense and terrifying arrow. Now they were about to face the revenge of the Jinan Yellow Turbans.
Pingyuan Yellow Turban, Jinan Yellow Turban, Le'an Yellow Turban. Although the three armies are all Qingzhou Yellow Turbans, their main arms and combat capabilities are different.
Pingyuan County is a plain land with a large population and is good at forming formations. It is also a stronger branch among the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
Le'an is close to the sea, and the people eat a lot of good water from the sea, and they often use boats to haul millet. They are the most mobile among the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans.
But neither of them can compare with Jinan. Because Jinan alone has an army of three thousand archers.
Because Jinan is backed by mountains, and only Shanliao is good at shooting.
So at this moment, three thousand archers fired arrows desperately, completely covering the leading troops of the Han army.
Although their arrows were not as fierce as those of the Han archers, they were more numerous and denser. Therefore, the Han army also suffered a huge blow.
Among them, the one who was shot the most was the remaining armor officer led by Infantry Colonel Wei Duan.
It turned out that with the support of Yue Qi, they penetrated Xu He's formation and were chasing the defeated troops of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans to roll back into the Jinan Yellow Turban formation behind them.
It was also at this time that they were attacked by the Jinan Yellow Turbans.
They were about a hundred steps away from Jinan Yellow Turban and were covered by arrows from three directions almost at the same time.
Most of the officers of the Infantry School's Department had their clothes and armor in ruins due to the intensity of the previous confrontation with Xu He's Department.
At this time, he was suddenly hit by the rain of arrows covered by Jinan Yellow Turban, and he couldn't bear it at once.
The air was filled with screams and the sound of arrows piercing the air, and countless Han army officials fell to the ground like wheat in the rain of arrows.
There were dead and injured Han soldiers everywhere. They were lying on the piles of corpses of the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who had died in the battle, and the piles were getting higher and higher.
After being covered with arrow feathers, the Jinan Yellow Turban's plaque was pulled open, revealing rows of infantrymen and armored warriors behind it.
With arrows on their heads, they began to charge against the infantry captain's headquarters.
The sound of the charge drowned out the pitiful howls of the Han army. They had already finished recharging their energy, and the Jinan Jiabing infantry, filled with anger, began to crash into the crooked Han army infantry camp.
When these Han troops arrived here, they already felt like they were at the end of their battles, and they suffered another wave of strong arrows. Then they were rushed by the Jinan armored soldiers, and they were immediately killed in a daze and retreated steadily.
In this way, the charging Jinan armored soldiers were like destroying the last courage of the Han army.
Infantry captain Wei Duan, who was organizing troops in the rear formation, immediately realized something was wrong when he saw his own flag falling to the ground or retreating in front of him.
He quickly ordered his soldiers to carry flags and summoned the cavalry cruising nearby to respond.
After Sun Meng, a lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry School, launched the first wave of attacks and knocked out a corner of Xu He's formation, he has been cruising around the periphery of the battlefield.
At this time, Wei Duan in the formation asked for help, and Shi Sunmeng divided the eight hundred cavalry into three teams. Except for himself who leads 300 cavalry, the other two groups have 250 cavalry each.
One of them was led by Sima Suze from the left, and the other was led by Sima Yang Qiu from the right. They attacked the Jinan armored soldiers from the left and right sides.
As for the scholar Sun Meng, he raised his eagle and falcon cavalry high and charged straight into the middle of Jinan's armored soldiers. For a while, horses' hooves were flying and red flags were rolling.
The Jinan Jingjia who charged from the formation were roughly two units, with a thousand people.
The leading generals are Li Xun and Gao Ao.
They led their troops to kill the exhausted Han army wantonly, never expecting that the Han army's cavalry could actually have the ability and courage to rush over within a small space.
Although the Jinan Yellow Turbans were trained in the tactics of the Sun Yibei Army and in large formations by the Taishan Army's operational trainers, they lacked experienced military officials and sufficient experience in riding.
As a result, he was directly stunned by Shi Sunmeng's Tunqi.
One of the central generals, Li Xun, wanted to behead Shi Sun Meng, but in the end he was beheaded by a tiger general next to Shi Sun Meng.
This person is Ma Teng, a fellow of Shi Sun Meng and a member of the Fufeng Ma clan in the same county.
Ma Teng is a member of the Fufeng Ma clan, but he is not the main lineage, so his family's wealth has little to do with Ma Teng. Later, he broke away from his relationship with Sun Meng, a county official, and joined the Tunqi army as a minor official.
After that, he went on expeditions with Lu Zhi, and he continues to this day.
It turns out that in history, the Yellow Turbans were wiped out long ago, and he returned to his hometown with success. Later, Beigong Boyu, a Qiang man, invaded Chang'an. He was recruited by Geng Bi, the governor of Liangzhou, to participate in the Pingqiang War. In this battle, he became a member of the anti-Han rebels and started the Ma family's military fortune in Liangzhou.
But unfortunately, history has changed beyond recognition. At this time, he is still fighting bravely in the army and is still an ordinary and inconspicuous team player.
After killing the moth thief general who overestimated his capabilities, Ma Teng was about to dismount and chop off the thief general's head.
Over there, a man bent down and cut off Li Xun's head with his hands, and then tied it to his horse pocket.
When Ma Teng saw that his trophy had been robbed, he was furious. He was about to slash with his knife, but he saw the man clearly, and then he froze completely.
It turned out that the person who snatched his head was none other than Ma Teng's countryman, the captain of the garrison, and the guard general Sun Ying of Shisun Meng, the son of a famous scholar.
When he saw the soldier Sun Ying snatching his head, Ma Tengzui tried his best to smile and said with difficulty:
"General Qu, I was about to chop this piece off and give it to you, so why bother doing it yourself?"
Shi Sunying laughed and said contemptuously:
"Some things are destined to be useless even if you try hard. Huang Yan'er, listen to my advice. Don't think about doing anything on this battlefield. You should go back to your hometown in Fufeng to chop firewood. Oh, by the way, I forgot about it. Oh, your hometown is not from Fufeng, but from Longxi, haha.”
After saying that, Shi Sunying ignored Ma Teng who was stiff and flushed, and led his soldiers to continue chasing the Jinan Yellow Turbans.
Over there, Ma Teng looked at Shi Sunying's back and held the Huanshou knife several times to restrain his murderous intention. But in the end he held it back, and he smiled miserably at a military officer next to him who was bigger than him:
"Ling Ming, after all I am making you laugh."
Yes, can you not be embarrassed?
In what Sun Ying said just now, what made Ma Teng most embarrassed was not that he went back to chop wood, or that he was robbed of his credit, but that sentence:
"Yellow eyes!"
"Your hometown is not from Fufeng, but from Longxi."
This sentence directly revealed Ma Teng's most embarrassing scar, and also clarified why Shi Sunying wanted to suppress and humiliate Ma Teng.
It turns out that Ma Teng is indeed a member of the Ma clan in Fufeng. As the family of the emperor and empress, the Fufeng Ma family was the prestige of the entire Fufeng gentry. It stands to reason that Ma Teng's life will not be bad.
But just as the number of people in the family increases, the circumstances of each person naturally vary greatly. Ma Teng's father, Ma Ping, was an upright official. When he later became a county captain in Longxi, he couldn't give any gifts, so he married the daughter of a Qiang chief and gave birth to Ma Teng.
The son of a famous Han family actually married a Qiang girl and gave birth to a son. At this time, Ma Ping and his son directly became the shame of the Ma family in Fufeng, and also the shame of Fufeng as a whole.
Sun Meng, a scholar from all over the world, saw that Ma Teng was the most brave man in Xizhou, so he wanted to promote him. So I took Ma Teng into the garrison with me. Anyway, there were a lot of barbarians in the Northern Army, and there wasn't even one more Ma Teng.
But the people around Shisun Meng didn't think so. They instinctively disliked Ma Teng when they saw him.
This man is both a warrior from Xizhou and a descendant of the Hu people, and he is also capable of making military exploits. When these factors come together, one can imagine what happened to Ma Teng.
Here, Ma Teng was embarrassed to the warrior companion beside him, but over there, the Xizhou warrior named Ling Ming persuaded him proudly:
"Brother, these aristocratic families in Guan are used to being unruly. Their eyes are in the sky and they can't see us people in the dust. These are still Kansai people like us. Are we still less angry with the Kanto people these days in Kanto? ?we Xizhou warriors are neither tolerated by the people of Guanxi nor welcomed by the people of Guandong. In my opinion, we should go back to Liangzhou and avoid being subjected to these bad things." This person named Ling Ming is none other than Ma. Teng's companion Pang De is also a brave Xizhou warrior.
After hearing what Pang De said, Ma Teng nodded in agreement, but thinking that he had already paid so much, he felt a little reluctant to part with it, so he replied:
"Let's take a look. Let's take a look after this battle is over. Besides, we are all in Hebei. If we really want to return to our hometown, it won't be just for a while. It's better to make achievements here and return to our hometown in fine clothes."
Seeing that his eldest brother still valued Ronglu of Hanting so highly, Pang De didn't know what to say. He knew that family outcasts like Ma Teng made all their efforts to prove themselves and gain the family's approval.
Pound is not optimistic about Ma Teng's efforts. Pang De could see through these arrogant nobles, and no matter how hard Ma Teng tried, it was all in vain.
But that’s fine, how can you start your own business without experiencing real despair?
Here, Ma Teng and Pang De were chatting on the battlefield, and the three-way attack by the troops over there also destroyed the Jinan Yellow Turban soldiers.
Thousands of soldiers charged, but in the end less than 600 people withdrew from the formation. Hundreds of people were trampled to death by the incoming Han cavalry, mixed together with the frozen soil.
Among the three major Jinan Yellow Turban formations, the leader of the right formation is He Huang, the deputy of Ji Sun.
This person was Pao Ze, who was in the Northern Army when Ji Sun was there. Together with Ji Sun, they couldn't stand the atmosphere in the Northern Army and left the army. After that, they joined Taiping Dao together and were assigned to preach in Jinan.
It can be said that the relationship between He Huang and Ji Sun is not that of father and son, but better than that of father and son.
He Huang is already forty-six years old this year. In this era, he is already a real octogenarian. But now, standing under the apricot-yellow banner, He Huang is still muscular and awe-inspiring.
At this time, He Huang saw that the thousands of armored soldiers he had just sent were defeated by the sudden Han cavalry. He was shocked and secretly thought that these former soldiers still maintained a high level of tactical ability.
He sent people to pick up the retreating more than 500 armored soldiers and let them rest beside his banner. These soldiers still had fighting ability, but they were forced to retreat due to the cavalry charge.
He Huang continued to look at the situation before the formation.
Thousands of thieves galloped ahead. After chasing down the armored soldiers, they began to attack their front formation. The sound of the moving earth covered up the golden drums and the sounds of fighting on the battlefield.
There are rows of gates and ravines in front of the front row of the army, and there are not many step formations, so it looks very weak.
Those charging Yueqi also saw this battlefield situation, so they decided to charge towards his front.
But unfortunately, these Han cavalry underestimated them.
Facing the surging cavalry regiment, the Jinan Yellow Turbans retreated one after another, leaving the empty position to the Han cavalry on the opposite side.
The Jinan Yellow Turbans' escape in front of the formation further stimulated the charging Yue cavalry. The leading cavalry general led dozens of Han cavalry like a sharp arrow and rushed directly through the row of walls.
"Wow~coax"
It's just that the wooden rafters can't withstand the power of the nearly 1,000-pound galloping horse. So the whole couch was shattered, shattered and scattered all over the floor.
But the joy of the cross-country riders did not last long.
Due to the problem of vision, they could not see the two ravines behind the formation.
This pushed the wall away, and they suddenly saw two ravines blocking their way. Both men and horses were shocked.
Sprinting at this speed, it was impossible to turn, so the leading soldier lay on the horse's back and stroked the horse's mustache, meaning to let the horse cross the ravine.
The other charging Yueqi followed suit and prepared to jump.
The charge came in the blink of an eye, and dozens of war horses leaped into the air, creating a spectacular scene.
But after the spectacular comes the tragic.
The two gullies dug by the Yellow Turbans in Jinan were to prevent the cavalry from charging, and the distance between them was relatively wide. When most of the Han army's horses jumped over the first ravine, they slipped into the second ravine before taking two steps.
All of a sudden, the muscles and bones were broken, and the man fell over on his back.
Even the Han cavalry general at the front was taken into the second ravine and his neck was broken. But he didn't lose his breath for a while, and he just looked at the sky in despair.
Not long after, he suddenly saw a familiar figure, leaping directly over his head, and then disappeared.
He whimpered, a tear falling from the corner of his eye.
Suddenly, the familiar person came back.
Looking into the yellow eyes that came into view, this person was moved to tears and moaned. Suddenly a white light passed by, and then the world went dark.
The one with yellow eyes is Ma Teng.
The killed cavalryman was Sun Ying, the guard who had just mocked Ma Teng.
The world is changing, and cause and effect take revenge, so fast.
After killing Sun Ying here, Ma Teng glanced at the surrounding robes and said lightly:
"General Shisun Qu is in such pain, and you two and three sons just sit back and ignore him? Do you still have the righteousness of being a comrade? If you don't relieve him, just leave him here to die, how miserable it is."
After saying this, the other knights bowed their heads in shame.
Ma Teng took his revenge and after training his men, he began to think about how to lead his brothers out of this death place.
Yes, they were in a dead end.
It turned out that Ma Teng was charging behind with Pang De, but suddenly he saw the Paoze people charging in front flipping over on their backs. They immediately realized that something was wrong and reined in their horses one after another.
After that, they finally managed to jump over two ravines, but by this time the horse's speed had been lost. There was another ravine blocking the way back, and in front of them was a row of enemy infantrymen. It was a sure death place.
After thinking about it, Ma Teng gritted his teeth, jumped off his horse first, led the horse to the edge of the ravine.
Then Ma Teng pulled out the ring-shou knife, stabbed it hard into the war horse's neck, and with one strong thrust, blood spurted out of Ma Teng like a bloody man.
The war horse fell weakly into the ravine, with tears in its eyes, as if asking Ma Teng, why did he kill it?
Ma Teng tried not to look at his beloved horse and shouted loudly:
"What are you still doing? Killing a horse!"
With this roar, the campers on the side woke up from a dream and realized Ma Teng's strategy, which was to fill the ravine behind with horse corpses so that they could turn back.
But which one of these campers would be willing to kill his beloved horse? The cavalry and their mounts get along day and night. How can others understand their feelings?
Therefore, no one wanted to move for a while.
Pang De led his yellow puma and squeezed over. He killed his beloved horse neatly and was sprayed like a bloody man like Ma Teng.
While Pang De was bleeding, he angrily yelled at Pao Ze who was still stunned:
"The horse dies and the man lives, the man and the horse both die. You choose one."
Ma Teng and Pang De were both mid-level military officers in the garrison and had their own subordinates.
When these subordinates saw that their chiefs had killed their favorite horses, they could only go forward and kill the horses to fill the ravine.
In this way, forty horses died, and Ma Teng and others filled in two short sections of the ravine in the past two days.
Just stepping on Ai Ma Paoze's body, Ma Teng and his team returned to the Han army battlefield alive.
As for the remaining Yueqi, it will be miserable.
Either they were not as decisive as Ma Teng, or they did not think of this strategy at all.
Losing their horse speed, they were quickly stabbed and picked up in the air by the surging Jinan Yellow Turban Bucha.
Even Sun Meng, the commander of the garrison, had his clothes stripped off and his armor hung on the military flag.
Shi Sunmeng was knocked to the ground by a strong man from Jinan Yellow Turban with a big stick. Originally, he was going to be beheaded like his own soldiers.
But the ribbon around his waist saved his life. The yellow scarf general obviously knew this ribbon, which represented the rank of the Han family.
So we know that this person is a high-ranking official, and maybe even the commander-in-chief of this wave of cavalry.
As a result, Shi Sunmeng saved his life.
But at this moment, Sun Meng, the scholar who was hung on the flagpole, looked hard at the battlefield below with his eyes blurred by blood.
Seeing the heads of his men being pushed into several mountains, Shi Sunmeng was ashamed to death. Looking in the direction of Kyoto, he thought of his father's teachings and burst into tears, silently thinking that he would die to be a benevolent person.
In the end, Shi Sunmeng bit off his own tongue, then vomited blood and died.
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